Category: Lifestyle

Lani Mercado, the pork barrel, and Filipinos’ squatter mentality

August 16, 2013 benign0 171 Comments

This is what ‘actress-politician’ Lani Mercado, wife of actor-turned-senator Bong Revilla had to say about the idea of scrapping altogether the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) or pork barrel: “Basta huwag lang manghihingi sa amin ang mga tao!” Source of quote: PEP.ph. And we wonder why the Philippines is renowned for its beggar culture. To…

Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Politics

‘Metro Manila’ – (The Film): Anything but Cliché

August 15, 2013July 14, 2015 John Bay 17 Comments

To a jaded moviegoer who thinks he has seen it all, “Metro Manila” offers a compelling reason for viewers to revisit Philippine cinema. I was recently invited for the press screening of “Metro Manila” last Tuesday August 13, at “The Block” in SM North Edsa. “Metro Manila” was directed by the UK’s Academy Award nominee…

Culture, Film Review, Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Society

Why a Smart Gilas win means everything to Filipinos

August 12, 2013 FallenAngel 41 Comments

Consider, first of all, the kind of responses that fellow GRP writer Gogs’ article “Why a Smart Gilas Win Means Nothing to Me” drew. They can be summarized with one simple phrase: Butthurt Pinoy pridesters are so predictable. “If you don’t ride on the bandwagon, why don’t you just keep your opinion to yourself?” “Why…

Culture, Lifestyle, Society

Bolitas culture: Penile implants and the Filipino male ego!

August 11, 2013 Kate Natividad 41 Comments

Lol! It’s one thing to be butt-hurt, but to be dick-hurt? I just read the article The Strange Sexual Quirk of Filipino Seafarers and I must say, that one deserves a place in the WTF Hall of Fame! Many Filipino sailors make small incisions in their penises and slide tiny plastic or stone balls —…

Culture, Lifestyle, Society

Fit for Work – 5 Ways Work is Killing You and 4 Ways to Fight Back

August 6, 2013 John Bay 5 Comments

What is it about irony that makes it a more remarkable statement? Having returned after a month-long project in KL (a land known for its greasy mamaks and 24 hour dining), I was shocked to find that I had actually lost 5 pounds where I thought I gained at least 10. The belief is that…

Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle

Pinoys Just Want Tongue and Finger Action

August 4, 2013August 4, 2013 P. Farol 41 Comments

As far as the P10 Billion Pork Barrel Scam is concerned, it seems certain sectors of the Filipino Cyberspace are more interested in tongue and finger action than the rather unexciting ideas of fairness, decency, truth, and justice. By tongue and finger action, I refer to all the tongue wagging and keyboard crunching of the…

Culture, Lifestyle, Media

Three reasons why Filipinos are not as outraged by Jeane Lim Napoles’s lifestyle as they are by squatters

July 31, 2013 benign0 47 Comments

To be sure, alleged Anak ng Pork socialite Jeane Lim Napoles copped more fame (more like infamy, actually) than she had bargained for thanks to the ironic orgy of self-promotion she engaged in on social media over the last several years. Tough luck for the 23-year-old. Wrong place at the wrong time — kids do…

Civics, Lifestyle, Society

All eyes on LA LA lifestyle of Jeane Lim Napoles as Pork scandal circus rages!

July 30, 2013July 30, 2013 benign0 76 Comments

Wow, anak ng pork barrel talaga! Or so the expression goes if we are to believe recent revelations and allegations coming from the latest media circus that Janet Lim Napoles is a major ringleader in a scam that skims chunks of pork barrel funds off hapless Philippine congressmen. Where do these golden shavings go? Well,…

Crime, Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Politics, Society