OH THE LIFE ON THESE 7,107 ISLANDS...
I have seen the seventh sign of the apocalypse and it's located at the corner of Quirino Avenue and South Super Highway Extension. Ok. Maybe I'm exaggerating but the semiotic buffet of billboards you see above are definitely an omen augering the demise of something. On the bottom right hand side, we find Miss Kris Aquino - daughter of the late Marcos rival/senator/national martyr Benigno Aquino and GMA uber-critic/moralist/hypocrite/crappy president Corazon Aquino - hawking Bench underwear by wrapping herself in the oiled embrace of a Greek model. Meanwhile, one Pancake House advertisement to the left, we find the sexually ambiguous porcelain skinned Borgie Manotoc - love child of senator Imee Marcos and grandson of the late dictator/kleptocrat/killer Ferdinand Marcos and culture vulture/singer/shoe afficionado/former first lady Imelda Marcos - pushing his pants down to sell BLUE SODA jeans. Now, what does it say about a society when their political dynasties resort to doing overtly sexual ads for commercial products in order to maintain themselves in the public eye? Something pretty scary I'm sure. Really. What's next? Luli Arroyo pushing pantyliners?
posted by carlosceldran @ 7:54 AM
15 Comments:
Thanks, I learned a lot about Manila from your Blog.
I think the Bayo girl behind the Bench ad is a Cojuangco.
imee is a congresswoman, not yet a senator.
Luli'll have to wait to see what her grandkids will do to get into the limelight. Or maybe her own kids. So long as they're cute and don't have the overbite of their maternal grandmom.
If you get the Metro Society mag with Isabel preysler on the cover, luli is pictured inside getting a massage!! (as part of a press junket for CHi spa, Shangrila Mactan) I laughed and turned the page only to find YOU with a two page spread of the contents of your closet..i agree with you..what is this world coming to!? (heh heh)..signed..your sister
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Youre right, the Bayo girl is Danielle Cojuanco, Kris' cousin. My cup runneth over.
And oops. Youre right. Imee is a congresswoman.
hell yes. the apocalypse is near. and to think i was just laughing my head off the other day while driving around metro manila with the wife and we were discussing billboards, specifically:
1. hang ten - with what looks like the son of the owner wearing white briefs
2. tintin bersola pimping out her baby daughter for purified water
3. that awful and awfully large monitor screen on the guadalupe bridge that can blind you when you drive in front of it at night.
4. how natalie portman looks like molly ringwald in bad makeup in her bb's.
those tasteless billboard is a sample of fashionable derelict...here in singapore we do not see those kind of billboards. Aside fom Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo movie poster with the leaning Pisa as a phallic symbol.
hehehe!
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I would have not been disgusted if the models were not them. Well, well...
that horrible LED screen on guadalupe is emblazoned with the makati city government emblem.
and they make so much fuss about billboards causing traffic accidents? yang bwakanang LED screen ang talagang nakakadisgrasya. gobyerno pa man din ang nagpatayo.
Well, Mikey Arroyo's the country's hope for an Academy Award...maybe he should be endorsing Tancho pomade or Pagoda cold wave lotion.
I remember last February 2005, on my most recent visit, thinking that the billboards have just sprouted like (photoshoped and enlarged...) mushrooms. Talk about clutter - they were everywhere!
(Scene: Driving in Makati, Location not determined)
Me: Ma, so ano - ganun na ba ka-grabe ang traffic dito? [pointing to the billboards] At least you get entertained while you're at a standstill, no?
Ma: Oo nga anak. There should be fewer billboards - the intended effect of the ads are almost lost in that case.
Me: (as the car nears clear vision of a cellphone ad, I point upward in surprise.) Hey, that's *Daniel! I went to college with that guy!
Visit http://freewebs.com/imee_marcos This is a personal website dedicated to Ms. Imee Marcos, Borgy's mom.
Wala nang pag-asa ang Pinas.Hopeless is an understatement!We'll see when the remittances from us STOPS.
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