It was a fun night as GMA Network invited bloggers to jam with Mikoy Morales and James Wright in an event called Kapuso Quiz Night. It's a quiz night about songs and music which I know I don't have much about it. I love to sing but unfortunately I don’t have a good voice to sing it out, I do sing but in our house only with my family as my audience.

Both Mikoy and James are good looking and are friendly too, we were grouped into two and we are glad that Mikoy Morales was in our group. He has a good voice and I was amazed that he knew some of the songs played on the quiz night. He already guess it right even though it was only the instrument playing.

We have different techniques that we used just to win on this Kapuso Quiz Night, Nikole and Mikoy write the correct answer on the white board, but we think Mikoy did the writing most of it, while Me, Bedalyn and Jerwhin did the research on the lyrics, title of the songs and even the artist. We have a very competitive group ever.


It was a joyful night even though we didn’t won. The James group won the quiz night, but still our group did the best to compete with the other group. And having a fun night together with some artist of GMA Network is a big opportunity, to mingle with them and discover that they are so nice despite that they are now an artist.

Do watch Strawberry Lane on weekdays Mikoy. To give more info about Mikoy involvement and breaks here are some of them. Mikoy Morales was part of Protege: The Battle For The Big Artista Break, Manila: Perfect Someone, Teen Gen, Love & Lies, With A Smile and Party Pilipinas. Mikoy is also part of the new teleserye of GMA Network together with Elmo Magalona and Janine Rodriguez called More Than Words. You can follow him at twitter and Instagram: @MikoyMorales.

The annual Christmas gift giving of Jollibee is set to make it a bigger and brighter celebration for children nationwide. On its 20th Maaga Ang Pasko, Jollibee partnered with Breeze to help in completing the mission bringing clean and germ-free toys for the children this holiday season. Of course before distributing all the collected toys everyone are encourage to participate, sort, clean and wash all toys that are still good for gift donations.
Jollibee and Breeze joins together for the special Laba Days to clean off those donated toys and to kick off the series of event they first held it at Mandaluyong. The two brands tapped celebrity moms Regine Tolentino, Bettina Carlos and Breeze’s Sige Mom Christine Bersola Babao lead an army of Bloggers, which are mostly moms, and media people volunteered as Jolly Toy Scouts. Together also with the officials and volunteers from both brands, everyone worked as one family in cleaning and preparing the donated gifts.
Together, Jollibee and Breeze are targeting to wash and clean more than 500,000 plush toy donations with the Breeze with ActivBleach. With its 1 Laba Guarantee owing to its revolutionary formula, Breeze transforms the old toys to good as new before they are delivered to beneficiaries.
“As Maaga ang Pasko celebrates its 20th year, Jollibee wants to further strengthen its commitment to Make Christmas even brighter for more kids and rally more families, led by hardworking moms, to make this happen. We’re happy to partner with a brand whose values are the same as ours,” said Jollibee Vice President for Marketing Harvey Ong. “With the support of a well-loved brand like Breeze, we are confident that the campaign can grow and expand even more in the years to come.”
In addition, Breeze has donated a complete array of cleaning materials and committed to help Jollibee collect more books and toys by placing Maaga ang Pasko boxes in Unilever offices, encouraging employees to donate.
Unilever Vice President for Foods and Home Care Benjie Yap said that they are privileged to help out in this year’s Maaga ang Pasko by making sure that the toys are clean and smell fresh before they are given to their new owners. “With its tough-on-stain formula, Breeze also makes it easier for our Maga ang Pasko clean-up volunteers to remove dirt and stains from toys in just one wash,” he said.
Celebrate a more meaningful Christmas and be a part of the Maaga ang Pasko campaign. Aside from dropping donations in Maaga ang Pasko boxes in Jollibee stores nationwide, anyone can also take part in the campaign by making online donations at www.Jollibee.com.ph/MaagaAngPasko. 

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Maja Salvador will be leaving a huge footprint on the music scene with her debut album “Believe”. And it is not loosely said so. As apart from the album being certified Gold last June (only 2 months after the official release) and obtaining an official Vevo channel on YouTube with views summing up to almost 6 million, the album takes the cake off the plate of its contemporaries once again by becoming the first OPM album to be mastered for iTunes.

 

A “mastered for iTunes” song is a digitally downloadable track on iTunes, taking legs of optimization to make every bit of it in the highest definition possible and as close to how artists and their production team intend every song to be heard as possible, while keeping the music file size down for portability and for more efficient digital distribution.

 

The calibre that “Believe” has set for itself makes it well-worthy of this iTunes mastery. As it geared away from traditional instrumentation and instead adopted modern production, it has become the most ideal vehicle to drive our eardrums to crave newness from the OPM department. All the while the album never lost sight of what is really important: it’s an OPM record. Note that all songs were penned in Filipino to butter up Maja’s new-fashioned Pinay image interbred with pop-house-R&B sound that could run parallel with American Top 40 tracks.

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This leap of Maja’s music to verge into the digital age is a gutsy deal in changing the game face of the local music industry not just in the manner of distribution and consumption of music, but also in itsproduction and ultimately, the artistry. Now you can listen in hi-def to the album with crystal-clear vocals, smoother strums and deeper thumps as if each of the tracks just got off the LASIK chair.

 

A milestone like this wasn’t far from Maja’s horizons to begin with. The way she wants things to happen in her music career is to take the qualitative side of the road, obvious in the production of her songs and the videos for them: never dry and juiceless. Maja believed that “Believe” would go places, and the album took the entire industry with it.

 

There’s no denying it. “Believe” is a key part of OPM music history now.

 

The mastered for iTunes “Believe” contains the original tracklist:

 

BONUS TRACKS:

 

Hear the difference by getting “Believe” off iTunes viahttps://itunes.apple.com/us/album/believe/id849627454

 The album includes the hit singles “Sa ‘Yo Na Lang Ako,” “Kiss You,” “Kapiling Kita,” among others.

“K” celebrates a number of firsts for Karylle – joining a contest and collaborating with a cousin-rapper.

“I’ve never ever joined a contest before, but it was worth it because I got to sing a beautiful song – Lara Maigue’s ‘Sa ‘yo Na Lang Ako,’ which everyone loves,” expresses K. “I am also thrilled big time that I got to collaborate with one of my favorite rappers – my cousin Dash Calzado.”

The singer-actress also thanks Kiko Salazar for turning an unfinished “Kiss You” to complete song, and for contributing “Kapiling Kita.”

Karylle adds, “This album is extra special because of a million reasons. It was a reunion with my first two producers Ito Rapadas, who produced ‘Sa’Yo Nalang Ako’ and DJ MOD, who remixed ‘Bad Boys.’”

Karylle also expressed gratitude towards friend and co-host Jhong Hilario for choreographing “Kiss You,” which was performed by her “It’s Showtime” family, including its hosts, staff, Dumbo, XB GenSan and Showtime dancers, for the music video.

The album also fulfilled Karylle’s dream of recording something for the kids as “K” includes her version of “My Own Little Corner,” a song from the musical “Cinderella,” which Karylle topbilled last year for Resorts World Manila.

“I’ve never sold so many CDs in my life!” gushes Karylle. “I am so thankful for all the love and support. Many thanks to everyone who watched our shows with my band Reasons once or twice or even more times!”

Asked what her fans can expect in the future, she shared that she is currently working on a number of new songs with Alvin Cornista, whom Karylle met years ago when she celebrated her birthday with Nyko Maca + Playground. Karylle and Alvin collaborated on previous singles like “OMG,” “Running,” and “Bad Boys.”

Kapamilya actress Kathryn Bernardo has proven her star power all over again.  Her grand fans day held last November 23 at SM North EDSA Sky Dome, was the 4th worldwide trending topic and ranked 3rd in the Philippine setting, with 41 thousand tweets.  

 

What makes it even more amazing is that at least 1,400 people flocked to the venue at the same time viewers were glued to their TV sets for the Pacquiao-Algieri boxing match.

 

“To dance is to be out of yourself.  Larger, more beautiful, more powerful like our Queen!” Kathryn’s fans, the KathAsianiatics, tweeted.

 

Another fan, Margarette (@bernxarxokathhh) said, “Super saya kahapon! Sulit talaga!”

 

Their idol was all smiles, greeting her fans, performing two songs and even giving away trendy Ruffles bags to lucky recipients. The event ended the Ruffles Bags promo – where shoppers get three free admission tickets to the Grand Fans’ Day for every minimum P600 purchase of the product -- with a big bang. Its success has inspired Ruffles Bags to plan more activities for Kathryn and her fans.