The Vinny Virus

A few weeks ago, my dashboard was flooded with tons of posts of Vinny Castronovo.



I was like, "Who the eff is this kid whose pics are flooding my dashboard?!?! I demand to know!!!"

Okay fine. I was also like, "What a handsome kid." Hahaha :''>

I never really bothered to search on the net who he really was because one: I was distracted with Tumblr and two: Tumblr is distracting me. Maybe I did plan to, but I forgot. I dunno. I got distracted. :P

Then that faithful(chos. FAITHFUL PA! XD)day came when my friend asked me if I knew ABDC:

Me: "Uhm.... I don't know what you're referring too but I do know my alphabets :)"

Friend: "Hahaha. I mean America's Best Dance Crew".

Me: "Ahhh Yan ba?" (Haay naku. I should've known naman that she didn't mean ABCD as in the alphabets but ABDC as in America's Best Dance Crew. LOL)

Around that time, she and my other friend told me to like this fan page and I realized why they were so into ABDC; VINNY CASTRONOVO! HA! I realized after liking the page who he really was: He's a dancer and he and his crew are competing in ABDC. From what I know, his crew, ICONic Boyz, are part of the top 3 right now. It helps that he's kinda cute(just because I had a history on liking a younger guy doesn't mean I like him okay. hehe)

So I was impressed with this kid. Big deal................till I watched this vid on Youchoob. Let's just say I am officially diagnosed with the ICONic Fever AND also had gotten the Vinny Virus. Okay, so I found his crew's dancing a bit sloppy but no doubt they dance great enough for me to be amazed.

I always found him kinda good looking but now I actually think he's really cute(as in shit-ang-gwapo-mo-crush-kita kind of cute). :P :P :P I thought it was weird that I am liking this 14 year old guy but then there are girls my age who too caught the Vinny virus. I can't stress it enough; he's just cute, okay and I can't help but gush about it. (Much to my bff's dismay. hahaha)



What I hate though is that most of the time the ICONic Boyz are being interviewed, he's always standing in the back not saying a thing! Daig pa sya sa pader! Kainis! But when he DOES get to talk, I get kinda kilig and stuff. :P :P :P (Mind you, I feel awkward talking about these kinds of stuff ahahaha).

I find this kid pretty dreamy, too. :'''>



I don't know why, but I always hear the goddamn Going Bulilit theme on my head whenever I see him. But when he talks, he's like the frickin Godfather(super baba the voice may matching accent pa). Seriously, he's so chubby and cute. It's like he ate a plateful of Cannoli. :)

Regardless of what I just shared in this entry about me having a new guy obsession on Vinny, I still heart this gay...I mean guy. :D (sowee)



And this guy



Oooh. And this guy.



SIGE NA. LAHAT NA, GILLIAN. IKAW NA. IKAW NA MAY MARAMING GUSTO

Why I Think Shoutout isn't as Loud as it seems

When Shoutout! first premiered on ABS-CBN back in November, I was ecstatic. I mean what teen wouldn't? It's about time ABS-CBN did a teen oriented show. Shows there are either about old people dealing with their kinda lame crises about this and that or about little kids who sometimes lack comedic timing which is okay because they're still kids and they're cute and they can get away with it.

I was even more ecstatic learning that some of the cast members included PBB Teen Clas Winner and It Boy James Reid, theatre singer and actress Tippy Dos Santos and the most handsome Gigger Boy evah Enrique Gil to name a few. But if you know me, it's so not me to watch local shows. The last local show I watched regularly to was PBB Teen Clash of 2010 but the real last one I really got addicted to was Heart Evangelista's now defunct QTV program Fashionistas By Heart.

So anyways, I followed Shoutout!. I liked that it premiers on the afternoon then at mga 5:15 which is usually way after most teen's dismissal time. I watched this show regularly--Monday to Friday--and get pissed if I miss an episode(which I did many times because of other affairs. I even didn't watch Shoutout! for a whole week when it was almost Christmas then).

But something happened last month on Shoutout!. On that said episode, they announced then and there that they only had 4 WEEKS to air and that same time to redeem themselves whether ABS-CBN should continue airing the show or not. This provoked me as very desperate and not at all classy for that program to do. I remember on that episode, there one of their producers read most of the hate comments the show received online.

While I agree with what the haters said(like not all of them seem to take it seriously and it shows), I also still hate the fact that Shoutout! was questioning the cast mates for those comments. Can't the program ever think that no matter how great a show is or not, YOU CAN'T ESCAPE THE HATERS?! Haters gonna hate, but it seems that Shoutout! wanted every comment about the show to be positive which is understandable but not at all possible in the real world where there are so many people with different mindsets. Haters did have a point. How many times have I seen someone miss a step in a dance number or not open their mouths during a singing number showcasing that they're only lip syncing?? Many, actually. A damn lot.

I also pursed my lips when they demoted Enrique Gil on national TV from host to teenmate which is quite horrifying if I were in his place. Even the producer read that negative comment about him on TV: about why the hell is he a host if no one doesn't even know him(which, I think, you're losers to say that because he is everywhere!!!). It was awful.

So since then, the show changed. Ironically, the show changed its name to Shoutout! Level Up because I feel that it obviously didn't level up. It became a teen entertainment cum reality show, which I feel made the show not so interesting anymore. The schedule changed, too. It was places na at 4:15 in teh afternoon and the show only aired for 30 minutes instead of the usual 45. They even shuffled the groups of the show so the groups for each day of the week wasn't the same groupings as before. I kinda wondered why they made the teens ''audition'' for a spot number rather than before where all the teens had their chances to shine together. It was pathetic and boring and a very sorry looking attempt to draw viewers besides the fact that the teenmates are polishing their talents a bit more. It's as if viewer favorites such as Bret Jackson, James Reid among some others aren't shining so much anymore on the show which was kinda sad. Don't get me wrong--I liked that the newer crop of talents were the ones impressing the judges but not all the of the new kids were able to get the attention as much as the other guys.

If you guys asked if the teenmates improved....well....maybe some but other need some sprucing up pa rin. Some of the spot numbers I've watched were terrible these past few weeks. TERRIBLE! I remember last week each of the groups(or at least a few people who passed the auditions from each group) where supposed to do a number about an icon they admired. I remember one group chose Elvis Presley and boy, WERE THEY HORRIBLE!!!! I can't stand to watch it or even listen to them singing. Parang Shoutout! Level DOWN na to. :P

But on that same episode, this other group performed to Jennifer Lopez--and they were awesome. Crazy awesome. Super crazy awesome. Emman Vera, who sang, was great. That girl has some pipes! And the others, heck, were all crazy great dancers and had the best choreography to match. Incredible, I tell ya. I've watched other spot numbers on Shout Out! and most I forgot(not unless it's as horrible as that Elvis number I told you earlier), but this was the best so far.

Just when I thought things might get better, Shoutout! had to let go of some of our fave teenmates like Ryan Bang, Pierro Vergara and Katheryn Bernando among others. While the show was just being concerned about the teenamtes' schedule being overbooked, I still think it sucked just when I thought the show might save itself.

It was too bad that Shoutout! ended last Friday just three weeks ever since that controversial announcement on TV. AKALA KO 4 WEEKS SILA MAG-REREDEEM? PUTEK NAMAN. From a reliable source, it ended because it just didn't garner as much audiences as when it first started. Although I have said pretty awful things now about the show, I still felt bad it ended. Sayang lang. I watch that show to see my favorite artistas and now wala na. Even the teenmates were expressing their anger for the cancellation of the show(eh paano I bet they know what the network did to it sucked) on Twitter.

Maybe there was a lesson for the network and ABS-CBN learned it: that no matter how good an idea is, it wouldn't work out if the people won't even try to. The teenmates did try, but ABS-CBN is wasting a ton of money here waiting for improvement and we viewers have something to do with it. There was a lesson too for the teenmates: to take this opportunity seriously because something like this doesn't come to anyone and an opportunity like this doesn't last forever.

WHY DID I LIKE A YOUNGER GUY?! Part 2

CONTINUED FROM 'WHY DID I LIKE THE YOUNGER GUY?'

He was clad in a black tee and jeans and was with an old lady(who I'm not sure was his lola or his yaya).I stared at the wrong guy all along(the one I mentioned who wore aqua and was seated toward the right side of the room)!He was also looking back and I'm sure he was looking at the noisy PSP boys.Though I thought he looked like he was looking at me since those noisy grade six boys were right at the back of me.

OMG...what if by any chance, he caught me looking at the boy who I thought was Eugene Herrera(who I later realized he wasn't Eugene Herrera)?I'd look stupid, since I probably had a funny expression on my face.I knew deep inside I couldn't do anything about it because I wasn't sure if he even noticed me.

I remember how my mom found it too noisy in our places that we moved to the front.We did moved there, where, the Boy was right in front of us(though there was a bit of space between us).When we sat down already, I brought out my book and just pretended to answer it(it was a vocabulary enrichment book).There was just no way I want him to catch me staring at him.Though the event ended right after moving near him, I was still able to see him afterwards leaving the school.I remember going inside the school to go to my mom and he got out at the same gate I entered.I caught him looking at me but I never felt that it was significant since it wasn't like a glance or anything.

Even with this, I was still a bit in denial with having a crush on him.He was probably twelve for crying out loud!while I was about to turn fourteen then.I only realized that I really had a crush on him was the next time I saw him.

It was a Friday then and I was in my bro's school.I decided to let my hair down so if ever there was a chance he notices me,it won't be me in my signature ponytail.True enough, I saw him.He was using the same black shirt he wore the last encounter I had with him.The thing is, rather than looking bored, he was SMILING.

I've never seen this Boy smile.And he was cute, as if he was never even cuter.I was captured because not only did he seem happy, he had something in his eyes.I sound really cheesy now, but it's true.His friend was doing(at times, unsuccessfully) head kicks with a soccer ball when I saw him LAUGH along with a few of his friends.

It was also there I saw a GIRL laughing with him.She was young and petite and had hideous looking hair(probably she used those cheap hair dyes from China and burned her short hair in the straightening iron) thrown in a high pony.She was two feet beside the Boy, her whole body facing him(which,according to a body language expert means she must be into him) whilst looking at his Mr.David Beckham friend.

She probably could be a yaya...but the way she carried herself didn't say so, I think.She had on a gray marl jersey-like hoodie, keeping both of her hands in the kangaroo pocket.I know it seems nothing that a girl was beside him(he looked like he didn't know she was beside her) but I was jealous.And I'm not a selosa type.

I was jealous because I wanted to be in her place then, acting comfy around really rowdy grade six boys and especially being beside HIM.

That was probably the last time I saw him.

Months after that, I read one of my brother's K-Zone magazines. I noticed in the fan art section, that the boy's older brother(who I know his name) had a drawing featured. What surprised me even more was in that same section, a boy who had the same last name as the older brother had a drawing featured, too. I knew there was a ray of light somewhere since I know for sure that this is the name of the boy(he and his brother have a very unusual last name AND I notice that he and his brother's first and middle name are named after American presidents. Am I not clever to decipher that?). But even if his name was already given to me by fate, I know it would be very uncertain to see him again.

From the first time I saw him as a tall grade five kid who (according to my parents) plays volleyball to an even taller grade six boy who totes a bulky guitar bag(containing no other than a guitar) and hangs out with my bro.I no longer have a super crush on him because I haven't seen him for a long time. He still holds a place in my heart since he's the first crush I ever had that didn't end in heartbreak. And I know he's now a high school kid.

WHY DID I LIKE A YOUNGER GUY?!

I deemed myself as a kitten and get grossed out if I imagine myself in Demi Moore's cougar shoes.But I didn't expect to have liked a younger guy who was (not really) way younger than me.Two years to be exact.

I first saw this guy in 2007.I was in my brother's school and was with my parents and sis to pick him up.I was wearing a uniform(from my old school, SSC) when I saw him.He was in Grade five, the same grade as my bro then.If I could remember clearly, his hair reminded me of a three year old boy(his hair was pretty spiky even if it was pretty obvious he had NO gel on).He was with his older bro, who I discovered was also younger than me.The first thing I felt seeing this guy was nothing;I was totally uninterested.His kind of tisoy wasn't my type.

One of my parents asked my bro if he was his classmate and commented how good-looking the boy was(and his brother).All my bro said was,"You don't know how he really is in the classroom."That's short for "He's noisy and yeah, I'm his classmate", I think.

Probably my interest in that Boy was growing somehow even if a majority of me felt nothing.When my parents asked him those questions to my bro, I secretly wanted to know the answer from my bro.Lucky if he mentions his name, which he never did up to this day.And I forgot about that boy, too since I had a crush on someone else at the time.

A few days(probably one or two or three, I forgot) after my bro's first day of school last year, I went with my mom to pick him up from school.And there my bro was...with THE BOY.I didn't realize he got taller. He was already the same height as my brother then(who was 5'6 at the time. Pretty tall for a 6th grader in Don Bosco).He and bro were going to the little sari-sari store outside their school and I heard him calling out to my bro,"Uuwi ka ba?"His voice sounded really binata, unlike most of my bro's friends who still had little boy voices.OMG talaga!

I thought the way he wore his backpack was cute and holding that white plastic bag--whatever it is inside--was cute.I didn't get it; I found myself thinking of a guy who was two years my junior.I know I must not be crushing on him.

A few weeks after that encounter, I attended this seminar where only the grade 6 students and their parents are invited(siblings and yayas optional.)I had an argument with my sis the day before because she didn't agree with me going to bro's school and accused me of being "super boy crazy".I was pretty confused, too;Was I going because I want to see guys to feed my boy craziness?Or was I crazy for a boy that I wasn't sure I liked?

When we arrived in the auditorium of the school, all I did was look for him LIKE CRAZY.

Ano ba ang iniisip mo, Gill?My mind said.I remember my mom and I were seated in the very left corner.It was so mainggay since it was more of a hangout of those grade 6 boys who had PSP's and one of their noisy cries contained 'Naruto!' and more.I remember looking for the Boy and actually thought that I found him.He was seated almost to the right corner of the room (though not the very corner) and was wearing an aqua(or cerulean,I think)colored shirt.I didn't exactly looked at the boy's face but he had the same back profile as the Boy.So, I took turns looking at him and a boy in front of me who I thought was Eugene Herrera(who was one of my fave Q reporters along with food taster Renford...not that I watch Kids on Q.:P)

Suddenly, those stupid,PSP playing grade 6 boys made their voices even louder that every member of the audience looked back.Even the speaker stopped with his boring talk.Of course, I looked back because it was MUCH louder in my place(where the guys where right at the back of me).

It was when I turned my head back to the front that I realize that the Boy was actually in the same row as me(Though he was in the very front).I looked at the wrong guy all along! omgee talaga!

to be continued...