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Derrick Monasterio all set for album tour

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Kapuso heartthrob and balladeer Derrick Monasterio is visiting selected malls to promote his self-titled album under GMA Records.

The album tour began last Sunday at Fairview Terraces. Other schedules are as follows: May 21 (Starmall Bulacan); May 29 (SM Bacoor); June 5 (SM Tower Mall); June 11 (SM Baliwag); June 19 (SM Cabanatuan) and June 26 (SM Molino).

Kapuso star Derrick Monasterio embarks on a tour to promote his eponymously titled debut album

Derrick says he’s looking forward to meeting his supporters from different places in the country. “I’m very much excited to promote my album in different malls. At least, meron akong pagkakataon to meet my supporters and maka-bonding sila even for a short period of time. I hope to have an amazing time with them.”

His album can be downloaded on iTunes, Amazon Music, eMusic and Qobuz, while physical copies are now available in Astroplus, Astro Vision, The Landmark and SM Music and Video record outlets nationwide. Music-lovers can also order the album thru Lazada.com.ph.

For more details of Derrick Monasterio’s album and schedule of his mall shows, please visit the official facebook page of GMA Records.

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PlayStation’s ‘Ratchet and Clank’ now a movie

PlayStation’s longest-running video game series, “Ratchet and Clank” steps out of the console and springs to life in a CG-animated movie of the same title that will open on May 25 in local cinemas nationwide.

The two main characters of the series: Clank (left) and Ratchet (right)

Ratchet and Clank is based on the iconic PlayStation video game where two unlikely heroes Ratchet (voiced by James Arnold Taylor) and Clank (David Kaye) struggle to stop a vile villain named Chairman Drek (Paul Giamatti) from destroying every planet in the Solana Galaxy.  Ratchet is the last of his kind, a foolhardy “Lombax” who has grown up alone on a backwater planet with no family of his own.  Clank is a pint-sized robot with more brains than brawn.  When the two stumble upon a dangerous weapon capable of destroying entire planets, they must join forces with a team of colourful heroes called the Galactic Rangers in order to save the galaxy.  Along the way, they will learn about heroism, friendship, and the importance of discovering one’s own identity.

The movie also features the voices of John Goodman as Grimroth, Bella Thorne as Cora, Rosario Dawson as Elaris, Jim Ward as Captain Qwark, and Sylvester Stallone as Victor Von Ion.

Ratchet, having crash landed on Veldin as an infant, grew up alone and used his well earned street smarts to keep himself alive.  Grimroth, a local ship mechanic, took Ratchet in and employs him on his garage.  Ratchet has a tough exterior but also has the heart of a dreamer and feels he is destined for great things in the universe.

Rachet is now a big screen animated character

Born out of a Zoni-aided warbot factory malfunction, Clank is the personification of innocent book smart.  He is a living computer filled with tons of data that he accesses freely.  However, he has only lived in the universe for a short time and retains a lot of the child-like curiosity one would expect from a day-old creature.

Directed by Kevin Munroe, who studied animation and began his career in the games industry and whose recent directorial job was that of 2007’s reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles says he’s remained true to the source material when it comes to making Ratchet and Clank.

“My whole approach to it has been, ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.’  Ratchet was one of the first games where you actually wanted to watch and you would get a laugh out of the cut-scenes.  I think there’s a lot of feeling, especially with video games, that you have to go in and reinvent a lot of stuff,” shared Munroe.

Game on when Ratchet and Clank opens May 26 in cinemas from OctoArts Films International.

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UP Bike Share gets support from developer

Continuing its corporate social responsibility campaign on environmental awareness, major real estate developer DMCI Homes recently partnered with student advocacy group UP Bike Share to aid and promote the growing bike-sharing community at the University of the Philippines in Quezon City.

Held on April 8 at the UP Diliman, DMCI Homes signed a memorandum of agreement with UP Bike Share and donated 40 bicycles to help the advocacy group accommodate more students get around the campus in an environment-friendly scheme.

DMCI Homes recently signed a memorandum of agreement and donated bikes to support the growing bike-sharing community in UP campus led by the UP Bike Share

The agreement was signed by DMCI Homes Assistant Vice President for Marketing and Customer Care Jan O. Venturanza and UP Bike Share President Miguel Laperal. Witnessing the agreement were UP Chancellor Dr. Michael Tan, UP Vice Chancellor for Community Affairs Nestor de Castro, and Dean of College of Engineering Dr. Aura Matias.  Also present were UPBS officers Ryan Abis and Miguel Mercado.

“DMCI Homes is a proud partner of UP Bike Share. We share a common goal of providing urban solutions and, like them, we believe that people in the fields of design and engineering can really make a positive difference in our society,” shared Venturanza.

Now celebrating its first year, the UP Bike Share is a non-profit student organization that aims to help students get around the 493-hectare UP campus at the same time promote clean, reliable, and sustainable transportation through modern bike-sharing system.  The group consists of 24 students from the colleges of Engineering, Fine Arts and Architecture who pooled their own resources to produce the initial 30 bikes, which currently serves the students enrolled in UPBS.

UPBS officers Miguel Mercado, Ryan Abis, DMCI Homes AVP for Marketing and Customer Care Jan Venturanza, UPBS President Miguel Laperal, Dean Aura Matias and UP Chancellor Michael Lim Tan during the MOA signing

 “In bike rental, only one person gets to use the bike for a certain period of time while in UPBS, once the student leaves the bike to a building and goes to class, there will be other students in that building who can use the bike. That allows the bicycle to become more efficient,” Laperal explained.

The UPBS president added “Right now we are running an efficiency of 4-7 riders or students in one bike per day.  For 30 bicycles, we can say we get to help at least 150 students in a day.  And we welcome the additional 40 bicycles from DMCI Homes as it will serve more students.  We truly value their support in our projects.”

Aside from developing the bike-sharing community in the campus, the UPBS also plans to extend the system outside the university particularly in rural areas.

DMCI Homes’ tie-up with UPBS is part of the real estate company’s corporate social responsibility project Kaakbay sa Kalikasan. 

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