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What’s so wrong with being called a “servant”?

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

I have a simple question to ask in light of all the hollowheaded feelings of being “insulted” by the Philippines being labelled “a nation of servants”:
What is wrong with being a “servant” anyway?
Why feel “insulted” when called a “servant” when one is in fact earning an honest living working as a servant.
If placed in the [...]


Filed Under Society.

One Tama

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

One Tama Intro from Duyan ng Giting on Vimeo.
here’s a site i found interesting. One Tama. According to their page, “One Tama is a campaign that asks a very simple question: If all of us say we want a better country anyway, why don’t we try it out for one day?”
(thanks to @kulit for the [...]


Filed Under Politics.

Writing on the Wall

Friday, February 20th, 2009

So I was reading Asian Perceptions 2008:  The results of a survey on the views which Asia Focussed Business People Hold on the Business Climate in Asia which was shared by @mlq3 on plurk.
three graphs showed startling numbers:
(click each image to see the bigger picture)


Filed Under Business & Economy, Politics, Society.

I.T.P.S.

Monday, January 12th, 2009

I just read caffeine_sparks’s Authenticity and Mar Roxas. I think I know now why the Philippines — a country of 90 million — cannot produce even one good president.
It’s because:
We expect so much from presidents and so very little from ourselves.
We expect presidents to be saints but cannot seem to find it in ourselves [...]


Filed Under Politics, Society.

Design and The Road to 2010

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

There are several vectors of interesting thought today. Take this plurk from @tonyocruz. He thinks “some folks who detest mass actions are just (vainly) covering up their own inaction.” Then there is one from @rivengodwin who asked, “if the (Fundamental Attribution Error) is a prevailing mindset when talking about the state of Filipinos.”
I’ve responded to their [...]


Filed Under Politics.

The Never Ending Struggle Between Poverty and The Wash

Monday, October 20th, 2008

For as long as our racial memories allow— our people have been fighting poverty. I’m annoyed. I’m peeved. I’m sick to death with all the negative, hopelessness permeating in the air. I get it that it is so damn hard to see past misery, it breaks your heart seeing a kid kill herself because she [...]


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The Philippines: An enduring grotesqueness

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

The insight Dean provided to Cocoy’s query, Clueless over Bangsamoro, is quite straightforward. The whole Mindanao thing is nothing more than a bizarre effort to create renewed debate about an issue that is otherwise quite crystal clear (I would have said “to most” but the fact that this debate has come to light again would [...]


Filed Under National News, Politics, Society.

Would you spend more on Morale?

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

 “In my experience, the thing that has the most significant impact on a movie’s budget–but never shows up in a budget–is morale. If you have low morale, for every $1 you spend, you get about 25 cents of value. If you have high morale, for every $1 you spend, you get about $3 of value. [...]


Filed Under Business & Economy, Society.

Maybe, it is all about how one phrases it

Monday, July 21st, 2008

The radio was on and i heard the anchor say that Arroyo was doing everything in her power to keep the nation afloat in this time of crisis. First off, when is it ever not a time of crisis for the Filipino? Second— that’s all we aspire for? to keep “afloat”?
At about the same time [...]


Filed Under Society.

Waiting for the ‘perfect’ president

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

If Chuck (aka “Cvj”, or whatever) has one particular talent it is this: He is very good at encapsulating — in the personal sentiments he routinely expresses all over the blogosphere — the particular aspects of the nature of the Pinoy mind that keeps its gearbox permanently shifted to Reverse.
Here is his latest truism:
It is [...]


Filed Under Business & Economy, Society.

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