Mura ang Buhay, Mahal ang Common Sense

Dalawang pamilya ang nagbarilan.  Anim angbuhay na nawala. Dahil sa nagkainitan ng ulo sa trapiko. Dahil sa busina.

Maaawa ba ako sa kanila? Manghihinayang ba ako? Sa lahat ng napatay na nakipagbarilan: Hindi. Leksyon yan sa mga arogante at takaw-away. Pwede namang magpasensyahan sa daloy ng sasakyan, nanggalaiti pa. Pwede namang magpalampasan, nagsunuran pa at nagbabaan. Pwede namang hindi kumuha ng baril at resbak, pero ginawa. Pwede namang mag-usap ng maayos, pero hindi ginawa.

Hindi ko alam kung may kinalaman sa politika ang shootout sa palengke sa Imus noong Linggo ng gabi. That's not the point. Ang punto ko, angmura ng buhay. Mura ang buhay pero Masyadong mahal ang sentido kumon at hindi ito kayang bilhin ng ibang tao, gayong kaya nilang bumili ng mga armas, mga kotse, pati negosyo at puwesto sa palengke. Ah, baka akala nila lahat sila may anting-anting.

Sana tapos na ang giyera ng dalawang pamilya. Senator Bong Revilla, ano masasabi mo sa action scene na ito sa bayan mo?

What Divine? Where's the Comedy?

Is it just me, or do others also find this the most ironic comic strip title?  I can't find anything divine or comedic here and, believe me, I tried to look. I can hardly remember a time when I read this strip and I actually chuckled. When it got dissed in PDI to give space for Carlos Caparas's oversized melodramatic strip (which is BTW the biggest wrong move in the history of funny papers), I thought I've seen the last of it. I do not hate Divine Comedy, I just can't take the fact that someone actually gets away with this kind of mediocrity. Given, magaling s ya magdrowing, pero wala lang t alagang lasa mga patawa nya. Minsan pa, downright nakakaasar lang. Ok lang hindi funny, 'wag lang almost daily dose of WTF. Gusto ko pag binaba ko ang dyaryo, after all the bad news, and after I read the comics, may ngiti ako kahit paano. That's why when I read PDI's Comic Relief, I always save Pugad Baboy for last.

To Mr. Pabalinas: Please take more time in thinking about the humor content in your strips. And please, read more about issues before you attempt to make a cartoon commentary.

Pero eto, may mga pumupuri sa Divine Comedy at naisasama pa sya sa nominees as one of the best Pinoy comic strips. Kulelat nga lang. http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?forumID=75566&p=3&topicID=7653980

But I'll prefer Divine Comedy anytime over Fringe Benefits Cafe. That one's just plain--there's no word that fits. Lemme just say FBC is The Vile Tragedy.

Give Me a Sign 001

"The next customer who will dine-in could be you. Please limit your time-stay. Enjoy your food. Share a seat and meet a friend."

"No standby for dine-in customers only."

I should limit my time on the seats so I could sit next? Dine-in customers cannot standby? Why, because they should be seated? And am I being told that if I share my seat, one of my friends would just pop up? What are you trying to say, Ministop?!

Family Guy: Tagalog Scene

I don't know if this is a real clip from Family Guy or if it had been edited. Pero ang galing nung pagkakaboses kay Stewie.

Para sa mga hindi pamilyar, isa sa mga bida sa Family Guy ay si Brian na asong nagsasalita. Si Brian ay may pinsan (na lalakeng aso rin) na may "life partner" na lalakeng tao. Hindi lang basta tao, siya ay si Ricardo na isang Filipino. It was in Season 4 that the wedding was announced, and Lois Griffin was so against it. Tumakbo ang story sa issue ng gay marriage.

I have no way to verify if this video is real because it is a supposedly deleted scene. Kung deleted na, pano ko pa malalaman?

I wonder how Pinoys would react. May aangal kaya na ini-stereotype nito ang mga Pilipino as gay dog lovers? O sasabihin ba nating pino-portray tayo nito bilang mga taong "gagawin ang lahat para lang magkaroon ng US Visa at green card"?

Bong Revilla in Hollywood?

Noon palang March e naanyayahan si Bong Revilla para mabigyan ng award mula sa mga Pinoy sa Hollywood.  May kinalaman kaya ito sa pagiging maangas nya kay Alec Baldwin noong isang buwan? Baka nagkaroon sya ng complex na domain na rin nya ang Hollywood kaya ganun. Speculation ko lang to ha, don't take my word for it.

Naisip ko lang, bakit ambilis natin magreact pag may foreign show/article na nagbanggit ng kahit ano tungkol sating mga Pinoy? Samantalang tayo anlakas mang-stereotype. Ang maiitim, ke African o Afro-American e tinatawag nating ulikba. Sa mga palabas natin, laging bulol ang mga Chinese att tinatawagg rin natin silang "tsekwa". Tinatawag nating "sakang" ang mga Hapon. Ang tingin natin sa lahat ng Indian national e nagbebenta ng hulugang payong at nagpapautang ng 5-6. Madalas tayo mag-impersonate ng mga Islamic at Indian na tao tapos hihirit tayo ng "dibidi dibidi". Palibhasa lang hindi umaabot sa ibang bansa ang karaniwang pelikulang pinoy kaya hindi nila nawi-witness ang mga ito.

Mabanggit ko lang. Maraming episodes ang Family Guy at American Dad na nabanggit ang "Filipino" o "Filipina". 'Yung ilan tulad ng "I'm pretty sure the Filipina nurse took my wallet" e pwedeng sabihing offensive. 'Yung iba obvious namang katuwaan lang at nabanggit lang tayo tulad ng kung paano nababanggit occassionaly ang "Mexican" o "Korean". Sa ibang viewers baka nakakainis yun, kasi hindi tayo sanay nababanggit ang "Filipino" sa mga palabas sa ibang bansa. Hahanap ako ng clips (sana may makita) tapos ipopost ko dito. Kayo na lang humusga.

Revilla to receive award from Fil-Am group in Hollywood

MANILA, Philippines -- Senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. will fly to the United States this week to receive an award for his achievement as an actor and a politician from a Hollywood-based Filipino multi-media company called NuVision Worldwide Media.

According to a statement from his office released Tuesday, Revilla will receive the 2008 Filipino-American Vision Award for Courage and Honor.

“This star-studded red carpet event will showcase the best Filipino achievers and entertainers in the Philippines and the United States,” said NuVision chairman and chief executive officer Ramil Gonzales.

Read the full article in http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/topstories/topstories/view/20080304-122741/Revilla-to-receive-award-from-Fil-Am-group-in-Hollywood

Our PuSikat Doll

She's a Pussycat Doll. She's part-Pinay. She's here. And she wants to sing the Philippine Anthem. Ok, let's see how we would react if she performs a sexy version of Lupang Hinirang on the next Pacquiao match or whatever national activity.  Would we disown her? Would we persecute her, when she's one of the few global personalities that make us proud to say "Pinoy yan!"? Big deal yon sigurado, dahil sobrang high tayo pag may kahit sinong may kalahating patak ng dugong Pinoy na gumawa ng pangalan sa international scene. Kapag nagkataon, baka ito ang maging dahilan ng pagrevamp sa batas na hindi pwede kantahin ang Lupang Hinirang pwera sa march format.

Sa ibang usapan naman, gusto ko lang punahin yung pagiging takaw-pansin natin. Dapat bawat isa satin magsumikap gumawa ng magaling para hindi na tayo nakikisawsaw sa glory ng ilan. Proud ako kay Nicole pagdating sa music at pop culture. Proud ako sa sinumang Pinoy worth commending.  Pero hindi necessary na lahat ng Pinoy o may dugong-Pilipino na recognized in a global scale e dapat ipagmalaki.

Tanong lang bago ako matapos: Paano natin nasabing half-Filipino si Nicole kung ang tatay nya e part-Filipino, part-Russian, at part-Hawaiian?

Pussycat Doll wants to sing Philippine anthem

Associated Press
First Posted 15:27:00 06/10/2009

MANILA, Philippines—The half-Filipino lead vocalist for the American pop group Pussycat Dolls says she wants to sing the Philippine national anthem when boxing champion Manny Pacquiao fights again.

US-born Nicole Scherzinger, who is performing with three other members of the band in Manila on Thursday, told ABS-CBN television she has always been a fan of the Filipino boxer.

Junior welterweight champion Pacquiao hand-picks the singer of the national anthem at his bouts. After his latest match with Ricky Hatton in Las Vegas in May, Filipino singer Martin Nievera was criticized in the media for altering the 1898 revolutionary anthem, which by law must be played at a marching tempo.

Pacquiao has not announced whom he will fight next, or who will sing the anthem.

http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/breakingnews/breakingnews/view/20090610-209775/Pussycat-Doll-wants-to-sing-Philippine-anthem

Pussycat Nicole too busy to have love life

Right at the NAIA when she arrived with the three other Pussycat Dolls at noon last Monday, Nicole Scherzinger said she was overwhelmed by that “coming home” feeling.

“I felt the warmth as soon as I got off the plane,” recalled Nicole during a one-on-one with Funfare yesterday at the Executive Lounge of Sofitel Hotel (formerly Westin Philippine Plaza) where the Dolls are billeted until Friday when they fly back to the States after their concert at the Mall of Asia (MOA) Concert Grounds tomorrow night.

“Everybody was calling my name and I was so touched,” added Nicole who is half-Filipino (her father is surnamed Valiente, from Batanes), part-Russian and part-Hawaiian. “I felt that I belong here.”

She felt even more so when she saw her face on the huge billboards advertising Clear, the shampoo she’s endorsing.

“Then I saw the commercial on TV and I realized why everybody knew my name,” she sounded amused. “In the commercial, I said, ‘My name is Nicole.’ No wonder, at the airport they were calling, ‘Nicole, Nicole!’ I was teary-eyed.”

Read more: http://ph.news.yahoo.com/star/20090610/tel-pussycat-nicole-too-busy-have-love-l-dd408b0.html

Mitigating A(H1N1)

This is from the DOH website. Para hindi mapraning o magsawalang-bahala, importante maging informed. But then again, Pinoys seem to be more concerned about celebrity scandals rather than topics that really concern them. Even as we know that this swine flu was not as deadly as we all first thought, it still doesn't erase the fact that there's something wrong with our news priorities.

Yung mga senador at kongresista ang dapat trangkasuhin to the max.

Health Secretary Francisco T. Duque III today reported 8 more confirmed cases of A (H1N1) over the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of the country’s cases to 54.

“We are expecting the number to increase because of the aggressive contact tracing that the Department of Health (DOH) is doing right now and our hospitals have been ready for this situation. These new cases are also like the previous ones that are mild in nature, very similar to the cases seen in other affected countries”, Duque said.

The eight new confirmed cases include seven Filipinos and one foreigner. Four are males and 4 are females with an age range of 16-44 years old. Six of the cases are students of the De La Salle University, while one is the first confirmed case from the De La Salle-College of St. Benilde. Two of the 8 new confirmed cases had a history of travel. The said cases travelled to the US.
Duque said that all new cases are responding positively to the treatment.

Read the complete article in http://www.doh.gov.ph/node/2313