Category Archives: Arts

TRUTH REVEALED: KIM KARDASHIAN STOLE ELLEN DEGENERES’ IDEA FOR NUDE PHOTO

November 17, 2014 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

Hollywood, California (The Adobo Chronicles) – The truth can finally be told. Kim Kardashian’s sensational and over-rated nude photo isn’t original.

Kardashian’s photograph showing her oiled posterior graced the cover of the latest issue of Paper magazine and it has gone viral even before the issue was scheduled to come out.

It turns out that Ellen Degeneres and wife Portia De Rossi did it first.

Each year, Ellen and Portia print personalized Christmas cards that their fans can send to friends and family, and they design their own greeting card cover. This year, they chose a photograph of themselves in the nude, in exactly the same infamous Kardashian pose on the Paper magazine cover.

“We order our greeting cards from Shutterfly months in advance of the holidays which, this year, we did way back in June. And we came up with this crazy idea one day to show our oiled enormous posteriors. We had fun doing it,” Ellen told The Adobo Chronicles.

Shutterfly donates a portion of the cost of the greeting cards to two of Ellen’s favorite charities.

Arts, International

MISS WORLD CONFUSION: WILL THE REAL MISS PHILIPPINES PLEASE STEP FORWARD?

November 11, 2014 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

Miss Philippines, left, and Miss New Zealand, Filipinas both.

London, United Kingdom (The Adobo Chronicles) – The Philippines is known for champion boxers and beauty queens. Especially beauty queens. In 2013 alone, the country won three major international beauty pageant crowns : Miss World, Miss International, and Miss SupraNational. It also holds the 2013 crown for Miss Tourism International.

The Philippines is among the few elite countries (that includes Brazil and Venezuela) that have won the crown for all four major pageants — Miss World, Miss Universe, Miss International and Miss Earth.

In December, the 2014 Miss World Pageant will be held in London, during which the current title holder Megan Young of the Philippines, will crown her successor. Will it be another Filipina?

There is a little problem within the Miss World Organization, however. Organizers seem to be confused about the Philippines’ candidate and the confusion extends to Germany and New Zealand.

Miss Philippines Valerie Weigmann, is half German while Miss New Zealand Arielle Diane Garciano, is half Filipino. Weigmann’s father is German while Garciano’s father is from Cebu in the Philippines.

Today, the Philippines, Germany and New Zealand filed a petition with the Miss World Organization asking that their respective candidates wear a red-colored sash to alert the judges and to make sure they are not confused about who is Miss Philippines, Miss Germany and Miss New Zealand.

In response, Miss World organizers said that during the evening gown and swimsuit competitions, the emcees will ask, “Will the real Miss Philippines please step forward?”

Surely, that would prevent any further confusion.

Arts, International, Politics

PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT WILL BE AWARDED PRESTIGIOUS TROPHY FOR PORK BARREL SCANDAL

October 24, 2014 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

London, The United Kingdom (The Adobo Chronicles) – Last week, The Adobo Chronicles reported that the Philippines broke two Guinness world records — one for the largest Zumba class and the other for being the home of the largest pork barrel (scandal) in the world.

While the local government of Cebu City – site of the record-breaking Zumba class — will be receiving a laminated plaque from the Guinness organization in London, the Manila government will receive a special trophy that Guinness believes would be the most appropriate award for the record pork barrel scandal.

The trophy is being donated by the government of Taiwan. It is one of its more bizarre national treasurers which was recently exhibited in Japan’s Kyushu National Museum in the southern city of Fukuoka.

The revered artifact is the Meat-Shaped Stone (see photo) which is a piece of jasper, carved and dyed to resemble a chunk of pork, much like the lechon kawali (Filipino pan-roasted pork). According to the National Palace Museum, the craftsman “took the rich natural resources of this stone and carved it with great precision… the veining and hair follicles making the piece appear even more realistic.”

President NoyNoy Aquino, along with members of Congress, the Judiciary and the Catholic Church leadership — all of whom were implicated one way or another in the 10 Billion-peso pork barrel scam — will receive the trophy from the Guinness Board of Governors at ceremonies in Malacanang (the Philippine presidential palace) on October 31, Halloween.