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Philippine’s Top 10 Sexiest Male Filipinos/ Pinoy

0, November 18, 2009

Posted by june

Filipino Male Celebrities are good looking and accomplished. Thus picking this top 10 sexiest male is certainly not an easy choice. These 10 male celebrity picks are sexy, accomplished and intelligent. From the sexy to the sexiest male of the Philippines, surely they make Filipinos’ proud.

10. John Loyd Cruz Discovered by a talent scout while malling with friends, the actor, model and host have proven to be a versatile fine. Currently, a member of a variety boy group called "Kanto Boys" with Billy Crawford, Vhong Navarro, and Luis Manzano in the concert TV show ASAP. This hot young actor was also nailed as the Philippines’ Box Office King for the film "A Very Special Love" and "You Changed My Life" with Sarah Geronimo. From romantic roles John Loyd shifted to a more controversial role portraying Luis Manzano’s gay lover in the movie In My Life together with Vilma Santos.

9. Jon Avila (Jon Mullay) His sharp, mestizo look makes this half Irish-half Filipino hunk desirable for women. Jon Mullay in real life is the fourteenth Pinoy Big Brother Celebrity Edition 2 housemate to enter the big brother house where he was dubbed as the English Outcast. This 21-year-old Jon Avila also won the title of Century Tuna Superbod in 2006.

8. Sam Milby (Samuel Lloyd Lacia Milby ) Sam remains the same person we’ve known him since Pinoy Big Brother. The whole nation witnessed this young Filipino-American boy who hustled his way against his fellow housemates. After his time in PBB and with his singing prowess he was then signed to host and perform in the concert TV show ASAP up to this date.

7. John Carlo "JC" Barreras Tiuseco The guy who battled his way to becoming the first ever Pinoy Sole Survivor in the Survivor Philippines season 1. This Chinese-Filipino hottie, is an actor, basketball player, TV host and a model.

6. Hansen Nichols Hansen may have never reached the pinnacle of fame yet, not yet! Nevertheless, as you can see he’s never gone kaput either. This Filipino model, actor and singer were once a Pinoy dream Academy season 2 dreamer. Where he is dubbed as “The Cancer survivor”, having been diagnosed with thyroid cancer after surviving a car crash and was told that he might not sing again.

5. Gerald Anderson (Gerald Randolph Opsima Anderson, Jr.) Gerald has gone so far up to his carrier ladder, from being a Pinoy Big Brother Teen Edition (first season) 3rd big placer housemate to a versatile young actor. He is being paired with PBB big placer Kin Chiu had starred in many movies and soap operas.

4. Chris Tiu (Christopher John Alandy-Dy Tiu) This charming Chinese-Filipino basketball player has a lot to offer. Not only as a hot basketball player but also a TV host, commercial model, and a politician. He was named as the Favorite Athlete in the first-ever Nickelodeon Philippines Kids’ Choice Awards 2008 held at Aliw Theater, Pasay City.

3. Piolo Pacual (Piolo José Pascual) This ultimate hunk is a film and television actor, recording artist and songwriter, concert performer, host, product endorser, and film producer in the Philippines. Not only as the biggest and brightest stars in Philippine TV today, has he also gathered several awards and nominations from different award giving bodies. No wonder why fellas go gaga over papa Piolo.

2. Dingdong Dantes (Jose Sixto Raphael Gonzales Dantes III) This tight-figured hottie is an award-nominated actor and director. He played a major role in Marimar Teleserye in GMA, to which he is widely known.

1. Aljur Abrenica (Aljur Guiang Abrenica) Admit it. Aljur really owns this top spot. This young Filipino Actor has multiple talents. He can sing, host, dance, play an instrument and write his own song. His multiple talents made him one of the top contenders for the 4th. Season of Starstruck. Totally this guy has what females want their guys to have, talents plus good looks.

Do you agree with the list, and Ajur Abrenica as the sexiest pinoy?

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When Cory Was Everybody’s Mother

0, August 5, 2009

Posted by philippines-tourist

Cory Aquino

When Cory was Everybody’s Mother

I was born in 1980, three years before Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino was shot. Six years before EDSA Revolution. Needless to say, I was very young when Corazon C. Aquino came into power and wrested the Presidency from the clutches of the dictator, Ferdinand E. Marcos.

I was young, but not unaware. At such an age, six to twelve, when Cory was the President, I was as much a political observant as I am now although my eyes were indeed wider in wonderment and my mind was much more of a clean slate rather than the convoluted landscape that it is these days. I always knew what was happening, whether it was through our television or from the mouths of my parents and older relatives and friends who never seemed to stop talking about what happened prior to Martial Law and what was happening then. I knew what was happening, maybe through second hand or third hand information, but I understood.

The death of President Cory didn’t hit me like the whirlwind of sadness that has enveloped most others who grieve his death. To me it was slower, and as I am writing this, watching Cory being laid down to rest, it’s starting to feel like a relative of mine died, one who I was close with once, but never got the chance to say hi again to. And now, didn’t really have the chance to say goodbye to.

I can recall bits and pieces of her Presidency. It wasn’t perfect, by no means was it even close to perfect. The Presidency is a very difficult position to have and one can imagine how much harder it was on Cory being who she was, a homemaker. She was a quiet person, and now, she was adopting millions of children. Looking back, after the predicament the Filipino people was in during the Marcos era, when human rights were blatantly trampled upon, when small liberties were denied and a misstep was met by an iron fist, who better to have as our leader than a loving homemaker?

I was a child then but so were the rest of the Filipinos who felt the grip of the dictator around their throats. We were all children, each one of us. We all were looking for direction but before that, what we really needed was comfort, the feeling that we are being treated like the humans that we are and not the pawns or slaves that were our roles in the past twenty years. That, more than anything else was important as it allowed for us not only to be lead to a new direction, but for us to stand up again on our very own two feet and realize our humanity once again.

I can recall bits and pieces of her Presidency. It wasn’t perfect but her love for the country was. Her love for the Filipino people was as genuine as it can possibly get, truly a magnificent thing considering the arena she was in with the rest of the players in it speaking half truths with their half hearts.

I have experienced five presidents in my lifetime, Ferdinand Marcos, Corazon Aquino, Fidel Ramos, Joseph Estrada and Gloria Arroyo. Of the five it was only during Cory’s time did I feel safe. There were seven coup attempts during her time yet it was only during her reign when I didn’t feel like the government was out to get us. Even with all the mistakes and troubles that dotted her time in office, she was the only President who I felt always, always, always had the good of the Filipino people in mind. With her, one never thought about any ulterior motives that she might have when going into deals. When she spoke, you always expected and received the truth right from her mouth. Nothing was contrived. Everything was genuine. That’s how I felt about her.

Cory was everyone’s mother even after her reign. Perhaps this is why people of my generation who never really experienced the full force of her presidency weep. She cared, she genuinely cared the way our mothers cared for us. We do not remember much of her presidency but we remember her care for us during and after her Presidency. I never thought so much how I felt about how her relationship with my generation was until I read an article by Conrado de Quiros in the Inquirer calling her “the ogre she once slew” that unleashed all the emotions of a child from within me. I hit back, writing De Quiros the most hateful of letters, filled with words that can only come from a defensive child unflinchingly protecting his mother. How the curses flowed out of me like a broken dam speaks volumes of how much painful it was to hear someone describe her in such despicable a term.

I met her sometime in 2001 when she was in the Ateneo, giving a speech. I pretended to be a photographer tasked by the school to chronicle her visit and her speech so that I can come close to her and take her pictures. I’m sure I was pretty annoying. I burned two rolls of film on a 15 minute speech. I do not remember much about what she said but I do remember the feeling being around her, being so close to her. She was jovial, welcoming and unassuming. There was no air to her. No yabang. Years after being the President, she was still oblivious to the type of person she was, the power she wielded and still has. I on the other hand spent the time smiling and muttering to myself how lucky I was just to be in her presence.

My generation never really knew her as a President but we knew her as a Leader. We didn’t quite experience her reign but we experienced her power. What we know about her Presidency, we read in our history books and taught to us in class. What we know about her as a Person we learned through her words and actions as she took a stand every single time people needed someone to do the same. We weep not because we lost a President but because we lost a mother… who was also our President.

To the President, from my generation, Salamat Po, Nanay.

- Francis Maynard S. Maleon

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