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Victoria Jackson's survival kit

Every woman has a secret—a secret that I, as a loving husband to a beautiful lady just discovered lately.

One of the pet peeves of a woman is always have a makeup kit at hand. A make-up kit, says my wife, saves her day. You don’t know what will happen within a day.

You don’t know if you meet or see one of your friends, or you just bump into your boss, or a business opportunity comes along.

That’s why it’s so important for a woman to have a ready set of makeup with her. and what’s better if all of your makeup needs are just lumped into one handy kit.

Victoria Jackson does that for you.

Victoria Jackson’s survival kit is complete–you have your blushes, your lipstick, your beauty pencils–everything you need for making your day glow.

Victoria Jackson’s cosmetics are hypoallergenic—great for your skin. It is great for all skin types. And I got this from my woman who does not buy brands that she does not believe in.

She applied one of those blushes into my skin and it looks like I don’t have makeup. That’s just it, she says. Women like applying makeup as if there’s none. Men, like me, don’t like women with lots of makeup in their faces. They look like kabukis.

What we want are women who looks as naturally beautiful as those models out there. You can look like a model, if you use Victoria Jackson. And, looking at her now, she’s probably right.

The Orange Place hotel is beginning to be the “in-place” for the latest happenings in town. Vice President Teofisto Guingona Jr. and other personalities use the place for their press conferences.

If you still don’t know where The Orange Place hotel is, it is a few meters away from the intersection of EDSA and Kamias road in Quezon City. It is a boutique business hotel, great for businessmen and students from the provinces. Rates are reasonable. And the food is great.

Media people are transforming the place as the place for a Kapihan—a regular Monday coffee session with public personalities.

The People’s Movement for Justice is the biggest multi-sectoral grouping established during the Aquino administration.

For other media people who want to have a place to hang out or discuss the latest issues of the week, go to The Orange Place hotel.

Bull. Crap. Yan ka na naman Atty.

Admit it—the rise of criminality is linked to the worsening economic situation. Many people are desperate. Many people now resort to crimes such as carjacking to support the economic needs of their families.

Anti-Aquino groups don’t need a wrecking crew to discredit the administration. This administration is self-destructing anyway.

The only bright spot that this administration is doing is related to the peace process. The Office of the Presidential adviser on the Peace Process Teresita Deles is doing an excellent job. The rest are just enriching themselves while in office.

For one, the Aquino administration allowed a very business-minded man as head of the PNP. Bacalzo is known as a man of “business savvy” (you know what I mean), instead of someone who will buckle down to work and cleanse this country of criminality.

Second, you don’t need a group that will do despicable crimes to show how despicable the state of the nation is. For one, the rise of prices of almost every single thing in the market is more despicable than seeing the charred remains of some victim of crime. Disinheriting someone of the power to purchase an essential thing which comprises his humanity, is the most despicable crime. Poverty is the most heinous crime ever. The spread of poverty is the spread of inhumanity. When poverty incidences rise, inhumanity rises with it. When inhumanity exists, it likewise shows alienation.

Third, whenever people see hopelessness rise and people feel that they have limited options to survive, they will do these things out of desperation and out of expressing their outrage against the system.

Poor people see the break down of law and order more clearly than what middle class people see. The proletarian class bears the brunt of economic disorder. Those of the lowest class–the  lumpen proletariat–sees the breakdown as a sign for systemic disruption.

Crime is but a reaction to the existing socio-economic condition. Deviance of the laws of the elite is partly the product of unequal power relations and inequality in general. It is an understandable response to the poverty situation.

Are we now seeing a silent revolution from the loins of the lumpen proletariat and in the future, the proletariat himself?

Are we now seeing the beginnings of the phenomenon we saw in EDSA tres, where the poorest of the poor staged the most violent people-led mass action against the State?

Gretchen Fullido--bikini

Willie Revillame’s show “Willing Willie” is still the “king” insofar as primetime television is concerned. The new and refurbished TV Patrol tried and still failed to dislodged Revillame in the ratings game, according to new Nielsen stats.

The new TV patrol has three (3) broadcast giants, all trying very hard to increase the ratings of the once primetime TV staple show. Kabayang Noli de Castro, Ted Failon and Korina Sanchez have teamed up. Of course, they have the voluptuous Gretchen Fullido to provide viewers some “heat”.

If they did this several years ago, this teamup would have been a blast. Yet, let’s admit it–Noli de Castro is not as “hot” as what he was several years ago.

I think that the reason why TV patrol’s ratings remain “stable”. It is the content of their news that really do not pack a punch.

Gone are the days when Filipinos got shocked with the news presented over TV Patrol. Most of the news reports are “unexciting”.

They should probably revive their reporters before, the likes of Erwin Tulfo, etal, who are very credible in their fields of interest.

Kabayan should also be more “combative” like before, and maybe, just maybe, TV patrol will lord it over again in the ratings game.