The problem with PLDT myDSL's Anna Banana Commercial - Updated

Let me guess the target market for this ad.It's for low to middle income families who can afford a phoneline and internet connection in their homes (and who idealize living in a detached 3-bedroom house in an exclusive village) but cannot afford a Yaya or maid of their own - probably because the salary meant for Yaya went to the phone company instead. If Yaya were there, Mommy could have elicited her help and included...

What Whitney Houston's Songs tell us about being in pseudo-love and being in authentic love

What is pseudo-love?Pseudo-love is ego-love.It is you loving the self which the world sees, it is you caring for the self which the world helped create, it is appreciating the self from the standards of others, from the judgments and opinion of others,it is you loving yourself through the eyes of others,it is you finding your worth only by being deemed worthy by people/places/things/events outside you.It is you looking...

F Sionil Jose is not lazy to sign my copy of his book

At Powerbooks on February 11, 2012, F Sionil Jose declares that he prefers to limit the questions asked in the Open Forum so he can sign a lot of copies of the books he is selling.And we all agreed.I saw my thesis adviser from my university days and was excited to greet her until I actually did and discovered I combined the first name of Lit teacher A and the last name of Lit teacher B and voila, she shakes her head...

The Greatest Voice of All

"Houston was a mezzo-soprano, and was commonly referred to as "The Voice" in reference to her exceptional vocal talent. Her vocal range extended from G below middle C (G3) to high B-flat (B♭5); she could belt out to treble F (F5). No other female pop star – not Mariah Carey, not Celine Dion, not Barbra Streisand – quite rivals Houston in her exquisite vocal fluidity and purity of tone, and her ability to infuse a lyric...