September 2010
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Prospects...
As what I said yesterday I had to go out for some coverage in the afternoon. And that coverage was on the Asian Development Bank’s Asian Development Outlook 2010 Update. Some experts from the ADB wanted to share their insights on what Asia in general and the Philippines in particular, should or would expect in the second half of 2010.
Oh, before we go to the numbers game, I would just like...
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On the Rehabilitation of the Philippines...
I was up until 5 this morning and I got to the office at 9. I guess insomnia’s never going to leave my side. While trying to doze myself off earlier than 5, I went through the books by my bedside and I found an old one which I have not read for a while. And it was Nick Cullather’s Managing Nationalism:United States National Security Council Documents on the Philippines, 1953-1960.
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“History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable...”
– Calvin
(via calvinnhobbes)
noehnoah asked: hello may i know your name sir I like all your post i hope you know how to speak Filipino I'm filipino i saw a trailer movie and i like that and all your post some i read nice i hpoe to read more post and video
luiloves asked: Hi! I really like the stuff you've been posting. Some of them are things I've learned in my last history class. It's a good thing you keep people in discourse. Too many people have been brainwashed into simply accepting "historical facts".
About the money that the Americans gave us to "get back on our feet": We are only one of the countries that...
About the money that the Americans gave us to "get back on our feet": We are only one of the countries that...
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“Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of...”
– Ecclesiastes 11:9
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“Fill your mind with compassion.”
– Buddha (via caraobrien)
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renz-dave asked: Sir, do you think that July 4 should be the celebration of our independence day and not June 12?
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“I have read carefully the treaty of Paris, and I have seen that we do not intend...”
– Mark Twain, New York Herald, October 15, 1900
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Kill every one over ten...
iwriteasiwrite:
ellobofilipino:
“Kill every one over ten.” - Gen. Jacob H. Smith.
“Criminals Because They Were Born Ten Years Before We Took the Philippines”
New York Journal - May 5, 1902.
I may excuse the mistaken display of the flag with my thoughts below. But I never forget about things like this!
Yup.
Though, I really find it funny that for the Americans they refer to the...
estarvivo-deactivated20130430 asked: Hmmm... Question, sir. Were we given financial assistance and such to get back on our feet when our freedom was granted by any of the nations that conquered us?
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I Write As I Write: Mountains out of molehills... →
iwriteasiwrite:
On Hotdog-gate.
Come on. I like hotdogs. You like hotdogs. Freaking everyone likes hotdogs, even vegetarians like hotdogs.
And in New York it’s practically a way of life. Walk up and down the business districts and you’ll find captains of industry eating hot dogs from street corner vendors. And gawdamn are they good.
It’s astounding me that this is what we are talking about....
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Segway exec dies in Segway incident →
Talk about irony…
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estarvivo-deactivated20130430 asked: Sir, I'm just curious... “The Philippines welcomes Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s statement that while the US takes no sides on the disputes in the South China Sea...." as Pres. Aquino says. But if and when war happens in the future between ASEAN nations or Philippines and China, do you honestly think the US will take our side?
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On China... →
iwriteasiwrite:
ellobofilipino:
Yes sir, I guess Teddy Roosevelt’s “Big Stick diplomacy” still figures much in international affairs, particularly with how emerging powers try to coerce their neighbors or place their weight on the table of international affairs.
China really has it going for quite some time now and that is largely due to the rising economy it had before the Great Recession....
“Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact...”
– Victor Hugo
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On the First Mass
iwriteasiwrite replied to your post:Good morning sir. Regarding your butuan post, I remembered a debate I had during the time I took my History Classes. The debate was about the First Mass conducted in the Philippines. My side claims that it was held in Limasawa, Leyte and the opposing side claims it to have happened in Masao, Butuan. If I’m not mistaken, Pigafetta wrote it as “Mazaua” in his...
500daysofmaia-deactivated201105 asked: Hi! I'm a Butuanon and I'd like to share something about you're first mass post. Butuan still claims that the first mass in the Philippines was held there but as far as I remember it was actually held in Magallanes, which is near Butuan. A shrine could be seen along the Agusan River. Then, my mom told me that some Butuanons believed it was held in Bo. Masao, Butuan where another...
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“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce...”
– Aristotle
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10 banned books you might not expect →
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robertjaramillo asked: Good morning sir. Regarding your butuan post, I remembered a debate I had during the time I took my History Classes. The debate was about the First Mass conducted in the Philippines. My side claims that it was held in Limasawa, Leyte and the opposing side claims it to have happened in Masao, Butuan. If I'm not mistaken, Pigafetta wrote it as "Mazaua" in his account. There were a...
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I Write As I Write: Bridge over the River...Pasig →
iwriteasiwrite:
On bridges, Manila and urban creation.
The state of the Pasig today is pretty deplorable. And that’s putting it mildly. While others have pointed to the state of Intramuros as a good barometer of the state of the nation. I kind of like to look at the Pasig River; that which was the lifeblood of…
Another great post from @iwriteasiwrite on the beauty that was Manila!
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“The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion.”
– Edmund Burke 