I hope my friends don’t mind that I’m taking this public. For good measure, I blocked their personal info out. These were the rants that fueled my previous post. The general consensus according to N, more than education, is the Filipino attitude of “that’s the way it is,” or “pwede na” in the local tongue.

A general note about my friends in this posting, is that we all share an experience of living in Manila and various parts of the world, which includes San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Belgium, and Milan. Our references of comparison come from living on both sides of the border, in almost equal amounts of time in our lives so far.