2011 11/30-12/06

MANILA MAIL COMMUNITY

Megastar Sharon Cuneta, center, signs 5-year TV5 contract last Nov 22, 2011. Witnesses are (L-R) Sandra Chavez of Viva Entertainment, TV5 President and CEO Atty Ray C. Espinosa, TV5 EVP and COO Roberto V. Barreiro, and Viva Entertainment President Vic del Rosario.

Pinoy Dream Academy's Top 10 Scholar & Are YouThe Next Big Star's Grand Champion, Geoff Taylor performs for the very first time in the US last Saturday at the Coffee Adventure (owner Dingdong Pena is seen in the foreground) at Season's Marketplace in Milpitas, CA. After all these years, the 5'11" singing hunk recently spent his first Thanksgiving of his life with his American Serviceman father in San Diego, CA.

Eula "Kym" Bautista opens Geoff Taylor's mini-concert at the Coffee Adventure in Milpitas' Seasons MarketPlace last Saturday.

Stella Ruiz (fresh from her very successful concert at The Intramuros on 11.11.11) sings a duet with Geoff Taylor at Coffee Adventure in Milpitas last Saturday.

Morgan Hill, CA Business Owner Agnes Aguirre celebrated her recent birthday (Nov 24) in Santana Row's Rosie McCann's Irish Pub & Restaurant with BFFs Mila Quibilan (with Dentist Husband Ron), Elvie Teodoro, among others.

Mary Anne Laurel (2nd right), owner of Ageless Elimin'age (Milpitas' newest Spa & Skin Clinic) with Licensed Aestheticians Weng Paguio (right), Janelle Bernadette Mercado (left) and endorser/model Leo Reyes of San Jose, CA (2nd left). TFC's Adobo Nation will soon feature Ageless Elimin'age in one of their segments.

The Masiddo Family spent Thanksgiving Dinner at Dr. Ricky Masiddo's brand new residence in Brentwood, CA with girlfriend Ms. Reggie Panganiban, RN and her family.

Belated Happy Birthday, Tarny Perkins of Menlo Park, CA (father of the Grand Prix Tennis Teen Champions, Jesse Perkins & Christian Perkins, also pictured here) who had an impromptu celebration at the residence of business owner Ms. Sol Manaay at Menlo Park. Joining the party are Tarny's wife Tess, Irving Tupe, Solitaire Triz Miguel, Elizabeth Chua Drechler & daughter/model Alexandra, David Smaby & son/model Justin, model Leo Reyes, BAFW Show Producer Roger Francisco, lensman Neil Enriquez, Jr., this Columnist & Richard Lao (not pictured).

SHARON CUNETA MOVES TOTV5

(Reportedly, her 5-year contract gives her 1 Billion Pesos)

SEEN IN THE CITY

On her recent TV interview with Cristy Fermin of “Paparazzi,” the Megastar Sharon Cuneta divulged that she can’t stop crying even during the early negotiation days of her TV5 contract.

Now, Sharon Cuneta is officially the newest TV5 Kapatid! Ending all rumors regarding her big transfer, the Megastar sealed a 5-year deal in a landmark contract signing attended by TV5 President and CEO Atty Ray C. Espinosa, TV5 EVP and COO Roberto V. Barreiro, and Viva Entertainment big boss Vic del Rosario at the TV5 office inTaguig last Tuesday, November 22, 2011.

Effective January 1, 2012, the Megastar’s contract with TV5 covers a daily show, a reality show and movies with Studio5 (in partnership with Viva Films). Sharon also confirms that she will start taping for her reunion movie with Gabby Concepcion by March next year. Though nervous about her move to TV5, she admits being excited about the projects the Kapatid Network is putting together for her.

After Megastar Sharon Cuneta inks her transfer from ABS-CBN to TV5 for a reported 1 Billion Peysoses, talks also are circulating wildly that Derek Ramsay, Sam Milby (really?), Korina Sanchez (huwaaaat???), among others, are following her footsteps.

So, we all shall say, Happy New Year, TV5!

TO-BE-SEEN IN THE CITY

“Cloud Computing” Event in Santa Clara this Tuesday, Nov 29th

Big Data and Cloud Computing Event is coming on November 29, 2011 to the TechMart in Santa Clara, CA. It is a whole day event to help, educate and demystify "Big Data” & “Cloud Computing” technologies as it is today to businesses, professionals & individuals.

As the volume of enterprise data created has moved into the petabyte scale, companies are struggling with the optimum way for them to handle and analyze the large data set. Big Data Cloud - Today!, a whole day conference, brings leaders from technology and business to provide a way forward on the issues of the growth of big data, including big data architectures, analytics and identifying new business opportunities. A broad range of interest and skills will be at the event including in-depth technologists, business leaders, entrepreneurs, marketing and business people.

The day’s agenda will start with Big Data & Hadoop classes for software developers interested in expanding their skills into the new Big Data centric marketplace. All developer tracks are in-depth, hands-on technical training sessions with labs. Every student will get their own Hadoop cluster running on Amazon EC2 to perform the labs. Topics covered for the day are: Big Data Analytics - for Financial Services Hadoop Bootcamp –End-to-end Development & Deployment Hadoop – Basics & Administration MapReduce - for IT Managers.

The mid-afternoon sessions are the business tracks, kicking off with a keynote session on the future of Big Data. The panel speakers range from companies like Netflix, LinkedIn, eBay, Microsoft, SAP, Platform Computing, Nokia Siemens, Cloudera, GreenPlum, Ubisoft, Splunk, GoodData, Grid Dynamics, ZettaSet, StackIQ & MapR Technologies. The business panels are: Big Data Today Cloud Today Big Data in the Cloud Big Data in Enterprises.

Ending the day with evangelizing how Big Data analytics performed by leveraging Cloud computing technologies is taking mankind to a new frontier of innovation. The conversation would be between Dj Patil of Greylock Ventures & Lenin Gali of UbiSoft. There will be extensive chances to network with fellow technologists and business leaders in the final sessions which would start with a fusion dance.

The event is sponsored by Platform Computing (Platinum), Splunk & ZettaSet (Gold) and StackIQ, CitrusLeaf & Grid Dynamics (Silver).

To learn more about Big Data Cloud - Today! visitwww.bigdatacloudtoday.com or contact Dj Das +1 408 431 1487,djdas@bigdatacloud.com.

Briefs & Shorts

Talks are getting louder that the dream Pacquiao vs Mayweather boxing bout is finally happening in May, 2012. But what is this I am hearing that Vegas will not be the venue for the dream fight but, hold your breaths - Manila, how true? Another “Thrilla’ in Manila?” Wishful thinking, maybe.

Watched 2 outstanding movies last weekend – the “Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1” and “Immortals in 3D”. Already on its 2^ndweek, “Breaking Dawn” still tops the box office charts this week mainly because of its appealing story which, stripped off its vampire/wolf subplots, is a simple love story, a well-written love story among 3 young people. Robert Pattinson (as Ed), Kristen Stewart (as Bella) & Taylor Lautner (as Jacob) are not the most attractive inHollywood these days (they all have crooked/imperfect set of teeth) but this latest “Twilight” project is well-written, well-acted & well-made (their best work, so far) and will therefore draw the crowds even by sheer word of mouth.

In contrast, I can sum “Immortals” as maximum cruelty shown in 3D (hundreds of decapitation scenes in slow motion, literal piercing of the eyes, castration scene in front view, literally boiling human female species – man, it never ends). The other movie where it’s being compared to - “300,” is far superior, though, for its better storyline and direction.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“I can’t really explain it into words. We all have values set in our lives. It’s been a rough year in my personal life. I have a hard time dealing with my loses. I hope that no one has to go through all these. I just needed to go. I’d rather not talk about it, though. ” – By TV5 “Paparazzi” & “Juicy” host, DJ Mo Twister, on why he quit show business abruptly (after a very public and ‘tweeted’ break-up with actress Rhian Ramos), sold his belongings and have to leave the Philippines altogether to move and move-on in New York.

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