Pinoy celeb break ups: From I do's to I sue

After marching in the aisle, they are now marching in and out of the courtrooms for custody rights and to eventually annul their marriage. What made their fairy tale love story turned into bitter sweet, and come to its end?

Celebrity marriages fail for the same reasons that normal people do. The difference is that it is given emphasis by media. And because it is given emphasis , every celebrity couple break up is sensationalize. Issues starts to unfold and reach to the point of filing charges against each other. usually the first to throw is the wife.

For example  the two most known couple in show business, Sunshine Cruz and Cesar Montano, Raymart Santiago and Claudine Barretto, both couples were confirmed to part ways this year 2013. The reason for the split up of Sunshine and Cesar is because of third party, Cesar having an alleged affair with model-actress Krista Miller. The case of Raymart and Claudine being different, as Claudine files abuse charges against his estranged husband Raymart.

After seven years of being together Raymart and Claudine was confirmed to be separated because of claims that Raymart is abusing Claudine physicaly. In a photo posted by her in photo sharing website Instagram, it is seen that in her right cheek seems to have bruise, which alarms the netizens that she might have experiencing domestic violence. The photo was immediately deleted that same day. Consequently, after the rumor Claudine filed a petition for a temporary protection order (TPO) against Raymart, this would prevent her estranged husband from getting within 300 meters of her and their two children. 

Contrary to that Raymart denied the accusations, in an interview with him in 24 oras, Santiago said he cannot do something like what was his wife is accusing of him, he said that he cannot hurt any member of his family.

Another celebrity married couple that has made a sound on their recent separation is Cesar Montano and his wife Sunshine Cruz. The two had some previous family issues because of Cesar being involved o his co-workers in show business, but the couple denied separating issues. Unfortunately, months after the controversy that Cesar is having an affair with his co-worker Krista Miller in their indie movie,“The Turning Cradle: The Untold Story of Alfredo Lim” Sunshine announced that two of them separated, although it is noted that Cesar is exerting an effort to reconcile and to preserve their matrimony. In an interview, Sunshine said that she had enough of Cesar's womanizing activities, and 13 years is enough. In a like manner, Cesar also denied the complaint by his wife that he employed physical violence and marital raped.

Like any other married couples with irreconcilable differences, what made celebrity couples different is that they are public figure, although issues like separations are personal matters, people wants to know about the details, that is why even though there are normal couple that have the same case as them that reach to the point of filing charges against each other, it is being sensationalize when it comes to celebrities like them since they are public figures.

It is normal for a couple when they are unhappy in their married life, to find grounds for them to have their marriage annulled, and it needs to have court proceedings. On the other hand, celebrity marriages that are separating are calling attention to the people because of charges that the other party is accusing to the other party. People find it interesting that their personal matters are being emphasize by the media, and being a celebrity, they like the attention. The he said, she said, back and forth interviews just shows that they too wants the people to know the details, instead of them having it in a private procedures.

Looking back to all the celebrity married couples, their beginning were all about proclaiming about their love for each other and how they would want to spend their whole life with each other, now, they throwing back and forth words just to get back to each other. One factor that might have been made a huge contributions to their failed marriage is that everything about them is publicized, they do not have privacy anymore. From the beginning they were just dating to the time being that they got married was all open to the public that is why even their separation is known and is sensationalized. Problems are getting worse when many wants to butt their way in.

In this incident, the most affected are their children, they have no idea what is happening, they are just in the middle of two bumping walls. This can have big effect on their psychological and emotional status as a child, because they are in the midst of a chaotic situation their family is experiencing.

In the light of this issue we can conclude that media, also has a big role in sensationalized celebrity couple break ups here in the Philippines, because they give emphasis on this events, and people starts to make a big fuss about it.

Jomari Malining Rios: Real life Teledrama

“Ganito kasi yan, may sariling pamilya si mama, ganun din si papa, aksidente lang ang pagkakabuo ko , ( No, this is what happened, my mom has her own family and so as my father, I was just born accidentally)", that is what he said when I got confused because of what he’s trying to say. They are four in his mother side and he is the youngest, while in his father side they are five but he is second eldest.

At first I thought he is from a broken family but when I asked him if they are broken, and that is the answer I got, I completely understood why.

Life is complicated, but is more complicated when you are born in a much more complicated situation. That is what I realized after the interview with one of my classmate, Rios.

Jomari Malining Rios, or whom some of our other classmates called as Rios, his surname. He added that he has other nicknames too, like Jom or Jay. He is 18 years old and is living with his mother in Payatas, Quezon City. He was born on January 27,1995. He got three provinces, Davao, Bohol and Iloilo.

All first time is unforgettable, and for him all first time is also scary because you don’t know what to expect. The thought of not graduating is also one of his fears. He’s also a little bit scared of heights.

For him almost all that has happened to him is silly or naughty. There’s this one incident when he is on the way to fetch his other classmate, he slipped and fell into a dike. Another silly moment is when he is in high school, he is trying to do a step where he is supposed to spin, when he did it his catarrh also spin along because he has colds that day, it’s not just silly but also funny thing that happened to him. He used to bully other kids also now, for him is silly. Also, he was chased three times for violating curfew in their barangay, another naughty thing he did back then.

He also had failures in his life, like not easily adapting with college choirs, because of loads of work in one of our subject during our first year in college; he got disappointed with his not so good grade. It happened again when he is in second year in our Economics subject.

The happiest moments in his life are when he met his circles of friends during his high school and college years. When he was able to perform as a member or our college dance crew The movers and motion, and when our other classmates along with him came to build their own dance crew the Delta force. His grades are also improving during the past years if him being a college student, and his father is starting to accept him as his son, little by little. The support his other siblings in his mother side, are also one of the things that makes him happy.

At the end of our interview he cites his goals in his next five years in life. First and foremost, he would like to graduate, and to find a stable job. After that he added that he might want to pursue to study law or psychology, or both, he said. He also wants to continue to pursue his other passion, dancing.

Little did I know about Jomari, but after my interview with him I realized so many things about him, and that there’s so much more to him. His life is indeed a real life teledrama, but although his existence is like a soap drama in the television, he is not a dramatic person, I find him a funny, happy and positive person to be with.

White Angel

Flowers that look like little stars, or with some imagination, snowflakes from a distance. Scientific name Wrightia antidysenterica or what we call here in the Philippines as "White Angel", it is the flower that caught my attention while wandering near our building PUP College of Communication.

Its color, white, has a meaning of being pure, innocence and being harmless. Whenever I see white flowers like this one that I saw, I felt those kinds of emotion.

These flowers are small and white and they’re called white angels. The person who gave them their name must have seen an angel to conclude that they look similar. 

Tansan for Tambourine

Whenever I hear about crown cap or most commonly called here in Philippines as Tansan, I always thought of Christmas season, maybe because whenever I see tansan , I think of it as an instrument used by carolers during Christmas season.

The crown cork ( also known as a crown seal, crown cap or just a cap ), the first form of bottle cap, was invented by William Painter in 1892 in Baltimore.It's primary purpose is to seal the bottle.

Crown corks are collected by people around the world who admire the variety of designs and relative case of storage. In Mexico, these are called corcholates. In Spain, as well as in South America, the name chapitas is used, while here in the Philippines the term tansan is employed.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_cork

Bad effects of cigarette smoking

Smoking is bad for your health. Read and seen for the nth time by many of us, but still cigarette smoking is unstoppable among the people who engaged in smoking.

A cigarette is a small cylinder of finely cut tobacco leaves rolled in thin paper for smoking. The cigarette is ignited at one end and allowed to smoulder; it's smoke is inhaled from the other end, which is held in or to the mouth and in some cases a cigarette holder may be used as well. Cigarettes carry serious health effects with them, which are more prevalent than in other tobacco products. Nicotine, the primary psychoactive chemical in tobacco and therefore cigarette, is addictive.

Therefore cigarette smoking is indeed bad for health, about half of cigarette smokers die of tobacco related disease and lose on average 14 years of life. Cigarette use by pregnant women has also been shown to cause birth weight, fetal abnormalities, and premature birth. Second hand smoke from cigarette has shown to be injurious to bystanders.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarette