FRANKly Speaking and FRANKly Devastating

The full force of the storm locally known here in the Philippines as "Frank" was experienced by the country yesterday. We were lucky here in Dasmariñas, Cavite for not experiencing any major floods (I don't know in some parts of Cavite though).

Our whole barangay was out of power because of an electrical problem in the town's main connection thus making our day very boring and dark. I simply slept the day away, I woke up around 8:30 in the evening with the glow of the candle the only main source of light in the house, ate m dinner and sit and reflected on my life hahahaha. Well after that pointless yet time wasting thinking I finally decided to call it a day and slept in our long chair. My bed is at the floor and becuase it is so freaking cold I decided to sleep on the long chair for additional warmth.



Energy came back at around 3:00 in the morning and that is the tie to charge up all the cellphones and the laptop to prepare if ever a power shortage occurs again and here I am now posting my aftermath "Frank" experience.

This is also my first aftermath storm blog post... and maybe not the last. Nothing beats storm "Rosing" (in the past, I think around the 1997 onwards) though... and hope a storm like that will not make an appearance again because our ro of almost literally flew off.

Oprah: An Anti-Christ?

Last Night that's June 06, of 2008 after watching my favorite segment on my favorite Filipino Gag Show "Bubble Gang" I browsed the channels and saw "The 700 Club Asia" which discusses about the New Age Belief and its Anti-Christianity Nature. Thus Today, Saturday June 07, 2008 = 06-07-08 (6-7-8) I went out to a friends house to watch more of Oprah's Attack on Christianity. Here are some of the Youtube Videos:


Church of Oprah Exposed
Link: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZnKwnhQFTK4




Dont Drink The Kool-Aid: Oprah, Obama and The Occult
Link: http://youtube.com/watch?v=zf3Gh8dVoBo



OPRAH = GOD:
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQFHyd7ijNI

As you've also noticed in the videos above there is some sort of a product endorsement here which is the book "Don't Drink the Kool-Aid...", but if you look carefully one important message can be seen in these videos. Oprah as a non-Christ and God Believer. Yeah she believe in God, She believe in herself for she is God according to their belief.

I am a Christian and am exploring what church to be a part of... but after seeing these videos, my image of Oprah's overwhelming majestic image went tumbling down to a pile of ash... dust.

I understand the diversification of religion on the entire globe but what Oprah is doing is intolerable. She and her "spiritual adviser" doing is preposterous. Because they have these belief that they are God and keep on referring their twisted teachings to the Holy Bible. Everything is all good until Oprah proclaimed her belief and started to spread her belief which is slowly corrupting the mind of her viewers.

Well I am furious!!! I say. I am not that devoted yet but I believe that there is a God and through Christ we can be save. Hope we all can see through the New World's Twisted Teaching...

National Humiliation: Is it worth it?

Television Games shows has been one of the many reasons why we watch television (or for me, that is the one of the many reasons). One thing that I have noticed is this trends specially on some local game shows.

To name one is the hit ABS CBN Kapamilya Noontime/Game Show "Wowowee". Sure the host can joke around with the contestants but not to the point that he humiliates them. I have seen so many of these examples in their episodes... My brother is watching them so it can't be helped to watch it.

One is today's episode on "Couples who is going to be married this June '08", a male contestant whose height is around 5 with a built physique approach the game area (where they answer by pressing the buzzer and name the title of the song and sings some line of it). Mr. Revillame then secretly mocks how this man looks like by joking. Of course the man is laughing with them but I can't help but imagine what might him or others like him feel when they get humiliated on Philippine Television for just a chance of winning a great deal of money.

Of course money is important, but will that mean throwing away one's dignity and honor as a being just to gain money and entertain the television viewers? The most common victims of these game shows are the Filipino mass (who a times belongs below the poverty or middle class society).

Well, I can almost imagine what will fans and the management says on my say. "We only want to give enjoyment and entertainment for the Filipino Viewers, Our management does not intend to do any harm or humiliate any persons in the process. Thank you for understanding" Well that's one load of crap. Well if they are really sorry then they should stop with this degradation and humiliating jokes. The person being humiliated might not mind this but what about viewers that discourage this form of entertainment would say?

Maybe the contestants themselves are to be blame for letting their dignity and honor put to humiliation. If so then I hope the management of all the game shows should come up with other forms of entertainment rather than making fun of the contestants.

Well, guess what. I am not the only one thinking this way. Check out the article by Miss Conniue Veneracion at http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=connieVeneracion_feb07_2006