Archive for the 'Philippines' Category

10 dahilan kung bakit bad trip ang pagkatapos.
National Artist for the Visual Arts Ben “BenCab” Cabrera’s speech for the graduates of the University of the Philippines College of Arts and Letters.
Ikalimang dahilan, wala nang libreng gimik. Dito sa UP, maglakad-lakad ka lang may makikita ka nang kasiyahan. Pag fair, halimbawa, p’wede kang umupo lang sa [...]


From the headlines of the Philippine Daily Inquirer,
Pinoys cooked adobo where killer lived
By Romeo E. Capuno Jr.
Inquirer
Last updated 03:19am (Mla time) 04/28/2007
BLACKSBURG, Virginia—Cho Seung-Hui, the Virginia Tech student who shot more than 30 people, lived on the second floor of Harper Hall, where members of the Filipino Students Association (FSA) had cooked adobo and pancit [...]


Part 2

27Apr07

Mainly as a reaction to this, this, semi-agreement to this, and a follow-up to this, my two cents on the petition against EO 210.
As an aside, EO 210 is the executive order deceptively called “Establishing the Policy to Strengthen English as a Second Language in the Educational System.”. Deceptive becaue its provisions look more like [...]


… My mind is reeling.
This is quite possibly the first time I’ve been excited about a Filipino comic book, ever. I only heard about Wasted after it was already published, Zsa Zsa Zaturnnah was a bit too fabulous for my tastes, and Arnold Arre’s way too overrated in my opinion.
But this. Wow. Jose Rizal [...]


I figure I better write this already before it becomes irrelevent.
Has anyone else noticed how increasingly, US Politics is taking its cue from Philippine Politics?
Not exactly when it comes to the issues, because after all, the Philippines isn’t exactly rich enough to start discussing stem cell research or liberal enough to start talking about abortion [...]