MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Grab, the now monopolistic alternate mode of commute for Filipinos, can be very convenient for most people. But it can also be very inconvenient for drivers.
An inconventient truth happened recently when a drunk passenger groped the Grab driver before the latter drove him to a police station on charges of lasciviousness.
In the Philippines, its’ called Grab passenger grabbing a Grab driver.
HOLLYWOOD, California (The Adobo Chronicles, Los Angeles Bureau) – Black actress Issa Rae is in hot water after excerpts of her not-too-new book surfaced on social media.
Rae wrote in her book that Filipinos are the Blacks of Asians, encouraging Black women to date Asian men, but not Filipinos.
In an exclusive interview with The Adobo Chronicles, Rae said that it wasn’t her intention to demean Filipino men.
“In fact, what I wanted to say was that Filipinos can compare with Blacks in as far as size is concerned.”
Being a family-oriented site, The Adobo Chronicles is refusing to further interpret Rae’s statement about size.
MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – What could be a better day to protest against Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte for what some are calling his failure to fulfill a campaign promise to end ENDO — the contractualization of workers — than May 1, Labor Day.
So, armed with bright-colored placards demanding that Duterte end ENDO, protesters marched in the the streets near Malacañang — all 5,000 or so of them.
But when Duterte announced that he has signed an Executive Order ending ENDO, the protesters said, “We were kidding. We just wanted something to protest about.”
End of the ENDO story.
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