"ONLI IN DA PELIPINS": This is the Third on an ongoing Series about the Philippines. And specifically this is about what can presumably be found ONLY IN THE PHILIPPINES.
If it's your first time to be invited to a party hosted by a Filipino friend and do not know a clue what to expect, then this should help you out.
How FIBA let host China get away with murder at the FIBA ASIA 2015 is something that FIBA should be really ashamed about and they should have done something by now, anything.
As sports fans, Filipinos from the tiny Pacific island nation, are a little weird, they enjoy watching the game of basketball mixed with little extra motions, which have exciting consequences.
Most Filipinos can sing and dance. They can sing almost anything. They love ballads and love songs, They are hopeless romantics. And now they have a new idol -- #BrunoMars.
If you are among the boxing fans who truly would want to see Mayweather and Pacquiao fight in the ring, then sign your name in this worldwide petition.
As far as poise, talent, beauty and brains are concerned, the Philippines is ahead of any Asian as well as any European, North American, Pacific, Atlantic and African nation.
Many Americans probably thought that Asian Americans turn at the Miss America pageant will be 10 years down the road. No, in fact it was probably 10 years too late.
The Asian Zone qualifying games for the 2014 Spain FIBA World Games (the World Cup of Basketball) is held at Manila, the Philippines in 2013.
First ring for LeBron or first comeback from a 3-1 deficit in the NBA Finals? Which plot is better?
Kings Fans: The More The Merrier Take away the long wait -- old timers have computed it at 45 years but even still, you know everything else was completely forgotten once Los Angeles Kings Captain Dustin Brown raised the Stanley Cup after the...
It's a new day and June 9, 2012 has long since passed. But for me, it will forever be a day that will go down in sports infamy. Personally it will be the day that all of my teams lost. Yes, all in a span of a handful of hours (Team LA KIngs, Team...
Ricardo Reyes is in his 40s and works full time as a bus boy at Barney's Beanery. He stands 5'7" and weighs a measly 148 pounds. But this humble man has beaten NBA greats of our time, in their own game. Well not really inside the basketball hard...
Michael Jackson's Doctor Trial Live Online and Live on Television. Dr. Conrad Murray is charged with the involuntary manslaughter of the King of Pop.
Boxing, as least it’s early form used to be known as the Gentleman's Sport. But I supposed the last 100 years we have seen enough of boxing and how it evolved to know that is isn't. Take for example, the recent and much hyped Mayweather vs Ortiz...
Year after year Filipinos have exchanged SMS messages more frequently than any other people on earth.
Top Ten Reasons Why I Wasn't Shocked To See Pia Go Okay, if you do not know who Pia is, then you probably wouldn’t want to read this commentary anyway. Or you probably do not tweet or facebook or check out the news. Now if you are among the...
American Idol (AI) -- A Singing Competition Seriously isn’t this Reality TV Show titled “American Idol”? And isn’t it about America choosing the Singing Idol that they want? So why do it feel that any minute now, they should be...
March 16, 2011 Okay, tragedies happen to everyone and most times it happens at the worse possible time. Now how we respond to such trying times, says a lot about who we are and maybe, just maybe who we are as a people. In case you haven't...
March 11, 2011 In case you have been sleeping or busy doing something else for the last 24 hours it would be a good idea to read this so that you can at least know what's going on. And what am I talking about? It is that massive 8.9 earthquake...
Thank God It's Saturday... It used to be that we look forward to the weekend. But for the last few years of living in the Los Angeles area, weekends have become something to the locals dread.
Backgrounder: Grim Sleeper is the nickname for an alleged serial killer in Los Angeles, California, believed to be responsible for at least 10 murders and one attempted murder in Los Angeles since 1985. The attacker was dubbed the "Grim Sleeper"...
So You Want An NBA Ring? But, let's get real now, not everyone's going to be the next Michael Jordan or play like or even have team mates as great as Kobe Bryant. And not everyone's going to play like Lebron James, Kevin Durant, Derrick Rose,...
How Is Christmas Like In The Philippines? Backgrounder The Philippines is the largest predominantly Asian Christian Nation. And with a population of 90 Million and growing, that is large, especially for a relatively tiny country with a combined...
I understand that boxing is fought at different weight divisions and boxers come from different backgrounds and have their own styles. But since boxing have started captivating fight fans for hundreds of years now, questions of who is the best boxer...
If you are a Filipino-American then you should know a thing or two about the FANHS or at least you should be aware that October is the Filipino-American History Month. Now if you are Mexican-American (or Hispanic-American) you should be well...
Drama in the 405 occurs day in and day out. And with all these drama, you wouldn’t need to watch the soaps, the court room dramas, USC, UCLA, Dodgers, Angels, Kings, Clips or the Laker games.
Boxing News Flash: May 7, 2011 (MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada) Manny Pacquiao and most of his fans weren’t pleased with his latest victory but in the end he and his legions of die-hard fans are just happy to chalk up another win. ...
Ultimate Online Guide to NBA Jerseys -- Authentic, Swingman and Replica, the choice is yours. Get In The Game!
Tips, secrets, suggestions and other common sense nuggets of advice for visiting the Philippine Islands and most other tourist spots.
Jonas Brothers' Official Music Video - The Love Bug (Lyrics Included) Singing Brothers Now we all know the Jonas Brothers didn't invent the Brothers Singing Act, or did we? If we aren't old enough to know or figure out, there was indeed a time...
This is the fourth of this Series spotlighting Philippine TV Commercials and the fifth if you include the initial article introduction into Filipino TV Ads. As I have mentioned in all the previous articles, you would learn a lot about a people...
Unknown, little known, and most probably useless facts that you probably do not know or care to know about the City of Angels -- Los Angeles.
Unknown, little known, and most probably useless facts that you probably do not know or care to know about Manila.
Manila, I keep coming back to Manila. I walked the streets of San Francisco, tried the rides in Disneyland, dated a million girls in Sydney... somehow I feel like I don't belong.
A story of moving up from Manila to LA. Or is it a case of moving down?
So far I have written about Filipino TV Ads in general. And I have previously spotlighted the Filipino TV Ads of McDonalds and the local McDonalds counterpart, Jollibee (see related links below). So this is going to be the fourth on this...
This is a third of this series -- about a few Filipino commercials of the All American Fast food
Filipino Food 101 - "Baboy" is Pork, "Balut" is Duck Egg, "Bagoong" is a kind of paste made from small seafood
This is the Sixth in this continuing series titled Filipinos Love For Bs.
"ONLI IN DA PELIPINS": This is the Second on an ongoing Series about the Philippines. And specifically this is about what can presumably be found ONLY IN THE PHILIPPINES.
"ONLI IN DA PELIPINS": This is the First on an ongoing Series about the Philippines. And specifically this is about what can presumably be found ONLY IN THE PHILIPPINES.
Learning About A Culture Through Their TV Commercials
The Love For Bs This is the Fifth in the Series titled Filipinos Love For Bs (see the links for each article at the end). So if you have been following this, by now you would have known that Basketball is huge in the Philippines. You would...
Introductions This is the fourth in a continuing series of articles under the heading Filipinos’ Love for Bs. The idea have long lingered on my mind, ever since I first noticed back in the 1980s that most sports that Filipinos grew up liking and...
Certain Food Can Bring You Back Home And Back To When You Were Young. I know, I get that all the time living overseas for ten years now.
An authentic never been worn National Basketball Association World Championship
I guess the old saying is true, that you miss stuff only after you lose them. And I know, it does sound ridiculous that some of the things I miss from when I was still in the Philippine Islands were the Filipino TV Commercials. Yes, and I am...
Historians say that the Spaniards brought billiards among many other things to the Philippines. You do know that they had had a 333-year reign over most of the archipelago from the early 1500s to the late 1800s, right? Yes, making them probably the...
Of all team sports, the closest to the Filipino (and Filipina) heart is the sport of Basketball, click here to read why.
When you talk about boxing, nobody will fault you if you talk about say Muhammad Ali, Larry Holmes or even Mike Tyson. Or if you are much older, you could probably say Rocky Marciano, Henry Armstrong or Sugar Ray Robinson. And I wouldn't argue...
Do you have a Filipino/Filipina spouse, classmate, co-worker or neighbor? And are any of them a mystery to you? Don't be surprised. They really are. Most of them are as confused as you are.
Like, the Biblical Three Kings of the East, the National Basketball Association now have their own Three Kings of the East(ern Conference). King D Wade, King Bosh, and King James, finally after much dilly-dallying, speculation and suspense,...
What does chess, DNA, USA, Iceland, Japan, the Philippines and two million dollars have in common? Let us start in January of 2008. In that month, a great US world chess champion died in Reykjavik, in Iceland. And as any normal person who...
If You Live In LA, You Should Care: If you were born in or before the 1970s you would probably be familiar with the Iran hostage crisis. If you aren’t, here’s my one sentence summation of it. 1979, Iranian militants seized the U.S. Embassy...
As I write this article, the Series is tied at 2 games a-piece between arch enemies the Boston Celtics and the Lakers. But even before this series started, people have already made up their minds and have their own predictions about this Finals...
NBA I have watched the National Basketball Association since the 1970s and became a fan in the 80s at the height of the rough and tough plays and the Showtime Lakers. And of course who would forget the 1990s which was owned by the ever reliable...
Here We Go Again!
I have seen it at its worst during the Lakers-Thunder Playoff Series, but I kind of saw some of same at the Lakers-Los Suns Western Conference Finals. And so I say again, what the …? I wrote about this at my hub regarding the Los Angeles...
COMING OUT We oftentimes hear people refer to some rituals, occasions and celebrations as a “coming out” or the “coming of age”. Earlier in my life, in a place far far away and a time long long ago, some people might mistake this term to...
May or Pac? Today, we still do not know when and if...
Now, I only have followed the Lakers-Thunder Playoff Series, of course being from LA but I say, What the …? It’s a good thing NBA Commissioner David Stern has called out Lakers Coach Phil Jackson that they are now considering suspending the...
Toughest Immigration Bill to date
SOUNDS CRAZY but it’s true. Fast food places can teach us a thing or two. And one thing I do know to be true is that if you eat fast food all the time you will live fast and you will move on to the next life even faster. But don’t get me...
IF YOU ARE A REGULAR USER OF Yahoo! Answers, (YA) or Yahoo! Answers Philippines (YAP) you might be aware that Filipinos have a regular hangout at that popular Q&A Forum and that would be at the Travel Philippines Section. But of course like...
Visiting countries in South East Asia -- such as Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam? Check these travel advisories and be forewarned. Have a safe trip!
IF YOU KNOW your music and have been exposed to music from all over the world, you would know that most Filipinas can sing. Well, most Filipinos could sing and play good music too. You would also know that Filipinos can dance. The...
If you've only known one or a few people from a certain culture then how they are like, does not necessarily reflect everyone else who belongs to that same culture.
Unprecedented Surprise Varanus bitatawa, that’s its scientific name. Or you can call it the Northern Sierra Madre Forest Monitor Lizard, obviously because it was found in the Sierra Madre Forest in the island of Luzon in the Philippines. ...
People Power For decades now the chief export of the Philippines has moved from natural resources to human resources. Initially they were called OFWs or Overseas Filipino Workers. But I guess in this politically correct age, it was changed to...
Manny Pacquiao Wins Again! May, 2011 YES, what else is new in the world of boxing? Since deceptively small Manny Pacquiao moved up to Lightweight in 2008, he has convincingly won seven straight fights in four different weight divisions...
Let's hop on a Time Machine back to Manila, Philippines Lent of 1986
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