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What Metro Manila billboards tell us about the Filipino character

July 19, 2011July 19, 2011 benign0 18 Comments

Driving up or down EDSA, the main road transport artery through the Philippine megalopolis of Metro Manila, is like navigating a badly-designed website. The huge billboards that line the iconic thoroughfare competing for the attention of motorists and their passengers are monuments to the aesthetic sensibilities of Filipinos. Manila, after all, is the cultural capital…

Culture, Environment, Media

An unsolicited draft of President Noynoy Aquino’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) for July 25, 2011

July 18, 2011June 8, 2012 benign0 5 Comments

My dear countrymen, members of Congress, honourable House Speaker, Senate President, and Chief Justice, ladies and gentlemen of the diplomatic corps: Today I stand before you, this 25th day of July 2011 to do three things: (1) report on what we had achieved in the last twelve months, (2) give you a summary of the…

Development, Economy, Government, Politics, Society

Google+ relationships are one-way streets

July 18, 2011 benign0 10 Comments

It’s been one week since I first jumped into the Google+ bandwagon and published my initial thoughts about it. My observations from that piece haven’t changed — basically Google+ is the Facebook sharing experience wrapped around a Twitter-like networking philosophy. In that sense, Google+ is a true “mash-up” — a Facebook-Twitter hybrid that seems to…

Tech Talk

A call to President Noynoy Aquino to ditch the color yellow

July 16, 2011August 20, 2013 benign0 66 Comments

Tired, old, and quite frankly embarrassing. That’s what’s become of the whole yellow motif of the Aquino clan and its circle of business cronies, relatives, “shooting buddies”, lackeys, Media outlets, and cadre of bloggers, publicists, and “social media activists”. It was the primary colour of a successful propaganda campaign that started in 1983, peaked in…

Culture, Government, Politics, Society

Are OFWs’ right to travel being violated by the Philippine Government?

July 15, 2011July 15, 2011 Ilda 41 Comments

The Philippine economy will collapse without the Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs). Remittances from the OFWs contributed significantly to the 7.3% growth in the economy in 2010. The spending fuelled by the billions of dollars they send back home is a factor that is likely helping the country avoid a Greece-like economic failure. Even without drastic…

Economy, Government

Three communication tips that will get you out of the office by five

July 15, 2011July 15, 2011 benign0 10 Comments

In an ideal work environment, the first thing many of us do in the morning is schedule the stuff we will be doing for the day, plan the things we need to get these jobs done, and then proceed to do the job subject to said schedule and plan. By doing the thinking up front…

Lifestyle, Money Talks

OFW ‘exit permits’ make sense – because taxpayers’ funds are at stake

July 15, 2011July 15, 2011 benign0 14 Comments

Exit permits for OFWs? You gotta be kidding. That plus anecdotal evidence of all sorts of red tape before one can depart for a job overseas? An outrage! It sounds like something reminiscent of the Cold War when East German citizens would risk life and limb to make a dash across the border for a…

Economy, Lifestyle, Politics, Society

I Donâ€™t Like President Aquino

July 14, 2011July 14, 2011 BenK 14 Comments

Iâ€™ve seen more than enough. Iâ€™m passing my judgment. I donâ€™t like President Aquino. But that is actually secondary to the point I want to make here, so bear with me as I attempt to find a straightforward way to explain it. For an outsider like me, comparisons between the country of my birth and…

Culture, Society

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