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Almond N. Aguila
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Welcome To Marie's World...'Neath Crescent Light
by Almond N. Aguila - January 18, 2009 - 12:00am
She has been compared to JK Rowling and her novel was said to be better than Eragon. Her resumé is nine pages long, single-spaced – and she’s only 17 years old. Marie Rubzen is an Australian teenager...
Orly Mercado: RPN 9’s Exciter
by Almond N. Aguila - February 17, 2008 - 12:00am
The winds of change are blowing in the direction of RPN 9. The embattled station, fighting for privatization since its sequestration over two decades and three Philippine Presidents ago, made a monumental and strategic...
The Philippines in a Shell
by Almond N. Aguila - January 6, 2008 - 12:00am
Karen Davila & World Vision: Bless the Children
by Almond N. Aguila - December 24, 2006 - 12:00am
For all intents and purposes, this is a Christmas story. Our objective was to present a heartwarming tale of how the season brings out the best in people.
The Confucius Institute Finds A Home
by Almond N. Aguila - October 1, 2006 - 12:00am
There has, of late, been an appar-ently unstoppable and insatiable worldwide interest in everything Chinese–from business to arts, from language to food, from fashion to medicine. This growing interest has...
The Confucius Institute Finds A Home
by Almond N. Aguila - October 1, 2006 - 12:00am
There has, of late, been an appar-ently unstoppable and insatiable worldwide interest in everything Chinese–from business to arts, from language to food, from fashion to medicine. This growing interest has...
The Different Faces Of Angel Aquino
by Almond N. Aguila - September 3, 2006 - 12:00am
From the start, the interview was everything but ordinary. On this rainy Tuesday, Angel Aquino wanted comfort food. Comfort meant a brunch of steaming hot coffee and eggs at a unique coffee shop she recently discovered...
Peta & CB Garrucho: Home at last
by Almond N. Aguila - July 2, 2006 - 12:00am
Cecilia "CB" Garrucho can recall every detail of the night her life changed. It was 1967, and she sat mesmerized in the audience of the Rajah Sulayman Theater in Fort Santiago as movie stars Vic Silayan...
News & Other Things...
by Almond N. Aguila - May 21, 2006 - 12:00am
She was born to host a morning show. Like "Today" veteran Katie Couric, her voice matches her face–light, feminine and perennially smiling. On weekdays, Bernadette Sembrano appears on ABS-CBN’s...
News & Other Things...
by Almond N. Aguila - May 21, 2006 - 12:00am
She was born to host a morning show. Like "Today" veteran Katie Couric, her voice matches her face–light, feminine and perennially smiling. On weekdays, Bernadette Sembrano appears on ABS-CBN’s...
A walk through Philippine cinema with Boots Anson Roa
by Almond N. Aguila - May 14, 2006 - 12:00am
"It’s Harvest Time," Declares Boots Anson-Roa who, at sixty-something, is no less active than when she began her showbiz career in her teens.
What’s all the fuss about Sam Milby
by Almond N. Aguila - April 2, 2006 - 12:00am
Despite what he calls his "Killer Schedule", fans can’t seem to get enough of Sam Milby.
Maria Ressa: The best is yet to come
by Almond N. Aguila - September 4, 2005 - 12:00am
Hers was the kind of life that was unreal. She lived every broadcaster’s dream on CNN for 18 years – covering every election, revolution, natural disaster and political unrest in Asia. Literally, she had...
What Nina Gave Up for Singing
by Almond N. Aguila - April 3, 2005 - 12:00am
Among the various things Nina gave up for singing, it is the simplest and the most basic that feels the most like sacrifice. "I always order halo-halo without ice. If I want to eat ice cream, I have to let...
The dream of a rainforest
by Almond N. Aguila - March 15, 2005 - 12:00am
By the time i wrote this story the world had changed drastically. Overwhelming landslides swept across Luzon. Then, apocalyptic tsunamis consumed everything along the shores of the Indian Ocean and literally altered...
The dream of a Rain forest
by Almond N. Aguila - March 13, 2005 - 12:00am
By the time i wrote this story the world had changed drastically. Overwhelming landslides swept across Luzon. Then, apocalyptic tsunamis consumed everything along the shores of the Indian Ocean and literally altered...
Good GAD Award
by Almond N. Aguila - January 2, 2005 - 12:00am
AMONG THE HONORS RECEIVED BY DIREK GIL PORTES’ HOMECOMING AT LAST YEAR’S METRO MANILA FILM FESTIVAL was the Most Gender-Sensitive Award. Quezon City Mayor Sonny Belmonte handed the trophy to an obviously...
The Power of Knowledge
by Almond N. Aguila - October 31, 2004 - 12:00am
THE KNOWLEDGE CHANNEL couldn’t have found a better champion. Piolo Pascual guarantees recall. As a star, he is on the rise, balancing box office sales with a growing number of acting awards. Of late, he has...
Where direk Laurice is ‘meant to be’
by Almond N. Aguila - September 4, 2004 - 12:00am
We knew it long before the Singapore International Film Festival acknowledged her contributions to Philippine Cinema last April. Organizers described Laurice Guillen as "one of the most important female directors...
MUSIC FROM THE INNER HEART
by Almond N. Aguila - July 11, 2004 - 12:00am
I thought i was meeting rain man. That was my take on Thristan "Tum Tum" Mendoza’s musical genius. The idea was intriguing but proved simplistic and off tangent. "My son is not an autistic savant,"...
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