We beg to differ.
Whether you refer to heroes here as with or without the quotation marks, “heroes” in the Philippines appear to be defined by how well you can get history to side on you. And what better way to do that than name recall? So for anyone wanting to be remembered as a hero, naming roads and…
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Philippine Peso bills and coins and their evolution (if not devolution) through the years are an interesting subject as they silently tell our nation’s revolution-filled story each time a new design comes out. Even the dead still play politics (albeit the Yellow necro type) up to this day with how they try to usurp one…
Read More “Bonifacio Boots Out Aguinaldo in the Battle for 5-Peso Coin Supremacy” »
“Buy one, take one”, “Study now, pay later”, and “No pain, No gain” are slogans/mottos you’ve likely heard before (on top of the Zaxxun Creed collection), but have you ever heard of “rebels of today, heroes of tomorrow”? Well… welcome to the Philippines, a supposedly modern vibrant “democracy” that’s still unfortunately trapped in a middle-ages…
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As the call to change the name of our premier international gateway back to “Manila International Airport” gains steam with another high-profile movement, some other steps still await implementation in our mopping-up operations to clear our system of putrid phlegm-colored Yellow-LP crap. The yellow-colored 500 peso bill still needs cleaning up. Congress should pass a…
Read More “The Aquinos are traitors: Time to remove their faces from the 500 peso bill” »