Tag: boracay

“Wear black”?? How Katipunan Road mirrors the degeneration of Boracay Island

December 1, 2018 benign0 5 Comments

Suddenly Katipunan Road is “home” to every UAAP basketball fan and, worse, to every millennial “social justice warrior” (SJW) and her cat. Now I know what it feels like to be an indigenous inhabitant of Boracay Island whenever the LaBoracay crowd comes to town. A basketball “battle” of the Katipunan universities is a relatively rare…

Culture, Society

A lamentation: Charice (Jake Zyrus), like Boracay, goes into classic Pinoy self-destruct mode

May 5, 2018 zaxx 70 Comments

Are you a big fan of the LGBT community? If you don’t find anything wrong with a “man” without a male organ trying to take a leak on a male urinal, you probably need to get some professional counseling. The problem with the concept of unfettered freedom of expression is that people think that it’s…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour

Boracay closure by Duterte better than a closure order by Mother Nature

April 5, 2018 benign0 2 Comments

Thousands of jobs will be impacted by the recently-announced closure of popular island resort Boracay, shriek a bevy of “activists”. But, really, perhaps one should pause first to consider whether the man-made impact in the form of the closure order approved by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte may, in fact, be a lot more preferrable to…

Environment, Lifestyle

Filipinos have lost the right to be “shocked” about what happened to Boracay

March 22, 2018 benign0 13 Comments

Why all the chatter and private school “outrage” over Boracay all of a sudden? What is happening to the land of the annual chi-chi “#LABoracay” and all other hipster happenings that greet Imperial Manila denizens fleeing their parents’ Holy Week obligations have always been happening in the Philippines. It’s all part of Filipinos’ world-renowned Reverse…

Development, Environment

Boracay-Panay-Negros-Cebu-Bohol: Can Infrastructure Superhero Mark Villar Link the Major Visayan Islands?

February 26, 2018 zaxx 5 Comments

If America has Iron Man, the Philippines has a Concrete Superhero. “Audacious and overly ambitious” would be the common Pinoy’s reaction if the idea was floated decades ago. Filipinos today coming up with an idea to link the major Visayan islands would be likened to Americans dreaming of landing a man with their flag on…

Development

Degradation happening in Boracay is happening everywhere in the Philippines

February 19, 2018February 19, 2018 Ilda 10 Comments

I overheard someone say the other day, “What happened to Boracay is enough to make you feel ashamed to be called a Filipino”. Some of you may feel outraged over that statement. After all, Boracay is not the Philippines. Or is it? Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte recently described Boracay as a cesspool – faeces and…

Development, Environment, Lifestyle

Paradise Lost: Redefining the Filipino Concept of Ownership

April 3, 2016 zaxx 33 Comments

Paradise Lost, by 17th-century English poet John Milton, is a poetic rendition of the fall of man and his eventual eviction from the Garden of Eden. The character responsible for the entire debacle is Satan (formerly Lucifer, fairest of the angels in Heaven) who chose to rebel against his Creator with his claim to notoriety…

Culture, Development, Environment, Religion

So What Exactly Are Pinoys Proud Of?

January 18, 2016January 18, 2016 Grimwald 36 Comments

After writing my previous article about Pinoy gamers, I have to ask the question what does “Pinoy Pride” even amount to? What exactly are we proud of? And even if there are, is that pride actually ours? Indeed, Fallen Angel in one of her older articles explains why she isn’t proud of being a Filipino…

Civics, Culture, Environment, Society