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Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Welcome Happy Slip to Manila! Mabuhay!
Official Website: Happy Slip.com
Related Posts: Aidan Meets Happy Slip!
MABUHAY to Christine "Happy Slip" Gambito to Manila! She arrived in Manila today and the entire Manila Blogging Community welcomes her! We are so excited to meet the most famous You Tube Internet Celebrity who is proudly a Filipina!
" Christine Gambito, better known to her audience as HappySlip, is an Internet celebrity and popular YouTube content provider. She maintains one of YouTube's most subscribed channels. In March 2007, Gambito's video Mixed Nuts was nominated for the 2006 YouTube Video Awards for Best Comedy,[2] resulting in the second place to Smosh.[3] In May of the same year, she became one of the first YouTube users accepted into YouTube's revenue sharing program.
" Gambito's performances typically include comedy sketches in which she impersonates members of her family. She also sings and plays the piano and guitar. As Gambito has stated repeatedly in her videos, she is notably one of the very few top users acting, filming, editing and producing her shorts completely on her own.
Gambito attributes her nickname "HappySlip" to her Filipino mother's mispronunciation of "half slip":
“ As a child, my Filipino mom would always remind me to wear a half-slip with skirts. However, the way she would pronounce the phrase was misleading: "Your hap e-slip! Be sure to wear your hap e-slip!" So I naturally went around calling the thing a 'happy slip,' until friends at school corrected me by asking if I had a 'sad slip' as well." (Happy Slip: Wikipedia)
She was invited by the Department of Tourism -- all expenses paid -- to explore the Philippines for 2 weeks. This is her first time to be back in Manila after the family migrated to the US. She is scheduled to visit Tagbilaran, Bohol, Cebu, Boracay, Tagaytay and Palawan. I am super excited because the entire world will see the beauty of the Philippines through the eyes of Happy Slip. This is part of DOT's Experience Philippines campaign for the OFWs.
I'm hoping to meet her with Rache and Aidan on Chinese New Year, Feb. 7 before she goes back to the US. They are planning a blogger's farewell party for Happy Slip on Chinese New Year. Let me know if some of you are interested to meet her, just post a comment. Maybe, Happy Slip can give a short seminar on video blogging to Pinoys.
MABUHAY Happy Slip, We Are So Proud of You!!
Related Posts:Tuned in to 'Happy Slip': Getting to Know Christine Gambito
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I am interested. Me me.
Posted by: Juned | Jan 23, 2008 11:48:33 PM
Uy, interesting yung seminar about video blogging ah. I have a nephew's who's into vlogging. He might be interested to attend that.
Posted by: nina | Jan 23, 2008 11:48:45 PM
What good news! I've been a fan of Happyslip since last year. She's SO funny and talented...maybe we'll cross paths when she goes to Boracay...hehehe!
Posted by: pilar | Jan 24, 2008 12:48:31 AM
Answer...is a big ME! I'm interested to meet her =D
Posted by: L.A | Jan 24, 2008 1:15:19 AM
I wanna meet her! :)
Posted by: Coy | Jan 24, 2008 2:53:39 AM
Count me and my family, Anton!
Posted by: noemi | Jan 24, 2008 6:00:45 AM
sama ako! hehe
Posted by: koolitz | Jan 24, 2008 6:37:47 AM
Am interested, Anton! Thanks!
Posted by: ManuelV | Jan 24, 2008 7:12:26 AM
ay gusto ko rin yun! sama ko! :)
Posted by: dyanie12 | Jan 24, 2008 7:20:42 AM
Kudos to DOT for doing the right decision. Let's all welcome Christine! I've been a fan of hers since last year and always looking forward to her new videos. Hmnn, I'm not sure if I'm free on Chinese New Year, but I'd love to be part of her farewell party.
Posted by: Gene | Jan 24, 2008 9:24:48 AM
Don't forget to give us the details of the meeting Anton. Thanks in advance:)
Posted by: ajay | Jan 24, 2008 9:35:27 AM
count me in! let us know the details :)
Posted by: marhgil | Jan 24, 2008 9:56:36 AM
sali po ako! =)
Posted by: JM | Jan 24, 2008 10:03:52 AM
hi anton :)
let me know about the venue and the time :D
i love her videos! :D
Posted by: karla | Jan 24, 2008 10:10:23 AM
sure ba! sama ako dyan.
By the way the DOT's Experience PH campaign is actually very interesting. They are giving away 250 free tickets to American citizens with Filipino roots to experience the Philippines and have good memories to write and talk about with their friends back in the US. The objective is to keep them coming back for more :)
Posted by: jayvee f. | Jan 24, 2008 11:08:47 AM
netceleb, happy christine!
Posted by: jomar | Jan 24, 2008 11:28:00 AM
can't pass this one.
have to meet her ":)
Posted by: Azrael | Jan 24, 2008 1:10:53 PM
I need to meet her! I want to have a picture taken with her and some autograph. :) Please count me in!
Posted by: Jeric | Jan 24, 2008 1:38:25 PM
anton, i'm in :-) she's witty & funny! i like her :-)
Posted by: banggigay | Jan 24, 2008 4:40:34 PM
it would be great to meet her. :D
Posted by: jamie | Jan 24, 2008 5:04:16 PM
hi anton!!! id like to meet her too!! :)
Posted by: fran | Jan 24, 2008 5:19:51 PM
She's quite funny. If the meeting is on Feb 9, that's untimely for me, but I look forward to reading about your meeting and checking out her vlog posts about her trip.
Posted by: Mila | Jan 24, 2008 5:47:34 PM
Game on!!
Posted by: Didi | Jan 24, 2008 5:58:49 PM
count me in please! proud to be pinoy
Posted by: Sonnie | Jan 24, 2008 6:04:32 PM
Ooohhh... That sounds exciting!!! Please let me know the details and I will try so very hard to go. Thanks =)
Posted by: TheBachelorGirl | Jan 24, 2008 7:33:44 PM
