Last Saturday, #sentisabado trended briefly on Twitter. Which isn’t really all that special, I guess. Lots of things trend on Twitter, most of them inconsequential (#worldcup, etc).
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Insensitive nursing students now a meme
What’s sadder than trying to resolve a hostage situation with a sledgehammer and failing on worldwide TV?
Pinay maid in SG gets US$4 million from her employer, Pinoys in RP get angry
“Christine,” a Filipina maid in Singapore inherits some US$4 million from her employer. She declines to give her real name “for fear of possible threats to her life in the impoverished Philippines, where wealthy people have been kidnapped for ransom and some killed by their abductors.”
Butthurt ‘nationalists’ are now duking it out on the comments thread because Yahoo, which hosts the blog the piece was posted on, is apparently hating on Filipinos and the Philippines.
The maid refused to be named in public for fear of possible threats to her life in the impoverished Philippines, where wealthy people have been kidnapped for ransom and some killed by their abductor <——— DID THIS PRESUMPTION COME FROM A RESPECTABLE CREATURE?…are there real editors here?
Join the fun before the haters crash the server with all their hate.
UPDATE: It’s still on fire.
Filipino Students Develop the Video Game Equivalent of Mother Teresa, Wins $25k
A group of students from Ateneo and UPÂ won first prize at Microsoft’s Imagine Cup Game Design competition by creating a game that asks players to “battle poverty, gender inequality and environmental degradation and save the world by social action and volunteerism.”
Mighty big responsibility for a video game.
The article is silent on details about the game itself. Even some screenshots would be nice. Â I would seriously like to get a copy and have a go at it to see how it plays.
Congratulations, Team By Implication!
(Update: Philippine Online Chronicles, our Internet betters, has a feature on Team By Implication. They have video.)
Pacquiao now a full-fledged politico
Fresh from a 10-day crash course on how to be a congressman, Sarangani Rep. Manny Pacquiao seems to have learned the basics of politics quite well. He has bolted losing presidential candidate Sen. Manuel Villar’s Nacionalista Party for the Liberal Party.
This, after coming out in a TV ad during the campaign season sucker punching LP’s Benigno Aquino III for his lack of legislative accomplishments.
Now that Aquino is President-elect, Pacquiao is moving to the winning team because Aquino ‘means well and it’ll be good for the country.’
He also said that he moved to the LP because he wants to make sure that the influx of projects in Sarangani Province will be continuous.
Well, basta sports lang, you know.
Scottish MP in trouble for admiring Filipina, Post-Impressionist art
Te aa no areois (The Seed of the Areoi), 1892
A member of Scottish parliament is lying low after his remarks about a woman at a parliamentary committee meeting were leaked to the press:
“She’s got that Filipino look, you know the kind you would see in a Gauguin painting. There’s a wee bit of culture.â€
Everyone’s a critic.
Is this going to be the last show?
This is hard work, this work that we do.
Indolent Indio has always tried to use our dwindling wit and condescending commentary to raise awareness of society’s ills and the quirks of Filipino culture. And it has been a great ride so far.
But sometimes, we have to ask ourselves: how much influence do we really have over these idle islands?
We get it, Ely Buendia
You’re cool. You’re the face of ’90s rock.
You made up things like Tahong Chips Ahoy and turned the silly randomness of youth into the culture of a generation. You changed your name to Jesus “Dizzy” Ventura because you’re like our Michael Jackson. Nothing’s too weird for you, and that’s cool.
You totally deserve to be NU107’s Rock Boss (whatever that is) for May because, dude, you are so boss.
But Jesus Christ, did you have to come to that radio spot they keep playing pretty much every fucking hour stoned or lazy or both?
When Karl Roy of POT said in 1999 that his inspiration for his songs was “I take a lot of drugs,” I thought that was pretty cool. Because it was 1999 and we were all young and stupid and taking a lot of drugs.
When you tell us now that you get your new material from the “new material section beside the produce section at Shopwise department store,” it isn’t cool anymore. Not because the answer wasn’t witty. It was (in 1999).
But you delivered it in such a bored fashion that it went from laid back I say random things to just plain I don’t give a fuck.
And, dude, you’re a rock icon. You sort of owe it to the kids with dreams of being in a band to give better advice than just, you know, “listen to classic music.”
If Lourd de Veyra could go from singing about pigs and Astro cigarettes to making nation building hip, you can probably do better than telling the kids that music,” rock music for that matter,” started long before they were born.
In the intro to that radio spot, you ask mock philosophically “Why should I tell you who Ely Buendia is when I’m him?” On hindsight, maybe you really shouldn’t have.
(thx, mouse! no thx, ely!)
Noynoy: Biggest jejemon of them all
(photo from Malaya Business Insight)
If there’s a jeje cap, there’s also a jeje tent. I’m just saying.
How to protest tuition fee hike: destroy school property, justify increase
Raise high the red banner of militancy at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines! Onward the proletariat! Or whatever.
Christ Jesus, PUP student leaders, doesn’t wrecking school equipment sort of, I don’t know, suddenly justify the tuition fee increase you guys are protesting?
Sort of like shooting yourself in the foot there, guys.
And then, of course, next year, there’ll be protests against the lack of desks and chairs because of the state’s abandonment of its responsibility to provide quality education. Which is probably true, but you won’t have chairs chiefly because you guys broke them. The 1,700-percent tuition fee increase from 12 pesos per unit to 200 pesos per unit won’t even buy one desk, I’m thinking. So, onward, onward. I guess.
To rebel is justified...somehow
One student leader, to show his solidarity with the students, has this to say:
“Actually, I have final exams today. But I was thinking, ‘what if next year I can’t take finals anymore because the tuition fee is so high?’ So we decided to protest instead.”
News flash for you, scholar: if, for some reason, you aren’t able to take your exams next year, that could be because you failed your finals this year by, I don’t know, not taking them. Â A-plus.
(Thanks, mouse)