Category: Lifestyle

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

Towards a more ethical regard for consumption

April 8, 2014 benign0 6 Comments

What we as ordinary people can contribute to the effort to combat climate change lies in some personal behaviours of ours that we have direct control over — our consumption habits. We just need to pause and take the time to think and reflect upon what motivates us to buy and consume the way we…

Civics, Economy, Environment, Lifestyle

Top-notch command of the English language opens doors

April 7, 2014 benign0 57 Comments

We’d like to believe that we deserve a society that treats people fairly regardless of how well they speak and write English and regardless of whether they speak it with a regional accent or not. We think, if we continue stomping our feet enough in a loud appeal to nationalist sentiment, that we could one…

Culture, Education, Lifestyle, Society

A collective outcome rather than the majority will: Why Filipinos fail at common decency

April 4, 2014 benign0 10 Comments

At the coffee shop where I routinely get my morning fix, customers mill around the counter in a way that often makes it difficult to distinguish those who are (a) in the process of ordering and paying, or (2) waiting for a concluded order to be served. So it is a normal and routine courtesy…

Civics, Culture, Lifestyle, Society