In the run up to the Quezon City mayoral election in May, former Arroyo lackey Michael Defensor accused then QC vice mayor Herbert Bautista of pocketing city money through non-existent projects and a rigged feeding program. It was a particularly nasty smear campaign with demands for Bautista to explain himself spraypainted all over Quezon City guerilla street-art style.
Not that it really matters but TV5′s new station ID “Pagbabago 2010″ is pretty much the introduction to Yamakasi (2001), a parkour movie written by Luc Besson, interspersed with astig shots of the TV5 news team in action.
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.
We all love Bario Siete, the blog that rules the Philippine blogosphere. True, it is a love that is born of fear, but still.
Sometimes, though, they tend to Hamlet it up with words, words, words that it’s easy to get lost and go, “say, what?”
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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 the game itself. Even some screenshots would be nice. 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.)
Click to see in all its glory
M says “This crudely drawn comic strip is more nuanced than it has any right to be.”
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(thx, /b/ [pinoychan chapter, of course!])
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