Pinoys on TV
I often can’t pinpoint the emotion I feel when I come across a foreign TV show or movie that has a character that makes references to the Philippines or Filipinos? Sometimes it’s amusement, especially when the characters are Filipino themselves and they speak in Tagalog. Remember the following? Ewok in the forest saying “Ito ay puno!” in Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983) The Filipino cook...
Is Hemin the new spam?
First thing’s first, I’m not blasting anyone’s belief system. We received a bread dough from a neighbor with a photocopied paper attached to it. The paper read clear – the dough’s Hemin, the bread of Catholic saint Padre Pio. I thought that it was just a small scale thing involving neighbors but since other people (links here and here), wrote this, I thought of writing a post about it too. Very viral of...
The grand circus of the Pinoy Web
Let’s face it, we, Filipinos really know how to make our lives a bit more interesting. Forget Willy’s insipid Boom-Tarat-Tarat segments on Wowowee. Forget the interesting menagerie also known as politics. And let’s focus on one of the greatest (freak) shows on earth called the Pinoy web. How many “scandals” have we come up so far given some yahoo with a PC and Internet connection? I have no real timeline...