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SYNOPSIS:

“A struggling musician scours the city in search of the perfect classical guitar and ends up in a small district of locally-made musical instruments. His pursuit leads him to a rare encounter that forces him to face an unfinished past.”

Thanks!

Nirerespeto daw niya
at ng kaniyang pamilya
ang desisyon ng Korte Suprema’ng
nag-utos na ipamahagi na ang Hacienda
sa mga magsasaka

Tutal mabubuhay naman daw sila
kahit walang anim na libong ektaryang lupang
taniman ng tubo at asukarera;

Tutal kinaya naman daw nilang mabuhay
nang “agawin” daw sa kanila ang lahat
noong panahon ng diktadurya

Ah ganoon ba Reyna Kristeta?
Personally, wala ka namang problema?
Ano nga ba naman ang paki mo sa isyu ng Lusita,
e kaliwa’t-kanan ang endorsements mo
at naliligo ka sa pera?

Pero habang dinadaan mo sa tweet
ang pagbabale-wala sa desisyon ng Korte Suprema,
Naisip mo ba kung gaano ka-kriminal ang ginawang pangangamkam
ng iyong angkan sa Hacienda Lusisita?

Pera ng taumbayan ang ipinambili sa lupa,
ipinautang sa iyong angkan
sa garantyang ipamamahagi ito sa mga magsasaka
sa loob ng sampung taon.
E 1968 pa iyon!
Ano na bang taon na ngayon,
Ha, Reyna Kristeta?

Ano ba ang tinutukoy mong “suffering”
ng family ng iyong Mom?
E ilang taong pinahirapan
ang libo-libong mga Mom sa inyong Hacienda
dahil ang mga Dad doon ay P9.50 lang ang kita!

“Clearer picture” ba ika mo ang nais mong
aming makita?

Klaro nga. Klarong klaro.

Kasing klaro ng kapasyahan ng mga pesante
noong bisperas ng Rebolusyong Pranses
na ibagsak ang naghaharing monarkiya
at parusahan ang Hari pati na ang Reyna*

Ang Reynang iyon na kasing taklesa ng paborito nating
si Reyna Kristeta
ay minsan ding nag-’tweet’ noon na “let them eat cake”
sa mga pesanteng nag-aaklas dahil sa kasalatan ng pagkain at katarungan.

“Wala na bang tinapay (bread)? Bakit hindi nalang cake ang kainin ng masa,”ang sagot ng Reyna sa nag-aaklas na madla.

Paglaon, ang Reynang iyon ay sinintensyahan
at pinugutan ng ulo ng taumbayan!

*Si Marie Antoinette ang Reyna ni Haring Louis XVI ng France. Pinatay siya, sa pamamagitan ng guillotine noong Oktubre 1793.

Sa tuwing umiinit ang ulo
sa akusasyong mahilig ka raw mag-PSP…

‘Pag nahaharap sa salamin at hahawiin
ang natitirang buhok, para pogi ang dating
sa bago mong ka-date…

Pag-isipan din kung saang lupalop mo nahuhugot
ang lakas ng loob na manawagan ng
“all-out justice”…

Sapagkat hindi hustisya ang tawag sa digmang mapangwasak…
Takot at kamatayan ito para sa libo-libong mamamayang Morong nadadamay, napapalayas sa kanilang mga tahanan at lupang sakahan…

Todo-giyera itong nagkukubli sa slogang “all-out hustisya”!

Hustisya?
Kilabutan ka man lamang sana sa salitang hustisya..

Dahil wala pa ring hustisya
sa dugong dumanak sa paanan ng Mendiola,
noong panahon pa ng iyong Ina…

Dahil wala pa ring napapanagot sa mga pinaslang
na manggagawang bukid sa Hacienda ng iyong pamilya.

Dahil wala pa ring lupa ang mga “Boss” mong
naturingang “stock holder” pero walang makain sa mesa…

Dahil ang masa’y naliligo pa rin sa dagat ng inhustisya!

Also presented was former Maguindanao Provincial Administrator Norie K. Unas, the right hand man of former Governor Datu Andal Ampatuan Sr. According to COMELEC Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr., Unas was the one who “stage managed” and rigged the election results in the 2007 polls, upon the instruction from, said Brillantes, “the highest official of the land.”

Read part of COMELEC’s press release today:

“The 2007 elections in Maguindanao was marred by an absolute commission of fraud and irregularity,” said Brillantes, who with Department of Justice Secretary Leila de Lima and COMELEC Commissioner Elias R. Yusoph, led the press conference this morning at the poll body’s Main Office.

Unas and the fifteen Election Officials and personnel submitted their respective Affidavits before the COMELEC, detailing their knowledge in election irregularities in the 2007 polls.

In his Affidavit, Unas directly linked former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and her spouse former First Gentleman Atty. Mike Arroyo in 2007 Maguindanao election fraud.

Unas, in his affidavit, said President Arroyo’s instruction to Datu Andal during a dinner meeting held at Malacanan Palace days before the 2007 elections was: “Dapat 12-0 sa Maguindanao, kahit pa ayusin o palitan niyo ang resulta.”

Unas also said that he was told by Gov. Datu Andal Ampatuan that, “Utos ni FG, kelangang 12-0 ang result sa Mguindanao… at kailangan walang makuhang boto si Cayetano.” He said this came after Ampatuan met with the former First Gentleman at the LTA Building in Makati. Unas accompanied Ampatuan during that meeting.

DOJ Secretary de Lima, for her part, cited the significance of Unas’ testimony, saying that “this is the first time that a witness has direct personal knowledge pointing to the first couple” as alleged perpetrators of election fraud. ###

Here’s Norie K. Unas

Norie K. Unas

Download Unas’  Affidavit here.

The Election Officers and personnel from Maguindanao who were presented by the COMELEC today are:

• Saliao Amba (Mamasapano town),
• Maria Susan Albano (Datu Unsay town),
• Nena Alid (Talayan),
• Alice Lim (Pagagawan),
• Susan Cabanban (General S.K. Pendatun),
• Magsaysay Mohamad (Sultan sa Barongis),
• Araw Cao (Mangudadatu),
• Estellita Orbaso (Shariff Aguak),
• Jeehan Nur (Ampatuan),
• Salonga Edzela (CVL Tech, Maguindanao),
• Ragah Ayunan (Rajah Buayan),
• Russam Mabang (Pandag),
• Asuncion Reniedo (Paglat),
• Rohaida Khalid (Datu Saudi), and
• Norijean Hangkal (Guindulungan).

Photos from the COMELEC Education and Information Department

“But of course you have to remit bigger so as to avail of lower charges,” PNoy

Sa harap ng mga Pinoy sa Japan,
sumubok magpa-bibo ang Pangulo:
“Alam ba ninyong may programa ang gubyerno
para pababain ang singil sa perang padala ninyo?”

Kaya laking gulat na lamang nito
nang ang isagot ng mga Pilipinong naka-tipon,
ay isang tumataginting na “NO!”

“Ha? Hindi ninyo alam? Baka kulang lang sa abiso,”
palusot pa ng feeling bibo…
Sabay dagdag na may usapan pa nga raw
ang Land Bank ng Pilipinas at Postal Bank ng Japan
para sa mas mababang kaltas nito..

“Tama po ba ‘yon?,”
tanong ulit ng Pangulo…
Na siya namang sinagot ng kakarampot at tila pilit-na pilit na “Opo”

“Kasi naman, unawa ko na kailangan niyong
makatipid sa padala ninyong pera sa pamilya..
Para sa pag-aaral ng inyong mga anak,
sa pagpapagawa sa inyong dream house..’

“Etcetera… Etcetera… Etcetera”

Kaya kung gusto ng mga OFW na maka-bawas sa kaltas
sa pinapadalang pera sa pamilya,heto ang maipapayo niya:

“Dagdagan pa po ninyo ang perang padala!”

Teka.. Teka.. Teka..
Ano na nga ulit ang ibinandong programa ng Hari ng Padala?

Mangyayari raw ito pagkatapos ng kaganapang
kung tawagin ay “autumnal equinox,”
kung kailan magpapantay ang haba ng araw at ng gabi
saan mang lupalop ng daigdig

Uunat na ang mga gabi matapos ito…

Tila nang-aasar, sasabay pa ang bugso
ng simoy ng Hilagang-Silangang Habagat,
kaya’t ang mga mahahabang gabi ay sasaliwan na rin
ng malamig na panahon…

Aahhh… Panahon…

Panahon para ihanda ang mga kumot…
Panahon para tumanaw sa maiinit na mga yakapan…
Sa mga yugtong kakailanganin mong ipahiram ang iyong jacket o balabal sa kasintahan o asawang giniginaw…

Aahhh… Panahon nga naman…

Parang kailan lang simula nang magtapos ang aking ‘autumnal equinox’
Sa wakas, parating na rin sila…

Salamat sa KM64

Maliwanang namang ‘suicide’ ang nangyari!
Tama ang mga otoridad na nag-imbestiga.
Nagpatiwakal si Romilyn sa pamamagitan
ng pagsaksak sa sarili ng paulit-ulit.
Sa leeg, sa sikmura at sa braso…
Sa leeg, sa sikmura at sa braso…

At para daw sigurado,
nilaklak pa ni Romilyn
ang halos isang konteyner ng sulfuric acid.
Kaya nga may mga paso siya ng asido sa bibig.
Ngayon anong ‘foul-play’ ang sinasabi nila?

Tapos sasabihin pa nilang inutil ang Embahada, ang gubyerno?
Eh tutok na tutok nga kami sa kaso ni Romilyn…
Sa katunayan, eksaktong isang taon lang naman ang binilang
para maiuwi ang mga labi ni Romilyn sa kaniyang pamilya…
Ang iba nga, nabubulok na lang sa mga freezer sa mga morgue rito  sa katagalan..

Sila pa ang may ganang mag-reklamo…
Wala na raw mata at dila si Romilyn
nung dumating ang bangkay niya sa kaniyang pamilya nitong nakaraan.

Tsk tsk tsk…

Hindi ba nila naiisip na pupwede namang,
pagkatapos pagsasaksakin ang sarili
at lantakan ang halos isang konteyner ng sulfuric acid,
ay tinungkab pa ni Romilyn ang kaniyang mata,
habang tinatabas ang sariling dila?

Tapos sasabihan nila kaming inutil!

Links:

Philippine Daily Inquirer: OFW’s remains repatriated; tongue, eye missing

Photo from Migrante-Middle East

Fellow COMELEC Employees:

Due to the constant barrage of baseless allegations and groundless attacks on our persons, the undersigned rank and file employees of this Honorable Commission and duly elected officers of the Alliance of COMELEC Employees in Service (ACES), wishes to make the following statement in order to shed light on the copious lies being peddled by those who claim to represent the democratic interests of COMELEC employees at the expense of disparaging and maligning our characters and wreaking disunity and confusion among the rank and file.

In the past few days, many employees have been witness to some personalities doing the rounds at some Departments in the Main Office, soliciting signatures from employees asking for their authorization so that the ACES President may appoint “Ad-interim” officials of ourUnion, resulting in the arbitrary removal of the four of us in the ACES leadership. Conspicuously absent on that spurious document they were peddling on August 17, 2011, were the reasons justifying such drastic and utterly dictatorial move from the ACES President Luallah Pama.

Nevertheless, the ACES President and her ilk were not short on lies and libelous insults trained on our characters in their desperate bid to convince the employees to affix their signatures to that piece of worthless document.

Apparently, according to them; we, with Mr. Mark Ramirez acting as our so-called ring leader, are actually involved in “union busting” activities and that we have been trying our hardest to “discredit” some officers of the ACES, who according to them have been working “since 2004” for the benefits of the COMELEC employees.

They said that we have been using the name of the ACES, without consent from the President, in pushing for the salary increase of rank and file employees. The ACES President, were even reportedly seen by many employees at the 8^th floor of the Palacio del Gobernador walking frantically, telling everybody that she’s being “framed up” and was “betrayed” (trinaydor).

Aside from this, the known associate of the ACES President and ACES Auditor George Albayda have been busy on Facebook posting ridiculously groundless insinuations, amateurish claims and juvenile tirades specifically targeted against Mr. Ramirez on Friday, August 19, 2011. (Attached PDF)

This self-proclaimed champion of the rank and file and so-called spokesperson of Ms. Pama and the ACES union – while making a complete fool of himself and of those whom he claim to represent -   Mr. Albayda was so desperate to convince the COMELEC employees who are members of the ACES FB group that the name of the ACES are now put in a “steamy and smelly sewer” (mainit at nangangamoy na imburnal) because we have been consistent in calling for a substantial wage increase.

As if forwarding this legitimate call was anti-employee, Mr. Albayda proudly alleged that Ms. Pama was berated and was even cursed at by the COMELEC Chairman Sixto Brillantes because the call for wage increase, according to him, is making “noise”.

There were other impertinent accusations that Mr. Albayda threw, but we deemed it best to not honor them with even a whimper of reply. Who would want to sink to his level, to his skewed concept of “healthy and intelligent exchange of ideas” that are common only to thugs and lumpens in gangland? Certainly, not us.

And so, as elected officers of our union, we brushed aside their baseless diatribe against us and chose to just carry on with our mandate to serve the interest of the rank and file.

As a matter of fact, we have been doing so since March 4, 2011, when the ACES Board, by the vote of 5 to 2, decided to revise the ACES Constitution and By-Laws. Only Mr. Ramirez (Vice-President for Internal Affairs) and Mr. Gel Gerardino (Secretary-General) voted against the move. Messrs Mallorca and Macasu were absent during that Board Meeting, attending to some official duties in the office.

Mr. Ramirez, on that same day, issued an open letter addressed to the ACES Board calling for “principled unity, union democracy and service” (Attached PDF). He believed that changing the CBL at that time would only derail our objective of registering our union before the Bureau of Labor Relations (BLR) and of finally seeking accreditation from the Civil Service Commission (CSC), paving the way for the institutionalization of our economic and non-economic benefits.

Besides, he stressed, that revising the CBL, by mere action of the Board, constitutes a breech in our CBL which wasduly ratified and approved (Attached PDF) by the general assembly on January 21, 2011. (Common rules of procedure in any organization dictates that only the membership, in a general assembly, have the right to revise a CBL.)

Also Ms. Pama committed another gross disrespect to the membership by adamantly refusing to sign the approved CBL.

But instead of giving due course to Mr. Ramirez’s appeal to the ACES Board, Ms. Pama and Mr. Albayda relentlessly berated and scolded Mr. Ramirez and Mr. Gerardino, claiming that the two were only out to sow disunity in the Alliance and that they are just “too young” to know what’s best for the Union.

When Ramirez and Gerardino asked the proponents of the CBL revision (Ms. Pama and Mr. Albayda) the reasons why they are persistently pushing for such a move, they were only told to “MAGBASA KAYO! MARAMING MALI DIYAN!” Asked what was wrong in the CBL, they shouted back, “BASTA!”

The ACES Board on March 4, decided also to meet after a week to thresh out the supposed revisions to the CBL. But no such meeting transpired.

Several attempts were made by Mr. Ramirez and Mr. Gerardino to convince Ms. Pama to call for a meeting, but they were repeatedly given the cold shoulder treatment and were denied. (Ms. Pama, apparently, was busy at that time doing revision work for her Department).

In fact, come May 5, 2011, the majority of the ACES Board (Ramirez, Mallorca, Gerardino, Macasu, Diaz and Ipo) formally wrote the ACES President (Attached PDF) imploring her to call for a meeting “to resolve pressing organizational matters” and to finally start the process of the CBL revision as resolved during the March 4 meeting.

Needless to say, since that unfortunate meeting of March 4^th, the ACES Board has not met again. 

Considering the deliberate silence of Ms. Pama and her associate Albayda on the real reason behind their staunch move to revise our Constitution, we couldn’t help but suspect that they are motivated solely by selfish interests.

In not a few occasions and meetings of the ACES ad hoc committee before the ACES January 21, 2011 General Assembly, Ms. Pama raised her position that ACES Officers should be given salaries, honoraria and medical insurance and insisted even that such specific provisions on the matter be included in the ACES CBL. We vehemently opposed this self-serving motion, every time Ms. Pama raises it. 

Salaries, honoraria and medical insurance for ACES leaders are, of course, NOT found in our Constitution and By-Laws. (And so as in other pro-employee Unions in the public sector.)

Ms. Pama also pronounced that her powers as president in the approved CBL was diluted as one reason why she refused to sign the ratified CBL.

Are these the reason why Ms. Pama and her ilk are so bent on amending our Constitution? If not, then by all means, kindly give us a straight-forward answer to once and for all settle this lingering question.

We would like to note that the ACES President has not affixed her signature in the ACES CBL that was RATIFIED and APPROVED by the General Assembly. This in itself is a clear violation of union democracy and an affront to the ACES members who were present during the ratification of the very important organizational document.

The foregoing said and considered, allow us to clarify some matters being alluded to us by Ms. Pama and Mr. Albayda:

1.              That we are using the ACES without authorization from the President to forward our call for salary increase

-          For the information of all, the signature drive for the substantial increase in our wages is not an initiative of the ACES, but of the COMELEC Wage Fight!Alliance. As already stated above, the ACES have not been functioning since March and that no meeting of the ACES was called by the President since then. This is the reason why some of the members of the ACES Board took it upon themselves to organize the COMELEC Wage Fight!Alliance.
-          It is of no surprise that when the COMELEC Wage Fight! Petition reached their Department (ECAD), they didn’t affix their signatures.
-          It is true that when we forwarded the signed petition paper (signed by hundreds of COMELEC employees nationwide) to the Honorable Commission en banc thru Chairman Brillantes on August 3, 2011 (Attached) – Messrs Ramirez and Mallorca wrote their positions in ACES aside from being COMELEC Wage Fight Convenors.
-          But aren’t they allowed to do so? Were they not duly elected officers of the ACES, who despite the sheer failure of the President to perform her functions, decided to carry out their duties and responsibilities in which they were elected in the first place? In fact we believe that any employee of the Commission, whether part of ACES or not, has the right to campaign for their own well-being.
-                    Besides, if we are to follow the President’s skewed sense of organizational dynamics, were Mr. Mallorca and Ramirez still ACES officers at the time they forwarded the petition paper? “Ad Interim” Officials of the ACES were only magically “appointed” by the President last August 17, 2011, remember?

2.              That Chairman Sixto Brillantes berated and even cursed at Ms. Pama because, as alleged by Mr. Albayda, there are people calling for wage increase

-          We find this very hard to believe.
-          As the Champion of COMSTRAT 1116 (COMELEC Strategic Plan 2011-2016) Pillar 6, which calls for “improving the salary and compensation” of COMELEC employees before 2012, Chairman Brillantes’ alleged outburst on Ms. Pama is quite unfathomable.
-          Aside from this, the Honorable Chairman has replied to Messrs Ramirez and Mallorca on August 9, 2011, (attached) assuring us of “appropriate action/steps to immediately address” our appeal for wage increases.
-          Perhaps, the Honorable Chairman could help us shed light on this very serious allegation.

3.              That according to the same peddler of lies, the Honorable Chairman is vehemently “against unions” and that he was even disappointed over the COMELEC Wage Fight! Alliance’s choice of Atty. Ferdinand Rafanan as a speaker during the Wage Forum last August 20, 2011 

-          How could this be? To recall, after the ACES leadership met with the Chairman on early February, the ACES issued a Manifesto (attached PDF) expressing support for the newly appointed COMELEC Chair for he is “more open to act upon the legitimate calls of the COMELEC rank and file employees unlike his predecessor.”
-          Chairman Brillantes is also a veteran lawyer, who certainly knows that forming unions and pushing for the rights and welfare of the employees are well within the purview of the law.
-          Again, perhaps the COMELEC Chairman can help us shed light on this very serious allegation.
-          For all intents and purposes, Atty. Rafanan was chosen as speaker during the Wage forum because of his open support for the calls to increase the rank and file salaries, which was the heart and soul of the said forum.
-          Any individual and personality are most welcome to the COMELEC Wage Fight Alliance so long as he or she supports our cause.
-          If there are persons or groups that are unhappy with Atty. Rafanan, it is not the main concern of the rank and file.

4.              That the undersigned were arbitrarily ousted at the ACES leadership by virtue only of a Memo from the ACES President on August 17, 2011 (Attached PDF) seeking authorization from members to carry out the same

-          This is the last straw that finally broke the camel’s back.
-          As elected officials of the ACES, we view this as the President’s greatest act of treachery not only to our persons but, more so, to the thousands of COMELEC rank and file employees nationwide to whom we owe our mandate as ACES officials.
-           The President’s arbitrary and dictatorial act of ousting elected officials without due process is against the principle of union democray and immoral in any book.

Thus in the interest of union democracy, fairness and justice, we the undersigned are calling on ALL COMELEC RANK AND FILE EMPLOYEES to stand up for what is right. Naniniwala kaming alam na ninyo ngayon kung sino ang nasa TAMA at kung sino ang nasa KAMALIAN.

In the meantime, as individuals committed to serve the rank and file employees, we commit to soldier on. Our call for a substantial wage increase is finally gaining ground. We choose to work tirelessly in order to bring this dream of ours into fruition rather than to stress ourselves in engaging those few, who largely on their own doing, have successfully unmasked their characters as selfish and rabidly anti-employee.

Lastly, we are calling for an emergency General Assembly of the ACES as soon as possible if only to give the members a venue to confront, challenge, if not, uproot the creeping dictatorship in our Union.

We end this statement with a quote from Gat Andres Bonifacio:

“Reason tells us that we must not waste our time waiting in vain for promises of felicity that will never come, that will never materialize. Reason tells us that we must rely upon ourselves alone and never entrust our rights and our life to anyone else. Reason teaches us to be united in sentiment, thought and purpose, so that we may acquire the strength necessary to crush the evil that is affecting our people… 

Therefore, o my countrymen! Let us scatter the mist that befogs our intellect, and let us consecrate all our strength to the good cause, with unshakable and absolute faith in its success, and in the ultimate prosperity, so anxiously desired of us, by the land of our birth.”

Yours in service,

(sgd)                                                                             (sgd)

Mark Christopher Ramirez                    Armando M. Mallorca

(sgd)                                                                                      (sgd)

Joselito Gerardino                                                     Edward Macasu 

DOWNLOAD FULL STATEMENT IN PDF FILE HERE

Mindy, Ellen’s housekeeper

“To review the Best Picture nominees, I called in an expert… my housekeeper, Mindy” – Ellen DeGeneres

A Filipina housekeeper is slowly becoming a household name in the US for her quirky reviews and funny roundup of the latest reality TV shows and movies. Mindy, Ellen DeGeneres’ Filipina house help, appears in the latter’s immensely popular talkshow in a segment called “Mindy’s Reality Roundup.”

In one of her segments, Mindy talked about Jersey Shore. She commented about the house being “messy” and said if she had a chance to be among the show’s cast, she would be cleaning the house instead of “mingling” with the characters.

“Hey guys, you have to clean your mess” Mindy said, and then laughs. She’s Ellen’s house help, after all!

The internet have been abuzz extolling Mindy for being “funny”, “sweet”, “adorable” and “hilarious”

The Definitely Filipino blog, said Mindy “is just one of the Filipinos who had appeared on Ellen’s show (remember Charice?). It is just a proof that we, Filipinos, have a really good sense of humor without even trying so hard!”

Reviews Inc. had this to say: I am sure if this show becomes a succes, we will be hearing more from Mindy, she might even have a say on things like term life insurance or how it is to be living with the famous Ellen Degeneres. I really have to give it to Mindy, she is so funny and her laugh is so contagious!

But not all are happy for this up and coming Pinay in the US.

On the Ellen DeGeneres Show’s Facebook page, one commented that Ellen “spoiled” her housekeeper. “I’d like to get her job too. Doing nothing, just watching all reality shows. Envvvvvvvvvvvvvy……..”

“Racist much? not all filipinos are maids,” blurted isawesomelike on youtube.

Fueling the stereotype?

I share the view of Mindy’s growing number of fans that this kabayan of ours is funny and adorable. I congratulate Mindy for making it to the Ellen DeGeneres show. She follows the footsteps of sensations Charice Pempenco and Arnel Pineda, who both reached international stardom after appearing in her employer’s hit show.

I fear, however, that Mindy’s segment in The Ellen DeGeneres Show could possibly stoke the stereotype that the Filipino race are all housekeeper and maids.

Remember the outrage generated by Filipinos worldwide when Hong Kong-based columnist  Chip Tsao insulted the Philippines as ”nation of servants”?

Recall also that in 1998, a Greek dictionary defined “Filipineza” (Filipino lady) not only as a woman from the Philippines but also a “domestic worker from the Philippines or a person who performs non-essential auxiliary tasks”?

I can only hope that Filipinos wouldn’t be racially stereotyped as such, as Mindy captures the affection of the army of DeGeneres fans worldwide.

Balitang America:
MINDY:Rising Pinay Star in Daytime TV