Lito Lapid's Wife is a Money Launderer FAIL!

If you were smart enough to have accumulated wealth, the legal or illegal way, you should also be smart enough not to get caught smuggling huge amounts of money from your home country to another country.

Well, the wife of Lito Lapid, Marissa, got herself arrested for trying to bring $50,000 in cash into the USA. You know and I know Marissa knows that Marissa tried to lie her way through the airport, but airport personnel are trained to smell liars a mile away.

So Marissa was arrested in November 2011, presented herself infront of a judge who allowed her bail. She's now sporting a new accessory, an ankle monitor, after she was arrested when she came back in January 2012.

This incident does not reflect well on Lito Lapid, who is set to make a television comeback via ABS-CBN. Oh, wait.. Lito Lapid is a Philippine senator and a long-standing member of the so-called committee on silence.

Lito Lapid's committee membership is also in peril because he has bee visible lately, speaking to the media about his wife's legal troubles and standing up to speak during the on-going impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona.

The pressure is now on Bong Revilla. I'm betting Bong Revilla will choose to keep his membership on the committee on silence. This is why I ca't get on the Bong Revilla train. He doesn't try. At least Jinggoy Estrada makes an effort, even if it is in the name of grandstanding.

Lito Lapid's wife Marissa has hired a topnotch lawyer to prove one of two things: the money was intended for health-care purposes or the money would be used to make home repairs. I'm sure most of us are asking, "Ano ba talaga?"

That topnotch lawyer must be charging by the hundreds by the hours. I bet Marissa is now wishing she had declared the money or pay that miniscule (by comparison) bank transaction fee.

Tum: My Pledge of Love Is The Bomb ... At The Box Office

Tum: My Pledge of Love, the epic love story starring real-life couple Robin Padilla and Mariel Rodriguez, was a huge FAIL at the box office.

Tum: My Pledge of Love is a story about boy meets girl, girl hates boy, and girl and boy eventually fall in love and marry.

This movie comes with a twist, though. You think Direk Robin Padilla will come up with a formulaic movie? Nah-uh. The plot is the usual but get this, the story happened in India. Innovative, right?

Ticket sales on opening day totalled P500,000 and 450,000 on second day. On the third day, the takilyera rested but on the fourth day did not bother to go to work for a day's overall take of P350,000.

I knew Tum: My Pledge of Love is going to be a major FAIL at the box office because a movie that is written, produced, starred, directed and edited by the lead star is always a fail one way or the other.

Well, with the exception of Yahoo Serious, known for the classics Young Einstein and Reckless Kelly.

I have a theory why Robin and Mariel's Tum: My Pledge of Love tanked at the box office. Robin's Muslim brothers did not bother going to the cinema to support their "bra."

Or copies, pirated ones, of Tum: My Pledge of Love are now available on Hidalgo.