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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OK. OK. WILL START USING PHOTOS ALREADY...

... once my internet service is up.

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WTF? Fake People, I said?

It's just bad that this blog is sorted from newest to oldest. Now, I am obligated to tell you that before you read this blog, feel free to run your sweaty fingers to the earlier blog posted barely an hour ago.

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Alrightee. There is one phrase I saw there that I couldn't believe I just said. FAKE PEOPLE. Is there such a thing, a creature, that is certainly a person, but not a person?

Juggling with semantics and pop-ethymology, people came up with the idea of someone who's fake when they are either not sharing their GENUINE feelings to others. You may include people who back-stab another would be gullible bloke. Oh and yeah, you may include bipeds who decide that it is much, much better just to hide the negative side of their colleagues than share what they actually thought about it. I don't think they were fake to begin with. I am feeling more of a hypocrite right now.

In fact, I don't see the point why everybody, including me, keeps on fault-finding people who aren't genuine. I personally believe that "fakeness" is just part of the whole dogma of defense mechanisms. You fake it to avoid being vulnerable. You fake things because you want to get the upper-hand. You use this mechanism all the time. Just like, I don't know, denying you're gay?

In reference to the article below, I retract that statement. I wasn't trying to uncover fake people, but fake profiles. Again, I have nothing against them. I know you guys are just protecting your nuts for the whole homosexual annihilation that will happen when the Opus Dei becomes crazy... clinically.
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