Who’s not ready for the mobile world?

Mobile computing is minicomputing with the cyberspace at the touch of your fingers. The trend has been charted decades ago, but underdeveloped countries are lagging and the price of getting connected remains unreachable for the masses. This keeps the divide between the technological have’s and have not’s to widen. In theory, the gap is supposed [...]

Using Politically Correct Language

Politics is a sphere that extends in the social world and which affects the psyche of an individual or groups. While politics is exercised in terms of power relations among individuals or groups, language plays in that communication of power and in the position of individuals in a social relationship. The nominative function of language [...]

The Marcos question: What makes a hero?

April 11, Malacanang, was in qualms to agree in giving the former Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos a space in the heroes hall. The reason is that he was awarded a medal of valor for his honorable military service, by President Diosdado Macapagal. Likewise, PNoy ordered Vice President Jejomar Binay to come up with a recommendation whether to allow the former president burial [...]

The urban way to displace the already homeless

If it is not demolition, when a dialogue doesn’t work, the alternative to uproot the homeless from their informal settlement is burning down their shanties to ashes. In the urbanizing metro every inch of space counts as an asset to have economic use. The land becomes more valuable than people. The problem of internal migration, [...]

K-12 Challenge to Philippine Tertiary Education

In simple terms, K-12 is a necessity to align Philippine Basic Education Curriculum to that of the global standards, by adding two years of senior high school to the current four year secondary education, and another year for mandated kindergarten. This as planned will push through the coming school year. While many have touted on [...]

Poverty is not a simple economic question

While Marxist doctrines underpin poverty as an implication of economic explotation of the wealthy capitalists with a rich historical material basis of class struggles, somewhere in the recesses of my mind I was not fully convinced with such construct, even until now. If my political officers could read this, they would brand me a failure [...]

Self-Worth, Self-Esteem and Self-Actualization

Maslow placed on top of the hierarchy of human needs, self-actualization, which to me is an abstraction of self-worth.  Several constructs relate to self-worth, one is self-actualization and the other is self-esteem. These concepts form a triad of interdependent concept relations  to understand the human being in his individuality or self-concept. Psychologist, Daniel Johnston (2000), [...]

Blogging, Etiquette and Integrity

I have to admit I am a newbie in blogging, I haven’t even identified myself yet to be a member of the Philippine blogosphere.  Though I am having good reviews, reposts and increasing readership. I guess, everyone is new to blogging as the medium is a recent innovation from the last decade. A blog or [...]

Perfume: Capturing the scent of a desensythized world

“Perfume: “The Stroy of a Murderer“, is a 2007 movie based from a novel by Patrick Suskind, and directed by Tom Tykwer is a moving  representation of a world desensythized and aliented from the essences of life. It starred Ben Whishaw as Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. Set in 18th-century France, the movie takes the audience at the time Jean-Baptiste was born [...]

The ‘Gullibility’ of the Filipinos

To be gullible means to be easily deceived or to be duped by some outrageous things. While teaching my students on academic writing specifically on the importance of research in bringing new knowledge, facts or conclusions, I did not miss to point to the idiocy of a local journalist using a satirical blog post  as [...]