Category: Culture

Was the #DongYanWedding really Dingdong Dantes’s and Marian Rivera’s wedding?

January 3, 2015January 3, 2015 benign0 57 Comments

It’s been several days since the spectacular wedding of Filipino starlets Dingdong Dantes and Marian Rivera (referred to as the “DongYan” couple on social media) and the Net is still abuzz about the circus. The event was said to have cost more than 100 million pesos and was purportedly shouldered by the GMA Network, one…

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One Man’s Poison Is Another Man’s Royal Wedding

January 3, 2015March 26, 2019 Gogs 33 Comments

This is television, that’s all it is. It has nothing to do with people, it’s to do with ratings! For fifty years, we’ve told them what to eat, what to drink, what to wear… for Christ’s sake, Ben, don’t you understand? Americans love television. They wean their kids on it. Listen. They love game…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Media

Huwag Ipawalang-Bahala ang Pagbabakuna!

January 2, 2015 MidwayHaven No Comments

(Author’s note: This article is a translation of a previous essay I wrote entitled “Anti-Vaxxers: A Dangerous Trend the Philippines Needs to Avoid.” I found it convenient to write this version so as to have a wider reach, and to have more people be aware of an emerging dangerous trend. As with the vaccines themselves,…

Civics, Culture, Education, Media, Science

7M-peso 12-foot high wedding cake of Dingdong Dantes and Marian Rivera baffles the world!

January 2, 2015January 2, 2015 benign0 124 Comments

The wedding cake of Filipino starlets DingDong Dantes and Marian Rivera may have set a world record for biggest cake actually used in a wedding reception! A photo of said cake tweeted by a certain @yziimanabat was picked up by the British tabloid Daily Mirror after it reportedly became the “top trend” and “baffled half…

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What Filipinos’ reaction to the #DongYanWedding says about us

December 31, 2014February 8, 2020 FallenAngel 16 Comments

True to her form, GRP blogger Ilda wrote about what she thought about the recent church wedding between GMA Network stars Marian Rivera and Dingdong Dantes – in which no less than Philippine President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino was the best man – all which drew a lot of comments – generally irate and telling…

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Celebrity #DongYanWedding reminds every Filipino of their place in Philippine society

December 31, 2014 benign0 17 Comments

There are grand weddings like that of celebrity couple Dingdong Dantes and Marian Rivera (the “DongYan” couple), and there are grand classy weddings like that celebrated by Irene Marcos, daughter of the late former President Ferdinand E Marcos) when she tied the knot with industrial scion Gregorio Benitez Araneta in 1983 in the rustic town…

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Did the Dingdong Dantes-Marian Rivera wedding violate the Philippine Civil Code against ‘thoughtless extravagance’?

December 31, 2014 Ilda 1,636 Comments

It was hard to ignore the recently-concluded nuptials of Philippine celebrity couple Dingdong Dantes and Marian Rivera. The news of their “royal wedding” was all over the local mainstream and social media. Their highly-anticipated wedding has been the talk of the town for months. The appearance of no less than Philippine President Benigno Simeon (BS)…

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Will Pope Francis’s 2015 visit to the Philippines bring out the best or worst in the Filipino?

December 30, 2014December 30, 2014 benign0 29 Comments

Pope Francis’s visit to the Philippines is shaping out to be the country’s biggest coming event. Already there’s a scramble to fill precious slots that would bring ordinary folk within the pontiff’s breathing space — whether it be seats in the pope’s flight from Rome to Manila, or a place in His Eminence’s dining table,…

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