Five Things I Don't Want To Hear About Anymore

There are a number of reason why I don't want to watch the news anymore, and the primary reason is that I find most of them too negative and too senseless. But goodness knows there is no avoiding it. I would have to literally live in the mountains or under a rock to be able to completely avoid the news.

If I could wish that some news programs would stop airing news about certain topics, this would probably be my short list:

1. Kris Aquino. It's great that there are hardly any news stories about her now, but this woman's life is too much of an open book.


2. Ruffa Guttierez and Ylmaz Bektas. It's a private marital quarrel that should have been kept private. Couples fight and reconcile and fight all the time; what's so special about their fights?


3. Starlets baring for fame. There was a time when artistas were popular because of the movies they made and their talents as actors, and not because they exposed their skin for the cover of some men's magazine. There's nothing new with naked skin anymore; actual talent is actually wanting these days.


4. The GMA remake of MariMar. So Dingdong Dantes and that new MariMar girl had steamy love scenes and cavorted in a bathtub. Who gives a rip?


5. The "Hello, Garci!" controversy. The taxpayers' money have other, better uses than to fund the continued investigation of a long-winded scandal that has totally lost meaning already.

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I Don't Want You To Go

I have no wish for this blog to end up as a dumping ground for all my trashy nonsense, but I cannot help it. This song fits my mood today.


I Don't Want You To Go
by Lani Hall

I Don't Want You To Go
Here I am
Alone and I don't understand
Exactly how it all began
The dream just walked away
I'm holding on
When all but the passion's gone

And from the start
Maybe I was tryin' too hard
It's crazy 'cause it's breakin' my heart
Things can fall apart but I know
That I don't want you to go

And heroes die
When they ignore the cause inside
But they learned from what's left behind
And fight for something else
And so it goes
That we have both learned how to grow

And from the start
Maybe we were tryin' too hard
It's crazy 'cause it's breakin' our hearts
Things can fall apart, but I know
That I don't want you to go

(Oh) it's just too much
Takin' on the whole world all by myself
There's not enough
Unless I start trustin' somebody else
Somebody else and love again

And from the start
Maybe we were tryin' too hard
It's crazy 'cause it's breakin' our hearts
Things can fall apart, but I know
That I don't want you to go, no

Maybe we were tryin' too hard
It's crazy 'cause it's breakin' our hearts
Things can fall apart, but I know
That I don't want you to go

Oooh no, I don't want you to go
Say that you won't go


Strange how one song can capture exactly what you are into at the very moment it plays on the radio.

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Hello. Yes, It's Me.

Yes, I am still alive, for those who really cared enough to wonder. It's been nearly a year since I have even touched this blog, and so much has happened in that time to make me almost forget that I still have this blog.

The long and short of it is that I fell in love, I got busy with work, I got overwhelmed with work and then the person I fell in love with broke my heart. A sob story, I know, but hey, people live and move on with their lives.

So, because I have nothing else besides work to fill my hands and my mind, I will try to attain a place in the blogosphere, an endeavor I have attempted when I started this blog. I will try to be as witty and entertaining as possible without having to pull a Malu Fernandez.

Until then, ciao.

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A Little Girl and Chaka Khan

So, my brother, my mother and I were watching TV a few hours ago. The program we were watching was All Star K! The One Million Peso Videoke Challenge, a celebrity game show where the contestants fill in the blanks in the lyrics of the song they are singing, though the rules were like that in The Weakest Link.

Tonight's participants were all kids from the various TV shows on the GMA-7 and QTV network. Cute little kids, the oldest of which was only 11, I think. I don't know them since I don't really watch TV that much.

Anyway, so the kid who managed to qualify in the jackpot round is Sandy Talag, the lead girl in Ang Mahiwagang Baul (The Mysterious Chest). Guess what the jackpot song was? It's Through the Fire by Chaka Khan.

How the heck is a young girl like Sandy Talag supposed to even be familiar with a song that reached its heyday in the 80s? Lo and behold, the little girl sang it clearly and beautifully, without missing a syllable or a beat. In short, she won the million pesos, the third person who ever won it in the history of the game show.

As it turns out, Sandy knows the song by heart because it was a song that her dad taught her, and her dad passed away a month ago. The kid was really crying, and as she was going through the jackpot round, the camera kept focusing on her mom, who was sitting with the audience and was crying in anxiety.

I don't care whether or not the show was scripted, but popular opinion has it that it is not. Nonetheless, the game show's episode tonight really warmed my heart.

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Light a Million Candles

I have not been posting regularly on this blog for some time now, but that is because I am pretty busy of late. I shall make a proper update later, but for now, I feel compelled to post this. Please visit the website. Thank you.

The innocent victims of Internet child abuse cannot speak for themselves.

But you can.

With your help, we can eradicate this evil trade.

We do not need your money.

We need you to light a candle of support http://www.lightamillioncandles.com.

The more candles we light, the more powerful our voice becomes.

This petition will be used to encourage governments, politicians, financial institutions, payment organisations, Internet service providers, technology companies and law enforcement agencies to eradicate the commercial viability of online child abuse.

They have the power to work together. You have the power to get them to take action.

Please light your candle at lightamillioncandles.com http://www.lightamillioncandles.com or send an email of support to light@lightamillioncandles.com.

Together, we can destroy the commercial viability of Internet child abuse sites that are destroying the lives of innocent children.

Kindly forward this email to your friends, relatives and work colleagues so that they can light a candle too.

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