Another milestone for Philippine Everest team

By NICKIE WANG/ Manila Standard Today
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”—Vincent Van Gogh
They succeeded in a great attempt to scale the world’s highest mountain and showed the entire world that Filipinos can achieve such difficult feat. Now, they want to sail across the Pacific onward [...]

Baler wins most of filmfest awards

By NICKIE WANG/ Manila Standard Today
What can a moving tale of forbidden love in the middle of a war do to change the landscape of Philippine Cinema? The awards and the accolades are just frosting on the cake, what is more important is for a film to highlight social issues and promote cinematic excellence by [...]

Hayden Kho needs a doctor

Without Vicki Belo he doesn’t have a career, he doesn’t even have a name. His attempt to end his life may also mean that he doesn’t have a life without the head honcho of Belo Medical Group by his side. To prove that, he even wrote “I love Vicki” on his body before he became [...]

Marian Rivera: hate her, love her

Rumor has it that there’s a demolition team tasked to bring her down. What prompted the hearsay is the continuous negative publicity involving this actress. Call it cliché but where there’s smoke, there’s fire and when something turned into ashes it’s impossible to return it into its original state unless alchemists exist in local showbiz.

This [...]

Baler: 34th MMFF’s best

If you chose to watch this film among the MMFF entries this year, you made the right decision, or if you didn’t watch it, you missed the festival’s best movie. Baler is definitely the only movie in the festival that gives importance to Filipino culture and history. In short, watching Baler in the most expensive [...]

The fastest way to the web

By Nickie Wang
Internet is already a staple part of the lifestyle of this generation. Students and teachers, businessmen, writers, or even ordinary people depend on the internet as if it’s a lifeline.
Downloading and uploading are no longer buzzwords but already common terms used by many people. If the internet connection is slow, it would simply [...]

Isang Lahi: A docu-drama that defines happiness

By NICKIE WANG/ Manila Standard Today
As if the popularity and influence of the book The Secret by Rhonda Byrne is not enough to draw positive vive, a group of young documentarians made an effort to create a moving documentary-drama that would bring hope to the country and to its people who feel desperate to find [...]

Ramielle Malubay comes home for a concert

By NICKIE WANG

She made every Filipino proud when she belted out Aretha Franklin’s Natural Woman during her audition for the seventh season of American Idol television series. Although she was voted off earlier than most people expected, she earned praises and admiration from the talent show’s judges Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson.
Ramielle Malubay, [...]

Sharon Cuneta supports reading program

By NICKIE WANG/ Manila Standard Today
Knowing how to read is one of the essential factors to achieve literacy. As poverty being closely linked to lack of education, Ronald McDonald House of Charities released its flagship program Bright Minds Read.
BMR is an initiative launched six years ago to be especially promoted in the Philippines in order [...]

Mochalicious

“I kissed a girl and I liked it. The taste of her cherry chapstick!” These lines are taken from a song popularized by Katy Perry. What is the connection of this song to Mocha? Before answering that, we’ll give a short background about Mocha. She is the lead singer of the all-female group called, no [...]

Is it shine or just glint for Jericho Rosales?

His television series Kahit Isang Saglit ended just like the way it started – unnoticed. During its presence on primetime, it can even hardly get a modest rating. If viewers had observed, the series even got endorsement from Sharon Cuneta and Kris Aquino, but no matter how they tried to publicize the series, it just [...]

Top Sites in the Philippines

Every Filipino, as they say, has a friendster account. Does it mean friendster.com is one of the most trafficked websites in the country? I used to believe that after online communities, pornsites are the most visited pages in the Philippines but according to Alexa.com, Filipino netizens are quite decent people.

Nix’s Top 12 lists down the [...]

Karylle’s Smile

Dogs open their mouths with their tongue hanging out, and they look like smiling. This picture is natural; we often see it on the streets. But Karylle is not a dog and what she threw, when asked by Boy Abunda if Marian Rivera was pregnant, was just a natural smile from a human being. It [...]

Twilight Sequel Nabs Release Date

Rushing to capitalize on the success of Twilight, distributor Summit Entertainment staked out a release date for the sequel. New Moon, based on the second book of the four-novel series by Stephenie Meyer, is scheduled to be unleashed on Nov. 20, 2009. That’s the same pre-Thanksgiving weekend timeframe that Twilight debuted on, and follows a [...]