Crazy Country

Picture from www.showbizgossips.com

Maybe I've lived too long in Switzerland because I just don't understand why a sex video between two consenting adults (even if they are under the influence of something...stupidity perhaps?) is a national issue. I don't understand why stupidities like that deserve a senate hearing. When Paris Hilton's sex video was leaked, the US government didn't deem it necessary to call a senate inquiry...Why is Hayden Kho and Kristina Halili so important that we need to waste tax money to know who leaked the video? There are other issues which are highly important that requires really fast action from our respectable lawmakers. Issues like the Reproductive Health Bill, education, poverty...

Times like this, it becomes obvious that we need to do something about our level of education....

Come on people...please naman...anoh bah...tama na...wake up na!

Diet diet diet!

I am on a diet. Need to lose 6 kg! Maybe I am a masochist because I can't stop looking at yummy food photos. Now, I have a gigantic craving for the following yummy things:

1. Crispy Sisig



2. Crispy Pata


3. Pata Tim

I saw this at Arpee's blog. I can feel my knees getting weak...

4. Longsilog


5. Pancit Malabon


None of the pictures are mine (Hopefully. If they were mine that means that I ate them), I found the pictures in Flickr. Thank goodness that I can't find most of these here in Zürich on a whim.

I need to be strong. I need to be strong. I need to be strong. I need to be strong. I need to be strong. Jogging. Jogging. Jogging....

I LIKE: Good News Pilipinas

On second thought, I am not so sure if I really like it. Don't you think it is so pathetic that we actually need a website that only gives us good news to make us feel good as Filipinos ?

Good News Pilipinas is a website that "highlights the good in the Filipino and the Philippines." It "wants to make every Filipino feel proud and smile, that yes indeed we have achieved a lot as a people, and continue to be successful in various sectors in our very own country and overseas" . This is of course very much in contrary to what you read and see in mainstream media like the Inquirer and Abs-cbn about the Philippines.

In every country there are good and bad things. Every culture has its good and bad points. The biggest problem of Filipinos is that we are so stupidly insecure! Our food is good but we are too ashamed of it. Our country is beautiful but we just couldn't see it. Our history and traditions are rich but we minimize it. We then wonder why we don't get respect internationally when we are the first ones to put ourselves down.

National pride should be instilled on every one of us at birth. Unfortunately, it is national insecurity that solidifies in our brains.

Okay, I like Good News Pilipinas but it is really a shame that we need it.