$1B Plant for TI in the Philippines
May 4, 2007This is definitely great news for the Philippines in general. Texas Instruments may paved the way for other foreign companies to invest in the country. According to other reports it’s going to be eco-friendly too. Hopefully this will drive DLP HDTV's down and the calculator that every US high school student love to hate the TI-83.
On side note: Hopefully they can make a law if it doesn’t exist yet that every plant in the Philippines onward possible 2010 must be eco-friendly.
A Response to the Student’s Article
April 17, 2007This was a response by to the students article which it can be found here
WHAT IS THE REAL PROBLEM OF THE PHILIPPINES?
by: Michael KimI am a middle-aged Korean, an MBA graduate, an experienced ex-banker and presently am the editor of a newly born local newspaper in the Philippines.
I was so sad when I read the essay about Korean and Filipino patriotism written in 2003 by Jaeyoun Kim, a Korean student who attended La Salle Greenhills, an all boys’ school in the Philippines.
Like many readers, I have felt deep pain and sorrow after reading this touching article. I understand their sadness and am reminded of the terrible experiences we Koreans also had.
First of all, we were colonized by Japan for thirty-six long years before they finally surrendered at the end of World War II. We then suffered another three years fighting the Korean War against North Korea’s communist regime from 1950-1953 resulting all in ruins. These poverty-stricken years beyond any one’s imagination lasted in the 1960-1970’s. We actually went through a lot of hell the same way Filipinos experienced painful colonial conquest.
What’s this blog all about?
April 14, 2007I was born in paradise, the Philippines, but during my teenage years I have to leave the country and be with my parents in the US. I was actually somewhat unhappy about this. Some people think that the US is the land of milk and honey, or it is the land of greener pastures but it is not. Many people come here thinking that it is always better for them, immigrants come here looking for oppurtunities, but when the dust finally settles many of them realize that they are very unhappy about living in the US.
Do not get me wrong they are also people here who become happy but for what price?
I have created this blog so I can help my country of birth. I have torrents of ideas and critical comments about my country only wishing to improve it even better.
