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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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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Just a short rant before we resume regular programming.
To anybody and everybody who is forwarding messages about where the next bomb will explode and when, shut the fuck up and save your load on mushy quotes and jokes instead.
Forwarding messages like that is grossly irresponsible and only contributes to serve terrorism the attention that it [...]

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My daughter CJ will turn three this December, and increasingly, the most usual question that people pop when we talk about kids is “wala pa bang kasunod yan?” I usually laugh it off, but sometimes it becomes irritating when the questions grow in number. I mean, sometimes the way the question is asked almost sounds [...]

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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 the [...]

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The news this past week amuses me, in the sense that it appears that god (or at least, as interpreted by man) in all forms and religions has been too getting too many headlines in different parts of the world for different reasons — enough perhaps for atheists to take notice. And be amused as [...]

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