LOVE.LIFE.
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Please stop using the phrase “krisis sa Mindanao” o “kaguluhan sa Mindanao” on your news reports. Mindanao is a very big island. While a tragedy indeed happened in Basilan, it is only a part of a big land area. It is a disservice to all who live in Mindanao in peace. People who are not from Mindanao tend to think that there’s chaos all over here in the island, when in fact there is none.
If a bombing happens in Makati or in Manila for instance, you would not call it a “Luzon crisis or problem”, would you? You have to be more sensitive and professional because media has the ability to affect the consciousness of the viewers.
You can help the country achieve what it desires. Choose your words well in your news report.
”Mabel Sunga-Acosta (via thecyberniche) -
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Vindication for Christopher Lao
Last August, Christopher Lao became an infamous internet sensation and a victim of taunts and satires by social media users when he drove his car directly into a flooded street causing it to drift in the flood. When interviewed by GMA News Reporter Jun Veneracion, who happened to be shooting within the vicinity, he told the latter the now-famous line “I should have been informed”, saying that signs should be put in the area.
In today’s social media age when information can spread faster than before, one’s mistakes or boo-boos can easily be exaggerated and then taunted and ridiculed afterwards. And Mister Lao was one of its victims.
But now, Christopher Lao is back, still with a flooded car, but starring in a commercial for BPI.
Lao plays himself repeating the same words, including the now-famous quote, “I should have been informed,” that he uttered to GMA reporter Jun Veneracion, who is played by an actor in the commercial for BPI.
“This is my way of saying yes to life,” Lao told GMA News. “Some good finally came out of this crisis. It became an opportunity. I can now pay for the tuition of my daughter.”
Lao is currently studying for the bar exam next month, but took time off to shoot the commercial last weekend.
The commercial ends with the graphic, “Nature doesn’t inform you.” BPI used Lao to pitch its auto loans that come with one year free insurance covering acts of nature. The ad is expected to air in cinemas as well as on BPI’s YouTube channel.Karma is not always a bitch. And Christpher Lao is the perfect example that one can use his down moments in life to rise up again and make something wonderful out of it.
Christopher Lao is back! Who’s laughing now?
Elsewhere:
- Read the whole story on GMANews.TV. Yes, especially you who Laughed Out LAOd (pun intended) last August.
- Christopher Lao is on Twitter. And his description says The genuine I should have been informed driver. Cool guy.
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Ice Ball Mold
“Ice Ball Mold” from Japan allows you to make perfectly seamless ice spheres in seconds, cooling alcohol while not diluting it due to the reduced surface area of the sphere.
Plus, even the act of making the sphere grabs attention from all around the bar as the mold presses together without electricity or heat, and makes a perfect shape for a drink “on the rock”.
I’d cover the ice balls with snow and throw them at kids.
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I’D COVER THE ICE BALLS WITH SNOW AND THROW THEM AT KIDS.
(via obviouslyimnotstraight)
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(Source: kar0usel, via missingdreams)
