Top news for the day
Source: Manila Bulletin Online
Shootout in Greenbelt
Up to six heavily armed men clad in black bomb squad uniforms figured in a fierce gunfight with security escorts of Taguig City Mayor Freddie Tinga after robbing a high-end watch store in Greenbelt 5, Makati, triggering panic in the posh Makati City mall before noon Sunday.
NDCC prepares for ‘Ramil’
The NDCC Sunday began mobilizing its personnel to ensure the safety of the public as Typhoon Ramil threatens to hit disaster-wary Luzon in the next couple of days.
Emergency power for GMA up to Congress, Palace says
Malacañang will let Congress decide whether President Arroyo should be given emergency powers to rein the prices of petroleum products while Luzon remains under a state of calamity.
‘Ramil’ gains strength, threatens north Luzon
Typhoon “Ramil” further strengthened Sunday as it continued to threaten extreme northern Luzon provinces.
PHIVOLCS monitors rise in sea level
Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology Director Dr. Renato Solidum Jr. said Sunday they are closely monitoring sea-level rise and ground subsidence but appealed to the public not to panic because there are ways to prevent disasters triggered by sea level rise and ground subsidence.
Reduced prices vowed as veggies flood markets
The Department of Agriculture Sunday vowed to further reduce the prices of vegetables and other food items affected by the isolation of Cordillera, the country’s vegetable center.
Fil- Chinese traders pledge to support RP job generation
The Bureau of Immigration’s special visa for employment generation got ySunday a big boost from the Filipino-Chinese businessmen who pledged to support the job generating program of the government.
Showbiz Chika for the day
Source: Manila Bulletin Online
Judge extends probation for Lindsay Lohan
A judge on Friday extended Lindsay Lohan’s probation on drunk driving and other criminal charges for one more year.
Sharon Cuneta clarifies cancer buzz
Megastar Sharon Cuneta has confirmed that the three cysts she recently discovered in her breasts are benign.
The 57th FAMAS Special Awardees
The FAMAS board of
directors headed by its president, Angelo “Eloy” Padua, has chosen people from the show business for their outstanding contribution to the Philippine movie industry.
Mikee misses showbiz
One of the most beautiful faces in showbiz industry, Mikee Cojuangco-Jaworski, proved her natural beauty still charms the public.
‘Disney On Ice’ returns to the Araneta Coliseum this Christmas
After the recent calamities that befell our country, there is no better time to spread Christmas cheer than now.
Christian Bautista, the next Double Diamond Artist of the Philippines?
The concept of jumpstarting a car is simple – use a stronger battery to power up the weak battery!
The game show that every family loves to play is back!
Get ready for a fast-paced and big-time entertainment as GMA-7’s top-rating and widely popular game show, “Family Feud” returns to family homes starting on Oct. 19.
Lav Diaz does a ‘Brando,’ lambasts censors at Italian film fest open
Lav Diaz may have been paying homage to Brando when Diaz spoke at the 8th Italian film fest at the Shangri-la Plaza.
Carmen Soo spills the beans about her breasts
Malaysian actress Carmen Soo was out of action for two months because she had to undergo a breast operation.
Agot Isidro returns to music as wedding singer
I thought the "Ngayon at Kailanman" was too ‘big’ for me and I knew how popular and well-loved this song is to Filipinos. I hope I gave justice (to) my version,” she related.
Derek Ramsay: Not vain, just hot
Although he claims to not be vain at all, actor-model Derek Ramsay admits he worries about his looks because physical appearance matter much in his line of work.
Carmina Villaroel opens up about her 'Ondoy' tragedy
Trying to put a brave front, Carmina said, “Kahit na sabihin mong literal na may bahay pa kami, hindi kami nakatira doon. So I feel for those na nawalan ng bahay.”
Da who for today
Source: Wikipedia
Joseph William Feliciano Smith is a Filipino guitarist, bass player, drummer, singer and songwriter. More commonly known as Joey Smith and Pepe Smith, he is an icon of original Filipino rock music, or "Pinoy Rock".
Born to an American serviceman father and a Filipina mother at Subic Bay Naval Base, he grew up in the Kamuning district of Quezon City, with his maternal grandmother from the age of three. He formed his first rock band at the age of eleven.
Juan dela Cruz Band
Smith was a member of the nationalistic and the seminal Philippine rock group, the Juan dela Cruz Band along with fellow musicians, Wally Gonzales and Mike Hanopol. "Juan dela Cruz" is the recognized term for the "everyman" in Philippine society. The Juan dela Cruz Band initiated the rock music revolution in the Philippines, veering away from covers of foreign hit songs and focusing on original songwriting. The trio has always been credited of spearheading the Pinoy Rock genre in the Philippine music industry.
Smith was also a member of the Japanese trio Speed, Glue & Shinki, his interest in amphetamines was the inspiration for the "Speed" in the name of the band.
He spent six months in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. His band, the Surfer, was contacted to play for American soldiers.
He was jailed for six months for alleged drug trafficking in 1993. His constant jail visitor in the Quezon City Jail was Apa Ongpin. After his release for lack of evidence, Smith held a concert at the jail for the inmates.
At the age of 11 he had his first band, consisting of his friends and neighbors from the Kamuning district, in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
Released in 2005 his very first solo album entitled Idiosyncrasies, on Alpha Records. The 14-track album was three-years in the making; the recording project had started in 2002. The album was released simultaneously with the Juan Dela Cruz's three-CD collection from the rival Vicor Records.
Despite having an American father, he has never set foot in the USA. It's his dream to visit America, he says. His band, during their peak, only toured the United Kingdom, East Asia (and later, Australia), but not the U.S.
In 1994, he survived a car accident that damaged his signature jaw.
He was one of the Filipino acts who opened for the July 4, 1966 concert of the Beatles at the Rizal Memorial Stadium in Manila, Philippines. His admiration of the Beatles further strengthened his musical resolve.
He and the Juan Dela Cruz Band participated in the first open field rock festival in in 1970, the Antipolo Rock Music Festival.
Father of singer Queenie Smith and former MYX VJ Sanya Smith.
One of his main hobbies is collecting toy planes. His childhood dream was to become a pilot.
A member of the nationalistic and the seminal Philippine rock band, the Juan Dela Cruz Band. "Juan Dela Cruz" is the Everyman's name in the Philippines.
Smith composed the song "Himig Natin" backstage in 1972, while waiting for his turn to play in a concert called "Himig Natin", at the Rizal Park grounds in Manila, Philippines.
Joey Smith formed his own band, The Airwaves, in circa-1976. The members were Joey Smith (vocals/dobro/drums), Jun Lopito (guitar), Gary Perez (guitar), Gil Cruz (bass) and Edmund Fortuno (drums).
Gospel for the day
Source: The Daily Gospel Online
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 12:13-21.
Someone in the crowd said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to share the inheritance with me."He replied to him, "Friend, who appointed me as your judge and arbitrator?" Then he said to the crowd, "Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one's life does not consist of possessions." Then he told them a parable. "There was a rich man whose land produced a bountiful harvest. He asked himself, 'What shall I do, for I do not have space to store my harvest?' And he said, 'This is what I shall do: I shall tear down my barns and build larger ones. There I shall store all my grain and other goods and I shall say to myself, "Now as for you, you have so many good things stored up for many years, rest, eat, drink, be merry!" But God said to him, 'You fool, this night your life will be demanded of you; and the things you have prepared, to whom will they belong?' Thus will it be for the one who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich in what matters to God."
Word for the day
Source: Merriam Webster Online
ostracize • \AHS-truh-syze\ • verb
: to exclude from a group by common consent
Example Sentence:
Ostracized by her former friends for spreading false rumors and gossip, Christina now walks to school alone.
Did you know?
In ancient Greece, prominent citizens whose power or influence threatened the stability of the state could be exiled by a practice called ostracism. Voters would elect to banish another citizen by writing that citizen's name down on a potsherd (a fragment of earthenware or tile). Those receiving enough votes would then be subject to temporary exile from the state (usually for ten years). The English verb "ostracize" can mean "to exile by the ancient method of ostracism," but these days it usually refers to the general exclusion of one person from a group at the agreement of its members. "Ostracism" and "ostracize" derive from the Greek "ostrakizein" ("to banish by voting with potsherds"). Its ancestor, the Greek "ostrakon" ("shell" or "potsherd"), also helped to give English the word "oyster."
Lesson for the day
Source: Engr. Paul Elmer Morala from Duisberg, Germany
Special Delivery
Sally jumped up as soon as she saw the Surgeon come out of the operating room, saying: "How is my little boy? Is he going to be O.K.? When can I see him?"
The surgeon responded, "I'm sorry, we did all we could." Sally said, "Why do little children get cancer, doesn't GOD care any more? GOD, where were you when my son needed you?"
The surgeon softly told her, "One of the nurses will be out in a few minutes to let you spend time with your son's remains before it's transported to the university".
Sally asked that the nurse stay with her while she said good-bye to her son. As she ran her fingers through his thick red curly hair, the nurse said, "Would you like a lock of his hair?"
Sally nodded yes. The nurse cut a lock of his hair and put it in a plastic bag and handed it to Sally.
She gazed at her son’s body as she spoke to the nurse.
"It was Jimmy's idea to give his body to the university for study. He said it might help somebody else, and that is what he wanted. I said, no at first, but Jimmy said, ‘Mom I won't be using it after I die, maybe it will help some other little boy to be able to spend one more day with his mother’. My Jimmy had a heart of gold, always thinking of someone else and always wanting to help others if he could".
Sally walked out of the Children's Hospital for the last time now after spending most of the last 6 months there. She sat the bag with Jimmy's things in it on the seat beside of her in the car. The drive home was hard and it was even harder to go into an empty house. She took the bag to Jimmy's room and started placing the model cars and things back in his room exactly where he always kept them. She lay down across his bed and cried herself to sleep holding his pillow. Sally woke up about midnight and lying beside her on the bed, was a letter folded up.
She opened the letter, it said:
Dear Mom,
I know you're going to miss me, but don't think that I will ever forget you or stop loving you because I'm not around to say I LOVE YOU. I'll think of you every day mom and I'll love you even more each day. Some day we will see each other again. If you want to adopt a little boy so you won't be so lonely, he can have my room and my old stuff to play with. If you decide to get a girl instead, she probably wouldn't like the same things as us boys do, so you will have to buy her dolls and stuff girls like.
Don't be sad when you think about me, this is really a great place. Grandma and Grandpa met me as soon as I got here and showed me around some, but it will take a long time to see everything here.
The Angels are so friendly, and I love to watch them fly. Jesus doesn't look like any of the pictures I saw of Him, but I knew it was Him as soon as I saw Him. Jesus took me to see GOD! And guess what mom? I got to sit on GOD'S knee and talk to Him like I was somebody important. I told GOD that I wanted to write you a letter and tell you good-bye and everything, but I knew that wasn't allowed. God handed me some paper and His own personal pen to write you this letter with. I think Gabriel is the name of the angel that is going to drop this letter off to you. God said for me to give you the answer to one of the questions you asked Him about... “Where was He when I needed him?”
God said, "The same place He was when Jesus was on the cross. He was right there, as He always is with all His children.” Oh, by the way Mom, nobody else can see what is written on this paper but you. To everyone else, it looks like a blank piece of paper.
I have to give God His pen back now, He has some more names to write in the Book Of Life. Tonight I get to sit at the table with Jesus for supper. I'm sure the food will be great. I almost forgot to let you know - now I don't hurt anymore, the cancer is all gone. I'm glad because I couldn't stand that pain anymore and God couldn't stand to see me suffer the pain either, so He sent The Angel of Mercy to get me. The Angel said I was Special Delivery!
Joke for the day
Source: Art’s Funbox
Hot in here
There was a new bad gurl coming down to hell.
Agad siyang nag-complain kay Satanas…
Bad Gurl: Wow! Ang daming hunks and cute guys dito
Satanas: Syempre ako pa, matinik yata akong mag-recruit.
Bad Gurl: Kaso bakit ganun sila? Maliliit ang birdie?
Satanas: Gaga! Eh, kung malalaki ang mga bird nila eh di para ka nang nasa HEAVEN!
Source: Manila Bulletin Online
Shootout in Greenbelt
Up to six heavily armed men clad in black bomb squad uniforms figured in a fierce gunfight with security escorts of Taguig City Mayor Freddie Tinga after robbing a high-end watch store in Greenbelt 5, Makati, triggering panic in the posh Makati City mall before noon Sunday.
NDCC prepares for ‘Ramil’
The NDCC Sunday began mobilizing its personnel to ensure the safety of the public as Typhoon Ramil threatens to hit disaster-wary Luzon in the next couple of days.
Emergency power for GMA up to Congress, Palace says
Malacañang will let Congress decide whether President Arroyo should be given emergency powers to rein the prices of petroleum products while Luzon remains under a state of calamity.
‘Ramil’ gains strength, threatens north Luzon
Typhoon “Ramil” further strengthened Sunday as it continued to threaten extreme northern Luzon provinces.
PHIVOLCS monitors rise in sea level
Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology Director Dr. Renato Solidum Jr. said Sunday they are closely monitoring sea-level rise and ground subsidence but appealed to the public not to panic because there are ways to prevent disasters triggered by sea level rise and ground subsidence.
Reduced prices vowed as veggies flood markets
The Department of Agriculture Sunday vowed to further reduce the prices of vegetables and other food items affected by the isolation of Cordillera, the country’s vegetable center.
Fil- Chinese traders pledge to support RP job generation
The Bureau of Immigration’s special visa for employment generation got ySunday a big boost from the Filipino-Chinese businessmen who pledged to support the job generating program of the government.
Showbiz Chika for the day
Source: Manila Bulletin Online
Judge extends probation for Lindsay Lohan
A judge on Friday extended Lindsay Lohan’s probation on drunk driving and other criminal charges for one more year.
Sharon Cuneta clarifies cancer buzz
Megastar Sharon Cuneta has confirmed that the three cysts she recently discovered in her breasts are benign.
The 57th FAMAS Special Awardees
The FAMAS board of
directors headed by its president, Angelo “Eloy” Padua, has chosen people from the show business for their outstanding contribution to the Philippine movie industry.Mikee misses showbiz
One of the most beautiful faces in showbiz industry, Mikee Cojuangco-Jaworski, proved her natural beauty still charms the public.
‘Disney On Ice’ returns to the Araneta Coliseum this Christmas
After the recent calamities that befell our country, there is no better time to spread Christmas cheer than now.
Christian Bautista, the next Double Diamond Artist of the Philippines?
The concept of jumpstarting a car is simple – use a stronger battery to power up the weak battery!
The game show that every family loves to play is back!
Get ready for a fast-paced and big-time entertainment as GMA-7’s top-rating and widely popular game show, “Family Feud” returns to family homes starting on Oct. 19.
Lav Diaz does a ‘Brando,’ lambasts censors at Italian film fest open
Lav Diaz may have been paying homage to Brando when Diaz spoke at the 8th Italian film fest at the Shangri-la Plaza.
Carmen Soo spills the beans about her breasts
Malaysian actress Carmen Soo was out of action for two months because she had to undergo a breast operation.
Agot Isidro returns to music as wedding singer
I thought the "Ngayon at Kailanman" was too ‘big’ for me and I knew how popular and well-loved this song is to Filipinos. I hope I gave justice (to) my version,” she related.
Derek Ramsay: Not vain, just hot
Although he claims to not be vain at all, actor-model Derek Ramsay admits he worries about his looks because physical appearance matter much in his line of work.
Carmina Villaroel opens up about her 'Ondoy' tragedy
Trying to put a brave front, Carmina said, “Kahit na sabihin mong literal na may bahay pa kami, hindi kami nakatira doon. So I feel for those na nawalan ng bahay.”
Da who for today
Source: Wikipedia
Joseph William Feliciano Smith is a Filipino guitarist, bass player, drummer, singer and songwriter. More commonly known as Joey Smith and Pepe Smith, he is an icon of original Filipino rock music, or "Pinoy Rock".
Born to an American serviceman father and a Filipina mother at Subic Bay Naval Base, he grew up in the Kamuning district of Quezon City, with his maternal grandmother from the age of three. He formed his first rock band at the age of eleven.
Juan dela Cruz Band
Smith was a member of the nationalistic and the seminal Philippine rock group, the Juan dela Cruz Band along with fellow musicians, Wally Gonzales and Mike Hanopol. "Juan dela Cruz" is the recognized term for the "everyman" in Philippine society. The Juan dela Cruz Band initiated the rock music revolution in the Philippines, veering away from covers of foreign hit songs and focusing on original songwriting. The trio has always been credited of spearheading the Pinoy Rock genre in the Philippine music industry.
Smith was also a member of the Japanese trio Speed, Glue & Shinki, his interest in amphetamines was the inspiration for the "Speed" in the name of the band.
He spent six months in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. His band, the Surfer, was contacted to play for American soldiers.
He was jailed for six months for alleged drug trafficking in 1993. His constant jail visitor in the Quezon City Jail was Apa Ongpin. After his release for lack of evidence, Smith held a concert at the jail for the inmates.
At the age of 11 he had his first band, consisting of his friends and neighbors from the Kamuning district, in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
Released in 2005 his very first solo album entitled Idiosyncrasies, on Alpha Records. The 14-track album was three-years in the making; the recording project had started in 2002. The album was released simultaneously with the Juan Dela Cruz's three-CD collection from the rival Vicor Records.
Despite having an American father, he has never set foot in the USA. It's his dream to visit America, he says. His band, during their peak, only toured the United Kingdom, East Asia (and later, Australia), but not the U.S.
In 1994, he survived a car accident that damaged his signature jaw.
He was one of the Filipino acts who opened for the July 4, 1966 concert of the Beatles at the Rizal Memorial Stadium in Manila, Philippines. His admiration of the Beatles further strengthened his musical resolve.
He and the Juan Dela Cruz Band participated in the first open field rock festival in in 1970, the Antipolo Rock Music Festival.
Father of singer Queenie Smith and former MYX VJ Sanya Smith.
One of his main hobbies is collecting toy planes. His childhood dream was to become a pilot.
A member of the nationalistic and the seminal Philippine rock band, the Juan Dela Cruz Band. "Juan Dela Cruz" is the Everyman's name in the Philippines.
Smith composed the song "Himig Natin" backstage in 1972, while waiting for his turn to play in a concert called "Himig Natin", at the Rizal Park grounds in Manila, Philippines.
Joey Smith formed his own band, The Airwaves, in circa-1976. The members were Joey Smith (vocals/dobro/drums), Jun Lopito (guitar), Gary Perez (guitar), Gil Cruz (bass) and Edmund Fortuno (drums).
Gospel for the day
Source: The Daily Gospel Online
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 12:13-21.
Someone in the crowd said to him, "Teacher, tell my brother to share the inheritance with me."He replied to him, "Friend, who appointed me as your judge and arbitrator?" Then he said to the crowd, "Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one's life does not consist of possessions." Then he told them a parable. "There was a rich man whose land produced a bountiful harvest. He asked himself, 'What shall I do, for I do not have space to store my harvest?' And he said, 'This is what I shall do: I shall tear down my barns and build larger ones. There I shall store all my grain and other goods and I shall say to myself, "Now as for you, you have so many good things stored up for many years, rest, eat, drink, be merry!" But God said to him, 'You fool, this night your life will be demanded of you; and the things you have prepared, to whom will they belong?' Thus will it be for the one who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich in what matters to God."
Word for the day
Source: Merriam Webster Online
ostracize • \AHS-truh-syze\ • verb
: to exclude from a group by common consent
Example Sentence:
Ostracized by her former friends for spreading false rumors and gossip, Christina now walks to school alone.
Did you know?
In ancient Greece, prominent citizens whose power or influence threatened the stability of the state could be exiled by a practice called ostracism. Voters would elect to banish another citizen by writing that citizen's name down on a potsherd (a fragment of earthenware or tile). Those receiving enough votes would then be subject to temporary exile from the state (usually for ten years). The English verb "ostracize" can mean "to exile by the ancient method of ostracism," but these days it usually refers to the general exclusion of one person from a group at the agreement of its members. "Ostracism" and "ostracize" derive from the Greek "ostrakizein" ("to banish by voting with potsherds"). Its ancestor, the Greek "ostrakon" ("shell" or "potsherd"), also helped to give English the word "oyster."
Lesson for the day
Source: Engr. Paul Elmer Morala from Duisberg, Germany
Special Delivery
Sally jumped up as soon as she saw the Surgeon come out of the operating room, saying: "How is my little boy? Is he going to be O.K.? When can I see him?"
The surgeon responded, "I'm sorry, we did all we could." Sally said, "Why do little children get cancer, doesn't GOD care any more? GOD, where were you when my son needed you?"
The surgeon softly told her, "One of the nurses will be out in a few minutes to let you spend time with your son's remains before it's transported to the university".
Sally asked that the nurse stay with her while she said good-bye to her son. As she ran her fingers through his thick red curly hair, the nurse said, "Would you like a lock of his hair?"
Sally nodded yes. The nurse cut a lock of his hair and put it in a plastic bag and handed it to Sally.
She gazed at her son’s body as she spoke to the nurse.
"It was Jimmy's idea to give his body to the university for study. He said it might help somebody else, and that is what he wanted. I said, no at first, but Jimmy said, ‘Mom I won't be using it after I die, maybe it will help some other little boy to be able to spend one more day with his mother’. My Jimmy had a heart of gold, always thinking of someone else and always wanting to help others if he could".
Sally walked out of the Children's Hospital for the last time now after spending most of the last 6 months there. She sat the bag with Jimmy's things in it on the seat beside of her in the car. The drive home was hard and it was even harder to go into an empty house. She took the bag to Jimmy's room and started placing the model cars and things back in his room exactly where he always kept them. She lay down across his bed and cried herself to sleep holding his pillow. Sally woke up about midnight and lying beside her on the bed, was a letter folded up.
She opened the letter, it said:
Dear Mom,
I know you're going to miss me, but don't think that I will ever forget you or stop loving you because I'm not around to say I LOVE YOU. I'll think of you every day mom and I'll love you even more each day. Some day we will see each other again. If you want to adopt a little boy so you won't be so lonely, he can have my room and my old stuff to play with. If you decide to get a girl instead, she probably wouldn't like the same things as us boys do, so you will have to buy her dolls and stuff girls like.
Don't be sad when you think about me, this is really a great place. Grandma and Grandpa met me as soon as I got here and showed me around some, but it will take a long time to see everything here.
The Angels are so friendly, and I love to watch them fly. Jesus doesn't look like any of the pictures I saw of Him, but I knew it was Him as soon as I saw Him. Jesus took me to see GOD! And guess what mom? I got to sit on GOD'S knee and talk to Him like I was somebody important. I told GOD that I wanted to write you a letter and tell you good-bye and everything, but I knew that wasn't allowed. God handed me some paper and His own personal pen to write you this letter with. I think Gabriel is the name of the angel that is going to drop this letter off to you. God said for me to give you the answer to one of the questions you asked Him about... “Where was He when I needed him?”
God said, "The same place He was when Jesus was on the cross. He was right there, as He always is with all His children.” Oh, by the way Mom, nobody else can see what is written on this paper but you. To everyone else, it looks like a blank piece of paper.
I have to give God His pen back now, He has some more names to write in the Book Of Life. Tonight I get to sit at the table with Jesus for supper. I'm sure the food will be great. I almost forgot to let you know - now I don't hurt anymore, the cancer is all gone. I'm glad because I couldn't stand that pain anymore and God couldn't stand to see me suffer the pain either, so He sent The Angel of Mercy to get me. The Angel said I was Special Delivery!
Joke for the day
Source: Art’s Funbox
Hot in here
There was a new bad gurl coming down to hell.
Agad siyang nag-complain kay Satanas…
Bad Gurl: Wow! Ang daming hunks and cute guys dito
Satanas: Syempre ako pa, matinik yata akong mag-recruit.
Bad Gurl: Kaso bakit ganun sila? Maliliit ang birdie?
Satanas: Gaga! Eh, kung malalaki ang mga bird nila eh di para ka nang nasa HEAVEN!
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