yoniekai said:
me? show 'em la sallian apathy!
I just had to quote this one!
re: the filipino issue
The issue really is with us FILIPINOS LOVING OURSELVES but then there's this issue with the Filipinos where they tend to practice super laid back apathy especially when it doesn't affect them directly. It has been ongoing for several hundred years and we can't just erase several hundred years of a sad culture. Takte! We wouldn't have been colonized if we hadn't been all like "a-ok-lang-sakupin-mo-kami-kase-wala-kaming-kaalamalam-at-wala-kaming-pinanghahawakan-na-kultura" kind of thinking. I mean just look at what our ancestors did to Magellan. They welcomed him and had themselves baptized. For (their) God's sake! They had their own beliefs back then. Why haven't they held firmly onto that?
Sure we've got moments where incipient changes in the Filipino ways would be seen but as MD said, we also have this issue with letting things pass by. We're too passive. It's because of the Spanish influence and because of our religion. I know being in UP made you very vocal and expressive. It applies differently in other schools especially those run by priests. You can never say anything bad about the administration either by writing or by vehement speech. There's a myriad of things that WE WANT changed but ADMIN would leave us sprawling on the ground groping for help once we express ourselves. There was one time when our previous editor wrote something against the admin and soon after that, we found our organization begging for our RIGHTFUL fund.
What's my point here? If they want to progress, why not let the people (or in our case back then, students) speak for themselves and HEAR THEM OUT! In my opinion, have the children practice their rights at an early stage so that when they go out into the corporate world, they can say what they have in mind. If you would be applying for jobs in the future (I don't know if you'll get this since you're not a Thomasian) employers would always say UP grads, La Sallians and Ateneans are expressive employees, whereas Thomasians tend to be timid and quiet. WHY? I think they should ask the admin regarding that.
We all want to love ourselves but a large fraction of the society is not helping. We're all being dragged down. What more with government always corrupting everything. You'd think a new change in the government would bring about change, HA! It's a joke. It's not really an issue on how make new investors or how to increase the funds. JUST STOP YOUR F*CKING CORRUPTION! Stupid politicians could never imagine what it's like to pay taxes and all they do to solve problems is to increase tax.
As you said BBSAI, it's already 400 years and we're tired.
re: haruhi suzumiya
maganda ba? Stuck in anime at around eps 9-10. Mas maganda ba yung manga?