Pinoy Pride

There may be many things in which the Philippines is severely lacking at, but one thing's for sure: MY COUNTRY'S GOT TALENT!!!

This girl, Charice Pempengco, just recently wowed Koreans with her jaw-dropping rendition of And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going from the movie Dreamgirls when she got invited to perform on a tv show called Star King. As a Filipino, my heart swelled with pride upon seeing the reactions of the live audience, because they were really in awe of her.

People back home haven't really given her this much appreciation (I think) because talented kids like her aren't really that rare. There are a lot of kids back home joining local singing contests who could put any (specify country name since there are already so many franchises) Idol contestant to shame. Charice actually joined the singing contest Little Big Star in the Philippines before and ended up third place. Oh well. Just goes to show that not being first is not the end of the world, for right now she's been currently giving the Philippines some much needed honor abroad.