Hi everyone! I just wanted to share to you all that my TFS videos were featured on Bakitwhy's Blog section on August 20, 2009. It's really flattering to know that my videos somehow reach out to others and make their day. A Bakitwhy contributer by the name of Jonathan Hernandez has written a blog about the videos:
"For those of you who have ever seen a Pilipino soap opera/teleserye, or have access to TFC, or have secretly been reformatting your schedule and life around whether or not Richard Gutierrez will forgive Angel Locsin for slapping him and his mother (sorry, i'm outdated I know...but I'm sure they still do stuff together, right??), then you'll find great satisfaction in knowing that there's a new Pilipino Soap out on the air - and it's on Youtube too!"
"I was recently surfing through YouTube as I usually do for no less than 10 hours a day and came across quite a find. A YouTube user by the name of Kits is a Pilipino-American vlogger/actor in the mold of HappySlip who loves to cater to his Pinoy audience (and non-Pinoy audience as well, because regardless of your ethnicity, his videos are just mad funny) through his unique and very professionally acted video skits. He recently began his own Pilipino drama, aptly titled "The Filipino Soap", in which he hilariously parodies and over-exagerrates the generic corny-ness and over-dramatic silliness that can be found in most every Pilipino drama. Just like HappySlip, he's a one man show (er, one woman for her) who plays a variety of different characters - and plays them all really well. What's most refreshing about Kits is that he speaks tagalog fluently in his drama and uses it not only as a way to educate his audience in the Pilipino language, but also as an added tool in heightening the overall humor. Because let's be honest, everything is so much funnier when that Pinoy accent and sentimentality, and those familiar teleserye-like tagalog phrases all come forth. It really doesn't get much better than a dramatically heated fight between rivals spoken entirely in Tag-lish.
Tumawa ka na! Translacion: These videos are hilarious, so laugh already! (not a direct translation). They so brilliantly capture the smallest intricacies of what makes Pilipino culture and media so humorous and unique - especially for those who might normally watch such dramas with fanatically straight faces (although I've always laughed regardless, sorry). All I know is, by the end of this drama, I was crying too... with tears of laughter. And for those of you who have any sort of experience with Pilipino TV, you will be cry-laughing as well while also continually yelling 'SO TRUE!' at the screen. And if somehow you manage to not even crack a smile after watching these videos, well then...*Slap*"
by Jonathan Hernandez
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