Twenty some days into the new administration, this ‘new’ politics they all promised sounds more and more like the old politics. More accurately, it’s beginning to look a lot like the old old politics of cacique days.
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.
House reps response to water crisis: absolutely nothing
Members of the House of Representatives have called on President Benigno Aquino III to initiate sterner measures to solve the water crisis in Metro Manila. Specifically, the declaration of a state of calamity that will do absolutely nothing.
Marikina Representative Marcelino Teodoro said “there is already a need for the President to declare a state of calamity to strengthen and empower the government agencies concerned.” Forgetting, however, that strengthening government agencies is something that is done in anticipation of crises, not when you’re in the middle of one.
“(An) action plan towards mitigating effects of climate change should already be put in play as we are clearly experiencing the effects of global warming,” Compostela Valley Representative Maria Carmen Apsay said, adding nothing to the discussion.
Metro News: Being a cop can be a shitty job
A cop’s life is full of long periods of waiting. Waiting on stake out to catch a suspect, waiting for the crooked system to serve some semblance of justice, and in some cases, waiting for a suspected jewel thief to take a crap so you can get the evidence that he swallowed.
Metro News: Ex nabbed for leaking sex video on Facebook
Poor Edwadson Base, a 26-year-old call center agent, was arrested by the Manila Police District for posting a sex video of him and his ex-girlfriend on social networking site Facebook.
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.)
Cheerleader helps diners finish their tapsilog
Rodic’s, the tapsilogan at the UP shopping center, is a veritable institution in the UP experience. Not in the sense that it is a fairly stable set of rules, but in that it has always been there. People can count on Rodic’s to provide filling meals that you can enjoy in relative solitude and anonymity, a premium when you’ve got a long day ahead.
What better place, then, to shoot a faux-viral video to plug the 2010 National Cheerleading Championship?
How to describe a ‘mongrel’ model, a lesson from Manila Bulletin
Reporters have to be accurate about what they write. That’s probably Journalism 101. But that’s not an easy feat when you’re faced with Daniel Matsunaga, who is so many things all at once that you often don’t know where to start.
Governor rides tricycle to show she’s one of us
Elsewhere in simplicity to show solidarity with the people, Davao Oriental governor Cora Malanyaon trumps Vice President Jejomar Binay who rode an electric jeepney to the inauguration yesterday.
Africa pwns RP on MDGs
Some African nations have overtaken the Philippines in the race to the Millennium Development Goals. You know, stuff like lowering maternal deaths and fighting AIDS so we won’t be so mired in poverty.
According to the MDG Report Card, the top 20 countries that have made the most overall progress on the MDGs are: Benin, Mali, Ethiopia, Gambia, Malawi, Vietnam, Uganda, Nepal, India, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Honduras, Mauritania, Ghana, China, Burkina Faso, Rwanda, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Togo.
Rwanda, man! Unless we had a systematic culling of our population based on ethnicity last night, I don’t think we have any excuse.