Showbiz potentials among Binibini bets
One down and only 23 beauties are competing for three titles in the 2009 (45th) Bb. Pilipinas Pageant grand finals slated for tonight at the Big Dome — Bb. Pilipinas-Universe, Bb. Pilipinas-World and Bb. Pilipinas-International. Delayed telecast starts at 9:30 on GMA.
It’s beauty-watching time once again and, as usual, keep an eye on candidates who are deadringers for showbiz stars and former beauty queens, including (according to Funfare’s “beauty experts” Felix Manuel, Francis Calubaquib, Gery Yumping and Joey Cezeare) Carmina Villarroel, Nicole Scherzinger of the Pussycat Dolls, Lucy Torres, Valerie Concepcion, Cherie Gil, Carmi Martin, Francine Prieto, Dyan Castillejo, Hilda Koronel, Neri Naig, Shirley Fuentes, Kristine Hermosa, Bea Alonzo, Anne Curtis, Donna Cruz and Phoemela Barranda; and former beauty queens Alma Concepcion, Maricar Balagtas, Carla Balingit and Bong Dimayacyac.
Instead of drawing a list of “the most likely (winners),” the “beauty experts” decided to group the girls into
Click here to continue readingRapper-actor Francis Magalona succumbs to cancer
Multi-awarded Filipino rap icon Francis Magalona has passed away at the Medical City in Mandaluyong around noon today. He was 44.
According to TV reports, this was announced by actor Vic Sotto in the noontime variety show Eat Bulaga, where Magalona used to be one of the hosts.
Magalona, considered as a major pillar of rap music in the country, was diagnosed with leukemia in August 2008. He is survived by his wife Pia Arroyo and children Unna, Nicolo, Francis Jr., Elmo, Arkin, Clara, and actresses Maxene and Saab. – By Dino Maragay (Philstar News Service, www.philstar.com)
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Guidance for Success and Happiness
FINDING HAPPINESS
“Happy are those conscious of their spiritual need.”—MATTHEW 5:3.
“There is more happiness in giving than there is in receiving.”—ACTS 20:35.
“Happy are those hearing the word of God and keeping it!”—LUKE 11:28.
BUILDING TRUST
“Speak truth each one of you with his neighbor.”—EPHESIANS 4:25.
“Let the stealer steal no more.”—EPHESIANS 4:28.
“Let marriage be honorable among all, and the marriage bed be without defilement.”—HEBREWS 13:4.
FORGING GOOD RELATIONSHIPS
“All things . . . that you want men to do to you, you also must likewise do to them.”—MATTHEW 7:12.
“Let [a husband] so love his wife as he does himself; . . . the wife should have deep respect for her husband.”—EPHESIANS 5:33.
“Continue . . . forgiving one another freely.”—COLOSSIANS 3:13.
AVOIDING AND RESOLVING CONFLICT
“Return evil for evil to no one.”—ROMANS 12:17.
“Love is long-suffering and kind. . . . It does not keep account of the injury.”—1 CORINTHIANS 13:4, 5.
“Let the sun not set with you in a provoked state.”—EPHESIANS 4:26.
The Wonder of Instinctive Wisdom
“Migration is probably the most awe-inspiring natural phenomenon.”—COLLINS ATLAS OF BIRD MIGRATION.
ON December 9, 1967, an airline pilot spotted a flock of about 30 whooper swans flying toward Ireland at the amazing altitude of 27,000 feet. Why were they flying so high, where the air temperature was about 40 degrees below zero Fahrenheit? Besides escaping the persistent snow squalls at lower altitudes, they were riding a wind current that gave them a ground speed of about 125 miles an hour. It was estimated that the birds completed their 800-mile flight from Iceland to Ireland in just seven hours.
The world champion migrator—the arctic tern—breeds north of the Arctic Circle yet spends the northern winter in the Antarctic. In a typical year, this small seabird travels between 25,000 and 30,000 miles —the equivalent of circling the globe!
White storks breed in Northern Europe and winter in South Africa, making a round trip of 15,000 miles. Thousands of
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A WORLD HOOKED ON SMOKING
BILL was a kind man, an intelligent man, a strong man. He loved his family. At an early age, though, he began to smoke cigarettes. Later in life he hated the habit. Even as he puffed on a cigarette, he earnestly warned his sons against smoking, saying how stupid it was. There were times when he would crush a pack of cigarettes in his powerful hands and fling it across the room, vowing that he had smoked his last. Soon, though, he would be drawn back to smoking—first secretly, then openly.
Bill died of cancer 15 years ago, after months of dreadful pain. If he had not been a smoker, he would possibly be alive today. His wife would still have a husband; his sons would still have a father.
Bill’s death, tragic though it was for his
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