A Business Graduate's Random Blog on History and Gossip

 Above is a hilariously stupid video called "Dumb Ways to Vote". I remember back in the 2010s when I said, "How can the Philippines become better if Filipinos don't vote wisely?" I would spell out things like, "When will Filipinos learn to vote for doctors, lawyers, and economists instead of actors and athletes who know nothing about politics?" What's even stranger is that the same people addicted to personality politics (and I even assume that both Atty. Maria Leonor Gerona-Robredo and President Ferdinand "Bongbong" R. Marcos Jr. won because of personality politics ) throw Ad Hominem attacks towards Senator Robinhood Padilla, who's still pushing for charter change . Some would call him names like Boy Chili or remind people of his already ex-convict status . I didn't vote for Padilla because I've had enough of voting for athletes and actors. However, I prefer to backfire, "Do you ever wonder why Robin Padilla won first pl

I remember reading a lot and I mean a lot of bad reviews on Jacqueline Comes Home . After many years of deciding not to watch it, I decided to watch it out of sheer boredom . I watched Give Up Tomorrow (read my review here ) before this lackluster film,   and even read the Supreme Court of the Philippines decision. For people who are curious about this incorrigible law student I ran into a few years ago--I'm not going to name her out loud. I wouldn't be surprised if this law student (I believe she's a lawyer now and I'll refer to her only as Atty. Naunsa Ba Ni (who also got married and I'll call her husband Atty. Imbento Ug Istorya meaning To Invent Stories), to avoid direct confrontation since I feel she's not worth arguing with) would use the film Jacqueline Comes Home as "proof" of the "infallibility" of the Supreme Court decision, even when Given Up Tomorrow presented a lot of proof that something was horribly wrong with the Philippine ju

I've observed that Filipino humor can get way too far. I used to fight a lot with two housemaids who had their tactless sense of humor. What do you expect from a nation that adores ill humor on television? Reading the tactless humor made on Facebook on Ju Wenjun (and I doubt this woman can even speak Tagalog) and comparing her to Bamban's suspended mayor Alice Leal Guo (who I believe might be a fugitive on the run from the CCP), gets really tactless comments.  Do I need to state the fact that a person can't be in two places at the same time ? Wenjun is in Norway and it's doubtful she's ever been to the Philippines. Looking at the face of Alice vs. Wenjun--one can tell the difference. It's like a closer look at the face of the alleged "Marijoy Jimenea Chiong" photos--one can tell that's the sister-in-law . Also, a closer look at Debbie Jane Chiong-Sia would show she's not her presumably deceased older sister Jacqueline Jimenea Chiong.  Watching

I went to China in 2007. It pains me that going to China now might not be the best thing to do. When I think of Tiananmen--I think of the brutal massacre that happened on June 4, 1989. I guess not all peaceful protests work. It's effortless to talk about the EDSA Revolution of 1986 and how it encouraged others to do something similar. We have the fall of the Berlin Wall in Germany. Before that, Mohandas Karamchand "Mahatma" Gandhi did peaceful protests to get the British colonization out of India, without firing a bullet. Benigno Simeon "Ninoy" A. Aquino Jr. admired Gandhi's peaceful efforts. Did the Chinese students think the same thing can work against a Communist totalitarian regime ? BBC News The protests happened after the death of the beloved Chinese President Hu Yaobang. Hu was considered a great reformer of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Students mourned for Hu as a national hero. Details from BBC show these details why the protests happened in