Okay, I concede. I don’t wanna be accused as being too Japanese.

We Pinoys are naturally a funny lot so it is also not surprising to find some really cool commercials airing on our sets as well.

Here’s one that screams yaoi:

Got this from U.P. TOMO-KAI. Everyone is invited to attend. It’s for free!

July 13, 2007
Cultural Night
6:00-10:00pm
Ang Bahay ng Alumni, UP Diliman QC

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I am so pissed off!

Really! Who would actually put very personal information (including addresses, birth dates and voter ID numbers) online?! Just one guess, folks. Just one guess!

I don’t know if the COMELEC NCR people in-charge of this scheme mean to please stalkers or those ruthless self-serving politicians. No wonder may dayaan! This plain screams, “IDENTITY THEFT!”

Hmp! There should have be an account log-in of some sorts so that the people concerned can just view their own personal info.

Use your heads naman, men! Yes, yung nasa taas.

Thanks to Atheista.net for the info.

“The heat is on…”

So you’ve just watched the latest video of Maria Ozawa. What’s the next best way to ease the heat?

A nice chunk of ice buko, that’s what! No, I’m not asking you to do an American Pie here. You eat the darn thing, you lech!

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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 complaining, “Ayan kasi aalis-alis! Nagsusuka na yung mga tao…” or to that effect in Her Alibi (1989)

The chef cursing Sean Connery’s character in Tagalog in The Rock (1996)

Hmm… but how about insult? Pride? How I wish it’s always the latter, but more often than not it’s the former!

I know that we’re far from being model citizens of the world, but come on! We have more to us than typhoons, or a corrupt government, or Imelda and her shoes! Pinoys are loving, optimistic, hospitable people who possess multitudes of natural skills and talents!

Anyway, enough of my ranting. More of this stuff in Scott R. Garceau’s The Philippine Star article, Pinoys in TV Land .

Having a difficult time deciding who to vote this coming May elections? Hope this site will help you decide.

Eleksyon 2007

Even with it (and the podcasts), I still can’t.

If I knew that the first prize for the 34th Nihongo Speech Contest, held last Saturday during the 2007 Nihongo Fiesta, was an all-expense paid trip to Japan (courtesy of Japan Airlines), I would have dug up my old speech piece and entered the darn contest myself!

All I could do was gnaw at my bottom lip last Saturday as I trained my lens on the happy teary-eyed winners posing for both the amateur and professional photographers happily clicking away in front of them. Yeah, I was picturing that I was the one holding the gigantic JAL ticket on stage with H.E. Ryuichiro Yamazaki, the Ambassador of Japan to the Philippines by my side. It actually made the whole ordeal bearable.

Bitterness aside, I’d just like to say congratulations to all the participants and most especially to the winners! You may have gotten the tickets, but I’m still pretty!

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