Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) posted the traffic route of the Grand and Thanks Giving Procession of the Black Nazarene today, January 9, 2018.
The Grand Procession will start at the Quirino Grandstand, Rizal Park and will end in Quiapo Church, Plaza Miranda.
The Thanks Giving Procession on the other hand will start at the in Quiapo Church, passing Quezon Blvd. – Gonzalo Puyat st. – Evangelista – C.M. Recto – Ser. Loyola – Bilibid Viejo – Guzman – Hidalgo – Barbosa – Globo de Oro – Palangca – Villalobos going thur Plaza Miranda then back to Quiapo Church.
MMDA also included information regarding alternate route that motorist can take and other related activities.
Both Smart and Globe Telecom will temporary suspend their mobile services tomorrow January 9, 2018, starting 5:00 AM, for Quiapo, Manila, Quezon City, Mandaluyong and Makati. This is in compliance with the National Telecommunications Commission’s order regarding the Black Nazarene Procession.
Neighboring cities will also be affected.
Here’s the official announcement from the respective social media account of Smart and Globe.
US President Donald Trump publishes a threatening tweets to North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un regarding the United States’ nuclear weapons.
North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the “Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.” Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!
The tweet is in response to Kim Jong Un New Year’s statement saying that he wish “for peaceful resolution with our southern border.”
Then issuing a warning to the United States regarding their nuclear ambitions, “The entire mainland of the US is within the range of our nuclear weapons and the nuclear button is always on the desk of my office. They should accurately be aware that this is not a threat but a reality.”
You can watch the entirety North Korea Leader Kim Jong Un New Year’s Statement below.
It’s a welcoming development between North and South Korea but a concerning one with the United States and North Korea.
It’s the first day of 2018 and it will the first day that the new price of fuel in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will take effect.
As of today, the Octane 91 fuel which originally cost 75 halalas per liter will now be available at SR1.37 per liter, more than 82% increase, while the 95 octane which cost 90 halalas per liter will now cost SR2.04 per liter, which is more than doubled its original price. The new prices already include Value Added Tax (VAT).
Diesel for industries and utilities will cost SR0.378 and the price of diesel for transport remains unchanged at SR0.47. Kerosene price also remains unaffected at SR0.64. The prices already include Value Added Tax (VAT).
Written in Filipino, Vice President Leni Robredo is as optimistic as ever, specially this coming 2018. Here’s the full text of her message.
Mensahe
Isang manigong bagong taon sa inyong lahat, mula sa aming pamilya at sa Tanggapan nang Pangalawang Pangulo.
Sa ating pagsalubong sa 2018, panalangin natin na patuloy na mamuhay ang liwanag nang pag-ibig at pag-asa sa puso ng bawat isa.
Marami tayong pagsubok na hinaharap at haharapin pa. Nandiyan ang pagkalat nang negatibismo at galit, paglaganap ng kultura ng takot at karahasan sa ating lipunan. Ngunit sa kabila ng mga ito, naging saksi tayo sa katotohanan: na ang bawat Pilipino ay tanglaw sa pag-asa.
Sa bawat kamunidad na ating pinuntahan at sa bawat pamilya na ating nakasalamuha, nakita natin ang kabutihan at habag ng bawat isa para sa ating kapwa.
Kaya’t ngayong 2018m buhay pa rin ang pangarap natin na mabigyan ng mas magandang kinabukasan ang bawat pamilyang Pilipino. Nananatili tayong matatag at determinado sa ating adhikain na iangat ang ating mga kababayan mula sa kahirapan at ipagtanggol ang mga karapatan ang bawat Pilipino.
Muli, isang masaya at masaganang bagong taon sa ating lahat!
A very positive New Year’s message from the President of the Philippine Rodrigo Duterte. Here’s the full text of his message.
I greet the Filipino people, here in the Pilippines and in all corners of the world, as we welcome the New Year.
As we spend time with our family, friends and loved ones in turning a new page in our nation’s history, let draw strength from what we have achieved both as individual and as a community in the past year. It is my hope that we foster solidarity as we move forward in our pursuit of providing a more comfortable and productive life for all.
We are a time when our resolve is being tested by many trials and difficulties. Corruptoin, criminality, illegal drugs and terrorism have impeded our progress in the past year. However, I remain hopeful that our resilience will enable us to overcome and rise above these challenges as one nation.
Let us embrace this coming year’s uncertainty with a glimmer of hope and remain determined in achieving our visio of a better and more prosperous future.
Good news to all motorist on the first and second day of 2018, Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) will temporary lift the number coding scheme on January 1 and 2, 2018., which will include Makati and Las Piñas.
Happy New Year from the MMDA! The number coding scheme is LIFTED on January 1-2, 2018 including Makati and Las Piñas. We are temporarily off for the year-end. For emergency concerns, dial our hotline 136. #mmda#teamMMDA
Prepaid load will now have a one year validity from the date it was loaded to your mobile phone, this was announced by the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) in a Joint Memorandum Circular (JMC) with the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).
Joint Memorandum Circular (JMC) amends the previous version of NTC’s Memorandum Circular No. 03-07-2009 Guidelines on Prepaid Loads.
The JMC states that prepaid loads, regardless of amount, will have one-year validity, and this will take effect on January 5, 2018. Those prepaid credits purchased for promos and other services with time limits as approved by NTC and DTI, will not be covered by the JMC.
In their official announcement, DTI Secretary Ramon Lopez said, “With this circular, President Rodrigo Duterte hopes to give the public a gift this holiday season that everyone can truly benefit from in the coming years,”
Here’s something we don’t see every game , Kiefer Ravena dunking the ball on actual PBA games. The rookie scored 20 points with 5 assists, 4 steals and two boards in the 115-104 win against Global Port.
.@KieferRavena threw down his first PBA dunk against GlobalPort today. He had 20 points, 5 assists, 4 steals and two rebounds to lead NLEX to Christmas victory pic.twitter.com/LPlth5nAVi
Police fired at a white SUV, a white Mitsubishi Adventure with plate number WNX 737, at around 10:25 pm at Barangay Pleasant Hills. They later recovered a body from the SUV.
Philipppine National Police (PNP) Senior Superintendent Moises Villaceran Jr, the Mandaluyong City police chief told reporters the shootout appeared to have been a case of mistaken identity. A woman was shot in Addition Hills earlier this evening, and the men in the white van brought the woman in their vehicle in an attempt to help.
PNP really messed this up.
Here’s an amateur video from CNN Philippines.
As far as I know, PNP should have at least “inform the suspects that the Police are after them through the use of siren or megaphone and instruct the driver to pull over or stop on the side of the street;”
Unless PNP revised it, you can read all about the Revised PNP Operational Procedures here.
The woman who was accused of hurting a taxi driver during a traffic altercation has asked the Land Transportation Office (LTO) to dismiss the license revocation complaint against her for lack of merit.
In her position paper, Cherish Sharmaine Interior denied physically hurting taxi driver Virgilio Doctor during a traffic altercation last December 17 along Congressional Avenue in Quezon City.
So rather than asking forgiveness and admitting her fault, she will resort to fighting fire with fire. It will be her word against the driver’s word and their dashcam video against the video the went viral.
Comments on the article is as entertaining as the news. 🙂
It looks like its going to be one of those movies that will be bigger than expected!
Starring Chadwick Boseman as T’Challa / Black Panther, Michael B. Jordan as the main bad guy Erik Killmonger and Lupita Nyong’o as Nakia as an undercover operative of the Dora Milaje, the all-female special forces of Wakanda.
Black Panther is directed by Ryan Coogler and will be in theaters in February 16, 2018.
If you’re wondering why Mark Mark Caguioa is sporting a new jersey number this conference instead of his usual No. 47, well get use to it, since he’ll be wearing Ginebra jersey No. 13 for the All Filipino Conference.
On his Instagram account, he said, “Im gonna be wearing this for one conference a tribute to @jayhelterbrand”.
This will be the first season that Mark Caguioa will be playing without his Jayjay Helterbrand, since retiring last conference where they won the championship. Jayjay Helterbrand and Mark Caguioa are known as the backcourt tandem “The Fast and the Furious.”
This is one Christmas gift that will surely have a happy ending! Facebook user Jasmin T. Baleza and husband Roy Montilla Baleza are currently looking for Michael Oguimas who inadvertently drop his payslip together with the actual pay.
She posted,
“pashare nmn po pls.kung sino po nakakakilala kay Michael Oguimas napulot po ng asawa ko yung payslip nya with sahod.along shaw blvd po nya napulot.kawawa nmn po yung nawalan nito.”
which roughly translate to;
“Please share whoever knows Michael Oguimas, my husband found his payslip with his money along Shaw blvd. It’s be sad whoever lost this money.”
Naturally, Ms. Baleza good deed is now viral, as of this posting its been shared for more than 80,749 time, 14k reaction and more than 6000 comments.
The Rain or Shine Elasto Painters had just enough gas left in the tank as they eked out an 82-79 win over the TNT KaTropa to open their 2018 PBA Philippine Cup campaign at the Cuneta Astrodome in Pasay City on Friday, December 22.
KG CANALETA was quick to churn out an electrifying performance in his Meralco debut.
The 12-year veteran scattered a game-high 25 points and eight rebounds while keying the Bolts’ 103-98 victory over the Blackwater Elite Friday in a game kicking off their PBA Philippine Cup campaign at the Cuneta Astrodome.
There will be no game this Christmas eve, instead there will be a double-header tomorrow 25th December at Philippine Arena between NLEX Road Warrior vs Globalport Batangpier and Brgy. Ginebra vs Magnolia Hotshots.
Playing without Marc Pingris, Rafi Reavis and Jio Jalalon is not a problem with the rebranded Magnolia Hotshots, as Paul Lee pick-up the slack and scored a game high of 30 points in just 24 minutes of action. Lee got some help from Bam Gamalinda, Rome dela Rosa and Ian Sangalang, who scored 15, 13 and 10, respectively.
Magnolia coach Chito Victolero later revealed that Paul Lee only got three days of practice, “Three days pa lang nag-eensayo yan. Iba talaga ang puso niya,”
Alaska even after a strong start scoring 20-10 in the early period but failed keep up with Magnolia as they capture the lead 57-47 in the next period. The game was physical which is an advantage for the Aces, double fouls was slapped to Abueva – Dela Rosa, and Lee – Vic Manuel.
Magnolia’s next assignment will be the Barangay Ginebra for a Christmas showdown at the Philipine Arena, while Alaska will face TNT Katropa on the 29th of December at the Cuneta Astrodome.
Scores:
Magnolia Hotshots 108 — Lee 30, Gamalinda 15, Sangalang 13, Dela Rosa 10, Simon 9, Herndon 9, K. Pascual 9, Barroca 6, Melton 3, Ramos 2, Brondial 2.
Alaska Aces 95 — Abueva 20, Manuel 20, Teng 16, Casio 10, R. Pascual 7, Enciso 5, Exciminiano 5, Banchero 4, Thoss 3, J. Pascual 2, Cruz 2, Magat 1
Wednesday, December 20, second game day of the 2018 Philippine Cup, NLEX Road Warriors survives Kia’s offensive onslaught in the first half, scoring 40 points in the first quarter and continued to score 18 points in the second quarter.
At one-point Kia’s lead went up to 13 points, that is until Kiefer “The Phenom” Ravena went to work filling the stat sheet with 18 points, 12 assists and 7 rebounds, not bad for a rookie playing his first PBA game.
It’s not all bad for Kia, since they showed the league that even they gave away their first draft pick they can still manage to put up a fight and almost won. In an interview Gavina said;
“We showed our grit tonight, we showed a great deal of character in being able to keep up with what I feel is one of the contenders coming into this conference. So if we can do this against NLEX, we can do this against anybody. That’s our mindset going in,”
NLEX’s next assignment will be against the Globalport on Monday, December 25 at the Philippine Arena, while Kia will face Phoenix Fuel Masters on the 27th of December at the Ynares Center-Antipolo.
You may want to avoid these road/streets on the 23rd of December, 2:00 PM on wards. But if you’re there for star gazing, then you this is where you find the brightest star in the Philippine Entertainment business, since its not called Parade of Stars for nothing.
Parade of Stars will be on December 23, 2017 , 2:00pm and will take place at Muntinlupa City.
The parade will start at Muntinlupa Sports Center, Tunasan and will end at Filinvest City Event Grounds, Alabang.
During the half-time break of the LA Lakers – Golden State Warriors game, Los Angeles Lakers retired Kobe Bryant’s Jersey No. 8 and No. 24, the first time an NBA team to retire two jersey number used by the same player on the same team. Kobe wore jersey no. 8 from his rookie 1996-97 season to 2005-06, then no. 24, which he wore from 2006-07 till his final 2015-16 season, both on the same team.
Like what they say, ‘cooler heads prevail’, apparently that did not happen with Ms. Cherish Sharmaine Interior, since she is now the subject of another road-rage case. It’s all over my feed on facebook and twitter, which I assume it will be the same for everyone else.
If only Ms. Cherish Sharmaine Interior let the incident slide and accepted Virgilio Doctor, 52, apology we all be talking about a different story and may be a dash cam video of an idiot drive who keeps cutting a female driver.
So if ever you’re driving in Metro Manila or anywhere in the world, just remember these tweets from Senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan;
… at nilalait ang pagkatao niya ng mga tao sa Internet.
Mali ang ginawa ni Cherish at dapat siyang humingi ng kapatawaran at managot. Subalit sa tindi ng galit natin sa ginawa ni Cherish nagawa ng ilan sa atin na manakot, manlait, magbanta, mang-insulto at manakit ng kapwa. Ano ang pinagkaiba natin kay Cherish?
Just one day after Jerry Richardson put Carolina Panthers up for sale, American businessman, rapper, songwriter, actor, record producer, and entrepreneur Sean John Combs or popularly known as Diddy, let the world know that he wants to buy be buyer of the Panthers.
He tweeted;
I would like to buy the @Panthers. Spread the word. Retweet!
According to Forbes, the current value of the Carolina Panthers is $2.3 billion, while Sean “Diddy” Combs and Stephen Curry’s current net worth as of this year is $820 Million and $47.3 million, respectively.
Text scam are common these days, once they got your number you will forever be in their contact list and will more likely receive more text scams.
One twitter user however have a clever way to scam the scammer or in her own words “give scammers a mini heart attack”.
Here’s who she did it; as soon as she receives a text scam that purportedly say that you won half million pesos and a laptop, she immediately replied, pretending to be one of those subscription service that sends a Bible verse each day for 50 Pesos, since these scammers are working on a budget a any amount that is deducted from their budget is big blow to their operation.
Of course the she happily shared the whole encounter on twitter, which went viral. Since tweeting, it now have more than 137K likes, 59K retweets and she got more than 366 replies.
From the start, it was obvious who will win the game. The only time the game became interesting when Phoenix had a mini-run at the end of the 4th quarter even then SMB was still ahead by 8 points.
During the opening rites of the 43rd PBA Season, Chito Narvasa has submitted his resignation as the PBA Commissioner, PBA external affairs and media bureau chief Willie Marcial will now be the officer in charge (OIC) while they look for look for a new Commissioner.
Chito Narvasa will remain in office Dec. 31 to help the league in its transition period.
If you’ve been following Spider-man for as long as I am, you’ve know that this animated film will be interesting not because of the Spider-man title but on the writers and producer will treat a Spider-man that is not Peter Parker.
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse will be in theaters on December 14, 2018.
As always, Google release the “Year in Search 2017” and for the Philippines, these are the top search term for 2017.
Google categorized each search into 10 groups; Overall Searches, News, Female Personalities, Male Personalities, Events, Movies, TV Shows, Songs and Lyrics, Apps and Phones.
