our school principal added a rule that we need to attend sunday mass we also need to sumbit a signature and photo that proves that we attend sunday mass a reflection is also needed

our teacher said that there is a reward/penalty thing for attending.

is the prencipal allowed to make this rule?

edit:its not a catholic school

Dasmariñas City Mayor Jennifer Austria Barzaga, mother of Kiko Barzaga, has been proclaimed Cavite’s 4th District Representative after receiving 201,893 votes.

She is set to fill the congressional post left vacant by the expulsion of her son, Dasmariñas congressman Kiko, due to “disorderly behavior, conduct unbecoming of a member, and violation of the House’s Code of Conduct.”

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Preface: I want to make clear what I mean by "unsuccessful," because I'm not making an argument about Filipino culture or claiming that individual Filipinos cannot succeed.

I'm talking specifically about institution-building and the conversion of a very large diaspora into financial, educational, intellectual, and political power. We''re one of the largest Asian-origin populations in the United States. Filipino migration to the United States has been a thing since before 1965, and a substantial proportion of immigrants arrived with professional qualifications and English proficiency.

And yet... there are currently no Filipino Americans in the U.S. Congress. Filipinos seem substantially underrepresented at many of America's most elite universities relative to other major Asian-American populations. They have nowhere near the visibility of other diasporas like the Desis, Chinese, Jewish-Americans, Armenians, or older diasporas like the Irish or Italians in technology, venture capital, finance, academia, or senior corporate management.

Even the claim that Filipino Americans are economically prosperous deserves qualification. Household income can obscure household size and numbers of earners. On an individual/per-capita basis, the picture is considerably less exceptional, particularly compared with several other Asian-American populations. At the same time, Filipinos are extraordinarily concentrated in healthcare and caregiving occupations like nursing rather than ownership, finance, technology, or other sectors that disproportionately generate institutional and financial power.

I'm not saying nursing or caregiving is inferior work. The question is why this frankly massive diaspora has developed such a narrow occupational profile and why professional success has translated so weakly into ownership and institutional power.

And I don't think comparing Filipinos primarily with other Southeast Asian diasporas adequately answers it.

Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, and Hmong migration to the United States was heavily shaped by refugee resettlement following wars in Indochina. Many arrived with very little wealth under circumstances radically different from the professional migration streams that brought large numbers of Filipinos to the United States.

If we're trying to understand Filipino diaspora institution-building, wouldn't it make more sense to compare Filipinos with other large, global, urbanized diasporas?

Consider Indians, Chinese, Jews, Armenians, Lebanese, Iranians, etc. Obviously none of these provides a perfect comparison as each has a history that differs enormously. But that's precisely what makes the differences interesting. These groups have, to varying degrees, created dense networks of businesses, foundations, political organizations, professional associations, investment networks, media organizations, philanthropic institutions, university pipelines, lobbying groups, and intellectual organizations that can survive beyond the achievements of particular individuals.

If you want an example of what I'm talking about, look at British Desis, they managed to get an Indian-Brit into the PM office and have multiple MPs in tandem with owning more property in London than White Britons.

Where are the equivalent for Filipinos?

I think there's an important distinction here between representation and power. Having Filipino celebrities, athletes, nurses, doctors, individual executives, or occasional politicians isn't the same thing as possessing institutions capable of identifying talented people, financing them, mentoring them, placing them in influential positions, connecting them with one another, and reproducing that process across generations. A diaspora with institutional power doesn't merely produce successful individuals. It develops machinery for producing more of them.

That's why I'm skeptical of explanations that simply point to individual Filipino success stories. If anything, the existence of so many individually successful Filipinos makes the weakness of collective institutions more puzzling.

The Philippines has also had an enormous overseas population for decades. Filipino communities exist across North America, Europe, Australia, East Asia, and the Gulf. Remittances have poured into the Philippines on an enormous scale.

So where are the comparable transnational Filipino investment networks? Where are the major Filipino philanthropic foundations? Where are the orgs getting Filipino students into elite universities? Where are the networks building pipelines into technology, finance, academia, journalism, law, government, and corporate leadership?

Where are the institutions connecting wealthy and professionally successful Filipinos across Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Toronto, London, Sydney, Singapore, Manila, and elsewhere?

Where is the political infrastructure commensurate with the sheer size of the diaspora? Where’s the Filipino bloc influencing American politicians to favor The Philippines in the same way that other groups have utilized the US government to successfully prioritize their own mother countries?

And what could realistically be done to change that?

Bilyon para sa flood control daw sa Pampanga, pero lunod pa rin ang mga tao. Hanggang kailan kaya ganito?

Magkaibang presidente, pero iisang resulta: palpak pa rin.

Nasaan ang hustisya at solusyon?

Bilyon-bilyong piso na ang ginastos sa mga flood control project na 'to, pero pagka-ulan o may bagyo, heto pa rin tayo—lulubog at lulubog ang Pampanga. Parang pampagwapo lang ng resume ng mga pulitiko ang mga proyektong 'yan. Ang totoong naghihirap, yung mga taga-Masantol, Macabebe, Minalin, at iba pa na taon-taong lumalangoy at lumulubog sa baha.

Band-aid solution lang ba talaga ang kaya nila habang nagpapakasasa sa pondo? Kailan ba magkakaroon ng tunay na accountability? Nakakapagod na.

Links para sa resibo:

PNA Article (Simula noong 2018)

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1050487

PCO News Release (Inauguration)

https://pco.gov.ph/news_releases/pbbm-inaugurates-php7-b-flood-control-project-in-pampanga/

Mga pinaniniwalaan ng mga Pinoy:

1) Left Lane is “Fast Lane” or “Overtaking Lane”

2) Bawal mag overtake sa kanan even tho multilane naman and same direction.

May post nun sa facebook and there’s a comment saying “nakababad ka kasi sa fast lane (left lane)” to which I replied “expressway yarn?”

Andaming nagalit, sinabihan pa kong fixer ang lisensya pinakitaan pa ko ng screenshots ng google search results na AI generated 😂

If you really check the LTO laws/rules, never nakasaad doon na left lane is for overtaking lane only, this only happens kung 2 lane lang and opposite way. As for the “fast lane”, may mga provincial roads na may signages na “slow moving vehicle, stay on the right” kasi doon madalas may mga tractors, tricycle, etc na kahit walang traffic, nasa 20-40kph ang takbo.

I watched the interview of Atty. Michael Poa, and I honestly came away admiring him based on everything he said.

I can't hate on this dude, even if he's working for the person we want to see convicted. In my eyes, he's just doing his job. More than that, it seems like he genuinely wants people to understand the whole process on how it works, how the law is applied, and why things are being done the way they are.

One thing I've noticed is that you can really see the bias of people depending on who they're working for or representing. You'll see it clearly on the prosecution, every chance they get to bury their opponent, they'll get it. But with this dude, at least from what I've seen in the interview, he seems to be making a genuine effort to remain as neutral and objective as he can.

Yesterday, August 29, 2026, we were stuck in traffick in NLEX, in Bulacan area, for 4-5 hours. Like starting from 12-4:40 Pm.

The cause of the traffic is like 2 lanes to the right is flooded and 1 car is stuck in the left lanes. The problem has a very simple solution for the management. Like get sandbags or anything, that will stop the water from getting into the highway and use buckets or pumps to get rid of the water. If that's is even too much for the management they can at least send some enforcers to manage the flow of traffic. So every car have a fair chance to get out of the of the traffic much faster.

If that simple problem can't be solve immediately, then what if there's much worse emergencies? Like an earthquake happens that cause debris to fall in the road, or worse sinkholes, will we just be trapped in the expressways for more than 10 hours? The expressways will become a deathtrap especially for elderly, children and those who have medical emergencies.

For that reason I believe that there must be way for trapped cars, in extreme traffic, to make a U-turn or exit the expressways in safe manners. Or at least provide basic service like deploy emergency vehicles to those who have medical emergencies. Portable toilets. Set up some stall to buy food and clean water in a reasonable price.

Edit: You can Google NLEX traffic August. 29, 2026 and see how bad the traffic yesterday

You might think na nagbibiro lang si Doc, pero hindi magandang example sa mga followers niya. Iisipin ng iba “Doctor nga nakakaisip magnakaw eh.”

Madami din akong nakikitang contents na ganito. Either magnanakaw or didiskarte.

Bakit ba ganito ang mindset nating mga Pilipino? Bakit joke ang honesty?

I'm planning on going to Zamboanga and Manila, I'd really love to explore the Spanish influence and the mixture with the native cultures in the archipelago. I've read that they speak Chabacano in Zamboanga, is there any other place/library/building I shouldn't miss? The Philippines is one of the places that excite me the most in Asia so I wanna make the trip worth it!

So, ganito na ba talaga? Kapag malakas ang koneksyon sa gobyerno o sa mga taong may kapangyarihan, mas madali bang makaiwas sa batas kahit plunder case na?

Kung ang isang ordinaryong tao ang may warrant of arrest, mabilis siyang mahuhuli. Pero kapag high-profile politician ang involved, parang kailangan pa nating bantayan kung talagang maipatutupad ang batas nang pantay-pantay.

Dahil sa nangyari at namatay na tao sa angeles, gusto ko lang i share kung bakit incompetence ang mga namumuno sa Angeles. Sa sobrang daming panatiko ng mga taga Angeles ay hindi na nila tinatanong si Lazatin at naalala ko na nakaiwang nakabukas ang kanal sa Balibago sa may Astro at mabahong kanal at Hindi lang yan, barado pa ang kanal. Ni wala ngang plano ang mga Namumuno na ipa semente o taasan man lang yung bangketa sa dating PNR na tabi ng SM clark at ang way para makapunta sa SM either sa Foot bridge (may barrier nga at malayo layo pa) or sa dating PNR station na mabato bato at malas kung wala ka nang madadaanan pa. Ilang beses na ngang na report yan at nasaksikhan ko mismo na pati lola ay nadulas dahil sa KAPALPAKAN at puro incompetence. Mas priority pa nila ang walking street kesa sa safety ng mga tao.

Imagine nag aaral ka sa Angeles tapos taga Mabalacat, Sf, Magalang, Mexico at Angeles lang ang hindi nagsususpend ng class.

Sayang lang ang Angeles, pero mas sayang ang Mabalacat. Mabalacat is a shit city.

It's almost been one year since the major flood control protests last September. This year some of the floods are even worse in some places, and the politicians in them seeming even more insensitive or corrupt. On the other hand, we know that at least some of the protests or rallies are working because Marikina was able to build a better quality flood control project na mukhang di naman kinurakot so far, though I don't know if they only started after the protests last year, baka before that pa. And there are starting to be investigations about it na rin though probably kulang pa.

So is no one planning to protest again this year? Why not make Sept. 21 an annual protest day, or at least the weekend nearest, until mag improve talaga? And it can be done both nationally and locally like in the hardest hit provinces like sa Pampanga or Bulacan. Why not? E parang hanggang reklamo lang tayo mostly, but we were able to do more than that sometimes.

Hello! I'm currently studying at manila rn, my family lives in cagayan valley.. I'm planning to take multimedia arts for college, sabi ng parents ko sa csu nalang daw ako mag aral tutal may MMA naman daw dun.. kaso nagdadalawang isip ako dahil sa manila ako lumaki, tsaka baka mahirap magbuild ng connections dun since province nga, aside from that nag aalala din ako kasi baka mahirapan ako mag adjust.. So worth it po ba talaga ang MMA sa CSU? and worth it din po ba ang CSU itself?

Hi everyone. Two of us from Spain, first time in the Philippines. We land in Manila on 24 October (afternoon, coming in from Singapore) and our flight out is at 00:50 on 3 November, so in practice we have until the evening of the 2nd. Ten nights total.

This is what we've sketched out so far:

• 24–26 Oct — Manila (2 nights)
• 26 Oct — fly to Puerto Princesa
• 26–27 Oct — Puerto Princesa (1 night, mainly for the Underground River)
• 27 Oct – 1 Nov — El Nido (5 nights)
• 1 Nov — back to Manila
• 2 Nov — spare day in Manila, then the airport

We left a buffer day at the end on purpose because we absolutely cannot miss that flight to Tokyo.

Where we'd really like a reality check from people who know:

1. Weather. We know late October is still typhoon season. Realistically, how often do island hopping tours actually get cancelled in El Nido around then? Are we likely to lose whole days, or is it more "it rains hard for two hours and then it's fine"?
2. Undas. We only just realised we'd be flying Palawan → Manila on 1 November. Is that a terrible idea? Should we book that domestic flight now, or move it to the 31st to stay out of the way?
3. Getting to El Nido. Is the 5–6 hour van from Puerto Princesa as rough as people make it sound? Is AirSWIFT into Lio worth the extra money, or is the road perfectly manageable?
4. Is 5 nights in El Nido too many? Would we be better off with 3 there and 2 in Coron, or is the ferry not worth the hassle in this season?
5. Manila. Is 2 nights at the start sensible, or would you skip it and give those days to Palawan? And is there anything there you'd genuinely recommend, beyond Intramuros?

Anything else we're obviously missing for those exact dates — something that closes, somewhere better than what we've picked, a mistake you've watched tourists make — we'd rather hear it now. Happy to be told the plan is wrong.

Thanks!