Balik Tanaw: Favorite 90's Memories Part 3

Man, was the idea of posting memories from the 90's a total baloney? I guess not.

Needless to say that most people can to relate to it. There are still fun remembrances that others can hardly recall until someone is there to remind it to them. I tell you it's not false modesty if I say posting this is not all about gaining more traffic to my site. It's more about bringing out something relevant to my readers. And given  my druthers, I'd like to hope this post will serve as reference soon when 90's will already become a distant decade in the past.

Let's begin our time travel for the third time.

Where did I stop in Part 2?

Ahh here!

Morning TV Shows

                  "Bawat bata may tanong, 'ba't ganito, ba't ganon?' Hayaang buksan 

                ang isipan sa Science o Agham. Tayo na! Sa sineskwela! Tuklasin na-

                   tin ang siyensya. Buksan ang pag-iisip. Tayo'y likas na sayantis."

Aahh, those lines play a huge part of my childhood. I still watch this every weekday mornings on Knowledge Channel whenever I have the chance to.

Naaalala mo ba yan? Batibot! :D

Eh yung mga kanta ng At Iba Pa??? :D

Remember Porfirio of Epol Apple? Eh si kuya Bodjie who was formerly in Batibot, too? :D

            Do you remember this also? Hit play so you'll know :D I'm totally not a math junkie but I knew I'm going to enjoy it someday just by listening to this :D

   Ikaw ang unang nag-buo ng bayang pilipino. Ikaw ang 

      unang lumaban sa pananakop ng dayuhan. Ikaw ang nag-sindi 

        ng ilaw. Ikaw and nag-bigay ng liwanag sa kahulugan at katwiran, 

        sa halaga ng kalayaan! 

 Bayani! One of my faves! My nationalistic hint is awaken. Kinikilabutan pa rin ako. This honestly influenced my love for learning Philippine History kahit pa ba madalas nakakalula magbasa ng mahahabang narratives. Kayo, anong episode ang naaalala n'yo? :D

I even posted an entry that entirely talks about another sensible TV show, Hiraya Manawari. Click here in case you haven't read it yet.

                  Hiraya Manawari! Aaahhh childhood! Agree when it was said that not all youth experienced

childhood with these TV series.

Remember Balt and Mithi?? How about listening to that vid below

                           Could not find any better video for the opening. But I surely miss watching this.

           Still aired on Knowledge Channel. You can check on their website to know the time slot.

          Mga kwentong mula sa pahina. Mga kwentong panitikan. That's how I describe this TV series. :) :)

Nighttime TV Shows

Familiar lang ang linyang yan for sure! :D

"Magandang gabi bayan!" a la Noli de Castro haha :D

A trusted news program already! Ever since the 90s :)

There was Balitang K long before Rated K! :D

Kung may Kuya Kim ngayon, noon merong Ka Ernie Baron along the famous line,
"Pag walang knowledge, walang power" :)

And of course! Who will ever forget?? Go go go Power Rangers! hahaha :D

Whoa! Si Alpha who is better known by kids as "ayayayay" hahaha :D

Real crimes, real people, real story. Calvento Files! I so remember this!!!

Dramas oh dramas!!! hahaha

How did it feel when Ted Failon already starts to say "Hoy gising!" haha :D

How about the Mexican novelas that invaded Phil TV before Korean novelas did? haha:D

The World Tonight! My favorite late night news program (I was 5 and young but I'm honest if I'd say I really watch this back then) I remember Mr.Teddy Locsin breaking the opening line, "I'm Teddy Locsin,Jr. and this is The World Tonight" I loved that!

Oka Tokat (Takot Ako) Creepy TV series every Tuesday nights in the 90s :)

And one of the most sensible TV shows, Wansapanataym! :) Sometimes it makes me cry when I listen to the opening song again :) :) A very good show to watch,aired every Sunday evening (just before kids go back to school on the weekdays)

     Napanood niyo din ba yung movie??? :) Si Barbiel!!!Who made known the line "Oh my gulay!" hahaha

And here's to all the 90s evening filled with laughter...

Balik Tanaw: Favorite 90's Memories Part 2

The afterthought is endless. I was not born an expat so I have a somewhat serious mind for a lot of Filipino  memories in the 90's. Though I could also not afford to overlook the foreign ones. Some of my readers and friends' reactions after posting the Part I made me realize there is just too much I could look back on to.

And so I reckon more retrospection as something positively worth doing.

Ready for another journey down memory lane?

The Music

There was MTV before Myx hehe :D

You're a 90's kid if you can finish the song, "Ice Ice _ _ _ _" Alam mo yaaaannn! hahaha :D

You surely know Spice Girls! And almost all of their songs!

You can pretty memorize Barbie Girl by Aqua haha :D

You know S Club 7!!! :D

Very in ang BOY BANDS!!! N Sync, Backstreet Boys (Backstreet's back, alright! hahaha) , 98 Degrees, A1, Westlife, and guess what band is in the lower left? ------------- Boyzone! Squeals! :D

I almost forgot!!! Boyz II Men whew!!! I'd be cursed! haha

If today's decade has Justin Bieber, before we had Aaron Carter!!!!! I bet you are already  humming "I'm all about you, I'm all about us" in your mind right now noh?! haha

Balik Tanaw: Favorite 90’s Memories Part I

I’m quite recollective. There is a slight effusive retrospection when people talk about childhood and the memories that came with the things in the 90’s.

As I dispose some personal items that seemed forgotten over the years, it’s amazing how these things still manage to give me resolute pleasure. I’m not yet sure if facebook, or twitter and the worldwide web can do the same a decade from now.

These memory skewers just come abundantly in my mind, hailing to be perpetuated in this post. So here’s a fleeting look down memory lane; a sweet treat to yesteryears.

The Porma

Sooo grade school!! Who else wrapped her hair with these Butterfly Clips?!

Overalls with the straps down! Haha :D

Who went for the six pockets??? :D

And the Hip Hop Fashion. Kala mo cool ka na noh? haha :D

How about the oversized tees?

And the neon leggings? Gawd I hated wearing that before! :D

At ang pag-uso ng Gypsy Tops

at Turtlenecks 

And who can forget the Penny Loafers?

Umamin ka, you also cried out for a pair of Islander Sandals!Pow!

And the Habagat Haversack na madalas manakaw sayo dahil mahal! Kaboom! :D

How about this look? Haha :D

Aha! The Spaghetti Straps Tank Tops

And the epic Bandannas! Gang or Grunge? :)

The Food Store Finds

Dolphy, Philippines’ King of Comedy

The Dolphy news has not yet brought to pass. As much as his films and proofs of kindness are lauded, he’s likely to be remembered in the next years or more. Today July 13, President Aquino declared National Day of Remembrance for the comedy king.

Dolphy (Rodolfo Vera Quizon, Sr. July 25, 1928- July 10, 2012)

The story of his passing is starting to set foot in me by osmosis. It was at first a far-fetched fact to consider before the news about his health moving stealthily down came time and again. I was young and 2 when his last longest-running sitcom, Home Along Da Riles started airing. I have honestly become a regular Thursday night sofa spud since after realizing the show was a good thing to watch for family values and wisdom when I was 5.

The show was indeed a worthy play of every average Filipino family’s daily encounters. Dolphy (Rodolfo Vera Quizon, Sr.), sometimes more known as John Puruntung and Kevin Cosme shared so much laughter in the Philippine television. He was, and he is continuously favored by most Filipinos because of his rather preference to portray as seemingly hard-lucked-but-positively-funny everyman. His roles almost always mirrored every Filipinos hankering for life and finding a little humor in it despite the daily misfortune. I am an almost savvy to his clever lines and actions.

“Sumasaya ang family pagtulung-tulong all the way. Problema ay may remedy at pati may konting komedy.” goes the first few lines of his Home Along Da Riles show theme song.

Dolphy's second longest running sitcom (Situational Comedy 1992-2003)

The man with a pot belly yawning, having his early morning coffee, and the usual lashing of a rolled newspaper on the heads of the “sunog baga” (the facetious drunkards in the running gag, Home Along Da Riles) and all his other film sidekicks are few of the Dolphy scenes I truly miss. All that I can really do now is to put into words all the beautiful memories his craft as comedian has left in me.  

Home Along Da Riles cast

Apart from his comicality, the stories of most ordinary people whose lives were touched by the comedy king moved me to believing that there is a genuinely good person behind those characters portrayed in more than 200 films.

John & Marsha movie sequels, Facifica Falayfay, Markova: Comfort Gay, Da Best in Da West, Tataynik, Hahabul-habol are some, to name a few of his movies that I love.

Dolphy was not at all perfect. But he lived a great life in the way he treated people especially the lowliest ones, in the way he honed his being an actor/comedian, and in the way he loved his family.

“Before, I used to dream of big things. Now I only dream of having my children grow as good people.” puts an actual grown and insightful man, Dolphy.

I only felt this to be told, I cried when I reached home and watched about his death. Call me emotional. Was I affected? It maybe isn’t about being a pansy or being an overly-sensitive-21-year-older. It’s more about having Dolphy as one big part of my childhood and every other ordinary Filipino’s lives that’s taken away. 

Recall back Home Along Da Riles intro. I am hoping for a re-run. 

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Salamin ng Panata: Hiraya Manawari

I have three days before I get to live with forceps, clamps, and laboring mothers in the delivery room for one month. What I am mostly excited about during free days like this is that I get to look 
 around the internet for online reads and videos, or TV shows at random that I could at least consider as productive, or is it?

Image taken from a video added by rhisoler via youtube.com

Today I decided to go Filipino; to talk something about this Juan country, more specifically its television media. 

One thing I have noticed is that Philippine’s local morning programs have changed abundantly through the years. Most children today find their alternatives on computers, PSPs, and other gadgets.

Mr.Bean and Spongebob are the ones who usually greet the tele-viewers every morning. Maybe, most of the cartoon shows today have their own brand of teaching their audience with morals. But I have myself confident to defy modern day skeptics in saying that the novelty worth of today’s shows is nothing compared to the shows before. Hiraya Manawari is but one of the many valuable programs the television of the 90s has offered.

Hiraya Manawari, a highfalutin tagalog phrase which means “reach your dreams” has elaborated good morals and life’s greatest lessons about love, family, respect, honesty, discipline and other values. The stories of each episode were simple and easy to understand yet made a great impact on its viewers (myself included).  

Those lucky few who were able to watch programs like it would agree that producing the same shows nowadays would serve up so much values especially on children.

And for those who miss singing along with Hiraya Manawari’s famous intro, here’s a video with the lyrics below: