Welcome back to the special year-ender where I jot down some of the top 40 things I learned throughout the year 2018 not just in news but also in cars, television, video games, sports, everything based on my interests.
Here we are, the last ten numbers of this year-ender. Let's end this right now!
10) North Korea changes heart - At the start of 2018, the world shocked that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un wanted to have summits with South Korea and USA. That sounds like a ruse but the historical Inter-Korean Summit between him and South Korean leader Moon Jae-in carried on and despite all the setbacks, the planned US-NoKor summit at Singapore carried on last June. So far, progress of North Korea's denuclearization remains slow for now.
9) FIFA World Cup Russia - In June of 2018, the FIFA World Cup Russia 2018 event has became one heck of a rollercoaster sports fans got into. There has been some controversies, heartbreaks, sense of humor, upsides, downsides, it's everything this match had from start to finish. In the end, France wins the 2018 FIFA World Cup and that match became one heck of a controversy given Russia's drastic sports records that sparked numerous sports governing bodies but with them out of the way, it turned out to be the best World Cup in ages and the Les Bleus fought all the way to the very end.
8) PyeongChang 2018 - For almost three weeks of February, the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics showcased the world's best athletes competing in various winter sports in different venues stretching across the hosting South Korean county. It's not just about the spirit of competition but also the coming together of different sides torn between conflicts and internal affairs. At the end of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Games, the biggest winners are the Norwegians having dominated almost every single event of the Games than every other nation participated..
7) Motorsports in 2018 - From retirements such as Fernando Alonso and Craig Lowndes, to switch of teams for the next season such as Kimi Raikkonen going for Sauber, to surprise comebacks such as Sebastian Loeb in WRC, this year is memorable in the world of motorsports and that's more fireworks than killing Jean Eric-Vergne's "balls" in the pit lane after that historic 1-2 finish in Formula E. Cue laughing emojis.
6) Anime in 2018 - From new favorites such as Pop Team Epic, Cells at Work, Goblin Slayer, Golden Kamuy, and SSSS.GRIDMAN, to returning faves such as Cardcaptor Sakura, Attack on Titan, and My Hero Academia, 2018 has been a big year in anime. On the children's side, it's been headlined with Inazuma Eleven's 10th anniversary, Yo-Kai Watch's 5th anniversary, and the road to Precure 15th anniversary. Not to mention that this year's shoujo anime lineup got dominated by pink haired ones like Aine Yuki of Aikatsu Friends!, Mirai Momoyama of Kiratto PriChan, and most famously Cure Yell of HUGtto Precure. In the tokusatsu side, we've been blown away by the heroic efforts of Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger VS Keisatsu Sentai Patranger, Ultraman R/B, and recently Kamen Rider Zi-O. Movies, the biggest hitters of 2018 are Detective Conan: Zero the Enforcer, Mirai no Mirai, Pokemon the Movie: The Power of Us, and the most explosive of all, Dragon Ball Super Broly.
5) Video games in 2018 - While battle royale games dominated the video game genre for 2018, the biggest hitters of the year are the 2018 remake of God of War as well as Red Dead Redemption 2.
4) Entertainment in 2018 - Chinese version of Meteor Garden TV series, two main characters from two Walking Dead shows bid farewell, the arrival of the 13th Doctor, Alden Richards as a superhero, Maine Mendoza being "Daddy's Gurl", new ASAP format courtesy of Regine Velasquez-Alcasid after her dramatic network transfer, Marvel movies such as Black Panther, Infinity War, and DP2 reigned box office charts, Netflix cancelling Marvel series, Elseworlds crossover special, Mickey Mouse's 90th birthday, that's a lot to list or sum up about entertainment in the year 2018.
3) Big year for the 48 sister groups - The AKB48 franchise marks 2018 a big year because of popular additions to their 48 sister groups such as Vietnam's SGO48 and most famously, Philippines' MNL48.
2) Miss Philippines wins Miss Universe 2018 - December 17's Miss Universe pagent in Thailand made headlines because for the first time in history, a transgender was represented in this year's pageant and it's none other than Miss Spain Angela Ponce. Despite not being at the top spot, she really made headlines for being the first transgender to compete in Miss Universe and that really is a rule-changer the world's looking forward to. The biggest headline of the pageant is, for the fourth time, Philippines won Miss Universe as Catriona Gray takes home the crown, eclipsing the likes of Tamaryn Green of South Africa and Sthefany Gutierrez of Venezuela, especially Vietnam's H'hen Nie and Puerto Rico's Kiara Ortega.
1) Goodbye Broadway, Hello APT! - For nearly four decades, the longest-running noontime variety TV show in Philippine history, Eat Bulaga, has became the staple of every Filipino household with its rousing and engrossing segments with engaging hosts, including the so-called Holy Trinity of Eat Bulaga; Vic Sotto, Joey de Leon, and Senator Vicente "Tito" Sotto III. In anticipation of the program's 40th anniversary, Eat Bulaga has moved to the newest home studio, the APT Studios, located across the Marcos Highway, Cainta, Rizal, and opened its doors to all of the dabarkads here and around the world.
...and there we are. Another year passed, another year comes. The year 2018 has been quite a disastrous year for us all but despite whatever Murphy's Law throws on us, there has been some ups and positiveness that lead us to greater happiness throughout the year and as we approached to a new year, looks like Murphy's Law is starting to kick into maximum overdrive.
Think about this; the Brexit, the end of the Heisei era, this year is where everything changes radically and nothing in this world will ever be the same again. It's going to behave like...either Akira or Blade Runner. What? They're both movies set in the year 2019, which explains a lot.
As long as we are prepared for whatever Murphy's Law throws on us, we can still survive this brave new year ahead and whoever survives the year 2019 is everyone's guess.
May God bless the world and have a Happy New Year.
Here we are, the last ten numbers of this year-ender. Let's end this right now!
10) North Korea changes heart - At the start of 2018, the world shocked that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un wanted to have summits with South Korea and USA. That sounds like a ruse but the historical Inter-Korean Summit between him and South Korean leader Moon Jae-in carried on and despite all the setbacks, the planned US-NoKor summit at Singapore carried on last June. So far, progress of North Korea's denuclearization remains slow for now.
9) FIFA World Cup Russia - In June of 2018, the FIFA World Cup Russia 2018 event has became one heck of a rollercoaster sports fans got into. There has been some controversies, heartbreaks, sense of humor, upsides, downsides, it's everything this match had from start to finish. In the end, France wins the 2018 FIFA World Cup and that match became one heck of a controversy given Russia's drastic sports records that sparked numerous sports governing bodies but with them out of the way, it turned out to be the best World Cup in ages and the Les Bleus fought all the way to the very end.
8) PyeongChang 2018 - For almost three weeks of February, the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics showcased the world's best athletes competing in various winter sports in different venues stretching across the hosting South Korean county. It's not just about the spirit of competition but also the coming together of different sides torn between conflicts and internal affairs. At the end of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Games, the biggest winners are the Norwegians having dominated almost every single event of the Games than every other nation participated..
7) Motorsports in 2018 - From retirements such as Fernando Alonso and Craig Lowndes, to switch of teams for the next season such as Kimi Raikkonen going for Sauber, to surprise comebacks such as Sebastian Loeb in WRC, this year is memorable in the world of motorsports and that's more fireworks than killing Jean Eric-Vergne's "balls" in the pit lane after that historic 1-2 finish in Formula E. Cue laughing emojis.
6) Anime in 2018 - From new favorites such as Pop Team Epic, Cells at Work, Goblin Slayer, Golden Kamuy, and SSSS.GRIDMAN, to returning faves such as Cardcaptor Sakura, Attack on Titan, and My Hero Academia, 2018 has been a big year in anime. On the children's side, it's been headlined with Inazuma Eleven's 10th anniversary, Yo-Kai Watch's 5th anniversary, and the road to Precure 15th anniversary. Not to mention that this year's shoujo anime lineup got dominated by pink haired ones like Aine Yuki of Aikatsu Friends!, Mirai Momoyama of Kiratto PriChan, and most famously Cure Yell of HUGtto Precure. In the tokusatsu side, we've been blown away by the heroic efforts of Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger VS Keisatsu Sentai Patranger, Ultraman R/B, and recently Kamen Rider Zi-O. Movies, the biggest hitters of 2018 are Detective Conan: Zero the Enforcer, Mirai no Mirai, Pokemon the Movie: The Power of Us, and the most explosive of all, Dragon Ball Super Broly.
5) Video games in 2018 - While battle royale games dominated the video game genre for 2018, the biggest hitters of the year are the 2018 remake of God of War as well as Red Dead Redemption 2.
4) Entertainment in 2018 - Chinese version of Meteor Garden TV series, two main characters from two Walking Dead shows bid farewell, the arrival of the 13th Doctor, Alden Richards as a superhero, Maine Mendoza being "Daddy's Gurl", new ASAP format courtesy of Regine Velasquez-Alcasid after her dramatic network transfer, Marvel movies such as Black Panther, Infinity War, and DP2 reigned box office charts, Netflix cancelling Marvel series, Elseworlds crossover special, Mickey Mouse's 90th birthday, that's a lot to list or sum up about entertainment in the year 2018.
3) Big year for the 48 sister groups - The AKB48 franchise marks 2018 a big year because of popular additions to their 48 sister groups such as Vietnam's SGO48 and most famously, Philippines' MNL48.
2) Miss Philippines wins Miss Universe 2018 - December 17's Miss Universe pagent in Thailand made headlines because for the first time in history, a transgender was represented in this year's pageant and it's none other than Miss Spain Angela Ponce. Despite not being at the top spot, she really made headlines for being the first transgender to compete in Miss Universe and that really is a rule-changer the world's looking forward to. The biggest headline of the pageant is, for the fourth time, Philippines won Miss Universe as Catriona Gray takes home the crown, eclipsing the likes of Tamaryn Green of South Africa and Sthefany Gutierrez of Venezuela, especially Vietnam's H'hen Nie and Puerto Rico's Kiara Ortega.
1) Goodbye Broadway, Hello APT! - For nearly four decades, the longest-running noontime variety TV show in Philippine history, Eat Bulaga, has became the staple of every Filipino household with its rousing and engrossing segments with engaging hosts, including the so-called Holy Trinity of Eat Bulaga; Vic Sotto, Joey de Leon, and Senator Vicente "Tito" Sotto III. In anticipation of the program's 40th anniversary, Eat Bulaga has moved to the newest home studio, the APT Studios, located across the Marcos Highway, Cainta, Rizal, and opened its doors to all of the dabarkads here and around the world.
...and there we are. Another year passed, another year comes. The year 2018 has been quite a disastrous year for us all but despite whatever Murphy's Law throws on us, there has been some ups and positiveness that lead us to greater happiness throughout the year and as we approached to a new year, looks like Murphy's Law is starting to kick into maximum overdrive.
Think about this; the Brexit, the end of the Heisei era, this year is where everything changes radically and nothing in this world will ever be the same again. It's going to behave like...either Akira or Blade Runner. What? They're both movies set in the year 2019, which explains a lot.
As long as we are prepared for whatever Murphy's Law throws on us, we can still survive this brave new year ahead and whoever survives the year 2019 is everyone's guess.
May God bless the world and have a Happy New Year.
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