Making It Fun in the Philippines

  I remembered one time when I wrote about how the film Ang Tanging Ina Ninyong Lahat (The Only Mother to You All)  showed the perils of the presidential system . Now, it's time to really make a joke because I was actually way too disappointed that one film was never made. The title of the film would be called  Ang Busy Presidente Ninyong Lahat (The Busy President for You All)  which will feature Vice President Leni Loud Robredo. I did end up making a joke where I compared Leni Loud to Ai Ai Delas Malas' character of Ina Montecillo . Now, it's time to make an imagined scenario where movies that could've been shown this Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF)  are a movie with Agot Isidro as Maria Ressa  and Coconuts Martin as Antonio Trillanes IV . The film could be produced by either VIVA Films or ABiaS-CBN. Either way, the movie should've been produced with Ai-Ai as Leni Loud. Why would I choose Ai-Ai as Leni Loud? It's because of the movie Ang Tanging Ina Ninyong L

The Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF)  has become an online event due to the COVID-19 pandemic. One film that I might check out later is Tagpuan though it may cost me PHP 250.00 - something I could use to get me a delicious value meal instead! Vice President Leni Loud Robredo is now that the "lady in waiting" that the "opposition" is hoping would replace President Rodrigo R. Duterte .  The film Ang Tanging Ina Ninyong Lahat  is now currently taken down from Netflix and I don't think it'll be back. Netflix takes down any film or series they rent when they don't intend to renew the contract with the owners. The film was shown during the reign of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo who wanted to do system change. Now, it looks like Ang Tanging Ina Ninyong Lahat is partly becoming true with Leni Loud. The film in itself also showed the PERILS of the presidential system . What do Leni Loud and Ina Montecillo have in common?  Okay, Ina is still MUCH WORSE than Leni Loud.

It may be a film that screened last year prior to the rise of the Legacy Virus aka COVID-19. The film Hello Love Goodbye was filmed in Hong Kong. The film has its romantic focus with Joy (Kathryn Bernardo) and Ethan (Alden Richards) about OFW life in Hong Kong. The film was produced by Star Cinema which is also owned by ABiaS-CBN. It was also shown in the USA and the Middle East after the Philippine screening. However, Alden is from GMA-7. I decided to watch the film out of curiosity because it hit Top 2 this week on Netflix Philippines. Strangely, none of ABiaS-CBN's TV series ever did make the top ten there.  The hype of the OFW phenomenon led to the foolish idea that Filipinos are supposedly " conquering the world ". Who can remember when Edz Ello thought that Singapore will become the new Filipino state - only for him to be DEPORTED after that? Edz should've known better than Singapore has very strict censorship. Edz didn't only lose his job but also got depor

The news of the Sinovac Vaccine is something, right? It's really something when Filipino communists really LOVE communism while they hate Communist China . So far, it's said that Sinovac is only 50% safe but later tests such as from Turkey show a 91.25% efficacy rate . What was also mentioned is that an Indonesian test proves Sinovac has a 97% conversion rate . Now, Filipino communists are all protesting against the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine - a vaccine that comes from a COMMUNIST country. Isn't Mao Zedong one of their poster guys aside from Vladimir Lenin and Karl Marx? Ironically, these guys didn't bother to welcome Xi Jinping or raise a placard with Deng Xiaoping's face on it. Even more ironic is that they aren't welcoming Chinese investors either  or think of them as helping hands for their cause. They aren't even using China-made Huawei phones in their call for a communist revolution either. Instead, they're using iPhones which come from a democratic

It's Christmas Eve and COVID-19 is still here! COVID-19 isn't taking a day or two off just because it's December 24-25 and that it'd resume its operations on December 26 and take a break from December 31 to January 1, 2021, next year. Unfortunately, some Filipinos just NEVER learn away from the common, irritating bad habits during Christmas . I wonder if last-minute Christmas shopping is upheld as a Filipino tradition  or if many Filipinos have even taken it as a proud Christmas tradition. It's December 24 and checking the GPS - I'm amazed at how BAD traffic still is and its COVID-19 season. This just shows how many Filipinos STILL refuse to re-think their Christmas traditions at the cost of law-abiding Filipinos. I'm still thinking about how some of my peers have already prepared their simpler Noche Buenas. It's because mass gatherings are still heavily discouraged. True, businesses have opened but employees may have to settle for pinaskohans over Chri

The recent incident involving Joel Nuezca's shooting incident may have triggered the Philippines' own version of "Black Lives Matter". The death of George Floyd was anything but heroic. Police brutality existed but the solution has NEVER been to defund the police. The moment that Nuezca pulled his trigger, showed his child a bad example, and killed parent and child - he should forfeit his title as a policeman and be demoted to the status of criminal . Any police officer who breaks the law should be apprehended and treated as a criminal. The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) is given its mandate to investigate ALL forms of human rights violations. This is no exception and the CHR should really consider this a huge blot at the failure of a police officer. This is the kind of police officer CHR should raise a flag as a human rights violator. Police officers are supposed to uphold human rights and defend public safety. Unfortunately, Nuezca did neither with what he just di

Although I'm wary of the SINOVAC vaccine - if it passes medical standards then why not? This is really another drawing line between the Chinese communists and Filipino communists. Why do you think Communist China managed to overtake the Philippines when it used to be MUCH POORER after Mao Zedong messed it all up? It's because Deng Xiaoping introduced his "socialism" that won't be popular with the wokes today. Deng called it "socialism with Chinese characteristics". What Deng did was to really make his new awkward socialism that says, "Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious." Deng even said that capitalism is superior to feudalism - which in turn made China into a bigshot communist country. A far cry out from the anti-capitalist idiots in the Philippines, right? China has been busy with SINOVAC. What about the Filipino communists? The only vaccine they have (and it's not working) is called SINIBAK. Okay, before you "fact check

I'm amazed at how Orion Perez Dumdum of CoRRECT Movement is absolutely right to call Benign0 of Get Real Philippines (GRP) as CLUELESS. Yes, Benign0 is clueless and it's shown during this COVID-19 or the Legacy Virus epidemic . I'm amazed at how Benign0's suggestions really just don't match to COPING UP with PAYING BACK the debts incurred with COVID-19 spending. Benign0 has several anti-commie posts yet he's suggesting the commie vision of "self-industrialization" which I find funny. Now, the ever clueless Benign0 even calls wearing face shields to be an OA overreaction . First, Benign0 ignores economics and now he's ignoring science? Yet, Benign0 has all the time in the world to actually argue with trolls like Darth M the Wise or any other troll. Benign0 doesn't even bother to MODERATE his site from trolls which further shrinks his credibility. OA overstatement? We need to realize how the recent COVID-19 infection is easy to spread. Why do you

Blind supporters of Vice President Leni Loud Robredo call her a "quiet worker". Her spokesperson Barry Guiterrez says she's a quiet worker. However, I'd say that she's far from that. I remembered when I wrote about how calling her a quiet worker would defy the science of acoustics . Sure, I did suck at high school physics BUT it doesn't mean that I need to know all the maths and sciences involved to know she's no quiet worker. The proof gathered is now when she reacted to the ongoing hashtag on Twitter republic #NasaanAngBisePresidente in regards to Typhoon Vicky from Mindanao. We had Rolly, Ulysses, and now Leni ahem Vicky.  If Leni Loud were indeed a quiet worker then she could've just ignored the hashtag about her altogether. She could've just worked out (or called for her workforce) to go to Agusan Del Sur and Surigao Del Sur in regards to Typhoon Vicky WITHOUT reacting at all. She could've just said that she's there and help is on the

The COVID-19 season has given me some time to really do some throwbacks and flashbacks. One of the shows I used to watch on ABiaS-CBN was The Calvento Files . It was an investigative journalism program by the late Antonio Alberto "Tony" Calvento who died last 2014. That would be four years before the release of the movie Jacqueline Comes Home and three years after the release of the controversial documentary Give Up Tomorrow . My memory of the episode of The Calvento Files is now blurred since I was only 13 years old when I saw it. It was also during the December break when I saw the episode. It was a hot case that happened when I was 12 and it was aired DURING THE TRIAL . Yes, that was mighty unethical since the case was going on and nobody was sure if Juan Francisco "Paco" G. Larranaga was really the leader of the gang. The episode had some clips featured in the documentary Give Up Tomorrow which proved that the whole dramatization was based on half-truths.  I cou

Do you remember the song of the late Yoyoy Villame called "Dayang Daya"? It was a parody of the otherwise not Indian song (actually it's a Muslim song) which was said to come from either Saudi Arabia or Indonesia. Some say it was from Zamboanga or it was a Filipino song. Either way, it's an entertaining song that made a good parody. The song "Dayang Daya" talked about the Indian guys who loan the five-six lending. It means for every five pesos you borrow - you end up paying them six pesos. In short, the interest rates are so high. Even worse, these five-six lenders usually aren't registered. But why do so many Filipinos get trapped in the Indian debt trap especially during the holidays? It's because not budgeting for Christmas and New Year is MORE FUN in the Philippines . Why do you think Christmas shopping is very stressful in the Philippines? It's because most people are still waiting for their 13th-month pay in December  instead of learning to

Get Real Philippines has its latest article where it discussed how foolish it is for Leni Loud Robredo to believe that she leads the "opposition" . Clueless Benign0 actually dared to write an article that had inspired this entry. The problem right now with Vice President Leni Loud Robredo is that she's aiming for TWO DIFFERENT OFFICES at once - vice president and opposition leader. Another big problem with the current system is when the president and vice president keep coming up from the same party. Maybe, it was no problem with Fidel V. Ramos, Joseph Estrada, and Benigno Simeon "Noynoy" C. Aquino with their vice presidents coming from different parties. The problem only became more recurring when President Rodrigo R. Duterte has to deal with Leni Loud as his vice president . Leni Loud herself is really trying to be both opposition leader AND vice president at the same time.   The presidential system doesn't have a really well-defined opposition. It's b

Whether you're DDS or not isn't the issue. In my case, I'm more of a Duterte supporter who won't hesitate to criticize the president's shortcomings. What all people need to agree that Christmas is definitely a season for foolishness. Why do you think hold-ups increase during Christmas? It's because of the Christmas bonus and/or the 13th-month payments that employees receive during the month. Please take note of the common, irritating habits that exist during the Christmas season . It's not just the noisy parties (which in turn could help spread COVID-19 this pandemic). It's also when people ask for unreasonable leniency with the "But it's Christmas!" to get away with whatever wrong they do. Nope, I'm actually calling for a more vigilant Christmas law enforcement. It's because the problem can work both ways - the pasaway population and the government when it fails to do its job . Why would there be a need for more vigilant law enfor

Vice President Leni Loud Robredo is willing to become a guinea pig for the COVID-19 vaccine after all. I don't know if I should applaud it or not. What are her motives in willing to become a guinea pig or to get shot by the vaccine? She even said that  it's okay to be among the first to get injected . Though I'd like to question her motives (or one might want to question) that she's actually willing to be among the first to get injected with the vaccine.  In the USA, the three ex-presidents  William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton, George  W. Bush Jr., and Barack Hussein D. Obama willing to take the vaccine publicly . It would be easy to say that maybe, just maybe, Leni Loud has the same motives as Clinton, Bush Jr., and Obama. However, all three of them are now ex-presidents having had used all their term limits. The current lousy 1987 Constitution says that Leni Loud has two options after her term is over. Leni Loud may re-run as vice president or that she may run

It's Christmas and there's always the bad culture of overspending, right? I remembered writing some time ago decided to write about why Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) families tend to remain poor . I was thinking about how the classic scenario of the OFW is - the nagpadala (sender) and the pinagdahlan (receiver). With Christmas in mind - I was thinking how a typical OFW family that's Okay Fine Whatever would have their desire to receive imported luxury items this Christmas. Be it the newly released Playstation 5, the latest iPhone 11, Gucci or Louie Vitton bags (or you NAME IT) - they're eager to receive it from the OFW Balikbayan Box which some may consider contains what they may consider as " the spoils of conquest " from other countries. They're so eager to receive those imported luxury items as they ignore Jack Ma's basic advice on budgeting . Just think that many luxury stuff are only bought for the NAME and NOT for the quality of the product. 

One reason why I no longer accept comments simply known as Anonymous is because of the stupidity behind most of them. I don't even want to get stressed out because of them. Sure, there are some anonymous commentators who don't troll but most of them do troll. Not everyone who uses an OBVIOUS pseudonym is an anonymous troll. Some just want privacy as they express their views on the Internet. However, some Internet trolls (whether they use their real names or not) actually show a common problem of being a SNOWFLAKE. Yes, a snowflake can be defined as a person who's EASILY OFFENDED. Trolls take pleasure in derailing conversations because they're THAT easily offended.  I find it funny when Internet trolls demand so-and-so to show their faces but wait - aren't they simply commenting as ANONYMOUS? Yes, that's what makes it funny. They make such brave demands to let bloggers using pseudonyms to show their faces when they can't even show their faces. Some of them ar

It's the first day of December 2020 and it's 24 days before Christmas now, isn't it? I remembered writing about how COVID-19 may force Filipinos to rethink their Christmas traditions . Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be the case and there's that really BAD HABIT of breaking simple guidelines. It's a question worth asking on how can you expect quarantine measures to succeed IF you keep breaking simple guidelines . We can talk about the  common, irritating habits prevalent during the Christmas season and how they may help spread COVID-19. These are overspending, asking for pinaskohan out of the blue , having noisy parties, and asking for extreme leniency from authorities just because it's Christmas. Should I also mention the last-minute Christmas shopping  which can be connected to overspending? These incidents can certainly spread COVID-19, even more, this Christmas. I remembered the time I wrote that many Filipinos may have NO ONE but themselves to blame