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From left to right: Maria Venus Bayonito Raj, Marie Razel Triff Eguia, Karla Paula Ginteroy Henry, Melanie Cabanding Felix, Marian Michelle Talag Oblea, & Maria Kristelle Micaller Lazaro

The winners are:

  • Karla Paula Ginteroy Henry of Cebu City - Miss Philippines EARTH 2008
  • Marie Razel Triff Eguia of Dipolog, Zamboanga del Norte - 1st runner-up/Miss Air/Miss PHL TQI 2008-2009
  • Marian Michelle Talag Oblea of Obando, Bulacan - 2nd runner-up/Miss Water
  • Maria Kristelle Micaller Lazaro of Candaba, Pampanga - 3rd runner-up/Miss Fire
  • Maria Venus Bayonito Raj of Legazpi, Albay - 4th runner-up/Miss Eco-Tourism
  • Melanie Cabanding Felix of USA, East Coast - Miss PAGCOR




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PBB Teen Plus: Shy And Andi

Having the word "plus" in the Pinoy Big Brother Teen Edition is nonsense if there will be no twists from beginning to end of the season. Big Brother never run out of ideas. Correct me if I'm wrong, this is the only PBB season having two house players at the same time and will work as Batman and Robin on their task. Who's Shy? And who's Andi?

When Shy joined the teens inside Big Brother house, she entered wearing a mask until last Saturday's 6th Eviction Night. She removed it in front of all housemates and on national TV. The reason why I thought she looked familiar is that she was the rumored GF of Gerald Anderson, ex-housemate of Pinoy Big Brother Teen Edition. I remembered the picture they've shown at The Buzz during that season. Shy is really the girl on the picture.

Who's Andi? She entered the house last night as house player and not as a housemate just like Big Brother told the housemates. She will join Shy to their task to see the real characters of the remaining housemates. I saw the shock in every housemates when Andi (or should it be Andy) was introduced by Shy except for Robi. There's something in his eyes seeing Andi. No wonder she's a real beauty, she's the daughter of veteran actor Mark Gil (Eigenmann) and veteran actress Jacklyn Jose. Andi Eigenmann is now using the name Andi Guck from her mother's family name.



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My Problogger Template

Noticed my new template? I got tired of my previous template, I need a clean template. By the way, this is a Problogger template and you can download it here. I'm still figuring out what should I customize from this template. Overall, I really love this template.

Features of Problogger template:

* Dynamic header tab creation
* Prime location AdSense header ad space
* Multiple rss feed subscription options ready to go (Blogger rss, Technorati, and Feedburner)
* Custom individual post date display
* Addthis bookmark and sharing individual post widget
* FEEDJIT live traffic feed widget
* Custom comments image display
* Three column footer with your recent posts, recent comments, and recommended money maker links
* Amazon deal of the day dynamic widget
* Clean and organized template layout editor screen

The image below is my previous template, I hope you agree with me that the current template I'm using is far better than the previous one.

The only thing I don't like is the amazon widget but I can use the space for other ads widget. To those who are interested with this template, make sure that you read the information carefully from the link above. Also, make sure that you change all necessary codes especially the ad codes.



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The Wuds

Punk rock... new wave... what era can you think of? For those who doesn't know, it's the 80's. It just so happen that during those years, I was so active exploring new things in life and updated to the latest bands I can hear of. Last week, I was thinking of local bands during that era, all I can remember was The Dawn. All I can think of were all foreign such as Depeche Mode, Simple Plan, The Cure, REM, When In Rome etc. I didn't know that at one point in my life, I didn't support local pinoy band as I do now.

I met Aji Adriano of The Wuds last week. I'm shy that I didn't know their band considering that they've started their band in early 80's. Aji told me that the band started 25 years ago. I told him, if they've got married that time, they could have an adult son/daughter by now. I'm impressed with how they made their group together until now compared to other local bands. The disband of bands we know now do happened when one of the members think of a better career without the other members. Actually, I don't have respect and doesn't support those kinds of people. Some of them didn't go a long way on their career. Am I right or am I right?

The Wuds members are:

Bobby Balingit (lead guitar/vocals), is a unconventional guitar instructor and song-writing workshop facilitator. He is also a painter and divides his time in-between teaching.

Alfred Guevarra (bass/vocals), is a noted tattoo artist and the President of the Philippine Tattoo Arts Guild (PHILTAG), Manila. He sometimes plays the rhythm guitar.

Aji Adriano (drums) is a guitar and drum instuctor. He is also my son's drum instuctor this summer.



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Oh, no. I did forgot that tonight is the opening of 3rd World Pyro Olympics. We are looking forward to watch the Pyro Olympics from first day to last day and its sad that we missed the 1st day. At around 5pm this afternoon, heavy rain poured. I admit that I did forgot the event, the cold weather is another reason to be lazy to go there.

The frequent reschedule of 3rd World Pyro Olympics somehow made people got tired of the event... plus summer season is about to end already. I checked on the official website of World Pyro Olympics, it's now available again.

There is a big chance that the event will be a big flop for these reasons:

  • Change of schedule - blogs and other site announced prematurely the schedule which made people got tired of waiting including me. These sites got the information by inquiring to La Mancha Productions.
  • Weather - I did mention from my other Pyro Olympics posts that the weather will be a problem in the month of May which is start of rainy season. If its rainy season, ticket sales is affected.
  • Participants - From the original 10 participants, there are only 6 participants now. China and Germany (May 3), Canada and France (May 10), Italy and Venezuela (May 17)
  • Ticket price - With the present crisis in the Philippines, many filipinos will choose the lowest ticket price php 150 or be contented by watching it from afar like Baywalk or anywhere near Roxs Boulevard. Tickets are available at all Ticketnet outlets or call 911-5555 for ticket inquiries.
  • Incoming school opening - school year 2008-2009 always starts in June, with the crisis in the Philippines, people will spend their money on their priorities like tuition fee, books, uniforms and school supplies.
  • Advertisements - its self explanatory, I'm not aware that the event starts tonight considering that I live a stone away from SM Mall of Asia. I'm not sure if they've place ads on TV, radio and newspapers.
The reasons above were my based on point of view. I still hope that next Saturday, the event will be a success compared to previous World Pyro Olympics. See you there.


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