Philippines’ music industry is starting to boom rise. Every now and then we discover a lot of new musical talents; some go as far as the international music scene. And yes, we want more. As we slowly emerge into the outskirts of our own country’s tune, we also feel the great need to start supporting more and more great talents that could only not let us say “wow” but also could make us proud of them and our being Filipino.

With all this, we thank the existence of MTV Emerge. MTV Emerge is a platform for unsigned music talent in the Philippines to showcase their work and to be given an opportunity to win a one-year recording contract with Jeepney Music (to be discussed further below). MTV Emerge is an MTV, Jeepney Music, and Department of Tourism collaboration. They are together in scouting for the hottest unsigned music talents from all genres of music, may it be rock, pop, indie, hip-hop, R&B, metal, ballad, solo artists, DJs and a lot more. It is also considered as an online community where each one of us can discover fresh local music artists.

Participants can register and upload their profiles, photos and original music on the MTV Emerge website to get discovered. And there are beautiful prizes at stake. After a public voting process, seven grand winners will be selected. And that would be on November 20, 2009. Selection of winners will be made by a panel of judges which includes our very own Apl.de.Ap, who is the founder of Jeepney music and famous for his group, the Black Eyed Peas. [Continue reading...]

Yes, goodbye my Windows Vista, hello genuine Windows 7 Professional! Just this morning, I installed Windows 7 on my laptop. I’ve been hoping for this day to come since my boring semestral break after I also tried my luck on Ubuntu. But I got no installer. I got a license though, genuine and free! Thanks to MSDN Academic Alliance Program for that.

I know I am too late in sharing all these happiness (since a lot are now Windows 7 geekos and I am left behind) but the heck, I’m still gonna post screen shots.

Basically my user experience of Windows 7 is just similar to Windows Vista (I have used Starter Pack, Home Basic and Home Premium before). But Windows 7 is undeniably faster and more stable (I meant by that, less crashing and hanging). But using the eyes as a judge, Windows 7 bags the grand prize.

The themes are cool. Really. I’m using the Characters theme now. I also downloaded from the Microsoft site themes such as Happiness Factory and Zune Characters. Really cool.

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This November 12 and 13, 2009, the DigitalFilipino E-Commerce Summit will be held in Hotel Intercontinental, Makati City. One of the sponsors of the said summit will be Globe GCASH. Particularly, Ms. Rizza Maniego-Eala, President of G-Xchange, Inc. will speak regarding the “Challenges and Opportunities in Mobile Money Transfer: Implementation of GCASH” at the said event.

Talking about implementation of GCASH, let’s talk about its details first.

GCASH is tied to the phrase mobile money transfer. And mobile money transfer can cover a lot of areas like banking, finance, accounting, personal use, etcetera. GCASH allows Globe and Touch Mobile subscribers to pay or transact for the following using their mobile phones:
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The holiday season is here once again! Christmas is drawing nearer and nearer and it is tradition in the Philippines to start smelling the Christmas air as soon as the “-ber” months enter. With that, decorations start sprouting in every corner, in every household, in every building… sometimes, in every tree.

Big mansion-like (or mansions really) homes will start putting up extravagant decorations, lights, tapestries and curtains all around the house. For that, SHOP.COM offers their outdoor curtains which can also be used as decorative cover in verandas, terraces and windows. But if you cannot afford, a simple parol that gives genuine light will do for the whole Christmas season.

Photo from PLCjr via Flickr

Always remember, it is not the Christmas decorations nor the gifts that matter most. It’s celebrating Christmas with your loved ones that’s most important. Advanced Merry Christmas! [Continue reading...]

[This post is about It's Gonna Make Sense by Michael Learns to Rock] Wow, long time that I haven’t shared any song here in my blog. Usually, I only share those songs that make big impact to me and here’s one of em.

I watch PBB (almost everyday) because I think it’s one thing that’s keeping me sane. And there’s this song that they always play, cool song, but I don’t know the title not even the singer. But just today I saw in one of the plurks of strangers this song and it says it is a PBB song. I checked it out and this is it, what I’m looking for.

Sharing you It’s Gonna Make Sense by Michael Learns To Rock. This is Pinoy Big Brother Double Up‘s Farewell/Goodbye Song to the evictees.

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Click here for lyrics! Download It’s Gonna Make Sense by Michael Learns to Rock