American Idol Season 8

"American Idol Season 8" was weekly telecast at QTV 11 it was live via satelite every Wednesdays for the performance night and every Thursdays for the elimination night. It was hosted by Ryan Seacrest with the judges Randy Jackson, Kara Dio Guardi, Paula Abdul and Simon Cowell
What makes you hooked up with the "American Idol"?
Well, Who among us did'nt love American Idol. So far, there were only 7 reamining contestants namely Adam Lambert, Allison Iraheta, Lil Rounds, Matt Giraud, Kris Allen, Anoop Desai, and Danny Gokey. American idol title holder includes Kelly Clarkson(season 1), Ruben Studdard (Season 2), Fantasia Barino (Season 3), Taylor Hicks (Season 4), Carrie Underwood (season 5), Jordin Sparks (season 6) and David Cook (season 7). Who will join them as the next American Idol?

Tayong Dalawa: Reviewed

"Tayong Dalawa" is a pure Drama series by ABS-CBN. The story mainly goes around the love triangle between Kim Chiu, Gerald Anderson and Jake Cuenca.
What makes you hooke up with "Tayog Dalawa"?
Its Nice to see how ABS-CBN brought back the soap operas in prime time televison. The Network was known for their remarkable drama series like Pangako Sayo, Mula sa Puso and Esperanza. The Cast includes Agot Isidro, and the award winning actress, Cherrie Pie Picache. The main concept of the drama series was giving much prior about romance, ambition, action and brotherhood.

All About Eve: Reviewed

"All About Eve" is a GMA adaptation of a Korean drama series. The story revolves upon the rivalry between Erica (played by Sunshine Dizon) and Nicole (played by Iza Calzado) . Richard Gomez, Jean Garcia, Eula Valdez, Alfred Vargas and Mark Anthony Fernandez are also part of the cast and each played an important role as well.
What Makes you Hooked up with "All About Eve"?
show after their award winning Fantasy-drama series " Well its nice to see Sunshine Dizon and IzaCalzado working together again in a prime timeEncantadia" so as Eula Valdez and Jean Garcia working together after their remarkable portrayal as Claudia(jen Garcia) and Amor Powers(Eula Valdez) in the soap opera entitled "Pangako sa'yo".
here's the teaser for "All about Eve"

Mar Roxas took the lead

2010 Election is getting so near and many politicians were making their own moves to build up their names for this upcoming major event. We might find it annoying but we will going to se more of these politicians in the Television, radios, streamers, posters, and more as a part of their advertisement for their campaign.
Obviously, Mar Roxas took the lead among the others.He's campaign is now airing and the concept tackles about Poverty.
Aside from Mar Roxas, you can also see Pia Cayetano as she promotes a detergent soap. Other politicians like Manny Villar, Francis Escudero, Bong Revilla have their own advertisement as well.

Betty La Fea

"I love Betty La Fea" is an ABS-CBN adaptation of a mexican drama series entitled " Betty La Fea". The main cast includes John Lloyd Cruz as Armando and Bea Alonzo as Betty. The story revolves around how will Betty will succeed to her life despite of her physical appearance and how will Armando will fall in love with her despite being ugly. Bea portrayed the role so well and it really show how versatile she was as an actress.
The cast also includes Vhong Navarro, Ruffa Guitierrez and Megan Young.
What Makes you Hooked up tith "Betty La Fea"? Aside that it comes from a Top rated mexican telenovela in which every characters in the drama series left a mark to every viewers. Viewers were so excited of how will Bea and John Lloyd will portray the comedy love story of Betty and Armando.
Comedy and Romance is the main tool of the show to attract viewers

Betty La Fea

"I love Betty La Fea" is an ABS-CBN adaptation of a mexican drama series entitled " Betty La Fea". The main cast includes John Lloyd Cruz as Armando and Bea Alonzo as Betty. The story revolves around how will Betty will succeed to her life despite of her physical appearance and how will Armando will fall in love with her despite being ugly. Bea portrayed the role so well and it really show how versatile she was as an actress.
The cast also includes Vhong Navarro, Ruffa Guitierrez and Megan Young.
What Makes you Hooked up tith "Betty La Fea"? Aside that it comes from a Top rated mexican telenovela in which every characters in the drama series left a mark to every viewers. Viewers were so excited of how will Bea and John Lloyd will portray the comedy love story of Betty and Armando.
Comedy and Romance is the main tool of the show to attract viewers

Its Martin

Martin Nievera was chosen to sing the National Anthem for the "Pacquiao Vs Hatton"s fight. Honestly if i am to choose between Martin Nievera and Lea Salongga, well i would rather choose Lea. Iam nothing against Martin, Its just that we all know that Lea once sang our National Anthem well. And Since It was Martin, I was just hoping that we will not hear any "slang" from him while sing our National Song knowing the fact thatMartin has his Natural Foreign accent and he got used to sing English songs. But then I know Martin will work hard for this upcoming events. Cheers!!

Marian as new Darna

It was dubbed that Marian will be the next Darna for the upcoming prime time show entitled "Captain Barbell meets Darna. So does it mean that its a goodbye for the Marian-Ding Dong love team? We all know that it was Richard Guitierrez who played the role as Captain Barbell unless they will change it to Ding Dong Dantes.
What makes Marian perfect to play the role for Darna? First, its nice to see Marian to play a superhero role for the very first time. Marian was also known for herVersatility so I know she can portray the role very well.
What didnt suit Marian to play the Role for Darna? Marian's white complexion is a big No No for a Darna role. Marian's Height as well is a big factor why she doesnt suit for the role. And for me if you will let Marian wear the sexy Darna Costume, I will see Marian as Wonder woman and not as Darna. Nevertheless, With Marian's Acting skills for sure that you will never see those negative factors.

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Zorro

Zorro is a GMA adaptation of a foreign fictional character named "Zorro". The title role was played by Richard Gutierrez.
What suits Richard to play Zorro? well Richard was known as he played remarkable roles like Captain Barbell, Lupin, Kamandag and Asero and of all these top rated shows there is no doubt why GMA Network chose Richard to play the role for Zorro.
What Will makes you Hooked up with the Show? The Scripts are well written and the production were done so well and the primetime shows involves amazing cast like Rhian Ramos, Jaquelyn Jose, Pinky Marquez, Leo Martinez, Joel Torre and more. And one good thing about Zorro is that there are no other twist added (so far) and is it amazing to see a Zorro with a Filipino touch.

PHILIPPINES:UNCOOPERATIVE TAX HAVENS??

LONDON – The Philippines was among four nations blacklisted as uncooperative tax havens yesterday after Group of 20 leaders declared the age of banking secrecy was over and said they would no longer tolerate shady havens draining away badly needed tax revenue.

At the request of the G20 summit of rich and developing nations, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) named the Philippines, Uruguay, Costa Rica and the Malaysian territory of Labuan as the worst offenders, saying they had refused to adopt new rules on financial openness.

Leaders had agreed to name and shame the countries that refuse to exchange tax information, which could result in tough sanctions – including the withdrawal of financing by the World Bank or International Monetary Fund.

“The time of banking secrecy has passed,” French President Nicholas Sarkozy said following the summit. “Everyone around the table wants an end to tax havens. Everyone knows we need sanctions.”

The announcement reflects mounting concern that banking secrecy in tax havens has helped to worsen the economic crisis by disguising the true value of some global assets. Anti-poverty activists say such places provide corrupt officials places to stash illicit funds, often depriving poor nations of needed resources.

The OECD has divided countries into three categories: those who comply with rules on sharing tax information, those who say they will but have yet to act and nations which have not yet agreed to change banking secrecy practices.

Switzerland and Liechtenstein, which both have strong banking secrecy traditions, said last month they would adopt international rules on tax cooperation and were ready to comply with G20 demands.

Liechtenstein, Switzerland’s tiny Alpine neighbor, said it has already met with British officials to prepare for the new standards. Monaco said earlier that it would be more transparent with foreign tax authorities.

In return they were spared the fate of being blacklisted but were left in a gray area of countries that still have to implement their commitment to accept new information-exchange standards.

China supported the blacklisting, but would not agree to have two territories, Hong Kong and Macau, classified as uncooperative tax havens.

Potential sanctions for transgressors include extra audits of those who use tax havens and curbs on tax deductions claimed by businesses using the territories.

In their communiqué, leaders said they may consider further penalties in their bilateral relations with tax haven territories.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Brown and President Barack Obama played a key role in pushing for a crackdown on tax havens.

At least 35 offshore tax havens, from Britain’s Channel Islands to the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean, are under increasing pressure to provide more information to international authorities to prevent people from evading taxes or hiding income by shifting money to such places.

Stephen Timms, financial secretary to the British Treasury, said a culture of banking secrecy had worsened global economic problems.

“That lack of transparency – that opaqueness – has contributed to the severity of the problems we are seeing in the world economy at the moment,” he said.

Sorry is not enough...the damage was done..

Is that Enough?

The Hong Kong-based magazine columnist who labeled the Philippines as a “nation of servants” has issued a public apology for the racial slur, reports said today.

According to reports, HK Magazine columnist Chip Tsao made the apology last night over a local TV station in Hong Kong.

The apology came a few days after Tsao branded the Philippines “a nation of servants” in his column titled “The War at Home.” He also reportedly told his Filipina servant that he will terminate her employment in the event the Philippines takes over the highly disputed Spratly islands.

The Bureau of Immigration (BI) yesterday barred Chao from entering the Philippines, adding that “he could only be allowed entry to the country following a public apology for his insults.”

Headline

Filipino uses Internet not for Business bu for Games and Social Networking



Internet usage in the Philippines is on the increase but rarely for doing business online -- most people are using the web for social networking or to play games, according to a survey Thursday

It is the first time such a survey has been conducted in the Philippines, where only around 20 million people -- 22 percent of the country's 90 million population -- have access to the Internet.

The survey by Yahoo! and consumer information group Nielsen found that most of those going online are between 10 and 29 and are educated and techno-savvy.

It showed that 53 percent of Internet users play online games, and only 24 percent read the news online.

In stark contrast, "online transactions or commerce remain low," with only three percent conducting banking activities or making purchases online.

Nielsen executive director Jay Bautista said internet users are forecast to increase by at least 10 percent this year.

However, he said the global economic downturn, which has softened economies around the world, would likely "flatten or bring down ad spending" just as it did during the 1997 Asian financial crisis.

The survey was carried out from October to November last year and covered some 1,200 people across the Southeast Asian archipelago.

AIRING OF MANNY'S FIGHT ISSUE :SETTLED

AIRING OF MANNY'S FIGHT ISSUE :SETTLED

Manny Pacquiao, the Filipino boxing icon, yesterday ended all the anxiety when he decided to stick it out with Solar Sports and honor a valid, binding and legal contract that covers the local television rights for his May 2 fight with Ricky Hatton and all his future fights until 2011.

Solar Sports came out with a statement saying everything’s okay between them and Pacquiao who announced last Wednesday that he has rescinded their contract and that he has decided to switch back to ABS-CBN as his official media partner.

But Pacquiao had a change of heart.

“After a thorough study and weighing of things, it was proven that my contract with Solar Sports is valid and binding and was not violated by anyone,” said Pacquiao in his own statement read by his lawyer, Franklin Gacal.

“I whole-heartedly apologize for all the confusion on where my coming fight against Ricky Hatton would be shown (in the Philippines). It was a result of miscommunication between Solar Sports and MP Promotions,” added his statement that was read in Filipino.

“Solar Entertainment Corporation, Manny Pacquiao and MP Promotions, are happy to announce that in the spirit of utmost good faith, the parties have favorably resolved their unfortunate misunderstanding,” the Solar Sports statement said.

“Manny and MP Promotions have agreed to honor the television rights agreement and fully comply with the terms and conditions therein. Accordingly, MP Promotions and Manny Pacquiao have withdrawn in writing their rescission letter dated March 17th, 2009.”

Solar Sports president Wilson Tieng and chief operarting officer Peter Chanliong flew to Los Angeles the other night, and met boxing’s biggest star in his posh La Palazzo apartment Friday (LA time) to thresh our their problems.

“We are happy that now he can concentrate on preparing for his fight with Ricky Hatton on May 3 (Manila time) to be shown on GMA-7 and Solar Sports. Preparation for the fight should be his priority,” the Solar statement added.

Bye Master Rapper

A Farewell to the Master Rapper
Francis "kiko" Magalona

Surprisingly when me an my family were watching our favorite noon time show
"eat bulaga" an unexpected announcement was held by their hosts Vic Sotto and the other dabarkads
Francis M had passed away 12 noon of March 6 2009

Francis M is a legend in music Industry

Multi-awarded Filipino rap icon Francis Magalona has passed away at the Medical City in Mandaluyong around noon today. He was 44.

According to TV reports, this was announced by actor Vic Sotto in the noontime variety show Eat Bulaga, where Magalona used to be one of the hosts.

Magalona, considered as a major pillar of rap music in the country, was diagnosed with leukemia in August 2008. He is survived by his wife Pia Arroyo and children Unna, Nicolo, Francis Jr., Elmo, Arkin, Clara, and actresses Maxene and Saab.

Condolences