Category: Lifestyle

Skyway roadkill: Cats seemingly dropping from the sky onto Manila elevated highway

April 3, 2014April 3, 2014 benign0 6 Comments

Motorists who use the Philippines’ Skyway, an elevated express tollway linking Manila’s southern suburbs to the central business district of Makati City have for some time observed flattened carcasses of cats littering the pavement. The baffling roadkill has raised the question of how the animals had somehow made their way onto the elevated structure. A…

Civics, Lifestyle, Tech Talk

Will Heart Evangelista make a good First Lady to Chiz?

March 31, 2014 Kate Natividad 5 Comments

Why would Heart Evangelista be “bad” for possible future Philippine President Chiz Escudero? Personally, I think it’s about time the Philippines had a glamorous First Lady again. So you go girl! Good to read that you don’t care about all this crap talk about you possibly weakening Chiz’s bid for the top job! I mean,…

Culture, Education, Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Media, Politics, Society

Microsoft Office now on iPad: Bozo-authored Power Point slides just got a boost

March 28, 2014 Kate Natividad 30 Comments

So Microsoft Office is now available on the iPad. Should we care? I believe the more fundamental question to ask is this: Do people really do important stuff on a tablet device? I have serious doubts. Tablets and other touch-screen devices have long been pitched as toys. Get on Google and search for the “top…

Lifestyle, Tech Talk

Love in a time of Facebook, WhatsApp, and Oculus

March 27, 2014 Kate Natividad 4 Comments

The other day I was waiting for a friend of mine — let’s call him David — who was arriving from a quick trip overseas to ping me on WhatsApp (as we had agreed in our last conversation) as soon as he fired up his mobile phone at the airport. Aba, it was already two…

Lifestyle, Tech Talk

Why some foreigners would rather go hungry than eat Filipino food

March 22, 2014March 23, 2014 Ilda 82 Comments

I love Filipino food!!! I never get tired of eating adobo. The taste is so primal because I just think it satisfies every human being’s craving for protein and salt – those two key ingredients that help keep our bodies from malfunctioning. For me, Adobo is one of those dishes that make you want to…

Culture, Lifestyle

Bianca Gonzalez engaged to JC Intal after big NAIA public proposal!

March 21, 2014 Kate Natividad 2 Comments

Wow! Despite all the other important things going on here and all over the world, what is really the buzz in the Philippines is the engagement of celebrity model Bianca Gonzalez to her basketballer boyfriend JC Intal. What probably set off the Philippines’ mass kilig is the way the guy did it — in public……

Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Media

You can’t apply dishonorable Filipino civilian standards to military institutions

March 18, 2014November 13, 2014 FallenAngel 39 Comments

Standards of honor in Filipino civilian society are quite simply, bulok. The only opinion I have had – and will ever have – of Mr. Aldrin Cudia’s case with the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) is this: the only thing known for sure is that the Honor Committee found him guilty of violating the Honor Code….

Crime, Culture, Lifestyle

Upholding honor: Filipino civilian and military societies need to work hand in hand

March 16, 2014March 17, 2014 FallenAngel 2 Comments

The definition of “honor” that Filipinos are more familiar with – and therefore live out more – is, in the vernacular, dangal. Dignity. They will use whatever means necessary, even illegal, to protect their dignity from hiya (shame, losing face). The other, just as important way to define honor – katapatan, propriety – is hardly…

Civics, Culture, Lifestyle, Society