Taiwan Fishingboat incident - Rejects Philippine's Apology

It's sad that there has been a casualty with the fishing boat incident a couple of days ago. Taiwan has pressured the Philippines to issue an apology only to reject it. I don't think an apology should have been issued in the first place. As detailed by Max Montero's blog, if our coast guard was right in their actions then our government should have maintained their position in doing clarificatory investigations.

As an OFW, I feel for our countrymen who are currently in Taiwan. With reports coming in that some of them have been physically harmed by some angry Taiwanese. Taiwan already have frozen the hiring of OFWs and I think our government should do the same and send back all the OFWs in Taiwan to protect them and bring them safe back to their families. They can get jobs from other countries or maybe even in the Philippines with our economy getting strong by the day and maybe Taiwan will also realize how important our OFW's roles in their economy.

Our country has been poached by Chinese fishermen for a while now. We kept silent to keep our good relations with them but this is not the right way to do things. We have a territory to protect and I don't think they will react differently if we do the same thing on their own waters.

We just hope that this issue will be resolved in a peaceful manner. With both countries finding common ground to agree and settle the differences.

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The Best of #IpasokSiDick Twitter Posts

So far the May 2013 results have been dissapointing. If you need to cope here is the best hashtag in twitterverse in the past 24 hours:

People will really feel good if Dick's in. #ipasoksidick

— pyoning (@FionaElgar) May 13, 2013

#IpasokSiDick Need to push Dick hard! Dick is firm and hard, yet straight. Lol

— Myrna T. Soriano (@myrnasoriano) May 13, 2013

DICK GORDON + NANCY BINAY + GRACE POE = #IPasokSiDick sa Maitim na #POEssy.

— Ayyy Grabe!! (@AyyyGrabe) May 13, 2013

LMAO on this photo. I just died hahaha!!! Everybody wants the D! Top position na! Dick FTW! #ipasoksidick twitter.com/Meggymeister/s…

— Meg Gomez (@Meggymeister) May 14, 2013

Even famous twitter peeps joined the action:

Dick Gordon is 1 spot away from making the top 12 for Senator. A Dick hasn't faced this much drama since Kobe was in Colorado. #IpasokSiDick

— Not Bill Walton (@NotBillWalton) May 13, 2013

mag-titinginan nalang ba tayo?#ipasokSiDick

— Sam Gogna (@sam_yg) May 13, 2013

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Philippine Elections 2013 : Quick Results

So who will be the new 12 senators for this May 13 Philippine Elections? Official results here.

These were my picks:

1) Teddy Casi᠋no

2) Risa Hontiveros

3) Jun Magsaysay Jr.

4) Eddie Villanueva

5) Sonny Angara

6) Koko Pimentel

7) Richard Gordon



I'm going with a lot of "new breed" of politicians. I do hope they can make a difference.

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Philippines Election 2013 : A Democratic Practice?

Warning: I'm letting off steam.

Voting should be a democratic practice. But election has tainted this with widespread cheating, terrorism, violence and dirty politics.

Three decades has passed in my life and I'm still seeing the same names and surnames in the ballots. I can't wait for the new breed of politicians to arrive from my generation or the younger ones and just breathe new life to the Phillipine public office. And maybe new idealism and less corruption will drive our country to new heights.

Please vote wisely in May 13, 2013.

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A 100 Posts Later

For my 100th post, I look back and can't believe it's been 5 years already and still only 100 posts. I have slacked off posting on this blog for the past couple of years. I was infatuated and got disinterested with SEO. The landscape of blogging has changed tremendously in the past couple of years. Blogger's influence have grown now that businesses acknowledged the shift of media from conventional TV & radio to Internet where majority of the consumers generation spend more of their time with.

I'm far from a perfect blogger because most of my time is pre-occupied with real life stuff – Work and Parenting. Now that I'm finding balance with my career, finances and family... I expect that time for travel and leisure will be finding it's on my schedule. A scheduled 1 month long vacation is highly anticipated and that is what will be in store for the rest of the year for this blog – a chronicle of a well-thought (I hope) schedule to enjoy a well deserved rest.

Food, travel and shopping – probably the best trio of things to look forward to after 12 months of hard-work and sacrifice. More experiences = more content for this ageing blog.

I find my inspiration knowing that someone out there will be reading my blog and being able to share my adventure.

Cheers to a hundred more posts!

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