Fifty Shades of Grey: What Was Once Suppressed Will Now Be Expressed

Wazzup Pilipinas!

I wonder if I'll actually end up seeing Fifty Shades of Grey. I'd say there's a 50/50 chance. I may be so rudely judged when I approach the ticket counter and ask "One ticket for Fifty Shades of Grey, please." People around might say "Would you like a side order of "self-respect" with that order?" Lol!

Now that E. L. James' book that glorifies abusive relationship and romanticizes a perpetrator of abuse has been turned into a movie, I guess acceptable sexual harassment may soon be a common sight especially for extremely liberal persons. The book may not be called as a great literary masterpiece but it is indeed a great artifact of female sexuality and expression. Nah! I was just kidding.

Why the need to make fun of the book? Fifty Shades of Grey is from the same writer of Saving Mr. Banks. There's a joke in there, but I didn't have coffee yet. Something about Poppin. Oh yea, now I remember. It's a movie so wild that your ants are bound to be Poppin!

The most anticipated erotic drama has been described as abusive, sadistic, unnatural, perverted, exploits women's longings, normalizes domestic violence, and more like pornography than a movie, despite being a consensual relationship between two adults. They say it should be called 69 Shades of Smut instead. Many sci-fi fans wished they just created a movie called Fifty Shades of a "Grey."

But Kim Kardashian seemed to liked it and I quote "OMG It was sooooo good!!!". No she hasn't added film critic to her resume but she and some friends got invited to s special private screening as part of celebrity perks. Hey! Bloggers have the same perks too. So here's hoping there will be one in our country.

Anthony Bourdain Travels To Familiar Cities and Discovers 'Parts Unknown'

Wazzup Pilipinas!

Chef, best-selling author and travelling gourmand Anthony Bourdain returns in an all-new season of the Emmy award-winning series ANTHONY BOURDAIN: PARTS UNKNOWN. Anthony travels to the lesser-known areas of beautiful Punjab, Thailand, Russia, Brazil, Lyon, Mexico, Mississippi and Las Vegas, steering off classic tourist tracks and traps, to expose and celebrate the people, unique culture, food, history and stories that make each place truly special. ANTHONY BOURDAIN: PARTS UNKNOWN premieres every Tuesday at 10 p.m. starting February 10, exclusively on TLC (available nationwide in the Philippines on every major cable, DTH and local provincial operator).

An eight-part series, each episode spotlights intriguing places, tastes, sights and sounds waiting to be explored. For insider tips and the best experiences, Anthony taps into the locals as well as a few friends and influential figures including world-renowned chef and restaurateur Daniel Boulud, famed nouvelle cuisine chef Paul Bocuse, magician Penn Jillette of Penn and Teller, and revered poet and award-winning peace activist Javier Sicilia.

In Thailand, Anthony explores Chiang Mai with award-winning chef and author Andy Ricker of Pok Pok restaurant fame. Anthony likens his experience in Northern Thailand to discovering a colour he never knew existed. “The food here is not pad thai or green curry chicken. There are complex layers of flavour, sophisticated balances, spicy, sour, a little bitter, salty, herby. Colour and texture are important. Crispy, soft, cold, hot. It's exactly this interplay between elements that makes Northern Thai food so thrilling and so addictive,” he says.

MASKeteer Productions Presents ExVi: Dominating Market thru Experiential and Viral Marketing

Wazzup Pilipinas!

MASKeteer Productions - a group of marketing students from Polytechnic University of the Philippines is pleased to announce that an exciting, edifying and up-to- date marketing seminar is taking a giant leap on February 6, 2015 at SM Sta. Mesa, Cinema One from 11 am to 4 pm.

The seminar entitled “ExVi: Dominating Market thru Experiential and Viral Marketing” that aims to provide a real-life and timely marketing education for the students where they would be able to learn different techniques of marketing and how brands survived the competition through experiential and viral marketing strategies.

Exvi is an integrated term for Experiential and Viral marketing strategies that companies of 21st century utilize as their maneuver or tactics in dominating the market. It is a well-placed, calculated and provocative type of campaign wherein the companies balance the power of brand awareness through the rebirth of traditional marketing strategies.

With the new platform of advertising and how consumers lose interest on traditional way of pioneering a product, marketers of today’s generation reroute their strategies to adapt the fast paced of global market competition without filling the brim. When the number of products and services are array in different form then the market becomes crowded thus companies’ needs to generate new marketing strategies to be the framework of their business. Exiting to the virtual wall of the business is effective way to understand what the people are looking.