Amazing Jing for Life: New Wave

“Angelito: Ang Bagong Yugto” Behind The Scenes

JM De Guzman and Charee Pineda on the set

It was just an ordinary taping day for ABS-CBN’s tv series “Angelito: Ang Bagong Yugto” lead stars JM De Guzman and Charee Pineda; but for us, it was not! JM de Guzman was very sweet, grounded, amiable and accommodating. The very first time I saw JM was when I was just passing by ELJ building a couple of years ago, he was standing in front of Gerry’s Grill, my second time was a little closer than before. :))

The company (A4 Telemedia Productions) where I’m connected to had produced the very successful 37^th Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) last year held at Resorts World Manila (RWM) Newport Performing Arts Theater in Newport City, Pasay City; JM had received an award for his outstanding performance in Pintakasi as the Best Actor in the New Wave (indie film) category..... I was at the backstage and we’d walked across each other, was supposed to congratulate him but lost the chance (tsk! too bad), plus I was also rushing to the other side of the backstage.

Now, we're this close already... :))

When entertainment blogger, Morgy invited me to join him to the set visit of “Angelito,” just recently, I’d no second thoughts. Since I’m an avid follower of “Angelito: Ang Bagong Yugto,” got excited about the thought of finally talking with JM (Angelito) on the set and the rest of the casts while taping. The location shoot was set in La Concordia College in Manila, which fortunately, just a jeepney ride from my place :)) JM and direk Theodore C. Boborol gave us a warm welcome.

And how about this? Hahaha now, I can prove

that there's always a next time and it could be

the best part believe me! <3

We were so privileged and felt lucky to have bonded with the “moreno” actor, JM. The talented actor even shared that he writes songs based from his emotions and experience. The important thing is what he feels at the time of his writing and then everything else just follows... his wants... everything. He was so generous to have showed us few “samples” of his singing talent with the accompaniment of his guitar. Btw, according to him, he’s also into flute playing.

And for you to see what we've witnessed, here's JM De Guzman's cover of
"Is It Okay If I Call You Mine"
originally done by Paul McCrane:

Thank you JM for being so awesome!

Pretty boy JM ;-)

JM doesn't want to be seated when concentrating with his script and munching pizza hehe cute!

The beauteous and curvaceous Charee Pineda who plays Rosalie as Angelito’s wife in the said afternoon teleserye on the Kapamilya network, arrived looking so lovely and fresh (no signs of haggardness) despite her busy schedules- had been shooting for 24 hours for the past few days with little time to rest and sleep. She claimed that having entered the world of politics and dreamed of becoming a city councilor (with NPC political party) in Valenzuela in the 2013 elections, she’s never been so busy. You see, during her free days apart from the tapings of their teleserye, she’s up to visiting the city of Valenzuela and becoming familiar with her future constituents (wink, wink!) and vice- versa.

Charee Pineda during the interview in "Angelito: Ang Bagong Yugto" taping

with the gorgeous Charee Pineda

Joshen Bernardo as "Jun-Jun", Angelito and Rosalie's son in the story

When asked about if has she established a platform at this early point? Charee replied, “May naka-ready na ako in case... para sa youth since SK (Sangguniang Kabataan) ako.” And with regards to their teleserye’s high ratings at this present time, she’s very happy with it and hopes that it would still continue until February (end of Angelito) of next year. She also shared that on March, 2013, she’d be fully engaged with the campaign, that’s why she’s also thankful that everything runs at the most perfect timing. Good luck and more power to you, Charee! ;-)

One of the scenes in "Angelito: Ang Bagong Yugto" taken that day

Truly, “Some good things never last,” but while “Angelito: Ang Bagong Yugto” still airs, just expect more struggles, challenges, human interests, family values and exciting scenes from one of the sought- after tv series in local channel.

Their journey might come to an end, but our journey to this AMAZING life continues....

Special thanks to Morgy of http://www.supermorgy.com for the invite, to direk Theodore for such a warm accommodation and of course to Mr. Nice Guy, JM De Guzman and Charee Pineda for being so extra nice. It was a very memorable and fun-filled set visit, hope to join you guys again and the rest of the casts in the future. More power!!!

JM De Guzman message to his fans

Just continue to watch "Angelito: Ang Bagong Yugto" on ABS-CBN Channel 2 with its new time slot at 2:45 pm during weekdays right after “It’s Showtime!”

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When Tears For Fears Ruled The World

“Everybody wants to rule the world...” this is according to the song of the 80’s UK New Wave Band, Tears For Fears. And for two nights at the Smart Araneta Colisem on August 10 & 11, the band themselves did exactly this to the world, the Philippines in particular by selling out their 2 night jampacked concert filled out to the rafters.

By choice and design, the band, led by their two lead singers in Roland Orzabal ang Curt Smith, opened the gig with a bang by rendering their first number one single in the US in 1985, none other than (you guessed it right) Everybody Wants To Rule The World. This act immediately brought the house down when almost all of us stood up and started singing along with the band. (Although personally I would like it to be the finale for impact). According to some of the lyrics of this hit song, the walls come tumbling down which I thought at the moment would happen because of the sudden surge of energy inside the venue.

And if you are a fan of theirs, you would notice right away the almost perfect music and sound quality as if we were just listening to a CD. (Kudos to the sound engineers). You would say that the voices of both Roland and Curt haven’t changed at all considering it was more than 20 years ago when they first emerged on the music scene - Sorry guys, but i’m an avid fan :))

They wisely chose their lineup of songs, mixing the old hits with some moderate ones in order to continuously light up the mood of their captive audience. There was also a different rendition of the popular “Billie Jean” song of the late Michael Jackson which caught some of us by surprise at first, ( guilty on my part) not knowing it ‘till the familiar lyrics sank in.

Every now and then, people would stood up to dance or sing and in return the band would show their appreciation by acknowledging and thanking the crowd.

Of course there would be some drama inluded. After performing one of their hits near the end of the show, Roland and Curt, along with their bandmembers would waive goodbye and leave the stage as if to signify the end of the concert. Naturally, the audience would clamor for more. But it took the band a little longer than usual to come out, so by instinct and out of nowhere, the crowd started to singing some lines from another famous song of the group which right up to that moment was not yet sung. Obligingly, the band came out for their encore.

After performing another slow hit song, fittingly, the famous band chose their popular second number one hit in America, Shout for it’s finale. By this time, the house is already rocking.

And before I forget, there’s a saying that goes like this “When it rains, it pours”. You know why, because I felt this is what happened.

See? Here's what I'm talking about... the jampacked crowd during their second day concert

Amazingly, the front act to this show was Per Sorensen of Fra Lippo Lippi, another popular group in the mid 80’s. He sang almost all his hits in a 45 minute performance. Imagine the mood he stirred up just to entice our appetite?! ;))

Picture this, Fra Lippo Lippi as your appetizer to the main dish which is Tears For Fears. You could not ask for more! It’s worth it. (I surely do)

Kudos for Tears For Fears for donating all their merchandise sales to the Red Cross for helping the recent flood victims, (although I thought that the prices were a little too high, anyway it’s for a cause) and thank you to the organizers for a well thought concert.