40-Hour Vigil for Former President Corazon ‘Cory’ Aquino

The forty-hour prayer vigil for former president Corazon Aquino is about to draw to a close. A lot of Filipinos went to the Edsa Shrine to offer a prayer in the Adoration Chapel. The former president is waging a war against colon cancer and she is not alone in this fight. Filipinos tied yellow ribbons [...]

Neil Gaiman’s ‘The Graveyard Book’

The last Neil Gaiman book I read was ‘American Gods’ and it kinda disappointed me. The Story was cluttered and Neil injected too much mythological characters that there was a necessity for intensive research on Google. ‘The Graveyard Book’ is one of Neil’s saving graces along with Coraline. This is the story of Nobody Owens, Bod [...]

Activision, Video Game’s New Evil Empire

Big mistake, that’s what it was. Activision letting go of ‘Brutal Legend’ when they had a good grip on it was a big mistake. And now, they are using legal measures to get it back, or at least keep EA from publishing it. Activision has filed a lawsuit against Double Fine, the group developing ‘Brutal [...]

The Coolest Wedding March Ever

I just attended my wife’s bestfriend’s sister’s wedding last Saturday. What I hate about Filipino wedding is the lengthy ceremony on the altar and they starve you to death with the program. It sucks, really, and being dragged into these kinds of weddings is just… ugh! Just browsing around the channels when I can to [...]

Is the Nintendo Wii Merely a Toy?

Among the three video game console giants, the Nintendo Wii is winning the market race by a landslide, toppling over the Sony Playstation 3 and Microsoft Xbox 360. Three years after its release in 2006, the Wii has sold over 50 million units worldwide and continuing to do so. The Wii is the fifth generation [...]

Nissan Sponsor Cars on ‘Heroes’

Nissan is one of the major sponsors for the ‘Heroes’ TV series. Each season, a featured car appers on a few episodes of the series. A great low profile strategy to advertise. Here are the cars featured on each season of ‘Heroes’: Season 1: Versa When Hiro and Ando went to America to find the [...]

Mama Dionisia Pacquiao the Product Endorser

The People’s Champ Manny Pacquiao’s Mama Pac, Dionisia Pacquiao, says she’s ready to enter showbiz. She is now, together with Pacman, endorsing two major products, Magnolia Fresh Milk and Ginebra San Miguel. Manny is showing his all out support for his mother, saying that if his loving nanay is confident that she can do it, [...]

Value for Your Money: Is Cheaper Really More Practical?

I was messing with my guitar one morning, grinding up some rifts and licks like Slash (okay, that was an overstatement), when I noticed one of my guitar effects was low on power. It was my flanger, in which I installed a 9V Eveready battery (just because there wasn’t an Energizer available) less than a month ago. My overdrive, however, [...]

Audio Recording of Lolit Solis Giving Advice to Hayden Kho and Vicky Belo

A few days ago, Raymund Palad, Katrina Halili’s lawyer on the Kho-Halili cases released an audio recording to the media. The audio recording involved Lolit Solis giving advice to Hayden Kho and Vicky Belo giving advice on how to handle the cases filed against them. You can listen to the recording on the PEP website: [...]

Where Has the Scandal Taken Katrina Halili and Hayden Kho?

The fight is not over, not by a long run for Katrina Halili, and everything has gone haywire. Three more individuals have been invloved in the case, including Eric Chua who is supposedly the one who got hold of Hayden Kho’s laptop. This case has also stretched into the use of drugs of both Hayden [...]