Suzi Entrata-Abrera also shares her workout routine.
Sep 012014
Sep 012014
Tin Tin, Gladys and Dimples juggle career and family. How do they do it?
Aug 312014
Nadine Lustre is into sneakers and the most expensive pair in her collection cost her P7,800 in Hong Kong.
Aug 312014
Earn “pogi points” with these “pampa-gwapo” tips!
Aug 312014
One, the term sounds like testicles. Which can only recall for us, quite sordidly, that chapter in Philippine impeachment history when a lawyer kept pirouetting with his perorations on the tes-TI-mony of a Madame Wetness. Two, the number involved keeps getting arbitrary. From good old 10 (… Spectacular Philippine Beaches You’d Best Bring 20 Bitches To) to the equally solid if expanded 30 (… Ways to Leave Your Lover), now the number can be anywhere between single-digit (except for 2 or 3 or 4) to double digits, prime or not. Which leads us to the next reason… Three, whichever number you use, it will always take you to ye olde association game. The prime 5 is dynamic and a basketball team’s first contingent oncourt. When the La Salle Green Archers play the Ateneo Blue Eagles, they’ll always be at “sixes and sevens” with us; the 6 of course also reminding us of the Star of David, which has one point more than our trad parol, while 7 isn’t just luck with the dice but also partners and rhymes with heaven. Eight suggests infinity, thus the number requested by wealthy Chinese for repetition on their car plates, 9 is the number of lives of that arrogant animal that we now find to have been misrepresented by a false icon we’ve been greeting Hello Kitty. Ten is the usual cardinal demarcation for a top-something list. Eleven is another prime number, usually partnered with fellow-prime and rhyming, dice-y 7. Twelve would be the Read More …
Aug 312014
To my pleasant surprise, last week’s piece on what editors do drew a stream of positive responses — I never imagined that so many readers would find the thankless and dimly illuminated job of editing so fascinating — but my biggest surprise after the column came out was to realize that I’d already written not just one but two columns on editing, back in 2010. Thankfully, I didn’t repeat myself too much, and since I’ve already written dozens of pieces on, say, fiction and nonfiction, I don’t see why I can’t do a fourth one on editing, focusing this time on how an editor thinks or should think. But before I go one step further into the trenches, let me just point out another important fact about the editor’s job. Particularly in a journalistic context, where some element of public interest is presumably involved (as opposed to literary publishing, which comes down to very personal tastes), “editing” involves much more than dotting i’s or finding better substitutes for problem words. Editing in journalism inevitably involves matters of policy — the publication’s policy in respect of the treatment of, say, political and social issues. What newspaper and magazine editors worry or should worry about are spelled out in a textbook titled Creative Editing by Bowles and Border (Wadsworth, 2000), which says, in a chapter on Situational Ethics: “Copy editors are likely to be concerned with decisions involving the writing, editing and production processes: Is the use of profane language or obscene Read More …
Aug 312014
Tim Yap’s haircare motto: “My hair is my statement. My style—bold, never bald.”
Aug 302014
HIV cases up 500% in PHL: The new HIV cases has increased by 532 percent from 2008 to 2013 and for January to June this year alone, recent reports from Manila said. Out of the 19,330 reported cases from 1984 to June 2014, a total of 1,766 are AIDS cases. File photo shows applicants line up at Mall Event Center of SM Manila. (MNS photo) MANILA (Mabuhay) – Two lawmakers have proposed to establish an employment assistance program to help jobseekers from poor communities. Reps. Christopher S. Co (Party-list, Ako Bicol) and Rodel M. Batocabe (Party-list, Ako Bicol) filed House Bill 4333, which seeks to create the Rural Employment Assistance Program for the benefit of qualified head of family or single adult member of poor households in the rural areas. Co said the proposed measure is patterned after the National Employment Guarantee Act, 2005, which was enacted by the Parliament of India. He said under the National Employment Guarantee Act of India, every household whose adult member volunteered to do unskilled manual work is guaranteed employment of not less than 100 days in every year. “Under that same law, if the adult member is not provided with employment within 15 days from receipt of his application for employment, the adult member shall be entitled to a daily unemployment allowance,” Co explained. For his part, Batocabe said the Rural Employment Assistance Program, however, is aimed at providing temporary employment to qualified heads of family or single adult members of poor households Read More …
Aug 302014
Philippine President Benigno Aquino (2nd L) greets lawmakers after making a speech during his fourth State of the Nation Address (SONA) at the House of Representatives in Quezon City, Metro Manila July 22, 2013. (MNS photo) MANILA (Mabuhay) – Las Piñas Representative Mark Villar has filed a bill seeking to scrap the expiry date on prepaid call and text cards that forfeits load credits to the detriment of consumers. Under House Bill 4782 or “Prepaid Load Protection Act of 2014,” setting an expiration period on unused prepaid call and text cards, as well as forfeiting load credits stored on an active prepaid phone account, and refusing to refund any prepaid subscriber whose load credits have been forfeited without any valid cause are deemed unlawful. “We have to protect the interest of our consumers. And sa akin naman usually, a lot of consumers here are ‘di naman sila mayayaman,” he said. The proposed bill has good intentions but Congress has to consider a number of things, like carrying costs, National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) said in the same report. Carrying costs, or the average cost of operating and maintaining the subscriber’s network, amount to P3-4 a day, according to 2012 NTC data. “Baka tumaas ang carrying cost ‘pag nag-iwan ng kakaunting load sa SIM pero hindi gagamitin. Lugi din ang mas madalas na gumagamit ng cellphone,” NTC director Edgardo Cabarios said. “Kung dumami ‘yan at hindi naman gagamit ng network, baka naman ‘yung gagamit ng network, sila ang mag-subsidize sa mga hindi Read More …
Aug 292014
While their fans do battle over the KathNiel and JaDine love teams, the young stars are reaping the spoils of the war.