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Filipinos hold on to PNoy’s promise to throw himself, Jun Abaya under a train

December 30, 2015 Ilda 14 Comments

As the pressure from Filipino Netizens intensified and became too hard to ignore, Malacanang had no choice but to finally address President Benigno Simeon Aquino’s promise to get run over by a train if the Light Rail Transit (LRT) extension doesn’t get delivered by the end of 2015. According to Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma, the…

Development, Government, Media

Grace Poe should drop out of the presidential race for the sake of unity

December 28, 2015December 28, 2015 Ilda 10 Comments

Philippine senator and 2016 Presidential aspirant Grace Poe who was once very popular among Filipino voters is now becoming another polarizing figure after the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) Second Division cancelled her Certificate of Candidacy for the presidency. Their decision is based on grounds that she is not a natural-born citizen and has not met…

Politics

Mar Roxas is part of the Philippines’ problem and will not be an effective president

December 23, 2015 Ilda 71 Comments

Filipinos will be given another opportunity to change the course of their future in the 2016 Philippine Presidential Elections. The chance to remove power from the members of the oligarchy who have reigned with incompetence and mediocrity in the last 30 years is coming soon. One can only hope the voters will not waste this…

Development, Government, Politics

Travellers passing through NAIA have a 0.005% chance of falling victim to ‘bullet planting’ – DOTC

November 4, 2015 benign0 22 Comments

Why is it that Filipinos are struggling to convince the world — and even themselves — that the bullet planting scam in their premiere airport, the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA), is just a relatively small problem that affects an almost negligible percentage of travellers? According to Department of Transport and Communications (DOTC) Secretary Jun…

Crime, Culture, Government, Society

Noynoy Aquino gov’t helpless and useless at stopping crooks behind bullet planting at NAIA

November 2, 2015January 3, 2023 Ilda 157 Comments

The Philippines’ reputation with the international community has suffered yet another blow. The news that security personnel at the Manila international airport have been putting bullets in the luggage of travellers in order to extort them has made it to international news. The incompetence of the Philippine government under the leadership of President Benigno Simeon…

Crime, Politics, Society

Travellers wary of rampant bullet-planting scams in the Philippines’ Ninoy Aquino International Airport!

November 1, 2015January 2, 2023 benign0 26 Comments

The Philippines’ latest national embarrassment — the bullet-planting scamming that is gripping the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) — has many people on-edge. The modus operandi of this recently-publicised racket making the rounds in social media involves bullets being inserted in travellers’ luggage and then “discovered” by airport officials who then give the victims the…

Civics, Crime, Culture, Government

Trying to Penetrate a Crazy Mind

September 12, 2015 Add 8 Comments

[This is satire. Exact similarities to actual names and events are coincidences, and should not be construed as intended, as intent is only to tickle. Do not read too much into the names and events for they may be true, or may not, but if you do, writer shall not be held liable for the…

Government, Politics

5 ways to decongest Metro Manila traffic

September 11, 2015November 26, 2022 Ilda 87 Comments

After neglecting the problem for nearly six years, it seems like the current government under President Benigno Simeon Aquino is finally addressing or at least acknowledging Metro Manila traffic congestion specially along Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA) – the notorious highway once famous for street revolutions but is now looking more and more like…

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