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We Rip What We Sew: Hindrances to Genuine Progress in the Philippines

May 4, 2017 zaxx 3 Comments

As if being relentlessly subjected to searing heat and powerful devastating typhoons, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes on the Pacific Rim of Fire was not enough, many Filipinos like savage wolves are having a field day tearing apart their little would-have-been tropical paradise. Analogous to termites which build their house by slowly destroying their host’s fully…

Culture, Development

Duterte Cabinet Post Vacancies or Game of Turons

May 4, 2017May 4, 2017 P. Farol 2 Comments

There are now three vacancies in President Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s cabinet. After Perfecto Yasay was rejected by the Commission on Appointments and Ismael Sueno was fired by President Duterte comes the rejection of Gina Lopez’ appointment. Those opposed to administration may read this as proof of the President’s failure to either attract real talent into…

Government

Why it is ABSOLUTELY wrong for Filipino workers to expect tips

May 2, 2017 benign0 12 Comments

Tipping is a sad relic of American culture that Filipinos have embraced. Indeed, Filipino workers have gone further and perverted the concept by seeing tips as an entitlement rather than a mere pleasant surprise bonus from happy customers. Most disturbing of all is how “activists” encouraged people to tip workers on, of all occasions, labour…

Development, Economy, Society

The lynching of Renato Corona: 2012 goes down in Philippine history as a year of infamy

April 30, 2017 benign0 36 Comments

On one hand, it is quite gratifying to see some folks belatedly realising the error in their ways when, in 2012, they joined the Moron Bandwagon to vilify then Chief Justice Renato Corona as he bravely stood before the Senate Impeachment “Court”. But on the other, it is difficult to forgive people in general who,…

Politics, Society

The death of old-school ‘journalism’ proves that democracy is ALIVE in the Philippines

April 29, 2017January 3, 2020 benign0 9 Comments

Roles have been reversed. Mainstream “journalists” are now the loud and noisy shills who cry bloody “persecution” and peddle unfounded conspiracies. It is hardly surprising that people nowadays now rely on alternative sources of information. Old school journalists are just too self-important to have decent discussions with. How does the news media industry old guard…

Government, Media

Oddball Moments of Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña

April 28, 2017April 29, 2017 P. Farol 4 Comments

So in my previous post, I wondered what was eating Cebu City mayor Tomas “Tommy” Osmena and recounted how I had met him six or seven years ago. The portly local politician who feasted on endless rounds of Japanese barbecue with me and my friends certainly left an impression on me that night. His other stories,…

Government

What’s Eating Good Ol’ Tommy Osmeña?

April 24, 2017 P. Farol 4 Comments

Several weeks ago I came across several articles about Tommy Osmeña on my timeline. Some had to with accounts of how he was driving out business in Cebu City and other accounts linked him to a big time drug dealer who had been recently killed. First I wondered why the name struck me as familiar…

Government

The rich understand poverty a lot more than the poor do

April 24, 2017April 24, 2017 benign0 13 Comments

The old familiar bleed-your-heart-for-the-poor wars are raging once again amongst members of the Philippine intelligentsia. “Awareness” of the “plight” of the poor, after all, is quite the fashion statement in the guilt-ravaged Catholic minds of members of well-to-do cliques raised on the notion that camels have better chances of going to heaven than rich folk….

Culture, Lifestyle, Society