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What’s so wrong with being called a “servant”?
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 [...]
One Tama
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 [...]
Writing on the Wall
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)
I.T.P.S.
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 [...]
Design and The Road to 2010
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 [...]
The Never Ending Struggle Between Poverty and The Wash
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 [...]
The Philippines: An enduring grotesqueness
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 [...]
Would you spend more on Morale?
“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. [...]
Maybe, it is all about how one phrases it
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 [...]
Waiting for the ‘perfect’ president
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 [...]
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