Author: attysy

On Monday, the 12th of May, militants called for a transport strike to protest the rising oil prices. Strikes are a thing of the past: they serve no purpose except to cripple the strikers themselves and the economy. If at all, it only serves notice that utilities in this country are higher than the rest [...]

I grew up with Ironman. Did you? I hear a local film producer is coming up with a Filipino version. The title is: Riceman. Don’t laugh now because no matter how we twist and turn, the specter of rising prices surrounds us. Even as we sleep, the Meralco meter keeps running and the Manila Water one [...]

WELL, the Olympic torch skipped Manila in the run-up to the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics because of geographical reasons. I say, did we even mount a campaign to host a leg here, given its significance for our country’s image on security, need for investments and tourism and our continuing support for the games despite never [...]

Of course everyone knows Malthus. We quote him all the time like this: food supply grows arithmetically while population increases exponentially. There will naturally come a time when we will not have enough to eat. He was wrong. Technology increased the food supply (and the diversity) by leaps and bounds, exponentially. Some country populations are [...]

AMBOT” is Cebuano for “I don’t know.” It usually is coupled with “lang” to make “ambot lang” which means “I don’t know” and said with a shudder as a sign of helplessness and futility. I thought of this word and this phrase in the aftermath of typhoon “Ambo,” no relation. Ever since I became conscious of [...]