Tag: pinoy pride

Gilas Pilipinas and the Filipinos’ continuous tradition of ZERO results inspiration

September 29, 2014May 16, 2023 FallenAngel 16 Comments

As I write this, the Philippine men’s national basketball team, better known as Gilas Pilipinas, has just won against Kazakhstan in the 2014 Asian Games basketball tournament currently being held in Incheon, South Korea. According to reports, however, Gilas needed to win by eleven (11) points in order to advance to the semifinal round. They…

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Aegis video pits Malaysia’s infrastructure versus the Philippines’ in bid to attract BPO business!

September 20, 2014September 20, 2014 benign0 184 Comments

It seems the Philippines has been singled out by a company in Malaysia as its single biggest competitor for investment in the region. A promotional video produced by a Aegis Malaysia, a global business process outsourcing (BPO) company makes a pitch to its clients to locate their BPO needs in Malaysia by highlighting that country’s…

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Again: Why the Gilas Win may fail to uplift the Philippines

September 5, 2014September 5, 2014 ChinoF 52 Comments

In connection to the recent win by the Gilas team against Senegal, a while back, The University of the Philippines obtained what is considered a rare sports victory. What signified that it was rare and important was because they decided to put up a big bonfire that time. It also seemed other that people criticized…

Glitz and Glamour

Why the UP bonfire celebration was truly a microcosm of Filipino society

August 11, 2014August 11, 2014 FallenAngel 43 Comments

As team manager Dan Palami had promised, the University of the Philippines (UP) basketball team held a “bonfire celebration” last Saturday, August 9, because the Fighting Maroons won against Adamson University (AdU) in a game from this year’s University Athletics Association of the Philippines (UAAP) season. Now, this is an especially big thing to the…

Society

Filipinos need a radically NEW kind of nationalism

July 31, 2014 benign0 14 Comments

The epic failure that was the 5th State of the Nation Address (SONA) of Philippine President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III this week highlights a pressing need for Filipinos to come up with a new — more modern — form of nationalistic drive. What President BS Aquino essentially did this week was break the proverbial…

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Is the Philippines worth fighting for?

July 30, 2014 benign0 9 Comments

Craig Nelson introduces his book Rocketmen, with the story of a 1969 United States Senate briefing (shortly after Apollo 11 landed Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon) where Fermilab physicist Robert Wilson is asked how a $250 million atom smasher he proposes be built will contribute to the security of the United States….

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Noynoy Taking A Blowtorch To The Constitution Is Typical Of Pinoy Problem Solving

July 11, 2014July 11, 2014 Gogs 3 Comments

Some of you are familiar with the story of George Washington and the Cherry Tree. The short version of the story is that a six year old George Washington was so thrilled to be given a hatchet that he tried it on almost anything in the family property. The problem was he eventually got around to…

Culture, Government

HK Filipino maids react to latest ‘racism’ row as impact of Singapore hate blog ripples across region

June 19, 2014June 19, 2014 benign0 36 Comments

Tensions between Filipino expat residents in Singapore and so-called hate bloggers and online trolls seems to be escalating. The Philippine embassy in Singapore has asked the Singapore government to hold accountable for inciting hatred a blogger who published an article on the site “Blood Stained Singapore” in which the Filipino community there was described as…

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