Ang Kape Ni LaTtEX

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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