Men are virtually to blame for all the divorces, broken homes, crimes, physical and sexual abuse, and almost all of the miseries that happen everyday.

It’s because of the twisted teachings that our fathers and our father’s father have handed down to us.
1. We were taught that having a lot of girlfriends is the way to be called a real man, which is blatantly wrong!

2. Drinking a lot of beer or liquor is a manly sight to behold, another immature heirloom given by our fathers.

3. Having a violent behavior or reacting aggressively will classify us as true blue hunks.

I based the above post from the book of Myles Munro, a must related reading for men and women alike:

I have a principle that i’ve been practicing for the past seven to eight years. It’s buying “cheap brands” than “fake brands.”

I’d rather buy a cheap branded pants than a fake Levi’s jeans. Personally, it’s better getting a Company B or Bench than a fake Levi’s.

Why?
1. I don’t want to be part of the common masses who are fond of accusing the government of corruption, but they themselves are also guilty of doing the same.

2. I want to help this country, the businessmen and its employees in my own little way.

3. I’m an artist and a business person it irritates me when somebody is ripping off my works or my business. So i try not to do it on others.

Ces Drilon and two of her crew were abducted by the infamous ABu Sayyaf this week. Ms Drilon has been interviewing terrorists before such as NPA, Erap Estrada, MILF, and ABu Sayyaf.

Could this be a conspiracy performed together as a partnership between ABu Sayyaf and ABS cbn?

Reasons I find very, very, very, very, very disturbing:

• ABS-cbn wanting to increase its television ratings, paid ABu Sayyaf bandits with an undisclosed amount.
• ABu Sayyaf and ABS-cbn - just by looking at their names, even a one year old could tell that both have some things in common.

First, they dissed Grand Theft Auto, the controversial video game for being violent.

But praised the 13 year old boy who stole his dad’s credit card and went on to a shopping spree and hired two hookers. Unknown to Fox News that it was a fake story by Money.co.uk created for the sole purpose of gaining popularity to the financial website

Fox News forgot to research about their news, even promoting lying and stealing which is much more morally wrong than Grand Thief Auto.

“The woman needs a reason to cheat, while the man just needs a woman. Agree or Disagree?”

I saw that as an advertisement inside my Facebook account.

It may not be totally true to some, but i have to agree that’s the usual scenario.

The woman needs a reason to cheat
I’ve heard stories when women cheat because of some various reasons like, their partners cheat on them, neglect, long distance relationship etc.

When i was a teenager i had two flings with two girls, both had boyfriends at that time. One girl, her boyfriend was working from another city. While the other girl, well both just liked each other. We were first teased by her friends, and everything just followed with no glitches.

While the man just needs a woman.
Just put a woman near the man, if the woman show signs of interest to the man. The animal inside the man would be unleashed!

The man is usually the guilty one in a divorce or breakup. The reason is always ‘the man cheats on the woman.’

First and foremost, this is not a rant against Survivor Philippines, but a warning to those who plan of joining the next screening. According to my not so reliable source it would be within this year.

Don’t waste your time means don’t waste your time and energy by lining up for 5 to 8 hours only to be ditched in less than a minute. You may watch the show, but don’t even think of joining if you’re just an average looking Juan.

Paolo Bediones’ line that “This is not an artista search” I believe it was just a gimmick as an attempt make the show popular.

Why?

I got the past first level of screening, which was the interview part. While waiting for another hour in the second level of screening, which was the VTR or camera portion. I stood beside a goodlooking guy, the model type. He was quiet. While me and other participants were so excited, we talked and exchanged some ideas. He was oblivious of the excitement around him.

In the VTR portion, we were asked two questions. About 20 participants were there, some made some witty and trying-to-convince answers. I realized that all those answers were just nothing.

The artistahin guy beside me was the only one chosen. One of the guys in our group commented later that it was a setup. He was suspicious of the guy beside me.

I got another info from my source that some models were being told to lineup with the rest of the average looking Filipino citizens and brave the heat, cramps and hunger. Just to make the screening appear legitimate. Two days later, the Survivor Philippines producers carried out a separate tryout for models from different talent agencies in Metro Manila.

Conclusion: Don’t’ bother yourself joining Survivor Philippines or any reality tv show if you are not telegenic.

Wherever we roam around, in the streets of the United States, Europe, on the radio, music, television, the internet especially in the chatrooms, in Youtube. You could hear, see and read racist remarks hurled against Asians.

But they are not what they seemingly appear to be.

Asians should NOT at all feel belittled by the antics of the racists. We Asians need to build up our own confidence, thus we need to educate ourselves on some things we already have that those racists enormously don’t have.

Asians need to know the following:

1. Those racists simply feel threatened or jealous of the Asians’ abilities, talent, skills, and intelligence. So to mask their personal insecurities they cry bigot words towards Asians.

-In the ESPN spelling contest I could see a lot of participants of Asian physical appearance. I thought they comprised about half of the total number of contestants.

-In the internet technology, the names of people involved are of Indian sounding names. The founders of Google are of Asian descents.

2. Probably some racists are just accidental. They could be simply naïve. I suppose they were fed with wrong information especially by the media.

-A friend who works as a nurse in Ireland was so furious when an Ireland asked him, “Do you have Coke in cans in the Philippines?” I told my friend to be considerate, that Irish could have only watched the poverty side of the Philippines on TV.

3. We Asians are also racists in some ways. We should not cry as if we are victims of abuse by those racists. We ourselves are guilty of racism as well.

Updated (repost from April 28, 2008).

A number of Filipinos are putting the blame on the politicians’ corruption for the current Philippine situation.

The word corruption is always associated to politicians.

But we always overlooked that we ourselves are also a reflection of what the corrupt leaders are doing. We just like to play the blame game. We ourselves are also guilty of corruption.

The word corrupt according to Answers.com:
adj.

1. Marked by immorality and perversion; depraved.
2. Venal; dishonest: a corrupt mayor.

In my opinion, if you do the following, you are doing corruption to the Philippines yourself.

1. Click Fraud Guilty Website owners. You click your own ads, baaad. You’re good at lashing out politicians, you have against musicians who were accused of copying other musicians materials.

-An officemate was so disgusted with Orange and Lemons and Cueshe for imitating other bands’ music. Double jeopardy. He proudly admitted exchanging clicking of Google ads with his friend.

2. Buying Pirated CDs. Have you bought pirated CDs, fake software and all things fake inside a disk or DVD. It is called Intellectual Property Rights infringement. In simple terms, it is stealing other people’s intellectual product.

A musician worked his butt off, only for his CDs being pirated and bought by ignorant buyers.

3. Purchasing Fake products. You call me radical, stupid or just plain weird, but I don’t buy pant or t-shirts with a fake product name. Yes, I don’t buy those items found in Tutuban or Baclaran. Fake Ralph Lauren or fake Adidas or Nike is a big NO for me.

4. Dishonest partner. Are you dishonest to your girlfriend or wife or husband or boyfriend? Been playing around with your relationship? Then chances are you are a corrupt citizen yourself.

5. A burden to street sweepers. Are you the person who has the habit of just throwing your cigarette butts or candy wrappers just about anywhere? You’re making your surroundings dirty and it’s just another thing for corruption. You may have a clean house or room, but you’re a burden to other people. Isn’t a typical corrupt politician like that?

So wah cha think?

The Philippine medical profession is again at the glare of publicity brought about by the Vincente Sotto operating room spectacle.

I hope the aggrieved person will teach those doctors a lesson. Philippine doctors always get away by burying their mistakes.

On April 15, 2000 a white farmer was shot dead by black Zimbabweans. Those black Zimbabweans were just squatters of the white farmer’s land.

When I read the first two paragraphs of the news article, I was a bit mad. Those killers were just squatters of his land, and they killed him?!

But as I continued to read on, it became clearer. The blacks were demanding to return the land that were unfairly taken from them and given to the white settlers during the white rule.

Who is more evil? Honestly, not easy to answer. But I will try act accordingly to the Christian teachings I learned, as if I have learned something, hehe.

But if I was that white man who got killed, I would probably have given a portion of my land to the black Zimbabweans.

If I was one of the black Zimbabweans, I would appropriately ask a portion of that white man’s land, and if he would not give me any I would still not join in with the other blacks to kill the white farmer.

There are always two sides of the coin. Two sides of the moon, the light and dark. In nationalism too, there are good and bad effects. I will write about the good ones first. The negative ones will be in the next few days or weeks.

Here…

1. It could develop our own national identity. No longer pretensions. No more wearing the masks of Spain or America.

2. It will be good for the local economy. When a Filipino loves the Philippines, he thinks what’s good for the Philippines. He may just remain in the Philippines to help out other Filipinos or go to the other countries to wok, but the Philippines still in his mind and heart.

3. National unity. It may not be perfect, but overall there will be unity. Even the rich countries still has some kinks to iron out.

4. Less regionalism. When there is unity, other regions would think wholly. Lesser discrimination on other ethnicities.

Cebu was once the capital of Philippines during the time of the Spanish colonization in the 1500s.

After the Spaniards denuded Cebu of its resources they transferred to Maynila, and made this progressive city as the new capital, it has been up to the present time. I believe Manila would still be the capital in the next one thousand years.

Although Cebu or even Davao is capable of being the capital, but Cebu should not push for this exhausting idea.

Here are my reasons:
1. Focus. Cebu should concentrate on taking care of its economy; maintain the peace and order situation and making the Cebuanos happy. If the Cebu government is good at sustaining the factors I mentioned, investors would shell out their money, businesses would spring up here and there. Consequently, a Cebuano or bisayan television station would arise that the Cebuanos or even surrounding Visayans can relate with.

2. Look at Manila. I don’t like to pessimistic, but presently Philippines is not so good at the moment. Cebu, do you want to be blamed for the ills that this country is having now? But I’m still having optimistic ideas that Manila will do good in the near future. I don’t exactly know when is that “near future” will be.