A netizen named Josh Matienzo shared on Facebook his encounter with a man named Carlo Pelaez, a poor lamp seller. Pelaez sells gas lamps so he can buy food for him and his ailing mother. According to him, his father had left him and his disabled mother a long time ago. In Matienzo’s post, he implores his friends from Lucena City as his Facebook friends and classmates from the Carlito Balita Review center to help this poor lamp seller in any way they can. Matienzo reveals that the lamp seller is a native of Dalahican who sells gas l…
Leaving the Philippines means detachment from family members and be contented with long distance calls, SMS or instant messaging conversations as primary means of communication. It also means depriving oneself of guiding children and watch them grow. There are many reasons why Filipinos work abroad. They are willing to go abroad for work because of the higher income and salary, higher unemployment role in the Philippines, pressure from the family and peer influence and many more. This OFW, another Kabayan killed himself after receiving b…
From our perspective, love is unlimited, it knows no boundaries, no color, no race, no creed, no gender and no species. Love is who we all are, it is what we are all made from; however, many have been taught to believe that love can only be felt or experienced within certain circumstances or boundaries. However, love in its truest nature does not exist based on events, circumstances or judgements. Love cannot be measured by just the physical appearance, as proven by Mindie Kniss from Arizona who is happily married to 2-foot-8inch-tall Sean …
Veteran actress Sylvia Sanchez has been in the business for over 20 years. She has portrayed a variety of roles with the most common being mother roles or the villain roles. She has four children with husband Art Atayde — Arjo, Ria, Gela and Xavi. The Atayde family has this lovely home in an exclusive hilly subdivision in Quezon City. This new home, according to Ria, also means “a new beginning for the family.” Before acquiring this home, Sylvia’s wish was for her dream house to have a huge garden. Sylvia explained: “Garden, kasi ala…
A 39-year old politician named Emmanuel Macron won the first round of the French presidential election a couple of weeks ago. But he goes viral because of his love story. His wife, Brigitte, who he calls his best friend, has always been there to support him. And it’s their very love story that got people’s attention. Macron, as a school boy at the age of 15, had a major crush on his teacher, who happened to be Brigitte. At that time, Brigitte Trogneux was 40 years old and she was “happily married” to André-Louis Auzière, with whom she ha…
A certain PhD science student had submitted a thesis claiming that the Earth is flat, is stationary, is the center of the universe, and is only about 13,500 years of age. Going even bolder and further, the student explicitly rejected the physics of Newton and Einstein, the astronomy of Copernicus and Kepler, the cosmology of the Big Bang, the main models of atmospheric and geological activity, and most of modern climatology. It likewise claims that the sub has a diameter of 1,135 km, not 1.4 million km, and that the moon has a width o…
Kapuso actress Kylie Padilla, the daughter of actor Robin Padilla, is now 7-months pregnant with Aljur Abrenica’s child — a baby boy. A few months from now, Kylie is going to give birth to their first baby. Kylie’s talent management team, Vidanes Celebrity Marketing, showed some teasers of her glistening maternity shoot. Kylie proudly caressed her baby bump behind a floral background in photos taken at Museo de Padilla. She looked every inch like a goddess in her long gowns. The caption reads: “Motherhood is difficult and rewarding.” …
Comedian-host of “It’s Showtime” Vice Ganda usually makes fun of the foreigners who are visiting in the Philippines and watching the show live in the studio. Recently, Vice makes fun one of the member of the audience without knowing it was the boss of Korean star Sandara Park. The Korean, who happened to have a weird hairstyle became Vice Ganda’s spiel. Vice was actually pointing to the bangs of the man and making fun of it. Co-host Vhong Navarro told Vice that the Korean he was making fun of was actually there with pop star Sandara Par…
Paolo Ballesteros is an actor, TV host, model and impersonator. He has appeared in films and several TV shows, and has been one of the co-hosts of longtime noontime show Eat Bulaga! since 2001. Paolo won International Best Actor for his role as a transgender beauty queen in “Die Beautiful,” one of the entries in Metro Manila Film Festival. Recently, he has shared a sweet photo with his alleged partner, Roland Ochoa Anog on the social media app. The said photo showed Paolo and his lover flashing wide smiles inside the car with their seat …
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