I am so in-love with this guy

This guy has just challenged my very last hope of heterosexuality. Magkamali lang talaga ito sa akin, yuyundakan ko agad 'yan.

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My Superstar Experience

Now, I am a vehicular marketing arm for this game, but before you plunge into this casual game, here are some of the experiences I have gained so far. Make this as a review as well.

I did mention that this game is fucking hard! REALLY! The object of the game is to align your voice with the lines that correspond to the song's notes. This helps you be in tune, so to speak. But it's difficult to maintain it especially if you are a smoker like myself. (I admit it) On several occasions, you know that you are in tune with the notes, but the software couldn't recognize it. Maybe, just maybe, sintunado lang talaga ako.

When you go a room, you will also get the chance of listening to other players as well. So far, the experience was exhilarating! Filipinos really know how to sing. Some of them keeps missing the lines ( I mean the tune lines) but you know that they are very good singers. I tried my luck when one suddenly challenged me. I belted the song "You are not alone" and she tried to beat me with another Mike Jackson song, "Heal the World," which is the hardest song in the list of easy songs. Well, it was a good fight and I emerged victorious. 'Tsamba!

The missions in the game (or tasks) are also perilous. Thanks to grammar errors and unclear mission requirements (I was like, "Where the fuck is the Underground Den anyway?).

Play this game ONLY if, (1) you live alone, (2) your neighbors are beyond 50 meters from you, (3)have a decent microphone (4)your fan is turned off (napipick up kasi) (5)you can do a falsetto. (6) and most importantly, di ka pikon.

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Philippine Rugby team won the Asian 5 Division 2 Championships!

This picture was ripped off from Jessica Zafra. Visit her in her blog www.jessicarulestheuniverse.com and it will put culture to your blood-- or nothing at all.

I'm with the tens and tens (I can't really say hundreds) of her readers who were furiously listening (err, reading) the liveish cast of the games in her blog. Although I couldn't justify it, but who cares, right?

What I am happy about this is that our team,. yes OUR team, smacked the asses of their Indian counterparts. Shows them who's boss now, huh?

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Kantahan na!

Recently been addicted to this videoke online game. Superstar.ph is an online videoke game where being in tune is better than having the vocal qualities. This online game features songs of Sarah Geronimo, Martin Nievera, Freestyle and more!

The game is relatively difficult if you are as tone deaf as I am, but with a lot of practice, I am sure you will make it big time.

Best of all, try to get a score of 20K in one the premier songs and you just might win yourself an audition! The winner of the audition will be with the Pop Princess herself in her next coming album. Who knows it might be you, or me.

So, what more can I say? Join and sing your hearts out! Who knows? This must be your ticket to stardom!
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Master of None (part2)

Again, this picture was ripped from Google. I don't wish to end this blog with any infringement issues.

I mentioned in my previous blog that I may have mastered none of my learned talents, but I do know that I could act. This is now in serious debate with one of the people who I have looked up to.

Recently, I did a commercial for a known car brand. I keep on telling people that this was the hardest commercial I have been so far. The commercials I did were just few and undoubtedly forgettable. I have not seen this commercial being aired. I was just under the impression that I did well, because the producers said so.

My mentor didn't see it that way. He said that I was never a convincing actor. And I only got the looks but not much of the talent. I feel like Deena Jones (played by Beyonce Knowles) in Dreamgirls. I really felt for her, having the looks and the quality, but never the talent. I feel this was just who I am. All looks and no talent. Thanks to my mentor.

But this shouldn't stop me to make myself better. I know that there are things that I should learn to master this craft, but a little encouragement could help, right? I wasn't asking for an opinion, rather, I don't need it. Not that I don't want to see the errors in what I am doing, or finding that my best was clearly not enough, but I wasn't doing serious theater. There is a fine difference between theater acting and commercial acting. The latter requires you to be superficial.

What pains me is that my mentor is right But what makes me happy is that he's not always.

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Sex Education in Philippine Education System

(Ripped the photos somewhere in Google.com)

Yesterday and the day before that, my internet service went to a complete slump. During that time, my television was beckoning me to straighten my index finger and push on on it's, uhh, ON button. Boredom was the key for it to hypnotize me. When it gladly flashed it's bright lights on me, I was in a news program asking viewers what they have in mind about Sex Ed being integrated in the curriculum of Elementary and Highschool students.

Again, the church has something to say about it. They're saying that it's okay for the subject to be meshed with high school curriculum but not with the Elementary ones. They say that we are polluting the innocence of the children.

SAY WHAT?

Innocence? I know sex existed when I was barely out my kindergarten years. The question is, what is so impure about sex anyway? What's wrong with sex and the notion that we have to study sex in general? Are they afraid of that the kid would be so curious about it they will start finding sex partners for themselves just for them to LEARN what the fuzz is all about?Are they scared about the fact that they are brooding possible sex offenders in the near future by exposing children about something very human and instinctive for their survival? For the survival of their very own species?!

Maybe I'm not making myself very clear about this. I believe that if something is sensationalized to stupid proportions, people will be more curious about it. The more you shun them about this issue, the more they get the feeling of wanting to know more about it and eventually doing it. That's why you see more sex offenders coming from the Class C sector (people living in rural areas, sometimes provincial areas) who have limited resources to this information than any other social clusters. Don't believe me? Look it up. Again, they forgot about that part.

The Department of Education's goal for integrating this very well-made-sensitive topic was in order to combat the spread of diseases, to balance out population growth and to avoid unwanted pregnancies which will lead to some serious issues e.g. abortion. So how is the church participating in it? They actually helped out in making all the Department's goal fail, first in sensationalizing it: For making people feel bad about following their basic instincts and for giving out wrong information. According to a survey (Sorry, too lazy to look it up), about 60% people living in the slums have no clear idea on how they get pregnant. Oh yeah. They thought that it was "Heaven sent" or it was "God's will" why they become pregnant. They have no frigin' idea that they get pregnant because they had sex. To them, it was like more of a hobby because they don't have anything else to do productively.

I say, integrate the system even in Elementary curriculum. I have been talking insurmountably about sex education in the rural areas. A lot of them couldn't make it to high school because of economic reasons, then bombard them where they are at their peaks.

Some viewer said that it's the responsibility of parents to teach their kids about it. I'm betting my odds that as they become parents themselves, it will be completely hard for them to discuss it with their future offspring. Why? Because they have been "polluted" about the church and societies ideologies about sex: That it's dirty and plain bad.

Thanks for the help, but no thanks.

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Hear the Tiger roar?

I shot this photo years ago when I was still living in Mandaluyong. (I promised to post pictures here so here it is. It wasn't half as bad.) Mandaluyong City has pride itself for being one of Metro Manila's tiger cities. I remember when I was in grade something during the time when former Prexy Ramos was still in the rampage with his ever powerful cigar, that in terms of economic progress, the Philippines was tagged as the tiger cub of Asia. This title was shared with another Southeast Asian country I think they called Thailand. If not, then I'm sorry. Clearly, I am not doing my homework.

I have a bull to pick on this photo. Manda-Linis is a good slogan. It says alot of what Mayor Abalos wished to happen to his city. We wishes to clean the city off not just physical garbage, but social and economic wastes as well. Good slogan, but not very original. But have you ever notice the picture? It's a tiger, yeah, and the tiger's yawning.

During the proclamation that Mandaluyong City is one of the nation's tiger cities, Mayor Abalos thought that it will be a good idea to post a picture of a tiger roaring. So he asked his staff to rip a photo off from National Geographic, paste it in his would-be billboard, add his slogan and ta-daaa! a poster fit to encourage people to be proud of living in his city. His staff made a huge error. They picked a tiger yawning. I guess they don't know what a tiger looks like when it's fucking mad! I bet no one even noticed it. Either that or they don't care a bull at all.

Could this error be subliminal? That in all honesty, the people of Mandaluyong is just waking up from the almost eternal slumber that they were in then realizing the mess they were in? Or was the tiger just about to go to sleep? Or the tiger may be too tired to do anything now. I am betting that the tiger was just startled from his sleep. I bet he's going back to sleep afterwards.

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