11.23.2008

Pinoy Trivia Quiz : Kakasa Ka Ba Sa Jologs? (Part 2)

As promised. I give you Part 2 (Check July archive for Part 1). This is a great ice breaker during Christmas parties.

Part 2 : Category : TV, Commercials, More Famous Lines


Bakyang Tanong:

21) Sa portion na ito ng isang gag show sumikat si Isko Salvador bilang Brod Pete
22) Sa anong sitcom bida sina Honey Grace at Barbie Doll?
23) Showbiz Talk Show kung saan daring magkapartner sina Butch Francisco at Cristy Fermin
24) Ang character ni Anjo Yllana na “Tikboy” ay galling sa anog sitcom?
25) Title ng TV show ni Eddie Ilarde na mala “Maala-ala Mo Kaya”
26) Pangalan ng ibon ni Giovanni Calvo sa Katok Mga Misis
27) Pangalan ng dance group na pinanggalingan at kung saan sumikat si Jojo Alejar. Regular sila sa Penthouse Live with Martin & Pops
28) Sa anong TV show nag umpisa ang career ni Etel Booba?
29) Commercial na may tagline na “Lemok Seguredong Teypok”
30) Anong produkto ang sika sa tagline na “Pito Prito”
31) Kumpletuhin ang lyrics ng Jingle ng ZAA Nature’s Touch Toothpaste : “Tanggal ang ___ mo, safe pa ang ngipin mo!”
32) “It’s everybody’s milk”
33) Ang linyang “Goodbye, Carlo!” ay binigkas sa commercial na ito
34) Anong toothpaste ang lasang “bebel gum”?
35) Sa commercial ng globe, sino ang artista sa likod ng character ni July
36) “I’m gonna knock on your door, ring on your bell, tap on your window, too”
37) Commercial na may tagline na “Sa bukid walang papel, ikiskis mo sa pilapil”
38) Sa commercial na to sumikat ang mga linyang “Wala ba kayong mga kamay?”
39) Ang linyang “Aba Bert, alagaan mo naman ang sarili mo!” ay galling sa commercial na ito
40) Saang commercial narinig ang linyang “Kausapin mo yang si Katrina, sumusobra sa siya!”


Bakyang Sagot

21) Ang Dating Doon
22) Ober da Bakod
23) Showbiz Lingo
24) Abangan Ang Susunod na Kabanata
25) Napakasakit Kuya Eddie
26) Katokling
27) The Tigers
28) Sing-Galing
29) Dragon Katol
30) Golden Fiesta Cooking Oil
31) Singaw
32) Birch Tree
33) Purefoods Hotdog
34) Pepsodent
35) Boy2 Quizon
36) Electrolux
37) Joy Tissue
38) Rexona
39) Clusivol
40) Globe

Part 3 coming up...

http://telebisyon.net/balita/Ang-No-1-show-sa-GMA-Pinoy-TV/artikulo/534/
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Palladium/1306/deball.htm

11.22.2008

No Petting Please!


I am not pet person. I don’t like pets. In fact I don’t like animals in general.

Born in the Year of the Dog, I don’t like dogs. I feel that they’re always out to get me. I don’t find the furry Shih Tzu dog cute …. at all. Unfortunately my in-laws love dogs. They own several Shih Tzu dogs. It is OK to kiss dogs in their house. Dogs are carried around, bathed, and combed there. My only consolation is that my husband doesn't like dogs, too.

I also grew up in a household that has at least 3 dogs and 2 cats. In fact, there were times when we had more than 3 dogs. My father is a dog lover. I believe he is the only one in our family (Oh my sister-in-law loves dogs, too. But that’s about it.) He has a big black Doberman (we call Doberdog) that barks and howls like dogs do in horror movies. My mother don’t like dogs, too and because she’s the one who makes sure that the house is tidy, dogs are never allowed inside the house, just perfect for me.

Aside from dogs (and frogs and rodents), I specially hate snakes. I hate pictures of snakes, movies with snakes, snake stories, I even squirm at images of snakes while channel surfing.

On Tuesday night, I came home from work around 7.30 pm. There’s a basketball court in front of my apartment and because there were about 15 teenagers hanging out by my gate, I thought probably there was a game. I parked my car close to the gutter where three teenage boys where sitting, giggling at some videos on their cell phones. I proceeded to open my gate, went in, and closed the gate the usual way. Then the unusual happened. I felt something on my left foot and thinking it was a piece of rope, I tried to kick it away. Only to realize to my horror that it was not a rope! It was a snake!!!

I screamed and froze. I felt all my hairs were standing up (even on areas not exposed). The teenagers have now gathered at my gate trying to help me get out but I was begging them not to throw anything that might disturb the snake and decide to glide towards my direction. The snake was as thick as my thumb and about two feet long. I was able to inch my way out of the gate after what felt like forever. After more commotion, a Barangay Tanod volunteered to help and successfully killed the snake. He told it was “ahas tulog” and I should not be scared of it because it was harmless. You kidding? I don’t care if it’s “ahas gising” or “ahas tulog” or “ahas patay”… to me a snake is a snake is a snake! I heard some of the people who came by my gate that night saying that snakes bring good luck to homes they visit. Yeah, right. If I die of fear from finding a snake in my house, that’s good luck.

And don’t even get me started on people with snakes as pets.

Decode (by Paramore) : My Favorite Song This Month


Of course, it's gotta be Paramore's Decode from the movie TWILIGHT (coming soon!!)

"Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die. It's fun to be a vampire".

That's the tagline from the 80s movie The Lost Boys. I always remember this movie when I hear Echo and the Bunnymen's People Are Strange, The Doors original. Both versions are still my favourites to this day! Soundtrack also includes Good Times (INXS), Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me written by Elton John. and Walk This Way by Run DMC written by Steven Tyler and Joe Perry.

Gotta admit, Paramore's Decode is just as haunting. Can't wait to see Twilight. I hope the other songs from the soundtrack are as interesting. Love this video.

Song 2 on slide 1 is another Paramore song called "That's What You Get."




11.02.2008

A Chain of Bobolinks


My nephew asked me to help him with some forms of collective nouns as part of his assignment and because I was not very familiar with most of them, I turned to the net for some help. Typing the words “collective nouns” on the yahoo search bar, I got 615,000 results returned in 1.11s on my topic of interest. I felt like I was opening a whole new world to “a wealth of information” as I browsed through the long list of creative collective nouns available now for writers to use to color up their sentences. Suddenly the common collective nouns I know and use like --- a bouquet of flowers, a galaxy of stars, a choir of angels, a flight of stairs, a network of computers, a flock of seagulls --- became borrriiing.

My word bank now contains my new favorite collective nouns:

An illusion of magicians
An indecision of managers
An impatience if wives
A giggle of girls
A bond of British secret agents
A mass of Catholics
A run of cowards
A knuckle of gangsters
A solution of chemists
A scoop of journalists
A breakdown of plans
A linkage of webmasters
A yearning of yesterdays
A promise of tomorrow
A twinkling of todays

And my most favorite of all
A chain of bobolinks

Bobolinks are North American birds, but “a chain of bobolinks” sounds derogatorily funny if you speak Tagalog. The phrase almost sounds like an insult, doesn’t it? (giggle, giggle…)

Imagine if the lyrics of the Pocahontas’ theme song Colors of the Wind were written using collective nouns?

The rainstorm and the river are my brothers
And a siege of herons and a bevy of otters are my friends
And we are all connected to each other
In a circle in a hoop that never ends

Have you ever heard a pack of wolves cry to the blue corn moon?
Or let a convocation of eagles tell you where they’ve been
Can you sing with all the voices of a range of mountains
Can you paint with all the colors of a break of winds
Can you paint with all the colors of a break of winds

It sucks, alright. Aside from violating the standard count and phrasing of a song, Vanessa Williams will gasp for air singing these lines. Simply silly ... like “a flush of toilets”.