The upside of being ‘pasaway’

For most Pinoys, being the pasaway means that you are marked as the one to watch out for, in the negative sense. You are the troublemaker, the one whom everyone expects to do the worst thing possible. And even if you do try to help, you’ll probably do it in a way that will cause people headaches. Let’s face it, if the root word of the term for you means that you are always being reprimanded, then you know that you’re not on Santa’s “nice” list for Christmas.

However, that shouldn’t get you down. There are advantages to being the pasaway.

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“Stubbornness is sometimes a place to sit and fume,” by Lars Plougmann, c/o flickr.com
 

Living in the City

Many people don’t think much about living in the city, let alone living in a a burgeoning metropolis like Metro Manila. Sure, we have the hokey “Anak ng Pasig” city-loyalty ballads, and you can think about all the North and South comparisons, but at the end of the day, most people don’t think about how the city has changed the way we lived. Sometimes, it’s for the better, and sometimes it’s for the worse. And it always is somehow interesting, if you think about it.

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“Untitled,” by FEDRA Studio, c/o Flickr.com

North and South – The Metro Manila Divide

If you grew up anywhere in Metro Manila, chances are you had the idea of how the Northern Metro area was very different from the South – and we’re not just talking about geography. Somehow, there was a basic difference in how people were between the North and South of Metro Manila.


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Photos by Richard Ramos

Unleash your inner Ninja

Ninjas have captured the public’s imagination, thanks to how entertainment media has portrayed them: silent, cunning, and ready with a trick or two that can make them look at the very least eerie, and at the best (or worst) magical.
So you’re probably thinking: can you be a ninja?

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“ninja.jpg-tm,” by Andrés Álvarez Iglesias

‘Pag may time': The Pinoy art of not doing something

I’m sure that most people reading this article has either been exasperated that someone is avoiding giving you time for something you want them to do, or have themselves avoided doing something for someone else, citing time issues. Among Filipinos, this habit can reach epic proportions, and may, in fact, be the root cause of many social issues today.

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“Time Card,” by Matti Mattila, c/o Flickr.Com