Archive for the ‘Lifestyle’ Category

Since the Quirino Grandstand hostage standoff, most Filipinos have cried out declaring to the international community how one nation can never be punished for the sin of supposedly one man. Rolando Mendoza, according to certain people, acted upon reasons only described to be selfish and nothing more. Names have been called out while fingers have also been pointed in all directions as government officials try ... Full story

A couple of years ago I was in line waiting for my turn to pay my tuition fee. There were no more than four counters open for transactions in my university which was a dumb idea. You see, those counters are supposed to serve the entire university, not just one college, for the remainder of the enrollment period. Imagine the distance of that line. The ... Full story

Philippine society is full of contradictions. One of its many contradictions is that the Philippines is populated mostly by religious zealots and yet its people are quite tolerant of sexual and lifestyle deviants. About ninety percent of the population in Philippines are Christians, eighty percent belong to the Roman Catholic Church while ten percent belong to other Christian denominations. Considering the country's population is ... Full story

Kris Aquino is no longer just another screeching Filipino showbiz personality. She is now the sister of the President of the Philippines. The timing of her marital woes with basketball player James Yap couldn't be worse for the spin machinery of her brother President Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III -- a man who owes much of his appeal to the masses to the Catholic mind of ... Full story

Have you ever watched the "Untouchables?" You should. It provides a textbook case of sleuthing, pain-staking gathering of evidence, and building an air-tight case. The experience of the US' Alcohol Prohibition era also shows how unenforceable laws cause corruption. Jueteng has come to the headlines again. Illegal gambling has become a favorite whipping boy of politicians who are out to score brownie points. But I ... Full story

I don't understand what is so complicated about this whole English-versus-Tagalog "debate". For me, it is a simple return-on-investment calculation. Compare every peso of public funds spent on Tagalog-articulated instruction and every peso of public funds spent on English-articulated instruction. Which of those two pesos spent contributes more to opening more doors of opportunity for the average Filipino? As I wrote way back in ... Full story

I've always called politicians "bozos". And for the record I personally consider Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III a bozo's bozo. Add me to a box of "witchhunters" then, given this categorical declaration coming from me. Noynoy is in a class of politicians probably occupied by only two men -- him and former President Joseph "Erap" Estrada. Between the two of them, they embody 99% of ... Full story

Why are Filipinos not even good at sport? It seems like our athletes had been waved a red flag one day and then simply gave up on trying to achieve world-class status on all types of sport -- I know, I know, aside from boxing, of course. A sport is commonly defined as an organized, competitive, and skillful physical activity requiring commitment and fair play. It ... Full story

The Inquirer.net Editor, true to form, sheds rose-coloured light on the token frugality President-Elect Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III applies to the conduct of his inauguration at the end of June. This "virtue" is made stark by using the "evil" extravagance of out-going President Gloria Arroyo as a backdrop to heighten the contrast. This is the ... Full story

The following are the words newly-minted President Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III reported to the Media after having received a courtesy telephone call from outgoing President Gloria Arroyo who wished to congratulate him on his appointment to the Presidency: I have to give her the courtesies. She's the current President. She's older than me. She's a woman. I would be doing injustice to my parents if ... Full story

Guess what's coming up: "Independence" Day. More precisely, it is the could-have-been day of independence unilaterally declared by General Emilio Aguinaldo back on the 12th of June 1898 that we are celebrating this coming Saturday. Many who see that day as a day that defines "Filipino nationalism" are right. We are a nation because someone said so. It began way back in the 16th Century ... Full story

Some people will tell me that I’m cruel or even racist to say "Filipinos are stupid." But the thing is, open your eyes… there they are. But I also agree that the Filipino is not necessarily stupid... they just choose not to use their coconut shells. Full story

If I lower my guard and take the comfy view that I am fundamentally defined by where I was schooled, I'd call myself an "Atenean". When you are an Ateneo alumnus (and specially when you remain on as a faculty member), you usually come equipped with a lot of connections and the frame of mind to segue into "socially-oriented" projects if you wanna go down ... Full story

Filipinos seem to love to boast being the best in something. Best workers, best actors, best artists, best singers, best this and that. But it turns out that we are only best in boasting. And the world laughs. Full story

Speaking of leadership by example, Noynoy is pulling all the stops... on how not to lead. Aquino's actions remind me of an old sign in Shakey's Pizza - "quit complaining about the service, there's none". In this case, do not question Noynoy Aquino's leadership - at worst, there's none. At best, he leads in the trivial and irrelevant. ... Full story

The lowness of the standards we apply to ourselves never ceases to amaze me. Even while we aspire to world-class achievement, we measure ourselves using scales that make our uniquely-Filipino flavor of mediocrity look golden. So too in what we consider to be the "achievement" of this year's presidential elections. As if one did not already get an attack of the cringes whenever we remember how ... Full story

Way I see it, our family values were really designed to make Filipino families broken and dysfunctional. The Filipino family was sabotaged from within, and thus is a cause of our country's problems. Full story

The way they vote shows that Filipinos love to live on dole-outs. Full story

I don't think Kris Aquino has any real friends. If she had, they would have told her long ago that the only way people would leave her alone is if she quit being in the limelight. I know, I know, but what else is she going to do? More importantly, who else will the rest of Philippine society talk about? Even her famous buddy, Boy ... Full story

Edward Bernays recognized that advertisers can use messages that appeal to people’s subconscious, thereby influencing them to buy the products of his client company or even favor the politician who is his client. Full story

When we here at Antipinoy come out with articles criticizing the bad traits of the Filipinos, our critics would come at us with the criticism, “why are you so negative about the Philippines? Be positive!” OK, when we try to look at the positive traits, we still come up with negativism. To be fair, it isn’t us here who are negative; the negativity of Filipinos ... Full story

Our "world-class" idols, sumikat sila abroad. Di sila sumikat dito. They didn't get that famous here. So they look for greener pastures. Like our OFWs. Full story

I thought I'd collect some specimens of fine Filipino fauna hanging out at Adam Carolla's Facebook page and classify them into my three-phyla Filipino zoological taxonomy. WARNING: Some language exhibited in the following images may be offensive to some people. TERRORIST WANNABES -- these are Filipinos who threatened violence against Adam Carolla. A few even invoked some imagined Filipino gangsta scene in L.A. that ... Full story

Comedian and podcaster Adam Carolla is but the most recent of many people who have pointed out The Truth about Filipinos. And because much of what is true about Filipinos is not pretty, Filipinos, true to their renowned onion-skinnedness, took offense. So like many who had come before him, Carolla now finds himself set upon ... Full story

Bakit ang mga Pinoy ay nagagalit kay Adam Carolla kung ang sinasabi niya naman ay TOTOO? Meron nanamang latest na pinagpuputok ng butsi ang mga Pinoy matapos ang mga kabanatang lumipas na sila Claire Daines, Alec Baldwin, Chip Tsao, Terry Hatcher at kahit si Chris Rock. Ang pinag-iinarte ng mga Pilipino ngayon ... Full story

Don Draper once said that people are living two lives. One life they are actually living and the other, they are secretly wishing. Considering what he said is just out of the script from the popular TV show Mad Men, we can't really take it too seriously now, can we? Come to think about it though, ... Full story

I received a letter that I know contains sentiments - a common feeling about people who are still in the Philippines - and how they view the more outspoken Pinoys like moi - who have left. Normally, I would dismiss this kind of letter. But knowing this came from someone important (to me anyways) - I thought of giving some time to go through it ... Full story

I received quite a number of good-quality commentary on my recent article The Establishment Blogger defined and I thought I'd honour those who took the time (and put in the thinking) to provide great feedback with a follow-up article. There is only one key point that I want to make when writing about my favourite online ... Full story

I. BSN Minsay ay nagkakatuwaan ang mga visitor ng AntiPinoy.com na mag usap usap sa shoutbox at may nabanggit si BongV na katagang natawa ang lahat. Ito ay ang katagang "BSN". Hindi po Bachelors of Science in Nursing ang ibig sabihi nito kundi "Binuhi Sa Nurse" (sa Bisaya or more accurately, Cebuano) o sa Tagalog, Binubuhay ng ... Full story

The Filipino mind is Philippine society's greatest enemy. If you read Philippine publications, watch local talk shows on TV or even just peruse other popular collective Filipino blogsites, you can pretty much tell what the national preoccupation is about. The national preoccupation is centered on the Filipino ego. To be specific, it's all about who has ... Full story

It's that time of the year again, the usual motley crowd will predictably be seen swaying from side to side with heads shaking ala-Stevie Wonder singing the cliche songs "Handog ng Pilipino sa Mundo" or "Magkaisa". They will again be out there brandishing their yellow shirts, yellow ribbons, yellow hats and an abundance of other yellow accoutrements to compensate ... Full story

Juan de la Cruz is a man living two lives. By day he is an average bank employee and by night a liberal blogger known as Pedro. Pedro has always questioned his reality but the truth is far beyond his imagination. Pedro finds himself targeted by the other Filipino bloggers when he is contacted ... Full story

Everytime I read about Noynoy Aquino leading in the surveys, I am reminded of how stupid Filipinos are. What strengthens my belief in their collective stupidity is the vapidity of the reasons they give as to why they want to vote for him as the next president. The guy has absolutely no accomplishments, ... Full story

Ahh...love is in the air. It's hard to explain what, give or take, 40% of Filipinos voters are feeling right now. Maybe it's that warm, fuzzy feeling they are getting all over; like their chest is bursting at the seams with emotion that's so hard to contain. Their head must be spinning and their mind is ... Full story

To prove this, one need not research and reflect on the current national situation of the Philippines. It is very palpable that the Filipinos are not worth Ninoy's or anyone's life at all. Filipinos have these cultural values that are resistant to progress. Look at the masses who elect not only celebrities but incompetent people to government positions. This country is one big fan of popular ... Full story

Over a year ago, Fannie and Freddie needed to be bailed out. These are not names that we associate with Jack and Jill who went up a hill to fetch a pail of water. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are names synonymous with the recent global financial crisis or GFC. Unfortunately, when these two US mortgage ... Full story