Spongecola and Karylle Top My OPM Top 10 Countdown This Week

Spongecola and Karylle get to the top of My OPM Top 10 countdown this week.

Here are my ten favorite OPM songs for the week ending January 17, 2020.

#1 Promises (#2)
     Spongecola / Karylle

#2 Hiling (#3)
      Delaney

#3 Tipints (#4)
     Alex Gonzaga

#4 Umaga (#9)
     Shanne Dandan

#5 Rewind (#6)
     Riva Quenery

#6 Body Crashes (#7)
     Rhian

#7 Patawad, Paalam (NEW)
     Moira dela Torre / I Belong to the Zoo

#8 Sumayaw sa Indak (NEW)
     Nadine Lustre, Pio Balbuena, Shehyee

#9 Triangulo (NEW)
     Nadine Lustre, Sam Concepcion, Nicole Omillo

#10 Lagi (NEW)
       John Roa

LSD Get Their First #1 Song in My Personal Countdown

The supergroup LSD get their first #1 song in my personal countdown.

Here are my ten favorite songs for the week ending January 10, 2020.

#1 No New Friends (#2)
     LSD

#2 Happy With You (#3)
     Paul McCartney

#3 Harmony Hall (#4)
     Vampire Weekend

#4 Megatron (#5)
     Nicki Minaj

#5 I'm the Man (#8)
     Taylor Swift

#6 Blessings (#7)
     Laura Story

#7 NASA (#9)
     Ariana Grande

#8 Earfquake (#10)
    Tyler the Creator

#9 Lose You to Love Me (NEW)
     Selena Gomez

#10 Good As Hell (NEW)
       Lizzo                                                                                                 

Geo Ong Gets His First #1 Song in My OPM Top 10 Countdown

Rapper Geo Ong gets his first #1 song in My OPM Top 10 countdown for the week ending January 10, 2020.

Here are my ten favorite OPM songs this week -

#1 Pekeng Kaibigan (#2)
     Geo Ong

#2 Promises (#3)
     Spongecola / Karylle

#3 Hiling (#4)
      Delaney

#4 Tipints (#6)
     Alex Gonzaga

#5 My Beating Heart (#7)
     Hale

#6 Rewind (#8)
     Riva Quenery

#7 Body Crashes (#9)
     Rhian

#8 Breakthrough (#10)
     GT

#9 Umaga (NEW)
     Shanne Dandan

#10 Wag Mo Akong Iwan (NEW)
       Mayonnaise

Oscars 2020: Scarlett Johansson Goes Two For the Road

Scarlett Johansson will always be special to me because her character in the movie Lost in Translation became my template during a memorable Tokyo trip in 2004.

Everything she did in the movie, I did as well. I became her. I had no Bill Murray. I had Bill Murrays, plural. But that's me, never just contented with one.

Anyway, the Academy snubbed her performance in that movie and I was sad. No Oscar nomination for Best Actress, because her performance was too subtle, not very showy.

Fast forward 17 years later, finally, she not only gets one nomination, she gets two, one for Lead Actress (Marriage Story) and one for Supporting Actress (Jojo Rabbit).

At the ripe old age of 35!

Her contemporaries like Natalie Portman already have Oscars and nominations as well, so I am happy that the girl who played the young equestrienne who needed a horse whisperer in a movie of the same title, has finally gotten her due - in a big way!

She is not a favorite to win though in both categories but you never know. She may be this year's 'Olivia Colman' LOL

My Weight Loss Journey

I took this video July of last year.  I weighed 113.2 kilos there.  As of today, January 11, 2020, I am down to 108.5 kilos. I want to lose more.

Here's my intial video -

Oscars 2020: My Personal Votes

The Oscars will release its nominees this coming week so here are my personal choices among the main categories. I will pretend like I'm an Oscar voter and being one of the diverse voters in the Academy, I will do my best to achieve diversity in the nominations.

Here are my personal votes -

 

Oscars 2020: Who I Think the Academy will Vote

Here are my guesses as to who the Academy will vote for in this year's Oscars. This is only for the main categories.

Watch my vlog here -