#Aldub

[stochastique-blog]

This is your god

Agent Bernard Sampson clashes with an unknown traitor, a high-ranking fellow operative of the British Secret Service, in a tale of intrigue, murder, and suspense that moves from London to East and West Berlin

*Paperback *slightly foxed

#booksph #booksforsaleph #alifewithpurpose #alifewithpurposeph #georgemair #booksforlessph #aldub #lookingforph #onlineshopph #booklovers #bookloversph #thriftph #booksaleph #bookshoppingph #lendeighton #lendeightonbooks #londonmatch

[appleflavoredkitkats]

SIGE NGA PINOY GOMENS FANS- i need to hear u, rb this and add in the tags who you'd cast in a filipino adaptation of good omens!!!!!

[melovesanneeeee]

Sorry, mi. JoeTay pala ang topic, akala ko AlDub wahahahahahahahahahahahahajahahahahahaha!

[gelley-thoughts]

Naalala ko aldub HAHAHAHA. Cringe na ang cliche. Kasi of all the time na pwede akong umakyat or pwede akong mag-aya. Ngayon pa na bababa na yung tao.

I lowkey admit na the reason kung bakit mas maaga akong umakyat eh hindi naman dahil sa una kong naisip na maglalaba ako ng mga naiwan kong laundry. It was because he asked me to tell him kapag umakyat na ako ng Baguio so we can go "jogging" (as a disguise to meet)

We never had the chance to meet last year. Even when almost every week kaming nagpplano. It's funny. Well anyway, I have other things to prioritize. And I would hate to call this one day as a "one bad timing". That's why even after all the pressure this review sem, I still don't want to regret anything.

[arkyv646]

I don't like blue.

In fact, I have no idea what color I like.

I used to just "pick" another person's favorite color and try to find some kind of meaning para magustuhan ko iyon.

When I was young, say... 10 years old, I decided my favorite color is yellow because someone told me Maine Mendoza loves yellow (Back when ALDUB was all the rage in the Philippines).

At some point, it became indigo because no one ever claimed it as their favorite.

Then navy blue. Then red. Then yellow again.

Then it became purple when I entered the ARMY fandom. This one actually held up longer. Until came 2023 when I entered the Diamond Life and became a CARAT. Now my favorite color was rose quartz (a shade of pink) and serenity (a shade of blue).

Oh, and guess what? Blue + Pink could form a shade of (drum roll, please)

PURPLE.

What are the odds?

From the year 2020 to present though, I noticed how blue became so common in my life.

When Mom bought my phone five years ago, it was sky blue.

In the Grade 10 face-to-face, my bag was a blue Nike.

The Kumon bag was mostly blue too!

I used the same blue Nike bag when I became a Senior High student and my school finally implemented the hybrid schedule.

All my things were blue! My pencil case. My mini stapler. My scissors. My little knife. The Arts and design Strand ID lace. My umbrella (which is now broken and replaced with a black one). My hair ties. My tote bag.

Was blue really my favorite color?

But then I thought: What if these are all just meaningless coincidences? 'Cause Mom has this mindset: "Black is too common so let's choose another one that isn't." And maybe, I adapted her mindset and picked a color that isn't black. Which is blue.

What is the deal with blue? Is it my favorite color? Am I making this a big deal? For me it is a big deal since I'm trying to know myself.

I think I like all colors, as long as the shade is something that makes me feel fuzzy and happy inside. Hell, I'd like pink if it's a certain shade.

If that's the case, why should I pick a favorite color at all?

I've decided, from now on, if someone asks me—if someone is interested enough to know—what my favorite color is, I would just say: "Everything. I like colorful things.

I don't like blue.

Because I like colorful things.

(Credita to the owner of the photo)

[invisiblejanelle]

Nakakamiss yung feeling ng may crush. Hahaha.

Nakakatawa panoorin yung napaka-ewan na video na yun.

Wala naman talaga kung tutuusin.

Nagkaroon lang ng kahulugan dahil sa mga nanood. Ang loloko kasi!

Pero salamat sa'yo nagkaroon ako ng mini inspiration. Hahaha.

Ganto pala feeling ng may krass. Hahaha charis. Krass na yarn?!

Pero ang natural at cute lang ng video na yun. Parang aldub ang peg. Hindi din inaasahan.

Wala lang. Mema lang ako. Hahah.

As if naman na madudugtungan pa 'to. Haha

Self kalma. Focus ka pa din sa mga dapat mong gawin. Hahays.

Pero ang cute pa din sa kabilang banda. ☺️

[wendellcapili]

Very sad to learn that Dr. Raul Pertierra (2 July 1941-7 April 2024) has passed on. From Macquarie University, where he was educated and taught initially, to the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales (UNSW), where he taught for many years, he was pivotal in pushing for Australia-related studies in the Philippines and is one of the pioneering figures in promoting Philippine Studies in Australia. In 1992, with Mark Turner and Lulu Respall-Turner, he co-organized the International Philippine Studies Conference in Canberra. It was unprecedented because participants were culled from experts in and out of Australia, many from Southeast Asian and North American universities.

Over two decades ago, he introduced me to Australian Studies and guided me through my Ph.D. application at the Australian National University (ANU). He was thrilled when I received the ANU Vice Chancellor's Ph.D. Scholarship at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (renamed College of Asia and the Pacific), thanks to his foresight and direction. The night before I left for Canberra, he treated me to dinner and gave me a list of names, emails, and phone numbers of his friends across Australia. The list served me well when I did archival and field research in Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, and Sydney. Through him, I was introduced to Michael and Leny Pinches at the University of Western Australia, Mina Roces at the University of New South Wales, Deborah Ruiz Wall and her involvement with aboriginal communities at Red Fern, and Mark and Lulu Respall-Turner at the University of Canberra.

More than these, Raul was prolific. His works include The Filipino Migration Experience Global Agents of Change (2023), Anthropology and the AlDub Nation: Entertainment as Politics and Politics as Entertainment (2016), Reflections on the Relevance of the Social Sciences in the Philippines (2014), We Reveal ourselves to ourselves: the new communication media in the Philippines (2013), The new communication media and their effects on Filipino culture and society (2008), The role of everyday culture for a scientific orientation in Philippine society: are the youth any different? (2006), Transforming Technologies Altered Selves: Mobile Phones and Internet Use in the Philippines (2006), Cultural Diversity and Cultural Exchanges in the Framework of Globalization (2004), Science, Technology, and everyday culture in the Philippines (2003), Txt-ing selves: cellphones and Philippine Modernity (as co-author, 2002), The globalization of culture: possibilities and threats (2000), Emancipation within culture (1998), Explorations in social theory and Philippine ethnography (1997), Philippine localities and global perspectives essays on society and culture (1995), and Religion, Politics and Rationality (1988).

In his later years, Raul furthered his teaching, archival, and field research as a Visiting Professor at The Centre for Asian Studies Amsterdam, a joint center of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and the Free University (VU), and at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) in Singapore. In the Philippines, he taught sociology and anthropology at the Ateneo de Manila University, Philippine Women's University, and the Asian Center, UP Diliman. More than twenty years ago, he problematized the breadth and scope of the digital age on the lives of Filipinos. He believed that Filipinos were shaping their social world through new information technologies. This included generating, distributing, and consuming information as a crucial part of the order of things. He foreshadowed specificities of what became an AI future where technology would play a more significant role in shaping society. His insights into the digital age have proven to be accurate over time.

Maraming Salamat Raul. Many of us will remember the legacy you have left behind.

[champagnewishes]

ok this blog is dust and tumbleweed so this is the perfect place for me to say that my actual roman empire is aldub........ like i will never say that shit out loud but the chemistry and the journey and the phenomenon of this loveteam is literally what keeps me up at night. like the way they had 100% all of the potential to be THE biggest irl couple in the country for centuries is crazy to me. why do they have me in such a chokehold tho???? like if they actually werent that compatible irl then why did seeing them interact highkey lowkey made everyone genuinely think they were destined to be together????? IT'S ALSO JUST THE WAY THEY DON'T EVEN SPEAK NOW?????

[pandesalmonster]

July 29

Hope to god this project gets approved so I can finally rest. (since December 2022 I have not been resting boyyyy)

Are FB truthers gonna be the new Aldub truthers? I thought the fans were theorizing for shits n giggles now they're actually disappointed that the girls might not be dating IRL.... like. They might be good actors and good with fanservice but dont expect shit at the end of the day

4 weeks in a cast and my arm hurts a tad bit but I can now lower my lower arm.

My face is super itchy right now it's soooo annoying. And I have a new neck pimple. Welcome to the family.

[wh-xb700]

my classmates (or just the current generation in general) having little to no awareness of filipino pop culture references n also filipino (specifically old) media pains me so much 😭

like if u asked them if they knew of ogie alcasid n michael v's yaya and angelina or kim chiu n xian lim's my binondo girl or barbie forteza n joshua dionisio's first time or the chokehold encantadia (2016) had on the filipino youth of 2016 or aldub having the entire philippine nation on their toes in 2015 prior to their first meeting (bonus kay ang existence ni pastillas girl sa showtime para ma rival ang popularity sa aldub) or or or

[appleflavoredkitkats]

in honor of the lice post i'm gonna share my list of things from the philippines that i think would put americans and europeans into a coma:

fish section of sm hypermart

gamu-gamo

patis

Lapu-Lapu (literally)

banana ketchup

karaoke song #8213: my way

jollibee "happy birthdaaaaaaay" game

kuto

sassa gurl's tiktoks

potato corner wasabi flavor

nail-a-holics massage

shopee bubble pop game

aldub

twitter trending tab

the downy collab with bts

wowowee

singing 'ang pasko ay sumapit'

flash photography in photoline

music videos in going bulilit

the adobo chocolate my mom's friend gave me that had paminta

the teal house paint 99% of filipinos use

the 'resort's world manila' whisper

datu puti

driving at a rotonda

tagalog tenses

scary messages on highschool bathroom walls 

street badminton

the asian squat

basketball w tsinelas

rufa mae

mikmik

the emotional climax in the song 'kordero ng diyos'

the semantics of an sm advantage card

White Flower

the cyberzone areas at malls

chinese garter

lolas who love kpop

fair octopus ride

jumping on new years

vice ganda movies

tong-itz

naia terminal 1

taho with too much tofu

oblation walk

the driver's lounge in parking lots

sandwiches sa burol

phone hiding in highschools

mmk title guessing

performance tasks

ube halaya

voting for the contestants of the voice kids

navigating through moa

waze

politicians doing the korean finger heart

[myrandomness22]

Just some random thoughts

I've read up some of my older post about "AlDub", a loveteam that I previously followed. It was back inm 2015, before I became an ARMY.

I cringed a bit, but those were my thoughts back in 2015 and nostalgia just hits me.

Back when I was really a fan, I watched "KalyeSerye" everyday, I went to Alden's album launching, I followed them on Twitter and tried to read updates on them and all the KalyeSerye characters everyday. I even started a blog about them, (not that it has a lot of entries, because I am so lazy kekeke)

I realize how fast the time changes. To be honest, back in the day, I was so into the idea of KalyeSerye, despite how shallow it may seem to others, how "non-sense" it may be, back then, it was an inspiration to me, it was a safe haven. Times when I have given up on love, it made me believe in forever once again. That there is still a chance and I might stumble with "The One" one day.

Fast forward, 8 years later, I am still single, no boyfriend since birth, still the old me, older but none the wiser. The only difference is, I came to a point where I stopped thinking about love, just contented with being myself, to be honest, I am already sold to the idea of growing old alone, what an old maid mentality.

It's just that, I think romance is not for everybody. Don't get me wrong, I am not bitter about people finding love, I am genuinely happy for them, but as for me, I stopped imagining myself being with somebody someday. He may or may not came, probably not in this lifetime. But I would like to be at peace that even with myself, I have God by my side.

I am not closing my doors, but I am not actively looking either. I am at the age wherein, I don't want something that is temporary, I want something that last. Not looking for a Knight in shining armor anymore, I am not a damsel in distress. I am just someone who is lonely and wanted someone to listen patiently to my rants and my randomness. But, if there isn't one, then I will be fine.

~wintermoon22~

[judyannsblog]

8 y/o

This picture is when my sister and I went to Mcdo. Here my sister thought of wandering around and eating at McDonald's so she took me here. I'm very happy here because I used to like Mcdo haha. And one more thing, I'm also exited here because my dress is new and it's my favorite dress when I was young haha. We were happily eating when he suddenly thought of taking a picture and even taught me how to pose for it because I didn't know how to pose for a picture before haha. We had a lot of fun here and I think it was my first time to eat with her at McDonald's just the two of us. The funniest thing here is that before we left mcdo we saw Alden Richard's standee and I used to have a crush on Alden during Aldub so my sister decided to take a picture of me next to Alden's standee hahaha.

[konu-d]

PUTANGINANG EDMOND DANTES BAKIT KA GANYAN?!?!? DATI AKALA KO TSUNDERE KA LANG TAPOS BIGLA BIGLA TAMANG USTO MO LANG NG “right time and place”?!?! SHUTA SINO KA BA, ALDUB???? TAMA NA YANG KALOKOHAN MO!!!

Aba etong gagong to kayang kaya naman pala maglandi landi pero makes sense, Count of Monte Cristo ba naman diba, halos buong French nobility nalandi niya PERO AMP HANGGANG MODERN TIME GANUN?????? DI KA MAN UNG ACTUAL NA COMC EH AVENGER FORM KA LANG BAT KAYA MONG LUMANDI

shutanginaaaaaaaa “my star” “my fate” sampalin kaya kita

Ang pogi mo pero jusko usto kitang sapakin nanggigil na ako sayo

Kapag lalake talaga ehh (lalake din naman ako pero the point stands)

HAYST sasakalin ko talaga itong lalaking ito GRRRR

Y’all don’t mind if I let the Filipino for a sec right

[mchrdxadnrepository]

i miss you, 300

[cesimnida]

AlDub - 4 years later

I am not sure why I'm writing about them 4 and a half years later since they were shown on TV. If you'd ask a Filipino if they know them, most probably they would say yes - I don't think everyone's a fan but I'm pretty sure almost everyone knows them because once, they were on top (they still might be, if they were still active as a love team, but we'll never know now).

Last Saturday, I was trying to fold my clothes - well, this is a weekly thing. Usually, I play songs while doing this. But this week, I decided to play a movie. At first, I wanted to play a Koreanovela since I'm behind my episodes already but I don't have the luxury to focus on the subtitles while folding so I decided to choose a Filipino Movie instead. While browsing Netflix, I came across Imagine You and Me - AlDub's first movie together as the main characters. This sent me to a trip down memory lane and that night, when I was about to sleep (I wasn't able to sleep though!!!), I found myself watching Kalyeserye videos all over again - and yes, I still got kilig and giddy (THE MAGIC IS STILL THERE) while watching.

I've always thought they'd be together but we all know it never happened. They're still friends, though - as far as I know (I read Maine's blog). I've always wondered what happened, why did IT died down. Was it because of poor management? Or was it because being together physically doesn't amount to the spontaneity of being on split-screen. Again, we'll never know. BUT, I honestly think that no love team has topped what AlDub did on 2015. It will be hard to top that because what AlDub had was something so surprising, even them didn't know it will happen. It just happened on the spot and the rest was history. They got no script, as Maine said in her first year anniversary post, Alden's smile changed their lives -- because that's how it started, Alden smiled.

It was a phenomenon no one expected, it was something so new: no script, no dialogue, just split screen romance no one has ever done before. It clicked because of the rawness, the spontaneity, the simple but very relatable story. Their reactions are so genuine it reflected and sent giddiness outside all our TV screens. Thinking about their popularity and reflecting on it, I'm pretty sure both of them got too pressured with all the expectations of the fans - it must have been so hard for them. That kind of popularity is hard to manage and maintain. The thought of having to think what to do next just to make the fans happy and to top everything they have done previously must have been exhausting for the both of them -- and that's on top of their hectic schedule + dealing with haters!!! What happened to them is surreal; everyone witnessed that. We're lucky enough to witness everything unfold on our TV screens - 6 times a week. Imagine that? 6 out of 7 days a week. That's insane!

I know for sure a lot of us wants them to be together but I think it's healthier for them to stay this way for now - just friends and enjoying the careers and paths they want to pursue. They have more stable careers now and although not together as a loveteam anymore, we can still see them supporting one another through their social media accounts. I think it's amazing they have the friendship they have now and we all know that both of them will support each other because no matter what happens, both of them can go back to the 16th day of July, 2015 where they opened the path to stardom for one another. And so no matter the pressure showbiz might have caused them -- I wish people would stop harassing them and being very toxic towards them, though -- I'm pretty sure both of them are thankful for each other and no one - even us, fans - can ever take that away from them, it's a special bond only them can understand. We all know that although they are NOT romantically linked anymore, both of them cherishes one another just the same. And most importantly, at least right now and I hope also in the future, too - they are both happy. I think that's what matters most, their happiness. They both deserve it. Because at one point in time (even now, actually), that's what they have given us - happiness.

P.S. I'm actually very thankful to their tandem because they kind of suddenly appeared when I was heartbroken. They helped me move on and made me realize that I don't have to be afraid to fall in love again 😅