Category: Lifestyle

What Marian Rivera’s being the Philippines’ sexiest woman means

July 12, 2013 Kate Natividad 15 Comments

Another SMS voting contest, another so-called winner. So Marian Rivera is this year’s “sexiest” woman in the Philippines according to the results of a popularity contest organized by men’s magazine FHM. Congratulations, Ms Marian. I suppose one can be considered to be “sexy” when there is enough of yourself routinely publicly exposed for the highly…

Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Society

Expanded Manila vehicle reduction scheme continues to penalize law-abiding private motorists

July 10, 2013 benign0 24 Comments

It wouldn’t take a rocket scientist to predict the response the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) will get if it extends the proposed expansion of the ‘number coding scheme’ to the city’s privately-operated public utility vehicles (PUVs). Under Metro Manila’s current Unified Vehicular Volume Reduction Program (UVVRP), vehicles ending in any one of two license…

Culture, Government, Lifestyle, Society

A lot of decent Filipinos are getting fed up with arrogant squatters

July 10, 2013March 29, 2022 Ilda 745 Comments

The squatters in the Philippines have wreaked havoc in the country and they are out of control. The problem is quite obvious and the solution is staring everyone in the face; there are just not enough public servants with enough guts to address the issue. But someone has to put an end to the vicious…

Crime, Development, Lifestyle, Society

Debunking the Singaporean Laksa

July 9, 2013 John Bay 2 Comments

Before the Laksa goes by the way of “chopsuey”, I would like to say my piece that I myself had been deceived that the origins of the Laksa (A rich and spicy noodle soup supposedly of Peranakan origins) came by way of Singapore and to the world. It did not come as a surprise, that…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Society

Boom times in the Philippines’ call center and OFW economy

July 4, 2013 benign0 9 Comments

According to Associated Press “reporter” Teresa Cerojano who wrote an AP article, the Philippines’ much hyped economic “boom” was credited by “many” to the “new vitality to the policies of President Benigno Aquino III, elected in 2010 on promises of eradicating graft and fighting poverty.” Perhaps. But the indicators of this growth cited by Cerojano…

Economy, Lifestyle, Money Talks

P and F defect: Changing the official name from ‘Pilipinas’ to ‘Filipinas’

June 30, 2013 benign0 22 Comments

I’d think twice about changing the “official name” of the Philippines to “Filipinas”. Try doing an image search on the word “Filipinas” in Google and you will find what the term generally connotes. Not very flattering, to say the least. Certainly the results of that Google image search will not be consistent with the goals…

Culture, Education, Lifestyle, Society

Benjo Benaldo’s million-dollar lifestyle explains how he bagged his trophy wife

June 29, 2013June 29, 2013 Kate Natividad 36 Comments

I used to wonder how an obscure former Congressman from Cagayan de Oro could bag a hot Brazilian babe like Daiana Menezes. But then after reading about his million-dollar lifestyle in a Mindanao Gold Star Daily article describing his “imeldific” lifestyle, it suddenly all made sense to me. What red-blooded female after all can resist…

Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle

United States Supreme Court rulings pave the way for expanded same-sex partnership rights!

June 27, 2013September 3, 2013 FallenAngel 16 Comments

In the first of two moves widely considered to be landmark decisions towards the advancement of same-sex marriage and civil liberties for gay people, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) has just recently ruled against Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) of 1996. This section defines marriage as fundamentally between…

Culture, Government, Lifestyle, Politics, Religion, Society

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on 3 Big Reasons Why Filipinos Will Always Be Stupid
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on 3 Big Reasons Why Filipinos Will Always Be Stupid
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on 3 Big Reasons Why Filipinos Will Always Be Stupid
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on 3 Big Reasons Why Filipinos Will Always Be Stupid
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on 3 Big Reasons Why Filipinos Will Always Be Stupid
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