Category: Lifestyle

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

Land ownership Hell: The Philippines is Squatter Central when it comes to government subsidies!

June 24, 2013June 24, 2013 benign0 57 Comments

Squatting does indeed pay in the Philippines. The most recent pandering to this vote-rich sector of Philippine society is an 18,000-peso “rental subsidy” to be provided by the Philippine government to each squatter family relocated to other settlement sites. This follows a reported announcement from Public Works and Highways Secretary Rogelio Singson that “there is…

Crime, Lifestyle, Politics

Hardly surprising: Institutionalised prostitution in the Philippine Government’s Middle Eastern outposts

June 21, 2013 benign0 12 Comments

It’s hardly even surprising that such things have been happening all along for so long. The Philippines’ Overseas Foreign Workers (OFW) export industry is huge — at least 2 million Filipinos residing overseas can be classified as OFWs. The National Statistics Office (NSO) reportedly estimates that more than 52 percent of these are females and…

Civics, Crime, Lifestyle, Politics

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