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The Filipino call center and BPO industries need to learn how to demonstrate value

January 28, 2014January 28, 2014 FallenAngel 44 Comments

As expected, I ignited a small firestorm with the Filipino call center and business process outsourcing (BPO) communities with my previous article “Why the outrage over the call center agent ‘slur’ in ‘The Borrowed Wife’ fails to move me” (henceforth known as “Outrage”). Of course, I wish I could have provoked a more substantive reaction….

Development, Economy, Money Talks, Technology

Cedric likely crooked, Vhong probably the REAL victim, Deniece just plain clueless

January 28, 2014 Kate Natividad 111 Comments

I could be wrong about this but I think Vhong Navarro is the real victim here. I mean, have a close look at Deniece Cornejo and her artificially-engineered face. I mean, her nose, lips and even her chin all look done up. Perhaps the police should pay ol’ Vicki Belo a visit and check out…

Crime, Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Media

Were the ‘victims’ of the San Roque, Agham demolition legal residents or just a bunch of squatters?

January 28, 2014 benign0 15 Comments

Nowhere in the incident reports issued by commie publication Bulatlat did information surrounding the legality of the demolition victims’ residency in the area come up. The only piece of information remotely pertaining to some semblance of legal argument in the report was around a “notice of demolition” that supposedly expired several months ago. According to…

Civics, Development, Government, Lifestyle, Society

Vhong Navarro or Deniece Cornejo: Who is the real ‘victim’?

January 28, 2014September 21, 2022 benign0 14 Comments

Journalist and TV personality Ramon Tulfo started it. His award winning show Isumbong mo kay Tulfo (“Report it to Tulfo”) encouraged Filipinos to approach the media first before the police. In the Philippines, the common sentiment is that the police may itself be a party to the crime, so get the media involved as well…

Crime, Glitz and Glamour, Media

Why the outrage over the call center agent ‘slur’ in ‘The Borrowed Wife’ fails to move me

January 27, 2014January 29, 2014 FallenAngel 257 Comments

The outrage being expressed by certain members of the call center agent population, or business process outsourcing (BPO) industry, over a perceived affront in the script of media giant GMA 7’s latest series “The Borrowed Wife”, frankly just fails to impress me: Indignant call center agents vowed to boycott the newest GMA television series, “The…

Development, Economy, Media, Money Talks

Is PNoy a real ‘chicks boy’ or is it all just an overcompensation?

January 25, 2014January 25, 2014 Kate Natividad 43 Comments

So it comes down yet again to that age-old question: Does being a “chicks boy” validate a guy’s sexual orientation? In one wedding I’ve been to, the underlying theme of the toast speech of the best man was about how the groom’s “chick-boy” ways were supposedly “tamed” after meeting his future wife. Way before that,…

Glitz and Glamour, Government, Lifestyle, Media

Top smut consumers: Filipinos just need some stimulation on the fly

January 24, 2014 Kate Natividad 11 Comments

Hey, here’s another item to chalk up for “Pinoy pride”! According to a GMA News report, Filipinos are among the top viewers of Internet porn in the world. Filipinos, it seems, are renowned for their “stamina” when it comes to their duration of visits to the porn site P0rnHub_dot_com [Editor note: Spelling changed as a…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Media, Religion, Society

China ‘outsourced’ air pollution now reaching US mainland

January 24, 2014 benign0 41 Comments

America’s decades-long orgy of “outsourcing” its irreplaceable manufacturing might to China is now coming back to bite. Pollution dumped into the atmosphere by China’s growing carpet of factory smokestacks is now reaching the United States’ mainland according to a US National Academy of Sciences study. “We’ve outsourced our manufacturing and much of our pollution, but…

Economy, Environment, Lifestyle, Tech Talk