Note: This article was published in Manila Times.
Mommy Dionese
Pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao might get knocked out by the news about a new celebrity in town that is taking the Internet by storm. And it’s no less than his own bedazzled mother.
Really, the boxing hero’s jolly mom is drawing thousands of online fans quick and easy.
Aling Dionisia, 60, is now a fast-rising YouTube sensation after raking in thousands of hits in the world’s most popular vide-sharing website.
The rosary-toting mother of the world No. 1 boxing icon who just had her first taste of American dream attracted nearly 100,000 total YouTube views, drew both praises and unkind remarks for her outspokenness and jolly media interviews, and even courted new “fans” here and abroad. read more…
One of the significant revolutionary impacts of IT in business is teleworking…
The advent of information technology has introduced so many radical changes to the corporate world. The most visible of these countless changes is the physical transformation of the business world, as new technologies are now being used in all kinds of business transactions, the most perceptible and useful of which are computers and the Internet. Apart from this holistic revolution in the world of business, IT also dictates how trade and business are performed, made, delivered, and even terminated. Almost all of the functions, characteristics, nature, and attributes related to business now have the aspect of IT. Thus, one of the significant revolutionary impacts of IT in business is teleworking. read more…
There’s no easy path to success…
Yes, there's no short cut to success..
Most people have read and heard a great deal about the awe-inspiring life stories of successful people who achieved their ambitions and made their lives a great inspiration to many. Looking closely, these are the kind of people who started at a very young age, armed with nothing but their vision to achieve and their determination to make a difference.
There’s John Gokongwei Jr. who started to work at the age of 13 after their family lost their fortune when his father died. A man who loves life, this generous Taipan, whose fortune has been estimated at billions of dollars, first sold used clothes or ukay-ukay, rice and scrap metal.
If one is to make a case study on how billionaires and successful people achieved their financial status, it seems that there’s a need to look at how they started read more…
Cybersex trade on the rise...
She works hard for money to help her family and to earn enough savings for her “dream” business.
Her work schedule depends upon her mood—if she wants to earn more, she has to start working at 3 a.m. for her European clients, or at 11 p.m. to service her loyal American patrons. All is ready before she hits the red button—her lingerie, panty host, makeup, and her dildo.
She has the looks, feminine body and wits, but the only difference is that actually, she is “he.”
Today’s technology allows anybody like her to explore the many opportunities in the cyberworld. When the right time strikes, she transforms herself to “LovelytsJanet,” her account name, to service clients online for a fee.
“Money is what we all need today,” LovelytsJanet says, adding that with the current financial crunch, everybody must be creative enough to live. read more…
When someone cursed me on Facebook I believed it was my moral responsibility to defend my rights and person. A guy named Carl Tomacruz had to drop his manners and whatever he learned from his GMRC class back in elementary (perhaps) to deal with me. In a Facebook group, I never directly dealt or argued with Mr. Tomacruz who, I think, is educated. I thought this guy needed to learn how to behave like a rational human being. In a brazen display of empty arrogance and vulgarity, Mr. Carl Tomacruz posted the following comment:
“Jonas, why don’t we lynch this capitalist/libertarian for what he’s worth. He’s free to keep his ideologies… six feet under.”
The message...
I didn’t have any idea who Mr. Tomacruz was, but I felt that that statement was written by a humanoid who does not belong on earth. I thought this guy needed to learn some lesson so I sent him a message. In reply to his distasteful statement, I told him the following: “That clear statement is offensive, unnecessary, unethical, harsh, uncalled for and annoying on my part. If you’re educated, which I think you are, you should know the consequences of your actions. Everyone must be responsible and accountable for his/her actions. This is part of man’s common sense and natural law. I will NEVER, NEVER let it pass! If you’re brave enough, please give me your complete name and address. Let us settle this thing in a proper forum once and for all. If I need to make a read more…
I do believe that this “man-is-his-brother’s-keeper” system is impractical and evil at best.
History tells us, that the road to socialism is always paved with good intentions... You don't have to be a college graduate to understand the lies being fed on you!
A nameless commenter asked me the following question: “What is simply asked of you is to drop your ideologies for the meantime and prove to us, through numbers, that overpopulation has nothing to do with poverty here in the Philippines. You may use percentages, graphs, equations, or whatever formulation is easy for you. Please use the year when the population boom is believed to have started up to the present, and cite your source/s. We know nothing of this kind so we are now giving you the chance to enlighten us about this matter. There are already several international bodies who have conducted researches and surveys, and they were able to demonstrate the correlation between overpopulation and poverty. They were able to show this objectively, and without adherence to any religious dogma or political ideology, because the sole purpose is to expose facts. If you can’t come up with your own proof, then find one. Different ideologies will always just clash so it is pointless to pit our camp’s mentalities.”
Here’s my response:
Notwithstanding the fact that you’re nameless and that it is part of my blog protocol not to respond to anonymous commenters, let this answer of mine be a guide to my future questioners.
What do you mean by dropping my ideology? That I should be guided by a blind premise and that I should base my views on the whim of the moment? Your demand is impossible. What you mean to say is that I should suspend my mind and be guided by my emotions. You don’t want me to think; your only desire is for me to comply. Now, you should understand that every argument that we make is tied to a certain premise. For the religionists, they oppose RH bill on religious grounds (their premise). For those who support it, their premise is linked to altruistic agenda, like common good, the need to solve overpopulation, and the provision of free health care services. read more…
One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot, making it unable to solve its problems, then declaring that freedom has failed and stronger controls are necessary…
Michael Moore is plain stupid liberal who does not know what he’s talking about. His new movie “Capitalism: A Love Story” seriously misrepresents the ideals of capitalism. The premise of his new film-docu would have been justified had he entitled it “Government Regulation and Corruption: A Love Story. Moore miserably failed to define his terms. Capitalism is a term with objective meaning. It is a system that is based on individual rights. In my blog entitled “Capitalism and Imperialism are Contradiction in Terms,” I stated the following: “Only in a capitalist society can man own a private property, as well as the products of his own mind. Under a socialist or communist system, all properties are owned by the state.” Moore also failed to objectively explain the cause of America’s recession. America’s economic collapse in 2008 was brought about by excessive government intervention. It started with the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913, a situation that justified the fractional reserve system, which rendered the US dollar partly backed by gold. However, this semi-gold system ended in 1971 when the Bretton Woods agreement was signed, thus totally breaking the tie between gold and the US dollar. Today, the semi-private (take note: semi-PRIVATE) Fed is printing trillions of dollars out of THIN AIR. The Fed has become the busiest printing press since Barak Obama was officially sworn in as America’s 44th President in January. read more…
