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Tiger Mom Amy Chua Picks A Fight With Emmy Winner Alan Yang

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Yang and his Emmy, left, and Chua

HOLLYWOOD, California (The Adobo Chronicles, Los Angeles Bureau) – In accepting the Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for the ‘Master of None’ episode ‘Parents,’ writer Alan Yang urged Asian parents to give their kids cameras instead of violins. That didn’t sit well with ‘Tiger Mom’ Amy Chua. She demanded an apology from Yang.

Chua is the author of the controversial book, ‘Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,’ in which she narrates her insistence on piano and violin lessons for her two daughters. For years, Chua fought pitched battles with her kids about practicing — putting Lulu, age 3, outside in the cold because she wouldn’t take instruction. She also threatened to burn her kids’ stuffed animals, and denying dinner until a piece was perfected.

“Who is to say that the camera makes one a better person than the violin,” Chua said.

The moral of the story: Hollywood can’t pick a fight with the Tiger mom. It’s a losing proposition.

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Government, Law Enforcement, Music, Politics

What Incarcerated Drug Dealer Will Reveal About Senator Leila De Lima At Congressional Hearing

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Colangco in his New Bilibid Prison recording studio. Inset: De Lima

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – The Inquirer is reporting that convicted robber and drug dealer Herbert “Ampang” Colangco is one of the high profile inmates that will testify against Senator Leila de Lima in the congressional inquiry next week on the proliferation of illegal drugs in the country’s major prison facility, Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II said Friday.

Colangco is one of the names in the drug matrix presented by President Rodrigo Duterte as among the convicts inside the maximum security compound of the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) who still managed to continue operations despite incarceration. Also in the matrix are De Lima, her former driver Ronnie Dayan and another drug convict, Peter Co.

Colangco also managed to shoot music videos inside prison and donated millions of pesos to the Bilibid hospital.

The Adobo Chronicles caught up with Colangco in his jail cell while rehearsing for a new music video that he is scheduled to record next week.  We asked him what major revelation he is going to make about Senator De Lima.

Colangco told us that he will testify that De Lima is a karaoke addict and that she has used Colangco’s recording facilities at the New Bilibid Prison many times and that she had asked him to be his vocal coach.

When we asked Colangco about De Lima’s connection with drugs inside the prison, he simply said, “My lips are sealed.”

We just have to wait next week when the Congressional hearing unfolds.

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Entertainment, Government, Music, Politics

‘Killing Me Softly’ Tops Latest Karaoke Charts In The Philippines

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Senator De Lima (in yellow t-shirt) belting it out, karaoke style

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – For quite some time, ‘My Way’ was the most popular sing-along music played at karaoke bars in the Philippines.  Alas, it was also the deadliest song, with karaoke singers reportedly killed just for singing the Frank Sinatra classic.

But move over, ‘My Way,’ here comes the new most requested and sung karaoke song, and it still has to do with “killing.”

That’s right, ‘Killing Me Softly,’ popularized by Roberta Flack, is now No.1 on the karaoke charts, thanks to Philippine President Rodrigo Roa Duterte and his nemesis, Senator Leila De Lima.

Duterte has mentioned the song in reference to his claim that “he has the goods” on De Lima in as far as the senator’s link to the proliferation of illegal drugs at the National Bilibid Prison during her time as Secretary of Justice under the Aquino administration.

De Lima herself has mentioned the song in her press conference and interviews refuting Duterte’s claims.

In the meantime, while Duterte and De Lima battle it out in Malacañang, the Senate and the media, Karaoke enthusiasts are having a grand time belting out this 1973 Grammy Record of the Year.

Let’s just hope nobody gets killed doing it.

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