It's first quarter of 2008 and politics is bad in the country as the president is accused of million-dollar kickbacks from foreign projects deal. Mass demonstrations called for her and her cabinet's resignation. I didn't shoot the rallies. Instead I went, one day, to Tondo, a slum area in the capital Manila, to take a look at life. And while I was preparing this essay, an mp3 of a recently crowned beauty queen's wrong English landed in my inbox.
