Survivor Philippines Celebrity Doubles Showdown: The Volcanoes

The challenges and drama are heating up on week two of Survivor Philippines Celebrity Doubles Showdown.

The Volcanoes tandem of John and Arnold won the Immunity Challenge, Bola Bola, for the Bulan Tribe. These guys are beasts because they are also largely to thank for the Bulan tribe's victory in the Reward Challenge earlier.

The drama all came down during the Immunity Challenge, courtesy of Angelicopter, Jackie Forster and Isabel Granada. The ladies went up in arms, and even Angelicopter went inside the mud pit to "rescue" her tribe mate Carlo who was run over by the ball being maneuvered by Arnold from the Bulan tribe. Why did this happen? Obviously, because the challenge is very physical, adrenaline is running, and Carlo is trying to be great to the point of being stupid. Would you stand still even when you see a rampaging boulder coming towards you?

Angelicopter, Jackie and Isabel cannot understand this and cried foul, calling Arnold "masamang tao and other names." LOL… Say, what?! In a physical challenge and in a game like Survivor, you get banged and you get bruised. If you can't imagine getting hurt or going hungry, open your Facebook account and play Café World or Farmville.

Those three irk me because they are the types of women who fight for equal rights and opportunities for women, but who are also ready to raise the gender card to fight their battles. Why wouldn't Arnold talk back or say shut up, when all you three were shouting him to death? Just because you're women?! Ten steps back for the Women Empowerment!!

Next time on Survivor Philippines, they're voting out two people. I hope one of them is Angelicopter or Ellen Adarna. The former is bossy and mouthy, and the latter is a downlow, sneaky little bitch.

Jose Midas Marquez: Gay?

Supreme Court Spokesperson Jose Midas Marquez was caught unawares by a wayward mic and in the process revealed that not everything he touches is gold, it's PINK! lol

Is SC Spokesperson Jose Midas Marquez gay? watch this video and you be the judge!

Survivor Philippines Celebrity Doubles Showdown: Geneva Cruz is a Train Wreck.

I got suckered into watching the latest edition of Survivor Philippines at it promises to outwhine on top of outwit, outplay and outlast. I'm also looking forward to seeing Survivor Philippines host Richard Gutierrez lose his cool over the excessive whining and entitlement of the castaways during one Tribal Council.

It's day one and Geneva Cruz, who is paired up with ex-husband KC Montero, has already brought the drama and the crazy on Survivor Philippines Celebrity Doubles Showdown.

This is why you don't join a reality show with your ex if you two still have unresolved issues between the two of you, or if you're taking meds to keep the crazy at bay and the show's requirement is to leave those meds at home.

What was the reason for Geneva's breakdown? As far as I can gather from Geneva's rantings, she did not want to be there lying and scheming to win 3 million pesos. Geneva went because KC persuaded her to join. Well, Geneva can't very well accuse her ex of using her because she gave her consent to join the reality show. But even the onsite psychologist can't reason out with Geneva Cruz's crazy.

Oh well, Geneva Cruz quit Survivor Philippines Celebrity Doubles Showdown and KC Montero got to stay. Fuck the rules that say "your partner quits and you're out too." I would have love to see more of Geneva's cray cray, but I think the remote island of San Vicente in Palawan will not be able to cope.

According to Geneva, there was no reconciliation between her and KC while on the island. Now we know why. She couldn't even last 24 hours on the island! Poor guy had to deal with that level of crazy for years? Someone tell KC to run as far away from her crazy ex as possible.

Gwendoline Ruais is Ms World 2011 First Runner Up

Apparently it's still beauty contest season and I was unaware of it. Woke up this morning to the TV blasting the Ms World 2011 awards ceremony. There was also the Ms International tilt happening simultaneously.

French Pinay beauty Gwendoline Ruais placed first runner-up in the 2011 Ms World Beauty Contest held in the UK. She looks like a tranny, but she won so that's that!

Surprise! Suprise! (not!) Ms Venezuela won the crown. Not impressed.

Venezuelan beauty bets are known to undergo "Olympic-style" training prior to competing in these beauty pageants. Everything that can be fixed on these Venezuelan bets are fixed, including a flawed nose, flat chest or non-existent chin, but they can't or won't speak in English like the rest of the non-English speaking contestants. I suspect it's not the substance of their answers in the Q&A but the beauty of the Spanish language that win judges. That's my theory and I'm sticking to it.

Anyway, I am so glad another Pinay beauty almost won in another international beauty contest. Not because I buy into the "beauty with a purpose" thing. It's because of two things:

First, winning first runner up means the media can finally shut their cameras and voice recorders on the overrated Shamcey Supsup, 3rd runner-up in the 2011 Ms Universe contest. Just shut it already. Jon Santos' impersonation of Shamcey Supsup is more interesting than any sound bite coming from the real thing. Sad, but it's time to pack up.

Second, first runner-up in the Ms World contest is equal to First Princess. This will, I hope, shut up everyone who continues to use the tag "second princess" on Ruffa Gutierrez. Please, the bitch is a has-been and her time was over a decade ago. Ruffa Gutierrez is so early 1990s.

Now, I suspect I'd get tired of Ms Gwendoline Ruais First Runner up 2011 Ms World sooner or later. The fawning from the reporters and photographers, blech! Beauty titlists are not the next coming of Christ!

And how about Diane Necio? Poor girl, or is it Poor, thank you girl? Her backer at the Ms International tilt is not as doggone persistent (or is it annoying?) as Cory Quirino of the Ms World Philippines org.

All Diane Necio won was some kind of People's Choice Awards through online voting. Well, at least she won something. Try again next time like Abby Cruz, a perennial Luz Valdez in local beauty contests. I almost feel sorry for Diane Necio, but she'll be an artista anyway. You can bet on it.

Shamcey Supsup, Third Runner Ms Universe 2011

Philippines' bet, Shamcey Supsup, placed third runner up in the just concluded Ms Universe 2011 held in Brazil. The crown was placed on the head of Ms Angola, Leila Lopes, who stole Venus Raj's head piece from last year's Ms Universe pageant.

I thought Shamcey Supsup got in the bag during the Q&A portion. Unlike her predecessors who more or less kissed their chances of running with the Ms Universe crown with their answers, Shamcey gave a clear and solid answer to the question from Hollywood actress Viveca A Fox.

The question: "Would you change your religious belief to marry the person you love? Why or Why not?"

The answer: "If I have to change my religious beliefs, I would not marry the person that I love. Because the first person that I love is God, who created me."

Di ba pageant na pageant ang sagot? Waging waging. To those who are saying Shamcey should have answered this way or that way, just STFU! You may have the better answer, but you don't have the beauty to sashay down that stage.

Even the queen of talk, Oprah Winfrey weighed in on the results of the 60th Ms Universe coronation night. Oprah thinks that if the winner were to be based on the Q&A alone, Ms Philippines deserved the crown. Shamcey Supsup gave a straight answer, without the benefit of a few seconds to think courtesy of the interpreter.

Filipino beauty pageant trainers and even Filipino beauty pageant watchers tend to prefer our candidates in these international beauty competitions to be fluent in the English language. But I think Latin America and other non-English speaking countries have it right. Use an interpreter during the Q&A to give the contestant a few seconds to organize her answer. Those top 4 contenders understood and speak English. They just preferred to employ an interpreter because they could better express themselves in their native tongue, and a few seconds wouldn't hurt them.

It's about time we hear Filipino spoken in the international stage through a beauty pageant contestant. It's a strategy of hurts during Q&A, the bane of most Pinay beauty bets. Moreover, we would likely to see the unseating of James Soriano from his high horse by showing him that Tagalog is not just the language of the streets and the uneducated.

It's unfortunate the fans are not the judges because if they were, Shamcey would have been the winner fer sure. There are "official" judges who get their cue from pageant organizers who get their cue from Donald Trump, the combover owner of the Ms Universe organization.

Oh well, there's still next year. Hopefully, our future Pinay bet would place 2nd runner-up.