Summer sizzles with Sandwich’s Sunburn video
And I love alliterative titles. Anyway, do we have tanning salon’s here in Manila? A few perhaps but I do believe that more and more Filipinos are using whitening cream than get a tan (unless they’re tisoys or tisays). But such is the premise of Sandwich’s video for their song Sunburn (of their Five on the Floor album). Sandwich running a tanning salon with babes and bikinis galore! Sakto for summer! Here’s the...
Utada Hikaru divorces husband
Yep, Hikki called quits on her marriage. Sad but not really surprising. Was it three or four years ago when news hit the stands that Utada Hikaru got hitched with her video director? Now that shocked me. For more of the news, click on The Japan Times Online.
MUSIC STATION to launch at Animax on March 9
It’s been around for a little more than 20 years but it’d be only now that we’d get some of their sugoi stuff. MUSIC STATION is Japan’s most popular music variety show and it’s debuting for our viewing on Animax. It’s pretty much like TRL, J-style! The show features everything about the J-pop scene complete with interviews, live performances and charts. Tune in to chance upon live performances from...
The Great Firewall of China
China has been notorious for blocking certain websites to be viewed within their territory. (Being people very sensitive regarding censorship.) If you have a website, there is now a nifty way of knowing if your site is blocked or not in their country. Just so if you’re travelling there, you might wanna know if you will see your own site or not. The Great Firewall of China. The name is very appropriate if I do say so myself. And...
Palanca Awards for Literature now accepts entries
For the budding poets and writers who have the guts to compete, why don’t you try entering any of the following categories? Short story Short story for children Essay Poetry One-act play and Full-length play in the Filipino and English divisions Screenplay in Filipino division Short story in Cebuano, Hiligaynon and Iluko regional languages. Remember, you only have until midnight of April 30 to send in your entries. And to those...