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According to an ABS-CBN News report, former Ms Universe Gloria Diaz (tile holder, 1969) caused a commotion in an attempt to “save” her daughter Isabelle Daza from a “sexy pictorial” being shot for a men’s magazine. The commotion reportedly left Daza “in tears”. Isabelle Diaz Daza is currently an actress, print, ramp, and commercial model…
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Mini-marathons or Fun Runs for a cause have become the “in” thing in the Philippines nowadays. Like most things that become fashionable to the more fortunate of Filipino crowds, the concept behind the activity tends to get lost in its participants. Take the case of this NATGEO EARTH DAY RUN recently held in Manila. A…
The recent furor over a ruling issued by no less than Donald Trump himself owner of the Miss Universe Organization (MUO) allowing transgender contestants to vie for the Miss Universe title sparked numerous debates around what it means to be a “woman” and what defines “beauty”. The Miss Universe pageant after all is a beauty…
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Is it really a contest of talent? Or is it a contest of which of the candidates can mobilise the biggest voting bloc? Filipino-Mexican American Idol contestant Jessica Sanchez represented the hopes and dreams of her co-ethnics as she made it to the finals of the popular reality talent show. But it took a “save”…
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According to a Spot.ph report, a photo of a woman in “skimpy shorts” posted on PinoyExchange.com (PEx) went “viral”. Presumably this is because of what can be construed to be the offensive nature of said woman’s pose. I noted, however, that the cited shorts did not really come up to scratch as far as my…
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Ricky Gervais’s brand of humor may not be everyone’s cup of tea but I have to say that the guy is brilliant. The English comedian is best known to Filipinos as the former lead singer of the New Wave pop duo, Seona Dancing. Their single More to Lose was said to be a massive hit…
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Holy week does not have to be an excrutiating week spent on mind-dulling Catholic ritual and mindless beach partying. There is lots of home entertainment available that can contribute to enriching one’s spiritual framework far more efficiently and profoundly than the traditional listening to a bunch of men in robes or gyrating to loud throbbing…
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The following are words Jim Paredes wrote in his 2007 blog What child is this? where he lamented the child archetype that rules the Filipino psyche… The child in us [Filipinos] lives in a mythic, magical world where we expect a handsome prince to save us at the last minute, or that things will get…
