kamalayankonsciousness:

http://gulfnews.com/news/world/philippines/philippines-aquino-says-no-to-noynoying-1.997323

Philippine President Benigno Aquino said he should not be criticised for “Noynoying,” a term used to describe protesters at the University of the Philippines in Quezon City when they laid on the road last week, looking bored to portray an inactive leader, a local paper reported.

“I have all the statistics (to prove that I am not Noynoying),” Aquino, whose nickname is Noynoy, told the Inquirer in Baguio City.

“I’ve been in office for 21 months and the record (of the stock exchange index) was broken 21 times,” Aquino said.

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http://www.anakbayan.org/aquino-responding-to-noynoying-with-more-noynoying/

The youth group Anakbayan mocked President Benigno Simeon ‘Noynoy’ Aquino III for his response to the growing popularity of the ‘Noynoying’ form of protest, with the former calling the latter’s response “just more Noynoying”.

Today, the president claimed an increased purchasing power for Filipinos, supposed booming construction industry, as well as stock market, to support his allegation that he is not ‘Noynoying’ on the job. Last week, the Palace staged several photo-ops showing the President allegedly hard at work, one with him reading at his desk, and another of him cleaning a trash bin at Malacanang grounds.

“Allow us to provide numbers which are closer to the lives of ordinary Filipinos: in Aquino’s two years of Noynoying, the price of diesel has risen by P14.39 per liter, while gasoline was hiked by P15.03 per liter. The unemployment rate rose from 20.2 to 24 percent, meaning 9.7 million Filipinos are jobless” said Vencer Crisostomo, national chairperson of Anakbayan, the group which first introduced ‘Noynoying’ in last week’s protest vs. oil price hikes.

“Noynoying has a new definition: pretending to be doing something when you are in fact doing nothing” he quipped.

THIS. HAHAHAHA. BOB ONG, NOY. Laftrip yung cleaning a trash bin. DOTA hindi ka binoto para maging basurero. Fefe. Sayang oras.

monstreux:

ace-su:

Real-life Grave of the Fireflies: (Photo) Stoic Japanese orphan, standing at attention having brought his dead younger brother to a cremation pyre, Nagasaki, by Joe O’Donnell 1945

This photograph was taken by an American photojournalist, Joe O’Donnell, in Nagasaki in 1945.

He recently spoke to a Japanese interviewer about this picture:

“I saw a boy about ten years old walking by. He was carrying a baby on his back. In those days in Japan, we often saw children playing with their little brothers or sisters on their backs, but this boy was clearly different. I could see that he had come to this place for a serious reason. He was wearing no shoes. His face was hard. The little head was tipped back as if the baby were fast asleep.

“The boy stood there for five or ten minutes. The men in white masks walked over to him and quietly began to take off the rope that was holding the baby. That is when I saw that the baby was already dead. The men held the body by the hands and feet and placed it on the fire.

“The boy stood there straight without moving, watching the flames. He was biting his lower lip so hard that it shone with blood. The flame burned low like the sun going down. The boy turned around and walked silently away.”

(via happykevin)

While Listening to Rock and Roll.

I think the whole things sux, esp. “MAINE”. :(