Wang Wang Ina Mo!

The vehicles with the privilege of using wang-wang:

1. uniformed police and military vehicles
2. Ambulance
3. Fire vehicles
4. Presidential car
5. Senate President's Car
6. Speaker of the House's Car

Lourd de Veyra rocks :)

Pope Benedict's Commandments

LOL.

Hitler Reacts to the Reproductive Health Bill

This clip, from the German film "The Downfall" is probably the most parodied clip on Youtube. See Hitler react to the news of the RH bill not making it in Congress.

RIP President Arroyo

This is too good to pass up. Thanks to Ade for the head's up! On top of the multiple slips yesterday by news anchors, uttering GMA's name instead of Cory's....we have this on Manila Bulletin today. Ano 'to? Collective desires of our id?



ETA:

Aaaaand...courtesy of E.P. LOLZ



ETA again:

They keep pouring in. Yahoo News



ETA 8/7

Via Nash

Relax, CBCP, sucking does not kill!

Seen in the grocery. :-)

I lurve this Pussy

"Good god woman, I know I'm a hunka burning love. Now leave me alone so I can get some sleep." - Tinay, my (male) cat.

Th Mother of all Brawls

Christmas Carol for GMA

La Presidenta Dancing at the Interfaith Rally!

Juana Change Cha Cha?

I don't know who made this, but its absolutely brilliant.



ETA:

This video was produced by the Convergence Team - a group of Filipino artists. It stars Mae Paner, artist and former advertising executive.

My Worldview

A cool quiz from Chris Williams. I'm a postmodernist. No surprise there.

You Scored as Postmodernist Postmodernism is the belief in complete open interpretation. You see the universe as a collection of information with varying ways of putting it together. There is no absolute truth for you; even the most hardened facts are open to interpretation. Meaning relies on context and even the language you use to describe things should be subject to analysis. Existentialist 81% Cultural Creative 81% Postmodernist 81% Romanticist 56% Materialist 50% Modernist 50% Idealist 31% Fundamentalist 31%

I Heart Craig Ferguson

Yin, Yang. Thesis, Antithesis. Here's Scottish-American Craig Ferguson's take on the US financial meltdown, capitalism and democracy.

Quezon City's Very Own Caped Crusader

This morning we went to UP to do our weekend walk. They usually close the academic oval, so people are free to jog, sight-see and just relax near the Sunken Garden. As we neared the theatre, we saw this guy standing right smack in the middle of the street. Others see insanity. I see performance art.



Click photo to enlarge.

Upper-right shot: Joggers look bemused.
Lower-right shot: An older guy does an awkward salute in tribute of QC's own super hero.
Main photo: He had a plastic bag of pan-de-sal slung around his 'tool belt.' Deadly stuff.

Ramdam na Ramdam na!

Prepared lovingly for La Gloria by Pelikula76.

Blog Readability

This might explain why there's only a couple of dozen of you who are regulars. Wahehe. Via Jego, apparently you need to be a genius to fully appreciate what I waste my time writing about. :)



What think you? Maybe I should start writing about celebrities...

Here are the results for some of my regular haunts.

Filipino Voices



Manolo Quezon

These results are probably not surprising, however keying in Resty's blog, this came up:

If you read Resty, I think you need to have graduated from high school and then some.

Jessica Zafra probably needs to start really blogging soon.

Aaaand. Apparently you need to be a genius to read Celebrity Gossip

Andy Warhol, Prophet

Fame is just a YouTube upload away. Moymoy Palaboy was on the Inquirer today. I decided to check them out. Their work is derivative of the Chinese Backstreet Boys, but what the heck. I dare say they're funnier. :)

This is my favourite so far. The brothers singing Avril Lavigne's Girlfriend



And Marimar comes in a close second. Hahaha.

Internet Art

Butch says its internet art. I like. Here's Matt Harding showing us how the world is getting smaller and smaller.

Para Maiba Naman

How depressing my last few posts. O s'ya sige. I saw Jo Koy live in Brisbane. He was Russell Peters' guest comic. Even Russell admitted being outstaged by this guy. Needless to say, I have never laughed so hard (and for such an extended time - almost 3 hours) in my entire life.

His material is mostly about his Filipino mother, Asian ethnic jokes, being a father and his family. This short snippet does NOT do him justice.

Brian Gorrell's Blog is Alive!

This blog is not above juicy gossip. Wehehe. The DJ Montano blog (written by a certain DJ Montano's spurned lover) has a new post. He ends it with a threat:

I will shame your entire family because of DJ's crime against me.

DJ, do the right thing. Borrow the money from your family. Borrow it from a friend. Just give it to me.

Because I will re open this blog.

Nyahahaha. As Gibbs Cadiz says, its schadenfreud. I caught wind of this too late, and so I didn't get a chance to read the entries with all the comments. Even though he has deleted his posts, they're still floating in the ether. Make some popcorn, get comfy on your favourite meuble and "read" at your heart's content. Mwahahahaha.

ETA:

I am deliriously, ridiculously happy to report, that my post is the top search result when you google "tim yap."

Read also:
Deconstructing Celine Lopez' Book Report
In Defence of the Truly Talented and the Merit of Merit

Malu Fernandez, You Attention Whore You

She has some choice words for us upstarts in her latest column. Just because her words come to life in ink and ours in pixels, does not make her a journalist. I'm a blogger. Five years of my life and my thoughts are chronicled on this blog. I don't think that's slacking...that's providing intellectual capital for free.

Hemingway, I have said my piece on this one, so I won't jump into the fray. Just happy to report on everyone else's reaction so far:

From Jego:

Let us ignore the fact that she calls herself a journalist. I prefer to call her a columnist, but that is neither here nor there. The difference between a journalist and a blogger is that journalists have to adhere to certain guidelines that govern the freedom of speech. Last I checked, freedom of speech and the "guidelines" thereof cover both journalists and bloggers, and in fact cover all citizens. The principle of freedom of speech does not discriminate between journalists, bloggers, butcher, baker, and candlestick-maker. Perhaps what she means is journalists are covered by the standards of the publication said journalist happens to work for. Bloggers, not working for anybody for the most part, do not have to adhere to standards other than their own. A blog is a private space where the blogger can do whatever he or she wants, say anything he or she wants, insult or edify whoever he or she wants. The only courtesy a blogger affords to his or her readers or to his or her targets is to open the blog up for comments, an open invitation to his or her readers to agree or disagree with whatever was written. A blog is just like any other conversation, or at least it should be. The only standards bloggers adhere to are the standards of the society at large.

From Pedestrian Observer:

It is unfortunate and at the same time a reflection on the liepapers’ credibility and poor standard in hiring a shallow “writer” dipping her fingers on subject she knows nothing about comparing it with shopping experience is so absurd and ridiculous...One is allowed to make a fool of themselves, that is the essence of living in a free country and she can stay that way because she is fixated on accessorizing herself with name brand items unfortunately wearing expensive name brands does not necessarily make one look better. It is not what you wear that counts but what you are deep within that determines your character as a person.

From Carlos Celdran:

But I'm also wondering what's the deal with her smarmy remarks about some blogger of Spanish descent. I wonder who she's talking about. And what is it about this year? It's just one bloody ta-e* explosion after the other on the blogosphere.

From Bryanboy:

Are you THAT disconnected with what goes on these days? I have no idea what it's like in that insulated cave you live in but woman, get on with the program!

From Nightdreamer:

She ridiculously claims that us, Filipinos, are a culture of whiners. And what was she doing exactly? Not whining?

Oh. And Yugatech has awarded her Master Link Baiter of the year.


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