We beg to differ.
For those keeping up with my Deep series, chapter 6 is on its way. I just think that this article is of greater importance so I’m posting it first. This article is essentially a response and expansion of this post. Please read all of it and watch the video. When I was in nursing school, we were…
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Ladies and gentlemen, I have thought it time to discuss a much overlooked topic. Considering everything that’s been happening in Philippine history and the way common Pinoys tend to react in the worst way possible, I think it’s time to re-evaluate the things that we accept and take as facts. To truly understand the mind of…
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There was news about an apparent suicide floating around the office the past week. A relatively healthy employee, dead at thirty. It would have been more shocking had this instance been the victim’s first attempt but I believe it wasn’t. According to people who knew him well this was the third and, unfortunately, successful time…
In my first meeting with my counselor, I was asked to write about how I really felt about myself. She told me to be honest with what I wrote and that I should put in even the small details that have some significance to me. I had some problems with recounting everything that happened but…
Do you know someone who will use any means necessary to get what they want with little regard for everyone else? Do you know someone who believes that they are a notch above everyone else but lack the resources or capabilities to back this up? Do you know someone who is never willing to admit…
Facebook and other social media networks seem to have come of age. That is, like mainstream media corporations, they are now in a position to deliberately manipulate their audience’s emotions. The results of an experiment conducted on almost 700,000 Facebook users published on the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United…
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Most of us regular bloggers here attribute the problems of the Philippines to the country’s culture. For us, it’s too obvious. Our culture has customs and practices that make us do things that we better not do. Spend beyond our means, generate huge numbers of children, vote for who is popular despite their being poorly…
Just how long will newly-appointed Philippine Supreme Court (SC) Chief Justice Lourdes Sereno be able to maintain her trademark smile over the next 18 years she will be serving her post? The stresses of the job are piling on, which does not bode well for Sereno who, according to the supposed findings of a psychological…