CNN channel . Voices of Africa

I recently encountered the CNN channel in our cable list, I honestly did not know it was there. For the most I like the news on cable channels cause its diverse and at least its not a local one. Plus I rarely get to see news from different walks of the qorld, just in 9gag and honestly I'm surprised I get more events information from that site than our local news channels.

Keeping up with what I learned, it was a wee bit the end of the segment, and it was about the tragedy in Tianjin(sorry if I spelled it incorrectly), and of the survivors or the people who managed to run away from the location of the fire and area of explosion. There is no greater example of scenario pulling compassion and sympathy from the soul of man than tragedies, it pulls out the human in you. Guessing there will be alot of pessimistic opinions and characteristics that may show, it still gets trodden by humanities hope of helping another. May it be through prayers or actions. So far a know little about what had happened, but there're alot of information online. Proof of the devastating explosion, I saw it somewhere in 9gag(again in that god "informative" website). News of the people helping each other, I guess comparig their situation with my country in disasters isnt so different.

Moving on, after the international news came the show where they feature articles about Africa, I don't remember if its Voices of Africa or vice versa. Hell, the point is, the show was interesting. Got to the point where they featured Wayaala, a pop singer in their country, she sings in a specific dialect that I forgot. But she dances and does her stuff awesomely, they don't live too grande but she's an aetistic kind. Heck even the things she designs are awesome, fabulous in some sense, not my style but it fits her native aspect. I think shes sung a song by Rihanna before, but it only says so in a part of the show. Haven't tried to search it online, maybe when I get the chance to.

Included in the show we're two other women of the arts, the other one was also a musician and the other was a poet. Its wrong of me to be surprised that even to their part of the world that side of their culture is flourishing. Not that I'm saying there isn't in the first place, there is, I just didn't expect they would feature them. I find it a hypocritical thing of me to think, but its better that I prove myself wrong.

Seeing them feature their own brand of whats popular and going on makes me curious of whats happening in the modern culture and entertainment industry of Africa. Looking at the way they make music and hit the jive, rhythms and beats, kind of makes me proud that they arent forgetting to put a little of their tradition and culture in their modern art. Although I bet there are some who'd be tired of it, and think like those country bumpkin in the movies about living the city life. I like it more if the modern finds its way to be mixed with the cultural or traditional heart of things.

Makes me wonder if in the Philippines its our culture or tradition to feature jologs type of media related entertainment. The rap industry ain't bad, however it kinda repeats itself to the same tragic story, which makes me miss the old school way of rapping. Opm industry, I don't really know, I like most of the indie scene ones more than the commercialized popular ones. For metal or rock genres, there seems to be a large lacking of that in our modern culture. Ballads are more of the pinoys thing, I noticed.

Conversing about the cultural and modernistic integration of ttaditional things seems pretty wide of a subject. However, its very interesting to know or learn of people and their aims or dreams. Those projects they do to make the people around them aware. I forgot to mention about that second African singer, she was a female, and she was part of this song collaboration with 7 other female singers of their country. Their song promoted the power of females in the industry of music, or in any aspect in life.

Call it feminazi of me, but I liked it. The concept, maybe in their side of the country women still gets oppressed greatly. Although I know all around the globe gender inequality is rampant, especially for the "third" sex. Well its the support and awareness that counts.

Edit (sept.2.2015): this post failed to up last time, but I'm still loading it up.

music . help . cringe

Just what has been happening lately in our local world. One. Word. HELP.
Or Cringe.

I've just recently encountered some post through my facebook feed about an article mentioning that a group of girls are getting their lime light of fame. Honestly I don't really know who they are and frankly I don't care, or wish I didn't try and know about it. *cringe*

The brain of yours truly doesn't really have any profound knowledge of the local music industry, I'm talking about the music industry of the Philippines specifically. Further more focusing on the "entertainment" music industry, as usual, they pick fancy funny songs that more or less catches the attention of the masses by, between the two, being absurdly annoying publicity or fairly in the line of worthy catchiness publicity.

The song I've encountered is more on the absurdly annoying side of fame.

The song is in our native tongue, and I think this is not the original version of it(I...am not sure, further research are all in halt due to the cringe capacity we can only receive in one go, it. is. too. much!).

Officially in this version it was sung by a comedian actor named Vice Ganda(gay, in every fibre of his being), which is by the way the type of satire comedian that absurdly jokes about almost anything or everything and nonchalantly says apologies when someone gets sore because its just a joke. Don't get me wrong here, I like some of his acts, but to be honest he's a satirical comedian with an almost obnoxious air. What could possibly go wrong!? Ha...Ha...

The song is titled "Wag Kang Pabebe" which roughly translates to "Don't Be Spoiled", or something akin to that. Honestly, the lyrics itself, although slang and forcibly poetic, isn't that bad. The meaning is clear, and its "modernistically" sensible. Just, not my cup of tea for the whole composition.

Anyways, my purpose slash challenge for myself today is to translate the whole song in english. Not in the same poetic way as it was composed but in literal terms.

Because! I feel like its going to be funny, especially if one tries to sing it in the tune with the video.

Lyrics:
Tagalog (English)

ang puti ng powder sa kanyang mukha (overly white powder on the face)

ang lipstick ay pulang pula, labi parang namamaga (lipstick too red, lips as if sore)

maririnig maya-maya (hearing later on)

pa-english, tag-lish habang nagseselfie (speaking in english, tag-lish, while taking a selfie)

syang pa-side view at nakatitig sa kanyang ganda (facing side view and staring at her beauty)

biglang nagsalita (suddenly she spoke)

oh gutom pala! (oh she's hungry!)

kumakalam na ang sikmura kung anu-anung inuna (stomach grumbling, doing other things first)

mag mamon ka nga (you eat mamon)

nakaka turn-off ka (you are such a turn off

asikasuhin pag-aaral (study first)

sayang ang matrikula (tuition waste)

huwag kang pabebe! (don't be spoiled!)

huwag kang pabebe (don't be spoiled)

huwag, huwag kang pabebe (don't ever be spoiled)

(chorus) [repeat]

hey miss miss miss excuse me please!

dumadami na mga pabebe, boom panis! (there are already many who are spoiled, boom rotten!)

labi mong matulis para bang nang-iinis (already sharp lips that seems to tease)

oh, bebe jan sa singet mo baka kita matiris (oh, spoiled you, i might pinch your groin) 

(verse 1)

miss miss miss excuse me please!

may inuutos pa ang nanny mo kaya bilis (you still have your mothers errand)

nu'ng kaartehan sinabog sa metropolis (when being pretentious was thrown in the metropolis) 

bakit mo sinalo? tuloy daming katalo! (why did you catch it? there are alot of enemies!)

(verse 2)

(chorus) [repeat]

pabebe di lang pambabae (being spoiled isn't just for girls)

may lalaking makikita mo sa videong (there are boys you can see taking videos)

tume-twerk it parang "miley" (twerking it like "miley")

porma'y inaanggulo (posing in an angle)

gwapong gwapo (very handsome)

pero bakit pungay ng kanyang mata kakaiba (but why are your eyes different)*

ang taray ng dating (the effect looks arrogant)

oh teka ate! (oh wait older sister!)

ano ba talaga? (what is it really?)

akala ko ay macho, ba't nilalabas ang dila? (i thought you are macho, why is your tongue out?)

kuya! nalilito na ako (older brother! i'm confused)

pero kahit ano pa… (but what ever it is...)

papa bakit nagpapabebe? (papa why are you trying to be spoiled?)

(chorus) [repeat]

(verse 1 & 2)

(chorus)

oh bebe wag pabebe (oh spoiled don't be spoiled)

huwag umarte ng di tama (don't act incorrectly)

baka mabebe bebe bebe bebe be beh buti nga! (you might be spoiled...) <not translating the next part because its a tagalog term that doesn't exactly translating into anything but the action "bleh", can be compared to "bleh bleh bleh bleh bleh you cannot catch me!" but not exactly>

(verse 3) [repeat]

(chorus)

(verse 3)

manahimik kayo walang makakapigil samin! (shut up no one can stop us!)

Okay, it was not fun to do. I honestly felt like I racked my brain in just finishing the whole thing. Further more I salute all the linguists that specializes in translating Tagalog (slang or not) into English and vice versa. I had to ask help using this website "Tagalog Lang" for some of the terms I don't normally encounter any direct english translation.

This experience is quite exhausting to do. Quite exhausting that it diminished the food I ate an hour ago into sweat, or the weather is just crazily humid right now. *laugh*

Either way. End point. There really is something distasteful about the music our current generation is releasing or composing. I can't avoid comparing it to the music of the later years, the years where I explored my taste for music. Saying that the music nowadays cannot be in par to the music then is true and unjust at the same time, because in the first place each music being released these days are not targeted for everyone. Just for the ones who will appreciate it, like almost all genre or types of medias released.

Hypocrite as I may sound, I feel compelled to abhor this song and wish that its fame would die a young death.

The Philippine music industry is not entirely dying, its just changing for the damn worse.

MWAM . Comic project 101 . PhilStuff

Recently been getting myself addicted with songs from a j.rock band Man with A Mission. Starting off with their song "Seven Deadly Sins" for Nanatsu No Taizai anime (which I recommend, read the manga and be swept with alot of fantasy adventure awesomeness > < from artist S.Nakaba). I'm engrossing myself as well with their other song, released for Hentai Kamen (have not tried this one...and prolly will not for another few years, until i get out of my system that something that makes me not enjoy reading this type of manga or seeing this anime), entitled "Emotions".

It helps when you have something to repeat to your ears while making awesome artworks, although I couldn't call mine awesome for various major reasons. So far, the current progress for the comics I'm making falls under slow due to motivational issues.

roses, the only rose i can think of was left on a different dimension
far away from the tenth doctor

And lastly, randomly posting an image that can sail a thousand opinions in the land of the butthurt (yes i love calling our selves butthurt, but no i'm not proud of it, the name calling i mean. hehehe).

says in the original text of the person who posted it:
My new pet dog.
My kid is crazy, he's gullible...
I'm laughing out loud here.

I'm guessing, this is originally a private image shared by the person who took it. Eventually someone had the audacity and sense of shaming justice to spread the good humour towards the public and get their active sense of justice emotion.

Don't get me wrong, I did not like it either. The way she treated the child. Thats the number one thats whats wrong here, and the fact that she had the gal to spread the good humour to those she deems as acquaintances with the same humour.

However, since I could not control whatever comes out of anyones butt holes, here it is being currently investigated upon.

I hope everything gets a clear light of who should learn a lesson here, and not get any more blown up, as I known it often happens in media. A cautionary tale per se, an amusing play of psychological and mental drama for mankind.

Not a bad run down on what runs in whoever's mind or what kind of mental flow to the person who posted this publicly and privately.