Tag: discipline

Five more appalling bits of election “wisdom” that need to go away

March 31, 2016April 1, 2016 FallenAngel 9 Comments

National elections are around the corner here in the Philippines, again. The difference between this year and the elections in 2013 is that this time, aside from voting for 12 senators and local government officials, Filipinos will also be choosing a new president and vice-president. In the previous national elections six years ago, there were…

Civics, Culture, Government, Politics

Breaking Free from Poverty: A Politician-Independent Approach

February 27, 2016 zaxx 23 Comments

If you had the liberty to choose which country or race you would be born into, would you choose the Philippines? I’d figure most Filipinos would readily dish out the name of a first-world country like Germany, Japan, Korea, or the United States, nations that have something to be intrinsically proud of, in stark contrast…

Development, Economy, Education, Media, Society

Why Do Pinoys Hate Complexity?

January 24, 2016January 24, 2016 Grimwald 55 Comments

After reading some of the comments on the GRP FB page, I spotted a comment about the way a lot of Pinoys prefer what they perceive as “simple” over what is “complex”. Now truth be told, simple is better in some ways. I myself am nearly driven to madness by complex math for instance. However,…

Development, Education, Government, Society

Filipinos Want Snow

January 9, 2016 zaxx 54 Comments

Another Christmas has just passed, and here we go again on another cycle of facing a new year which will later build up in excitement and anticipation on the supposedly colder “ber” months leading towards that long awaited Christmas Eve. To many who have lived in a land where the closest thing to winter is…

Filipinos need to uphold a Deliver-Or-Die ethic like the Japanese

January 4, 2016 benign0 26 Comments

The deadline for the completion of the LRT (Light Rail Transit) Line 1 project (Baclaran to Bacoor) by the end of 2015 has passed and the promise issued by President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III that he and Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC) Secretary Jun Abaya back in 2013 will throw themselves under a…

Culture, Government, Society

Discipline Should Come from Within

December 26, 2015 ChinoF 16 Comments

My fellow writers here in GRP have explained that someone iron-handed like Rody Duterte has become popular for the wrong reasons (or maybe the right reasons, but in the wrong way). Duterte is seen as a figure like Ferdinand Marcos, who is thought to have enforced order through harshness in Martial Law. There are people…

Culture

Ironic Rody: the Iron Rod of the Philippines

December 17, 2015 zaxx 13 Comments

The Philippines – it’s not just home to Fe-rich malunggay and kamote leaves, it’s also the birthplace of a similar breed of leaders: iron-class. How did it come to this – a time and place where “kamay na bakal” has now become fashionable (again)? Apparently, three decades of mis-encountering, mishandling, lousy and incompetent “bakla” politics…

Crime, Government, Politics

Idolatry And Fanaticism In The Philippines: The Cycle Of Disaster Continues

December 7, 2015 Grimwald 6 Comments

Before I begin my formal rant, for a given value of the word “formal”, let me say a few bits from the Bible. The following are actually events taken from the book of Exodus translated to modern format and interpreted by me. However, before I go on, let me tell you that I am not…

Culture, Development, Politics, Religion, Society