tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31524232257329590942024-03-12T20:05:40.415-07:00Out of the Closet, Into the StreetsConfessions, Views and CommentariesOut if the Closet, Into the Streetshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11875140945059392988noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152423225732959094.post-53461628774433273422011-08-22T08:52:00.001-07:002012-08-15T07:14:25.919-07:00BLOGGERS NIGHT at KYSS Restaurant & Bar Lounge<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BJc5-XhaoOU/TlJ6RO_yp7I/AAAAAAAAAGQ/OvPCsHEM1ng/s1600/337750_10150764921665285_664040284_20065994_7158304_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BJc5-XhaoOU/TlJ6RO_yp7I/AAAAAAAAAGQ/OvPCsHEM1ng/s640/337750_10150764921665285_664040284_20065994_7158304_o.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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** All tables are consumale of food and drinksOut if the Closet, Into the Streetshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11875140945059392988noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152423225732959094.post-66196467078132703712011-06-10T02:50:00.000-07:002011-06-10T02:52:20.643-07:00Philippines, a Finalist in the New 7 Wonders of NatureAs of this very moment, while doing this blog entry. There are only<br />
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<div class="jedi-digit"><div class="bottom" style="display: block;"></div><div class="bottom" style="display: block;"><b>10<span class="jedi-dash_title"> hours</span></b></div></div></div><div class="jedi-bothtml" id="countdowntimer-2-bothtml"></div><div class="left_vote"></div><div class="left_vote">Left to Vote until <b>11.11.2011</b></div><div class="left_vote"></div><div class="left_vote"></div><div class="left_vote">Instead of burning you time over <b>Facebook, Twitter</b> or any other <u>social networking sites</u>; <i>flirting with your fling, chatting with your boyfriend or girlfriend, much worst...STALKING someone you like.</i></div><div class="left_vote"><b> </b></div><div class="left_vote"><b>WHY NOT....</b></div><div class="left_vote"><b><br />
</b></div><div class="left_vote">Use your time in helping your COUNTRY win something worth winning...<b> </b></div><div class="left_vote"><b><br />
</b></div><div class="left_vote"><b>One of our country's prime tourist destination in Palawan islands is one of the 28 FINALISTS for the NEW 7 WONDERS OF NATURE. Below is the list of the 28 Finalist: </b></div><div class="left_vote"><b><br />
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</b></div><div class="left_vote"></div><div class="left_vote">The <b>UNDERGROUND RIVER</b> in PALAWAN is pitted against such worthy opponents (if we can call such) with the likes of the <b>Grand Canyon in USA, The Great Barrier Reef in Australia </b>and the <b>famous islands of Maldives</b>. Let us help change the negative connotation that the Philippines is not a safe place to travel. Winning one of the spots in the <b>New 7 Wonders of Nature</b> will surely help the <b>TOURISM industry</b> of the country. If this happens, more influx of tourists will visit the country... As Dick Gordon once said, <b>"TOURISM MEANS JOB"</b>. We are not only helping the Tourism industry, but we are also helping the Economy... Anyway, back to the main topic here. </div><div class="left_vote"></div><div class="left_vote">Below is the Page dedicated to the Phillippines:</div><div class="left_vote"><br />
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</div><div class="left_vote">So What are you guys waiting for? VOTE NOW!!!</div><div class="left_vote"><br />
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</div><div class="left_vote">Here is the link: http://www.new7wonders.com/vote-2</div><div class="left_vote"><br />
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</style> <![endif]--> </div><div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;">Hearing the title of the film at first, I had the notion in my mind that it would have a plot wherein stereotypical politics would be the major or focal ideology used in the film. But in my surprise, it turned out differently from what I have perceived. It’s a film full of controversial and intriguing interpretations of history. It showed a different view on how a nation reconstructs itself, and in my understanding the film clearly conforms to the idea that reconstruction to build a nation was disastrous. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It created different personas; black people could never be integrated into a society populated by white people, in other words it depicts the inequality of black people as citizens, the rise of the masses to end slavery, it also displayed violent actions from nuisance entities and self interested politicians that bent sadistic events in the move to reestablish honest government. </div><div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;">People may think that the film is very demeaning or derogatory for black people; some may say that the film is racist, a nightmare of interracial brutality, rape and castigation, or simply pure evil. At first, I somehow agreed. But as I write this paper and as I dissect the film in a deeper scale, I realized and recognized the idea that a film is created to impart a lesson to its viewers. With this, I do believe that the director and writer of the film really projected a dark theme or film aura for the viewers. Why? Because it will create a hype and with this people will then make a lot of assumptions regarding the film; they will dig deeper and deeper until they themselves will be the one to see the “real” message of the film. And what is it? For me, “The Birth of a Nation” despite its controversial story is not a bad film because it argues for evil; it makes us understand how it does to learn a great deal about a film and even something about evil. Given that it deems to be culturally, historically and aesthetically significant, I suppose that this is the reason why this film is considered to be one of the best films in history. </div><div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;">To sum all the things that I have stated earlier; I’d rather give suggestions and ideas to those people who seem to attack the films’ proponents based on their belief that to appreciate a film is to get entertained by it. For me, this should not be the case because if cinema could only be entertaining, it could never have become the remarkable art form it is. "The Birth of a Nation," is not just a silent film but also a remarkable art that is and will be significant through time.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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President <b>Ferdinand Marcos </b>in his Mandate of Greatness Speech wherein he reiterated that:<br />
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<b>Ninoy Aquino</b>'s speech before the Asia Society wherein his very famous line was said:<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">"Is the Filipino worth suffering, or even dying, for? Is he not a coward who would readily yield to any colonizer, be he foreign or home-grown? Is a Filipino more comfortable under an authoritarian leader because he does not want to be burdened with the freedom of choice? Is he unprepared or, worse, ill-suited for presidential or parliamentary democracy?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">I have carefully weighed the virtues and the faults of the Filipino and I have come to the conclusion that he is worth dying for because he is the nation’s greatest untapped resource</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Mr. Marcos: Give us back our freedom or suffer the consequences of your arrogance.”</div><br />
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These people may have already been dead at present together with their idealism, perspectives and beliefs... But their speeches immortalized their being, up to this day we remember them for what they said and what they did....<br />
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Of all the speeches that I have read in my entire life... the best for me would be the one by <b>Carlos P. Romulo </b>entitled, <b>"I Am A Filipino"</b>. It encompasses the greatness of our race, the struggles, the triumphs and even the downside moments... Reading such masterpiece enriches my mind, but most of all it touches the my very soul that reminds me to love myself and be proud to be a Filipino no matter what happens, I'll always be a Filipino...<br />
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Below is the excerpt of the speech that fueled my heart and passion to be a good citizen of this country:<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I am a Filipino – inheritor of a glorious past, hostage to the uncertain future. As such, I must prove equal to a two-fold task – the task of meeting my responsibility to the past, and the task of performing my obligation to the future.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I am sprung from a hardy race – child many generations removed of ancient Malayan pioneers. Across the centuries, the memory comes rushing back to me: of brown-skinned men putting out to sea in ships that were as frail as their hearts were stout. Over the sea I see them come, borne upon the billowing wave and the whistling wind, carried upon the mighty swell of hope – hope in the free abundance of the new land that was to be their home and their children’s forever.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">This is the land they sought and found. Every inch of shore that their eyes first set upon, every hill and mountain that beckoned to them with a green and purple invitation, every mile of rolling plain that their view encompassed, every river and lake that promised a plentiful living and the fruitfulness of commerce, is a hollowed spot to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">By the strength of their hearts and hands, by every right of law, human and divine, this land and all the appurtenances thereof – the black and fertile soil, the seas and lakes and rivers teeming with fish, the forests with their inexhaustible wealth in wild and timber, the mountains with their bowels swollen with minerals – the whole of this rich and happy land has been for centuries without number, the land of my fathers. This land I received in trust from them, and in trust will pass it to my children, and so on until the world is no more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I am a Filipino. In my blood runs the immortal seed of heroes – seed that flowered down the centuries in deeds of courage and defiance. In my veins yet pulses the same hot blood that sent Lapulapu to battle against the alien foe, that drove Diego Silang and Dagohoy into rebellion against the foreign oppressor,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">That seed is immortal. It is the self-same seed that flowered in the heart of Jose Rizal that morning in Bagumbayan when a volley of shots put an end to all that was mortal of him and made his spirit deathless forever; the same that flowered in the hearts of Bonifacio in Balintawak, of Gregorio del Pilar at Tirad Pass, of Antonio Luna at Calumpit, that bloomed in flowers of frustration in the sad heart of Emilio Aguinaldo at Palanan, and yet burst forth royally again in the proud heart of Manuel L. Quezon when he stood at last on the threshold of ancient Malacanang Palace, in the symbolic act of possession and racial vindication.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The seed I bear within me is an immortal seed. It is the mark of my manhood, the symbol of my dignity as a human being. Like the seeds that were once buried in the tomb of Tutankhamen many thousands of years ago, it shall grow and flower and bear fruit again. It is the <i>insigne </i>of my race, and my generation is but a stage in the unending search of my people for freedom and happiness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I am a Filipino, child of the marriage of the East and the West. The East, with its languor and mysticism, its passivity and endurance, was my mother, and my sire was the West that came thundering across the seas with the Cross and Sword and the Machine. I am of the East, an eager participant in its struggles for liberation from the imperialist yoke. But I know also that the East must awake from its centuried sleep, shake off the lethargy that has bound its limbs, and start moving where destiny awaits.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">For I, too, am of the West, and the vigorous peoples of the West have destroyed forever the peace and quiet that once were ours. I can no longer live, a being apart from those whose world now trembles to the roar of bomb and cannon shot. For no man and no nation is an island, but a part of the main, and there is no longer any East and West – only individuals and nations making those momentous choices that are the hinges upon which history revolves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">At the vanguard of progress in this part of the world I stand – a forlorn figure in the eyes of some, but not one defeated and lost. For through the thick, interlacing branches of habit and custom above me I have seen the light of the sun, and I know that it is good. I have seen the light of justice and equality and freedom, my heart has been lifted by the vision of democracy, and I shall not rest until my land and my people shall have been blessed by these, beyond the power of any man or nation to subvert or destroy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I am a Filipino, and this is my inheritance. What pledge shall I give that I may prove worthy of my inheritance? I shall give the pledge that has come ringing down the corridors of the centuries, and its hall be compounded of the joyous cries of my Malayan forebears when they first saw the contours of this land loom before their eyes, of the battle cries that have resounded in every field of combat from Mactan to Tirad Pass, of the voices of my people when they sing:</span><br />
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<div style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> Land of the morning.</i></span></div><div style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> Child of the sun returning . . .</i></span></div><div style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> Ne’er shall invaders</i></span></div><div style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> Trample thy sacred shore.</i></span></div><div style="padding-left: 30px;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: small;"> Out of the lush green of these seven thousand isles, out of the heart-strings of sixteen million people all vibrating to one song, I shall weave the mighty fabric of my pledge. Out of the songs of the farmers at sunrise when they go to labor in the fields; out the sweat of the hard-bitten pioneers in Mal-ig and Koronadal; out of the silent endurance of stevedores at the piers and the ominous grumbling of peasants in Pampanga; out of the first cries of babies newly born and the lullabies that mothers sing; out of crashing of gears and the whine of turbines in the factories; out of the crunch of ploughs upturning the earth; out of the limitless patience of teachers in the classrooms and doctors in the clinics; out of the tramp of soldiers marching, I shall make the pattern of my pledge:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I am a Filipino born of freedom, and I shall not rest until freedom shall have been added unto my inheritance – for myself and my children’s – forever.</span><br />
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Damn the people who bastardized others amelioration away from a life of routine!<br />
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Damn the people who ostracize the so called "few" for living a life of color, a life defiant from the stereotypical/traditional point of view...<br />
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Respect begets respect!<br />
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Mind your own backyard first, it aint that clean as well!Out if the Closet, Into the Streetshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11875140945059392988noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152423225732959094.post-31512579175142818462011-03-11T21:46:00.000-08:002011-03-11T21:46:44.565-08:00PTBP SyndromePTBP...<br />
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Philippine Tax Bureau Protection?<br />
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Please Take Back my Puso?<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Ano ba ang PTPB na binabanggit ko dito? Alam niyo ba? Do you guys have any idea?</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Its actually Proud To Be Pinoy... syndrome ba ito?</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px;">People might actually disagree or agree with my opinion regarding the said topic...I don't care if you don't... haha...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">For me, ang PTPB ay ang syndrome kung saan ang mga Pilipino ay walang sawang ipinaggyayabang at ipinagmamalaki ang mga kapwa Pilipinong namamayagpag sa kanikanilang larangan na kinikilala sa buong mundo. Good examples of which are Manny Pacquiao, Charice, Lea Salonga at kung sino sino pa...</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Masama bang ipagyabang, humanga at ipagmalaki ang mga ito? HINDI... i actually do feel proud about them... Manny Pacquiao with his 8 world titles in boxing, Charice being called as the most talented girl in the world, Lea Salonga as the only Filipino who won the Olivier and Tony awards. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">I get it, nakakaproud naman talaga kasi kababayan natin, kasi kalahi natin.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Bakit ang mga Pilipino sa youtube at kung saan saan pang websites.. never ending ang comments nilang PTPB... to the extent na parang inaangkin nadin nila ung tagumpay ng mga Pilipinong ito. Tama ba yun? Okay lang sigurong sabihin na "Wow, nakakaproud naman. Goodluck" pero ung ipamudmod at ipamukha sa buong mundo na PINOY NA PINAKAMAGALING, PINOY LANG MAY KAYA NIYAN etc... nakakainis... nakakahiya...</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">First, ask yourselves... ano ba natulong mo sa tagumpay nila? sa narating nila? </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Second... wala ba kayong maipagmalaki sa mga sarili niyo? I mean why ride on w/ their achievements?!?!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Kahit wala kayo mananalo si Pacquiao kasi nagtraining siya, malakas siya sumuntok, mabilis at magaling... do you think kung majority sa inyo hindi siya suportahan, hindi na siya mananalo? NO! wala ka nga mismo sa venue ng mga laban eh... buti sana kung ikaw nag train, buti sana kung may tinulong ka...</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Si Charice, luck and proper timing... noong natalo siya sa LBS pinansin niyo ba ung bata? I mean did you even second guess that she can be what she is now? Ngayon siya na ang most talented in the world kuno... PINANSIN na ng Pilipino, sinuportahan na... kala mo mga die hard fans since LBS days pero hindi... NAKIRIDE sa kasikatan ng bata dahil kinikilala sa buong mundo. yan ba ang PROUD?</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Si Lea Salonga kahit wala kayo, mananalo padin yan ng Oliver at Tony award dahil magaling siyang singer, maganda boses at pinaghirapan niya ang mga narating niya...</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Si Regine Velasquez, hindi pinapansin noong CHONA VELASQUEZ pa siya pero nung naging ASIA'S SONGBIRD... halabira ang mga Pilipino... kulang nalang sambahin siya... (baka sabihin niyo isa ako dun... oo sinasamba ko si regine velasquez... hindi dahil Pinoy siya kung hindi dahil sa talento niya.)</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Pinoys tend to over exposed their nationality... MAGNIFIED lagi... Dapat lagi talagang sinasabi na" Wow, ang galing PTBP". Hello?!?! Try niyo sa youtube vids ni Charice/Lea/Regine... majority ng comments may PTBP...</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Alam natin na maraming half pinoy sa Hollywood... as in super sa glee meron, sa pussycat dolls meron, project runway, fashion industry, modeling industry, music industry etc... may half pinoy... </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Ayan nanaman ang PTPB syndrome... todo proclaim nanaman na "She's half Filipina..." or "He has Filipino blood..."</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">WHAT THE HELL? FOREIGNERS DONT GIVE A DAMN! WALA SILANG PAKIALAM KUNG HALF YAN OR 1/4, 1/8 pinoy.... wala silang care noh!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Dahil ba may Pinoy na blood? HINDI! kesyo half chinese, korean, mongolian pa yan.. wala silang pakialam...</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Pilipino lang ang gumagawa ng big deal regarding sa lahi... dahil ba proud? pwede... or dahil wala silang maipagmalaki sa sarili nila kaya kumakapit sa iba... </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Go evaluate what i said... ang ibang lahi ba ganyan? some maybe pero not as EXTREME as PTPB... naiinis na nga ang ibang lahi sa mga pinoy eh because of this PTPB syndrome.. masyado daw natin inaassociate ang lahat ng bagay sa usapang race... na hindi naman dapat!!!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Ako, Im a PROUD FILIPINO... always have and always will... I love my own, I love my country... I will fight for this nation, government, people and race... Because its my responsibility as a citizen of this Republic... and because I am a FILIPINO...</span></span><br />
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</span></span>Out if the Closet, Into the Streetshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11875140945059392988noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152423225732959094.post-79417209148294274092011-02-23T09:11:00.000-08:002011-02-23T09:11:13.436-08:00A Different Take on Ferdinand Marcos and Ninoy AquinoThe anniversary of EDSA 1 is fast approaching, and I believe that this article written by Nemenzo, Gemma from Filipinas (August 2008) is very timely and INTERESTING. <br />
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The title of the article is <b>"A Different Take: An Interview with Rep. Roquito Ablan." </b>A lot of you may not know him, but during the Marcos Era, he was a "force" back then.<br />
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Filipinos are made to believe that Ferdinand E. Marcos and Ninoy Aquino were really arch nemesis, rivals, and even foes. But from this interview, we can see the A DIFFERENT VIEW on what was really happening during those times.<br />
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So here it is....<br />
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While writing a book about Upsilon Sigma Phi, the fraternity both <b>Ferdinand Marcos</b> and <b>Ninoy Aquino </b>belonged to, Filipinas managing editor, Gemma Nemenzo, did a one-on-one interview with Congressman <b>Roquito Ablan</b> of Ilocos Norte.<br />
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Ablan had the unique privilege of being close to both Ninoy, his batchmate in Upsilon (batch 1950), and Marcos, the undisputed lord of Ablan's province. With such proximity to the two political superstars of that era, the congressman had a ringside view of what was happening behind the scenes of the Marcos-Aquino saga.<br />
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Is he credible?<br />
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People close to Marcos confirm that Roquito Ablan then had a direct line to the former president. Upsilonians also know that he and Ninoy Aquino remained close friends.<br />
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Here are excerpts from the interview: <br />
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I first met Ninoy at the University of the Philippines (UP) when we were neophytes in 1950. He was a professional absentee from classes. I was working with LUSTEVECO then so I had an open expense account so I would gas up Ninoy's car.<br />
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The two of us were the most hazed neophytes in our batch. Our initiation lasted one year and one semester. We joined Upsilon because it was "the only frat in UP"; to be an Upsilonian, you must be good.<br />
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Ninoy and FM (Ferdinand Marcos) were <b>more than friends.</b> When Ninoy was in detention, he and FM would speak with scrambler telephones. During FM's state visit to the U.S. in 1982, the two of them talked for an hour about good times. <br />
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<b>FM was actually considering Ninoy as his successor</b>. He admired Ninoy for his being a courageous fighter and his vigor. They were on the same wavelength.<br />
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In fact, Ninoy's "Iron Butterfly" speech against Imelda and the Folk Arts Theater was edited by FM. I know because I was the intermediary. From the very beginning, FM gave instructions to the military to be lenient with Ninoy. <br />
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I met up with Ninoy in New York on April 22, 1983, which was my birthday. He told me he needed a passport. secretary of Foreign Affairs Collantes had earlier issued a memo stating no renewal for Ninoy's passport. So I checked with FM on the phone and Joey Ampeso, a consular officer assigned in New Orleans and an Upsilonian, was asked to assist Ninoy, which he did. <br />
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During that New York meeting, Ninoy also told me that he went to see his doctor and his medical exam might require him to rest for six months because of some heart complication. In July that year, Ninoy was told by the State Department that FM was sick and that <b>"if I don't go home, I will not be president."</b><br />
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In early August, FM and Ninoy talked about the latter returning to the Philippines and FM told him not to come home yet because<b> he (FM) was weak and he couldn't protect Ninoy. </b><br />
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On August 17, there was an earthquake in Laoag, Ilocos Norte, so I had to be there as acting governor. I sent two planes to meet Ninoy in Taipei but the first plane, which carried a top officer, could not locate him because he was using a passport with a different name. FM's instructions were to bring Ninoy to Basa Air Base, load him in the presidential helicopter and bring him here to Manila, to protect him.<br />
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On August 20, I left Laoag at 10 in the evening so I could be in Manila in time to meet Ninoy at the airport. I didn't think much of it then, but my plane was grounded (by someone who knew the chain of command) and the second plane was prevented from taking off When I was driving to the international airport, my car was delayed because of a rally of another Upsilonian, Doy Laurel, in front of Baclaran Church. I arrived at the airport 12 minutes after Ninoy was shot. Someone met me and said <b>"wala na si Ninoy (Ninoy is gone)."</b> I cried like a baby when I found out what happened. If I arrived on time I could have escorted Ninoy from the aircraft and he would not have been shot, or I would have been shot along with him on the stairs. <b> </b><br />
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Nemenzo, Gemma "<a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_7537/is_200808/ai_n32289968/">A Different Take: An Interview with Rep. Roquito Ablan</a>". Filipinas. FindArticles.com. 23 Feb, 2011. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_7537/is_200808/ai_n32289968/ <b> </b>Out if the Closet, Into the Streetshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11875140945059392988noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152423225732959094.post-66270376780413859372011-02-17T12:02:00.000-08:002011-02-17T12:02:54.999-08:00News For Sale: The Corruption of the Philippine Media<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Bax47fZPQEQ/TV1-xylTU8I/AAAAAAAAAFg/QBnj38O75bY/s1600/sale.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Bax47fZPQEQ/TV1-xylTU8I/AAAAAAAAAFg/QBnj38O75bY/s1600/sale.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span> <span style="font-size: x-small;">photo: </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="rg_ctlv"><span id="rg_hr">emilyjaneolson.wordpress.com</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span>The article entitled, ““News For Sale: The Corruption of the Philippine Media” written by Chay Florentino-Hofilena approaches the idea of how Philippine Media evolve through the years. It illustrates the peculiarity and distinction of media corruption in the post-Marcos era. The dissertation reveals how steep, more persistent and even more prearranged it was and also how distressingly creative and more intricate to detect such corruption practices in the Media. During the said epoch, dealings and connections have become more refined, and in some cases, even institutionalized. The manner in which the process of corruption is systemized is by means of network structure between journalists, public officials, and professional public relation people. The network itself is somewhat resembling and comparable with the operation of a criminal syndicate or much worst, a mafia of corrupt practitioners. Sadly, corruption in the media really exists. Salaries are low and businesses and politicians often buy favorable coverage. Some radio commentators use their microphones to peddle influence, and the military has also used radio journalists to foment unrest against communist and Muslim insurgents. Basically, the paper tackles the history of media corruption in the Philippines and it investigates corrupt habits in the 1990s, and ascertained how a free press can be bought. Most of all it tells us how the Marcos era began such tradition wherein powerful families are investing in the media to cement political and business influence for future purposes but the most endearing damage done by Marcos' martial law is that, it dismantled the structure of the press, it weakened the professionalism and ultimately politicized the media to a staggering degree.</span></span></span><br />
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After reading the whole article, I have come to realized that the Mass Media is not very different at all from other institutions in the Philippines like the government. Although they like to congratulate themselves over how they are the institution people turn to for justice and retribution, the truth is that the Mass Media are just as corrupt as any other government agency, and far more cunning and hypocritical in denying and hiding the fact. Some might portray the media as selfless defenders of press freedom, the reality is, the Mass Media is just as corrupt and dishonest as the people and institutions they attack, criticize, expose and defame. This saddens me a lot, personally I felt betrayed for the Filipino people! Why? Because for me, the media should be one of the principal vehicles for informing the public about corrupt activities, they should not associate themselves with corrupt acts! They must be the one investigating and reporting on corruption. They must be the one who will shed light on the wrongdoings of public office holders and corporate executives alike. Especially at this point in time, the 2010 election is just around the corner. The Filipino people will vote for a new President, Senators, and local government officials that will serve us for how many years. And during elections, Media plays a vital role. They will be the one to present the candidates and make the voters know more about the candidates. They let them talk. They let you see the candidates. They provide vivid pictures of what candidates propose to do. They help build party decisions. They provide reasons for changes in political strategies. They facilitate budgeting financial resources for a campaign ad and for running a campaign. Those who invest in media unwittingly carve pathways either to a lose or a victory in the final counting of votes. The more the investments, the bigger and wider those pathways become. The sturdier the pathways, the better the chances of winning. The more pathways, the easier becomes the road to an elegant victory in the polls. Media pathways lead to the hearts and minds of voters that is why they must be free from corrupt practices. But in reality, Media is not always about the truth. It may merely be the dishing out of information, or an attempt to dissuade, persuade, or condition a belief. Unfortunately, candidates who have taken the bold step of talking about their perceptions of the role of the media, as they were invited to candidates’ fora, simply settled for that unpolished objective which is to enable the media to disseminate information, to enable communications to facilitate the diffusion of science and technology. But through all of this, I still believe that there are still few conscientious media people who have leaped to the right direction for the course of life that is there, defined or them and their industry. I cannot help but think that there others in greater number who are emerging to join the flock of the corrupt media, secretly or lacking a sense of embedded profession and the twin sense of excellence in doing their supposedly patriotic and heroic job, to remain misdirected. It is their misdirection that leads voters and candidates to vote for someone incapable of a position in politics and this now affects the present and future of our country. </span></span></span>Out if the Closet, Into the Streetshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11875140945059392988noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152423225732959094.post-87187055337953647252011-02-17T11:58:00.000-08:002011-02-17T11:58:25.310-08:00Everyone's Allegory of the Cave (Inspired by Plato)<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-k5zu-pLHc68/TV19Vxe_tFI/AAAAAAAAAFc/YUSzTO6tJUk/s1600/allegory.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-k5zu-pLHc68/TV19Vxe_tFI/AAAAAAAAAFc/YUSzTO6tJUk/s1600/allegory.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><cite><span style="font-style: normal;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"> photo: </span></span></cite><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="rg_ctlv"><span id="rg_hr">extraordinaryintelligence.com</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><cite><span style="font-style: normal;"> I believe that in every one of us, there is a unique rare individual that will try to break out of their small little box or shell and with this starts a long, labyrinthine journey wherein this person will tend to discover a higher realm of reality and intellect and realize in the end the true meaning of his/her existence. For me, a person such as this is highly the paramount entity to govern the society. The knowledge of this person is not limited compared to the others but rather this person holds worthwhile knowledge that is ultimately important in life. Because of such uniqueness, this person might be misunderstood and misapprehended by those people who think different from him, by those people below the knowledge that this person has, by those people who are ordinary and have not yet come out of their own little caves. These ordinary people are not seeing reality or in other words they are rejecting what is real but instead they choose to believe and accept what they only know which is just shadowy representation of what is real. I recognized the idea that there is a very important aspect in this life which is that there are unseen and concealed truths behind or lying under the visible surface of things which only these unique, rare and enlightened individuals can only take hold of. Another realization that I have come about is the importance of education; the process of how that rare and unique individual came out of the cave is a process of education. Education is not a manner and means of laying knowledge into unfilled minds but rather of making people realize that which they already know or in other words truth is long been embedded in our minds!!! We just need to tap in enlightenment to achieve such!</span></cite></div><div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"> <cite><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></cite></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><cite><span style="font-style: normal;">Everyone's allegory of the cave can be resembled with a movie house wherein the movie projector will be the fire, the film or the negatives supplants the objects which radiates the shadows, the projected movie or the movie itself will be the shadows on the cave wall, and most of all the echo in the cave will be the loudspeakers or the sounds that surrounds the movie theater. </span></cite><cite><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></cite></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><cite><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></cite></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify;"> The house where my family lives in was built in the early 80’s but was originally owned by our Yugoslavian friend. The structure is unique compared to those houses here in our village. It has a mixture of Filipino and American ornamentation and design in the perspective of a Yugoslavian. The house is a three storey structure which stands in a 150 square meter lot. It consists of one master bedroom, three bedrooms, one guestroom, one maids’ and drivers’ quarter, five bathrooms, two living rooms, a dining room and a dirty kitchen, two storage rooms, a garage and a foyer. Our house has two main doors, one is made of wood from an acacia tree and the other is a sliding door made up of thick glass and metal. The walls are made up of cement and stone, the floor is marble, the ceilings are wood. Our ceilings are not that high which is why we usually adopt with the outdoor temperature. Every room has huge and wide windows for air circulation and light passage; also, it has connecting doors for a faster and easy access in every room of the house to save time and for manageable movement. For me, the two living rooms are intended for the family and visitors to interact and socialize, it can be collaborated with the Filipino perspective of extended family and family love. Having many bathrooms is a plus factor, we don’t need to wait for someone to finish, and we don’t need to rush our bathroom activities, if ever a party is held at home the visitors won’t be having any problems too. The drivers quarter is located in the first floor for a reason and that is to keep guard of the main doors while the maids quarter is in the third floor for them to attend with our needs faster, because going down the stairs is easier compared to going up. In addition, the house has two staircases; the first staircase connects the first floor to the second floor and the other stairway connects the first, second and the third floor. For me having two stairways is a positive thing, especially for a big family like us. It may prevent crowdedness and also it leads to a quicker and faster access in the different levels of our house. In the question, how is your house a place versus a space, well first and foremost my house is a place for it has a purpose. It is where my family lives; it is where my family feels safe and secured. For me, my house symbolizes the structure of our family; its size, its interior and exterior design, everything about it manifests what my family is or in short our house mirrors how my family is. Also, it is a place for it is not only a house where we live in but it is more of a home. In this house, we have already experienced a lot of things, meaning it has always been part of our lives and our family history. We have a lot of reminiscences to remember whether these are good or bad memories. Like the first time my family moved in here, the first neighbors we met then later became our friends, my petty quarrels with my sisters, the New Year celebrations and many more. Moreover, it is our family heritage! Our house is not a space for it is not only built just for the sake of building the house, it is not designed to be like this for the sake of designing, but it is built and designed for a reason and that reason is my family’s vision of a home. </div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify;"> Talking about vision of a home, one interesting minority group here in the archipelago are the Tausug people who are found in Sulu. As I quoted one of my sources “The Tausug house is made up of bamboo and lumber. It has a sala, a rectangular room beneath a thatched roof. Some house showcase elaborate wood carving and have slits instead of windows. This is both for protection and to keep its young maidens from view. They are fond of inviting many guests to their parties thus their sala is filled with thick mattresses and mats covered with colorful cloths, that are laid on the floor and large pillows placed against the wall.” As we can see my family and the Tausug people have commonalities in terms of accompanying visitors but also we can see a vast difference in terms of style, design, structure and reason for building the house. The idea of the house building tradition of the Tausug people where the parts of the house are coordinated with the parts of the human body is very interesting and remarkable. If I was to do that in my house then the masters’ bedroom would be the human heart and the brain, because in our house my mom is a source of love, passion, knowledge and inspiration. The other bedrooms will be the hands and the arms while the maids and drivers quarter will be the legs and the feet because in a house cooperation is needed within the people living inside it, whether you’re the boss or you’re the helper, one cannot complete a task without the help of the other just like with the arms and hands or the feet and the legs. The body will be the main edifice of the house for it supports the other parts of the house. For me, the living room will be the mouth because this is where socialization takes place, then the nose can be associated with the kitchen because the nose can smell various types of food aroma. The windows of the house can be the eyes because we can see the horizon and many things outside the window.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Sources: Cabalfin, Edson. “Intersections and Exoticism.” <u>Reconfiguring the Historiography of Philippine Art Deco Architectures.(</u>2003). Pages 26-39.</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Cabalfin, Edson. “Conquest and Resistance”. Intersections of Colonialism and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Philippine Architectures.(2005). </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 11pt;"></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">“Philippine Provincial Profile.” <u>The Provincial Profile of Sulu</u>.1998. <a href="http://www.geocities.com/lppsec/pp/sulu.htm"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">http://www.geocities.com/lppsec/pp/sulu.htm</span></a>.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"></span></div>Out if the Closet, Into the Streetshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11875140945059392988noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152423225732959094.post-62877999000688997692011-02-17T11:30:00.000-08:002011-02-17T11:30:57.887-08:00The Beauty of the SongbirdSince its her 25th year in the Showbiz Industry... as an avid fan, it is my responsibility to create a masterpiece for my one and only SONGBIRD, Regina Encarnacion Ansong Velasquez...<br />
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<div class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify;">Ever since I was a child, I have always been an aficionado of the Disney Princesses because they possess and hold an incomparable beauty and glamour. Each Disney Princess has there own exceptional persona and character that really rendered my interests in them.<span> </span>However I was not only stricken with their beauty and glamour but also I learned to love the different stories that each princess have gone through. Such as Princess Aurora’s 100 years of deep sleep, Princess Ariel’s venture to human hood, Princess Snow White’s apple poisoning and most of all the story of Cinderella. Every story made me realized the other side of beauty, its true sense and meaning. </div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify;"><span> </span>What is it? Are there objective standards of beauty? Or is beauty in the eye of the beholder? Must a person be beautiful to be considered great? What is the effect of experiencing beauty in life? I have chosen a very interesting topic, as I believe that her story encompasses my understanding of what Beauty really is. </div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">Before we even heard and knew of her Cinderella story, there was just her phenomenal voice of which was never heard of in the Philippine music history. It became all the more mind-blowing, astonishing and extraordinary when one beheld the singer, a young woman whose delicate frame and features contradict her fragile aura. The infirmity vanishes from the first note of a song and in its place, an astounding blend of deep emotion and perceptible splendor is experienced. That beauty is Regine Velasquez.</div><div style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ourCKFMIYyk/TV117VC4iPI/AAAAAAAAAFM/T5D3lm7Qo3A/s1600/fantasy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ourCKFMIYyk/TV117VC4iPI/AAAAAAAAAFM/T5D3lm7Qo3A/s1600/fantasy.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"> photo: pinoyexchange.com</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;">Regine also known affectionately as the Asia's Songbird around the world is a true story of rags to riches. Few people who have heard her amazing voice can say that they have never heard her equally inspiring life story. Much like a fairy tale, her humble beginnings in Bulacan have not dismayed this naturally talented singer in surpassing the performance calibers of formally trained singers of her generation. She started to sing at the age of four and upon discovering her incredible singing talent her parents supported her love for music. At age ten, Regine could be found standing neck-deep in the beach singing. It was to train her to use her diaphragm in singing and to strengthen her lungs. Teresita her mom taught her how to evoke emotion while Mang Gerry her dad helped her develop a technique in reaching high notes. She started joining singing contests at the age of ten but triumph was not always on her side. She entered 200 singing contests but only won 67 of them. She got tired of joining such contests but this didn’t stop her because it is their source of income. Her dad quit his job just to support her and be with her in every singing contest she joined. This was her motivation; she strived harder and harder to attain what she has now and what she has achieved. The year 1989 was the start of her booming career especially after winning the Asia Pacific Singing Contest, which was held in Hong Kong at the same year. This contest gave her the coveted title of Asia’s Songbird that gave her celebrity status and made her an Asian superstar. That same year, she collaborated a song with Jacky Cheung entitled "In Love With You," which reached the MTV Asia and Channel V’s top 20 music charts. She has also collaborated with artists such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Anka" title="Paul Anka"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Paul Anka</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hasselhoff" title="David Hasselhoff"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">David Hasselhoff</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/98_Degrees" title="98 Degrees"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">98 Degrees</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_McKnight" title="Brian McKnight"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Brian McKnight</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandy_Moore" title="Mandy Moore"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Mandy Moore</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronan_Keating" title="Ronan Keating"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Ronan Keating</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Bishop_%28musician%29" title="Stephen Bishop (musician)"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Stephen Bishop</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Brickman" title="Jim Brickman"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Jim Brickman</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peabo_Bryson" title="Peabo Bryson"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Peabo Bryson</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Osborne" title="Jeffrey Osborne"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Jeffrey Osborne</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Koz" title="Dave Koz"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Dave Koz</span></a> , <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lea_Salonga" title="Lea Salonga"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Lea Salonga</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasshopper_%28band%29" title="Grasshopper (band)"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Grasshopper</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coco_Lee" title="Coco Lee"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Coco Lee</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Legrand" title="Michel Legrand"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Michel Legrand</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Pomeranz" title="David Pomeranz"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">David Pomeranz</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_Capetillo" title="Eduardo Capetillo"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Eduardo Capetillo</span></a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Crawford" title="Billy Crawford"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Billy Crawford</span></a>. More blessings came along her way; some of her albums had good response from neighbor Asian countries achieving triple platinum, 2 double platinum and 2 golds from <span style="line-height: 200%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China" title="China"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">China</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore" title="Singapore"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Singapore</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia" title="Malaysia"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Malaysia</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Indonesia</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Hong Kong</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Taiwan</span></a>, Thailand</span>, <span style="line-height: 200%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam" title="Vietnam"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Vietnam</span></a></span><span style="line-height: 200%;">, Japan and South Korea. </span>Year after year, Regine gets better by being versatile in her craft. She started to juggle her singing, film, television, and advertising careers. Both foreign and local fans supported her all this years and a manifestation of this are the awards she has received; 2 star awards, 1 Famas, 2 MTV Asia, 3 MTV Phil, 11 Awit awards, 1 Katha Awards, 9 aliw awards, 15 Guillermo Mendoza Memorial Scholarship Foundation. As a fan, <span style="line-height: 200%;">I believe that she as a performer and person empowers and allows others to dream, just like what she did before. This is the best part about her. Every time she performs onstage, every time she sings a song, she reminds all of us that there was a time when it seemed like no one wanted to listen. But it is that past that makes her who she is today; strong, generous, human, pained and blessed.</span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div>Out if the Closet, Into the Streetshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11875140945059392988noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152423225732959094.post-50312216141491953822011-02-17T09:43:00.001-08:002012-08-15T07:25:01.197-07:00Echoing "The Metamorphosis," "Letters to a Young Poet," and "The Little Prince".<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">This is my longest blog as of to date. To Those People Who want to know more about me.. READ ON....</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">I may honestly say that I’m not the most responsible and most cynical person to understand the true and deep meaning of such great and famous works like The Metamorphosis, Letters to a young poet and The Little Prince. But as a person, I have my own perspectives, my own understanding of things, my own interpretation and view regarding things, well that is what philosophy is all about isn’t? So for this blog entry , I tam to resonate my own experiences with these three incomparable works in world literature and I plan of making <b>this blog very open and personal</b> as well. Here goes…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black;">Metamorphosis is one of the most famous works in world literature, and possibly has the most memorable opening lines in the history of story telling, “As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning after disturbing dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into an enormous insect”. For me, my interpretation of this allegorical tale is that Gregor's transformation from hard working travelling salesman, providing for his family, to a grotesque useless insect that provokes disgust and pity and ultimately rejection by his family, represents physical disability, and society's treatment of it. I can see this in the story, but his nightmare of the barrier between the public and personal inner world being removed. The private mental life, with its sensitive and raw secrets, its ugly and embarrassing little features, the desires and instincts that we strive to keep hidden, and are forced to repress. The bug is the embodiment of the ugly and raw inside turned out, exposed for the entire world to see. Particularly nightmarish for Gregor is the fact that those who see are those he loves and whose rejecton he fears most of all, his family. For me, the best example that I can relate to this is when I came out to my family, to my friends, to the society as a gay person. It was really hard for me to come out because I was afraid to be rejected, to be looked down by other people, to be pitied by everyone, and to be a disappointment to them. I was so afraid to be open because before I came out and admitted to everyone that I am gay, I am like Gregor Samsa. I was the “BIDA” in the family because when I was in high school, I was a good student; I excel both in my academics and technical subjects in school, a consistent conduct awardee, and part of the class top 10 students for my whole highschool life. I was afraid to tell them because I don’t want them to change the way they look at me and treat me, I don’t want them to be distant. Another thing that’s stopping me before was, my family is somehow known. I knew that I am gay since grade 2 and I kept it until I was in 4<sup>th</sup> year high school, actually my older sister is the only one in the family that knows about me, and she accepted me without hesitations, she supported me with my interests and endeavors at that time she was enough for me, but as time passes by I was longing for my parents and other family members to accept me. I have attempted to tell my family about my true being but the factors I’ve mentioned above kept on impeding it to happen. For eight years of hiding my true self, I felt very lonely, sad and guilty. Lonely and sad because I can’t show my family the things I REALLY want, the things I’m fond of doing, I can’t share what I truly feel, I can’t show and tell them what bothers me because I was so afraid. I also felt guilty for lying to my family, for being untrue to them and to myself as well. I kept asking myself… why the hell did I end up like this? Am I screwed or what? For eight long years I felt I was living a big lie and that my life was all about pretensions and lies. </span></div><div style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><br />
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</div><div style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black;">My sister told me that I must tell my family soon in order for me to get out of the dark which I’ve been living for eight years. It hit me and led me to asked my self… must I? and this is where the first letter of Rilke enters the picture. For me the first letter gives the greatest advice anyone can give to someone aspiring to be anything and to do anything. You have to ask yourself the following question: "must I?" If you answer in the affirmative, then build your life in accordance with this necessity; your whole life, even into its humblest and most indifferent hour must become a sign and witness to this impulse. That you must only judge Art by the following value, has it arisen out of necessity? And for me, telling my family at that time was a necessity already. I was already a teen back then, and I was starting to mold my life, I was starting to think of my future, but how can I think of my future if I haven’t polished my present. I got tired with my situation, my sister can’t already bear to see me sad and feel bad about myself and it hurts me to see her feel that way especially when I’m the reason, my friends were also the one who keeps on pushing me to tell the truth. I also consulted our school priests about it and asked him what to do, asked him to tell God that I need him everyday of my life and asked him to tell God not to leave me and if ever I decide to tell my family about me being gay, I asked God to please give them an open mind and also a heart that will accept me as I am. The sixth letter of Rilke concerns the notion of solitude. He said that we all create a vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself for hours without meeting anyone, that is what you must be able to attain. Through this Rilke added that we gain a child-like perspective, a great wise not understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn of adults. That is what I did, it led me to think a lot, led me to reflect so much, led me to many sleepless night and led me to be alone and lonely. He also said that, it’s within the vast ocean of your solitude that we can truly approach and understand the dimensions of divinity that exists. With all of my problems and worries at that time, I find God as the source of my strength, I considered him to be my diary wherein I can share and tell him everything, and I appreciated him more. How do you confront God? By being patient and without bitterness, and realize that the least I can do is make coming into existence no more difficult for Him than the earth does for spring when it wants to come. With all of this, I got the strength and determination to tell my family. The first one I opened my sexuality to was my mom, because we are so close and I felt that somehow she knows already. She was okay about it but warned me with the consequences of being a homosexual. Then my other sisters, they were not that open with the idea of me being gay because I was the only son in our family, I totally understand them but it hurts me so much whenever they badmouth me and criticize me when we fight about things, somehow they also became cold towards me, they don’t bond with me anymore like we used to and my only source of strength was my eldest sister. News easily spread out, my dad eventually knew about it, he was so disappointed. I felt that he disowned me as his son because when he knew about it, he wasn’t talking to me, he doesn’t even look at me and did not even spare a little time to bond with me, then my cousins knew they were shocked about it, the girls were happy about it but the guys were ashamed of me. We used to be closed before, go to malls, eat together and talk about almost everything but after they knew of me being gay, everything changed! And it broke my heart; it brought me more pain… I asked myself if I did the right thing or not… it took them years to accept me and at present my dad is already okay with the idea of me being gay, even my other sisters, my cousins are also cool about it now but one person who hasn’t grasped the idea of me being gay is my grandfather. He knows about it but rejected to accept it, I was one of his favorites before. He used to bring me all over the world from the United States, Europe and all over Asia when I was still a child and buy all the things I want. But as the news flew in to him, he got so furious, he even fought with my dad and told him that he will disown and disinherit me. I was so depressed… thinking, is this the life I want? I reflected a lot and concluded that this is my life, I can do whatever I want with it, that I don’t live in this world in order to please others but to please myself, be happy with myself and be proud of what I am. I think Rilke’s seventh letter is suitable with this situation in which he takes the notion of solitude and marries it with love. He said love is difficult, but that we must put our trust in what is difficult as Nature does, to exercise our beings to their fullness. With all the rejection and pains I have encountered to this journey of coming out, it was hard for them to accept me, and I think it was hard for them to even give the love they have given me before. That is why I should be the one to love them more, instead of me waiting in solitude I shifted it to love. The act of Loving another human being is the most difficult task for which all other work is mere preparation. It was hard for me to give them love at first because they hurt me so damn much, but I have prepared myself with that kind of situation that even proved my love for them. Each of us must learn how to love. To know that it springs from our oceans of solitude not from a formless merging of ourselves to another. But rather that each of us must ripen into individuals that can experience and give love, to hearken and hammer day and night. To Love is to accept a burden and apprenticeship that allows each authentic person to grow and become rather than fall back and lose what makes them unique and rare. The ultimate aim of life is the love that consists two solitudes that protect and border and greets each other. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">That is what I have turned into, a wounded-healer which I have already shared with you in my past blogs and if you remember I sighted a part of my personal diary about this. I can relate this part in one of the most famous lines in The Little Prince, as it states: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. For me being a wounded healer as I have transformed into is a great example for this line for it tackles the importance of the heart than the eye, it tackles what the heart encompasses than the eye. A wounded healer is a person who has gone through suffering, sometimes great, and as a result of that process I become a source of great wisdom, healing power and inspiration for others. In fact, I've gone through a transformation as a result of my wounds, my suffering and pain. I can actually transcend it, and successfully lead myself to a path of service. It is as if the wound itself helps me drive myself to an inner journey that becomes the transformation itself. But for me it, gives freedom and hope. It may no longer be trendy but for me it was life. I began to realize that I was called to share out of vulnerability, not strength. It began to permeate every part of my life. I no longer had to pretend they I had it all. It allowed me to bring into play other important facates of my belief system. Like vulnerability, raw, real, imperfection, and transparency. In finding my own strengths, I help other people to grow stronger. In providing strength for others, I strengthen myself. Another line from the Little Prince that I can correlate with this part of my paper is: What makes the desert beautiful? Is that somewhere it hides a well. A lot of people tell me that I have a nice personality and that I’m approachable, friendly etc. Some also says that my character is mysterious and deep and that my overall personality is vast and unpredictable, I can connect my personality to the beautiful dessert that was mentioned in the line from the Little Prince, and the well that it mentioned I can say that it is the experiences that I have encountered in my life that really made a big impact leading for me to a transformation to a better person and that this well is as deep as the experiences that I have encountered. </span></div><div style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><br />
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And this is how it goes, what do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence?<br />
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It clearly means that man first of all exists before God, then encounters himself, gushes in the world and defines himself. If man is an existentialist and sees himself as not definable, it is because at first he is nothing. He will not be anything until he will be what he makes of himself. Hence, there is no human nature existing because there is no God to be conceived but man simply is. Man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself. I kinda agree and disagree with this, because first and foremost I am a Christian, and I believe that I am what I am right now due to the things that I have done and decided before but with God’s grace. Thus, existentialism tells us that man is responsible for himself, but do not mean that he is responsible only for his own individuality, but that he is responsible for all men. So if this is the case, even though that God does not exist for others, values and morality can still be applied! Because man does things for himself, obviously these things would be good and better for him and nothing can be better for us unless it is better for all. It is just like what my High-school teacher always tells our class, that the fault of one student is the fault of the whole class! That is why we tend to be in our proper behavior in class because we know for a fact that there are other people who will be punished due to our own wrongdoings. So I think that it is still possible for morality to be evident even without God’s existence. <br />
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You may or may not agree. don't get me wrong here. I LOVE GOD!Out if the Closet, Into the Streetshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11875140945059392988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152423225732959094.post-65250083083024054182011-02-17T09:10:00.000-08:002011-02-17T09:10:13.170-08:00What Viktor Frankl made me Realize<b>"Man is by virtue of the self-transcendent quality of the human reality basically concerned with reaching out beyond himself, be it toward a meaning to fulfill, or toward another human being to lovingly encounter."</b><br />
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Or simply that being human is relating to something rather than oneself. How can this be done? By exercising our freedom! So does this mean that Frankl and Sartre have the same perspective? In some aspects but what lacks in Sartre’s perspective is when he disregarded human freedom and faith together. As I said awhile ago, I somehow belief in Sartre right? But I also mentioned that something is lacking… and I think this is it, that my freedom is finite freedom which tells me that I am not Godlike and that I am not free from conditions. Now I know… that even though I am free to do things I want for myself, I should remember that my freedom is predetermined. Viktor Frankl also maintained that man is capable of discovering himself and life's meaning through suffering and experience. <br />
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I think Frankl wants to say that, the will-to-meaning enables man to find the reason to live. There are critical moments in a man's life when all the traditional reasons why he should live are taken away one after another, and he is made to wait for death, which would terminate a life without meaning. I somehow disagree because for me, everything can be taken from man but one thing and that is the last of human freedoms which is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances and to choose one's own way. For me, this is what it should be!Out if the Closet, Into the Streetshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11875140945059392988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152423225732959094.post-15685083996861545022011-02-17T09:06:00.000-08:002011-02-17T09:06:19.811-08:00What Jean Paul Sartre Taught Me...<b>“Man is nothing else than his plan; he exists only to the extent that he fulfills himself; he is therefore nothing else than the ensemble of his acts, nothing else than his life.” </b><br />
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Sounds decipherable… isn’t? Heard or read it somewhere? Oh well, this statement was familiarize by a controversial existentialists Jean-Paul Sartre. What he means is that a man is nothing else than a series of undertakings, that he is the sum, the organization, the ensemble of the relationships which make up these undertakings or simply that man, in the course of his life, has invented himself and all the values, meanings, truth, justice and religions; so man’s essence is a spin-off of his existence.<br />
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SOMEHOW I do because in my life, I have been independent since I was a child, the values, meanings, truth, justice and faith taught by my parents were slowly fading as I was growing up due to the entities around me, I was the one who decided whether the values imparted by these entities were good or bad, whether these meanings and truth were deviant with the norms of the society, it was still me who decided to invent which values, justice and faith must I acquire in my life. I feel so free because of it! That is why I somehow believe in Sartre’s perspective with regards to this but I know something lacks in my decision. I know I need something else to complete it. Sartre also claims that his philosophy is rather optimistic as it encourages men to act despite the harshness of reality and that is what I’m doing. Even though that I have been experiencing a lot of hardships, pain, stress and pessimism in my life, I still try to look at the positive side of things despite all of this, I still am living my life as if I don’t have problems around me. So does it mean that my existence is free of conditions? I don’t think so, because our life and freedom is absolute and it is made up of facticity and transcendings. Facticity is where conditions of our existence are evident or simply it is our past while transcendings are the potentials and possibilities that we are going to encounter in the future. But what makes it complicated? Nothingness! How can nothingness enter the picture? It is because humans are the nothingness of yesterday and tomorrow!<br />
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I know its getting more complicated… haha!!!Out if the Closet, Into the Streetshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11875140945059392988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152423225732959094.post-14515055145981916332011-02-16T10:02:00.000-08:002011-02-16T10:02:59.738-08:00“The Rise of the Masses, The Fall of the Elites”<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3BSivhMniIA/TVwQjb-YI2I/AAAAAAAAAEs/ZgoR2jkJAPs/s1600/erap.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3BSivhMniIA/TVwQjb-YI2I/AAAAAAAAAEs/ZgoR2jkJAPs/s320/erap.jpg" width="253" /></a></div><br />
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Since I have been blogging about music, food, love for the past few days... Now, I thought of blogging about my first love which is Politics... Philippine politics per se as the focal point... anyway, for this blog I would like to discuss about Marx ideology on the role of masses and elites in a certain nation. I remember writing about this when I was still in College. So here it is: <br />
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The ouster of former President Ferdinand E. Marcos and Joseph Ejercito Estrada by people power or known as Edsa I & II are manifestations on the idea that a class struggle will be successful mainly because elite capitalism has become far too unstable due to the increasingly powerful masses. It is evident, that Filipino masses increase in their numbers due to a creation of industry which led smaller businesses and low wage workers joining each other in equality and without difference. What made them more powerful is the fact that these people are aided by newfound industrial and political education, the increasingly stronger working class forms the majority of the population that is necessary for a successful political movement. Here in the country, the rise of the masses is seen through out the years, most especially seen and felt during the Marcos regime. Along with this, the fall of the elites and the consequent win of the masses is inevitable. During the 1998 elections, Joseph Estrada ran for the Presidency of the Philippines and he won landslide even if he was against a powerful foe named Jose de Venecia who has a machinery throughout the archipelago. What made Erap win? It is because of his tagline which is “Erap para sa Mahirap”. He portrayed himself as being one with the masses; he depicted an image that is marketable to the masses. The masses believed it, they supported and voted for him because they thought that Erap was the savior and the protector of the mass interests. Months after he took seat from office, different issues lambasted his administration. Issues such as graft and corruption, abuse of power or any typical elitist concern. The Philippine economy was in shambles, it was unstable and worst of all stagnant. The majority of the populace was starving and hungry, they were oppressed by the situation, they were suffering. The so-called “savior and protector” of the masses left them and turn his back from the masses. With this scenario, people were clinging for change, asking for a transformation and most of all crying for a revolution! The revolution happened again in the historic Edsa Shrine. The people mostly the masses gathered in huge groups, showed their force and power, brought their moorings in the street and toppled the Estrada Administration! The problem is now solved for a short time because the masses did not foresee that the new leader that they have chosen is somewhat the same or even worst than that of Estrada. Because of their clamor for change, it somehow blinded them that Gloria Arroyo is another Erap Estrada. What Arroyo did during this time is to get the trust of the people, and she did at first. She depicted herself as the hope that the masses have been looking and waiting for. She made everyone believe that she is the change that the revolution yielded. During those times we were standing at the exact same point like where we were in the Estrada Administration. So the question is, what will the masses do? Are they ready for another social and political revolution? Or are they tired and old of it? As we can see, our history is based on what the middle class and the masses does or do. Like for example, during the Spanish-Filipino war the masses in the leadership of Andres Bonifacio fought for their freedom and liberty. They were successful and then came a new society in the arms of the Americans. Another example is what happened during the Edsa 1 revolution when the masses demonstrated their force and power in the streets that led to the downfall of a very powerful dictator. With these examples including the demise of Erap’s administration, we can see that the course of history is changed and influenced with what the middle class and the masses execute. Our history is in accordance to what these people decide to do. They are the majority, they have the capability, they are the real authors of our history. They have power over the elites but the problem is that, they don’t know how to use it, they don’t know when and some don’t know that they have what it takes to overthrow or overpower those elites that made them suffered and abused their rights for freedom, democracy and a life that is liberated from any prejudices. Now, we have a new President... New Administration... A President from a Powerful Political ELITE family... What will the Masses do? Whats next for them? Lets soon find out...Out if the Closet, Into the Streetshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11875140945059392988noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152423225732959094.post-13288516898554382232011-02-16T08:42:00.000-08:002011-02-16T09:13:37.716-08:00Is There Anything Original in this World?Lahat ng Tao GAYA-GAYA... Pilipino ka man, Amerikano o kahit saang sulok ng mundo ka pa nanggaling... <br />
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Meron ba talagang ORIHINAL sa mundo? (wala akong maisip na orihinal sa mundo... may alam ka ba?)<br />
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Ultimo ang ginagamit kong mga salita ngayon sa blog ko ay hango sa iba't ibang wika o dialekto sa mundo... mapa ingles, kastila, pranses, italyano, arabo, jabacano, ilokano, bikolano at marami pa...<br />
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Mapa kultura man, sining, kasuotan, bahay, pagkain, produkto ay pareho pareho lang... iba lang ang tawag... iba lang ang pag gamit, ngunit iisa lang... may orihinal ba talaga?<br />
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Sa Kultura halimbawa ay makikita mo ang pagkakahambing natin sa mga nanakop satin... at makikita din natin na may kahambing ito sa mga nanakop sa kanila... (wag mo na akong tanungin kung ano pa yun... alamin mo mag-isa)<br />
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Sa Musika naman, kitang kita din ang pagkapare pareho.. sa Amerika meron silang hip-hop, meron din sa atin at sa iba't ibang parte ng mundo... kahit rnb pa yan, rap, po, jazz at kung ano ano pang genre ng music... parepareho lang!!! Sabihin mo ng iba't iba naman ang mga awitin... PERO. parepareho lang din naman ang tema ng mga ito.. LOVE, BETRAYAL, GOD, HOPE, CHILDREN, PEOPLE, COUNTRY etc... pare pareho lang. Tama ba ako? Pati mga mangaawit. Sa Amerika meron silang diva na si Mariah Carey, Sa Canada si Celine Dion, sa Malaysia si Siti Nurhaliza, Sa China sila Anggun, sa Hong Kong si Coco Lee at sa atin jusko... magtanong ka pa sino mga diva dito. Eh bayan ata tayo ng mga diva tulad ni Regine Velasquez na natatanging pinakamagaling na diva ng Asya! hehe...<br />
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Sa kasuotan.. lahat ng lalake naka short/pants, lahat naka-tshirt.. sa babae naka palda tapos blouse... ganun din sa mga bading... tapos kung mapapansin niyo din pati ang mga minorities naman na naka bahag lang, tapos mga babae nila ay may parang sarong.... magresearch kayo! makikita niyo... parepareho lang kahit saang lupalop pa ng mundo...<br />
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Kahit disenyo ng bahay ay magkakahambing ang lahat.... may bubong, bintana, pader at mga pinto.. may mga kwarto din... iba japanese inspired, iba zen, meron namang modern at mga bahay na bato... Pareho-pareho din...<br />
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Dito sa Pilipinas, makikita mo din na halos lahat ay GAYA-GAYA.<br />
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Sa ABS-CBN palang at GMA eh naggagayahan na... sa noontime shows may Eat Bulaga tapos ngayon may Happy Yipee Yehey, may Diva at may IDOL, may Banana Split tapos may Bubble Gang, Party Pilipinas at ASAP Rocks, pati game shows meron ang isa gagayahin naman ng isa... May the Buzz at meron din Showbiz Central! Tapos dadagdag pa ng isang major player, ang TV 5 kung saan meron din silang pangtapat sa mga nasabi kong shows ng dalawang networks... saan ka pa?! maraming pagpipilian... pero may orihinal ba na konsepto?! <br />
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Ano nga ba talaga nag punto ng blog kong ito? Nagrereklamo ba ako dahil puro gayahan nalang?<br />
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Minsan hindi dahil maraming pagpipilian, depende sa taste ng tao... Pero minsan naman oo... nagrereklamo ako, dahil puro gayahan nalang... wala bang bago? ibig sabihin ba nito walang ORIGINALITY ang lahat ng tao? eh bakit meron pang nagkakasuhan dahil sa pagnakaw ng konsepto o ideya?<br />
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Pero matawa ka man o sa hindi.. isa lang talaga ang dahilan bakit ako nagsulat ng blog tungkol dito...<br />
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When I was watching TV kanina.. i saw the commercial of Jollibee's new CokeFloat kung saan si Mareng Enchong ang model... Pero even before lumabas yung commercial, I already saw the Jollibee Cokefloat two weeks ago when i had my lunch there... So syempre, because I want to compare kung anong float ang mas masarap... is it Mcfloat or Jollibee Float.... My answer would be..... both... depende sa panglasa...<br />
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McFloat kasi is more dry... hindi ganun kasweet yung syrup and icecream... so okay lang.. While sa Jollibee naman, sweet yung syrup and malasa yung icecream... BUT... madaming ice... LOL<br />
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Anyway, This is where I end my blog....Out if the Closet, Into the Streetshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11875140945059392988noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152423225732959094.post-82375738550088100562011-02-15T09:09:00.000-08:002011-02-15T09:09:59.064-08:00Ang Pilipino Takot sa Pagbabago?Marami siguro sa inyo ang napaisip sa title na napili ko... may iba sasangayon at may iba naman na hindi... okay lang sakin dahil lahat naman ng tao may sariling pananaw at paniniwala sa buhay.<br />
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Simula pa noong unang panahon takot na ang mga Pilipino sa pagbabago...<br />
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Noon maraming mga mananakop ang napadpad sa ating mga isla... mga Espanyol na pinamunuan ni Magellan, mga Amerikanong umano'y tumulong sa atin para makamtan ang kalayaan at mga Japon na sinasabing ang Pilipinas ay para sa Pilipinas lamang..<br />
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Marahil tama ang mga sinaunang Pilipino para hindi tanggapin ang pagbabagong inihatid ng mga mananakop na ito... Nagaklas at nag-alsa ang mga forefathers natin laban sa kanila... nakamtan ang kalayaan na ating tinatamasa ngayong mga panahon...<br />
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Ngunit...<br />
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Hindi ko lang maintindihan kung bakit... bakit hindi natin tinangap ang pagbabagong gusto nilang ihatid sa bansa natin noong mga panahon na iyon... kasi kung titingnan natin ngayon, halos lahat ng GUSTO ng Pilipino ay galing sa kanilang lahat.<br />
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Kristiyanismo na galing sa mga Kastila, magagandang bahay na bato at mga Unesco World Heritage sites tulad ng mga Simbahan sa Paoay at sa Vigan ...<br />
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Wikang Ingles, hotdog, yosi, Santa Claus, chocolate bars naman na galing sa mga Amerikano...<br />
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Disiplina, origami, haiku, pwede nadin ang sushi at kung ano ano pa ang galing sa Japan...<br />
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Takot nga ba ang Pilipino sa Pagbabago? Napaisip lang ako....Out if the Closet, Into the Streetshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11875140945059392988noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152423225732959094.post-65870132888160791152011-02-11T00:33:00.000-08:002011-02-11T00:33:03.779-08:00Regine Velasquez - The Diva, The Icon, The Asia's Songbird (part2)Eto na ang pangalawang parte ng aking blog tungkol kay Regine Velasquez. Sa unang parte ng blog ko ay ipinakita ko kung paano pinuri at hinangaan ng mga sikat at tanyag na international composers at stars ang talento ni Regine sa pag-awit. Sa pangalawang parte ng blog ko ay ipapakita ko naman ang mga opinyon at saloobin ng mga iba't-ibang entities mula sa mundo ng politika, fashion, at marami pang iba.<br />
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Una sa listahan ngayon ay ang isa sa pinakamakapangyarihang tao sa Inglatera. Ano naman kaya ang masasabi niya sa nagiisang Sonbird ng Asya?<br />
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<b>The prince talked to her after singing and he said, "You did very well."</b><br />
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Ano naman ang mga nasabi ng mga CREDIBLE at nirerespetong mga pahayagan sa Asya at sa Pilipinas tungkol kay Regine?<br />
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<b>"A rare breed of singer with strong lungs & well trained breathing...a certain kind of vocal resonance and proficiency...</b><br />
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<b>“This gifted songbird has proven time and again that she is a versatile performer and interpreter of songs in diverse styles from the kundiman inspired to love songs, she has shown depth and has displayed her powerful range. Regine is undoubtedly a great chanteuse who has deepened her vocal interpretations with the RIGHT EMOTIONS.”</b><br />
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<b>"Most of our top selling new female singers are still and mere parrots of her in terms of vocal acrobatics and predilection to show off her high range."</b><br />
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<b>"Regine has always turned out mesmerizing , jaw dropping performances here and abroad"</b><br />
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<b>5. Gov. Vilma Santos, Politician</b><br />
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<b>She was interviewed and was asked who her favorite singer is, she only answered one... Regine Velasquez</b><br />
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<b>6. Cong. Lucy Torres Gomez and Richard Gomez, Politician/Actor</b><br />
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<b>7. Teodoro "Teddyman" Benigno, Award Winning Journalist and Sen. Joker Arroyo</b><br />
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"The singing at the ULTRA was great, the cast of singers wonderful, but mine eyes largely lighted on Regine Velasquez, Verni Varga and Rico J. Puno. At one time, when Regine was on in a slinky, figure-hugging, bare-shouldered black dress, Miriam Defensor Santiago winked at Joker (Arroyo) and myself and said: "I bet both of you have lascivious thoughts." No, I have absolutely no lascivious thoughts watching Regine Velasquez perform. <b>Hearing her is hearing an extraordinary virtuoso belt out a song.The melody comes out like a flight of eagles when it does not stay in the air like mists around a mountain.</b><br />
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<b>What also makes Regine stand out is a pristine youth and a pristine innocence even as she performs like an old-time pro. But what vocal power this girl has! She holds a high note like Samson holding the pillars of a trembling building. You wonder where the powers come from for Regine is spare, with no heaving bosom like Mae West had heaving bosom. </b><br />
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<b>8. Al Bell, Bellmark Records</b><br />
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<b>Is she real? I mean, is Regine 'the person' real? Because looking at her photographs and listening to her voice I (get the feeling) she is."</b><br />
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<b>9 .Rajo Laurel, Premiere Fashion Designer</b><br />
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<b>" She is the one person that the term 'down to earth' was made for. Regine is a Phenomenon in terms of talent, yet she is real. Even if she has reached the apex of what a performer dreams to achieve in our entertainment industry, she has kept her feet on the ground."</b><br />
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<b>10. Isah Red, Journalist/Editor of the entertainment section of Manila Standard Today</b><br />
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<b>"Everybody calls her a song-bird. But I call her 'the' singer."</b><br />
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<b>11. Bernardo Bernardo, Actor-Director</b><br />
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"Tremendous talent! As a performer, she still the sweet and unassuming lady I met in 1985, the 'munting dalagita na Balagtas, Bulacan."</b><br />
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<b>12. Jose Javier Reyes, Award Winning Film Director/Script Writer</b><br />
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<b>"The truth is that I'm a fan of Regine..."</b><br />
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<b>13. Audie Gemora, Stage Actor/Director</b><br />
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<b>"Regine is... just a wonderful performer. She's so sweet, unselfish, she's so... OK, what's the opposite of unselfish? She's a generous performer. I directed her recently at Ryan's 'Retrospective' and walang ka-star-star 'yang batang 'yan. She's absolutely giving and of course, the voice is a miracle." Nonon Padilla (stage director; he directed "Noli Me Tangere" where Regine played Maria Clara): "She's great, her voice is just wonderful. She has the voice for the theater - which is unusual because now the talents that you get have tiny voices, they don't have voices that project well onstage. (In) this musical, it's not so difficult because we use mics, but with (Regine) even without mics, she can be heard (in the whole theater)."</b><br />
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<b>14. Richard Roxas, Columnist</b><br />
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She's clearly the Diva for the New Millennium! Forget the overstated 'Song Goddess of Asia' tag. Diva of the New Millennium is it!" </b><br />
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<b>15.</b> <b>Leah Gatdula, Music Journalist/ABS-CBN PR Team</b><br />
<b>"Her vocal power remains unmatched by any local performer or even another Asian artist</b>. <b>I saw Coco Lee perform live in Hong Kong for the launch of her debut album but Regine is a far better performer than the Chinese-American singer. When Regine sings she does not only entertain, she captivates and enthralls the audience and leaves them in awe."</b><br />
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<b>"Regine is a local talent with a world-class caliber. Given the right break, she could easily give other female international musical artists a run for their money because she definitely sings better than most of them."</b><br />
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<b>"Regine has learned to control her powerful voice to be able to interpret songs that require sensitivity and vocal artistry."</b><br />
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Oh diba? Ibang klase talaga ang hatak ni Regine Velasquez! Hindi pa dito nagtatapos ang lahat... Abangan ang pangatlong blog ko tungkol dito... Ano naman kaya ang tingin ng mga kapwa OPM artists?! ABANGAN!Out if the Closet, Into the Streetshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11875140945059392988noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152423225732959094.post-71568991733293280522011-02-08T20:09:00.000-08:002011-02-08T20:09:03.525-08:00Valentine Story #2This second short story I made depicts a dilemma in which everyone can relate to. Which do you love most? Career or yourself? What to choose? My inspiration for this story is from my all time favorite novel, "Eleven Minutes" by Paulo Coelho... Hope you guys enjoy it!<br />
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A young woman grew up in an environment wherein his father, brothers and uncles molests and rapes her as if she was a sex toy. Everyday, for several years... She was helpless, she felt disgusted, she hated herself for doing nothing... for keeping it a secret.... for being quiet... for allowing it to happen... <br />
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As a result of this, she initially became a prostitute, this was her source of income.<br />
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She had one client that despite her past and present life, accepted and loved her for what she really is. Her dilemma, will she stop being a prostitute and change for the better or will she stay and continue a life she is used to?<br />
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If you're in the same situation... what will you choose?Out if the Closet, Into the Streetshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11875140945059392988noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152423225732959094.post-78705360478638408822011-02-08T19:57:00.000-08:002011-02-08T19:59:45.300-08:00Valentine Story #1I made a short love story for Valentines Day. My inspiration for the said story is from my favorite TV Series, Queer As Folks (US). The Love of two different people with different paradigms and perspectives in life. What makes them the same? They are both gay, Justin and Brian. The Most Romantic Love Story to hit the new Millenium.<br />
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There were two lovers who was suppose to get married today but while they were standing in front of the altar, they decided not to push through with it because they believe that their love is not bound of any titles.<br />
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Both immediately told the crowd that "we don't need vows and rings to know that we love each other". <br />
In the end, they stayed as friends because it is the safest way for them to keep each other<br />
and it reminds them of the reasons why they fell in love in the first place... -end-Out if the Closet, Into the Streetshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11875140945059392988noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152423225732959094.post-60564809956435515422011-02-08T01:05:00.000-08:002011-02-08T01:05:38.201-08:00Untold Celebrity Stories #7<b>Pure Innuendoes</b> <br />
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They were the best of friends. They were always seen together around the<br />
University of the Philippines (UP) campus in Diliman: one was undoubtedly<br />
a very good-looking guy and the other was unquestionably a plain-looking<br />
guy. Opposites really attract. Hey, but they're both brilliant students.<br />
Well, birds of the same feather also flock together. Indeed, they were<br />
very close to each other. Unusually close.<br />
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They were the perfect tandem. Like suman and ripe mango. Or nuts and<br />
bolts. Peg and a hole.<br />
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They were both prot�g�es of then UP Student Council chairman Chito Gascon.<br />
Soon, the good-looking guy took the helm as UP Student Council chairman.<br />
But the best friends seem to follow each other's path. The plain-looking<br />
guy also ran for the same position with the all-out support of his<br />
good-looking friend. He won, of course.<br />
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The good-looking guy was the crush ng bayan of the iskolars ng bayan.<br />
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During lunchtime, students of all persuasions flocked to the College of<br />
Arts and Sciences (CAS) cafeteria to catch a glimpse of the good- looking<br />
guy. Even singer-actress Regine Velasquez later admitted on national<br />
television that she had a big crush on the good-looking guy.<br />
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But loveless Regine's daring admission did not earn her even just a movie<br />
date invitation from the good-looking guy; instead, the good- looking guy<br />
merely flashed a demure smile in response to desperate Regine's<br />
thinly-veiled date invitation.<br />
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But after finishing college, the best friends went their separate<br />
ways. (Or so it seemed). The plain-looking guy pursued his law<br />
studies and later taught law courses. The good-looking guy delivered the<br />
evening news on TV, hosted a TV quiz show and wrote analytical articles on<br />
pop culture. His good looks, intelligence and impeccable manner endeared<br />
him to televiewers.<br />
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Despite their divergent career choices, the good-looking guy and the<br />
plain-looking guy really seemed to follow each other's path. But this<br />
time, their path led to a nice little apartment near the Ateneo de Manila<br />
campus. And they shared that nice little apartment. Just the two of them.<br />
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Yes, the plain-looking guy and the good-looking guy lived together.<br />
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Those gifted with wild imagination got titillated at the mere thought of<br />
these two young men sharing a lovely apartment. The moralists out there<br />
shook their heads at the mere thought of the goings-on beyond that<br />
innocent-looking apartment door amid rows of middle-class houses in Loyola<br />
Heights in Quezon City.<br />
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But the pair would not budge from their nest. Nor would they yield to any<br />
pressure. Not even from the plain-looking guy's bible-reading siblings who<br />
berated him for living with another guy. The plain- looking guy's own<br />
family started to cast doubt about his masculinity.<br />
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All telltale signs which have accumulated all those years could no<br />
longer be ignored. People started talking openly about the two guys.<br />
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Speculations about the true nature of the pair's friendship became a daily<br />
fodder for gossip mongers. The academic freedom which alma mater UP's<br />
oblation symbolizes seemed to have gone beyond the duo's lust for<br />
knowledge.<br />
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In order to prove to his family that he was not what they thought he was,<br />
the plain-looking guy suddenly announced that he was getting married. His<br />
family jumped with joy.<br />
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But the plain-looking guy's marriage did not dispel wild speculations<br />
about his sexuality; instead, it only succeeded in erasing any remaining<br />
doubt about his alleged agenda of using his wife to finally succeed in his<br />
failed initial crack at pursuing his lifelong dream.<br />
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And it was well worth his efforts. Because this former loser's<br />
desperate act finally triumphed. Thanks to his wife.<br />
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However, the plain-looking guy's deep friendship with his good-<br />
looking friend took a backseat as a result of the former's new civil<br />
status. The plain-looking guy did not want to hurt his new wife's<br />
flourishing career nor spoil his newfound success. That's why he<br />
played his role as a good family man to the hilt. However, he had not<br />
forgotten his good-looking best friend at all. As a token of their undying<br />
friendship, the good-looking guy stood as one of the godfathers of the<br />
plain-looking guy's first baby, together with Edu Manzano, Cesar Montano,<br />
Cherie Gil, Ciara Sotto, Angeli Valenciano, Fanny Serrano and a host of<br />
other household names. Of course, the plain-looking guy's wife was<br />
clueless about her husband's past.<br />
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But the plain-looking guy's wife had her share of dark past. She is a<br />
single mother who parted ways with her good-looking "first husband" after<br />
she discovered that her good-looking "first husband" was already married<br />
to another woman when she hastily married him after she got pregnant at a<br />
young age. This meant that her marriage to her good-looking "first<br />
husband" was not legally binding after all. Now, the plain-looking guy was<br />
her knight-in-shining-armor who rescued her from the stigma of being an<br />
unmarried mother.<br />
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Ironically, while her non-binding marriage with her good-<br />
looking "first husband" was solemnized by several high-ranking<br />
priests at the cavernous Manila Cathedral amid countless clicking<br />
cameras and thousands of shrieking admirers several years ago, her<br />
supposedly legitimate marriage with the plain-looking guy was<br />
officiated not by a Catholic priest but by a pastor in a cramped<br />
living room, with only few relatives and friends as witnesses.<br />
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Later, the good-looking guy reportedly got married also without<br />
fanfare. They said that his bride was a creative consultant for ABS- CBN<br />
Interactive. However, some women still believe and hope that he is still<br />
unmarried to this day.<br />
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The good-looking guy soon rose to become ABS-CBN News Channel's (ANC)<br />
Director for Current Affairs. He has been circling the globe as host of<br />
ANC's weekly travel show, Executive Class.<br />
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Yes, the good-looking guy is David Celdran.<br />
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And the plain-looking guy is megastar Sharon Cuneta's husband,<br />
Senator Francis "Kiko" Pangilinan.Out if the Closet, Into the Streetshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11875140945059392988noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152423225732959094.post-10286055287044169892011-02-08T01:02:00.000-08:002011-02-08T01:02:27.147-08:00Untold Celebrity Stories #6<table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0" class="tborder" id="post28816892"><tbody>
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Suppose that there was a Muslim princess from the flood capital of the<br />
Philippines, Malabon, who has just finished her degree in Mass<br />
Communications from the University of the Philippines with Latin honors<br />
(cum laude). Suppose that she decided to work for Discorama.<br />
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Remember the Saturday afternoon show on GMA Channel 7 with former Senator<br />
Tito Sotto, his brother Vic Sotto and comedian Joey de Leon as hosts? The<br />
Muslim princess was assigned to host the Tough Hits segment of the show.<br />
As Tough Hits girl, she did the weekly countdown of popular songs with<br />
bastardized lyrics to elicit cheap laughs. Her mother, who was an<br />
executive at the Philippine National Bank in Escolta, just shrugged her<br />
shoulders whenever her colleagues would ask about her favorite daughter's<br />
TV show.<br />
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Soon, a female newscaster of a major TV network introduced the Muslim<br />
princess to her brother, a flight steward. After a whirlwind<br />
courtship, the Muslim princess married the flight steward who used to be a<br />
child actor whose only claim to fame was playing the role of a toddler<br />
Bongbong Marcos in a Marcos bio-flick. After a couple of months, the<br />
Muslim princess and the flight steward quietly separated.<br />
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But career-wise, lady luck smiled at the Muslim princess when she was<br />
given a big break by the major TV network. She bagged the plum assignment<br />
of delivering the evening news while at the same time hosting a successful<br />
TV magazine program which was pitted against a similar program in a rival<br />
TV network hosted by her former UP professor. However, the Muslim princess<br />
was such a perfectionist that it was reportedly not uncommon to see<br />
objects flying whenever she was unsatisfied with her TV staff's work.<br />
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Later, the Muslim princess got married again, this time to a well-<br />
known local politician from a province south of Manila. The namesake of<br />
her father, her politician husband had grown-up children close to the<br />
Muslim princess' age and it was being talked about that his first wife<br />
lived in the same condominium building where the Muslim princess and her<br />
new husband occupied the penthouse. The Muslim princess' husband also<br />
reportedly decided to become a Muslim so that he could have more than one<br />
wife. They were blessed with two sons.<br />
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The Muslim princess' husband soon retired from politics and became<br />
contented with being a magician and a human toothpaste applier for his<br />
Muslim princess' toothbrush. (Incidentally, the Muslim princess once<br />
appeared in a Close-Up Toothpaste TV commercial.) Now, the Muslim princess<br />
and her magician husband (He could make a big Coke bottle disappear before<br />
your eyes.) are happily separated. Later, the Muslim princess' husband was<br />
accused of being responsible for the disappearance of his close friend.<br />
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The Story of the Black Nazarene Devotee Suppose that there was a Black<br />
Nazarene devotee from the tamaraw capital of the Philippines who claimed<br />
to have graduated with a business degree from the University of the East<br />
despite his critics' contention that he just bought his college diploma<br />
from the sidewalk of C. M. Recto Avenue. He worked as a radio reporter for<br />
a major<br />
radio and TV network. With perseverance, he was given a Sunday morning<br />
radio show. Later, he would occasionally pinch-hit for<br />
announcers whenever they would not show up for their radio program. He<br />
also hosted a daily radio serialization of movies for a program dubbed as<br />
Sineradyo.<br />
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His biggest TV break came when a TV network hired him for a top- rated<br />
showbiz-oriented TV show called See-Tru. The show was hosted by gossip<br />
queen, Lourdes Jimenez-Carvajal who was more popularly known as Inday<br />
Badiday or Ate Luds to her legions of fans. The Black Nazarene devotee's<br />
appearance was only through voice-over (and he was never really seen by<br />
the TV audience) and it was always preceded by his usual line: "Ate Luds,<br />
may phone-in question po tayo rito galing kay...". Yes, his job involved<br />
reading TV audience's phone-in questions to Inday Badiday's movie star<br />
guests. However, despite the TV show's enormous popularity, it was<br />
immediately cancelled after one<br />
of the show's female guests hurled an ashtray at another female guest.<br />
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Later, the Black Nazarene devotee married a lady executive of the radio<br />
and TV network where he had moved up to become the host of its early<br />
morning radio show. They adopted a girl and had a younger son later.<br />
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Never The Twain Shall Meet<br />
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Suppose that the Muslim princess and the Black Nazarene devotee met in the<br />
same office where they both work. Suppose also that the Black Nazarene<br />
devotee personally chose the Muslim princess as one of the principal<br />
sponsors for his adopted daughter's wedding to one of the members of the<br />
staff of his widely popular TV program.<br />
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Suppose further that both the Muslim princess and the Black Nazarene<br />
devotee became elected government officials and they both decided to run<br />
for the same government office on the same year. They both run for say,<br />
the presidency of the Philippines. No, that's being too ambitious. Okay,<br />
suppose that they both run for the position of Vice President under<br />
opposing political parties. Who would you vote for?<br />
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The Muslim princess or the Black Nazarene devotee?<br />
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If you would vote for the Muslim princess, you just wasted your vote.<br />
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If you would vote for the Black Nazarene devotee, you are good at spotting<br />
a winner (but it does not mean that you did not also waste your vote).<br />
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Because the honorary Muslim princess is former Senator Loren Legarda who<br />
lost her bid for the Vice Presidency of the Philippines in the2002<br />
national elections.<br />
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And yes, the Black Nazarene devotee who helps carry the replica of the<br />
Black Nazarene image barefoot and wearing only a white undershirt (sans<br />
bullet-proof vest) during the annual Quiapo procession as part of his<br />
religious devotion (yes, he still does it up to this day) is Noli de<br />
Castro, current Vice President of the Philippines.</div></td> </tr>
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She was born on the day of hearts, February 14. But her parents did not<br />
name her Valentina. Not even Venus or Aphrodite. They opted for the<br />
holy-sounding Kristina Bernadette. But she did not turn out to be a saint.<br />
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Being the youngest, Kristina Bernadette captured the heart of her father.<br />
Father and daughter were inseparable. Until tragedy struck.<br />
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Kristina Bernadette's father was sent to prison. His heart ailment<br />
grew worse there.<br />
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On February 14, 1974, Valentine's Day, Kristina Bernadette celebrated her<br />
third birthday with her father in prison. On the same day, a man was<br />
exchanging hearts with a southern belle in nearby San Juan church.<br />
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Nine years later, on August 21, the man who got married in San Juan church<br />
was celebrating his birthday with his basketball buddies. On the same day,<br />
Kristina Bernadette's father was killed.<br />
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Kristina Bernadette and the married man never knew each other. They lived<br />
very different lives. But in 1994, Kristina Bernadette and the married man<br />
met at work. Their first meeting blossomed into deep friendship. Some said<br />
that she longed for a father figure. But the friendship blossomed into<br />
romance which went beyond control. Kristina Bernadette used her heart, not<br />
her head. She decided to live with the married man.<br />
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Kristina Bernadette's mother was furious at the relationship. How<br />
could Kristina Bernadette's mother like a man who celebrates his<br />
birthday every year on the death anniversary of her murdered husband? But<br />
more than this was the fact that the man's heart already belonged to<br />
someone else. In fact, he has a grown-up daughter in New York who was<br />
nearly Kristina Bernadette's age. Despite her religious mother's efforts<br />
to put an end to Kristina Bernadette's adulterous affair with the man,<br />
Kristina Bernadette had her way. It didn't matter to Kristina Bernadette<br />
that her decision prevented her from receiving church communion because<br />
she was openly living in sin.<br />
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It did not take long before Kristina Bernadette gave birth to her<br />
love child who was the spitting image of her live-in partner. But<br />
Kristina Bernadette's son was born with Attention Deficit Hyper-<br />
Activity Disorder. Her son's birth softened the heart of Kristina<br />
Bernadette's mother who announced that Kristina Bernadette's son was her<br />
favorite grandson. When Kristina Bernadette first planned to have a<br />
liposuction, her mother tried to stop her, warning Kristina Bernadette<br />
that she (the mother) was too old to take care of Kristina Bernadette's<br />
son if something happened to her during her surgery. But as in the past,<br />
Kristina Bernadette had her way. She went on with her liposuction.<br />
<br />
But Kristina Bernadette's relationship with her live-in partner was<br />
not meant to last. In her Ateneo accent, Kristina Bernadette would always<br />
correct her live-in partner's grammatical lapses. Her live-in partner also<br />
got annoyed whenever Kristina Bernadette would hand him a stick of<br />
Milagrosa candle every time he used the bathroom.<br />
<br />
According to Kristina Bernadette, the candle helped drive away the<br />
stinking smell of her live-in partner's crap. Kristina Bernadette<br />
confessed that she learned this trick from her mother. And when<br />
Kristina Bernadette's live-in partner stopped pursuing his petition<br />
for the annulment of his first marriage in San Juan church, Kristina<br />
Bernadette began to express doubt about her live-in partner's<br />
sincerity in marrying her. Kristina Bernadette's heart was hurt.<br />
<br />
Their relationship turned for the worse.<br />
<br />
Kristina Bernadette finally realized that her live-in partner could<br />
never be her savior. She decided to leave the father of her son and her<br />
live-in partner for many years: Philip Salvador.<br />
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Yes, Kristina Bernadette is the youngest daughter of President<br />
Corazon (means heart in Spanish) Aquino and the late Senator Benigno<br />
Aquino, Jr.<br />
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And yes, Kristina Bernadette Cojuangco Aquino is the full name of<br />
Kris Aquino.<br />
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And everyone knows the heart of her story.Out if the Closet, Into the Streetshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11875140945059392988noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152423225732959094.post-78815332819934876602011-02-08T00:55:00.000-08:002011-02-08T00:55:17.654-08:00Untold Celebrity Story #4<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RIDppm83dMY/TVEEgO2KeDI/AAAAAAAAADM/6WhkBz7e2r4/s1600/ninoy.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RIDppm83dMY/TVEEgO2KeDI/AAAAAAAAADM/6WhkBz7e2r4/s1600/ninoy.JPG" /></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RIDppm83dMY/TVEEc5l-4lI/AAAAAAAAADI/-4v2QWni6SY/s1600/nida.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RIDppm83dMY/TVEEc5l-4lI/AAAAAAAAADI/-4v2QWni6SY/s1600/nida.JPG" /></a>At a tender age of 17, Marcial was a war correspondent for The Manila Times. Marcial's war experience provided him with a treasure chest of stories which inspired him to write a movie screenplay. His screenplay was made into a movie, starring Jaime de la Rosa and a 16- year old actress named Dorothy. Helmed by renowned director Lamberto Avellana, the movie was a huge success. During the first FAMAS award ceremony in 1952, Dorothy received the first FAMAS trophy for best supporting actress for her role in the movie.<br />
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The only child of a US soldier and a Filipina, Dorothy was also a<br />
semi-finalist in the 1952 Miss Philippines beauty contest. It was<br />
therefore not surprising that Marcial got so enamored with Dorothy that he did everything to court her. Marcial even carried Dorothy's make-up kit during movie shootings. Marcial became Dorothy's dakilang alalay.<br />
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Dorothy studied pre-Law at the University of Santo Tomas but her booming movie career made it impossible for her to continue.<br />
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Likewise, Marcial took up Law at the University of the Philippines<br />
but the lure of journalism ended his dream of becoming a lawyer.<br />
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Marcial became known for his gift of gab and political skill. This<br />
led to his victory as a town mayor at a young age of 22. Meanwhile,<br />
Dorothy became popular for her acting prowess and dancing skill. This led<br />
to her victory in several acting derbies. Marcial's younger sister was the<br />
director of the movie which won for Dorothy her last FAMAS best supporting<br />
actress award.<br />
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But while Philippine politics and show business naturally intertwine,<br />
political kingpin Marcial and movie queen Dorothy were not destined to be<br />
together.<br />
<br />
Dorothy married a man named Victorino who fathered her only daughter.<br />
<br />
But their union did not last. After a series of unsuccessful<br />
relationships, Dorothy finally tied the knot again with an American<br />
B-movie actor-singer. In contrast, Marcial remained faithfully married all<br />
his life to an American-educated woman who bore his only son and four<br />
daughters.<br />
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But while Marcial survived the Korean War which he covered, he did not<br />
survive the war on the home front. Likewise, Dorothy did not survive her<br />
own war at home.<br />
<br />
Both Marcial and Dorothy suffered violent deaths. Marcial was shot.<br />
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Dorothy was stabbed several times.<br />
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Committed 18 years apart, the separate murders of Marcial and Dorothy made<br />
headlines several years ago. However, both murders remained unsolved to<br />
this day. Some say that identifying their killers is not the issue because<br />
everyone, except the authorities, seems to know the identity of their<br />
respective killers. Rumors even abound that the masterminds in the murders<br />
of Marcial and Dorothy were related to them by affinity. But the real<br />
mystery lies in the fact that the perpetrators of these high-profile<br />
crimes remain scot-free to this day, despite the enormous clout which the<br />
victims' respective family wields.<br />
<br />
Some say that Marcial's death was a result of his being branded a<br />
communist by the government. This is ironic because the screenplay which<br />
Marcial wrote and which won for Dorothy her first FAMAS trophy was the<br />
second in a trilogy of anti-communist movies which were produced by LVN<br />
Pictures in support of the government's efforts to fight communism.<br />
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Dorothy's shocking death led to embarrassing revelations about her painful<br />
personal battle. Marcial's equally shocking death led to well-deserved<br />
recognition of his heroic political battle.<br />
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Dorothy was killed amid rows of cars in the covered and dark parking lot<br />
of the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board(MTRCB)<br />
building. Despite his escorts, Marcial was killed amid rows of airplanes<br />
in a wide open space in broad daylight while descending down the tarmac of<br />
what was then known as the Manila International Airport (MIA).<br />
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Of course, we all know Dorothy as Dolphy's TV wife, Marsha.<br />
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And we all know Marcial as Cory's real-life husband, Ninoy.<br />
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Yes, Dorothy Jones was the real name of Nida Blanca.<br />
<br />
And yes, Marcial Bonifacio was the fictitious name on the passport of<br />
Benigno Aquino, Jr. on the day that he was murdered.<br />
<br />
And you know the rest of their stories.Out if the Closet, Into the Streetshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11875140945059392988noreply@blogger.com1