2009 07/01-07/07

MANILA MAIL COMMUNITY

The Ultimate Heartthrob, Piolo Pascual, as usual, elicitied the loudest cheers from the predominantly female audience of the Cow Palace event, Star Magic World Tour last Sunday.

Angelica Panganiban's exotic dance number was well received by the audiences in both Southern and Northern California venues of the Star Magic World TourConcert last weekend.

Comedienne par Excellence, Pokwang, garbed in an all-leather outfit, emotes onstage during one of her numerous numbers at the Star Magic World Tour in Daly City, CA last Sunday.

Probably one of the last pictures taken of Diether Ocampo before he collapsed from seizures last week, was taken at the Los Angeles International Airport upon his arrival last Wednesday night, before the artists boarded for their respective hotels.

Diether Ocampo, right, shown here arriving at the Los Angeles Airport last Wednesday evening around 8:44pm, June 24th, being welcomed by a Los Angeles Magazine's Business Manager, Eugne Supnet. It was later announced before the twin city shows, that Diether suffered seizures and was unable to perform with the other Star Magic artists in both cities - LA and San Francisco last weekend.

One of the most applauded groups during last Sunday's Star Magic World Tourconcert, L-R, were Gerald Anderson, Kim Chiu and Jake Cuenca (they appeared multiple times during the show), the cast of the highly successful teleserye, 'Tayong Dalawa'.

Bea Alonzo and Shaina Magdayao arrive at the airport and performed together with 40 plus other Star Magic artists in Cow Palace last Sunday, June 28th.

STAR MAGIC STORMS COW PALACE

First the bad news – World Champion Supersinger and eagerly-anticipated by the audiences to give us real singing, Jed Madela, was a no- show. Reportedly, his US Visa was not approved in time for the event last Sunday, June 28th at the Cow Palace in Daly City , CA .

Secondly, Star Magic’s resident hunk, Diether Ocampo was also a no-show. He was announced to have suffered from seizures and collapsed due to exhaustion and over-fatigue during the early day rehearsals of the Los Angeles show.

Aside from the Cow Palace venue, they were also both no-shows in the earlier Los Angeles leg of the show last Saturday.

Now the good news – in summary, all the 40 plus Star Magic talens were collectively a talented group and gave us high-powered numbers (they obviously had a concept, rehearsed and spent time in choosing their colorful costumes).

Now,the highlights: Sexy and daring both - Angelica Panganibanand Star Circle Quest Finalist, Roxanne Guinoo delivered not just one, but two sultry dance numbers and pumped up the temperature to higher limits, as the male audiences became wide-eyed. Not to be outdone, the ASAP Coverboys provided the same to warm effect on the women.

The cast of ‘Tayong Dalawa’ – Kim Chiu, Gerald Anderson and Jake Cuenca were welcomed with the loudest whispers everytime they come up onstage performing their numbers.

The Original Teleserye Queen, Ms. Claudine Barretto attended to support the event, and was seen with both her parents and brothers.

Pokwang and Chokolait provided the comedic emceeing chores competently, as usual.

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SEEN IN THE CITY

KIDDIE WORLD'S 1ST GRADUATION CEREMONY

Friday, June 5, 2009 was a very exciting day for Crossroads Christian Center ! It was the first commencement rites for its day care center (Kiddie World) and 20 adorable kids graduated delightfully.

Approximately 150 people, mostly parents and family members, attended. All youngsters amused the audience by sharing their future dreams. One of them even recited 26 Scripture verses which touched the hearts of the people. Pastor Andy Antenor gave aninspirational message and expressed thanksgiving to the Lord for the fulfillment of the church's dream to minister to children. He also thanked the teachers and staff (headed by Director Josephine Chetty) for their commitment in educating the kids. The church aspires to raise the number of students and expand up to the elementary level in the near future. He requested everyone to take part in prayer asking God for His blessings towards this noteworthy undertaking. Crossroads stongly believes that the greatest legacy we can leave the children is the fear and knowledge of God.

Its 7th Vacation Bible School (VBS) has for its theme "Crocodile Dock: Where Fearless Kids Shine God's Light". It was held from June 22-26 (M-F) at 5:30-8:30 pm at 444 East Market, Daly City(formerly Colma Elementary School ). It was a week of bible adventures, awesome music & dancing, fun games, great snacks & lots of surprises.It was another ragin' celebration for children ages 3-12.

For more information about future VBS and Kiddie World activities, please call the VBS director Onie Martinez at (650)756-1583. Their organization’s mission statement says it all – “That we all can make things happen and make a difference to others. We shall find joy in another’s joy.”

PERSONAL NOTES

iPhone, Why Do I Love Thee?

For those iPhone users who haven’t done it yet, you may now update your iPhone operating system with the latest version 3.0 by downloading it free from www.apple.com.

The Time Magazine’s Product of the Year, when it was first launched, the iPhone continue to evolve and improve, addressing the needs of its users, and for that, I can personally say, “I Love You, iPhone!

The latest software version allows email forwarding, copying and pasting, a single-click ‘search iPhone’ functionality and a lot more. Techies used to hack the iPhone and ‘jailbreak’ it (the term used to go out of the iPhone resident AT&T network to ‘break’ the code and install further advanced features. But not anymore, since iPhone has addressed most of the wants and needs of the ever-needy technocrats.

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