In yesterday’s headline of the Inquirer, Social Weather Station came out once again with the latest (dis)satisfaction rating of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. This means that at 54% to 55%, her grading card remains ‘virtually unchanged’. Let us touch on the highlights of this latest scoreboard quickly: One, GMA earns negative ratings in all sectors [...]
The trouble with crashing into paradise
June 29, 2009 By 26 Comments
Zest Air seems to have a lot of trouble dealing with the airport at Caticlan. Last week, a Zest Airways Xian MA-60 (RP-C8892) with 54 passengers overshot the runway, in a repeat of a similar, more damaging overshoot earlier this year. Unlike the previous incident where 3 of the 25 passengers were injured, no one [...]
Cuando te ofenden, dulce es morir!
May 5, 2009 By 30 Comments
Yesterday’s Inquirer article on the Church’s built heritage and the issue of Martin Nievera’s ‘mangling” of Lupang Hinirang is appropriately juxtaposed. After all, nothing symbolizes the colonial period of our history as the churches in each town and our continuing liberation from colonialism as the National Anthem.
Beheaded, Not Forgotten
April 2, 2009 By 23 Comments
It never fails to surprise the ever-urbane modern Filipino, (in whom outrage can be sparked by a little Chip Tsao) how very many persons have actually been beheaded by the Abu Sayyaf Groups in the Southern Philippines in the 21st Century alone. The list of names I have compiled below is incomplete but ought to [...]
UP @ 101: Now comes the reality check
March 4, 2009 By 5 Comments
Finally the tsismis that the University of the Philippines (UP) won’t be able to immediately attend to one important provision of the 2008 UP Charter (the one on the provision on raising salaries) is now made official. . For those profs and staff who are “nagpapakabayani sa UP” this hardly is a surprise.
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