Let's Do The News! (August 12, 2014)

The big scoop today...

- It is with regret that famous comedian actor Robin Williams passed away at the age of 63 after he committed suicide. He was well known in movies such as Flubber, Jumanji, Disney's Aladdin (as the voice of Genie), R.V. Runaway Vacation, Dead Poets Society, and many others.

Robin Williams starred in Dead Poets Society

- Jaguar's Special Operations has unveiled a lightweight take on one of their iconic classics, the E-Type, and it's set to be on this year's Pebble Beach Concours.

Jaguar Lightweight E-Type

- Although the latest-generation Cadillac Escalade is still fresh out of launch, looks like there's going to be some mid-year updates featuring the use of 8-speed automatic gearbox, the implementation of Cadillac's new logo, and many others including the addition of their new Platinum Collection model.

2015 Cadillac Escalade Platinum Collection

- A track-ready 650S Sprint was unveiled by McLaren and it's all set for its Pebble Beach debut.

McLaren 650S Sprint

- Online shopping giant Amazon disabled preorder bookings on select Disney titles such as Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Maleficent, Muppets Most Wanted and many others due to a contract dispute.

- It's been four years since the Manila Hostage Crisis killed several Hong Kong tourists. On the present times, SP02 Gregorio Mendoza has been sacked while Superintended Orlando Yebra and Chief Inspector Santiago David Pascual III have been demoted. These officers are found guilty due to negligence and gross incompetence.

- Russia sends 280 trucks with humanitarian aid to the war-torn Ukraine amidst the tensions between them.

- With former army general turned fugitive Jovito Palparan arrested by the NBI after being charged with two counts of kidnapping and serious illegal detention of UP students Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeno, the mothers of the missing UP students plead to bring their daughters back.

TTFN!!!

Let's Do The News! (August 11, 2014)

- In case you missed this year's Teen Choice Awards, check out the quick recap on the performances and who won this year's awards.

- IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Celebs Marian Rivera and Dingdong Dantes are engaged on national television for the first time in the middle of Marian's self-titled variety show on GMA.

- The Range Rover Sport SVR has finally uncovered and it's a potent super-SUV packed with the same supercharged 5.0L V8 engine you'd expect from the Jaguar XKR-S. Top speed is around 162mph and it has a Nurburgring lap time of eight minutes and 14 seconds, making it one of the quickest SUVs in the world. Now, why would they name this hot Range Rover Sport model after a Russian organization?

Range Rover Sport SVR

- WNBA pro Becky Hammon was named assistant coach for the San Antonio Spurs, the team that won this year's NBA finals against Miami Heat.

- More PokeMon ORAS news as Salamence, Altaria, and Lopunny get their own Mega Evolutions! Plus, the folks tell you what's it all about Cosplay Pikachu, Pokemon Contests are back on ORAS, and there's a special "Shiny Beldum" armed with a Mega Stone provided for those who bought Omega Ruby or Alpha Sapphire for the 3DS!

With this "Shiny Beldum" bonus, you can raise it until it reaches its final evolved form, Metagross, and with the Mega Ring at hand, you can Mega Evolve it into Mega Metagross. Who says Mega Evolved shinies can't get any awesome?

- Over 300 Yazidi families have been threatened by Islam extremists with death unless they convert to Islam. "Convert or be killed", that's the warning from the extremists to the trapped families.

- Business tycoon Manny V. Pangilinan declares the neutrality of Metro Pacific Investments Corp. on the Ayala-SM dispute.

- IT'S THE NEW KIA SORENTO! Kia revealed the first pics of the third-generation crossover SUV that is set to arrive this year on South Korea.

2015 Kia Sorento

- The 2015 Dodge Charger is now ready for cop duty with this Charger Pursuit targeted for police officers throughout the North America.

2015 Dodge Charger Pursuit

- The third-generation Cadillac CTS sports saloon has been updated for the 2015 model year along with the use of Cadillac's new logo.

2015 Cadillac CTS

- Check out highlights from Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman's visit to Seoul, South Korea, the first stop for their Doctor Who World Tour, promoting the 8th season of the smash hit series.

TTFN!!!

Forza Motorsport 5: Ace of Aces

These ultra-expensive, ultra-powerful, and ultra-rare machines can be considered themselves as "Aces" because they possessed superior capabilities, massive firepower, and road superiority a true ace should have. Whether it can be sophisticated or bewildering, to civilized to insane, the aces really are born in the perfect battlefield where only the best ace survive but which of these aces are "Ace of Aces?"



First, let's get to know the aces and first up, it's the Koenigsegg Agera. Made as the successor to the CCX, the one that Stig almost got killed while he drove one round the Top Gear track several years ago. It was powered by a turbocharged 5-litre V8 engine that produces 940PS of power and 1,100Nm of torque. 0-100kph in under 3.1 seconds and top speed of 435kph while mated with a 7-speed double clutch gearbox. It was awarded Top Gear's 2010 Hypercar of the Year.




Next, it's the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport. While the Veyron is highly respected as the world's fastest machine, the Super Sport pushed the machinima to its extreme levels and with its 431.072 km/h (267.856 mph) top speed, the Veyron SS set the benchmark for the fastest production vehicles.



And lastly and notably a fierce one, the Hennessey Venom GT. This purpose-built speed demon from the Hennessey Performance Engineering possesses some record-smashing speed records with its fastest 0-300kph time of 13.63 seconds. It has clocked a max speed of 270.49mph on a runway at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, making it unofficially the fastest car in the world and because it's unofficial, it's not quite matched to the production numbers of the Veyron SS.

The aces are set in the Top Gear Test Track and the fastest time is the winner.



At the starting line, both the Venom GT and the Agera are struggling to get it straight because the massive torque of these two sent these two on a catastrophic wheelspin but for the Veyron Super Sport, thanks to its 4WD powertrain, got off to a rocket start smoothly but in the corners, since the Veyron Super Sport is the heaviest of the three, both the Venom GT and the Agera glide through the corners with ease. This could be very one sided.

Mind you, the Venom GT has the most powerful engine compared to the Veyron SS and the Agera and because it's lighter, this ace sweeps through the corners and straights faster than you can say "Fox Two".



At the end of the lap, here are the results;

Veyron SS: 1:15.161
Venom GT: 1:15.122
Agera: 1:17.337

Which means, that the "Ace of Aces" goes to the Venom GT because not only its twin-turbo LS9 V8 engine possess a massive firepower but its lightweight bodywork has greater superiority on the track making it the ideal multirole in the high speed stakes and track days. This million-dollar hypercar is by no means the Ace of Aces in an all-out ace combat on Forza 5.

Wow Mali! - August 10, 2014

Highlights from the August 10, 2014 episode of Wow Mali!

- THE FLASHER - Taking a pic with a lady is fine until it gets photobombed by an idiot!

- K'NIS ANINO - Our old shadow prankster is back to mimic anyone he sees!

- NILASING NA HIPON - Would you like a free taste of...a drunk lady?!

- BASAGAN NG TRIP! - Oh dear...I hope I didn't cracked something...

- He's possessed! Deliver us from...Gudtaym!

- EMOTE CONTROL - On this episode's EMOTE CONTROL, action star Jeric Ruval asked the stuntmen to do ridiculous stuff!

Tropa Mo Ko Nice Di Ba?! - August 9, 2014

In the August 9, 2014 episode of TV5's Tropa Mo Ko Nice Di Ba, in the Balitang Dos Syete Singko segment, in case you forgot what that Mahalia Fuentes (Mahal) said in that portion...we don't really know what she just said but anyway...

Mahalia Fuentes

"DENGKYU EN LESIERDA. LEYDES FLOM AWOUWND. DA GWOWBIN HALNYWOOD NAW. HALNYWOOD HATICHHH KAPOLWIL SHEER DATREEN WANTCH AGAIN EN BAD PITT EN ANDYELEENA DYULI WILL COTAR EEN BY DAHTEE DA IN APCAMEEN DLAMA WY-TING, LECTED BAYJOOLI UNIBERCHAL PIKCHUR, SIRMADONALD LANLI. EAT RRANLEY, THREE-TWO TELEBRATE WIT DATUL SSUPERS-TAR ANDYELEENA END BLAD LEY PLETEN TO OP HOLNYWOOD BLAY DALENT TISAD ENDWEE AD ETE TUTUBI APART OP A DEAR. TELEBLATION O.M.SI POWER-PULL. PEACE! DATITA LAYTET PAM CHI EN EN, DEET IT MAHALIA FUENTES, THANK YOU! GOOD NIGHT! AND SLIP DEAD."

You may not understand what she said but geez, isn't that funny?!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014 film)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014 film)

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. We love these turtles mutated into fun-loving crimefighters when we were young and it spawned hundreds or thousands of merchandising rights from toys, video games, and so own. It has several TV shows, several movies, and you name the rest for these mutated chelonian dudes keeping the streets safe from the menacing monsters, and the evil wrath of Shredder and his Foot Soldiers. Wow, who doesn't forget about turtles throwing away the Foot Soldiers in front of your screens eh?

With the TMNT been with us for several, countless years now that they had their own revised version currently airing on Nickelodeon, looks like the TMNT are getting the Michael Bay treatment like what he did to the Transformers and what can I say, the results can be somewhat a bit mixed and when I said mixed, you can expect some mixed comments.

At first glance, you can see that your favorite turtles; Don, Leo, Mikey, and Ralph (that's Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael) looked so gross for a Michael Bay-interpreted version and let's just say that while their looks are a bit too "childhood ruined" for us, the children watching this flick would think they look so scary rather than the blocky looks from their hit Nick TV series. To compensate for the Turtles' horrid looks, you can expect the casting call of Megan Fox, Will Arnett, William Fichtner, Danny Woodburn, Abby Elliott, and many others. Of course, Megan plays the role of the feisty reporter April O'Neil...except now she's not in her trademark jumpsuit like you saw her in the cartoons a few years ago.

So, while the casting call is a bit too messy apart from the turtles' messy looks, does the movie act like a Michael Bay-directed film should?

The answer..."Boom! Panes!" Very much. BOOM! You can really forget how gross these turtles are in the film, they still know how to kick butts like what they do in their cartoon heydays and keeping true to their "cowabunga" attitudes, the movie really knows how to blow moviegoers away with its hardcore storyline and the intensity that really turning up to eleven, not to mention their killer poses from the turtles. These turtles sure now how to strike a pose for a summer blockbuster and I think this is going to be a potent blow on the blockbuster hits.

So, the 2014 film version of TMNT may be featuring the worst-looking turtle heroes but when it comes to getting the action blowing up, this is a movie that will surely "shell shocked" to the very end. Looks like our faith to Michael Bay has been restored...just.

My rating: 4.2 out of 5.

The name of Yoshi was uncovered by writer

Yoshi's real name is what?!

Yoshi (日本名：ヨッシー), one of our favorite video game characters and one of Mario's friends who loves to eat just about everything in one gulp...or spitting fire or whatever the heck Yoshi does. Some conspiracist uncovered the long lost full name of Yoshi and that sparked outrage on us, video game geeks, or as I like to prefer, "childhood ruined".

Blake Harris, the author of Console Wars, obtained a highly top-secret document from Nintendo, in the form of a 1993 Nintendo character guide published so employees of licensing companies keep their facts straight. The top-secret document states that Yoshi's full name is "T. Yoshisaur Munchakoopas". Aside from Yoshi's full name, that top-secret document also states that Mario's scientific name is "homo nintendonus", which explains a lot, Link almost killed Zelda, and Peach's gown is literally magically clean.

Some long-lost gaming secrets are meant to be exposed for the hell of it and with that, looks like it's going to be in the whole "DID YOU KNOW GAMING?" stuff for a while before every gamer's brains got wired to the brink of the state of unconsciousness. Gosh, can't these conspiracists had enough exposing secrets from the Fifth Estate to the world?

I wonder what would Japanese-speaking Nintendo fans think of it? I mean come on, it's Japanese...It's made by Japanese for the world...

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