A Business Graduate's Random Blog on History and Gossip

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 ...

Cebu Daily News I'd probably quit arguing with that law student I ran into on Facebook. I won't leak out her profile, put the screenshots of the message, of respect for her, even if I find her incorrigible. According to her, she's already read the Supreme Court decision. She even said, "Why would you believe the documentary made by Paco's cousin?" I fired shots and said that Marty Syjuco was the brother-in-law of Paco's sister, Mimi. I guess as a law student, she's too beholden to the "infallibility" of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. However, she may have ignored the efforts to make Give Up Tomorrow (read my review here ). I wonder if she considered several facts in the trial that the documentary presented. The documentary presented the witnesses for Paco Larrañaga, a person I assumed was guilty for the longest time. All that changed when I was told that Paco himself, though he was a bully, was actually not involved as to why the Chion...

Business Insider A Netflix documentary named What Jennifer Did shows the darker side of Asian parenting. Yes, Jennifer Pan is guilty but what caused it to happen. Jennifer was from an overly demanding Canadian Vietnamese family. She had a secret boyfriend named Daniel Wong (who was into drug dealing). These overly strict tiger parents only created a monster. Indeed, indulgent parents get nowhere. However, these harsh parents caused their daughter to also become a monster. If so, did they have it coming to them ?   If I moved to Canada, maybe I would've had a crush on Jennifer as a teenager if I knew her personally. She has the image of an intelligent woman. Maybe, my own parents would think having parents-in-law as crazy as hers would be beneficial. I was looking into the video and said, "Oh my! What a waste of a woman!" I did some research on this topic to find out how her parents are plain crazy and they probably deserved their own daughter's backlash. I'm not t...

It's times like this that make me ashamed to be from Cebu. This Facebook page tends to demonize charter change without realizing that it can be a proper game changer. I'm pointing out that Hon. Hilario G. Davide Jr. isn't getting irrelevant because of his age. The problem isn't growing old but when one grows old without wisdom . I'd say this is the case for Davide Jr. himself he's grown old without wisdom. He's already 88 years old but he's still too comfortable with the outdated 1987 Constitution of the Philippines as it is. Come on, if that's the case then what happened to  Article XVII  of the 1987 Constitution of the Philippines?  Section 1. Any amendment to, or revision of, this Constitution may be proposed by: (1) The Congress, upon a vote of three-fourths of all its Members; or (2)  A constitutional convention . Section 2.  Amendments to this Constitution may likewise be directly proposed by the people through initiative upon a petition of at...