Making It Fun in the Philippines

"Before you watch Jacqueline Comes Home - you better watch Giving Up Tomorrow first!" would be a good thing to say. I thought about that line and didn't realize that a Chiong sisters movie was made. Years ago back when I was in high school - I remembered that there was a plan to make the movie. It was back then I still sympathized with Thelma Chiong not having known anything yet. What do you expect from an angry 14-year-old back then? The film was made by VIVA Films - the same film company that made two other movies namely the award-winning The Flor Contemplacion Story (which is probably their iconic biopic film used by the feeling oppressed) and Vizconde Massacre Story (which came around 1993). The movie about the late Flor Contemplacion tried to make a guilty woman look innocent. If you noticed - her two sons Joel and Jun Jun starred as themselves in said film. They wouldn't be willing to work on it if the film portrayed their deceased mother as what she was ...

The recent renewal of Antonio Sanchez's contract with Boysen now raises another issue namely the Chiong Sisters controversy around yesterday  which I didn't know started to resurface last year. It was in 1999 when I was still that typical angry delinquent of a high school student. I remembered watching The Calvento Files with the late Tony Calvento who died two years ago. I remembered the dramatization which had Nino Muhlach act as Francisco Juan "Paco" G. Larranaga. Muhlach would later regret his misdeed and admitted that he was "just doing his job" as ABiaS-CBN would have told him. I never realized that there were inconsistencies such as the one-sidedness of the late Judge Martin Ocampo who ended up committing suicide. Later, there were friends who testified (and also the teachers in Manila) that Paco could've not been in Cebu City at the time of the incident. Paco was in Manila the whole time. How can Paco be in two places at the same time? I just d...

It's anything but surprising that five Filipino bitches (right) namely Sarah Elago (Kayabangan Partylist Representative), Alex Danday (Anakbayad), Paula Janer (College Editor’s Guild of the Philippines or CEGP), Kara Taggaoa (League of Failipino Students), and Blaise Bellosillo (National Union of Students in the Philippines) became cover girls for Inquirer. Just remember that last 2017 they had  Jover Laurio honored as the Filipino of the Year last 2017 . If they can make the brainless work of Pinoy Ako Blog and praise it as an intellectually well-researched masterpiece then why should we be surprised when Filipino communist women are the next cover girls? Once again, Inquirer is putting Filipino women - if not Filipinos in general in a very bad light! Inquirer's choice of cover girls is contributing to its shrinkage in credibility. Elago (who's thankfully not at the center of the Filipinas for Change) isn't doing anything right in her work but whine, whine, whine. ...

The NPA recruitment of minors happening at a very fast rate is NOT something to be taken lightly. President Duterte tried having peace talks with the NPA (presumably due to young people in them) but it failed. Now, the recent event has it that certain universities that are a target for police and military supervision are protesting against it. But I do have an alternative for them if they hate the military and police. They can ask for Antonio Trillanes IV, Gary Alejano, and their Magdalo troops to protect these schools in case of an emergency. Any big crisis would definitely require  the declaration of martial law  or military intervention. The Philippine government would require a mandatory military checkpoint in schools and public gathering areas for this reason - to protect the civilians from possible invasions or to ward out infiltrators. If the area is in a certain threat then that area needs to have a military intervention. It's just like how Mindanao had to have mili...

The militarization of schools is either good or bad. If the militarization happens without a good cause like a national state of emergency - then by all means protest! However, the recent proposal to militarize certain schools because of the recent phenomenon of disappearing minors to the New People's Army (NPA). The NPA is something that school authorities and guards aren't able to handle themselves. The security guards in schools are only meant to handle basic cases but they do have to call the cops should something beyond their control happens. Unfortunately, the NPA recruitment of students is something that security guards can't handle in contrast to trained policemen and soldiers. These are two fears that I believe have been confirmed. First, two former rebels have confirmed that the NPA does indeed recruit students . Second, a DepEd executive confirms that NPA recruitments of students have been found in Northern Mindanao . Thes two fears reveal that the NPA has ind...

The  Philippine Daily Inquirer has CONFIRMED that President Rodrigo R. Duterte has spoken that there will be NO FREEDOM for convicted murderer-rapist. Senator Bato Dela Rosa and Vice President Leni Loud Robredo may want to take their words back. Senator Dela Rosa has the high probability chance that he's wrong about Sanchez being a "changed man". Hmmm... funny that Vice President Leni Loud hasn't spoken about giving Sanchez a chance after she said that criminals should be given a second chance in life . The Revised Penal Code that was signed by Noynoy Aquino even didn't save him because of provisions against heinous crimes. Now here's what  Rappler  has to say regarding the penal code and its interpretation by the Department of Justice: First let's dissect Republic Act 10592 or the good conduct time allowance law. We begin with Section 1 of RA 10592 which tackles who is eligible for credit of preventive imprisonment, the pre-conviction jail time o...

Senator Bato Dela Rosa is definitely wrong about giving former mayor Antonio Sanchez another chance after that heinous crime. Like I said, Sanchez should've been executed by lethal injection back when the death penalty was still available. But did we forget that Leni Loud Robredo herself also said something about giving second chances to criminals too? Here's what Philippine Star revealed last December 3, 2016: “We believe that every person should be given a second chance at life. Convicted criminals should be rehabilitated and be given a chance for reintegration… We should not give up on those who have done wrong, and we should exhaust all means possible to help them rehabilitate and be reintegrated in the society,” she said. The statement made by Leni Loud is no different than Bato's error about Sanchez. So why even blame President Duterte for the possible Sanchez release? Senator Dela Rosa is definitely wrong and so is Leni Loud. So again Dilawan why a...