Category: Media

Yikes! Pope Francis with Filipino celebrities in commemorative painting!

January 12, 2015 Kate Natividad 52 Comments

Ok, just when the whole brouhaha over the grandiose wedding of Marian Rivera and Dingdong Dantes is simmering down, I came across this supposedly recently-completed painting by Dante Hipolito… Apparently Hipolito is known in art circles as a “hyper-realist” and his favorite subject involves depictions of scenes of traditional Filipino rural life. Well, the scenes…

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Fluency in Regional Languages Can Improve the So-Called “Filipino Language”

January 8, 2015January 8, 2015 MidwayHaven 46 Comments

One thing I learned in language education is that, given time, geography and human development, a language would eventually change to suit the needs of communication. That is why I have ultimately very little problems with Tagalog speakers embellishing English into the former, creating a (current) form of portmanteau popularly known as “Taglish.” The premise…

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Vice Ganda interview of PNoy is proof of Filipinos’ obsession with celebrities

January 7, 2015January 23, 2022 Ilda 87 Comments

If the saying is true that the character of the leader of a nation reflects the character of the people, then the character of Philippine President Benigno Simeon (BS) Aquino reflects the character of the Filipino people. BS Aquino’s recent guest appearance in the popular television show Gandang Gabi Vice gave everyone a clue about…

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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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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…

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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,…

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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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