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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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. [...]

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Recently I’ve come across some commercials on Youtube from the US that illustrate the risk of posting personal information and photos in the internet. This is particularly relevant in there where sexual predation via the internet had become a real problem in the late 90s, early 2000s. I had the same quandary when my wife [...]

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Bo Sanchez, in his book “8 Secrets of the Truly Rich”, talked about how one fateful night, he was fueled by so much passion and excitement that he wrote down a 15 page Word document containing his dreams in so much detail. He said that it was important to be able to do this, that [...]

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Around a month ago Sidney Snoeck (who maintains the excellent photo blog My Sari Sari Store) posed a challenge to my blog entry Mariannet Amper and the Gospel of Hopelessness. In that blog entry, I posited that the “the rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer” mantra was part of a “gospel of [...]

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A wondrous Happy New Year to all! One of the new year’s resolutions that I’ve been wanting to make is to be able to post more regularly to this blog. To say that this is difficult is by itself an understatement — my work schedule only allows me a few blocks of genuinely free time, [...]

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Earlier this year a lot of us received forwarded images of a Ferrari F430 on fire. It was later posted as a video by a guy who’s part of the Ferrari’s convoy: While seeing a car burn to the ground is shocking enough for most people, a Ferrari F430 is worth a staggering 12 million [...]

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The Doing Business 2008 report, an annual study conducted by the World Bank and International Finance Corporation, states that the Philippines ranked 133rd out of 178 economies surveyed in terms of ease of putting up and doing business in the country: Regulations affecting 10 stages of a business life are measured from the perspective of [...]

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