sneakers = snickers

the chewing gum shoe. walking on real gum is a lot of trouble. but a fake one pretending to be a heel at an angle like this? now that's double trouble.

the high heel-less chucks. 5 stars for ingenuity. 1 star for usability.

of course, they're witty. nobody said they aren't. but the thing is, they belong exactly where they are right now which is at the museum.

images grabbed from here.

hate the birkin, love the other

[1] the birkin is a whopping 10000 usd; the other birkin, a mere 25 usd.

[2] the birkin is like a high-maintenance girl that requires a lot of moolah to keep her looks. the other birkin is more like your simple wash and wear kinda gal.

[3] the birkin is an investment so pricey you could end up broke in the next 5 years or so. the other birkin is hardly an investment. but it won't mess up your bank account either.

[4] with the birkin comes a certain image and that means more cash flowing out of your wallet. the other birkin is down-to-earth so no pretensions and, therefore, no extra expenditures necessary.

[5] most times there is a long wait for the birkin, given its importance and limited supply. on the other hand, the other birkin is extremely accessible. in fact, it could be your very own diy project.

[6] finally, anything that comes with a high and mighty price tag is no laughing matter. so the birkin is, most definitely, not among the funniest things on earth. meanwhile, the humble other birkin is made with a healthy dose of humor. it could bring a smile even to a frustrated birkin lover's face.

images grabbed from here and here.

japanese lesson for pinoys

upon growing calls from his own party to quit in the face of his plunging popularity due to a broken promise to move a u.s. marine base, japanese prime minister yukio hatoyama resigned.

yes, resigned. i know, i know, it's totally unheard of in our local political scene where highly unpopular leaders, despite public clamor for them to leave office, hold on to their positions like drowning men to lifesavers. isn't it any wonder this country is sinking?

*story from here.

image grabbed from here.

summer hatin'

a plumpish friend i've known since childhood just bade summer goodbye, a little too gladly i couldn't help but notice. why is it that most if not all summer haters are ex-chubby-girls-turned-fat-ladies who happen to belong to the filipino race? ugh.

if you ask me i really think big, pardon the pun, of those supposedly "bikini-challenged" caucasian women who proudly strut their stuff at the beach in, well, yes, bikinis. woot. woot.

image grabbed from here.

manila, manila...

manila, circa 1960s.

manila, circa, uh, present.

and this is what we call progress?

images grabbed from here and here.

new york, new minelli(?)

i feel a certain sadness that the lady to whom nyc owes a great deal of its worldwide popularity (yes, way before 9/11 and movies like spiderman and satc) just turned up at a highly-publicized movie premiere in a sheer, glossy, futuristic... mosquito net?!?! oh no, don't you start spreading the news...

image grabbed from here.

skirt and the city

i must admit sjp was close to perfect in her neon yellow number at the satc2 nyc premiere. but when she started all that skirt lifting and swirling, she became the picture of an aging prom queen who was all too worked up about her valentino.

images grabbed from here and here.

leave the jejemons alone or else...

the depEd people must be crazy making war with the jejemons. can you just imagine the whole lot of them going out in the streets with their jejemon placards infesting the city? i mean the rest of us do have the right not to see any of this, right?

jejemon traslations thru this site.

silence of the veeps

the silence between the camps of top 2 vice-presidential contenders mar roxas and jojo binay is deafening. what's the deal?

image manipulated from photos grabbed from here and here.