There are somethings that just had to happen. probably a design of fate but also one borne out of necessity with a mighty dose of determination.
When faced with a decision, it's only a matter of minutes before the moment passes by so it is only fair to react swiftly whether its to make a jump or turn around..judgment call is what i can term it.
Time to shake off the cobwebs and prepare for both the new and the old, of goodbyes and reunions at the same time.
To borrow from a line in an old MJ song 'and I don't know whether to laugh or cry' but then certainly it's not about dying but more about living..
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
'Tuyo' on a Wet Day
With a storm underway, I couldn't help but think of the perfect way to spend a rainy day when one is trapped indoors and wouldn't dare brave the floods, strong winds and heavy traffic than to plan an appetizing but simple meal.
A meal that would not be a strain on the budget but would just consist of a main ingredient that is easily found within your pantry. Something very easy to cook though not necessarily well-accepted by those averse to pungent odors and dishes. A dish comprised of the lowly 'tuyo' or dried fish.
And here is another way to prepare tuyo especially on a wet and cold morning and with no time to scour the groceries for gourmet tuyo, we can improvise on our cooking and try this 'fried tuyo with a twist' recipe that I learned from my mother:
Fry the tuyo (up to you how many pieces you like) in a pan, cook until slightly brown. Have at least one clove of crushed garlic ready. Set aside the cooked tuyo, then saute the garlic on the pan using the same oil for frying the tuyo. YOu man use olive oil if you want and cook only under medium heat. Put the tuyo back in the mix and pour about three teasponful of vinegar and let simmer for a few seconds,take the heat off and you're done.
You may opt to sprinkle a bit with dried garlic or chili bits for a more spicy creation. Best served with fried rice.
Now who says simple things don't bring great pleasure?
A meal that would not be a strain on the budget but would just consist of a main ingredient that is easily found within your pantry. Something very easy to cook though not necessarily well-accepted by those averse to pungent odors and dishes. A dish comprised of the lowly 'tuyo' or dried fish.
And here is another way to prepare tuyo especially on a wet and cold morning and with no time to scour the groceries for gourmet tuyo, we can improvise on our cooking and try this 'fried tuyo with a twist' recipe that I learned from my mother:
Fry the tuyo (up to you how many pieces you like) in a pan, cook until slightly brown. Have at least one clove of crushed garlic ready. Set aside the cooked tuyo, then saute the garlic on the pan using the same oil for frying the tuyo. YOu man use olive oil if you want and cook only under medium heat. Put the tuyo back in the mix and pour about three teasponful of vinegar and let simmer for a few seconds,take the heat off and you're done.
You may opt to sprinkle a bit with dried garlic or chili bits for a more spicy creation. Best served with fried rice.
Now who says simple things don't bring great pleasure?
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
To Tweet or Not to Tweet
Found myself caught in a web of web applications (sic).Just when I thought I'd browsed enough sites online to last me a lifetime, I suddenly find myself joining the Twitter bandwagon.
Nothing sensational or life-altering experiences yet. My so-called tweets are just mostly about random musings,whatever comes to mind in a particular moment or a craving for something. But what do you know? Somehow this new medium or social network alternative attracted my ever distracted mind, probably out of curiosity and the continuing search to somehow relieve some emotional burdens and unload pent-up passions and sentiment into cyberspace.
Talk about trying all stuff before finding out whether it's good or bad for me, but hey, I'm always the adventurous and risk-taker kind of person anyway, though it doesn't seem obvious when you look at me. Anyway, i am just exploring this whole Twitter magic and know that it has yet to reach its full potential encouraging a new form of online communications and even a targeted medium for advertising and brand building. I realize too that maybe in about two or three years from now, all these networking sites and blogs(Facebook, My Space, Plurks, Friendster, etc) will soon be replaced by the next killer web application. But for now, it is safe to say that twittering still has a long way to go and for now I am just enjoying it.
And yes, sometimes its also interesting to read about what another person had for breakfast no matter how trivial it may seem. There's just something artistic in putting all those random thoughts together and reducing them to a maximum of 140 character per 'tweet'.
So I guess I'll be twittering more in the days to come.. come and follow me @loidita
;)
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Of Sex Videos, Our Women & Pinoy Voyeurism
All the uproar on the Hayden Kho –Katrina Halili and 40 others sex video scandal going on for some weeks now has made me think that we are after all a nation of prudes, or perhaps a combination of a prude and a voyeur (pruyuer, anyone?).
Well, one couldn’t blame the public’s curiosity that was piqued by the personalities involved in the scandal. Who wouldn’t be curious on what transpired between this well-known, good-looking actor wanna-be/medical practitioner/gigolo/playboy turned into a pervert & persona non grata stud, a sexy actress , another one, a supposedly star-in-the making commercial model /professional doctor turned porno sensation plus another prominent doctor, heiress and business lady turned into a lovestruck sugar mommy of sorts? Throw in a few other scenes and sidelights involving more famous people and influential personalities in the mix and naturally, you get a blockbuster in your hands. If this whole sex video scandal (with sub-plots on drugs and psycho-sociopathic shebang) were a movie, it surely would be a big hit.
Anyway, the fame, betrayals, scandals and violations aside, there is also something to this scandal issue that is causing some stir on the Filipino psyche and also raising a few questions on the nation’s morality and how we treat our women.
Our reaction and attention to the sordid tale unfolding before our eyes somehow shows that we Filipinos are still collectively a conservative lot notwithstanding a few advances in technologies and our modified acceptance on society’s norms. If these sex videos prompt us to react vehemently in a way as to reach the senate halls, then we can safely assume that we are not used to these sexual perversion or blatant abuse of women. Pity our nation if we were to just shrug this whole case off as just one of those daily events, relegating the plight of the ‘women victims’ as an ordinary way of life. So this reaction, this news about the beleaguered doctor’s maltreatment (not on medical terms) but an abuse against women now holding this nation captive is indeed called for. Even the emphatic privilege speech of Senator Bong Revilla was a welcome relief. At last we have somebody in the Senate sensitive enough to its citizen’s problem or a sexy star’s problem for that matter. Briefly, we were diverted from the never-ending bickerings of our politicians. Somehow that is one positive note to all this ‘Hayden-Kho-mera issue.’
On the downside, we couldn’t help but notice our penchant for voyeurism much as we care to admit it or not. Why else will this sex video proliferate and reach mainstream if not for the unrelenting uploading and downloading of the videos? Just hearing about the existence of such tapes made us turn our necks to see where we can find and view it. Or maybe we are just naturally curious to see how these attractive people do it and even more curious to know if these truly are the personalities involved as they say. Still, I believe that everyone had different reactions and feelings while watching those videos. Others might feel disgusted at the victims and the perpetrator, others feel pity or envy (?), others are laughing, others still are either enraged or aroused – all these mixed reactions pointing to one thing: we actually took the time to watch those footages, some even rewinding it over and over and a lot more are passing them on to friends, burning them into CDs, blue-toothing like crazy, etc. Admit it guys, we are all guilty one way or another of being sex voyeurs. And why else would they even sell these scandalous videos for millions of pesos if Pinoy voyeurism is not a target market? Or perhaps, we just enjoy the whole exchange, the sex thing?
Still, the brightest side to all this is that Filipinos as a nation still value our women and even sexy stars however much her reputation has been ruined still deserves some dignity and that no one has a right to trample on her rights. Whatever they say about a woman being immoral for getting involved with an otherwise attached man and having sex with him, she still has her rights to her own privacy. And that private acts like that should have been kept hidden. For all intents and purposes, I also direct that phrase to those kiss-and-tell guys. You know these types of insensitive, immature guys who makes love with a girl and then brags about the whole thing to his friends. Although not exactly showing a video of their sack session, still letting others know about your ‘bumping and grinding’ is equally embarrassing to the lady concerned and is also a violation of her rights, with or without the presence of a camera. That would certainly feel like a slap on any woman’s face.
And being involved in a sex video without her consent and suddenly finding the whole country watching it is more than a slap or a kick in the stomach. Just wait and hear the whole country say oucchh! and you will realize the extent of what you have done. And hey, guys! It’s never a macho thing to kiss and tell anyway.
And for us who got ‘curious’ over the videos, there is nothing wrong with watching two people making love as long as it’s a scene from a movie, nor is there anything wrong for two supposedly dating couples to engage in such activities. But if we start to enjoy these things despite knowing that someone has fallen prey to another’s perversion, that’s where the real problem begins.
Well, one couldn’t blame the public’s curiosity that was piqued by the personalities involved in the scandal. Who wouldn’t be curious on what transpired between this well-known, good-looking actor wanna-be/medical practitioner/gigolo/playboy turned into a pervert & persona non grata stud, a sexy actress , another one, a supposedly star-in-the making commercial model /professional doctor turned porno sensation plus another prominent doctor, heiress and business lady turned into a lovestruck sugar mommy of sorts? Throw in a few other scenes and sidelights involving more famous people and influential personalities in the mix and naturally, you get a blockbuster in your hands. If this whole sex video scandal (with sub-plots on drugs and psycho-sociopathic shebang) were a movie, it surely would be a big hit.
Anyway, the fame, betrayals, scandals and violations aside, there is also something to this scandal issue that is causing some stir on the Filipino psyche and also raising a few questions on the nation’s morality and how we treat our women.
Our reaction and attention to the sordid tale unfolding before our eyes somehow shows that we Filipinos are still collectively a conservative lot notwithstanding a few advances in technologies and our modified acceptance on society’s norms. If these sex videos prompt us to react vehemently in a way as to reach the senate halls, then we can safely assume that we are not used to these sexual perversion or blatant abuse of women. Pity our nation if we were to just shrug this whole case off as just one of those daily events, relegating the plight of the ‘women victims’ as an ordinary way of life. So this reaction, this news about the beleaguered doctor’s maltreatment (not on medical terms) but an abuse against women now holding this nation captive is indeed called for. Even the emphatic privilege speech of Senator Bong Revilla was a welcome relief. At last we have somebody in the Senate sensitive enough to its citizen’s problem or a sexy star’s problem for that matter. Briefly, we were diverted from the never-ending bickerings of our politicians. Somehow that is one positive note to all this ‘Hayden-Kho-mera issue.’
On the downside, we couldn’t help but notice our penchant for voyeurism much as we care to admit it or not. Why else will this sex video proliferate and reach mainstream if not for the unrelenting uploading and downloading of the videos? Just hearing about the existence of such tapes made us turn our necks to see where we can find and view it. Or maybe we are just naturally curious to see how these attractive people do it and even more curious to know if these truly are the personalities involved as they say. Still, I believe that everyone had different reactions and feelings while watching those videos. Others might feel disgusted at the victims and the perpetrator, others feel pity or envy (?), others are laughing, others still are either enraged or aroused – all these mixed reactions pointing to one thing: we actually took the time to watch those footages, some even rewinding it over and over and a lot more are passing them on to friends, burning them into CDs, blue-toothing like crazy, etc. Admit it guys, we are all guilty one way or another of being sex voyeurs. And why else would they even sell these scandalous videos for millions of pesos if Pinoy voyeurism is not a target market? Or perhaps, we just enjoy the whole exchange, the sex thing?
Still, the brightest side to all this is that Filipinos as a nation still value our women and even sexy stars however much her reputation has been ruined still deserves some dignity and that no one has a right to trample on her rights. Whatever they say about a woman being immoral for getting involved with an otherwise attached man and having sex with him, she still has her rights to her own privacy. And that private acts like that should have been kept hidden. For all intents and purposes, I also direct that phrase to those kiss-and-tell guys. You know these types of insensitive, immature guys who makes love with a girl and then brags about the whole thing to his friends. Although not exactly showing a video of their sack session, still letting others know about your ‘bumping and grinding’ is equally embarrassing to the lady concerned and is also a violation of her rights, with or without the presence of a camera. That would certainly feel like a slap on any woman’s face.
And being involved in a sex video without her consent and suddenly finding the whole country watching it is more than a slap or a kick in the stomach. Just wait and hear the whole country say oucchh! and you will realize the extent of what you have done. And hey, guys! It’s never a macho thing to kiss and tell anyway.
And for us who got ‘curious’ over the videos, there is nothing wrong with watching two people making love as long as it’s a scene from a movie, nor is there anything wrong for two supposedly dating couples to engage in such activities. But if we start to enjoy these things despite knowing that someone has fallen prey to another’s perversion, that’s where the real problem begins.
Saturday, April 11, 2009
ADVERTISE IN PINOY PARAZZI (The Print edition)
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10 WAYS PINOY PARAZZI (print edition) WORKS FOR THE ADVERTISER
1. Phenomenal Pass-Along Rate – PINOY PARAZZI has one of the highest pass-along rates of any entertainment publication! One copy of PINOY PARAZZI is read by at least 5 more people and your ads are sure to reach more than our total circulation.
2. Bonus Distribution - along with our targeted distribution to newsstands and our nationwide following of loyal readers, each issue of PINOY PARAZZI receives bonus distributions thru our partnerships with showbiz talk shows, and thru special conventions, awards ceremonies and film festivals, and trade exhibits.
3. Newsstand Distribution – PINOY PARAZZI is distributed to newsstands across the Philippines and in parts of HK and Italy. The number has grown 30% in the past ten months and is expected to continue growing as we reach other distribution areas.
4. Controlled Circulation – PINOY PARAZZI has the entertainment industry and politics’ best controlled circulation. When you buy an ad in PINOY PARAZZI your ad will be seen by the most influential figures and decision makers in the country. We have developed the most accurately controlled lists possible.
5. Targeted nationwide promotion - To guarantee the growth of PINOY PARAZZI and to increase exposure, our foto-jaryo is always aggressively promoted to anyone and everyone involved in the entertainment industry and their media partners and suppliers. We also regularly partner with event organizers for added exposure.
6. Purchasing Power – PINOY PARAZZI is sent to TV buyers, motion-picture and TV executives and also in the Senate, Congress and City Halls. We have targeted the most influential decision makers in the country. These powerful and influential individuals receive PINOY PARAZZI on a regular basis.
7. Endurance - An ad in any issue of PINOY PARAZZI will be among the most enduring advertising exposure you can receive. People do not just throw away PINOY PARAZZI; it is passed on to others and also referred to as a credible "source of entertainment" even beyond the issue date. Placing an ad in PINOY PARAZZI extends your advertising minutes!
8. Distinctive – Our unique format draws attention to our paper. And our ads are distinctive because the pages are lively, colorful and artistic, appealing to a lot of readers. So you are guaranteed a lot of ‘eyeball time’ when you advertise in PINOY PARAZZI
9. Emerging Brand – the PINOY PARAZZI brand is already causing a lot of heads to turn as far as the field of publishing is concerned and a lot of advertising people are taking notice of our paper. It is poised to be among the most widely-recongized brand in the country thus associating your own brand /services with good quality and prestige.
10. Unique Partnerships - PINOY PARAZZI’s special relationships create access for advertisers to showbiz & politics’ biggest events and to lively, active consumers.
For more details, visit our website: www.pinoyparazzi.com
Friday, April 10, 2009
MY TOP VIDEOKE SONGS
I've been thinking about those songs I often belt out whenever friends and our family get together for some karaoke singing. And these songs almost always are included in my 'repertoire'. See if you and I have something in common about videoke songs we love to sing to:
1. For Your Eyes Only
2. Almost Over You
3. Finding out the Hard Way
4. How Do You Keep The Music Playing
5. I Wanna Be With You
6. Out Here On My Own
7. Anything For You
8. Anyone Can See
9. Words Get In the Way
10. Weak
11. Tell Him
12. Huwag Ka Nang Magbabalik
13. Kung Ako Na Lang Sana
14. Para Sa Akin
15. The Only Love
16. Don't Let Me Be The Last To Know
17. Neither One of Us
That is all I can recall for now but I'm very sure there are lots more that I am trying hard to sing once in a while. I'm not really a microphone-hog but sometimes I just wanna let it all out and de-stress thru singing.
How about you. What's your all-time favorite karaoke song?
1. For Your Eyes Only
2. Almost Over You
3. Finding out the Hard Way
4. How Do You Keep The Music Playing
5. I Wanna Be With You
6. Out Here On My Own
7. Anything For You
8. Anyone Can See
9. Words Get In the Way
10. Weak
11. Tell Him
12. Huwag Ka Nang Magbabalik
13. Kung Ako Na Lang Sana
14. Para Sa Akin
15. The Only Love
16. Don't Let Me Be The Last To Know
17. Neither One of Us
That is all I can recall for now but I'm very sure there are lots more that I am trying hard to sing once in a while. I'm not really a microphone-hog but sometimes I just wanna let it all out and de-stress thru singing.
How about you. What's your all-time favorite karaoke song?
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Basta Tokwa
With Lent underway, I had a bit of experimentation done at the kitchen. The result is a tofu (tokwa) recipe in something spicy sauce. Here is how I prepared the meal..
1 medium cube tokwa (cubed)
5 tbsps. cooking oil
1 red sili labuyo (medium)-chopped
3 tbsps. crushed garlic
1 medium sized onion-julienned
1/4 cup soy sauce
2 tsps. ground pepper
2 tsps. chili-garlic sauce (courtesy of Mr. Maglonzo, paging Ana)
Procedures:
Heat pan, fry the tokwa until golden brown
Set aside the fried tokwa and then begin sauteing the garlic, onion and red chili in medium heat.
pour in the soy sauce mixed with the ground pepper and add a bit of water then let boil.
put the tokwa back in the mix, add the chili-garlic homemade sauce and let simmer for a few seconds and voila! you have an oriental-type of dish with an edge. Hmm, yummy!
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