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About 25 years ago , The Ring was doing well in the American box office. The Ring was originally a Japanese movie (1998) that did so well on its own Hollywood made their own version just like what they did with movies like Scent of a Woman and True Lies . The source material was…
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Like I said in a previous entry, pinoys are overjoyed over what they perceive as world football relevance. First appearance in the World Cup , first goal and first win. To quote my favorite singer/ songwriter. If I might intrude Just for a moment If only to inject a note of reality On this festive…
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Naomi Osaka has now won two Grand Slam ( major) tournaments. She is now the #1 ranked woman’s tennis player in the world. This incredible athletic achievement has served to divide Japan like a Wall along Mexico. I ran across this interesting article in the Australian ( speaking of racially divided) website Nine. Despite flying…
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Let’s again focus on this brilliant quote often attributed to U.S. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, about people, events and ideas: It apparently means small people talk wild gossip and rumors about people (who they are likely backstabbing). Average people talk about events that they just observe, without any desire to change anything. Really intelligent people…
For those of you old enough to remember former U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle he was made out by the mostly left leaning US media as their version of Erap. Dennis Miller went as far as suggesting that then President George H. Bush should have no fear of assassination since his allegedly incompetent VP…
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I am not a journalist. I do demand certain standards of journalism from the many news sources I can access at a particular time. ABS-CBN ( emphasis on the 2nd and 3rd letters) seems to have made it their mission to keep the Filipino people abreast of everything Aquino. It is not about relevance…
Shrek: [observing a giant building] That must be Lord Farquaad’s castle… Do you think he’s maybe compensating for something? If anything pushes my hot buttons enough to make me interrupt my days of meth consumption it is the spreading of ignorance by Pinoys online. The only reason you spread ignorance is because you…
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For those of you who will hate me, after reading this whole piece or reading the title of the piece or reading the title of the website please all I ask is you hate me for the right reasons I will not spend this piece trashing on Michael Christian Martinez. Quite the opposite I…
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