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With due courtesty to the esteemed blogger Reyna Elena, I’d like to repost here a condensed re-tell of the classic children’s story, The Emperor’s New Clothes: ============== The Emperor’s New Clothes As summarised by benign0 in a comment on ReynaElena.com 24 April 2009 There was once an Emperor who was told by a crooked trader [...]
Over the nine years of Get Real Philippines‘ illustrious history, I’ve elevated to a fine art the rendering of the rich world of Filipino cultural dysfunction in the written word. As such, I’ve been reflecting lately on the many admonitions I get from my readers to go the whole nine yards and propose solutions — [...]
As Filipino Voices resident reporter Ding put it in his recent blog entry, the latest underdog candidates are seen as the latest “giant killers” who — guess what — will be “battling the moneyed wannabees of Malacanang and the main-line political opposition perceived to be led by traditional politicians”. Ding was of course referring to [...]
Whenever we try to come to terms with our continued contribution of blight to an otherwise dyrnamic region of high achievers, we cite our unique circumstances and the history that led to it to excuse the poignant backwardness of our society. Faced with a challenge to excuse our chronic failure-to-launch status in the face of [...]
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 [...]
I find it funny how quickly FV set its sights inward into petty internal bickering (what else can I say but this: all-too-typically-Pinoy) while the Inquirer.net, fresh from a pilit coverage of last week’s flacid “interfaith” rally shifts its attention (and those of its readers) way WAY outward, to more pressing matters such as the [...]
Having explored the first layer of The Ultimate Poverty Framework™, we now move on to the three key classes of management imperatives relevant to building wealth (and extricating one’s self from poverty): :) Securing and growing our revenue base. :) Creating and increasing the value of our asset base. :) Controlling and managing our cost [...]
The great thing about engaging the “experts” is that I start out writing a response to some of them in the form of a comment which, sometimes because of sheer length, but more often because of the stunning insight that emerges, ends up becoming a full-blown article (if I were some religious nut, I’d actually [...]
Recall back in mid-October where I describe an elegantly simple take on Pinoy poverty: Poverty in the Philippines is a simple issue to me as it comes down to this simple textual equation: We locked ourselves into commitments beyond any inherent ability in us to honour them. I go further and enumerate four key parameters [...]
Beyond his comment on yet another (ho hum) image of Pinoy poverty that such is… [...] heart-rending, and gut-wrenching [...] … I’m not exactly clear on what further point Ding is trying to make in his recent blog entry. Yes, it is (to varying degrees across different people), “heart-rending, and gut-wrenching”. And so……. [Ding, please [...]
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