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BBC News It's September and some people are already starting what I call a premature Christmas countdown. The thought of having an extended Christmas season used to thrill me as a child. For those who celebrate Christmas, we just need to admit that we're more often than not, looking forward to what we can receive, to the Christmas party (and my goodness, many of them are full of calorie-dense meals), and then we can all look forward to angry creditors running after debtors in January (read here )! In my case, September gives me the chills for reasons. One can think of September 11, 2001, which happened when I was in high school  under the K+10 curriculum. The other would be remembering that on September 21, 1972, when martial law was declared, some of my folks, out of the blue . I wasn't born yet, but the narrative against Ferdinand E. Marcos Sr. focused on human rights violations. It's crazy how people can afford to badmouth the Marcoses. One must ask, "Where did ...

Vietnam Youth Union It's been 80 years since Vietnam achieved its independence in 1945. Some time ago, I wrote about how Vietnam's Doi Moi actually disproves the Trust Me Bro School of Economics . I wasn't too accustomed to researching Vietnam's ironic economic miracle . Vietnam is a one-party state ruled by the Communist Party of Vietnam. The word Communism would evoke fear and terror. What I find funny is that some people are using Vietnam as an excuse not to open up the Philippine economy (read here ). Such misinformed  people think that Vietnam "won this revolution," supposedly self-industrialized from its own treasury before opening up to FDI. In short, some people either believe that (1) Vietnam is an example of how a highly protectionist economy works, or (2) that Vietnam made itself rich before opening to FDI. Both of them are lies. I'll focus on the second point for this new blog post!  Right now, some people say that I'm just another marites...

Laidback Gardener Years ago, I remember how Little India Healthy Cuisine opened in Cebu. Before that, there was also Planet Vegis . Planet Vegis had closed during the pandemic. Little India Healthy Cuisine opened in One Pavilion Mall in 2019 (if my memory serves right). Later, Little India Healthy Cuisine became a delivery service. It saddened me that my second-favorite Indian restaurant permanently closed, as shown by a Google Maps search. I was having some more plant-based food to increase my vegetable intake, since I was on a journey to weight loss. I was thinking that might be because Bollywood Tandoor is actually hard to defeat . I remember ordering some vegetarian  items at Bollywood Tandoor. I confess that non-sattvic vegetarian items contain garlic and onion, making them easier to consume than sattvic ones. But I was after weight loss , because I remember my blood pressure shot up before the pandemic.  I thought about the times when I ate at Little India Healthy Cuisin...

I wrote a post where I discussed whether or not Alice Guo (and I heard her real name is supposedly Guo Hua Ping) should be a reason to say "No to economic charter change." A certain idiot I've dubbed Porky Madugo even wrote this on his Facebook account: Back on topic, I would like to emphasize that the Filipino First Policy may actually be encouraging dummy investors instead of discouraging them. Some people may use Alice to say, "See, I told you so, you (insert demeaning name)! If Alice can enter so easily, what about we allow 100% FDI and China buy us all!" That's the logic of that certain Porky Madugo, whose name and picture I blocked, despite my immense dislike for his stupidity. If Alice has been faking it  by lying she's a Filipino citizen (and sadly, this incident has been used to justify hatred against Chinese Filipinos), then the real root cause is this. The Filipino First Policy makes it too difficult for foreigners to do business in the Phili...

Bombo Radyo Cebu  Today is National Heroes Day 2025. Why do I feel that Buwan ng Wika (National Language Month), alternatively called Buwan ng Kasaysayan (National History Month), has been used to justify the Filipino First Policy, which caused the Philippines to fail? Some time ago, and it wasn't Buwan ng Wika, I actually wrote an entry begging Filipinos to abandon the thought that foreign investors are foreign invaders .  Whether we want to admit it or not, even the meaning of the words investor and invader are too different. A simple dictionary definition would show that investor and invader are two different words . An investor is "a person or group of people that puts its money into a business or other organization in order to make a profit:", according to the Cambridge Dictionary . Meanwhile, the Cambridge Dictionary defines invader as "an army or country that uses force to enter and take control of another country:". Big difference! Get more dictionaries ...