Ang Kape Ni LaTtEX

Cross-posted in FilipinoVoices.com
Zest Air seems to have a lot of trouble dealing with the airport at Caticlan.
Last week, a Zest Airways Xian MA-60 (RP-C8892) with 54 passengers overshot the runway, in a repeat of a similar, more damaging overshoot earlier this year. Unlike the previous incident where 3 of the 25 passengers were injured, [...]

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Cross-posted from Filipinovoices.com
Maybe it’s just road rage from all the traffic that I’ve been going through lately, whether driving my (borrowed) car, riding a cab, or being a bus passenger myself, but I have always wondered: why the hell do we wonder why there’s so much traffic in EDSA, when an average of 40% of [...]

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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 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. My wife [...]

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We suddenly noticed that the widespread corruption we see in others is also the corruption we detect in ourselves.

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When I was growing up as a child in the sunset years of the Marcos regime, it was customary to label people as “loyalists” to the late dictator. Marcos, despite all his misgivings, was a deeply charismatic person, himself able to establish a cult following not unlike that of Joseph Estrada. Some people talked about [...]

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The recent political turmoil has made the opposition, once more, drum up the Gloria resign movement that they have tried, time and again, to initiate over the past six years of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s presidency.
However, again, they are thwarted by the poor showing of support — the absence of the middle class base by which they [...]

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I clearly remember that morning, seven years ago from today, when our professors told us that we’re not required to attend classes.
We can get on the DLSU bus, which comes and goes every hour and a half, bringing students and teachers to La Salle Greenhills, from where we walked short of a kilometer to the [...]

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The newspapers and airwaves the other day were filled with the saddening news of an 11-year-old killing herself over poverty in Davao City:
Using a thin nylon rope, 12-year-old Mariannet Amper hanged herself in the afternoon of November 2. She was a sixth grader at the Maa Central Elementary School.
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Along with her diary, the Ampers also [...]

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