Our skin encounters environmental pollution, UV radiation, sun exposure, dust and many more. Sometimes, just a day out in the streets of Metro Manila makes you feel like you’re caked with dust and dirt. These factors, combined with the oxidative materials in the body, reduce the amount of Vitamin E in the skin, which can also cause the formation of free radicals. But there’s no need to worry because Vita-E can help your skin stay healthy, youthful and glowing.
Vita-E contains 400 IU (international units) of vitamin E, an antioxidant that effectively protects the cells against free radicals and gives our skin a beautiful, youthful and effortless glow. Vita-E works from the inside making you feel and look great.
Not only is Vita E essential in maintaining the functions of our heart, blood vessels and nervous system, it also gives the immune system a boost. Take care of what’s beneath and flaunt that effortless beauty with Vita-E. Go E for effortless beauty with Vita-E.
Actress Carla Abellana recommends taking Vita-E a capsule per day. Sold at P14 per soft gel capsule, Vita E is available at Mercury Drug and all other leading drugstores nationwide.
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Acrobatic dance act wins ‘Pilipinas Got Talent’
Power Duo, an acrobatic dance act, was named the fifth grand winner of ABS-CBN’s hit talent-reality show Pilipinas Got Talent during its top-rating and worldwide Twitter-trending finale on May 22, broadcast live from SM Mall of Asia Arena.
Power Duo, composed of lovers Anjanette and Garvin from Angono, Rizal, garnered the highest combined votes from the judges and from the public, beating fire dancer Amazing Pyra and magician Ody Sto. Domingo. The two finished second and third respectively.
As grand winners, the pair won the jackpot prize of P2 million.
In the ratings game, Pilipinas Got Talent also fared very well. Its two-part finale topped the list of most watched programs in the country and hit 33.8 percent nationwide on Saturday (May 21) vs. rival’s 19.3 percent; and 36.7 percent on Sunday (May 22) vs. rival’s 17.9 percent.
The official hashtags #PGT5FinalShowdown and #PGT5GrandWinner also consecutively became the no. 1 trending topic on Twitter worldwide and in the Philippines.
Power Duo was instantly sent to the semi-finals after judge Robin Padilla chose them as his Golden Buzzer act. It was the first dance act to win Pilipinas Got Talent following four successful seasons dominated by singers.
This is the fifth time ABS-CBN, the country’s leading media and entertainment company, localized the worldwide hit franchise distributed by Fremantle Media. Since the first season aired in 2010, “PGT” has been one of the most successful talent-reality shows on Philippine television.
ABS-CBN remains to be the reality talent show capital of the Philippines with its unparalleled expertise in adapting international formats. Just recently, ABS-CBN announced the return of The Voice Kids and Pinoy Big Brother. The biggest celebrity ballroom dancing competition, Dancing with the Stars, as well as the biggest search for the next Pinoy boy band, La Banda, are also set to hit Philippine television this year.
Luis Manzano and Billy Crawford host Pilipinas Got Talent with judges Freddie “FMG” Garcia, Angel Locsin, Robin Padilla, and Vice Ganda.
For more information about the program follow @officialPGT5 on Instagram and Twitter or like www.facebook.com/officialPGT on Facebook.
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MTRCB conducts on-the-spot bus and theatre inspections
The Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) conducted an on-the-spot inspection of public utility vehicles (PUVs), particularly buses, cruising along EDSA on May 25.
Chairman Eugenio “Toto” Villareal says the MTRCB has been regularly conducting inspections at bus terminals. This time however, the team inspected buses with TV monitors at multiple bus stops along EDSA.
This activity was conducted to ensure that buses only exhibited materials within the General Audience (“G”) or Parental Guidance (“PG”) classification so that children on board such buses will not be exposed to materials inappropriate for their age. Accompanying Villareal were board members Bobby Andrews, Manny Buising and lawyer Jojo Salomon.
Later that day, the team headed straight to inspect stand-alone theatres in the C.M.Recto area. With classes opening soon, the MTRCB wants to make sure that rules and regulations governing theatres are strictly complied with, and also to ensure that movie-goers are well informed of the films that they will watch through the conspicuous display of Permits to Exhibit and standee.
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Miss Philippines-Earth 2016 candidates participate in mangrove planting
Miss Philippines Earth 2016 played true to its environmental protection and conservation advocacy as its 46 official delegates gave support to local efforts to rehabilitate and conserve mangrove forests and ecosystem in Calumpang River in Batangas, under the joint effort of the USAID, Batangas City Government and the PonteFino estates on Saturday morning.
A day before the mangrove planting activity, the Miss Philippines Earth 2016 held its Resort Wear competition at the posh Pontefino Hotel and Residences.
Rachelle Quinones of Lubang, Occidental Mindoro won the gold medal in the Resort Wear competition while Bellatrix Tan of Zamboanga and Nina Sherra Tagalog of Palo, Leyte, were awarded the silver and bronze, respectively.
Krissandra Marie Abel of Lobo, Batangas was named Miss Pontefino Hotel while Imelda Bautista Schweighart of Puerto Princesa City took the Miss Pontefino Residences title.
The Resort Wear event was the second of preliminary competitions following the Best in Long Gown held at the Landbank Auditorium in Ermita, Manila where Melanie Mader of the Filipino Community of Vienna, Austria took the Gold medal, with Schweighart taking the silver and Kiariagel Gregorio of the Filipino Community of Londonnbagging the bronze.
The following day May 21, a massive reforestation was held along the Calumpang River banks were all the candidates planted mangroves to the save the marine life and the river itself. Miss Philippines Earth 2016 will have its finals night on June 11 at the Aguinaldo Shrine in Kawit, Cavite to be telecast the following night.
The Miss Philippines Earth 2016 competition will culminate in the grand finals on June 11 when reigning Miss Erath Angelia Ong crowns her successor at the historic Aguinaldo Shrine in Kawit, Cavite, to be telecast on ABS-CBN on June 12, at 10:30 a.m. – text and photos: Eton B. Concepcion
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Coro San Benildo holds fundraising concert
Coro San Benildo, the resident choral group of De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde (DLS-CSB), will stage The Dream, a fundraising send-off concert, 7 p.m. tomorrow at the Museum of Contemporary Arts and Design (MCAD).
The choir plans to participate in July in the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod, one of the world’s most inspirational cultural festivals, in Wales. Attended by the leading choral groups from around the globe, the Choir of the World award will receive the coveted Luciano Pavarotti Trophy.
Coro San Benildo is led by its choirmaster Lorenzo C. Gealogo, under the management of the Office of Culture and Arts.
Tickets to The Dream are priced at P1, 000 each. Proceeds raised from the event will directly fund the additional expenses of the team.
The MCAD is located at the Ground Floor, Benilde School of Design and Arts Campus, Dominga Street, Malate, Manila.
For inquiries, contact Clarence Gomez at +63916 280 4034 or email culture.arts@benilde.edu.ph.