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. (video below)
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Bakit hinahayaang masayang ang pondo para sa EDUKASYON?
Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: philippine education, social concerns
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Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: 2010 elections, narcissistic personality disorder, social commentary, social concerns
Make our justice system work
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: Politics Tagged With: bank robbery, filipino attitude, filipino society, massacre, social change, social commentary, social concerns
De-forestation in the 21st Century: Export of warm Filipino bodies
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 [...]
Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: cultural capital, culture, employment, filipino attitude, labor day, poverty, social concerns
On What Gross National Product Measures
Beyond the statistic, what does Gross National Product mean for Filipinos? How does it translate for us?
Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: filipino attitude, social concerns
An Elegy To Values
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: Politics Tagged With: social concerns
Corned Beef
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: Politics Tagged With: poverty, social concerns
Phychiatric test para sa OFW: sagot nga ba sa totoong isyu ng mga OFW?
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 [...]