I’m giving away DVDs of the following:

• Run’s House
• The Princess Bride 20th Anniversary Edition

If you’re interested, details csa be found in my blog.

Either GMA-7′s Nelson Canlas is stupid, or he thinks his viewers are. Click here to find out why.

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Amazing Race Season 5 – The Philippine Leg

Interesting to note that the French are starting to take notice of the Philippines.

First there was this show called Koh-Lanta, a Survivor type show. Koh-Lanta: Palawan has the highest viewership of the show with about 9 million viewers. The host has noted that the experience that he had in Palawan is “two of the best” the other being New Caledonia. A Filipina blogger has pointed out that this show has helped her a bit…

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New Marine Species?

What we don’t see in everyday life does not mean it’s not there or we don’t need to preserve it. This is especially true about our marine life. Even though some of us don’t have the luxury to dive, to check the what our sea has to offer, scubamagazine.net was kind enough to bring you marine life in HD from the Philippines. Enjoy.

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It was during one of these meetings in a cafe along Tomas Morato that actor and director Richard Arellano pitched a germ of a concept: film and television actors bloodying each other in the boxing ring. Nginiiig! associate producer Ryan Evangelista and I immediately leapt upon that thought. It was very mainstream and very interesting. Admittedly, I knew nothing of boxing at that time but the mere idea of television celebrities duking it out on national TV seemed to me a fucking entertainment goldmine.

The short of it is that we fleshed out that concept and made an AVP out of it. Along the way, we had other brainstorming meetings for other concepts but the celebrity boxing show seemed to have the most promise. By March I was called upon to develop some new shows for ABS-CBN, Ryan was busy with various shows, and Richard was preoccupied with other projects. The celebrity boxing AVP was shelved. When pitching day came around some months ago, we decided to take out the AVP and present it to ABS-CBN’s pantheon. We immediately got the green light. And that’s how Pinoy Mano Mano was born. Hey, look, I don’t have any pretensions that Pinoy Mano Mano isn’t a rip-off of Stallone’s boxing show, The Contender. On the other hand, Sly Stallone didn’t have Justin Timberlake knocking Heath Ledger’s teeth out. We have TJ Trinidad busting up Jordan Herrerra’s nose. And that was just during a test episode. So y’all watch now, hear?

FISTICUFFS!

I placed a mini mock poll on my blog to run for 2 weeks because I just can’t believe, after reading tons of blogs, that I’m all alone in my opinion that the Desperate Housewives’ remark shouldn’t be taken out of context. In this blog’s poll, 22% finds the remark offensive, hence demands an apology, 11% doesn’t care on the issue while 66% agree that there’s nothing more to it but a silly joke. Sure, it was but a mini poll with only 54 people voting but points my case that there are two opinions to a story. Mine may not be a popular choice but it does not make it wrong, just because there are more people against it. It appears I’m not alone after all. There are silent voices out there who thinks that we have indeed taken this issue out of proportion. Before you lambast me with your political correctness rhetorics on your stand on the Housewives issue, let it be known that I respect your view so please respect mine and my reader’s clear cut opinion. I doubt if many of those who found it a racial slur even watched the entire episode OR they just relied and formed their opinions at once solely on a one minute clip they saw on youtube! If you watched the entire episode you’d understand the events leading to the remark.

Let’s just stop the hypocrisy and double standard. We always laugh at other people or other nationalities’ expense but once we’re the object of joke, everybody stops laughing! We suddenly become pikon, balat-sibuyas and asar-talo (onion-skinned and sore losers). We only need to turn our cable channels to Comedy Central where stand-up comics of different races make fun of everybody else bordering racism and insults for an hour or so 24/7 and nobody’s boycotting the station. You must have heard of South Park! They’ve ridiculed every imaginable character, from Presidents to religious people, TV and movie stars, to religion. This long-running vulgar and offensive American show has a huge following, where the object of their parody and satire are directed toward Americans themselves. They have a contract to run til 2011 for its 15th season!

Here’s a one-liner from Desperate Housewives with the word Philippines on it, suddenly, it’s a racial slur against the Filipinos and Filipino doctors?! Think again. It so happened that Desperate Housewives is an international TV show syndicated all over the world but how many times does Philippine television get away with discrminatory remarks and racial slurs?! Philippine TV makes fun of other races all the time and we laugh about it! We even have songs so popular to the masses that it’s scary we haven’t been gun down by the race being made fun of (…and this other video is supposedly done by a Filipino!). We don’t hear the Chinese, Bombays, Indians, Europeans even Americans we stereotype, calling on their people to boycott the Philippines! They have better things to do than meddle with mundane things.

The Philippines’ knee-jerk reaction was to me an overkill. Only in the Philippines does a story like that get to be on the front page and headlines’ newspapers for what could be a short article in the entertainment section. Only in the Philippines does ‘respectable’ lawmakers and Senators join in the bandwagon and proclaim their distaste to a show they haven’t even seen in full. Only in the Philippines, does a congressman file a resolution that calls for a ban on airing of Desperate Housewives in the Philippines. Here we have a government whose power is engulfed with controversies left and right and impending impeachment issues anew; here we have insurmountable unending troubles on corruption, bureaucracy, cronyism, political dynasty, population explosion, waste control, educational decline to name a few- the list could go on! Must we really make a huge deal on a fake character on TV when there are more pressing reality issues at hand?

And on a recent news, Philippine Medical Schools plan to join in the legal battle. Please! Can’t we let this die down? ABC already gave their sincere apology and even noting to edit that episode. Plus, they are also inviting talented Filipinos with background on media and TV to come and work for them. What more do you want? Teri Hatcher’s head on a platter? Let’s be more civilized than that!

We are really making a mountain out of a molehill here because the general opinion of Americans and other nationalities here in the US with regards to Filipino medical practitioners and Filipinos in general are high and it hasn’t changed after watching Desperate Housewives! Filipinos are well respected in their fields here. Sure, there is a constant ‘pressure’ to prove what you can do and what you can offer in your field but that is true for ALL regardless of sex, race and or gender. It is not just us, Filipinos trying to make a mark in the world; everyone must prove their competence in their chosen fields.

In the real world, when somebody questions your qualifications (which happens all the time especially if you’re starting on a new job!), you don’t go to your boss and complain about discrimination- you prove your worth! In the workplace, you are judged not by your race but by what you do. Americans do NOT think any less of Filipinos. There is no discussion on that here. If anything, we are greatly admired for our intelligence and hard work!

So why are we pursuing this now becoming stale affair? To save face? Why are we so defensive? Why are we really hurt that bad? Why do we feel insulted? Why do we take it so personally? Is it because there’s truth in it? Why do we need to overreact and show the whole world our pettiness? Who are we kidding?

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Yes, it’s already my sembreak. There’s so much thing that I want to do, like I want to bake a peach pie, change the layout of this blog, finish watching House MD (special thanks to the piraters here in downtown San Fernando), read, write reviews of the books that I have recently finished reading, update this blog, and the list goes on but since I’ve mentioned about updating my blog… I have to update it.

I’ve already mentioned here that the shampoo commercials in the country looked like they were taped in other countries but it turned out that they were taped inside a studio with the usual shocking green background. Honestly speaking, I’m always fascinated with these commercials. Of course, minus the stupid jingles and the weird dance moves. Whoever created them are brilliant and it must have used all of their creative juices just to come up with these funny yet sometimes stupid commercials.

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Hi. My name is Gino, code name: Jack Baddier. I’m here in my room, waiting for the Sandman to put me to sleep. By the way, I’m not talking about the mythical creature. Sandman is the codename of one of my fellow agents in a top secret government organization. He’s going to inject me with a serum that will induce sleep. After weeks of not getting enough rest, I can finally lay down on my bed and sleep fo… what the fuck?! Now why the hell is that dog barking?! Dammit. But before I find that out, I need to know first which of our half dozen stupid dogs is barking.

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Speaking of which, here are more bad news from the world of televison writing. The recent rollback in the talent fee rates of writers, I’ve come to learn, is due to this newfangled scheme regarding the little bits of maggoty cheese they pay wordslingers. Before this, you see, talent fees are decided through lots of haggling with producers. The bigwigs have decided to do away with all that by standardizing talent fees. At Sacking-of-Constantinople rates, I must add. Under this scheme, a noob writer in, say, a televison soap gets fifteen pieces of maggoty cheese per script. On his next soap show, he gets a bit more. It goes on that way with each succeeding soap show until the writer either dies of exploitation-induced cancer or he reaches the limit at thirty pieces of maggoty cheese. Thirty. Yeah, something like how much Judas sold Jesus to the Pharisees for. The rotten thing about this is that a seasoned writer who’s just starting out on a soap will still get noob rates.

THE FOURTH CRUSADE IS AT THE GATES!

Didn’t I tell you that “ABC actually Filipinos/Minorities” and they’re probably one of the most diverse and targets minority audience than any other network in the U.S. as compared to NBC, CBS, FOX.

I’m probably the only one who keeps following ABC in the Desperate Housewives issue but nevertheless here it goes…

DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES UPROAR OPENS DOOR FOR PINOY TALENTS

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I’m giving away a premium, all original Veronica Mars Season 3 DVD set!

Visit Screensucked and see how you can be part of the Veronica Mars Season 3 DVD Giveaway. Who knows? You might be the one who will get the spiffy 6 DVD set delivered at your doorstep.

A Desperate Housewives episode has Filipinos angry. But this post suggests Filipinos have to be angry at themselves first. Read it here …

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First Broadcast on September 18, 2007

Former President Corazon Aquino, has been labeled a “slut” in the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. The Daily Show is a news satire show in the U.S. which airs on Comedy Central.

Starts at approx. 3:15

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LOS ANGELES–A spokesperson for ABC Studios has confirmed that a remark made by actress Teri Hatcher’s character in a recent episode of “Desperate Housewives” which has prompted ,angry reactions from Filipinos all over the world will be deleted.

Charissa Gilmore, vice president for media relations of the network that airs the TV series, told the Philippine Daily Inquirer (parent company of INQUIRER.net), “Definitely the episode is being edited and has been removed from all possible digital platforms until the new version is available.”

The network’s action comes after Rico Foz, executive vice president of the National Alliance for Filipino Concerns, said the group was demanding that the ABC television network immediately edit out the controversial scene in which character Susan Mayer Delfino (played by actress Teri Hatcher), tells her doctor: “OK, before we go any further, can I check those diplomas? Because I would just like to make sure they are not from some med school in the Philippines.”

The remark made by Hatcher’s character–drew the ire of the Philippine Congress and the presidential palace.

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It is very common for us to include a smelly Indian, bow-legged Japanese war-freak in WWII uniform or money-grubbing Chinese in our TV shows.

*cough*hypocrisy*cough*
*cough*double standard*cough*

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Manny Pacquiao has come a very long way since he started his journey on the road of professional boxing. He has faced a lot of foes, he has crossed a lot of roads, he has conquered a lot of mountains, yet he’s still standing strong. In less than 3 days he will face an arch nemesis for the third, and hopefully last time inside the ring. It will be watched by millions across the world, and will be talked about by millions more. As loyal fans, we offer this simple prayer, that will help inspire Manny Pacquiao to put an end to all the disputes.
READ:  A PRAYER FOR PACQUIAO

Manny Pacquiao has come a very long way since he started his journey on the road of professional boxing. He has faced a lot of foes, he has crossed a lot of roads, he has conquered a lot of mountains, yet he’s still standing strong. In less than 3 days he will face an arch nemesis for the third, and hopefully last time inside the ring. It will be watched by millions across the world, and will be talked about by millions more. As loyal fans, we offer this simple prayer, that will help inspire Manny Pacquiao to put an end to all the disputes.
READ:  A PRAYER FOR PACQUIAO

This is how I see it so far…

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