Pounding The Keyboard

       Basing on recent developments, there’s a huge possibility that the Philippines' incumbent vice-president, Sara Duterte, daughter of Former President Rodrigo Duterte, will go to jail (she’s being investigated by congress on corruption charges and by the NBI with regard to her (death) threats against the president), aside from the prospect of being impeached and disbarred (she’s a lawyer). It’s a triple whammy, yes, but then, she's vicious, and she's not even trying to hide it. I'll categorize this info as happy news.      Instagram doesn’t allow screen recording anymore. I’ll categorize this as bad news.      Just learned today on Facebook that a woman’s most private part could be categorized as either innie or outie. Who says Facebook is useless when it comes to dispensing pertinent information? Lol.      Saw this Facebook video about the Top Twenty songs on Billboard in 1980 and realized...

       Years ago, when I saw the photo of someone who had just sent me a friend request on Facebook, my first thought was, “Kamukha ni Steve Harvey.” The bald head, the mustache, the shape of the face, the skin color, they will remind you of the American comedian. My FB friend’s probably just a few years younger. I don’t know him personally, we just have common FB friends, so we don’t talk to each other. We’d just occasionally like and comment on each other’s posts so I haven’t told him that he, not Dingdong, should be hosting the local version of Family Feud. Lol.      But this morning, while scrolling on my News Feed, I learned that he was a contestant in It’s Showtime’s KalokaLike portion (where contestants are purported to resemble a celebrity, local or international) as, you guessed it, Steve Harvey. Though unfortunately, I read that he reached the semifinals, but didn’t qualify for the finals.      I don’t wat...

       I have realized that I’m stuck to a bygone era. My Pinoy pop culture savviness has been stagnant. You see, yesterday, I stumbled upon this Facebook post about a local movie starring this young celebrity, the comments were gushing on how huge and uber-famous this young local celebrity, that he was so famous that it would be a felony not to know him, that he was enough to watch the movie, never mind if the story and everything else about the film was garbage—and I had no idea who he was. I Googled him, and it turned out that he was a member of a local band which songs I wasn’t familiar with.      This band’s popularity, netizens are saying, is so massive that people who are unfamiliar with their songs should be arrested and should be meted the punishment of life imprisonment.      And so I am now in hiding.     It appears that my local celebrity radar had conked out decades ago. A few days ago, ...