January 2011
"How Good People Turn Evil." →
– Corruption in the Philippines by Maria Ressa
Sometimes doing the wrong thing seems to be the only way to get ahead. I’ve heard so many Filipinos say that – particularly the street-savvy operators who are trying to get you to do the wrong thing!
You have to find the courage to say no. You have to do what’s right – not just for your company, but for yourself. You have to find and set this...
Philippine Folklore Creatures →
MANANANGGAL. Literally means “one that removes”. This creature is usually an attractive woman by day. At night, especially when there is a full moon, her upper body detaches from her lower body; it utters a special demonic prayer and applies some kind of oil on all of its body parts before the ‘detachment’. Bat-like wings sprout out from its back, and it uses its long tongue to feed on...
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“A Filipino may denationalize himself but not his stomach. He may travel over the...”
– Where Is The Patis? by Carmen Guerrero Nakpil (via cold-nostalgia)
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Please Don’t Give Blogging a Bad Name →
GEORGIA opened a restaurant sometime between 2000 and 2010. It was received well by the public. It quickly gained popularity by word of mouth. Before long, the country’s most read newspaper (“balanced news, fearless views”) wrote about her, expanding her restaurant’s clientele even further.
One day, The (PR) Firm approached Georgia, telling her that she could increase her sales by three if...
UPDATED: 4 killed, 14 others injured in Makati bus... →
At least four people were killed while more than a dozen were wounded in a bus explosion along Epifanio delos Santos Avenue (EDSA) in Makati City on Tuesday.
The blast occurred inside a Newman Goldliner air-conditioned bus (TXJ-710) shortly before 2 p.m., according to a report on dzBB radio quoting Senior Superintendent Froilan Bonifacio, Makati Police chief. The bus was bound to Fairview in...
“The Philippines is such a crazy place, and yet you meet the sanest people in the...”
– A traveler I met in Vietnam
My favorite quote about the Philippines. Will work this line into a film some day :) (via pepediokno)
Ferdinand Marcos and Cory Aquino documentaries to...
Among the country’s staggering list of political icons, none were ever as influential as the late Corazon Aquino and Ferdinand Marcos. Both controversial in their own right, the former Presidents ruled during a time of deep political strife, when the drama that came with Philippine politics was at an all-time high. The new documentaries “Marcos: The Fall of a Dictator” and “Cory Aquino:...
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Read ‘Em and Weep: Statements Made at the ‘Faces...
by Marguerite de Leon, Filipino Free Thinkers
What was particularly striking about Faces of the RH Bill, the forum I attended last night at the Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health (ASMPH), whose main audience was comprised of med school students and medical professionals, was how the anti-RH folk present claimed that the issue at hand was not a matter of Church vs. State but, rather, a...
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Read ‘Em and Weep: Statements Made at the ‘Faces...
by Marguerite de Leon, Filipino Free Thinkers
What was particularly striking about Faces of the RH Bill, the forum I attended last night at the Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health (ASMPH), whose main audience was comprised of med school students and medical professionals, was how the anti-RH folk present claimed that the issue at hand was not a matter of Church vs. State but, rather, a...
LRT, MRT fares go up by 56% →
by Roel Landingin, Newsbreak
The government wants to increase fares for the Light Rail Transit (LRT) and Metro Rail Transit (MRT) systems in Metro Manila by an average of 56% in a move aimed at reducing costly state subsidies that reached P13.85 billion last year, according to the Department of Transportation and Communication.
The fare increases are not uniform for the three train systems....
LRT, MRT fares go up by 56% →
by Roel Landingin, Newsbreak
The government wants to increase fares for the Light Rail Transit (LRT) and Metro Rail Transit (MRT) systems in Metro Manila by an average of 56% in a move aimed at reducing costly state subsidies that reached P13.85 billion last year, according to the Department of Transportation and Communication.
The fare increases are not uniform for the three train systems....
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Mayor Herbert Bautista promotes traffic enforcer... →
At around 6 p.m. on New Year’s Eve, traffic enforcer Sol Botilla stopped Quezon City Mayor Herbert “Bistek” Bautista, who was not accompanied by security escorts at the time. Botilla said he did not recognize the mayor, whom he thought was a Chinese national. Bautista said in the Inquirer.net report, “He only recognized me when I spoke and acknowledged the (traffic)...
