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Jolina Magdangal and the Unfortunate Stagnation of One's Pop Culture Savviness

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       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, I was asked about my favorite contemporary teenage star and I answered Jolina M
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Genius

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       Last night, I was on YouTube and stumbled on a video that aimed to enhance your English vocabulary. No idea why YouTube recommended it, I don't watch similar videos. I just finished watching a video on how great the bass line on “Head Over Heels,” which is one of my favorite Tears For Fears songs (it’s about a man madly in love with a woman who, he’s afraid, is just wasting his time; its official music video is also great), I scrolled down and there was the vocabulary video, where the host would show a word and you’d choose the correct meaning.      I found the comments, Americans taking pride on scoring 13 out of 15 questions, a bit perplexing at first because English was their language. You see, I wasn't that smart, but I got 15 out of 15 (it was easy, it was multiple choice, and the most difficult word was eschew ), and then I realized that even Filipinos found some Tagalog words difficult.      Like this incident, where I was conversing with a lady, and she sud
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A Facebook Page Called Tiny Windows

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       So three weeks ago, I created a Facebook page (which I called Tiny Windows) for the flash fiction/short stories that would pop every now and then in my brain. I usually liberate them from my head by posting them here on this blog, never caring if someone would read it, but, then one day, while scrolling on my News Feed, I saw a page that featured short stories, so I thought, yeah, I could do that.      I sent around 100 invites (only to FB friends I have/had some personal interactions), and around 40 of them responded and followed the page, which is quite okay as majority of people on Facebook just ignore invitations to like a page, though, in my case, I try to respond to all the invites I receive, especially pages I could relate. Just don’t send me invites for a page named Zumba Lovers or one that is dedicated to glorifying serial killers.      You can’t cancel and resend invites so I sent a PM to people (around 10) who I thought didn’t see my invites and who wouldn’t h
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