One who truly LOVES Iloilo!

Many sites are offering the same old story about Iloilo. But this new website that I found seems to look at Iloilo at a different lens. Mark Segador of Iloilo I LOVE! sees Iloilo as an outsider. According to his introduction as the author of the blog, Mark came from Tarlac and is Ilonggo by blood through his parents. Grew up not knowing Iloilo but from few stories from his parents.

Here's my take on his posts:
Iloilo I LOVE! seems to be very intent in seeing and delivering Iloilo at a different taste. There's passion but also I find some hesitancy on opening up his thoughts about Iloilo. I would say that I really love his pictures, though some are out of focus (hehe still needs to improve your skills, Mark!). All in all, his pictures are decent.
Recommendations:
Iloilo I LOVE! is a promising site. There are few posts, and I believe there's a big room for improvement. I emailed Mark a few days ago and he said that his goal is to attract visitors to his new found home. As an outsider, he believes he can present Iloilo the way other outsiders will be engaged to visit Iloilo.
For now, Mark Segador blogs about Molo Plaza, his love of piayas, and of course churches of Iloilo.
Visit Iloilo I LOVE! at http://iloiloilove.com/

Book us a flight to New York!

Yes! You've heard me I want a ticket to New York to join all gays and lesbians in celebrating this milestone in the Big Apple! Congratulations! New York at last granted us equality in forming and growing families and living as couples with protection of the law and all its privileges. Now the challenge falls on us (the LGBT community) to make sure that this right granted to us will be used with responsibility and accountability.

Going back alive....

It's been a while since I blog on this site. But I guess the online world has a different yet very intriguing pull on me; so i decided to come back. I chose to blog another topic in another site and move it at a new level (that's very assuming of me!) haha... anyway, i'm also trying to revive this site since this is my first baby and we had few, well numerous, birthing pains. rest assured, macky's room will spring back to life. new insights! new challenges! Good luck!

coming out....

it's been a while since i last posted here... oh, what? eight months?!!!... wow... took me a while to recover. long story though, lots to blog about right?... Not really. But anyway, i'm coming out of the cave again to have some periodic blogging again, hopefully expand the content of Macky's Room.

Stupid me, when I logged in at blogger minutes ago, I can't even find the usual links. Good thing they haven't changed most of the lay-out. Stay tuned guys...

I LOVE YOU KEV...

...i love you so much; i can't stop mourning for you even when you asked me not to.
why do you have to go so early and leave me behind in this life?... i asked you to wait for me before we enter the next life, to become lovers again and fulfill dreams stashed away by the evils of this world like greed and pride, and even lust. You obliged and promised me you will. In return, i will fulfill what you have asked of me --- to live a long happy life and never rush my own end, to find true love again, the kind of love that was taken away from us. I really love you beh... Goodbye, til we meet again, that is when i leave my deathbed into your loving arms again....


***macky's room will update again in some time... thanks for your support... i just need some time to pick up and gather pieces of me... when the time comes and i have already moved on, i will appear again. i promise you guys...

While I was gone...

Okay, so I was dead (as a blogger) for almost a month. I guess my current state stops me from holding a single organized thought. I don't know why I'm saying this to you, but hey this is my blog anyway... haha... Actually, I just want you all to understand the reasons behind my sudden hiatus (even I didn't visit my blog for weeks). But before everything, for all those who keep on coming to my blog, thank you very much. I really appreciated your support.

Now you might be asking what's happening to me. First, it seemed that 2008 started wrongly for me. When 2008 kicked in, I was with my boyfriend, of course through YM only. We welcomed the new year together... crying.... not of happiness or joy, but of pain... sadness... After you've prepared yourself to fight all the way, suddenly you find the need to retreat, especially when the person you're fighting for is not in the battle, but with another else. When the wounds went deep and made you incapable of wielding your sword, you started to give up. Right now, our relationship is in limbo. For another three weeks, we haven't spoken yet. And I'm still waiting for him... It's cruel, yes, very cruel. I'm just an option after all... So I made up my mind... I'm also a human being, capable of mistakes, also yearns for affection and for assurance that somebody would be there for me in times of difficulties and happiness... I told myself, if somebody walks into my life and prefers to stay and will love me; I'll give him every right to do so...

Maybe this is the time when you're life is suspended in motion or more so, with no sense of direction at all. Apparently, it goes blank... When your life is open to all possibilities, and of course, to disasters also. It seemed that progress would never come, for you have waited so long. (One thing I learned: I should have looked for a backer rather spent my time studying heavily and doing well in the board exams... apparently, four years of above average performance in college and in the board won't land you a job either.) I want to do so many things yet this unemployment or financial woes are killing me. I’m ambitious, I have the will, but I don't have the means.

Since 2008 came in, I went back to the drawing board to check and reconsider the blueprint I made for my life. When all of your dreams are headed to a crash, when the person you loved most can't accompany you anymore, when you feel trapped in this world's greed and can't fit in a society of fools, you can't help but wonder why you still live. Faith... Hope... and even love at times... are becoming empty words for me, but not yet maybe. I haven't surrendered still. Maybe I will, one time for sure, but they have to take this damn life I'm clinging to...

2007 and Others in Ratings

Having the TV ratings as our year-end controversy (See? Since the
government is on holiday and our politicos are in their vacations, we still have scandals. We would never run out of means to entertain ourselves), I decided to review the year using those. Not only that we're just in front of television watching while these bizarre things unfold, we're are also involved, and participation is compulsory! You get to have seizures, amnesia, tinnitus, nausea, vomiting and what-have-you! PG is now a goner, a new era of classification is needed (one that would save you from partial or permanent physical or brain damage in watching TV! haha!)

C - Crap! Owing to the fact that it's a TALK show, producers concentrated more on the decorations and props, performance numbers (guests singing and dancing with background dancers doing Ati-atihan and fire-eating stunts) and lots of plugging. The topic supposedly to be discussed between the hosts and guests is just a desperate attempt to retain its talk-show format. It's still a crap anyway.

ES - Ear-splitting. CAUTION: Wear ear-muffs while watching. News anchor vehemently barks and screams the headlines, the audience's eardrums would burst. Fortunately he's just in the TV tube, you won't need umbrellas or raincoats as his saliva floods the set already.

TM - Totally mediocre. Another caution: take diazepam while watching. Live images of armed thugs and sleazy-mutineer-turned-senator take over a luxurious hotel are beamed not only on your local TV but also on international news channels. Parental guidance is strongly advised so that children would not misinterpret patriotism and nationalism with stupidity and moronic behavior.

DB - Delayed broadcast. News that are days-old already are being presented as new and recent.

OP - Obvious Plugging. TV networks obviously attempt to plug its soaps by passing out behind-the-scenes as real important news. Daily updates include romantic and groping scenes in the bath tub, cliffs, beaches, underwater, and nipa huts. Producers may consider reformatting the news program as they are more updated than the soap itself.

TG - Technical Glitches. Live TV shows attempt to divert public attention by crying it out as technical errors.

QC - Quick Count. Very quick count. Watch news reporters air how a barangay in some island voted in the election. Hear the reporters on the field recite: "Escudero... ten... Legarda... nine... Singson... two... Cesar... one... zero... zero... That's point zero zero zero zero zero percent of the total... unofficial quick count... In Barangay X, Escudero leading with five votes, Legarda... one...zero zero zero zero... Guys, the tribe has spoken."

ECPS - Environmentally correct; politically stupid - Watch senate hopefuls plant kinchay, pechay, kang-kong in our senate (ours? well, it's theirs anyway because it's full of their drool). Though environmentalists would agree with planting, they would definitely disagree in planting withered and old Venus fly-traps in the halls where we pass our laws.

HC - Hinders Creativity. Having highly intellectual ideas coming from genuine creative departments, TV networks now make endless remakes of Mexican telenovelas, Japanese animes, Pinoy comics (one has even the guts to imitate the plot of a foreign superhero series) and, past movie titles and radio shows. If patronage is continued, retrospective amnesia and possible delirium may occur.

O - Old, as in really old. Producers save their programs from possible knock-out from the air just to say that they are 10 or 20 years and thus be able to have grandiose anniversaries. After so many years, programs remain senseless, and needless to say boring.

AS - Attempts to sabotage. Much awaited program finales appear without sounds and special effects. Nobody knows if it's intended but surely networks would have an excuse to air the "real" version in another timeslot.

BM - Blabbering Mouths. Live TV hosts cries against accusations and comments made by his rival program TV host. War of words started, prompting the Senate and the Congress to look into the issue. Beware of sudden outbursts of cries and dramatic moments, this may cause dementia and organic brain damage.

NP - No Plot. Soaps are just relying on special effects and utter cuteness of its characters. Scenes may include artists staring blankly with each other while dramatic background music plays.

EV - May Hasten Human Evolution - After watching this program for a long time, we may expect the audience to resemble as beings with large bald heads with green spots, six clubbed fingers, wide green eyes, and with stuttering speech.

OM - Obvious manipulation - Not only that elections are being manipulated, TV ratings also joined the club. Well, playing dirty is not their style, at least they didn't brought up scandals of some actresses that have left them or hired journalists to write hideous things about a personality in their rival network. They would cry, Libel! Trial by publicity! Injustice! Corruption! Voldemort!!!

JP - Justice Prevails. Really? Watch live as a plunder case comes to an end (after six years of waiting) and with the suspect convicted at last. Then take a deep breath as the plundered is released from prison. (Suffer no delusion of justice: plunderers can commit crime and get off the hook even if they were convicted.)

SIT – Stimulates Intellectual Thinking. Since this phenomenon is very rare to occur in our TV programs, its effects are being studied.