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This is Part 2 of a series of posts about the curious case of celebrity among Philippine athletes. You are encouraged to read Part 1 of the series. Volcanoes strut their stuff shirtless. In my previous post , I introduced on why do a number of Filipino athletes are treated like celebrities. In the example of the Philippine football scene, the recent successes of the Azkals national team came fruit due to talented and incidentally good-looking players. In basketball, the arrival of Chris Tiu and Kiefer Ravena in the national side started a new generation of gwapo in the hard-court since the Alvin Patrimonio generation. Now we continue the series with the case of our rugby and racing scene. The Philippine Volcanoes and the Explosion of Rugby Ned Stephenson of the Volcanoes in Bench undies. Rugby football or simply "rugby" is little-known in the Philippines. It isn't as prominent or as widely-preferred as football or soccer, although they are both orig...

This is a series of posts about the curious case of attractive Filipino athletes in the international scene. Part 1 discusses football and basketball.  James and Phil Younghusband, modern sports celebrities of Asia. Admit it. We Filipinos have the best-looking athletes in Asia . We seem so blessed with talented people who happened to be raised with a foreign parentage on either side (father or mother), grown up somewhere else (particularly in Europe), and speak a different language other than those we used to speak. Lately, with the emergence of the Philippine national football team , fondly called the Azkals , it seemed there was a sudden boom of athletic talent and national pride that is topped with a certain sex appeal no sport pundit ever expected. Our country was soon littered with sport stars-slash-sex symbols . In RJ Ledesma's recent column on the Philippine Star , where he interviewed Loyola Meralco Sparks and national team striker Phil Younghusband (right of ab...

There were times I just couldn't stand the stress of being in front of my dear lappie, typing and surfing the Web all day finding solutions to my dev problems. I mean, how can you survive staring at that Notepad++ window seeing those eye-straining lines of colour-coded code depicted in oh-so-boring Courier New . Like, can we just change the font to a more legible one or put some colourful character to it as a background? Or at those times when you were desperately looking for a decent WiFi connection around the city for you to download the latest IDE release, the latest XAMPP package, or the recent Ubuntu Linux version, wasn't it painstakingly done? That 800 MB installer through BitTorrent won't cut into your mobile broadband stick's data cap. What a shame. Or fixing the problem with your slow, outdated computer, making stress of repairable defects. The headphone jack is loose, the LCD screen border just cracked, you hardly press the Return key. Can't hel...

It's been a long time since I've been blogging here. I've been so busy working with my Special Problem , juggling with my academics, communicating with people in my new-found online communities, and enjoying a great journey in living my last few months of my college life in UP Mindanao. I've moved on from the messy layout of my blog, and I'm now reverting to one of Blogger's default layouts - which is the dynamic views layout. I want a fresher, more streamlined experience for my readers. Something easier on the eye. My blog will turn 6 this May, and I want to make it early to create this change. As days go by, I'll be sharing to you more of my thoughts about my life in UP, the Pinoy football scene, current affairs, and so much more. So, how do you look at life? Hoping it stays fresh. KENNETH