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Posts Tagged ‘Society’
Dispensing indiscriminate advice
In: Life
11 Jan 2010
People just love to give unsolicited advice. They’re annoying as they are but one thing that I really don’t like with people who do so is how many of them lead with “Tingnan mo ako…” (better translated as “Compare [...]
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- Tags: Advice, Life, People, Society
I’d take Tony Stark over Jose Rizal
30 Dec 2009Rizal Day. To me, it’s just a holiday extender. Something to lengthen the no-work build-up towards the new year.
Of all the historical figures we now dub “heroes,” only Jose Rizal’s life and works are mandated by law to be studied as a college course in the form of PI 100 (known to some students [...]
Christmas complacency
In: Life
26 Dec 2009Filipinos are not traditional. We’re complacent. Every year, we subject to ourselves to the dreary rituals no matter how adulterated these traditions have become.
People would consider doing “the same thing” every year during that long stretch of 100 Days before Christmas up until Epiphany (Three Kings to all other Catholics not institutionalized by Catholic private [...]
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- Tags: Christmas, Holiday, Philippines, Society
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