Simply Manila: Memoirs Of Brian Gorrell

Memoirs Of Brian Gorrell

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Sweet revenge

Brian Gorrell, an Aussie gay guy who fell in love to a Filipino ~~social-climber~~ socialite who only betrayed his trust and allegedly stole his riches, reveals one piece of this country’s cracked culture. It’s real drama like no other. Not even Survivor could excite me more than his innocent ways of unveiling the shocking reality of some unforgivable Filipino characteristics. I discovered a link to his blog like 2 days ago (via Bryanboy: Le Superstar Fabuleux). Let me call the blog Memoirs of Brian Gorrell as it doesn't have a proper name yet. For nosy readers, you will be surprised to discover some fishy affairs of people like Celine Lopez of The Philippine Star, Tim Yap, DJ Montano, and many more. Don’t forget to check all posts. Brian, you should write a book about it. BTW, I really hope that everything ends up okay at the end of the day.

212 comments:

Bino/Geno March 12, 2008 8:03 PM: Gosh I am so ashamed of what he did to a foreigner. This happens a lot.
Brian Green March 13, 2008 8:26 PM: I pity Brian Gorell with all the mess he is plunged into right now. 70K USD is a lot of money. I understand where he is coming from.....good luck dude!
Anonymous March 13, 2008 10:38 PM: Wow! They just found a snapshot from Google of Brian's site 2 hours before he took off the scandalous parts. Here it is and it even names 20+ people in the Gucci List. It is currently the most downloaded site this evening.

This is the site:
http://209.85.175.104/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fdelfindjmontano.blogspot.com
Anonymous March 13, 2008 10:42 PM: Wow! They just found a snapshot from Google of Brian's site 2 hours before he took off the scandalous parts. Here it is and it even names 20+ people in the Gucci List. It is currently the most downloaded site this evening. It even makes Brian's recent blog involving DJ's mother into a footnote.

Read on mga badings:

http://209.85.175.104/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fdelfindjmontano.blogspot.com
freshmess March 17, 2008 4:39 AM: I got hooked to this site. the comments are juicier than the posts. and to think, in one way or another, i was in contact with these people involved before for my work.
Anonymous March 17, 2008 4:54 AM: So many Filipinos criticize how poorer Filipinas marry foreigners. These Filipinos who criticize are usually the ones from the upper class. Hahaha. Now we see who are the real con artists! Sila palang mga pintasero. At least the Filipinas stay with their foreigner husbands and are good wives, some are even lucky to have truly found love.
Fendi March 20, 2008 3:54 AM: The story so addictive!!
I am sure there will be big snorty things coming! ;)
The story is sad though..

Now the lastest entry has 300 comments.. too long to read.. ;)

Anyway, Kindly change the anchor txt in your Blogroll from KISS FENDI to FENDI

mwah!
Fendi
chase / chubz March 21, 2008 11:11 AM: ay ganun.. tsk.tsk.tsk.
very bad.
lemme check his blog
Anonymous March 21, 2008 11:58 PM: i am shocked to shreds of. how can he fall for this Montano abomination? He looks like the fag director Joey Javier Reyes
Anonymous April 2, 2008 3:38 PM: "Experience is the best lesson"

This particular incident if it's true should serve as the 70K dollars big lesson for you so that next time you'll be wise enough not to go googoo-gaga head over heels about people you meet in the street of desire. In this world of socialites, wherever you may be, expect the best as well as the worst. Once, you're bitten by the bug in the social circles you have to activate your balls much less ur brain powers and leave your hard ass smelly for the mean time. You should settle business problems or personal matters via legal means or through court proceedings that is if you're determined to pursue the case or settle for a lover's quarrel. That's just a hefty 70k dollars which is not enough to build a reputation of a respectable celebrity or even if he's just a poor ordinary person who has some psychological incapacities/mental disorders but also deserves not just pity but moreso human rights. This world was never meant to be as beautiful as we expect it to be so always take good care and make sure that when you're in unfamiliar territories, never put full trust to anyone especially if it's about sex, drugs and money matters. If you want to go into business, there are many businesses that are registered by the Securities and Exchange Commission and thousands of businessmen who are well-versed/educated/legitimate from which you can close a deal with the proper documentation and official procedures or contracts that goes with it. Always make sure you demand the official receipts and as much as possible use your digicams/cellphone to record the transactions or contract signing. And make sure these are valid evidences such that when a problem erupts somewhere along the line you can present these to your lawyer. So the next time you come to this panoramic place or go elsewhere in the world, be where the action is, go to the right places and talk to the right people so that you won't get into the quagmire of deceit and lust. By the way we have heard and watched enough of people being victimized by con-artists in the making so you'd better watch more of those types of movies and learn. I suggest you settle the problem between you in the proper forum (not in senate or else you'll be the next Jun Lozada in the making) without having to wash your dirty briefs (or panties) in public. No kidding, even if you're 70k poorer, this amount of money is just enough to make you a wiser businessman/partner and make you stronger. This could happen not only here so please refrain from degrading this beautiful nation, I hope you'll understand that anywhere in this big world, wether in rich or poor countries, you'll get to find victims of love or even hear the worst that could happen to a relationship. You're not alone, so many businessmen have lost millions before they found the right kind of stuff for them since life is full of trials and errors and u just need to find your own niche. Good thing is you're still alive and kickin' so thank God it's friday & don't dwell on the negative, forget the past and face the bright future ahead of you. It's not the end all or be all of the world. Keep your head up high as time heals all wounds and you'll just find what you're looking for, success is just around the bend. Hope for the best, let go and let God's love flow.
Ferdielicious April 3, 2008 3:40 PM: Brian Gorrell is now a phenomenon..he already dominated the web, newspaper, and now the television.
Anonymous April 3, 2008 5:32 PM: brain gorell.. saw him on the news taday and i jsut ahve a chance to check him out..brain..i felt so upset of what you accused to a filipino guy..if that was true...
but if it is really true..why dont you hire a lawyer and hunt the guy you are talking about..im sure you can find him..or one more thing maybe you are just making up some stories jsut like other people said to you? do you ahve really hiv rirus? is it positive? okay hire a lawyer and a doctor maybe???

and please dont generalize people in the philippines..i have bouyfriend there for 7 years and we are together so far..and i dont ever experiecne he was asking nor raping my bank accounts...
good luck and be well
Anonymous April 4, 2008 2:17 AM: It is embarrassing, Bryan should not let this person unpunished. Well we all know that this things happens and the most intriging is why most of those high society filipino are the most greatest thieves in the Philippines one of the example is what is going on the ZTE broadband deal those person involved are not just ordinary people.
Anonymous April 4, 2008 3:12 AM: dang this guy really took advantage of this Aussie guy,I got a rich white bf too but I never took advantage of him I feel so bad for the foreigner,well,I believe that karma is a bitch! so to this Filipino gay guy shame on u!
Anonymous April 4, 2008 7:09 AM: It was a sad experience with such a big amount. We ought to do things we should only do.
Anonymous April 4, 2008 8:40 AM: Get a lawyer hahaha your joking right.
Lawyers have screwed over a guy I know for over 3 million peso's promising to get his friend out of jail for overstaying his visa.
Why not deport him instead of all these false promises.

Taking and stealing happens to everyone involved with a Filipino.
Utang...think about it. Has anyone ever been paid back?
Anonymous April 6, 2008 6:08 PM: To the "Gucci Gang"...
Tang Inang Mukha Yan Ang Panget!
(T I M Y A P)
Get the point! Mas 100% pogi points kame sa inyong lahat jersey lang suot namen!
Anonymous April 6, 2008 6:21 PM: gosh...kung ako lng yan si brian di ko na pinatulan yang pinoy na yan ang kapal naman ng mukha minahal na nga ni brian tapos gaganunin pa naks naman dapat sa pinoy ay ikulong kasi ninakaw ang pera ni brian dont u worry brian ill help u
braggito of Saudi Arabia April 6, 2008 10:49 PM: Brian Gorrel deserved justice from this social climber unggoy na balahurang baklang pinoy na ito! Nakakahiya ang pinaggagawa mong mukhang tsonggong bakla ka! Estafadora! dapat sa iyo makulong ka! kakahiya ang panglilinlang mo kay Brian Gorrel. Dapat sa DJ Montano na ito kulamin nang mamatay!
Abby April 9, 2008 3:57 AM: "unforgivable Filipino characteristics". Am I the only one who read that? Why does this "characterstic" of being a liar and cheater linked to being Filipino? He is a liar and a cheater, and he just happens to be a Filipino. It was a matter of the individual and his issues. In no way does he represent the filipino race. Marami ring manloloko sa ibang bansa, just in more furtive and sly ways. My brother got cheated by a "friend" who asked him for 350 dollars to invest in a business and he ran away. This kind of thing happens all the time. In this case it is just a larger amount of money, and a person with a louder voice. And because it is in the context of a conned romantic relationship, the situation is much more aggravated. It is another case of viral madness and online sensationalizing. I feel bad for you bro, but you gotta move on. Lashing out won't heal the pain, you'll just feel angrier and angrier.
Andrew Sheldon April 9, 2008 12:11 PM: Whilst I applaud efforts to highlight the mindlessness of other people, in this case I dont think the apple falls far from the tree. See
http://polly-rage.blogspot.com.
Anonymous April 10, 2008 7:06 PM: next time be carefull... god bless u..
Anonymous April 10, 2008 7:10 PM: to dj montano... nakakahiya k kinakhiya ko katulad kitang Filipino. Nkakaawa ang taong niloko mo. sana makatulog k ng mhibing s pera kinuha mo at sana wag k n rin magising
Anonymous April 10, 2008 7:10 PM: to dj montano... nakakahiya k kinakhiya ko katulad kitang Filipino. Nkakaawa ang taong niloko mo. sana makatulog k ng mhibing s pera kinuha mo at sana wag k n rin magising
TONY LEE April 12, 2008 10:07 PM: I'M SURE BY NOW HIV VIRUS IS IN DJ MONTANO BLOOD.DJ COCK SUCKING,ANUS FUCKING DAYS ARE OVER NO GAY IN THE WORLD WOULD EVER HAVE SEX WITH SOON TO BE HIV POSITIVE GAY.AT LEAST THE 70K HE STOLE FROM BRIAN WILL BUY HIM THOSE EXPENSIVE HIV MEDICINES.DJ LIVING YEARS ARE NUMBERED, I'M PRAYING THAT THE DEVIL WILL GET HIM SOONER THAN LATER !!!!! HE HE HE!!~!!
bambi2 April 16, 2008 2:52 AM: filipino gays not all but the majority are conartist worst than straight men/woman.even here in melbourne mga baklang pinoy majority mandaraya.5% lang ang matinong bakla sa melbourne.i know and i've seen it here.
Anonymous April 26, 2008 3:17 PM: Hmmmm.....how true is this?

see: http://technogra.ph/20080312/sections/analysis/australian-blogger-shares-dirty-filipino-secrets/

Osho Bogwan writes:

04/05/2008
Osho Bogwan @ 5:35 pm:

Brian, what a pathetic attempt to turn the tables and extract sympathy & $$$ from complete strangers when this has been your own modus for several years!

You failed to mention the lovely house shown in the news footage was owned by your unrequited Sydney based ultra Christian homosexual “Sugar Daddy” who indulged your every whim from your Range Rover to your swimming pool…

You get back what you deserve. How does “Sydney Sugar Daddy” feel about you running off to the Phillipines after his taking care of you & your mom for several years while you allegedly suffer from HIV (and looking healthier than the average Australian?) and living the highlife at the same time?? Does he do it for the great sex?

Perhaps this is payback for your pseudo-interest and subsequent snubbing of the people that actually took an interest in your well being? HaHa! The shoe is on the other foot and it doesn’t seem to fit you too well, eh? Next time ask for Bruno Magli instead of Gucci!

I find it curious how you managed to sell your interest in “your” house for $100,000 in a property that does not even belong to you…

Must have a good banker to pull this off…! Obviously you have a knack for pulling off your own cons AND congratulations on going digitally global in your pathetic plea for financial renumeration for to pay for your poor judgement!

I hope the paypal deposits go into dispute by the credit card donors after they read this!

PS: See you on the streets of King’s Cross after you shave your bung hole…

Lotsa love from All of your ex-friends that you have dumped on in your social climbing endeavours.

Hope you’ve enjoyed the lines of coke and free-flowing champers! May your cleansed karma be with you! -Osho B.

Posted Apr 5, 2008
Anonymous April 26, 2008 4:24 PM: Hmmmm…..how true is this?

see: http://technogra.ph/20080312/sections/analysis/australian-blogger-shares-dirty-filipino-secrets/

Osho Bogwan writes:

04/05/2008
Osho Bogwan @ 5:35 pm:

Brian, what a pathetic attempt to turn the tables and extract sympathy & $$$ from complete strangers when this has been your own modus for several years!

You failed to mention the lovely house shown in the news footage was owned by your unrequited Sydney based ultra Christian homosexual “Sugar Daddy” who indulged your every whim from your Range Rover to your swimming pool…

You get back what you deserve. How does “Sydney Sugar Daddy” feel about you running off to the Phillipines after his taking care of you & your mom for several years while you allegedly suffer from HIV (and looking healthier than the average Australian?) and living the highlife at the same time?? Does he do it for the great sex?

Perhaps this is payback for your pseudo-interest and subsequent snubbing of the people that actually took an interest in your well being? HaHa! The shoe is on the other foot and it doesn’t seem to fit you too well, eh? Next time ask for Bruno Magli instead of Gucci!

I find it curious how you managed to sell your interest in “your” house for $100,000 in a property that does not even belong to you…

Must have a good banker to pull this off…! Obviously you have a knack for pulling off your own cons AND congratulations on going digitally global in your pathetic plea for financial renumeration for to pay for your poor judgement!

I hope the paypal deposits go into dispute by the credit card donors after they read this!

PS: See you on the streets of King’s Cross after you shave your bung hole…

Lotsa love from All of your ex-friends that you have dumped on in your social climbing endeavours.

Hope you’ve enjoyed the lines of coke and free-flowing champers! May your cleansed karma be with you! -Osho B.

Posted Apr 5, 2008
Anonymous April 26, 2008 10:30 PM: Poor Brian! Please stop generalizing Filipinos...you do really knew what you are into....PATHETIC!
Andrew Sheldon April 27, 2008 7:29 AM: Not difficult to work out who suxs in this debate. Brian has his issues, but DJ is the product of a deluded mother, and more at:
http://polly-rage.blogspot.com/
Lulu April 27, 2008 10:45 AM: Brian is no different from that DJ.He has crossed the line again with his latest blog,he has no respect for Filipino and the Philippines.

See http://themeanstreak.blogspot.com/
so you can find out who Brian Gorrell really is.
Lulu April 27, 2008 11:00 AM: Mr. Andrew Sheldon,read your blog about Filipinos.Boy,you got some self issues!Talking trash about Filipinos!How dare you!

I want you out of the Philippines and never ever come back here,we do not want you here.

You will definitely here from me again,but not from the internet.

You are not welcome here in the Philippines Mr. Sheldon.
Andrew Sheldon April 27, 2008 11:04 AM: Lulu, read my blog on self esteem issues, your sadly lacking. Filipinos with healthy self esteem are able to differentiate themselves from the crap in the Philippines. They rise above it. You have major identity problems. Its not an uncommon problem, seek help. Good luck!
Anonymous April 27, 2008 2:00 PM: Im sorry Mr. Sheldon,although you write quite well,I find you offending.No, I am not in denial and let me assure you I am fully aware of the problems WE PILIPINOS are facing.Filipinos with high self esteem in the Philippines take offence on foreigners who lambast our country.We do not take lightly any insults thrown at us by any foreigner coming to our country.Obviously,your long years of studies in various universities have been put to waste,your blog against Filipinos will show how wasted your mind is.Thank you very much.Now get out of our country.
cyclecrank April 27, 2008 3:30 PM: This post has been removed by the author.
Anonymous April 27, 2008 6:18 PM: OMG!I KNEW IT!Brian is posting comments as anonymous on his blog!I saw something like

from BRIAN:
"brian were here to support you ,boracay people loves you" next to brian's picture tapos nag blip yung picture 9 ulit yung comment instead of 10.bwhahaha!!!huli ka Brian!

HAHAHA!!!Mr. Gorrell,natataranta na sa dami ng nagagalit sa panlalait nya sa tao ayan tuloy nakalimutan muna mag log out sa account nya bago mag post nga comment sa sarili nyang blog!

see :http://themeanstreak.blogspot.com/
Anonymous April 27, 2008 8:20 PM: You are pathetic Sheldon,you let this comment of yours disguised as "elizabeth" pass through,but you deleted my comments earlier huh?now who needs to see a doctor?you are sick!
Andrew Sheldon April 27, 2008 9:38 PM: You say you are “fully aware of the problems WE PILIPINOS are facing”. If that is the case, then you should welcome by input as power for the cause. Maybe you disagree on what is the nature of the problem. I dare say you do, so why don’t you argue the point. That is if you have one. Otherwise you just sound like an idiot with low self esteem. Education is not one of the wrong points of the Philippines.
Actually people with high esteem don’t take offence at anyone. Why? They have an independent sense of reality. They don’t accept others view without filtering it through their own mind. You are threatened by my views so you feel the necessity to threaten me in your first posting.
You said “We do not take lightly any insults thrown at us by any foreigner coming to our country”. Again. Where is your sense of reality? Why does it matter where an exponent of any idea comes from. If you have a compelling argument – then make it. The reality is – you are an uneducated twit so you feel compelled to make physical threats. The knowledge I am actually sharing with you I didn’t learn at university. I might add that I critique a lot of countries, including my own. Judging by Brian supporters its encouraging that so many actually appreciate his input....no matter how misguided he is.
You want me to leave the country? Sorry you don’t get a vote. He he. But don’t worry. If you keep your collective conscious buried in the sand you will never know I’m here.
Anonymous April 27, 2008 10:34 PM: When did i make physical threats?Set your facts straight.

I don't care with whatever it is you have to say about me,that is not me.I never start a fight with anyone who has negative opinion of me.So feel free to attack me.I will never hurt you.

But still I will not let you talk like that about my country and the Philippines.Am i suppose to feel good because you talk bad about other countries too?Are you for real?

Mr. Sheldon,this is the last you will hear from me from this site or anywhere in the net,but you'll definitely remember me,think about me and curse me someday,somewhere.Soon.
Anonymous April 28, 2008 6:30 PM: Hey Guys!Look at this,Brian's desperate attempt para makalusot sa comment nya about Boracay people loving him tapos forgetting to post as anonymous!!I told you!Di ba?I wasn't making up a story to discredit him!Nyahahaha!! Bwhahaha!!

(brian's comment taken from his latest blog about tim yap ):

Brian said...
Readers, I can't cut and paste comments from e mails to this board.
Please don't be afraid to leave a comment. js and hr.
My group on Bora.... this means you.
You can't be traced if you use the internet shop at d mall. Please don't worry.
Brian.x

April 28, 2008 7:31 PM

Oh my!talagang ganoon ka stupid tingin nya sa mga readers nya..
Anonymous April 28, 2008 6:30 PM: Hey Guys!Look at this,Brian's desperate attempt para makalusot sa comment nya about Boracay people loving him tapos forgetting to post as anonymous!!I told you!Di ba?I wasn't making up a story to discredit him!Nyahahaha!! Bwhahaha!!

(brian's comment taken from his latest blog about tim yap ):

Brian said...
Readers, I can't cut and paste comments from e mails to this board.
Please don't be afraid to leave a comment. js and hr.
My group on Bora.... this means you.
You can't be traced if you use the internet shop at d mall. Please don't worry.
Brian.x

April 28, 2008 7:31 PM

Oh my!talagang ganoon ka stupid tingin nya sa mga readers nya..
Anonymous April 30, 2008 10:28 AM: brian gorrell is a bitter bitch.
he fell in on with the wrong crowd.
too bad.
being former friends with celine who is a spawns of a whore...

and that gay guy ex-lover of brian...

so sad.
Anonymous May 1, 2008 12:01 PM: Hi, pardon me. This is my first time to post a comment here. I'm doing it because I am fed up with Brian Gorrell's blog. The top message is from me (S.B.) and the one below it is from another former Brian Gorrell supporter like me (her name is Jesusa T.).

Thanks for letting me use some space here. I doubt it if Brian will post my comment ('cause he still hasn't). Anyways, here it is...

*************************
Very well put Jesusa.

Ako rin ayaw ko na dito. I've been a silent supporter, I even donated sa Paypal(!). Two times pa ako nag-try because I really wanted to help him kahit konti. But, nagsimula ako mag-suspetcha diyan kay Brian when he kept harping that his blog is "evolving." Pati ako I commented to justify the "evolution" of this blog (I was one of those supporters who said that since this is his blog that he can say whatever he wants). Had I known lang that this "evolution" pala is to make this blog the "I hate Manila society blog". My goodness!

Aba, dapat palitan na yung title at stop making it look like it's still about DJ, because it's not anymore. What's next? Are you also going to say that Migz Zubiri begged you for a blowjob? Sino-sino pa ba ang i-a-attack ng blog na ito.

Jesusa, you're right in your assessment, akala ko ako lang nakakapansin na mukhang this is no longer Brian's brain child but some other people in the background. Sobra na pagka out of focus ni Brian, madali lang mag pagamit. Kung sabagay, siguro kapit sa patalim na rin siya because he realizes that he cannot recoup his $70K from DJ. Pero kahit na...nobody wants to be taken for a fool, and that's exactly how I feel right now! I feel so betrayed because I have learned to love you Brian. I even include you in my prayers. I hope that you really have paperwork that will help you put DJ in jail. I also hope that you file your lawsuit very soon while people still believe in you.

If you don't want to post my comment, I will find another blog that will. That will probably be better, so that others will know how retarded this blog has become.

S.B.

P.S.: Jesusa, I will take your message with mine to other blogs because helps to establish my point. I hope it's okay with you. Ditto.

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Jesusa said...
Brian,

Are you sure this is the path you want to follow? Why? What about your quest for justice? Are you still going to file a lawsuit against DJ and the people who you believe wronged you? Or you have decided to pursue this path of writing blind items/hearsay “chismis” items e-mailed to you?

I am concerned that since you have somehow found a way to reconnect with Manila's high society, through Kitty Go and Andrew Gan (a.k.a. Constance), you have come to ignore the sensibilities of the people who supported you from the time you started this blog.

It pains me to think that through all the adversities this blog has seen, we, your supporters, still listened, sympathized, empathized, stood by you and defended you, even in the most controversial of issues; but now I see clearly that our efforts in fighting for you are futile. It is now very obvious that you still haven’t lost your aspirations to become part of Manila’s high society; and will fight tooth and nail to get a piece of it, even if it means antagonizing its usual suspects--and why not, right? Andrew Gan has made a career out of it; Kitty Go has published two books based on it, so why can’t you? Will you be successful? Well, that remains to be seen. One thing is for sure: You certainly have the talent to play to people’s unsuspecting/trusting nature. Are you happy that you have deceived us this long? With carefully maneuvered postings, you have managed to turn-off your supporters and dropped them in the same way DJ dropped you when he realized that he has no more use for you.

But no worries, you will find other supporters, only this time you’ll have the ones who are dishonest and pernicious like you are. You will be familiar with them, as they will give you the same support the Gucci Gang extended to you when you first ventured into our shores--truly, it takes one to know one.

In essence, there is no more aim to recover the $70,000, as your goal has been reduced to malevolence through this blog. I am afraid that for those like me, who thought that we could see you through your quest, this is the end of the line.

Goodbye Brian.

Jesusa T.
Beotch!! May 1, 2008 1:30 PM: TO : Anonymous
May 1, 2008 12:01 PM

There are a lot of us who are really disgusted with Brian already,someone was kind enough to let us vent our frustrations with Brian and his minions on his own blog.You see there is nothing wrong with blogging and earning from it,but bloggers should also be responsible and not use blogging as a tool to destroy lives and careers of people they dont even know.

You can find us here:

http://themeanstreak.blogspot.com/

BTW,thank you Reyville of Simply Manila!
Anonymous May 1, 2008 3:41 PM: Hi Rayville,

First of all I would like to thank you for allowing me to post my long ass comment at Brian Gorrell's blog, which he still hasn't posted. I am also one of those dropping out from his support group because he has truly showed his true (ugly) colors.

Thanks!

******************

WTF! where are the comments?!?!?!?!

Brian, are you still allowing comments? Baka sabihin mo nanaman someone's trying to hack your computer. SH*T! The delay is only making your naysayers credible by the minute.

What's wrong? Afraid that the tables are now turned?

Kasi Brian, you aligned yourself with two notorious SH*T makers and many of your supporters, or at least the ones who know about them, don't like it. E, si KG and AG they're just like the GG...hay nako Brian, you are being used again AND will be dumped again. BULLSH*T! Wake up!

Look, if KG & AG F*CKS you, starting another blog to talk about it will not save your ass because we'll all be gone by then. Jesusa was right in saying that nobody with a good heart will stand by you again when all the sincere ones leave. Matigas kasi ang ulo mo, pinipilit mo mag pa-soshal-soshal, e sa Pilipinas lang naman yan.

Jesusa, where are you going? Sama ako sa iyo! Anybody else who want to tag along? Tara! Nilalangaw na tong blog ni Brian (parang t*e na nilalangaw).

If you want to change things around, post something that will explain the following:

1) What happened to the Boycott STAR petition?

2) Why did you pull yesterday's post, then re-posted it with a different message? Tell us the truth.

3) What Phillipine charities will benefit from your books? Ngayon pa lang mag pledge ka na.

4) Who's your publisher? Kung si KG lang, kalimutan mo na! Sumulat ka na lang sa buhangin ng Bora-cay (DJ accent).

Hoy, mga ibang supporters, don't you dare re-direct me to read the past posts. Yung mga tanong ko never pa na sagot dahil mukhang ina-avoid. I also signed that petition you know (even invited others to do the same) but there was no explanation why it was pulled. I was not able to do the PayPal thing because I had problems accessing it (buti na lang). But you know what? If there is another way, I am ready to give something small as it may be. But no more!

Ikaw kasi Brian, may pagka urong-sulong ka e (indicisive) kaya madali ka maloko. That or you easily get impressed with high society people. We are not high society but we offered you our sincere support, but all you wanted is to use our support for a bashing blog. Kung si DJ and GG lang OK, but everybody else? Even Sen. MZ? I don't care for him, but still, it's not right to include his mother. Mali yon! For somebody who wants people's compassion for your HIV, you have the nerve to attack an old lady with a brain tumor. Grabe ka! They are not connected to DJ in any way, shape, or form. O ano, sino sa inyo mag re-reason out na may connection yan? Wala diba? To stand by you is wrong already.

It's up to you if you want to post this or not. There are other blogs out there that will willingly post this anyway.

Freedom of "Speach"(?)!!!

Georgia Camaya
Burbank, CA
Andrew Sheldon May 1, 2008 5:44 PM: Hi Jesusa & syndicate, I am cynical about the sincerity of your post. You look like a 'wolf in sheep's clothing (ala Lola). You posit that you were a believer in Brian's cause because he was wronged, but...really you just want to discredit him and encourage him to take a private course through the courts. You assert that Brian is publishing "blind items/hearsay", but how are you to know otherwise. You will not see justice unless people are accountable. Should people be placed up for public ridicule? Why not? Let them defend their standards of conduct. Online is the perfect forum for it. Is there any evidence to suggest Brian has not allowed others to respond to his claims. I'm quite sure the media would welcome the opportunity to interview both parties if they were innocent.
You say "you (Brian) have come to ignore the sensibilities of the people who supported you from the time you started this blog". Since when have you become the spokesperson of supporters? If you are no longer supportive, why dont you disappear. The fact that you are now discrediting him suggests you have a different agenda since you say "I see clearly that our efforts in fighting for you are futile" - ooohh but you efforts to discredit him are not so futile. You are pathetic. He never set himself up as a representative of your values.
His blog has always been about controversy, so why would you now change your colours. Its always been about the values of 'Manila High Society' and Brian using that to reclaim the $70,000. So I think you are just another paid DJ stooge trying to discredit him. Read my blog (http://polly-rage.blogspot.com) - I dont particularly like Brian, but I value his exposure of the immoral 'High Society' you are now defending. In your next attempt to discredit him you say "It is now very obvious that you still haven’t lost your aspirations to become part of Manila’s high society:. I suggest his blog precludes him coming back to Manila. He would be killed. And as a closing statement you are actually quite pernicious. He is not mistaken, you suggest Brian is quite evil. Quote: "You certainly have the talent to play to people’s unsuspecting/trusting nature. Are you happy that you have deceived us this long?" So I am easily convinced that your cause is to discredit him. If this is not true, please point me to your early postings of support under this username. I guarantee there is none. You are a total fraud..sorry DJ is that you? You say "you have managed to turn-off your supporters and dropped them in the same way DJ dropped you when he realized that he has no more use for you". I dont believe that is a correct analogy. Brian has not changed his tune. I would add that Brian's blog seems as popular as even with 100 posts on some items. Amazing loyalty out there for him I suggest despite the DJ's syndicate to malign him.
For Brian's sake, I hope Filpinos are not so innocent to believe your crap. You said "I am afraid that for those like me, who thought that we could see you through your quest, this is the end of the line". Really, I suspect you will actually continue your assault on Brian because you have alot of work to do to discredit him.
What I have learned in Filipino society is that 'nothing is as it superficially seems' because of people like you. But with the skills of critical thinking discussed on my site, you can identify frauds. Sadly I'm too late to save Brian from DJ.
Anonymous May 2, 2008 5:15 AM: "Sadly I'm too late to save Brian from DJ."

Oh please! So you're now some higher power who can save Brian? Brian is doing just fine, thank you! His has more supporters now than ever. Jesusa was one of Brian's staunchest defenders in the blog, so I have no issues with her. Plus, that's how she writes, too, so I'm not surprised that the last part is stingy. Why are you addressing her here (she didn't post her comment here, somebody else did)? You're welcome to visit Brian's blog and address her and the other trolls there...we need intelligent ones in there right now. Since Brian allowed for anonymous postings, a lot of trouble has ensued. Anyways, I'm sure Brian wouldn't mind another fellow Aussie posting their insights there.
Andrew Sheldon May 2, 2008 6:56 AM: Thank you 'anon' - a perfect example of critical thinking. I was responding only to comments appearing in my email.
Anonymous May 2, 2008 7:18 AM: I hope Brian can finally prove his accusations.I understand why he already has a lot of doubters now,i read his blog and i can see his jsut throwing accusations without proofs.He mentioned something about 70,000.00 dollrs debt,but the documentation he presented is insufficient,but yet he claims to have proven it already.brian should realize that since he is the accuser,the burden of proof is on him,sadly,blogging has become a tool of deception in this case.I understand the sentiments and questioned raised by anti brian groups from http://themeanstreak.blogspot.com/,
they have a point.brian has drag a lot of people into his ness,he even said that a mother of a philippine senator is a coke addict.I hope this does not send a message to other would-be bloggers,blogging is a wonderful tool to spread info and share views with other people,but sadly in this case with brian gorrell,it has been abused.

i agree with the views expressed by educated journalists who says that brian's case is not to be taken seriously by media,because his blog really lacks in credibility and responsibility.
Anonymous May 2, 2008 8:42 AM: Thanks Andrew! I would copy & paste some of Jesusa's messages defending Brian, but it's too much work because there are quite a few of them. You can visit Brian's blog and see for yourself that she did write messages to anti-Brian peeps that are as stingy as her goodbye letter (she never cusses though), but really she was a good Team Brian member while it lasted. Oh well, when one leaves ten more comes in to take their place. NEXT! See you in Brian's blog. TTFN!
Anonymous May 9, 2008 11:23 AM: hi brian,

you forgot to name the 2 others from big 4 of quezon city in your blogs, gerald dequinia, jet dionisio only you mentioned,you forgot bernie pe and manolo zamora.the gun freaks that spends tons of money for one good fuck or an orgy.iam sure you know them, the mafia of QC runing illegal activities.were behind you brian, go fuck this assholes!!!
Nadine May 10, 2008 5:04 PM: Like everyone else, I was fascinated by the story when I first read the blog. However, after a while, and after closer inspection, some things started to nag at me.

1. Brian keeps saying that he has already proven that DJ took his 70K Australian dollars. He provided scanned copies of 3 Western Union receipts. However, if you total the amounts on the WU receipts, they only come up to less than 10K. Where is the other 60K? If he claims to have "proven" that DJ took 70K from him, shouldn't he have provided the rest of the documents showing money changing hands???

2. Even if he were to demonstrate that there was a total of 70K that was transfered from him to DJ, how do we know where that money ended up? Sure, he says that he was sending it for the purpose of setting up a business with DJ, which later turned out to be non-existent. But, he does not have any proof at all that there WAS a business being discussed - no contracts, no witnesses. Are we just to take his word for it that this is what he was sending the money to DJ for???

3. He claims to be living on a pension (700 dollars a month, was it?), unable to afford his medications, which is why he put the Paypal button on his site. And yet, he can afford to buy cigarettes (he is seen smoking in a recent video). And, don't forget that is also able to maintain and feed at least 4 dogs... that is not cheap in a developed country! Look, if you're really short on cash, you need to give things up before you start begging for help. Sorry, but it really does not seem to me as if the guy absolutely needs financial help.

4. I can understand why he would write destructive stories about Celine and Tim Yap. They're DJ's friends, they turned away when Brian needed their help, and they can put pressure on DJ to pay Brian what he allegedly owes him. But, why is he writing about people who have nothing to do with anything? My feeling is that he is only doing this to sensationalize his blog and keep the gossip-mongers coming back for more. See, these are the only people who continue to support him, aside from the imbeciles who do not know any better, the gays who are lusting for him and those with really strong maternal instincts who automatically sympathize with any charismatic creature who has been "wronged."

5. He calls the 70K his "life savings", but somewhere in one of his interviews, he also says that he sold his property for 100K... 70K of which went to DJ. So, what is it really? Is the 70K his life savings or the equity he had in his house? And if he sold the house for 100K, where did the other 30K go???

6. In his most recent interview (posted on the blog), he claims that out of 2900 comments submitted to him, he has only rejected 7. Uh, yeah right. I have personally submitted 4 comments which never appeared on the blog. 4 out of 7!?!? Am I really just that abrasive or really that unlucky?

7. The blog is starting to seem like a money-making endeavor. First the Paypal button. And now, he is riding the wave of his newfound popularity. He intends to cash in on his celebrity by writing 2 books - one an autobiography, the other some sort of an expose on Philippine society. You get scammed, you start a blog, and suddenly you're egotistic enough to think that your life story deserves to be published??? Haha! You live in the Philippines for a year, and suddenly you're an expert on all things Pinoy? Good lord. He does not have the credentials to do any of this stuff. He is just out to make money!!! So the profits will be going to a Philippine charity? I'll believe it when it happens (and it needs to be 100% of the profits!).

8. To say that the guy has a simplistic view of the world, as well as an incontrollable tendency to generalize is an understatement. One bad doctor behaves unprofessionally, and suddenly Teri Hatcher was right in maligning Philippine diplomas? One priest condemns the patient's actions, and suddenly we're all homophobic? His logic is flawed, people. Don't be blinded by his abs and biceps. Beware of the talented Mr. Gorrell!

I could go on and on...

Now, I'm sure that there are some die-hard supporters of Brian who are lurking on this blog. Just like the person they worship, a lot of these people are also simpletons. And because I'm writing something which they would consider "anti-Brian", this automatically makes me:

1. a member of the GG
2. someone who knows someone who was mentioned in the blog
3. someone who WAS mentioned in the blog
4. DJ Montano himself.

Hahaha! I assure you that I am none of the above! I am just an educated person who thinks things over objectively, without allowing my emotions to cloud my judgment. As far as I'm concerned, NO PROOF OF A SCAM HAS BEEN PRESENTED. In fact, all the juicy stuff he churns out on his blog is just hearsay. We're all just taking his word for everything. And, the typical Pinoys that we are, it feels good to see "people with money" or "people in high places" fall, doesn't it? That's why we have fooled ourselves into believing everything this guy says! People, let's not be gullible. Let's demand reliable proof of all his claims before we throw our full support behind him! I'm not saying that we should support DJ (he MAY truly be guilty), but we should at least sit on the fence until one of them provides solid proof that he is telling the truth!
Andrew Sheldon May 10, 2008 7:25 PM: Nadine, my girlfriend tells me he posted a receipt for a $A35K transfer, so it looks like $50K min. I dont think it matters if you are scammed for $50K or $70K, you are still scammed. He presents as more credible than DJ. I can understand why he has no evidence of business transactions. I'm going business with Filipino GF in Philippines. There is really no proof of such things. The exception is email, and she has access to my account. Maybe I'll be scammed. :) Unlike Brian I keep the bank password secret. hehe. Idiot country boy.
I dont begrudge Brian for earning money from his blog. I think Filipinos appreciated someone campaigning to rid Manila of such losers. Some want to defend its values, and some have trouble extricating themselves from the GGs. So he has a smoking addiction. A way to deal with stress I guess. Four dogs. Yeh, a little excessive, but he did disclose them. I'd be more inclined to give to him, than the Filipino mothers that send their children up to me as a guilt trip to give money. I dont think he claims his need is any greater than others. Why shouldn't he talk about those other people. They should be accountable. Where are their defenders? For the time I read Brian's blog, I've yet to read anyone invalidate his story. Yeh, he's not posting everything because I dare say critics are overloading him with 40 versions of the same comment so he can't, or maybe just claiming to be sending.
What is wrong with generalising. See my blog http://polly-rage.blogspot.com.
Yeh, I could go on as well...if I had AIDS, I'm sure I would create some sensation on my blog so I could spend the last days of my life responding to hateful mail. Your objectivity doesn't seem to add up. The 'desperate coke head' story just seems to hang together so much better.
Nadine May 11, 2008 12:02 AM: You're right... 50K, 70K, 5K, 100 dollars... doesn't matter. A scam is a scam... but it has to be proven. The proof of a business deal gone wrong does not need to be presented to me... it needs to be presented to the proper authorities, if he is indeed going to retrieve his money the legal way. I'm just saying he has not proven that the element of a "scam" exists, which leaves a question mark in my mind.

You say "there really is no proof of such things"... um, I don't know about you, but if the business involves ME putting 70K into it, then I would make sure there IS proof. How about articles of incorporation? Surely there would have been incorporation papers had the business been legit. Even if he had been a "silent partner" he could have at least asked to see those.

People earn money from their blogs all the time, but in his entry where he introduces his Paypal donation button, he claims he cannot afford his medicine. Clearly, he prioritizes other things over his medicine. That is my issue with the donations.

You ask what's wrong with generalizing??? Because generalizations are oftentimes erroneous! Are all Filipino doctors unprofessional??? Are all Filipinos homophobic??? I think not.

He shouldn't talk about "those other people" because they have nothing to do with the issue between him and DJ Montano. But, then again, since he is evolving into the Philippine version of a Perez Hilton, why not? I just hope he verifies everything he posts (as he claims he does). He claims his source is GG insider? I hope the "source" is not someone with a grudge seeking revenge and fabricating stories. Or feeding Brian stories that are untrue, only to make him look like a fool in the end.

Yes, I'm being objective. I'm not siding with DJ either. I'm just waiting for one of them to prove or disprove allegations with HARD EVIDENCE. Yes, he does seem more credible than DJ... but credibility can be faked if you're good enough.

... Your statement... "I'd be more inclined to give to him, than the Filipino mothers that send their children up to me as a guilt trip to give money."... Hmm... I don't even want to get into that.
Andrew Sheldon May 11, 2008 6:46 AM: Nadine, I think the reason he got scammed is because he actually loved the guy. DJ is depicted as a coke head. Habits cost alot. Lifestyles cost alot. Brian appears to be the poor one. I believe he is implicating people who were around him that did not warn him about DJ. Is Brian an idiot? Absolutely. Who would love a coke head? The problem is - this is the Philippines - there is no 'proper' authorities. The Philippines is corrupt. Are there honest enforcers? No. Because no one reports corruption. They laugh it off. Even if they dont engage or solicit bribes, the Philippine culture is to tacitly support graft by turning a blind eye or laughing it off. Because of the influence of the people, his life would be threatened coming here.
Hmm...can't afford his medicines. Well maybe he is being a 'victim' and over-dramaticising his position. Having lived with a gay, and observed them, they do tend to do that. Such girls aren't they. Generalisation! Dont see anything wrong with raising money. Generalisations are essentially always wrong, otherwise they would be specific. The intent is to draw a relationship or correlation, not to prove a universal dogma. Generalising is healthy if it pertains to facts.
Are all Philippine doctors unprofessional. He he. Maybe. Given I've been to a few in the Philippines, the quality of training, the lack of critical thinking skills, I would be inclined to say, YES, pretty well all Philippine doctors are unprofessional, if by that you mean they are inadequately trained.
Yeh, I hope he is filtering the claims that 'helpers' are feeding him with, that he is independently verifying the stories. But frankly I think this country is crying out for some accountability, and thats why he gets and should get support. I personally dont see it making a difference. But if it encourages others. Every time I get my visa renewed I'm reminded of how corrupt this country is. The current scam. You can't get your visa renewed if you pay a bribe or where shorts. Well that would eliminate foreigners like me.
Anonymous May 11, 2008 8:23 AM: Hey my man sheldon!could you stop bombarding us with your stupid biased views about your fellow australian.It's either your biased or just plain stupid.by the way,how did you become a writter?

you can kiss brian's ass for all i care,you both are fakes.you dont know anything,you are just one talkative foreigner living in manila.trying to promote his pathetic blog by pushing stupid thoughts down our throat.uugh!

i know you're going to respond to this with your wayward english and so sorry grammar coupled with stupid views.

you studied grammar and all,but boy your english is so bad!YOU ARE A FAKE ANDREW SHELDON.YOU NEVER EVEN FINISH COLLEGE.
Andrew Sheldon May 11, 2008 8:33 AM: Anon, you idiot. I went to a 'grammar school', that does not mean we learn grammar. By all means criticise my grammar, I care not if its good or bad. The English language suxs, I'd be the first to applaud its replacement. Its so illogical. I'm not biased at all, I'm equally comdemning of everyone. Read my blog, you will see that I dont think much of Australians, Chinese, Japanese, etc. I probably like less than 4% of any culture. The rest are uninspiring white or coloured trash.
Dont blame me for the lowly status of your country. The first step to improving your country's standing is to acknowledge reality. Is that the best argument you can offer - nothing but smear. You're pathetic.
Nadine May 11, 2008 6:54 PM: Mr. Sheldon, if you think that all Filipino doctors are inadequately trained, you have probably been consulting the wrong ones. I will not claim that ALL Filipino doctors are competent, but a lot of them ARE. I could enumerate the "good schools" and "good hospitals" for you, but I really don't want to get into that with anyone who happens to be from "somewhere else."

You said: "Generalisations are essentially always wrong, otherwise they would be specific. The intent is to draw a relationship or correlation, not to prove a universal dogma. Generalising is healthy if it pertains to facts." I having trouble deciphering what on earth you are trying to say here. How can something that is "essentially always wrong"... "pertain to facts"??? In essence, you're saying that generalizing is NEVER HEALTHY because it is ALWAYS WRONG and therefore NEVER PERTAINS TO FACTS. Yeah, you're right. SO not all Filipino MDs are unprofessional and not all Filipinos are homophobic. Thanks for confirming that.
Anonymous May 11, 2008 7:14 PM: "Dont blame me for the lowly status of your country. The first step to improving your country's standing is to acknowledge reality. Is that the best argument you can offer - nothing but smear. You're pathetic."

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hahaha!!!you suck not only in expressing your stupid arguments, you also suck big time in comprehension!

Who cares about the status of any country?I dont make my living by sharing stupid views!Saying stupid things is not my bread and butter,unlike you.You say Philippines has a sorry state?then why the fuck are you still there?because no other country will accept your stupid and irrelevant opinions.staying in the Philippines keep your stomach full,that is the country where you get money to buy the food you stuff in your big mouth.Hahahahaha!!you are pathetic!

Nadine,dont even bother having a conversation with this pathetic australian,he ain't worth it.This guy has no brains,only big mouth.No capacity to think what so ever.
Nadine May 11, 2008 7:44 PM: "Nadine,dont even bother having a conversation with this pathetic australian,he ain't worth it.This guy has no brains,only big mouth.No capacity to think what so ever."

Thanks for the heads up, anonymous. I was coming to the same conclusion. :)
Andrew Sheldon May 11, 2008 8:10 PM: Nadine, I exaggerate. I got good service from doctors at a Medical Centre, experience overseas. To be fair, there are always brilliant people who rise to the top in any country.
To clarify generalisations are an essence drawn from particulars, leaving alot out of context. Generalisation is healthy if it defines a demonstrable relationship in reality.

Anon, I dont think much of the status of my country, if I thought in such terms (collectively). In 1920s it was in the top 10, now top 40. Why? Decadence, welfare statism and a few oil sheikhs later. Interesting too that the Baguio Camp road was built by Japanese workers. Why did Filipinos let it side?
Yeh, poorly written, I didnt edit or review this. Shame!
Anonymous May 11, 2008 8:23 PM: hahahaha!!!FYI sheldon,,tsk...tsk.....tsk....

research!research!research!!

Americans practically built and developed Baguio hahahaha!!

japanese troops just occupied baguio during ww2.hahahaha!!

your opinions suck,your english suck and your facts suck!you suck!hahahaha!!
Andrew Sheldon May 11, 2008 8:36 PM: Anonymous, your self esteem suxs. Actually I read the plague dedicated to those who made the effort. The Camp road was built by Japanese labourers, designed by US-Filipino engineers, funded by Americans. Paradox being Japanese engineers today. Research? I read the plague whilst driving down the road. Not good enough research for you. Your high school education probably liked to focus on the US military involvement.
It seems we all make mistakes. Just focus on reality is all I ask. I'm welcoming the opportunity to speak to educated Filipinos with opinions.
Anonymous May 11, 2008 8:58 PM: hahahaha!!your ignorance and stupidy is clearly showing!
hahahaha!

just stick to writting if i were you,but i dont want to be you,i dont want to be the laughing stock of my colleagues!

built by an american engineer.funded by americans and built by american soldiers and filipinos.

hahahaah!!"japanese workers" working for americans during the 1900's were unheard of,non existent,never happened hahahaha!!or are you trying to re write history?

hahahaha!!!you're funny!
fingolfincubus May 12, 2008 1:00 PM: Back in March when Gorrell's blog first came out, I came up with an "alternativedjmontanoblog" since Gorrell wasn't posting any of my comments, offering the blog as a venue for those who wanted to comment but were being shut out by Gorrell. I said on my blog's intro that I wasn't trying to recover any life savings. I was just riding on the Gorrell bandwagon. I said that we are all addicts ang Gorrell's blog is our cocaine. After receiving a fair amount of hits, I stopped and shut down the blog after about a couple of days. I thought then: "WTF?!! What the hell am I doing?! I need a life! I HAVE a life! Enough of this crap!"

That's my unsolicited advice to everyone here and on Gorrell's blog-- GET A LIFE EVERYONE! SHEESH! ENOUGH OF THIS CRAP!
Andrew Sheldon May 12, 2008 1:08 PM: Hi fingolfincubus, I agree if it was only just about Brian, but I think this topic goes way beyond Brian. At least that has been the nature of my discussion. Filipino values, etc. for some it was a forum to raise money for Brian. I think the tin heads are those that use the forum just to attack DJ and Brian. I've only done that with a bigger picture in mind. Some seem to make DJ their life saving mission, so it makes me wonder why. National pride? Dealers trying to win back a customer :) Friends. Who knows what motivates these people.
Anonymous May 15, 2008 2:34 PM: I think i'll study this for my thesis.
Anonymous May 16, 2008 4:08 PM: I think Brian is losing supporters because he can be such a whiner. It was also such a turn off how he condemned high society tapos clung to kitty go. Aussie boy is becoming arrogant!
Anonymous May 26, 2008 10:35 PM: THE GORRELL VIRUS

I have never met either the miserable Montano or the grotesque Gorrell, and do not want to meet either of the scum, ever. When I first read Brian’s blog, I sympathized with him, and thought what a despicable low life D.J.Montano is. However, after reading the blog more, I started to notice that there is great deal of Filipino bashing in it. Soon, the specter of Montano disappeared into the shadows in the back ground, and the monster Gorrell began to show his true colors, as an anti-Filipino site started to grow and spread hate like a virus. Is it right to hold a whole society responsible for their love affair gone ugly? If D.J.Montano did in fact rip him off, is it right for Gorrell to take it out on other innocent Filipinos, by slandering and publically humiliating them? There are heaps of scammers and con artists in every country in the world, including Australia and Canada. Why are Filipinos singled out and insulted by this man who claims to love Filipinos? Montano may be a scammer, but is not Gorrell one as well? Is Gorrell hoping that the Lopez family, or some rich socialite afraid of his slander, will pay him 70,000 Australian dollars? What a vile business it would be, to travel the world’s cities, mix into social groups, naively give money to some slimy lover boy in exchange for intimate carnal attention, and then slander everyone else in the society in order to extort the money back. Did Brian find his calling? Perhaps he might start a new trend. It can be called “Gorrelling”.

He claims to love Filipinos, but in his blatant hypocrisy he insults them recklessly. You do not have to read between the lines to find the insults, he writes them out in plain English, using words like “cowboy country”, “banana republic”, and “half-breed”. Is he really so ignorant and uneducated, as to not realize that these are derogatory and prejudiced remarks? Did he not learn in the entire year that he visited our country, that the Philippines have many people of mixed race? He has even gone so far as to insult “catholic priests” in the Philippines, an insensitive and dangerous proposition, in a country that is eighty percent catholic. He is a vile visitor with absolutely no manners. There is an old saying that goes,”Don’t shit in someone else’s back yard.” Gorrell has been shitting on the Philippines on a daily basis with his blog.

He has labeled Filipinos who are not poor, or who are struggling to stay above poverty, and make a better life for themselves as evil members of “the Darkside” or “Gucci Gang”. Are Filipinos meant to feel guilty to have or want a better life other than poverty? Is it not a human right to prosper and grow wealthy? Can we not, as Filipinos, aspire to have the “better things” in life, like Australians, Canadians, Americans, and Europeans? Is it forbidden, because we live in a developing country with poverty, that Filipinos should never be allowed to drink champagne, or drive a nice car? Not everyone has a wonderful swimming pool like Gorrell, but can Filipinos hope to have a swimming pool one day with out being labeled extravagant? Or is this an excess that we are not entitled to without guilt? Should every Filipino who has ever tried an intoxicant other than alcohol, be publicly humiliated? Does not drug use exist in Australia or Canada as well?

He has threatened to continue his onslaught, until Montano has paid him back. Unfortunately, blackmail and extortion only work if embarrassing information is “withheld” in exchange for money, but Gorrell has already exposed all he knows about Montano, and has already publicly humiliated him. He has also slandered every living or dead human that Montano has ever spoken too, and even those who have absolutely nothing to do with him. Why on earth would he ever pay him back? As a result, Gorrell will continue his slanderous onslaught, and spread his hate like a virus, until the day he dies (no threats, or irony intended). Others have jumped on his band wagon, feeding his hate site, by becoming his supporters, spies, and informants. It is sad to see so many people betray their own people in the name of hatred. There are some people, reporters, writers, and journalists, with hidden agendas, who have profited and made names for themselves, by joining his bandwagon and feeding his hate site, at the expense of other innocent Filipinos. These people betray Filipinos ignorantly and maliciously, under the guise of some delusional self righteous anti drug campaign, to shroud they’re envy or hatred, for some socialite that may have snubbed or insulted them once.

The lowlife Montano will never pay Gorrell back. Gorrell will continue his vile critique on Philippine culture. He is an undesirable visitor, who knows nothing about the Philippines, has no education, and thinks he has the right to judge Filipinos. Gorrell is a self righteous hypocrite, who has lived in the Philippines for only a year, participated in a hedonistic drug and disease infested lifestyle for that year, and now he is trying to portray all Manila “high society” in this manner. Do not let this filthy poodle Gorrell continue to defecate all over the Philippines.

I urge all Filipinos to be proud of who you are, and to hold your ground. Have national pride and stand up against this “cyber hate attack” on the Philippines. Remember, he will not stop the hate until he gets his money back, and Montano will never ever pay him. Well, if hate is the only language he understands, then perhaps Gorrell should taste the full foul flavor of his own malevolent malicious medicine. If the best defense is a good offense, then by all means, offend Gorrell as much as possible, before you see someone that you know and respect, alive or dead, dragged the rough the dirt. If he threatens your society, should you not have the very same right to threaten him, however you see fit? If he insults everyone, all their relatives, and their MOTHERS, should he not be given the same courtesy? Self centered and self obsessed people have very fragile egos. So bombard him daily, his family, his friends, his mother, and his dog, with as much foul insults and hatred as necessary, until he cannot take it anymore, cracks, and stops openly offending Filipinos. To have so many people insult and hate him, must be a terrible feeling. Hopefully he will have the sense to shut his mouth and swallow his own filth.

Obviously, there is no space for morality in Gorrell’s world, unless it complimented with hypocrisy. So feel free to insult him as terribly as possible on a daily basis. If you have a bad day, or have a case of road rage, or just feel like venting a little steam, send him an “anonymous insult”. You might even find it “therapeutic”. It is advisable however, to keep the insults directed at only him, his family, his dogs, and not to make prejudice or derogatory remarks and statements against race, nationality, or sexuality. This will only gain him supporters, and simulate, as well as stimulate, his ignorant behavior.
It is best to maintain ones “anonymity”, for as the great writer Constance Brooke Pendleton has proven, it is a very effective method for insulting, offending, and humiliating people, without exposing oneself. Do not expose yourself, unless you want to see pictures of your family or friends on his hate site, and have them publically insulted and slandered. Maintain anonymity, because, why on earth would you ever want to see your name linked in anyway possible, with such a vile dog as Gorrell? Unless off course, one has a hidden agenda, and is trying to ride on his tail, and make a name for his or herself in order to somehow profit or climb in social status, as some self righteous hypocrites have done.

Innocent people’s reputations, jobs, and lives have been effected by Gorrell’s slander. He has taken advantage of freedom of speech, manipulated it for his own self serving purpose, and hurt innocent people. If innocent people are victimized by such slanderous blogs, eventually laws will have to be enacted to protect the innocent, by limiting freedom of speech. Unfortunately, these laws will encroach on and diminish freedom of speech as we know it. It will be a shame, if a few people profit for their own selfish purposes, by taking advantage of the freedom of speech that we enjoy today, and cause a reduction of the freedom of speech that we will have in the future. Before this happens, perhaps it would be best to “use freedom of speech to protect freedom of speech”, by speaking out to retaliate and isolate Gorrell’s virus of hate, before it spreads and impaires our civil liberties.

An Anonymous Filipino (who does not wear Gucci shoes)
Anonymous May 26, 2008 10:37 PM: THE GORRELL VIRUS

I have never met either the miserable Montano or the grotesque Gorrell, and do not want to meet either of the scum, ever. When I first read Brian’s blog, I sympathized with him, and thought what a despicable low life D.J.Montano is. However, after reading the blog more, I started to notice that there is great deal of Filipino bashing in it. Soon, the specter of Montano disappeared into the shadows in the back ground, and the monster Gorrell began to show his true colors, as an anti-Filipino site started to grow and spread hate like a virus. Is it right to hold a whole society responsible for their love affair gone ugly? If D.J.Montano did in fact rip him off, is it right for Gorrell to take it out on other innocent Filipinos, by slandering and publically humiliating them? There are heaps of scammers and con artists in every country in the world, including Australia and Canada. Why are Filipinos singled out and insulted by this man who claims to love Filipinos? Montano may be a scammer, but is not Gorrell one as well? Is Gorrell hoping that the Lopez family, or some rich socialite afraid of his slander, will pay him 70,000 Australian dollars? What a vile business it would be, to travel the world’s cities, mix into social groups, naively give money to some slimy lover boy in exchange for intimate carnal attention, and then slander everyone else in the society in order to extort the money back. Did Brian find his calling? Perhaps he might start a new trend. It can be called “Gorrelling”.

He claims to love Filipinos, but in his blatant hypocrisy he insults them recklessly. You do not have to read between the lines to find the insults, he writes them out in plain English, using words like “cowboy country”, “banana republic”, and “half-breed”. Is he really so ignorant and uneducated, as to not realize that these are derogatory and prejudiced remarks? Did he not learn in the entire year that he visited our country, that the Philippines have many people of mixed race? He has even gone so far as to insult “catholic priests” in the Philippines, an insensitive and dangerous proposition, in a country that is eighty percent catholic. He is a vile visitor with absolutely no manners. There is an old saying that goes,”Don’t shit in someone else’s back yard.” Gorrell has been shitting on the Philippines on a daily basis with his blog.

He has labeled Filipinos who are not poor, or who are struggling to stay above poverty, and make a better life for themselves as evil members of “the Darkside” or “Gucci Gang”. Are Filipinos meant to feel guilty to have or want a better life other than poverty? Is it not a human right to prosper and grow wealthy? Can we not, as Filipinos, aspire to have the “better things” in life, like Australians, Canadians, Americans, and Europeans? Is it forbidden, because we live in a developing country with poverty, that Filipinos should never be allowed to drink champagne, or drive a nice car? Not everyone has a wonderful swimming pool like Gorrell, but can Filipinos hope to have a swimming pool one day with out being labeled extravagant? Or is this an excess that we are not entitled to without guilt? Should every Filipino who has ever tried an intoxicant other than alcohol, be publicly humiliated? Does not drug use exist in Australia or Canada as well?

He has threatened to continue his onslaught, until Montano has paid him back. Unfortunately, blackmail and extortion only work if embarrassing information is “withheld” in exchange for money, but Gorrell has already exposed all he knows about Montano, and has already publicly humiliated him. He has also slandered every living or dead human that Montano has ever spoken too, and even those who have absolutely nothing to do with him. Why on earth would he ever pay him back? As a result, Gorrell will continue his slanderous onslaught, and spread his hate like a virus, until the day he dies (no threats, or irony intended). Others have jumped on his band wagon, feeding his hate site, by becoming his supporters, spies, and informants. It is sad to see so many people betray their own people in the name of hatred. There are some people, reporters, writers, and journalists, with hidden agendas, who have profited and made names for themselves, by joining his bandwagon and feeding his hate site, at the expense of other innocent Filipinos. These people betray Filipinos ignorantly and maliciously, under the guise of some delusional self righteous anti drug campaign, to shroud they’re envy or hatred, for some socialite that may have snubbed or insulted them once.

The lowlife Montano will never pay Gorrell back. Gorrell will continue his vile critique on Philippine culture. He is an undesirable visitor, who knows nothing about the Philippines, has no education, and thinks he has the right to judge Filipinos. Gorrell is a self righteous hypocrite, who has lived in the Philippines for only a year, participated in a hedonistic drug and disease infested lifestyle for that year, and now he is trying to portray all Manila “high society” in this manner. Do not let this filthy poodle Gorrell continue to defecate all over the Philippines.

I urge all Filipinos to be proud of who you are, and to hold your ground. Have national pride and stand up against this “cyber hate attack” on the Philippines. Remember, he will not stop the hate until he gets his money back, and Montano will never ever pay him. Well, if hate is the only language he understands, then perhaps Gorrell should taste the full foul flavor of his own malevolent malicious medicine. If the best defense is a good offense, then by all means, offend Gorrell as much as possible, before you see someone that you know and respect, alive or dead, dragged the rough the dirt. If he threatens your society, should you not have the very same right to threaten him, however you see fit? If he insults everyone, all their relatives, and their MOTHERS, should he not be given the same courtesy? Self centered and self obsessed people have very fragile egos. So bombard him daily, his family, his friends, his mother, and his dog, with as much foul insults and hatred as necessary, until he cannot take it anymore, cracks, and stops openly offending Filipinos. To have so many people insult and hate him, must be a terrible feeling. Hopefully he will have the sense to shut his mouth and swallow his own filth.

Obviously, there is no space for morality in Gorrell’s world, unless it complimented with hypocrisy. So feel free to insult him as terribly as possible on a daily basis. If you have a bad day, or have a case of road rage, or just feel like venting a little steam, send him an “anonymous insult”. You might even find it “therapeutic”. It is advisable however, to keep the insults directed at only him, his family, his dogs, and not to make prejudice or derogatory remarks and statements against race, nationality, or sexuality. This will only gain him supporters, and simulate, as well as stimulate, his ignorant behavior.
It is best to maintain ones “anonymity”, for as the great writer Constance Brooke Pendleton has proven, it is a very effective method for insulting, offending, and humiliating people, without exposing oneself. Do not expose yourself, unless you want to see pictures of your family or friends on his hate site, and have them publically insulted and slandered. Maintain anonymity, because, why on earth would you ever want to see your name linked in anyway possible, with such a vile dog as Gorrell? Unless off course, one has a hidden agenda, and is trying to ride on his tail, and make a name for his or herself in order to somehow profit or climb in social status, as some self righteous hypocrites have done.

Innocent people’s reputations, jobs, and lives have been effected by Gorrell’s slander. He has taken advantage of freedom of speech, manipulated it for his own self serving purpose, and hurt innocent people. If innocent people are victimized by such slanderous blogs, eventually laws will have to be enacted to protect the innocent, by limiting freedom of speech. Unfortunately, these laws will encroach on and diminish freedom of speech as we know it. It will be a shame, if a few people profit for their own selfish purposes, by taking advantage of the freedom of speech that we enjoy today, and cause a reduction of the freedom of speech that we will have in the future. Before this happens, perhaps it would be best to “use freedom of speech to protect freedom of speech”, by speaking out to retaliate and isolate Gorrell’s virus of hate, before it spreads and impaires our civil liberties.

An Anonymous Filipino (who does not wear Gucci shoes)
Andrew Sheldon May 26, 2008 11:48 PM: Anon, actually I believe Brian is critical of some high profile Filipinos, and loves others. A great many Filipinos seem to love & support his cause. A few like yourself (lacking self esteem) take his comments personally. When it comes to nations, the Philippines has a shocking reputation for corruption. That has to reflect on the culture that enables it, on the people’s values. I’ve lived in Australia for 33 years and corruption is a pretty rare think – a sub culture in the military or police. In the Philippines, I’ve been here over a year and it happens every time I go to immigration. Even priests engage in it. Apparently the current mark-up for government contracts is 40%. All city offices agree. Its considered necessary. People who think it’s bad can’t keep the smirk off their face. Judges can be bought right up to the Supreme Court. That was how Marcos came to power. Latest stats by Transparency International show that the country is slipping, not improving – ranking 136th I believe. I pause for a moment of national pride. Australia I think was 4th. Don’t worry my standards are so high I actually don’t take pride in my country. Don’t know why you do. Pride is an attribute of individuals, not collectives. Read Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
Gorrell cannot be considered a scammer unless he attempts to derive a benefit beyond the $70K he lost – assuming he genuinely was ripped off. For the same reason its not exhortion. He calls the Philippines ‘cowboy country’ because there is justice here. The police sided with DJ – perhaps some of your old-fashion pride. So did the police dealing with the girl who killed an Englishman in Angeles City. I believe Brian is critical of Manila High Society because he has escaped critical judgement for years despite people knowing he was a coke head.
Yep drug abuse exists in Australia. When drug heads are discovered they lose their jobs. DJ was promoted to the social pages by his coke head GF. Marijuana is socially acceptable. Most people who use can afford it. DJ has no money yet was spending P3000 on lunches. Yes – Brian the idiot – was paying. Though maybe he was probably exaggerating. If Filipinos engage in actions with little thought to the future –would that not be senseless. Filipinos generally live by the day at a huge price for the future of the Philippines. The Philippines has the worst health record in Asia – except perhaps PNG. That’s the middle class – not the poor. Why? So you can aspire to have cancer. Wake up you proud nationalist idiot. If you are not implicated by his comments, why accept any insult. Fearful of having a bad reputation abroad? Looking for a job abroad? Something wrong with life here? The general attitude to Filipinos – sorry to say – is pretty glum. Another proud moment for you. And your response is for Filipinos to make up crap on Gorrell for the sake of your national pride. Son, you are pathetic, and just another example of a corrupt Filipino.
Anonymous May 30, 2008 7:47 AM: Brian Gorrell's blog is alive and well only because of the vicious alliances he has made, not because of his Team Brian loyalists. He pretends to control the language being used in his blog's comments section when in fact, he thrives and enjoys the "little" wars within his loyalists to bring in more readers. Drama. Controversy. Ignorance. He has a few regulars/characters that keep the conflict on-going in the hopes to keep readers coming back for the radical verbal exchanges.

Brian's blog is another brain child of Andrew Sheldon, his fellow Aussie. Andrew Sheldon is a racist against the Filipino people, even if he has a Filipina girlfriend and lives in the Philippines. Andrew Sheldon advises Brian on how to go about his blog and how to make money off it. Andrew Sheldon's presence in Brian's blog is very prominent, posting as PEACH. Brian Gorrell is not as clean, innocent, or pitiful as he wants his readers to believe. In fact, if you think that K. Go, A. Gan, and his alleged Manila Insiders are using Brian, think again because Brian is using them under the tutelage of Andrew Sheldon. Brian Gorrell fanatics should read about King's Crossing in Australia and make Brian come clean with his times in King's Crossing when he was younger. If you remain a Brian Gorrell sympathizer, supporter, or sponsor, you are also supporting Andrew Sheldon and all that he stands for.
Anonymous May 30, 2008 10:06 AM: Is Andrew Sheldon's girlfriend like the other poor Filipinas that need a foreigner boyfriend for money?

Does Andrew Sheldon also like to beat up his girlfriend like other racist foreigners do to their Filipina GF's and wives?

Brian's circle of friends are the sick kind. It's just like the saying-Birds of the same feather they flock together.
Anonymous May 30, 2008 10:06 AM: Is Andrew Sheldon's girlfriend like the other poor Filipinas that need a foreigner boyfriend for money?

Does Andrew Sheldon also like to beat up his girlfriend like other racist foreigners do to their Filipina GF's and wives?

Brian's circle of friends are the sick kind. It's just like the saying-Birds of the same feather they flock together.
Andrew Sheldon May 30, 2008 12:51 PM: Brian has alliances? Well blow my hole. Good for him. Anon you are desperate. Alot of crap assertions.
No evidence. Just smear. Yeh, Brian is a drama queen. He is gay afterall. Thank you for mentioning your contradiction - how could I be racist if I have a relationship with a Filipino. Am I a wife beater. Actually my partner credits me for boosting her self-esteem. No interest in promoting Brian's blog since I see no avenue for him to help the Filipinos end corruption. So my interest is to boost my own blog. Brian knows more about blogging than me, so does my GF. Andrew does not post under pseudonyms...unlike his cowardly smearing protractors.
Oh so you know about Brian's history. Was he a criminal? Please take your evidence to the police. I'm sure Brian would love to do the same if Philippine weren't so easily bought. All you need to do is email NSW Police. More empty smear. If you are interested in what Andrew stands for - read 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand. Brian would hate that book also, as his self esteem is not so good either.
Andrew Sheldon May 30, 2008 1:02 PM: Dont you love the hypocrites who say Brian is wrong for posting comments on other people (besides DJ) yet they will post comments attacking my GF, whom they know nothing of). Sorry to disappoint you, my GF is not a parasite, though you seem comfortable making generalisations, at least I qualify mine. Never beat up my GF,another falsehood. Foreigners are wife beaters are they. Actually I think you will find Filipinos have a much worse track record on alcohol abuse, gambling, cheating, etc. Its embedded in your culture. My neighbours offered me the chance. These sound like the rantings of a lazy arse Filipino with a wife slaving overseas so he can waste his life.
Footnote: I'm not actually a supporter of Brian. More an observer of culture and values. Read reviews of Ayn Rand's books on Amazon, Anon, you could do with a sense of reality. But trust me its too late. Damage done.
Anonymous May 30, 2008 2:51 PM: if you don't believe sheldon's answer go to his blog, and see if he have pictures of him and the gf.

kung mukang chimay, alam mo na ibig sabihin niyan, chimay lover. cheap na racist pa! pwe!

bwaaaaahaaaa!!!
Anonymous May 31, 2008 7:05 AM: Simple lang yan e.

DJ Montano= Brian’s Ex = Chimoy

Brian Gorrell = DJ’s Ex = Chimoy lover

Andrew Sheldon’s GF = posting as Elena Cervantes = Chimay

Andrew Sheldon = posting as Peach = Chimay lover

Losers = Andrew Sheldon + Brian Gorrell

Losers = Chimay or Chimoy loving Australians

Buhay nga naman talaga! Yun lang pow!
Andrew Sheldon May 31, 2008 8:20 AM: Anon, there is something you cannot escape...there is something wrong with the Philippines...something seriously wrong...and you embrace that..take a reality check. Any problem Brian, I or other Australian has must be smaller by comparison. I'm not saying economic prosperity is the only measure of a country, but its important. Thats what you dont take overship of. National pride mate - its your problem. Go deeper, social identity, go deeper, lack of mental efficacy, go deeper, subjective sense of reality. Read The Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. It is a book to divide people as they should be divided, between truth and delusion.
Anonymous May 31, 2008 8:39 AM: Chimay Lover ka pa rin.

Does your chimay este GF make you feel superior because you saved her from poverty? Do you like supporting her entire family? What do they think about your racist attitude against their own kind?

Hypocrite, Racist, Chimay Lover.

Bwahahaaaaaa!!!!
Anonymous May 31, 2008 3:49 PM: oo nga mukhang chimi-a-a.

the link shows a picture of both:

http://how-to-relate.blogspot.com/

she's prolly uneducated too. only an uneducated person will subject herself to be dominated by this racist. basta lang magka-pera kahit na baboy pinapatulan.
Anonymous May 31, 2008 3:49 PM: oo nga mukhang chimi-a-a.

the link shows a picture of both:

http://how-to-relate.blogspot.com/

she's prolly uneducated too. only an uneducated person will subject herself to be dominated by this racist. basta lang magka-pera kahit na baboy pinapatulan.
Anonymous May 31, 2008 7:56 PM: Yeah HSeldon,there is really something wrong with the Philippines and the Filipino people.Filipinos are so smart for the Philippines,while Australians are so fucking ugly and dumb for the world.hahaha!!im sure you're gonna hit me with your standard line of defense : "you have low self esteem" blah....blah....blah....

Actually you and your Gf deserve each other,i have never ever seen a white boy as ugly as you!

if you think violence is imbedded in the filipino culture,think again,you say you are an observer,then i must say you are a dumb observer.totally stupid.you met a dozen of your gf's family and you think all filipinos are like that?hahaha!!!!talking shit about us filipinos but you suck!we're better than you,and that is why you keep on attacking filipinos.you cant accept the fact that we filipinos are so smart and gifted ,we are all over the world because of our talents and expertise,DH included!!hahaha!!!

You came to the philippines thinking you could make money here,but you were surprised weren't you?filipinos are too smart for you.

your not very good with our history neither,so i guess you dont have a clue how beautiful our history is.we are fighters,we kick foreigners' butt till they leave our country with their tails between their legs.

hahahah!!!sheldon,you are no match to us filipinos.stop crying now...
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Andrew Sheldon May 31, 2008 9:58 PM: Well anyway you look at it you are wrong because my GF is Filipino. She thinks I'm waiting my time talking to you. I agree. I'm end it soon. Filipinos work around the work in low-paid jobs that westerners dont want to do. No shame in that. Thats the reality of coming from a poor country with poor values and less credible education system.
I agree with you - I'm ugly. Nothing wrong with my or your sense of perception. But I am tall and stand proud. hehe.
I didnt say violence is embedded in the Philippine culture. Actually I think Filipinos are generally too passive...they stand around on the streets talking, doing nothing all day. Actually my GFs family is exceptional among Filipinos in ways, generic in other ways. Like them very much.
Quote "you cant accept the fact that we filipinos are so smart and gifted ,we are all over the world because of our talents and expertise!". Well among those 'smart ones' why do so many not come back? hehe.
I realised that there are so many business opportunities because Filipinos know nothing about biz. But its understandable. The gatekeepers in govt and constitution suggest it is Filipinos are scared. hehe.
Nope, dont know much about Filipino history. I dare say no other country studies it. But I agree you had your heroes 300 years ago. No modern ones come to mine. The only person I've met of late who seems like a good representative for your country is chairman of Phinma Group. I'm sure there are more.
I think if your are thinking to 'kick butt' you are really living by the wrong paradigm. You'd make a great caveman no doubt, but the new era requires using your brain. Unless you want to join a dying cause like the NPA, you need to start thinking, lest you become a factory worker on P100 a day, or a tricycle driver on P10/ride. Its all crumbs to me. See its like cock fighting...not much pride in it, because there is no efficacy in it. Just cheap thrills. Well not for me.
Anonymous June 1, 2008 5:45 AM: "Actually my GFs family is exceptional among Filipinos in ways, generic in other ways."

> Ya exceptional coz they all serve you hand & foot. Yuck! Chimay lover ka pa rin.

"Like them very much."

> LOL! Does this means that their whole family is easy to provide for because it's cheap living in Pinas? Cheapo! Cheapo & Chimay. Yuck!

"Just cheap thrills. Well not for me."

> LOL! Ya right! Your chimay is your cheap thrill. Coz your chimay GF is cheaper than any other chimay whore you can get in other Asian countries.

Pa-intellectual ka coz no educated Pinay will allow herself to be seen with an ignorant racist fool like you. Whatever the case you're still just a cheap foreigner who prefers uneducated Pinoy chimays. Chimay lover in the trueset sense. Yuck!
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Andrew Sheldon June 1, 2008 9:37 AM: Thank you for proving that you are one of the most pathetic Filipinos I am talking about. Deluded. Your initial argument was that I should not generalise Filipinos (which I dont have a problem in a context).
But your slagging off Filpinos who have relationships with foreigners, with actually no knowledge of them.

Again slagging off at Filpinos. You should get your argument straight. Its a sign of someone who just needs to be right to satisfy his own delusion. Sorry to say my GF supports herself and her family. Very good $US salary too. Very educated too. She thinks Filipino men are pathetic. I told her to keep an open mind, and I'm sure she would if she met a nice guy. The sad fact is a lot of Filipino men what trophies. Not just some Filipinos men mind you, those worse than the old foreigners than come here and get caught up with bar girls, or uneducated factory workers, they are a little better. Hardly the basis for a relationship based on respect. Dont profess to know everything about Filpinos, just go on the evidence. Talking to a call centre owner the other day at a resort. He said 'You can't trust any of them'. I wouldn't say that. I think if they respect you they are not such a problem. But Filipinos are hard to manage, and their productivity suxs. The lack of conceptual/ lateral thinking thinking skills is to be expected, but with 5-20% absenteeism rate, they are high maintenance. Pity! Its the Philippines greatest opportunity for jobs.
Sorry to disappoint you, but GF is one of the best educated Filipinos around. Hehe. Love to tell you her credentials but she didn't buy into this discussion.
Rather than slagging off at the world, why dont you take a look at yourself and your country. It/you could be so much more. I need only look at the way you vent/evade info to see that you are living in the clouds. I pity the Philippines for placing its future on the wimpish shoulders of men/she-men like you. Thats all I'm going to say, wasting my time. I dont think anyone else reads this post anymore.
Anonymous June 1, 2008 11:41 AM: Hey Sheldon,you really have no clue what you are talking about.your ignorance and lack of education is overflowing in this blog.hahahahahaha!!!man!your writting and spelling suck!you're suppose to be a grammar univ graduate?hahahaha!gimme a break.

and please,try to do your research about things you write about so u can stop embarrasing your self.factory workers dont earn 100 pesos a day.nobody does.hahaha!!they earn much more than ordinary office staff,bet you didn't know that.and tricycle fare now range from 20 to 30!!hahahahaha!!If i pay 10 pesos for my tricycle ride,i'll probably get a wicked stare from my driver!BTW,what school did your GF went to?your english sucks!is that your GF typing away!hahahaha!!!your writting style suddenly changed!it's more chaotic!

do you know that our national hero,a filipino,is honored around the world with monuments?bet you didn't know that again!!hahahaha!!!do you know that a lot of multi national corporation like wyeth,IBM and more fortune 500 companies are dominated by Filipino experts who actually come home to the Philippines regularly,and our international yayas,domestic helpers are the best educated in the world?nyahahahaha!!!we have the best truck drivers,best oil explorers,internationally recognized excellent writters,internationally indemand consultants,best everything,even my yaya has excellent logical reasoning skills than you (or who ever is responding to us)i think the only profession filipinos need to improve is on public administration hahaha!!that's why we dont send congressman,president or our senators to work for other countries!!nyhahahahaha!BPO are sprouting every where sheldon,because foreigners loved to work with Filipinos,we are excellent!that guy you had conversation with is probably one of those fly by night call center owner who operates solely on asking for donations from old people abroad!hahahaha!!you have shady friends sheldon.well,birds of the same feathers flock together.have you been to industrial estates?oh you'll love it there!a lot of happy foreign investors you'll find there.so happy working with filipinos.and you cant blame filipinos making tambay on kanto,they have nothing to do,that's why they try to observe,they are an expert on social psychology!!hahaha!!unlike you.so if i were you,try to hang out with those people,you'll learn a lot from them.their education is from the streets.filipinos,poor and ricj,educated or not have the innate ability to rise above all.

sheldon,just stop trying to sound smart,coz you are not.even in the cyber world,i can sense your stupidity and lack of intelligence.so please spare us.you can rant all you want and assure yourself that you are better than us.but at the end of the day,you'll just be dissappointed to see that Filipinos are way way way better than you.and oh! by the way,try getting a real job,coz really,with all the brilliant writters and consultants in the philippines,you'll never make it here in manila.they'll eat you alive(ewwww!!)try australia or canada,maybe they still have a slot for uneducated fools like you.
Andrew Sheldon June 1, 2008 2:08 PM: Such a long rebuttal. Bad English. :) Australians writing in based on British English. I dont edit my posts. We dont learn grammar in Australian schools, its considered a waste of time. I tend to agree, if only because the English language is illogical and ever-changing.
Correct, factory workers get more than I suggested. The assertion however stands. Call centre staff get $US400/mth in Manila, as little as half that in provinces I'm told.
The regulated tricycle rate where I get one is 8c or 15c depending which way you go. No one complains when I give them 10-20c. I'm not going to tell you anything about my GF. You're an idiot, and idiots can be dangerous.
Oh, you mean you have one national hero, and he what existed 200 years ago. Well I can think of a few other heroes. Every country has them. So what's your excuse you FAKE! Stop living on national pride and do something with your life. Yeh alot of Filipinos are employed around the world, they are cheap labour. There is a skills shortage. In a boom 'the tide raises all ships'. Your point is true - Filipino helpers are probably the best educated in the world, thats because no one will recognise a Filipino degree. I knew a Filipino woman in Australia with a double degree, but she worked in a post office sorting mail. My sympathy to her, its kinda sad, though I'm sure she enjoys the comfortable living.
Yep Filipino drivers have to be pretty good, because few roads are as bad as the Philippines and as unregulated. You think the Philippines has the best oil explorers? Joke. The Philippines producers very little oil, so how do you judge that. Nothing to do with the geologists mind you. The most famous Filipino geologist caused the Bre-Ex scandal in Canada, in which he conspired to falsify geological logs to make money from the stock I guess. He jumped out of a helicopter in Borneo. he he. International consultants, so what. I dont know any distinguished writers, but they plagarise well. I've read a number of good, bad and indifferent books published by locals. They do write well, though sadly mostly not very original stuff, mostly for the local market.
Oh, and since we are correcting English "even my yaya has excellent logical reasoning skills than you" - it should be "even my yaya has better english skills than you".
Actually administration or management is not the issue. Its ethics. No sadly, Filipinos are very affable people, though it would generally not be my preference to work with thm. Thats a generalisation, so I keep an open mind, but statistically poor. Call centre workers are 50% cheaper than the USA, its the incentive to employ them. Even still most call centre functions still need to be done in developed countries because Filipinos can't think well conceptually. eg. You wouldn't use a Filipino call centre agent to sell a product. Mind you there is more to the issue, eg. accent, cultural differences. In defence of Filipinos, they are better than Indians.
Foreign investors understand the issues I am talking about. They dont dare raise the issues with Filipinos, they just accept the pain for the reward of low labour cost. Look at the delays with mining projects. Power failures, poor roads. Investors only come here because too much money is going to China. It gets to a point where even the Philippines looks good, but its the Asian laggard. Even Indonesia looks like taking over the Philippines. Maybe Bangladesh next. hehe.
I have not tried to work in the Philippines. Others old me Filipinos are too racist and uneducated to work with. The assumption is that foreigners are gold mines, all Caucasians are Americans. Anyway the money sux.
Andrew Sheldon June 1, 2008 3:24 PM: Anon, I think the whole problem with this debate is that you feel the need to defend the Philippines. Firstly, its not your role or your responsibility. No one appointed you as spokesperson. You said in your last post that I think I am better than Filpinos. Thay was never implied, just you thought you had to defend the Philippines. The issue is whether an idea constitutes fact. Only recently have you started arguing the point. Your smear continues, but you are getting better. Keep it up. I've lost interest in this debate.
Anonymous June 1, 2008 3:25 PM: Hahahaha!!Sheldon!Im really not sure now if your plain stupid or just trying to distort facts.That filipino,was an employee,a geologist who mysteriously disappeared,not sure if he was murdered by the Australian & canadian master minds!hahaha!!you cant set your facts straight stupid australian!

and please,i dont care about my grammar and spelling,i didn't claim to have a degree in grammar!so what,im a filipino,im not required to have good english!hahahha!!try to call up international oil exploring companies,ask them if they have filipinos there.stupid,not only you have illogical reasoning,you are poor in comprehension.i never sai anyhting about oil exploration here in the philippines.i think its really hard to have intelligent conversation with an idiot like you.and please,i dont care about your GF,or chimay or whatever you call that filipina.filipinos are not racist,hahaha!!we just smell idiots a mile away.and haven't you heard or even read about international perception on how racist australians and english people are?ok i guess not.i forgot,you're stupid.

your ignorance is very evident,you try to use the internet sheldon,so you can find out about the many filipinos honored abroad.dont expect me to spoon feed you with information!you're such a lazy bastard!do your research!

and about all the other senseless things you said about filipinos,really,try harder to convince yourself that filipinos are no good,coz i can still hear you grumbling in hatred due to jealousy.Filipinos are world class citizens.excellent in all our chosen fields.try harder.try getting a degree,i mean for real this time,finish the whole course.talk is cheap.hahahaha!!
Anonymous June 1, 2008 5:36 PM: "The issue is whether an idea constitutes fact."

Simple lang yan mga chong:

Issue#1:
Gorrell Ex DJ = Mukhang Chimoy

Fact#1:
DJ does look like a Chimoy

Issue#2:
Sheldon GF = Mukhang Chimay

Fact#2:
Sheldon GF does look like a Chimay

Issue#3:
Sheldon = Racist against Filipinos

Fact#3:
Sheldon IS racist against Filipinos

Issue#4:
Sheldon = loser

Fact#4:
Sheldon IS a loser
Sheldon's GF IS even a bigger loser

So your chimay, este GF supports her family and makes more than you because your lazy and refuse to work. Ah, she f@cks you for free, is that the arrangement?

Issue#5:
Sheldon = lazy and unemployed

Fact#5:
Sheldon = parasite to chimay GF

WOW! Another Aussie parasite living off Filipinos just like Brian Gorrell. Youre so smart and intelligent aren't you. Tsk! Tsk! Tsk!

You see, these issues constitute facts. Simple.

Unemployed Chimay Lovvvvvvverrrr ka pa rin!!!

Bwahahaaaaaaaa!!!
Anonymous June 1, 2008 6:03 PM: Hey MR. Sheldon,dont tell me what to do.If I want to defend Filipinos,that's my choice and I dont need to be appointed by any one else.I am a Filipino,and I can say whatever I want,just like you abuse your freedom to speak,i can take the responsibility of putting stupid people like you in their proper place.

You hate Filipinos because we are so talended and smart,dont you?ahahaha!!dream on!you are no match to us filipinos.go some to some other country,try your luck there.not here.You talk about sense of entitlement,but actually,its foreigners like you who come to the philippines expeting to be treated like some sort of royalty who has the worst sense of entitlement.well get over it!you are a nobody,being a white guy in the philippines doesnt guarantee success,you gotta have brains to make it here in manila man!

I do not smear sheldon,it is you who make distorted claims,just this day,you claim that a filipino was responsible for that gold scam in indonesia,but actually,he was just an employee,a geologist who was feared to be murdered by the australian and canadian master minds of that scam.you are so pathetic.if a philippine univ degree is not recognized abroad,then why do companies hire filipino scientists and executives?you suck!you are a sour racist,the worst kind,you continue to stay in the philippines but you hate filipinos.ewwwww!!

get a job sheldon!
Anonymous June 1, 2008 6:05 PM: Sheldon talking about his GF:

"Yeh alot of Filipinos are employed around the world, they are cheap labour."

Sheldon talking about his lame existence in our country:

"I have not tried to work in the Philippines. Others old me Filipinos are too racist and uneducated to work with. The assumption is that foreigners are gold mines, all Caucasians are Americans. Anyway the money sux."

Hey Sheldon, this is me talking to you:

"Tamad kang hayop ka! Ikaw ang racist. Tingin mo superior ka dahil puti ka. Hindi ka lang tamad, mangmang ka pa. Nakakadiri yang nobya mo, Pinay na pumatol sa Australyanong bayag ang pinaiiral. Baboy!"
(now, tell your GF to translate that for you)
Anonymous June 1, 2008 9:38 PM: This post was probably written by the GF.hahaha!Wow!Some education you got there sweetie!

Hahaha!Anyways,no problem if we filipinos dont speak english good enough for some people,but to pretend you are sheldon is just low.we're not stupid,sheldon has volumes of writtings posted all over the web,so if i were you,you should've atleast adopted his writting style (which is senseless and full of crap ) before you embark on a blab fest with us.

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Andrew Sheldon
May 31, 2008 9:58 PM

Well anyway you look at it you are wrong because my GF is Filipino. She thinks I'm waiting my time talking to you. I agree. I'm end it soon. Filipinos work around the work in low-paid jobs that westerners dont want to do. No shame in that. Thats the reality of coming from a poor country with poor values and less credible education system.
I agree with you - I'm ugly. Nothing wrong with my or your sense of perception. But I am tall and stand proud. hehe.
I didnt say violence is embedded in the Philippine culture. Actually I think Filipinos are generally too passive...they stand around on the streets talking, doing nothing all day. Actually my GFs family is exceptional among Filipinos in ways, generic in other ways. Like them very much.
Quote "you cant accept the fact that we filipinos are so smart and gifted ,we are all over the world because of our talents and expertise!". Well among those 'smart ones' why do so many not come back? hehe.
I realised that there are so many business opportunities because Filipinos know nothing about biz. But its understandable. The gatekeepers in govt and constitution suggest it is Filipinos are scared. hehe.
Nope, dont know much about Filipino history. I dare say no other country studies it. But I agree you had your heroes 300 years ago. No modern ones come to mine. The only person I've met of late who seems like a good representative for your country is chairman of Phinma Group. I'm sure there are more.
I think if your are thinking to 'kick butt' you are really living by the wrong paradigm. You'd make a great caveman no doubt, but the new era requires using your brain. Unless you want to join a dying cause like the NPA, you need to start thinking, lest you become a factory worker on P100 a day, or a tricycle driver on P10/ride. Its all crumbs to me. See its like cock fighting...not much pride in it, because there is no efficacy in it. Just cheap thrills. Well not for me.
marco June 2, 2008 2:03 PM: Hmm... this article does have a lot of filthy posts from perhaps just one person. I see a lot of personal attacks that seem to be inappopriate in the discussion and frankly, off track already.

Anyway, for all other filipinos who seem personally offended by foreigners, try not be very emotional. As filipinos, we are further debasing ourselves and implicating ourselves to be represented by people who talk filth and don't make sense in their arguments.

So I suggest to my fellow filipinos who want to comment on foreigner opinions, please try to be a little bit more profound and not dirty.

Afterall, if we have good sense and good taste, shouldn't we show it? :)

this is for all those angry filipinos...may god bless them...
Anonymous June 3, 2008 7:06 AM: marco
June 2, 2008 2:03 PM

Hmm... this article does have a lot of filthy posts from perhaps just one person. I see a lot of personal attacks that seem to be inappopriate in the discussion and frankly, off track already.

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Yeah Marco, I agree.

Just like Brian's blog has a lot of filthy posts from perhaps one person (duh?). And yes, there are a lot of personal attacks that seem to be inapropriate in the discussion of his problem with DJ Montano, way off track already.

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"So I suggest to my fellow filipinos who want to comment on foreigner opinions, please try to be a little bit more profound and not dirty."

Yeah, why don't you suggest this exact same thing to Brian?

Angry Filipinos? How about angry Foreigners attacking our country and people in their blogs? Why don't you bless them Marco?
marco June 3, 2008 7:18 AM: This post has been removed by the author.
marco June 3, 2008 7:22 AM: Hello, Hmm why should I care what Australians do? If they want to speak dirty so be it. However, if they talk sense and prove a point, we need to argue smartly.
I am only after uplifting Filipino dignity and not letting them stoop to low level. This is what I care about.
Anyway, enough chitchat, I'll go back to work. Let's just focus on working hard :) This way, we would prove to be something!

M.
Anonymous June 3, 2008 9:41 AM: Marco,

Are you saying that Andrew Sheldon talks sense? Or you are defending him? He tries to make a case for himself, but sells it short because his racist POV in his essays already give it away.

Aba hijo, basahin mo mga sinusulat niyan sa blog niya tungkol sa bansa natin. He lives in our country, and is in relationship with a fellow Filipino, yet he writes nothing but hate about our country and our people.

Dignity? Read his writings, see if he makes sense and see what "dignity" he speaks of when it comes to our people and our country. Huwag kang maki-sali sa usapan na hindi mo naiintindihan ang pinagmulan. If you think he makes sense, go to his blog and pay your compliments there, not here. I don't know who the other people are that he had exchanges with, but I understand where they are coming from; and I simply won't dismiss them as Pinoys with "lower level" intellect as you insinuate in your comment. Obvious ba, they are mocking him because of the way he writes about our country. Think Marco. Think.
Anonymous June 5, 2008 6:15 AM: 'sus! meron pa bang nagbabasa nitong kwento na 'to?!? pambalot na lang ng isda 'tong balita niyo, pwede ba!
Anonymous June 5, 2008 8:33 PM: Mr. MArco,

It's good that you get back to doing your job.but remember,yu cannot just tell people what to do.we are all entitled to our own opinions and i hope you'll learn to respect that.

BTW,i hope you feel good about kissing sheldon's ass.hahaha!!!i bet you're his friend or gf's relative maybe?hmmmm....
Anonymous June 6, 2008 10:46 AM: "...Cheapo! Cheapo & Chimay..."

This is funny and clever. LOL!
marco June 6, 2008 11:39 AM: Anonymous (the one scared to show his real identity)...

just wondering, is there joy in calling people chimay and cheapo? is there joy in loathing the misfortune (as you imply) of others?

u call your fellow filipino chimay. what does that make u?

food for thought to improve the mind. let's just be more productive than this.

M.
Anonymous June 6, 2008 6:15 PM: Anonymous
June 6, 2008 10:46 AM

"...Cheapo! Cheapo & Chimay..."

This is funny and clever. LOL!

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Yeah,that one is so low.remember,if u were referring to sheldon's GF,she's filipino.dont be like that naman.no problem if we coud be sarcastic and everything,but to attack someone based on his/her looks,that's too personal na eh.

from annon June 5, 2008 8:33 PM;June 1, 2008 6:03 PM
Anonymous June 9, 2008 4:02 AM: lol! really guys, this thing is just now basura.

stop all the fighting as it's pointless to be putting your hearts into these arguments.
Anonymous June 9, 2008 11:14 AM: Anonymous said...
lol! really guys, this thing is just now basura.

stop all the fighting as it's pointless to be putting your hearts into these arguments.

June 9, 2008 4:02 AM

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thanks for the advice,but i hope you're not losing sleep over our own personal choice of participating in this kind of arguments.
Anonymous June 13, 2008 3:11 AM: Anonymous said...
thanks for the advice,but i hope you're not losing sleep over our own personal choice of participating in this kind of arguments.

June 9, 2008 11:14 AM

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Ah, hindi naman. Why would I?

Like you said, it's your "own personal choice" to stupidly participate in these types of arguments.

Also, "OWN PERSONAL CHOICE" is incorrect.

Either, "OWN CHOICE" or "PERSONAL CHOICE" pero hindi dapat pinagsasama yang mga words na yan. Oxymoronic yang sinusulat mong "own personal choice." Look up oxymoron in the dictionary nang malaman mo at matuto ka.

When a choice is made by a person, it is theirs alone. They own it. Personal choice MO nga e, diba?

Pwera lang if you choose to do things that are NOT your OWN choices. In that case, e bagay ka nga dito sa mga basurang arguments tungkol sa bulok na DJ at bulok na Brian.

Which, in essence, makes you more bulok. LOL!

O siya, hopefully you become more independent and intelligent with your thoughts. This goes for all of you fans ng awayan ng dalawang mag-jowang bading.

Mga kadiri kayo.
Anonymous June 13, 2008 5:47 AM: Ah, hindi naman. Why would I?

Like you said, it's your "own personal choice" to stupidly participate in these types of arguments.

Also, "OWN PERSONAL CHOICE" is incorrect.

Either, "OWN CHOICE" or "PERSONAL CHOICE" pero hindi dapat pinagsasama yang mga words na yan. Oxymoronic yang sinusulat mong "own personal choice." Look up oxymoron in the dictionary nang malaman mo at matuto ka.

When a choice is made by a person, it is theirs alone. They own it. Personal choice MO nga e, diba?

Pwera lang if you choose to do things that are NOT your OWN choices. In that case, e bagay ka nga dito sa mga basurang arguments tungkol sa bulok na DJ at bulok na Brian.

Which, in essence, makes you more bulok. LOL!

O siya, hopefully you become more independent and intelligent with your thoughts. This goes for all of you fans ng awayan ng dalawang mag-jowang bading.

Mga kadiri kayo.
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Ahahaha!!MAy grammar police din pala dito!!Hhahahaa!!

Why do you care so much about my own personal choice and my own personal choice of words to use?that's none of your business hija!

magaling ka pala sa grammar,o hala sya!!mag apply ka na lang bilang teacher or prof nang mag kasilbi ka naman.magtrabaho ka kasi para hindi ka affected sa mga pinagkakaabalahan ng mga taong katulad ko.

cge na!apply na!kawawa naman mga magulang mo tambay ka lang jan sa internet shop wala ka na nga trabaho pa internet ka pa.
Anonymous June 13, 2008 1:46 PM: cge na!apply na!kawawa naman mga magulang mo tambay ka lang jan sa internet shop wala ka na nga trabaho pa internet ka pa.

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E tanga ka pala e. Who said that I'm unemployed? You are making an assumption based on your stupid and simple mind.

You're a pathetic idiot. You can't even qualify your PERSONAL CHOICE to engage in an argument with me. Inulit-ulit mo pa yung oxymoron mo. MORON.

But thanks for proving beyond reasonable doubt that you are an imbecile and nothing but a low-life follower of this basura of a topic.

Pinoy Swindler DJM + Cheap Aussie Ex = Awayan of Two Exes

Where are you in this equation?

Wala.

Kadiri kayong mga usisero! Feel na feel nyo pa na involved kayo sa away ng mag-jowang bading. LOL!

Whatever you say, you're still the stupid one wasting your time on this cheap chismis. Buh-bye loser!
Anonymous June 13, 2008 9:57 PM: Kadiri kayong mga usisero! Feel na feel nyo pa na involved kayo sa away ng mag-jowang bading. LOL!

Whatever you say, you're still the stupid one wasting your time on this cheap chismis. Buh-bye loser!
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Ahahaha!!then what do you call ur self?bakit feeling involved ka rin sa usapan namin dito?bakit affected ka?hahahaha!!usisero ka din eh.nyahahaha!!and please naman,u call us stupid ,then how come u waste your time on us?

hahahaha!!and my gosh!ur choice of words clearly shows the kind of breedig u are,pa turo turo ka pa ng english,e GMRC lang di ka naman papasa.sleep ka na ha?wag ka na maki singit dito dahil pang mga tao lang to.

and please,sa susunod,wag puro grammar lang intindihin mo,kaya ka hindi makahanp ng trabaho e,mahina ka kse sa comprehension,hindi kaya si brian at dj ang pinag dedebatihan ng mga recent posters dito.hahaha!!magaling ka nga umingles,mahina ka naman umintindi,e di ala rin!sha cge!tambay ka na nga lang kung saan man!

marunong nga umingles,ang halay naman ng lumalabas sa bibig mo.yukkk!

wala na ngang breeding,mahina pa umintindi.kawawa ka naman.
Anonymous June 15, 2008 8:06 AM: @6/13/08 9:57 PM:

Whatever you say, you're still the stupid one wasting your time on this cheap chismis. Buh-bye loser!
Anonymous June 15, 2008 10:48 PM: Anonymous said...
@6/13/08 9:57 PM:

Whatever you say, you're still the stupid one wasting your time on this cheap chismis. Buh-bye loser!

June 15, 2008 8:06 AM

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nyehehehe!!how many times are u gonna say babay?

you are not only stupid,but i think you suffer from attention deficit disorder and impulsive-compulsive disorder.

just a word of advise,seek treatment before you go looking for a job ha?good luck!
Anonymous June 19, 2008 7:38 PM: Now that Brians 3-month life-wrecking spree is over,let us figure out what we found out about brian gorrell,shall we....

-he was never an owner,not a parcel of land in that property he fondly calls bethel park.australian public documents have proven that.

-he never owned that swimming pool,anybody can verify with mulumbimby pools (phone number 02 6684 4846 ) and they can attest to that fact.

-he claimed andrew durbidge was his accountant who sent the money to montano,but the truth is,andrew durbridge is far from being an accountant,he is into big scale construction.

-the money he sent to montano was not meant for any business,it did not even come close to 70,000 dollars.he cannot prove anything.

-he took advantage of montano's notoriety and made up stories to get even with montano.he knew people in manila will believe him because montano has previous cases of estafa.

-he cannot enter canada.

-magic 89.9 is not interested with him anymore.

-he manufactures comments on his own blog to make it appear he has tons of supporters.even that suggestion comment for him to put up a donation button was his own anonymous comment.

-lastly,he is not HIV positive.

Brian gorrell is a scammer here and played with rich gay men here,he scammed them also.i should know all this,i worked with him on his blog before but threw me out because he thinks i want his money from blogging.I rest my case.
Anonymous June 26, 2008 4:42 AM: Did you know that Brian Gorrell was a prostitute in Kings Crossing?

Yes, it's true. I just hope he admits it to his readers already.

He got his HIV from doing tricks. He didn't contract the virus from the kind of one night stand he wants people to believe. It was a one night stand where he collected payment on (all in a days work, ewww!).

Once a prostitute, always a prostitute, they say...but since he can't use his body anymore, he now uses his sad story to prostitute himself (thanks to all the Filipino sickers who cotinue to believe his lies).

Brian Gorrell has taken his scamming ways on the internet while he believes that the law cannot catch up with him, YET. Talented, indeed, isn't he?

If the law can't catch up with him now, maybe the enemies he made with his blog will...or maybe AIDS.

Good Luck in Canada Bri!
Andrew Sheldon June 26, 2008 6:59 AM: Did I know Brian was a prostitute? No! Did you know its pathetic to post such crap without evidence. Did you know its common for sexually abused people to stray into sordid sexual relationships, and maybe even prostitution. Isn't there a difference between being abused, and being the abuser in your mind. You have said more about yourself than you realise, though you dont hsve any avidence. For Brian we can have empathy. DJ remains deluded until this day. Prostitution is not a life I would choose for anyone, but at least it hurts nobody. Sex for money is a trade. Not a respectful way to make money, but just look at DJ.
You even say he contracted AIDS from prostitution...oh he's a victim again, of another abuser. Do they say that "Once a prostitute, always a prostitute". Geez, there must be some old hags out there. No I dare say if he has no choice then how can we just him morally since morality pertains to choices. God, you're a flawed human being.
You sadly think perceptions are reality. If you can spread enough turgid lies that 'mud will stick'. With uncritically thinking people maybe it does. I dont think it will matter to anyone that matters. It wont help DJ either. He really has implicated himself.
The law saids Brian has done nothing wrong in Australia. No defamation case to hear. Where is the crime? Talented? No actually Brian is not very smart. But he is 'relatively' honest, unlike DJ. I think the only job DJ can get is attacking Brian with lies.
Some Filipinos need to reevaluate their 'religious' values. Brian is a candidate for empathy, not scorn. DJ is deluded till the end.
Anonymous June 26, 2008 1:51 PM: Andrew Sheldon
June 26, 2008 6:59 AM

Did I know Brian was a prostitute? No! Did you know its pathetic to post such crap without evidence. Did you know its common for sexually abused people to stray into sordid sexual relationships, and maybe even prostitution. Isn't there a difference between being abused, and being the abuser in your mind. You have said more about yourself than you realise, though you dont hsve any avidence. For Brian we can have empathy. DJ remains deluded until this day. Prostitution is not a life I would choose for anyone, but at least it hurts nobody. Sex for money is a trade. Not a respectful way to make money, but just look at DJ.
You even say he contracted AIDS from prostitution...oh he's a victim again, of another abuser. Do they say that "Once a prostitute, always a prostitute". Geez, there must be some old hags out there. No I dare say if he has no choice then how can we just him morally since morality pertains to choices. God, you're a flawed human being.
You sadly think perceptions are reality. If you can spread enough turgid lies that 'mud will stick'. With uncritically thinking people maybe it does. I dont think it will matter to anyone that matters. It wont help DJ either. He really has implicated himself.
The law saids Brian has done nothing wrong in Australia. No defamation case to hear. Where is the crime? Talented? No actually Brian is not very smart. But he is 'relatively' honest, unlike DJ. I think the only job DJ can get is attacking Brian with lies.
Some Filipinos need to reevaluate their 'religious' values. Brian is a candidate for empathy, not scorn. DJ is deluded till the end.

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No. The comment has nothing to do with DJ at all. I don't care about him.

Some people have been stealthily finding out about him, you know? Some people he angered with his blog.

Quite frankly, your response suits Brian's approach more appropriately. Why don't you tell him these things? He's the one who's made false claims, false allegations, and waged attacks on people he doesn't even know (they don't know him either), with no substantial proof! Everybody whom he thinks is associated with DJ Montano is open for assault. Everybody, including a whole race and nation.

You say: "If you can spread enough turgid lies that 'mud will stick'. With uncritically thinking people maybe it does."

I say: Well, isn't this the principle Brian's blog live by? Tell him this, and see what he says. If somebody told me he was a prostitute, contracted HIV doing tricks and I believe it. So what? That's what Brian does in his blog (somebody feeds him lies and believes it and publishes it). I'm just doing what he's doing.

Stop taking his side for a second, will you?

Brian and DJ are two peas in a pod. Why else would they have attracted each other? "Birds of a feather, flock together" right?

Neither one is better than the other. If Brian is honest, then why not come out with it? Tell his suppoters that he used to turn tricks. Stop acting like he's some sort of a hero or even a god who's going to save the Philippines from its problems. He present himself as all good, but he's not. His Team Brian loves him so, maybe they'll accept him for it...or continue abusing him.

That's all they're doing to him, and you know it. There's no amount of honest to goodness caring, love or support when anybody allows or condones somebody to go down the road Brian has gone in the last three months. Blame his mentors Kitty and Andrew, and now even Amiel for giving him unrealistic ideas on how to cope with his tragic experience with DJ.

Yeah, in Australia he has not committed any crime. They can't sue or arrest him there. But that is exactly why Kitty, Andrew, Amiel, and the others are taking advantage of him, to retaliate against their enemies in Manila...and oh, by the way, did you know that other aspiring (wannabe) writers are also using his blog to advance their careers and to go after their competition in the writing world? He's so exposed to law suits already and maybe even physical danger, but he protects them to no end and professes his love for them. You and me know that his blog friends won't come for him when when he needs them the most...he is not very smart, you're right.

It's typical for abused victims to trust quickly when they are showed a little bit of "concern" or acceptance even if it's just for convenience (no sincerety at all). I'd root for him if he stops with the lies, if he stops letting others use him to advance their wicked agendas and if he stops playing god.

Andrew, I don't like you, you're racially prejudiced against my race (my opinion). You don't like me for your own reasons. And that's fine. But please don't chastise me when what you accuse me of, is what Brian does. Stop being all high and mighty already. I don't care about DJ or Celine or their friends. My comment was about Brian only, absolutely no relation to DJ & co. Brian AND DJ are both deluded 'til the end.

Lastly, I'm atheist, so spare me the religious talk.
Anonymous June 26, 2008 10:14 PM: Brravow!!!
Anonymous
June 26, 2008 1:51 PM

I totally agree with your views 100%.

Sooooo!the Sheldon is back i see!!
How many times do we have to ask to spare us with your stupid reasoning,we've had too much from gorrell already!

Now,lets analyze what you,sheldon,have unintelligently pointed out,shall we? ( well not surprised really,you've been bombarding us with your nitwitted views for so long now )

1. Only brian gorrell has the right to make accusasions without the need of proving anything he claims.(amount of money really owed by montano,addiction of so and so,your ownership of bethel park hahaha!actually he doesnt need to prove that one,documents postd by a blogger already proved that )

2.You say there are a lot of pok pok filipinos ( prostitutes ) but if brian was indeed a prostitute,its ok,he is once again the victim.

3.Everybody should be responsible and engage only in safe sex,but if it was brian who was the irresponsible sex hungry gay enagaging in such an act,its ok,he's the victim over again.

4.Spreading malicious and damaging stories about anybody is a crime,whatever country your in.but if its brian,its ok,because he is in autralia and he can get away with it.

hmmmmm...what else,that'll be all for ow.till your next stupid post.

and oh before i forget,does it get real lonely there alone in your blog,that's why once again you pollute this blog with your stupidity?

your turn sheldon,show the whole world how stupid you really are.
Anonymous June 26, 2008 10:20 PM: I wanna walk dow the memory lane....anybody want to join me?....
Anonymous
May 11, 2008 7:14 PM

"Dont blame me for the lowly status of your country. The first step to improving your country's standing is to acknowledge reality. Is that the best argument you can offer - nothing but smear. You're pathetic."

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hahaha!!!you suck not only in expressing your stupid arguments, you also suck big time in comprehension!

Who cares about the status of any country?I dont make my living by sharing stupid views!Saying stupid things is not my bread and butter,unlike you.You say Philippines has a sorry state?then why the fuck are you still there?because no other country will accept your stupid and irrelevant opinions.staying in the Philippines keep your stomach full,that is the country where you get money to buy the food you stuff in your big mouth.Hahahahaha!!you are pathetic!

Nadine,dont even bother having a conversation with this pathetic australian,he ain't worth it.This guy has no brains,only big mouth.No capacity to think what so ever.

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Anonymous
May 11, 2008 8:23 PM

hahahaha!!!FYI sheldon,,tsk...tsk.....tsk....

research!research!research!!

Americans practically built and developed Baguio hahahaha!!

japanese troops just occupied baguio during ww2.hahahaha!!

your opinions suck,your english suck and your facts suck!you suck!hahahaha!!
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Anonymous
May 11, 2008 8:58 PM

hahahaha!!your ignorance and stupidy is clearly showing!
hahahaha!

just stick to writting if i were you,but i dont want to be you,i dont want to be the laughing stock of my colleagues!

built by an american engineer.funded by americans and built by american soldiers and filipinos.

hahahaah!!"japanese workers" working for americans during the 1900's were unheard of,non existent,never happened hahahaha!!or are you trying to re write history?

hahahaha!!!you're funny!
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Anonymous
May 31, 2008 7:56 PM

Yeah HSeldon,there is really something wrong with the Philippines and the Filipino people.Filipinos are so smart for the Philippines,while Australians are so fucking ugly and dumb for the world.hahaha!!im sure you're gonna hit me with your standard line of defense : "you have low self esteem" blah....blah....blah....

Actually you and your Gf deserve each other,i have never ever seen a white boy as ugly as you!

if you think violence is imbedded in the filipino culture,think again,you say you are an observer,then i must say you are a dumb observer.totally stupid.you met a dozen of your gf's family and you think all filipinos are like that?hahaha!!!!talking shit about us filipinos but you suck!we're better than you,and that is why you keep on attacking filipinos.you cant accept the fact that we filipinos are so smart and gifted ,we are all over the world because of our talents and expertise,DH included!!hahaha!!!

You came to the philippines thinking you could make money here,but you were surprised weren't you?filipinos are too smart for you.

your not very good with our history neither,so i guess you dont have a clue how beautiful our history is.we are fighters,we kick foreigners' butt till they leave our country with their tails between their legs.

hahahah!!!sheldon,you are no match to us filipinos.stop crying now...
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Anonymous
June 1, 2008 11:41 AM

Hey Sheldon,you really have no clue what you are talking about.your ignorance and lack of education is overflowing in this blog.hahahahahaha!!!man!your writting and spelling suck!you're suppose to be a grammar univ graduate?hahahaha!gimme a break.

and please,try to do your research about things you write about so u can stop embarrasing your self.factory workers dont earn 100 pesos a day.nobody does.hahaha!!they earn much more than ordinary office staff,bet you didn't know that.and tricycle fare now range from 20 to 30!!hahahahaha!!If i pay 10 pesos for my tricycle ride,i'll probably get a wicked stare from my driver!BTW,what school did your GF went to?your english sucks!is that your GF typing away!hahahaha!!!your writting style suddenly changed!it's more chaotic!

do you know that our national hero,a filipino,is honored around the world with monuments?bet you didn't know that again!!hahahaha!!!do you know that a lot of multi national corporation like wyeth,IBM and more fortune 500 companies are dominated by Filipino experts who actually come home to the Philippines regularly,and our international yayas,domestic helpers are the best educated in the world?nyahahahaha!!!we have the best truck drivers,best oil explorers,internationally recognized excellent writters,internationally indemand consultants,best everything,even my yaya has excellent logical reasoning skills than you (or who ever is responding to us)i think the only profession filipinos need to improve is on public administration hahaha!!that's why we dont send congressman,president or our senators to work for other countries!!nyhahahahaha!BPO are sprouting every where sheldon,because foreigners loved to work with Filipinos,we are excellent!that guy you had conversation with is probably one of those fly by night call center owner who operates solely on asking for donations from old people abroad!hahahaha!!you have shady friends sheldon.well,birds of the same feathers flock together.have you been to industrial estates?oh you'll love it there!a lot of happy foreign investors you'll find there.so happy working with filipinos.and you cant blame filipinos making tambay on kanto,they have nothing to do,that's why they try to observe,they are an expert on social psychology!!hahaha!!unlike you.so if i were you,try to hang out with those people,you'll learn a lot from them.their education is from the streets.filipinos,poor and ricj,educated or not have the innate ability to rise above all.

sheldon,just stop trying to sound smart,coz you are not.even in the cyber world,i can sense your stupidity and lack of intelligence.so please spare us.you can rant all you want and assure yourself that you are better than us.but at the end of the day,you'll just be dissappointed to see that Filipinos are way way way better than you.and oh! by the way,try getting a real job,coz really,with all the brilliant writters and consultants in the philippines,you'll never make it here in manila.they'll eat you alive(ewwww!!)try australia or canada,maybe they still have a slot for uneducated fools like you.
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oh!poor sheldon,be good to your self!
Anonymous June 26, 2008 10:41 PM: WOW ang dami na namang comment ng blog ko! Mga anonymous dyan! sama sama tayoww! nagkalat na naman ang mga bakla BRAVVOOOWWWW.

RA!RA!RA! SISBUMBA!
Andrew Sheldon June 26, 2008 10:54 PM: The International Labor Organization (ILO) survey released in Sept-07 places Philippines labour productivity - the output per person employed – close to the bottom in a regional comparison. In USD terms Philippines labour productivity was $US7,271 per person employed, which compares unfavourably with Singapore ($US47,975), Malaysia ($US22,112); Thailand ($US13,915) and even Indonesia ($US9,022). The Philippines did score higher than statist-economies like Vietnam ($US4,809), Myanmar ($US4,541) and Cambodia ($US2,853). The United States has the highest labour productivity in the world.
Labour productivity in SE Asia has grown far slower than other regions, recording an average annual increase of just 1.6% between 1996 and 2006. By comparison labour productivity in East Asia has doubled in the last 10 years, registering the fastest growth worldwide. A 2006 survey by the Asian Development Bank ranked the Philippines 11th in labour productivity among the 13 selected Asian countries. The Philippines is just a few dollars higher than Cambodia and Vietnam.
Anonymous June 26, 2008 11:00 PM: Asheldon tama na! tumahimik ka na. walang epek sa min yang mga sinasabi mo! kami pa ding mga pinoy ang magwawagi! gay power forever!

in english:

stop it. be quiet. we are not affected by what u say. we will win!

sa mga badeng, call center agents na idle, psedo intellectuals, atheists, low paid employees na employees pa din at walang bahay na galet kay shidlon dont despair - swirtihin din tayo !
Anonymous June 26, 2008 11:22 PM: The setting is a folksy bar off a dusty highway. The scene: a group of guys who have gotten together for a jam session, to sing about ... the wonders of erectile dysfunction medication.

The new commercial for Pfizer Inc.’s Viagra is striking for a few reasons.

For one thing, there are no women in it -- this is a commercial all about guys bonding with other guys over the good times this medication has brought them, not sharing an intimate moment with their female partner. And secondly, some of the guys here strike the viewer as pretty young for erectile dysfunction.
madamot June 26, 2008 11:23 PM: Sociologist Mary Bernstein writes: "For the lesbian and gay movement, then, cultural goals include (but are not limited to) challenging dominant constructions of masculinity and femininity, homophobia, and the primacy of the gendered heterosexual nuclear family (heteronormativity). Political goals include changing laws and policies in order to gain new rights, benefits, and protections from harm."[2] Bernstein emphasizes that activists seek both types of goals in both the civil and political spheres.

As with other social movements, there is also conflict within and between LGBT movements, especially about strategies for change and debates over exactly who comprises the constituency that these movements represent. There is debate over to what extent lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgendered people, intersexed people and others share common interests and a need to work together. Leaders of the lesbian and gay movement of the 1970s, 80s and 90s often attempted to hide masculine lesbians, feminine gay men, transgendered people, and bisexuals from the public eye, creating internal divisions within LGBT communities.[3]

LGBT movements have often adopted a kind of identity politics that sees lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and/or transgender people as a fixed class of people; a minority group or groups. Those using this approach aspire to liberal political goals of freedom and equal opportunity, and aim to join the political mainstream on the same level as other groups in society.[4] In arguing that sexual orientation and gender identity are innate and cannot be consciously changed, attempts to change gay, lesbian and bisexual people into heterosexuals ("conversion therapy") are generally opposed.

However, others within LGBT movements have criticised identity politics as limited and flawed, elements of the queer movement have argued that the categories of gay and lesbian are restrictive, and attempted to deconstruct those categories, which are seen to "reinforce rather than challenge a cultural system that will always mark the nonheterosexual as inferior."[5]
angrypinoy June 26, 2008 11:25 PM: Anti-Filipino Filipinos
moderated - created 03/16/04
We are the most misunderstood people in one of the most pathetic countries in the world. We have been accused of spreading plain teenage angst, colonial mentality and even treason! But what does it take for a Filipino to denounce his or her own race, citizenship or nationality? Well, even Rina Jimenez-David herself of the Philippine Daily Inquirer once suggested us to "declare bunkruptcy, close the Philippines and move somewhere else." Why is it so?
If there is anything that you hate about being a Filipino, whether it is the government, the music industry or the Filipino people themselves, this tricbe is for you... a former mass leader is now giving you the chance to air out the opinions that you simply cannot say anywhere else. Unfortunately, we are here in the Philippines!
madamot June 26, 2008 11:26 PM: An online petition calling for the show’s producers and writers to apologize for the episode’s “discriminatory and hurtful” remark has already gathered more than 12,000 signatures as of this posting (Oct. 8 update: now make that 108,000, wow!). But do all these petitioners really know what the issue is about? Or is it merely a case of not being left behind by the mob?

They said it was offensive to Filipinos, I’m Filipino, therefore, I should be in.

At worst, the remark was a jab at some schools, not just the medical schools, and diploma mills in the country that continue to produce graduates who are not skilled enough for work. Watch the video again. Susan Mayer (Teri Hatcher’s character)’s line was neither a racist comment against Filipino doctors nor against Filipinos in general.

As long as we have a place called Recto where fake diplomas can easily be bought and licensure exam fiascos that undermine the credibility of our professionals, the state of Philippine education will continue to be the butt of jokes.

Hell, even we ourselves do it. Don’t we laugh so hard whenever the latest batch of school-bashing jokes are out?

UST - UP Sana Tayo
DLSU - Di Lumusot Sa UPCAT
ADMU - And Daming Mali sa UPCAT
MAPUA - Meron Akong Panaginip, UP Ako!
FEU - Failed to Enter UP
CEU - Can’t Enter UP
PUP - Parang UP
AdU - Ako’y Di UP
PLM - Pangarap Lang Mag-UP
PNU - Puro Nagsibagsak sa UPCAT
PWU - Puro Wishing UP

How is this different? Because it was delivered by a foreign country? In that case, Indians should complain (hell, yeah, they should file a government protest!) that we continue to call them “Bumbays” (from “Bombay,” the city), and we knowingly use the term derogatorily, not even as a joke.

Had the line been mentioned matter-of-factly in a news or documentary program, our protest would have been valid. But lest we forget, Desperate Housewives is a dramedy — a drama AND a comedy. Everything said there should not be taken seriously. For one, Susan Mayer was definitely in character — insensitive, arrogant, and stupid — when she delivered the line.

Locally, GMA7’s Bubble Gang has, for almost a decade now, continued to poke fun at Diego for being “ugly and gay” and at Mykah for being “baluga or dark-colored.”

Where’s the rage? Is it because those are now accepted as “legitimate” jokes? They sure don’t sound funny to gays, the dark-colored, or the ugly, but why are people not complaining?

It’s time we quit having double standards. It’s also time we improve the quality of education in our schools.

But please, mob, it’s not time to call for another boycott.
Rent June 26, 2008 11:27 PM: Subic Tricare Scam Unleashes Anti-Filipino Tirades
For those new to Subic and wondering why this area (and Clark) are just now beginning to get modern medical facilities, The Associated Press has an interesting update on the worldwide US military medical fraud that was operated out of Subic.

When the AP story was posted on USA Today, readers' made the comments below. The anti-Filipino comments are unfortunate because there were Americans and Filipinos working together to perpetuate this scam, but the ring leaders - the ones who knew how to game the system in a massive way - were American Navy men.

Incalculable damage has been done by these fraudsters, not only to people in the Subic and Clark area (who have spent five plus years without modern medical services), and U.S. military veterans who rely on Tricare, but also for Philippine-American relations.

From readers of USA Today:

* When I worked at Department of Defense setting up appointments for medically retired military personnel, it used to amaze me how many Filipinos would say they were living in Chicago and actually be living in the Philippines. The idiots would call me from the Philippines complaining that the Navy would not pay for their plane tickets! I always called travel claims and gave them the heads up, also would send them the correct address if I could get it. This has been going on for years and years! The Pentagon, DOD and Tricare knows this has been going on and lets it continue. Get the money back from the Philippine government. They knew about it condoned it and probably trained personnel how to cheat because "it's fun". I never trusted the Philippine military personnel! The hardest working and well educated nurses were Filipino.

* Just great. Here I am faithfully paying my Tricare premiums every year (insurance which I have barely even used) only to find out Tricare is allowing it to go to a bunch of thieves. Imagine the fraud when government takes over all the health care insurance.

* Time to start and time to burn them. Wasn't there an article the other day about giving the Philippines our educational benefits? I hope that still isn't going through.

* And some wonder why some people in the USA refuse to pay income taxes....

* "Austin Camacho, a spokesman for the Pentagon's Tricare Management Activity, which runs the program, said the fraud has been hard to prove because of language barriers, a lack of cooperation from providers and limited law enforcement resources. But he said the agency added numerous controls and is making every effort to stop fraud."

Uh, you have language problems in a country were the US had a base for how many years and the locals are pretty fluent in English. And if you know there is a 'lack of cooperation from providers' and 'limited law enforcement resources' then Tricare better have solid internal controls and continually check them. To lose $40 million a year says: No internal controls or they are not being adhered to. Audit time.
Anonymous June 26, 2008 11:31 PM: US-based Filipinos set anti-Arroyo rally over rights abuses

By Maila Ager
INQUIRER.net
First Posted 10:15:00 06/24/2008

WASHINGTON, D.C -- A protest action is set here Wednesday to denounce the alleged human rights abuses by the Arroyo government.

In a statement, Katarungan: Center for Peace, Justice, and Human Rights in the Philippines, a human rights group based here, said a protest action themed “Airing the President’s Dirty Laundry” would be held June 25 in front of the Willard Hotel.

Protesters will be holding a 10-foot puppet of Arroyo, whose arms will serve as clotheslines bearing symbols of some of the President's alleged "most unpopular and not so secret legacies -- extrajudicial killings, rampant corruption, rice shortage, and rising cost of very basic needs."

“We will be fully disclosing to the American public information on how President Arroyo’s policies literally kill, especially since our tax dollars have supported her administration in the form of military and economic aid,” said Katrina Abarcar, coordinator of Katarungan.

“We are just making public knowledge what our government and institutions like the UN already know and are concerned about: That the Philippine military has used dirty tactics like execution, abductions, illegal arrests, just to name a few, to silence government critics," she said.

Abarcar lamented that despite the over 1000 cases of extrajudicial executions and disappearances and credible evidence of military involvement in these cases, there have been zero convictions of military personnel.

Aside from human rights issues, the group will also raise the problem of worsening economic policies as well as the living conditions of the poor majority in the Philippines.

“Our vision of human rights includes basic economic rights like the right to food, shelter, work, and a just wage, just to name a few," Katarungan said.

Unfortunately, instead of working to eradicate poverty, the Arroyo administration has been working to eradicate those fighting poverty to remain in power, the group said.

"The administration has more readily distributed bribes than land to the majority of farmers, who have none. So we understand the rage people are feeling towards the President in the Philippines and feel she better clean up her act or risk getting dumped,” Abarcar said.
Anonymous June 26, 2008 11:32 PM: More Violence in Angeles City
A story about expatriate killings in Angeles City, our now very-close neighbor to the north:

Another Australian found dead in suitcase
Ding Cervantes
The Philippine Star

ANGELES CITY – Has this city become hazardous to tourists?

A few days after an Australian national survived a bullet wound inflicted by holduppers, police here found on Wednesday the body of yet another Australian national in his apartment in Villasol Subdivision here.

PO1 Marian Trinidad of Police Station 4 here identified the latest victim as Keith Joseph Cook, 68, whose body was found in a suitcase at his rented Unit 3 Jessie Magbag Apartment 4-26, California street, Villasol Subdivision in Barangay Anunas, only a few kilometers from the Fields Avenue tourist belt in this city.

She said police probers uncovered Cook’s body on Tuesday after neighbors complained of stench coming from his apartment. The victim’s body has several stab wounds, she said, even as she denied earlier reports that the body was chopped into several pieces.

Last week also, 56-year-old Australian Raymund Kelly survived a gunshot wound inflicted on his face by two holduppers who took off his gold bracelet along Fields Avenue. One of the two motorcycle-riding suspects were identified by Kelly’s companion from the police’s roque gallery but they have remained at large.

Trinidad admitted economic hardships brought about by rising cost of basic needs could be a factor in the recent crimes against tourists in this city.

In the case of Cook, however, three suspects were arrested after a relative of one of them was stricken in conscience and talked to the police.

The suspects were identified as Jay Cris Magtalon, 27, Rose Marie Velasquez, 31, and a 17-year-old boy whose name was not revealed as he is a minor. The three were arrested the other day at their residence at the next unit of Cook’s apartment.

Chief Inspector Luisito Tan, Station 4 deputy police chief, said that the murder was committed during the heavy rains on Saturday.

Tan said they were arrested after one Apple Jenny Dagumdan, 20, a sister of the underaged suspect and stepsister of Magtalon, told the police what she earlier heard from the suspects about the murder.

Dagumdan said she and her boyfriend, Jayson Haman, arrived at the suspects’ apartment for a visit the day before the crime. She said she saw the two male suspects wearing gloves and armed with knives.

She said the two informed her of their plans to kill Cook. She said she and her boyfriend went back to Olongapo City after they were warned to keep mum about the murder plans carried out last Saturday.

Bothered by their conscience, however, Dagumdan and her boyfriend called up the local police from their home in Olongapo on Wednesday to reveal the murder plot. At the time they called, the police had already uncovered Cook’s body after neighbors complained of foul smell. The suspects were arrested on the same day in their next door apartment. – With Ric Sapnu
Anonymous June 26, 2008 11:32 PM: More Violence in Angeles City
A story about expatriate killings in Angeles City, our now very-close neighbor to the north:

Another Australian found dead in suitcase
Ding Cervantes
The Philippine Star

ANGELES CITY – Has this city become hazardous to tourists?

A few days after an Australian national survived a bullet wound inflicted by holduppers, police here found on Wednesday the body of yet another Australian national in his apartment in Villasol Subdivision here.

PO1 Marian Trinidad of Police Station 4 here identified the latest victim as Keith Joseph Cook, 68, whose body was found in a suitcase at his rented Unit 3 Jessie Magbag Apartment 4-26, California street, Villasol Subdivision in Barangay Anunas, only a few kilometers from the Fields Avenue tourist belt in this city.

She said police probers uncovered Cook’s body on Tuesday after neighbors complained of stench coming from his apartment. The victim’s body has several stab wounds, she said, even as she denied earlier reports that the body was chopped into several pieces.

Last week also, 56-year-old Australian Raymund Kelly survived a gunshot wound inflicted on his face by two holduppers who took off his gold bracelet along Fields Avenue. One of the two motorcycle-riding suspects were identified by Kelly’s companion from the police’s roque gallery but they have remained at large.

Trinidad admitted economic hardships brought about by rising cost of basic needs could be a factor in the recent crimes against tourists in this city.

In the case of Cook, however, three suspects were arrested after a relative of one of them was stricken in conscience and talked to the police.

The suspects were identified as Jay Cris Magtalon, 27, Rose Marie Velasquez, 31, and a 17-year-old boy whose name was not revealed as he is a minor. The three were arrested the other day at their residence at the next unit of Cook’s apartment.

Chief Inspector Luisito Tan, Station 4 deputy police chief, said that the murder was committed during the heavy rains on Saturday.

Tan said they were arrested after one Apple Jenny Dagumdan, 20, a sister of the underaged suspect and stepsister of Magtalon, told the police what she earlier heard from the suspects about the murder.

Dagumdan said she and her boyfriend, Jayson Haman, arrived at the suspects’ apartment for a visit the day before the crime. She said she saw the two male suspects wearing gloves and armed with knives.

She said the two informed her of their plans to kill Cook. She said she and her boyfriend went back to Olongapo City after they were warned to keep mum about the murder plans carried out last Saturday.

Bothered by their conscience, however, Dagumdan and her boyfriend called up the local police from their home in Olongapo on Wednesday to reveal the murder plot. At the time they called, the police had already uncovered Cook’s body after neighbors complained of foul smell. The suspects were arrested on the same day in their next door apartment. – With Ric Sapnu
Anonymous June 26, 2008 11:32 PM: More on the Motorcycle Dress Code
From a reader regarding SBMA's attempts to enforce a motorcycle dress code (which, from what we have seen recently in the Freeport, seems to have been abandoned):

I use bikes for my main means of transport. I wear a helmet, gloves, boots, Kevlar-reinforced jeans, bike jacket with armor on elbows, shoulder and back. This is for my 1200cc bike, as well as my 150cc bike.

Let's get the SBMA addressing the real traffic issues and leave the dress code alone. When a person falls off a bike at even slow speeds wearing shorts, tee shirt and sandals, they are going to review their own dress code while the cuts and abrasions heal. But the SBMA should fine them for being stupid if they put their kids on the back of the bike in a school uniform.
Anonymous June 26, 2008 11:33 PM: Are Deaths on the Hanjin Job Site Still News?
Maybe the national newspapers should start running headline stories on fatality-free days at Hanjin: No One Died Today at Subic Hanjin Shipyard!

By our count, this is eight dead by Hanjin industrial accidents (that we know of). It would be interesting to see how many dead welders they have had in the same time period at their shipyard in Korea. Zero, we would guess.

Good reporting by Robert Gonzaga of the Philippine Daily Inquirer:

SBMA: 2 workers killed in accidents at Hanjin shipyard

By Robert Gonzaga
Central Luzon Desk
First Posted 22:13:00 06/17/2008

SUBIC BAY FREEPORT, Philippines -- Two workers at the shipyard of the Korean firm Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction Philippines Inc. died in separate accidents there last week, reports from the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) said on Tuesday.

Reports from the SBMA’s Intelligence and Investigation Office said Oliver Labay, 32, died on June 15 when a one-ton bulkhead (ship wall) for a cargo ship hit and pinned him at about 2 a.m. Sunday.

Labay was employed by KC Tech, a Hanjin contractor, which employed him through its subcontractor, Suschicor.

Another worker, Rafael Careg, died on June 11 after the pickup truck he was riding in was hit by a crane boom truck.
Anonymous June 26, 2008 11:33 PM: More accusations without basis:

You said: "But our point is that SBMA was not pro-active in finding out the best ways to contribute to the nation's energy needs." ---How did you know that they were not pro-active? If a project is feasible and is profitable and there are players, they will invest. As in the case of Ilocos Norte (and even in Negros island). Sure, the government must be pro-active and I am sure that the PGMA government would be willing to accomodate anyone who wants to invest in a wind turbine farm in Subic Bay. Do you know anyone who is willing to invest? If you don't then your solution (alternative) is no solution after all.

You said: "They approved it in secrecy (and to this day are hiding the environmental impact report) and will go back to their mansions in Manila when their contracts are up and leave us with this mess for decades." ---More baseless accusations. Get off your butt and go to the ecology center and get a copy of the EIS. Go to the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) of the DENR. If they don't give you, then tell us (your readers) so together we can slam them bureaucrats. ---Several public hearings were done. Is that approval in secrecy? All towns and provinces have reps in the SBMa board, why did they not tell us about it? You have foreigner representatives in the chamber to represent you, why don't you castigate them? Or maybe, they see the value of the power plant for their own purposes? I'll do it for you. Those officials of the SBFCC who failed to nip this project in the bud, you should resign.

You said: "But it is most definitely not right for coal, at least in the place where the plant will be built: at the mouth of the bay." --- Says who? You? Where is your study of that for Subic Bay?

You Said: "But we residents of Subic have no say in this project. We just live here." --- Yes we did. During the public hearing. Your problem is that you want the project stopped because you want it to be stopped, period. We can still try using the right venue.

Don't get me wrong. I don't like this project. I am not sure though if the cost to the environment will be greater than the benefit it will bring to Subic's industry and people. But we should keep the discussions civil and keep the punched above the belt.
Anonymous June 26, 2008 11:34 PM: Leading the pack are two cutting edge social realist dramas from Manila's fast-rising gay film director Cris Pablo.

Bathhouse starring Jet Alcantara follows the troubled life of a young closeted person coming to terms with his identity and discrimination from society in the depressing rooms of a gay singles bar.

This is followed by the box-office hit Duda/Doubt, the rebel digital work that launched the on-cam acting career of television director Andoy Ranay as Chris, the movie's central character who suffers the gamut of all forms of domestic violence from his exploitive partner.

The maverick original innovator of the Filipino independent film movement Nick Deocampo offers his heartrending documentary, the Sex Warriors and the Samurai.

The cautionary tale of gay Japayukis examines the extreme hardships suffered by urban poor gay entertainers behind the glamorous pretensions of the Japanese labor market.

Deocampo also continues to edify audiences in his award-winning 1984 Super8 Oliver, a gritty expose of the life and issues of a gay bar front act "Spiderman" as he battles poverty and trials in the sex industry.

The Pink Festival also brings educational films for a school tour in Davao City's University belt. Academy award-winning director Debra Chasnoff brings from the American heartland two powerful documentaries that hit intolerance and homophobia among young audiences in her It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School and One Wedding and a Revolution.

From Norway, Kenneth Elvebakk uncovers The Secret Club, an underground society for closeted gay men established in Oslo in 1950 when homosexuality was a criminal offence then.

With humor and a touch of sadness, a group of older homosexual men recall negative reactions from Scandinavian society.

Sagrid Andrea P. Bernardo's whimsical short film Babae, a tale of two women who boldly redefine what family means in a community along the railroad tracks.

A group of students from De La Salle Manila captures the magic and home-cooked charms of deaf gays whose sign language takes wild flights of fancy in their thesis film, When Fingers Talk Pink.

The Pink Festival 2005 is also supported by the Finland Embassy, the Embassy of Canada, the Swiss Embassy, Philippine NGO Support Program (Phansup), Women's Educational Media, Norwegian Film Institute, Aids Society of the Philippines and the Fahrenheit Caf‚ and Fitness Center.
Reyville June 26, 2008 11:35 PM: Manila - The Philippines' health department on Sunday raised alarm over dengue fever in the country, where 108 people have died so far of the disease.

The number of fatalities recorded from January 1 to April 5 was 46 per cent higher than 74 deaths in the same period last year.

Health Secretary Francisco Duque said he has ordered all department personnel to step up the campaign to urge residents to clean up their homes and environment.

'We urge the public to get rid of anything that can become breeding sites for mosquitoes,' he said. 'That is the best way to fight dengue.'

The health department also recorded a total of 9,176 dengue cases from January 1 to April 5, up 34 per cent from the same period last year.

Fifty-three per cent of the patients were males, with the youngest only being one month old and the oldest at 87 years old.

In 2007, 407 people died from dengue in the Philippines, while a total of 43,938 cases were reported.

Dengue, which is contracted through mosquito bites, is an infectious tropical fever causing acute pain in the joints. Symptoms include loss of appetite, general weakness, nausea and vomiting.
Anonymous June 26, 2008 11:36 PM: Plot Synopsis:

Film maker Ryosuke Hashiguchi weaves a story of two young Tokyo hustlers who discover more about their feelings for each other. College student Tatsuro Shimamori (Yoshihiko Hakamada), is a brooding individual who moonlights at a gay bar as a hustler. He never shies away from kinky requests and never fails to please his customers.

Shin (Masashi Endo) is Tatsuro’s young and innocent colleague at the gay bar. He hangs around Tatsuro to pick up his pointers and harbors a crush on him. When shin gets thrown out of his parents’ house, he moves on to live in Tatsuro’s residence.
Anonymous June 26, 2008 11:36 PM: Several hundred gay and lesbian couples were married in California on the first full day of legalized same-sex weddings, a tally of official figures and local media reports showed Wednesday.

In Los Angeles County, where same-sex couples scrambled to tie the knot on Tuesday, a total of 648 marriage certificates were registered. The average daily number of marriages in June is 194, registrar Dean Logan said.

In Orange and San Diego Counties, which account for around three million people, around 300 marriage certificates were granted to homosexual couples, according to local press reports.

Meanwhile in San Francisco, 152 marriage licenses were granted to same-sex couples, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Around 200,000 people are married each year across California, the most populous US state with 37 million inhabitants.

In a landmark decision last month, the California Supreme Court overturned a ban on same-sex marriage, making California only the second US state after Massachusetts to allow gays and lesbians to wed.

Around 51,000 of the 102,000 same-sex couples living in California are expected to marry over the next three years, according to a recent University of California Los Angeles study.

A further 67,500 couples from outside the state are expected to wed in California during the same period.
Anonymous June 26, 2008 11:37 PM: The more that I am away from the Philippines, the more that I am becoming nationalistic. Or am I just being homesick…but then again no - - - you face your future with your past, as one author said, and one of the basic description about my self is that I am a Filipino… With all the bad news about our country and the negative image we have compared to other Asian countries, we often find ourselves being looked down by other nationalities - but then, hello… we should not let ourselves be in that situation - be proud being a Filipino and start building a good image for us and the future generation… I found the following ego boosting information that we learned in elementary and highschool about us and our beloved country. Just a refresher ! Enjoy!

I hope certain American historians and other writers will soon come to their senses. They have been ignoring the contributions of Filipinos to the US and the world, rendering their products fetid.

Oh, Father History, the truth shall prevail. (WARNING: The history section may require you years to read. You are hereby advised to scroll down first to the entertainment/sports section.)

America derived its name from Amerigo Verpucci. {Written Aug 15 99
Philippines was named in honor of Spain’s King Felipe II.{Written Aug 15 99
The Philippines has 850 species of birds, more than do Australia, Japan and other Asian countries. The world’s 2nd largest eagle, with a wingspan of over two meters, is the monkey-eating eagle of Mindanao. Katala, a native Filipino bird, can sing and talk like a human.{Written Aug 15 99

“What’s still most impressive to me about the Philippines is the friendliness of the people, their sense of humor…,” wrote veteran journalist John Griffin of Honolulu in a 1998 visit to the Philippines.{Written Aug 15 99

Distinguished British traveler-writer A. Henry Savage Landor, thrilled upon seeing a Bicol landmark in 1903, wrote: “Mayon is the most beautiful mountain I have ever seen, the world-renowned Fujiyama (Mt. Fuji) of Japan sinking into perfect insignificance by comparison.” Mayon has the world’s most perfect cone.{Written Aug 15 99
Taal, smallest volcano known to man, is in the Philippines…

The smallest monkey ever - tarsius - and smallest deer - Palawan’s pilandut mouse deer - both live in the Philippines. {Written Aug 15 99

Where can we find sinarapan, the world’s smallest commercial fish and the huge whale shark, the world’s largest fish? In Philippine waters. {Written Aug 15 99 The smallest and largest shells are also located in the same country…

The largest natural pearl in existence, found in Palawan by a Muslim diver in 1934, is now in California, USA. {Added Fall 99… Philippine archipelago is reputed to have more scuba diving sites than any other country.

In terms of land area, the Philippines has the world’s two largest cities - Puerto Princesa City in Palawan (254,000 hectares) and Davao City (244,000 hectares). It is home also to the planet’s longest discontinuous coastline, and is the best seat of marine biodiversity. Plus, the longest underground river system accessible to man is in St. Paul National Park, Palawan.{Written Aug 15 99, Revised Fall 99

At 10,057 meters below sea level, the Philippine Deep (Mindanao Trench) is the world’s fourth deepest spot. It contains many hidden mineral energy resources. {Written Aug 15 99, Revised Summer 00… Philippines has the largest deposit of deuterium, fuel from water now used for cars and jet planes in Sweden, Canada, Germany and other countries.

Zambales, Philippines is the biggest source of high quality chrome in the world and Surigao del Norte has Asia’s largest nickel deposit. Surigao’s 600 million tons of marble, if fully-developed, can also make the Philippines the world’s top producer of marble. {Written Aug 15 99, Revised Fall 99… PI is currently the 8th biggest gold producer globally.

Additionally, it ranks No. 1 in the output of pineapple, coconut and hemp products.

If placed end to end, the Ifugao Rice Terraces in Luzon, Philippines would extend 14,000 miles - about ten times more than the Great Wall of China. This engineering marvel was carved out of the harsh Cordillera mountain range by native farmers over 2,000 years ago. UNESCO has listed it as a World Heritage site. {Written Summer 99

On October 17, 1587, the first Filipinos to set foot in North America arrived in Morro Bay, along the central California coast. Their leader was Spanish Captain Pedro de Unamuno. (UCLA’s AMERASIA Journal, Winter 1995-1996)
America’s first Chinese reached Massachusetts in 1847 when they were brought by a missionary for schooling.
Filipinos had their first taste of Mexican chili and corn during the Manila-Acapulco galleon trade of pearls, pottery, silk, spices, wool and silver (1573-1811). In return, the Latinos had their initial taste of tamarind, Manila mango and a luscious Filipino banana called racatan.{Written Aug 15 99, Revised Spring 00… Hawaii’s first mango seedlings were brought from Manila, Philippines between 1800 and 1825 on the brig Kamehameha. Other plants that made their way to Hawaii from the Philippines include saluyot, alokon, calamansi, horseradish, mabolo, pili nut, narra, mangrove and Mindanao eucalyptus trees. {Added Fall 99

The first Asians to live in Mexico were native Filipinos - Pedro Balinguit, Calao, Agustin Manuguit, Pitongatan and Felipe Salonga.

Many Filipino seamen permanently stayed in Acapulco during the galleon trade and married local women. A few Chinese from Manila later followed. {Added May 18 00 Los Angeles, California was co-founded in 1781 by a Filipino named Antonio Miranda Rodriguez, along with 43 Mexicans. {Written Aug 15 99

Among the many Philippine-born enlistees during the American Civil War (1861-1865) were Caystana Baltazar, Antonio Ducastin, Manuel Santos and Leon Zapanta. {Added May 29 00

Barataria Bay settlements in Louisiana were founded by Filipinos from Mexico in 1762. These “Luzon Indios” pioneered America’s dried shrimp industry and also joined Jean Lafitte in fighting the British in the Battle of New Orleans in 1815. Among the recorded settlements were San Malo (destroyed in 1965 by Typhoon Betsy), Manila Village (renamed Jefferson Parish), Bassa Bassa, Bayou Colas, Alombro Canal, Leon Roxas and Camp Dewey. Lafcadio Hearn wrote in the March 31, 1883 issue of the New York-based Harper’s Weekly an account of Filipino-Americans who intermarried with Creoles and local Cajuns.{Written Aug 15 99, Revised Winter 99

According to American historians William and Roberta Mason in the July 1976 Westways Magazine, 20 Visayan sailors were given the sacrament of confirmation in the 1770s in Mission Carmel in what is today Monterey County in California… In the 1996 book “Filipinos in Alaska: 1788-1958″ (Aborigines Press), Thelma Buchholdt wrote that groups of Manila men were brought to Alaska in 1789 via ships commanded by American fur trader Simon Metcalfe and his son Thomas. Most Filipino gold miners in the 1920s also married Alaska’s natives… In 1846, “two men from Manila” applied for Hawaiian citizenship from King Kalakaua.

In 1903, the first batch of 104 young Filipino scholars or pensionados were brought to the US to get an American education and return to serve in the Philippine bureaucracy. Among them were Justice Jose Abad Santos and Dr. Honoria Acosta Sison, the first female Filipino physician… In 1906, about 125,000 Filipinos, mostly Visayans called sakadas, were shipped to Hawaii to work in sugar cane plantations (ratio: 1 woman to 14 men)… Philip VeraCruz, a Filipino, was co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America.{Written Aug 15 99… In California, the most explosive anti-Filipino riot occurred in the Watsonville agricultural area in 1930, set in motion by the Chamber of Commerce, which passed resolutions harassing Filipinos. D. W. Rohrback, who was Northern Monterey County Justice of the Peace, denounced Filipinos as “the most worthless, shiftless, diseased, semi-barbarians that ever came to our shores.” Two Filipinos killed as a result of racism in America include Fermin Tobera in the 1930s and Joseph Ileto in 1999.

The first Filipino saint was Lorenzo Ruiz… The Philippines is predominantly Roman Catholic. It is one of the most populous Third World countries… Most Filipino billionaires in 1996 were Chinese in ancestry. The July 15, 1996 issue of Forbes Magazine listed 9 billionaires: Tan Yu, Jaime Zobel de Ayala (and family), George Ty, Andrew Gotianun, Lucio Tan, John Gokongwei Jr., Henry Sy (& family), Manuel Villar (& family) and Eugenio Lopez (& family).

In Japanese tradition, committing suicide in the face of shame is the ultimate apology or atonement. 32,860 Japanese killed themselves in 1998… Just as Indians consider cows sacred and don’t eat beef, Muslim Filipinos don’t eat pork.

Filipino writer Dr. Jose Rizal could read and write at age 2. He grew up to speak more than 20 languages - 18 of them fluently - including Sanskrit, Latin, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Russian, Japanese, Chinese and Arabic. What were his last words? “Consummatum est!” (It is done!){Written Aug 15 99, Revised Fall 99

The first female president of the Philippines was Corazon Cojuangco Aquino who took oath in 1986 and was named Time Magazine’s “Woman of the Year.” Her maiden name is Chinese.{Written Aug 15 99… In a March 31, 1997 article, The New York Times reported that the CIA manipulated Philippine elections: “(CIA operative Col. Edward Lansdale) essentially ran the successful presidential campaign of Defense Minister Ramon Magsaysay in the Philippines in 1953.”

Who is the personal physician of US Pres. Bill Clinton? Dr. Eleanor Concepcion (aka Connie) Mariano, who is Filipina. She was the youngest captain of the US Navy.{Written Aug 15 99, Revised Fall 99… Many cooks and other workers in the White House are Filipino, including popular steward Bayani Nelvis… In the 1990s, the Brussels-based Monde Selection awarded the world’s most prestigious dessert prize, Palm d’Or, to the Filipino ice cream Magnolia Ube Supreme.

Who’s the Filipina senator popular for her colorful jargon, delivered in mile-a-minute speed and weird Harvard-meets-Ilonggo accent? Atty. Miriam Defensor-Santiago.{Written Aug 15 99

America’s first Filipino governor, Atty. Benjamin Cayetano, was elected in 1994 and re-elected in 1998. His father, Bonifacio Marcos, illegally entered Hawaii by impersonating a cousin (the real Cayetano) from Pangasinan.
In 1985, Irene Natividad became the first Asian to be voted as president of a national political organization in the US - the National Women’s Political Caucus (NWPC). She was also chosen as one of the “100 Most Powerful Women in America” by Ladies Home Journal. Her editorials have appeared in USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and many other publications.

The first Philippine-born general in the US Armed Forces was Edward Soriano.{Written Aug 15 99
The US Army’s Philippine Scouts fought in World War 1… US Army Pvt. Jose B. Nisperos was the first Asian-American to receive the Medal of Honor in 1911, followed by US Navy Fireman 1st Class Telesforo Trinidad in 1915. US Army Sgt. Leroy A. Mendonca also took the award in 1951.

The second world war began when Adolf Hitler and his Nazi German troops attacked Poland on September 1, 1939… On December 8, 1941, Japan bombed the American naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and the American air base in Angeles, Pampanga Philippines… During the notorious Bataan Death March of April 1942, about 11,000 American and 62,000 Filipino soldiers were forced by their Japanese enemies to march 120 kilometers without food, water and medicine from Mariveles, Bataan to Camp O’Donnell in Capas, Tarlac. Approximately 16,000 Filipinos and 1,200 Americans died.

Excluding Filipinos, the US has supported all soldiers from many other countries who fought under the Stars and Stripes during World War 2. Most Filipino veterans, who were US nationals when conscripted into the US Army by Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1941, have been dying without receiving the due honor and GI benefits from the Department of Veteran Affairs… Japanese-Americans who were incarcerated in US concentration camps during WW2 received apology from the US government and $20,000 each in reparations.
World War 2 atrocities committed by the Japanese Army against innocent Filipino civilians include throwing babies in the air and stabbing them with bayonets, capturing and raping women, sticking lit cigars up women’s private parts while they were tied to posts, beheading men kneeling with rosaries, and baling groups of men with wire and throwing gasoline and hand grenades on them.

Few Americans are aware of the Philippine-American War where the atrocities committed by US soldiers dwarf those in the Vietnam War. During the war, Americans massacred Filipino civilians in Balangiga, Samar. On October 23, 1901, Brig. Gen. Jacob Smith ordered a battalion of 300 US marines, under the command of Maj. Littleton W. Waller, to make Samar “a howling wilderness”. “I want no prisoners. I wish you to kill and burn, and the more you kill and burn the better you will please me. I want all persons killed who are capable of bearing arms in actual hostilities against the United States,” declared Smith, setting the minimum age limit at ten. Samar’s population dropped from 312,192 to 257,715. Balangiga church bells were taken to Cheyenne, Wyoming as a war booty… 600 Moro (Spanish term for Muslim) Filipinos were slaughtered in 1906 by US troops. They were trapped in the volcanic crater of Mount Dajo in Jolo, Sulu and fired upon for four days until all were killed - men, women and children. Gen. Leonard Wood was the commanding officer involved. Famous American writer Mark Twain responded in his autobiography: “This is incomparably the greatest victory that was ever achieved by the Christian soldiers of the United States.”
Mark Twain (born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri) didn’t graduate from elementary school.
In 1999, about 50% of active US military personnel categorized as Asian/Pacific Islander were of Filipino extraction, with 60% in the Navy.{Written Aug 15 99, Revised Fall 99… The first Asian-American to become US Army chief of staff in mid-1999 was Hawaii’s Eric Shinseki, a grandson of Japanese immigrants.
Subic Bay Naval Station in Olongapo City, Zambales Philippines was the largest US naval facility outside American soil prior to its vacation in 1992. Together with Clark Air Base in nearby Angeles City Pampanga, it played an ancillary role in the US intervention in Vietnam in the 1960s and early 1970s. During the reign of Ferdinand Marcos, the US pledged loans and economic aids which the Philippine government called US base “rental”. In addition, Americans were allowed to retain Philippine property and exploit the natural resources.
With American military advice and training, the Philippine military once adopted inhuman Vietnam-style tactics in fighting insurgents in Mindanao.
What University of the Philippines fraternity lets its neophytes run in the buff on the Diliman campus? Alpha Phi Omega.{Written Aug 15 99… Asia’s first Greek-letter fraternity was UP’s Upsilon Sigma Phi.
Filipinos established the first banks in Asia, the first universities and colleges, the first newspapers, public health system and other innovations. Founded in 1595 by Spaniards, the University of San Carlos (originally San Ildefonso College) in Cebu City, Philippines is older than Harvard and is the oldest existing university in Asia. The University of Santo Tomas in Manila, established in 1611, is Asia’s second oldest.{Written Aug 15 99, Revised Fall 99… The first weather center in Asia is the Observatory of Manila, founded in 1865. {Written Aug 15 99
At one time, Asia’s longest bridge was the San Juanico Bridge connecting the Philippine islands of Samar and Leyte.
Was Ferdinand Magellan (Fernao de Magalhaes) or Sebastian del Cano the first man to go around the world? Neither. Before Magellan could complete his voyage back to Spain, he was killed in war against the group of Filipino warrior Lapulapu. That honor should have been given to Henry (Enrique de Molucca), the Visayan-speaking slave he bought in the Malacca slave market.{Written Aug 15 99, Revised Fall 99
The first man to scale Mount Everest (>29K feet) solo was Italy’s Reinhold Messner in 1980 at age 36. He was also the first to conquer all of the world’s 14 mountains of over 26¼K feet without resorting to bottled oxygen.{Added Summer 99
The Philippines’ highest peak, Mount Apo in Mindanao is 10,311 feet above sea level… Lanao del Norte’s Maria Cristina Falls is 100 feet higher than North America’s majestic Niagara.
The first inhabitants of the Philippines before Indonesians and Malays immigrated were the Aetas or Negritos… During the Spanish occupation of the Philippines, all Filipinos were subdued except interior mountain and Muslim Filipinos.{Written Aug 15 99
Despite 333 years of Spanish rule, there still are thousands of native, non-Hispanic Filipino names today like Bayani, Cabuhat, Liwayway, Macapagal, Maglaya and Palpallatoc.{Written Aug 15 99
Filipino economist Miguel Cuaderno was the first Asian to act as president of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in 1952. {Added May 18 00… Who was the first Filipino-American to assume a seat in US Congress? Virgiña Rep. Robert Cortez-Scott, a Harvard graduate and ex-Army reservist{Written Aug 15 99, Revised Fall 99… The first Asian-American to become a US Mainland governor in 1996 was Boston University law graduate Gary Locke of Washington, son of a Chinese immigrant and US Army veteran. Twenty-two years earlier, Hawaii elected its first Asian-American governor - George Ariyoshi.
Fe del Mundo of the Philippines was the first Asian to be admitted to Harvard Medical School. (She invented the incubator out of bamboo to stabilize conditions of premature babies.)
The first Asian woman to pass the New York bar examination was Loida Nicolas, an alumna of the University of the Philippines. In the mid-1990s, she headed the European-based multi-billion dollar business TLC Beatrice International Holdings, Inc. Time Magazine’s Thomas McCarroll noted in October 1996: “She is perhaps the only CEO of a multinational company to greet visitors with a hug rather than a handshake.”{Written Aug 15 99, Revised Fall 99
The bureau manager of NBC News Worldwide who won an Emmy Award was Ericson Baculinao.{Written Aug 15 99
The first Asian poet to win recognition in American literary circles was Marcelo de Garcia Concepcion, whose first volume of poems, Azucena, was published in 1925 by G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
The daughter of Filipino immigrants, Creators Syndicate columnist Michelle Malkin bore off America’s Council on Governmental Ethics Laws (COGEL) Outstanding Service Award in 1998 for exposing campaign finance abuses by Washington state Democrats, Republicans and political organizations. {Added Jul 25 00
Who was the first Asian to snatch America’s Pulitzer Prize in journalism? Camiling, Tarlac’s Carlos P. Romulo in 1941. (This Filipino author also was the first Asian to be the president of the UN or United Nations General Assembly.) The first two Filipino-Americans to garner the same award 56 years later were Seattle Times’ Alex Tizon and Byron Acohido, who is part-Korean. Add a Pulitzer in photography won in 1990 by The Oakland Tribune’s Gary Reyes{Written Aug 15 99, Revised Spring 00… Gwendolyn Brooks became the first black writer to win a Pulitzer in 1950… In 1995, the Dagens Nyheter newspaper claimed that the Nobel Prize committee gave its Medicine award in 1986 to Italian researcher Rita Levi Montalcini because of her company Fidia’s $8.4 million lobbying campaign.
In the US, the first Filipina to serve as Newsweek Magazine’s general editor was Tita Dioso Gillespie. {Written Aug 15 99… Veronica Pedrosa was the first Filipina CNN International news anchor… Del Superior Govierno was the first newspaper to be edited by a governor-general and printed in the Philippines in 1811.
In 1948, Thomas Dewey was prematurely declared by the Chicago Tribune night edition as the winner in the presidential election. The final count showed Harry S. Truman defeating him.
What is the world’s 3rd largest English-speaking nation, next to the US and the UK? The Philippines. English is the language of instruction in schools, but Filipino is the national language.{Written Aug 15 99… Richard Pitman, an American linguist, showed in a survey that the Philippines has 55 native languages and 142 dialects, apart from English and Spanish.
The Philippines is the only country in the world with Asian, European, American and Latin/Mexican heritage.{Written Aug 15 99… Dr. H. Otley Beyer, an American anthropologist, reported that the races of Filipinos are 40% Malay, 30% Indonesian, 10% Chinese, 5% Indian (Hindu), 2% Arab and 13% others, including European and American.
Many Filipinos with Mexican blood include the Macabebes and the Lopezes of Pampanga and other provinces of the Philippines… Sepoys (Asian-Indian soldiers) deserted from the British Army during the occupation of Manila from 1762 to 1764. They settled in Taytay and Cainta, Rizal and married Filipinas.
The Tagalog dialect has about 5,000 Spanish loan words; 1,500 Chinese words; 400 Sanskrit words; and >100 Mexican words. Buwisit (Unlucky) is Chinese in origin, asawa (spouse) is Indian, bayabas (guava) is Mexican and bukas (tomorrow) is Arabic.{Written Aug 15 99} The Filipino name Leila is Arabic in origin.
The USA bought the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Guam from Spain in 1898. The bloody Philippine-American Independence War from 1899 to 1902 ensued, killing 4,000 Americans and how many Filipinos? About 16,000 were killed in action and 200,000 civilians died from famine and pestilence. It was the deadliest war against Filipinos. (Philippines lost and was colonized until 1946.){Written Aug 15 99
During the American occupation of the Philippines, the only Filipino general who refused to take the Oath of Allegiance to the US was Artemio Ricarte of Batac, Ilocos Norte.
In 1990, Stanley Karnow won the Pulitzer Prize in history for his book In Our Image: America’s Empire in the Philippines.
Among Asian-Americans in 1990, Chinese-Americans from Taiwan had the highest percentage of home ownership (79%) and Japanese-Americans were the smallest welfare-recipient group. Filipino-Americans had the highest percentage of professional workers (22%) while Korean-Americans were the largest retail group (30%). Almost 50% of Asian-Indians were degree holders… In the late 1990s, a quarter of Hawaii’s population was Japanese; a quarter of Guam’s population was Filipino.
On October 12, 1999, Adnan Nevic, born to refugee parents in Sarajevo, became the world’s 6 billionth child… Louise Brown of Britain became the first test tube baby on July 25, 1978.
The US Commerce Department’s Census Bureau released on September 15, 1999 the annual estimates of the American population from 1990 to 1998. California had almost 4,000,000 Asians/Pacific Islanders and New York had almost a million. Hawaii ranked third (756,597) and Texas was fourth (556,355), followed by New Jersey (452,524) while Wyoming came last (4,023). New Mexico had 40.3% of its residents categorized as Hispanic, the highest among all states and California had 31% (10.1 million). 62.3% of the District of Columbia’s population were African-American and 17.7% (3.2 million) of New York’s were. Native Americans constituted 16.2% of Alaska’s population, 0.9% (308,571) of Californians and 7.9% (263,360) of Oklahomans. Vermont and Maine had the highest rates of white non-Hispanic Americans at >98% each; Hawaii had the lowest (Portuguese included) @ 33.1%.{Added Summer 99
In January 2000, UN estimates placed the number of Chinese nationals being smuggled into the US at 5,000 annually {Added Apr 1 00… The January 26, 1996 LA Times and May 19, 1996 Sacramento Bee reported that Filipinos were the largest Asian-American group in California… Daly City’s population in the late 1990s was more than 25% Filipino; the bulk of Las Vegas, Nevada’s Asian-Americans were Filipinos. It was projected that by the year 2000, the Filipino population in the US would increase to more than 2 million (more than 1 million in California), making Filipinos the largest Asian group in the country.
Josie Natori of New York (born Josephine Cruz in Manila) became the first female vice president of Merrill Lynch in 1975. She co-built with her husband the $50-million international fashion empire The Natori Company.
A remarkable Asian woman who broke barriers in the field of investment was Lilia Calderon Clemente. Also called Wonder Woman of Wall Street, she was named as one of the world’s top 15 money managers by Fortune Magazine. Her sister, Maria Teresa Calderon of Manila, has been the undisputed reading champion of the world. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, she reads at an unequalled 80,000 words per minute… India’s Shakuntala Devi can correctly multiply 13 random numbers times 13 other random numbers in her head in 28 seconds.
The first Asian syndicated cartoonist in the US was Francisco Trinidad Jr. (aka corky). His works appeared in most major publications like Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times and USA Today, as well as foreign periodicals like the Punch of London, Buenos Aires Herald, Paris Herald Tribune, Philippines Daily Journal, Manila Chronicle and Politiken in Sweden. He also created “Zeus!”, the daily and Sunday comic strip distributed internationally by Murdoch Features and the Register-Tribune Syndicate.{Written Aug 15 99, Revised Fall 99…The first minority winner of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC) Ink Bottle Pin was Daniel D’Umuk Aguila (aka eldani), an alumnus of the University of the Philippines. His “Watergate” created a furor at the Parthenon Hall and was in a book banned in Moscow.
Alongside American artists Maurice Sterne and Rockwel Kent, Venancio Igarta’s work was published by Fortune Magazine in 1942. He became the first Filipino to exhibit at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art two years earlier.
In Spain’s 1884 Exposicion Nacional de Bellas Artes (National Exposition of Fine Arts), the painting “Spolarium” (Roman ampitheater’s portion where slain gladiators were taken) won the first gold medal for Juan Luna of Badoc, Ilocos Norte. Catch his work hanging at the Madrid Senate even today. {Added Summer 99
Did you know that Venus de Milo was a plumber? Also, Leonardo da Vinci and Michaelangelo were lefties. {Added Summer 99
In the Philippines, Filipinos were introduced to the English language in 1762 by British invaders, not Americans.{Written Aug 15 99
Manila town, now a metropolis, was built in 1572. It is older and more famous than the first US town, Jamestown, founded in 1607.{Written Aug 15 99… USA has about 10 towns named Manila - including those in Arkansas and Utah… Cebu is the first Philippine city… In what Philippine province could we find the town of Sexmoan? Pampanga. It had since been corrected to Sasmuan… US has towns Climax in Colorado and Why in Arizona.
The Philippines is one of the world’s richest countries in terms of biological diversity - varied flora, fauna and living organisms that form terrestial, wetland and marine ecosystems. In fact, its tropical rainforest is the most species-rich ecosystem on Earth… With a land area of 300,439 sq. km., Philippines is slightly larger than Italy and smaller than Japan. {Added Summer 99

Financially, the world’s wealthiest nation is the USA. Not! Switzerland. Si, señorito/señorita. {Written Aug 15 99
Anonymous June 26, 2008 11:38 PM: She's definitely right. I do believe we could help each others by not bragging ourselves way downto toher race...Kung ikaw na nagpupuna at walang ginagawa upang puksain ang problema, better shut up and do your own business...Why not patronize your own root to others...That way, we and our country in small ways could be highly commendable to foreigners. There's too much discrimination right now especially on recruiting pinays to work abroad. Trash that double standard sh~t and work hard for Filipino's sake.

PEACE OUT!

proud to be working-mom pinay
Anonymous June 26, 2008 11:39 PM: hay naku,sa daming matalinong tao sa pilipinas kaya hindi umunlad.kasi nga ang pagiging pakialamira ang pinagkaabalahan.pang sscam,enstead of working hard to uplift the standard of living..ay ewan ko,wala akong masabi dito.desperada na talaga ang mga pilipino,gawin lahat magkapera lang or gusto lang easy money.well buhay nila yan,kung sina mang gumawa nang mmasama,they will surely pay for it.pretty sure their soul is now swimming(lake of fire).pero kung sino man ang manghusga ay ganon parin ang kabayaran.kaya"let's mind our own business and suffer in silence from the mistake of others".alam naman natin na it was already known by the law enforcers,prostitute is the first business on earth,everywhere.alam yan nang lahat(most),kaso lang ,p__L__s sa atin mahina pag wlang datung(no offence meant)hope not all!kun mayaman(mapera ang owner na internet cafe,they can do whatever they want as long as the (datung) is on time.remember the cycle "no business if has no demands" "no producer if has no consumer"....this is life,,,,,dont try to figure it out,it will drive you crazy! have a good day!
Anonymous June 26, 2008 11:39 PM: i will tell you my sad experience about the topic. i am a pinay i am here in the us married to an american we have a 21 month old baby boy and a 4 month old baby daughter. i came here last 2004. last year aug my husband started chatting online with several pinays whom he met on webcam chats that you need to pay for to get them to see naked. he sent them money, they treated eachother as bf and gf. we have a lot of loud and extreme arguments because of these. on dec, he said he wanted to go the phils last march (which we do all yearly) but i told him since the baby is still young about 1 month it will be too soon maybe we should make it on aug i said. he didnt like it i even said maybe may (baby 3mos). he doesnt want to. i also thought that he wanted to meet up with them. so i ended up hiding the passports. but he did applied for one last april and was able to go there alone i tried to go with him but he said he doesnt have money anymore. so he went there last may, and met up with several of them (so he said) before he left he said he wont meet up with them. there was this pinay that he also met and they used to talk about sex. my aunt-in-law even chatted with her and called her a wh*r^ and sl~t but she said as long as my husband loves her and will leave me for her, she doesnt care. he just came back days ago and he still cannot stop chatting and i know that he slept with this girl and stayed with her in the hotel during the vacation. while meeting up with some of them, she knows he's going to meet up with them. yesterday, i found a vhs-c tape (videocam) that was taken in the hotel with them having sex. believe me, no one deserves to be treated that way no one. i already expected that pero the fact that i saw it its like a formality. we have problems compatibility problems he said that made him do the things that he did like chatting etc.. but now, all im thinking is my visa which will expire on aug. or else i might get deported. yun na lang ang iniisip ko because i dont want to leave the u.s. and leave my babies behind. i know that he doesn't deserve to be loved. i am not perfect he is not perfect no one's perfect. but there are no excuses that can justify what he did. now, he said he doesn't want to hide things from me and he will chat at home. he said he will not leave me for them. if he does, it's because of us not because of them. he cannot fool me, i am stup~d enough for staying with him inspite of everything. a guy in general, will not leave his wife or gf without any replacement. they think that other person is always better because of the other person, they stop or even try to work the marriage or relationship out. they always think it's greener on the other side. well that's what i am going through right now and masakit because my family is in the phils. i had a good job in the phils before, i worked in a top broadcasting company before in computers. and this is all i got for marrying him. i dont regret marrying him because i have my babies but i regret what had happened to us and regret that i believed him, he's true colors came out and its not good. he's selfish. men who cannot be content with one woman is insecure and needed somebody else to make him feel good. but i guess most men are like that. just pray for me kababayan and i know that i will get through this i know that there is a rainbow after the storm.
Anonymous June 26, 2008 11:40 PM: GABY214,

I AM SO SORRY TO HEAR YOUR TROUBLE. I HOPE IT WOULD PASS BUT FOR THE MEANTIME, AS READING YOUR STORY, YOU HAVE A 21 MONTH OLD BABY BOY AND A 4 MONTH OLD BABY GIRL. IT SEEMS THAT YOU WERE PREGNANT WITH YOUR SECOND ONE WHILE THE FIRST BORN WAS JUST 8 MONTHS OLD MEANING, 2 PREGNANCIES WITH IN A YEAR.

AS PREGNANCIES PUT STRAIN IN YOUR MARRIAGE DUE TO MOOD SWING AND OTHER PROBLEMS THAT MIGHT BE ASSOCIATED WITH IT, FOR HAVING A BABY AFTER A BABY COULD MEAN A POSSIBILITY FOR A MARRIAGE ON THE ROCK.

YOUR ATTENTION PROBABLY USED TO BE JUST FOR
YOUR SPOUSE BUT THINGS CHANGED SINCE YOUR FIRST CONCEPTION. YOUR HUSBAND FELT LIKE AN OUTCAST IN HIS OWN HOUSE NOT GETTING ENOUGH ATTENTIONS THAT HE NEED PHYSICALLY,MENTALLY,SEXUALLY,ETC.

IF HE IS A FIRST TIME PARENT,HE NEVER KNEW HOW TO HANDLE THE SITUATION OF BEING A FATHER AS HE FELT LIKE A BABY HISSELF AND YOU ARE LIKE A MAMA TO HIM.

THERE ARE A LOT OF MEN WHO AREN'T LIKE THAT BUT YOUR HUSBAND SOUNDS LIKE AN IMMATURE MAN WHO WORSEN THE SITUATION BY ADDING UP MORE PROBLEM ON TOP OF ANOTHER.

HAVE YOU AND YOUR HUSBAND EVER DISCUSS YOUR PROBLEMS WITH OUT YELLING AT ALL? NO PROBLEM WILL GET RESOLVE BETWEEN ANGER. THE BEST WAY TO TALK ABOUT MARITAL PROBLEM IS TO HIRE A BABY SITTER OR TAKE YOUR CHILDREN TO YOUR IN-LAWS THEN YOU AND YOUR SPOUSE CAN UNPLUG BY GOING OUT JUST YOU AND HIM LIKE YOU USED TO DO.

GO ANYWHERE AND HAVE FUN JUST LIKE BEFORE YOU HAVE CHILDREN. WHEN BOTH OF YOU ARE CALM ENOUGH THEN TRY TO TALK ABOUT WHAT'S EATING UP YOUR MARRIAGE THAT CAUSES BOTH OF YOU THESE INSANITY.

HOPE IT WILL WORK OUT,IF NOT...

NO ONE IS SURE OF WHAT'S GOING ON IN YOUR HUSBAND'S MIND BUT HE SEEMS SERIOUS ON THESE WHORES ONLINE THAT HE HAVE TO SPEND HIS LITTLE MONEY JUST TO MEET THEM IN PERSON.

DON'T BE SURPRISED IF HE DIVORCE YOU ONEDAY BUT TO BE PREPARED, SINCE YOU CAUGHT HIS UNFAITHFULNESS,ALL YOU CAN DO IS TO MAKE A COPY OF THE VIDEO SHOWING HIS ACTUAL ACTIONS OF INFIDELITY.

ALSO PRINT OUT ANY E-MAILS OR PICTURES THAT YOU CAN FIND IN HIS COMPUTER AS ADDITIONAL PROOFS AGAINST HIM.

MAKE COPIES OF EVERY TICKETS,PASSPORT,OR POSTAL,ETC. THAT HE USED TO DO THESE UNFAITHFULNESS. THESE ARE VERY ESSENTIAL FOR YOU TO WIN THE CASE SHOULD DIVORCE TO HAPPEN BETWEEN YOU AND HIM.

THOSE DATAS AND PROOFS WILL MAKE YOU WIN EVERYTHING THAT BELONGS TO BOTH OF YOU AFTER YOUR MARRIAGE INCLUDING YOUR CHILDREN.

ABOUT YOUR VISA, IF YOU ARE MARRIED TO THIS MAN AND YOU'VE BEEN HERE SINCE 2004,YOU SHOULD HAVE A GREEN CARD ALREADY. IF NOT,WHY NOT APPLY FOR IT? GREEN CARD LAST FOR 10 YEARS BEFORE IT EXPIRE AND IT IS RENEWABLE IF YOU DECIDE NOT TO BE A US CITIZEN WHICH I DOUBT YOU WOULD TURN DOWN.

SINCE YOU ARE MARRIED TO AN AMERICAN, YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO APPLY FOR CITIZENSHIP THIS YEAR.
CHECK ON YOUR INS OR BROWSE THIS SITE FOR UPDATE:

http://www.uscis.gov

YOU CAN FIND A PHONE NUMBER THERE TO CONTACT THE PROPER INS CUSTOMER SERVICE TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION. IF IT DON'T HELP AND YOU KNOW THE ADDRESS OF YOUR LOCAL CONGRESS, SEND A LETTER OR MAKE AN APPOINTMENT TO SEEK ADVISE AND TO DISCUSS YOUR SITUATION ON HOW TO GAIN YOUR US CITIZENSHIP. BRING EVERY PAPER WORKS AND PROOFS TO STRENGHTEN YOUR CASE.

WITH PROPER DOCUMENTATION, I DON'T SEE A REASON THAT YOU WILL GET DEPORTED ESPECIALLY THAT YOUR CHILDREN ARE AMERICAN CITIZENS. ALL YOU CAN DO IS TO CHECK ON YOUR LOCAL IMMIGRATION OF WHAT TO DO AND HOW TO APPLY FOR CITIZENSHIP WHILE STILL MARRIED TO THIS MAN.

THIS LAST ONES ARE COMMON SENSE BUT AN ADDITIONAL ADVISE WON'T HARM. YOU DON'T HAVE TO TELL IT TO YOUR HUSBAND AS WHAT IT IS,JUST MAKE IT MORE REASONABLE WITHOUT OFFENDING HIM JUST IN CASE HE IS NOT USING IT.

SINCE YOU ALREADY HAVE 2 CHILDREN AND YOUR MARRIAGE IS UP AND DOWN,AND,YOU HAVE AN UNFAITHFUL HUSBAND WHO ARE HAVING SEX WITH FILTHY WOMEN ON TOP OF THAT, YOU MAY WANT HIM
TO USE PROTECTION IF HE EVER MAKE LOVE WITH YOU.

THESE SERVES 2 PURPOSES:

FIRSTLY: NOT TO HAVE MORE CHILDREN AS YOU BARELY HANDLE WHAT YOU GOT RIGHT NOW. INSTEAD OF POPPING BABIES, MAKE A PLAN ON HOW TO GET A JOB TO SUPPORT YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN IF YOUR HUSBAND
HAVE TO LEAVE YOU FOR A TRAMP.

SECONDLY AND THE MOST IMPORTANT PART FOR CONDOM USAGE: TO AVOID CONTRACTING A POSSIBLE SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES FROM YOUR SPOUSE!
Anonymous June 26, 2008 11:41 PM: UPDATE: The Warrior Lawyer has some insight on the legalities of the issue at hand.

Shocking news yesterday, as Mark Verzo, the guy behind the infamous Boy Bastos series of websites was apprehended by authorities under the charge of potential human trafficking (i.e. prostitution).

In a statement, Verzo said:

“Hindi pa po ito katapusan ng boy bastos. Hanggang walang batas na nagsasabi kung ano ang pwede at hindi pwede gawin, buhay na buhay po ang ating munting site (This isn’t the end for us. So long as there is no law that says what can and cannot be done, our little site will still be alive),” he added.

Ang boy bastos ay simbulo ng lalakeng Pilipino. Tayong lahat ay mga boy bastos. Ang mga boy bastos ay hindi mamamatay tao, hindi rin nagbebenta ng bawal na gamot, pawang malilibog na tao lamang … sino ba ang hindi (Boy bastos is a symbol of the Filipino male. We are all boy bastos. But we are not killers or drug pushers. We are just sex addicts. Who isn’t)?” he said. [GMA News]

I’ve met Mark once before as he did a short consulting project with the company I used to work for. Nope, he’s not a drug trafficker or serial killer. All he did was place advertising onto his site which are the source of the “links that can lead to escort services or prostitution.” If this were the case, then any blog or website that displays “sexy ads” - even by accident
Anonymous June 26, 2008 11:41 PM: UPDATE: The Warrior Lawyer has some insight on the legalities of the issue at hand.

Shocking news yesterday, as Mark Verzo, the guy behind the infamous Boy Bastos series of websites was apprehended by authorities under the charge of potential human trafficking (i.e. prostitution).

In a statement, Verzo said:

“Hindi pa po ito katapusan ng boy bastos. Hanggang walang batas na nagsasabi kung ano ang pwede at hindi pwede gawin, buhay na buhay po ang ating munting site (This isn’t the end for us. So long as there is no law that says what can and cannot be done, our little site will still be alive),” he added.

Ang boy bastos ay simbulo ng lalakeng Pilipino. Tayong lahat ay mga boy bastos. Ang mga boy bastos ay hindi mamamatay tao, hindi rin nagbebenta ng bawal na gamot, pawang malilibog na tao lamang … sino ba ang hindi (Boy bastos is a symbol of the Filipino male. We are all boy bastos. But we are not killers or drug pushers. We are just sex addicts. Who isn’t)?” he said. [GMA News]

I’ve met Mark once before as he did a short consulting project with the company I used to work for. Nope, he’s not a drug trafficker or serial killer. All he did was place advertising onto his site which are the source of the “links that can lead to escort services or prostitution.” If this were the case, then any blog or website that displays “sexy ads” - even by accident
Anonymous June 26, 2008 11:42 PM: Last week a 5 segment series aired on Costa Rican TV about the poverty in the Philippines titled the "Darkest side of Asia". Here is the link: http://www.teletica.com/archivo/tn7/nac/es...l/filipinas.htm . It portrayed the Philippines as a dog eating country http://www.diarioextra.com/2006/junio/24/espectaculos01.php with "eduaction as a privelege for the few" and said that the number one cause of death in the PI is for "lack of food" and that life expectancy is at 60 years old (67.5 is what is really is). Most of the documentary was filmed in Tondo or other very very poor areas. The reporter obviously recurred to exxagerations and outright lies in order to make the story more interesting and to gain more ratings point. The problem is the 500+ filipinos living in Costa Rica will be affected by this false report in more ways than one. I wanted to ask each and every one my kababayans to please do something about this. The reporter can be reached at wcruz@teletica.com so you can let her know what you think. Other venues of complaint would be at correo@ccnenespanol.com as she does some work for CNN in spanish. Also the colegio de periodistas in Costa Rica would be a great venue to vent our complains. Here's the e-mail address: isanchez@colper.or.cr . Nakakahiya sa lahi natin yung ginawa nung pukingina na babaeng yun sa lahi natin. Discrimination at it's worst form. Please help any way you can para matulungan natin ang ating mga kababayan sa Costa Rica. Mabuhay ang Pilipino!!!
Anonymous June 26, 2008 11:42 PM: Here is a copy of a letter that a kabayan residing in Costa rica is thinking of sending to an english language newspaper also in Costa Rica:

"From Jun 27-30th, Teletica launched a weeklong 10 minute segment depicting the reports of their very own Wendy Cruz regarding her trip to the Philippines to exploit the poverty issue of that country. A prelude to this was an article by Ariel Chaves Gonzales in EXTRA in which paved the way for mixed sentiments of concerns and outrage among the Filipino Community residing in Costa Rica and other Costa Ricans in regards to the report of Wendy Cruz.

The overall concern among Filipinos living in Costa Rica is the lasting impressions portrayed by both the article and the television reports. To many, these reports provided a damaging first impression and, in due time, this will eventually lead to a discriminative/stereotypical image of the Filipinos among those of the receiving end of those mediums.
The article by Chavez titled “WENDY CRUZ EN LOS BARRIOS MAS POBRES DE LAS FILIPINAS ‘ANDUVE ENTRE CLOACAS’” contains questions (by Chaves) and answers (by Wendy) that are unrelated to those of the projected intent of the documentary of the poverty in the Philippines. Both questions and replies are critiqued as mere ways to sensationalize the article, which in turn, carelessly provided a detrimental image of the Filipinos. Because of their negligence about the consequences of what they said, the issue rippled into a marred impression of Filipinos among of those who read the article.
Per the article, Cruz commented that Filipinos are “dog-eaters.” Not all Filipinos eat dogs, a vast majority actually do not, and find this comment offensive. She continued on with her generalization that even the already dead dogs were sought after for their meat, and that was an absolute brutal comment.
Furthermore, Cruz goes on criticizing the quality of the food given to her by those of the poor class. She found the food awful, even if the food that was hard to come by was given to her through kindness.
Later on the article, Chaves, out of the blue, asked if Cruz was able to watch the World Cup in the Philippines, and also, if she saw some hermaphrodites during her stay. These two questions are obviously irrelevant and are intended to sensationalize the article. Both also created a pretense of ridicule and prejudice towards Filipinos. These questions are absolutely are fit for a low end newspaper.

For an entire week, Teletica exhibited Wendy Cruz’s documentary with approximately ten minute segments on the Midday news, and then they re-air the segment for the evening news. The documentary is called “El lado Oscuro de Asia,” (roughly translated “The Dark Side of Asia.”) This title singles out Philippines as a country of bleakness. The word “oscuro” or “dark” gives the title a limitless room for misinterpretation. One of them is that it separates the Philippines among other Asian, as of something to be ashamed of.
Filipinos are not the only ones who had showed discontentment with Cruz’s documentary. Plenty of recipients voiced out their protest and disapproval as seen on this website http://aldia.co.cr/ad_ee/2006/junio/29/farandula2.html, a forum related to the column in Al Dia by Isaac Lobo, “En la boca del lobo.” The majority of the comments showed harsh criticism towards Cruz’s documentary. A common theme among the comments is the unnecessary and wasteful (money-wise) trip to exploit the poverty in the Philippines. Many were displeased with Cruz’s need to go on an expensive trip to see poverty, and that the issue of poverty is evidently present in Costa Rica, and could have been documented here instead. The cost of Cruz’s documentary could have been spent better through funds against poverty than of those of sensationalism. Also, most have seen through the “shock-value” of the footages and saw the true nature of the documentary: a means to earn ratings.

The cultural Filipino-Costa Rican relationship could have been jeopardized by both the article and the documentary. Even though the Filipino community in Costa Rica is quite small, the impact of their presence is quite unmistakable. Companies such as Intel, Marriott Hotels, People Support, and Hewlett-Packard, all had imported Filipinos in Costa Rica to start or to accommodate Costa Rican needs to run such companies on their own. For most of these companies, many Costa Ricans had been sent to the Philippines either for training or to facilitate company processes, and none of them had any severe criticism towards Filipinos and the Philippines, and many had found their experience during their stay quite enjoyable.

This paper is created under the supposition to voice out the response of the Filipino community in Costa Rica against the damages caused by both the article by Ariel Chaves and the documentary by Wendy Cruz. The Filipinos did not wish to be typecast into a pitiful “shady” nation in Asia, but if ever we had the choice to choose onto how we were to be represented, we chose to be seen as a resilient race, as could be seen in the Filipino’s ability to adapt into various roles in various countries. Many lives were touched in some ways by Filipinos. We have adapted in many cultures to be doctors, nurses, lawyers, caregivers, housekeepers, actors, movie stars, inventors, and so on. The list grows everyday.
We, the Filipinos, understand the hardship of breaking-in into a culture to enjoy and to learn from it. Stereotyping and bad first impressions makes the task even harder. We wish to continue to appreciate the culture here in Costa Rica, and also, to prolong and preserve our current amiable relationship. "

renato- 07-07-2006
Here is part of the e-mail that I wrote to Wendy Cruz, the reporter doing the report: Just go to http://babelfish.altavista.com/ to translate (albeit loosely) my e-mail to that puking inang reporter. Here it is:

"Estuvo muy claro en su reportaje que Filipinas es un pais MUY POBRE. De eso estamos de acuerdo. Los puntos que me inquetan son los siguientes:

1 "El lado oscuro de Asia" - Quisiera saber adonde saco usted ese titulo? Que hizo Filipinas para ser "el lado mas oscuro de Asia"? Yo no se en cuantos paises Asiaticas ha ido usted pero es conocimiento de todo el mundo que Sri Lanka, Maldives, Indonesia, India, Papau New Guinea, Vietnam (solo para nombrar algunos) son paises que son aun MAS pobres que Filipinas. O por lo menos pense que todos sabian eso. Ahora me es obvio que usted no lo sabia.

2. "Principal causa de muerte es Falta de agua y comida" - Yo no tengo ni la menor idea donde usted pudo haber sacado estos datos ya que es un hecho que la mayor causa de muerte en Filipinas es el "Cardivacular Disease" o sea Enfermedades Cardiovasculares que es responsable del 25% de los causas de muerte. Unos minutos buscando en Google o cualquier search engine le hubiera dado esos resultados asi que me tiene intrigada los fuentes de sus datos erroneos.

3. "La educacion es un privilegio para pocos" - La literacia en Filipinas esta en los 94% solo a dos puntos de Costa Rica que esta en 96%. Otra vez son datos facilmente encontrado en el internet.

4. "Expectativa de Vida en Filipinas es de 60 anos" - Como ya se debe de imaginar eso es incorrecto tambien. Es 67.5 anos y para punto de referencia Brazil es de 62.9, Bolivia 63.7 Egipto 63.3, India 62.5 y ni hablar de los paises Africanos que rondan solo en los cuarentas.

5. "Lenguaje oficial de Filipinas es el Tagalog" - El lenguaje oficial de Filipinas es el Tagalog Y el Ingles como fue establecido por el gobierno en 1987. Filipinas es el tercer pais mas grande del mundo donde hablan ingles.

6. "Trans Am" - Esas cosas se llaman Tricicle o Tricidad. Trans Am es un carro hecho por Pontiac.

7. "Bufalo" - esa bestia donde usted estaba sentada en un "Water Buffalo" y no Bufalo. No hay Bufalos en Filipinas. eso es como confundir un caballo con una vaca. Son animales completamente diferentes.

Yo puedo seguir y seguir pero creo que ya hize mi punto. Yo no entiendo como una reportera con una trayectoria como la suya pudo cometer esos errores tan graves que hasta atentan contra los principios mas basicos del periodismo. Yo entiendo que su reportaje era demostrarle a todo Costa Rica que Filipinas es un pais pobre. Pero para lograr eso no habia que incurrir en datos falso y mentiras. Yo siempre habia pensado que un buen reportaje del tipo que usted hizo tiene que demostrar los dos lados de la moneda. Hay MILIONES de Filipinos que viven una vida de clase media. Porque no les dedico unos miserables segundos a ellos? Siempre hubiera probado su punto de lo pobre que es Filipinas pero a la misma vez hubiera mostrado otra cara de Filipinas que es igual de real que la pobreza extrema. Sabia usted que el primero Gerente General del Intel en Costa Rica era un Filipino? Que CIENTOS de Ticos que trabajan para Intel fueron mandados a Filipinas para ser entrenados en las instalaciones del Intel alli? Que las plantaciones de bananos por todo Limon estan alli gracias en gran parte a conocimientos que Filipinos les enseniaron a sus colegas Ticos (Bataan y Matina en Limon son nombres de pueblos Filipinos). Que el hotel Herradura fue empezado con capital Filipino igual que el Flamingo Beach Resort? Dos de los primeros hoteles de renombre de Costa Rica. Que Filipinas es el "Text Capital Of The World". Alli se manda mas mensajes de texto que cualquier otro pais del mundo. Ahora usted le dice cualquiera de esas cosas a cualquier persona que vio su reportaje y no creo que le van a creer ya que como es posible que todo eso venga de un lugar donde "la educacion es un privilegio para pocos" y "es el lado mas oscuro de Asia" donde "la mayor causa de muerte es el falta de comida y agua."
IBELIEVEINGOD June 26, 2008 11:44 PM: Here I am ...I cannot control my hands again from touching the keypads of my laptop. I really don't know the reason why for such craving-scribbling they call but, you know this is the moment most treasured by such lunatic like me. Because only in writing that I am able to share what is inside of me, what is to be expected from me....

Last three days ago, I arrived from Kish Island, Iran. It was not a planned tour but rather it was a forced way to exit from Sharjah since my Visit Visa expired last 14th May. In Sharjah /Dubai, one should get out after 60 days and just come back again once you receive another Visa- this time Visit / Employment sponsored by the company one is connected with or by a relative or if one can afford it he / she can buy his / her own Visit Visa. For those who do not have works yet in Sharjah / Dubai whatever the case maybe. I was kinda lucky because I am sure that another Visa will be processed by my employer while I am waiting in Kish.

Going back to Kish, I just wanna share the truth that the island brags about-reality of the plight of the stranded Pinoys probably headcount reaches over 10,000 awaiting for the Visa, but some are hopeless already since they have been waiting in Kish for almost 60 days which one can automatically conclude that the much awaited Visa will never ever come anymore. Yes! that's the truth....Some of our 'Kabayans' in Kish just resulted to find their own ways of having their own Visit Visa work as housemaid, mess boy, janitor, cook in the hotels where they are staying so that they will enjoy free accommodation and food before going back to this Land of Gold! There are some though, who sells flesh in exchange of a few dirhams for existence. But to some, who are unable to think of any alternatives on how to get a Visa, they just end up their lives. Several Pinays already did commit suicide and some hotel rooms in Faravi Hotel and Fanoos Hotel are already haunted by Pinoy / Pinay ghosts or momoos!

I came to Kish Island on my own budget and for my first four days stayed there I called my school for the support because I am already run of money .. before, I feel I am so lucky because they sent me allowance while I am waiting from my company visa …… but when I came back to Sharjah and reported to the institute ….my boss told me it will be deducted from my salary……in other side I think I am more luckier than others. … …. thus I can only afford to spend around AED10 per meal or AED28 daily. The truth is, I shared this meal to our 'kabayans' who does not have dirhams to spend for food anymore. I was so depressed when I saw Maricel & Snooky (code names only) who exited Dubai with only AED50 on their pocket. They told me they are just waiting their visa or called Airport to Airport or (A to A) but unfortunately… after couple of hours …. gabi na ….wala kaming dalang damit just their handbags…. ang saklap sila rin pala biktima ng Antay ng Antay (A to A )……. tulala, naluluha, paano na kaya ang deposit sa hotel at food….. What I did I shared my food with them ….. nalaman ko rin na utang pa ang visa nila at ticket then wala pa silang work.. so ate paano na kaya kami… napatingin lang ako at sabi ko God never send you into a situation alone… and I believe God is with you guys….
I met a certain 'Eddie' who is losing his faith to get the on-line Visa promised by his very own brother. "P- ina (mura iyan) pre/ate , napakasakit ate/pre! Kapatid ko pa nagpatapon sa akin dito sa Kish! Sarili kong kapatid tumarantado sa akin ate!" I just consoled him, "alam mo , kaya nga ciguro Eddie ang pangalan mo kc ...NAPAKASAKIT KUYA EDDIE...as I sang the song. And Eddie grinned that silly smile agreeing to the lyrics made specifically for his own life. In a way, I was able to clear all his doubts even just for a minute. But dinugtungan niya ate kaya ako narito kasi may ovary cancer ang wife ko at naubos na ang pera ko at naibenta ko ang trysicle for her operation … now class opening na naman narito pa ako stranded… at his age (35) I saw him crying like a little boy ….’te ngayon ka lang nakakita ng lalaking umiiyak? I comfort him again,, on that time I can’t do anything just a good listener and make them strong to face the reality of life.

Also, one guy let us call him Manong was outside the AED1/min call booth. I came out of the calling center because I don't want to contact anybody knowing that this way I won't be able to disturb my family who by that time were already sleeping because it was barely an hour left before midnight strikes in Kish while back home it was 1AM. I saw Manong and other guy sitting on the bench staring at nowhere. I knew right there and then that he is very worried. I knew because, once in my life I felt the same when my dad was diagnosed with prostate cancer and bed ridden for 3 years that this is also the reason why I worked far from my love ones for the future of my family. I tapped Manong's shoulder "Tama na yan, wala ng mangyayari pag inisip ninyo kung ano man ang gumugulo sa iyo Manong. He cried and told me that "wala ng pag-asa! Ayaw sagutin ng kapatid ko ang tawag ko…. 25 days na ako dito sa Kish-wala na akong pera..." It was so very depressing but I don't want to go back to my past...so I offered him that prayer will move mountains, can move mountains! I try to console him that no impossible from God !

Three nights before I left, we gathered in front of the beach, there were around 13 of which 6 were ladies and the rest men and we lighted a candle and together prayed the rosary-asking for the Divine intervention on each and everyone's condition in Kish while the rest of the Pinoys / Pinays are enjoying puffing the seisha from afar! This is the most memorable night in my whole life! It was the night under the moonlit on the beach...sharing of experiences, family problems and the reason why they are here in Dubai …. ibat ibang buhay at kadahilan . minsan mahirap paniwalaan pero iyon ang katotohanan… naluluha ang bawat nagbibigay ng sharing .. dama ko ang sakit at hinagpis ng bawat isa…. Sa isip ko walang magagawa kasi malupit ang buhay … minsan naisip ko kaya siguro ako na stranded kasi may mission pa ako sa Kish …you know it’s hard to believe that we come from different religions .. Mormons, Christian, Born Again, Iglesia Ni Cristo and Catholic but one belief.
Continuously praying rosary every night until we reached the 3rd day … It’s Friday night ! We offered intention for every station of the rosary…..Then, unbelievable …. Miracle comes …. Saturday morning one from the group got her visa… sunod sunod na ang releasing ng visa hanggang nakuha na rin ni Edie ang visa niya .. ako na lang ang naiiwan .. naiiyak na ako ..sabi ko nga makukuha ko rin kasi tapos na ang mission ko … after 2 seconds I received a message…… your visa already released. I shouted and cry with tears of happiness ‘coz answered prayer……Everybody decided to go back on Sunday and offered a thanksgiving rosary on Saturday night at the beach. . . .
Then we went back to our shared rooms(one villa has 12 bedspacers). Magdamag na kuwentuhan at prang di pa rin makapaniwala sa blessings..… even those who are not expecting their visa….. but release din …….
The next day was the day I said 'goodbye KISH ISLAND !' and I mumbled,
I am now in Sharjah airport but my mind is still in Kish Island … thinking for those who are waiting their visas… di ko alam kung paano ko sila matutulungan …. Hangang makarating ako sa bahay … shock pa rin ako sa nangyari. Para bang may kulang pa ..... nais kong ibahagi sa inyo ang ganito karanasan na parang mahirap paniwalaan ….hangang ngayon ay magulo pa rin sa isip ko kung Paano ko sila matutulngan?
Nothing is impossible with him ... Faith, belief and trust Him ! ! ! ! He will provide everything to us ! ! !
Anonymous June 26, 2008 11:44 PM: The grammar is understandable. You should hear Marian Rivera converse in English — yet, the people love her. It’s the answer that missed the point.

The question was about her family’s role in her Binibining Pilipinas candidacy. She answered that they are the “most important persons in my life.” That answer is nowhere near the specific aspect of joining the pageant. Plus, “most important persons” is not a role. Her family could have played a lot of roles: supporters, benefactors, inspiration, etc. The bulk of her reply was a pathetic series of excuses. In short, she did not answer the question.

It’s sad, really.

Ms. San Miguel is not the only one who gave answers that lacked sense. The reason why she has more buzz is her English. (Sigh) Why are many Filipinos so obsessed with the English language as if it’s the most sacred thing on earth? I recommend reading my colleague’s recent PDI article, Myths about Languages in the Philippines, which says:

There is a prevailing belief that if you don’t know English, you simply don’t know! … The link between intelligence and English language proficiency is very flimsy. In this world, you will find intelligent people who cannot speak a word of English, as well as not-so-smart ones who are native speakers of the language.

The problem with the answer is not the lack of English proficiency but the lack of display of intelligence. Many cannot believe that Ms. San Miguel won in spite of the Q&A portion. What were the judges thinking? More importantly, who were the judges anyway?

From the Manila Times:

Pageant judges included US Ambassador Kristie Kenney, Quezon City Mayor Sonny Belmonte, Japanese Ambassador Makoto Katsura, Philippine Ambassador to Spain Joseph Bernardo, United Breweries Group and Kingfisher Airlines Chairman Dr. Vijay Mallya, Chateau Petrus’s Jean Moueix, Entrepreneurs’ School of Asia founder Vivienne Tan, Sofitel Philippine Plaza President Oscar Salvacion, celebrities Marian Rivera and Dennis Trillo and amateur basketball player Chris Tiu.

Now we begin to doubt their sense of judgment. On second thought, perhaps they were really limited by the quality of candidates who made it through the screening process.

The Inquirer reported that after Anna Teresa Licaros’ win last year, the profile of candidates has improved:

The 2008 Binibining Pilipinas pageant has attracted “really beautiful” contestants, in the words of Nadia Lee Cien Shami, last year’s Miss International bet.

“The judges will have a tough time,” said Nadia by way of assessing the candidates, who include aspiring lawyers and doctors, college graduates and students, certified public accountants, registered nurses and a teacher.

What happened to the claim that “more girls of substance” joined the pageant this year?

Suggestions:

* Scrap the Question and Answer portion; or
* Let the candidates go through a critical thinking module; or
* Hire a new screening committee

Some might argue that in the charity work advocated by pageants like these, it’s not about beauty and brains but all about heart. Fine. I guess getting a winner who’s a summa cum laude law student from UP is a bonus. This year’s controversial win proves once again that beauty pageants are just that — [external] beauty* pageants. As this feminist blogger says, one more reason to dislike beauty pageants is that “looking good in a swimsuit is more important than knowing about basic geography, or knowing how to answer a question.” No minimum IQ level required.

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* Sadly I was not impressed with the lineup of candidates this year. In my opinion, a few looked like… drag queens. ;)
Anonymous June 26, 2008 11:45 PM: TUMPAK

Im reading your column I cannot help but cry. Im also in dubai now and I can relate so much with your story. Cguro masasabi ko after 3 months of visit visa here nakakita ako ng trabaho kahit maliit ang sahod and frankly speaking ang naiipon ko per month dito pareho lang sa per month savings ko sa pinas and mas magaan at mas mabait anf fair ang amo sa pinas compared dito. I really feels anger whenever magpapalabas ng news ang ABS-CBN or GMA regarding rosy opportunities for Filipinos in UAE when in fact the truth is mas lalong mura ang sahod and all expenses are growing up especially the house rent. Parang sardinas pa ang pamumuhay. Minsan, in my malicious mind, naiisip ko baka regularly binabayan ang mga pinoy reporters dito sa UAE or any other Middle East countries to regularly give biased reports to there countries without giveng much attentions to the poor flights, struggles, misfortunes and abuses to our countrymen. Nakakahiya ang mga reporters na to, theyre depicting the other way around regarding the situation of most of our countrymen. I said most, for me 99% of us.
For me, hihintayin ko lang mag one year working visa ko never I will let myself be decieved by news of the goodness of Middle East!
bravoowwwbading June 26, 2008 11:46 PM: QTV-11 recently aired the two-part premiere of American Idol's seventh season. One of the highlights is the entertaining audition of a Filipino who is tagged as the William Hung of this batch.

As soon as Renaldo Lapuz entered the American Idol audition room in Dallas, Texas, the three AI judges knew that they were in for an entertaining time. Wearing a flamboyant silver cape, fuzzy white adornments and fluffy white hat that had Simon written on it, the 44-year old Filipino from Reno, Nevada, was given his moment in the spotlight—and is now immortalized in the video-sharing site YouTube.

Renaldo performed his original composition titled "We're Brothers Forever," showing that he is not only a talented composer but can also carry a tune, unlike William Hung. Simon Cowell was unimpressed at first but later on, he waved his hands as if conducting the Filipino singer.

Fellow AI judge Randy Jackson was so amused that he called in AI host Ryan Seacrest to listen to Renaldo's performance. Meanwhile, fellow judge Paula Abdul stood up from her seat and motioned as if translating the song in sign language. She danced like a go-go dancer as Ryan and Randy sang merrily along with the enthusiastic singer.

Randy even went up to Renaldo and held his hand as he belted out the lyrics: "I am your brother / your best friend forever / singing these songs / the music that you love / We're brothers till the end of time / together or not, you're always in my mind."

After Renaldo's song number, Simon gave his assessment about the Pinoy's performance: "I'm going to make a prediction here. I have a horrible feeling that it's going to be a hit record. You're very entertaining. I actually like you but it's going to be 'No.'"

In the end, Renaldo did not get the chance to make it to Hollywood but he did have a blast getting his proverbial fifteen minutes of fame. He had this message for the strict AI judge: "Simon, you are a great person. You give chance for people to sing for the whole world. Thank you. You are Heaven's chosen to give chance to any talent free of charge. Even if there are many people who throw you negative words, there are many people who like and admire you. You are a great person, Simon."

AI host Ryan revealed that 24 people are on their way to Hollywood after passing the auditions in Dallas, Texas.

Here is the schedule of American Idol on QTV-11:

The Satellite Feed airs on Wednesday and Thursday (6 pm) with one-hour replays at 8:30 pm on the same days.

Replays are scheduled on:

Saturday (January 19) at 4:00 pm QTV-11 will replay the Wednesday telecast.

Sunday (January 20) also at 4:00 pm QTV-11 will replay the Thursday telecast.
MABAHONGPILIPINO June 26, 2008 11:49 PM: MGA BOBO TALAGA ANG MGA POLITIKO DITO SA PINAS
Maraming nagsasabing dapat na daw ipatigil ang imbestigasyon ng ZTE Scam dahil di naman daw natuloy ang proyekto at ganap na ibinasura na. As some lawyers in the congress and senate said, "moot and academic" na daw ito.

Hahaha. Mga chonggo! Gusto nyo lang pagtakpan ang basura at baho ng Malacanang. But it's too late. The damning consistent testimonies of Lozano provided a very vivid truth that cannot be denied. MAY KURAKUTAN AT MAY INTENSYONG PAGKAKITAAN ANG ZTE BROADBAND DEAL.

We all know that by mere intention to dupe money from the project whether legally or morally constitute legal and moral culpability.

Ang problema sa inyo, you tilt the law in your favor. Kung okay sa inyo, go. Pag hindi papalag kayo.

Assuming that Lozada sided with the government, I'm sure ipagmamayabang nyo yan at sasabihin na "destabilizers" ang mga umaangal. Tangna, anong logi yan?

Tandaan nyo, you'll never be in power forever, and if that time comes, somebody might just come to you and shoot you all. Look at Tita Cory Aquino, she can walk freely without having fear for her life. Kasi wala syang tinapakan.

Nakakalungkot ang nangyayari sa Pilipinas, we are ruled by a lot of nincompoops at eto yung MGA BOBONG POLITIKO DITO SA PINAS!
MABAHONGPILIPINO June 26, 2008 11:50 PM: TATANDA AT LILIPAS DIN KAYO!!!
"Parang kailan lang ang pagiging presidente ko'y kay hirap abutin.
Dahil sa inyo, mga sundalo at mga pulis sa paligid ko.
Kasama na rin si Garci't Bedol na di madedbol at Abalos na parang palos...
Nais ko kayong pasalamatan sa pagiging presidente ko.

Tatanda at lilipas din ako, ngunit mayrong nakurakot at iipunin sa mga apo ko.
At para din sa inyo (mga sundalo at mga pulis, Garci, Bedol at Abalos) kayamanan.
Dahil nga minsan tayo'y nagsabwatan.

Parang kailan lang, ang mga nakurakot ko'y kay hirap ubusin.
Dahil sa mga pulis at sundalo, ang mga nakurakot ko'y unti-unting nauubos.
Nais kong magpalawig ng aking termino, upang ako'y makakurakot uli para sa inyo.

Tatanda at lilipas din ako, ngunit may naipon na kinurakot kong alaala.
Sana humaba pa ang aking buhay....

Tatanda at lilipas din ako, yan ang dapat mong isipin GMA.
Wag kang tumanda ng paurong.

Tatanda (at matatanda na kayo) Raul Gonzales, Sergio Apostol (aka "Madam Wetness"), mga heneral na walang bayag pero may bayad!)

Tandaan nyo, pagtanda nyo, baka pati apo nyo di na kayo galangin!
Rent June 26, 2008 11:51 PM: The Great Cicero once said, "Cuiusvis hominis est errare, nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare". (Anybody can err, but only the fool persists in his fault.)

The recent stand-off in Manila Pen was a case of a fool insisting in his fault. Perhaps, to the mind of the reader, they might assume that I am referring to Sen. Trillanes. Nope.

Making that assumption is in itself a fallacy "assumptio non probata" (assuming without a proof). The fool in this case is GLORIA MACAPAGAL ARROYO!

Poor GMA, she thinks that she will be forever in power... same goes true to the other fools that surround her. I'm sure the readers know who these people are.

GMA is a fool, because she apparently tries to play "innocent" in the overkill that happened in the Manila Pen done by Esperon. Sorry, I cannot call you a general because you don't earn the title by merits but by mere "SIPSIP" (Severely Insecured Person Seeking for Instant Promotion)!

GMA is a fool for continually ignoring the legit concerns mentioned by Sen. Trillanes and Gen. Lim.

The Manila Pen stand-off was a simple case of "cause and effect". The cause is GMA and her allies, for insulting the intelligence of the Filipino people by denying that corruption does not exist in her administration. Denying it is tantamount to a christian denying the existence of God.

GMA continues to challenge the rule of law simple because she feels and thinks that she is high and mighty.

I remember what my late philosophy professor, Fr. Alois Lehberger said...

"What is the danger of "sophism"? It's making the wrong things right, and the right things wrong".

Now, I know why Cicero came up with that above mentioned quotation. Perhaps, if Cicero were still alive, he would have joined Gen. Lim and Sen. Trillanes in the march and slap on GMA's face the placard containing the quotation about a fool insisting on his fault!
MONSISERANO June 26, 2008 11:52 PM: Monsi Serrano
As everyone has a beginning, I have my own beginning. I came into being in QC & grew up there as a youth. Another part of my being was spent in a “road less traveled place”, where only few men dared to be lest they get bored to death & freaked out in the midst of solitude. I love my life & I enjoy every bit of a second loaned to me by GOD! Hence, I’m passionately sharing it with you thru this blog. I’m not perfect to share something to you. I’m far from being one. But what matters isn’t about my being, but the message that I will share with you for your own reflection. My past experiences taught me to be strong & actively participate in life, rather than to play it safe & remain a fence-sitter. That’s the CHOICE I made henceforth. They say, "it's better to be guilty in the things that we did, rather than in the things we didn’t do." At times, we would opt to be nonchalant & unaware about what is going on in our society. Little did we know that whatever happens would inevitably affect us in the end. Hence, it is better be aware at the least, rather than to be caught unawares. Hahaha!
MONSISERANO June 26, 2008 11:53 PM: Don't do business in Taguig & Makati
I heard from the grapevine that Taguig is becoming notorious in their apparent "legal extortion" via city ordinance. Here are the seemingly abuses committed by Taguig Local Government:

1) The hiring of Taguig residents is must and if the establishments hired non-residents of Taguig, they have to pay the local government 700 per person. This is bullshit! What do you think of Taguig, a federal government? Even federal government would not poach on the prerogative of the investors. I have never seen such arrogance from the Tingas. Well, what do you expect from the "Tingas" in vernacular, dumi sila ng mga ngipin. They cause cavities. Maybe so, in their very own kingdom in Taguig.

Hoy, mga Ting na nyo. Hindi kayo forever dyan. Dati-rati nagmamakaawa kayong may mag invest dyan ngayon meron na binababoy nyo mga TINGA NYO!!! WALANG MGA UTANG NA LOOB. DAPAT SA INYO HINDI NA MANALO SA SUSUNOD NA ELEKSYON. MAS MASAHOL PA KAYO SA MAKATI.

2) I was also informed that another ordinance that mangles money from establishments is the checking of water in all the faucets. Mura lang naman, 300 pesos per faucet. Ting na nyo, ang kakapal nyo. If you would like to check the safety of the water flowing out from the faucet, please check the main source --- the Bonifacio Waters System. Nakakapikon kayo. Dalawa lang ang dahilan kung bakit nyo ginagawa ito. Kundi kayo bobo (not checking the main source of the water), malamang mukhang mangingikil kayo. Pakisagot nga Ting na mong Mayor ka? Ang gaganda pa ng mga bag daw ni Mrs. Tinga? Sa kabila ng maraming naghihirap ganun pang umasta?

I hope Senators Pia and Allan Cayetano would step into these abuses. My question as business consultant is this, is city ordinance absolute? Can one city or municipality come up with as many ordinaces as they want just to feed their fucking caprices and whims so that they can say na may nagawa sila? What about if the ordinances are oppressive such as the ones now being implemented in Taguig? What are the scope and limitations of these ordinances? Can DILG step on this? How about my dear colleagues in the media industry? Balasubasan na ito at nakakadiscourage sa mga negosyante.

To be honest, few days ago one of my clients asked my help to look for a location in Taguig, The Fort area. sabi ko wag dun at duduguin sya. Gusto din daw nya sa Makati, sabi ko, wag din dun. Mas okay pa sa Quezon City, Paranaque, Las Pinas, Pasig and Mandaluyong. Buti nga nawala na sa Mandaluyong yung anti-vice na si Lim tangna garapal din yang mangurakot!

If this continues, I will tell to my clients and prospective clients not to put their business in Taguig. This thought is counter to the direction of the government to entice investors. I can say the same thing in the Republic of Makati, marami din daw raket dyan. Iba daw kay Mayor, iba pa sa city engineers office. Isa lang ang mga wish ko sa mga kurakot, sana pag binangongot kayo lahat ay madala nyo ang mga kayamanan at kinurakot nyo sa impyerno. Hahahaha!
MABAHONGPILIPINO June 26, 2008 11:54 PM: The Philippine Goverment is a Chaste Prostitute
"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."
(John F. Kennedy)

St. Ambrose depicts the church as "casta meretrix" meaning a "chaste prostitute". And I believe, that is also can also be said about other institutions like the schools, corporations and of course, the government --- our very own Philippine government is a CHASTE PROSTITUTE!

All institutions' "raison d' etre" are splendid --- always directed for others' well being and not for their own selfish gain or interest. However, reality tells us otherwise! Why? Because as the saying goes, "Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers."

Therefore, depicting church and other institutions as "casta meretrix" is indeed very apt. and really fair enough. Because the "prostitutes" are the ones who run the institutions.

The "Pinoy Politics" blog, strictly tackles Philippine Politics. Whatever you will read here are my opinions ---- how I see life as it comes thru to me.

I remember what my German professors told me before when I was still studying philosophy. In life there are what we call "Sitzen Leiben" or "situations in life" that sometimes need to be magnified, dessiminated and re-echoed to other people. This is to bring awareness in their being and hoping that someday they would take some actions in their small ways to make a difference in the society.

I love the song "Small Ways" and I'd like to share a part of it that might also inspire you:

"Maybe you and I can't do great things. We may not change the world one day, but we still can change some things today in our small ways..."

Let us continue to share realities in life in the realm of Philippine politics. Only through education that we would be able to help some people about the real "Sitzen Leibin" and help them to be extricated by providing them awareness, guidance and teach them how to deal with life.

As Plato said, "If all people were educated, there would be no slaves."

Thank you for taking time to read this blog, and I hope that you will find this educational and entertaining to read.

GOD bless us!!! GOD bless the Philippines!!!
IBELIEVEINGOD June 26, 2008 11:55 PM: LINTANG BEDOL should be DEDBOL
This Lintang Bedol is a shameless descendant of Garci and has a very thick face.

He tries to insult the intelligence of Filipinos, much more by other people he believes as stupid as him by fabricating all kinds of lie which even kids would not believe.

The veracity of his statement the some important documents from Maguindanao were stolen from his room is so unthinkable knowing that these are important documents.

Well, well, well... What do you expect from him who knows he enjoys "immunity" from being prosecuted because his powerful bosses, nmely, GMA and Abalos! Do you expect GMA and Abalos will jail him? Maybe they would, but for sure it's going to be all for show!

Bedol is a big embarrassment to the Muslim community. I have a lot of Muslims friends and I know they are very decent and honest. I wonder why is there a "stray Muslim" like Bedol who continues to lie through his teeth and fabricates story.

If GMA and Abalos will not do something drastic that will make Bedol accountable for his brazen antics, it would be better for Bedol to wish himself to be DEDBOL!

Let me end this blog with some meaningful quotations, one from Cicero and the other one from Albert Einsten.

"Cuiusvis hominis est errare, nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare".
(Anybody can err, but only the fool persists in his fault.) – Cicero

Obviously, Bedol is making a fool out of himself for insisting on his lies and antics. But he has still a chance to redeem himself if he follows what Einsten said and I quote:

"Character is the final decision to reject whatever is demeaning to oneself or to others and with confidence and honesty choose what is right. And only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers."

Again, if he chooses to insist in is fault and prefers to demean himself, it would be better for Bedol to be DEDBOL!

What do you think?

For comments, email pinoy.politics@gmail.com
Anonymous June 26, 2008 11:56 PM: A friend told me about his blog and was i blown away by the revelations. I have heard of the personalities involved and their escapades and mis-adventures in their little world (because its so crowded and they still want to be there for the sake of exclusivity) but never have their dirty deeds been broadcasted the way Brian did. Though some names were carelessly involved in the comments by those who read Brian’s blog but kudos to Brian for saying it as it is - no hypocritical diplomacy. I read too his blog and it was a disappointment to see that no explanation was made why the comments were no longer posted for us to see. I don’t know if legal actions were taken. Anyway, i’m glad Brian responded to your posts and i hope his is okay. Sad to say leehces lurk around the concrete jungle and they victimize foreigners. One thing though is certain, it does not speak of the whole race; they are just an aberration and perhaps we should just be careful of them. Shame on those maggots and their fancy Gucci and more power to you Brian, if you are reading this post.

Daniel
Anonymous June 26, 2008 11:58 PM: mas matindi pala ang baho ng mga mayayaman kaysa mga totoong mahihirap, maligo lang mga ‘yon mababango na pero these so called gucci gang and the rest of these unnamed hypocrites, kahit isang box ng shu uemura soaps ang gamiting pampaligo, i doubt if the stains would just wash out…..
Anonymous June 26, 2008 11:58 PM: hahaha pareho tayo. glued to my pc the whole afternoon reading the blog of that aussie man. naka ilang patak din ako ng eye-mo dahil pakiramdam ko namumula na mata ko sa kababasa.

grabe noh? kaso yung ibang nagkokomento eh out of focus o topic na. hehehe! labasan ng baho ng mga sosyal.
Anonymous June 26, 2008 11:58 PM: hahaha pareho tayo. glued to my pc the whole afternoon reading the blog of that aussie man. naka ilang patak din ako ng eye-mo dahil pakiramdam ko namumula na mata ko sa kababasa.

grabe noh? kaso yung ibang nagkokomento eh out of focus o topic na. hehehe! labasan ng baho ng mga sosyal.
angrypinoy June 27, 2008 12:02 AM: ok,, theres really nothing wrong with having sex to a person u love the most,,,,, "BUT",,,,u have to take it seriously and u have to think deeply,, that sex is not a simple action just to prove to that certain person that u love him/her,,,cuz,, theres a lot of consequences once u think about it,, curiousty of a person is human nature we all ,,,,,,been through with that situation and theres nothing wrong if u need to know the real feelings,,,, just be real careful and aware of ur actions so that ,, u'll be alright once u did it,,and think that once ur on it ur taking the tremendous risk of ur relationship,,,,,,,,, cuz nobody would know if u end up with that person in the future not even you or anybody elses around u,,/or even if u gonna end up with that person theres more hideous monster in this cruel world,,,,u know what i mean,,,

so careful,,, and it is more better to button ur pants and keep it sealed or wear a chastity belt,,,,,,, if u cant hold ur feelings,, in that way u never even gonna try,, hehehe!!
IBELIEVEINGOD June 27, 2008 12:04 AM: Ever got trapped with a Filipino in the elevator? Well, here's the perfect thing to say to break the awkward silence. Jovitt covers for Cris and joins Mickey as they talk about a useful Filipino tongue-twister and give more examples that will surely get you saying... "huuuuwatttt???"

Dialogue:

A: Papa, bababa ba?
B: Oo, bababa. Bababa ka ba?
A: Oo, bababa ako kasama yung tupa.
Tupa: Beeeeeeeh.. Beeeeeeeeh...

A: Papa, is it going down?
B: Yup, it's going down. Are you going down?
A: Yup, I'm going down, and I have the sheep with me.
Sheep: Beeeh... beeehh..
bravoowwwbading June 27, 2008 12:06 AM: ganun din naman sa guys, niligawan namin kayo, binasted nyo kami to test kung seryoso kami, pero namisinterpret namin na tlagang di mo gusto, humanap ng iba, kaya ayun kami masaya na, ikaw hindi pa... so maging understanding din kayo... hehehe... you let it slip away.. some things are not meant to be nga siguro... Very Happy
DYOSAMASALANGIT June 27, 2008 12:07 AM: Do you know someone who is having an affair? Have you ever had, or considered having, an affair yourself? Why is it that so many people are cheating on their partners? What is it that makes someone want to cheat on his or her partner?

Affairs are not always premeditated; sometimes they just happen. Affairs can happen almost anywhere. They happen with people you meet at work, people you meet at the gym, or people you meet at the local bar. They can happen with people you have known for years, or with someone you have just met. The nagging question in my mind is, "Why do affairs happen at all?"

I am sure you have all been at a social gathering, like the office Christmas party, where the wine is flowing freely, people are flirting with one another, and everyone is having a grand old time. With this freely flowing alcohol, everyone is feeling great after that third or fourth drink, when all of a sudden, the flirting gets a little out of hand. One thing leads to another, and before you know it, two co-workers end up in bed together. It could be just a one-night stand, or it could be the beginning of an affair.

Another scenario: your partner is out of town and has been doing continuous business travel for several months. One night, one of your mutual friends drops by, out of the blue, and you invite them in for a drink. You are feeling lonely and welcome the company of this member of the opposite sex. Some flirtation occurs during the evening, and before you know it, one thing leads to the next, and you are having sex with this person.

Most of us have witnessed affairs among people we know, and some of us even have had affairs ourselves. This kind of thing happens in the real world, and it happens all the time. Every time it happens, it happens for a reason.

What is the reason? There are a lot of reasons why people have affairs. In my opinion, people have affairs because they are bored in their current relationship, or because they have needs that are not being met within that relationship. In some cases, they are just thrill-seekers who become turned on by cheating on their partner. These three reasons have one common denominator: The people who are engaging in the affair are seeking something exciting, new and different.

Affairs begin with two people who find each other interesting and attractive. For whatever reason, the relationship escalates into romance and, finally, into sexual intimacy. People who seek romance and sexual intimacy outside of their primary relationship feel that their relationship is missing something, so they go out and they seek it from someone else.

An extramarital affair takes a great deal of energy. The lying, sneaking around, and destroying of evidence all take tremendous amounts of energy. The onset of guilty feelings about having the affair, in the first place, further zaps whatever energy the partner having the affair might still have left.

Why is it that people who have affairs do not simply put this energy into improving their relationships? It sounds like an easy concept, but, based on the vast number of people cheating on their partners, I surmise that such is not the case. Rational thinking indicates to me that it would be better to focus this energy on oneself and one's partner, rather than on someone else. I feel it is selfish to think that you can have your cake and eat it, too, but many people clearly think this way. You have to be honest with yourself and your partner: If you have tried everything -- and I mean exploring every possibility, going the distance -- and your relationship still is not working, you need to end it, so both of you can get on with your lives.

Do not complicate matters by having an affair. All you are going to do is end up hurting a lot of people. That's what happens, reliably, every time, when people have extramarital affairs.
Anonymous June 27, 2008 6:10 AM: Wow! Ang dami na nga nag-comment dito, AS IN: Sobrang many na!

Huwag natin ilibing yung latest news about Bri-Bri, okay?

Here's the thread na I found really interesting. Kakaintriga ha! Brian pala was a prosti. Alam kaya ng mga padrina nya yan?

Me mga chismosa rin palang atheist, noh?

O siya, i-resurrect natin sya...

Anonymous
June 26, 2008 4:42 AM

Did you know that Brian Gorrell was a prostitute in Kings Crossing?

Yes, it's true. I just hope he admits it to his readers already.

He got his HIV from doing tricks. He didn't contract the virus from the kind of one night stand he wants people to believe. It was a one night stand where he collected payment on (all in a days work, ewww!).

Once a prostitute, always a prostitute, they say...but since he can't use his body anymore, he now uses his sad story to prostitute himself (thanks to all the Filipino sickers who cotinue to believe his lies).

Brian Gorrell has taken his scamming ways on the internet while he believes that the law cannot catch up with him, YET. Talented, indeed, isn't he?

If the law can't catch up with him now, maybe the enemies he made with his blog will...or maybe AIDS.

Good Luck in Canada Bri!
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Andrew Sheldon
June 26, 2008 6:59 AM

Did I know Brian was a prostitute? No! Did you know its pathetic to post such crap without evidence. Did you know its common for sexually abused people to stray into sordid sexual relationships, and maybe even prostitution. Isn't there a difference between being abused, and being the abuser in your mind. You have said more about yourself than you realise, though you dont hsve any avidence. For Brian we can have empathy. DJ remains deluded until this day. Prostitution is not a life I would choose for anyone, but at least it hurts nobody. Sex for money is a trade. Not a respectful way to make money, but just look at DJ.
You even say he contracted AIDS from prostitution...oh he's a victim again, of another abuser. Do they say that "Once a prostitute, always a prostitute". Geez, there must be some old hags out there. No I dare say if he has no choice then how can we just him morally since morality pertains to choices. God, you're a flawed human being.
You sadly think perceptions are reality. If you can spread enough turgid lies that 'mud will stick'. With uncritically thinking people maybe it does. I dont think it will matter to anyone that matters. It wont help DJ either. He really has implicated himself.
The law saids Brian has done nothing wrong in Australia. No defamation case to hear. Where is the crime? Talented? No actually Brian is not very smart. But he is 'relatively' honest, unlike DJ. I think the only job DJ can get is attacking Brian with lies.
Some Filipinos need to reevaluate their 'religious' values. Brian is a candidate for empathy, not scorn. DJ is deluded till the end.
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Anonymous
June 26, 2008 1:51 PM

No. The comment has nothing to do with DJ at all. I don't care about him.

Some people have been stealthily finding out about him, you know? Some people he angered with his blog.

Quite frankly, your response suits Brian's approach more appropriately. Why don't you tell him these things? He's the one who's made false claims, false allegations, and waged attacks on people he doesn't even know (they don't know him either), with no substantial proof! Everybody whom he thinks is associated with DJ Montano is open for assault. Everybody, including a whole race and nation.

You say: "If you can spread enough turgid lies that 'mud will stick'. With uncritically thinking people maybe it does."

I say: Well, isn't this the principle Brian's blog live by? Tell him this, and see what he says. If somebody told me he was a prostitute, contracted HIV doing tricks and I believe it. So what? That's what Brian does in his blog (somebody feeds him lies and believes it and publishes it). I'm just doing what he's doing.

Stop taking his side for a second, will you?

Brian and DJ are two peas in a pod. Why else would they have attracted each other? "Birds of a feather, flock together" right?

Neither one is better than the other. If Brian is honest, then why not come out with it? Tell his suppoters that he used to turn tricks. Stop acting like he's some sort of a hero or even a god who's going to save the Philippines from its problems. He present himself as all good, but he's not. His Team Brian loves him so, maybe they'll accept him for it...or continue abusing him.

That's all they're doing to him, and you know it. There's no amount of honest to goodness caring, love or support when anybody allows or condones somebody to go down the road Brian has gone in the last three months. Blame his mentors Kitty and Andrew, and now even Amiel for giving him unrealistic ideas on how to cope with his tragic experience with DJ.

Yeah, in Australia he has not committed any crime. They can't sue or arrest him there. But that is exactly why Kitty, Andrew, Amiel, and the others are taking advantage of him, to retaliate against their enemies in Manila...and oh, by the way, did you know that other aspiring (wannabe) writers are also using his blog to advance their careers and to go after their competition in the writing world? He's so exposed to law suits already and maybe even physical danger, but he protects them to no end and professes his love for them. You and me know that his blog friends won't come for him when when he needs them the most...he is not very smart, you're right.

It's typical for abused victims to trust quickly when they are showed a little bit of "concern" or acceptance even if it's just for convenience (no sincerety at all). I'd root for him if he stops with the lies, if he stops letting others use him to advance their wicked agendas and if he stops playing god.

Andrew, I don't like you, you're racially prejudiced against my race (my opinion). You don't like me for your own reasons. And that's fine. But please don't chastise me when what you accuse me of, is what Brian does. Stop being all high and mighty already. I don't care about DJ or Celine or their friends. My comment was about Brian only, absolutely no relation to DJ & co. Brian AND DJ are both deluded 'til the end.

Lastly, I'm atheist, so spare me the religious talk.
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Anonymous
June 26, 2008 10:14 PM

Brravow!!!
Anonymous
June 26, 2008 1:51 PM

I totally agree with your views 100%.

Sooooo!the Sheldon is back i see!!
How many times do we have to ask to spare us with your stupid reasoning,we've had too much from gorrell already!

Now,lets analyze what you,sheldon,have unintelligently pointed out,shall we? ( well not surprised really,you've been bombarding us with your nitwitted views for so long now )

1. Only brian gorrell has the right to make accusasions without the need of proving anything he claims.(amount of money really owed by montano,addiction of so and so,your ownership of bethel park hahaha!actually he doesnt need to prove that one,documents postd by a blogger already proved that )

2.You say there are a lot of pok pok filipinos ( prostitutes ) but if brian was indeed a prostitute,its ok,he is once again the victim.

3.Everybody should be responsible and engage only in safe sex,but if it was brian who was the irresponsible sex hungry gay enagaging in such an act,its ok,he's the victim over again.

4.Spreading malicious and damaging stories about anybody is a crime,whatever country your in.but if its brian,its ok,because he is in autralia and he can get away with it.

hmmmmm...what else,that'll be all for ow.till your next stupid post.

and oh before i forget,does it get real lonely there alone in your blog,that's why once again you pollute this blog with your stupidity?

your turn sheldon,show the whole world how stupid you really are.

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Where's Sheldon's response to the atheist chismosa Anon Jun26, 10:14 PM? Gusto ko sila ang mag-sagutan.
Anonymous June 27, 2008 7:59 AM: MANILA, Philippines - Manila Archbishop Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales voiced worry Tuesday over the legalization of same-sex marriage in other parts of the world.

Rosales also voiced opposition to advocacies aiming to give same-sex couples many of the rights that heterosexual couples presently enjoy.

"Same-sex marriage proponents are acting like they know everything. That's not the plan of God but of the people," Rosales said in interview over Church-run Radyo Veritas. Excerpts of the interview were posted Tuesday on the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines website.

Rosales said same-sex unions go against the basic purpose of marriage, to produce children. Giving them the same legal status as married spouses "violates" divine law, he said.

The prelate, who also chairs the Episcopal Commission on Clergy of the CBCP, said marriage is to be confined to a man and woman in holy matrimony.

On the other hand, he also expressed concern that same-sex marriage is already legal in other countries.

At least five countries have legalized same-sex marriage. These include South Africa, Canada, Belgium, the Netherlands and Spain.

California in the United States is still in the process of debating on whether to allow it or not.

In the Philippines, some homosexual organizations are also calling for the legalization of same-sex union.

But Rosales said that no matter how proponents of same-sex marriage would put it, it still would offend humanity and society.

"Whatever happened to it (same-sex union proposal), I am sure it will cause social rift. It's likely to benefit some, but that's not the normal circle of life," Rosales said. - GMANews.TV
rent June 27, 2008 8:00 AM: VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican’s second-highest ranking doctrinal official on Monday forcefully branded homosexual marriage an evil and denounced abortion and euthanasia as forms of “terrorism with a human face.”

The attack by Archbishop Angelo Amato, secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, was the latest in a string of speeches made by either Pope Benedict or other Vatican officials as Italy considers giving more rights to gays.

In an address to chaplains, Amato said newspapers and television bulletins often seemed like “a perverse film about evil.” He denounced “evils that remain almost invisible” because the media presented them as “expression of human progress.”

He listed these as abortion clinics, which he called “slaughterhouses of human beings,” euthanasia, and “parliaments of so-called civilized nations where laws contrary to the nature of the human being are being promulgated, such as the approval of marriage between people of the same sex …”
Badinglover June 27, 2008 8:01 AM: Gay Philippines: Manila and the ILGA Conference 2003

Manila, Philippines is one of the few major Asian cities with an overt gay scene that openly contradicts the conservative culture of the country. Despite a homophobic environment that is critical and hostile to queer citizens a lively LGBT community thrives, and it vigorously leans into the face of the political, religious and legal establishment. This energetic and defiant movement manifests itself with political lobbying, social networking, street parades, sexually spicy venues--and a world LGBT conference.
IBELIEVEINGOD June 27, 2008 8:02 AM: Just once wouldn't you love for someone to simply show you the evidence for God's existence? No arm-twisting. No statements of, "You just have to believe." Well, here is an attempt to candidly offer some of the reasons which suggest that God exists.

But first consider this. If a person opposes even the possibility of there being a God, then any evidence can be rationalized or explained away. It is like if someone refuses to believe that people have walked on the moon, then no amount of information is going to change their thinking. Photographs of astronauts walking on the moon, interviews with the astronauts, moon rocks...all the evidence would be worthless, because the person has already concluded that people cannot go to the moon.

When it comes to the possibility of God's existence, the Bible says that there are people who have seen sufficient evidence, but they have suppressed the truth about God.1 On the other hand, for those who want to know God if he is there, he says, "You will seek me and find me; when you seek me with all your heart, I will be found by you."2 Before you look at the facts surrounding God's existence, ask yourself, If God does exist, would I want to know him? Here then, are some reasons to consider...
1. Does God exist? The complexity of our planet points to a deliberate Designer who not only created our universe, but sustains it today.

Many examples showing God's design could be given, possibly with no end. But here are a few:

The Earth...its size is perfect. The Earth's size and corresponding gravity holds a thin layer of mostly nitrogen and oxygen gases, only extending about 50 miles above the Earth's surface. If Earth were smaller, an atmosphere would be impossible, like the planet Mercury. If Earth were larger, its atmosphere would contain free hydrogen, like Jupiter.3 Earth is the only known planet equipped with an atmosphere of the right mixture of gases to sustain plant, animal and human life.

existence of GodThe Earth is located the right distance from the sun. Consider the temperature swings we encounter, roughly -30 degrees to +120 degrees. If the Earth were any further away from the sun, we would all freeze. Any closer and we would burn up. Even a fractional variance in the Earth's position to the sun would make life on Earth impossible. The Earth remains this perfect distance from the sun while it rotates around the sun at a speed of nearly 67,000 mph. It is also rotating on its axis, allowing the entire surface of the Earth to be properly warmed and cooled every day.

And our moon is the perfect size and distance from the Earth for its gravitational pull. The moon creates important ocean tides and movement so ocean waters do not stagnate, and yet our massive oceans are restrained from spilling over across the continents.4

Water...colorless, odorless and without taste, and yet no living thing can survive without it. Plants, animals and human beings consist mostly of water (about two-thirds of the human body is water). You'll see why the characteristics of water are uniquely suited to life:

It has an unusually high boiling point and freezing point. Water allows us to live in an environment of fluctuating temperature changes, while keeping our bodies a steady 98.6 degrees.
DYOSAMASALANGIT June 27, 2008 8:03 AM: Is There a God? - The Implications
"Is there a God?" is not a difficult question. The question that seems most perplexing is, "why are we determined to explain away God?" Let's give credit where credit is due. It seems that if there is a God, then we would be His creatures, and therefore, accountable to Him. Of course, this is not acceptable to a determined portion of mankind's intelligentsia. These "scholars" have a good control of the majority through arenas such as the public school system and the broadcast media. We are not exposed to both alternatives. We're not taught the problems with evolution, naturalism and materialism. We are simply taught the Big Bang is fact. The result is that we are not educated, we are indoctrinated. Unfortunately, the ultimate result is that we and our children are taught that there is no Divine Lawmaker, and therefore, there is no absolute law or morality. Everything in today's society, including moral codes and civil laws, are merely relative. "Survival of the fittest!" is the rally cry. No one stops to consider why or how morality developed, or that it seems to only function as a means for the survival of the weakest. Because we are taught there is no God, what would cause us to consider that perhaps there is a God and He instituted morality? Evolution is unable to account for the development of the moral code inherent in all of us. We simply ignore this truth, just as we seem to be ignoring God altogether. Society suffers tremendously as a result of our children being taught we share a common heritage with rocks and plants. Individuality, meaning and purpose no longer mean anything. And we wonder why our kids act like animals today.
SATANAS NA BAKLA June 27, 2008 8:04 AM: Does God exist?

When we ask this question, perhaps we should first define our terms. What do we mean by God? What ontological framework is involved in our idea of God's existence? A gigantic super-anthropomorphic entity, the creator of the universe -- is that what must exist, for God to exist? Must it be a Someone who is In Charge and who, as the Bible said, has numbered every hair on your head, and knows when every sparrow falls? (And what did the Bible's writers really mean by that?)

If ever there was a question for which the answer is more questions, it was that one.

But let's not be coy about so important a question. (It is, at least, important to many of us). To simply state, "Whether God exists is all a matter of definition" is just another cop-out; just another sophistry.

I don't kid myself that I can speak with genuine authority here. I can only offer opinions which I hope are thought through. And we'll come to those...

Professor Timothy Ferris has written a fascinating book about cosmology ("the science concerned with discerning the structure and composition of the universe as a whole"), called The Whole Shebang: A State Of The Universe Report. It's a good book, written, Ferris thinks, for the layman -- although it's not as layman-friendly as he presumes.

From the preface: ". . .The psychological connections between religion and cosmology probably go too deep to be uprooted, but it may be worth keeping in mind that much of this God-mongering arises from the assumption that God is embodied in a set of equations. . .For a scientist to make such an assumption risks introducing religious controversies into cosmology, a science that has more than enough to do trying to figure out how the universe works without also flattering itself that it is going to tell us why..."

The phrase "psychological connections," in this context, is of great interest. Those connections may have even more to do with our assumption of what God is than Ferris has realized; indeed, our psychological connections should not only call into question what religious orthodoxy thinks about God, but what Ferris and other scientists assume about God. Our ideas about God are largely cultural, and as Joseph Campbell and history have demonstrated, mythology arises from culture impacted by instinct, sociology and psychology. We naturally have a psychological need to see God, or The Gods, as analogous to parental figures; we have a sociological need to perceive God as a lawgiver, a source of orderliness; perhaps we have some instinctive drive toward religiosity, for reasons of sociobiological tribal cohesion, which makes us more survival-prone.

All of this -- and especially psychological factors -- influence our assumption of what God is, and would have to be.

If a scientist asks himself if God exists, he starts with a definition of God as 1) the creator of the universe 2) a controlling, probably benevolent (in the human sense), all-guiding, omnipotent entity. Those definitions are part of our cultural (psychological, sociological, instinctive) heritage. They are unavoidable for most people.

In The Lessons Of History, Will and Ariel Durant admit that no recorded society has long maintained itself without the help of a religion-based moral code. But they ask: "Does history support a belief in God? If by God we mean...a supreme being intelligent and benevolent, the answer must be a reluctant negative...the total evidence suggests either a blind or an impartial fatality...Nature and History do not agree with our conceptions of good and bad; they define good as that which survives and bad as that which goes under; and the universe has no prejudice in favor of Christ as against Genghis Khan..." Their logic, again, is based on a God conceived in rather feeble human terms. If God must exist on the Christian model, it's hard to see his hand at work in a demonstrably impartial universe.

Some Christians would probably respond that puny humanity cannot see the "Supreme Being's intelligent and benevolent" design -- as in the book of Job, in which God asks the rebellious Job "where were you?" when God conceived his Great Plan, when he created the universe. That is, how can Job speak of injustice or meaninglessness when he is a part of a conception he can neither fully perceive nor understand?

But this argument will not be persuasive to a critical mind that notes that it seems to have been constructed to inquire into that very mystery. And the skeptic can point out that an impartial, reasoned examination of the universe not only leaves us in the dark with respect to its guiding intelligence, if any, but generally militates in favor of the sovereignty of random chance. From a scientific point of view, the universe itself seems to testify, like the ultimate expert witness, to the primacy of the random interaction of physical laws.

In one of Ferris's more mind-wrecking chapters, "The Origin of the Universe(s)", he discusses the notion of First Cause, the originating cause of the universe and of Time itself. He mentions the seminal theological notion that one proof of God's existence is that the universe must have had a "prime mover", an originating cause, since it could not have come from "nothing". "But we today," Ferris says, "understand the doctrine of causation to be rather more problematical than was appreciated in the thirteenth century." He goes on to discuss non-singularity cosmogonic theories, involving quantum mechanics, "spacetime foam", theories by Stephen Hawking and others in which the universe is seen as a sort of self-contained system emanating, in some sense, from "a set of geometries".

Hawking maintains that, "...the universe is completely self-contained...there is nothing outside the universe. In a way you could say that the boundary conditions of the universe are that there is no boundary." But as Ferris observes, "Their elected geometries and spacetime foam are not quite the 'nothing' from which a genuine cosmogony would fashion a universe..."

Modern mystics talk airily of the Tao of Physics, of particle physics and quantum physics that supposedly confirm the mystical view of life. To some extent it may do that: it does apparently confirm, among other things, that "All is One" on a certain level of consideration. But glib, self-serving mystics like Deepak Chopra play fast and loose with quantum ideas, fast-talking about the observer who changes the nature of subatomic reality with his observation, and construing the "observer paradox" in ways both superficial and convenient.

Still, it's a fairly easy intuitive leap from the ungraspable implications of quantum mechanics (a universe originating in paradox) to mystics like Meister Eckhart: "Why doest thou prate of God? Whatever thou sayest of Him is untrue." That is, the true nature of God can't be "said". And the Lankavatara Sutra: "Nirvana...is seeing into the state of Suchness, absolutely transcending all the categories constructed by mind..." Ultimate nature cannot be grasped by the conventional human mind, no matter how powerful that mind may be.

In his notes, Ferris mentions the strange conceptions offered in the book The Physics Of Immortality by Tulane University physicist Frank Tipler, who compared the universe to a vast computer and suggested that if the universe is a closed system destined to recollapse, all cognizant beings could be 'resurrected' in a gigantic "computer simulation" -- one which includes God, Grace, and Paradise -- made possible by the convergence of world lines near the end of Time; a simulation that would allow resurrected beings to enjoy a form of eternal life. This may be the last word in elaborate "in denial about death" fantasies. I don't, though, pretend to the capability of refuting or confirming the esoteric mysteries of Tipler's mathematical logic. But I appreciate Tipler's point of view when he says: "...either theology is pure nonsense, a subject with no content, or else theology must ultimately become a branch of physics."

I personally perceive no definite confirmations of the existence of God, per se, in so-called "quantum weirdness", or in the subatomic-physics insight that all matter is also energy, that all things are energy or space, and all things are interconnected in a sea of flux. It's possible, judging from science alone, that this sea of flux could have given rise to isolate intelligences, in its biological complications of itself -- e.g., human beings -- without giving rise to a divine, all encompassing intelligence.

There are some indications that innate in matter may be the tendency to evolve into life. That is, the foundations of matter are so-constructed as to make life more probable, over time, than non-life. To some people this is enough proof of a Divine Designer -- the Cosmic Calvin Klein. They reason that this pregnancy of sheer tendency must have been inserted or devised by some intelligence, by a Creator; or at least it implies that the Universe itself has willed life into being and thus the universe itself is "God".

As far as I can see (not very far), this too is a simple leap of faith. If the universe can have other inherent physical laws leading to other probable outcomes, like the development of star systems, it can have an inherent tendency to life without it having to have been "willed" by something. The life-tendency is suggestive, but not definitive.

Recent studies purporting to provide "scientific" evidence that prayer has measurable, objective results in the material world can be explained away as synchronicity, wishful-thinking in the interpretation of statistics, or "the power of suggestion".

When a mystic hears that scientific reasoning can find no clear-cut evidence of God, she chimes in: but there are other kinds of reason to apply, and other kinds of perception, and these are more than hallucination. Or are they? Not long ago, scientists using Magnetic Resonance Imaging claimed to have discovered an area in the brain associated with both an epileptic's hallucinations -- and with visionary experiences of God: a kind of theological G-spot. The same area of the brain was activated in various people tested during deep spiritual contemplation. The researchers imply that the visionary perception of God is a sort of neurological hallucination, probably wired into us as a sort of socioibiological device for socialization and for a comforting feeling of meaningfulness; something which keeps the hairless ape in question from generally freaking out.

But scientifically observed phenomena are interpreted - like Biblical texts - according to the philosophy of the interpreter. A bishop in England, informed of the "God Spot" discovery, said that it was not at all surprising that God would have wired in a physical receiver for his messages. If we're created by God, in some sense, why wouldn't God create our brains with the ability to perceive divine nature, under certain conditions? And could this God Spot be the legendary Third Eye?

Like so much else in the theological realm, the facts can be handily read either way: the God Spot could be planted in us by a Creator, or could be purely neurological: an evolutionary quirk. I fail to see certainty in either conclusion.

If God -- at least so far -- cannot be confirmed through Science or philosophy's Pure Reason, is there another reliable method of confirming God's presence?

My opinion is -- yes. How do we ascertain what is real, any time? We utilize the senses, and the "theatre" in the brain, the sensorium, wherein input is organized into the sensed "drama" of daily life. In the more modern metaphor, we accept as "reality" a sort of holographic matrix of perceptions, the 3-D "cyberspace" of our own neurological software. Our conclusions about reality are filtered through these tools. We have learned to observe and manipulate the physical world, through these and other tools, and to subject it to experiments - -using the scientific method - to verify our hypotheses about it.

These same tools can be applied to the interior search, the visionary search, for contact with the divine. The same scientific principles of critical-mindedness and verification -- as G. I. Gurdjieff pointed out -- can be applied to the search. SETI is a scientific effort to systematically listen to radio signals from the stars for messages generated by extraterrestrials; it's also possible to mount a sort of interior SETI, to listen for messages generated by God.

There are tried and true methods for verifying, to your personal satisfaction, the presence of God. It is, I believe, possible to achieve an intelligent confidence of divine presence that excludes the possibility that you are "simply hallucinating," or engaging in a psychological phenomenon like wish fulfillment. But unlike experiments confirming the verities of physics, experiments confirming the verity of inner contact with the divine reality cannot be demonstrated in the external world by one person for the benefit of another, in a laboratory setting - -not so far as I know.

I have come to believe that there really are "supernatural" phenomena genuinely associated with spiritual seeking: some gurus really can transmit shakti energy, waves of "good feeling" that wash over followers; diligent seekers may well one day discover they themselves have become telepathic, to some degree. There may be other manifestations. Wise teachers invariably counsel against dwelling on these phenomena, or even encouraging them. Corrupt gurus abound; cult leaders like the late "Osho" achieve some "powers" and a limited level of spiritual insight, and use these minor-league achievements to enslave the foolish and to feed their own rapacious egos; such teachers become frozen on the path, and then begin a tumble very like the legendary fall of Lucifer.

Phenomena like shakti transmission and yogic telepathy are presumed to be the by-products of unknown physical laws. They, in themselves, do not constitute proof that there is a God. They only prove that there is a phenomenon which you have been told is associated with God. It could be a purely physical a phenomenon -- but then, so could God.

Spiritual seekers who've passed out of the "spiritual supermarket", who've put New Age superficialities and the toys of quasi-meditation behind them, eventually find, more or less, the same serious, corresponding method in whatever tradition they work within. Vedanta, Buddhism, Christian Mysticism, Sufism, basic Taoism, the Fourth Way -- whatever authentic methodology in which one works -- one finds an emphasis on: mindfulness; on an inner contemplation polished by humility, and an attitude of non-judgmentalism; on reasonable self control; on unification of the psychological self; on cultivation of objective compassion; on careful efforts to awaken from the selfish "sleep" of day-to-day life; on calm self-observation; on a refined "listening" for Higher input; on an exquisitely honed receptivity; on "being here now"; on a particular kind of detachment. (There are additional methods, of course). Longtime seekers consistently report a Higher Mind that comes into play; an awakened, "unconventional" mind that perceives with the aid of a Self that is more than the individual self, and yet is, paradoxically, the only real "individuality". This higher mind has a capacity to incorporate paradox, since the "truth" involves the apparent contradictions of a fuller dimensionality.

An adjunct to these methodologies is what the Sufis call "discrimination", the capacity to discern the difference between one's fantasy of the divine, and the divine actuality. It's easy to be diverted into the realms of the imagination. How do you know when this digression has happened to someone? "By their fruits you shall know them."

The direct experience of divine reality comes only after one has eliminated false teachers, false paths, and pursued one of the authentic paths. Following the path is long, hard work, for most people - though there seem to be instances of profound spiritual insight given spontaneously as a kind of grace.

In the final analysis, this gnosis, this direct experience of God, is a subjective verification; it may be a variety of science in itself but this "knowing" cannot be admitted into the realm of science in general. Still, there is a quality to it, a verisimilitude, an ineffable certainty, that is as concrete to the experiencer as gritty earth under bare feet. One might glimpse a further confirmation of the divine reality in its impact on the life of the experiencer, who is eventually transported into a state of liberation, of being set free from the fear of death, from compulsions and immoderate desires.

What is the nature of divinity, directly experienced? By all reports, there is affirmation of the Oneness of things; there is a sense of a Self that transcends personality; there is an appreciation of that higher Self's forever taking part in every conscious thing, as if the universe were eternally exploring itself, playing symbolic games with itself through us; there is a perception of a benevolent, intermediary intelligence, which is both our own underlying consciousness and something outside us at once, a nurturing mind that reaches out to us, but is too often prevented from reaching us -- prevented by us, by ourselves. We are in the way of ourselves.

And there is a recognition that it is not necessary for this "God" to have "created" the universe in any humanly comprehendable sense; it is not necessary for this God to have ordained that your Mother died when you were twelve, or that you have chronic arthritis, or that you are prone to drug addiction, or that the Holocaust must take place. It is not necessary for this God to have ordained the course of history, as Will and Ariel Durant expected, to have guided it as human beings think of a "God" that "guides" in the anthropomorphic sense. It is not necessary for this God to be all-powerful and thus all-responsible, at least not as human beings imagine all- powerful intelligence to be.

But does this mean God is uncaring, alien, unreachable pure Mind, only? If the experiencers are to be believed -- no. Although austere, though in some sense distant, God is also ever-present, God is a resource, like a river to be gone to for water, even for transport...

"What is the ultimate teaching of the Buddha?" a monk once asked his Master. The Master infuriatingly replied: "You cannot know it until you realize it."
BRYANBOY June 27, 2008 8:05 AM: The Whistleblower

I can't blog. I'm so sorry guys for neglecting my blogging duties over the past few days. I tried to keep my silence but I couldn't any longer. I've received so many emails from people and so many text messages. Even people who I haven't talked to in years are all resurfacing, asking me if I heard the "news".

What news?

Everyone in the small Manila social circle are talking about this blog that is bigger than the Edison Chen scandal in Hong Kong. At least here in the Philippines.
Marcia June 27, 2008 8:05 AM: Wow! I've been following ur blog for a while and remember when u used to post pics of urself with others pictured in BGorrell's blog.....it seems like u've severed ties with a good few of them, and thank God u did!

definitely GG material ;)
Badinglover June 27, 2008 8:06 AM: I am too fragile at the moment to be subjected to more lies and deception.

Apparently not too fragile though, to continue lashing out at people. Brian Gorrell wrote that as part of his explanation for refusing to be interviewed by Korina Sanchez on phone patch, alongside DJ Montano (who would be appearing in the studio).

Unfortunate that. After months of vitriol and acid in his blog, and lately all the gossipy sniping on radio and video posts, one would think that Brian would welcome the opportunity to tear into DJ with a live audience, even if only over the phone. But apparently, Brian wants KorIna to fly him to Manila. Niiiice.

Too many people have warned me about her show.
The format is not something I am comfortable with.
I am at a HUGE disadvantage.
You should have flown me there Korina.

Oh well, that’s too bad. Maybe it has something to do with this -

I know you hate blogs.
And you are NOT a fan of mine.
You have been against me from the beginning.
But that’s ok.

From this, Brian deduced that Korina (in collusion with DJ, he implies) was setting a trap for him. Kinda like Jun Lozada, eh? If you’re not with me, you must be against me. And what trap? I mean, what is the worst Korina can actually do? He can’t possibly be afraid of being caught in a lie - he isn’t lying, is he? And I doubt he can be out-talked by anyone. So what can he be worried about?

Maybe he’s worried that Korina might manage to get him to reveal more of himself - the ‘himself’ that’s behind the victim’s mask he never takes off. Musashi called it the face of iron hidden behind the face of clay. I for one want to know what the real Brian Gorrell is like. After all, it is very easy to be misled by a broken heart - whether it’s your own or someone else’s. P.M. Dawn (anyone remember them at all?) rapped “so deceiving is the clouded heart, so superficial is the open wound.” So, what is Brian like behind the broken heart and the bleeding victim?

In fact, was he as much as a victim as he wants us to believe? So far, all he’s said is that DJ got money from him, and that he willingly gave it. That’s all those Western Union receipts actually prove. The theft from his hotel room, well that’s a different story - and one that may be difficult to prove. But as far as the other money goes, Brian himself is honest enough to admit that he gave DJ the money of his own free will. Any arm-twisting was purely metaphorical.

So I figure the worst Korina can actually do is tarnish Brian’s image as a victim. Which, in the interest of objective discourse, isn’t heinous or unfair at all. But I suppose when your image as a victim is also the cornerstone of your public support, any appearance to the contrary would be damaging. So maybe that’s the real reason why Brian doesn’t want to do Korina.
JEG June 27, 2008 8:06 AM: I havent been religiously following the drama but ABS-CBN news is notorious for not giving ‘full disclosure’ statements whenever the news their covering has, say, Meralco or Maynilad as a subject. I would understand Gorrell’s apprehension about going to a Lopez-owned outfit. Let’s see if he accepts an interview with a more ’serious’ news and public affairs program instead of a tabloid-y one like Korina’s.

(Pero Catch-22. A serious news program wouldnt touch the story.)
JEG June 27, 2008 8:06 AM: I havent been religiously following the drama but ABS-CBN news is notorious for not giving ‘full disclosure’ statements whenever the news their covering has, say, Meralco or Maynilad as a subject. I would understand Gorrell’s apprehension about going to a Lopez-owned outfit. Let’s see if he accepts an interview with a more ’serious’ news and public affairs program instead of a tabloid-y one like Korina’s.

(Pero Catch-22. A serious news program wouldnt touch the story.)
lisa June 27, 2008 8:07 AM: jeg: I don’t know, uncle. Sure Korina’s program is tabloid-y, but then again, so is BrianG’s story and methods. And like I said, even assuming that Korina is out to ‘defend’ the Lopezes, what’s the worst that she can do? Defend Celine? Point out that what Brian G is doing is slanderous and maybe criminal? Not let Brian G ramble on as much as he likes?

My point is simply that if he prefers to snipe from a position of immunity, that’s his business. It just disenchanting, ya’know?
Anonymous June 27, 2008 8:07 AM: Yes it is his business and it’s disenchanting that he refuses to go on a TV show to sabong on air with his ex. (And before I forget: You made me peek at his blog again, you frassum wassum!!)

On second thought, it’s not disenchanting at all. I wasnt ‘enchanted’ enough to be disappointed that he won’t go to the show. I just dont think their spat is earth-shakingly important. We have a food crisis, for the love of….

But is he really needed in that show? They can have a conversation even without him. Montano gets to defend himself at Korina’s and Gorrell responds through his blog or at that radio show where he guests. In fact, Mo Twister should give equal time to Montano even without the sabong. The sabong would just be for ratings anyway.

(Or maybe he still loves Montano. Wouldnt that be intriguing? Or sick?)
bravoowwwbading June 27, 2008 8:09 AM: Does Brian Gorrell’s apparent success suggest that technology is a great way to blackmail (or at least, arm-twist)?

Out of morbid curiosity, we checked out delfindjmontano.blogspot.com a few minutes ago. We discovered that most of the content was gone, and a final post stated that “This blog is officially over.” The blog has attracted a total of 200,000 plus visits to date, making it one of the most popular Filipino-related websites over the last few days.
bravoowwwbading June 27, 2008 8:09 AM: Does Brian Gorrell’s apparent success suggest that technology is a great way to blackmail (or at least, arm-twist)?

Out of morbid curiosity, we checked out delfindjmontano.blogspot.com a few minutes ago. We discovered that most of the content was gone, and a final post stated that “This blog is officially over.” The blog has attracted a total of 200,000 plus visits to date, making it one of the most popular Filipino-related websites over the last few days.
Anonymous June 27, 2008 8:09 AM: Doing Business in the Philippines
Woman on cell phone

The Philippine business environment is highly personalized. A proper introduction by a trusted intermediary is the best way to enter this market. The U.S. Commercial Service performs this function for American manufacturers (and their representatives) through our business matchmaking programs, which are described here1.

Business Culture

Business matters are always best dealt with on a face-to-face basis in a warm and pleasant atmosphere. While many Western businesspersons thinks that time is gold and want to get to the point immediately, the Filipino likes to be indirect, talk about mutual friends and family, exchange pleasantries, and share a joke or two. Only after establishing a cordial atmosphere will people negotiate. No matter what the final result, the discussions should always end cheerfully. Americans adapting to this cultural practice will have an advantage. To a Filipino, cultivating a friend, establishing a valuable contact and developing personal rapport are what make business wheels turn. The Filipino way of doing business is a confluence of the East and West.

In setting up appointments, especially in government offices, it is most advantageous if a “go-between” or someone with previous connections to that office can make some form of introduction on behalf of the requesting party. Mid-morning or afternoon meetings are preferred, and a follow up call to confirm the meeting a day before is recommended. Allow for at least fifteen minutes leeway before your Filipino contact arrives for an appointment. For VIPs, waiting time could be longer.

After the requisite small talk following the introductions, a typical business meeting would focus mainly on the agenda at hand. Specific conclusions would not necessarily be achieved during the initial meeting, but Filipinos would usually be amenable to follow up discussions or negotiations. A formal agreement or contract may take a longer time to be finalized compared with what Westerners are used to.

Moreover, as in most Asian cultures, Filipinos would rather avoid “loss of face” or public humiliation. Therefore, Filipino contacts prefer an atmosphere of calm and restraint, avoid direct confrontation, and would typically offer a polite reply coupled with a smile rather than an outright negative feedback to the other party’s ideas. A “yes” may mean a lot of things therefore one should be aware of the subtleties of a particular conversation.

Philippine business has its own etiquette. For example, as a show of respect, Filipinos usually address people by their titles (e.g., Architect Cruz, Attorney Jose, Dr. Romero) although the professional might request a more informal approach (e.g., addressing them by their nicknames) after the formal introduction. In dealing with high-ranking government and military officials, it is best to address them by their formal titles (e.g., Secretary Flores, General Alfonso, Director Santos, Admiral Lopez, etc.)

Handing out business cards (preferably bearing your position or title) is standard procedure, although the manner in which the cards are exchanged tend to be rather informal as compared with other cultures. If a Filipino contact gives you a personal number (e.g., home or mobile) aside from what is indicated on the business card, it is usually an invitation to call, and is a good sign for establishing cordial relations.

The U.S. businessperson should avoid, as much as possible, personally grappling with the bureaucracy. Customs, for instance, requires many signatures to clear air cargo. The Filipino approach to the problem is to use staff capable of moving through the bureaucracy. Whether getting a driver's license or registering a car, the U.S. business executive will benefit by delegating the chore to a someone able to negotiate through a sea of desks, with a smile and a knack for delivering token gifts or keepsakes.

Observing office etiquette is also important. When reprimanding employees, take them aside and do it privately. Be as gentle as possible and always make it a point to end the meeting with some show of personal concern for his family to make him feel he is still part of the team and that the criticism is not personal. Again, this is consistent with avoiding “loss of face”.

English is the official business language, so Americans may not find a difficult time to strike up a conversation. Most correspondences, contracts, and other documents are written in English. Among Filipinos, however, it is common to hear “Taglish” (a combination of Tagalog, a regional dialect from which the Filipino language is largely based, and English, or shifting back and forth between the two languages) during informal conversations. Body language and hand gestures (e.g., a raised eyebrow, a faint smile, a scratch in the head) are also integral to how Filipinos express themselves. Texting, or sending short messages through mobile phones, has now become a choice medium.

Business lunches and dinners are usually arranged personally over the phone and confirmed by the secretary. The person who invites customarily pays. A guest does not order the most expensive items on the menu, unless the host insists otherwise. It is also customary to have a drink before sitting at a dining table. A pleasant atmosphere and a minimum of formality is the tone. Business is not usually discussed until after establishing a convivial ambience, usually after soup or appetizer. Dress is according to venue.

Filipinos tend to be relaxed in replying to RSVPs. Telephone follow-ups are best, about three days before. Party hosts usually have staff track down guests for a confirmation reply. In a formal occasion, seating is arranged. There is usually a head table for the VIPs. A guest speaker is often the highlight of the dinner. Light entertainment is not unusual. In most instances, important guests accept requests to sing. Americans with vocal talents can score in the Philippines.

Christmas is also a time to show appreciation to people with whom you have regular dealings with, e.g., the security guard, doorman, messenger, as well as good customers and clients, through token gifts. Gifts could range from baskets of goodies to company giveaways to plain calendars or office items with your company logo.

Office hours for business firms and the Philippine Government normally are from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., with a one-hour lunch break. Most banks are open from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. It is best to attempt to accomplish business objectives in midmorning or late afternoon. Many business deals are completed informally during meals, entertainment, or over a round of golf. Offices are generally closed on Saturdays and Sundays.

Summer-weight clothing normally worn in temperate zones is suitable for the Philippines. It is acceptable for businessmen to conduct calls in short or long-sleeved shirt and ties without a coat. Either a two-piece suit or the native "barong tagalog" (a lightweight, long-sleeved shirt worn without a tie) are acceptable, ordinary business attire. Light suits and dresses are appropriate for women.
clarence June 27, 2008 8:09 AM: Given the Philippines' American and Spanish heritage, it's easy to fall into the trap of assuming that you can do business here in standard Western mode. Manuel Quezon, the first President of the Philippine Commonwealth during the years before World War II, once said: "The Filipinos are the most occidental people of the Orient." However, as discussed in my case study column (Filipino Business World 101), there are many subtleties and nuances that make the business terrain here tricky for the newcomer. This column discusses a few things you should bear in mind.

Business Etiquette: Start out by addressing a new business acquaintance by his or her family name. "Mister" is obviously proper for men, while many married Filipinas prefer "Mrs."; use "Ms." sparingly, or at least until her preference is clear. Filipinos are status conscious, so be quick to use formal titles: Doctor Aquino, Attorney Rodriguez, Secretary de Ocampo. Avoid using someone's first name until they've known you for a while, or until they ask you to be more informal.

Many Filipinos have multiple names: Enrique Ramon, Juan Jesus, Maria Teresita. Always ask what they prefer to be called, then make a note regarding both formal names and nicknames (with proper spelling). Nicknames, some of them seemingly flippant, are common: Johnnyboy, Peachy, Babes, Junior, Booboy. In written form, the nickname is often enclosed in quotations as a middle name: Antonio "Tonyboy" Cojuangco, Ferdinand "Bong Bong" Marcos.

The rules on handshakes are about the same as in the West, although Filipinos may use a little more contact (a pat on the side of the arm as gesture of hospitality or friendship). If there is a clear status differential, or you are meeting a senior executive, it may be best to let him/her offer the handshake first.

Filipinos have fascinating nonverbal language, much of it involving facial expressions. Lifting the eyebrows without smiling means no -- but lifting the eyebrows while smiling is used to greet a friend. Filipinos often point by pursing their lips. Pointing your finger is a definite no-no, and you should avoid too-direct eye contact.

Time Orientation in General: Although there is a tendency to think of the Philippines as a place where it's fine to be late, this is no longer true. Businesspeople have gradually come to appreciate the important of punctuality, and it's best to arrive on time. I generally allow extra time for traffic congestion and unexpected delays, figuring its better to kill some time in a coffee shop than to be an hour late for a key meeting. It's always a good idea to call ahead to confirm a business appointment, either earlier the same day or the afternoon before the meeting.

For most social occasions, it is almost rude to arrive at the stated time. Fashionably late is the name of the game, by as much as an hour. At a party, the more important the guest, the later he or she arrives. More generally, expect slow and indifferent service wherever you go. Integrate that concept and don't try to fight it, as it won't do you any good to complain except on a situational basis. Try to adapt a Zen frame of mind when shopping or dealing with crowds rather than fuming or doing a slow burn. No point.

Time Orientation as Related to Business Deals: The pace of doing business in the Philippines is casual and leisurely, to say the least. Things usually unfold at a snail's pace that can be downright excruciating for the results-oriented Westerner (I can and do so testify). However, it has been like that here for centuries and current trends toward Westernized modes of business interaction have yet to make a significant dent in long-established custom. If you aren't a patient person, it might be a good idea to practice deep breathing and mental imagery; getting upset about it is probably going to be counterproductive.

The pace and content of meetings is different than Westerners are used to. There may be several minutes of small talk before getting down to business (about the stock market, basketball, the latest flap at Malacañang, whatever). People like to hang around afterwards for more of the same, even if the meeting itself has been tense. It would be impolite to hop up and immediately take your leave, even if you're running late for another meeting or you've just lost a difficult negotiation. Mend fences, leave with a smile and hearty farewell, and return to do battle another day.

Gandhi in the Philippines: Many Westerners are used to organizational cultures in which confrontation is the norm. In meetings, folks show their feelings, glare and gesticulate, criticize and even yell one another. But -- hey, no hard feelings -- they end up going out for a drink after work or watching a ball game together that weekend.

Not in the Philippines! A raised voice, the wrong intonation, the implication of incompetence, or excessive direct eye contact can do major damage. Although Mahatma Gandhi invented passive resistance in the fight for Indian independence, one might think it's actually an indigenous Philippine phenomenon. Once you're perceived as arrogant and pushy, you're in interpersonal quicksand. Among the forms taken by passive resistance in this context: not returning phone calls, missing deadlines, misinterpreting instructions, failure to follow through. Most of the time you won't even known what hit you until it's too late.

The Philippine Business as Family. The family is always of vital importance in the Philippines; not surprisingly, most business organizations are modeled on the Filipino family. The boss and subordinate often exist in a bata relationship, basically like that between parent and child (bata literally meaning "child"). As a consequence, paternalistic management styles are the norm.

Further, the Spanish compradzago system, with its dense networks of godparents and other quasi-relatives, affects most business settings. The Filipino family is defined quite broadly, and includes many people who are called "uncle" (Tito), "auntie" (Tita), and "cousin" (Pinsan), even though they are not related by blood. In many companies, a good proportion of employees fall into this category, which means they are not likely to be fired for inefficiency unless they really make a mess of things. In larger corporations, the nepotism may devolve to the departmental level and may be less salient, but it probably still exists.

As you might expect, such a paternalistic and hierarchical management structure implies that decision making in most organizations is done at the top. And unless you have some excellent inside connections or referrals, your initial contacts are not likely to be with the decision-maker. Getting to someone who can and will act on a proposal (i.e., sign a contract, write a check) often has be done through one or more gatekeepers, a process that can take a seeming eternity. However, once you finally push your way through to the top, the gears can shift quickly and deals completed at warp speed.

Unknown Vocabulary Word - "No!": In dealing with Filipinos, you soon discover that they don't much care for the word "no." In a Western setting, it's usually pretty clear when the other party isn't interested in your proposal, whatever it might be. The responsible executive simply looks you in the eye and says: "Sorry, but I'm afraid the answer no." If you ask why, he or she will probably tell you the reasons for the negative decision.

However, as usual, the Philippines is different. Given the culture value of pakikisama (group loyalty) and the importance of maintaining social harmony, disagreement or interpersonal tension of any sort is distasteful. As a result, business negotiations often have far more ambiguity than the typical Westerner is used to.

For example, when a Filipino executive feels that telling the truth might embarrass or offend, he or she will often beat around the bush. In this context, "yes" doesn't necessarily mean "yes." The word "yes" could also mean "maybe," "I guess that's what you want to hear," "Perhaps someday," "I have no idea," or "No." There are, of course, a wide array of subtle cues to the real meaning, some nonverbal and some in Tagalog. For example, the word mamaya implies "later today," while saka na means more like "sometime later, maybe tomorrow, maybe next month, or next year ... "

This unwillingness to say no affects the international businessperson in several ways. Many Filipino executives will always be "out" rather than answer a phone call or meet with someone they know they're going to have to turn down. This can be very frustrating when you're trying to nail down a contract or find out what's going on one way or the other. It can take a lot longer to get a firm negative answer than in other countries, a situation which can leave you hanging in a way that can be hard to explain to, let's say, the head office back in London.

Another consequence is ningas cogon, an idiomatic phrase referring to what happens when you set a blazing fire, only to watch it quickly fizzle out. The phrase refers to a rather unfortunate tendency to start projects and never finish them. Many meetings in Manila seem positive and productive, fueled by the adrenaline rush of money to be made, and sure to lead to great and wonderful things. All too often, the projects under discussion never get off the ground as the parties involved move on to other projects. This is usually because some participants were reluctant to show their reservations in the first place; they wanted to go along with the group consensus and share your fervor. While this has the short-term advantage of everyone leaving the meeting with a pleasant buzz, the longer-term consequences include puzzlement, frustration, and resentment.

Summary: In closing, I would stress that the communications and management styles described here are not dishonest or intended to cheat you. They simply reflect the Filipino culture and long-established way of doing things. The models and ideal types taught in Western-oriented MBA programs are based on certain assumptions, many of which are invalid in the Philippines. Although organizations here have most of the structures and formal procedures of Western business, actual day-to-day business processes and interactions necessarily proceed within the matrix of Filipino culture and values. Thus, the need for the Westerner to go "the extra mile" to understand what's really going on and adapt a culturally sensitive style of doing business.
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And, donï¿½t worry if you are older or overweight, like half the population of the western world. Both women and men here have the highest respect for age and weight is a plus to some here. It is a status symbol. If you are overweight, you virtually lose twenty percent of your weight when you step on Philippine soil.

Most Filipinas like a man with a little, or even a lot of, meat on his bones. And the men here are attracted to "heavy" women, a sign of health to them, especially in provincial areas. In Asian cultures generally, being overweight is a sign of substance and wealth.

Love is serious business with these conservative Filipino women, whether they are from a city like Manila or the countryside, the province. I go so far as to say, especially young Filipina girls in the province where every one knows everything about everyone.

Virginity is sacred in this Catholic country. Filipino men are not interested in marrying a non virgin. I am sorry if that sounds strange or unforgiving, but in this culture the woman is responsible unless she is raped. May this is not fair, but that is the way it is and the Filipina girls know it. Many are badly hurt by men who lie and promise marriage, with no intention of ever marrying them. But they are forewarned in no uncertain terms most often. They know the risk they are taking by trusting a man who want to have sex before marrriage.

And if a married woman strays, everyone knows it. Filipino men are reluctant to marry a non-virgin. The culture and the family lets the girl know it is her responsibility to keep her virginity, not the man's. They are well aware that most men are animals. As a man, I must agree with that. To steal one of Jay Leno's jokes, "Research doctors at Johns Hopkins just this week, took out a man's heart and replaced it with heart of a pig." Then Jay says, "Know what happened?" Then he punches with, "Nothing." "Everything was just the same." Filipina women know it is their responsibility to guard their virginity. If they don't, they often pay a serious emotional and social price. If you are involved with a girl who is not a virgin in this culture, you are running the risk of getting involved with an emotionally unstable woman. She has broken the cultural mores, disobeyed her parents others. She may have other problems too, but maybe not. I feel, why take the risk. You may feel differently with good cause.
chinesebizman June 27, 2008 8:11 AM: Fellow Flips,

Hi. I’m not trying to defend Jollibee, but what’s your beef with Tan-Caktiong being Filipino-Chinese? To me, he’s Filipino. He might be even more Filipino than you and I. What’s “Filipino” in the first place? Will you please trace your family history? I bet you’ll find a chopstick or two somewhere. I understand the Wal-Mart effect and all that of Henry Sy’s SM, but you must recognize that Fil-Chi businessmen are not pure evil. They dared to put up businesses against all odds, and they provide employment opportunities (they tend to scrimp on the wage, but I give them the benefit of the doubt that their wage decision is totally dependent on market conditions). Their businesses may sometimes or oftentimes force others (often little enterprises) to close down, but they also do attract others to put up their own.

Now, about that thing on identity… It may be true Jollibee is only in it for the profit, but because of its tremendous success here and relative success abroad, it has become so ubiquitous to the point that it has become an unofficial landmark of the land. Our people liked their formula; will you blame Jollibee for that? Why not blame the Filipino for embracing Jollibee? Jollibee was just asking their loyal patrons' money and not exactly campaigning for Filipino identity. It’s the Filipinos themselves that bestowed that honor, if that’s indeed an honorific.

Besides, what's wrong with making a decent profit? For years, I've frowned on Jollibee's practice of contractualizing labor, but everybody's doing it now, purportedly in the face of current market realities. I am not sure if they're telling the truth, and I can't get into that right now.
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