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Guess where dead “mongrels” end up…? While you’re thinking… why don’t you try dining at this place. I’m pretty sure there are lots of dishes that’ll “catch” your fancy!

Yummmmmyyy!!!

Check this out… This video (mostly audio) from “Put@nginamo.com” gets really interesting towards the middle but you’ve gotta start it from the beginning…!

This must’ve been a call to PLDT myDSL’s customer service trunkline… listen as the conversation unravels…

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Put@nginamo.com

We’ve seen Venom in the latest trailers of Spiderman 3… but have you really seen him up close? Check out this recently revealed close-up image of Venom… Scaaaaaarrrrryyyy!!!

As if the harsh heat isn’t enough to get everyone thinking about global warming, we Filipinos have come up with a more attention-grabbing, nay, distracting way to get people interested. Enter the Miss Earth beauty pageant. Homegrown, along with the Ms. Philippines-Earth search for the Filipina representative, it is now considered to be among the top three most prestigious international pageants since its inception in 2001.

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Call it superficial. Call it sexist. Call it a futile, short-sighted and pretentious exercise. But in this nation of seven thousand and one hundred seven islands (depending on whether it’s high tide, or low tide) where in the month of May the Santacruzan is done on any given day, where fiestas can never be complete without crowning a queen, and where macho men reportedly get stabbed from a drunken argument on which one is prettier: Ms. Belgium or Ms. Colombia?, pageants are a sure-fire way of getting one’s message noticed and start people talking. We love our beauty queens - the first Miss Universe and the first Miss International married Filipinos; countless Ms. Philippines have become long-standing celebrities; and where public voting through text or internet is the game, expect the Filipina to be up there. Pageants here take on a different culture from that found in the west. They are hardly treated as vulgar shows for dimwits, but rather as showcase for the best, most eligible women. So yes, most would probably take notice of what they say (relax, for sure she aced her interviews and most certainly won’t embarrass when she opens her mouth). Including issues such as saving Mother Earth. In addition to world peace.

Pageants nowadays, and at least with the legit ones, are more than a bunch of girls whose main purpose in life is to make the rest of womanhood suffer from self pity and yo-yo dieting. Many of those who are into it have degrees, even scholastic honors. They become very productive and successful women, and some get into public service. And those who join don’t think of it as exploitation, otherwise they won’t. In this day and age, the swimsuit contest is as common as bikini girls on the beach - they’re there to be watched, as well as check out and compare with others, too.

As they say, any publicity - good or bad - is still publicity. In 2002, the Miss World pageant made headlines when it sparked violent protests in host country Nigeria. The Miss Earth pageant alone had it’s media mileage stretched when earliest editions made a faux pas by having the girls plant trees in bikinis! and had feminist tongues wagging, and then in 2003, when Ms. Afghanistan wore a red two-piece, much to her people’s consternation. And then there’s the Miss USA brouhaha last year involving alcoholism. In this country, pageants reach a wide mix of people, which is favorable for whatever causes they espouse. At the very least, it introduces people to these.

For now, our Miss Earth beauties don’t seem to be doing more than tote slogans reprimanding smoke belchers, and plant trees (besides having the time of their lives). But these women will have done more for their environmental advocacy with their thirty seconds or so, to fame than from, say, writing a blog entry on it.

Some things worth mentioning but are rather unrelated to this post: Cutting trees down, instead of planting them - selectively, that is - might help alleviate world temperatures? And mobile phones might lead to food shortages in the future?