Let's Do The News! (May 21, 2014)

The big scoop today...

- Dodge and SRT are proudly present their most powerful Challenger yet. Meet the 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT with the newly-developed and supercharged Hellcat 6.2L HEMI V8 engine. It's the most powerful engine ever made by the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.

- Check out the teaser for Mercedes-AMG's brand new sportscar that is heading our way soon...

 

- WALANG HIMALA! Legendary actress Nora Aunor is now 60 years old!

- Who is this? McDonald's revealed their brand new mascot named Happy but by the looks of it, he looks rather creepy.

- President Xi Jinping of the People's Republic of China warns Asian nations about strengthening military alliances to counter China, saying this won't not benefit regional security.

- John Kaufman is the winner of NBC's The Voice Season 6.

- Meryl Davis and Maksim Chmerkovskly are the winning pair in the season finale of ABC's Dancing With The Stars after their outstanding performance that left the audiences rocked with praise.

- Brenna D'Amico will be playing the role of Jane, the Fairy Godmother's daughter, in 2015's Disney Channel Original Movie, Descendants.

- Check out Zendaya's music video for the song "Too Much", to be seen in next month's DCOM, Zapped! Zapped premieres June 27th, just before the premiere of the new series Girl Meets World.

You can never have too much of Zendaya!



- From May 22 to May 25, 2014, the 2014 Trans Sport Show features the brightest and the hottest machines in the world of motoring. It happens tomorrow up until Sunday at the SMX Convention Center, perfect if you're looking for something to spend your last days of summer this year!

TTFN!!!

Driving Music (What is the name of the song on car commercial?) Vol. 62

A few days ago, Shigeaki Miyazaki (better known as ASKA from a fabled duo CHAGE & ASKA) has been arrested for drug possession. Last year, Chage (real name Shuji Shibata) and Aska delayed their reunion concerts for health concerns. Some reports noted that Aska's using drugs but the singer denied the claims. Now, the 56-year-old singer secretly possessed drugs in violation of Japan's drug control laws.

After his arrest, it seems that Walt Disney Studios Japan is delaying the release of the Blu-Ray/DVD collection of anime movie works by the legendary Hayao Miyazaki. If that wasn't enough, the collection will no longer have the Chage and Aska song titled "On Your Mark". They're also stopping shipments of the 2005 Studio Ghibli special shorts DVD, which also comes with the same song.

Universal Music announced that they're suspending shipments and recalling goods by Chage and Aska, especially those goods by Aska himself, following his arrest.

Listen up Subarists, you may be familiar with Chage and Aska as those who did commercial songs for Subaru models in Japan, namely the Impreza and the Vivio kei-car, from the 90's. In this Driving Music segment courtesy of yours truly, car enthusiasts from all over Japan should better hunt some Chage and Aska songs heard from Japanese car commercials in the past so before those corporations start pulling out some Chage and Aska hits following Aska's arrest, find those songs while you can. Here are the list...

1) No No Darlin' by Chage & Aska

2) WALK by Chage & Aska

3) Sons and Daughters by Chage & Aska

4) なぜに君は帰らない by Chage & Aska

5) Say Yes by Chage & Aska (not from a Subaru commercial but actually, it came from a Mitsubishi Grandis commercial since 2004)

6) DO YA DO by Chage & Aska (again, not from a Subaru commercial but it came from a Toyota Sprinter Carib commercial since 1990)

Find these songs before they're removed forever following Aska's arrest and they can make a great addition to your driving music playlist! Perhaps that's the reason why it's called DRIVING MUSIC, I'm hunting for songs came from car commercials from around the globe.

Driving Music from Leopaul's Blog is the segment where solves every car enthusiasts' questions about the title of the song of car commercials...with the risk of MATCHED THIRD PARTY CONTENT on their status. Acknowledge or dispute, it's your choice.

Sewol Tragedy: Owner defied orders

Yoo Byung-eun, the de-facto owner of the sunken Sewol ferry, has once again defied orders to come in for questioning over his possible involvement in last month's maritime disaster. The prosecutors are guessing if the owner might smuggle himself out on Saturday in a believer's car, a religious retreat and farming firms complex that Yoo's family owns in the Gyeonggi-Do province. They suspect that Yoo hides out at his followers home in Seoul and the guessing comes from traces of telephone communications between him and his followers. He's believed to have a dozen of borrowed phones.

Source: Arirang Radio

Atom Araullo's response to Lourd de Veyra's tweet

Moments ago, we saw TV5's showbiz reporter, Jun Sabayton, interrupted ABS-CBN reporter Atom Araullo while he was in a middle of a report about DepEd's Brigada Eskwela. Now, something's trending going on around here post-encounter.

Lourd de Veyra (the Radioactive Sago Project member, TV5 reporter, and the dude from the Word Of The Lourd shorts) tweeted like this; "Boss @atomaraullo Sorry ha. We need the ratings" but the ABS-CBN reporter slams them by his response "Karangalan ko ang mahaplos ng pinakawalang kwentang showbiz reporter" (It's been honored to get touched by this nonsense showbiz reporter). That tweet reached 348 retweets and 637 favorites.

Report: http://n5e.interaksyon.com/top/0B7431ECFEEA407/1001/sagot-ni-atom-araullo-sa-tweet-ni-lourd-de-veyra-trending

Man kills daughter, made her death his profile pic

This is one of the most shocking crime news that you have never witnessed before and this crime news is from the Philippines. Somewhere in Quezon City, there was once a man who mercilessly killed his own 7-year-old daughter because of his depression. He was motivated to killed his daughter when his wife unknowingly left to Canada earlier this month. A witness, who turned out to be the sister of the suspect, told that in the first attempt, he hid his wife's passport somewhere in the house and then, in the second attempt, his wife left the country discreetly. Unknowingly, he was threatened to kill his daughter if his wife leaves the country for good.

The crime occurred when his 7-year-old daughter was sleeping and his sister heard that there was some hysteria going on around in the house and when she saw his daughter, she tried waking up but then, she noticed a couple of stabs in her body.

And then, the news gets worse; he used his daughter's death as his profile pic on Facebook just to show it to his wife. Right now, he was imprisoned at the Quezon City Police Station 5 Fairview and charged for parricide.

Source: TV5, Philippine Daily Inquirer

Let's Do The News! (May 20, 2014)

The big scoop today...

- ANALYSIS: Student-loan payments are most struggled by borrowers by 11.5%, as illustrated by this chart courtesy of the Pew Research Center.

Source: http://pewresearch.tumblr.com/

- Numerous school officials, teachers, parents, students, community residents, and other education stakeholders gathered yesterday in numerous public schools all over the Philippines for the annual Brigada Eskwela campaigned by DepEd. With most schools in the Philippines will be reopened on Monday, June 2, 2014, signalling the start of School Year 2014-2015, the Brigada Eskwela is a yearly tradition to help public schools prepare for the opening of a new school year. For this year, the Brigada Eskwela is focused to keep schools safe from natural calamities; mostly floods.

- The new series, Girl Meets World, starring Rowan Blanchard and Sabrina Carpenter, is coming next month on Disney Channel. The digital single, Take On The World, which serves as the theme song of the new series, is now available on iTunes!

- Philippine Airlines revealed their new Airbus 330-300 HGW (high gross weight) jet to the general public.

- Time for some science breakthrough; Australians develop a new Twitter tool to monitor the world's emotions.

- In a twisted kind of way; reporters Luchi Cruz-Valdes (TV5), Korina Sanchez (ABS-CBN), and Mike Enriquez (GMA) were battered by an issue linking these three reporters to Pork Barrel Queen Janet Lim Napoles.

- Also, another set of lawmakers are listed in the Napolist. Who are these? Find out by clicking here.

- The Philippine Volcanoes are setting their standards as they've reached 52nd in the international rugby world ranking. Such performances include a win against Sr Lanka in the Asian 5 Nations in Colombo at the score of 26-25.

- The 2014 version of Godzilla scored a $38.5 million earnings on its first day, more than Captain America: The Winter Soldier or The Amazing Spider-Man 2. It's so successful, the folks behind the reboot wanted to make another one!

TTFN!!!

When two reporters collide...

When two reporters collide

In case you didn't see that thing coming, TV5 reporter Jun Sabayton, while he was doing a showbiz report, made an unlikely encounter with ABS-CBN's Atom Araullo while he was doing a coverage about the DepEd's Brigada Eskwela initiation. He said "Mabango ba si Atom Araullo?" (Is Atom Araullo fresh?) as when two reporters from two different networks collide in the same area. Those viewers didn't expected that the unlikely moment will happen, right?

To see that clip: http://bit.ly/1jyi68d