I Keep Coming Back to Brouhahas

I told myself that every Tuesday will be a Blogging Tuesday event. I don't know but I always look at Tuesdays as nothing, no special significance and blah for the entire week. Sundays are for God and family (and also The Buzz and Gandang Gabi Vice, hehe!), Mondays are for the first working day and the first for everything (I guess?), Wednesdays are for my Perpetual Help novenas, Thursdays are for my St. Jude Thaddeus novenas and also throwbacks (with hashtag!), Fridays are for partying and Saturdays are for my studies and also partying! Since then, I haven't seen anything so meaningful with Tuesdays. Now, I decided that the third day of the week will be the only day I can do blogging about stuffs.

From my last post, I am back with lots of stuff intricately thought and balanced with different perspective. Haha! In short, I am back with writing everyday's somethings. Now here are my brouhahas:

courtesy of Poetry Place

THERE ARE LOTS OF WEDDINGS - I bought the June edition of YES! Magazine and it talked about different celebrity weddings from Jericho Rosales and Kim Jones to Karylle and Yael Yuzon (now I know why since June is known for weddings and June brides). Last January, Drew Arellano and Iya Villania had their very cute wedding underground. Few weeks ago, my dude Yuan and kaps Lyrize tied the knot in a very peaceful and blessed ceremony. Last year, my good friends and siblings Ronald and Charm and Joel and Theresa equally exchanged "I do's!" I also have my former classmates, schoolmates, colleagues, neighbors and so much more who have been at the altar and sealed their wedding with a kiss. Some say that wedding is only a one-day event so why need to satisfy so many things like church, wedding gown, suits, reception, food, and so much more. For others, wedding is only for formality. Some say that the wedding is entirely the most important day for a woman to be called as the bride. That's why the groom should be the one who creates a magical day for her soon-to-be-bride. And everything shall be enticed by the taste of the bride.

They define wedding as the front door of marriage. It happens only one day but the entire journey of a married life begins the day after. Nervous as it may sound but it is a choice for the two lovers who wanted to be with each other's arms for the rest of their lives.

I have been part of an entourage. I have been a secondary sponsor from my two sisters' weddings and a recent one with Yuan and Lyrize's. I also became one of the groomsmen with Joel and Theresa's wedding. Now I am thinking when will be that perfect time? For me? The big question is, who will be the...? For the newlyweds, congratulations and best wishes!

"Mr. FU! Ba't ang pogi-pogi mo???" - courtesy of 106.7 Energy FM

ANG TAGABULABOG NG BUONG UNIVERSE - Jeffrey Espiritu started as a news reporter of RPN-9 (I am not sure if that station still exist?). He also had a show every Sundays (I forgot the title!) which features different things happening in the metro. He is a chinito guy with good looks and fit body but then I have noticed that there's something going on in him (well, it takes one to know one!). Then, he was called as Mr. FU being known for his follow-up reports (as what he did with RPN-9 as a news reporter). From television, he jumped into radio with a new work as radio disc jockey. He started with Energy FM when it was still under 91.5 frequency. While I was working back then at IVOLINE, the bus I rode back home tuned to the station and it was Mr. FU's show. I remember one male texter saying something about hooking up with Mr. FU but he replied with reluctancy. Maybe that male texter knew that Mr. FU was a woman trapped in a man's body. From Energy FM, he went to 103.5 WOW FM making as their Star DJ. It was also during his move that he was recognized as "the highest paid DJ in the country." After three years with WOW FM, he decided to return to his first home, Energy FM but in a different frequency with 106.7. And truly, I became one of his true-blooded fan! How I became his fan, again?

It was one morning, I was driving and I kept on scrolling what FM station could I listen to. Then I heard Mr. FU doing one of his segment in his show Ang Tagabulabog ng Buong Universe called Showbiz FU where he reads three different showbiz news and then he will make fun of it. Then on, I added him as one of my favorite radio programs which includes The Morning Rush, Tambalan and Papa Jack's True Love Conversations. He has his assistant named Emily (I guess he chose the name after Emily Blunt's character in The Devil Wears Prada, which happens to be Miranda Priestly's first assistant). He always asks Emily different names of celebrities, politicians, news reporters then and now and so much more, and if she doesn't know them, he tells "gaga ka, patanga-tanga ka!" He does not mean it really but it is so funny. He also loves to play names of different showbiz personalities. In his entire show, my favorite segment is Showbiz FU (which has two parts) and when he reads different messages from his die-hard fans and listeners and afterwards, he will make some funny comments then the phrase, "dahil diyan, close na tayo!" in a very provocative voice, and "mahal na kita, you're the one!" Now my morning will be totally incomplete if I wasn't able to listen to him because he really made my universe "nabulabog!"

RAILFANNING - This may consider me as a weird one but I am such a huge fan of trains. I have been trying LRT-1, MRT-2 and MRT-3 for so many times. I even tried the Philippine National Railways from Alabang all the way to Tutuban in Manila. But I am so much fan of the different high-speed railway system in other countries, most especially in United Kingdom, United States, China, Japan and France. It brings so much joy and music to my ears when I watch videos of traversing high-speed trains on tracks. I have been a huge fan of Eurostar, a high-speed train service from London to Paris and Brussels with a underground passage via the Euro Tunnel which swims under the English Channel. United States has their Acela Express which runs the Northeast Corridor line from Boston to Washington, D.C. Germany has Inner City Express or ICE, Spain has AVE, Netherlands has Thalys, China has the CRH, Japan has the Shinkansen or the Bullet Train, but what I really admire so much is France's TGV. TGV means Train a Grande Vitesse (literally High Speed Train in English) is the high-speed railway system of the French Republic known for their service and no fatalities in accidents for the past 40 years. What made me a huge fan of the trains is not really about the trains but the luscious countryside of France being halved by the agility of TGV. Its technology and services had been adopted by other high-speed train systems in the world like AVE of Spain, KTX of South Korea, British Rail Crass of the United Kingdom and Acela Express of the United States.

I just only wish that we have our own high-speed trains. Imagining going up north to Ilocos or going south to Bicol by riding very fast, very comfortable high-speed trains. Since 1892, we already had our PNR, almost 70 years before the government of France created the SNCF (French National Railway Company). I wish our government would soon pursue to have a high-speed train system that will surely benefit the Filipino people and foreign adventurers. Our interisland train system have died because of poor management and continuing declination of the services. It even brought to permanent closure when typhoons damaged the rail tracks and communication facilities of PNR especially in Quezon and Bicol. No wonder our own TGV will match the quality and technology of the real TGV of France and other high-speed rail systems of the world.

THE VOICE OF THE WORLD - Last May 24, The Voice Kids Philippines began its broadcast with the most talented kids singing their hearts out to the coaches. Last year, it became one of the most watched shows in ABS-CBN making Mitoy Yonting of Team Lea as the very first winner. I was watching some of the blind auditions of The Voice Philippines and there were only less chances of four-chair-turns. Unlike with the other franchises of The Voice from USA, UK, Italy and China, most of the blind auditionees were being wanted by all of the four coaches from their seats. Does it really mean that singers from other countries are way better than ours?

With all of the different The Voice franchises in the world, there are only two blind auditions which I really love to watch repeatedly. One blind audition was from The Voice Italy (Season 2) when a Catholic nun, named Sister Cristina rocked the stage and wowed the audience with her amazing performance of Alicia Key's No One. It made four-chair turns because of her exuberant talent. Judges from The Voice Italy, Raffaella Carra, Noemi, Piero Pelu and J-Ax were so enthused with the charisma of the Catholic nun. Finally, Suor Cristina chose J-Ax as her coach since he was the first one who pushed to button. As of this writing, she is still part of the competition with J-Ax as her coach.

Another blind audition that I fell in love with is from The Voice of China. This was during the show's first season in 2012 when a certain Wang Naien of Shanghai tried the blind auditions. He chose "Listen" by Beyonce as his piece. At first, you would not believe that a male singer will sing a very high Beyonce masterpiece but he just made it possible. The very first judge who pushed the button was Liu Huan, followed by the other three, Harlem Yu, Na Ying and Yang Kun. After having all of the judges, he chose Liu as his coach. But sadly, he was eliminated after the second round of the Battles division.

Thanks to the creative idea of John de Mol, The Voice is one of the well-loved, most anticipated reality singing competition in the world. It has a different approach in looking for talents in singing and paved the way to so many aspirants that by their voice, they can make a difference!

Now my Blogging Tuesday is done! This day will have its own significance to my life and I will start right now!

Thank you for reading!

Toodles!!!