Some psycho killed a cat in UP. Let me correct that statement, psychopaths supposedly don’t know the difference between right or wrong. His blog post of the event (now made private but is thankfully saved in its original form here) shows that he does know the difference between right and wrong. The murderer is identified [...]
I must admit that I can easily get hooked on to games. This is partly the reason why I no longer install games in my PC. They usually just eat my time away. So it was an ambivalent time when I came across Tribal Wars. I didn’t install it. It’s online based. I originally planned [...]
I just read this from The Wichita Eagle. Geoffrey Stanford, East Junior High student, encounters an error in a state writing test. Instead of saying, “the emission of greenhouse gases,” the test had a question that said, “the omission of greenhouse gas.” So he informs his English teacher Jennifer Fry, who int turn informed the [...]
I had thought adult illiterate Filipinos didn’t exist. I was, however, proved wrong. This incident happened around July last year. While waiting to get my ATM card from a very long wait, I heard an interesting exchange. Sunda lagi ang instruction, sir, the teller said in a tone that bordered on annoyance. Or maabtan ta [...]
Andrea: Unhappy the land that has no heroes. Galileo: No Andrea. Unhappy is the land that needs heroes. Bertolt Brecht The Philippines has its fair share of national heroes who were chosen to inspire the people to become better citizens. It boasts heroes from the intellectual archetype Jose Rizal to Mariano Gomez, one of three [...]
Rain had been pelting in Iligan for several days before last Saturday night. I usually don’t care about the weather as long as I am safe inside the house and tucked in for the night. I just hide under my blanket and pillows if it’s too cold, or have my electric fan running all night [...]
UPDATE: (Current news reveal that the suspects were men in Arab gear. Confusion regarding the sex of the suspects may have been due to the similarity of the form enclosing Arab gear of both sexes. Disregard post. I’m keeping it open for posterity’s sake.) I thought the day would not come when Filipino Muslim women [...]
Stacked inside Manila, often found in shopping malls, are sanctuaries to Knowledge. Their sizes range from tiny chapels to grand cathedrals. They have different ways of recruiting the devotion of buyers. Some sell overpriced coffee and food as a message that they offer books of high quality. Some merely stack the books into their respective [...]
For someone who lives in a city that officially has one shopping mall, but in actuality has only less than a quarter of a mall, Manila shopping malls are must-see places. Yet if someone were to strip away those malls’ fancy building designs, air conditioning, security guards, and cleaning staff; what would be left would [...]
The poor are flooding Manila. They flock to the city hoping for a better life than what they had in the provinces. Too often they are greeted by a harsher life in Manila. They cramp themselves in squatter settlements, risking life and health under squalor conditions. Very few of their children grow up to escape [...]
