Opportunity, the energy untapped in the Philippines . . .

Posted by JoeAm on October 29, 2015 · 348 Comments 

The Philippines today is driven by passion and a lot of it is misdirected as anger. Passion is an energy, a kind of motivational inspiration, not much different than electricity and it can be used to electrocute or empower. The Philippines is today more like a battery than a generator. The passions are deep and powerful … Continue reading →

Category Crime/Corruption, Economy, Education, Family/Parenting/Children, Philippine Government

AlDub Love Defines the Country

Posted by Wilfredo G. Villanueva on October 28, 2015 · 140 Comments 

w by Wilfredo G. Villanueva It’s a story that begs to be written. Again. It’s a story of every man, woman and child. Men and women were crying their hearts out in equal measure. The largest auditorium in the world with a seating capacity of 55,000 was filled to the uppermost seats, but hushed. All … Continue reading →

Category Citizenship/Patriotism, Culture and Arts, Family/Parenting/Children, Religion

President Quezon’s 1939 “Code of Citizenship and Ethics”, and the Philippines today

Posted by JoeAm on October 6, 2015 · 226 Comments 

I suppose one approaches a pinnacle of presumptuousness when one decides to edit a Philippine president’s earnest works. Such are the demands on bloggers today, forever impelled to re-interpret the world to try to find a path less burdened, or more attuned to modern times. Yet, I somehow think that Philippine President Manuel L. Quezon would have … Continue reading →

Category Citizenship/Patriotism, Culture and Arts, Ecology/Global Warming, Economy, Family/Parenting/Children, Laws and Ethics, Philippine Government

Heneral Luna, The Other Side of AlDub

Posted by Wilfredo G. Villanueva on October 4, 2015 · 299 Comments 

w by Wilfredo G. Villanueva It’s been bugging me. I cannot write about AlDub and diss or ignore Heneral Luna the movie. Both have a fans base, although AlDub takes the cake in Twitter and Facebook. But the groundswell, the aftertaste of Heneral Luna has taken everyone by surprise, just as AlDub has. And so … Continue reading →

Category Citizenship/Patriotism, Culture and Arts, Family/Parenting/Children

“Hey university students: I’m calling you out! You’re not doing your job to take care of the Philippines!”

Posted by JoeAm on August 26, 2015 · 260 Comments 

As an outsider, I have no place to make demands here. If I were a properly papered insider, a citizen, I could righteously try to shake some social fruit from the Philippine cultural trees. And, to be frank, I get mighty upset with student apathy and negligence in the Philippines, the negligence being that young people, … Continue reading →

Category Citizenship/Patriotism, Education, Family/Parenting/Children, Laws and Ethics, Philippine Government