Category: Lifestyle

Philippines least ‘networked ready’ in ASEAN according to World Economic Forum

May 9, 2014 benign0 6 Comments

The Philippines ranks last in “networked readiness” among its former peers in the ASEAN’s major economies with Singapore taking the second spot in the top ten most “networked” economies in the world… This is according to the 2014 Global Information Technology Report issued by the World Economic Forum (WEF). Networked readiness is measured by the…

Development, Economy, Lifestyle, Media, Tech Talk

The myth of the ‘tech savvy’ generation

May 7, 2014May 7, 2014 benign0 28 Comments

We are in the midst of an unprecedented technology revolution. Technology has all but woven itself into the very fabric of society and into the lives of the individuals that comprise it. “Wearable technology” apparently is now the next big thing. What will likely come next after that will be implanted tech. As our relationship…

Education, Lifestyle, Society, Tech Talk

The future of media: will it create a stronger society? Think again

May 6, 2014 benign0 3 Comments

Is the trend in social media really moving towards building stronger networks? Or is it really just weakening them? If we look back at the last several years from the dawn of the “social networking” revolution in the early- to mid-2000s, we will find an interesting trend: social networking models have gone from being defined…

Development, Lifestyle, Society, Tech Talk

Mar Roxas’s Wack Wack suspension: another giant leap to a modern Philippines!

April 24, 2014 benign0 72 Comments

Another giant leap for the lot of ordinary Filipinos who have long suffered under the culture of impunity perpetrated by their elected “leaders”! In a resolution issued by the Board of Wack Wack Golf and Country Club, the Philippines’ Secretary of Interior and Local Government Mar Roxas was reportedly suspended as member of the swanky…

Culture, Lifestyle, Society

Abortion is really a simple issue if you take the ‘soul’ out of the debate

April 20, 2014February 3, 2022 benign0 71 Comments

Nobody who rests comfily within the bed of Establishment thinking seems to want to take a position on the debate around abortion. The highest profile players in this arena include New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights playing forward striker for the Forces of Ethical Thinking and on the other side is the 2,000-year-old bedrock of,…

Civics, Lifestyle, Religion, Science

Time to implement a decent Divorce Law and junk the moronism of ‘annulment’

April 20, 2014February 3, 2022 benign0 25 Comments

Kris Aquino is not just another screeching Filipino showbiz personality. She is the sister of the President of the Philippines. Her marital woes with basketball player James Yap back in 2010 couldn’t have been good for the spin machinery of her brother President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III — a man who owes much of his…

Civics, Culture, Lifestyle, Religion, Society

Can sport unite Filipinos?

April 20, 2014April 21, 2014 Ilda 21 Comments

Why are Filipinos not even good at sport? It seems like our athletes had been waved a red flag one day and then simply gave up on trying to achieve world-class status on all types of sport — I know, I know, aside from boxing, of course. A sport is commonly defined as an organized,…

Culture, Development, Education, Lifestyle, Media, Society

Metro Rail Transit crisis gripping Manila a result of long-term failure in thinking

April 11, 2014March 24, 2022 benign0 16 Comments

The “increase in population” that has been made the excuse du jour of Malacanang to wash its hands off the appalling mass transport crisis paralysing Metro Manila today is something that the government cannot absolve itself of any responsibility for. Facing mounting calls for the head of Al Vitangcol General Manager of the Metro Rail…

Crime, Development, Government, Lifestyle, Politics, Society

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