From Letran to E-Painters: Caloy Garcia and Raymond Almazan

 

NCAA has not ended yet but the excitement of both Coach Caloy Garcia and Rain or Shine Elasto Painters 3rd Pick Raymond Almazan for what is in store is something they both look forward to.

Garcia, who is Almazan's current coach in Letran and works as a deputy for Coach Yeng Guiao for the E-Painters believes that Almazan will not have a hard time transitioning from Letran to the pros since the two coaches run a similar system. The only thing most probably that the lead MVP candidate of Letran needs to work on to is his weight to be able to bang bodies and defend better in the PBA.

If you have watched the PBA Draft, you would remember Beau letting Raymond eat barbecue, well, Raymond will have his dose of this extra rice after NCAA ends. 

Image: PBA/Nuki Sabio

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Yay or Nay for this Alfredo Barraza Creation on Ariella Arida

 

Much anticipation for the preliminaries last night that even rehearsal photos were pretty much valuable. 

What do you think about this yellow number on  Miss Universe Philippines Ariella Arida? Much as we loathe Barraza creations, this gave her a simple yet elegant look as she braved her way towards the preliminaries.

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Ariella Arida in the Miss Universe 2013 National Costume Competition

 

The blog owner has not gotten a reliable live streaming link of the National Costume Contest last night to make it up here is a photo of Miss Universe Philippines Ara Arida in her Filipiniana.

From our own point of view it was not the best, but it was not the worst, it didn't took the fight out of our very own Ara, we strongly believe she'll still venture into the Top 5 and we call on Filipinos to still support her in her quest for the Diamond Nexus Lab Crown and the right to be Miss Universe 2013.

(Photo: OPMB Worldwide/Jory Rivera) 

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Thor Dulay: The Voice of Hope Concert Details

 

Thor Dulay will be featured in a Benefit Concert entitled The Voice of Hope on Tuesday, December 3, 2013 at the Music Museum.

The concert will be for the benefit for Nayon ng Kabataan Orpahange and Bohol Victims.

For Tickets: www.ticketworld.com.ph 

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2013 PBA Draft Results

 

Slaughter, Sangalang, Teng and Garcia are all expected first-rounders (Photo: Yahoo Images)

The 2013 PBA Draft will happen November 3, 2013 at Robinsons Place, Manila, The 79 Draft hopefuls are all eager to find out if teams will place interest in them after the Rookie Camp and their respective collegiate showings.

Greg Slaughter of the Ateneo De Manila University is expected to be the #1 pick.

Draft Day Results:

1st Round:

1. Barangay Ginebra San Miguel - Greg Slaughter
2. San Mig Coffee Mixers - Ian Sangalang
3. Rain or Shine Elasto Painters - Raymond Almazan 

4. Barangay Ginebra San Miguel (from Barako Bull) - James Forrester
5. Global Port Batang Pier (from Petron via Barako Bull trade) - Terrence Romeo
6. Global Port Batang Pier (from Barako) - Ryan Roose Garcia 

7. Global Port Batang Pier - Isaac Holstein

8. Alaska Aces - Ryan Buenafe
9. Rain or Shine Elasto Painters - Alex Nuyles
10. San Mig Coffee - Justin Chua

2nd Round

11. Global Port Batang Pier - Nico Salva
12. Rain or Shine Elasto Painters - Jeric Teng

13. San Mig Coffee Mixers - Justin Melton
14. Barko Bull Energy Cola - Jeric Fortuna
15. Talk and Text Tropang Texters - John Paul Erram
16. Air 21 Express - Eric Camson
17. Talk and Text Tropang Texters - Robby Celiz

18. Alaska Aces - Chris Exciminiano
19. Rain or Shine Elasto Painters - Gayford Rodriguez

20. Barako Bull Energy Cola - Carlo Lastimosa

Third Round

1. Air 21 – Joshua Webb
2. GlobalPort – Jopher Custodio
3. Barako Bull- Darwin Cordero
4. GlobalPort (from Ginebra)- LA Revilla
5. Petron – Sam Marata
6. Meralco – Anjo Caram
7. Talk ‘N Text – Eliud Poligrates
8. Alaska – Raymund Ilagan
9. Rain or Shine Ervic Vijandre
10. San Mig Coffee – JR Cawaling

Fourth Round

1. GlobalPort – PASS
2. Air 21 – Angelo Ingco
3. Barako Bull – Jett Vidal
4. Ginebra – John Usita
5. Petron: Nate Matute
6. Meralco: Mike Parala
7. Talk ‘N Text – Oping Sumalinog
8. Alaska – PASS
9. Rain or Shine – PASS
10. San Mig Coffee – PASS

Fifth Round

1. Air 21 -Randolph Chua
2. GlobalPort – PASS
3. Barako Bull – Mike Silungan
4. Ginebra – Alvin Padilla
5. Petron – PASS
6. Meralco – Mark Lopez
7. Talk ‘N Text – Byron Villarias
8. Alaska – PASS
9. Rain or Shine – PASS
10. San Mig Coffee – PASS

Sixth Round

1. GlobalPort – Pass
2. Air 21 – PASS
3. Barako Bull – PASS
4. Ginebra – Jens Knuttel
5. Petron – PASS
6. Meralco – Ron Guevarra
8. Alaska – PASS
9. Rain or Shine – PASS
10. San Mig Coffee – PASS

Seventh Round

1. GlobalPort – PASS
2. Air 21 – PASS
3. Barako Bull – PASS
4. Ginebra – PASS
5. Petron – PASS
6. Meralco – Mark Bringas
8. Alaska – PASS
9. Rain or Shine – PASS
10. San Mig Coffee – PASS

 

Draft Day Trades (for Picks):

BGSM trades Maierhofer and Wilson for James Forrester (#4 pick)
Barako gets Magi Sison and Mark Isip from Petron, Petron trades #5 pick for Yousef Taha (#5 pick)
Barako gets Denok Miranda for draft rights to #6.

Alaska trades their rights to the #15th pick to Talk and Text

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iPhone 5S and 5C coming to Globe by November 15

iPhone 5S and 5C are coming to Globe on November 15, 2013, as announced on Twitter:

Christmas is earlier this year! #GLOBEiPhone5S and #GLOBEiPhone5C will be available on November 15. http://t.co/6gg8Ajttur
— Dale (@dalekins) October 25, 2013

You can now pre-register your interest for these phones at www.globe.com.ph 

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Vote for the Philippines, Vote for Ariella Arida

 

It's that time of the year again where we, pageant fans have the chance to help the Miss Universe hopefuls get into the next round of the competition.

Simply go to the Miss Universe Website, click the 2013 Contestants, find the Philippines and click the VOTE ME tab.

Your vote is from the scale of 1-10 with 1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest. Just indicate your e-mail address and on the drop down menu click country's name before you copy the code.

You need to certify that you are 16 years old and older to vote. 1 email is allowed to vote 10 times per day.

Winner of the online votes moves on to the Top 16 at the finals night on November 9. 

Photo Credit: nightout.ru/Moscow 

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