Archive for March, 2008
I’ve just seen the elimination night of American Idol 2008. Ramielle Malubay, the only Filipina contender almost got eliminated along with David Hernandez whose journey to the American Idol title finally ended by way of votes. Ramielle Malubay is actually my bet to win the contest and wife’s bet is David Hernandez. [...]
March 13th, 2008 | Posted in Personal Thoughts | 22 Comments
The American Idol 2008 is set on March 11. As of this writing (March 12, Philippine time) the American Idol 2008 is set at 8 6pm, Starworld channel on cable. I think there is a simulcast and replay on QTV on another date.
Filipinos who are avid fans of the American Idol (especially those [...]
March 12th, 2008 | Posted in Personal Thoughts | 8 Comments
The Miss Universe 2009 will be hosted by Puerto Rico. The event will take place on an undisclosed date as of this writing. The Ms. Universe is perhaps the most prestigious beauty pageant in the world as it showcases the best beauty talents from almost all countries. Puerto Rico has high hopes that their [...]
March 11th, 2008 | Posted in Personal Thoughts | 8 Comments
If you’re a catholic, the Seven Deadly Sins could be a familiar topic you. The Seven Deadly Sins (or mortal sins) was a doctrine laid down in 6th century by Pope Gregory the Great and popularized in the Middle Ages by Dante in “The Inferno”: lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth, anger, envy and pride.
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March 11th, 2008 | Posted in Religion | 2 Comments
March is Fire Prevention Month in the Philippines. It is one event that has affected the lives of many Filipinos since incidence of fire is high especially in dense urban areas like Manila. Fire Prevention Month reminds us all that though the discovery of fire was one of man’s earliest technological discoveries, it [...]
March 10th, 2008 | Posted in Philippines | 6 Comments
Oh, my goodness Janina San Miguel, I checked my emails an hour ago and found some very interesting queries about the recently-concluded Bb. Pilipinas 2008 beauty pageant. This is in relation to my previous articles about the contest where Janina San Miguel won one of the highest awards – the Bb. Pilipinas 2008-Ms. World [...]
March 10th, 2008 | Posted in Personal Thoughts | 340 Comments
The American Idol 2008 Final 12 will get it on in a few days as Season 7 of this very successful contest in search for new singing sensation comes to an end. As a Filipino, I’m so damn proud Ramielle Malubay is in the Final 12 so is my wife’s favorite, David Hernandez. [...]
March 9th, 2008 | Posted in Personal Thoughts | 8 Comments
The Binibining Pilipinas 2008 winners received so many negative comments as of late. Many believe the winners cannot even stand a chance to represent our country in the Ms. Universe, Ms. World and Ms. International beauty pageants to be held on foreign lands this year.
Tags: beauty pageant, personal, Philippines
March 9th, 2008 | Posted in Personal Thoughts | 34 Comments
I was already asleep last night and I didn’t intend to write about the Bb. Pilipinas 2008 Grand Coronation Night event. However, my wife insisted that I watch the Philippines’ most prestigious beauty pageant. Goodness, beauty contest is not my thing. In fact I haven’t seen a lot of beauty contests even [...]
March 9th, 2008 | Posted in Personal Thoughts | 233 Comments
Today is International Woman’s Day and I think this is a very good time to greet women in our lives with kind or sweet messages either in words, over the phone, through text messages (SMS) or greeting cards. The International Woman’s Day (or Women’s Day) is a day for us to commemorate, remember, show [...]
March 8th, 2008 | Posted in Personal Thoughts | 9 Comments
Facebook (www.facebook.com) is a fast-growing social network which intends to connect people through a messaging system, photo sharing and video sharing. Facebook is not popular here in the Philippines but Friendster is. I have signed for an account in Facebook and while it’s true the features are similar to other social networks like Friendster, [...]
March 7th, 2008 | Posted in Friendster | 14 Comments
The American Idol 2008 (Season 7) is laced with a scandal in the person of the only Filipina contender this season, Ramielle Malubay (Ramiele Malubay, to some). The photos of this young American Idol 2008 contender are all over the internet. These were actually from her Facebook account and I really don’t know [...]
March 7th, 2008 | Posted in Personal Thoughts | 41 Comments