By Candice Montenegro, Contributor
INQUIRER.net

YOU know how you are with a really good friend? You remember everything that reminds you of your friend. You still laugh every time you’re reminded of a funny incident and your heart still aches when you think of a sad moment. It becomes all too familiar, and yet you still want to spend time with that person.

That’s how I feel about the show “Friends.” Yep, I’m a huge fan — always have, always will. It’s safe to assume that I’ve seen all episodes at least twenty times, and I actually include “can recite lines from the show ‘Friends’” in my resume because it’s really a skill that I actually do quite well. My addiction is sometimes bordering on obsession, and I’ve grown so attached to the show that I clearly remember events in my life that are in one way or another related to it.

I was fifteen when I saw a complete VCD box set of “Friends.” I remember looking at the green box and seeing Brad Pitt’s name on it, and I thought, well this ought to be good. I got home, popped in the first CD, and eight hours and 24 episodes later, I was hooked.

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By Candice Montenegro, Contributor
INQUIRER.net

WHO could forget the infamous Alyssa Alano rendition of “Kiss Me?” (Or should I say, “Keys Me”) The lines “strike up the band and make the fireflies dance / silver moon’s sparkling” became something like “strike entebend end make d parflays dance / sleeve and mouse is barkley.” You’ll think, where the heck did those words come from, and you realize that she murmured something that sounded like the original lyrics.

And we all laugh until our stomachs hurt, but truth is, we’re all guilty of doing that at least once. How many times have you made up song lyrics when you didn’t know the actual ones?

Now there’s a new game show that tests how well you know the words of a song. “The Singing Bee,” originally an NBC game show, is now in the Philippines and is aired on ABS-CBN.

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By Candice Montenegro, Contributor
INQUIRER.net

“PAUTAKAN! Pagalingan! Patatagan!”

It was not exactly the direct translation of the tagline “Outwit, Outplay, Outlast” but I knew that it only meant one thing — “Survivor” is coming to the Philippines.

GMA 7 got the exclusive Philippine franchise of the hit US reality show, and a lot of people are more than thrilled not only to watch the local version of the show but also to audition as a castaway. The network is currently looking for contestants, and to say that there will surely be a lot of hopefuls lining up is quite an understatement.

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A SECOND year student at the prestigious Seisou Academy, a school where students specializing in music are considered elite, Kahoko Hino is the typical nondescript student studying in the general education stream. She has also never laid her hands on a single musical instrument in her life.

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