Tuesday, September 23, 2008
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8:41 PM
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What's David Blaine up to?! Simple. Just hanging around somewhere else in New York. Where exactly?! Just above the Wollman Ice Rink at the New York's Central Park!
I said above. Yeah! Exactly. Another stunt delivered from this famous 35 year old illusionist and daredevil. After previously spending 72 hours encased in ice, 44 days without food in a plexiglass box, a week under the water, and been buried alive, David Blaine successfully is now taking his hardest challenge of hanging for 60 hours above the Wollman Ice Rink.
He started his three-day challenge last Monday and would probably be finished by tommorow, Wednesday, in which can be considered as his hardest and toughest challenge ever.
"This is the most difficult for sure. The others, you could get into them soon after the start, but this one is tough from the get-go," Blaine said after being lowered to head level for an interview.
He was attached at the torso and at two steel clips linking his boots to the wire. For two nights and three hot early autumn days he will neither eat or sleep. Wow!
The trick echoes Blaine's great hero Harry Houdini, the legendary escapologist of the late 19th and early 20th century, who amazed New York crowds by hanging upside down from skyscrapers and cranes.
Amazing! 60 hours, nearly 3 days with no food and sleep... Can anyone survive with that situation?! Yes. Hopefully David Blaine!
Watch this Raw video about this article which I grabbed from YouTube!
Sunday, September 21, 2008
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11:04 PM
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The Philippine Blog Awards Night held at One Esplanade earlier this night is over. After weeks of voting for the best blogs in each category, the results are here right before your very eyes.
Congratulations to all the Pinoy Bloggers who joined the Phillipine Blog Awards 2008 espcially to those bloggers who succesfully brought home kilos of bacon! KUDOS!
WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. – After a few hours performing for thousands of South Carolina college students, former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and celebrity disc jockey DJ AM were critically injured in a fiery Learjet crash that killed four people, September 20, 2008, Saturday.
Officials said the plane carrying six people was departing shortly before midnight Friday when air traffic controllers reporting seeing sparks. The plane hurtled off the end of a runway and came to rest a quarter-mile away on an embankment across a five-lane highway, engulfed in flames.
Barker and DJ AM, whose real name is Adam Goldstein, were in critical but stable condition at a burn center in Augusta, Ga., on Saturday afternoon, hospital spokeswoman Beth Frits said. Augusta is about 75 miles southwest of Columbia.
One witness said he was driving when a fireball streaked across the highway about 600 feet ahead of him. William Owns said he approached to see the two survivors frantically trying to remove their burning clothes.
"I noticed two guys who were on fire and it looked like a dance: They didn't know what to do," said Owens, a 60-year-old delivery van driver.
"'Oh my God' was all they were saying," Owens said of Barker and Goldstein. "They stood there and it's like - didn't know what to do. None of us did."
Two other passengers - Chris Baker, 29, and Charles Still, 25 - died, as did pilot Sarah Lemmon, 31, and co-pilot James Bland, 52, according to the county coroner. Baker was an assistant to Barker and Still was a security guard for the musician.
The plane was headed for Van Nuys, California. It is owned by Global Exec Aviation, a California-based charter company, and was certified to operate last year, Hersman said. The company expressed its condolences in a statement and said it was working with investigators to determine the cause of the crash.
Friday, September 19, 2008
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12:27 AM
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Charice Pempengco, the latest teen music icon in the Philippines, again proved that dreams do come true after she performed a duet with one of her favorite international stars — Celine Dion, September 15, Monday at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
In the concert dubbed as “Taking Chances World Tour, “Charice sang the hit “Because You Loved Me” with her idol Celine. The song was actually chosen for and dedicated to Charice’s strength and love — her mom Raquel Pempengco.
Here's the video of Charice and Celine Dion singing "Because You Loved Me":
Two thumbs up for Charice! Keep it up, reach for the sky!
Sunday, September 14, 2008
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5:28 PM
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Now on its 10th year, Inkblots 2008: the UST National Journalism Fellowship continues its goal of molding aspiring young writers and journalists through a series of journalism seminars and workshops from the country’s veteran journalists.
Organized by the Varsitarian, the 80-year-old official student publication of the University of Santo Tomas, the three-day event will be held on October 20 to 22 at the UST Thomas Aquinas Research Complex (TARC).
Inkblots 2008 will feature seminar-workshops on news writing, opinion writing, lifestyle writing, sports writing, feature writing, cartooning and campus paper management.
Invited lecturers include Inquirer columnist Conrado de Quiros, sports columnist Quinito Henson, Tempo and Panorama’s Nestor Cuartero and former New York Times correspondent Alice Colet-Villadolid and here is what you don't have to miss! Still waiting for confirmation, famous broadcast journalist VP Noli de Castro might be included in the seminar.
A brainchild of Christian Esguerra, the Varsitarian’s editor-in-chief in 1998, Inkblots has grown to be a fertile training ground for journalism students nationwide. It is open to all campus journalists, campus press advisers and journalism enthusiasts.
For registration and inquiries, contact Ana Mae Roa (09266855574), Emil Dela Cruz (09063254523), or Francis Gatdula (09062035761) or visit the Varsitarian office at Rm 105 Tan Yan Kee Bldg, UST España, Manila, call 4061611 loc. 8235, or e-mail inkblots08@yahoo.com.
Monday, September 1, 2008
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8:50 AM
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Today, September 01, is the start of RAMADAN.
For one whole month, Muslims will abstain from food, drink, sex, and ill-doings from dawn to dusk in a mandatory process aimed at building in them self-restraint towards spiritual perfection. This is a time for full meditation in professing their Islamic faith. Thus, for 1 whole fasting month, Muslims are expected to be on a tranquility.
Ironically, Muslims in Mindanao are suffering from the unending war between the government troops and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). Muslim Filipinos, along with their leaders and government officials seek a ceasefire between the struggling forces. But this is quite difficult because lately, the Department of National Defense (DND) and the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) announced that that pursuit operations against the renegade MILF will push through even during the Ramadan Period.
Will the government implement a ceasefire or will they continue pushing the operations?! Well, I just hope that during this 1 month Ramadan, the MILF will stop their heinous acts in their seek for liberation.
"Christians against Muslims; Filipinos versus Filipinos"
Sunday, August 31, 2008
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1:07 AM
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Eraserheads' very own Ely Buendia was rushed to the hospital at around 10:00 p.m. last Saturday night during the long-awaited Eraserheads Reunion Concert at the Bonifacio Global City Open Field.
After an hour of non-stop Eraserheads music, the concert has to end because of the incident.
Initial reports say that Ely Buendia suffered a heart attack which is really his illness since then. Remember that on January of 2007, Ely also experienced a serious heart attack.
Prior to the Eraserheads Reunion Concert, Ely's mom died of cardiac arrest on August 28 but Ely Buendia decided to push through with the concert.
The Eraserheads Reunion Concert became controversial because its first sponsor, Philip Morris, was accused of violating Philippine laws prohibiting tobacco companies from sponsoring concerts and other promotional events.
As of the moment, prayer is the most powerful remedy for Ely Buendia's condition. I'm sure that a lot of people coming from the Music Industry as well as the fans of the band will surely pray for the speedy recovery of Ely Buendia.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
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8:18 AM
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The official website of the militant group Kilusan was defaced last Monday night, August 25.
The home page of the website kilusan.net, which contains articles and statements from the militant groups, contained a message indicating that it has been "hacked".
Below is the message posted by, probably the hackers: "Hacked By ThE.BiLeN & VeZiR.04 ... SpeciaL ThankS:the.caylak & One_Dream & The.MuSaP."
For the meantime, the website is under construction and I don't know if how long will the web developers of Kilusan.net will be able to fix the problem.
WARNING! Always keep your web pages secured from hackers and any other forums of illegal or unexpected manipulations.
The Philippine Air Force (PAF) has confirmed Tuesday that a C130 Hercules transport plane with two pilots and seven crewmembers onboard, has crashed after takeoff from Davao International Airport Monday evening.
Air Force spokesman, Maj. Gerardo Zamudio, made the announcement after search and rescue operations for the missing military air transport on Tuesday recovered several debris believed to be parts of the transport plane, combat boots and body parts off Davao Gulf.
Quoting an earlier report from Col. Isagani Silva, the commander of Tactical Operations Group 11, PAF chief Lt. Gen. Pedrito Cadungog had said pieces of an aircraft, two combat boots, body parts and manuals were found in an area between Samal Island and Davao City.
Search and rescue operations were launched after the plane, with two pilots and seven crewmembers onboard, went missing shortly after takeoff from Davao International Airport Monday evening.
The two pilots were identified as Major Manny Sambrano and Captain Adrian de Dios.
Personnel from PAF, Philippines Army, Coast Guard, Navy and the Philippine National Police were deployed to scour sea and land areas, according to Cadungog.
Cadungog added that two Air Force Nomad planes, three UH-1H helicopters, one S-76 chopper and Beechcraft 200 chopper were also dispatched to search for the missing plane.
The local government units also helped in the search operations.
Earlier, Cadungog said the aircraft "most probably crashed that’s why we are concentrating our search within a 20-mile radius."
Cadungog said it took off around 8:50 p.m. and it was expected to arrive at the Iloilo City airport around 10 p.m. The plane was bound for Iloilo City to pick up personnel of the Presidential Security Group and fly them to Metro Manila.
"Unfortunately, their aircraft was not able to land… so we initiated search operations as early as that, around 10 last night. Their aircraft is still missing up to now and we’re conducting search and rescue operations concentrating on the 20-mile radius around Davao City International Airport," he said in an ANC interview.
The last communication from the pilots was one minute after takeoff wherein they were given instructions to turn left for Iloilo City, Cadungog added.
He said the plane was expected to communicate two minutes later but when there was none the airport personnel in Davao City immediately informed PAF that the C-130 was missing.
"We’re still verifying really as to what really transpired because this is something very unusual… the aircraft and the pilots were all OK before take off and everything was normal until that time," he said.
Monday, August 25, 2008
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3:00 AM
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After 16 competitive days for the Olympians, the 2008 Beijing Olympics came to a close yesterday, August 24 with a ceremony and celebration at the National Stadium. Awardings of 302 gold medals & countless achievements made by the world's greatest athletes took place during the closing ceremony of XXIX Olympiad.
Here are the Top 10 Countries:
Click the image to enlarge.
If you want to see the full medal list of the participating countries, click this link.
Missed the 2008 Beijing Olympics Closing Ceremony?! Below are some websites in which you can download the videos of the Closing Ceremony. Enjoy!
Thursday, August 21, 2008
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7:02 AM
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Willie Revillame of Wowowee and Joey de Leon of Eat Bulaga are still not yet finished with their seemingly endless dispute in the show business. The rivalry of the two started several years ago for being the hosts of the noontime shows of their respective TV Stations.
For the information of anybody else about the recent Coca-Cola contest issue, what happened there was a mistake of the contestant. After winning the game, well of course, there was a thanksgiving period but surprisingly, the contestant said thanks to Eat Bulaga which caused the disappointment of the nootime show host. Then a dispute between the two started again.
Here is the video:
Yet unfinished with the recent issue about the Coca-Cola Contest in Wowowee, here comes a new issue regarding Pokwang - Willie Revillame’s noontime co-host.
During a show of Joey de Leon together with Vic Sotto at Los Angeles. whose video was uploaded to YouTube, they made a somewhat stand-up comedy program. In that program, Joey sang a song which was about Pokwang. He described Pokwang as an “Aswang”(supernatural creature in the Philippines, likely similar to a monster) in the song.
Joey De Leon’s version of the John Lennon hit “Imagine” during their show in Los Angeles. “Imagine there’s no 7, wala ng network war. wala na ang Kapuso, remake ng Marimar Imagine wala ng Bubble Gang every friday. Imagine Mike Enriquez, walang excuse me po No Dyesebel to watch and no more Gobingo Imagine no more Idol, no Saksi and Sis. At wala ng Dramarama, Channel 2’s the only one Makikita araw araw ay mukha lang ni Pokwang. Makikita araw araw ay mukha lang ng Aswang. Imagine that situation, I wonder if you can We need some girls like Marianne, not girls who look like men.”
Now, as the major host in the noontime show, Willie Revillame defended Pokwang about what Joey did. During the Wowowee Episode last Monday(August 18), Willie said his arguments regarding the matter. He was very much disappointed to the insult of Joey to his co-host. Pokwang was crying that time while Willie was talking about her and Pokwang’s daughter. Because of what had happened in the U.S. program, Pokwang’s daughter became the center of insult in their school. Her classmates was teasing her that her mother is an Aswang, and this is not a good situation for Pokwang who works hard just to sustain the needs of her daughter.
Throughout that segment in Wowowee which lasted for several minutes, Willie Revillame defended Pokwang and his other co-hosts. He said, “Hangga’t nandito ako, walang pwedeng gumalaw sa inyo….”
Well for me, honestly, I prefer watching Kapamilya Shows especially Wowowee but this would not give me a good reason to support the side of the Kapamilya hosts. I’m not saying that I’m with the side of Joey de Leon because he was the one who started this problem. Definitely he was wrong for what he did and I think that he admit it.
But the weak point here especially in the side of Pokwang is that they are in the show business, specifically, comedy business. They use to make fun and jokes of other people in order to bring laughter, and they do this of course, for a living. So each one of them in the comedy business should know what are the essentials of being a comedian. Being in the world of comedy show business should require confidence the acceptance of what is being said because basically, all words here are just jokes (I don’t know for some).
One more thing is about how Willie Revillame reacted with the situation. He should have think first that he is also doing such things like what Joey did. Maybe he thought of this one but he became very sympathetic especially to Pokwang’s daughter and as the major show host.
Now, I think they have to do their own ways in order to solve this problem (but I don’t think so for this has been a long-term issue eversince). There are only two things which I want Joey de Leon to do, that is to apologize and, next time, think first before doing such as an action.
Click on the link to watch the video Wowowee's August 18 Episode where Willie Revillame defended Pokwang:
What's David Blaine up to?! Simple. Just hanging around somewhere else in New York. Where exactly?! Just above the Wollman Ice Rink at the New York's Central Park!
