Natutuwa ako na sa finals si Gian Madangal at si Mau Marcelo ng Philippine Idol na gaganapin sa Araneta Coliseum sa Sabado (Dec. 9), 9 p.m.
Mas gusto ko sana kung si Pow Chavez ang pangatlo kaya lang na –eliminate na siya dalawang linggo na ang nakaraan. Ang sarap pakinggan ng boses ni Pow at napaka natural ng kanyang personalidad.
Ngunit si Jan Nieto ang pangatlong finalist. Maraming mas magaling kay Jan kaya lang ganoon talaga ang reality contest. Sana lang huwag siya ang manalo na Philippine Idol dahil hindi naman talaga siya pang-international talent. Okay na lang yan na crush siya ni Pilita Corales.
Mabuti na lang at hindi pumasok si Miguel Mendoza na finalist. Dapat itong si Miguel ay gawin na lang hobby ang pagkanta. Tutal mukha namang may kaya, pwede siyang mag-produce ng mga kanta na bagay sa kanyang talent.
Ang pagiging finalist ni Gian at Mau ay isang magandang leksyon na hindi dapat mag-give up kahit sa simula ay medyo nahihirapan. Basta, ibigay ang ang iyong “best”.
Si Gian at si Mau ay hindi kasama sa walong unang finalist. Nakahabol sila bilang “wild card” candidates. Ngunit tingnan mo, na sa finals sila.
Noong mga nakaraang linggo, si Pow talaga ang aking sinusuporta ngunit bumuboto rin ako kay Mau at Gian para hindi sila ma-eliminate. Nang natanggal si Pow, si Gian na lang ang aking binoto.
Sayang lang at hindi ako makakapanood sa Dec. 9 kasi may magandang concert na kasabay. Ang Filipino tenor na si Otoniel Gonzaga ay may concert kasama ni Dulce sa Philamlife Theatre sa UN Avenue, 8 p.m. Ngunit mapapanood ko ang announcement ng winners sa Lunes.
Maganda naman talaga ang Philippine Idol kung ikumpara sa ibang singing reality contest na ginagawa ng ibang TV station. Malaking bagay ang partisipasyon ni Ryan Cayabyab. bilang judge. May “k” siyang magbigay ng critique. Simple lang at deretso.
Noong una medyo okay sina Pilita Corrales at Francis Magalona ngunit nang tumagal ang contest, nahahalatang kinukulang na. Hindi na sila nagga-guide sa manono-od. Puro na lang puri kahit hindi maganda.
At pwede ba, ang ABC-5, mag set- up naman sila ng maayos na website para sa Philippine Idol? Gumastos lang naman sila ng malaki sa franchise, hindi sila gumawa ng maayos na on-line support. Mabuti lang gumagawa rin si Jove Francisco ng kanyang sariling reportage sa Philippine Idol.
Huwag kaligtaan ang “Philippine Idol” sa Dec. 9. Botohin si Gian.
Unfortunately, I cannot comment on this Philippine Idol thing because I am not subscribed to any of the Philippine channels as I would not like to be depressed of the kind of news or programs being aired from there. Hindi kasi ako mahilig ng sayaw-sayaw!
Ellen’s blog-babad lang ako! 😛
Ellen{
This blogger ???? equates to Philippine IDIOT!;
If you ask me the answer is simple[ if its the subject they don’t agree with its not debatable because its Ellen’s blog site to share with us any subject she likes.
I suggest the writer produces his own blog site then he/she is free to write on any subject even though they don’t appear to have the moral strength of a ‘normal’ blogger who show their identity.
Sorry Ellen, no pilipino channel here in the mountains of NC, but the two teenagers of my cousin in VA said they are for Gian, kampi mo :).
Thanks, Ellen, for deleting the post in Japanese characters that was supposed to kill Iraqis, and then singing something like “Buenos Aires.”
The lead could be viral as a matter of fact. Fortunately, not everyone here can read Japanese, and I don’t suppose the characters can appear in PC’s without some international ime (Japanese) being distributed with Microsoft OS and if one is using I.E. especially.
With the indulgence of other members, I wish to deviate from the above topic. May I post this query to Vic of Canada: I heard that a certain Dion just won the Lberal Party race. Who is this Dion? Is he related to one popular female singer Celin Dion who I believe is also a Canadian?
Noel, with due respect to all bloggers, I can not comment on any Idols, because even the popular American Idol and Canadian Idol (hosted by the son of former PM Mulroney) I have no Idea about.
But now that you mentioned Stephane Dion, No he was not related to Celine Dion. He won the Leadership on the Fourth Ballot against Michael Ignatieff. He is an MP from Quebec. Used to be supporter of Parti Québécois (a separatist party) but now a passionate Federalist. He will be ‘trouble’ for our Party, the Conservative, but good for Canada’s Unity. I was watching the convention on TV and all the former Liberal Leaders were there and gave their passionate speech during the convention. PM Chretien, Paul Martin and Turner. Now that Québécois got what most just wanted to be, a recognition as a distinct Society or a Nation within a Nation which Motion was Passed in the House last week with a Vote of 216 – l6, we hope that the Issue of a total Nation State will be behind now. But then a separatist Party, The Parti Québécois is Alive and Well in Quebec. Thanks…
matanong ko lang?
Ito bang si Jan Nieto ay kamag-anak ng B-A-N group na crony ni Marcos noon?
Ellen, sayang din ang concert noong nakaraang Huwebes(Novemer 30) sa PhilAmlife Theater(U.N. Ave):
Ano kaya ang nangyari sa “Ika-143 Kaarawan ni Gat. Andres Bonifacio” , nagkaroon kasi ng bagyo.
Sana ay maiparating sa kinauukulan na magkaroon muli ng nasabing konsyerto.
I’m not sure if he is related to the Nieto who was a Marcos crony.
Conrad de Quiros has organized “Stop the Killings” rock concerts. It’s using all forms of protests to bring to the people’s attention the abuses of this administration.
WWNL:
There has been a lot of attempts to kill this blog as a matter of fact. A lot many of us have at times been prevented from blogging in by what I call the Internet Brigade.
At leasst, with this new Mozilla Firefox, I am finding hooking up to Ellen’s blog lately that easy, and if there is spammer or attempt to hack my blogging here, the connection is stopped automatically, and then I get reconnected when it is safe. Today, I received a note from the group monitoring my Internet surfing in connection with a research on better implementation of the new Internet Law of Japan that some blocking of spammers would be applied from today.
This morning, when I woke up and I opened this new topic in Ellen’s blog, I found the post in Japanese that I don’t think people without the Japanese Ime can recognize much less read. There was a lead to a URL that I did not open because it could be viral.
The message was in Japanese and about Iraq and Buenos Aires, and definitely senseless, but could be dangerous. That was why I asked Ellen to delete the said message. I’m glad Ellen deleted also part of my message referring to the spammer that could be misleading without the problematic post.
FYI, we all knew about the Pidal lobby group in Japan that was acting more like a semi-embassy entity to the detriment of career Filipino diplomats. I thought having such group in Japan was a waste of public funds. My informer said it was more than that because there was the attempt to monopolize some business interests by the Malacanang occupants and their cohorts.
On my part, I informed the police about it, and asked to check on the money involved and if there are violations committed against Japanese rules, written and unwritten.
Now, I am told that the lobby group has ceased to exist effective November 1st. I wonder if they have hired some Japanese to monitor blogs like this knowing that there are bloggers in Japan like me regardless of whether or not the bloggers read and write Japanese. On my part, I can speak, read and write Japanese fluently.
Rock Concerts to stop the killings? It’s a good gesture by Conrad de Quiros. But, I’ve my doubt. It would take more than just the Rock Concerts, I believe. We all know the answer to the killings and how to stop them. It’s a question that can only be answered by such People’s determination of how badly they really want their country back. Or how desperate the people’s wishes to kick out the very sources of the extra-judicial killings. It’s not the most kept secret, the whole world knows of what’s going on in the country, and the people let it happened. Bogus Gloria is guilty of the crimes, but the people are as guilty for letting bogus Gloria non-answerable.
I guess, we need music idols, I suppose.
off topic:
‘The Bicolano Eagle’
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
12/03/2006
Dear Editor:
I have had the unique privilege of observing from the sidelines the young and idealistic officers and soldiers belonging to the Magdalo group since our law office serves as counsel for 12 of these young men in the coup d’etat case filed against them at the Regional Trial Court of Makati.
I am particularly impressed by the spokesman and most renown member of the group, Lt/SG. Antonio Trillanes IV or “Sonny” as he is called by his friends. Like myself, Sonny traces his roots to Bicol. I understand that his father, Antonio Sr., also a graduate of the Philippine Military Academy like him, hails from Ligao in my home province of Albay at the heart of Bicolandia.
What particularly impresses me about this young man is not only his strength of character, moral courage and fortitude in the face of adversity but his selfless sense of duty to country and to his fellow Filipinos.
Not everybody agrees with what they did at Oakwood on July 27, 2003, but it cannot be denied that these young soldiers stood up and placed not only their careers and the future of their families but their very own lives on the line to fight for what they believe in. I wonder how many of our politicians today will ever have the moral courage to do this.
The Magdalo group blew the whistle on the massive, systematic and well-entrenched, if not institutionalized, corruption in the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). Two years later, they were vindicated when this fact was confirmed with the prosecution and conviction of AFP comptroller and Army Maj. Gen. Carlos Garcia, among others.
You will remember that despite the tense and volatile situation at the Makati Commercial Center at the time, Sonny’s group conducted themselves as the fine officers and perfect gentlemen they were, choosing to courteously escort guests out of the Oakwood Premier Hotel to get them out of harm’s way instead of trying to take advantage of them and using them as “human shields.”
Also, these soldiers even had the decency to pay their rooms as well as the food they consumed both at the hotel and at the supermarket even when no one was looking, an admirable display of honesty which we rarely see among public servants today, uniformed or otherwise. I know not everyone would admit it but I think we were all a little amazed and extremely proud of the conduct of these soldiers when we heard about this. I am sure I was.
Indeed, they have fired up our collective imagination and made us dream of what could be achieved if only there were more soldiers and policemen and bureaucrats and other public servants who are like them: honest, decent and upright to the end, even when no one is looking.
In the course of their ordeal during the last three years, I have come to learn that numerous attempts have been made to convince Sonny and his group to capitulate, give up their fight and just rejoin the fold and resume their careers with the rest of the apolitical, apathetic mainstream of the Armed Forces. These attempts were made with expressed promises of better treatment, lighter penalties and/or outright liberty. Admirably, Sonny and his group refused to be bought.
Sonny recently announced that he is seriously considering the possibility of running for the Senate.
Again, I am sure not everyone would agree with this development. In fact, I know that many people are questioning his intellectual capacity and political maturity for the position. Everyone is entitled to his own opinion.
As for me, I would rather have a political neophyte such as Sonny, whose ability to put love for country and service to the public above everything else is already proved, serving in any public office, whether the same be in the Senate, the House of Representatives or the executive and even the judiciary, anytime rather than have someone who may be competent, well-experienced and who exudes political savvy but whose heart is not in the proper place.
I know it is rather early but I am going to make a bold and brave prediction: Sonny Trillanes, if he ever runs for public office, would be the hottest upcoming Bicolano political rising star of the next decade.
I know he has what it takes and as long as he remains humble and success does not go to his head, he has the makings of a major political persona in the moulds of Raul Roco, Blas Ople, Claro Recto and other statesmen.
In fact, if he does not change, he has the makings of the first ever Bicolano president of the republic, a true Bicolano Eagle bound to soar high into the political stratosphere of the land.
Joselito Guianan Chan
Senior Managing Partner
The Law Firm of Chan Robles and Associates
22nd Floor, Philippine Stock Exchange Centre
Tektite East Tower, Exchange Road
Ortigas Central Business District
Pasig City, Metro Manila
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