Music Roundup: 1st Week of April 2008
Music Roundup–-a summary of upcoming and previous events and happenings in the music scene abroad and in the Philippines plus music-related articles in the Philippine blogosphere from last week and this upcoming 1st week of April 2008.
What to watch out for next week? Upcoming events include a popular musical play plus performances from U2 and Toto. Aside from that, a music-reality TV show will premiere this week. World’s top-rated competition shouldn’t even be missed.
More music updates and related-information at Music Picks blog.
160-Year Old Oslob Church Gutted by Fire
Horrors of horrors, that was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw a local paper’s front page last Thursday. It carried the news of the destruction of one of Cebu’s oldest churches. The 160-year old Immaculate Conception Parish and its convent in the southern town of Oslob was gutted by fire.
Food Crisis
Last night, I was fortunate enough to catch BBC’s World Debate on food crisis. The panelists were some of THE authority in finance, agriculture, economics, and politics plus a farmer who wanted his side to be heard. The debate was intense but substantiated what causes the world wide crisis in food and how to potentially solve it.
Essentially, agriculture is being neglected. Most countries tend to put huge amounts of money on everything else except on agriculture. There is but little investment or help given to the farmers and they end up losing. They practically put in more capital than what they could earn because as prices go up, so do farming equipments like fertilizers and seedlings and poultry needs like feeds etc. Plus, they are also in competition with huge commercial farmers and imported products. They are forced to sell their goods at a much lower price just so they could earn a living. Most of these farmers do not even own their lands. The government is much too focused on other issues like politics, technological advancement or even urbanization and globalization. There is too much emphasis on globalization that the most basic of needs is being side swept: food. As more and more people go to the city, the demands for meat, rice and vegetable are increasing more than the farmers could handle. Some farmers, because of meager earnings and neglect from the government, tend to go to the city and look for jobs instead.
Razon’s Halo Halo
I think that the sun has finally beaten me. Today has been the hottest I have felt this year. It is so hot to the point that I feel feverish. Not a good thing especially if what I am craving for is one of the country’s famous halo halo.
Top 15 Overexposed Celebrities
When you are just starting out in your career in the Entertainment scene, you need as much buzz as you can get, right? But what if you get a little bit too much press exposure? Would you want it? Sad to say, those who get the most exposure in this business are the ones who are more known because of how they act and not because of their talents in entertaining. Here are the top 15 overexposed celebrities of 2007 according to Forbes. Average celebrities only get 2% or 3% overexposure ratings*. These celebs are way over that.
View the list at Top 15 Overexposed Celebrities
WIN Power Hits 2 CD
After the very successful first volume of Power Hits, the most dominant compilation comes back for round 2, this time delivering more hits. This second volume contains knockout chart-topping singles like “Won’t Go Home Without You” by Maroon 5, “Don’t Stop The Music” by Rihanna, “Sorry, Blame It On Me” by Akon, and more smash hits. POWER HITS 2 rumbles on with other Billboard hits, including Amy Winehouse’s “Tears Dry On Their Own”, Fergie’s “Big Girls Don’t Cry”, Fall Out Boy’s “Thnks fr th Mmrs”, and Nelly Furtado’s “Do It”.
More hits included in this compilation are from Colbie Caillat, Soulja Boy, Ne-yo, One Republic, Amy Winehouse and Nicole Scherzinger.
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[Featured Blog #4] Prudence and Madness
Prudence and Madness
Because doctors are human beings too
“Tess Termulo, a.k.a. Prudence is really only a toddler by blogosphere reckoning. Prudence and Madness, her brainchild, was born May 18, 2005 at the old Blogger. P&M’s other sisters are Prudence and Wellness, The Darkness of Prudence, Circles’ Barkada Blog, Prudence’s Multiply Site, and Shutterhappy. “
“Currently, P&M is a personal and medical blog of Tess Termulo. As to the reason why there is a mix of medical and non-medical (personal, philosophical, entertainment, etcetera) entries in this blog, she says, “my life has many facets which are not limited to the subject of my profession.”
[Notable Posts #1] Hard Work & Belief, Asus, Jokers & Liar, Motivation, Gays
You might want to read the following notable posts from notable blogs of notable pinoy bloggers… 
Starting a new blog? Work hard. Believe.
“I was in the same boat as you 3-4 years ago and look where my first blog…”
“I believe it will be also a fast selling piece because of it’s amount. But In my Opinion it is not good to invest money for this kind of low specs computer. But rather get higher specs with a rather higher amount. It’s only advantage is it is an ultra portable PC .”
Bukol Republic’s Jokers & Chief Liar Enjoys Popular Support
“Speaking of respect I believe not only are the Justices getting it but Gloria herself gets so much respect from her own kind. ”
The Secret to Continuous Self Motivation
“If you want to succeed in life, I believe that a person needs to be able to learn continuous self motivation. This is what drives us internally and externally to succeed in our endeavors.”
“One thing you can find very common in festivities like these nowadays are some members of the gay community. They are devoted and fun-loving people very much involved in parades and street dancing.”
Noted! 
2007 BAR EXAM Passers – Top Ten
Congratulations to those who successfully passed the 2007 Philippine Bar Examinations. After months of waiting, the Supreme Court finally released the results of the examination just yesterday, March 29, 2008.
These are the Top Ten Bar examination passers:
ONA, Mercedita L. – 1st
ONG, Jennifer T. – 2nd
MAALAT, Yvanna DL. – 3rd
more details here http://istaylsugbo.blogspot.com/2008/03/congratulations-to-those-who.html
Congratulations, New Philippine Lawyers!
The Supreme Court as released the final results to the 2007 Philippine Bar Examinations. Below are the listed Top 10 Bar Passers:
| 1st Place | Ona, Mercedita L. | Ateneo de Manila University |
83.55% |
| 2nd Place | Ong, Jennifer T. | University of the Philippines |
83.35% |
| 3rd Place | Maalat, Yvanna DL. | Ateneo de Manila University |
82.75% |
| 4th Place | Aclan, Jennie C. | University of San Carlos |
82.10% |
| 5th Place | Galauran, John Michael S. | University of Nueva Caceres |
81.60% |
| 6th Place | Canullas, Karen S. | San Sebastian College |
81.40% |
| 7th Place | Mejia, Cecille L. Tizon, Sheryl Ann D. |
Ateneo de Manila University University of the Philippines |
81.35% |
| 8th Place | Fua, Marforth T. | San Beda College |
81.20% |
| 9th Place | Luy, Ruby M. | Ateneo de Davao University |
81.15% |
| 10th Place | Llido, Christian B. Tan, Vivian S. |
University of Cebu University of the Philippines |
80.90% |
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