Bababa ba?

Hi everyone! Thanks for all the comments in the previous post. I’ll be replying to all your comments when I find the time. Yes, ALL of your comments. There’s a nagging feeling when you don’t get to reply to your commentators. Hehehe. Try ko saturday night.

Some have said that the best response to the nasty comment was to ignore it as it doesn’t deserve the attention. Buuut, obviously I took the bait, and retaliated with the post.

Well, I could not help it. A few months back Mom was always complaining about anonymous commentators leaving remarks about her pseudonym. The same message: stop using Sexy Mom. We just ignored the comments. Hehe. Wala namang masamang nagagawa. Mark as spam lang, tapos wala na.

But, when the comments finally landed on me and my brothers’ blogs (post scripted with a threat to our family), I felt that we have ignored the issue for too long. So thus, the entry was written.

Some of you might see the viral nature of this as a plea to increase traffic in both our blogs. Well, I don’t need the additional traffic. I am already content with the traffic I’m receiving, and I would not pull such a stunt just to boost my blog rankings. My Mom even, as she’s the number 1 search result when you google for “sexy filipina mom.” Hehehe.

Moving on… I am very very glad that this negative issue has spurred an advocacy for reshaping the online and sexy Filipina image.

Noemi Dado of aboutmyrecovery.com recalled of an old SEO campaign on “taking back the keywords” that refer to Filipinas and the Philippines. She then wrote about How to Reshape the Sexy Filipina Image, sharing how we could bring Filipina and sexy back. (I couldn’t resist, I just had to write that. Hehehe).

Let’s face it. Try typing “pinay” or “filipina” in Google, let’s see what you get. :p What more when we add the adjective “sexy?” Ironic that Google ads on some blogs, even when the blogger writes patriotically about Filipinas, get ads like the ones listed on the Google search results.

Tita Maia Jose of Cafe Romanza has followed suit, saying “Sexy Filipinas - Including
Sexy Filipina Moms - Stand up and Be Counted.” She asks us to

put in those keywords in our blogs: filipina, filipinas, philippine women, philipina, pilipina, pinay, babae, filipino women, filipino woman.

So this finally brings me to the title of this entry. Posting a comment is not enough! Blog about it!

I’m inviting you all to do as what Tita Noemi and Tita Maia asks us to: blog about the Filipina, the Filipina Sexy Mom, the Filipina Sexy Woman.

While leaving a comment is helpful, blogging about it is MEGA-HELPFUL! So… Google bombs galore!

Philippines
Filipina
Pinay
Filipina Moms

It’s about time that the online sexy Filipina image is, not changed, but taken back. :)

PS Pa-epal lang

Sexy Man
Pogi

BWAHAHAHA sa last two links

EDIT: Snatching these from Mom’s blog entry

• Noemi’s How to Reshape the Sexy Filipina Image
• Manila Mom’s Yes, Filipinas Are Sexy
• PinoyBlogoSphere.com/Pinoy Bloggers Society’s Filipina2007
• Sir Martin Perez’s The attack on Sexy Mom: False feminism, if there is such a thing (as feminism)
• Rico of Bayanihan Blog Network’s What Filipina Should Mean Online
• Alan Jr.’s My Sexy Mom
• Ladygadfly’s The Revolution: A New Definition of Sexy Filipina
• Hot Buzz, Hot Biz’s Campaign Redefines the Sexy Filipina
• FeistyMomma’s I am a Sexy Filipina Mom
• Maia Jose (Manila Mom)’s Who’s Afraid of the Sexy Filipina?
  
• Pinoy Press’ Google Bombing Filipina
• The Filipino Librarian’s The Filipina and “Yan ang Pinay”
• The Filipino Women’s Network’s Shape the Filipina Image Campaign

Lemme start this entry with a bit of history.

A few years back, my mother was so conscious of her figure, that every night she would ask us kids, “am I fat?”

Being the lovely kids we are, we always replied, “no mom! You’re sexy! The sexiest mommy of all!”

And thus, the pseudonym Sexy Mom was born.

Now, on with the rant.

Just this afternoon, I received a threat in the comments section of one of my entries. A certain “decent filipino woman” (filipinowoman@gmail.com) was ranting against my mom’s use of her pseudonym. She said,

Your mom is a disgrace to the Filipino women. We have been trying to change the image of the Filipino women in the internet. Foreigners type “filipina” to search for women to have sex. The same kind of people (pedophiles and perverts) type “sexy mom” and it points to your mother . Your mom is an embarassment to our country. Tell her to stop using that name . I know of other mommy bloggers who laugh behind her back because of her pseudonym.

Let this serve as a warning to your family.

Of course, I did not approve the comment (but wtf, I’m posting it here!!! It’s also published here.).

Aaaaanyways.

The “decent” filipino woman said that my mom was a “disgrace to Filipino women” because her use of the pseudonym “Sexy Mom” leads to promotion of perversion in the Philippines.

How?

According to her comment, when perverted foreigners type “sexy mom” in the internet, it points to my mom. And this, the filipino woman says, is a disgrace and an embarrassment

Great.

Let’s do a bit of roleplaying. I’ll be a dirty pervert, looking for some alternative mommy sex. And my mom, plays as herself, the Sexy Mom of the blogosphere.

I go to Google. I type “sexy mom in the philippines” on the box, and then click on “I’m feeling lucky today!”

What pops out?

The D Spot.

Ok then. Sounds naughty enough. Now I start looking for some sexy pictures…

Aaaand… I find none.

What do I get instead?

Tips on Filipino motherhood. On parenting. On learning. On travel. On patriotism.

Filipina sex? None. Malicious pictures? None. Sexy moms having sex? NONE.

So, tell me, “decent” filipino woman. How the heck does this lead to the embarrassment and disgrace of our country?

Don’t you think my mom’s blog is doing otherwise?

Yes, people continue to search for dirty, malicious content by using the keywords “sexy mom.” But instead, what do they get? A wholesome blog.

Rather than promoting how sexy and sex-able Filipinas are, my mom is promoting the Filipina mother in a very wholesome way.

And that, my friend, is nowhere near to saying that the Filipina woman as a foreigner sex object (as how your comment implies).

Does her blog disgrace the country? No. Does her blog embarrass the Filipina woman? No. Does her blog show how good Filipinas are in bed? No.

So here I go again, saying my favorite line…

Before saying anything and attacking the person personally, please, know the person first. And if it’s us bloggers you’re attacking, please, learn how to read before you attack.

What’s so wrong with using a pseudonym?

(Hmmmm. Makes me think… Should I change “Bababa ba?” to Sexy Man? BWAHAHAHAHA)

Law Student Government in cooperation with the UP Statistical Society
present an advanced screening of
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
at Eastwood Cinema 3, Libis, Quezon City
on July 11, Wednesday 10:00PM.

Tickets at P250 each. Message me if you’re interested (comment, e-mail, gmail, YM, whatever, hehe). I can contact the StatSocers for you. :) And oh, you could contact Abi (09209285539) or Ross (09228721222) for ticket inquiries

Guess who’s my Physics 71 recit teacher…

Clue, she’s younger than me. XD

*drumroll*

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Death Cab for Cutie - Like Brothers on a Hotel Bed

You may tire of me
As our December sun is setting
Because I’m not who I used to be

No longer easy on the eyes
But these wrinkles masterfully disguise
The youthful boy below

Who turned your way and saw
Something he was not looking for
Both a beginning and an end

But now he lives inside
Someone he does not recognize
When he catches his reflection on accident

On the back of a motorbike
With your arms outstretched, trying to take flight
Leaving everything behind

But even at our swiftest speed
We couldn’t break from the concrete
And the city where we still reside

And I have learned
That even landlocked lovers yearn
For the sea like navy men

Because now we say goodnight
From our own seperate sides

Like brothers on a hotel bed
Like brothers on a hotel bed
Like brothers on a hotel bed
Like brothers on a hotel bed

You may tire of me
As our December sun is setting
Because I’m not who I used to be

Natuwa ako. Seryoso.
And that’s exactly why I’m a physics guy!
(ang nerd ko, siyet)
Snatched from Tiff’s.

While going home this afternoon, a random childhood thought popped up in my mind.

Back then, I thought that when people started to drive, they’d develop some facial hair. And I seriously believed that girls were no exception.

You see, when I was a kid, a kinder classmate’s mom picked us up from school in her owner type jeepney and brought us to McDonald’s in SM North Edsa.

The lady had lip hair.

HAHAHAHAHA. XD

Sa sinabawang gulay! LOL

Anyways.

I seriously need an org. I have no tambayan (and not much friends!) in the NIP. So, being the CLG (can’t let go) person that I am, I always walk (yes, walk) to Stat to make tambay.

Whatever happened to the Bloggers’ Circle, you ask? Hmmm. All of a sudden people stopped discussing in the groups. (or are people just waiting for me? ewan). Problem is, we don’t have much undergrads who’re up and alive in the discussions. Most of the time, it’s the alumni who are talking amongst themselves. Undergrads are quiet lang.

I guess I’d just have to take Sir Garro’s advice. The first step (well, for me at least) would be to join an org. Well, how could I start an org if I don’t know how one works? Last sem I applied for an org, but eventually had to defer since I was shifting. Hahahaha.

Anyways. One of the orgs that I have been eyeing recently is AstroSoc. Since my dreams include being either an astrophysicist or a geophysicist, joining orgs related to the said specializations might empower interest and may eventually lead to the pursuit of the said specialization.

Another is the UP Green Minds (kung seryoso man yun! haven’t actually talked to anyone about it yet.). When I talked to Mr James Esguerra a few months ago, I told him that somehow, I’m still interested in Environmental Science. He told me that Physics could actually branch out to that, and I still have a change on pursuing that. So, Ate G, or anyone else! Tell me more about the UP Green Minds.

But right now, even if I didn’t finish the application process, I still go to UP StatSoc kung wala akong magawa. I just looooooove the people there (awww). Kahit saling pusa lang ako dun. Hahahahahahahaha.

UPDATE: Ok. I saw Aaron’s YM status and messaged him. He talked me into joining UP Green Minds. :D Well, I asked him some details, and stuff, and yeah, I decided na sali na rin ako. Hehehe

This sucks. I really shouldn’t be going to school today.

It’s JUNE 12 for crying out loud. We should be celebrating the day when we proclaimed our freedom from the Spaniards.

But what do some certain people do? They toss around the holidays, changing their dates for “efficiency” or something.

Well, for me at least, the events kind of lose their meaning when they’re being switched around. I mean, yesterday didn’t feel much of an independence day to me. It was just like any other no-class day.

Tsss. I won’t be surprised if one day, they choose to move Christmas to January 1st, so we would just be celebrating new year and Christmas in one go. :p (Wait, what if they move the new year’s celebration??)

EDIT: I was listening to NU107’s “Independence Day Sessions” yesterday. I liked what Lourd de Veyra of Radioactive Sago Project said. He said, “ang galing na noh? Movable na ang mga holidays. Every day is negotiable.”

Wahaha

My Mom has been bugging me for quite a while to start doing this. I told her I can’t start yet since I still don’t have a list of 10 bloggers. But, what the hey. I just hope I reach 10 blogs once July 28th strikes.

This is Ms. Janette Toral’s project. :) We hafta list down 10 blogs that are emerging, influential, and are new! Lol. Hahaha. Blogs included in your list must be relatively new, meaning, they were started from August 31, 2006 to the present.

I’ll just list down my mentions right now. I’ll write comments about them eventually.

Study Driving
Utakgago.com
CokskiBlue
annamanila
The D Spot
I am Super!

I just love formal events. Weird.

Well, I remember what Kuya Macky said on his 21st birthday (his debut! hahaha). Formal parties give us an excuse to dress up and look wonderful, even just for a night.

(And what did I wear that night? I wore a purple short-sleeved polo shirt under my suit. Tssss. Nakakahiya tuloy magtanggal ng suit noon.)

Hehehe. Had fun last night. :) While my whole family was celebrating my brother’s birthday in Serendra, I was in a party, with people wearing dresses and high heels and long-sleeved shirts and shiny black shoes.

Well, this year’s debut season for my set of friends. :D

Happy happy birthday!

To JAngelo, my brother dear. Thanks for being the (weird) kuya that you are. :D Tanda mo na. Goodluck sa pamilya. Goodluck kay JA na maliit (Joseph Angelo Junior? >:) )

To Kim, the “girl bud.” Haven’t seen you for a while. Miss na kita. Dalaga ka na! Hahahaha. Ingat sa pagmamaneho. Nawa’y hindi mo na uli magasgas ang inyong auto. Nagpromise ka na ililibre mo ako. Ang promise na yun, dapat matupad! At pag-laki mo at nagdidirect ka na ng mga sine mo, dapat kunin mo akong artista. Dapat! Hehehe. See you around UP. :)

To Gege, the “lost girl,” the “adik,” the “Susu Soya Queen.” Sayang, iiwan ko na ang Stat at ang StatSoc. Kung kelan pa naman tayo nagsimulang maging close. :p Well, we still have a sem of Math55 together (RHP minus Mic, haha. Sayang kulang tayo). Dalaga ka na rin. Excited na kaming makita ka sa pink dress mo mamayang gabi. Hahaha. See you sa Math and Stat (oo, bibisita pa ako). :)

Muli, happy birthday! :D

I had this weird dream yesterday morning (I took a nap after bringing Vince to school :p)

It felt very enchanting and sad at the same time. It was one of those lucid dreams.

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These past few months, a couple of friends have been bugging me to watch Kabataan X-Press on television. It’s a show where the “kabataan” (youth) collaborate and do a news show of sorts (reporting, writing, the works). But since the show was on at 7am (and a Saturday at that!) I wasn’t able to catch it.

But now I regret not being able to watch it on tv. Haha.

Nicai, a friend of mine, is one of the reporters/writers of the show (and one of the people who has been making me kulit to watch, hehe.). She just IMed me this evening, announcing that their past episodes were being streamed in the Probe TV website, in the Kabataan X-Press Channel.

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Yes, Web2.0 has made things much, much easier. Even objectionable content became very easy to proliferate (I think I hear spammers and trolls. Hmmm). Hahaha.

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