Category: Lifestyle

Why all talk about ‘Internet freedom’ is ultimately pointless

January 28, 2013 benign0 7 Comments

People who come up with “Magna Cartas” and “visions” of or for “Internet freedom” miss the whole point. Not only that, they fail to see the irony in what they are advocating. These “visions” and frameworks are supposedly to “uphold” Internet “freedom” and seek to implement guidelines, standards, and/or “covenants” amongst stakeholders (people and parties…

Civics, Lifestyle, Tech Talk

Why we learn to hate rather than ignore in the age of Facebook

January 23, 2013January 23, 2013 Kate Natividad 5 Comments

A few years ago Samantha, a new intern, joined our company. The first time I saw her she was walking down the main aisle between our row of cubicles accompanied by my boss and one of our legal guys on her way to a meeting with a couple of Canadian account executives from one of…

Lifestyle, Society, Tech Talk

What does the Filipino want?

January 21, 2013August 22, 2013 FallenAngel 126 Comments

The Filipino desperately declares to the rest of the world that he is the best among the lot, yet the current political, economic, and social states of his country, the mannerisms of his people, and the quality of his thinking prove otherwise. What does the Filipino want? The Filipino claims that being a colony for…

Civics, Culture, Government, Lifestyle, Politics

Why does Noynoy Aquino need to carry around a gun while he is President of the Philippines?

January 11, 2013 benign0 16 Comments

Indeed, as Commissions on Elections (COMELEC) Chairman Sixto Brillantes reportedly stated, “the entire national police force and the Armed Forces were already exempted” from a nationwide gun ban related to the coming 2013 elections. This is, of course, a no brainer. Police and military forces by the very nature of their jobs bear arms —…

Crime, Government, Lifestyle, Politics

You snooze you lose when it comes to controlling your inner emo

January 9, 2013January 9, 2013 Kate Natividad 14 Comments

What do you do when one part of your mind tells you “this is all so wrong…” and another part of it says “…but it feels so right”?? We’ve all likely been in at least one relationship where, at an intellectual level, all the alarm bells just keep ringing throughout. Heck, I was in one…

Lifestyle

Cebu Sinulog Festival further highlights the poignancy of Gwen Garcia’s ‘people power’ call

January 8, 2013 benign0 5 Comments

It’s a fitting reminder of what Filipinos are really all about. After a specatcularly-fizzled attempt to rally the usual ocho-ocho “people power” crowd around her “Hole Up for a Cause” spectacle, suspended Cebu Governor Gwen Garcia can only watch helplessly from her “office” in the Cebu Capitol as Filipinos reportedly snap-up hotel rooms in Cebu…

Lifestyle, Politics

All in all you’re just another brick in the wall, waiting on the world to change

January 1, 2013August 8, 2013 FallenAngel 64 Comments

The title applies to you, as a Pinoy, if you swallow hook, line, and sinker, everything that you are told by media, your elders, and your politicians. You submit to the matrix that is Da Pinoy condition. You submit yourself without question to the collective “bliss” of the Hive. You hope that the world will…

Culture, Education, Lifestyle, Media, Society

RA 10354 — a product mangled by Pinoy-style discourse

December 31, 2012June 28, 2013 FallenAngel 29 Comments

Droll, unintelligent, petty, and pathetic – these words describe the “debate” that has surrounded the discussion of the Reproductive Health Bill (RH Bill), the passing through both houses of Congress and its eventual signing into law as RA 10354. The whole point of the exercise was to implement some sort of semblance of population control….

Culture, Development, Government, Lifestyle, Politics, Religion