TV Quick Take: Josie Rocks Dilido-boy and Mabuhay gets LOST

After crawling home from my Wednesday night poker game, I cozied up on the couch with Steini, the Mini Moo, for a late night assignation with the Tivo and its many hump day gems like Top Chef and LOST. Who knew it would be such a big night on the small screen for my Kababayan?

First up, Josie Smith-Malave returned to the Top Chef kitchens to whoop some blonde-boy booty in the Superbowl-inspired regional cuisine challenge. In the Miami Dolphins head-to-head, Josie tackled the wan, sweet, but slightly scattered Jeff McInnis, whose day job is to cook at the Dilido Beach Club in Miami--read that quickly, 3 times in a row. Despite Jeff's mockery of Josie's "warm ceviche," homegirl threw down and garnered all 10 points for the All Stars. Lest we forget, Mz. Malave also played on a Ladies Pro Football team before her TC daze. Go Tomboy Nation!

Previously, on LOST: the noble but tortured Scotsman, Desmond Hume, dreamed of returning to Oxford to find the scrawny hipster-physicist, Daniel Faraday's creepy momma. For reasons yet unknown, finding her will help the remaining castaways in jeopardy on The Island. In the opening moments of this week's episode, I expected Oxonian spires and twinkling lights a la Jude the Obscure. Instead I got a high-def eyeful of sweaty old Titos hunched in a nipa hut over some kind of "gambling table"with piles of Pesos, and a bottle of Tondena. Whuuuuuuuuuut?








































To tell you the truth, I had a sense we got LOST in the 'Pinas, but couldn't confirm it given the show's history of flashbacks to other Southeast Asian beaches scattered with fruit vendors and Sally Struthers' wards. Remember Jack's "stuff white people like" Chinese-character tattoo from Phuket?











But then the "Mabuhay" sign appeared, featuring that familiar Argentina-meets-the Czech Republic-flag, and I was like, "Talaga?!?"










Does this mean Desmond's kid with his Uptown Girl baby momma, Penelope Widmore, is a citizen of the Republika ng Pilipinas because he was born in da Probinces? Charlie Hume is alive thanks to the gambling drunkard, Dr. Efren Salonga... (right?!?).

You decide. I have no further commentary just yet. Maybe the ladies of Disgrasian can help us sort through our teevee frustrasians. For now send us YOUR mad-lib captions for the LOST-ep screen captures above (forgive us ABC...it's fair use!!!). Or in the words of our SOTW, "Make Your Own Kind of Music" (performed by a Pin@y fave who's also interwoven into the LOST mythos, Mama Cass). Mabuhay, KT: