Category: Glitz and Glamour

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Liza Soberano – Sobering Truth that Pinoy Inbreeding (Jover Laurio) is NOT the Answer

January 14, 2018 zaxx 55 Comments

Fil-Am hybrid Liza Soberano just bagged the recent Most Beautiful Face of 2017 award, competing not just among Filipinas but across the international Who’s Who of the most admired women around the globe. Even surpassing Hollywood stars like Gal Gadot and Natalie Portman (Full List Here), Liza’s striking beauty is a result of the amazing…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour

Filipinos are poor because their “activists” teach them to be obsessed with the rich

December 17, 2017April 16, 2021 benign0 33 Comments

Most Filipinos would like to believe that the outrage they feel (or are encouraged to feel by their “activists”) about excessive displays of wealth comes from a deep need to see social justice delivered. Thus, the typical screeching lament we hear when such “social justice warriors” (SJWs) are confronted with displays of wealth goes like…

Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Politics, Society

Why did Isabelle Duterte have a photoshoot in Malacanang Palace? Because she can.

December 17, 2017December 17, 2017 benign0 9 Comments

Isabelle Duterte, granddaughter of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, has been receiving a lot flak lately for a photoshoot she had in Malacanang. Why, key “thought leaders” of the Philippine Opposition ask, should Duterte’s granddaughter be allowed to use Malacanang as the setting for her pictorial? Simple. Because she can. Circuses like these are the reason…

Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Politics

Pinoy Low Standards Even Trickle Into NFL Viewing

December 9, 2017December 10, 2017 Gogs 24 Comments

I have lived in Manila for 17 years. In the past the NFL provided a respite from mass media stupidity from September to February every year. There have been episodes of drama where Sky lost ESPN and only Destiny had it as well as other incidents. In 2011 ASN ( All Sports Network…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Media

Justin Trudeau’s Jollibee visit ‘staged’ but a winner just the same

November 13, 2017November 13, 2017 benign0 10 Comments

What is really amazing about Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s brief visit to a Jollibee restaurant shortly after landing on Clark Field for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Manila is that some Filipinos would actually consider the possibility that this visit was a genuinely candid spur-of-the-moment decision on Trudeau’s part. It…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Society

Recalling “Oeneta” – a play banned for being highly-critical of the Ateneo High School

October 14, 2017October 14, 2017 benign0 4 Comments

Alumni of Ateneo High School (AHS) Batch 1986 will remember the play “Oeneta” produced by Section A in the junior year of that class. It was highly-critical of the AHS and eventually went on to be banned by the school. Section A is the top honours section of every batch at the AHS and is…

Education, Glitz and Glamour, Society

Pretty sure Xian Gaza had already been friendzoned by Erich Gonzales

July 4, 2017July 4, 2017 Kate Natividad 7 Comments

It’s another one of those really bizarre trending “issues” in the Philippines. Apparently the Pinoy Net is abuzz not over the recent Supreme Court affirmation of Duterte’s Mindanao Martial Law but around that other bigger issue of global consequence, a billboard put up by businessman Xian Gaza who is “CEO of Guanxiqian Group” according to…

Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Media

Inquirer writer Jacqueline Arias picks tweets to “prove” Filipinos hate Bongbong Marcos

March 22, 2017March 22, 2017 benign0 6 Comments

According to Inquirer Lifestyle writer Jacqueline Arias, people are “not happy” with Isabelle Daza’s latest video in her series “Haters Gonna Hate” posted on Facebook. In her article “Isabelle Daza’s Latest Video Features Sen. Bongbong Marcos, and People Aren’t Happy” published on the “Preen” section of the Inquirer, Arias asserts that Marcos is a generally-reviled…

Glitz and Glamour, Media, Politics