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TV5′s new station ID is the first few minutes of Luc Besson’s Yamakasi

onetamad — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 02:44:14 +0000

Not that it really matters but TV5′s new station ID “Pagbabago 2010″ is pretty much the introduction to Yamakasi (2001), a parkour movie written by Luc Besson, interspersed with astig shots of the TV5 news team in action.

“Pagbabago 2010″

This is from Yamakasi:

There’s nothing really wrong with that, and the traceurs and freerunners in the video were probably doing it as an homage to the movie. The station ID is actually pretty cool, even.

I’m just showing off how cool I am for watching obscure French films and obscure Filipino TV channels.

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RP politics: all in the family

onetamad — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:28:03 +0000

Twenty some days into the new administration, this ‘new’ politics they all promised sounds more and more like the old politics. More accurately, it’s beginning to look a lot like the old old politics of cacique days.

You see, until this week, there were only two serious contenders for the presidency of the Senate: Senators Manuel Villar Jr and Francis Pangilinan. Oddly enough, they were in the same side back when Villar was Senate President with Pangilinan as his Majority Leader. The two have been lobbying to get 13 votes and get majority support in the Senate.

This week, Senator Tito Sotto, whom Pangilinan’s wife Megastar Sharon Cuneta had endorsed in the May elections, said that he wouldn’t support Pangilinan’s bid. Hurt that Sotto didn’t return the favor, Cuneta said that she felt like she had been “stabbed and slapped several times” especially since they are relatives (somehow). “There’s a lot of drama going in the Senate that really hurts me,” she added.

In a press statement, Sotto replies:

I am sorry if Sharon is hurting but the senate presidency transcends family ties. The Senate should be remain (sic) independent and should not be pressured even with family concerns.

And, really, politics should transcend family ties. But it really doesn’t. The fact that Cuneta’s hurt feelings were featured in actual news articles shows that Philippine politics is still just as personal as your typical soap opera (minus the magic and the girls made of magical living water).

One of these guys is a Senator

Even Sotto’s statement is so showbiz, ending with a cheesy line that belongs more on Boy Abunda’s show than in the august halls of the Upper House: “Whatever my decision will be will not change my feelings towards her.”

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Sometimes we just don’t get Barrio Siete

onetamad — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:57:55 +0000

We all love Bario Siete, the blog that rules the Philippine blogosphere. True, it is a love that is born of fear, but still.

Sometimes, though, they tend to Hamlet it up with words, words, words that it’s easy to get lost and go, “say, what?”

Take this gem from their latest post criticizing a certain family that has the Philippine budget process in a stranglehold, for example:

They always start with the best intentions in the world to save Filipino humankind. But we as Filipinos must be jurasically dysfunctional too, for we cannot seem to shake-off our idolatry type of submission to them. While we abhor dynasties, nepotism and favoritism, some of us seem to embrace the idea that only a select group of family, having been touched by some magic wand of the gods, are exempted from our abhorrence to the very concept that we fight and allow an entire clan to hold stacks of government positions and/or juicy portfolios. How lucky to be the chosen people of god. O’ Israel, get these people out of our country!

What was that about? Are they asking the state of Israel to send in troops to kill these people off? What’s a jurassic dysfunction? Does it make people think they’re dinosaurs? I honestly don’t know.

(UPDATE: But B7 also comes out with great pieces like this one from Buraot.)

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Pinay maid in SG gets US$4 million from her employer, Pinoys in RP get angry

onetamad — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 07:16:44 +0000

“Christine,” a Filipina maid in Singapore inherits some US$4 million from her employer. She declines to give her real name “for fear of possible threats to her life in the impoverished Philippines, where wealthy people have been kidnapped for ransom and some killed by their abductors.”

Butthurt ‘nationalists’ are now duking it out on the comments thread because Yahoo, which hosts the blog the piece was posted on, is apparently hating on Filipinos and the Philippines.

The maid refused to be named in public for fear of possible threats to her life in the impoverished Philippines, where wealthy people have been kidnapped for ransom and some killed by their abductor <——— DID THIS PRESUMPTION COME FROM A RESPECTABLE CREATURE?…are there real editors here?

Join the fun before the haters crash the server with all their hate.

UPDATE: It’s still on fire.

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House reps response to water crisis: absolutely nothing

onetamad — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:32:54 +0000

Members of the House of Representatives have called on President Benigno Aquino III to initiate sterner measures to solve the water crisis in Metro Manila. Specifically, the declaration of a state of calamity that will do absolutely nothing.

Marikina Representative Marcelino Teodoro said “there is already a need for the President to declare a state of calamity to strengthen and empower the government agencies concerned.” Forgetting, however, that strengthening government agencies is something that is done in anticipation of crises, not when you’re in the middle of one.

“(An) action plan towards mitigating effects of climate change should already be put in play as we are clearly experiencing the effects of global warming,” Compostela Valley Representative Maria Carmen Apsay said, adding nothing to the discussion.

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Metro News: Being a cop can be a shitty job

onetamad — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:49:17 +0000

A cop’s life is full of long periods of waiting. Waiting on stake out to catch a suspect, waiting for the crooked system to serve some semblance of justice, and in some cases, waiting for a suspected jewel thief to take a crap so you can get the evidence that he swallowed.

Policemen in Naga City had to wait for days for a suspected snatcher to shit out a 20,000-peso necklace that he stole from a college student. The suspect allegedly swallowed the necklace before he was caught by Naga City police.

But even as he was fed a diet of fruits and some laxatives, the boy was still unable to discharge the evidence needed by the police.

The suspected thief finally, uh, gave the goods today, giving police evidence to charge him, and the victim a piece of jewelry that she will probably never wear again.

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Metro News: Ex nabbed for leaking sex video on Facebook

onetamad — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:13:40 +0000

Poor Edwadson Base, a 26-year-old call center agent, was arrested by the Manila Police District for posting a sex video of him and his ex-girlfriend on social networking site Facebook.

Pornstar

Base was charged with violating the Anti-Photo and Video Voyeurism Act of 2009 (Hayden’s Law) after posting the video to teach his ex-girlfriend how he is so not a loser and so much better than the new guy she’s hooked up with.

Asked to comment, Base had only this to say:

I was fooled and blinded by love

His victim and ex-girlfriend said she’ll just let justice take its course especially since she’s totally over her ex.

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Filipino Students Develop the Video Game Equivalent of Mother Teresa, Wins $25k

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:43:53 +0000

A group of students from Ateneo and UP won first prize at Microsoft’s Imagine Cup Game Design competition by creating a game that asks players to “battle poverty, gender inequality and environmental degradation and save the world by social action and volunteerism.”

Mighty big responsibility for a video game.

The article is silent on details about the game itself. Even some screenshots would be nice. I would seriously like to get a copy and have a go at it to see how it plays.

Congratulations, Team By Implication!

(Update: Philippine Online Chronicles, our Internet betters, has a feature on Team By Implication. They have video.)

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Art Attack (on our national pride)

onetamad — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 06:42:00 +0000

Click to see in all its glory

M says “This crudely drawn comic strip is more nuanced than it has any right to be.”

–

(thx, /b/ [pinoychan chapter, of course!])

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Cheerleader helps diners finish their tapsilog

onetamad — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 01:46:44 +0000

Rodic’s, the tapsilogan at the UP shopping center, is a veritable institution in the UP experience. Not in the sense that it is a fairly stable set of rules, but in that it has always been there. People can count on Rodic’s to provide filling meals that you can enjoy in relative solitude and anonymity, a premium when you’ve got a long day ahead.

What better place, then, to shoot a faux-viral video to plug the 2010 National Cheerleading Championship?

No, really. Can you think of any other place? Any other place at all? That dude in black probably can.

(Thx, Diliman Diary)

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