Amazing Race featured so many beautiful tourist spots in the world. They captured life in the most vibrant spectacle of what urban life is and then they traveled to the rural areas in the Philippines and showed on TV the frailty of human life, living in the poorest of the poor regions of the country. At least they showed there are work to be done every day and but because Philippines should be the "Singapore of what law should be during the Martial Law era where LAWS are followed to the fullest or pay fines and punishment when law and order is opposed by the villains of urbanity. "
It didn't went up to that higher expectation because of people power. Besides it's really impossible to control the poor climate, the calamities that are constant threat to human lives and livelihood in a country of hundred millions of very religious people. However, you must thank the millions of OFW > the Filipino workers, they are the pillars of the highly skilled workforce (architects, engineers, laborers) who designed and built those super skyscrapers, bridges and edifices that you admired in those well developed countries.
So much irony and metaphor have to get busy, ironing some clothes now.
Be Right Back.
