Archive for January, 2008
Pinay Scandal Videos
Jan 30th
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No, this is not another SEO gimmick. It’s in the news this morning. Someone was arrested, caught red-handed, while taking videos of women ( some of them minors) is a school locker room. And what is more shocking about this are these two facts: it was a sports referee using his cell phone to take videos of athletes showering after a game, and it happened in the gym of Ateneo de Manila University no less!
DonPepot thought this was another hoax at first, or a gimmick just like tons of delusive intrigue proliferating on local television lately. But upon confirmation on
the internet, he found this report.
A collegiate soccer referee was arrested on Sunday for taking cell phone videos of volleyball players taking a shower at the Ateneo Blue Eagle Gym in Quezon City.
The referee, identified only as a certain “Belore” of the University Athletics Association of the Philippines (UAAP), was taken to Station 9 of the Quezon City Police District (QCPD) on Anonas St. in Project 2.
According to a police report, a player of the University of Santo Tomas caught Belore in the ladies quarters secretly taking cell phone video shots of her teammates who were in the shower of the Blue Eagle Gym.
The UST player alerted her coach and that of the Far Eastern University (FEU).
The coaches and players of both schools were able to catch up with Belore on his way out of the Ateneo campus. They took the referee to the Ateneo security office, where he was questioned.
Belore denied the accusation, but the security staff let the volleyballl players check the referee’s cellphone, where they saw that Belore had indeed stored some footage of UST players in the shower.
They also saw video shots of players from the University of the East and De La Salle Universtiy who also had a game earlier in the morning.
Ricky Palou, who heads Ateneo’s Athletic Department, confirmed that the suspect was a football referee tasked to officiate games for the UAAP soccer tournament.
Palou said Belore was immediately sacked from his post and that criminal charges will be filed against him.
He added that this was the first time that this kind of incident happened inside women’s shower area of the Blue Eagle Gym.
The Blue Eagle Gym serves as a venue for the volleyball games of the current UAAP women’s volley tourney.
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Happy Slip is Here!
Jan 25th
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The television in the next room was quite loud this morning when DonPepot heard a feature about Happy Slip. He craned his neck for better reception and was surprised by what he heard. Happy Slip is in the country! In fact, she has been here for two days now and DonPepot only found out today. What a shame, but that’s what you get for staying away from the news! Anyways, Happy Slip, or Christine Gambito in real life, has been invited by the Department of Tourism to
promote the country on the internet. With the US economy headed for recession, the DOT is devising ways to promote tourism and this may be one of their best yet (in DonPepot’s opinion). A heavyweight of sorts in cyberspace, Happy Slip will be pod casting her travels around the country in her own unique style, and the tourism department hopes that through this, travel to the Philippines will be promoted all over. Their main target in the US, where they hope to entice second and third generation Pinoys (Happy Slip’s audience) who haven’t been to the land of their parents or grandparents. Great idea, isn’t it? DonPepot definitely thinks so.
If you’ve been reading this article and still asking yourself who the hell Happy Slip is, you’re an idiot where have you been are you from another planet here’s a short backgrounder on Christine Gambito from Wikipedia:
Christine Gambito, better known to her audience as HappySlip, is an Internet celebrity and popular YouTube content provider. She maintains one of YouTube’s most subscribed channels. In March 2007, Gambito’s video Mixed Nuts was nominated for the 2006 YouTube Video Awards for Best Comedy, resulting in the second place to Smosh. In May of the same year, she became one of the first YouTube users accepted into YouTube’s revenue sharing program.
Gambito’s performances typically include comedy sketches in which she impersonates members of her family. She also sings and plays the piano or guitar. As Gambito has stated repeatedly in her videos, she is notably one of the very few top users acting, filming, editing and producing her shorts completely on her own.Born and raised in Virginia and of Filipino ancestry, Gambito moonlighted as an actress while earning a degree in nursing. She landed several cameo appearances and small parts in television commercials and movies, industrial and training films. Other tidbits fans may be interested in is that Gambito is married with one son. This son is reportedly the reason she left nursing about two years ago, to spend more time raising him.
Gambito attributes her nickname “HappySlip” to her Filipino mother’s mispronunciation of “half slip”:
As a child, my Filipino mom would always remind me to wear a half-slip with skirts. However, the way she would pronounce the phrase was misleading: “Your hap e-slip! Be sure to wear your hap e-slip!” So I naturally went around calling the thing a ‘happy slip,’ until friends at school corrected me by asking if I had a ’sad slip’ as well.
At her personal site, she explains that the phrase is not only a funny phrase from the past, but it also reflects what she would like people to feel when they watch her videos, hoping they will “slip into happiness” while watching.
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