Blog of the Month - Showbiz Predictions 2009

Kong Hei Fat Choi!

It's the year of the Ox and I've just learned from a Feung Shui expert in one of the Toastmaster meetings that I've attended that I will be lucky this year. Perhaps I just need to wait a little longer for me to get a better job.

Anyway, let me set this straight that this topic is totally not my idea. Ha ha! And I don't possess a single Watt of psychic power in my blood. This is just for fun so don't take me seriously.

• Another young actress will get impregnated due to premarital sex.
  
• Another actor will pass away.
  
• Marian Rivera and Dingdong Dantes will finally admit their relationship.
  
• Vicki Belo and Hayden Kho will be back in each others arms. Then they'll split. And get back together again. And the cycle goes round and round. Hayden will realize that his narcissism needs him to be worshiped by girls, old women and gay guys, thus, he will re-enter showbiz.
  
• Kapuso stars will jump over the fence and be a Kapamilya and the other way around. It's a career move.
  
• GMA and ABS-CBN's claim to be the number one network will still continue.
  
• Oh my God! Another sequel of Shake Rattle and Roll.
  
• Another non-singer will release his album.
  
• One more dance album.
  
• Lutuan issues on awards nights.
  
• Couples will get married. Married ones will separate.

Saan Darating ang Umaga

I was a preschooler when I first watched this movie and I must admit that it made me cry. It was my first time to hear the word "ampon" which made me think that I was an adopted child whenever my mom would punish me. He he. Anyway, like several movies that I loved, this flick has also been put into television which, again, made me feel mad about the idea. My rigid personality tells me that if the writers couldn't really stick to the same plot, make the title totally different and just specify in the credit "Adapted from the movie/book 'Blah Blah'."

• Maricel Soriano originally played the role of Shayne who is a bratinella, sosyal and Englishera sexy girl. Yasmien Kurdi reprised the role who looks like a maid in her clothes, doesn't possess elegance, jologs even when delivering those English lines (teraphy duh) and is fat.
  
• In the movie, Nestor de Villa and Nida Blanca played as Ruben and Lorie, respectively. It's undeniable that they have the chemistry. On TV, Joel Torre and Lani Mercado play the part of the couple. The former looks like the father of the latter.
  
• The cute Jaypee de Guzman played the orphaned boy, Joel, in the movie. He's charming, thin, and doesn't just cry but acted his part well, which, as far as I know, gave him several acting awards for this role. People could really feel for his being an underdog and all. In the TV version, it's Jacob Montes who gets the character - healthy, mestizo, still cute but doesn't look realistic enough for the role.
  
• The coño role of Raul landed to Raymund Lauchengco. Then there's Dion Ignacio in the TV version who couldn't pull the character off. Add it to his several scenes wherein he has to be shirtless showing his bulging tummy.
  
• A lot of characters to make the whole story as magulo as lugaw making the lead characters' life crazy as hell.

Surely, my life is as exciting as watching these kinds of trashes almost everyday, aside, of course, from doing my laundry or sleeping, or eating everything to my heart's content. I've even figured out that my stomach composes 90% of my body causing my very low IQ since it's not allowing my brain to get enough oxygenated blood.

Riddle

January 26, 2009 while watching the teaser of "My Dad is Better than Your Dad."

Paolo: Heto na si Kaka, bubuka-bukaka.

Thinkerthird: Unsa'y answer, zipper?

Jancieus: Pacman!

Ha ha! I've checked the answer and found out that it's "gunting" which was Janice's second answer anyway. Happy birthday Jan!

GMRC

Fairview-Cubao Jeepney, March 31, 2008

Bayad

Lagro-Delta Jeepney, January 14, 2009

Debede, Debede

DVD stall, Ever Commonwealth, January 10, 2009

Bisdak

Commonwealth Avenue, January 10, 2009

Nothing's for Free

Found along Quezon Avenue corner Banaue, June 7, 2008

"The Secret" Disciple

Found on the MRT, December 4, 2008

Madre Sandals

I hope this wouldn't be taken as a disrespect. I spent more than ten years of my life living across the convent of nuns. As a Catholic, I've had several encounters with nuns as well and as far as what my observation tells me, these are the kind of shoes that they wear.

I don't think four-inch stilettos are that expensive. In fact, these kinds of sandals shown in the picture are not cheap either so why not be fashionable while following their vow of poverty?

Sylvester Stallone

Photo studio, Makati City, January 16, 2009

Deceased

Marikina City, January 11, 2009

Pares Pares

Along Commonwealth Avenue, January 10, 2009

Parehas lang 'Ta Bai

Along Baan Highway, Butuan City

Welcome Indiana Jones

Taken at the Butuan City Airport