Ang Kape Ni LaTtEX

If you’ve been wondering where I’ve been, well, the short answer is I’ve been writing at Filipinovoices.com:
Reciprocity
My wife, a travel agent, got fuming mad at a “friend” last weekend. Her “friend” inquired regarding passport renewal application with a caveat: “friend’s” birth certificate has some problems, preventing her from obtaining one from the NSO. My wife [...]

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Carlos Celdran’s latest post on the Desperate Housewive’s issue (which comically morphed into the “Cory Aquino as ’slut’” issue) led me to the news of how five Filipino nurses saved a man whose arm was bitten off by an alligator in South Carolina.
The man, who was snorkeling in a lake adjacent to where the Filipino [...]

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This morning, Reynz and I were talking over GTalk about the Desperate Housewives brouhaha when the topic led me to ask about the Bikolano term “uragon”.
Over the comments at the blog post linked above, I saw her say something about being called “uragon” as an insult when I had the impression that it had a [...]

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I’ve been a member of the Pwede Na! Complete Pinoy Guide to Personal Finance Yahoogroup since 2004, ever since I’ve bought the book, but I rarely join the discussions there. However, an email sent by a member of the group containing yet another analysis of the country’s problems caught my ire, which started a fiery [...]

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Reading from a letter to the editor on The Philippine Star, it appears that Malu Fernandez, who has been the subject of widespread criticism (to put it mildly) with regards to her From Boracay to Greece article in People Asia magazine, has resigned from the said magazine and Manila Standard Today.
The following is the text [...]

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I believe that the Filipino blogging community has sufficiently voiced out against Malu Fernandez’s “acerbic wit”, so I’ll not delve into the well echoed topic.
It remains, however, that the OFW psyche that she maligned has been deeply hurt, and I believe it is but apt to once more remind and underscore just what our countrymen [...]

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