7 Songs to beat the rush hour

By: Joseph Andre Gaspar

We all know that the holidays of Holy Week can cause tremendous traffic and it can be very frustrating to those who wanted to travel to various places. Try to relieve the frustration 
with these 7 songs that we compiled together.

1.

Faded - Alan Walker

For the EDM (Electronic Dance Music) lovers here, I recommend Faded by Alan Walker. This song is one of my favorites because it makes me motivated for some reason. By the way, this song has very short lyrics and all most of friends pretty much know it so sing along as the song goes.

2.

Take on Me - a-ha

For some people out there who loves classic memes, I recommend Take on Me by a-ha. It is a song where you can dance while listening and just sitting in the car and most importantly, you can somewhat recall the 90’s with this music vibe.

3.

Finesse - Bruno Mars ft. Cardi B

Here’s for mainstream song by Bruno Mars ft. Cardi B, Finesse gives you a very funky and groovy vibe. It is also a song that even if you played it over and over it will never get old. Trust me, I know. This song is recommended by Ameera Luntao.

4.

Bawat Daan - Ebe Dencel

This list will not be complete without an OPM (Original PinoyMusic) so here’s Bawat Daan by Ebe Dencel. When I first listen to this, it gave me the “Harana” vibe and I think it is cool how the song is written. 

5.

Titibo-tibo - Moira Dela Torre

Here’s another OPM song to lighten up that grumpy feeling in your chest, Titibo-tibo by Moira Dela Torre. Here’s a tip, make sure your lungs are prepared because singing this song can be make you run out of oxygen. Trust me, everyone knows that. By the way, this song won the Himig Handog 2017.

6.

Young Dumb And Broke - Khalid

For a song that can be relatable here’s Young Dumb and Broke by Khalid. This song pretty much summarizes everyone’s school days. Well, sing along and be young, dumb and broke just like song says.

7.

Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley

Here’s the last one on out list, if you want something that is Holy Week themed song, I recommend Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley. I’m sure you already know why I put this song on the list. This song will always give me the chills when listening to it and I know this happens to you too. This song is recommended by Jamie Karen Hernandez.

With these songs I’m pretty sure your travel will always be pumped up with smiles and laughers but at the end of the day, we must know the meaning of Holy Week and use this to be able to guide us not only in this week’s holiday but all throughout the year.

7 Movies to help you reconnect with God this Holy Week

There are so many ways to spend your time this Holy Week, either you go out of town or out of the country with your friends, family or even by yourself. You can go churches to churches, or you can stay at home and watch different movies. Here are the list of the movie suggestion that you can watch by yourself or with someone close to your heart.

1. Heaven is for real

Heaven is for real is a 2014 American Christian film directed by Randall Wallace. The movie is based on the book of Todd Burpo and Lynn Vincent with the same title 'Heaven is for real'. It talks about how a four-year-old Colton Burpo, played by Connor Corum experienced Heaven during his emergency surgery. It is said to be a real life story and the family picture of Connor on the present time is concluded on the film.

2. God's not dead 1

God's not dead is directed by Harold Cronk starring Kevin Sorbo, Shane Harper, David A. R. White and Dean Cain. The first part of God's not dead was released on 2014. It talks about how Professor Jeffrey Radisson asks his students to sign the petition that 'God is dead', but then there's Josh Wheaton who argues that God's not dead. Professor Radisson then asked Wheaton twenty minutes pero lecture session to argue on why he thinks that God exist.

3. God's not dead 2

God's not dead 2 was released on 2016 and it talks about the freedom of a teacher Grace Wesley, when asked by one of her students about Jesus. She went under fire and when she refuses to apologize, she almost loses her certificate of teaching. "I would rather stand with God and be judged by the world, than stand with the world and be judged by God," said Grace Wesley.

4. The Passion of the Christ

Passion of Christ is based on the New Testament. It shows the story of Jesus, how he was tortured before he got crucified on the cross. As he was hanging on the cross, Jesus prayed to God to forgive those people who tormented him and provides salvation to the criminal crucified beside him. This movie was released on 2004 directed by Mel Gibson and will surely bring your faith back to God.

5. Prince of Egypt

Prince of Egypt is produced by DreamWorks Picture in 1998. It is animated film that suits for kids and kids at heart. It is an adaptation from the Book of Exodus about how Moses was raised being the prince Egypt, but then he was destined to become a deliverer of the Israelites.

6. Miracles from heaven

 It is based on the true story of Beam Family from Texas how their faith was tested when a 10-year-old girl named Anna was diagnosed with rare disorder. They find their faith slipping away, but after a freak accident and after they encounter God they started giving restoring their faith and brings new faith to everyone.

7. Flywheel

The unexpected pitfall could happen if you've never been honest about your business. Jay Austin, is a dishonest car salesman who's in debt and comes to a turning point in life after he became a born again Christian, he started to trust everything in God and God provides him a way to pay his debt.

With these seven movies, it can help you realize things and help you to reconnect your faith with God. These movies shouldn't just be kept on our mind, but the moral should be kept in our hearts.

Mga buhay sa likod ng palaspas
By: Lorrie Rein Perlac

Dahon ng olibo at niyog na may mga palamuti at iba't-ibang disensyo- Palaspas.

Isang tradisyon na ng mga Katoliko ang pagsalubong sa pari habang itinataas at iwinawagayway ang mga palaspas tuwing unang Linggo ng Mahal na Araw, ginugunita nito ang malugod at mainit na pagtanggap ng mga taga-Jerusalem kay Hesus bago pa man siya dumanas ng kalbaryo, ang pagsisimula ng Semana Santa.

Marahil, atin nang mapapansin na bisperas pa lamang ng Araw ng Palaspas ay nagkalat na ang mga taong gumagawa at nagtitinda nito- bata, matanda, lalaki man o babae.

Sa bayan ng Balagtas sa Bulacan, makikita ang iba't-ibang mukha ng mga taong nasa likod ng mga dahong iwinawagayway ng mga naniniwala kay Kristo.


Isang huwarang inang naghahabi para sa mga anak

"Iyan na ang panata ko, kahit galing pa ako sa Pandi" aniya ni Calby Velasco, 43 at sampung taon nang gumagawa at nagtitinda ng palaspas.

"Malaking tulong ang pagkikita ng tatlong-libo sa isang magdamagang araw, pambaon na ng anak kong nasa college" 

Sa taong ito, ayon kay aling Calby tumaas ang bentahan niya sa palaspas ang dating 20 pesos, 25 pesos na, dahil ang mga dahong binibigay lang sa kanya noon ay binibili na niya ngayon.

"Talagang panata ko na kasi, talaga ito" dagdag pa niya.

Amang nagbibigay kulay sa pamilya

Katulad ng kung paano nilalagyan ng palamuti ang mga palaspas ganoon rin si Mang Roger Rivaya, 45, siyam na taon nang gumagawa ng palaspas.

Bakas sa mga ngiti at mga mata ni Mang Roger habang siya ay gumagawa nito. "Masaya ako, sa totoo nga lang lahat na andito, negosyo ko, pangkabuhayan pati panata syempre". Sa ika-siyam na taon niya sa paggawa nito katuwang na niya ang kanyang anak na si Julius.

Mga batang musmos sa pagtitinda

"Kinse, kinse, sampu-sampu at iba pa", awit ng mga batang panay ang benta at pag-alok sa mga taong dumadaan para bumili ng kanilang palaspas.

"Napagutusan lang kami, para na rin may pangkain kaming magbabarkada, hati-hati kami ganoon ba" Anya ni Jovik, ang tumatayong lider ng mga batang magkakaibigan.

"Malapit na nga 'tong maubos e, para makauwi na kami" dagdag pa niya.

Mga musmos at inosenteng kaisipan ang nagtitinda para may ipanlamang-tiyan.


Iba't ibang disenyo, iba't ibang buhay.

Pre-nup photos gone wrong
Engaged couple Billy and Coleen receives criticism
Ronaldo Magsakay

Stir the social media.

Few hours after being posted, the jaw-dropping pre-nuptial wedding photos of Kapamilyas Its Showtime afternoon hosts Billy Crawford and Coleen Garcia that is shot in Lalibela, Ethiopia went viral on the internet after netizens deem the couples pre-nup photos insensitive and offensive.

In their photographs, the engaged couple incorporated beautiful landscapes of Ethiopia mesmerizing the viewers with their creative photoshoot.

However, not only the African scenery was involved in the picture but also the Ethiopian locals in the aforesaid village, this generates different opinions in social media as some people interpreted it as the Euthopian locals were used as prop to flaunt their wealth and priveledges as white .

On the other hand, Billy and Coleen clarified their side on the issue.

"Its unfortunate how it was taken out of context. Its far from what we intended. We were invited and sponsored by Ethiopian Airlines to do our shoot there for their tourism and capture their natural environemtn because we were told that tourism helps their economy. Thats why we were in Euthopia," the couple said in a statement.

Flash to bid goodbye come 2020

Following the similar, final steps that Yahoo!, Chikka, Friendster, and Internet Explorer took, Adobe’s Flash will terminate its support on the program come 2020, taking with it the diverse amount of programs and games.

Flash, more commonly associated with simple control games that are playable via web browsers, runs as what is called the Adobe Flash Player that grew on popularity way back in the early 2000’s.

While Flash’s domination was pretty evident on the 2000’s, the advent of smartphones on 2007 and differing codes for new and additional net security made the Flash era crumble to goodbye.

HTML5 standards have been the benchmark of web browsers in the past decade in terms of animation and additional security, making Flash in particularly no place anymore concerning programming and web browsing.

Issues of Flash forcing the page back to the ads, steal focus from the browser, and being a security threat are some of the reasons why Adobe decided to take off the support from Flash, taking it into  question if whether or not the more than 80,000 Flash games will be preserved or be completely erased.

The program that was particularly inclined in enabling animation and graphics playable on the internet happened to be a versatile tool for creating basic game, thus raking a following from basic game creators and coders aside the target market which are the artists.

Apple’s Safari, Google’s Chrome, and Edge from Microsoft have already not been allowing Flash in them making Adobe to just drop the case for the program since its main platform is through browsers.

Although Adobe’s announcement said that they won’t support Flash anymore, they also clarified that they will still support Adobe Animate, which is the re-branded version of Flash.

-Aaron San Mateo

Ate girl confronts Bela Padilla on Showtime

By: Lorrie Rein A. Perlac


The Vice-Jack loveteam of Showtime makes noise to the social media after Jackie aka Ate Girl confronts Bela Padilla in front of Vice Ganda on March 10, 2018.

Padilla co-hosts Vice-Ganda on ms. Q and A this week and make Jackie feel jelous.

During the show Jackie said, “alam mo hinahangaan kita, mataas nga yung respeto ko sayo e. kaya lang sa pagkakatong ito sana alam o yung lugar mo.”

The crowd shows different reactions on this line given by Ate Girl and until now, many netizens keep on watching the replay of this “kilig moment” of this day’s episode.


"Hindi ko na kasi alam kung ano yung mararamdaman ko e, minsan kasi may hindi nakakatuwang bagay na makikita ka.”

"Yung lugar ko?” Bela asked.
“ Diyaan. [ikaw?] Yung lugar ko. dito sa puso niya”
"Okay sige noted. Bela answered.

"Naguguluhan na ako, teka…” Jackie, okay tayo ha? Alam mo naman na trabaho at alam mong totoo Jackie” Vice Ganda said.

During the Q and A segment of Showtime, Jackie always gives the questions inside a fish bowl for the candidates and this gives kilig to the Kapamilya every afternoon.

This segment of Showtime with the #ShowtimeGirlsRunTheWorld ranked number 1 trending on Youtube with  over 480, 941 views.

Repurpose of 24 Oras: Kyline Alcantara, thankful sa love at support ng kanyang fans

Kyline Alcantara’s grateful heart

By: Lorrie Rein A. Perlac

The La Nueva Kontrabida Star of GMA Telebabad’s Kambal Karibal showed her gratitude to her fans on March 04, 2018, Sunday.

After her guesting on Sunday Pinasaya, the young actress had an instant fan meet on a restaurant. 

 “Sobrang saya hindi ko alam kung ano yung irereact ko kasi nakakaoverwhelm po talaga yung buhos na suporta nila sa akin” Kyline said.

Meanwhile, Kyline also visited SM Pulilan Bulacan last February 24, 2018, the actress posted photos on her Instagram account with a caption “THANK YOU SO MUCH SM PULILAN #TeamKyliniansBulacan. The show was attended by many of her supporters and her post earned thousands of likes and comments.

“Gusto ko lang po magpasalamat sa GMA dahil binigyan nila ako ng pagkakataon na ipakita yung talento ko.” she added.

This coming October Kyline has an offer to perform in America also some of her supporters in New York are planning to build their own fans club for the young artist.

Alcantara recently signed a contract with GMA Artist Center in late 2017, and she got her first role as Crisel on the running primetime show, Kambal Karibal with the love team “Biguel” – Bianca Umali and Miguel Tanfelix. 

 “pati po kami ay nagulat sa ginawang plot team ng creative team so yun po yung dapat niyong abangan” Alcantara said.