so, puhleeze, all this cheesy romanticizing gives me the creeps. it’s sooooooo baduy and crappy.

The islands will still be there – and so will its residents.

What won’t be missed is a farcical Philippine state imposing a Luzon-centric policy in the other islands. Till the day when Mindanaoans finally say – Get off my island, go away, stay out, and good riddance – THE PHILIPPINES, WILL NOT BE MISSED, THE EARLIER IT IMPLODES THE BETTER.

imagine, the developed world is downed by a disaster, leaving the philippines as one of the most powerful countries remaining in the world… sort of like “jericho” meets “Battlestar Gallactica” in the philippines!

though from where i am now i have to have an advance notice of when it’s going to happen for that to happen, heheh.

if the rest of the world vanishes (ala the left behind series?), will the philippines/filipinos miss the rest of the world.

i think your answer holds as well…

it’ll be hard at first, but we will manage and even thrive. we can use ur old paragraph:

“The bottom line is that we should not be too cocky about our presumed place in the economic scheme of things. If cheap Filipino labour suddenly disappears from the face of the earth, advanced nations will, in the same way, manage to find SOLUTIONS to overcome such a setback and certainly will be able to explore alternative sources”

replace cheap filipino labor with “foreign capital”, and the rest of the paragraph stands…

is this the discussion we should be having?

Leytenian,
Lake Tahoe, eh? Wow***envy*** Hehe. It wasn’t the nicest or fanciest place, but it was one of my favorites in the area long, long ago in another life: King’s Ranch. Affordable for working college students back in the 70s. Hope it is still there.

MANILA, Philippines—Almost two weeks into the registration for overseas absentee voting, only 2,045 have enlisted in the 93 foreign posts as of February 11, the Department of Foreign Affairs said Thursday.

At the re-launch of the registration center at the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration, Foreign Affairs Undersecretary for Special and Ocean Concerns Rafael Seguis said the turnout was still far from the one million target overseas registrants for the 2010 elections.

As usual, the solution is a Pinoy favourite — a lowering of standards:

Ferrer attributed the low turnout to the voting requirement on Filipino-Americans to return to the Philippines in three years. He said Comelec was proposing to either do away with the requirement or change it to seven years.

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Jon .. have fun in coron. I love el nido and that area too. spend your money to stimulate the local economy… ok? :)

Because GMA will be missed, or at least GMA will remembered (maybe not in the same high regard as Tansu Çiller of Turkey or President Agatha Barbara of Malta) as, well, a President and a UP-Diliman alumnus.