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What Marian Rivera’s being the Philippines’ sexiest woman means

July 12, 2013 Kate Natividad 15 Comments

Another SMS voting contest, another so-called winner. So Marian Rivera is this year’s “sexiest” woman in the Philippines according to the results of a popularity contest organized by men’s magazine FHM. Congratulations, Ms Marian. I suppose one can be considered to be “sexy” when there is enough of yourself routinely publicly exposed for the highly…

Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Society

Mosquitoes, Zombies, Yellow Fever, and Despicable Him

July 12, 2013July 12, 2013 FallenAngel 22 Comments

Mosquitoes In a recent article of his, Manila Times columnist Rigoberto Tiglao revisited the term “Mosquito Press”, apparently first coined during the last years of the Marcos rule as president. Any paper that wasn’t aligned with the current regime at that time was considered “merely irritating like mosquitoes”, so to speak. Now times have changed….

Government, Media, Politics, Society

Makati Medical Center fire further highlights the health and safety hazards posed by squatter colonies

July 12, 2013 benign0 12 Comments

Just when you think squatters and the waste they dump in Manila’s storm drains have already been discussed to death enough, suddenly another risk posed to health and safety by the proliferation of “informal settlers” all over the Philippines’ premier metropolis has emerged: fire. This was highlighted in a huge blaze that erupted next to…

Environment, Society

Don’t Tell Me What Kind of Perceptions I Have

July 11, 2013July 11, 2013 BenK 40 Comments

It’s no accident that two of the three primary propaganda instruments of the Aquino Administration (ABS-CBN and The Philippine Star) have played up the headline “Perceptions of Corruption Decrease” in the past few days. The by-now familiar pattern of distraction-as-damage-control follows allegations of yet another scandal within the Administration, this time striking particularly close to…

Media, Politics

Expanded Manila vehicle reduction scheme continues to penalize law-abiding private motorists

July 10, 2013 benign0 24 Comments

It wouldn’t take a rocket scientist to predict the response the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) will get if it extends the proposed expansion of the ‘number coding scheme’ to the city’s privately-operated public utility vehicles (PUVs). Under Metro Manila’s current Unified Vehicular Volume Reduction Program (UVVRP), vehicles ending in any one of two license…

Culture, Government, Lifestyle, Society

Bianca Gonzalez’s Tweet Reveals The Pinoy Middle Class as the Thin Filling Inside an Entitlement Sandwich

July 10, 2013July 10, 2013 P. Farol 29 Comments

The tweet of Bianca Gonzalaez @iamsuperbianca seems to be the focus of a lot of Pinoy outrage. Bianca tweeted: “Ang dami nating nagtatrabaho para makaipon para sa prime lot at bahay plus buwis pa. Bakit nga ba bine-baby ang mga informal settlers?” (Translation: “So many people working hard to save to buy a house on prime land…

Glitz and Glamour

A lot of decent Filipinos are getting fed up with arrogant squatters

July 10, 2013March 29, 2022 Ilda 745 Comments

The squatters in the Philippines have wreaked havoc in the country and they are out of control. The problem is quite obvious and the solution is staring everyone in the face; there are just not enough public servants with enough guts to address the issue. But someone has to put an end to the vicious…

Crime, Development, Lifestyle, Society

Debunking the Singaporean Laksa

July 9, 2013 John Bay 2 Comments

Before the Laksa goes by the way of “chopsuey”, I would like to say my piece that I myself had been deceived that the origins of the Laksa (A rich and spicy noodle soup supposedly of Peranakan origins) came by way of Singapore and to the world. It did not come as a surprise, that…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Society