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July 2016
CONTENTS
F E AT U R E S
50 O LY M P I C
DREAMS
Tab Baldwin hopes
to lead Gilas to the
biggest game of their
lives
86 T H E S I L E N T
S TA L K E R
We need to talk about
depression right now
90 G E N I U S O R
C R I M I N A L?
Does white hat hacker
Paul Biteng deserve
jail time?
96 A L L H A I L ,
THE CRAFT
BREWERS!
All you want to know
about your favorite
drink
100 E M P L OY E E
OF THE MONTH
She keeps the troops'
morale high
106 S O L O N G
SWEET
SUMMER
A sexy throwback to
our favorite season
COVE R
PHOTOGRAPHY: MARK NICDAO
STORY
R H IA N R A M O S
Ravishes the French
countryside
July 2016
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20 R E M E M B E R ?
YO U W E R E A
KI D ONCE, TOO
How to be a carefree
child all over again
22 O N E
D O P P E LG A N G E R ,
COMING UP!
What if cloning
became the new
normal?
PULSE 48 B A S K E T B A L L BOOST
2 6 COMIC STRIP: OF A D I FFE R E NT
THINKING DOUBLE LEvEL
Twinning even in your FHM’s first five picks
dreams 39 B I G B U C K S for the FIBA Olympic 123 H OW TO MAK E
IN THE MANILA Qualifying Tournament A CA B I N E T
MAjOR F R O M S C R AT C H
GENT When DOTA gamers Become a master
took over the screens builder
28 W H Y A R E 40 T H E S PY I S O N FITS 1 2 6 C L I E N T CA L L S
WOM E N STI LL Paul Greengrass T H AT G E T YO U
AT T R A C T E D T O directs Jason Bourne PR OM OTE D
ASSHOLES? back into the streets It all hangs on this
And what to do about 1 1 3 T H E S TA R - one thing you need
PHOTOGRAPHY: DOC MARLON PECJO; ILLUSTRATION: BORG SINABAN, JUNO ABREU

it if you’re a non- 42 L I G H T S . S PA N G L E D H E R O to do
asshole CAM E RA. Red, white, and blue
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3 0 WAITING FOR A Aicelle Santos tickles Food that brings on
STAR TO FALL in Rak of Aegis 116 D R E S S L I K E the chill
How to make a A BOSS
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with you Buckle up, Trekkies. executive look” to an TH E R OAD
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ACTION 132 I T ’ S A C A v S
Ian Veneracion gives THING
pa-hopia men a piece Our Team Editor, Allan
of his mind A. Madrilejos, explains
why Lebron James is
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FROM THE EDITOR
How long can you hold a What FHMers

conversation with a woman? have been up to
Five minutes? An hour? Four hours? For as long as she can take your this month
conceit? Forget it you can’t even begin?
The way I see it, you’ve already won her over the moment she fixes her gaze
on you while you speak. She’s thinking she doesn’t have the time, but she can't
believe she’s listening and that you actually might make sense. You’d have
taken out the fight in her if you make her laugh. Sounds cliché but it’s true—
that peal of laughter is the sound of a wall collapsing, and at that point she
may be thinking ‘who cares what other people say—who cares what I say?!—
this guy is interesting.’
I have no absolute proof for this, but I do know that when we talked with
Rhian Ramos to plan this cover shoot in France, and finally when she sat Hacker Paul Biteng tries to
down for an interview when she got back, we caught the little gaze and the teach our caveman boss all the
intermittent laughter. We knew she was smart, so we had to ask the kind of complicated computer tricks
questions that would make her think, or risk losing her. All in all, we didn’t he knows, while in actuality,
lose her, and we get to print the best conversation we can have with a woman Allan just wants to know how to
(and one of the best shoots we’ve had to date). fancy up his FB account.
If it wasn’t work—if, say, we were just a normal guy who happened to be
in the company of a famous female celebrity and we had to make small talk,
I’d say we did good. If we ever had dreams of going any further like, say,
marrying her, like what Ali Khatibi did with Christine Reyes, and Lloyd Lee
with Shamcey Supsup (Star Catcher p. 30), I’d say we could get there if we put
in extra work, even if ‘this guy is interesting’ doesn’t mean jack shit. Ali and
Lloyd give us some tips on how to land a celebrity based on their experience,
and we’re throwing in the gaze-and-laugh detail for good measure.
There’s one other thing I’d like to tell you about our time with Rhian. She
called us on the phone. It was because there were some things we failed to ask,
and it was our mistake. But no matter—she called.
If you hold a woman in conversation long enough that she calls you because
there were some things she still wanted to talk about, you have her.
Our staff writer from the

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CHEERLEADER say that the magazine isn’t making

If FHM ’s Sexiest Women will be sexy content anymore when you
ranked based on a great, natural clearly are! I guess some of your fans L I L I O S A F A R T H E R
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H I L A O E M M A N U E L
December 10,
H I S T O R Y “ E M A N ”
1948-March 18, 1976 L A C A B A
body, then she'll be on top every year.

Heroes of WWII
H U N T E R S December 10,
Heroism is not just the monopoly R O T C 1948-March 18, 1976
of men. Lily was a writer and a G U E R I L L A S
student leader at the Pamantasan ng
Lungsod ng Maynila. In 1973, she When some PMA students A young writer and poet who
was arrested with friends when the and ROTC cadets were wrote about people in the
police did not find her sister in their rejected by the Americans margins—the tragic members
power to you guys!

house. They threatened her with because they were too young of the Lapiang Malaya and
torture and sexual molestation. She to fight the Japanese, they the Rizalist Kapatirans of
declared to her captors, “Democracy organized themselves into Mt. Banahaw. In 1974, he
is dead in the Philippines!” After a the Hunters ROTC guerillas— joined the New People’s Army
Go ate Chel! We're so proud of you!

few days, she died in Camp Crame founded by Miguel Ver, Terry in Mindanao. In 1976, they
under constabulary custody. Adevoso, and Gustavo Ingles. wounded him in a raid in
It was said that she committed They started by taking Davao del Norte. Two of his
suicide by drinking muriatic acid guns from armories of companions died in the raid,
in a men’s bathroom. But the family the universities. After the and an 18-year-old pregnant
would not believe it because when ambush at Pugad Lawin at the comrade was captured alive
they claimed her body, it was cut up boundary of Rizal and Laguna with him. Both of them were
with a saw up to her vagina. They on August 30, 1942, where 19 executed; his captors fired .45
took out her brain and stomach,
Cholo, via email

Hunters killed all 200 soldiers calibre bullets to his mouth and
and, like “dinuguan,” tore them into on sight, they made people chest. He was tied in his ankles
pieces. These were brought to the realize that the Japanese and dragged like a pig to a
funeral parlor in a pail, soaked in could be defeated. They common grave. He was 27. We
WI LLIAM muriatic acid. She died at 23, the established such a ferocious don’t usually realize that a lot
#KatawangNatural #KatawangAtleta
first under detention in a military
V I N C E N T “ B I L L” camp during Martial Law.
reputation that people were of our heroes are poets—Rizal,
surprised to realize that they Bonifacio, and Eman. Before he
BEGG were just schoolboys. died, he wrote a “Letter to the
Filipino Artists”:
December 10, First young martyr
1948-March 18, 1976 in Philippine We are tribe less and all
history tribes are ours.
B R A V E We are homeless and all
Y O U T H O F homes are ours.
William Begg was a Filipino- We are nameless and all
American Ateneo seminarian M A C A B E B E names are ours…
who frequently immersed with
the urban poor. He joined the Macabebes were known to The road less traveled by
#Queen #TeamDaquis
Kabataang Makabayan. Despite be “traitors," but the first we've taken-
the fact that his whole family martyr for freedom in the And that has made all the
were American citizens, he chose Philippines ever recorded difference:
to be a Filipino citizen. He was was one of them. In 1571, The barefoot army of the
kicked out of the Ateneo despite a Kapampangan, described wilderness
being a candidate for the top as a “brave youth from We all should be in time.
honors and was imprisoned for Macabebe”—a “binatilyo”— Awakened, the masses are
months when Martial Law was brought his people from Messiah.
proclaimed. He went to UP, but left Hagonoy, Bulacan, in 40 Here among workers and
it to join the New People’s Army karakoas or warships and peasants our lost
in 1974. He was captured alive in told the Spaniards, “May the Generation has found its
a military raid in Isabela in 1975 lightning strike and split me true, its only home.
that left four other companions through my body, and my
Glen Maris Naldo Tapnio, via

dead. He was tortured to death women see me in despised
with “seventeen stab wounds, if I ever do make peace with
eleven gunshot wounds, a broken you; at the bar of Bancusay I
rib cage and smashed hands.” await you.” On June 3, 1571,
He was 24. His orgmates at the in the Battle of Bangkusay, he
UP Lipunang Pangkasaysayan faced the Spaniards. He was
gave tribute to him, “Hindi ka mistaken as Tarik Soliman
mamamatay, Billy—patuloy kang or Rajah Soliman–Spanish
nabubuhay sa dakilang tradisyon records from 1590 referred to
THE SONGS
ng paglilingkod sa sambayanan.” him as Bambalito. Michael Charleston “Xiao” Chua is an assistant professorial lecturer at DLSU Manila. He co-authored the book Bonifacio: Ang Unang Pangulo and
is the coordinator for the petition for Andres Bonifacio to be 1st president of the Philippines. He is historical consultant for various TV shows tackling
Philippine history. He is spokesperson of the Knights of Rizal on the Torre de Manila issue.
Facebook
finally!
HAVE BEEN SUNG ERRATUM werewolffee
I REALLY enjoyed your feature about We’d like to apologize
ONE FOR THE ROAD the Young Unsung Heroes that for placing the wrong
Hey, FHM ! I really enjoyed your article, dates of birth and death
perished under the Marcos’ regime.
“Making Cambio,” last month. I’ve of Liliosa Hilao, March
My friend also was a victim of the
always wanted to know what kind 14, 1950-April 7, 1973
sad, sad era and I'm glad their stories
of seat covers to buy for me and my and William Vincent
are being revisited in tributes like
girlfriend so that we wouldn’t have to “Bill” Begg, July 14,
these. Thank you so much, FHM .
worry about staining my precious ride More articles with substance please! 1950-March 21, 1975
while we’re doing, uhm, messy stuff Rod, via email in our “Young Unsung
inside the car! I don’t get why people Heroes” feature.
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childhood 2.0
EvEr skinnEd your knEEs
running aftEr a wayward kitE?
EvEr hurtlEd down a hill on your
bikE? no? thEn rEad this. it will
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WORDS
CHISE ALCANTARA
PHOTOS
FROI RIVERA
SPECIAL THANKS TO:

RED BULL PHILIPPINES FOR
THE PHOTO FROM THEIR RED
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HOW TO SOU N D
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Edited by CHISE ALCANTARA

chise.alcantara@summitmedia.com.ph
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EXPLAI N E R
May childhood
ka ba? You
never seem to
have anything to
contribute when your friends
talk fondly about their stupid
escapades when they were
younger. Maybe it was your
overprotective parents or
your inability to do anything
productive while a comfortable
couch and television were in
close proximity. A lot of factors
could have kept you from doing
the same things your friends
did. But now that you’re older,
sort of wiser, and probably
more independent, what’s
stopping you from becoming a
child all over again?
1 RIDE A BIkE
DOWN A
STE E P H I LL
Being a kid during a technology
boom, going outside never really
seemed like a fun idea. Why
play outside, when there was a
whole new world just waiting to ILLUSTRATION: JAMES ANDRES
be discovered in front of your
computer screen? But now that
you’re an adult, and are probably
sick of every darn software danger you are in because of of a simple Malay or diamond getting any allergies: Narra,
update your computer alerts you the river’s current,” says Joanna kite. A grocery bag is durable Niyog, Pinya!
of, maybe it’s time to whip out Mungcal, competitive swimmer. material for a kite sail. You can
your old musty BMX for one last “It isn’t really advisable to jump use tape or sewing thread, or P L Ay I N g g O D W I T H
ride into the sunset. into rivers in the first place. But both, to attach the sail to the 5 I NSECTS
Expert tips: “Focus on where if you really want to, just jump kite frame. A tail of four to five Kids never really found
you want to go; not what you feet first so that even if you times the length of the kite is anything too gross for them
want to avoid,” says Chris happen to reach the floor, you’ll also recommended for simple not to try. That unfortunately
Allison, Program Director, be able to kick off and reach the Malay Kites.” included mutilating and having
Indoor Cycling and Rowing surface faster.” gladiator fights with insects.
SADDLE ROW Studios. “Things 4 C L I M B I N g yO U R Going out at night to catch rare
come at you much faster on a 3 DESIg N I Ng AN D N E Ig H BOR’S TR E E spiders and pretty fireflies was
downhill [slope]. All too often, F Ly I N g y O U R TO PI C k S O M E FR U IT one of the most magical things
inexperienced cyclists might OWN kITE Being naughtier than you should to do as a child. Sadly this also
see, for example, a pothole in Granted, it might be a bit be is a vital part of growing up. involved killing and torturing
the road and become fixated on difficult to find clear air space It’s a key part of developing risk- them for your amusement. We
it. Always remember, your bike with all the telephone lines and reward management. Remember were fucked up children, weren’t
will go where you look.” billboards blocking the view. that time you bragged to your we?
But few things rival the rush friends that you easily borrowed Expert tips: Rather than
2 JUMPINg OFF A of flying a kite. (Just ask Mary a sack of your rich elderly showing off your above
B R I Dg E I NTO A Poppins, kids.) There’s a certain neighbor’s mangoes from her average reflexes by snatching
R IVE R satisfaction in flying a thing plantation without her knowing? dragonflies by their wings,
Before backpacking thrill that you created with all your Do you remember being so why not use a net instead?
seekers got into the scene of architectural engineering know- surprised that a lola as old as her “Dragonflies’ exoskeleton
bungee-jumping off cliffs and how. You’ll literally soar with could run so fast and hit so hard is made out of chitin, a very
bridges, newly circumcised kids flying colors. with her tsinelas? Good times, thin (hence their glossy, shiny
in far-flung Philippine provinces Expert tips: “Use light good times. appearance) material protecting
were already showing them off! materials such as the coconut Expert tips: We’re really not their jelly-like insides. Nets could
A warning: jumping off bridges mid-rib from a walis tingting, going to tell you how to steal just possibly lessen the damage
without any safety equipment which is common in Filipino shit because trespassing into done to them [by catching them
is not the smartest thing in households,” says Orlando T.D. someone else’s property and by the wings],” says Paula Marie
the world. But, hey, as these Ongkingco, President of Kite stealing their produce could Dehesa, Doctor of Veterinary
youngsters call it… YOLO! *cringe* Association of the Philippines land you a ticket straight to the Medicine, De La Salle University,
Expert tips: “The faster you (KAP). “Choose the stiff and slammer. Instead here are some Class 2017.
get to the surface, the less straight ones for the frame trees you can climb without

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EXPLAI N E R
DONOR’S
NUCLEUS W H AT I S COMMON USES
CLONING? OF STEM CELLS
Technically Disease modeling
speaking, it's just Stem cells from
with how busy
the production of diseased adults can
everything is these
several genetically be used to study the
days, we’re sure
identical copies cellular basis of the
you’ve wished that
of an organism. sickness.
you could just split
It’s the process of
yourself so you
introducing pieces
could be in more
of recombinant DNA COMMON USES
places at once.
(read: DNA made OF CLONING
*puts on matrix
through laboratory Organ replacement
shades* what if
methods of genetic SCNT can also
we told you we
combination) to be used to create
could make that
cells. It’s a common complex organisms
happen? cloning
practice in molecular like organs and even
people has been a
biology labs and can living mammals!
common topic for
be used in many
mainstream media
different ways.
for some time now
SO WHY
with movies like
AREN’T WE
the island and tV
W H AT A R E CLONING
series like orphan
STEM CELLS? MORE?
black, which play
EGG CELL Stem cells are very Because it isn’t
devil’s advocate to
important products practical… well,
fuel our conspiracy
that come from at least right now.
theories about the
cloning because they While we do have the
government funding
are the only cells technology to make
illegal research on
that can differentiate organs, animals, and
cloning to make
into any of the adult even humans, the
human organ banks
cell types. This is cloning process is still
for filthy old men.
important because as mostly trial-and-error
but how is
we grow older, other with significantly more
cloning research
kinds of cells become errors. Before Dolly
going, anyway?
specialized into was cloned, the team
ever since dolly the
performing only one had to go through a
cloned sheep was
specific function. lot of dead sheep:
put down, it seems
those that weren’t
like all the clamor
cloned correctly in
for döppelgangers
BUT STEM the lab, those that
died with her. was
CELLS COME didn’t implant right
words: chise alcantara and tristan manalac; illustrations: carlo maala

cloning research
FROM UNBORN in the uterus, those
really thrown out the
BABIES! that were stillborn,
window or is there a
While they can come those that were born
scientific revolution
from destroying alive but died out of
happening under
embryos created from abnormalities and
our noses?
THE heterosexual sex, various sicknesses.
DEVELOPED they can also come
EMBRYO IS from performing
PLACED INTO Somatic Cell Nuclear
A FOSTER Transfer (SCNT).
MOTHER OUR TO-
The process involves CLONE LIST
taking the nucleus An Extra limb
of a somatic cell (not Attached to our back
You the
sex cell) from the for those hard-to-
donor organism and reach places.
transferring it into an Prime Angus Beef
enucleated egg cell. If
clone
Cattle
it starts dividing, the A Chinese cloning
egg cell is implanted company called
into a surrogate Boyalife is hoping to
mother. start cloning prime
breaking down the beef by the millions
cellular processes, by this year. A burger
so good, you’ll want
the conspiracy to taste it again!
theories, and why FHM Babes
For literal back-to-
there still isn't CLONED back covers!
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G one of the great
mysteries of
the universe:
supremely fine
women falling
deeply in love
with a total
Gent motherfucker. it’s

inconceivable.
but it happens.
and it’s incredibly
B e a unfair for the good
l ad i es’ Man guys—the ones
who hold open
doors and refuse
Edited by CECILE JUSI-BALTASAR
to split the bill
cecilebaltasar@gmail.com on the first date.
because in the
dating world, it
seems like nice
guys do finish
last. maybe you’ve
experienced it
first-hand: staring
into the eyes
of the (current)
woman that
you love as she
explains why she
has decided to
crumple up your
heart and replace
it with a black
lump of coal. all
because of an
asshole waiting in
the wings to pick
her up.
well, you’re in
luck. we’ve taken
d a T i n G
what women love
about these no-
good bastards and
The nice
made it so you can
have the custom
d-bag skin without
actually becoming
guy’s guide a lowlife. so

enjoy and try not
to get too close
to the
to the dark side,
mmmkay?
bad boy’s
galaxy
How to get an assHole’s edge
in getting tHe girl, witHout
becoming a complete dirtbag

THe cocky
W h at ’ s a n i c e
MouTH h o m e b o d y-t y p e
These bad-boy idiots guy to do?
have a super power: You can still have
it’s called Big Dick adventure emanate
Mentality. They walk from your body even
around thinking they if you’re a homebody.
have a big dick and Every now and then,
acting like they surprise your girl with
have a big dick. an out-of-town trip.
They enter a room Send her—by snail
loudly: “Pare what’s mail—a postcard with
up?” or “Yo,” or the a sweet message.
most sophisticated Or even just give
of all, “In da her a bouquet of
hauzzzz!” roses out of the blue.
It’s essentially Spontaneity coupled
a gorilla beating with some excitement
its chest. go a long way.
Unfortunately,
women respond
to this. In the
animal kingdom,
females are THe ricH
normally dude
attracted to Sure, not all rich guys
the loudest or are bad boys, but some
most powerful are. They buy women’s
representative. It’s just hearts with LV’s and
natural, even in our Chanel. They raise a
asphalt jungle. noisy fuss when the
waiter at a restaurant
THe kanye serves them a subpar
W h at ’ s a n i c e One thing going for
quiet guy to do? meal. Rich dudes
these loudmouths—
Assert your presence believe that they are
they’re confident AF.
without having to superior to the rest
And their confidence
pee on everybody of the human race
oozes out into their
like a nervous lion. just because of their
fashion choices. They THe yolo
A hearty “Good money.
don’t need to dress in slacker
morning, everybody!” expensive clothes or
is a great opener Women love W h at ’ s a n i c e
rare kicks; they wear adventure. Even
when you arrive at (poor) guy to do?
what they want to if they seem like
the office. You can If you’re middle-class,
wear and they make it they’re stuck in their
follow it up with not that bright, and
look good. desk jobs frantically
individual greetings you have no means of
like, “So, Rob. How’s typing away, inside, creating a phone app
W h at ’ s a n i c e their inner Amelia
everything at home. that will turn you into
t- s h i r t- a n d -j e a n s Earhart is screaming
Your kids doing a billionaire, forget it.
guy to do? to explore the world.
okay?” The females in You’ll never be rich.
You may need to So when women
the crowd will sense Just buy a local beer
make an effort. You see the slacker bad
your assertiveness on your way home,
don’t need to wear boy waltzing back
while the men will see drink it—alone—and
a leather jacket, into work with their
it as friendly action. be happy with your
leather boots, and surfboards, their café “okay” paying job. Your
God forbid… leather WORDS racers, and their travel sincerity and total
pants and a gold JosepH kerr photos, an all-points acceptance of your lot
chain with the word bulletin fires every in life will attract the
MuthaFuckah on it. ILLUSTRATIONS nerve in their body. right girl.
But once in a while, BorG sinaBan
dress to impress.
Research online
on what the latest
threads are. Observe
your male friends
who seem to have an
affinity for fashion.
You deserve that
upgrade; and she
will appreciate that
upgrade.

Gent
D a T i n G
Star catcher
Two regular guys (like you)
share how They goT The girl on
TV. sTop sTalking for fiVe minuTes
and lisTen up!
WORDS
Maan D’asis PaMaran
ILLUSTRATION
BOrG sinaBan
who’s your celebrity crush? whose instagram and

snapchat accounts send you into fits of ecstasy with
every impromptu duck face or highly-stylized photo
shoot?
mma athlete ali khatibi recently married flawless
cinema beauty Christine reyes. Businessman lloyd
lee is happily settled with miss universe 2011 third
runner-up shamcey supsup.
They did it. so can you. But first you have to quit
stalking and being creepy. let ali and lloyd show you
how to win over your celebrity girl in a way where they
won’t have to get a restraining order against you.

1 Be at the right ka rin, be somebody na 5 Don’t rush in. she really is] when things sTars TO
place, at the right magugustuhan din niya.” “I wasn’t expecting get rough,” says Ali. PUrsUE
time. anything. Christine wasn’t
Ali and Lloyd say they 3 Find common expecting anything either,” 7 Look presentable.
met their wives at a ground. Ali says. Lloyd advises In a social media-
party. A birthday party, Christine was actually taking things slow. “Hindi savvy fanworld, you might
specifically: Ali and looking into training in ka niya mapagkakatiwalaan end up with your photos
Christine at Raymond mixed martial arts when if you are moving in too online, too. Both Lloyd
Gutierrez’s shindig; Lloyd she met Ali. “This sparked fast. Kailangan ng kaunting and Ali say they had to
and Shamcey at her the conversation. She timpla; hinay-hinay ka lang. pay more attention to their
birthday party at a village said she was interested If she wants, friendzone appearance when they
JANE OINEZA
clubhouse. in training. One day, she muna kayo. And when you started dating their wives.
D o n' t b e j u s t a m a y b e
Of course, it helps that just showed up, and began think she is starting to fall “I was used to flip-flops,
the ladies were among training at the gym, where I for you, then you can try shorts, and white t-shirts,”
friends, feeling relaxed and would see her more often,” to take it to the next level. Ali says. “But then, you have
more ready to socialize. says Ali. While it is always Don’t think that you are to start leveling up, because
Manila is a small town. good to put your best foot the center of the world. people will take photos of
Look for connections that forward, it also helps to be You have to consider if the you, too. That’s when you
can get you in the loop, true to yourself. “You can’t other person is ready to understand why [these
and snag an introduction. sustain being a fake in the get into a relationship, too. stars] have to go out of the
long run,” he adds. Wait it out and let her feel house all made up.”
2 Build yourself up, comfortable with you. It It’s about being M A R I A O Z AWA
buttercup. 4 Be respectful. may be hard, but at the end appealing to the senses, Show some hospitalit y
She’s a star, so you also Need we say it? of the day, it will be worth too, Lloyd adds. “Dapat
have to have something Respect boundaries. it,” Lloyd says. mabango ka rin. Because
going for you. Ali is in top Show business can people will comment, ‘Ang
form as an athlete. Lloyd, be about putting up 6 Be the rock. ganda-ganda niya, bakit
who used to model, was fronts, so differentiate Show her that you ang pangit ng ka-date?”
already very successful in yourself by behaving like understand the nature of
his career when he met a gentleman. “You can’t her job. It’s not easy being 8 Go for gold.
Shamcey. Have something [stop them from] thinking a celebrity, with the crazy At the end of the
impressive in your resume, about what your motives schedules and when a day, they say, just go for it. J A N E L L A S A LVA D O R
something you are good are. There are people slight misstep can mean an “You’ll never know if you B e c a r e f ul w i t h h er h e a r t
at and something you who are so starstruck attack from Internet trolls. are the one she is looking
worked hard for. This will with the celebrity factor Show her that you are for,” Lloyd says. Ali adds,
help even things out when and the fame, kaya there for her, that you are “In my fights, I have been
you are introduced. You will nagiging defensive [yung the rock, and that you see up against guys who are
have more confidence in celebrities] kasi baka her for who she really is. Ali bigger than me. It’s about
yourself, and it will separate masaktan lang sila or says that off-cam, Christine being prepared and having
you from the slobs stalking paglaruan. You just have to is so maalaga and has a focus and a strong mind. If
her on her social media be yourself and prove that good heart. “People don’t you don’t try, eh di wala ka
accounts. As Lloyd puts your intentions are pure,” see that; you can be the kaagad.” JULIA BARRETO
it, “Kailangan prepared Lloyd says. one to remind her [of who Pray the fam likes you

Gent
WHAT I
KNOW He’s the hottest ticket in local showbiz at the moment,
ABOUT with girls and their titas swooning over his mestizo
WOME N good looks at every turn. From the teleserye Pangako
Sa ‘Yo, where he played a dashing governor fought
over by two leading ladies, to the rom-com Achy
The Breaky Hearts , where he and co-star Richard Yap are

pitted against each other in a hashtag battle on social
media, there is no denying Ian Veneracion’s lakas ng
Leading Man
dating.
He broke into showbiz some 30-odd years ago via
a sitcom called Joey and Son ; the current adulation
took a long time in coming, and he is taking it all in
stride. The family man who embodies the Tamang
Timeless ian Veneracion has Swabe tagline of Primera brandy—which he endorses,
by the way—talks to FHM about how to get, and keep,
some words of wisdom for the girl of your dreams.
Those who are iTching To make Ang tamang swabe sa You’ll know if she’s the
The ladies swoon buT haVe no panliligaw kailangan one when you want to
walang drama, light lang. be around her 24/7.
idea how To do iT Wag clingy masyado, Before I met my wife, I
huwag masyadong couldn’t imagine myself
makapit . Hindi bale nang being with the same person,
bitin [basta] wag sawa . going to bed and waking up
Kahit sa text or sa tawag, with the same person every
mas okay na yung bitin siya day. With her, I felt that I
kaysa sa sawang-sawa na wanted her to be the last
siya sa’yo. person I see every night and
Were you ever ‘basted?’ the first person I see every
Oo naman ! Especially day when I wake up. That’s
growing up, kapag may when I knew na siya talaga ,
gusto akong ligawan, the and I have no regrets. It
parents [were] against me. was the best decision I ever
Laging sinasabi na artista made and I feel the same
yan : baka naka-drugs yan way up to now.
o maraming babae yan. To get over being torpe…
Yon lagi ang impression That’s me! I am torpe.
[ng tao ] of people from Totoo ! When I really, really
showbiz, so mahirap. Well, like a girl, name-mesmerize
actually, mahirap manligaw ako agad, I get speechless.
nang seryoso. Madaling I am the wrong person to
magloko kung kulitan lang. ask that. *(laughs)*
It’s actually hard for people Be ready for a
from showbiz kasi parang background check.
may stigma na lolokohin ka For girls, my advice would
lang nyan, na madaming be to do a background
InTeRVIew: MA An D’ASIS PAMAR An ; PHOTOGR APHY: MARK JeSALVA

babae yan tsaka puro party check [on your guy]. Tignan
lang yan. And I don’t blame niyo ang relationship niya
them because marami rin sa ex-girlfriend or ex-wife
naman ganyan sa showbiz. and you will see if this guy
To get over heartbreak… is a douchebag. Kung wala
I take a long motorcycle ride. siyang naging kaibigan sa
You would want to be in a mga ex niya or sa mga dati
different place physically, niyang niligawan or naka-
like maybe in another date niya , then he is not
country. Or, if you are used the right guy. Dapat walang
to the city, go up to the bitterness from their end.
mountains. I’d go up to the To not be labeled
mountains and just be quiet, #Paasa and #Pahopia…
consolidate my thoughts Hindi ka dapat paasa .
and my emotions and Actually baliktad. Kasi…
contemplate. Usually, this kahit maging ex-girlfriend
would bring your vibe higher mo or ex-niligawan mo siya ,
and your balance back. you want to make sure
that you are good friends
with them. Wag ka maging
paasa, where you flatter
the girl, ipapa-expect mo
siya, tapos hindi naman
talaga. That is so wrong on
so many levels.
Gent
Sex D O S S IE R
Last hurrah
When a Woman has self-control, and then loses control,
but is still in control
Kat Sandoval, 24 a year, ever since we started working

Boracay in the same department. He was
Wednesday always asking me out for coffee, but I
8:30pm always kept him at arm’s length.
But when the wedding planning
started getting crazy, I found him to
be an excellent distraction. We were
stationed a few cubicles away from
each other, but we would be chatting
on our laptops all day long. I loved
I was standing by the bar, bobbing the kilig. I loved the electricity I felt
my head to the music, doing that running between us whenever we
awkward semi-dance everyone were in the same room. I loved the
does when they’re still too sober. attention; it scared me to think that
“Last hurrah!” cheered my best this was the last bit of attention I
friend Kat, as she kept pushing would ever get from another man.
drinks my way. She was the brains It’s funny how so many girls want
behind this bachelorette island forever, but the prospect of it—of
getaway, a celebration of my last being with one guy forever—was
couple of months as a free woman freaking me out.
before getting hitched to Rob. It’s not that I didn’t love Rob. But
The music got louder, the bar after being together for years, he
got fuller, and I got drunker. didn’t exactly lavish attention on me.
Beside me was my co-worker, When people asked me if he was The
Jacob, who also happened to One, I would automatically answer, “Of
be in Boracay for a kite-surfing course!” But in the back of my mind, a
ILLUSTRATION Juno abreu
tiny voice would always whisper, “Is he?”
competition. As the night wore on
and the drinks kept coming, my As I was turning all this over
head bob turned into a full-on floor in my cloudy head, I felt my phone
show, my ass grinding against vibrate in my pocket. Hey hon. Hope
Jacob’s crotch. It gratified me to you’re having a good time. Love you.
feel his bulge straining against his Goodnight.
board shorts. C?” Jacob squeezed my hand. I
“How you doin’ back there?” glanced up at him from my phone, and
I asked him over my shoulder, he could see the look on my face. He
a smirk on my lips. He grabbed furrowed his brow, and I could feel the
my hips, ramming me against his heat between us ebb.
groin. He sighed heavily. “You know
“You know exactly what you’re doing to me,” he growled into my ear. what? Let’s not,” he said. I started to
Kat made her way to Jacob, a shot in one hand, a plate of salt and protest weakly, but he cut me off. “I know you. You’re just going to feel
lime in the other. “Let’s see those abs that Ciara won’t shut up about!” guilty about this.”
she told him. She was too drunk to edit herself. I was too buzzed to care. He walked back into the bar.
Jacob gamely took his shirt off, his body glistening with sweat.
Kat hooted, clearly impressed, before rubbing salt on his six-pack and
thrusting the shot glass at me. “What happens in Boracay” she began. I
hesitated, my fiance’s face flashing through my mind. Wednesday, 8:30pm
“Come on, C,” said Jacob, pulling me closer.
“Last hurrah!” urged Kat. Two years later, I’m lying in bed beside Jacob. I smile appreciatively
I hesitated for a few seconds, before steeling myself and muttering, as I look at his perfectly chiseled arms. He’s down for the count after
“Fuck it.” I placed my hands on Jacob’s hips and slowly traced my tongue an intense round of fucking—because that’s what sex is when it’s with
down his abs, tasting salt and sweat, the image of Rob fading away. him. It’s raw and wild and mind-blowing. And “lovemaking” feels like too
Kat cheered me on as I downed my shot and handed me a lime chaste a word for it. Besides, we’re not in love.
wedge. “My work here is done,” she declared with a flourish, before My phone vibrates on the nightstand.
heading back behind the bar. Hey hon. I’ll be home late. Don’t wait up.
Wordlessly, Jacob took my hand and led me through the crowd and I put my phone down and go back under the covers. I wrap my hand
out of the bar. “My room?” he asked. I stopped in my tracks, drunk and around Jacob’s cock and slowly massage it. He opens his eyes and gives
confused and holding on to the last bit of willpower. me a sleepy smile, as I feel him harden in my hand. He was right about
“Last hurrah,” he said, repeating Kat’s words. “Come on C, we’ve one thing:
wanted this for months. I know we’d be so good together.” We are so good together.
Maybe all this was just cold feet. Jacob had been after me for about But he was wrong about another: I feel absolutely no guilt.

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pong.castillo@summitmedia.com.ph
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FIND THE DOUCHEBAG
AN D
The honest
SI NCE
WE’R E
truth: How
HERE much have you
spent on toys?
FhM FoUNd these toY
eNthUsIAsts LUrkINg
AroUNd toYCoN Ph
2016 ANd got theM
to ‘Fess UP
John Michael
James
Cash invested: P200,000
“I hope Senpai will notice
me.”
H erber t “Asia’s
Superman” Chavez
Cash invested: P3,000,000
“I’ve already filled up my house
MESSERSCHMIDT'S RE AV ER : with Superman memorabilia.”
T H E G A M E ’ S U LT I M A T E
SYMBOL FOR STRENGTH ‘ M A K E W AY F O R T H E S I L I C O N V A L L E Y B A C H E L O R B A S H ’
Izabel Cortez
Cash invested: P25,000
On June Why? It's because we one–"GG!" to call for “I always buy toys of the
11 and proved we're one hell of a team to concede, characters I cosplay.”
12, the a crowd. There was no or the goosebumps
final days doubt that this was Major moment where
of the happening in Manila and everyone stood and
week-long Manila nowhere else. cheered "DJ! DJ!" for a Ed Padilla
Major, a $3-million pot Pinoy hype is now countryman's game- Cash invested:
DOTA tournament, the legendary. Internet winning performance on s l i g h t ly o v e r
15,000 capacity—MOA forums, players, a Malaysian team–the P 1, 0 0 0 , 0 0 0
WORDS : ASH MAHINAY; PHOTOGR APHY: KENT CRUZ
Arena was practically commentators, and volume could easily “It’s Voltes V, bro.”
full–the only blank seats media were all in awe of rival the cheers from a
were isolated diagonal the audience's intensity. mainstream basketball Gerry Madraso
segments with no view We're known for being tournament. C a s h i n v e s t e d : P 10 0 , 0 0 0
of the screens. Outside, crazy about basketball, But perhaps the one “Baka naka-6 digits na ako
scalpers were buying perhaps crazy about shortcoming of the Major pero hindi ko lang sure. Hindi
tickets at face value DOTA can now be a legit can be seen in the crowd ako magaling sa math.”
INTERVIEWS : CHISE ALCANTAR A ; PHOTOGR APHY: MARK JESALVA

and selling them off for description as well. The as well. While it wasn't
triple the price. If you stands filled with talk on a 100 percent sausage
had no idea what was tactics, heroes, plays, party–yes, female Anton Umali
going on inside, you’d be and their favorite teams– DOTA players exist–the Cash invested: P30,000
forgiven for thinking a everything you would crowd demographic was “Ay, mas malaki naman pala
more traditional sporting expect from a “real” mostly young males yung [gastos ng] iba. Mine’s
event was going on. But sports fan. That also who have no doubt not too embarrassing!”
maybe in the next few meant a crowd that was invested hundreds or
years, e-sports events heavily invested in the even thousands of hours Chira
packing our largest competition. Whenever into DOTA. Compared Cash invested: P50,000
venues may be the norm. the crowd chanted as to kids and families at “Hilig ko lang talaga yung
Toycon next door, or the Tamiya ever since elementary
oldies gang occupying since I couldn’t afford real cars
the patron boxes of the then.”
UAAP, it still looks kind
of niche-y. Myke and Fred
However, e-sports Cash invested: a lit tle
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then we think the “But we’ve been collecting for
Philippines is setting up years. It’s normal.”
well for future glory.

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O u r d a i ly n e W s
OLD WaTc h
TU B E
In this economy, keeping abreast
with current events is integral
to one’s personal growth and
success—who are we kidding?!
Why the hell do you We just want to know if a

kidnapper or a carnapper is
lurking in our barangay. It’d be
still watch TV? nice, too, to pick up just enough
of showbiz chika to bring to the
office tomorrow.
streaming is the now thing. BUt some of Us stiLL Like to
stare idLY at pre-programmed stUff theY show on—what spOrTs!
do theY caLL that?—channeLs The reason we are still holding
on to our cable subscriptions
with a solid death grip. There’s
just no way we’d miss out on the
finals or the live telecast of a
whoever-Filipino-athlete-on-the-
marquee’s event, even if it’s on
pay-per-view. Also, NBA.
We lOVe The
u n p r e d i c Ta b i li T y
Of iT all
Like in bed, sometimes we just
want to be dominated and give
in to the good stuff. Streaming
services give us all of the
control but even that can get
boring. Plopping down and
seeing what’s on is our life’s box
of chocolates—you’ll never know
what you’re gonna get.
Teleseryes dOn’T
keep us hanging
In between movies, artistas
hone and refine their acting
chops in teleseryes. Unlike
foreign TV shows, we don’t
have to wait a week to see what
happens next. Our local shows
are far more hardcore with
those nightly episodes.
words: anne mari ronqUiLLo; iLLUstr ation : warren espe Jo

nOOnTim e Var ieT y
shOWs are The
bOmb
Admit it. You love them because
you grew up watching them.
Whether it’s pies on the face
or twerking booties, you will be
entertained.
inTerneT
cOnnecTiOn is
slOOOOOW
Blame it on our perpetually
troubled national interweb
connection. If we could actually
get through five minutes of
streaming media without
buffering, cable television
would practically be extinct.
Anyway, the sky-high rate of a
faster connection doesn’t seem
too appealing now that cable
companies offer a lot of HD
channels for cheap.

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KI LLE R
COM BO
Bourne
again Spy hard
it’s easY to be
a sUPer sPY
With Matt DaMon When YoU’re
sUrroUnDeD
anD Director PaUL bY these
GreenGrass back WorLD-cLass
in action, the fifth Lookers
instaLLMent of the sUPer
NOT HARD ON
sPY franchise is set to THE EYES
recLaiM its iDentitY
Joan Allen as
Pamela Landy
A.K.A.: The
seasoned girl
WORDS : ANTON D. UMALI

boss
As a movie director, still trying to wash away the had to inhabit over and over
finding a muse can awful taste of the hot mess again for the last 14 years,
often build a strong spinoff that was The Bourne they’ve both got a tighter Franka
Potente as
repertoire of films that Legacy (that parts of it were grasp of whom they are and
Marie
showcases both parties’ talents. shot in the Philippines doesn’t what they’re about. When A.K.A.: The hot
It’s a symbiotic relationship. change the fact that it kind the first film debuted, he (European)
Scorsese has Leo. Tim of sucked), worry not, was one of those wide- damsel in
Burton can’t get enough because Greengrass and eyed ones-to-watch-out-for, distress
of Johnny Depp’s Damon are once again best recognized as Ben
whimsical antics. And collaborating in Jason Affleck’s bromantic other Julia Stiles
as Nicolette
Spielberg, well, he’s Bourne, the sequel to half. Jason Bourne, the A.K.A.: The
got an ace in his back 2007’s The Bourne brain-damaged butt-kicking badass
pocket named Ultimatum . spy, became the vessel for operative
Tom Hanks. At 45 years his leading man potential to
British filmmaker old, Damon come to full fruition. Now
Alicia Vikander
Paul Greengrass, suddenly fits that both Matt Damon and as unnamed
the genius into the role Jason Bourne are back character
behind the first of the super in the capable hands of A.K.A.: The
three Jason spy more director Paul Greengrass, mysterious
Bourne films, than ever. fans of the franchise can new lady in
Bourne’s life
has a prized Because only expect what’s familiar:
stallion in just like the intelligent, adult espionage WILL MAKE
Matt Damon. character, action. After all, it’s what YOU HARD
And if you’re whose skin he’s they do best.

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Stop. Look. Listen.

Singer-Songwriter and rak of aegiS ’ Lead aCtreSS aiCeLLe
SantoS iS about to Start a Show
Do this: grab a dictionary and look for the word expect to do impromptu sing-alongs with pedestrians
‘diva.’ and people on the road. The spontaneity of it all is
unforgettable.” Was it difficult to do? Aicelle says,
Diva, n. “Not really. Every Pinoy loves karaoke!” She had no
•refers to a famous and successful woman who glamorous get-up, no teleprompters, no rehearsals. It
is very attractive and fashionable was all raw, and it was all fun. We like that.
Aicelle also dabbles in theater acting. Right now,
Yes, we got that definition from Merriam-Webster. she’s back in the comic musical Rak of Aegis as Eileen,
But as with all semantic changes, the word has evolved a character who, she says, doesn’t require much effort
to also refer to singer-celebrities infamous for their for her to portray. “Eileen is just Aicelle, too. Whatever
prima donna attitude. Demanding. Two-faced. Hindi perkiness you see onstage when I do Rak , it’s me,” she
ma-reach. You know, pa-diva . And we hate people like shares.
that. Right now you may assume that this girl can put
But singer-songwriter Aicelle Santos breaks the on any hat that’s asked of her. But Aicelle admits she
very essence of that wrong connotation. Sure, Aicelle still gets the jitters. “I still get stage fright, of course.
has had her fair share of ‘diva’ moments, starting Siguro mas magaling na lang ako mag-handle ngayon,”
her career in show business by winning a singing she says. Aicelle recently went through surgery on her
competition and making it to the top noontime shows inflamed vocal chords after doing over a hundred live
as a resident songstress. shows for Rak . “That was really tough for me. I was
But today, she’s able to show another side of her as not able to sing nor speak. Not even a whisper!” says
Eat Bulaga!’s Traffic Diva. “That stint had me running in Aicelle. “But now that I’m healed, I’ve discovered a
the streets and coming up to strangers,” shares Aicelle. different passion and respect for what I do. It only gets
“Getting that job came with a lot of surprises. I didn’t better from here. I’m back and am ready to rak !”
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Ah, Star Trek . A show

that helped make sci-fi
digestible, compelling its LIVE LONG
legions of fans to be the AN D
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first to save a TV series
from cancellation, and
popularizing the practice
of online fanfiction
pairings—yup, waaay
before that #RP69 Beyond the frontier
trend—with the Spock-
Kirk movement. What’s With the bUzz aboUt this oLd
As a fan of Trek in sci-fi franchise? fhM asks a trekkie
its various incarnations, to expLain, and here’s What We got…
and a member of the
Star Trek Philippines
U.S.S. Kalayaan (Google
it, noob!), I say that the
recent movies still hold
much of what made
Trekkies first fall for
the series—characters
with moral dilemmas
on power, technology
and politics. It’s obvious,
especially in 2013’s Into
Darkness, whose plot
draws parallelisms with
the U.S. war on terror.
Similarly, the Cold
War, with its long, fearful
waiting game, echoed
the reality of 9/11 in an
interconnected world
that needs something to
happen constantly for it
to warrant attention. All
this happens while we
get that untold backstory
of how the crew from the
original series became
the characters that we
know and love.
This structure of
a time-travel reboot
has proven to be so
successful that other
movie franchises, such as
X-Men and Terminator,
have begun
following the
formula.
This year
marks 50 years
since the Star Trek
franchise began.
The new movie
is out this month
and Trek is set to
return to the small
screen next year.
Buckle up,
Trekkies. We’re
about to go
beyond the final
frontier.

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1979 The Motion Picture
1982 The Wrath of Khan
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1984 The Search for
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1986 The Voyage Home the
2009 Star Trek
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2013 Into Darkness
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1989 The Final
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1996 First Contact
1998 Insurrection
2002 Nemesis
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Laban, Pilipinas!
JUst how far wiLL PinoY Pride and PUso take Us on the road to
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WORDS MUSONG R . CASTILLO • ILLUSTR ATIONS MIKKE GALL ARDO
I’ve had many talks and Filipinos’ first-round foes. playing smaller ones, simply because they
interviews with Gilas Pilipinas That’s no big deal for Baldwin, who are quicker and harder to guard from up high.
head coach Tab Baldwin ever doesn’t mind if other coaches, former players That was what happened in Spain, Caidic said,
since he started handling the and the so-called experts express their views, when every opponent of the Philippines took
National cage program. And I based on their own experience, on how the the Filipinos for granted.
can tell everyone that he is a lot of things. Gilas Pilipinas team is assembled and how it “It could happen again in Manila (in the
Being assumptive is the only quality that will fare in an event. OQT),” Caidic said. “And we must be able to
gentleman does not possess. Sportswriters In fact, Baldwin has gone as far as saying make the most out of it. We have nothing to
have been politely turned down time and that the OQT will be basketball of a “different lose there, so it’s important that our players
again–this one included–when Baldwin is level, [and] of a different level of players.” He just enjoy the moment and play for the crowd
asked to rate his team as far as preparedness, also said that the Philippine team is installed that will watch them.”
character, and chances for winning are as the pitiful underdog and that the Filipinos No need to prod. This basketball-crazy
concerned. Some of us never learn and ask have their work cut out for them. Team nation will do its part by rooting like crazy–
him again the next time we get a chance. Philippines needs to beat either Tony Parker and praying hardest–when the tournament
Simply put, one just can’t squeeze an answer and the rest of the French national team or comes.
out of Baldwin when it comes to giving the Kiwis to make it to the Final Four, where And the boys will deliver. Because one
forecasts on our National team’s chances, be it will advance opposite either Canada, Turkey trait that Baldwin has in him is that he will
it in a small regional event like the Southeast or Senegal by the longest of shots. work his butt off getting the team as prepared
Asian Games to the bigger ones such as the The Filipinos are no strangers to stressful as it can be; he will coach with all that he has,
Jones Cup, the Fiba Asia Championship, and games, luckily. In the 2014 World Cup in game in and out.
the World Cup. Seville, Spain, it was naturalized Sometimes, that could be enough to get a
It’s clear that coaching the center Andray Blatche’s first team through tremendous odds.
Philippine team for the coming The Fiba Olympic tournament with Gilas. Yet the
Olympic Qualifying Tournament Qualifying team made a lot of heads turn
(OQT) hasn’t changed Baldwin’s when they pushed world powers Musong is a professional husband and
approach on things. Which
Tournament in to the limit, capping their strong father, a very bad amateur golfer, and
leaves everyone to come up with the Philippines showing with an overtime a sportswriter for the Philippine Daily
our own take on how Baldwin’s will be on July 5 victory over Senegal. Inquirer. Part of his assignment is
intrepid crew will fare in the to 10, at the MOA The Triggerman Allan Caidic covering the Gilas Pilipinas programs
July 5-10 event, where France once told me in an interview and (secretly) cheering on the National
and New Zealand will be the Arena that big players don’t really like team from the sidelines.
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H O E FO R E It’s crunch time. How much work do
you still need to do in terms of Gilas’
traning?
If you could have your own way, how
much more time would you spend in
preparation?
B There’s still a lot of work to be done If Gilas could be together for another
I NG
LEAV
because of the tight timeframe, not month or two, I’m sure we would be
only for [Gilas], but also for the other better. But it is what it is and we are
fo r teams. Most of the pro leagues in
Europe [finished] early June. Which
making the best of it. We are all very
focused on being successful. There is
makes the preparation time for all only one thing that means success in
G R E EC E teams very short. Coaches want to

get training camps and competitive
games. But because [time] was so
this tournament, and it’s winning it,
getting the gold, and going to Rio.
We could fail but still play really well.
last month to begin Gilas Pilipinas’ condensed, it was sort of difficult. I don’t think we can succeed, while
training camp for the FIBA Olympic Butch (Antonio, Gilas team manager) not playing well. We have to play way
Qualifying Tournament, Thomas did a great job [getting us into] above our heads to succeed but that
Anthony “Tab” Baldwin was in a this camp in Greece. We are very is not outside the realm of possibility.
familiar place: a basketball court. fortunate. We played Iran based on the And that’s what we really have to
Instead of the usual last-minute packing relationship I have with their coach. strive to do.
of bags, he was on a basketball court
attending a coaching clinic for kids.
This man obviously loves basketball.
And as fate would have it, Baldwin
found himself in a country that lives
and breathes basketball.
It is this same man who will be
leading Gilas Pilipinas’ bid to achieve
what basketball-loving Filipino fans
have long been waiting for: seeing the
national team play in the Olympics.
The 58-year-old Baldwin’s
basketball-coaching resumè began
long before he landed a job in the
Philippines. An American with a New
Zealand lineage, Baldwin coached one
of the local ball clubs in New Zealand,
the Hawke’s Bay Hawks. He went
on to be the head coach of the New
Zealand men’s national basketball
team, the Tall Blacks. The rest of the
world began to notice Baldwin when
New Zealand made it to the 2002 FIBA
World Championship.
After several stints with the
Lebanon and Jordan national squads,
Baldwin was hired as a consultant for
Gilas Pilipinas for their bid in the 2013
FIBA Asia Championship in Manila.
The national squad finished second to
book a seat at the 2014 FIBA World
Cup, the first time the Philippines
played in the prestigious tournament
since 1978.
Baldwin has since settled in the
Philippines after being named head
coach of Gilas Pilipinas in 2015. It was
the same year when Gilas took second
place in the FIBA Asia Championship
after bowing to China in the finals. On
the side, Baldwin is also a consultant
for Talk ‘N Text in the PBA, and the
head coach of the Ateneo Blue Eagles
in the UAAP.
Ultimately, however, Filipinos
understand that Baldwin came over
for one main task: to break the
drought. Despite the country’s passion
for basketball, the Philippines has yet
to qualify for the Olympics since 1972.
This month, the Philippines will try
to book a ticket to Rio as the beloved
Gilas Pilipinas competes in the FIBA
Olympic Qualifying Tournament.

Coach Tab
means
business
on the
court,
training
the Gilas
Pilipinas
pool at
least 15
hours a
week
Were you aware of the passion took me [only] as far as high school. why I was a Red Sox fan [if I wanted
Filipinos have for basketball even During high school, my dad was a to]. Maybe because I’m a [Boston] Celtics
before coming here? basketball coach and he was pretty fan as well. [The Red Sox] is the only
I knew from anecdotal evidence that adamant that I have no playing future sporting thing in the world other than
the Philippines has always been a in the sport. [I was] too short, too slow. the one I coach that I can refer to as ‘we’
basketball country. But I didn’t know He strongly encouraged me to pursue because I feel such affinity for that team.
how that would manifest itself until academic university experience. I went You obviously have a packed
I saw the big crowds. I didn’t know to University of Notre Dame, played schedule. But have you found time to
there are modern stadiums like the intramural basketball and football, but go around the Philippines?
MOA Arena, the Philippine Arena, and that isn’t exactly an athletic career. Not nearly enough. It’s something
even Araneta Coliseum, which is an Was your dad the one who inspired that I definitely want to do more with
old stadium but still a big, nice one. you to take up coaching instead? my family. I want to tell my friends
In what circumstances did you accept My dad was a lot of things. He was all around the world [about] the neat
the offer to become the head coach of my inspiration, my idol, my nemesis things that we are going to see in
Gilas Pilipinas? at times in terms of me wanting to do the Philippines. Being a person that
There was a part of me that was excited things I wanted to do. He is such a loves beaches, I’m used to hot weather.
because I had grown to understand strong disciplinarian and throughout Growing up in that environment in
the Philippine basketball landscape; my youth, he was a powerful influence Florida, this [climate] is excellent
how popular it is and how people have in my life; he dictated the decisions I for me. It’s just that I don’t get the
a huge passion for the national team. made. My dad’s word was law. But he opportunity to get out of Manila and
I recognize that there are pitfalls and did what he thought was best for me. I see all the places. But my wife and
political issues but the thing that made never doubted his love. Up until I was I are looking forward to spending
me secure with the position is because probably 25 years old, I followed what a lot of time on beaches all over the
of boss MVP [Manny V. Pangilinan] he said. The first real break from my Philippines. I like Baler because of the
and his passion for the game and the dad was getting into coaching, which I waves, and because I like to surf. Baler
support that he gives to the game. did aspire to partly because of him; but is more like the home where I come
Within that framework, I was excited, I did it against his wishes. There was from. Anywhere you can go where you
yet I knew the challenge would be great. a real fight over that in the house, but can relax in warm weather and warm
How much different is it coaching the in the end, he supported me. Without water—and swim—that’s paradise.
Ateneo team from coaching Gilas? his support, I don’t think I could have How do you like Filipino food?
It’s dramatically different. [With the Blue been as successful as I’ve been. Food is very good. Southeast Asian food
Eagles], there is a lot more teaching; We hear you are a big baseball fan, is generally good. Thai food is one of my
you have to spend a lot of time in detail as well. favorite cuisines. But Filipino food [is
which can be tiring. It’s intensive work, No, I’m a diehard [Boston] Red Sox fan. also good] because it’s spicy, and there
but I enjoy it. I know what the fans My passion for the Red Sox goes back to is a lot of meat. Some of the vegetables,
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want and it is to win the championships. my early childhood. I couldn’t tell you I find interesting, but the fruits are
But my job as coach of Ateneo is to amazing. That’s something about our
develop players and to help them reach family: we love fruits.
their goals and their aspirations. I Coach Tab on taking Gilas to Rio: “I hope What would you say to Filipino
believe that if you do that well, things that we do the job representing [the
basketball fans?
like championships will take care of Filipinos] the way they want us to do, the
I hope that we thrill them and entertain
way that why will be proud of us...”
themselves. That’s my philosophy. them. I hope that we give them a reason
How would you describe your to smile particularly the morning of
athletic career? July 11th. More important than that, I
I really was a guy that was into a lot hope that we do the job of representing
of sports—I played a lot of recreational them the way they want us to…If we
softball, volleyball, golf, ping pong, can achieve that, irrespective of our
tennis, I enjoyed water sports, I swam results, then I think we could hold our
a little bit. I still play golf. But really, heads up. I guess that’s the dream. To
basketball was my competitive sport. know that the people supporting you
And I had dreams when I was a kid continue to believe in you because of
like most kids do, but those dreams the work that you’ve done. FH M

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is for Rhian, and the signature of her
performances, which is strength in
vulnerability.
Like one of the pivotal scenes in
her lesbian-comes-of-age soap, The
Rich Man’s Daughter, where she
plays Jade Tanchingco, willful but
overprotected, the only daughter of a
wealthy Chinese clan, uber-traditional,
and unwelcoming of fringe views.
Jade becomes infatuated and falls
for the mestiza and doe-eyed Althea
(Glaiza de Castro), self-made and sure
of herself, if still hesitant, like Jade, of
her newfound desires for someone on
the same gender fence.
The scene: inside the restroom
where Jade has gone to collect herself.
She’s just about to exit but spots
Althea washing up and checking
her face in the mirror. Jade is forced
to wait and confront her hesitation,
unwilling to unchain her emotions
and yet yearning to engage by
simply opening her bathroom stall.
Everything could change; nothing
might change.
The conflict, the emotions that
play on her face is a treasure. It is
precious in not knowing what it
wants to be.
“I agree that vulnerability is a
strength,” says Rhian. “And I will be
the first to admit that I was bad when
I started all this [acting]. But now that
I’ve gotten some depth in [performing]
it is where I set free all the things I
can’t be and I can’t do. Acting to me
is freedom. Every second between the
words ‘action’ and ‘cut’ is freedom. If
you’ve ever fallen for someone, but
you’re with somebody else? That’s how
it feels. You can’t act upon that in the
real world, but you can in movies.
All the bad, all the forbidden, all the
taboo things I wish I could do I put in
acting.”
It’s the kind of honesty and on-
cam willingness to be uncomfortable
that has feted her with nominations
for many of her roles, including one
for 2012’s FAMAS Best Actress for
The Road. And to be honest, it’s also
primarily what clocked her into the
FHM 100 Sexiest list–the waif with curves, the dream girl who
could be vixen and sweetheart if you only played your cards right,
with a gaze so dusky the twilight would be jealous.
Now she's on the cover, incandescent beside a body of water
that sits inside the territory of a French chateau, medieval and
brutish, frolicking among the tall grass and blooms, comely and
dangerous as a fey creature. You can drown in her eyes, or behold
her form riveted in place. You don’t gaze at Rhian—she holds your
eye and throws back your adoration. Mirror upon mirror in the
wilderness.
And it was all because of an amazing bikini photo she herself
posted last March. God bless you, Instagram.
“Not that I needed permission from the
biebs but im hella game to love myself,”
Rhian wrote on her IG post.
“A lot of people were making fun
of my [flat] butt,” she says about the
post that harvested more than 13,000
likes and over 500 comments about
her frankly amazing derriere. “For
the longest time almost everybody was Incidentally, she also said yes because
telling me: do some squats, go exercise! FHM has transformed its design and
Because I hadn’t done a single squat in content ethos. “I finally said yes because
a year, that was what drove me to post of the change of audience and the
that photo where my butt was hanging change in content,” she says. ”Because of
out. And I was all ‘take that!’ that I now don’t feel shy to put my body
“But it backfired because the reaction in a magazine that is read by, what I
was apparently: they think I do have would say, the kind of readers that I now
a butt. It’s annoying! It’s confusing! want to reach out to.”
Because that’s not how I intended it. It Who owns women’s bodies? For
looked like I was the one who gave in, Rhian, taking ownership of her body has
that, ‘hey look she took our advice and obviously been empowering, the right
did, like, a gazillion squats.’ I had a kind track for evolution. In 2013 she got a
of epiphany after those reactions: you tattoo from the famous Kalinga tattoo
know what? It really doesn’t matter what artist Fang-Od, using the traditional
anyone’s opinion of your body is. It’s “batok” method with pomelo tree thorn
really up to you what you want to look and bamboo; extremely painful with
like and whatever that is, it's okay.” ecstatic bursts in between is how those
who’ve gone through the process
describe it.
“In my industry it’s very normal
for people to nitpick on the smallest
physical flaws like, say, Megan Fox’s
tongue, when she’s super hot! Who gives
a crap?,” Rhian says, shaking her head.
“When you’re young you tend to listen
more to the people around you with
regard to your body. Now that I’m older
I’ve started to just listen to myself. For
the longest time people had so many
opinions about my body and I would
read that, and they would affect me
deeply. They made me feel like I would
never want to be in front of anyone
anymore.”
In Ifugao culture, girls would
ritually receive tattoos as they entered
womanhood, while men would get new
ones as they piled on achievements. The
Scorpion and the Hawk, the animals that
now adorn Rhian’s right upper thigh
are now her symbols of womanhood, the
sigils of her feral nature leashed and
ready to be tapped when needed. They are
a means of control, tools for argument
and negotiation with the world.
“I’ve realized that, even if you follow
somebody else’s advice on what you
should look like, then you’ll have to
look in the mirror every day and be sad
because everyone else wins and you lose.”
Rhian Denise Ramos Howell was born “It was one heck of a freefall, that’s “I’ve found that a nice way of trash
of a British regional manager for an for sure,” she narrates. “As we sat on talking people is just to go near their
American company, Gareth Howell, and the edge of the plane I looked down cars and be like ‘ganda ng auto mo,
Filipina Clara Ramos. and I really choked, my mouth went ah! It would be a shame if anything
We first saw her in 2006’s Captain dry, and I didn’t know if I could catch happened to it.’ But I’m actually quite
Barbell as a teenage hottie, the apple my breath! Have you ever looked down a scaredy cat when it comes to road
of Teng’s eye. Since then she’s done on 18,000 feet? You could cry but you driving.”
everything from showbiz news to soaps don’t have saliva or tears. Then your Recently she replaced Iya Villania
and horror movies. She’s grown up in guy pushes you off the edge and that’s on GMA’s food magazine show Taste
front of our eyes on sprawling celluloid that. So as we were falling I was like: Buddies. The show offers up food
or TV; become an entrepreneur with God, what does a cloud feel like?” Rhian features and trips about the different
her friends (craft beer Pedro); took makes a sound between a burp and a facets of Filipino modern life and
up fashion design and made a name whistle, illustrating a cloud hitting her cuisine. But really, Rhian felt that she
for herself as a fashion blogista on face. “Oh, that’s what. Thanks, God! wanted to be in the show because it
Skilleto (see http://skilleto.com/author/ That was really beautiful.” would mean “all of my cheat days now
whianwamos) or, what the kids these She’s also really into cars and are for work! Also I get to hang out
days term an influencer. driving them fast. Which is why she with Solenn Heussaff, who’s one of the
R is for Rhian and the calculated just got sponsored by a petroleum coolest people in Philippine showbiz.”
risks she takes. How far has she come? company because she did monthly But what she’s really proud of is
Sometimes it’s measured in literally Mini-Cooper races. Last year she won bagging the lead role of Clara in the
stratospheric proportions. Recently she second place overall in the 1275 engine TV remake of Sinungaling Mong Puso,
parachuted out of a plane in Australia. category. “Which is why this year I’m off the 1992 movie by Maryo J. De Los
It was a tandem jump, to be sure, but really gunning for first place.” Reyes, where Vilma Santos originally had
the experience did connect Rhian closer Also why she’s hosting a motoring the same character that Rhian now plays.
to God. And the clouds. show called Full Throttle on the History
Channel alongside radio jock Sam YG,
where she claims she gets to unleash
her need for speed and exercise a fair
bit of the traditional racer activity of
trash talk.
“I haven’t done an afternoon show
in a really really long while,” she says,
since she’s been on primetime evening
shows for a few years now. "This is the
first time in a really long while that
I can be in front of a mostly women
audience. This is the demographic that
loves the melodrama, the acting, and the
approach that needs to be over the top.”
She continues: “In the 1992 movie
Gabby Concepcion is Vilma’s husband
and he doesn’t really treat her well,
so she turns to someone younger for
comfort. Now that I’m playing Vilma’s
character I realize that’s really far from That soap opera should debut just as
me in real life, I don’t usually go for this issue hits the stands.
people younger than me but in the story R is for ravishing and how, as
Vilma turns to Aga because he treats Rhian’s gotten older and grasped
her right.” more of her sexuality in her capable,
confident hands, it has been our boon
and reward. “I would definitely say I’m
much more comfortable in my body
now,” she explains. “See, I don’t like
the word ‘feminist’, I think it’s too…
feminine. To be one is to want equality
but the term itself is a little too much in
favor of women.”
As a corollary, let those who would
play with a reckless streak, with the
feral, and the ardently radical beware
the tooth and claw, the call to injury of
any who are drawn to the sensual and
dangerous. Remember Rhian’s ink and
their warning: the scorpion and the
hawk, they are of beauty crafted but are
made brutes with such weapons.
Relentlessly. We are left, then, to roll
our Rs in praise. FH M
CONGRATULATIONS
Jessy
C O - P R E S E N T E D:
O F F I C I A L A P PAR E L OF F I CI AL DR I N K OF F I CI AL M U LTIVITA M I N S
S PON SOR S P ON S OR S P ON SO R
I N C O OP E RATI ON : S P EC IAL THAN K S:
DEPRESSED
H ow i t Had to tak e tH e n ew, yo u n g g uy i n tH e
F H M n ut H o us e to wr ite ab o u t H i s d e p r es s i o n,
an d wH y t H e o ld Farts i n tH e o F F i c e can ’t j ust
s ay, “ t Hat i s s o M i lle n n ial” *
+++ words CHISE ALCANTARA +++
+++ illustrations WARREN ESPEJO +++

*A nd no w the y ’re no t so s u re a b o u t th e i r h e a d s
e ith er. Thi s j ob do es th a t to y o u
I
’ve always wanted to write about my depression

but have just never really figured out why people
would want to read my story. in a generation
with so many people wanting to express
themselves in different, new, and exciting ways,
what makes my story so special and worth
spending precious time on? can you believe i
go through these questions each time i start
writing something? no wonder i have anxiety.
i’ve always wondered how i could
differentiate myself from the flock of wattpad
writers and the copycats of Marcelo santos iii,
the king of cringe-worthy hugot memes, who
have sold their souls to the demons of hugot
and relatability in exchange for viral readership.
i know i didn’t want to write in a mainstream
kind of way, masyado akong pretentious for
that shit. so i reflected on what i could do to be
somewhat relatable but still keep my pretentious
roots intact, and for some reason, i chose to get
depressed. i know what you’re thinking, “oh, a
depressed writer! How… uhm, cliché.” exactly.
but only a few writers—no, only a few people—
can say that they chose their depression to
further their art! parang modern-day Van gogh!
i confided to a friend my depression and
this is what i got: “it’s kind of comforting to
know that some people are more fucked up in
the head than i am.” i was different. My way of
handling depression was different from his (and,
with my conceit, yours, too). i wasn't whiny. i
wasn't papansin. i wasn't inconsiderate. i didn't
tell people they were fucked up, when all they
needed to hear was "it’s okay." i always liked
to think that i was living life with a handicap
and that it was harder compared with other
people’s lives and that i handled things better. writing in that state just felt so right even FA L L I N g O v E R
i wanted to be better. it just made me feel that though i knew that it was wrong. i wrote really
my accomplishments were always a little more funny shit during those times. weirdly enough, and i did a lot of stupid shit. Mostly stupid
awesome and my victories were well-deserved; feeling sad all the time brings out the funny, shit that left me empty inside. by empty, i mean
though looking back, i would probably call nihilistic side of people–feeling joseph grimaldi, not being tormented with really sad thoughts
myself tanga rather than fucked-up. the clown that couldn’t make himself laugh, the 24/7, thinking how and when the perfect time
you can’t really choose to have depression. perfect ironic martyr. would be to kill yourself so that more people
some people are born with the inclination to be as you guys can probably tell, i love would attend your funeral and say, “sayang siya.”
depressed, sadyang malas; develop depression romanticizing things that happen to me. i used to think it would be best to kill myself on
through traumatic experiences, minalas; and/ Forming insights and looking for new sources a thursday so it’ll stop everyone from working
or just have different psychological issues that of inspiration come naturally because i believe the next day. because, really, who wants to
manifest themselves through extended periods that a writer makes the most out of the things work on a Friday? they’ll have a weekend
of sadness, nagpapamalas. My psychiatrist he/she experiences, more so than any other to set up a really cool funeral for me. also, it
thinks i’m kind of a mix of them all. i wasn’t profession, because he/she can make others would probably be because of od-ing on some
diagnosed with clinical depression till after i told go through what he/she felt if they get to read illegal substance that wouldn’t really affect the
my parents about it after an emotional exchange his/her work. and being the smartass, instead way i looked on the outside so people would
with them a couple of years ago. i was 21. i of using this for positive personal growth, i used get to remember me as my semi-gwapo self.
can't really recall what it was about. it to justify wanting to “experience” stupid shit. whenever i was in bed with a stranger, the
after-sex high would numb these thoughts filling psychological issues), and in truth all of it was
my head. the stupid shit i did made everything
A NEW overwhelming for me.
feel okay for a while. PE R S PECTIvE
i tried to od on my happy pills once.
people from work had to carry me to the to live with depression in a way that it doesn’t
hospital. i knew i wasn’t going to die though cripple you requires a paradigm shift. you can LETTINg gO
i nearly fell down the stairs. Most depressed ask a depressed person to not be sad all you
people don’t really want to die; they just want want, but that won’t really do any good. writing i finally learned how to handle these things
everything to stop. Most people i’ve talked to used to fuel my anxiety and vice-versa. “why when i met this girl on tinder (because that's
never really quite understood what i was going didn’t you just stop then?” you ask? i couldn’t. the app that guys who got all the game install);
through, which wasn’t really their fault. talks on writing just fits so perfectly in the endless one of the few people i actually liked talking to.
depression in mainstream media are still a taboo cycle of destruction that was my life. i used she also had baggage of her own. she had just
topic even though it shouldn’t be. it’s already to write and feel like it wasn’t my best and broken up with her boyfriend and i was sort of the
recognized as an actual illness and not a “pag- get depressed; then i would write more. i’d rebound guy. i had a lot of fun with her but i never
iinarte” as some people would put it. eventually get better but still wouldn’t think it really saw it going anywhere. i tried remaining
was enough. i would keep writing and writing, friends with her even after i broke off whatever we
pushing my depression to its limit to hopefully had because i felt bad leaving her. i tried to help
keep getting better—and as stupid as it sounds, her but i only made things worse, so i let go.
gETTINg HELP it worked. i wanted to get better because i want to
though if i hadn’t gone through the stupid help other people. i don’t mean to sound selfless
i wanted to get better but just not right at that shit, things wouldn’t have turned out the way because i’m not; i just felt like it was too late to
moment. i mean, i still had some writing to do. they did for me now. “save” myself, again romanticizing this shit. i'd
i could get better any time i wanted, maybe. i wouldn’t be alive if i hadn’t taken a feel guilty whenever i fail to help people, like
Most people my age mostly went on their own philosophy minor in college. i was able to there was something wrong with me. like i was
accord. i, on the other hand, had to be forced analyze my thoughts based on how philosophers never enough. i realized i couldn’t help everyone
by my parents (told you i was special). our interpreted the absurdities occuring in my life. (hell, i couldn’t even help myself at that point).
early meetings were mostly comprised of me gabriel Marcel, a French christian existentialist i realized that sometimes, even if you do love
asking questions about other people to see how philosopher (which means that he found god, someone with all your heart, sometimes they
similar our cases were. i wanted to know if i was and now he’ll never shut up about it), helped need a kind of love you can’t offer.
normal crazy or on a different level of cray cray. me get through the darkest times. with his eventually i figured out that, surprisingly
My psychiatrist, dr. ryan rabago, explained to philosophy of hope that, until after much enough, forcing myself to become depressed
me that the drugs he gave weren’t going to cure reading, i still have trouble understanding. was a horrible, horrible idea. For one thing, the
my depression; rather it one aspect of his writing—the one thing i really gave a shit about—
was to help me feel more philosophy that really suffered. i didn’t get published more, i didn’t
relaxed so i could talk perplexed me was “letting want to write anytHing. i became part of
more during sessions. He go.” not because the FHM, probably one of the most fun places you
AWAR E N E S S concept itself was complex
gave me two drugs called could ever hope to produce content for, and yet
escitalopram, which i almost IN THE but rather because it was i still felt so empty. not because my life sucked,
never took, and rivotril, the PHILIPPINES just alien to me. letting which didn’t, but because i viewed the world to
happy pills. rivotril was the go of people somewhat be a horrible place to live in.
shit, though, but they were The Philippine Psychology felt like i was giving up on i made the world shitty because i believed
only for “emergencies,” so Act of 2009, more commonly them, that i had lost hope it was shitty even though it wasn’t. i like
i made sure emergencies known as the Psychology in them, which was the complicating shit for myself to make it feel like
happened every so often. law, was approved on March opposite of what “hoping in i’m doing more work than other people. i like
i opened up to him 16, 2010. This act finally people” was for me. today, carrying other people’s burdens for them even
more when i realized that recognizes psychology i still wonder sometimes when i know that i’ll fail because i like looking
i didn't want to give him and licensed practitioners how i was able to pass that strong in front enough to stand even if other
two thousand bucks per on par with other medical class. people were bringing me down. gusto kong
session just to have a practices by reacting to i have trouble letting mukhang kinakawawa ako. i wanted to be
staring contest with me. i a professional board of go of people. My writing noticed because i was suffering so much and no
told him about my love-hate psychology. It mandates that usually centers on being one noticed. i wanted to suffer more. i wanted
relationship with my racist all hopeful psychologists hopeful in spite of dying to suffer in a grander way so that people would
lola. later we figured out must pass licensure circumstances (aka sawi- notice my suffering and not anyone else’s. i
that all writers have daddy exams based on their own ness) not because i was wanted to be read because people don’t notice
issues, and that i liked specialization to protect optimistic about life, which it when other people suffer.
talking about other people the public from untrained i really wasn’t during that but this wasn’t the way to do it.
more than myself. i hate individuals offering time, but because i was i still get depressed sometimes. the anxiety
telling people about myself psychological services. just being realistic. i went comes and goes along with self-destructive
because they would get to A Mental Health Bill through a dating phase. tendencies, but i’m trying. ayoko nang
understand what makes me has been in the works for Most of them didn’t work kinakawawa ako. i want to be good for other
vulnerable. about two years now. “It out, which again, didn’t people. i want to write my story well. i want
Meeting with a seeks to integrate mental help with my psychological people to notice because i want to let people
psychiatrist really changes health services into the state. but with all of them, read about what i’ve gone through. sayang eh.
you once you let it. you national health system in even those who i didn’t i started writing again better than i could
can be free to talk about order to meet the needs of actually like after all, i still have even hoped before. i do things that were
anything you want, which those who lack access to wanted to maintain contact impossible before. i work out, i wake up early,
is actually great for an readily-available, affordable with because i really hate sometimes i even make it on time to work. i talk
introvert like me who rarely and equitable mental losing people i’ve invested to my parents more, i fell in love with an amazing
gets the urge to engage in health care, especially the some of myself in. i would girl named kat (not through tinder), and i want
conversation. poor.” The latest version is still talk to them, and to be good for her. she makes me want to love
i found that my thoughts presently “pending in the all of them still confide people more, even the annoying ones like myself.
were a lot clearer when i committee,” according to their problems with me (i i think i’m better now. FH M
could hear my own voice. senate.gov.ph. seem to attract girls with
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That is Paul Biteng’s ringback tone. The kid is history. Fifteen minutes of standing around help of family, friends, and fellow hackers,”
alright, but he’s got a sick sense of humor. For in the mall, three security guards had placed Paul says.
a while there, we thought it was real. The kid themselves at strategic points with direct He recalls he was outside their house,
having done what he did, we’d have believed lines of sight to us, them communicating on smoking a cigarette, when the NBI picked him
every word of the stupid ringback. their radios. Our photographer was carrying a up. It had only been a couple of weeks since
In April, Paul Biteng, 20, was on national backpack; we figured they thought we looked he graduated from Perpetual Help College in
news when he was arrested for hacking suspicious. Maybe we were. Manila.
the Comelec website. Hacked government Then Paul arrived. By his account, Paul wasn’t what you
websites are not new, but Paul’s timing was He was sipping on Starbucks and had on would consider a “master” in the hacking
impeccable: he did it with a little more than a V for Vendetta t-shirt. His hair was wiry and community, as the reports made him out to be.
a month to go before the 2016 presidential he had plugs for earrings. He was lanky, about “Sa school kasi nanggaling yan. Hindi
elections, just as the Comelec was at a 5’5”, and he had this silly grin on his face. naman sa masipag…oo, masipag magbasa ng
critical juncture preparing for the automated He didn’t look like he had graduated from codes, basta programming, interesado ako. So
polls. The government agency said their high school yet. He was with a girl—not his madali ako makatapos ng mga activity, kaya
system was secure; not long after, data on 55 girlfriend, he said—who looked even younger. tinawag ako ng mga kaklase ko na “master.”
million voters—including passport details and “Kanina pa kayo? Sinamahan ko lang kasi Pero sa [hacker community] hindi nila ako
fingerprints—was leaked on the web. Some siya, may binili lang,” Paul said apologetically. tinatawag na ganyan.”
news reports claimed it was the “biggest We agreed to do the interview at a bar two It has been determined that although
government-related data breach in history.” streets down from the mall. We asked him if Paul hacked the Comelec website, he didn’t
A 20-year-old did that, and that was he was allowed in the place; the girl knew the leak the information on the web—two other
our story. place and said he could go in, besides he had hackers who got his codes in their community
After almost a month of looking, FHM his ID with him. forum did that. “Sinasabi kasi nila [Comelec]
tracked down Paul, now out on bail, through Suddenly, it didn’t feel like Ludlum anymore. secured, so tinest ko kung mabubutas—yun
a fellow hacker. Following a series of text It felt like we were going to play DotA. ang term namin dun, butasin para makapasok.
messages and a few phone calls (with the May nakita ako, so nireport ko [sa Comelec].
first one pranking us good), he agreed to Kaso hindi sila nagreply,” Paul
meet in a mall somewhere in Manila. Tech crunch says.
At the meet-up point, it felt like a “Twelve days ako na-detain sa Here is how Paul may have
Ludlum thriller. We were to rendezvous with NBI. Sina mama at papa lang yung done it, from a geek perspective,
PhantomHacker Khalifa, responsible for the gumagalaw [para makapag-bail ako]. according to two IT experts—
biggest government security data breach in Nakapagpost ako ng bail with the Pierre Tito Galla, a consulting ICT

expert for various government institutions friends. That is all that Paul can recall. magulang ko yung ginagawa ko, nagsasabi
like the Senate and Congress, the National High school was at Ramon Magsaysay. naman ako,” Paul says.
Telecommunications Commission, and the “Yun, wala rin! Tamad lang talaga akong mag- “Are you famous in the hacking
Philippine National Police; and Marie Ricana, aral. Tapos wala na ring sports, eskwela-bahay community?”
who has held IT admin and director positions na lang lagi. Nag-DotA rin ako, pero sa shop “Hindi naman ako sikat, kilala lang ako na
at various government and private companies: lang na malapit sa amin.” magaling magbutas. Yung website niyo butas.”
“Biteng may have exploited an existing When he was in second year high school, “Binutas mo?”
vulnerability/set of vulnerabilities in the his family bought a computer set for cheap. “Oo. Pero hindi ako nakapasok. May
website. Likely, the vulnerabilities existed Soon after, they had internet connection. butas lang siya, pwede akong mag-extract ng
because the patching and security updates “Una, Facebook lang tsaka laro. data—usernames, passwords. Yun ang mga
of the website were not done faithfully, in a Hanggang nag-part time ako sa dapat protektahan. Pero hindi ko ginawa kasi
timely manner, and with a sense of urgency,” pagdedevelop ng Ragnarok.” First he played hanggang dun lang ang limit ko, yun lang ang
Galla explains. the game, then learned it well enough to know kaya ko.
Ricana speculates Biteng did an SQL how to customize the settings of the game on “Hindi mo kinuha yung data. Pero kaya mo?”
injection via Voter's Registration Status private servers for which some players were “Siguro kung pinagpaguran ko, kasi
Verification/Precinct Finder. “The reason willing to pay to be able to play. It sounds like parang dinaanan ko lang.
why I thought [he did it] through the Precinct a technological leap for a kid, but Paul says “So nandun ka, bored ka, kaya hinack mo
finder is because, 1) Using an open text he had been into computers since he was yung website namin.”
box form is an easy and careless way of three. For him it was easy, and he showed his “Oo.” (laughs)
doing searches, especially if you don’t take aptitude for coding when he began college as He swears he didn’t steal pictures.
the necessary precautions; 2) [The Precinct an IT student.
finder] has a direct access to [Comelec’s] It was also in college that he found
voters’ database (which is the database that hacking to be a cool thing. “Gusto kong Jail
was actually stolen); and 3) Of all the services gayahin yung The Matrix,” Paul says. Should we send him to prison?
in the Comelec website, it was the first to be Just as fast as he learned how to hack De La Salle University law professor and
removed from the site.” and had met fellow hackers on social media, litigation lawyer Andre de Jesus, founding
This was a pretty easy job to do, too, say he had begun to earn money spotting partner at Esguerra Dy de Jesus Chico
Ricana and Galla. “On a scale of 1 to 5 [on weaknesses in websites in what is called a Law says Paul broke two similar laws: the
the difficulty scale], it’s probably a 1,” says Bug Bounty Program. E-Commerce Law or Republic Act 8792
Galla. “Scripts that do these things can be “Ito yung pag nakakita ka ng bug, irereport (which regulates computer interaction in the
copy-pasted from so many places, and they mo dun sa site, tapos babayaran ka nila. country) and the controversial Cybercrime
aren't all in the dark web.” Ricana agrees: Yung dun sa Facebook, binayan nila ako ng Prevention Act (which criminalizes several
“If indeed the hacking was done via SQL $1500 (or about P69,450 at the exchange online activities such as cybersquatting, libel,
injection, then that means what [Comelec] did rate as we write this). Minus tax na $450, bale and access to data without right).
was lacking in terms of coding. With someone $1150 ang nakuha ko. Nakapagbayad ako ng “[Biteng] can be prosecuted for different
who has the tech knowledge and malicious tuition at nakabili ako ng motor. Alam ng mga counts based on different provisions of
intent, it would have been easy to do it.” each law,” says Atty. de Jesus. “He can be
So apparently, it doesn’t take much to hack prosecuted for hacking, for the fact that
Comelec’s website—it could have been done he accessed the Comelec website without
by a local hacker who had just graduated from right. He can also be prosecuted separately
school. Recina enumerates the necessary skills for computer-related identity theft. This last
to hack: “The hackers need competencies in one means you intentionally acquire, use,
the most common programming languages, misuse, transfer, possess, alter, or delete the
especially those that are used to program identifying information of another without
websites and web apps (eg. PHP, MySQL, right. I think these are the offenses that were
JavaScript, Visual Basic). Competencies in committed by Paul Biteng.”
navigating web servers (which are more often For all these violations, Biteng may be
than not, run in Linux).” Galli is more succinct: slapped with fines and imprisonment. The
“They need the ability to search for reading E-Commerce Act imposes “a minimum
material on vulnerabilities, search for scripts, fine of P100,000 to a maximum amount
and replicate them. In other words, Google and commensurate to the damage incurred,” says
cut and paste.” de Jesus. “There is also imprisonment from a
minimum of six months to a maximum of three
FHM to Paul: “Where did you learn to hack?” years. For violating the Cybercrime Prevention
Paul: “By reading how-to-hack websites on Act, Biteng may be imprisoned for at least
Google. Marami namang ganon don.” six years and imposed with a fine of at least
P200,000.”
He spent all of one summer after high There’s more.
school in 2012 learning to hack. Biteng could also be charged with illegal
access against a critical infrastructure.
De Jesus explains: “Critical infrastructure
Bounty hunter [refers to] computer systems, programs,
Paul Z. Biteng: underachiever, row 4 student, traffic data so vital to our country that the
tamad mag-aral. interference with, the destruction of, or the
At least if it wasn’t about computers and tampering of these data or assets will have
coding and, eventually, hacking, that is how a debilitating effect on national or economic
Paul thinks his entire life has been thus far. security, national public health and safety or a
The Balic-Balic, Sampaloc boy spent his Paul Biteng looks like any 20-year-old combination of all those.”
grade school years at Legarda Elementary kid. and just like the rest of them, he If prosecutors can prove that the Comelec
School in Sampaloc, Manila. He admits he grew up on computers and the Internet. website is critical infrastructure, Biteng could
didn’t excel in any subject, but he did play except that some kids are smarter than be imprisoned for 12 to 20 years and/or
some sports. “Soccer.” He had a couple others. ask comelec slapped with a minimum fine of P500,000.

HACkING GAmE THE wORld's mOsT iNfAmOUs HACKERs
The hacker: The hacker: The hacker: North The hacker: George The hacker: Donncha
Onel de Guzman Anonymous korea (unofficially) Hotz O'Cearbhail
The victim: The The victim: ISIS The victims: Sony The victims: Apple, The victims: The
world, making a stand after Entertainment, Sony fBI, U.S. Senate,
on may 4, 2000, 24-year- the June 2016 orlando Hollywood at 17 years old, george Sony
old filpino onel de mass shooting, sony Pictures was hotz became a hero known as one of the
guzman released the anonymous defaced about to release to many apple users top five most wanted
Iloveyou virus—his pro-IsIs Twitter The Interview, about in 2007 by giving hackers in the world
undergraduate thesis. accounts with images the assassination of them the world’s first until his arrest (and his
he used “Iloveyou” of rainbows, gay north korea’s leader. jailbroken iPhone. eventual release). In
as the subject and porn, and other lgBT said leader then, since there was no law 2012, he “listened in”
“love-letter-for-you” content. This most supposedly, ordered that criminalized his and secretly recorded
as the file name recent anonymous his hackers to disclose hacking job, apple had a conference call of
for the attachment. attack on IsIs is really the email content to grudgingly accept the fBI with some
People double-clicked just a continuation of of the hollywood his genius. neither international police
expecting hugs and their war against the literati. contracts, could they do anything forces as part of their
kisses but instead got terrorist group, which salaries, unpublished about the fact that hotz investigation of several
all their computer data they began in 2015, scripts—everything was shared his hacking job global hacking rings.
wiped out and their after the Paris bombing exposed. on youTube. hotz is
outlook contacts hit in november of that now an fB employee.
with the same email. year.
“Maybe some sort of reduction of his officer, or a white hacker,” he says. “His skills instrumental in helping Paul raise funds for
prison sentence (which does not exist yet) would be useful in finding and exposing his bail.
could be extended to him,” says de Jesus. vulnerabilities in systems before hackers do. “Yes, he’s a good friend. #freepaulbiteng.
“But I think we should send a message that He’d then be the one to report them to web info was initiated because we don’t want to
crime must be punished. Otherwise, we’d developers and help them find a fix.” see an always happy and talented young
be incentivizing the wrong actions in our According to salary survey site Payscale, friend go to jail,” says Clifford. “He has a
government. Simply put, Biteng committed a a certified ethical hacker (CEH) could earn legit skill talking with databases using SQL
crime and he must be held responsible for it, anywhere between $49,330 and $133,869 injection attack. He also has ‘fast hands’ as
whether or not his punishment is reduced.” annually, or about P189,098 to P513,165 we always play League of Legends during
monthly. our free time. Paul is only 20. He might have
If Paul is acquitted and taken in by an IT crossed the [line] but I strongly believe his
Hire or tech firm, he will join the likes of Nicholas skill is a big use to the government; an asset
“On behalf of over a billion users, we would Allegra, who Apple got as an intern after for a better and secure Philippine cyberspace.”
like to thank the following people for making he created a website that allowed users to
a responsible disclosure to us,” says Facebook jailbreak their devices and run unauthorized
on its White Hat page, last updated on May software; and Jeff Moss, who once ran an He'll call you
14, 2016. It cited Biteng among a handful of underground online community for hackers “Ayoko nung sila ang kukuha sa akin,” says
other “white hat” hackers for helping them by and is now a consultant for the US Homeland Paul of the reason he rejected an offer from
reporting weaknesses in their system in 2014. Security Advisory Council. two companies.
Microsoft, on its website, also gave Biteng There’s another option. “The most “Ang yabang mo naman!” we chide him.
recognition as one of its June 2014 Security effective whistle blowers, in general, are those “Hindi!,” he laughs. "Kasi ganito—parang
Researchers. “The Microsoft Security who are not on the periphery but come from ang taas kasi ng expectation nila, eh kung
Response Center (MSRC) is pleased to within the anomalies that are being exposed,” hindi ko magawa yung pinapagawa nila?”
recognize the security researchers who says de Jesus. “If the rumors are true that Paul Loui Z. Biteng, 20. Hacker.
have helped make Microsoft online services Biteng is, in fact, a member of Anonymous Responsible for what they say is the biggest
safer by finding and reporting security Philippines, [hiring Biteng] might not just be government data security breach in history.
vulnerabilities,” the company said. “Each name able to improve the cyber security system Not quite sure of his own capabilities
listed represents an individual or company of the Philippines but also somehow temper because, really, he just learned hacking on
who has privately disclosed one or more the propensity of Anonymous to just deface Google, in his free time. IT graduate. Bug
security vulnerabilities in our online services [websites] without any real purpose.” Bounty Hunter. Likes reggae, R and B, and
and worked with us to remediate the issue.” Clifford Trigo (hackerone.com/ hip-hop. Drinks. Smokes. Gets scolded by his
Leo Nocom, a senior web cliffordtrigo), a security researcher parents because he stays out till late hanging
developer at a multinational IT firm and second in HackerOne’s at friends’ houses. Doesn’t watch TV because
based in Makati, agrees that the overall hacker list, has been an who among his age still watches TV? Has
government should not let Biteng’s online friend of Paul Biteng’s for an easy grin and probably should have a
talents go to waste. “He can work three years now—but they have girlfriend.
initially as a Quality Assurance met only once in person. He was Just a kid. FHM

B e e r s e lf- s u f f i c i e ncy i s
e nti r e ly p os s i B le. fou r
lo cal hom e B r ew e r s s har e
th e i r s tor i e s —B ut not
th e i r r eci p e s—i n hop e s of
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part of th e B u rg eon i ng
p h i li p p i n e craf t B e e r
c om m u n i t y
I N D E PE N D E NT
REPUBLIC
OF
brew
when microbreweries
and craft beers first
made their way to
the philippines, they
presented an alternative
to binge drinking pretty
much the same thing.
at the same time, this
new industry also posed
a certain dilemma: the
economic kind.
case in point: the first
craft beers had the price
of hard liquor. and in a
country where getting
drunk is somewhat
deemed a luxury, people
get more alcoholic
fulfillment chugging
three bottles of the local
brand than trying out
and sipping one of the
expensive ales.
although in reality,
this type of beer could
come at a low price, if not
for free. proof of which
is a growing circle of
local beer connoisseurs
that has been pushing
for cheap, flavorful beer
through a decade-old
industry. most of them
coming from overseas,
home brewers have been
at it for years now and
are actually encouraging
more people to get into
the venture.
this not only adds
to brewed options, but
also creates competition,
which translates to lower
craft beer costs. for the
brewers themselves,
the brotherhood united
by a common passion
flourishes and that
means more good beer
for everyone.
with the help of
retired us marine and
wo r D s beer distributor louis
Joh n pau lo ag u i le ra wright, fhm had the
chance to talk to four of
these guys, who let us
p h oto g r a p h y into their lives as home
pau l mon D o K brewers.
TH E
I N G R E D I E NT S
Malt. Grains crushed and

A B
soaked in hot water to
accelerate enzyme activity.
The starch reserves of
C D
malted barley is then J A M E S
turned into wort. M I T C H E L L
Day job: Environmental consultant

on fisheries
Affiliation/prominent craft
beer enthusiast groups: Manila
Mashers Homebrew Club
Home brew you’re most proud of:
Malt extract. The “Honey Wheat Ale. It has the color
product of concentrated of honey, a refreshing, clean, wheat-
wort. flavored taste, with just a kiss of
honey at the end.”
Favorite local beer: “Only craft
beer for me, please! I like several of
the local ones but haven’t found a
favorite yet since I still haven’t tried
TH E B E E R-MAK I N G PR OCE S S them all!”
a. most home b. crushed c. temperature d. upon air-
brewers do malt is then of the wort locking the
Hops. Green, cone- “The first time I tried a sip of beer
all-grain soaked is brought fermenter,
shaped “flower” of the was from my dad, back when I
brewing. in boiling down add priming
hop plant that gives was a kid. It was a large-scale
with malt water, and using the sugar
balance, flavor, and aroma commercial light fizzy lager, and I
extract is then immersion to final
to beer. remembered absolutely hating it,”
unavailable, subjected to chiller, to solution
recalls James of his first brew. In his
grains are sparging. create a before the
20s, he discovered new beer flavors,
processed healthy wait begins.
transforming his indifference to
through the environment
passion for home brewing.
grinder. for the yeast.
Using “crappy” ingredients and a
used beer kit from Craigslist, James
came up with his first brew, which
according to him had a “strange
Brewer’s yeast. A type TH E E QU I PM E NT green apple-ish” taste. Practice
of fungus used in the indeed made perfect as James
fermentation process. is now able to brew beers that
Sources: www.homebrewersassociation.org and www.craftbeer.com

Stove. Something that can boil up controlling temperatures during the genuinely taste great—just ask the
to three gallons during partial-boil whole process people around him.
extract brewing Fermentor. Contains the wort as “Sharing my homebrew with
Boiling pot. Quality and durable it ferments into beer. Plastic jugs, friends and seeing their faces light
pots for bigger volumes of liquid glass containers, even kegs can be up with surprise keep me going
and the entire boiling process used to house the fermentation in the hobby,” he shares. “And it
Grinder. Either manual or Airlock. Inserted in the top of a certainly feels more gratifying
automatic, this piece of equipment fermenter, it allows CO2 to escape than sitting at your laptop all day
crushes the malt grains without the risk of doing sedentary work or mindlessly
Water. Of course. browsing Facebook.”
Stirring spoon. unwanted contaminants
Regardless of material Racking cane. An Asked if there is such a thing as
(plastic, stainless steel), auto siphon kind is easy a perfect brew, James explains:
it has to reach the to use in transferring “There is for the moment. No
bottom of the pot beer from a fermenter to single beer will always be the best
Measuring cup. another container one for all situations, but there are
Used to measure the Sanitizer. A no-rinse moments when the beer in your
appropriate water sanitizer, paired with a hand is the best you could imagine
Priming sugar. Food volumes spray bottle, is the best for that moment, and it’s an amazing
for the yeast, and helps Thermometer. A way to go and prevent feeling. You wouldn’t trade it for
carbonate the beer. calibrated and heavy- spoiling agents any other!”
duty one is crucial in

CRAFT AB Cs
ILLUSTRATIONS: LOUIS ARENAS

Alcohol by Volume
(ABV). The measurement
of the alcohol content of a
solution.
Body. A beer’s
consistency, thickness,
and mouth-filling property.
The sensation of palate
fullness in the mouth
ranges from thin- to full-
bodied.
LEANDRO “LEE” J. MARIO PEPPO “FILBREWER” Dry hopping. Late
DAVID MCDERMOTT STUART DEL ROSARIO addition of hops while
brewing to increase the hop
aroma of a finished beer
Day job: In between jobs, formerly Day job: Good manufacturing Day job: Production manager, with less bitter effect.
an analyst for a bank practices consultant Green Gold Gourmet Foods, Inc. Immersion chiller.
Affiliation/prominent craft Affiliation/prominent craft Affiliation/prominent craft beer Usually made of copper, a
beer enthusiast groups: beer enthusiast: Craft Beer enthusiast groups: BeerHere.org, cooling apparatus that is
Beerhere.org; Craft Beer Association of the Philippines Tastybrew.com submerged into hot wort
Association of the Philippines; Home brew you’re most proud Home brew you’re most proud before fermentation.
Manila Mashers Homebrew Club of: “Belgian Summer Saison. It has of: “Trinitario Porter. The chocolate Kräeusen. (n.)Rocky
Home brew you’re most proud a nice body that is slightly dry, but is very intense that you can smell it head of foam on the
of: “French-style saison and Grey still tastes a little sweet.” while being poured in my favorite surface of the wort during
Shirt pale ale (brewed with a friend Favorite local beer: “Pearl of the glass.” fermentation. (v.) A
of mine).” Orient Pale Ale from Great Islands Favorite local beer: “Fat Pauly’s conditioning method used
Favorite local beer: “Just local Craft Brewery, San Miguel Super Diwata. The best Belgian Wit Ale to create a secondary
craft. Turning Wheels’ Mountain King Dry, Cerveza Negra (blended, which I’ve ever tasted.” fermentation and natural
IPA; Katipunan Craft’s Signal No.1 is actually even better) if there is no carbonation by adding
and Three Hops and a Hop; Great craft beer available.” a small quantity of
Island Brewery’s Pearl of the Orient.” While he thinks there is no perfect unfermented wort to a
brew as the process is essentially fully fermented beer.
Before moving to the Philippines, an “art,” Peppo believes consistency Mash tun. Where
A trip to Europe, where he was Mario had already dabbled in home can be achieved given that it is also ground malt and grains
introduced to a very wide range of brewing in the US, hoping to make a “science.” are soaked in water and
beer choices, piqued Lee’s interest beer on par with those from the A balikbayan box from the US heated to convert starch
to add to the current beer selection microbreweries and brewpubs he in 2009 containing beer kits got to sugar, and to extract
here in the country. “In Europe, a frequented—only cheaper. “Actually him started with craft brewing. the sugars, colors, flavors,
single pub can have 10 different taps it wasn’t any cheaper, but it was Peppo recalls: “We brewed a pale and other solubles.
of different beers,” says Lee. more fun,” Mario says. When he ale then, using liquid extract and Sparging. Spraying the
Like many others, the Internet decided to live in the Philippines, DME (dry malt extract). My brother spent mash grains with hot
was his takeoff point. The casual Mario knew he had to start from and I were so nervous the following water to retrieve the residual
online browse on the topic—Google scratch—like going all-grain—and day when fermentation was at its liquid malt sugar and extract
and YouTube—snowballed to a sometimes improvise with the kräusen (meaning), spitting out in the grain husks.
more extensive research about dearth of apparatus and supplies. beer foam all over the floor.” Whirlpool. Collecting
beer styles, malts and hops, even His background as a microbiologist Being based in Iligan City, where hot break material in the
traditions. Next thing Lee knew, proved valuable. he says life is so simple that people center of the kettle from a
he was buying ingredients and With his experience and “don’t have the need nor want for vortex formed by stirring
equipment from a homebrew store aptitude in home brewing, Mario modern gastronomic indulgence,” the wort.
in Singapore. could easily jump into the business was also a factor in his decision to Wort. Bittersweet sugar
Lee isn’t shy in describing his side of things and introduce his craft his own beer. “I just wanted solution that is a product
first brew in 2012 as “awful.” “It was beers to the consuming public, but to brew and share it to people and of malt-mashing and
so bad that I didn’t let anyone drink he chooses not to. friends here so that they will be hop-boiling, and becomes
its,” he says. Now, he is confident “I consider my homebrew to educated on craft beers.” beer through fermentation.
enough with brewing techniques be the most expensive beer I can Who would’ve thought a FH M
that all he has to bear are the brief drink,” he says. “Since it takes me birthday gift in 2008 from his Dutch
spells of waiting.” about eight to 10 hours during a friend—a beer deck explaining its
While Lee isn’t discounting typical brew day, followed by a week various categories—would become a
the possibility of getting in the or two of manually controlling the source of fulfillment for Peppo every
home-brewed beer business, he temperature of the fermentation time he makes a successful batch.
has high regard for the craft. “I don’t with frozen water bottles, then two “From that day on, brewing has
want to generalize, but some may to four hours bottling or kegging my become a part of my life, maybe even
sacrifice creativity for the sake of beer—that is a lot of time that I have when I become old and cannot drink
making sales. They think of what to arrange with my busy and tiring beer anymore,” he says. “It’s an infinite
would sell to the people rather than schedule. And that is why I feel my quest for knowledge, to brew beers
what they really want to do. Home beer is precious and should only be beyond perfection and to innovate
brewing is all about making and given to those who will appreciate it.” and create other possibilities that
sharing beer, experimentation and have never been explored before,
self-expression.” using all the ingredients imaginable.”

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E X P E R T
Be the ultimate
wood master
You don’t need a dIY degree to
buIld somethIng from scratch.
all You need, accordIng to our
expert, are some trustY tools,
posItIvItY, and Youtube
Words
CECILE JUSI-BALTASAR The shelved cabinet that can do so much more.
This single-shelf cabinet can stand alone as, er, a cabinet. But it can also be
photogr apY used as a side table or a coffee table. If you remove the legs and hang it on
KURT ALVAREZ
your bathroom wall, it can even be used as a medicine cabinet. Keep it natural
Illustr atIons without paint or cover it up with shelf liner stickers, which are easier and faster
CARLO MA AL A to apply than paint—either way, you earn yourself a pat or two on the back.

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TOP
LEFT SIDE
The wood masTer

NORMAN
D E O g R AC I A S
norman used to work
in the bpo industry.
but his inborn talent
eventually came
through when he and
his wife Jeiel started
renovating condo
units to rent out
through airbnb. fed BOTTOM
up with unprofessional
carpenters, norman
decided to do it himself.
he enrolled in a few
woodworking courses in
the u.s. and amassed a
cool collection of power
tools (bought online,
on sale). Whenever he
needs additional help,
he gets on Youtube—
usually on the Wood
Whisperer channel—to
receive “training.”
today, when norman The circular saw. One of the
and Jeiel find that they advantages of a circular saw is
need new furniture for that you can control it to not cut
their units, norman all the way through a piece of
goes to his garage wood. Norman used the circular
and builds them. from saw to make an indentation on
scratch. all five boards (bottom, top,
and here he is, back, and two sides). He also
showing you that you used the saw to make French
can do it yourself, too! cleats for the medicine cabinet.
Acquire
the
tools
Kreg PocKeT screw Jig d e wa lT c i r c u l a r s aw d e wa lT P o w e r d r i l l de walT Power scr e wdr i v er

a va i l a b l e o n l i n e , c o m e s ava i l a b l e o n l i n e a n d i n J a pa n where you can screw ava i l a b l e o n l i n e , w i t h a
with special screws and australian surplus stores in the Forstner bit range oF bits

Clamp it right. Before drilling in the The Kreg Pocket Screw Jig. Instead
pocket holes, make sure you clamp of using nails or plain screws to join
the boards together securely. (Wood pieces of wood together at a 90-degree
glue might help keep the clamp keep angle, Norman makes pocket holes
the panels in place.) The clamp, which using the Kreg jig. It creates diagonal
RIGHT SIDE
comes with the Kreg Pocket Screw Jig, holes on the wood. The pocket screws
holds the wood down for more accurate you put through these holes end up
drilling of the pocket holes. (Work on a pulling together the boards you’re
sturdy surface to avoid accidents.) attaching.
C OV E R
Box assembly
The Forstner bit.

“To make holes for
concealed door hinges,
many carpenters just
use a chisel,” says STEP 1: Gather what STEP 3: Using the Kreg STEP 5B: To turn it
Norman. “But these you’ll need: five panels Pocket Screw Jig, make into a side table: Screw
make ugly, messy of plyboard, 17 inches pocket holes on the side store-bought legs
holes.” Instead, after tall and 11 ¾ inches panels to join these to (leggz.com, tableLegs.
making the necessary wide. For four of the the bottom, back, and top com, ikea.com) under
measurements on your panels (top, bottom, and panels. This completes the bottom panel. To
wood, attach a Forstner two sides), use plyboard the basic box of your turn it into a hanging
bit to your favorite with ¾-inch thickness. cabinet. medicine cabinet:
power drill. It will create For the back panel, use STEP 4: To add doors: STEP 6: Using the
a flat-bottomed round plyboard with ¼-inch Use a Forstner bit to circular saw, make a pair
crevice neatly, for your thickness. make the crevice for the of French cleats, cutting
concealed hinge to STEP 2: Using the concealed hinges. Install them at a 45-degree
fit in. circular saw, cut a the hinges. angle. Screw one on the
Remember to groove lengthwise on STEP 5A: To put in wall where you plan to
wear safety goggles the top, bottom, and side a shelf: Use a Kreg hang the cabinet. Screw
when drilling with panels. Cut the grooves Shelf Pin Jig to make the other one on the
the Forstner bit, as it ¾ of an inch from the equidistant holes on back of the back panel
sends wood bits, not the side panels where
edge, ¼ inch wide and of the cabinet. They will
sawdust, flying.
¼ inch deep. These the shelf pins will go in work like hooks, except
grooves are where you a horizontal line. These they’re stronger and
will insert the back panel. pins will hold up the more attractive.
shelf.

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SCHMOOZING
Swim. Sell them this adrenaline running. You’ll
image: night swimming be glad you did when you
VIP client call

with an uninterrupted go swimming again.
view of the twinkling
lights of the metropolis— Shop for essentials.
and well away from its The beauty of being
Here’s How you give tHem an experience chaos. Perfection! in a place that offers
everything is that you’re
to seal tHe deal Pamper their pedis. most probably in the city.
Avoid the embarrassment That means your clients
of being spotted getting don’t have to trek 30
your man-feet done at minutes over mountains
the mall with your client. just to buy razor blades
Lift your feet and relax that they forgot to bring.
with a nail spa treat at After all, we are all
your hotel of choice. creatures of comfort,
Come on, admit it, you so having shops nearby
enjoy it, too. will make their stay even
more enjoyable.
Go on a food trip.
Does your client like to Load up on buffet
sample various cuisines? breakfast. We repeat:
Booking them in a one- buffet. Also, breakfast
stop place is the perfect that doesn’t come in
opportunity to explore cardboard packaging
different menus from with plastic utensils. Your
different parts of the clients will appreciate
world—or at least, one having as much breakfast
restaurant per meal. No as they like. Also, Filipino
need to go far, because it’s breakfast food is like a
just a hop and a skip away. big old hug, so get them
to indulge in delicious,
Sweat it out. Just good quality Pinoy fare.
because your clients are A full client is a happy
on a business trip doesn’t client. A happy client
mean they should slack means a deal made.
off on training. Help them A deal made means a
keep fit by taking them happy boss. Commission
to a gym nearby. Pump to you.
some iron and get your
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if you were to wine a place that has everything. it’s a win-

and dine business win. you get to impress your client
clients, give them a with all that luxury while other people
relaxing afternoon basically do all the work for you.
in a spa, and maybe when they fly in, book them at the
take them shopping azumi Boutique Hotel in alabang, just
for essentials, you’d have to spend a south of metro manila. this is how we
whole weekend driving around manila, suggest you give them a grand time
stuck in traffic half that time. you (make sure your contract is always on
won’t be impressing them much. hand, ready to sign):
so what do you do? Billet them in

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Keep it mellow
For those times when YoU JUst need to take
a chiLL piLL, trY ingesting these instead
in this day and age of superfast-express everything, it’s

easy to drown in stress, lose sleep, experience high As pA rAg u s
blood pressure, suffer anxiety attacks, feel depressed,
receive the whole damn bad package.
to fight back, you can take up a hobby, get into a fitness
regimen, meditate (if you’re doing it with a girl, then it’s not a “girl
thing.” gets?). they’re all good, but even just munching on healthy
grub can actually keep your body and sanity in check. so, to keep
the nasty under wraps, here’s a grocery list of the good stuff:
AspArAgus gArlic BlAck teA words

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Calorie Count: Calorie Count: Calorie Count:
20 kcal in 90g 4 kcal in 1 tsp. 1 kcal in one cup photographY
kurt AlVAreZ
These spear-like A 2014 study published Counter OT work with
vegetables are packed in Journal of Paramedical a cup or two of black stYLing
with B vitamins, which Sciences found several tea. According to Chris rOselle MirANDA
in 2011 a study by clinical trials attesting Everingham, certified
the Centre for Human to the blood pressure- nutritionist, fitness
Psychopharmacology of regulating properties of trainer, and member of
Swinburne University of garlic, and given how the Philippine Volcanoes
Technology proved to often we Filipinos put rugby team, the
be effective in relieving the stuff in our dishes, combination of theanine
stress and reducing it’s a wonder why and caffeine in this
feelings of depression hypertension is still a big beverage results in a
after an exhausting day problem in our country. relaxed alertness.
at the office. One catch: Oh, wait. All that sisig,
They’ve been known to lechon, chicharon, and
make your pee smell bulalo? Yeah, never mind. OrANges
extra funky. DA r k c H O cO l At e
Calorie Count:
DArk cHOcOlAte 45 kcal in one small
piece
Calorie Count: cAsHew Nuts
604 kcal in a 101g bar Keep some oranges
(70-85% cacao solids) Calorie Count: within reach when you
574 kcal in 100g prepare for that big Brazilian researchers which has been found
Besides enhancing presentation. According have also found that to reduce depression,
your mood, chocolate Cashew nuts may be to the University of even just the scent says Blanco. Studies
also reduces stress pricier than the regular Maryland Medical Center, of oranges is enough show that omega-3 can
hormones, and its nuts, but it’s well worth a relationship between to unfaze you from a inhibit the production
magnesium content it. It’s got magnesium, a Vitamin C-rich diet stressful situation. of cortisol—the stress
helps relax your muscles which relaxes your and lower risk of high hormone, so aim for at
to boot, explains muscles; and tryptophan, blood pressure has been least two servings of
registered nutritionist- which gives you those observed consistently. sAlMON salmon (or any kind of
dietician Kristine Blanco, feel-good vibes, says fish, for that matter) in a
R.N.D. Note though, Blanco. It’s not advisable Calorie Count: week. Grill it, bake it, or
that when it comes to as an office snack, 36 kcal in 28.33g broil it, but avoid frying
chocolate, darker is though, because you it at all costs to make
better because it’s purer might find yourself Salmon is a good source the most of its health
And with less additives. dozing off after while. of omega-3 fatty acids, benefits, Blanco adds.

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t u r k ey
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AVOcADO production and mental effectively lowers blood with its high Vitamin turkey
and emotional health, so pressure. B-complex, a banana
Calorie Count: you can wave the blues can be a real mood- Calorie Count:
234 kcal in 1 cup goodbye. booster. The American 112 kcal in 100g
(approx. 146g) BANANA Heart Association
maintains that potassium The tryptophan in turkey
It’s fatty, yes, but it’s piNeApple Calorie Count: also helps control blood meat is used by your
mostly the good kind— 105 kcal in a medium pressure. body in the production
fat your body needs Calorie Count: banana of serotonin, which
in order to function. 50 kcal in 100g promotes sleep and acts
The high levels of folic Snacking on a banana as an anti-depressant.
acid (an essential B You drink it and snack helps relieve and prevent
vitamin) in avocados on it. Good for you. Like muscle cramps because
help promote energy oranges, pineapples are it’s rich in potassium
high in Vitamin C, which and magnesium, plus,

Boost
M OTOR
eDIteD By
ALLAN P. HERNANDEZ
allan.hernandez
@summitmedia.com.ph
Trifecta
toyota’s IMV serIes for the wIn
The Lowdown: a pickup is a truck. flatbed is long and wide enough to

HILUX when we understand what that carry two motorcyles or maybe six
Available Engine: 2.4L Diesel, means, then we begin to understand bicycles. having said these, why did
4-cylinder, 16 DOHC variable nozzle the vehicle’s purpose. It’s meant we drive it like a car? Because it
w/ front mounted intercooler to carry real load, like timber and drives like one when you want it to.
machines, not just groceries. It’s notwithstanding its size (we had to
Transmission: 6-speed AT w/ ECT supposed to negotiate terrain, both make several attempts at squeezing
(Gate Type Sequential) gentle and hostile. It puts premium between two cars at parking slots),
Price: P776,000-P1.283 M on brute strength over gentility. drive feel is smooth. suspension
the hilux ticks all boxes. It has a felt a bit bouncy, but maybe we
modern diesel engine that grunts were just too careful with the car.
and pushes when prodded; can the interiors are understated but
easily switch from 4x2 to 4x4 with are designed enough to be posh
a turn on the dial; can be equipped for a pickup. you have smartphone
with GPs if you choose to; has a connectivity in the higher variants.
hIll start assist Control to help you the hilux is still a truck that will do
confidently drive up an incline; its work, but it can also sit pretty.

FORTUNER
Available Engines: 4 cylinder in-line,
4x2 and 4x4
Transmission: 6-speed MT. 6-speed
AT w/Sequential Control & paddle
shifters
Price: P1.263 M-P2.141 M
The Lowdown: Bigger, better,

faster, stronger—this is how toyota
describes the new fortuner. they
should add posher, because it
is. the old fortuner was an sUV
that didn’t have snob appeal, and
you knew that the image worked INNOVA
because everyone wanted to
drive one. But then the boys at International Multi-Purpose Vehicle) Available Engines: from 2.0L Gas to
toyota may have realized snob together. the “multi-purpose” part 2.8L Diesel
appeal isn’t that bad if you call it is a nod to the vehicles’ obvious Transmission: 5-speed MT and
‘premium’—and this is the result. utility, but they way they’re built 6-speed AT/ Sequential Control
we could argue about this, but now straddles on territory reserved
looking at the new fortuner, you get Price: P919,000-P1.247 M
for luxury. In its bespoke-like
a sense that it wants to be in the exterior and interior features,
company of toyota’s top-end sUVs, the fortuner is a commanding The Lowdown: we had written
the Land Cruiser and the Prado. presence that will elevate the self- about the Innova just last month,
and guess what? the fortuner is worth of anyone fortunate enough but we focused on what aftermarket
doing a good job. you could say to drive one home—and remember, tricks you could do to the stock unit.
Premium aspiration is the theme we’re not talking about the Land now let’s just behold it for what it
that ties toyota’s IMV (Innovative Cruiser or the Prado. is. In our book, this is the best work
done by toyota in its IMV lineup, and
probably their best work on any car
lineup to date. we say this in relation
to what the Innova once was—a timid
all-rounder with the simple purpose
of shuttling people around. the
new Innova carries the desire level
up several notches, and yet it still
retains its public appeal. we are very
interested to know how the sales of
this new Innova is doing, because
we’re willing to bet the customer
list is growing fast. If you are an
ofw or a seaman with just-built-up
cash, shopping for a new vehicle,
and you see the new Innova in the
showroom—you will behold it and
know that it is your just reward after
years of relentless toil.

B O O K E N D E R
LE B R O N IS LE GE ND
A vitriol-free account of how one of the most reviled player on the planet
made me a respectful fan
WORDS ALLAN A. MADRILEJOS
Make no mistake: Lebron James—unanimous Finals Enough.

MVP, undisputed best player on the planet, newly Mocking Lebron James just because you revel in seeing him
minted three-time NBA Champ, guaranted to eat for fail—or bought into the brand of basketball those fun, freewheeling,
free in all Cleveland restaurants for the rest of his universally adored yet, as it turned out, reckless Golden State
life—still has a losing Finals record (3-4) in his 13-year Warriors have displayed the last few years—just won’t cut it anymore.
professional career. Imagine how unwitting and shallow you’d look. Think about
Bill Russell still has more championships than him with 11. your stature as a heckler for a minute. It has been said that to be
Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, and Robert Horry still have more a key member of the venerated heckling community, one must be
championships than him with six. Magic Johnson, Kobe Bryant, knowledgeable and armed with only the most salient of facts at all
Derek Fisher still have more championships than him with five. times. To be a heckler, in short, means to be an educated fan.
Shaquille O'Neal, Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, and Manu Ginobli still Love him or hate him, Lebron James, the prodigal native son
have more championships than him with four. and curse assassin, reminded us of what it takes to stay true to
You'd be crazy to grant him entry into this esteemed cirle of the our calling as hardcore hoops fans. Accept it and you’ll realize that,
NBA's ultimate winners, right? despite his massive display of ego and questionable behavior in
How can that be even acceptable when, by your estimation, the past and reputation as coach-killer, Lebron James has been a
Lebron James still isn’t legendary enough? Still not clutch enough legend all along.
to deliver a performance for the ages An icon long before LeBlock and his triple-double Game 7
while battling severe flu? Still not masterpiece, a leader unafraid to tread the heartache-paved road to
ballsy enough to hobble into court success, a baller unflinching in his quest to break golden hearts, a
unassisted to shoot two free throws mythical hero to the millions of battle-hardened and loyal fans of a
mere minutes after tearing his right sports city that suffered through and survived 52 years of defeat.
Achilles tendon. By now you should know his statistical achievements speak
I’m almost sure you’re ready to only of his magnificence. It’s expected of us ardent and intelligent
submit this admittedly hilarious meme basketball fans to know them eventually by heart. Remember the
as photographic evidence of his lack time when he cemented his legend right before our very eyes and
of fight and weakness of will. earned our respect while you’re at it.
It will be tough to swallow, at first, trust me, a Laker supporter all
my life. But it willl get easier in time. FH M
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ThIS lIST IS abouT ThE only

ThIng ThaT wIll noT run ouT
In ThIS world.
I mean, the world is changing. Oil will run out. Food will run
out when there are just too many people to feed. Ideas will run
out when eventually no one bothers to think, and AI has taken
over. Your patience has long run out sitting through hellish traffic
that is today’s new normal.
But this list? It’s staying. Last I checked, this world is still
populated by males and females. Barring any cataclysmic event
or a glitch in evolution that will render women extinct, leaving
men to fend for, and fawn over, themselves, we will not be voting
a guy on this list. As long as there are women, and some of them
choose to be famous, beautiful, and sexy, we will always have
FHM’s 100 Sexiest List.
As I went through your chosen 100, excited that you voted

in the current crop of new and young faces holding their place in
BJ PASCUAL COURTESY OF ESQUIRE PHILIPPINES
the celebrity universe, it occurred to me that when the list started

16 years ago (it’s as old as the magazine itself), we were as
thrilled to have come up with a stellar lineup of new and young
faces. But even then we were already looking into the future.
“Who will replace these women when their time comes to take
the curtain call?”
The future just happened.
This is the 2016 FHM 100 Sexiest List. To be sure, there are
still classic beauties here, and it’s safe to say they’ll be staying
for a while. But the entry of the young and the new signals the
continuous redefinition of this list, and even now, as we think of
the next generation of cover stars who will soon take their place
here, we are sure this list will enjoy a long run.
But we’re getting too far ahead. We have a Here and Now to
celebrate, heralded by this year’s no. 1 who, by the way, was only
seven years old when this list began. She bided her time, honed
her craft, pushed herself to be better, and now she is. This is your
Acting Editor in Chief FHM.com.ph year, Jessy Mendiola. Congratulations!
Allan P. Hernandez Managing Editor
Team Art Director Brian Adrian H. Borleo
Paul C. Villariba Associate Section Editor
Associate Art Director Gelo G. Gonzales
John Laurence O. Patulan Staff Writer
Assistant Managing Editor John Paulo Aguilera
Pong M. Castillo Mary Rose A. Hogaza
Associate Style Editor
Mikey Ashlie L. Mahinay Team Editor
Editorial Assistant Allan A. Madrilejos
Chise A. Alcantara
Contributing Editor Contributing Writers:
Cecile J. Baltasar Alex Paita, Joseph Kerr ALLAN P. HERNANDEZ
Celebrity Coordinator Acting Editor in Chief
Allan Altera allan.hernandez@summitmedia.com.ph
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J O D I S TA.
MARIA
R ETU R N I N G
Tabing Ilog catapulted
Jodi’s career to stellar
heights, when she
portrayed the tomboyish
Georgina. But nothing
would be more
memorable, though,
than when Jodi played
a nanny who hooks her
boss in Be Careful with
My Heart. Sir Chief, you
lucky guy!
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PA U L E N E S O
L A S T YE A R: 6 4
There’s just something
about this girl that makes
us want to keep showing
her on our site. We can’t
put our finger on it,
but she’s an all-around
winner. Paulene isn’t
just a model; she’s also
an entrepreneur and a
fearless gambler. Now
we’re really turned on.
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L A S T YE A R: 6 1
The fitspiration that is
Gretchen Ho:
• Can school you on
your know-how about
the latest sports news
• Can trash you in a
one-on-one dance
battle with her insane
hip-hop moves
• Can spike volleyballs
at you if you don’t treat
her right!
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KAREN
F AV E S BORDADOR
L A S T YE A R: 8 9
How about we start off Karen currently runs
with the ones that will a site called Sister
most likely stay on your Secrets–what kind of
list for a long, long time? secrets does a girl like
They know how to take Karen have, you think?
care of themselves, Freaky things? Cute
that’s for sure. things? Sexy things?
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97: PAOLO PINEDA; 96: EJAY LEUNG; 95: RIA REGINO; 94: TAKEN FROM SHAINA MAGDAYAO’S INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT; 93: JERICO MONTEMAYOR
96
E R I K A PA D I L L A
94
SHAINA
L A ST YE A R: 43 M A G D AYA O
Our current basketball L A ST YE A R : 9 9
lineup may be throwing Her fans—the
up a lot of “what” but Shainatics—are so
when it comes to linguistically organized,
basketball reporters, they have subgroups:
Erika has that position Shakers (fans for the
locked in. Stats leader Shaina-Jake Cuenca
in all categories, MVP, love team), ShaJohn
HoF–just give her all (Shaina-John Pratts),
the trophies already! and SamShai (Shaina-
Sam Milby). Brangelina
would be proud.
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ANGELA
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GABRIELLE N E W E NTR Y
L A ST YE A R: 5 8 Car shows have never
With all this hype about been the same since
hot dentists, Badjao Ann started outshining
girls, and carrot men, the vehicles she was
we’d like to remind you modeling for. Since
that Angela happens to this morena beauty
be a nurse herself–but showed up, attendance
we all found that out at Manila auto shows
afterwards. Now excuse has shot through the
us as we go injure roof. It’s not because of
ourselves. the wheels, we can tell
you that.
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M AYU M I
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GWEN ZAMORA
Y O K O YA M A L A ST YE A R: 73
N E W E NTRY For a girl who’s been
Mayumi here is familiar. featured in our website
Why? Well, you might so much, we’ve always
have spotted her during hoped that Gwen would
that time she took grace our magazine.
up a job as a casino We’ve even thought
entertainer, a call center of a few themes for
agent, and a barista. photo shoots! What do
She’s definitely the kind you say to a Game of
of girl that can perk you Thrones one? Gwenerys
up with that smile. Targaryen, anyone?
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H EART
89
M I K A R EYE S
E VA N G E L I S TA N E W E NTR Y
R ETU R N I N G The talented middle
Her Best Love Interests: hitter of the De La
John “Parating in your Salle University Lady
Heart” Pratts, Spikers is so popular
2002-2003 she has random fans
Jericho “Echoing your penning Wattpad poetry
Love” Rosales, dedicated to her. And
2006-2008 why not? Long legs, a
Daniel “Sweet but great smile, a fantastic
Macho” Matsunaga, game—nothing but
2010-2012 inspiration for fresh
Chiz “Galawang Cheezy” bards.
Escudero,
2012-May Forever
92, 85: EJAY LEUNG; 91: BJ PASCUAL COSMOPOLITAN PHILIPPINES; 90: COURTESY OF GMA ARTISTCENTER; 89: TAKEN FROM MIKA REYES’ INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT; 88:
TAKEN FROM LOUISE DELOS REYES’ INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT; 87: XANDER ANGELES; 86: DOC MARLON PECJO; 84: TAKEN FROM MAXENE MAGALONA’S INSTAGRAM
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LOUISE DELOS
85
A I C A SY
R EYE S L A ST YE A R : 8 1
R ETU R N I N G We’ve known Aica for
From primetime TV almost half a decade
acting to blogging. She now. Boy, time sure
knows what she wants, does fly. And something
and she knows where tells us we’re gonna
she’s going. Louise is keep writing about the
on the move, and we’re first time we met for
on hot pursuit. some more years.
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M A XE N E
L A ST YE A R: 44 MAGALONA
Funny is the new sexy, L A ST YE A R : 83
they said. Witty is the If we had to pick a
new sexy, they said. model for the millennial
Well, how can you lifestyle, Max would be
disagree when you it. Spot her IG for music
meet a girl like Ashley? fests, road, and beach
trips, heck even food
posts. Not to mention
Max herself.
ACCOUNT; 83: MARK JESALVA COURTESY OF COSMO.PH
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ROCHELLE
83
A LY S S A V A L D E Z
PA N G I L I N A N L A ST YE A R : 6 8
L A ST YE A R: 6 6 It doesn’t matter that her
Most thought-provoking team in the UAAP—the
Sex Bomb lyrics: Ateneo Lady Eagles—
Moshi moshi chikiyaki didn’t bring home the
Dito sa Japan dinala ng championship trophy in
kapalaran Iba’t ibang volleyball last season. In
pangarap, iisa ang our book, she’ll always
dahilan Ikaw at ako o sila be the hardworking,
man. Ang katanungan, passionate, and ultra-hot
kaligayahan. Dito ba outside hitter we love.
matatagpuan?
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CARLA
L A S T YE A R: 4 6 ABELLANA
Danita’s Wiki entry says L A S T YE A R: 9 6
she’s a pop-rock singer. Because of Carla, we’ve
Which genre of Danita found a newfound
would you prefer? respect for Mr. PJ
We’re all over the rock Abellana. Because of
persona because the
82: MARK NICDAO; 81: BJ PASCUAL; 80: BJ PASCUAL COURTESY OF COSMOPOLITAN PHILIPPINES;
Carla, we want to have
primal fury of a hot lady her as a karelasyon
singing just gets us so and start our own
lit, you know? ismol family and call
Mr. PJ dad. Because of
Carla, we go delusional
and say weird things,
and that’s why Tom
81
Rodriguez is probably
fuming mad at us now.
MICHELLE
79: DOC MARLON PECJO; 78: NICO VILLEGAZ; 77: PAOLO PINEDA
MADRIGAL
L A S T YE A R: 5 5
Michelle raised the
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RED DELA CRUZ
standards for perfectly L A S T YE A R: 7 1
tanned skin for women When UFC grammed
all over the world when Red as their newly
she did her covers, minted ring girl, the
and the effects of her comments section
appearances haven’t instantly lit up with:
died down even up to “Who’s the babe?” Until
now! Like a true Filipina we spawn a world-class
beauty that we just can’t fighting machine, it’s
get enough, it doesn’t Red flying the flag for
seem like she’ll be us in MMA, and that’s
going anywhere anytime cool by us.
soon!
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R IZZA D IAZ
L A ST YE A R: 52
She’s been tugging the
hearts of hoops-loving
individuals in the county
ever since she first
stepped on the PBA
courtsides—and that’s
practically all of us,
alright. Ahh, basketball—
we love this game.
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DIFFERENT
We all have pals who
will do anything for us.
Maica is one of ours.
She’ll do a shoot with
not much distractions
around her, or tell us
STROKES
her kinkiest secret if Sexy sure has changed
we really ask nicely—it’s over the years. Now it could
the kind of friendship be bombshell, momshell.
we wished we had with It’s both cute and waif,
every woman on this list. cult and famous. Diversity,
people.
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BELLE DAZA
74
J A HZ I E L
R ETU R N I N G M A N A B AT
In her It Girl super L A S T YE A R: 5 3
squad, Belle Daza could It’s been a while since
easily qualify as the hot the ever-popular Master
jock–the leggy actress Debaters ended. What
goes to a football pitch has Jahziel been up to
to play ball and not just since then? Well, last
muse around. Then she we saw her, she was
steps out of the post- heating up PARD’s Huli
game shower looking Ka Balbon along with
like a ramp model– Kim Domingo and Max
that’s the epitome of the Collins. She showcased
best of both worlds right her sexy massaging
there. skills and proved that
she still hasn’t lost her
magic touch.
75
RYZ A C E N O N
73
D AW N Z U L U E TA
L A S T YE A R: 2 2 N E W E N T RY
When she’s not busy She is the testament
doing abstract paintings, that our older fellows
she whips up genius do have fine taste in
hugot lines. We’ve heard women. Dawn is the
her say her love life face that made our
has gone from “parang young titos blush in the
lechon—makasalanan” 90s. She was glorious
76, 72: PAOLO PINEDA; 75: DOC MARLON PECJO; 74: EJAY LEUNG; 73: DOC MARLON PECJO COURTESY OF PREVIEW;
to “matabang—walang then. She still is now.
lasa.” We love this lady’s And it looks like she will
mind. be for a long, long time.
71, 68: DOC MARLON PECJO; 70: ROY MACAM; 69: JAY TABLANTE
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M E G A N YO U N G
69
A B BY P O B L A D O R
L A S T YE A R: 7 2 L A S T YE A R: 5 4
Megan isn’t only a Maybe it’s Abby’s
beauty queen—she’s willingness to try anything
also a philanthropist, once, or maybe it’s that
helping out in Leyte naughty glint in her eye,
after typhoon Yolanda but she continues to
hit. Gorgeous inside and surprise us in the best
out—we’re sold! ways imaginable (See: viral
butt exercising videos) and
we’re happy that way.
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68
M YRTL E
L A S T YE A R: 3 5 SARROSA
In our opinion, there’s L A S T YE A R : 3 9
no one better to tell Social media serves you
the menfolk about how great news first—like
Robust works than this when Myrtle finally
pretty Starstruck alum. released her self-titled
“Astig ‘to,” she says. album. The downside
And we agree. She’s is that you’re also on
one Fil-Am babe we the receiving end of
absolutely love to put on bad news, like when
our pages. her online accounts got
hacked. That all is well
70
and her life is back to
normal now? We put a
Like on that.
DEBBIE GARCIA
L A S T YE A R: 6 9
There will come a
time when we’ll forget
about Debbie Garcia.
Wait. Sorry, we got that
wrong. There will never
come a time when we’ll
forget about Debbie
Garcia.
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R OXE E B
66
D AW N C H A N G
We are rapidly Would you, a simple
approaching the point man with no ambitions
in time when young for fame, enter the PBB
people won’t even be House just to live with a
76: PAOLO PINEDA; 66: RIA REGINO; 65: EJAY LEUNG; 64: KENCH GENATO;
aware of the twee babe like Dawn Chang?
person Roxee B was Or how about the million
before her dramatic pesos versus Dawn
comeback. Are they Chang? Or your left
63: DIX PEREZ COURTESY OF WOMENS’ HEALTH PHILIPPINES;

missing out? Maybe. kidney or Dawn Chang?
Does she need to go Or…you get the idea.
back? Hell no.
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DAIANA
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M E N EZ E S L A S T YE A R: 3 8
L A S T YE A R: 3 1 Our dear Aubrey
If ever you find your life declared her final FHM
lacking a bit of color, 100 Sexiest attendance
or you find the need last year. This year we
to smile, go look for declare her a non-
Daiana Menezes on negotiable contender on
Instagram. Stalk. You’re this list hereon.
welcome.
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61
SUNSHINE
R ETU R N I N G GARCIA
What does Richard L A S T YE A R: 4 8
Gutierrez have that you Sunshine’s dancing
don’t? Why can he have was one of the reasons
Sarah and you can’t? we tuned in to Banana
Why was it that when Split. Her presence on
Annabelle Rama gave the dance floor kept us
birth to Raymond’s up even late at night.
twin brother, it was he But hey, if we were to
that came out and not have sleepless nights,
you? Richard, Richard, we’d like to spend it
Richard. It just always with Sunshine.
had to be him!
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QUEENIE
L A S T YE A R: 8 7 REHMAN
Kylie has a dad who N E W E N T RY
probably owns a It’s not that often
shotgun for those when we come across
terrifying meet-the a name that fits a
parents-moments, but person so perfectly as
then again he’s cool Queenie’s does. Her
enough to let her play being just screams
a bird lady and race in beauty queen…nie.
a budget sedan racing Kidding aside, we’re
series. It’s just Kylie glad Queenie has finally
threatening to blow our taken her well-deserved
heads up then! spot and has added
even more regalness to
our already premium list.
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LHEA
56
J U LIA M O NTE S
BERNARDINO L A S T YE A R: 7 0
L A S T YE A R: 5 9 Unlike many of her
It takes a special kind contemporaries, Julia
of girl to build a fan does not have a ka-
base as loyal as Lhea’s. loveteam. It’s great
And we at FHM HQ are because it means we can
always happy when we appreciate her without a
see homegrowns killing rabid fanbase breathing
it–because, hey, we’re down our necks–and
fans ourselves. some twee dude in 50
percent of her photos.
58
CHLOE DAUDEN
55
ELLA CRUZ
Chloe is not just all Is twerking legitimately
about the physical. good or just a trend?
This hottie hates stupid We don’t really care but
movies and adores good if we could only watch
books. We’re still hoping one of those in our
she’ll make Austin lives, picking Ella Cruz’s
Powers an exception. take on it would be our
choice.
57 54
59: SHAIRA LUNA; 58: XANDER ANGELES; 57: EJAY LEUNG; 56: BJ PASCUAL COURTESY OF COSMOPOLITAN PHILIPPINES;
MEG IMPERIAL C I N DY M I R A N D A
For the petite gal The second member of
appreciators, Meg the Bomb Squad rolls
occupies that special, in with Cindy Miranda.
small place in your Triple covers are always
heart. Big things in a treat–especially when
small packages and all they’ve all got legs for
that! days.
55: TAKEN FROM ELLA CRUZ’S INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT; 54: DOC MARLON PECJO;
53: MARK NICDAO COURTESY OF PREVIEW MAGAZINE
DREAMS
So many to choose from,
the midpack is heated
competition for your
favorite FHM babe.
53
GEORGINA
WILSON
L A S T YE A R: 7 9
Thank God Georgina
is vain enough to use
herself for the billboards
of her own businesses.
It makes our commute
a bit more bearable
seeing her eating
donuts. The shades
aren’t bad, either.
100
SEXIEST
2016
I N TH E WO R L D
52
JULIA
BAR R ETTO
L A S T YE A R: 7 5
Family feuds aside, Julia
has done a great job of
forging her own career
path away from her
bickering elders. Sure,
she sometimes might
snub screaming fans,
but that was months
ago. She’s given a
shout-out to her fans
since then. Go, Julia!
51
B EA ALO NZO
R ETU R N I N G
Basha, saccharine
52, 49: BJ PASCUAL COURTESY OF PREVIEW MAGAZINE; 51: MARK NICDAO COURTESY OF COSMOPOLITAN PHILIPPINES;
romcoms, and a very
blonde outing on a
clothing billboard are
what we associate Bea
Alonzo with lately. Still!,
she’s so sexy even
without being outwardly
sexy. Why must she
torture us like this?
50: PAOLO PINEDA; 48, 47: DOC MARLON PECJO; 46: SHAIRA LUNA
50
MARGO
M I DWI NTE R
N E W E N T RY
Rather than making an
overused GoT reference
here, we’d rather make
a corny joke about why
a girl named Midwinter
could be so hot…
nailed it. Margo’s mix
of elegant sensuality
was the perfect way to
launch the new era of
sexiness FHM has to
offer. Hope you’re just
as excited to see these
faces as we are.
49
JANINE
47
DANIELLE
G UTI E R R EZ C A STAÑO
N E W E N T RY R ETU R N I N G
They say millennials Four years ago, for a
are all garish brats, but dare on Amazing Race
Janine would beg to Philippines, Dani ate 67
differ. She’s got that pieces of longganisa.
elegant classic beauty– We have no idea how
which is something rare she did that, but it
these days indeed. And doesn’t matter. All
those Twiggy-esque we care about is that
eyes! Danielle is a self-made
woman, running her
own spa, and being the
independent woman we
want.
48
SUNSHINE CRUZ
46
ERICH
L A S T YE A R: 4 7 G O NZ A L E S
We’ve talked about R ETU R N I N G
women breaking the From Erich’s forbidden
laws of physics by still sensuality in Katorse to
having a body of a her more mature roles
20-year-old even when in indie films, we really
they’re pushing forties, got to see how she
but none of them have turned into the woman
been featured as much she is today–strong,
as Sunshine Cruz. This happy, and sexier than
woman just blows our ever.
minds with how fit
her body looks every
damn summer–it’s just
unbelievable.
100
SEXIEST
2016
I N TH E WO R L D
45
JULIE ANNE
43
KI M C H I U
SAN JOSE L A ST YE A R : 2 5
L A ST YE A R: 6 0 The Kim Chiu hypetrain
Her fans call her may have slowed down
JAPS, and we like lately, but we’re still
the informality of it. putting her up there
Her voice, though, as the ultimate chinita
is anything but crush.
unceremonious. A
great set of pipes, an
advocate for World
Vision, plus a 10 in the
beauty department. 42
A R I A N NY
C E L E STE
44
L A ST YE A R : 32
This month, the UFC
holds it 200th pay-
ANGELICA per-view card. A small
PA N G A N I B A N chunk of the 199
L A ST YE A R: 34 before it wasn’t all
Angelica has touched great, but it would’ve
the millennial crowd sucked so much more
in a unique way: she if Arianny wasn’t there.
has memes. Not many That should be enough
girls on this list can for her to clinch a spot
boast that. It is also the in the promotion’s Hall
gateway drug for young of Fame.
ones to Google her and
discover some of The
Man’s greatest work.
41 40
42: XANDER ANGELES; 41: BJ PASCUAL; 40: DOC MARLON PECJO 39: COURTESY OF YES!
SARAH L J R EYE S
GERONIMO L A ST YE A R: 13
45: PAT DY COURTESY OF PREVIEW MAGAZINE; 44: COURTESY OF STAR MAGIC;
L A ST YE A R: 67 Breaking news: LJ
We admit, we can’t find Reyes bags the 2016
a more hardworking Urian Best Actress
hottie fan magnet than Award! She accepted
43: PAOLO PINEDA COURTESY OF COSMOPOLITAN PHILIPPINES;
Sarah G. Not to mention the award looking

the fact that her films something like she does
never fail to slay at the here! First bit is true.
box office. And she does Second bit is a lie.
all that without showing
as much as a midriff.
39
Chastity is not dead.
R I TZ A Z U L
L A ST YE A R : 3 6
Ritz Azul is reportedly
going to be the new
Darna. Ritz Azul is going
to blow up soon. Ritz
Azul should agree to
another FHM shoot.
100
SEXIEST
2016
I N TH E WO R L D
38
AR NY R O SS
36
C R I STI N E R E Y E S
L A ST YE A R: 2 6 R E TU R N I N G
Wanderlust has bitten Tubig at Langis is
Arny Ross hard. Do a flawed television
a quick check of her series. Who in their
social media feeds and right mind would cheat
you’ll find photos over on a woman as fine
photos of her many as Cristine Reyes?
travels. There’s that We should all start
time she rode an ATV categorizing that show
to Mayon, that time as a fantaserye.
she wore a one-piece
swimsuit, that time she
35
wore that orange one,
that time she wore
something with cherries
on it, that time she… VALE R I E BAN G S
GARCIA
L A ST YE A R : 2 1
Let’s take some time to
37
imagine if Bangs never
removed her bangs from
her face. You’d probably
JASMINE be super curious at
C U RT I S - S M I T H what lies beyond those
L A ST YE A R: 5 1 overgrown strands of
Stepping out of her hair. That’d be like never
sister’s shadow, opening the cabinet
that’s how we like that led to Narnia or
our Jasmine. The something. But let’s
comparison doesn’t face it, we all could’ve
matter to her fans— guessed she was
the Jasters—anyway. hot even before she
Over three million of revealed her face.
them follow Jasmine’s
Facebook fan page.
And we can totally see
why.
38: PAOLO PINEDA; 37: SARA BLACK COURTESY OF MEN’S HEALTH PHILIPPINES; 36: TAKEN FROM CRISTINE REYES’ INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT;
35: JAKE VERZOSA COURTESY OF MEN’S HEALTH PHILIPPINES; 34: BJ PASCUAL COURTESY OF ESQUIRE PHILIPPINES; 33: MARK NICDAO
HOW
D O YO U
WORSHIP?
Lying prostrate on the ground?
Hands in supplication? Speaking
in tongues? We admire your
devotion to these women.
34
LOVI POE
33
I N A R AY M U N D O
L A ST YE A R: 5 0 L A ST YE A R : 6 5
We’re almost at a point There was some talk
in our history where about Ina having five
mentioning Lovi’s name kids and still coming out
doesn’t necessitate on magazine covers. We
following it with “yung don’t see any problem
anak ni FPJ.” That with that, she can even
speaks a lot about have ten kids and we
where the one-time wouldn’t bat an eyelash!
FHM Cover Girl has
managed to take her
career.
100
SEXIEST
2016
I N TH E WO R L D
32
B E L A PA D I L L A
L A ST YE A R : 37
This Fil-Brit beaut is no
stranger to controversy.
But with Robin Padilla
as an uncle and Daniel
Padilla as a cousin,
you just know Bela
will forge through any
blind item tossed her
way. Her beloved fans,
the creatively named
Belavers, definitely
agree.
31
K ATR I N A H A L I L I
L A ST YE A R : 15
Katrina must be
feeling nostalgic; she’s
currently starring with
former StarStruck
buddies, Yasmien Kurdi
and Mark Herras, in
the afternoon show Sa
Piling Ni Nanay, and
for sure “Remember
when…”-types of
exchanges can’t be
helped. So here’s our
share: Remember when
she first appeared on
the FHM cover? Right...
how can you even
forget? That was one
for the books!
30
LIZA S O B E R AN O
N E W E NTR Y
If you’re stunning, the
world can’t help but
notice. That’s what
happened to Liza
Soberano when she
moved to Manila from
California when she
was ten. Talent scouts
didn’t care that she
spoke with an American
twang—in fact they
loved it—and cast her to
model for print and TV
ads. Liza’s Tagalog is
way better now. But her
beauty? Still tantalizing
as ever.
29
YA S S I
PRESSMAN
L A ST YE A R: 57
If there’s one thing
that’s hard to believe
in this world, it’s that
Yassi Pressman could
be on team sawi. Okay,
okay, it’s just for the film
Camp Sawi. But still,
how can Yassi—even
on film—be single for a
moment?
32, 28: XANDER ANGELES, 31: DOC MARLON PECJO; 30: TAKEN FROM LIZA SOBERANO’S INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT;
28
VALE E N
M O NTE N E G R O
L A ST YE A R: 24
Look at her; look at her
curves. Can you imagine
that body ingesting food
for three or four people
in one sitting, and then
still keeping that figure?
Yup, Valeen is our girl
for boodle fights. Just
don’t let her prettiness
distract you from
29: SHAIRA LUNA COURTESY OF COSMOPOLITAN PHILIPPINES
enjoying the food.
100
SEXIEST
2016
I N TH E WO R L D
CHANGING OF
TH E G U A R D
27: WESLEY VILLARICA; 26, 25, 22: DOC MARLON PECJO; 24: JAKE VERZOSA; 23: XANDER ANGELES
A former AV idol forging a new path;
a mature woman taking on new
territory normally occupied by the
young ones; new women breaking
into the scene. Welcome change.
27
MAR IA OZAWA
24
A I KO C L I M A C O
L A ST YE A R: 16 L A ST YE A R : 2 0
Have you ever noticed What’s perfect about
how the Philippine watching Aiko on
economy greatly Banana Sundae is that
improved ever since Ms. it’s the one sundae that
Ozawa set foot in the we can have as much
country? As soon as of without getting round
the actress opened her in the middle. Also, of
own venture, the posh course, there’s Aiko,
Singles Bar in Resorts in all her silky smooth
World, stocks rose, oil glory. More dessert,
prices dipped, and there please!
was generally a positive
outlook, especially
among men in the
business sector. Call it
a triumphant return on
23
all the feelings we’ve
invested in her.
M A J A S A LVA D O R
L A ST YE A R : 18
Thirteen years of Maja
on TV and the big
26
screen—acting, dancing,
or singing. We could
say that our showbiz
A L I C E D IXS O N experience is complete.
L A ST YE A R: 14 Sure, she’s half of
Fine wine. Fountain of CocoJam (Coco Martin
youth. Vampire. Alice + Maja Salvador), but
Dixson is one of the few there’s always the crop
Pinays whose name is photo option.
said in the same breath
as all of these.
22
MAX COLLINS
25
YA M
L A ST YE A R : 0 9
It seems Max likes to be
a tease. She started her
CONCEPCION career under a different
L A ST YE A R: 42 name—Isabelle Abiera.
Yam banging, ahem, Then went back and
away on her drumset forth between Manila
got us thinking: if you and the U.S. But now
could choose one girl that it seems she’s here
from a band of equally to stay, we can’t be
hot members, which happier for our menfolk.
one would you take?
Not Yam, because we
want her for ourselves.
Drummers are rare–and
hot actress/musicians
like her even more so.
100
SEXIEST
2016
I N TH E WO R L D
21
MAINE
19
K ATH RYN
MENDOZA BERNARDO
N E W E N T RY L A S T YE A R: 17
With a simple extended She’s been on the
smile and great sense scene for 13 years
of humor, Maine now, but not showing
Mendoza was able to signs of slowing down.
capture the hearts of Although her name may
a whole nation. She’s be synonymous with
the type of beauty that Daniel Padilla, Kathryn—
grows on you. The more or Kath—can hold her
you look at her and get own, thanks to good old
to know her, the more talent.
beautiful she becomes.
20
ANDI
EIGENMANN
L A S T YE A R: 9 3
When Andie strutted her
stuff on the red carpet
at the 69th Cannes Film
Festival to represent
the film Ma’Rosa, the
world finally got a hint
of what we all knew:
Andi Eigenmann is a
gem. Getting recognized
as one of Vanity Fair’s
best-dressed at the
festival was just a well-
deserved extra.
18
21: MARK NICDAO COURTESY OF YES!; 20: DOC MARLON PECJO; 19: MARK NICDAO COURTESY OF COSMOPOLITAN PHILIPPINES;
A N N E C U RT I S
L A ST YE A R: 11
She’s young, gorgeous,
rich, and famous.
Unfortunately, she’s also
taken. This actress, TV
host and, um, singer
can’t do anything wrong
in our eyes. Could she
be the next It Girl to get
hitched? We hope not.
We’re still saving up for
the diamond.
18: DOC MARLON PECJO COURTESY OF YES!; 17 ROY MACAM COURTESY OF PREVIEW
17
COLEEN GARCIA
L A ST YE A R: 12
That dimple on her left
cheek, those delectable
washboard abs, that
shapely… shape.
Checking out Coleen
Garcia’s bikini beach
shots has become a
national pastime.
100
SEXIEST
2016
I N TH E WO R L D
16
P I A W U R TZ B A C H
N E W E N T RY
“Akong bahala, guys,”
Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach
promised every Pinoy
before becoming the
third Filipina to win
Miss Universe. This,
after failing to get
into the Binibining
Pilipinas pageant twice
before. Such spunk
and perseverance is
what you get when you
become your family’s
breadwinner at 11 years
old. Gorgeous inside
and out—no wonder
she’s the most beautiful
woman in the universe.
16: BJ PASCUAL COURTESY OF COSMOPOLITAN PHILIPPINES; 15: DOC MARLON PECJO; 14: JAY TABLANTE;
13: ROY MACAM COURTESY OF YES! MOST BEAUTIFUL 2015
15
ANDREA
13
G L A IZ A D E
TO R R E S C A S TR O
L A S T YE A R: 2 L A S T YE A R: 4 5
Although she first put In the reboot of
her name out there by fantaserye Encantadia,
appearing in a reality Glaiza takes on the
show, Andrea has since role of the wise and
proved that she’s a ambitious keeper of
talented woman. She’s fire, sang’gre Pirena.
appeared on TV, in film, We haven’t really tuned
and, most importantly, in yet, but we say it’s a
on FHM’s cover two fitting role for a girl as
years ago. Far too long fiery as her. Just look—
ago, in our opinion. Glaiza is on fire!
14
J I N R I PA R K
L A S T YE A R: 7
It’s simple, really,
how Jinri amassed
a strong following in
the Philippines—she’s
K-Pop personified. But
when we put her on
our cover three years
ago, we found out she’s
more than that. Time for
a second cover, do you
agree?
100
SEXIEST
2016
I N TH E WO R L D
12
SAM PI NTO
L A ST YE A R: 4
There are certain
advantages when one
has a body as hot as
Sam’s. One of them is
that you get to appear
on FHM’s cover multiple
times. Another is that
if you decide to create
your own swimwear
line, you get to model
it, too. Sam did both
(check out her Sirena
Swimwear line), and our
eyes couldn’t get any
bigger.
12: DOC MARLON PECJO; 11: MARK NICDAO AND BJ PASCUAL COURTESY OF PREVIEW MAGAZINE
11
ELLEN ADARNA
L A ST YE A R: 3
This Fil-Spanish beauty
isn’t afraid to rock the
boat with her opinions,
and that’s why she’s
one of our favorite
Cebuanas. And her
choice of active wear
when she goes to the
gym? Hotness!
100
SEXIEST
2016
I N TH E WO R L D
10
RACHEL ANNE
DAQUIS
L A ST YE A R: 8
This volleybelle has
been a crowd favorite
for years now. She’s the
only athlete to be able
to hold a consistent
spot in the top 10 of
our list. We can’t really
decide what us fans
love most about her. Is
it her awesome chiseled
bod, her boyish yet
surprisingly beautiful
looks, or the fact that
she can melt any man
with the competitive fire
she has in her eyes?
At the rate she’s going,
she’ll most probably be
on our list for years to
come, so at least we
can keep on guessing.
9
KI M D O M I N G O
N E W E NTRY
With 16.5 million views
on her “Twerk it like
Miley” dubsmash video,
FHM cover girl Kim
would tend to become
10: PAOLO PINEDA; 9: RIA REGINO
famous. A random guy

even made a 10-minute
video of nothing but
Kim lip-syncing over
and over. Gets hypnotic
after a while.
100
SEXIEST
2016
I N TH E WO R L D
8
SOLENN
HEUSSAFF
L A ST YE A R: 5
Wedding bells a-ringing.
We give our four-finger
salute to one of the
finest and sexiest in the
land. And for Bolzico,
we give a special
one-finger salute,
you sonavabitch! But
seriously, take care of
Solenn.
8: RONNIE SALVACION COURTESY OF PREVIEW MAGAZINE; 7: SHAIRA LUNA COURTESY OF COSMOPOLITAN PHILIPPINES
7
A R C I M UÑ O Z
L A ST YE A R: 76
We hear you, and
we agree, that Arci
mania is about to
shift into full throttle.
We’ve been watching
her metamorphose
from rock singer to
underwear-endorsing
bombshell–with a
dazzling array of
haircolor changes along
the way–and we can’t
wait for the climax.
100
SEXIEST
2016
I N TH E WO R L D
6
MARIAN RIVERA
R ETU R N I N G
The three-time queen
has settled in on the
next chapter in her life,
but her majesty still
lingers over the land.
She herself has stated
that maybe her time
on the list is up. We’d
accept that, but only
because we feel like
we need to be placing
her in a hall of fame
from now on…
5
RHIAN RAMOS
L A ST YE A R: 8 6
Landing Rhian on
our cover was the
realization of our
dream–a strong,
modern, and drop-
dead stunning muse
for the next-level man
life that we espouse.
The outside-the-box
roles (TV lesbians),
unexpected hobbies
(circuit racing!), and
6, 5: MARK NICDAO
overall level of realness

that Rhian brings to
life is just the perfect
example of the kind of
woman that brings us
to our knees nowadays.
100
SEXIEST
2016
I N TH E WO R L D
4
ANGEL LOCSIN
L A ST YE A R: 6
An old-timer, as far
as finicky Philippine
showbiz is concerned,
Angel is the Darna
many of us grew
up with. Raise your
hand, everyone who
had their sexual
awakening watching
Angel transform into
the bikini-wearing
superhero. We really
can’t understand how
she can stay sexy,
flawless, and gorgeous.
So here’s our theory
(don’t tell anyone):
Angel Locsin is actually
immortal.
PAOLO PINEDA COURTESY OF COSMOPOLITAN PHILIPPINES
100
SEXIEST
2016
I N TH E WO R L D
3
NAD I N E LU STR E
L A S T YE A R: 4 9 BJ PASCUAL COURTESY OF COSMOPOLITAN PHILIPPINES
In our humble opinion,
there’s no film title
more ironic than that
2014 romcom Diary
ng Panget. After all,
in the title role was
none other than this
year’s third sexiest
woman in the world.
How dare they? We
just recovered from
that when, in last year’s
wildly popular TV
series On the Wings of
Love, Nadine became
Jadine. And our world
crumbled.
100
SEXIEST
2016
I N TH E WO R L D
2
J E N NYLYN
MERCADO
L A S T YE A R: 1
She inadvertently
became the Philippines’
unofficial hugot queen
after starring in a string
of flicks meant to stroke
the heartstrings. But we
don’t really care about
how expertly this hot
mama spews well-
thought-out one-liners.
All we know is that
she’s been on the scene
for years now, has had
a kid already, but is still
insanely hot.
MARK NICDAO
1
100
JESSY
SEXIEST
2016
I N TH E WO R L D
MENDIOLA
L A ST YE A R : 23 ideal that we can’t
It’s a weird world we appreciate what is right
live in sometimes. in front of us? However,
Why does a vision like real appreciates real, so
Jessy Mendiola have allow us–and her legion
to contend with so of fans who know how
many detractors–non- to acknowledge true
believers, body-shamers, beauty–to finally shut
and just flat-out haters? them all up, as we
Are we just disillusioned crown Jessy our new
with some unreachable queen.

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who’s your celebrity crush? whose instagram and

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The Breaky Hearts , where he and co-star Richard Yap are

InTeRVIew: MA An D’ASIS PAMAR An ; PHOTOGR APHY: MARK JeSALVA

Kat Sandoval, 24 a year, ever since we started working

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Edited by PONG M. CASTILLO

Full volume crowd

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INTERVIEWS : CHISE ALCANTAR A ; PHOTOGR APHY: MARK JESALVA

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Why the hell do you We just want to know if a

words: anne mari ronqUiLLo; iLLUstr ation : warren espe Jo

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WORDS : ANTON D. UMALI

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Stop. Look. Listen.

Ah, Star Trek . A show

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1966 Star Trek: The

1987 The Next

1995 Voyager (TV)

1995 Voyager (TV)

2001 Enterprise (TV)

1993 Deep Space Nine (TV)

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WORDS MUSONG R . CASTILLO • ILLUSTR ATIONS MIKKE GALL ARDO