"Saturday" by Karen Bordador (2011)

Karen Bordador posing for FHM calendar (image from www.clubsnap.com)

(Note: Too bad Karen Bordador's "Saturday" is nowhere to be found on YouTube, so here's just a sexy picture of her.)

Karen Bordador: The beauty and the memory

I really don't like to pry into other people's private lives. And I assure you that by writing this posting, I am not making bad light out of people who are going through an ordeal. I do not intend to mock them. On the contrary, I feel sorry for them. The subject of this post is a certain celebrity by the name of Karen Bordador, who is a radio DJ and one of the former vixens of a popular condom brand.

Memory is a ghost that returns to remind me about a few things. With Miss Karen, memories from the year Rebecca Black was slaying the Internet with her viral hit “Friday”. Memories come from the year I started exposing myself to Jpop, particularly AKB48 and fripSide. Memories from a battlefield – a culture war, the exact term.

It has yet to establish whether Bordador is into drugs. Hope she was into a different kind of drugs - coffee. (image from www.imgrum.net)

I would also like to admit that because she was an ace of a condom brand, I used to Google her pictures on the Internet. She was bootylicious, that’s all. I don’t know if she is still bootylicious until the time of her arrest. I admit that I looked at her pictures again after I learned of her arrest. I want to know if she has recent pictures of her beauty, but I cannot seem to find any. The only recent picture I can find is her mug shot - and she did not look good in it.

Bordador with her fellow vixens (image from http://intimatemanila.com/)

Miss Karen was one of the original vixens of the condom brand, but she was not the queen. She was slimmer that the queen, but the queen was fairer and more bootylicious. I don’t know what happen to them after their run as condom vixens, but one of them figured in a sex scandal with a basketball executive and in a number of memes that resulted from it.

I think I should start praying for the former condom vixens, Miss Karen included.

What's that song?

I did YouTube her ‘Saturday” song. It was torture. It was one of the worst songs I have ever heard. The accompanying music video was one of the worst too. No point going back over that. It was a lame attempt to ride on with the popularity of the original. Conan O’Brien did better with his “Thursday”.

Should you listen to "Saturday"?

No. Because the song is already non-existent. Believe me, I tried my best to find the music video to the song, but it has already been lost. Don't know if her radio station still keep a audio of the song but it is not worth my time asking them. But if you are curious, let me check.

Right now please pray that you favorite celebrity keeps away from drugs or any other illegal activities.

“Judas” by Lady Gaga (2011)

Song as controversial as fallen apostle Judas

Never was a Lady Gaga fan, but I love four of her songs: “Paparazzi”, “Alejandro”, “Bad Romance”, and “Judas”. Controversial, the music video for “Judas” was for its use of religious imagery and its irreverent and highly sexualized portrayal of Jesus Christ, which angered Christians.

Mary Magdalene (Lady Gaga) riding at the back of Jesus Christ (Rick Gonzalez)

"Judas" was one of the most anticipated singles of 2011, the same year that gave us Rebecca Black's “Friday”, Nicki Minaj's “Super Bass”, Demi Lovato's “Skyscraper”, and Girls Generation's “Mr. Taxi”. The song turned five last month, and writing this blog piece is my way of (post)celebration.

Blasphemous, the video may be in the eyes of Christians, but cool for me. It was mayhem meeting faith, prayer inspiring dance (or the other way round). The character Jesus was just being Jesus, meeting people and healing the sick. The character Judas was way badass, having good time with the crowd and picking fights while his Master was doing God's business.

Judas (Norman Reedus) kissing Jesus Christ (Rick Gonzalez)

Judas, a cool song anyway

"Judas" makes a good movie adaption, a relevant and modern retelling of the Passion of the Christ, but without the lipstick coming out of a gold-plated gun. That's way too silly.

"Judas" was released around the time when I was slowly gravitating towards Jpop. If I am not wrong, this could be the only song in English and from the West that I like in current times. I already loved it when it was released, and when I heard it full. It played more on my mind than Beyonce's “Best Thing I Never Had”, Carly Rae Jepsen's “Call Me Maybe”, and Eminem and Rihanna's “The Monster”.

I just discovered on the Internet some hits by Western artists but they were old songs and coming from artists I have not heard of before. And there was this one modern soundtrack, a remake of a rock classic by a singer of a genre that I rarely listen to. About that singer, it was 10 years since I first heard her.

Songs For Friday

We sing Friday

The two faces of Friday: One is one of the worst songs ever, while another one is a well-beloved rock classic. So Friday is balanced, huh?

If you are going to sing about a day of the week, Friday is the best. (Monday comes a close second.) If you ask me, Friday is the best day to remember about anything of the past.

Friday and weekend past

When we were still schoolchildren, we looked forward to Friday because next day is Saturday, no school and a whole day to play and horse around, unless teachers bombard us with lots of homework and parents assign us our chores - and there is no escaping them. But at some time of the weekend, we still have fun, right?

I look forward to Friday evenings when I was young. It was the night of Pokemon, Digimon, Super Laff-In, Beast Wars, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Hercules, Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog, Power Rangers, and numerous classic TV shows on ABS-CBN and GMA. Those were the times. That was my kind of Friday.

The weekend that followed is more interesting. More interesting TV shows, stress-free day-off for the young, and the house works too. And we did not have mobile gadgets, Internet, and coffee shops then.

That was then.

It was fun.

For the former college dudes and dudettes, Fridays mean dates or late-night parties after school. It also means going home for the weekends or travelling to a place unknown for some kinds of kicks.

Today's Fridays are complicated but laden with more opportunities for fun and socialization. Different eras have their own challenges and opportunities. We cannot return to the Fridays and weekends of our youth, but we can do to bring youthful energy and optimism in today's motion of free time.

Histories

If I'm not wrong, one of the worst earthquakes in mankind's history occurred on a Friday many years ago. Sunny Friday it was then after a week of heavy rain, and I had lettuce for lunch. For my upperclassmen, it was Junior-Senior (JS) prom time.

Speaking of JS prom, the first and last I attended in college was on a Friday too, this time not sunny, but gloomy and rainy. It was a night to remember and a night to forget too. I would later call for the abolition of such an expensive affair that allows teachers to get "additional income". I get trauma every time I remember the affair, and I would gladly make a pact with the devil to change the whole outcome of the event. It was a Friday of mixed feelings, and I was in love too, then.

Many TV shows also end on Fridays, an act which make Friday nights exciting around the TV set. Not anymore today, because we would be fine with catching up on the final episode on the Internet and spend Friday evening painting the town red or get into trouble.

Some Fridays did not change: beer Fridays, payday Fridays, dinner dates on Friday nights, being imprisoned on a Friday night, dying on a Friday night, etc.

Don't forget, Jesus died on a Friday.

What are your memories of Friday? Care to share it with your fellow readers? Juts hit the comment button below!

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