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I just saw in the evening news that in California Foie Gras has been banned. To those who are unfamiliar with the topic like me, foie gras is actually fatty liver in English. The poor ducks were actually force fed to increase the size of their liver. Before the ducks die of liver disease, their livers were salvaged for those foie gras lovers out there. The video below is very graphic!



I hope for those of you who eats foie gras see this video. Foie Gras is a disease and not a delicacy!

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After months of waiting, I have finally conquered Sundown Marathon for the second straight year. I still don't have the courage to take the full marathon so I am contended to sign up with the half-marathon. According to Sundown Marathon's organizer, this is the first time in five years that they are conducting the run in the city.

So how's my Sundown Marathon experience? Let me give you the rundown of the good and bad points.

Good Points
1) The venue being moved to Nicoll Highway was a good thing for me, it's more convenient because of Circle Line.

2) Distance markers were visible.

3) Cheerers near the finishing line. Even it was raining hard, I saw a lot of people cheering for us. It was indeed a great motivation to finish.

4) Food, food, and free food! I was surprised to see that they have free popcorn and cotton candy. Since both of them are sweet, I opted not to avail it. Luckily, after my run, the prices of other food went down from $5 to $3. I had the boneless chicken with cheese.

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1. MIB 3
2. Marvel's The Avengers
3. Battleship
4. The Dictator
5. Dark Shadows
6. Chernobyl Diaries
7. What to Expect When You're Expecting
8. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
9. The Hunger Games
10. Think Like a Man
11. The Pirates! Band of Misfits
12. Bernie
13. The Lucky One
14. Moonrise Kingdom
15. Dr. Seuss' The Lorax
16. Chimpanzee
17. The Five-Year Engagement
18. The Three Stooges
19. John Carter
20. The Cabin in the Woods

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American Idol strong contender Jessica Sanchez placed only second to Phillip Phillips during the American Idol season 11 finale. One fan reacted badly to Phillip Phillips' win. Watch the video below.

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I saw these two videos in Facebook featuring a Filipino guy showing the variations of club dances. A must see!

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1. Marvel's The Avengers
2. Battleship
3. The Dictator
4. Dark Shadows
5. What to Expect When You're Expecting
6. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
7. The Hunger Games
8. Think Like a Man
9. The Lucky One
10. The Pirates! Band of Misfits
11. The Five-Year Engagement
12. Chimpanzee
13. Bernie
14. Wrath of the Titans
15. Girl in Progress
16. Dr. Seuss' The Lorax
17. The Three Stooges
18. Mirror Mirror
19. The Cabin in the Woods
20. John Carter

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The mother of reality show, Survivor is in its 25th season. What's great about season 25 is the venue. It was held in the Philippines particularly in the islands of Caramoan, Camarines Sur. Three former castaways that were evacuated due to medical reasons will be back in season 25. Hopefully, Colton will not be included in Season 25.

Watch the preview below of Survivor Philippines coming this fall.

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Photo credit: pinoy-ofw.com

Notice to all Filipinos in Singapore who wants to get their OEC at the Philippine Embassy at Nassim Road. The embassy has implemented the regulation of the number of applicants for the release of the Overseas Employment Certificates or OEC. This will take effect starting Sunday until further notice.

Take note that in the morning only 400 queue numbers will be given starting 8:30 AM while the next 250 queue numbers will be given for those applicants in the afternoon from 1:30 PM.

This move by the embassy is to help limit the volume of people visiting the embassy. The Philippine Embassy usually during Sunday is very crowded as this is the only free day Filipinos can visit the embassy.

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This is the latest talk of the town here in Singapore. On Saturday, a Ferrari car hit a Hyundai Sonata taxi killing both driver and passenger.  It also hit a motorcyclist which sustained injuries to his spine.

The Ferrari driver in question is Ma Chi, a 31-year old businessman from China.  He died on the spot with reports that his head was almost cut off from the high impact of the incident.  Ma Chi was with an unknown girl which remains in the hospital. Reports are saying that she works in a KTV bar.




Rest in peace to the taxi driver Cheng Teck Hock and to the Japanese female passenger.

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Philippine's biggest fast food chain Jollibee is finally operating in Singapore as disclosed in the Philippines Stock Exchange an hour ago. Jollibee Foods Corporation (JFC) has signed an agreement to form a company with Beeworks Inc. to open and operate Jollibee stores in the Lion City.

The said company will be 60% owned by Golden Plate, which is the subsidiary of Jollibee Foods Corporation while the remaining 40% will be owned by Beeworks Inc. The new Singapore company will have an initial funding of S$1 million.

Jollibee currently has 79 stores around the world including the US, Vietnam, Brunei, Jeddah, Hong Kong, Qatar, Kuwait.

This is such a great news for Filipinos like me working here in Singapore. We will finally have a new makan place aside from Lucky Plaza and some Filipino stalls in hawkers. I just hope Singaporeans and foreigners will be able to adapt to the sweet Filipino style spaghetti and the fried chicken with rice.

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1. Marvel's The Avengers
2. Dark Shadows
3. Think Like a Man
4. The Hunger Games
5. The Lucky One
6. The Five-Year Engagement
7. The Pirates! Band of Misfits
8. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
9. Chimpanzee
10. Safe (2012)
11. Girl in Progress
12. The Raven
13. The Three Stooges
14. The Cabin in the Woods
15. John Carter
16. 21 Jump Street
17. Mirror Mirror
18. American Reunion
19. Dr. Seuss' The Lorax
20. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island

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Burger lovers in Singapore, rush in to the nearest Wendy's outlet and get the Dave’s Hot ‘N Juicy Cheeseburger for FREE when you order a medium Natural-Cut Fries and drink. This offer is for a limited time only.

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Arroz Caldo or rice porridge with chicken is popular in the Philippines specially during breakfast, snacks and if I may add during rainy seasons. If you're an OFW like me and have been craving of Arroz Caldo, here are the ingredients and easy steps.

Ingredients of Arroz Caldo ala Makoy:
1) a cup of glutinous rice or regular fragrant rice
2) boiled chicken strips or chicken parts
3) crushed garlic
4) cooking oil
5) 2 chicken cubes
6) salt and pepper
7) ginger cut in 1-inch strip
8) water
9) hard-boiled eggs
10) chopped onion leaks
11) fish sauce

For the simple steps:
1) In a casserole, sautée the crushed garlic in a hot cooking oil followed by the ginger.
2) If the ginger is already fragrant, add in the chicken. Once the chicken looks half-cooked, pour in the rice and the water. Make sure to occasionally mix the soup base.
3) Add the chicken cubes in the soup base then flavor it with fish sauce, salt and pepper.
4) Once the chicken is cooked, you can mix in the hard-boiled egg.

Best served with sautéed garlic and chopped onion leaks.

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This is so far my favorite epic rap off from the Morning Rush. Featuring the longest singing line of Delamar!



D:Hey, it will be very hot one
huhuhuhuhu
If you stay at home or go out of town
Tell me where you'll go
I wanna go to the beach with you
I'll go anywhere with you at once
At once

G:Hey it's summer time
Together let's get wild
And let's not bother
Let's go crazy out of town
And let's not frown We want yah down
We'll hit the beach
You scratch that itch
And you don't need to be that bitch

We're gonna get loose
And that ka-booze
And drink great booze
And all that booze And go, uhuhuhu
Oh no I'm allergic to this Henna
Go Achuhuhu
Got a Spartan body for this summer
Go Awuhuhuhu

Hey, drink some more,
Leave inhibitions at the door
Time to party even more
Turn up the music just a bit more

D:Hey, it will be very hot one
huhuhuhuhu
If you stay at home or go out of town
Tell me where you'll go
I wanna go to the beach with you
I'll go anywhere with you at once
At once

C:Eto nang summer
Di na wanna bummer
I gonna sweat
Gonna get wet

What up bitch
Punta na ng beach
Let's go now
I wanna tampisaw

Aking panalangin
Tatak mo sa buhangin
Let's hold hands
Kiss me on the sands Hey, binibini
You're so skinny
Isuot ang bikini
I'll give you Chikinini

G: uhuhuhuhu

C:Di na wanna bummer
I gonna sweat
Gonna get wet

What up bitch
Punta na ng beach
Let's go now
I wanna tampisaw

Aking panalangin
Tatak mo sa buhangin
Let's hold hands
Kiss me on the sands Hey, binibini
You're so skinny
Isuot ang bikini
I'll give you Chikinini

D:It will be very hot one
huhuhuhuhu
If you stay at home or go out of town
Tell me where you'll go
I wanna go to the beach with you
I'll go anywhere with you at once
At once

All:We are the Kikay Barkada
We like to wear panty and bra
We are the Kikay Barkada
We like to wear panty and bra

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Singapore government has officially launched the first major SG-Space initiative project wherein government agencies and individuals can easily find locations in Singapore using intelligent search as well as to get driving instructions.

OneMap is partnered with Nanyang Polytechnic, data.gov.sg and BizMap to provide the latest maps in Singapore. This project is backed up by government agencies lke IDA, IRAS, ICA and others.

If you want to help out in plotting maps and to be a OneMap developer, you can send an email of interest at lee_wei_choong@sla.gov.sg.

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Here are the series of scandal videos of the Morning Rush!  Enjoy!

The Morning Rush Scandal Video 1

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1. Marvel's The Avengers
2. Think Like a Man
3. The Hunger Games
4. The Lucky One
5. The Pirates! Band of Misfits
6. The Five-Year Engagement
7. The Raven
8. Safe (2012)
9. Chimpanzee
10. The Three Stooges
11. The Cabin in the Woods
12. John Carter
13. 21 Jump Street
14. American Reunion
15. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
16. Mirror Mirror
17. Dr. Seuss' The Lorax
18. Titanic 3D
19. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
20. Monsieur Lazhar (U.S.-only)

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Last week, I finally have watched The Avengers with my friends at Cathay Cineplex at JB Malaysia. JB Malaysia is a popular destination to Singaporeans since it is just a bus away and the prices are usually half the price.

Booking the movie tickets in advance had some problems. The online booking keeps on throwing me error after I key in my credit card OTP. Thankfully, a day before the movie, I was able to book it. For three tickets, it only cost me less than $16. If you watch here in Singapore during weekends or public holiday, it would cost us more than S$30.

Anyway, I just noticed that Malaysians prefer not to buy online since a day before the movie, not even ten seats were booked.

Traveling to JB was a breeze. We took the express bus at Queen Street, Bugis. You can pay by cash or even by EZlink. For less than 30 minutes, we reached JB. It's just a bummer that City Square is under renovation and one of the reasons were there was Kenny Rogers. We headed first to the cinema to get our tickets. It was Labor Day so the cinema was crowded. I queued at the online booking counter and I was so furious that people that didn't book online was queuing. What's the point of booking online if I have to wait for 30 minutes.

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It's More Fun In The Philippines campaign has reached London with its prominent ad where posted in cabs and buses. When will it reach Singapore? That would make me so happy.

Photo courtesy of Pia Ojeda.

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The timeless tale of an orphan named Annie is finally coming to Singapore. Annie The Musical with famous songs like "It's A Hard Knock Life", "Easy Street" and "Tomorrow" will open it's curtain at the Marina Bay Sands Grand Theatre starting July 10, 2012.

Annie The Musical features the characters Miss Hannigan played by Su Pollard, David McAlister as Daddy Warbucks and lastly Annie with the lovely dog Sandy.

2012 is a landmark for Annie as it celebrates it's 35th year in theatre. It has won Tony Awards in 1977 as the Best Musical, Best Original Score and Leading Actress in a Musical.

Tickets are available now from S$65 to S$175.

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After the launch of the TV commercial of "It's More Fun in the Philippines", another ad that lasted five minutes was seen at the electronic billboard in Times Square, New York.

The commercial was imploring that something will happen on June 12, which is also the Philippines' Independence Day.

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It's More Fun in the Philippines TV Commercial has finally aired on CNN yesterday. The less than 40 seconds TV commercial featured photos and video clips submitted by Filipinos with the question 'Why it's more fun in the Philippines?'

Watch the video below.



What do you think of this TV commercial? Better than the previous slogan 'WOW Philippines'?

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Pop star Lady Gaga is gracing Singapore again not to support Singtel but to have a 3-day concert tour. Born This Way Ball kicked off in Asia and South Korea as it's first destination. For Singapore, Lady Gaga was supposed to perform for two days only from May 28-29, but because of popular demand, another date was added in the tour which is May 31.

For those who haven't booked yet, May 31 is the only available date for booking. Category 1 and Category 2 free standing pens are available for $288 and $188 respectively. May 28-29 dates are already fully-booked.

Lady Gaga Born This Way Ball concert in Singapore will be held at the Singapore Indoor Stadium.