Goodbye 2011, hello 2012!
That will be everyone’s cheer as the clock strikes twelve tomorrow evening. But just before we say goodbye to 2011, let us take a walk down the memory lane and recount the most popular buzzwords of the expiring year.
Yes.
Buzzwords. You’ve heard them, you’ve
read about them and you might actually have said them. Here are the best (and worse?) buzzwords that
conquered 2011:
(originaly posted on gmanetwork.com by Andreo
Calonzo)
11. Tsunami Walk
Who
could have forgotten Shamcey Supsup’s trademark walk? Swaying like a true tsunami in the middle of
its ravage, Ms. Supsup has as well taken the international audience with this
walk during her impressive performance at the 2011 Miss Universe beauty
pageant. She ended up third runner up
that made her whole nation erupt in joy.
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| Shamcey with her famous ''tsunami walk" Photo courtesy of: missosology.info |
10. Wagas
The
Tagalog translation of pure, this word has been given a new meaning within the
year. Use for expressing excessiveness,
Filipinos can’t seem to get enough of this word. “Wagas
ang paggamit ng salitang ito!”
9. Dougie
Do
you know how to dougie? If not, then you
must have slept in the cave for the past twelve months. As irritating as they may sound for others,
Teach Me How to Doughie a song popularized by Cali Swag District, has become
widely popular around the globe and the local shores of the Philippines was no
exemption. Dougie is a hip-hop dance generally performed by moving one's body in a shimmy style and passing a hand through or near the hair on one's own
head. From actors to politicians to just
everybody else, dougie and its “instructional song” became regular guests to
parties.
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| Can you teach me how to dougie? Photo courtesy of: lat34.com |
8. Havey and waley
Popularized by ABS-CBN’s noontime
show, the two words are equally translated to approve and disapprove. Havey is for approval. Example: “I like your shirt, havey na havey!” Waley
on the other hand is use for disapproval, “Grabe,
yan na ba yung sinasabi mong maganda mong damit? Eh waley naman yan eh!”
7. Unkabogable
Another lingo popularized and this time
by the enigmatic comedian of ABS-CBN, Vice Ganda. Synonymous to unbeaten, this word was even
used for Vice Ganda’s latest movie, which now holds the record for the highest
grossing local movie of all time.
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| VIice Ganda and her unkabogable movie: Private Benjamin Photo courtesy of: 1.bp.blogspot.com |
6. Cyber Bullying
With the rise of social networking
sites like Facebook and Twitter, among others, cyber bullying has also become a
common occurrence in the cyber world.
People can now easily throw criticisms to anyone with the use of easy
and fast technology. Just a few taps on
the computer and boom, another victim has been bullied.
5. Milk tea
This generation’s version of Zagu (the
drinks which has been popularized in the early 2000s), milk tea has been the favourite
of many drinking aficionados who prefer milk with the addition tea over popular
coffee or plain tea and plain milk.
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| Hot or cold, milk tea is the new 'it' drink. Photo courtesy of: journeykitchen.com |
4. Angry Birds
Who would have thought the simple
game could produce humungous aftermath?
From computer screens to stone-cold merchandise, Angry Birds has taken
the world, including Philippines, by storm.
Now, the game is immortalized in bags, shirts, cups, game boards,
stickers and other merchandises that consumers, specially kids, just love to
have.
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| "You don't like me when I'm angry" Photo taken from: telegraph.co.uk |
3. Azkals
No, not the ‘asong kalye’ that Filipinos use to refer to stray dogs, but the mix
breed of football players that inspired the relatively young football nation to
support one of the world’s most popular sport.
Composed mainly of good looking half-Pinoy,
half-European young gentlemen,
the team drew the attention of Filipino audience by highlighting their players’
assets.
Nevertheless, they hope that one day Pinoys could catch the football
fever, not only the feverish temperature they feel whenever they see the
players.
Aside
from Azkals failed attempt to win the qualifying match for 2012 Brazil World
Cup, another highlight of the team this year was their friendly match against
L.A Galax, feauturing non other than the porter boy of football himself, David
Beckham.
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| Azkals: mix breed of football players. Photo as seen on: philippinenewsandnentertainment.blogpsot.com |
2. Planking
The simple act of lying face down in
the most bizarre places became viral this year.
Almost everyone has their own version of planking and not even the
proposed Anti-Planking law of the Philippines could have stopped the eager
supporters of planking.
Planking has also generated other
weird positions that caught the interests of youngsters and other young at
heart, like owling and horsing.
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| Planking in the most bizarre places, the more bizarre, the better. Photo as seen on: knowyourmeme.com |
1. Trending Topic
These two words were fully utilized
by FIlipnos this year. They have
discovered the power of tweets and tweeting.
Trending topic became the gauge of popularity. If the topic is popular enough it could land
a spot on the local trending topic list or even the coveted trending worldwide
label if it’s too popular.
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| Tweet about us: trending topics has been the gauge of popularity Photo taken from: blog.writecheck.com |
Catch GMA’s year-end countdown ‘Trending 2011’
presented by the News and Public Affairs tomorrow, December 31, 2011 right
after Kapuso Mo: Jessica Soho
PS: The author of
this entry planned to write something about the biggest news and newsmakers of
2011 (local and international) but then thought that a lot of people would make
their own list of the same theme and adding another would be a waste of cyber
space. So instead, the author had come
up with a revamped list based on what she heard on her favourite radio program. It turned out the list originated from GMA-7
so if you want to check out the original list here is the link:
