Yahoo Celebrity Awards 2014: I Wanna Be Like Social Media Star Vice Ganda

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It was no surprise that Vice Ganda won as Social Media Star at the Yahoo Celebrity Awards last July 18, 2014 at the SM Mall of Asia Arena. She also got the Love Team of the Year award together with Karylle for Vicerryle. This is one celebrity that has made a lot of creative effort and obviously has a genuine talent to come out with engaging social media influences with netizens worldwide.

The Unkaboggable comedian and Boom Panes fame wacky host never fails to arouse the interest of the madlang people on whatever social media network or fan site she owns and maintains. Widely recognized thanks to the It's Showtime noontime variety show, many have said that Vice Ganda is the life of the show. The only reason why the program has continued to stay broadcasting because of the humorous content that she contributes.

The rest of the co-host has their own unique talents but nothing compared to the appeal of the well celebrated comedian of the masses. She truly makes everyone laugh a lot everytime she opens that witty mouth of hers. Now, when you see her move. the that already is a big plus for everyone!

Congratulations, Vice Ganda. Keep on making the lives of the people a lot more cheerful everyday, may it be on TV or online.

The Real Filipina: Morena, Mestiza, Chinita or Negra?

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Most of the time I feel we are a confused race. This is because when most of the people from the other areas of the globe wants to go to the tropical countries to get a tan and darken their skin, we are obsessed with getting white, and if possible white as snow, because majority of us were brainwashed in thinking a white complexion is the most appealing.

If you'll visit the other side of the world, there are no such thing as a glutathione search or skin whitening mania. We should be proud of our own color. The real Filipina complexion is the morena or negra, not the mestiza, not the chinita. I would be very proud if I belong to the first two skin hues.

Since we were conquered by the other races, and many Filipinos are crossing the boundaries of relationships among other nationalities, we now have a mixed citizenship. Would you believe that Filipinos nowadays are more proud if they have half-nationalities. The mixed breeds are flaunting their foreign bloods. They feel more esteemed when they can say they are half-Spanish, quarter-American, or one eight of Chinese.

Indeed, they are special since when we Filipinos merge with other races, we become more distinctive, we look more different, we sound so elite. This is why many are obsessed to change how they look. They change their hair color, they undergo plastic surgery for a pointier nose, they buy all the whitening soaps and creams, ...and they marry foreigners just because they want children that look nothing like them.

DOTC Secretary Abaya's Closing Remarks at the Daylight Dialogue

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Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) Secretary Joseph Emilio Aguinaldo Abaya delivered the following closing remarks at last week’s Daylight Dialogue: The Good Governance Challenge, held at the Malacañang Palace and attended by President Benigno Aquino III, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, public and private sector leaders, and other advocates of good governance and development reform:


A pleasant afternoon to all of you.

I am deeply honored for this opportunity to speak today. This conference lays emphasis on the cornerstone of this administration’s promise to every Filipino: a leadership of integrity, a government of reform, a policy of transparency and accountability to the people, an ultimate goal of inclusive growth.

The Daylight Dialogue, today’s gathering has been called, and aptly so. Each one of us was drawn here today by a common vision for the country – one that has come from many years of darkness and has finally seen the light; one that we will never allow, for the sake of our children and future generations, to ever retreat once more into the shadows and negate the progress we are making today.

We are here for the same reason. We are committed to good governance and reform. More significantly, we are committed to making these changes irreversible.

Today, we have engaged in profound discourses on the success of President Aquino’s administration in pulling the country into the light, and how we can work together towards ensuring that we will never again succumb to the dark. We have spoken about how we will hurdle the challenges thrown our way, and how we will institutionalize government’s accountability to the public.