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Filed under culture, family, people, rants
I am of the opinion that a parent should at some point be free of primary responsibility over a child. Say, when you are 18 freaking years old, you should already know how to feed yourself, do your own laundry, and wipe your own ass.
I know we Filipinos like bonding so much that we tend to keep several generations under one roof, but I don’t like it. To me, parents should already be enjoying the sunset of their lives when the children are grown. They should only be enjoying their lazy afternoons and dote on their grandchildren.
A child should move out of the family nest, if not upon reaching legal age, then upon getting married. That is the only way for the child to learn how to handle responsibilities. This might be hard to do in some circumstances, but don’t you think it is only fair that a child who still lives at home at least contribute to the family coffer and not totally depend on the aging parents? It’s not about the money, it is about the backbone. And although a grandparent can help watch over a grandchild, the parent still should have primary responsibility (especially the financial worries) over the grandchild.
I’ve been independent since I was 17, and financially independent since I was 21. I haven’t asked for a centavo ever since. I am not saying though that I am a model child. Far from it. I can’t cook decent meals for myself and I hate doing the laundry, but I don’t ask my mother either to do my chores for me.
What I am saying is that we should at least try to be self-reliant, to unburden our parents of the worries they had when they raised us and watched over us for several years.
You know why our country is so poor? I don’t think it’s because of the corruption in the government. I’d like to go back to the basic, and it starts in the family: so many of us do not have backbones.
Filed under blogging, rants
I’ve lost count of the number of times that my server was down, and customer support is almost always never available. I am pissed. At first, it was easy to brush off. But then when you can’t access your blog most of the day, and then it happens many times a week, then moving out is the only sensible decision. It’s affecting my already measly traffic.
A number of people have told me that they can’t access my blog, and it alarms me. How many visitors have the patience to wait for your blog to be okay, and how many of them are hooked enough to try to open the page again some other time?
It was bad service from the start. It took them awhile to set up my account. I lost several weeks of the one-year term that I bought. I had to make a long-distance call to follow up, and all I was told was that I should just wait, as if it was my mistake that I didn’t wait long enough. I know some webhosts can set up their clients’ accounts in 48 hours. Some even set up their clients’ sites; all the client does is log in and write away.
I didn’t get any help at all in setting up this blog. I didn’t really expect them to set it up for me, but some technical guidance would have been helpful. There was a time when I messed up my database configurations, so the blog was down for almost a week. I submitted a ticket, but I didn’t get any response at all. It didn’t surprise me.
I am moving to another webhost before the year ends. For now, I am scouting for a webhost that is stable and has excellent customer support. Any suggestions? This blog is currently hosted by Philhosting, so please forget it.
Filed under rants
No offense to the animal that is the porcupine, because I think they are goodhearted animals. They only use their spines to defend themselves. But I think there are people who resemble the porcupine physically. They walk around with thorns all over them, even if you’re not doing anything to them. Even if you leave them in peace, and have kept mum about what they have been saying and doing, they just can’t stop. Never mind that what they say, they are actually only referring to themselves.
What do you call a person who just can’t live a day without trodding on another’s peace, to put it mildly?
I’d say that person is pathetic. I’d bet a million pesos and say that that person will never rise above the ordinary.
As for me, I am busy having a life. I don’t give a minute’s worth of my time to people who can pull me down. To me, it’s as if they don’t exist. But I retaliate when I’ve had enough, and I do it with sophistication. I’ve never been one to sit down.
And oh, I am not just imagining things. Because if I am, there are probably 20 of us who are imagining things.That’s against the law of the common denominator.
Filed under rants, technology, work
So I take a break from writing about cables and signals and transmissions to see if my blog is still up and decided to vent. Okay, I know what PSTN is. That’s not really what this post is about.
I was just overwhelmed these past few weeks about how much I needed to take in, especially when I was in Lexington. And the more I learn, the more I realize how way behind my third-world country is in terms of technology. I consider myself more technically advanced than the average Filipino, but when these lay American people talk, you’d think they have offices in their homes. I could only think, we don’t have that in our mountain.
It was tempting to butt in and say, excuse me, but we only have three telecommunications companies in my third-world country and they don’t offer that service, so can you please bother explaining what you are talking about?
That should have told them how far behind we are, and to be more, uh, considerate of me.
Don’t believe me? Go inside Circuit City, and go inside a Filipino IT store (uh, what do we have, by the way? CDR-King?). The difference screams in your face.
Hear ye, Americans, how blessed you are. I wish you would realize that.
Filed under opinion, personal, rants
I find it weird whenever I am asked abroad if I have a degree, or if I ever went to school, or if we have this or that at home.
I just shrug it off, and answer the best way I can. I see no point in going into a long defense of who I am, where I went, or what I have seen of or done in this world. Sometimes they are surprised when I can converse well in English (Hello?).
No, I am not mad at all. And no, I don’t think the people I talked to were racists. It just makes me sad that the rest of the world still thinks of us as heathens, and this is probably our fault.
I was talking to someone (an American) awhile ago who told me a crazy story about a 20-year-old Filipina who was seriously considering a marriage proposal made on the phone by a 55-year-old American that she has never met.
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