Kanta Pilipinas And The Audition News This March!

Set to conquer the Summer Capital of the Philippines tomorrow and the following weeks, TV5’s Kanta Pilipinas continues to scour the country in search of the next big star able to make the nation sing.

The Dream from Cagayan De Oro

With 180 registrants last Feb. 24, 2012 in SM City Cagayan De Oro reaching the cities of Iligan, Misamis and Cagayan, 76 hopefuls were called back and only 37 passed the judges’.  Filipino pop songs became the favorite rendered on the stage with many who rendered the Grammy Award winning songs of Adele and Whitney Houston, hopefuls came from different communities and barangays.

Quick Blogs: Facebook and Other Sites Down

After going home, the first thing I did is to check on m accounts especially mail and facebook which are my main channels of communications to friends and clients. However, I just wondered why I cannot access Facebook and Hotmail. I thought the internet was not really available but when going to other sites like google and plurk, everything is doing fine.

After ranting and asking on twitter about this hassle, me and blogger/online friends found out that the reason for this is the connection which is provided by Globe. No word or official annoucement was made about the outage but areas affected includes Metro Manila, Bulacan, Pangasinan and Cavite. 

As of the moment, Yahoo, Hotmail and Facebook are the main sites that I (on my end). I hope this is addressed and fixed soon as we do depend on these sites not only for socializing but also for business and network building. I think I will just sleep and hope to be able to log in to facebook via my dreams...

#GlobeInternetFail

MRT Bomb Scare at Guadalupe Station!

Going home to Pasig I decided to take the MRT to Ortigas station, I thought it will just another day but it wasn't. On  a sunday night the MRT is not jampacked and with no rush hour, seems ordinary but all of this changed when we arrived at MRT Guadalupe station, a commotion happened.

A man went out of the train but a lady cried ou "Uy mama yung bag, naiwan niyo!" (Hey, you left you're bag!). Others followed to call the man but he did not come back. The doors closed with people saying "baka bomba yan!" (maybe its a bomb!), and then people started panicking. The train is now starting to move and I also felt the tension inside. The crowd had intentions to go out so they quickly pulled the emergency lever to open the cart.