Philippine Elections 2016 on Google Trends

I did a quick search on Google Trends with regard to our five presidential candidates and the result I got is interesting, but not at all surprising. If the Philippine Elections were a contest on who generates the most online buzz, i.e. “trending”, there seems to be one clear winner — Rodrigo Duterte. It’s not even close. Of…

All Too Familiar

Watching CNN the other day when they featured a story about shirt rivalries in Thailand. It’s the red shirts versus the yellow shirts, with the red shirts supporting their former prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra. To all Filipinos watching this, it all looks very familiar. We had our own version of these shirt rivalries during the…