Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Only in the Philippines...

only in the Philippines, where almost every street has a basketball court...

only in the Philippines, where even doctors, lawyers and engineers are unemployed..

only in the Philippines, where doctors study to become nurses for employment abroad...

only in the Philippines, where a school is considered the second home and the mall considered the third..

only in the Philippines, where call-center employees earn more money than the teachers and nurses...

only in the Philippines, where everyone has his personal ghost story and superstition...

only in the Philippines, where almost everything can be forged..

only in the Philippines, where the personal computer is mainly used for games and FACEBOOK...

only in the Philippines, Where 4 AM. is not yet considered as bedtime yet...

only in the Philippines, where everything and everyone is spoofed...

only in the Philippines, where floodwaters take up more than 90 percent of the streets during rainy season

only in the Philippines, where the definition of traffic is the "non-movement of vehicles"...

only in the Philippines, where everyone wants to leave the country...

only in the Philippines that there’s a Mexican tele-novela on every channel and all of them are named Maria...

only in the Philippines that the sales clerk staples your bag 20 times...

only in the Philippines that when you buy tapes and cd’s, everything is mixed up...

only in the Philippines that when girls dress like guys; jeans and a polo shirt...

only in the Philippines that when balikbayans (Filipinos from abroad) show off...

only in the Philippines that there’s a tagalog version of a popular English song or Chinese song...

only in the Philippines that all action stars wear leather jackets...

only in the Philippines that there are too many sales ladies in a store. 1 sales lady for every fixture...

only in the Philippines that the biggest shoe size for men is 10...

only in the Philippines that when you buy something for P50.25 and the sales lady asks if you have 25 centavos...

only in the Philippines that TV stations don’t put parental guidance on the news when they show dead bodies...

only in the Philippines that a taxi driver has a rosary on the rear view mirror, then tries to rip you off...

only in the Philippines that people are almost always late...

only in the Philippines that an XL shirt fits like a L...

only in the Philippines that when you buy something for P100.05 and the clerk doesn't give you your 5 cents becuase they don't have 5 cents...

only in the Philippines that people think that the whole United States is like Beverly Hills 90210...

only in the Philippines that when your mail gets lost stolen and ****ed up.

only in the Philippines that when you spend 1 hour in traffic, then your teacher doesn’t show up in class...

only in the Philippines that there are too many different sized coins. (Then the government makes them invalid)...

only in the Philippines that sales ladies follow you around the store...

only in the Philippines that when you need a sales lady; she’s busy making chismis (gossip) with her co-workers...

only in the Philippines that people pick their nose in public (oh, in China too. so nevermind)...

only in the Philippines that men lift up their shirts to scratch expose their big belly...

only in the Philippines that a clerk at the counter to stamps your receipt and checks it with a pen...

only in the Philippines that people walk in the middle of the street...

only in the Philippines that it takes forever to fix the road...

only in the Philippines that there are pot holes in the street... actually, there are streets in the potholes...

only in the Philippines that a garbage cans are too small...

only in the Philippines that the bus ticket guy asks you how many tickets you want when it's obvious that your alone...

only in the Philippines that when you own land in a prime spot and 300 squatter families live on it...

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Monday, September 7, 2009

First few flashmobs in the Philippines

The first flashmob I saw in the Philippines was in Glorietta. It was done in small-scale but, it was really fun watching the dozens of reactions from people all around.



The other was just done recently and I was fortunate to have watched it first hand! Although I didn't take any videos because I was stunned at that time, I saw the same video uploaded in Youtube just recently too!



..and I am sure, there is more to come! This is a way of getting 100% of the people's attention. In fact, I've read a comment in the video above that they will apply that strategy for their company in Singapore! :)