Better Philippines offered to share his blog with me after learning that my own blog over at Asian Correspondent would be taken off the website’s roster.
It will take a couple of days before my original blog www.pinoybiz.blogspot.com becomes visible again and I am now wondering if it will be worth fixing up after having its traffic redirected.
The process actually broke a lot of links to posts with the URL www.pinoybiz.blogspot.com and these posts generated quite a bit of traffic for me before I joined Asian Correspondent. I was forced to rebuild my traffic almost from scratch in the weeks after joining the website and it took a lot of work re-promoting the blog. Now that they are returning www.pinoybiz.blogspot.com to me, I am almost certain that there will be a lot of “technical issues” again and I don’t think I can handle having to start over yet again.
At this point, I am completely drained from fighting “battles” both online and offline.
Offline, I had to deal with Holiday stuff that needed to be done and just when I thought that I had a handle on things, my kid contracted pneumonia. So, for the past few days, I’ve been playing doctor to a cranky kid round the clock and I haven’t had a decent night of sleep.
Online, I had resolved to stick to putting out criticisms against what I see as an emerging Noynoy Aquino Presidency and just based on who was reacting, I think I was getting somewhere. However, answering all the comments (some of which were utterly stupid) really look a lot of time and effort.
Just when I thought I was getting somewhere, Asian Correspondent made a decision to let me go because of the complaints it was getting from those who think Noynoy Aquino should be President. Apparently, they think that it would be bad for Asian Correspondent to have a blogger who is consistently critical of Noynoy Aquino as I am. Plus, of course, there was a hint that Asian Correspondent may be sued because of what I was writing and may be they weren’t up to dealing with a libel suit.
My relations with the editors of Asian Correspondent was actually great and I received some praise for blogging about disasters such as Ondoy. In light of the praise they gave me for writing about disasters, I am wondering if they’ll actually miss out on the biggest emerging disaster in the Philippines — The Noynoy Presidency.
In any case, blogging at Better Philippines will give me much more freedom to blog about the things I believe will do my country some real good.
Better Philippines has a great tagline, “blogging for a better philippines/pointing out truths others deny or ignore” and I am glad that I have this opportunity to live out this tagline.
Thanks pareng BP, from the bottom of my heart.
Mr. Farol, with all due respect, I believe Asian Correspondent won’t be forced to let you go if your criticisms weren’t below the belt. I liked your article about the letter to Conrado de Quiros, but the articles after were just… not up to par (understatement). You resorted to attacking Noynoy with headlines that were willfully obtuse but nonetheless insulting. An example: Sincerity, Honesty, Integrity, Trust… only an idiot wouldn’t get that. The way you respond to your commenters, you think you’re so pure. In fact, you’re just a hypocrite.
I’m not a fan of Noynoy either. I haven’t even decided on my presidential candidate for 2010. But if Noynoy detractors have spokespersons such as you, I think I WILL vote for him, just out of spite for all of you.
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Dilaw na Mantsa Reply:
January 5th, 2010 at 9:39 am
“But if Noynoy detractors have spokespersons such as you, I think I WILL vote for him, just out of spite for all of you.”
You only proved yourself as a stupid voter, thank you very much. Choosing a president should not be based on “kasi ganito-ganyan, para maasar lang si Paul Farol,” but on competence.
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PinoyBuzz Reply:
January 5th, 2010 at 10:14 am
“The way you respond to your commenters, you think you’re so pure. In fact, you’re just a hypocrite.”
Well, feel free to ignore my blog. I ain’t forcing anyone to read what I write or to agree with me.
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boo facepalm Reply:
January 6th, 2010 at 1:00 am
@Facepalm, if Paul’s blog makes an undecided voter like you want to vote for Noynoy to spite Paul, Paul’s blog made me and a lot of my friends wake up and drop Noynoy. Guess who’s the smarter voter? Your vote must be so cheap if you can give it to Noynoy for free just to spite Paul.
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Simple lang naman kasi Mr. Farol, bastos ka. Numero unong talangka. HIndi kasalanan ng mga supporters ni Noynoy ang pagka-tanggal mo sa AC. Resulta yun ng baluktot at balahura mong paninira at “panunulat” kuno laban sa mga taong wala namang kasalanan sa yo. Iboboto ko sana si Sen. Gordon, pero kung ikaw lang din ang makaka-sama namin doon, wag na lang!
Bagong taon na G. Farol, mag-bagong buhay ka na.
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Simple lang naman kasi Mr. Onyok, kung Onyok nga talaga ang pangalan mo. Hindi ko sinisisi ang mga gunggong at bastos na mga supporters ni Benigno Noynoy S. Aquino III. Wala silang kinalaman sa pagkatanggal ko sa AC. Ang nangyari ay desisyon ng mga editor dahil magkaiba ang direksyon na gusto naming tahakin sa blogging.
Kung hindi mo man iboto si Gordon, nasa sa iyo iyon.
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Onyok kamusta nga pala si Ming.
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I will not vote (and the rest of Cebu) for a “baby-sitter” and a wimp that goes by the name Boy Noynoy aka (removed by admin: let’s try not to use that nick anymore.)
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