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Philippines, the sick man of Asia “again”? No. It ALWAYS HAS been sick!

March 18, 2021 benign0 26 Comments

Certain “thought leaders” are issuing shrill commentary on the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting lockdowns aimed to mitigate its effects. The fact is, most if not all countries are suffering from economic crises in varying degrees thanks to the brittle world order of intricately interdependent and interlinked economies created by “globalisation”….

Culture, Development, Economy

German Engineering, Japanese Precision and Filipino Pride

March 14, 2021 zaxx 70 Comments

Some racially-oriented collocations you may have stumbled across would include German engineering and Japanese precision. It gets amusing though when you see those words lined up with our very own Filipino Pride. Are you ready for a deep dive into the cultural DNA behind these either tech-generating or -consuming nations? Let’s go for a quick…

Culture, Development

Will Ateneo- or UP-standard education make Filipinos a more progressive people? Think again.

March 11, 2021 benign0 24 Comments

The idea that substandard education is the reason why Filipinos are not progressing as a people is starting to wear thin. Granted, of course, there is a massive investment gap that keeps the Philippines’ public education system (within which the vast majority of Filipinos are educated) decrepit and practically ineffective at churning out smarter people….

Education, Tech Talk

Commie “activist” Katrina Stuart Santiago calls on the Opposition to “get its shit together”

March 10, 2021March 10, 2021 benign0 5 Comments

But is anyone listening? They should. For their sake. If the Opposition really want to seize power legally in 2022, they could begin with reading Kat Stuart Santiago’s recent blog, “Duterte’s killing it #Talk2022”. Now that is a blog — the sort of writing the Yellowtards and commies need to be re-learning to do and…

Politics

Job well-done, Oprah: The world is ENTERTAINED

March 9, 2021March 9, 2021 benign0 3 Comments

Meghan Markle does not get the British. These are a people who kept their chins up through the Blitz, getting on with it even as the Luftwaffe’s bombs and rockets came raining down on them. They built an air force from scratch to go up against some of the best-engineered warplanes at the time as…

Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle

“Pwede na yan” is Tagalog for “better than nothing”

March 2, 2021 benign0 58 Comments

It’s not surprising that Filipinos are now called to accept what COVID-19 vaccines they get are better than nothing. Filipinos had it coming for a long time now. A whole national tradition of making do with junk because these were better than nothing marks most of its history since being granted “independence” by the United…

Lifestyle, Society

March 1, 2020 was the start of the “new normal”

March 1, 2021 benign0 2 Comments

It’s been roughly 12 months since the world shut down. March 2020 is the month that divides the “pre-COVID” and “post-COVID” worlds. When we were in the midst of frantically putting up daily situation reporting to keep our executive management on top of a world changing by the day as the pandemic bore down upon…

Business, Environment, Lifestyle, Society

Why the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in the Philippines is like a typical Manila rush hour experience

March 1, 2021January 4, 2022 benign0 2 Comments

Watching how the COVID-19 vaccine comes available to the Filipino public in recent days reminds me of the state of public transport in the Philippines. The service is inconsistent and unpredictable — all madness and very little semblance of method. Like the variety of buses, jeepneys, and all sorts of mechanical contraptions that clunk along…

Culture, Government, Society