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Are Filipinos ready to face Typhoon Pablo (international code name ‘Bopha’)?

December 3, 2012 benign0 22 Comments

Are the increasingly devastating effects of storms and rising oceans really the ‘environmental issue’ everybody thinks they are? Perhaps the term environmental issue is a misnomer. There is an issue to do with climate change and its effects, alright — but they are all human issues. After all, how serious is the impact of climate…

Culture, Environment, Government, Media

Pinoys’ Poor Money Habits

December 3, 2012March 5, 2014 ChinoF 50 Comments

I often say in my articles that Filipinos refuse to mend their ways. That includes not only their habits with Pinoy Pride, but also their habits with money. We attribute poverty in the country to many things. But for me, one of the obvious things that people tend to gloss over is that Filipinos tend…

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Money Talks

Redefining the concept of rival: strive, and thrive!

December 1, 2012August 22, 2013 FallenAngel 9 Comments

If you look around in dictionaries for a definition of the noun “rival”, more often than not there are a few recurring themes: 1) A person or thing competing with another for the same objective or for superiority in the same field of activity; 2) A person or thing that is in a position to…

Culture

Do women make bad managers?

November 30, 2012 Kate Natividad 35 Comments

I don’t know if anybody’s noticed yet, but it seems most people I know — including women — prefer male bosses. In my own personal space, my worst bosses have mostly always been female. Why do you think that is? For all the talk about women being more “people-friendly” than men and of men supposedly…

Culture, Lifestyle, Money Talks

7.1% growth is not due to Aquinomics, it’s a continuation of GMA’s use of Keynesian Economics

November 30, 2012December 2, 2021 Ilda 90 Comments

It’s beginning to look at lot like Christmas. ‘Tis the season to be jolly. Filipinos are known for being a little too indulgent during the festive season. This could very well be the reason why the Philippine government and the business sector have been trumpeting good news about the economy through various media outlets —…

Development, Economy, Media, Politics

Aquino government claim to 7.1 percent GDP growth all hollow BS

November 29, 2012October 20, 2013 benign0 13 Comments

There are a lot of things that account for changes in a country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and even more that account for movements in the rate of change of that change. Certainly the the quality of the government may have something to do with where the GDP goes. But then who knows? Considering that…

Development, Economy, Politics

Why we fall for the charms of psychopaths and narcissists

November 28, 2012 Kate Natividad 8 Comments

Many of us have been wondering about the appeal of those morose characters in the Twilight series of movies. For that matter, I’ve often wondered what is the allure behind vampires? Not only have the mythology of vampires been behind the success of the Twilight films, they seem to have endured as cultural artefacts since…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Media

It is all the same whether the Philippines is ruled by a Marcos or an Aquino Filipinos reportedly say

November 27, 2012June 10, 2013 benign0 97 Comments

In a feature article on the 24th November 2012 edition of Good Weekend, the weekend magazine of major Australian broadsheet The Sydney Morning Herald, Aussie journalist Jackie Dent writes about her experience speaking to the surviving family members of the late former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos. The article delves into the rise and fall of…

Politics, Society