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Bakit hinahayaang masayang ang pondo para sa EDUKASYON?

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

Kagabi ipinalabas sa Bandila ang mga kababalaghang nagaganap sa milyun milyong pondo ng Dept. Ed.
Nakababahala kung paano nasayang ang mga milyong milyong pondo ng Department of Education na dapat ilagak ng tama para masuportahan ang pangangailangang edukasyon ng bansa.
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Filed Under Advocacy, Regions, Society.

Phychiatric test para sa OFW: sagot nga ba sa totoong isyu ng mga OFW?

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

Psychiatric test, ito ang panibagong requirement ng DFA para sa mga taong nagnanais maging domestic helper sa ibang bansa. “Domestic helpers should be assessed if they are able to respond to this type of stress” ito ang paliwanag ni Undersecretary Esteban Conejos ng Department of Foreign Affairs, ayon sa kanya dito masusukat ang kakayahan ng [...]


Filed Under Advocacy, Society.

Put a caption for this picture, 5

Monday, June 9th, 2008

(Photo taken using Sony Ericsson P1i.)
Put a caption for this picture.


Filed Under Society.

Make our justice system work

Monday, May 19th, 2008

Everyone’s angry about what had happened to those bank personnel who were mercilessly killed by obviously evil people. Who wouldn’t, when the crime was committed in cold blood; and what could be more worst than deliberate murder?


Filed Under National News, Society.

De-forestation in the 21st Century: Export of warm Filipino bodies

Monday, April 28th, 2008

As the dependence of the Philippine economy on foreign remittances becomes increasingly irreversible, it comes as a bit of an irony that in the last several months, three scandals rocked that elite subset of the Philippines’ raw labour exports — medical professionals.
As a number of massively-promoted anti-Gloria street rallies in recent months pathetically failed to [...]


Filed Under Society.

On What Gross National Product Measures

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Beyond the statistic, what does Gross National Product mean for Filipinos? How does it translate for us?


Filed Under Politics, Society.

An Elegy To Values

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

I cry because the concept of values is either dead or dying.

Back then, everything is black and white, now there is gray, with all its shades and hues.

Back then, everything is either good or evil, now it’s just because others are wily and you are just lame.

Back then, honor is everything, now it’s just a word that will not feed you and your family.


Filed Under Society.

Corned Beef

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

In high school, a night that I soon would never forget, a simple celebration in the backdrop of poverty. It was the first time, that I really knew the plight of the poor, as it hit close to home.

I remember that night when a cousin and I went out and decided to go to a local bar. We met a friend of my cousins, and the friend turned out to be a distant relative of ours as well.

He was a tricycle driver (not motorized), and he was at the bar after a long days work, but still waiting for a few customers as well. He was at a table by himself, drinking some beer and watching a few drunk individuals make a fool of themselves at the karaoke.


Filed Under Society.

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    • Filed Under Current Events, Politics.
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    • Filed Under Society.
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    2. She becomes Speaker
    3. The [...]

    • Filed Under Politics.
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    • Filed Under Current Events.
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    • Filed Under Politics.

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