Do You Love Philippine Soap Operas?

If you love them, then you might have another reason to watch TV in the Philippines.

ABS-CBN opened yesterday the pages of one of the most provocative stories to be ever told on television: Precious Hearts Romances presents HIYAS, starring the first team up of Zanjoe Marudo and Megan Young. this series marks the return of sought-after leading man Zanjoe in a soap opera and marks the first daring role to be portrayed on television by host-actress Megan. Joing the two are model-turned-actor Edward Mendez, and princess of Pinoy indie films, Mercedes Cabral.

HIYAS is being aired every day after "PBB Teen edition 4 UBER on ABS-CBN.

Noise Pollution in The Philippines

This post is about my expat's friend Jan from The Netherlands and his observations about noice, sounds, and music in the Philippines - a very welcome addition to my foregoing post about dog barking. 

Have you wondered (Jan asks), why Filipinos in general speak in loud voices? And why they all speak at the same time? Have you ever attended a real Philippine party where many Filipinos are? Did you notice that Philippine television and radio are mostly (?) loud?

Questions, questions, questions... and, a lot of answers are here:

http://www.expatinthephilippines.com 

from a Dutch expat, who decided to spend the rest of his life in the Philippines.

And so I do!

Pinky Webb - A Very Special Host

I am with Philippine media since the 1980s. Printed media, radio broadcasting and Philippine Television. I have commented about Philippine Television very harsh and opened several times. For example, I really don't like the way, news are being delivered... .

Anyway, Pinky is different. Pinky is unique. She belongs to the two of the country's distinguished broadcast journalists. Pinky Webb (and Alvin Elchico) will be anchoring ABS-CBN's flagship prime time newscast "TV Patrol Weekend" to bring us the biggest and latest news stories relevant to the Filipino house holds. 

Good luck to you, Pinky - and, of course also to co-anchor Alvin Elchico.