Transgenders in Miss Universe

Should transgenders and women compete in one beauty pageant? While we respect transgenders in their quest to express themselves, to choose their persona, alter their physical make-up and be respected as they are, they should never try to step on a natural woman's natural rights. Women have rights of their own to speak of too, which transgenders should acknowledge and respect.

Drew Barrymore: Ever After Reload

This movie was released around 1998, but I came across it just last year. Pretty late huh!

How I love watching this movie again and again.

Best fairytale movie of all time.

But I wish it featured:

1. the ball dance between the prince and Danielle before the wicked stepmother cut in.

2. and of course, the wedding!

Dongyi

This GMA 7 Korean telenovela is quiet captivating.

The king's character and impish sense of humor carries this show. While the storyline is the usual slave or ordinary woman catapulted to greatness by the love of a powerful man or royalty, the show is still worth missing some sleeping hours.

Lina Medina Youngest Mother at 5

Source: Tripod

Peruvian five-year-old Lina Medina, accompanied by her 11-month-old-son Gerardo, and Doctor Lozada who attended her son's birth, are shown in this 1940 file photo taken in Lima's hospital.

When her child was born by Caesarean section in May 1939, Medina made medical history, and is still the youngest known mother in the world.

Lina Medina's parents thought their 5-year-old daughter had a huge abdominal tumor and when shamans in their remote village in Peru's Andes could find no cure, her father carried her to a hospital.

Just over a month later, she gave birth to a boy.


Medina was born on September 27, 1933 in the small village of Paurange. She was only 5 years 8 months old at the birth of her child on Mother's Day, May 14, 1939.

Born at full term at Lima's maternity clinic, her child was taken through a caesarian operation (Dr. Lozada and Busalleu, operators, Dr. Colretta, anesthesiologist). The child (boy), weighing 2,700 grams, was well formed and in good health. Child and mother were able to leave the clinic after only a few days.

Doctor Lozada has conducted very detailed studies since the diagnostic of the pregnancy which aroused much curiosity in the country; he took an x-ray of the child and her baby, established a diagnostic of the fetal situation, observed the state of functionality of the little mother who had begun menstruating at the age of 8 months. At four years old she had already developed breasts as well as pubic hair, her body proportions were a bit amazing and her bone hardening a bit advanced, things that are often observed in cases of such premature pregnancy.

After taunting from schoolmates, Medina's son, Gerardo - who was named after one of the doctors who attended Medina and who became their mentor - discovered when he was 10 that the person he had grown up believing to be his sister was in fact his mother.

Gerardo died in 1979 at age 40 from a disease that attacks the body's bone marrow, but it was said it was not clear there was any link with his illness and the fact his mother had been so young at his birth.

Medina herself married and in 1972 had a second son, 33 years after her first. Her second child now lives in Mexico.

Elin Nordegren destroys $12 Million Mansion

Who says we need money to be kind or be charitable? When people are dying from hunger, living in the streets and forced to commit crimes to survive...how can she afford to waste it?

It's her money alright. Lots of it courtesy of Tiger Woods. If she doesn't need the money, she can try giving it to people who desperately need it.

On Sex Videos

Is one scandal not enough? From Katrina Halili, to Rhian Ramos, and now Janelle Manahan. Why do people upload it for worldwide access? Can't people restrain themselves from prying into other people's privacy? Why should lovemaking be recorded in the first place? If they did it for fun (young people nowadays have a peculiar way of having fun), can't they have the good sense to delete immediately after "reviewing" their acts? Memories like these are better stored in one's memory. None have been invented yet to transfer brain data to your laptops etc. For God's sake, let's put a halt to the degeneration of humanity.

Kids Environmental Advocacy

Kids can contribute significantly in different environmental advocacy in simple ways: 1. School canteens should avoid selling junk foods. 2. School authorities should mobilize school children in waste segregation and recycling. Imagine the volume of trash produced daily during recess or snack time. Children should be trained to develop environment-friendly habits.

It's Christmas Day Soon

It's raining and children are running towards me, with palms extended saying, "Ma'am Pasko" (Ma'am, Christmas)... Gone is the "Merry" in Christmas. Does greetings need to be shortened too just like text messages? Is it just the money? Gone are the days when children take time to practice Christmas carols, and sing with gusto in every home. Where have these children gone? Because the streets are no longer safe... Can we blame today's children for not learning respect?