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LaTtEX meets and greets Kuyarazzi Bea Saw!

November 20th, 2007 · 1 Comment

I’m taking a break from the really serious topics I’ve tackled of late (okay, I admit, Sidney’s challenge on my last post is a difficult one!).
So some pics for now from last Saturday night’s pictures of Pinoy Big Brother Season 2 big winner Bea Saw’s birthday bash, where I finally stopped envying my sister:

Bea celebrated [...]

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Tags: Buhay · Telebisyon

Sci-fi: Lose a job, get a job

October 7th, 2007 · 4 Comments

Have you ever been fired because of boredom?
I have, and I’m not proud of it, and that’s a story that I’d talk about some other day. But I can relate with these Japanese guys who have been reprimanded for contributing to Gundam’s wikipedia entry. 260 times. Using the Japanese ministry of agriculture’s computers.
Reminds me of [...]

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Tags: Internet · Karir at Propesyon · Pinilakang Tabing · Teknolohiya · Telebisyon

Problems of context and the oversensitivity of the Desperate

October 3rd, 2007 · 27 Comments

This morning, Reynz and I were talking over GTalk about the Desperate Housewives brouhaha when the topic led me to ask about the Bikolano term “uragon”.
Over the comments at the blog post linked above, I saw her say something about being called “uragon” as an insult when I had the impression that it had a [...]

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Tags: Blog · Internet · Nasyonalismo · Telebisyon · Wika

I envy my sister

July 13th, 2007 · 15 Comments

I envy my sister Angel:

Ahay! Charing… nabuking ako. Erase-erase… eto pala:

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Tags: Telebisyon

The only telenovela that I can stand watching is…

April 5th, 2007 · 2 Comments

ABS-CBN’s Maging Sino Ka Man.
Despite it still suffering from some of Filipino telenovela’s perennial flaws and traditional subplots, e.g., dragging extender episodes, a rich-vs-poor love story, overly-”evil” antagonists, amnesia, convenient deaths, and even a sudden and almost immediate recovery from two decades of nervous breakdown (thank God there’s no facelift subplot, at least not yet), [...]

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Tags: Sining · Telebisyon

Beyond The Wowowee Stampede

February 7th, 2006 · 10 Comments

One of the most valuable things that I learned during my Ang Pahayagang Plaridel days is that there are more than two sides to a story. Most of the time, if you’re only aware of two sides, you still haven’t delved deep enough into the story to have an objective “take” at it. While in [...]

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Tags: Buhay · Ekonomiya · Kultura · Telebisyon

The Wowowee Stampede : A Marketing Strategy Gone Awry?

February 4th, 2006 · No Comments

Late last December, Connie Veneracion aka the Sassy Lawyer wrote in her Manila Standard column of the same name about how media’s use of game shows and charitable foundations breed a culture of dependence.
In the local game show/variety show scene, ABS-CBN’s Wowowee is currently the hottest item, enjoying high ratings and viewership not only [...]

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Tags: Buhay · Ekonomiya · Kultura · Telebisyon

I Love You (Not), You Love Me: Declaring War on Barney

January 14th, 2006 · 9 Comments

About a year before I got married, one of my former officemates was telling about how much her son loves Barney. He liked it so bad that during evenings my officemate would just play Barney VCDs until he fell asleep. My other officemates likewise profess their own children’s undying love for the purple dinosaur.
While they [...]

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Tags: Edukasyon · Telebisyon

The Search for Adam

November 11th, 2005 · 8 Comments

A few months ago I watched a program on the National Geographic Channel about the origins of man. In a study conducted by geneticist/anthropologist Spencer Wells, he was able to trace the tribe of the descendants of our earliest ancestors: a group of people who have absolutely not migrated for the past 60,000 years. He [...]

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Tags: Agham · Buhay · Telebisyon

Orange And Lemons contradicts itself

October 20th, 2005 · 8 Comments

I thought yesterday’s post would be the last time I’d blog about this issue, but a statement jumped right out of Inquirer Entertainment’s article on Orange and Lemons this morning, almost making me spit the coffee I was drinking:
“We have no malicious intent,” says vocalist and guitarist Clem Castro. “In fact, we’re not even aware [...]

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Tags: Internet · Jornalismo · Musika · Pahayagan · Sining · Teknolohiya · Telebisyon