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Just suspend any urge to make logical sense of what you see, sit back and enjoy the roller coaster ride. Everything is eye candy for guys - lots of cars, guns, chicks, and of course robots - and all the camera angles and cinematic devices used are cliches.100% Hollywood!

Why is it so hard for some people to apologise? They would rather pretend everything is okay and claim that they are not party to the fiasco in an effort to appear "cool". They even shift the blame on others instead of owning up to their mistake. Sometimes all it takes is a simple statement like, "We apologise for the oversight" and then people can move on. Unfortunately, when people are not willing to admit their mistakes, they do not learn from it.

I've seen instances of this sort of thing among friends in Facebook. Shouldn't teachers keep their social distance from their students to begin with? Call me old fashioned, but there is something not right about students being "friends" with their teachers on social media sites. See full article here .

Perhaps, let go of your fixation on Noynoy Aquino the person , step back, and regard him as a function . Then evaluate this function on the key parameters that describe the value of most functions - specifications, effectiveness, and consistency. Aren't those the primary bases for acquiring or employing something for a purpose ? Like say buying a car? Perhaps you are too emotionally invested in Noynoy the person rather than logically critical of Noynoy the function . And that too is what is hindering you from engaging in a discussion about the man that is more mature and detached. A lot of car buyers purposely buy lemons because of nostalgic reasons or for some other reason based on emotion. But the most practical folk buy cars to get from A to B (and THEN they buy the lemon, when they can afford to indulge ). Filipinos, sad to say, cannot afford to indulge in anything, and yet that is exactly what they did when they elected the most unqualified man among the choices available at ...

President Noynoy Aquino stood proudly erect before the nation on Monday to deliver a statistical minutiae-engorged speech which, after nearly an hour of awkward effort, turned out to be little more than a flaccid argument that his very first act – the proscription of the use of their wang-wangs by government officials – has been the climax (so far) of his 13 months as the nation's leader. Although discussion and analysis of the SONA has overwhelmed the digital universe in the days since, it seems most commentators have not yet discovered that Aquino apparently doesn't have a monopoly on impotent gestures: one of the "priority" measures spelled out by House Speaker Sonny Belmonte for the just-beginning legislative session is a measure to ban the use of the words "Muslim," "Christian," or other words denoting religious or ethnic affiliation by the media in describing a person. The measure originally passed the House as HB 100 in 2008, and was...

Another example of an unnecessary inefficiency caused more by mismanagement than by any real lack of resources or opportunity. A testament to our renowned inclination to squander rather than build upon what we have. http://www.spot.ph/the-feed/48949/ph-now-most-expensive-electricity-in-asia

Raul C. Pangalangan writing for the Inquirer.net today sends out a good sample of what is becoming the de facto standard SONA apologists' tagline. Addressing "policy wonks and the legislative types" who criticised Philippine President Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III's July 25 State of the Nation Address, Pangalangan issued a simple dismissal: [...] sorry, guys, who says you are the main audience of the presidential address? Easy as pie, right? Da Pinoy soccer strategic solution to missing the goal is to simply move the goal posts . Go Azkals! Pangalangan also throws the book at us by citing the "minimum legal requirement" of what constitutes content for a SONA... To start with, the barest minimum legal requirement says nothing about road-mapping and agenda-setting. All that the Constitution says is that the “President shall address the Congress at the opening of its regular session” which shall be held “once every year on the fourth Monday of July.”...