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As expected, sifting through the responses to my challenge to identify the possible points I intended to make in my last blog post was a no-brainer. Only a few stood out as noteworthy, and as usual, I had to rely on, well, primarily myself for an injection of true insight into the matter. Some of [...]
What the bloody hell. I’ll do the blackshama thing and post a bit of Australiana — a fair dinkum entitlement considering that I do live here. But unlike some people, I do it with reservation. I think the notion of regularly dishing out colloquial Australian (strine is what they call it in short), or exhibiting [...]
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Lately there’s been a lot of backpatting accompanying all the feel-good stories surrounding the heroism and “bayanihan” supposedly exhibited in the aftermath of the destruction wreaked by tropical cyclone Ondoy on Metro Manila. Indeed, there is reason to congratulate ourselves. The motivation to “help out” and “contribute” to the relief effort transcended social class and [...]
The devastation wreaked by cyclone Ondoy this weekend hit close to home. It impacted our immediate families and circle of friends, and it disrupted that sense of “normalcy” that the latte-sipping classes of Manila had grown accustomed to. I cited in a previous blog article how the flashfloods and mudslides that killed 5,000 in Ormoc [...]
The child in us [Filipinos] lives in a mythic, magical world where we expect a handsome prince to save us at the last minute, or that things will get better with the wave of a magic wand, without any need for us to change. These are words Jim Paredes wrote in his 2007 blog What [...]
Electing someone to public office is like hiring a plumber. You pick one to call relying mainly on an ad (the campaign, so to speak) they place, say, on the Yellow Pages. But then you agree on some form of Statement of Work (the platform) before you give him the green light to proceed. The [...]
Caffeine Sparks makes an insightful critique on another one of Conrado de Quiros‘s lame attempts to prop up his manok. Tragic for Noynoy Aquino‘s campaign as I think de Quiros is doing more damage than good as he goes about his ironic crusade. I echo Nick’s call in a comment he made there: Framing the [...]
What is it now? Week Three since Noynoy Aquino became a potential “presidentiable”, and maybe Week Two since Mar Roxas dropped out of the race to make way? And still the candidate in question is holed up somewhere waiting for the Voice of God to reveal His Will? Come on now, dude. Grow a couple. [...]
It is half-official now. Mar Roxas (one of the politicians who has the most highly-developed platform among them) has stepped back to set the stage for Aquino (a politician who has a virtually non-existent platform) to run for president. Pending the results of some sort of “retreat” that the son-of-heroes will be taking to mull [...]
First Noynoy Aquino drafts the memory of his parents’ “heroism” into the service of his budding presidential aspirations (as if being an offspring of a hero necessarily makes you one as well — but then Filipino voters tend to eat up horseshit like that). Now he outdoes even that by going further to hijack a [...]
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