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@jacques_lakan
Lakan
2 years
To avoid straining your eyes when you're continuously working, follow the 20-20-20 rule. After 20 minutes of work, look at something 20 feet away, then spend 20 years in the forest.
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@jacques_lakan
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Bakit mas mabusisi ang mga Marcos supporters sa credentials ni Donny Pangilinan kaysa sa credentials ni BBM lol
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@jacques_lakan
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2 years
Do you hear the people sing?
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@jacques_lakan
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Bongbong barely did anything to help during the pandemic and a year later he's waltzing around like the presidency is his God-given right
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@jacques_lakan
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2 years
Sorry, I will never give BBM a chance. Non-negotiable sa’ kin ang pagiging sinungaling. Non-negotiable sa ‘kin ang pagiging magnanakaw. Non-negotiable sa ‘kin ang pagtanggi ng basic facts about our history
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@jacques_lakan
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2 years
This was my Heartstopper
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@jacques_lakan
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4 years
Don’t use “congressman” or “congresswoman.” Use gender neutral terms like pig, virus, traydor, taksil, pahirap sa sambayanan #JunkTerrorBill #JunkTerrorBillNOW
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@jacques_lakan
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1 year
Of course an American would steal from a Filipino. Just like history.
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To avoid straining your eyes at work, use the 20-20-20 rule: Every 20 minutes, go for a 20-minute hike and spend the next 20 years in the woods.
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@jacques_lakan
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2 years
Paris if Mark Villar was mayor
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@jacques_lakan
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2 years
Not my president
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@jacques_lakan
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2 years
I don't know why I keep on forgetting things so easily and not functioning at the same level as before. Am I suffering from brain fog from long COVID? Am I exhausted from the pandemic? Am I just stupid? Is it all three? Who knows.
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@jacques_lakan
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2 years
One of the sad parts about being middle-class in the Philippines is watching all your friends move abroad
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@jacques_lakan
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5 years
Can’t believe some people use “law of supply and demand” to justify exorbitant prices of basic supplies during disasters. What a vulgar application of economic concepts. Here’s another law: the law of human decency that you prioritize human welfare over profit during crisis
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@jacques_lakan
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2 years
Mark Villar will NEVER make a bridge as good as the one in Taylor Swift’s Cruel Summer
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@jacques_lakan
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2 years
Bongbong Marcos has no incentive to solve the educational crisis because his support thrives on miseducation
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@jacques_lakan
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2 years
Has he done anything but party since taking office?
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as expected lol
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@jacques_lakan
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3 years
There's really something drastically wrong with the PH educational system. Students are expected to shoulder such a heavy and unfair workload and for what? Does it improve learning? No. It just causes even worse stress and burnout
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@jacques_lakan
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2 years
I will accomplish it. But I will also complain. Often and loudly.
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@jacques_lakan
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2 years
Kind of wild that this is Joy Belmonte’s background
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@jacques_lakan
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5 years
List of people who work harder than billionaires: — drivers — street-sweepers — teachers — the middle-class — parents who carry their kids on public transpo — farmers — healthcare practitioners — cooks — employees at the assembly line — single moms — janitors — the working class
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@jacques_lakan
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2 years
Ang hindi lumingon sa pinanggalingan ay papunta pa lang sa exciting part. Your daughter is sleeping with my husband.
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@jacques_lakan
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2 years
Filipino senators always get on this app and tweet something like, this country is so broken, who will fix it? Kuya, you are a SENATOR
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@jacques_lakan
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2 years
Reading Philippine history is like, "this was the dirtiest election in national history until the next election"
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@jacques_lakan
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1 year
First time to go to the beach as a trans girl and wear a bikini publicly!! Girls with bulges!!
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@jacques_lakan
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4 years
I’m so fucking tired of malls, build some parks
@ABSCBNNews
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4 years
SALE SALE SALE! Ito ang nakikitang solusyon ng Department of Tourism bilang sagot sa bumababang bilang ng mga turista dahil sa #COVID19 . Basahin:
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@jacques_lakan
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4 years
Is Vico Sotto doing the basic duties of a public oficial? Yes. Am I still falling for him? You bet your fucking ass I am.
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@jacques_lakan
Lakan
4 years
is he dead
@ANCALERTS
ABS-CBN News Channel
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@arianne_merez Roque says President Duterte is now in "perpetual isolation," undergoes regular PCR testing for #COVID19 | via @arianne_merez
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@jacques_lakan
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2 years
As someone living in the Philippines, what could kill you today? A speeding car? A trigger-happy policeman? Heatstroke? A narrow and crumbling sidewalk? Mounting hospital debt? Getting red-tagged?
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@jacques_lakan
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I thought that if I do something half-assed, I shouldn't do it. But I realized it's often better doing something half-assed than leaving it undone. Get out of bed late instead of not getting out at all. Pass a paper with a few typos instead of not submitting. Mediocrity isn't bad
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@jacques_lakan
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2 years
Filipinos pay so much in taxes but we get shit in return
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@jacques_lakan
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2 years
Good morning! Leni will win. Kiko will win. Neri, Bong Labog, Chel, Risa, and Leila will all win! Manifesting and putting this energy out to the world! 🌸💖🌷💗🌺
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@jacques_lakan
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4 years
Di ko talaga alam kung bakit nilalagay yung burden sa ordinary Filipinos na maghanda para sa bagyo. May kakayahan ba ang ordinaryong Filipino na gumawa ng maayos na drainage system at dikes? Na pondohan ang disaster research? Kaya nga tayo nagbabayad ng buwis sa gobyerno eh
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@jacques_lakan
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4 years
Lord I have seen what you’ve done for others
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@jacques_lakan
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2 years
So many places in the Philippines seem walkable. But it’s so unpleasant to walk because it’s all road and sun and smoke, no sidewalks or shade
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@jacques_lakan
Lakan
3 years
A lot of rich people have that particular glow that comes from expensive skincare and a general lack of worry in life
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@jacques_lakan
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1 year
Rich boomers: Why don’t people go outside more? The outside rich boomers built:
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@jacques_lakan
Lakan
4 years
GIVE US PARKS AND LIBRARIES
@rowheyourboat
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Filipinos don't love malls. The only reason we're at them so often is because they're basically the only public spaces we have. We don't have parks, or even libraries.
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@jacques_lakan
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Pwede ba natin ibasura yung idea na mahirap ang Pilipinas kasi tamad ang mga tao? Go to any school, market, mall, field, household, anywhere, and you’ll see hardworking people trying to make a living. Mahirap ang Pilipinas kasi ninanakaw ng iilan ang yaman na dapat hawak ng lahat
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@jacques_lakan
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4 years
Can’t believe that “don’t ask for a better government, be a better person” shit is still trending. Mars, we have the longest lockdown and Filipinos are some of most obedient in mask-wearing and lockdown rules. We don’t need to be better. We need better leaders #OustDuterte
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@jacques_lakan
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2 years
Clarita Carlos challenging Kakie to write a 5000-word essay is the height of her mean-spirited stupidity. Instead of answering Kakie, she relies on her supposed authority to make Kakie look uninformed. Carlos can’t string together a coherent thought in 20 words, let alone 5,000
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@jacques_lakan
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2 years
🟪 #10 Robredo 🟩 #7 Pangilinan 🟥 #4 Baguilat 🟧 #16 Colmenares 🟨 #18 De Lima 🟦 #21 Diokno 🟫 #26 Espiritu 🟪 #34 Hontiveros 🟩 #37 Labog 🟥 #38 Lacson 🟧 #45 Matula 🟨 #63 Zubiaga 🟦 #81 ACT Teachers
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@jacques_lakan
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2 years
Filipino values are camp, chismis, at kabaklaaan
@PierrePoilievre
Pierre Poilievre
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Filipino values are Conservative values: hard work, family & country. Let’s remove gatekeepers here so more foreign-trained nurses, doctors, and skilled workers can do the jobs they’re qualified for here in Canada!
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@jacques_lakan
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3 years
What do we need in the Philippines?
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@jacques_lakan
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2 years
A BBM win won’t be a expression of democracy. No democracy can be built on lies, an immense and elaborate system of disinformation, a refusal to debate or discuss ideas, and a complete denial of basic facts and history
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@jacques_lakan
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Magna Cum Laude AND on time AND has a jowa AND looks that fresh? Pick one gurl
@Black_SheepPH
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Liza Soberano. Enrique Gil. Alone. Together. #AloneTogether in cinemas February 13, 2019 #AloneTogetherTeaser
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@jacques_lakan
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The i in Leni, Kiko, and Sara stands for integrity
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@jacques_lakan
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3 years
Your political choices are a reflection of what you value. But supporting a progressive candidate doesn’t automatically make you a good person. If you don’t reflect properly or you lack self-awareness, you can still treat others badly even when you claim to support just causes
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@jacques_lakan
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3 years
Can’t believe Duterte supporters really went from “change is coming” to “Wala siyang magawa sa COVID, corruption, o kahirapan sa Pilipinas. Mabuti honest siya.” The bar is in hell
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@jacques_lakan
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2 years
We can't "get over" Leni because her campaign mobilized one of the most hopeful and far-reaching people's movements in recent memory. And her loss was marked by so many irregularities that any functioning democracy would have rejected the results of the 2022 elections
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@jacques_lakan
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4 years
Lahat tayo may duende sa bahay na kumukuha ng mga gamit at binabalik when we ask nicely
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@jacques_lakan
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3 years
How can anyone say tinola is tasteless? Have you tried putting ginger in it???
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@jacques_lakan
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2 years
TRIGGER WARNING Someone left this comment on my TikTok vid about Martial Law but somehow kakampinks are the toxic ones?
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@jacques_lakan
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It’s so sad that we’re an archipelago but so many Filipinos can’t enjoy or go to the beach because our coastlines are privately owned, polluted, or poorly-managed
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@jacques_lakan
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4 years
Ousting Duterte is good for everyone's mental health
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@jacques_lakan
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4 years
All Filipino presidents are bastards
@MalacananEvents
Malacañang Events and Catering Services
4 years
Hmmm 🤔🤔🤔
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@jacques_lakan
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I tolerated some horrible people in my life because I thought, what if I lose them? But I realized that losing them is fine. They should have thought about losing me. The bridges I burn will light my way.
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@jacques_lakan
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5 years
ok boomer — clichéd — milked already for all its worth sige enrile — specific to the PH — recognizes it wasn’t the boomers that fucked up the PH, but a particular set of ultra-elite, Marcos-crony boomers — ensures that piece of fossilized shit isn’t rehabilitated
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@jacques_lakan
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DUQUE COA
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@jacques_lakan
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5 years
How does the Philippines not have a humanitarian crisis right now? Millions without access to water, scheduled power interruptions in the next weeks, commuters forced through hell, thousands dead in an immoral war on drugs, farmers pushed to poverty by a rice tarrification law
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@jacques_lakan
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2 years
Friendships are honestly hard to maintain in the PH, especially when you're working. There are no public places to gather. If you and your friends live in different cities, good luck commuting to see them. You can chat online, but face-to face interactions are really different
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@jacques_lakan
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4 years
“Filipinos are lazy” is an effective way of displacing blame to the often powerless individual Filipino instead of blaming the true culprits of poverty: a greedy, voracious elite-run government which has failed to provide any quality basic services
@ABSCBNNews
ABS-CBN News
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LOOK: Teacher Efren Cabotage climbs a mountain to enroll students who do not have stable internet connection.
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@jacques_lakan
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I can't believe DepEd and CHED expected teachers to become vloggers in like two months and gain video production, set-up, editing, sound mixing skills WHILE working on modules and course packs.
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@jacques_lakan
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5 years
Imagine being one of the most corrupt and bloodthirsty presidents in PH history, faking an illness to escape prosecution, not just escaping justice but squeezing into another position of power. And you wear a dress based on the people whose lands you’ve helped steal. Disgusting
@newswatchplusph
NewsWatch Plus PH
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Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo wears a Pidayit gown inspired by Aetas from her province. The ensemble is the work of Kapampangan designer Philip Torres | @TristanNodalo #SONA2019
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@jacques_lakan
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From now on this image is how we tell time
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@jacques_lakan
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3 years
The expectations for young adults — a stable, well-paying job, home ownership, enough free time for leisure and meaningful relationships — were near-impossible to achieve in ordinary times. But in a pandemic?? Don’t feel you’re a failure. We’re all just trying to stay alive
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@jacques_lakan
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3 years
This secret helps you be a success in whatever field: rich parents. Want to be a great writer? Family money gives you time off to write. Entrepreneur? Rich parents give you a loan and safety net. Lawyer? Rich parents pay for law school and a kasambahay so you can study full-time
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@jacques_lakan
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4 years
Latin honors shouldn't be used as an over-all metric for excellence. Yes, laude grads can be hard-working. But they're also often well-off, or have the fortune of not being a working student and have a good home life where they can study in peace. Not everyone has that
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@jacques_lakan
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3 years
Anak ng mamatay-tao at magnanakaw. Anak ng berdugo. Ang dapat lumaban sa kanila ay mga anak ng bayan. #NoToMarcosDuterte2022
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@jacques_lakan
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3 years
There is always that one happy crush who's smart, funny, hot, kind, compassionate, thoughtful. They crisscross into our lives occasionally, leaving little moments of joy. Alam natin walang mangyayari, pero sapat na ang banayad na presensiya niya. Itapat natin 'yan sa buwan.
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@jacques_lakan
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4 years
Bato dela Rosa has a PhD. The level of education is not equivalent to a person’s character
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@jacques_lakan
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3 years
There’s really something incredibly offensive about rabid Duterte and Marcos supporters suddenly defending recreational drug use after spending the last five years cheering for the brutal deaths of the poor and powerless in the drug war
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@jacques_lakan
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7 months
The average jeepney driver has done more for the country than the average Filipino president
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@jacques_lakan
Lakan
5 years
Rich people stop telling the poor how to live. Do that challenge
@newswatchplusph
NewsWatch Plus PH
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Economic officials say a family of five can live on a minimum monthly income of ₱10,727 as long they practice a 'no-frills' lifestyle
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@jacques_lakan
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3 years
Ang sad ni Isko. First, he tried to be pseudo-opposition. Now, he’s trying to be pseudo-Duterte. But he’s being what he’s always been: a flop.
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@jacques_lakan
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4 years
More class warfare. Di pwede ang jeeps pero pwede ang golfing? Paano yon essential?? Pwede magliwaliw ang mayayaman pero hindi pwede mamuhay ang mga jeepney drivers
@pia_gutierrez
Pia Gutierrez
4 years
Roque says golfing now allowed, subject to application of minimum health standards
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@jacques_lakan
Lakan
2 years
We’re literally on the Pacific Rim of Fire…
@sandraguinaldo
sandra aguinaldo
2 years
Presumptive president Marcos says he discussed with the Ambassador of South Korea the possibility of reviving the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant. “Binuhay namin ang diskusyon na yun. We will study their recommendation and findings,” Marcos said. @gmanews
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@jacques_lakan
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4 years
Sino pumatay ng 20k sa Oplan Tokhang? Sino ang bumobomba ng Lumad schools? Sino ang nagpataas ng mga bilihin sa TRAIN Law? Sino ang nagpapalaganap ng fake news? Sino ang nagnakaw ng 16b sa PhilHealth? Hindi mga aktibista o kahit mga komunista. Kaya bakit sila ang terorista?
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@jacques_lakan
Lakan
2 years
“Bumoto at iwan ang balota.” A COMELEC official is just brazenly endorsing a method that makes you very vulnerable to ballot tampering. Do not leave your ballots. Do not let anyone else feed it into the machine
@jabjimenez
James Jimenez
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@angtamangduda Dalawang options nyo. Bumoto at iwan ang balota, or maghintay hanggang pwede na uli magamit ang makina. #VoteSAFEPilipinas
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@jacques_lakan
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2 years
Deciding my senate slate
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@jacques_lakan
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4 years
Fun fact: if you celebrate your birthday during quarantine, you technically don’t grow any older because time doesn’t work now.
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@jacques_lakan
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4 years
After this crisis is over — and it will end — we cannot go back to normal. Normal is what led to this healthcare crisis and every other crisis in the past few years. We must stop prioritizing profit over human welfare. We must organize ourselves to fight dirty power.
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@jacques_lakan
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3 years
Me dancing in the club when the Philippines fully vaccinates everyone by 2032
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@jacques_lakan
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3 years
#DuterteLegacy ? - 20,000 killed in an illegal drug war - 7,000 daily COVID cases one year after lockdown - 10,000,000,000,000 peso national debt - 55 Lumad schools closed - 61 lawyers killed - 4,000,000 jobless Filipino #DutertePalpak
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@jacques_lakan
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2 years
All these billboards for BBM's SONA, I don't think I've ever seen any other Filipino president get that much promotion. All that publicity to make-up for the lack of enthusiasm and distract from the worsening state of the country.
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@jacques_lakan
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4 years
I’m sorry pero minsan wala akong pasensiya sa mga pro-Duterte na nakatira sa ibang bansa. Kung mahal niyo talaga siya, bumalik kayo dito mga duwag!!!
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@jacques_lakan
Lakan
4 years
100,000 jeepney drivers are jobless
@PhilippineStar
The Philippine Star
4 years
The Philippine National Police (PNP) on Monday released Christmas bonuses and cash gifts to its personnel amounting to P7.98 billion. | via Manny Tupas
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@jacques_lakan
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1 year
Medyo rocky na relationship namin tapos dinala niya ko sa fiesta. Ang weird nung fiesta pero nanalo ako sa maypole dancing contest. Na-realize ko na di ko siya mahal, kaya nilagay ko siya sa loob ng patay na bear. Di naging kami pero nakahanap ako ng bagong pamilya 🙂
@daleeeeeeey
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1 year
enough na sa worst, i wanna know your best dating experience/s 😊
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@jacques_lakan
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3 years
I used to message friends "Can I ask you a question." I stopped bc it might make them anxious on what I was planning to ask. But I can't ask a question they're not ready for. So I give an idea of what it's about, like "I have a question on Borges" or "Can I talk abt heartbreak"
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@jacques_lakan
Lakan
4 years
Stop framing social injustice as something heartwarming challenge
@pnagovph
Philippine News Agency
4 years
LOOK: Helen Segura, an ati from San Enrique town, Iloilo, returns the PHP6,000 social amelioration program grant because she is already an active member of the 4Ps, who also receive the SAP aid as as a top-up of their regular 4Ps grant. | via @glmmbln | 📸 Cristine Caro
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@jacques_lakan
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4 years
Not Duterte supporters saying the mainstream media won't report on Duterte's disaster relief efforts because he's a threat to people in power 😭😭😭 Gurl Duterte's the one in power for fuck's sake
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@jacques_lakan
Lakan
3 years
Hindi ba tayo nababastos? That these candidates lie about their true intentions and perform these elaborate theatrics just to stay in power? Anong nangyari sa honesty? Integrity?
@natoreyes
Renato Reyes, Jr.
3 years
Baste Duterte withdraws as VM candidate. Runs for Mayor. Sara Duterte withdraws as Mayoral candidate. Bong Go preparing to withdraw as VP candidate. Seems like a Marcos-Duterte tandem is in the works.
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@jacques_lakan
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6 years
We don’t need mores malls. Kailangan natin ng parks, libraries, public plazas and gardens, community centers, shelters for the homeless and abandoned, public spaces where everyone can gather in peace. We don’t need more malls
@inquirerdotnet
Inquirer
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‘Mallzilla’ rumored to rise in Manila
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@jacques_lakan
Lakan
6 years
The H in Imelda Marcos stands for honesty
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@jacques_lakan
Lakan
4 years
Gonna seduce and break the hearts of a Spanish and an American boy for the Philippines
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@jacques_lakan
Lakan
5 years
Humanity can survive without billionaires. We can’t survive without workers and farmers
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Lakan
4 years
The only trash talk we should do is talk about how important garbagemen and sanitation workers are to society, and how they contribute much more than billionaires
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Lakan
2 years
The Philippines if Leni Robredo were president
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Lakan
1 year
Check-in on your friends who appear so strong and put together. They could be planning a bank heist you might want to join
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@jacques_lakan
Lakan
3 years
In Manila (and the Philippines), everything is expensive except for labor. That's why the middle-class can employ kasambahay but go bankrupt after one hospital visit.
@PhilippineStar
The Philippine Star
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Taking into account every necessity such as rent, food, transportation, utilities, et cetera, the total estimated monthly cost of living in Manila reached about P50,800. | via @onenewsph
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