It was a star studied press conference!  I think Direk Wenn have created a cast of great actors of all generations to bring one good movie for every Filipino to enjoy.

As we all know Vice Ganda has become a very popular gay icon, from being a stand-up comedian up to becoming a product endorser, a host and a performer. Vice Ganda has been shining very bright and now it will shine much brighter with his latest upcoming movie “PRAYBEYT BEJAMIN”.  The movie tackles different issues in life and one of them is the issue of acceptance.  Not everybody are accepted who they are even to ones self.  That's why this story is more on self realization with a full packed of laughter.
In this movie Vice plays the role of Bejamin Santos whose family has a long tradition of serving in the military. In fact, the movie’s stunning opening traces the roots of the Santos’ military service, from the days of Lapu-lapu and the Katipunan, up to the current times.

Conflict ensues when Lolo Benjamin which was played by Eddie Garcia fins out that his grandson (Vice) cannot continue the tradition because he is gay.

But when Lolo Benjamin is captured by terrorists, the grandson enters the military and musters all his masculine strength to save his dear grandfather, and the rest of the war-torn country as well.

Helping Praybeyt Benjamin in his quest are the member of a misfit platoon played by, among others, Derek Ramsay, DJ Durano, Vandolph, Jimmy Santos, Eddie Garcia, Dennis Padilla, Carlos Agassi, malouDe Guzman, Tutti Caringal, Kean Cipriano and Nikki Valdez.



This movie is the result of Vice’s good collaboration with the blockbuster director Wenn Deramas. Be thrilled and be awed by Vice Ganda when “PRAYBEYT BENJAMIN’ opens in theaters nationwide on Oct. 12!

The country’s biggest reality TV show “The Biggest Loser Pinoy Edition” comes to an exciting finish when the Fab Five and other eliminated contestants come together for a final weigh-in that will determine who among Angela, Art, Hazel, Larry, and Raffy will lose the highest weight percentage since the start of the show and be declared the very first Pinoy Biggest Loser at the Grand Finale this October 8 (Sat) at the Ynares Stadium in Pasig.

Armed with the knowledge gained during their four-month stay in the Biggest Loser camp, the Bigating Pinoys continue their journey in the real world and undergo rigorous weight loss regimen without the help of trainers Chinggay Andrada and Jim Saret.


Through the weeks, viewers have seen how the reality show has transformed the contestants physically, mentally, and emotionally. Some have visibly lost weight, while others have gained more confidence. As they work towards the finals, the remaining Fab Five have their own strategies to win.

“No Other Woman” is a new movie from Star Cinema and Viva Films that portray about the life of three people getting involved in a complex relationship. A movie directed by Ruel S. Bayani and starred by the country’s most desirable actors and actresses, Anne Curtis, Derek Ramsay, and Cristine Reyes. According to them it is the most demanding, provocative and emotionally-charged roles of their careers.

It will be fun, fun, fun Fridays all Friday nights of September all the way to November 2011 at Teatrino, Promenade in Greenhills.

Got Fridays @ Teatrino will showcase the latest generation of local singers in a smorgasbord of musical sets, providing nearly three hours of wonderful new sounds and performances from September 2 to November 25, 2011.



Directed and conceptualized by Freddie Santos, one of the most notable stage directors in the country, this innovative musical presentation “brings young, up and coming artists who have already been launched or who have had their first CD albums released up to the next level of their musical careers.”

“All Friday nights at Teatrino from September to November will be nights full of music from new faces singing new faves and redefining fun through a new kind of musical experience,” said Santos. Various young artists are featured each night in sampler style performances to expose their talents to new and wider audiences.

The musical project is a collaboration between Music Museum Group Inc. and various artist management houses. It will feature fresh local artists who already have their rabid fan following and second generation musical talents that are “chips off the old block”.

On tap this September are new artists : Grand Star Dreamer Laarni Lozada, pop classical balladeer Markki Stroem,Fil-Italian heartthrob Kevin Cisco, newest band sensation 3AM, teen acoustic pop duo Krissy and Ericka and the Jammistas – outstanding singer-musicians that Viva Records fused into an even more outstanding musical group (composed of Yssa Alvarez, Sabrina, Davey Langit, Noelle Cassandra and Marvin Ong). Then there are the next-gen singing sensations : Nicole and Carlo David, children of jazz great Mon David; Isabella (Kuh Ledesma’s “little girl”), Robin Nievera, son of concert royalty Martin Nievera and Pops Fernandez and Jaco Benin, son of Side A’s Joey Benin, who will perform with Markki Stroem. These young artists headline September Fridays from September 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30. Many more are on tap for October and November.

Got Fridays @ Teatrino isn’t only unique because of its new show concept, it will also tickle the taste buds with a fun menu available only on Fridays at the Teatrino : casual, funky food (pop corn, onion rings, barbecue and such) to munch on with light drinks at very affordable prices.
Tickets to this new Friday night diversion are at P500 each. For ticket reservations, call 7228310 loc. 116 for a great night out with friends, family, barkada and weekend buddies. Got Fridays @ Teatrino will surely satisfy cravings for good music, good food and a novel experience that’s easy on the pocket as well.

I love cooking!!! We all know that Filipinos love to cook, most especially love to eat. As a wife and a mother, I should know how to cook. Gladly, that I came from a family knows how to cook. When I got married, I learned more on kitchen.
I am so delighted when I heard that Dole will launch their new Dole Tomato Sauce through a cook-off. I usually watched on TV some cooking show I jot down all the recipes and I tried to cook that to my family. I want something new in taste, that’s why I’m happy to attend the Great Dole Cook-off.


They held the event at the Magsaysay Institute for Hospitality and Culinary Arts or coined as MIHCA. They were really hospitable and even explained the food to be served and were asked if I like the food or not.


It was really fun watching some attendees cook their own version of Cherry Tomato and Eggplant Ragu Penne. They were given I think 10 minutes to cook it. After a few serious moment of cooking the food, they presented it with a touch of confidence and love on their finale recipe. It was judging time and all of us were waiting for the announcement of the best delicious food. Imagine! It was a guy who won on that mini cooking contest! Well, I think most of the guy now loves to cook.


I am longing to have more food event, so that there will be new recipes from the new product to give something different when I am going to serve a food in our table.

At last we were riding in a cab going to the hospital. Yap! It’s really last!! And I need to accept it. I need to undergo an emergency CS to save me and my baby. As we reached the hospital, I kept on praying. I kept on telling to myself that I need the strength to face all of these. I remembered I asked again a nurse if it’s really last to do an emergency CS, the nurse answered me, “Yes mam, and your OB-gyne is already waiting there in the operation room”.

At the emergency room, of course a lot of things need to do first before the operation.

The Deposit…the hospital needs 10k deposit to allow me to undergo an operation. I have only on my hand was 5k, I asked my mom to pay it and tell them that once my husband arrived he will give the extra 5k. My mother requests in the hospital and thankful that they accepted my deposit even it was only 5k.

The documents…a lot of documents needed to fill up once confined in the hospital. Our staff keeps on asking me on what she will write on the said documents since my mother was still in the cashier. This was the funny part of this experiences, (imagine hurt is in the air but the humor still there to cheer me up), since our staff in the office keep on asking me, I rather fill up the documents by myself. So I asked first the nurse to please explain to me every page of that document. I told them that I need to know it first before I fill up because maybe I cannot go out this hospital or they gonna sell me (oh well that’s a joke) but despite of the humor I have, the nurse looked frowning as he continue explaining every page of the documents. After I heard all the explanation, I started now filling up all the needed information, while I’m doing those things, our staff Ate Jho said “Mam ang tapang mo naman, ikaw pa ang nag fill up ng documents habang dinudugo ka na at malapit ng operahan” (Mam you’re so brave, because you can fill up those stuff while you’re in pain and ready to go on the operation). Well, I need to be strong, I need to be brave, I need to face all these….I want to shout!!!I want to be positive!!!I want to save my baby!!!!!

I am now sitting in a wheel chair, going to the operation room, I keep on praying…give me strength…help me…save me and my baby…guide me in all these….Now, at the operating room, my doctor keep on talking to me, that I felt that they want me to be strong and be ready, they keep on talking to me that will ease the pain and the worries. I am lying now on the bed, the pedia keep on asking me where is your husband? What happened?a lot of question just to get me busy and to turn my attention to them not to the nurse that keep on doing on my body just to ready me on the operation. My pedia told me “you should love yourself than to love your work” and “give a lot of care when your pregnant”. That phrases still in my mind, Yay! I should love my self other than anything, and I need to give a lot of care when I’m pregnant.

The anesthesiologist saying hi to me!!! I know what will happen next, the injection that’s the scary moment in my life. I hate injection! I really really hate it! But in my mind I need to undergo on that procedure. All the doctors hold me in my feet, in my body, in my hands. The doctor told me not to move…wahhhh….here it is! Suddenly, I felt the pain, oops..i move…the doctor said “don’t move mommy, we gonna do it again..waahh. I should behave or else….

Then I felt numbing in my body. They inject me again in my shoulder, I did not feel anything. Waahh…then I felt sleepy in just a moment, but still my mind is awake, because I remembered anesthesiologist said that I’m awake during the operation because I ate my lunch, I should not eat for how many hours I think before the operation, unfortunately, since it's an emergency, unavoidable circumstances occur. ….5pm…the doctor said, it’s a boy!!!Finally!!!i heard Gelo is crying on a very loud voice..I smile though I felt groggy. Then after that sound..i slept…hoping for in just a while, I will see my son and I will hug him, carry him, and kiss him.

Those are my struggle…the struggle of my son….soon

Last September 7, one of our correspondent attended the exclusive preview of the much awaited Nasaan Ka Elisa. This teleserye was supposed to be aired last March but because of some certain matters concerning the story and the plot, it was moved to Primetime. Nasaan Ka Elisa is a full packed suspense and drama that will for sure get primetime viewers' hooked in it. Starring Melissa Ricks as Elisa, Albert Martinez as Mariano, Agot Isidro as Dana Altamira and a whole lot more cast that will let your mind puzzled with the story.

As a start, the story will mainly revolve in solving the puzzle of answering where is Elisa. Different identities with different mysterious characters will be for sure unraveled as the story goes on every week. So, if you want to find out about the whole story better get into viewing and watch every episode and be part on answering the mystery of Nasaan Ka Elisa?

Inviting everyone to watch the airing on September 12, 2011 after My Binondo Girl.