Workers Inn Opened in Manila
May 4, 2007
For ₱25 only minimum wage workers in Manila will be able to stay in a cheap place for the night.
Gwapotel is located at the rehabilitated four-storey Napocor building at Bonifacio Drive, Port Area in Manila. Video after the cut:
$1B Plant for TI in the Philippines
This 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.
Samal Bat Cave: The World’s Largest (Philippines)
May 2, 2007Maybe Batman takes a vacation in Philippines now and then. Probably hanging out in the World’s Largest Bat Cave determined by Bat Conservation International
"Best Cable Park in the World!" Camarines Sur Wakeboard Park - Philippines
April 29, 2007"Come South, Cam Sur"
Well isn't that interesting the "Best Cable Park in the World" for wakeboarding, waterskiing as an extreme sport is around the Bicol Region. The 2008 World Cable Wakeboard and Wakeskate championship will be even held here.
This what the governers around the country should be doing, to invest something besides agriculture.
More on this: Manila Bulletin, and Asian Journal
Bebot by the Black Eyed Peas - translated, karaoke, subtitles
April 23, 2007So this is a practice subbing for me, just for fun.
Mysteries of Life in the Philippines?
April 22, 2007Interesting article about the Philippines' biodiversity; like I mentioned before, it's paradise.
Philippines could hold clues to mysteries of life
U. professor to lecture on islands' biological history and diversityBy Susan Whitney
Deseret Morning NewsIn times past, when Eric Rickart and other biologists talked about their research in the Philippines, they sounded gloomy. And it is still true that the situation is urgent. Habitat is still being destroyed at an alarming rate. But it can regenerate. Rickart says biologists are newly encouraged by how well the habitat can regenerate.
Rickart speaks about the Philippines on Tuesday, as part of the Utah Museum of Natural History's "The Nature of Things," lecture series. He is the curator of vertebrates at the museum, as well as an adjunct assistant professor of biology at the U. and a research associate at the Field Museum in Chicago.
Earlier in the week, Rickart said he was still working on his talk, working on nontechnical language. He wants his audience to understand what makes the Philippines so unique, biologically, and also to see how knowledge gained there can have implications in faraway Utah.
Rickart calls himself "hardly the most important" of the scientists at work in the Philippines. He's one of a team studying mammals. His team cooperates with botanists and entomologists and earthworm experts and the like.
The Philippines is clearly one of the world's hot spots of diversity, Rickart explains. The Philippines offer a perspective not easily gained elsewhere, he says. The Philippines are islands — oceanic islands, islands that were never a part of Asia, islands that are very old. Because they are so isolated and so ancient, a relatively small number of plants and animals made their way to the Philippines, and the process of evolution and extinction has gone very slowly, he explains. There are so many species that are endemic, found nowhere else in the world.
He says it is easier on the Philippines than it would be on a large continent to tease apart the history of the various species. Easier to unravel the mysteries of life.
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.
Viewpoint of a Korean Student
April 14, 2007I have seen this essay for quite some time ago, but this sets the tone of this blog and what it is going to be about
MY SHORT ESSAY ABOUT THE PHILIPPINES
Jaeyoun KimFilipinos always complains about the corruption in the Philippines. Do you really think the corruption is the problem of the Philippines? I do not think so. I strongly believe that the problem is the lack of love for the Philippines.
Let me first talk about my country, Korea. It might help you understand my point. After the Korean War, South Korea was one of the poorest countries in the world. Koreans had to start from scratch because entire country was destroyed after the Korean War, and we had no natural resources.
Koreans used to talk about the Philippines, for Filipinos were very rich in Asia. We envy Filipinos. Koreans really wanted to be well off like Filipinos. Many Koreans died of famine. My father & brother also died because of famine. Korean government was very corrupt and is still very corrupt beyond your imagination, but Korea was able to develop dramatically because Koreans really did their best for the common good with their heart burning with patriotism.
What’s this blog all about?
I 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.
