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WAS talking a few nights ago to my friend, model and FHM babe Sofie Garrucho, when she asked if I'd visited her blog lately. Well, I hadn't for some time now (sorry, Sofie!) and I told her so. Then she laughed and told me to check out one of her recent entries. "Which one?" I asked. "Oh, you'll know which one it is," she said, adding that she got quite a reaction from that post and that some people even called her up or texted her. OK, we did exchange a few text messages after I saw her entry, heh, because I just had to tease Sofie about her new best friend, a dildo named El Rey. Here's an excerpt from her FHM blog entry:

A few days ago I received a package from my very good friends, a couple from Chicago. The last time I talked with them, they told me they bought something for me that I would surely like. They wouldn’t tell me what was in the package. So I thought maybe it was the usual gift from friends like makeup, perfume, or clothing. So I waited for it without much anticipation. Then I finally got a hold of the package they sent me. To my surprise, they bought me this 10-inch silicone dildo. It’s called the “EL REY silicone dildo.” They were actually wrong ’cause I didn’t like it…but I love it! :) The package comes with the phrase: “You’ll feel like Royalty when you meet up with El Rey.” So, I was like, “Hello there, El Rey. Meet your new queen, Sofie!” Ha ha! You can even choose from three different colors. I got the one in vanilla. But if I had a choice I would prefer the caramel one because the vanilla color is too pale for me. The package describes it as a realistic design with sculpted veins and head and a suction cup base which adheres to any hard and smooth surface—PERFECT FOR HANDS-FREE PLAY! I thought, “Whoa! That, I wanna try!” *Grin*

Oh, and you should also check her latest entry, which has a pic of Sofie's girl-on-girl kiss with her date for that night. And congratulations Sofie for being voted No. 88 in the FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World poll. Last but not least, here's a video clip of Sofie's FHM photo shoot courtesy of the YouTube account of FHM.com.ph webmaster Antonio Ongchap Jr. a.k.a. chapichaps.

MAYBE we could say she's a Jac of all trades. Jac Ting Lim is a comic book artist who publishes the web comic "Pilya" on her blog Jac Strips for You, a girl gamer and a cosplayer. Jac was our guest in hackenslash: the podcast, Episode 6: "Jac of All Trades." Here are some of Jac's cosplay pics -- we got Jac's permission and of course we're crediting the photographer Jun Marcelino a.k.a. jokwa. Jac was cosplaying Oneechanbara (Zombie Zone, Playstation 2). Here's the video interview I conducted, where Jac talks about "Pilya," strong women, and some misconceptions about babes. And here's a Slide Show, mixing photos Jayvee Fernandez took prior to the podcast recording session and Jac's cosplay pics taken by Jun Marcelino.

SHE was FHM Philippines' Girl Next Door winner in 2005, and placed 45th in FHM Philippines' 100 Sexiest in 2006. But did you know that FHM babe and model Sofie Garrucho also happens to be a girl gamer? After we found out that Sofie loves different computer games such as Warcraft, Dungeon Siege and The Sims, well, this hot babe from Iloilo City just became a lot hotter. Here's a Slide Show of Sofie's photos taken by b5media.com technology channel editor and INQUIRER.net interactive media consultant Jayvee Fernandez during the recording of hackenslash: the podcast, Episode 3: "Groove is in the Heart," where Sofie and GrooveNet president Greg Kittelson guested. That explains the plastic sword, sort of, heh :) Of course, as a member of Filipino-made social networking site GrooveNet, Sofie also loves playing in the 3D world There Philippines, when she's not dancing the night away in the many GrooveNet parties. In fact, Greg tells us that Sofie has been so active in GrooveNet that she's become the unofficial face or image model of the social networking site. Here's a clip that I took for INQUIRER.net Videos of Sofie talking about her love for video games. If you've read her FHM interview (or met her in real life, for that matter), you'll know that Sofie doesn't wear bras. But did you know that she crochets her own bikinis, or that she paints, including oil and charcoal paintings? Here's a short clip of Sofie answering INQUIRER.net reporter Erwin Oliva's question, "Who is the real Sofie?" when we went to Starbucks after the podcast recording session. I don't have a video of our one-on-one drinking session in Murphy's later that night (Jayvee joined us after about an hour of me and Sofie guzzling booze, but he didn't drink much that night and we all had to leave shortly afterwards), but here's our pic from the podcast recording session. And another a few nights later when we had one GranMa Slammer after another at Taberna Ocho, where I went straight from my bus ride from Clark, Pampanga after covering Media Nation. By the way, one order of GranMa Slammer, which you absolutely must try, consists of two shotglasses of Gran Matador brandy and one shotglass of Coke. The picture's fuzzy because of the blue lighting of Taberna Ocho (which makes it stand out -- just look for the blue glow along Maginhawa St. in Sikatuna Village, Quezon City, heh). For more YouTube videos, go here. For steamy Sofie pics, check out her GrooveNet profile or her FHM Babe page. Watch out for a new feature on the FHM Philippines site this summer starring Sofie. She can't divulge what it is, unfortunately (I'm not telling, heh) but if Sofie's part of it, it has to be good.