Tag: entertainment

What Pinoys Get Wrong About Rights: Dehumanization In The Media

February 10, 2015 Grimwald 19 Comments

Ever since the EDSA Revolution, the Philippines and its people has always been proud to be supportive of the “human rights” movement. Since then, Filipinos came to view the Marcos regime and Marcos’ disciplinarian and authoritative mindset as tyrannical and evil. They vilified all his works and sought to bring down everything Marcos had established…

Crime, Culture, Lifestyle, Media, Society

The [Real] Media

February 6, 2015 Batangenyo 37 Comments

Sa mahabang panahon nating nabubuhay sa mundo, konting panahon lang ang ginugugol natin sa mga magagandang nangyayari sa buhay natin. Parang wala lang. Masaya tayo, pero hindi tayo nag eenjoy. Marami tayong sagot pero hindi natin mahanap yung tanong. Umiibig tayo, nagmamahal, pero unti unti tayong nagiging buni sa mata ng mundo. Pag ibig. Hirap…

Why Simple Solutions Won’t Work In The Philippines

February 3, 2015 Grimwald 32 Comments

After a brief discussion with some of my friends, we considered the idea that what if we allowed common Filipino citizens to carry guns the same way that Americans do, the “right to bear arms”, so to speak. One commenter here on GRP even mentioned it, if I remember correctly. The discussion went around for a…

Crime, Culture, Education, Government, Lifestyle, Politics, Society

A review: Michael Bublé in concert, MOA Arena 31 Jan 2015

February 1, 2015 Ferdinand Topacio 2 Comments

No doubt about it: Canadian crooner Michael Buble is good-looking, exudes charm and humor, with sex appeal and stage presence that cannot be ignored. He also works hard to connect to the audience, taking pains to talk to random individuals in the crowd, cracking jokes (which are sometimes off-color) and even earnestly mingling with the…

Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle

Telenovelas: Building Walls in Society

January 13, 2015 Grimwald 14 Comments

Well let’s face it: Do the telenovelas of Philippine TV really have anything to offer the common people? I’m an upper middle-class Pinoy who lives with a lot of kasambahays who just love to watch telenovelas. While I hate said shows with a passion, I cannot help but notice a few issues with the…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Society

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….

Civics, Culture, Economy, Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Society

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…

Civics, Crime, Culture, Development, Education, Government, Lifestyle, Media, Politics, Society

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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