Oprah finds second Filipina talent
Found this article which caught my eye from the FB – The Philippines – if you’re not a fan, you should! I found it very exciting that we are all popping out all over the world! Watch out for her to come on Oprah soon! This story was written by Bayani San Diego Jr., Philippine Daily Inquirer.... See the story below!
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MANILA, Philippines—Now, it’s time to give back.
Julia Abueva, the 13-year-old singing prodigy who was featured in the “Search for the World’s Smartest and Most Talented Kids” on “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” has signed up as creative consultant for Encore, a school for the performancearts.
The granddaughter of two UP presidents puts a premium on education. (Paternal grandfather is former UP president
Jose Abueva; while maternal grandmother is current UP president Emerlinda Roman.)
Julia believes in the importance of starting kids early in the arts.
She herself began singing at family gatherings at age 1 and went professional at 7.
“Some kids may want to perform but are scared. I’m here to encourage and inspire them to attain their dreams if they believe in them,” she said.
Julia has appeared in nine musicals, released two singles in Singapore, and shared the stage with two of the country’s “Miss Saigon” leads—Lea Salonga and Monique Wilson.
She picked up quite a few pointers from Lea and Monique, Julia said.
“Monique really internalizes her roles,” she related. “When I do musicals, I study my role, too. I research and Google it.”
On the other hand, Julia described Lea as an “amazing singer … with a powerful, beautiful voice. She told me I should focus on the job at hand, not to worry about socializing when I’m working.”
She’s putting these lessons to good use in her own career and is sharing them with other child performers at the Encore school.
After all, not every teenager gets to sing on “Oprah.”
After her YouTube rendition of “The Prayer” was featured on the TV show, friends and family in the US and Singapore (where she’s based) flooded her with e-mails and text messages.
Julia, however, has yet to catch her own “Oprah” stint. “But my friends told me that Oprah said: ‘Watch this girl … she blew our socks off!’”
She was invited to appear on “Oprah” last November, but was in the middle of preparations for her first solo concert at the Esplanade in Singapore. “I’m still keeping my fingers crossed … to get another invitation.”
She’s also hoping to record her debut album next year—“a mix of Broadway and pop tunes.”
ONE BILLION PESO-BUDGET FOR KA SATUR
It will surpass the campaign kitty of even the wealthiest of the aspiring presidentiables as MAKABAYAN’s allotted budget for the upcoming 2010 election was discovered to be pegged at one billion pesos. For a seemingly patriotic coalition that has just recently surfaced in the country’s political arena and that has ironically bannered an anti-TRAPO stance, the revealed budget of MAKABAYAN would shock even their closest allies as they would all wonder why they were still asked for financial support when MAKABAYAN is in fact capable of sustaining their own electoral campaign.
Said whopping electoral budget was first revealed in a cover story of (name of media practitioner tapped) that was published on (name of broadsheet). According to said report, MAKABAYAN is ready to shell out a total of one billion pesos to specifically finance the expansion of party list groups such Bayan Muna, Gabriela Women’s Party, Anakpawis, Kabataang Pinoy, Act Party List and Courage Party List among the various barangays in the country and to fund the respective senatorial bids of Satur Ocampo, Liza Masa, Rafael Mariano and Teddy Casiño. Apparently said budget is already in the bag even before last year as these were culled from the respective PDAFs of said progressive solons – majority of whom served for three consecutive terms thus explaining the accumulated hefty resources – and as their comrades in the countryside punched in some overtime work to increase their take home “pay” from the various companies and civilians they extorted from.
The document further revealed that MAKABAYAN is allotting a humongous 600 million pesos to easily “guarantee” that its allied party list groups will be given its expected number of votes during the actual canvassing. Would this then mean that they plan to use such funds to pay their way in Congress since they have ironically proclaimed that their poll watchers are all allegedly mere volunteers who would “ensure” that we will have a clean and honest election? We all know that this is not an entirely impossible feat to do considering that we all recognize that cheating or otherwise known in the Tagalog jargon as “dagdag-bawas” is almost always implemented during the counting of ballots. Never mind that the upcoming elections would be automated since the 600 million peso-budget can surely finance such a grand plan and provide to their party list groups the actual number of seats they have initially targeted and even assure that their four progressive senatoriables will all be successfully positioned to their hearts desire.
We should now then empathize with the lowly rebels who are sweating it out in the countryside as they regularly force their way into homes of the already deprived peasants so that they can partake of the already meager resources of these people just so they can eat meals and be able to sustain the armed struggle that their leader in absentia, Jose Maria Sison, has adamantly instructed them to carry out for four long decades. Surely, a billion pesos is more than enough for these rebels to enjoy even once what Sison is now enjoying in The Netherlands – a decent meal and a decent bed.
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ONE BILLION PESO-BUDGET FOR KA SATUR
It will surpass the campaign kitty of even the wealthiest of the aspiring presidentiables as MAKABAYAN’s allotted budget for the upcoming 2010 election was discovered to be pegged at one billion pesos. For a seemingly patriotic coalition that has just recently surfaced in the country’s political arena and that has ironically bannered an anti-TRAPO stance, the revealed budget of MAKABAYAN would shock even their closest allies as they would all wonder why they were still asked for financial support when MAKABAYAN is in fact capable of sustaining their own electoral campaign.
Said whopping electoral budget was first revealed in a cover story of (name of media practitioner tapped) that was published on (name of broadsheet). According to said report, MAKABAYAN is ready to shell out a total of one billion pesos to specifically finance the expansion of party list groups such Bayan Muna, Gabriela Women’s Party, Anakpawis, Kabataang Pinoy, Act Party List and Courage Party List among the various barangays in the country and to fund the respective senatorial bids of Satur Ocampo, Liza Masa, Rafael Mariano and Teddy Casiño. Apparently said budget is already in the bag even before last year as these were culled from the respective PDAFs of said progressive solons – majority of whom served for three consecutive terms thus explaining the accumulated hefty resources – and as their comrades in the countryside punched in some overtime work to increase their take home “pay” from the various companies and civilians they extorted from.
The document further revealed that MAKABAYAN is allotting a humongous 600 million pesos to easily “guarantee” that its allied party list groups will be given its expected number of votes during the actual canvassing. Would this then mean that they plan to use such funds to pay their way in Congress since they have ironically proclaimed that their poll watchers are all allegedly mere volunteers who would “ensure” that we will have a clean and honest election? We all know that this is not an entirely impossible feat to do considering that we all recognize that cheating or otherwise known in the Tagalog jargon as “dagdag-bawas” is almost always implemented during the counting of ballots. Never mind that the upcoming elections would be automated since the 600 million peso-budget can surely finance such a grand plan and provide to their party list groups the actual number of seats they have initially targeted and even assure that their four progressive senatoriables will all be successfully positioned to their hearts desire.
We should now then empathize with the lowly rebels who are sweating it out in the countryside as they regularly force their way into homes of the already deprived peasants so that they can partake of the already meager resources of these people just so they can eat meals and be able to sustain the armed struggle that their leader in absentia, Jose Maria Sison, has adamantly instructed them to carry out for four long decades. Surely, a billion pesos is more than enough for these rebels to enjoy even once what Sison is now enjoying in The Netherlands – a decent meal and a decent bed.
You can visit our blog.
http://npavictims.blogspot.com
The Unheard NPA Victims