“It was a 2003 survey.”

you have not gotten the whole point at all. it’s been 5 years that our country remains to function just like the 2003 survey. we are still top of the most corrupt country in 2007. From 2003 til 2008, nothing has changed- a wasted five years of negative result. It’s actually getting worst.

“What made you think that they are not aware of it already.”

what a stupid question, look at the result- the Philippines i one of the most corrupt.

kawawang pilipinas…ang daming matatalino…at maggaling…sa blogs nga lang…wala sa gawa…bwehehehehehehe

Even more interesting is having lived in Australia for eight years, I’ve become accustomed to the laid back work ethic here.

And that’s the point I make. Despite this laid back work ethic Australia’s prosperity utterly DWARFS that of the Philippines — a country of self-described “hard working” people who are gluttons for “sacrifice”.

As Joaquin wrote in his timeless essay A heritage of smallness:

We work more but make less. Why? Because we act on such a pygmy scale. Abroad they would think you mad if you went in a store and tried to buy just one stick of cigarette. They don’t operate on the scale. The difference is greater than between having and not having; the difference is in the way of thinking. They are accustomed to thinking dynamically. We have the habit, whatever our individual resources, of thinking poor, of thinking petty.

Is that the explanation for our continuing failure to rise–that we buy small and sell small, that we think small and do small?

Are we not confusing timidity for humility and making a virtue of what may be the worst of our vices? Is not our timorous clinging to smallness the bondage we must break if we are ever to inherit the earth and be free, independent, progressive? The small must ever be prey to the big. Aldous Huxley said that some people are born victims, or “murderers.” He came to the Philippines and thought us the “least original” of people. Is there not a relation between his two terms? Originality requires daring: the daring to destroy the obsolete, to annihilate the petty. It’s cold comfort to think we haven’t developed that kind of “murderer mentality.”

But till we do we had best stop talking about “our heritage of greatness” for the national heritage is– let’s face it– a heritage of smallness.

Read it, and weep, folks. :D

nasa atin na ang lahat…kayong lahat dito…ang gagaling ng mga idea ninyo…ang lulupit ng mga arguments ninyo…ang gagaling magdebate…hindi maaruk ang mga pinagsasabi…

pero gaya ng ibang blog sites….ilan taon na ang nakalipas…wala pa din nagbabago sa sitwasyon ng pilipinas…naghihirap pa din ang kababayang pilipino…nagpupuntahan pa din sa ibang bansa para makakuha ng trbaho na my desenteng sweldo…expoited pa din ang mga trabahador…magnanakaw pa din ang nakaupo sa pwesto (admin at opp)..

bakit kaya…puro naman matatalino…puro may sinasabi…

bakit kaya…bakit nga kaya?

puro blog na lang ba? ano ba ang susnod na hakbang? di ba kayo dapat magpulong pulong? ng sa gayon ay mapagsama ninyo ang inyong mga talino para labanan ang kasalukyang sitwasyon? para baguhin ang pamumuhay ng mamayang pilipino? para isaayos ang economiya ng pilipinas?

kaso wala eh…watak watak…walang pagkakaisa…puro magagaling…puro gustong maging leader at walang gustong sumunod…

kawawang pilipinas…ang daming matatalino…at maggaling…sa blogs nga lang…wala sa gawa…bwehehehehehehe

gabbyD,just google parts of the comment and you will get it. It was a 2003 survey.

where did u get that quote from IFC and WB on customs fraud? is there a link? thanks!