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Charice Guesting on Oprah Show
Here is the recorded video of Charice Pempengco’s guesting on the popular show of Oprah Winfrey presenting World’s Smartest Kids. Local TV and radio stations back home regularly reported updates and teaser of Charice appearance on Oprah many weeks ago. The wait is over and with Charice Pempengco rendition of Whitney Houston’s “I Have Nothing”, [...]
Servants in the Nest of a Foreigner – OFW Kuwait
Just as Steve Tamayo parlayed his salary as a hotel janitor in Kuwait and became a restaurant owner and an entrepreneur, Zenaida Magno capitalized on her being an OFW and wrote a book on her life. Magno considers a pen her best friend "especially when I am alone" and although she considers her book, entitled [...]
Wesley: One of the Youngest Chess Grandmasters of the World
image courtesy: philippinechesschronicles.blogspot.com Wesley So is one of the world’s youngest ever chess Grandmasters. He completed the requirements for the coveted title at 14 years, one month and 28 days, the seventh youngest in the world to do so. The Filipino sensation drew with Iranian GM Ehsan Ghaem Maghami in the ninth and final round [...]
Rattan’s First Great Virtuoso
“From the start, I was seeking a fresh sensibility to embrace anddevelop with regard to design. I didn’t find it in Milan. Nor in New York.I found it closer to home in the tropical island of Cebu”Kenneth Cobonpue Virtuoso of the rattan renaissance by Go Negosyo Team Pull up a chair – a rattan chair [...]
Major General Antonio Taguba: Man of Truth
It was just more than a week after the ghosts of Abu Ghraib came back to life. An article in The New Yorker revealed that the general who investigated the prisoner abuses in Abu Ghraib was forced to retire because he had been “overzealous.” Retired Major General Antonio Taguba spoke before a sold-out crowd of [...]
Bamboo Jeep & (PhUV)Philippine Utility Vehicle
We have featured before an article about the e-jeepney soon to launch in Philippines, a jeep powered by electricity produced by a renewable energy power plant from the city’s market and household wastes, a practical and very earth-friendly idea! Now, lets have a look of how genious our Kabayan is when talking about Jeepney. The [...]
The Better Side of the Philippines
The following was written by INTEL General Manager Robin Martin about the Philippines: Filipinos (including the press, business people and myself) tend to dwell too much on the negative side, and this affects the perception of foreigners, even the ones who have lived here for a while. The negative perception of the Philippines is way [...]
The House That Fried Chicken Built
Max’s Restaurant’s beginnings started in 1945, after WW II. Maximo Gimenez, A Stanford-educated teacher, befriended the American occupation troops stationed in Quezon City. Because of this friendship, the soldiers regularly visited Maximo’s nearby home for a drink or two. Later on, the troops insisted that they pay for their drinks. This prompted Maximo to open [...]
Peterson Jason Pascual: Pinoy Editor of Oprah Magazine
Peterson Jason Pascual, simply PJ to family, friends and associates works as an editor of O, The Oprah Magazine owned by billionaire, philanthropist and award-winning talk show host Oprah Winfrey. He considers himself amazingly blessed to have this opportunity to get hired as accessories assistant for the lifestyle and fashion magazine that has become so [...]
Eternal Salivation: Michael’s Meat Art
Michael Arcega’s installations reflect his interest in visual and linguistic interaction, conflict and play. For One Way or Another, he produced Eternal Salivation, a wooden ark containing strips of jerky made from various animal meats. The relationship between “salivation” and “salvation” is key to understanding Arcega’s ironic commentary on human, animal, and cultural preservation in [...]