Christian Bautista Blogger's Conference

Sunday, November 13, 2011, on a Manny Pacquiao day – wherein people who just stay at home and watch Manny Pacquaio battle with Juan Manuel Marquez, chosen bloggers were gathered in a one musical Asiansation event – The Christian Bautista Bloggers Conference. Christian entered the room so proud to announce that he is awarded as Asean Youth Achiever for Entertainment and Arts.

In lieu with Christian Bautista’s newest record – ‘Outbound’, Universal Records in cooperation with Pinoy OPM Magazine, BANDS, and Orange Magazine TV organized a Blogger’s Conference. Christian, who recently starred in Singaporean musical drama ‘The Kitchen Musical’ and seen across 19 countries, made a drastic change in his career. Christian took new and bolder sounds for his album ‘Outbound’ under Universal Records.

In an interview Christian said that this is the right time for him to explore and experiment on venturing to a new sound for him. Outbound has 8 tracks – new, bolder sounds and further proves that he is more than just a balladeer. Some tracks have good mix of slow and upbeat ballads. Christian collaborated with music producers and artists from US, Korea, Japan, Singapore and Indonesia. He worked with caliber personality in music industry, and to name few – Jim Brickman, One Way and Baby M.

Christian’s past music videos were so remarkable. It showcased beautiful and gorgeous faces in local and international scene – ( Georgina Wilson, Anne Curtis, Angel Locsin and Solenn Heusaff ) in Beautiful Girl, (  Christine Reyes ) in I Remember The Girl, ( Paula Taylor ) in Tell Me Your Name, ( Carmen Soo ) in Afraid For Love To Fade, ( Angelica Panganiban ) in Nakaraang Pasko and ( Sarah Geronimo ) in Please Be Careful With My Heart. In his current record, he features CosPlay Queen Alodia Gosiengfiao for ‘All That’s Left’.

Aside from his current album, Christian is pleased to announce that he loves BlackBerry. Christian showcased the new BlackBerry Bold 9900 Smartphone and BlackBerry Playbook in his video ‘All That’s Left’. Christian said that he is an avid BBM user. It works in real time, enabling people to share their experiences instantly with individuals or group of contacts. Christian knows that for Filipinos abroad, BBM is cost efficient and fun way to share everyday life’s experiences with loved ones around the world.

‘Outbound’ is now out in all major record stores nationwide under Universal Records.

To have Christian Bautista’s ‘All That’s Left’ as your ringback tone, just text UD344 to 2332 for Globe users and FALT to 2728 for Smart users. Text GetSong _6151903 to 2728 for Sun users.


Stay tune for my album review on Christian's new record. :D
xoxo .. urzula

ABSCBN acquires Mars Ravelo’s Darna etc.

Internet buzzers have been talking about the forth coming of Darna on ABSCBN. Mr. Eric John Salut, AdProm Head of Kapamilya Network twitted about the 13 exclusive rights of Mars Ravelo granted to ABSCBN including Darna, Dyesebel, Jack En Jill etc. The question now is who among the ABSCBN stars will take the role of the epic female heroine.

Anne Curtis is bet to portray the role for Dyesebel, and Angel Locsin is bet for being the Darna again. It was remembered that in 2005, Angel played Darna in the TV for GMA7. Angel’s Darna was a success for it was tagged as first primetime series to reach a 47.1% rating (according to AGB and AC-Nielsen) in its pilot episode, the highest rating for a pilot episode in the Philippine TV history, beating Pangako Sa’yo with its 46.5%. It gained a 52.1% rating on its 4th episode. It is because of the first appearance of Darna from Narda. It was the highest rating achieved by a show on GMA-7. Its highest rating was 52.1% while the lowest was 33.3%. The overall ratings were 39.9%. Will Angel take the role again or ABSCBN will raffle the role for their young and popular stars?

For unofficial list of ABSCBN celebs that can probably play the role of Darna, here are my bets:

Jessy Mendiola 

The idea of Jessy to portray the role is just so perfect. With this girl vibrant and radiant skin and sexy and flawless aura – no one can resist her charm - following the step of beauty and sexy style of Angel Locsin. I am really eyeing her for the role. 

Sarah Geronimo  

Sarah can also be qualified for the role. She is popular and tagged as young icon. She could follow the steps taken by two Darna Singers – Sharon Cuneta and Regine Velasquez.

Cristine Reyes 

I think Cristine has already matured and ready to take higher steps in her career. She can be one of the sexiest Darna can ever be.

Kim Chui

Kim’s charm is undeniably effective. She is one of Kapamilya gems and she can be effective portraying Darna – The Chinita girl.

Erich Gonzales

From Nene to Darna – what a transition. Erich can actually be one of the youngest versions of epic female heroine. But she needs to do training for the role required fighting scenes.

source: http://pinoybizsurfer.blogspot.com/2011/06/bato-ni-darna-nasa-kapamilya-network-na.html 

Top Facebook Pages in the Philippines

Since Facebook has been known in the Philippines 3 years ago, everyone has to like certain pages of personalities and entities - whether it would be in showbiz or politics. Last 2010 election, campaign were not just in streets and avenues but also in the television/radio broadcast and social networking sites that includes Facebook. Today, you can easily access to your idol’s official fan page. Unlike the yesteryears, when fans mobbed their idols either inside the cinema or in the studios. Fans now a days, easily adapts the cyber world to reach the attention of their idols.

Here are the top facebook pages in the Philippines:

The top spot belongs to comedian/singer Vice Ganda garnered an overall 3,431,683 likes. Followed by Angel Locsin and President Noynoy Aquino with 2,352,452 and 2,143,928 consecutively. ABSCBN noontime show Showtime rank at number four with 2,039,575 and actress Cristine Reyes positioned at fifth spot with 1,735,599. Other list are included from top six to twenty.

This tabulation was made by Fameaccount. Their aim is to help people locate and connect with the stars and personalities in each major social network – Facebook, Twitter and Youtube. The manually categorize, process and order the data into the pages you see. They are an independent service provider and they are not affiliated to Youtube, Twitter, Facebook and other networking sites.

So whether you are a fan, a hater or just simply a facebook liker, you are counted.


Fameaccount: http://www.famecount.com/about

The 2011 'First Ever' OMG Philippines Awards Winners

Today, June 21^st is the awarding of the first ever Yahoo! OMG! Philippines Award. Yes you read it as it was written. Late last month, many has been blogging about this Yahoo! OMG Philippine Awards 2011, and winners were determined by an online poll from June 14 to 18 and awarded today at the Republiq Bar in Resorts World in Pasay City.

Yahoo! OMG Philippines posted that the winners for each categories will be chosen using trends on Yahoo!, wherein the most searched celebrities or personalities have been listed. It means that a user can vote by searching these celebrities on the site. 

Congratulations to the winners !!

Big names from GMA7, ABSCBN2 and TV5 were announced as winners and here are as follows:

Celebrity of the Year: Shalani Soledad

Major Impact Personality of the Year: Shamcey Supsup

Hottest Actor: Piolo Pascual 

Hottest Actress: Jennylyn Mercado

Breakthrough Male Artist: Coco Martin

Breakthrough Female Artist: Cristine Reyes

Funniest Comedian (Male ): Vice Ganda

Funniest Comedienne (Female ): Eugene Domingo

Awesome Young Actor: Albie Casino

Awesome Young Actress: Kathryn Bernardo 

Amazing Male Newcomer: Alden Richards

Amazing Female Newcomer: Ritz Azul

Favorite Male TV Host: Luis Manzano

Favorite Female TV Host: Toni Gonzaga

Coolest Male Singer: Christian Bautista

Coolest Female Singer: Charice 

Coolest Band: Parokya ni Edgar

Fashion Designer of the Year: Joey Samson