Category: Lifestyle

More Rolls-Royce cars soon to be stuck in Manila’s traffic jams!

June 21, 2013 benign0 2 Comments

Making headline news for many days now: Rolls Royce comes to the Philippines and it is expecting to sell about 20 cars a year in “Asia’s fastest-growing economy” according to Bloomberg. “There’s enough room for the luxury market in the Philippines (PHGDPYOY),” Rommel Gutierrez, president of the Chamber of Automotive Manufacturers of the Philippines Inc….

Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle

Overcoming idiotic Filipino drivers: Three tips for navigating Manila traffic

June 19, 2013February 3, 2016 benign0 31 Comments

From a macro collective perspective, the Manila traffic situation is really a simple issue. What we call the “mess” that is Manila traffic is no more than an emergent property; a collective outcome of the idiotic behaviour of the system’s individual elements — Idiotic Filipino Drivers. Tell-tale signs of a truly idiotic driver is a…

Civics, Lifestyle

Manila as the gates of hell? It’s the river Styx too!

June 18, 2013June 18, 2013 FallenAngel 27 Comments

I bet the outrage over Dan Brown’s description of Manila as the “gates of hell” in his book Inferno is still fresh in the minds of many Filipinos. They really should learn to react properly to any less than desirable description that foreigners have of Filipinos, whether true or not. If it’s true, do something…

Civics, Development, Lifestyle

How Filipinos can relate their own lives to the Superman universe

June 18, 2013June 18, 2013 FallenAngel 2 Comments

Reboots, it seems, are some of the in things these days when it comes to what Hollywood has on its plate. It has been done with Spiderman, Batman, and now Superman. The latest picture, Man of Steel, has just recently come out and is now showing in Philippine cinemas. A lot of us are familiar…

Culture, Lifestyle, Media

Horrendous Manila traffic a normal thing for a people long accustomed to a hellish life

June 18, 2013November 27, 2022 benign0 70 Comments

On my comfy half-hour train ride going home from work, I sat amused while observing a steady line of tweets and Facebook updates streaming down my mobile phone — the poignant helpless anguished cries coming from poor souls lost in the wilderness Manila’s steaming traffic jungle. And here I was just 15 minutes ago fuming…

Civics, Development, Lifestyle

Seinfeld almost invented ‘friends with benefits’ in 1991!

June 13, 2013 Kate Natividad 1 Comment

Last night I watched a really hilarious episode of Seinfeld titled “The Deal”. The episode is really old. According to Wikipedia it was first aired way back in May 1991. The whole half hour of that episode centered around Seinfeld and Elaine experimenting with what we now call being “friends with benefits” (FWB). The really…

Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle

The emergence of the Filipino metrosexual and the rise of the man-beauty industry in the Philippines

June 11, 2013 Kate Natividad 48 Comments

Omg, what’s gotten over Filipino malehood? Reuters observed in a recent report that “Whether it is just a normal facial or an expensive power peel, pricey whitening skin care products or a cheap, improvised facial mask, looking good and flawless is a top priority for the Filipino ‘macho’ man.” The report, as a matter of…

Culture, Lifestyle

Awesome! Charice Pempengco’s mom is a lesbian too!

June 11, 2013 benign0 6 Comments

So now it turns out, Charice Pempengco’s mom is also a lesbian. Oh, sorry, was a lesbian. According to Raquel Pempengco “she, too, was once a lesbian but chose family over her own sexual desires after meeting the young star’s father.” And there’s more… “I’m the lesbian,” she told Bandila, according to a Huffington Post…

Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Society