INSPIRED

I know that the current economic situation will really test the character, not just of extremely strong countries but most individuals. We can feel fear and uncertainty everywhere gearing us towards much preparation for the expected worst case scenarios. My personal mantra on all these is to keep positive. To keep my spirits high and believe that everything will soon fall into its places and time will make things better. To help me uplift these beliefs, I opt to get inspirations from people who made it amidst the trying times of economic crunch or basically, defying the impossible- People whom we came to tag as Nouveau Riche.

From an article of Fortune website, names of famous people with outstanding counts of wealth and power have been listed as Nouveau Riche. The term denotes the phenomenon of people gaining wealth out of almost nothing. From a downscale lifestyle, these people upgraded to enjoying high end kind of living all because they worked hard towards getting to the top.

From the stories of people featured in the website, I can’t help but feel that there really shouldn’t be anything termed as impossible. We live to maximize the potentials we have. We live to enrich the blessings around us. I believe that there should always be a union of pure blessings and good human nature to become successful and yes, a Nouveau Riche.

CHRISTMAS GATHERING

Hello everyone, it’s been quite an erratic mode of blogging from my end all because I need to really give much attention to a project were currently working on. Anyways, I can’t help but feel the holiday scene slowly biting in. There may be minimal decors and lights as of the moment but the temperature is already giving sight (or feel) to the upcoming Christmas!

In this season of parties and celebrations, I am writing this post to give a new taste to the already tradition of my college block mates to have a “one time big time” Christmas gathering. The details of this year’s gathering are yet to be consolidated and laid downed. The idea of having this post is gather names to be included in the “guest list”. Yes, I am making it complicated ( hehe). This will help me make head counts on the total attendees of this gathering I am cooking MYSELF (in case, this is still not effective in telling you I need help).

So, if you are someone who belongs to the Advertising and PR class 4-2n batch 2007, kindly click on the COMMENTS link on the footer below this post. Simply include your name, your most active email and mobile number, plus you suggestion of location, December date of the gathering, and maybe a theme you want. Yes, there will be a theme and you will all live with it (another hehe).

I will try to make this year’s gathering a tiny bit special than what we had last year. So please (without me kneeling) cooperate! I’ll keep you guys updated so, keep coming back on this blog if you don’t want to feel like you’re living in a place without any wifi signal or Globe satellite ( third hehe).

Happy Holidays everyone!

FUNNY COMMERCIAL

Here's a new commercial currently running in Philippine TV featuring Sting Energy Drink. I like the way that they combined Humor, Fiction and Slice of Life in this TVC material. Anyways, enough of my words, enjoy this!

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA

Yes, I have to squeeze in this post amidst my amazingly busy working life now. I need some breather and of course, I need to articulate the joy in knowing Barack Obama won the 2008 US Presidential elections. I defy the idea that his campaign was grand. He got this attention from mainstream media and all over because people believe in his advocacy for change. All kudos to the first (physically and by blood) black president of the powerhouse of the United States!

Another thing that makes me happy is when I saw the news last night. Aside from the lowering price of gas and public transport fares, one of our fellow Filipino blogger (vlogger actually) was featured in CNN’s ireport. George Putong, a creative man working for one of the largest TV network in our country, made a video themed to support Barack Obama. It was simple, full of wits and yes, very definitive. No wonder it was chosen. I don’t know, but it was like a breath of fresh air seeing how bloggers these days are lifted for strong opinions and high articulations of views and perspectives.

To view George’s video drop by here http://vimeo.com/2134720

PROJECT RUNWAY PHILIPPINES WINNER

No, this is not a spoiler. I just want to make my fearless forecast on who’s going to win the first season of Project Runway Philippines. This is actually the very first Project Runway show I ever saw. I have to say that ETC with the prime aid of Unitel productions did a fine job in presenting the program to Philippine reality TV. So, my take on who will win the show? Aries- Simply because he did not bore the audience. It was fun seeing my crushes Theresa (the show’s host) and Mara (one of the 14 designers) in real life scene compared to seeing them in the boob tube. But I have to say I can’t believe how gorgeous Theresa is-it’s surreal.

So I was in the final runway show of Project Runway Philippines courtesy of ETC/Solar Entertainment as handed to me by “the bestfriend” April. After the fast pace of the show, we had our dinner at Burgoo with the company of an interesting crowd which I will safely call as the “planners”.

MCPHEE-VER NOSTALGIA

I stumbled upon this video from youtube which contains two things that I like – One, “Saddenly I Feel” , not a thing but a song with beat and melody so upbeat it passed my standards =) Not too sure about the lyrics though. Two, Katharine Mcphee- Again, she’s not a thing but a gorgeous woman with these gorgeous vocals. She was my bet during American Idol Season 5 which was won by Taylor Hicks against her. I haven’t really heard much about her these past few months. All I know is that she is now an addition to the many beautiful faces of the brand Neutrogena and that she (sadly) already tied the knot with producer Nick Cokas.

To fill up my nostalgia of “McPheever”, here is a video of her photos in montage. Hope you guys can update me if you know anything about her as of the press time. Geez, did I just sound like a stalker?

PENIS

Now, before you throw in your “ews” and disappointment remarks because you think I’m sleazy, hear me out first. I am born D-E-N-I-S Guevara Claves and like what I said on my profile, my name was just chosen by my mom from a baby book. Now, I always joke about the somewhat weird spelling of my name in comparison of course to the conventional D-E-N-N-I-S. Imagine my name misspelled. Say, you accidentally dropped the D and replaced it with P. This case happens all the time especially when manually writing down my name on a paper. This pitch always works during my job interviews. It helped me inject humor which leads to a relaxed momentum.

April (the best friend) requested for me to write about this and humiliate myself (insert smiley here). Oh well, I believe in laughing at one’s self to be very human so what the heck.

Now, careful when writing me a letter alright? Ha Ha Ha. I hope this thought is funny to you, or else I lost all the right reasons and came out just sleazy.