There is no doubt that budget flag carrier Cebu Pacific has changed Philippine commercial aviation with its seat sales and dancing flight attendants. As is true in everything from rap to capitalism, sometimes you change the game, and sometimes the game changes you. Indolent reader XM says getting seats on a Cebu Pacific flight, [...]
Filipino pride, recently restored by an apology from US Ambassador Harry Thomas Jr. after he said 40 percent of male tourists come to the country for sex, may soon be bruised again once the Philippine online hive mind notices this newest (I guess) assault on our national integrity. Travel blogger QuatermainesWorld says Manila “has got [...]
Here’s an old clip from Sidetracked, a segment on TV5′s The Evening News (TEN), that mentioned Indolent Indio alongside actual A-listers like future Assistant Secretary Manuel Quezon III and journalist Ding Gagelonia (who has since passed). We were the youngest and least-known and the only website still blogging. MLQ3 still blogs but he is [...]
The Philippines, ever hungry for world fame (and also ever hungry), seems to have gone a little crocodile-crazy ever since Lolong, a giant one-ton crocodile, was caught in Agusan Del Sur in September.
Guys. We get it. Planking is the protest action du jour, especially after Quezon City Representative Winston Castelo proposed a controversial and draconian law to penalize planking on the streets during protest rallies. As predicted, though, Filipinos took an Internet meme, hyped it up, then beat that dead horse until it could not possibly get [...]
The Senate hearing this week on P660 million in loans that the Development Bank of the Philippines granted businessman Roberto Ongpin was a doozy. The ABS-CBN News Channel broadcast the hearings live for a while but gave up when viewers began zoning out during the discussion on behest loans and stocks and banking principles that [...]
Although not quite as rich, it seems employees of this US-based banking firm have learned to party like bankers from the 1980s. According to our sources, these hotshot bankers held one of their “team-building” activities at a hotel in Manila and left the place in shambles. Not content with smoking on a non-smoking floor, they [...]
After Typhoon Pedring kicked Manila’s ass earlier this week, the Department of Public Works and Highways was quick to get out in the field and check damage to the sea wall along Roxas Boulevard. They were also apparently quick to fire up their Photoshop for a sloppily-done PR photo showing their officials at the site. [...]
Twitter is a great tool for keeping tabs on your friends and on things that interest you. It is also a great tool for being a tool. Like so: Now, the UP College Admission Test (UPCAT) is sort of a big deal for many high school seniors, and the pressure of getting in is too [...]