Category: Lifestyle

Why it is wrong to spend P100M on a celeb wedding in the #Philippines

January 7, 2015May 6, 2022 benign0 68 Comments

Filipinos’ values are indeed perverted beyond recognition. In many Filipino movies, the bad guys are often pointy-nosed fair-skinned snobs (keeping to the narrow-minded way Philippine cinema’s jeje-culture traditionally portrays the rich) living in obnoxious tacky mansions while the “hero” is an other-side-of-da-riles lad or lass living the Pinoy challenge of scraping together a “decent” life….

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Is diskarte more important than good English as Marian Rivera says?

January 6, 2015January 24, 2019 Kate Natividad 64 Comments

Don’t look now but Marian Rivera’s come out swinging at her detractors, presumably over the subject of her famous English language skills (or lack of it). I’ve always found Marian fascinating. Her face and physical stature does not match her style of speech. Perhaps this is what endears her to her fans — she physically…

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The #Philippines is a nation of starstruck ignoramuses

January 4, 2015January 4, 2015 benign0 928 Comments

[The following is an article by Star columnist Don Pedero published in The Philippine Star 29 October 2000 and also featured in Get Real Philippines on the same year.] * * * Last July 23, I wrote about Nasty (short for Anastacio), a balikbayan from Los Angeles, who, while vacationing in Manila, had nothing to…

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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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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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Bai’s Boneless Lechon Cebu

January 2, 2015January 3, 2015 P. Farol 10 Comments

We really don’t do food reviews on Get Real Post because we tend to vote with our wallets and if something is good, we’ll post about it on our own Facebook accounts or personal websites to endorse it to our real personal connections — not GRP’s main audience. But there are times when you come across food that…

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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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