ORLANDO, Apr 22, 2010 / — Philippine-born Chenee Capuyan, a McDonald’s restaurant employee from Davao Del Sur, Philippines, stunned celebrity judges and an audience of more than 14,000 with a powerful performance of Destiny’s Child’s “Stand Up for Love” to win the Voice of McDonald’s global singing competition.
A panel of internationally-renowned music industry professionals judged [...]
ORLANDO, Apr 22, 2010 / — The judges are not as acerbic as Simon Cowell though they can compete with Ryan Seacrest’s smile, but the finals for the “Voice of McDonald’s” singing competition is as nerve wracking as that of American Idol.
The top three finalists of this global singing competition – Chenee Capuyan of the [...]
ORLANDO, Apr 21, 2010 / — Call it, “McDonald’s Idol” if you want. Monday morning, in Orlando, Florida, McDonald’s owner/operators from around the world were wowed by the performance of the 12 semi-finalists in the Voice of McDonald’s singing competition.
After months of preparation, a journey of thousands of miles and a week-long music boot camp, [...]
NEW YORK, Apr 20, 2010 / — From April 19 to 23, with hosts Millard Drexler, CEO of J.Crew and Caroline Kennedy trying to raise awareness of education inequity by inviting local leaders into New York City schools as guest teachers as part of the Teach for America initiative.
And, on Wednesday, Apr 21 at 6:00 [...]
GENEVA, Apr 16, 2010 / — Five visionaries aged under 30 from Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, the Philippines and the United States have been selected as the Young Laureates in the inaugural Rolex Awards for Enterprise: Young Laureates Programme, Rolex announced yesterday at a press conference in Geneva.
Chosen from a pool of nearly 200 candidates worldwide [...]
An unknown author quoted that an investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. There is truth in this quotation because well educated people have more opportunities to get a job which gives them satisfaction. Today’s growing numbers of people mostly are not satisfied with their basic education and try to get secondary or tertiary [...]
Cotton Incorporated’s “Fabric of Our Lives” campaign is on its way to become an institution as it becomes what has been promised – getting entwined in the fabric of our lives as new campaigns are created regular and often.
For 2010, international recording artists Leona Lewis and Colbie Caillat headline the two new commercials created by [...]
After writing about Final Fantasyand Assassin’s Creed , I received several emails asking me if I play Wii Fit since it’s a video game that is nearer fashion than the epic battles of RPG.
I had to answer that unfortunately, I do not play Wii Fit for the main reason that I have Playstation and Xbox [...]
“Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you.” – Blaise Pascal( French Mathematician, Philosopher and Physicist)
The above quotation best describes our young achievers as they harvest their [...]
Hereunder is a list of the candidates for the Local Positions in Cavinti, Laguna for the Elections on May 10, 2010.
FOR MAYOR
# NAME OF CANDIDATE NICKNAME/ALIAS [...]
A native of Cavinti, Lucila C. Oblena spent all her working years as an educator, beginning as a classroom teacher in 1944, then a Guidance Counselor and retired as a school Principal. She is also the founder of CLOTA (Cavinti Laguna Overseas Teachers Association). She is the Editor of Tipakan.com (Cavinti Diaspora).
