A Business Graduate's Random Blog on History and Gossip

I decided to feel nostalgic by remembering my college days at the University of San Carlos. I remembered taking summer classes immediately after finishing my two-year computer course. I was more than glad that I wasn't accepted for Information Technology since it's not my line. I took basic marketing, statistics, and humanities. It would be around 2004 and it's almost 20 years since that experience.  Facebook The mandatory field trip was going to the four historical Catholic churches in Summer Class 2004 (April-May under the old curriculum). If my memory serves me right, the places were Carcar, Bolhoon, Dalaguete, and Argao. I already forgot the route of the long humanities trip back in 2004. I could remember waking up early, we were told to be well-rested, I still had a camera with negatives back then, and it was a time for me to be extra attentive. Yes, I can be very inattentive. At that time, I still didn't have an active lifestyle though I tried to do some exercise

As the rainy days hit July, as July 16 passed a few days ago, it's hard not to think of one of the greatest miscarriages of justice namely the Chiong Sisters case. Okay, I don't believe that the Chiong sisters are alive because the evidence given is faulty . How many times do people need to be reminded that the two sisters have a youngest daughter named Debbie Jane Chiong-Sia. Poor Debbie is frequently mistaken because of their resemblance. There's even an entire school to prove that Debbie was an elementary student when the crime happened. Also, two sisters-in-law were mistaken to be the late Marijoy Jimenea Chiong. I believe that both sisters are already gone. What was amazing was that Give Up Tomorrow came out, I heard from a friend that he was with Paco Larrañaga on July 16, there were records to prove that he was in Manila, yet that evidence was ignored by the regional trial even up to the Supreme Court decision.  It's easy to say, "Oh, I'm sure it's b

Success Consciousness The old man in the toga has already blocked me on Facebook. Right now, I'm wondering who is this "reliable source" known as Merkado CTTO. Okay, he spelled it out as CTTO Merkado. CTTO means credit to the owner. However, I prefer to call it Merkado CTTO instead of CTTO Merkado. My reasoning would be that CTTO could easily be edited as the surname Cotto . Maybe, let's call this person Merkado Cotto. The fact that we don't know him reminds me of an incident in the past. I could remember the late presidential candidate Atty. Miriam Defensor-Santago or MDS for short. She always reminds me of my feisty former economics teacher who chastised me for the better. I'm still thankful for my fierce economics teacher who actually helped me after she had to flunk me. The incident, more than a decade ago, had Atty. Harvey Keh of the Kaya Natin (We Can) movement. It was during the impeachment of the late Renato Corona. There was this Mr. Anonymous source.

Jakarta Globe It's very easy to talk about how we need character change only, not a charter change. I say that having a charter change (better termed constitutional reform ) will lead to character change. The old saying of some boomers goes, "It's common sense that nothing is wrong with the system, just the people running the system." However, when I ask something like, "If that's so then why do other nations have better leaders? What about Mahathir Mohamad and Lee Kuan Yew?" Their answer is, "Well, that's proof that the system isn't defective, it's just the leader." This can also come from people who believe what Atty. Hilario G. Davide Jr. said that there's nothing wrong with the 1987 Constitution of the Philippines, that it's the "best in the world". The arguments are clearly illogical at best . Some say that the parliamentary system worked in Malaysia and Singapore because those heading it aren't corrupt. T

Looking at this dances, I'm more than convinced that the aborigine tribes in Taiwan and the Philippines are indeed descended from Indonesians and Malaysians. I wrote about Malaysians and the link to aborigines in Southeast Asia . This dance by the aborigine natives are divided into several dances that have very ethnic names like Tayal dance and Saisiyat dance.  As I was watching these dances, they really remind me of the cultural heritage of indigenous Filipinos. The rhythmic movements would resemble to the Ifugaos and the Igorots to name a few. The different dances would similar to these... Yes, I'm referring to the common links between Filipino aborigines and Taiwanese aborigines. 

I did write about defunding the police a day ago . The big question worth asking to police-hating wokes is what's their justification behind hating police officers? Was it because an abusive police officer and the death of an innocent civilian? We do need to know the function of the police first. Whether those wokes want to admit it or not--the police is just as important as healthcare. In a crime scenario, the police officers apprended the crooks and healthcare takes care of the victims. The police officers might even be required to guard the hospital if ever a high profile victim of a crime is in danger. A vital state witness is protected because the criminal group he or she defected from may want to kill him for her.  Yet, no matter how you try to argue about the function of the police, these guys are going to start screaming all over. I guess not even the American Bar Association  can convince them why we need a police force to keep society safe. They woud say stuff like, "

Pinoy History Facebook Page July 16, 1997, was the day when the presumed deceased Chiong sisters, Marijoy Jimenea Chiong and Jacqueline Jimenea Chiong, went missing. July 18, two days later, a body was found and some believe it was Marijoy. I for one believe that the body found in Tan-awan, Carcar, belonged to Marijoy, since nobody came forward to claim the body. I still think it was a reckless move to have the body cremated sometime after the documentary Give Up Tomorrow came out (read the review here ). I refuse to believe what Enrique Uy, the father of the two suspects, James Andrew and James Anthony, said that the Chiong mother was able to talk to her daughter on the phone. If that was a daughter then did the other children go to Canada? Take note that before the crime happened, the youngest, Debbie Jane Chiong-Sia, was an elementary school student in Philippine Christian Gospel School (PCGS). I, at first, believed what Enrique said. When I told someone about it, she just said, &qu

Cebu Daily News Updated: July 17, 2023 The rainy nights can get scary. I was reminded of a case that happened in 1997 (now it's 2022 going to 2023) on July 16 of that day. Back then, it was the low-tech 1990s era when people used easily fragile diskettes, typewriters were still used, and the Internet was still dial-up and compromised with the landline, you can name it. Anybody who was born in the 1980s or the 1990s can testify to that. This is the Chiong Sisters Case. Two sisters namely Jacqueline Jimenea Chiong and Marijoy Jimenea Chiong disappeared. That happened while waiting for their father, the late Dionisio Chiong (who died during the pandemic), in Ayala Center-Cebu. It was a rainy evening when the two disappeared. Back then, there was a very limited spread of knowledge since the Internet was just a luxury.  A diagram found on Facebook, apparently owned by the late Miguel "Juan" Del Gallego y Ripoll The arrest of the suspects on September 15, 1997 Back then, there