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I found my notebook!

Joey de Leon does it so well. Insomnia led me to his recent gag show Nuts Entertainment, where Anjo Yllana, Janno Gibbs, Gelli de Belen, Carmina Villaroel, Amy Perez and Anne Curtis join him. I remember them launch this show months ago with a teaser “tuwing Wednesday ng gabi, bakit hindi?”, an obvious allusion to rival network’s habit of parallel scheduling of similar programs.
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On rampant movie/audio piracy
Janno: Ma’am, DVD, DVD… DVD DVD…
Carmina: Ano bang pinagsasabi mo, bastos!!
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On mass Chinovela hype
Joey, Anjo and Janno (sung to the tune of Sex Bomb’s i-spaghetti): Bakit tayong mga Pilipino, ‘pag may uso, nagkandarapa?
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On.. wala lang
Joey (as Doughnut): Patikim ng canton, ang kati! (Komentaro At Talakay Isyu)
Anjo (as Popsicle): Kumusta kayong lahat na miyembro ng mga TODA sa buong Pilipinas! PasPasTODA(Pasay at Pasig TODA) at TOTODA(Tondo TODA)!
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Continuing insomnia allowed me to watch the GMA news magazine hosted by Jessica Soho, where she journals the incidence of immigration of Pinoys to far-off lands. Some notes taken from the show:

The international image of the Filipino:
- terrorista
- DH
- entertainer sa Japan
- bobo
- magnanakaw

Some Statistics Instructor Jorge might find useful:
- One out of five Filipinos say “Wala nang pag-asang umahon ang Pilipinas.”
- 2,300 Filipinos leave the country everyday, this figure increases 2% each year
- There are 7.5 million Filipino OFWs worldide to date, 2 million of which are of immigrant status
- There 400,000 Filipinos in Canada
- 200,000 Filipinos per year are given tourist visas to Canada, most of who have relatives in Canada

Tuluyan nang iniiwan ang bansang nabigo sa pagbigay ng kaginhawaang kanilang inasam.

Love of country. Shmoosh. I remember this to be listed in the conduct grading portion of my elementary and high school report card. I don’t remember getting a grade lower than A for it. All it meant to me at the time was “colonial mentality”. I don’t recall being told what it really meant to love one’s country.

Does any country deserve to be loved by its people? Who do you love when you love your country?
*the neighbors
*the congressmen
*the senators
*the President
*Filipino TV programming

Or:
*street children
*the urban poor
*the indigenous folk

More like:
*Boracay
*Anilao
*Tagaytay
*Baguio (err.. sometimes)

Number of Tourists in some Asia-Pacific countries (in millions)
*Malaysia - 13.2
*Thailand - 10.8
*Singapore - 7.5
*Indonesia - 4.9
*Philippines - 1.9

Wow, Philippines.