Ang Kape Ni LaTtEX

Last year, several blogs pointed out the issue regarding Cebu Pacific’s lopsided policy regarding deaf passengers, which involves no less than two incidents, one in April in a flight to Caticlan, and another in December in a flight to Cebu, involving several deaf passengers.
Through the efforts of blogger Kevin Ray Chua, the issue caught the [...]

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Cross-posted from Filipino Voices
With Barack Obama’s impending ascent to being the 44th President of the Unites States of America, a dark cloud looms and threatens to blot out the “sunshine” industry the Philippines has been exploiting over the past decade.
In his website launched as a primer on his policies as President-elect, aptly named Change.Gov, Obama [...]

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This is a crosspost from Filipinovoices.com, last October 31, 2008, before setting off for All Saint’s Day weekend.
In a few hours I shall be setting off and driving north towards my wife’s home province of Pangasinan, my adopted province since an unfortunate idiosyncrasy of my life is that I could trace seven generations back to [...]

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This article is cross-posted from FilipinoVoices.com

While the racetrack-like Elliptical Road in Quezon City rumbles with noise, fumes, and traffic, a few silent automobiles make their own rounds in the Quezon Memorial Circle that the road borders. Humbly seating four persons max, the curious rides called G Cars (in a pun-loaded attribution to their inventor, [...]

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UPDATE: An interesting discussion on this topic ensued at MLQ3’s blog post Worse than Marcos?.
Yesterday, Janette Toral of DigitalFilipino.com twitted about “Experience of a first time OFW“, an article on the Kabayan Hotel OFW blog that discusses the thoughts and feelings of first-time OFW Gilbert Roque.
Gilbert’s plight is something that most of us have heard [...]

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My wife came across a press-release by a company named Pearson VUE stating that
The National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN®) authorized Pearson VUE to expand testing availability for the NCLEX® examination to Manila, the capital of the Philippines. Exam delivery begins at the Pearson VUE-owned and -operated Pearson Professional Center in Manila on [...]

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Scobelizer posted a video from Consumerist.com featuring the hellish experience of Delta Airline passengers who had to withstand the following:

7 hour flight delay
A quartet of crying babies
A staff that gives all kinds of excuses and lies
No food
No option to go back to the terminal and pick another flight

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