Once again, I am returning to write here in my Brouhahas. Hopefully I could relive my love with the letters. I am not waiting for someone to make some comments or to become happy with the things I put here. It is just simply doing my responsibility, which is to write. In fairness, paulit-ulit ako! Pagpasensyahan, may sakit!
Anyways, here are some of the brouhahas which enveloped me this week (enveloped?!?!)
WATTPAD PRESENTS - Whenever I go to National Book Store, Powerbooks and Fully Booked looking for a new and good book to read, I sometimes glance with some of the stories made by witty yet creative young minds via Wattpad. It is a writing community in which users are able to post articles, stories, fan fiction, and poems about anything either online or through its application (Wikipedia). Most of its writers are teenagers with funky and artsy usernames. What really makes me feel astonished about them is they have a very good story line with nice turns and plots. Sa bagay, you don't need science or procedure in creating a beautiful story; what's important is experience, based from it.
Speaking of experiences, most of the stories that I tried to read are all about love, either true love or puppy love or unconditional love or whatever kind of love. Based from the titles, it is all about love. Examples are:
- My Facebook Boyfriend... For Real!!? by Anne Bernadette Castueras
- The Despicable Guy by Shirlengtearjerky or Leng de Chavez
- Operation: Break the Casanova's Heart by Alyloony or Aly Almario
- Three Words, Eight Letters, Say It, I'm Yours by GirlInLove or Jade Margarette
- Secretly Married by ForgottenGlimmer
- For Hire, A Damn Good Kisser by Beeyotch or Ariesa Jane Domingop
- Ang Boyfriend Kong Artista by ModernongMariaClara or Ella Laren
Because of its popularity, some film production outfits and television network made it alive. It also became a good vehicle for making new love teams for today's generation.
- Diary ng Panget by Denny - probably the very first Wattpad story which became a movie starring James Reid, Nadine Lustre, Andre Paras and Yassi Pressman under VIVA Films. This is the movie in which the love team called JADINE was born in 2014.
- She's Dating the Gangster by Bianca Bernardino - Star Cinema's first Wattpad movie starring Kathryn Bernardo and Daniel Padilla. Yes, Star Cinema answered KATHNIEL with this movie, which was a huge hit also in 2014.
- Talk Back and You're Dead by Alesana Marie - second Wattpad movie of JADINE from VIVA Films and Skylight Films. It also featured Joseph Marco.
TV5 came up with a week-long romantic drama series which they entitled it Wattpad Presents. Since September of 2014, they already produced nineteen stories in which it starred some of their brightest stars. Some of the titles which turned into a week-long drama series are:
- My Tag Boyfriend by Anjanette Bernales - starred Jasmine Curtis-Smith and Sam Concepcion.
- Mr. Popular Meets Ms. Nobody by Jewell Atienza - starred Mark Neumann and Shaira Mae Dela Cruz.
- Poser Story by Maxine Lat Calibuso - featured Chanel Morales and Akihiro Blanco.
- Almost A Cinderella Story by Soju - featured Eula Caballero and Carl Guevarra
- Diary ng Hindi Malandi, Slight Lang! by Francis Herrera - starred Isabella de Leon and Edgar Allan Guzman
- I'm In Love with A DOTA Player by Maria Cristina Lata - featured Mark Neumann and Shaira Mae Dela Cruz.
Also, ABS-CBN created a teleserye starring Nash Aguas, Alexa Ilacad and Ella Cruz. Entitled, Bagito, it is written by Noreen Capili, also known as Noringai. She also wrote Buti Pa Ang Roma, May Bagong Papa and Parang Kayo Pero Hindi.
During our Literary Translation class with Dr. David Jonathan Bayot, the great Dr. Soledad Reyes of Ateneo de Manila University came to our little abode to talk about translating great Filipino novels into English. I tried to ask her (with all might) about what can she say about the abundance of new kinds of writers via Wattpad. She said okay with it, noting the way it was written with correct plots and literary schemes. These kinds of books or stories can be accorded to what is popularly known as contemporary or pop fiction, aside from the fact that it is romance.
Wattpad did not actually kill the popularity of Precious Hearts Romances and My Special Valentine, also known as pocketbooks but it only turned into different vantage point of romance stories. These makes the readers, even in my age, feel younger and more lively well, when it comes to love. It is a good idea to see the new breed of writers, even though their choice of genre is easy to comprehend relatable. In the long run, those writers might become literary genius not only known as number one bestsellers.
I've been wanting to try to write using Wattpad. If given a chance to make a username, I would probably use zieggiebalotee or HaveYouBeenInLoveHuh or even OggyThirtyFirst. Bahala na? What could be my genre? Can I create a love story mixed with politics, or suspense-thriller, or what everybody loves, homosexuality? Soon sa Primetime Bida!
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RYAN CHUA AND SEBASTIAN CASTRO - Because of my makulit mind while browsing Google looking for some couple photos, this is what I saw. I believe it was last year when Ryan Chua, one of the good-looking and fantastic reporters of ABS-CBN admitted through social media that he was (and still) in a relationship with the Peruvian-Japanese model Sebastian Castro. I only knew that they recently celebrated their first anniversary that Sebastian came from the U.S. earlier than everybody is expected. A YouTube video, uploaded by Seb (his nickname), shown how Seb surprised Ryan for their anniversary. Minus the smooches which is, of course, everybody will bash harder (why still very conservative?), that is the testament that love can happen to anyone.
Sebastian Castro is actually Benjamin Brian Castro in real life. He is openly gay, with a viral video he shot for YouTube announcing that he is gay. He is also known for some of his music videos like the popular Bubble and Theban. The first time I saw the video, it was truly brilliant and very gay! And gosh, Seb is really a gorgeous man! Whenever I look at his face, you will forget that he's gay, even gayer than me! My good friend Mark Pabilando likes and loves him. He even made some headlines that once, he dated Enchong Dee but it is only a hoax story.
Ryan Chua is Ryan Edward Lim Chua in real life. He was a graduate of Ateneo de Manila University with a degree of Communication, cum laude. According to his biography, he became the section editor of Ateneo's school paper The Guidon. Since he's a communication graduate, he landed as news reporter for ABS-CBN. Last year, he successfully finished his master's degree in international journalism at the City University London under the Chevening scholarship grant of UK. While he was studying for his master's degree, he and Sebastian met, started as friends then turned into something really serious, and that's love.
It was fun knowing this kind of relationship. Let's face it, they do not have a normal kind of relationship because obviously, they're both male. They're here in the Philippines, knowing the society who knows how to criticize not to simply tell opinions; in short, conservative. With their numerous pictures together, with some kisses and hugs, no doubt falling in love can be felt by everyone. It does not really matter who you are, what are you in the community or in the society, what nationality do you have and what kind of career you're jugging in, once love felt, you will melt. Ryan and Sebastian just show their love, affection and passion. It is friendship enveloped or covered with lots and lots of love. Ryan even mentioned that they had received many bashes from netizens after they decided to come out as a couple. Nonetheless, they reached their first anniversary. It only means to say that their relationship is much stronger than those people, educated or worst not educated, which they only know is to make the happiest people miserable.
Discreet or showy, these people are to be loved and shall be allowed to shout out their love!
I pray for their relationship to become stronger, wiser and blessed! Besides, in this planet called Earth, what we only need is love, love and of course, love!
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ADVICE GANDA - I remember a segment of Vice Ganda's Sunday late night program Gandang Gabi Vice entitled Vice Advice. Together with his guest, they will be answering some quirky questions from the audience and they will give advice in all sorts.
In It's Showtime, Vice Ganda once again created a new twist during their Sine Mo 'To segment. They are doing a parody of the movie That Thing Called Tadhana. Karylle is Angelica Panganiban's character Mace and Vice is JM de Guzman's character. There is one episode in which the character of Karylle say something about the break-up. Vice's character came to the rescue to tell about some hugot lines which can be related by everyone.
By the way, hugot lines became viral during the latter part of 2014 and this I believe became the theme of the movie That Thing Called Tadhana, directed by Antoinette Jadaone. A person becomes dramatic because of love then he/she will share a quote, phrase or proverb on dealing with love, most likely from their experiences or from any obvious reasons, thus being called hugot. May pinanghuhugutan kasi. A certain idea came from the deepest experience in life.
Here is the video showing Vice Ganda sharing hugot lines to those who got sick and tired because of love:
After saying some hugot lines, of course you will say, "Aaaaaaahhhhhh!!!" or "Awwwwwwwwwww!!!"
It only means to say natamaan ka!
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FIFTY SHADES OF GREY AND THAT THING CALLED TADHANA - Speaking of That Thing Called Tadhana, it raked more than 100 million pesos in box office. It really is "the ultimate hugot film of 2015." I still have no time to watch the movie so most likely, I would wait for someone to legally upload it on YouTube. Or better if my friends have already downloaded it so that I could ask for a recopy.
Another film premiered this love month is Fifty Shades of Grey. The worldwide phenomenon came to life with Christian Grey (played by Jamie Dornan) and Anastasia Steele (played by Dakota Johnson) sharing their own way of love story. But, it is not only a romantic movie but an erotic one, with lots and lots of sex scenes, on bed, on the office table, on the tub, and inside the Red Room of Pain! Good thing that I was able to finish the first book so that I could compare the film from it. Same with That Thing, I haven't watched it in cinemas. A lot of people have said that the distributors of the film here in the Philippines put some blurred and dark circles in the movie to avoid influences to the viewing public. They got disappointed, maybe because the glories are blurred and the treasures were covered with dark circles.
I'll just wait for someone to upload it on the Internet or have their own copies so that I could recopy it.
If I have an extra income and still, they're both in cinemas yet, I will definitely watch them!!!
There you have it guys, these are the brouhahas I made while I'm sick!!! Please sickness, I don't need you!!! I need this...
Toodles!!!
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