Great Holiday Gift Ideas and Packages With Healthy Options

Its less than 70 days before Christmas and we can now worry of the gift ideas we can give to our loved ones and avoid the great holiday cramming of long lines, crowded streets, and stressful packaging. As early as today, we can now plan our gifts for the season with early gift ideas via a showcase.

Healthy Options, the Philippines’ all-natural products store chain, with Bow and Wow, Wine Story, and Planet Grapes, present the Christmas Gift Show. The exclusive preview of premium holiday gifts that happened 10am to 8pm last October 15, 2014, EDSA Shangri-La Hotel, Mandaluyong City and on October 20, Monday at the Isabela Ballroom of Makati Shangri-La Hotel in Makati City showcases attractive and practical presents to get and give this holiday season.

REEL DEAL: Keanu Reeves' Double As Neo In "Matrix" Is Now The Actor's Director in "JOHN WICK"

The much anticipated return of Keanu Reeves in full-tilt action is about to end in his upcoming movie "John Wick" where he plays an ex-hitman forced to come out of retirement and brings bloody vengeance to the Russian mobsters who took everything from him.     

Making their directorial debut in "John Wick" are Chad Stahelski and David Leitch whom Reeves have long collaborated with since in "The Matrix" films who have served as the movies' stunt coordinators and are now Hollywood's most in-demand when it comes to training actors in action films. Most recently, the duo's works include phenomenal hits such as "300," "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," "The Bourne Legacy" and "The Hunger Games."

REEL DEAL: “ANNABELLE” Earns More Than $150 Million Worldwide

BURBANK, CA – October 19, 2014 – New Line Cinema’s “Annabelle” has surpassed the $150 million mark at the worldwide box office, earning more than $166.1 million to date and counting. The announcement was made today by Dan Fellman, President, Domestic Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures and Veronika Kwan Vandenberg, President, International Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures.

(In the Philippines, “Annabelle” also continued to make a killing at the box-office, grossing P139.54-million nationwide, as of Oct. 19, 2014. That further tightened its grip to the national record of all-time highest-grossing foreign horror film).

ABS CBNmobile launches FAITH for the Lee Min Ho Festival

Lee Min Ho fans rejoice as Lee Min Ho charm will captivate you with the launch of the Lee Min Ho Festival in ABS CBNmobile as an exclusive event in iWanTV. Subcribers to the mobile app with their ABSCBNmobile account can access the 6 episodes of the Historical Fantasy Drama FAITH.

And this got fans excited especially for those die-hard fanatics who followed Lee Min Ho early like his series like Boys Over Flowers, and City Hunter. This new mobile series is exclusively shown only on ABS-CBNmobile beginning October 20.

“Faith” is the story of Choi Young, a royal bodyguard of a king in the past, and Yoo Eun-soo, a female doctor in modern times. When the queen was seriously injured, Choi Young was sent by the king to go through the magical portal to get “heaven’s doctor,” which happens to be a doctor from the future named Eun-soo.

MUSIC LYF: Christian Bautista celebrates birthday, sings theme of new GMA series

Asia’s Romantic Balladeer Christian Bautista, who is celebrating his birthday today, October 19, has been tapped by GMA to sing the theme of the Kapuso Network’s biggest Korean series “Empress Ki.” The series’ theme song is “Up Where We Belong,” a cut from the soon-to-be-released album of Christian under Universal Records entitled “Soundtrack.”

The series will start airing today, October 20, on GMA Telebabad. The series is reminiscent of GMA hit Korean dramas like “Jewel in the Palace.”

Currently, Christian is busy taping for the primetime series “Strawberry Lane,” hosting “Marian,” and performing on “Sunday All Stars.”

Next month, Christian will launch his newest album “Soundtrack,” which contains memorable themes from the most romantic films of all time. He will be joined by some of the hottest female recording artists in the album.

REEL DEAL: Young Cast of “AS ABOVE/SO BELOW” Endures Tough Shoot

The core cast in Universal Pictures and Legendary Pictures' horror thriller “As Above/So Below” consists of six characters who become trapped by their most intimate fears inside the Catacombs, an astonishing 220 feet belowground in Paris. Leading the young cast is Welsh actress Perdita Weeks, best known for the acclaimed TV series “The Tudors” starring opposite Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Henry Cavill.

For director John Erick Dowdle, it was important to find just the right actors to create the story they were looking to tell...and getting the performers to trust them with an unorthodox process.

Rest Well In Heavenly Peace At Aeternum Garden Columbary

Aeternum is a Latin word which means Eternity. Located at the heart of Heritage Park Area 2 of Fort Bonifacio Taguig City, Aeternum Garden boasts its grandiose and inviting facilities such lush greenery, manmade lagoon and waterfalls, the viewing chapel where funeral services take place and the peaceful columbarium.

Jan Vincent Mercado, President of The Fort Park Estate Inc. who introduced the country's first True Garden Columbary, "Aeternum": The Park Estate Columbary discussed how they stumble upon the idea of putting up Aeternum Garden. He and his family received an offer before from the local city government to buy the property which then was just a piece of land. It was bought, developed and now became the country's first true garden columbary. "Living the life you want is very important but you need to live it well without harming other people." This is one of the inspiring lines from Vincent Mercado which people need to live by.