The First Voice Acting Book in the Philippines Launches at the 37th Manila International Book Fair

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Book enthusiasts, unite!

The 37th Manila International Book Fair will be held on September 14-18, 2016 at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City. It is the biggest and longest-running book expo in the country, where thousands of titles ranging from fiction, textbooks, graphic novels and educational materials may be seen and even bought at a discounted price. MIBF is a haven for book lovers as they have access to such wide variety of reading materials, and also an opportunity of exposure and exchange of ideas amongst the players in the publishing and academic industry.

MIBF is a great venue for authors to launch their new titles… and this year, I am blessed to be one of them.

In the book fair, I will be releasing my second book entitled “Gusto Kong Maging Voice Talent.” I am thrilled and honored to have written the country’s first-ever voice acting book, the way I have built the country’s first-ever voice acting school in 2005, the Philippine Center for Voice Acting.

Globe and Kiva Create Sustainable Livelihood Opportunities for Underserved PH Population

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Fifty-eight year old Josefina from Trinidad, Bohol only had P15,000 in savings when she started her small sari-sari store in 1999. Wanting to support the growing needs of her nephews, being single herself, Josefina requested P20,000 which she used to expand her business and attract more customers. She received financial assistance from 15 individual microlenders via one of Kiva’s Field Partners, Community Economic Ventures, Inc., which provides not only loans but training and insurance coverage as well.

Cebu-based Shayne Mae, on the other hand, is a hardworking entrepreneur who also needed additional funds to use as a working capital for her clothing sales business. With the assistance of eight individual microlenders under another Kiva Field Partner, Negros Women for Tomorrow Foundation (NWTF), Shayne Mae was able to borrow P11,999 to sustain her business. She dreams of saving enough money to send her children to college and renovate her family home.

Josefina and Shayne Mae are just two of hundreds of Filipinos which Globe Telecom and international non-profit organization Kiva are crowdfunding loans to create sustainable livelihood opportunities for the underserved population in the country.

San Francisco-based Kiva is an online crowdfunding platform that enables anyone in the world to make a microloan to micro enterprises in over 80 countries in the areas of agriculture, food, retail, and services in a bid to alleviate poverty.

Made in the Philippines: Everything Done Pinoy Teleserye Style

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Filipinos are undoubtedly very creative, and could think of many ways to tickle your imagination -in terms of spoofing, or making fun of even the most mundane. Actually, those are their favorite stuff to play with as a means to mock or just have lots of laughter especially when they are either irked or plain bored.

The popularity of the FPJ's Ang Probinsiyano teleserye soundtrack whose portion of the song plays everyday every time there's a critically worrisome scene in the teleserye made Pinoys poke fun of it by making their own version.

They applied the same song to everything else out there, from foreign TV series to movies like Stranger Things and Game of Thrones, and even animes or cartoons like Slam Dunk and Pokemon, up to sports events like the UAAP and Arnis competitions.

Now there's even some created using the style of Eat Bulaga's Juan for All and All for Juan - split screen and all that is AlDub, like the How I Met your Mother Pinoy Noontime Show Style. Lol!

Nothing will stop Filipinos from being imaginative up to a point when the creators of the point of subject finally wakes up and try out something new. Please lang po. Your style stinks and is apparently "bulok" that many of the Pinoys are probably either choking to death.

We don't really know if this trend means a positive towards Coco Martin's Ang Probinsiyano, but there are so many ideas out there that would be more interesting to watch out for instead of playing the same irritating song all over again. 

Below is a compilation of most of the videos made into Pinoy Teleserye style: