Sunday, March 30, 2008

Chiekezie is gone too


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I wasn't able to see the entire American Idol elimination last week due to power interruptions, but I was lucky enough to see the announcement of who was voted out. It was Chiekezie Ez who exited the contest. Along with him in the bottom Three were Syesha Mercado and Jason Castro. Chiekezie sang "If only for one night". His performance earned critism from judges Simon Cowell and Randy Jackson, and as usual Paula Abdul said she liked it being the nicest among the three judges. And at the end after the announcement, Simon Cowell said the Chiekezie got eliminated because he once again chose the wrong song for him, Simon earlier in that night said Chiekezie's performance is "cheesy" and "has no originality".

And a surprise for me is that Cristy lee Cook is not in the bottom three, she must have did fine that night. Our very own Ramiele Malubay sang "Alone". It was good, she must have finally realized that ballad songs are best for her voice quality.

Next week, another Idol will be eliminated, who would it be? find out next week. Anyway in that previous result night, 30 million viewers voted, they say its the highest, American Idol is really phenomenal.

WrestleMania 24


Wrestle Mania 24 is shaping up to be the biggest event in sports entertainment this year, its just few hours away before the said event. Wrestle Mania, World Wrestling Entertainment's long running pay-per-view will be held in Orlando's Citrus Bowl, it's an open field used in foot ball, and more than 60,000 fans had sold out the event. The spectacle features great matches plus the induction of the WWE Hall of Fame Class 2008 inductees, The Rock will be there to induct his father Rocky Johnson and his Grandfather High Chief Peter Maivia, who during their time were also great WWE Superstars.

Here are some of the great matches in this year's Wrestle Mania:

The seven men Money in the Bank Ladder Match

The Nature Boy Ric Flair vs. HBK Shawn Michaels (Career Threatening Match)

Batista vs. Umaga

The Big Show vs. Floyd "money" Mayweather

Triple H vs. Randy Orton vs. John Cena (WWE Championship)

The Undertaker vs. Edge (World Heavyweight Championship)

and many more matches.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

MP3:Helpless When She Smiles(Backstreet Boys)-Unbreakable

Monday, March 24, 2008

Babangon Ako't Dudurugin Kita premieres tonight on GMA

Tonight is the premiere telecast of GMA's newest drama series, "Babangon ako't Dudurugin kita". Featuring a power house cast of today's biggest stars. "Babangon ako't Dudurugin kita" is a TV remake of a film portrayed by The Megastar Sharon Cuneta together with Christopher De Leon, Bembol Roco, Hilda Koronel, and Ms Monaliza. This time, the TV remake will be portrayed by Yasmien Kurdi, Marvin Agustin, JC De Vera, Angelika Dela Cruz, and Ms Dina Bonnavie.

The TV version is still based from the film except from some modifications made by the GMA writers. The story is about Salve played by Ms. Sharon Cuneta, she was a martyr but very loving wife to Christopher De leon, eventually Christopher met Hilda Koronel and they had an affair, and they made a scheme to eliminate Salve so they can be finally together and they succeeded. But soon Salve met Bembol Roco and Ms Monaliza who happened to own a syndicate, they taught Salve how to fight back and helped her took revenge against the people who caused her pain.

In this TV remake, the writers elaborated Ms. Dina Bonnavie's past, she is playing Monaliza's role in this soap. They elaborated how she got involved in the syndicate world, and a lot more difference will be seen here compare to the film. Yasmien will be playing Ms. Sharon Cuneta's role as Salve, Marvin Agustin as Christopher De leon's role, JC as Bembol Roco's role and Angelika Dela Cruz will play the role of Ms. Hilda Koronel.

This new GMA soap will feature Yasmien and JC's tandem, although they've done projects in GMA as love team, this is their first prime time show. BADK will also showcase Angelika Dela Cruz' return to the Kapuso station, she used to be the prime time princess of GMA until she came back to ABS-CBN where she started. Now that she's back would fans still accept her?

Other cast of Babangon ako't Dudurugin kita are Tonton Gutierrez, Glydel Mercado, Diana Zubiri, Paolo Contis, Patrick Garcia, and a whole lot more. Babangon ako't Dudurugin kita will air weeknights after Kamandag and before The Legend on GMA telebabad.

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Bye Bye Amanda!

Choosing the right song and reinventing, that was the American Idol 2ND elimination was all about. And in that night it was Amanda Overmyer's turn to go back home. Along with her in the bottom three was Syesha Mercado and Cristy Lee Cook. Cristy looks good that night but that didn't save her for being in the bottom three, in fact Cristy has been always in the bottom three since the start of the elimination maybe it's her looks that earns her most of the text votes that's why she still in the game.

David Archuleta seemed to be the judges favorite at least for that night. He sang "The Long Winding Road" still by the Beatles. After forgetting the lyrics of his song in the first elimination night, David bounced back in the contest and was applauded by the audience and also by the judges. Simon Cowell said that David was able to choose the type of song that suites him.

And as for our very own Ramielle Malubay, things did not turned out to be as good as David. Although she was safe for that night the judges kept on criticizing the way she chooses her song. Paula Abdul said she Ramielle should stick to singing ballad songs because that's her range and that's where she's good at. And as for the terror judge Simon Cowell, he said that Ramielle sound like Chikezie on harmonica, because earlier in that night Chikezie used a Harmonica that earned some quashing from the judge.

Going back to Amanda, she sang "Back in the USSR". Although she showed a nice performance the judges said that doing the same thing over and over again could get the audience bored. The judges are referring to the way she sings like a rock star and running wild in the stage. Maybe that and being less popular to the viewers caused Amanda to be voted out.

Now it's down to just 10. Who will go next? and who will become the next American Idol?

Hana Kimi vs. Hana Kimi


I got confused when I saw the TV plug for the Manga Series Hana Kimi in GMA-7, and then I read that Hana Kimi will be shown also in ABS-CBN. Now my confusions were solved after I took a research about the TV series.

Hana Kimi was a popular Manga in Japan and was adapted in Taiwan as a drama series in November 2006 it was entitled Hua Yang Shao Nian Shao Nu. And another TV adaptation was aired in Japan in July 2007 which was called Hanazakari no Kimitachi e. Hana kimi is the story of a girl that pretended as a guy and enrolled in school exclusive for guys only to meet the guy he fell in love with. The Japanese Adaptation won the award for Best Drama in the 54th Television Drama Award and the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor for Horikita Maki and Ikuta Toma.

Now each stations are claiming they have the original series, but viewers needs to just choose which adaptation they like the best and of course the Kapamilyas will watch the Hana Kimi on ABS and the Kapusos on GMA.

This is not a new scenario on Philippine Television, if you recall the same thing happened when Betty La Fea was airing on GMA-7 and ABS-CBN aired it's sequel Eco Moda. Now it's happening again.

Unfinished Business: The Aftermath

After Manny Pacquiao defeated the Mexican fighter Juan Manuel Marquez in a tough battle last March 16 in Las Vegas and becoming the WBC(World Boxing Council) Super Featherweight Champion of the World, some sports analysts are not convinced with Pacman's victory. Critics says that Pacquiao did not really won that match and that his knock down in the early going of that match saved him from loosing.

The result of that match was a very close split decision, one of the judge gave a 114-113 score in favor of Pacman, and another judge gave a 115-112 score in favor of Marquez meaning Marquez leads the match in terms of points. According to boxing experts from star up to finish it was obvious that Marquez was the best fighter among the the two and that the judges only gave Pacquiao the win because he is more marketable and much more popular than Marquez.

Every time this two fighters squares off in the ring, controversies regarding the match arises, way back in 2004 it was Marquez who won after being knocked down trice but still managed to come back and escape with a draw. That match was also controversial due to the judges scoring. Now it was Pacquiao who is doubted for his victory.

The critics have two gave two options to resolve this issue, either the WBC(World Boxing Council) investigate about Pacman's victory, whether a scoring error occurred during the match or whether a game fixing took place. And another option is a rematch between Many Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez. Above the two options, having a rematch is more decent, if ever a rematch will take place and Pacman wins, he can prove that he beat Marquez fair and square and it will clear any shadow of a doubt from critics. According to Manny Pacquiao he is ready for a rematch and believes he will still win that.

Anyway tomorrow is the scheduled arrival of Manny Pacquiao and a grand heroes welcome surely awaits the Boxing Hero of the Philippines.

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Pacquiao Had Finished The Business

The country will once again rejoice as the "Pambansang Kamao" Manny Pacquiao was victorious over the Mexican Champion Juan Manuel Marquez in their battle called "Unfinished Business" held at the Mandalay Bay Las Vegas. It was a close fight as each fighters gave their best shot, but in the end our boxing hero ended up victorious.

Manny Pacquiao won in close split decision. After four years "Pacman" finally got his hands full on Marquez. If you recall Marquez won their first battle in a controversial draw, which Manny was able to knock Marquez three times but Marquez came back to pull a draw.

Now Manny finally got his revenge and he is now the Super Featherweight Champion of the world.

UCLA Staffs in trouble


13 Staffs from the UCLA Medical Center are in danger of loosing their jobs if they are proven guilty of peeking into Britney's Spears medical records. In January the pop star stayed in that hospital for medical attention. The staffs could have peeked on her records to find out Britney's medical condition. But that's illegal, every hospital considers there patients privacy and the actions of these staffs are unethical.

Luckily the informations peeked by the undisciplined staffs were not publicized or sold to any tabloid, if it was it will be another big story for Britney Spears.

According to the hospital director, this was not the first time this incident happened, they have already fired some staffs after caught peeking at the hospital records of Spear's first baby.

The Legend


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GMA-7's Asianovela "The Legend" made it's pilot week. The Legend is the highest rating epic drama in Korea for 2007, now it's in the Philippines. What makes me it interesting for me is they mention the name of "Jumong", one of the hit Koreanovela in Korea and also in the Philippines, then when I watched it, I found out that it is the story of the 19th descendant of Jumong, the King of Goguryeo, and in one of it's scene I saw the symbol of the Three Legged Crow, the same symbol used in Jumong.

The only difference, "The Legend" used Computer Graphics, it's like an RPG games in the computers. And some characters in the story possesses magical powers. In the story of the legend it also featured th four gods, the Phoenix, Tiger, Turtle-Snake, and the Dragon, just like in the hit anime Fu-shi Gi Yuugi.

Surely this Asianovela would be the talk of the town and would make it big just like Jumong. Anyway Korean star Bae Yong Joon the star of Winter Sonata leads the power house cast of "The Legend". It airs weeknights on the GMA Telebabad after Kamandag.

David Hernandez is the first AI casualty!


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Last week, American Idol held it's first elimination night, and David Hernandez was the first one to go. David along with Kristy Lee Cook and Syesha Mercado was in the bottom three, but David was not lucky enough to survive. I thought Kristy was gonna be eliminated cause she was the one who got the most of criticism from the judges, but that did not turned out to be.

If you remember David's being chosen to be in the Final 12 was controversial because he admitted that he used to be a male stripper from a gay bar, many suggested that he should get disqualified for that.

Now, there are conspiracy theories that his sexy moves in his performance is the reason why he got eliminated. But according to many who watched his performance, it's poor selection of song that got him ousted. "David sang I saw her Standing there" from the Beatles, he turned the song into jazz and the judges didn't like his rendition, another factor could be the audience votes. Maybe he wasn't so popular with the viewer's so he got eliminated.

Friday, March 14, 2008

Marimar: The Grand Finale


Don't miss tonight's final airing of the country's #1 Prime time Series, Marimar. It's Finale will feature the so called Wedding of the year, Sergio and Marimar's wedding. Of course it will be held at Villa Santibanez where their love story began. Plus a live reception at the GMA studio.

GMA prepared hard for this wedding as if it is real, they invited a lot of sponsors, and the dress they used were actually made by the country's top designers, and they also prepared a glamorous reception. This could probably be the most star-studded event in prime time television.

So don't for get tonight, Marimar, the Grand Finale after Kamandag.

Sunday, March 9, 2008

Coffee Prince


The Korean series Coffee Prince is about to end, but I was surprised to find out that Yoo Eun hye or Andy was also the same girl in Princess hours, because I did not watch Princess hours when it was aired at ABS-CBN because at that time I was hooked to watching Jumong on GMA-7.

Anyway, the episodes of Coffee Prince are getting more exited, is it happy ending for Arthur and Andy? Are they gonna get married? I'm sure a lot of people have already seen it's ending, because the series is available on DVDs pirated or original. But I still wants to finish watching the series on television, it is more exiting.

Coffee Prince is seen on GMA-7 weeknights after Marimar.

American Idol's Final 12


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Last week the top rated reality based talent show in America had chosen the twelve finalist including the half Filipina Ramiele Malubay, 20. How far could she go? will she make make it in the final 3 just like Jasmine Trias? Or if she's lucky enough, she could be the first fil-am winner in American Idol. Let's just keep our fingers crossed, win or not Ramiele Malubay is still another Filipina who brought pride to our country.

The American Idol top 12 Finalists are:

David Archuleta, 17
Jason Castro, 20
David Cook, 25
Kristy Lee Cook, 24
Chikezie Eze, 22
David Hernandez, 24
Michael Johns, 29
Ramiele Malubay, 20
Syesha Mercado, 21
Amanda Overmyer, 23
Carly Smithson, 24
Brooke White, 24

source of list: news.yahoo.com

Annabelle vs. Lolit

Last week Annabelle Rama and Lolit Solis had some exchange of harsh words, it all started from the news that Lani Mercado did not greet Ruffa Gutierez when they attended a party and Ruffa reacted. And Lolit Solis being the manager of Lani Mercado said that she did not liked the way Ruffa reacted about the issue and later said that Ruffa should have never reacted on the issue, while Annabelle of course as a mother defended her daughter and said she is ready to square off against Lolit anytime and anywhere.

I was not able to watch Startalk yesterday, but I believe Lolit had spoken about the issue on that said talks show. And today I expect we are going to hear more about this issue at ABS-CBN's The Buzz and GMA's showbiz Central.

Wonder how far would this feud go? Is Lolit Solis gonna face another libel case? These two persons were known for being "palaban". It's hard to stop both of them.

Sunday, March 2, 2008

Pile Driver, banned!



To wrestling fans out there, I'm sure you are familiar of the "pile Driver", it is a wrestling move were the wrestler turn his opponent upside down and drives the head in the canvas in a sitting position. Well it is banned in all professional wrestling organization, only the "Tombstone Pile Driver", popularized by The Undertaker is allowed to use.

If you watch Wrestling you'll see that the move is dangerous cause the one who uses it cannot calculate how high is his opponent from the floor, one mistake could cause serious concussion or severe neck injury. Few Wrestling Superstars who got injured because of a pile driver were Stone Cold Steve Austin and Danny Severn.

However the Undertaker's Tombstone Pile Driver is much more safe, because it is the Undertaker's knees that hits the canvas and not his opponents head.

The moves done by Pro Wrestler involves real danger, it is choreographed and done after a long training, but for ordinary people specially kids it is dangerous to try.

Marimar's final weeks

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For seven months Marimar has remained to be on top, and as it goes down to it's final few episode the story is becoming more exiting and breath taking. More twists awaits it's viewers. How would the characters beat their one common enemy, Angelika? would Angelika win their battle? or will she finally run out of luck? Would Marimar be put to jail for a crime she did not committed? or the truth will prevail in the end?

And speaking of ending, there have been reports that the wedding scene of Marimar and Sergio will feature cameo roles from many big stars, a few names who were invited by Marimar's director Joice Bernal were Sen. Jinggoy Estrada, and former first lady Imelda Marcos, but the staffs still awaits for their reply. And reports also says that the wedding reception will be shown live, and will seem like a victory party for the show because former casts like Lola Cruz, Lolo Pancho, Innocencia, and many more will also be there. So watch out!

Mga Mata ni Anghelita will be shown in Mexico


Televisa, the producer of the hit TV series Marimar in Mexico has bought the TV rights of one of GMA's top rated drama series "Ang Mga Mata ni Anghelita", and yes! it will be shown in Mexico and will be dubbed in Spanish. This is good news to the stars of the drama series because they will be seen on Mexico, and good news also for all the Filipinos, cause this is our dream, to be recognized and be seen by other raises.

Before we enjoy watching telenovelas from Mexico like Marimar, they will watch one of our best drama series. I think the reason why Televisa got interested in the said TV series is because Mexico is also a Catholic country, they also believe in Mother Mary and her miracles and apparitions, and "Mga Mata ni Anghelita" is suited for their audience. "Mga Mata ni Angelita" is starred by Krystal Reyes as Anghelita, with Carmina Villaroel, Isabel Oli, Paolo Contis, Tonton Guttierez, Pen Medina, Marvin Agustin, Ms. Celia Rodriguez, Yna Asistio, Sheryl Cruz, Mark Herras, and Lucy Torres Gomez as Mama Mary and many more.

The drama series is the story of the blind girl Anghelita who was able to see and perform miracles after Mama Mary gave her her eyes.