Tag: Philippines
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Foreigner: Pinoy Inability to Improve is due to Escapism
via Foreigner: Pinoy Inability to Improve is due to Escapism. Comments: It is valid to say that we are escapists, preferring to tolerate certain injustices to a certain point. The failure to act is either a product of failure to reach critical mass (that is, the needed number of people who are still willing to…
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IWD + A Bone to Pick with Anti-Feminists
Women are awesome. I can’t really write a lot about IWD, since I failed to celebrate it this year (or every year since I learned about it, actually), but there is something I can say for or about women, and it began with these posts:
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An open letter to the universe (aka UP Manila Administration)
An open letter to the universe: Still in light of the GAB Caf issue
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Word Vomit: GAB Caf
Rant about school, administration and state universities with their cool logic. …No judgment, this is a word vomit of feelings.
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How cellphones will be MRT, LRT tickets | ABS-CBN News
How cellphones will be MRT, LRT tickets | ABS-CBN News. Gist Ayala Corp. and Metro Pacific Investments Corp. bagged a contract for the LRT and MRT one-ticketing system; the starting idea is to use cellphones as the ticketing medium.
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the opportunity is out there
the opportunity is out there; you just have to take it. Several people have asked me: Why AIESEC? Why Exchange? And sometimes I answer that it’s because I want to change my life and the life of others. I want to put myself in a different world, even if it’s just for one summer. I…
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On Ken
THE MOST FAKE THING ABOUT KEN IS NOT THAT HE’S PLASTIC. IT’S THAT HE’S “STRAIGHT.” Screenshot from http://fckh8-tees.tumblr.com/post/67279559310 Not all of our social constructs —like gender roles— are entirely digested and understood by even my most “enlightened” university friends (and not even by family). Here in the Philippines, being a male homosexual is almost always…
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Let’s Talk About the Me and You
Highschool, St. Scholastica’s College Manila. Home of women leaders, social activists and articulate speaker. Set the stage. The commute home from school is long. I have to ride the LRT, a handful of jeepneys and tricycles. Time and time again, I’ve seen the same beggar on the flight of stairs going up to the LRT.…
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Essay: TH does not believe in religion
I had a nightmare earlier. I had a nightmare, and I woke up praying to the lord for strength. How odd, that for a person who professes no affiliation to a religion, I find myself coming back to the same rituals and the same prayers when I am reduced to my lowest. It must be…
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