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Profile of a Filipino Hotel 26 Aug 2013 | 03:44 pm
Surprisingly, the author has not had any chance to stay in a proper hotel in the Philippines before this weekend (the first few days stay in Manila in a converted condo does not count as there were no...
Learned Cynicism to Combat Learned Helplessness? 21 Aug 2013 | 01:34 pm
After experiencing both man-made and natural disasters year after year personally for the past few years (from earthquake in Japan to mudslide in Korea to rioting in the UK), the author has been growi...
Comparing Countries after Disasters Revisited: the Filipino Flood and the Japanese Quake 20 Aug 2013 | 12:36 pm
An old Chinese saying to wish newlyweds longevity in their marriages is "同享共福，同甘共苦," roughly meaning "enjoying all the fortunes together, suffering all the bitterness together." Centuries of experien...
Learning to stare up from a Four-Inch Screen 18 Aug 2013 | 01:40 pm
Modern human beings live in the cyberspace, getting all the stimulation to get on with our lives, both desired and unwarranted, the needed and the unwanted, from the electronically led-up screens all ...
When You Put Your Heart to It...It's All about Economics 11 Aug 2013 | 03:15 pm
The basic principles of economics goes something like this: the greater the demand for something, the higher the price for that something will be. More people will go produce that something because t...
A Society Reborn...from a Catharsis Ridding Itself of All Negative Emotions and Physical Elements 4 Aug 2013 | 10:39 am
The author is not a big movie-watcher, but he sees a extraordinary theme emanating from what critics would call an overly cliched plot-line and background, the them get stuck in his mind for days. Re...
How Does One Define a “Slum”? 28 Jul 2013 | 01:51 pm
A supermarket, a shopping mall, plenty of nice houses scattered around, and even a highly decorated, futuristic-looking church, the streetscape of so-called Manila ’s largest urban slum is not what a ...
Perception of Institutional Inequality vs Mental Conditioning for a "Skin-Deep" Emphasis 21 Jul 2013 | 06:36 pm
It is as if in a few days, America was back to the 1960s. Never since the civil rights movement itself has death of an innocent young man led to so much social upheaval, and questioning of the inequa...
The Self-Preserving Isolation of the Filipino Wealthy 14 Jul 2013 | 09:01 am
Like all great Filipino establishments, the subdivision does not look like at that much from the outside. A high wall and a guard post, with a security guard lazily asking visitors for their IDs, sep...
The Media's Unintentional Fearmongering, Inspired by Plane Crashes... 7 Jul 2013 | 09:30 am
The news of tragic accidents are always shocking, especially when it happens as rarely as plane crashes. With solid statistics of safety, planes have surpassed cars, trains, and boats as the fast, sa...
