Ang Kape Ni LaTtEX

Since the other day, the link to an audio cast entitled “Gary Granada vs. GMA Kapuso” (Audio – in Tagalog/Filipino & English) has been making the rounds primarily in email, and later Plurk and Twitter.
In a nutshell, Mr. Granada, a noted Filipino singer-composer, voiced his sentiments against GMA Kapuso Foundation, regarding a jingle that he [...]

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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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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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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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I envy my sister Angel:

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

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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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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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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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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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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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