Archive for Cogito Ergo Sum

Transport strike is childish

Do you remember when you were still a child? Whenever someone takes away your candy or balloon, or someone hurts you, you cry and say “isusumbong kita sa Tatay ko1″ Sobbing, you go to your closest parent and tell them what happened. MORE »

Spirit of giving this Christmas

Has this ever happened to you? You are in a jeepney and all you are praying is not to be late for work that day. All of a sudden, a child beggar, about 9 years old, with his dirty clothing and no footwear, approaches you and hands over an envelope asking for money. You could see the innocence in his eyes. He won’t talk; he just expects you to give at least something. MORE »

The Trillanes Effect

Just when everything seems to be going smooth in time for the Yuletide season, here comes Sen. Antonio Trillanes asking for the resignation of Pres. Arroyo. While nothing is new to that call for the President to step down, his groups was armed with long rifles and holed themselves in the Manila Peninsula. MORE »

Why Kindle won’t click in RP

Much has been said aboutKindle,” a new product from Amazon that lets a user read contents from providers. It was released just in time for Thanksgiving tomorrow, or should I say on Black Friday. (I would expect that we would be queuing from Friday up to January 2008). MORE »

Digitel phone service sucks

Our family has been a Digitel subscriber for about a decade now. Never had their service been this worst in the past year. If changing the phone number is so easy as buying a new SIM card, we could have disconnected our subscription.

Whenever you call their call center, which takes a long time before they answer the phone, all the agents could do is to file a report/update the case. One time, I asked for the reason for having no dial tone, the Bisayan accented agent said : “May network problem po.” When I pressed for more details, she just said “May problema po sa network.” Very informative. MORE »

Annoying text scams

I only use my cellphone when it’s really needed. I text my sisters, friends and former classmates. I call whenever I complain to Digitel. In short, I only my phone on important things. That’s why it’s annoying to receive messages from your carrier and most specially, from text scammers. MORE »

Search is on for the best ‘palusot’

Filipinos deserve to be insulted

OR DO WE?

I just watched the video of Jimmy Kimmel, Live in Youtube, who made some remarks about the Philippines. Kimmel said three things about the country - the awe of Filipinos upon seeing an American, kidnapping and the lack of knowledge in the English language. MORE »

Do we still need the Sangguniang Kabataan?

After I voted this morning at 7:37 a.m., (voter number 12 at Precinct Number 1, Number 56 in list) for the Barangay elections, I took pictures of the event and Edward saw me and asked about Baras Balita. I told him that it would be better perhaps if we will release the newspaper on December. I posed him the question, do we still really need the SK? MORE »

Glorietta tragedy confirms Gloria’s bribery

Just when everybody thought that last Friday’s tragedy in Glorietta 2 mall will take away the media attention from President GMA’s bribery accusation, it seems that the bombing actually confirms it. MORE »