Free Perfume Sample+Hanger from Christina Aguilera

Talk about a non-traditional and inventive promotion for Christina Aguilera’s new perfume line to empower its slogan: Sometimes, its all you need to wear; and you get tens of thousands of quality clothes hangers with free perfume samples and a branded Christina Aguilera label on each one, scattered in various public locations all over the country.

The challenge was to create a stirring campaign for the perfume line in Israel and encourage people to buy the product/s. The effort was very, very successful in Israel reaching over 1.5 million customers and giving the company the highest ever sales of a new perfume in the country. The perfume was sold out in less than a week.

But that can’t be done in the Philippines; hangers with free perfume samples in the streets of the Makati/Ortigas business districts will all be gone faster than you can spell Christina Aguilera! How much more if its done in any part of Manila, imagine the pandemonium!

Seen from Adoholik.

Bebe Gandanghari (The Artist Formerly Known As Rustom Padilla)

Who would have thought that this beautiful, super skinny mowdel (excuse the “w”, i just have to enunciate the “mow….del!” part as it seems appropriate) of a woman was once trapped inside the hunky body of a man named Rustom Padilla who is now history (according to, yes, the mowdel herself, she killed Rustom). Couldn’t blame the girl really. After all, the guy trapped her inside of him for what, almost 30 years (hmmm…. not accurate, i am not aware of his/her age). What a shame; this Rustom guy, alienating and depriving the world of her beauty and grace! Why, even some of our local actresses would look like rags beside her!

Ladies and very gentlemen, the before and after of Bebe Gandanghari: The artist formerly known as Rustom Padilla.

Rustom Padilla: The hunk actor

Bebe Gandanghari: The mowdel actress

(Are we going to witness a “Transamerica” moment soon???”)

Whitney Houston reappears beautiful and gracious at BET 2009

I have been a long time fan of THE Whitney-Houston-past. Back then, nobody could ever sing or perform like her. She was like a “beast” on stage, of course in a good and awe striking way. But i also know the problems and tragedies she’s been into since her glory days, some, are sadly self-inflicted, and man, they were bad!

Fast forward to 2008 and post Bobby Brown and drugs and the out-of-this-world travesties, she reappears with Clive Davis at his Pre-Grammy party and the talks of a new album began circulating. The album was allegedly scheduled for a November 2008 release but apparently, Clive and probably the Arista big wigs and maybe Whitney herself thought it was not time yet as Whitney had a mix of bad and so-so performances during her 2008 “unplugged” shows in various venues all over the world. Yes, she had shows. And she wasn’t entirely very good at it. As it seems, THE VOICE was already lost.

In the middle of all these, as i have found out from dedicated Whitney Fan forums, were rumors of surgery, vocal box surgery, or whatever it is called to somehow get your voice back. But all these were mere speculations and hopes, mainly coming from the fans; nothing concrete from Arista or from Clive or from Whitney.

And then surprisingly, Whitney appears looking gracious, beautiful and in-control at the BET Honors last January 17, 2009. THE VOICE, may or may not have comeback, BUT surely, she’s starting 2009 right. I just hope this continues on and is just a preview of better things to come, like coming out with a fabulous album that is stripped-off of commercialism and trying-to-be-in formula. Because Whitney, i believe, is beyond that, the woman has been the most awarded singer in history and she has nothing else to prove but put out a great album and awe inspiring performances.

  

(Courtesy of Classic Whitney Forums)

Great find for the week: TearDrop iPod (Bathroom) Speakers

Claimed to be the hottest gift item in Japan today is this battery operated TearDrop iPod Speakers , water resistant and is perfect to tag along with you while taking a shower ( I wonder if it’s salt-water resistant. Then, it would be perfect as well to bring along while you’re on a beach vacation).

The portable speaker can be used for iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle or other mp3 players smaller than 2.55W x 4.17H x 0.78D (Inches) with a 0.13″ earphone jack. It comes in the most adorable colors (pink, light blue, pink white +).

Its priced at $58.00 or roughly PhP 2600.00.