All I Can Handle

Never let a crisis go to waste. We are frogs slowly being boiled in water. As usual, the frogs do not notice it until it's too late. For several nights now, I have been having visions of a QR code and once a vision of a QR code, a calendar, and a signature (which I interpreted as a memorandum of a circular).  I don't know if you have noticed but recently, there has been an accelerated push towards a cashless society. I'm not talking about what has been happening since Covid (which was another case of never letting a crisis go to waste). I'm referring to the free train rides using the national ID (https://rssoncr.psa.gov.ph/content/NCRII/psa-dotr-move-free-mrt-3-and-lrt-rides-every-wednesday-national-id-holders), intensified pressure on banks to accept the national ID (https://philsys.gov.ph/psa-joins-bsp-forum-on-national-id-calls-anew-to-financial-institutions-to-integrate-with-the-national-id-system/) and digital senior IDs among others. I'm not sure if the vision...

Today, I learned that Don was an actual hereditary royal title during the 1800s in Spanish Philippines. In popular media, the title of Don was associated with a rich person. I'm not sure if this practice extended or even came from Latin America, but I always had this impression that it did because in Tagalog-dubbed telenovelas, the servants would always call the head of the household as Don and Doña . Much later (when my Spanish proficiency allowed it), I was able to confirm that even in the original Spanish, they were using Don and Doña . I can’t remember which book it was, but I remember reading that it was actually the Americans who popularized calling the hacienda owners as Dons. When I was working with Spanish-speaking clients in Latin America, I noticed that in certain countries, some people called their customers as Don . When I did some research on the usage of Don and Doña in Latin America, it appeared that this was the equivalent of calling someone ‘Miss’ or ‘Mister’...