oprah's favorite things

one of my goals in life is to be able to get to watch live an episode of oprah's favorite things. can you imagine? i have watched four episodes of different seasons. she has elves giving away different EXPENSIVE things... from bath robes to turkeys, to cellular phones and IPODS!!! to all her live audience. she's really something. can you just imagine how malakas she is with the sponsors? she has around 300 live audience members. so for mac to just give away so many ipods, that's really something. if you add up the total amount of the things that she gives away during her favorite things episodes, it might add up to around 3000 dollars per episode. that's 3000 dollars multiplied by 300 multiplied by 57. that's around 51,300,000 pesos per episode. wow. out of extreme shock and happiness, some members of her audience even cried. and companies are more than willing to give away premium items for oprah. why? oprah has even threatened these companies that if they don't give, she won't be including their products in her favorite things list. see how powerful she is? the irony lies in her being an african-american. and in reality, despite the discrimination, she is considered to be the most influential person in the states.

once, though not for her favorite things episode, she gave away a PORSCHE to a guy who has successfully lost more than 200 pounds. it was his dream to own one, but oprah decides to give him one as a reward for being an inspiration to people who wants to lose weight lucky guy!

i heard from some of my friends that kris aquino is sort of doing the same thing. i think that's good news, considering our fellow countrymen need it more than the americans.