Shh-Boom / Kokak on TV5'S Star Confessions [30 March 2011 / Wednesday, after Mga Nagbabagang Bulaklak]

Rachel Lobangco, more popularly known as "Shh-Boom" in the memorable San Miguel Beer tv commercial and as the titular character in her hit debut movie "Kokak," reveals intimate and private details about herself [from feeling abandoned as a child, to being ridiculed and lacking confidence for being dusky, to her rise to stardom, to becoming a household name], her tabloid-worthy loves and heartaches, her painful journey back to near-obscurity, her passion for fire-dancing, and the salvation she has found in her daughter.

Rachel "Shh-Boom / Kokak" Lobangco makes her confession on 30 March 2011 / Wednesday after Mga Nagbabagang Bulaklak on TV5's Star Confessions.

Fear is a paralysis

Paralysis is immobility
Immobility is stasis
Stasis is uncertainty
Uncertainty is fear

On BBC, the 8.9 magnitude earthquake and tsunami in Japan...

...and on Fox News, it's Charlie Sheen.

To get something you've never had...

...you ought to do something you've never done before.

 

--forwarded SMS

System Shutdown...

...in 5... 4... 3...

Burn, Baby...

...Burn!

finally, i can sleep...

... and let my brain do a bit of the necessary rebooting.

Makata Tawanan on Star Confessions

Ferdinand "Makata Tawanan" Clemente on tonight's episode of Star
Confessions, after Babaeng Hampaslupa on TV5.

Makata Tawanan comes from a long line of poets in Hagonoy, Bulacan.
And despite the difficulties and ridicules, he chose to pursue his
passion for performance poetry. Until he got his big break after
becoming a hall-of-famer and a grand finalist at last year's
Talentadong Pinoy, ultimately, bringing to the mainstream a dying
art-- comedic poetry.

The Adjustment Bureau

What could be the grand plan/s that The Chairman had written for me
that I had to be separated from some people? I wonder.

* * *

Does it mean the GW Bush and GM Arroyo and Gadaffi were destined to
become presidents of their respective countries? Or, were they the
glitches that The Adjustment Bureau didn't foresee?

* * *

The first half is okay. The chance meeting of Elise [Emily Blunt] and
David "Chuck" Norris [Matt Damon], the tragic-romance, the set-up,
etc. Then it started preaching about freewill, changing one's destiny,
fighting for one's love, blah-blah and more blah.

* * *

Every time Terence Stamp appeared, I was somehow expecting him to
dance to an Abba song.

'Wag na lang

Kung ngingiti ka lang kapag nakikita mo 'yung isang tao, pero wala ka
naman talagang sayang nararamdaman, 'wag na lang.

Kung magkukunwari ka lang naman na concerned sa issue ng ibang tao,
'wag na lang.

'Wag mo na lang palabasin na ikaw ang fair, honest at transparent kung
'di naman talaga totoo.

'Wag mo lang lang palabasing ikaw ay maka-tao, maka-mahirap, at
maka-manggagawa dahil alam naman nating pareho na hindi. Noong una,
kahit madami akong tanong, naniwala ako [dahil ganu'n talaga ako-- mas
pinipiling maniwala muna, kahit ilang beses ma-disappoint sa bandang
huli]. Pero ngayon, pagkatapos ng ilang taon at maraming pagkakataon,
hindi na ako naniniwala. Ewan ko lang kung ikaw ay naniniwala pa sa
mga sinasabi mo. Pero mukha naman. Otherwise, hindi ko alam kung paano
ka nakakatulog sa gabi.

Kung hindi mo rin naman kayang lawakan ang isip mo, at tanggaping ang
mundo ay hindi umiikot para sa 'yo [hindi rin naman 'to umiikot para
sa akin, o kung para kaninuman kundi para sa sarili n'ya], 'wag mo na
lang ipangalandakang matalino ka.

'Wag mong i-appoint ang sarili mo bilang messiah. Namatay na si Jesus
two thousand years ago. Hindi na namin kailangan ng isa pa.

Puro lip service ka lang naman pala. Wala naman palang laman ang lahat
ng mga sinasabi mo. Wala ka naman palang kayang panindigan.

'Wag na lang.

Kung hindi makaiwas sa pagkain...

...pwede kayang voluntary na mag-develop na lang ng aversion sa pagkain?

Parang controlled na anorexia. Ganu'n.

iPad 2

I wonder when Apple will make iPad 2 available in the Philippines.