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Part 3 of The Budget Series: what happens after the budget is signed, from allotments and cash allocations to the Unified Reporting System that tracks them.

Problem Solving the Philippines: How the National Budget Is Managed

Part 2 of The Budget Series: how the President’s proposed budget is built, from the DBCC’s ceiling down to each agency’s Tier 1 and Tier 2 requests.

Problem Solving the Philippines: How the National Expenditure Program Is Generated

Part 1 of The Budget Series: who does what in the Philippine national budget, how the budget year runs, and where the money goes.

Problem Solving the Philippines: A Primer on the National Budget

By Giancarlo Angulo My work as a USAID subcontracted consultant from 2020-2025 for the RESPOND Project has given me a view of how you move mountains. You do it one stone at a time. You talk about it. You talk about it a lot. You convince people, from the frontliners to the top people and […]

Problem Solving the Philippines: Idea Post. Can we stop and talk a while?

Recent Tweets about proposed legislation to “institutionalize a permanent, science-based, multidisciplinary national institution for climate resilience and disaster risk reduction [to be] named the UP National Climate Resilience Institute” make me very happy as that is a very important matter for the Philippines. A scientist like Dr. Mahar Lagmay who spearheads such work is making […]

Making Science serve the Country

By Karl Garcia Rodrigo Duterte was not the first Filipino leader to invoke Singapore as a model, and he will not be the last. Long before his 2016 campaign promise to “make the Philippines like Singapore,” the aspiration already existed across the political spectrum. Ironically, many of Duterte’s strongest critics also want the Philippines to […]

Why the Philippines Was Never Going to Become Singapore—No Matter Who Promised It

Melancholy is the vibe ride now.

Or some impending doom

I got into Kpop because of the Pandemic. Twice was on repeat during that time.

Caught the last stuff from IZ*ONE mostly because of the sixteen connection, now mostly follow all the alumns.

Follow Le Serrafim when I need a banger.

Follow I’VE because they probably have the musical sense I most vibe with.

Follow ITZY for the same reason.

Follow Red Velvet because the music is music.

Follow most JYP groups because of Twice.

Follow SM groups because was a big SNSD fan a decade or so ago.

Follow 2NE1 because of Sandara who I voted for in SCQ.

I was watching Haewon of NMIXX getting that we made it moment and the room got misty.

Probably the most talented group I believe.  I really was afraid they would never get the success they are now enjoying. Success in KPop is mostly having songs that people would vibe with and although I loved the complexity of their songs I didn’t like a lot of their early stuff. The mix was just not mixing.

Keep on trying , adjust, learn.