Let’s start off with Senor Enrique’s post about the early chinese rice traders of Manila: By the 1890s, over 2,000,000 pesos worth of rice was being imported annually by the Filipino-Chinese from China. On Juan Luna Street in Binondo, establishments owned by Chinese rice importers were skillfully mixing poor quality Saigon rice with good grades [...]
Deuts.net shares with us an article written by Edel Mary D. Vegamora– we’ve got some pretty smart and world class internal auditors in the Philippines! The results of the November 2007 global examinations, have shown that the Philippine candidates, have garnered almost half of the Global Awards: 1 Gold Medal (Top1), 2 Certificates of Excellence, [...]
Janice shares with us an article from the Inquirer– buses plying EDSA will be fitted with RFID chips by April 21: In a phone interview, Nacianceno said 3,000 of Edsa buses had so far been equipped with the RFID tags that would be used to track their location and to identify colorum buses, or those [...]
Paolo Mendoza has a critique of the stereotyping of Lasallians and Atenistas that is happening at the Pinoy Big Brother house. I think it’s hilarious that Paolo Mendoza refers to Big Brother as “Kumag”, the “God-pretending gay dude”: Cast-wise, in true stereotypical fashion, Big Brother chose people as perceived of their alma mater and not [...]
Beena, a 16 year old college freshman tells us to stop bitching and start loving the Philippines: …Yes, it is right to praise other countries. But no one has the right to despise his country and its flaws if he himself does not accept his flaws as part of that nation and if he himself [...]
What an unfortunate but very apt name– “pan de regla”! Sold at P6.50 each somewhere in Silang. Check out ruralvet’s umm… red find.
Village idiot savant says this to accompany his photo of feet in a jeepney: We worship in mobile churches That one cannot enter unbowed In forced humility, we gaze at the feet of silent fellow pilgrim strangers and they, too, gaze at ours
Mi muses about Erap: Whenever Erap is mentioned, it’s always the negative things that come to mind. The Erap-tion jokes which plays with the thought of Erap being stupid. The corruption and plunder that he has committed. The ouster. I guess the saying is true. People will only remember your mistakes, and never the good [...]
Voineksdor from youtube shares with us a video taken from inside the Manila Ocean Park. Parang ang gulo!
2rokbotoy from flickr has some beautiful photos of Pinoy children. Here’s another one of my favorites.