Mr. Celdran's stunt was ballsy indeed and deserves praise. But only on sheer ballsiness.
As a way to open up dialogue with the Catholic Church, and to spread his advocacy, not so much.
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).
“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 [...]
A group of students from Ateneo and UP 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 [...]
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 [...]
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.” Everyone’s a critic.
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 [...]