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Latina beauties conquered the Miss Universe pageant once again.

The top 5 are:

  1. Miss Colombia
  2. Miss Venezuela
  3. Miss Dominican Republic
  4. Miss Mexico
  5. Miss Russia.

Miss Philippines failed to make it on top 10. Vietnam hosted this year’s Miss Universe. Miss Universe 2008 is (more…)

Camp Rock is Disney’s TV second highest rated of all time after High School Musical 2. Starring the Jonas brothers: Kevin, Joe, and Nick with hits: “Hold On” and “SOS”. The tv movie introduces Demi Lovato who plays as Mitchi Torres.

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Camp Rock had its premiere on June 20, 2008 on Disney Channel. The story is about Mitchie (Demi Lovato) who dreams of being a part of the prestigious Camp Rock. Luckily, her mother was hired by the Director of the camp, Brown Cessario (Daniel Fathers) for the catering service and accepted Mitchie to join the camp under one condition: that is to help her mother in the kitchen. Along the way, Mitchie made friends with other girls and to Shane (Joe Jonas), who was there teaching classes. Mitchie claimed that her mother is a president of a record company in China in order to fit in with the other girls. (more…)

Marie Digby’s Say It Again is topping the Myx chart. I love the song! Marie became popular with her acoustic cover of Umbrella by Rihanna when it was broadcast on You Tube. One can easily notice this girl because she is pretty and she can play piano and guitar.

I thought she has Filipino blood when I first saw her on tv. I later discovered that her is mother is Japanese and her father is Irish-American. She is the eldest among three girls.

Her first single “Say it Again” is recently featured on Smallville and is also used on the final episode of ER’s fourteenth season.

Lyrics of Say it Again:

The thing about love
Is i never saw it coming
It kinda crept up and took me by surprise
And now there`s a voice inside my heart that`s got me wondering
Is this true, i want to hear it one more time

Move in a little closer
Take it to a whisper
Just a little louder

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According to Wikipedia: Urduja (ca. 1350 C.E – 1400 C.E.), is a legendary warrior-princess who is recognized as a heroine in Pangasinan. The name Urduja appears to be Sanskrit in origin, and a variation of the Sanskrit name “Urja,” meaning “Breath.”

Urduja is the fist animated film produced and made by Filipinos for local viewers. It is a tale of a love triangle involving a warrior princess, a Chinese pirate and an ambitious tribal captain.

Urduja’s voice is by Regine Velasquez, Limhang (the Chinese pirate), is voiced by Cesar Montano while Jay Manalo voices the antagonist, Simakwel.

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Honestly, I only find out about this on Pinoy Big Brother Teen Edition Plus when the teens went to Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park for their island adventure. PPSRNP is currently on the top 10 list of the New 7 Wonders of the World. Tubattaha Reef and Chocolate Hills landed on top 6 and 7 respectively. While Mayon Volcano is struggling at number 16. These are our country’s pride. Please take part and make Philippines known for its wonderful nature! Just log in at www.new7wonders.com.

Today, Singapore is one of the hot spot destinations for Pinoys who want to work abroad. All degree holders have better chance of getting hired and salary starts from SGD1,800. IT professionals have the highest salary for it is more on demand in Singapore. The weather is basically just the same in our country so there’s no need to adjust.

How to get there? It’s easy, no visa needed because it is an ASEAN member and air fare range from Php2,000 to Php5,000 only. All you need is ticket and a tourist pass.

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It’s good to see Ramiele Malubay performs once again, though not in American Idol Season 7, but on Ellen DeGeneres’ show! :) I appreciate Ellen’s enthusiasm with Filipino talents. She requested Charisse Pempengco to sing live on her show and praised Arnel Pineda (a Filipino singer who is now the lead vocalist of international band, Journey).

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ABS-CBN’s reality singing contest, Pinoy Dream Academy will soon launch its season 2. From the reality show that paved the way to stardom for Ronnie Liang, Jay-r Siaboc, and Yeng Constantino, the following are some of the hopefuls:

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ramiele malubay of american idol She’s tagged as the next Jasmine Trias though she sounds better than the American Idol season three’s third placer. What with her petite physique, she can belt out a tune as high as Aretha Franklin’s Natural Woman on which she chose for her August 2007 audition. But Ramiele Malubay sadly bid farewell last night after luckily being included on the final twelve down to ten. With her in the bottom three were Kristy Lee Cook and for the first time, Brook White.

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It’s summer time once again, and one of the best place to stay is to have a refreshing vacation over at a beach resort.

One of the good directory that I came across when searching for resort in Batangas is www.beachresortfinder.com. It has good listings of beach resorts from different locations, and I find it useful for me to find nice and captivating beach resort that is just within my reach, because it has information about the resort, contact number, pictures, amenities and their rates.

For the resort owner to add your resort in the directory listing, you can do so by registration which is free and it will be a great exposure.

The features of adding your resort includes:

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