tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734362.post665572985891936924..comments2023-06-07T07:36:29.060-05:00Comments on Lily Pad: One Beauty Queen & Eight Dead TouristsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08399994062215036838noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734362.post-66827642332969478892011-01-31T15:55:12.491-05:002011-01-31T15:55:12.491-05:00Thanks to you for that article relating to this su...Thanks to you for that article relating to this subject matter, it absolutely was worthwhile.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734362.post-64003230391370823912011-01-27T19:29:52.760-05:002011-01-27T19:29:52.760-05:00Wonderful! Thanks for the article! It had been ver...Wonderful! Thanks for the article! It had been very helpful.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734362.post-72834047951608151522011-01-23T09:05:10.631-05:002011-01-23T09:05:10.631-05:00With thanks for this brilliant contentWith thanks for this brilliant contentAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734362.post-3212620509554564762011-01-20T06:29:06.911-05:002011-01-20T06:29:06.911-05:00Thanks for discussing this particular nice post wi...Thanks for discussing this particular nice post with a decent theme, some wonderful ability you have got.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734362.post-30617343590038753962010-09-23T19:15:59.947-05:002010-09-23T19:15:59.947-05:00To top it off...what the &*$! was the deal wit...To top it off...what the &*$! was the deal with another set of tourists stopping to take smiling photos in front of the bus? That was bizarre as it was disgusting. Where the hell was forensics and the cops talking control of the crime scene?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734362.post-65667152167850756362010-09-08T16:16:11.625-05:002010-09-08T16:16:11.625-05:00By happenstance, I saw an Oprah episode on late ni...By happenstance, I saw an Oprah episode on late night where Charise and Justin Bieber appeared. I felt very sorry for Justin who cannot sing and can barely dance and who looks annoying; he had to be there with Charise who's really, really good. But no one went tsk, tsk, tsk, on Justin's behalf. <br /><br />What offends me in the response to Ms. Raj and the hostage-taking is the tendency to wallow in self-denigration and self-pity.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08399994062215036838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734362.post-8190016541974251782010-09-08T15:23:21.909-05:002010-09-08T15:23:21.909-05:00Hi,
I am so glad I found this blog courtesy of a ...Hi,<br /><br />I am so glad I found this blog courtesy of a friend who posted an excerpt of the text in his Facebook. Credits were appropriately included so this led me to your site.<br /><br />I look forward to visiting this site more often.<br /><br />Here's a separate comment that I posted in another blog site sometime last week. This was a response to the same hostage incident. I hope you don't mind my sharing.<br /><br />'Seriously, I think people are making too much of a deal about the hostage-taking crisis because it involved tourists. If Filipinos were the ones held hostage, I don’t think the public would be as disgusted. I hope I am wrong on this though, but how many of our friends have we heard say something like ‘Oh no, I can’t go to HongKong’, or, ‘Nakakahiya naman tayo sa ibang mga bansa’?<br /><br />When those Morong health service people were detained, I don’t think there was an uproar from a huge number of Filipinos. I’m not saying that there should be not much reaction to the hostage-taking. What I’m saying is that we have not been very fair to ourselves. When a corruption scandal surfaces in our nation, we treat it as just another day in the Philippines. If we are to be outraged by the hostage crisis, we should similarly, or even be more enraged as each case of corruption comes up. Perhaps we don’t see corruption as something that kills people, but can we imagine how many lives could have been better if, say, the fertilizer scam did not happen?<br /><br />Are we okay as long as we are violent and mean to our fellow Filipinos but not to tourists? I hope not, but I think we are mean to our countrymen. When Charice was going to appear in Glee, while the rest of the world was happy about the news, the Filipinos were like ‘Oh my gosh, but she doesn’t speak good English, and she might embarrass us all’. And when Venus Raj failed to give an excellent answer during the final interview, people started saying that we sent a jejemon to the competition. Sigh.'Melnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734362.post-2183361326558558612010-09-04T22:43:24.039-05:002010-09-04T22:43:24.039-05:00ah yes the synchronicity. failure upon failure. ...ah yes the synchronicity. failure upon failure. i dont mind bowed heads if/when theyre deep in thought. but yeah that's rare hereabouts.stuart-santiagohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01684291861341131227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734362.post-66850595972037468382010-09-04T14:00:20.069-05:002010-09-04T14:00:20.069-05:00Dear Ms. Stuart-Santiago:
More likely than not,...Dear Ms. Stuart-Santiago: <br /><br />More likely than not, I'd have been at the scene itself, trying to get the story. The response to the massacre would not have been as surprising were it not coupled with the response to Ms. Raj's not winning the beauty title. It's like all of Philippine descent are frantic to own every failure. Reminded me of Pacquiao's response "I forgive him" to that comic's denigration of everything Philippine. I'm just tired of bowed heads.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08399994062215036838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734362.post-52671195055218298572010-09-04T01:00:01.309-05:002010-09-04T01:00:01.309-05:00i think that if you had been here, watching it on ...i think that if you had been here, watching it on television from 10 a.m. to the gruesome end to the midnight presscon, you would understand more where we are coming from.stuart-santiagohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01684291861341131227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734362.post-47050317166365539732010-08-31T23:20:25.124-05:002010-08-31T23:20:25.124-05:00totoo nga po yan miss notch. it is really disturbi...totoo nga po yan miss notch. it is really disturbing na pinoys have that kind ng pag-uugali. hindi ko actually maintindihan ng buo kung saan nanggagaling yung ganun. even if we claim to have different cultures as a result sa iba't-ibang colonizers na dumaong dito satin eh parang dku ata doon mahugot yung reason for such kind ng character sa atin. sana lang talaga eh magising gising ang mga dapat nang magising.josephhttp://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/dioseffedejesusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734362.post-92109522535611839042010-08-31T13:48:57.402-05:002010-08-31T13:48:57.402-05:00Post-script to Joseph: Actually, it is disturbing...Post-script to Joseph: Actually, it is disturbing that in both the Miss Universe contest and the 8 dead tourists incident, the immediate response was for Filipinos to be divisive, attack one another, blame everyone, and kow-tow -- instead of trying to maintain a degree of objectivity and self-respect.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08399994062215036838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734362.post-78487039941619573962010-08-31T13:38:54.045-05:002010-08-31T13:38:54.045-05:00Dear Joseph:
Yes, I read the letter; Filipinos a...Dear Joseph:<br /><br />Yes, I read the letter; Filipinos are passing it around via the internet. I have no intense reaction to it, taking it merely as symptomatic of our tendency to join the scene (eksena). Quite similar to everybody putting his/her finger into the hostage situation from the Manila mayor down, during and post tragedy. Or like everybody commenting on the "major, major" and blowing it up until it became a comment on the whole country itself.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08399994062215036838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734362.post-27355612807905638802010-08-31T11:51:27.360-05:002010-08-31T11:51:27.360-05:00magandang madaling araw miss notch! (phil time) i ...magandang madaling araw miss notch! (phil time) i don't know if you can still remember me, nag-meet tayo when you visited KPD office. ako yung taga teatrong bayan. anyway..<br /><br />pinost ko po etong entry na to sa notes ko sa facebook. sobrang dapat mabasa ng mga tao yung article ninyo para naman matauhan ang marami.<br /><br />by the way, hindi ko alam if you've read yung letter na nag-circulate sa buong mundo (dahil sa BBN at CNN mismo pinadala) na ginawa ng isang estudyanteng pinoy dito. gusto ko po sana malamang ano ang pagtingin ninyo dun? :)josephhttp://www.facebook.com/dioseffedejesusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734362.post-37683552076634393602010-08-30T04:58:01.520-05:002010-08-30T04:58:01.520-05:00hi!
Your blog is truly interesting. Haven't r...hi!<br /><br />Your blog is truly interesting. Haven't read previous entries yet but I'm sure I'll gain more insights and wider perspective on issues involving our dear country.<br /><br />Btw, this is lorraine from www.filamnation.com. We would like to invite you to become one of the bloggers in our site. I would like to submit to you our formal proposal for more information. We would be very glad if you could reply to us directly at admin@filamnation.com or loreyn031@yahoo.com as to where we can send our proposal.<br /><br />Thank you and more power.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734362.post-86472327293750778492010-08-29T22:16:16.810-05:002010-08-29T22:16:16.810-05:00right on!!!!!right on!!!!!aL.ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15233974841490765145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734362.post-48359270028151950582010-08-29T22:00:26.089-05:002010-08-29T22:00:26.089-05:00Hi, Vicki. Thanks for your comment. I would cert...Hi, Vicki. Thanks for your comment. I would certainly like to set a limit to the accountability for the particular issue of the dead tourists -- meaning, the police, police chief, the mayor, the ombudsman who in two years' time hadn't even gotten to the case of the ex-cop, etc. And a revamp of the process used in dealing with amoks, as this is part of our cultural bedrock. I am not in favor of laying the responsibility for this one incident on the entire government, the entire nation and on all of the people. Perhaps it is time to be hard-core specific and particular so as to resolve issues one by one as fast as possible.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08399994062215036838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31734362.post-52255362472729522042010-08-29T21:13:28.922-05:002010-08-29T21:13:28.922-05:00Right on Ninotch. I share your views on these two ...Right on Ninotch. I share your views on these two incidents. It is just so unfortunate that the news that comes out on the Philippines which gets beamed to the whole world are usually the bad incidents, whether natural or man-made (and I really mean man). We do have our weaknesses just like any other nation and peoples. But I daresay, we are survivors and we can also lead in our own ways. Of course the biggest weakness, as far as I am concerned, is the breed of politicians we have and their utter lack of accountability.vicky tauli-corpuzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08020092587803715740noreply@blogger.com