Author: attysy

Dead bodies are still floating but the blame game is already in full swing. Fingers are put to good use—pointing to everyone else for the ferry tragedy that caused the deaths of 800 innocent lives and a multiple of that for the shattered families. As with all investigations, talk shows and media reports, the issues [...]

Let us first observe a few moments of silence for the safe return of our dear Ces Drilon and her cameraman Jimmy Encarnacion, freed from her captors after a week’s ordeal. To begin with, these bandits we call “Abu Sayyaf” for lack of a better term to label them since they employ similar methods of violence [...]

Hell, yeah. In this day and age, everyone is a consumer. The only way to not be a consumer is to be a hermit. But even a hermit uses a cell phone these days to get inspirational messages. Just by reading this article, you are either a subscriber to the Manila Times or to [...]

There are so many Koreans in the Philippines one has to visit Korea to find out why.

A debt trap is like a mouse trap—once caught in it, one hardly gets out if at all. At least a mouse trap only catches mice. For people in a debt [...]