Bruno Mars Tweets Having Crush for Anne Curtis

“Congrats Anne Curtis!!! She’s My Filipina Crush and Angel Locsin I Think!”

Tweet kahapon ni Bruno Mars. Ibang level na ‘yun dahil si Bruno Mars na ang nag-announce sa kanyang Twitter account na may 4,285,855 followers.

Kaya naman marami ang nag-react sa Twitter.

Pero wala pang reaction si Anne na nag-trending kahapon matapos ngang manalo sa showdown ng mga hosts ng Showtime para sa kanilang second anniversary.

Effort kung effort kasi ang ginawa ni Anne. Nag-pole dance siya, nag-acrobatic pa at naglub­lob sa tubog at bumirit habang hawak ni Jed Madela ang mikropono.

Mataas ang aliw at lakas ng loob factor ni Anne kaya siya napili ng mga judges na kasama sina Dra. Vicki Belo and Liz Uy.

Nanalo siya ng P100,000 na sabi ni Anne ay ido-donate niya sa UNICEF Philippines.

Ayun ang rason kaya nag-congratulate ang international singer na may dugong Pinoy. 

10 of the Best Universities in the Philippines 2011

Finding a good school to study is a quite tricky thing. You have to find out their competitiveness and least assured that when you graduate will end up high recommendation to your career. So Always10 is here to help you select schools to study in the Philippines. Topuniversities.com has recently released the top 200 Asian universities lists for 2011 and of course, the big three are included in the list.

Here are the best Universities in the Philippines: (Rank, Name, Asian Universities Rank Spot, Score)

1 - University of the Philippines
Asian Rank: 62 
Score: 58.10

The University of the Philippines (Unibersidad ng Pilipinas in Filipino, commonly abbreviated as U.P. and colloquially referred to as Peyups) is the national university of the Philippines. Founded in 1908 through Act No. 1870 of the first Philippine Legislature, known as the "University Act" by authority of the United States, the University currently provides the largest number of degree programs in the country. Senate Resolution No. 276 of the Senate of the Philippines recognizes the University as "the nation’s premier university". Seven of fifteen (15) Philippine Presidents have attended courses in the University either as undergraduates or as postgraduate students, while 12 Chief Justices of the Supreme Court, 36 out of the 57 National Artists and 34 out of the 35 National Scientists are affiliated with the University.
U.P. has the most National Centers of Excellence and Development among higher education institutions in the country and one of only three schools in Asia that have received institutional recognition in the Ramon Magsaysay Awards.
U.P. is partly subsidized by the Philippine government. Students of the university and its graduates are referred to as "[Mga] Iskolar ng Bayan" ("Scholars of the Nation"). This makes admission into the University extremely competitive. In 2006, 70,000 applicants flocked to test centers to take the University of the Philippines College Admission Test (UPCAT) for undergraduate admission. Around 11,000 of the applicants were admitted for the year 2006, an acceptance rate of about 18% for the whole of the UP system.

2 - Ateneo de Manila University
Asian Rank: 65 
Score: 57.20

The Ateneo de Manila University (also called Ateneo de Manila or simply the Ateneo) is a private teaching and research university run by the Society of Jesus in the Philippines. It began in 1859 when the City of Manila handed control of the Escuela Municipal de Manila in Intramuros, Manila, to the Jesuits. It was then a state-subsidized school. It became a private school during the American occupation of the Philippines, and has moved from Manila to its current location. It received its university charter in 1959.
Its main campus in Loyola Heights, Quezon City, Metro Manila is home to the university's college and graduate school units, as well as its high school and grade school. Two other campuses, in Rockwell Center and Salcedo Village, both in Makati City, house the university's professional schools of business, law, and government. A fourth facility in the Don Eugenio López, Sr. Medical Complex in Ortigas Center, Pasig City houses its school of medicine and public health.
The Ateneo offers programs in the elementary, secondary, undergraduate, and graduate levels. Its academic offerings include the Arts, Humanities, Business, Law, the Social Sciences, Philosophy, Theology, Medicine and Public Health, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science and Information Technology, Engineering, Environmental Science, and Government. Aside from teaching and research, the Ateneo de Manila also engages in social outreach.
It was granted Level IV accreditation--the highest possible level—from the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) through the Federation of Accrediting Agencies of the Philippines (FAAP) and the Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities (PAASCU). Its was reaccredited at the same level, and was likewise granted Institutional Accreditation by the same body in 2011, the first time that both citations were awarded to a university simultaneously.
It is also one of few universities granted autonomous status by CHED, which likewise recognizes a number of the University's programs and departments as Centers of Excellence and Centers of Development.
Its grade school and high school have been granted Level III accreditation by PAASCU and FAAP, the highest possible level for basic education.

3 - University of Santo Tomas
Asian Rank: 104 
Score: 47.10

The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines (colloquially UST or "Ustê". Filipino: Unibersidad ng Santo Tomas), is a private Roman Catholic university run by the Order of Preachers in Manila. Founded on April 28, 1611 by archbishop of Manila Miguel de Benavides, it has the oldest extant university charter in the Philippines and in Asia. and is one of the world's largest Catholic universities in terms of enrollment found on one campus. UST is also the largest university in the city of Manila. As a Pontifical University in Asia, UST is the only university to have been visited by two popes three times: once by Pope Paul VI on Nov. 28, 1970, and twice by Pope John Paul II on Feb. 18, 1981 and January 13, 1995.
The University is composed of several autonomous faculties, colleges, schools and institutes, each conferring undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate degrees, and the basic education units. Several degrees have been accredited by the Commission on Higher Education as Centers of Excellence and Centers of Development.

4 - De La Salle University
Asian Rank: 107 
Score: 45.90

De La Salle University (Tagalog: Pamantasang De La Salle) (also referred to as DLSU or La Salle) is a private La Sallian university in Malate, Manila, Philippines. It was founded in 1911 by De La Salle Brothers as the De La Salle College in Paco, Manila with Blimond Pierre serving as its first director. The college moved in September 1921 to its present location to facilitate increase in enrollment. DLSU, granted university status on February 1975, is the oldest constituent of De La Salle Philippines (DLSP), a network of 17 La Sallian institutions established in 2006 to replace the De La Salle University System.
The university started as a boys' elementary and high school. It started offering in 1920 a two-year Associate in Arts in Commerce program, which was later discontinued in 1931 in favor of a Bachelor of Science in Commerce program. DLSU currently offers coeducational undergraduate and graduate degree programs through its seven colleges and one school specializing in varied disciplines, including business, engineering and liberal arts.
The university, currently under the administration of President Narciso S. Erguiza, is a member of several international university associations (including the ASEAN University Network and International Association of Universities) as well as local organizations (such as the South Manila Inter-Institutional Consortium).
DLSU is identified by the Philippine Commission on Higher Education (CHED) as a "Center of Excellence" in six of its programs, and a "Center of Development" in the same number of programs. The university is also among the 40 institutions granted autonomous status by CHED as of 2010. Likewise, it is the first of the only two institutions granted the highest-level accreditation (Level IV) by the Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities (PAASCU). The university ranks 107th and 451st in the 2011 Asian University Rankings and 2010 World University Rankings, respectively, published by Quacquarelli Symonds.
Research is mainly funded by the De La Salle University Science Foundation. Since 2000, DLSU has been the CHED Zonal Rsearch Center for 10 cities in southern Metro Manila. As such, it evaluates research proposals for recommendation for CHED funding, and monitoring of CHED-funded researches, among others. DLSU research has focused on affective computing and renewable energy. Application of its research has resulted to electrification of remote areas in the country through the use of micro hydro generators, and the creation of both of the only two solar cars of the Philippines, SINAG and SIKAT.

Since the Asian rankings only prioritize top 200, We continue the list below according to their score.

5 - University of Southeastern Philippines
Asian Rank: 201+ 
Score: 18.70

The University of Southeastern Philippines (USeP) is a regional state university created in 1978 through Batas Pambansa Bilang 12. The university is an integration of four state institutions: Mindanao State University-Davao, the University of the Philippines-Master of Management Program in Davao, the Davao School of Arts and Trades, and the Davao National Regional Agricultural School.
The university has four campuses: Obrero (main) and Mintal campuses in Davao City, Tagum-Mabini Campus which has two units — one in Tagum City and one in Compostela Valley Province — and Bislig Campus in Surigao del Sur.

6 - Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan
Asian Rank: 201+ 
Score: 16.40

Xavier University – Ateneo de Cagayan is a private, Roman Catholic university run by the Society of Jesus in Cagayan de Oro, Philippines.
It was founded on June 7, 1933 as the Ateneo de Cagayan by an American Jesuit missionary, Fr. James T.G. Hayes, S.J., D.D., who later became the first Archbishop of Cagayan de Oro. In 1958, Ateneo de Cagayan became a university and was renamed to its present name, Xavier University, in honor of the Jesuit missionary, St. Francis Xavier.
There were at least two attempts by the alumni of the then Ateneo de Cagayan to revert the name of the University to Ateneo de Cagayan. The first attempt was in the mid 1990's and the second attempt was in 2007. These attempts were, however, not widely supported and in the case of the 2007 proposal, not endorsed by the Xavier University – Ateneo Alumni Association (XU–AAA). Until today, the debate still continues.

7 - Central Mindanao University
Asian Rank: 201+ 
Score: 13.60

Central Mindanao University is one of the two universities in the province of Bukidnon, Mindanao Island in the Philippines.

8 - Mapua Institute of Technology
Asian Rank: 201+ 
Score: 11.40

Mapúa Institute of Technology (MIT, Mapúa Tech or simply Mapúa) is a private, non-sectarian, Filipino tertiary institute located in Intramuros, Manila and in Makati.
It was founded by the first registered Filipino architect, Don Tomás Mapúa in 1925, a graduate of Cornell University. After he died, the tradition was continued by his children, Don Óscar B. Mapúa Sr., a graduate in Civil Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Gloria Mapúa-Lim.
The Institute is a reputable source of architects, engineers, and science graduates and constantly produces top notchers in the architectural and engineering fields as the Mapúa Institute of Technology heavily specializes in these fields in the undergraduate and graduate levels, aside from its widening array of undergraduate programs such as Computer Science, Multimedia Arts and Sciences, Information Technology, Accounting, Entrepreneurship, Business Management, Hotel & Restaurant Management, and Nursing.
The Institute has been granted with the Level IV Accredited Status to its Civil Engineering program by the Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities Commission on Accreditation (PACUCOA), which is one of the first engineering programs to be accorded such status. In addition, the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) recently recognized Mapúa’s Mechanical Engineering (ME), Computer Engineering (CpE) and Electronics Engineering (ECE) programs as Centers of Development for Engineering (COD).
Mapua is also the first Philippine and Southeast Asian educational institution to have ABET certification, rendering the Institute to be at par with US-based colleges and universities.

9 - Adamson University
Asian Rank: 201+ 
Score: 10.40

Adamson University iss a private Catholic university in Manila, Philippines, founded on June 30, 1932 by Greek immigrant George Lucas Adamson as the Adamson School of Industrial Chemistry. On February 5, 1941, the school was granted university status by the Department of Education, and on December 4, 1964, the university was turned over to the Vincentian Fathers of the Congregation of the Mission (CM) and was incorporated into the Adamson-Ozanam Education Institutions, Inc.
Adamson University has programs in Graduate Education, Law, the Arts and Sciences, Engineering, Nursing, Pharmacy, Architecture, Business Administration, Teacher Education, as well as secondary, elementary, and preparatory education. Adamson has eight distinguished courses for Center of Development and Center of Excellence identified by the Philippines Commission on Higher Education and has been granted Autonomous Status. It is a member of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP).

10 - Father Saturnino Urios College
Asian Rank: 201+ 
Score: 6.20

The Father Saturnino Urios University (FSUU) is a Roman Catholic private university run by the Diocese of Butuan in Butuan City, Philippines.
It has two campuses: the main campus in the heart of Butuan City (which houses the academic units and offices) and the new Morelos campus at Brgy. Libertad (which houses the high school and grade school).
FSUU is the only and first home-grown university in the Caraga region.

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ABS-CBN, Nangunguna Pa Rin sa National TV Ratings sa Primetime Ngayong Setyembre

Muling namayagpag ang ABS-CBNCorporation sa national TV ratings nang makakuha ito ng average audience share na 42 percent o mahigit 12 puntos kaysa GMA na may 30 percent ngayong Setyembre sa primetime (6 PM- 12 MN) kung saan pinakamarami ang nanonood ng TV at mas maraming advertisers ang naglalagay ng patalastas.

Base rin sa datos ng Kantar Media, nanguna rin ang ABS-CBN sa Metro Manila sa primetime sa average audience share na 35 percent laban sa 33 percent ng GMA.

Labingtatlo sa top 15 pinakapinanood na programa noong nakaraang buwan sa bansa ay mula rin sa Kapamilya Network kung saan ang top ten slots ay pawang mula sa kanila. Ang ipinagmamalaking locally-produced na programa ng GMA na ‘‘Amaya’’ ay nasa ika-15 lang.

Una sa listahan ang nagdiriwang ng ika-20 anibersaryo na ”MMK” sa average TV rating na 32.8% at siya ring nanguna pagdating sa weekend programming. Sinundan naman ito ng “100 Days to Heaven” sa average TV rating na 32% at siya ring nananatiling numero unong programa sa weekday.

Ang live airing naman ng prestihiyosong “Miss Universe 2011” sa Sao Paolo, Brazli kung saan naiuwi niShamcey Supsup ang karangalang 3rd runner up, ay pumalo ng 31% sa umaga, na siyang pinakamataas ng rating na naitala para sa isang beauty pageant. Hindi naman umabot sa kalahati ang rating ng “Miss World” na prinoduce ng GMA dahil nag-rate lang ito ng 9.2% sa primetime.

Samantala, ang pinakabagong pambato sa primetime ng Kapamilya na “Nasaan Ka Elisa?” ay agad na umakyat sa ikapitong puwesto sa average TV rating na 25.3% at patuloy na tinataob ang kalabang “Munting Heredera” ng GMA na pumapalo lang sa average TV rating na 19.4%

Ang iba pang ABS-CBN programs na nasa top 15 ay ang “My Binondo Girl” (27.4%), “Junior MasterChef Pinoy Edition” (26.4%), “Rated K” (24.6%), “Guns and Roses” (23.7%), “Pilipinas Got Talent” (22.8%), “Wansapanataym” (22.7%), “Maria La Del Barrio” (21.9%), at “Goin Bulilit” (20.9%).

Kilala ang kumpanyang Kantar Media sa pagbibigay ng datos tungkol sa TV ratings. Bukod sa ABS-CBN, may naka-subscribe rin sa kanilang ibang networks, advertising agencies, at pan-regional networks tulad ng NBN, Sky Cable, J. Romero and Associates, Adformatix, Starcom, OMD, PhD, Mediacom, Mindshare, MEC, Maxus, Universal McCann, Wellmade Manufacturing Corporation, CSM Media Inc., Fox International Channels, Star HK, Discovery, AXN, HBO, MTV, at Sony PicturesTelevision International.

Ang ABS-CBN ay naka-subscribe sa media research agency na Kantar Media. Lumipat sa Kantar Media/TNS ang ABS-CBN matapos magsampa ito ng kaso laban sa AGB Nielsen Media Research sa hindi nito pagsunod sa hiniling na imbestigasyon hinggil sa umano'y pandaraya ng datos ng kanilang TV ratings. Kasalukuyang nakabinbin pa sa korte ang kaso.

Brightest Kapamilya Child Stars Lead in 'Diyos ay Pag-Ibig!'

The brightest child wonders of ABS-CBN namely Zaijian Jaranilla, Mutya Orquia, Xyriel Manabat and Louis Abuel will work together in the upcoming Primetime TV series titled "Diyos ay Pag-Ibig."

"Diyos ay Pag-Ibig" is the newest TV series offering of the Kapamilya network to premiere this coming December 2011. Yup, this will be the Christmas-serye of ABS-CBN for this year! Thestory will be all about Christmas and love!

"Tungkol po ito sa Pasko, sa pagmamahalan at sa pagbibigayan, at sa pagmamahalan po naming apat. Para po kaming magkakapatid," Zaijan shared in an interview.

Xyriel and Louis on the other hand expressed their excitement for the said TV series!

"Excited po ako kasi po marami na naman akong makakasamang artista," Xyriel said.

"Excited ako makakasama ko kasi ang mga artistang bata na magagaling," Louis added.

This Christmas-serye reunites Xyriel and Zaijan who already worked together in the fantaserye "Noah" and Xyriel and Louis who were both part of the current inspiration series "100 Days to Heaven!"

Bembol Roco, Alfred Vargas and Dimples Romana join the fourchild wonders. The series is under the direction of Jojo Saguin and Erick Salud. Great! 

Steve Jobs is Dead

Steve Jobs is Dead

Steve Jobs, who sparked a revolution in the technology industry and then presided over it as Silicon Valley's radiant Sun King, died Wednesday. The incandescent center of a tech universe around which all the other planets revolved, Jobs had a genius for stylish design and a boyish sense of what was "cool."

He was 56 when he died, ahead of his time to the very end.

According to a spokesman for Apple Inc. — the company Jobs co-founded when he was just 21, and turned into one of the world's great industrial design houses — he suffered from a recurrence of the pancreatic cancer for which he had undergone surgery in 2004.

Jobs had taken his third leave of absence from the company in January of this year, and made the final capitulation to his failing health on Aug. 24, when he resigned as Apple's CEO. After 35 years as the soul of Silicon Valley's new machine, that may have been a fate worse than death.

Jobs died only a few miles from the family garage in Los Altos, where he and fellow college dropout Steve Wozniak assembled the first Apple computer in 1976. Jobs transformed the computer from an intimidating piece of business machinery — its blinking lights often caged behind a glass wall — to a device people considered "personal," and then indispensable.

Jobs was the undisputed "i'' behind the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad, and there was very little about his personality that was lower-case. According to Fortune magazine he was considered "one of Silicon Valley's leading egomaniacs," but Jobs also cultivated a loyal coterie of ergomaniacs — ergonomic designers who created the sleek stable of iHits — whose devotion to him was the centrifugal force holding Apple together. Shares of the company's stock plunged 22 points after Jobs announced his final medical leave on Jan. 17.

"A hundred years from now, when people talk about Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, Gates is going to be remembered for his philanthropy, not technology," said tech forecaster Paul Saffo, "the same way people remember Andrew Carnegie for the money he gave to education, not the fortune he made in steel. But what they're going to say about Steve Jobs is that he led a revolution."

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Star Magic Artists Pose as Celebrity Icons in "Star Magic Catalogue 2012"

Meet your fave Star Magic artists in a special autograph signing event.

The Star Magic Catalogue 2012, a special annual publication of ABS CBNPublishing, showcases the biggest and brightest stars in Philippine entertainmentat their most beautiful and glamorous. The stunning images, captured through the lens of top fashion photographers BJ Pascual and Paolo Pineda, presents artistslike Piolo Pascual, Bea Alonzo, Gerald Anderson, Kristine Hermosa, Zanjoe Marudo, Jessy Mendiola as modern celebrity icons of this generation.

The Star Magic Catalogue will be releasing a special limited edition cover exclusively at Fully Booked Bonifacio Global City this weekend ONLY. The first 150 who buy this edition on October 08 and 09 will get a chance to have their copies signed by their favorite stars at a special autograph-signing session on October 09, 4:00PM to 6:00PM. the activity will be held at the atrium of Fully Booked on Bonifacio High Street.

Among the Star Magic artists to grace this launch event are Kim Chiu, Xian Lim, Yeng Constantino, JM De Guzman, Melissa Ricks, Lauren Young, Enrique Gil, Martin Del Rosario, Matteo Guidicelli, Rafael Rosell, Angelica Panganiban, Bea Alonzo, Joem Bascon, Ejay Falcon, Empress, Diego Loyzaga, Daniel Padilla and many more.

The limited edition cover will be available this weekend only in Fully Booked Bonifacio Highstreet. For more details, log on towww.facebook.com/StarMagicCatalogue

The Star Magic Catalogue is an annual special publication of ABS-CBN Publishing, which features all the Star Magic artists in their roster. In its 19th year in the industry, Star Magic has produced the biggest and the brightest celebrities ever to grace thePhilippine entertainment scene.

Anne Curtis Rogue Magazine October 2011 Issue - BTS Pictorial Videos

Watch here Anne Curtis' behind-the-scene pictorial videos for Rogue MagazineOctober 2011 issue.

Rogue October 2011 - Anne Curtis Part 1 




Rogue October 2011 - Anne Curtis Part 2




Rogue October 2011 - Anne Curtis Part 3



Videos: migslugs on YouTube

Anne Curtis Apologizes for Magazine Cover

In the heels of her widely successful film “No Other Woman,” actress-TV host Anne Curtis humbly apologizes for the “inappropriate” message supposedly conveyed by her recent magazine cover.

“I think it’s proper to really apologize to the people who were offended,” said Curtis in an interview with “Bandila” aired on Oct. 5.

Curtis was the October issue cover girl of Rogue magazine that recently drew flack from anti-smoking advocates after showing the star holding a cigarette.

The Philippine Medical Association (PMA) lamented that Curtis’ cover photo—as with Nora Aunor’s YES! Magazine cover—sets a bad example to the youth who apparently looks up to these renowned celebrities.

The “Showtime” host, however, mentioned that she understands where the critics are coming from.

“Syempre na-sad din kami that it was given that kind of publicity but at the same time naiintindihan din naman namin ang point nila,” Curtis enthused.

To set the record straight, she maintained that it was not the magazine’s intention to promote or to engage the youth into smoking.

“I don’t smoke. So I do not promote smoking. Just to be clear also,” shared Curtis.