Milo's Corner

Filipinos are notable beauty pageant connoisseurs. We are the only country can consider beauty contest as our national sport. 😂 I think everyone I know - gay or straight watches the Ms. Universe live telecast. It is one of the most anticipated event every year that viewership would equal or sometimes exceed Manny Paquiao's boxing title fights. It is quite ironic because basketball is considered our national sports. Nationwide participation is more present in the Ms. Universe than professional basketball. We have our own local version of Ms. Universe contest during our barangay fiestas. Which becomes more of a comedy show because participants are gay and transwoman members of the community. Contestants are parading their versions of Ms. Universe and even celebrities look alike. Entertainment like this is quite simply original Filipino.  Filipinos solidarity for their candidate is a force to reckon with. We are always a top candidate in online voting. I can see people reposting post...

I miss the times when I travel with friends and online acquaintances. I used to travel to a different local destinations. Some were daytrips and some were overnight and some took a few days away from the city. I'm a part of a get together group at Meetup.com since 2013.  I started to join their events and activities so I can be out of the apartment once in a while. I resigned from my office based job and found a gig to work from home in 2013. So to fight my boredom and be able to socialize a bit I joined MTAG, short for Manila Trips and Get Together. The group is one of the biggest in Meetup PH. It grown to 2,800 membership in about 2-3 years it was organized.  I'm super active starting 2013 to 2017 then I kind of rested a while. The group is still at Meetup.com and being maintained by Chris. He is the original organizer and along with other event organizers. As everything slowed down during the COVID-19 pandemic so did the meetup group. Now that everything is picking u...