Tag: state of the nation address

Netizen slams PNoy’s views on OFWs in viral ‘open letter’ posted on Facebook

February 1, 2016 benign0 25 Comments

A note posted by Facebook user Lesley Dianne Siojo Cabildo containing “an open letter” to Philippine President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III is going viral. The letter accompanied a meme originally posted by Cabildo on the 24th August 2015. The meme (pictured below) quoted the following statement supposedly made by the president: Filipinos leave their…

Development, Economy

The Problem with Filipino views about English Speakers

August 5, 2015August 5, 2015 ChinoF 57 Comments

Here’s a certain reaction I heard about English-Speaking Filipinos: “Ha? Bakit tayo nag-i-Ingles? Mayaman ba tayo? (Why should we be speaking English? Are we rich?)” When I also noticed that people always assume I was rich and moneyed, I asked my mom about it and she said, “How could they not? You look white and…

Money Talks

Mar Roxas is wrong: Politics WAS behind the SAF44 massacre in Mamasapano

August 4, 2015 benign0 4 Comments

In his so-called “True State of the Nation Address” (TSONA) delivered at the Cavite State University yesterday, Vice President Jejomar Binay dedicated a significant part of the speech to the memories of the Philippine National Police Special Action Force (PNP-SAF) troopers who were killed in a botched operation in Mamasapano, Mindanao. Department of Interior and…

Crime, Politics, The South

On Senator Bongbong Marcos’s alternative State of the Nation Address

August 2, 2015August 2, 2015 Add 45 Comments

I have just finished reading Senator Bongbong Marcos’s A second opinion on the state of our nation published on the Manila Times, and I have chills in my body, and my eyes are misty. I never thought I would be able to see such a thing again in this land of ours, but there it…

Development, Economy, Government, Society

Filipinos keep bringing up the past but keep forgetting the lessons

July 31, 2015 FallenAngel 15 Comments

Apart from being incessantly butthurt about the past, as GRP webmaster benign0 has pointed out, Filipinos seem to be endlessly stuck in it. To be fair, it’s perfectly natural to recall the past. In fact, humans do it for a number of reasons. We may want to reminisce over what we once had that is…

Culture, Government, Society

Filipinos would rather be butthurt about the past than gung-ho about the future

July 30, 2015 benign0 25 Comments

The intellectual DNA of Philippine society is flawed at its most fundamental level. The trouble with the approach to thinking in the Philippines is, more often than not, this activity is retrospective rather than prospective in nature. The word BUTTHURT encapsulates that society-wide malaise. And the sixth and last State of the Nation Address (SONA)…

Culture, Development, Government, Society

To get to the top, Filipinos need to benchmark themselves against the highest standards

July 30, 2015 Add 15 Comments

Whether we are talking of economic policy, foreign policy, business, education, culture, arts, or what have you, setting a high standard is most important. The global village shows no mercy to the mediocre — it may spend some times to talk of, and to give aid to such countries, but that is only so that…

Culture, Development

Jim Paredes and Leah Navarro react to PNoy #SONA2015 snub!

July 29, 2015 benign0 5 Comments

An anonymous American blogger living in Biliran somehow trumped the star power of staunch Yellow supporters Leah Navarro and Jim Paredes during the closing of President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III’s sixth and last State of the Nation Address (SONA). Ouch! And after all that effort. Asked by Tweetizen @ManuGaspar about how this presidential snub…

Glitz and Glamour, Media, Politics