2010 03/03-03/09

MANILA MAIL COMMUNITY

Bea Alonzo will be gracing the premieres of her latest blockbuster movie, "Miss You Like Crazy" in LA on March 12, 2010 (Friday) and Honolulu, HI on March 14, 2010 (Sunday) .

Matt Tabora's (3rd right) birthday party guests last Saturday include Jasmine Acosta, left, Hayward's Maryjo Montano (3rd left), Santana Row's Agnes Aguirre (6th left), Gina Samson, RN (2nd right), among other friends.

HOLY ANGEL COLLEGE CLASS'68 REUNION. Ms. Cynthia Ocampo of Las Vegas is inviting all her co-alumni to come join the Holy Angel College Class of 1968 (B’68) Las Vegas Reunion, this coming Memorial Day weekend (May 29-31, 2010). This is another Batch '68 event filled with special events and activities you won't want to miss! The weekend includes a Dinner-Dance Party, Picnic, and culminating with a Jam Session circa ’68 style – jampacked with FUN & LAUGHTER. Attached photo was taken during the Dinner-Dance Party of the B’68 Oct. 2005 Las Vegas Reunion. The big smiles in this B’68 class picture say it all. Need we say more?

Half-German, Half-Filipino Michael Back of San Jose, turned 19 last weekend, complete with fun-filled food-overflowing dance party, shown here with proud Dad, left, Walter Back from Germany, mom Maria (3rd left) and cousins, Jennifer andJessamine Jaochico (right).

Dr. Ricky Massido, left enjoys the company during Matt Tabora's birthday party last weekend, shown here with the Pleasanton-based Ms. Reggie Panganiban.

(L-R) Fresno's Lilet Cruz celebrated her birthday together with co-celebrant, Matt Tabora (wife Jocelyn applauds here), with an overflow crowd of family and friends at the Tabora San Jose residence last Saturday.

This could be YOU! Join the MYX® Billboard Photo-BOMB Contest and get the chance to win surprise prizes! Head to http://myx.tv or watch the contest ads on MYX®

MYX Launches Billboard Photo-BOMB Contest

Lone Asian American Music Entertainment and Lifestyle Channel Invites All on a MYX Billboard hunt in 40 Bay Area Locations

MYX®, the only music entertainment and lifestyle channel in the nation catering to Asian American youth, rings in the Chinese New Year with a fun contest for camera bugs with an eagle’s eye and a wicked sense of humor.

MYX® recently launched an outdoor campaign in over 40 locations and on over 100 buses plying strategic routes in the San Francisco Bay Area to announce its carriage on Comcast’s Digital Preferred Tier on Channel 368. To celebrate the launch and in keeping with the excitement for the Lunar New Year, the channel kicks off its MYX® Billboard Photo-BOMB Contest from March 1-12, 2010.

“I think all of us have ‘photobombed’ in our lives. We love hopping in a photo right before it is taken,” said MYX® Channel Head Miguel Santos with a laugh. “And since MYX® always wants to engage its core audience with everything it does, why not involve them and their creativity in our first major campaign of the year which is our billboard launch in the Bay Area?”

The contest idea is simple: Open to all ages 12 and up, contestants need to find a MYX® billboard or bus ad, take a picture of themselves in front of it, and then send the picture – including the location where it was sighted – to any of the following MYX® accounts: myx.tv on the web, myxtv on Twitter, andfacebook.com/myxtv on Facebook. MYX® will select randomly one winner every weekday within the 12-day duration of the campaign. Daily prizes include giveaways from renowned apparel brand Johnny Cupcakes and the Bay Area-based Upper Playground. A surprise grand prize awaits the last winner on March 12.

“We hope that this contest also brings MYX® to more people,” said Santos . “We want them to discover what MYX® has in store for them: relevant programming to the fast-growing Asian American youth population, shows that address the cultural reality that many of them want to reconnect to their roots, and a venue for independent American and Asian American music scene artists to showcase their world-class work.”

MYX® recently drew a lot of attention to the two new programs it launched early this year: Vinyl Addiction, which takes the audience to an up-close look at the Vinyl Toy Revolution, and Visual Crunch which goes behind the scenes of groundbreaking, creative music videos produced at impossibly low budgets – veritable video miracles at this age.

For detailed information on the MYX® Billboard Photo-BOMB Contest rules and regulations, visit http://myx.tv or watch the contest ads on MYX®.

SEEN IN THE CITY

PICPA Silicon Valley Officers Inducted!

The Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA) Silicon Valley Chapter , USA inducted their latest set of officers for 2010-11 last December 6, 2010 at the Wedge Restaurant in Daly City , CA .

They are Joey Kimpo, President; Francis Diaz, Vice President; Carlito Non, Secretary; Oscar Attaya, IT Officer; Cristina Torio, VP-Treasurer; Gene Almerido,Public Relations Officer; Lilia Yalong, Director, Government Services; Al Ocampo – VP for Membership; Vir Soto, Director for Public Practice; Marianne Suriaga, Director for Education; Rey Eugenio, Presidential Advisor and Fred Perez, Inducting Officer.

For more information about this event, please visit www.crisantamalig.com

RSVP by March 1st by calling 415.341.6371

TO-BE-SEEN IN THE CITY

Bea Alonzo to Grace US Premieres of “Miss You Like Crazy”

(Long-awaited reunion of John Lloyd, Bea to premiere in LA, Honolulu this March)

While John Lloyd Cruz and Bea Alonzo scored major box-office triumphs in 2009 with other on-screen love interests – John Lloyd with Sarah Geronimo in You Changed My Life and Bea with Sam Milby in And I Love You So – their legion of fans missed seeing their phenomenal loveteam in a movie for almost three years.

This March, the celebrated on-screen couple reunites in a major way with Star Cinema’s latest romance drama, Miss You Like Crazy. Fans in the U.S. will be delighted to know that Bea will be gracing the movie’s premieres in Los Angeles on March 12 and in Honolulu on March 14.

“Regalo namin ito sa mga fans namin (This is our gift to our fans),” says Bea, whose last film team-up with John Lloyd was One More Chance that earned for them the titles of Box Office King and Queen for 2007. The film not only boosted the couple’s Philippine fan base but also strengthened their global following, making them the top love team among Filipino audiences all over the world.

Yet fans should be ready for a different John Lloyd and Bea in Miss You Like Crazy. The two actors have been exercising their acting chops playing more mature roles and complex, conflicted characters. In Miss You Like Crazy, John Lloyd plays the role of Allan, a man on top of his game professionally and enjoying a stable relationship with his dream girl, Daphne (played by rising star Maricar Reyes). Bea breathes life to the character of Mia, a Filipina front desk officer working in Kuala Lumpur who is looking for a change in what seems to be a forlorn life. Two individuals with seemingly predestined lives suddenly find their paths crossing on a ferry boat ride that will change the course of their journeys forever.

The film has been described as an “imperfect love story”: finding your perfect match at an imperfect time of your life. At the helm of this highly anticipated John Lloyd-Bea reunion is no less than Cathy Garcia-Molina who directed One More Chance and scored back-to-back hits herself with John Lloyd and Sarah Geronimo in A Very Special Love and You Changed My Life. The director revealed that 60 percent of the movie was shot in Malaysia . For Miss You Like Crazy, Erik Santos sings the theme song and 90’s hit of the same title.

“For this on-screen comeback of John Lloyd and Bea, we are aware that fans have high expectations. So, Star Cinema made sure to come up with a film that’s worth the wait,” said Kerwin Du, ABS-CBN International’s Head of Theatricals. “After delighting thousands of Filipino moviegoers here with Paano Na Kaya, giving them a first taste of ‘Kimerald’ flavor (Kim Chiu-Gerald Anderson), we bring back the John Lloyd-Bea magic with Miss You Like Crazy.”

Catch Bea at the following premieres of Miss You Like Crazy:

LOS ANGELES

March 12, 2010 (Friday)

Alex Theatre

216 North Brand Boulevard

Glendale, CA 91203

Tickets: 2:00pm - $20; 8:00pm - $25

HONOLULU

March 14, 2010 (Sunday)

Hawaii Theatre Center

1130 Bethel Street

Honolulu, HI 96813

Tickets: 1:00pm - $25; 6:30pm - $25

For more information, please visit www.abs-cbnglobalmovies.com or call 1.800.227.9676.

All Philippine High School Students to Study Castillan

Every High School student in the Philippines will study Castilian language –as foreign language- and Spanish culture, per the agreement reached by the Ministry of Education of the Philippines , the Spanish Ministry of Education, the Instituto Cervantes and the Spanish Agency of International Cooperation and Development.

As part of the “Spain-Philippines 5th Tribune”, inaugurated in Barcelona recently, the Philippine Education Minister, Jesli A. Lapus, explained that this initiative is "very important" to the society of the Philippine Republic, but stressed that it will be of a especially important high value to the economy of the country.

The agreement foresees a pilot phase of introducing the study of Spanish in 15 Secondary schools, which will benefit about 1,000 students, and a subsequent expansion phase of the program extending the initiative to other 50 schools - 8,000 pupils -. By 2012 the system will be expanded to all schools.

The Spanish language currently holds the status of “voluntary and optional” in the Philippine educational system. However, the director of Instituto Cervantes, Carmen Caffarel, expressed her wish that the Castilian language become a co-official language in the country.

She argued that the number of students interested in the official language of the former Spanish colony (The Philippines), keeps growing more and more. In this regard, the director of AECI, Carlos Alberdi, mentioned the contributions of the Philippine National Hero, José Rizal; he asked that his value be also taken into account as “one of the best authors” in XIX Century Castilian.

The Ministry of Education (Spain) was represented by the General Director of International Relations, Jose Manuel Martinez, who emphasized the "seriousness, soundness and structure" of the agreement with Philippines.

For more comprehensive updates, timeline and information on this initiative originating from President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's visit to Madrid in December 2007, please enter "Estatus Castellano de vuelta a Filipinas" in Google or in your preferred search engine.

PERSONAL NOTES

Advanced Happy Birthday to Daly City ’s Marlon K. Navarro (March 20th), who for more than 10 years of his past birthday life has been feeding at least 200 hungry children in the Philippines. This year, away from home, he will be celebrating via a red-carpet VIP Benefit Event at the Matrix Fillmore in downtown San Francisco with his selected invited guests.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

" When wealth is lost , nothing is lost; when health is lost , something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.” – by Billy Graham (via Loopt in South San Francisco, CA) as reposted in her FaceBook by South San Francisco’s Power Real Estate Broker, Ms. Thez Santos.

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