Anne Curtis leads dancing doctors in setting new Guinness world records

Source: http://www.interaksyon.com/entertainment/anne-curtis-leads-dancing-doctors-in-setting-new-guinness-world-records/

By Edwin P. Sallan, InterAksyon.com · Friday, November 9, 2012 · 11:02 am

 

Anne Curtis dances her heart out for cervical cancer awareness at the PICC Reception Hall Thursday night. (Rudy Esperas/InterAksyon)

Annebisyosa’s goals just got a little more noble.
Already the most popular actress in the country today, Anne Curtis has been honored with the biggest awards of her career including Celebrity of the Year (2nd Yahoo! OMG Awards), Box Office Queen (tied with Cristine Reyes in the Guillermo Mendoza Box Office Entertainment Awards), Pinakapasadong Aktres (14th Gawad Pasado Awards) and the FAMAS Best Actress trophy for “No Other Woman”.
In addition, Anne has also managed to successfully pursue a singing career that she initially describes as “super fun” and “not serious” that actually won her awards for one of the Phenomenal Entertainers of the Year in the Tambayan OPM Awards and—dig this—Most Popular Female Novelty Singer, also in the Guillermo Mendoza Box Office Entertainment Awards.
Now aiming for an even higher goal in the aid of helping an important cause, the ever effervescent entertainer has just helped 1,146 doctors set not one but two new Guinness World Records for Biggest Hiphop Dance Event and the First Large Number of Dancing Doctors to Fight A Disease.
“Going to do some dancing with some doctors!!!!!”, she tweeted earlier in the day to her more than 3.6 million followers on Twitter.

Look, it's not a prison in Cebu! 1,146 doctors dance their way to two Guinness world records. (Rudy Esperas/InterAksyon)

The event was dubbed as “Beat It!: Fighting Cervical Cancer One Beat At A Time” and took place Thursday night at the Philippine International Convention Center Reception Hall. Together with Jason Zamora of the Manoevres, the Philippine All Stars and actor Richard Yap, Anne led the doctors in strutting to some of the most popular dance hits of today, including Psy’s “Gangnam Style” and Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe”, which Anne sang with so much gusto to open the program.
Organized by the Philippine Obstetrical and Gynecological Society (POGS) and sponsored by GSK Philippines, the event did not meet its original target of 1,500 dancing doctors but still managed to achieve its objective as only 1,000 doctors were needed to set the record.
The “new records” are still subject to validation by the Guinness Book of World Records officials and will only become official with their own announcement.

Anne, Jason Zamora, and the Philippine All Stars lead the dance on stage. (Rudy Esperas/InterAksyon)

But more than simply outdoing the dancing inmates of Cebu, the whole exercise was meant to generate more awareness for cervical cancer, which POGS president Dr. Rey Delos Reyes said is the second most common cancer in the world for women. In the Philippines alone, over 7,000 new cases of the dreaded diseases are reported annually, with 12 Filipinas dying every day from it.
“What is worse is that cervical cancer can be asymptomatic during its early stages and women discover they have the disease when it has severely progressed,” Dr. Delos Reyes added.
More than mere awareness, the dance event also generated approximately 1,400 anti-cervical cancer vaccines for the participating regions with one vaccine each for every participating doctor and two for the doctors representing the top two regions that signed up for the event.

Doctors work up a sweat to promote cervical cancer awareness. (Rudy Esperas/InterAksyon)

For Anne and the rest of the dancing doctors, however, setting world records is just the icing on the cake. Saving the lives of many Filipinas from the deathly grip of a fatal but highly preventable diseases is the true triumph of “Beat It!”.
Event organizers said a video of the record-setting dance will be posted Friday on YouTube.

Lola Siony so proud of Abueva’s rise from Balibago shanty to stardom By Mei-Lin Lozada

“Proud na proud talaga ako sa apo ko,” Purificacion Abueva, 66, says of Alaska super rookie Calvin. “Lumaki kasi siya na walang tatay, mahirap lang kami, ngayon nakakatulong na siya sa amin.” Jerome Ascano

THEY say behind every successful man is a woman. In Calvin Abueva’s case, there were three women.
Lola Siony, for one, was there every step of the way and witnessed how a skinny, hyper-energetic kid who grew up without a father and lived in poverty with his mother, sister, and grandmother in their neighborhood in Balibago in Angeles City tracked an unlikely path to stardom through this one game he became really good at.
“Proud na proud talaga ako sa apo ko,” Purificacion Abueva, 66, told Spin.ph as he recalled the early years of the former San Sebastian Stag who is now the hottest player in the PBA. “Lumaki kasi siya na walang tatay, mahirap lang kami, ngayon nakakatulong na siya sa amin.”
To this day, tears still welled in her eyes when Lola Siony recalled how a young Calvin and her sister Jovelle were raised in a Balibago shanty so small that the only space available, which passed for the living room, was where the family of four did pretty much everything – cook, eat, rest, sleep.
There wasn’t much Calvin could do at home, she recalled, that he spent much of his childhood years roaming the poor neighborhood to play before setting up a goal in front of their shack with a piece of plywood as backboard and the handle of a pail as ring, learning a game that would soon become the family’s ticket out of poverty.
"Noong five (years old) pa lang siya, gumawa 'yan ng paglalaruan niya ng basketball. Ginawa niya ‘yung plywood yung board tapos yung hawakan ng timba ang ring," said Lola Siony, flashing an engaging, toothless smile. "Kaya bata pa lang ‘yang si Calvin gusto na talaga niya mag-basketball.”
At San Sebastian, Abueva earned the moniker ‘The Beast’ largely because of his combination of brute strength, raw talent, and boundless energy rarely seen from a player in college. But Lola Siony was the least bit surprised, saying his grandson was already like that even when he was still a kid.
She allowed the kid to spend all that pent-up energy playing with the neighborhood kids, on two conditions – one, that he won’t get into a fight. And two, if you did end up in one, don’t go home crying to grandma.
“Five years old pa lang s’ya independent na yan,” she said. “Pinapabayaan ko lang naman siya pag gusto niya maglaro. Pero ang kaisa-isa kong bilin sa kanya, wag siyang makikipag-away at ‘wag siyang uuwi ng umiiyak.”
The kid took the advice to heart, even if he was sometimes bullied and ridiculed like most ‘Amboys’ in his neighborhood.
“Kahit noong bata pa siya pag natumba ‘yan di ‘yan umiiyak at babangon siya agad. Kahit may nang-aaway sa kanya ‘di umiiyak. Hindi rin nagsusumbong. Dati nga, kung hindi pa nagsabi sa akin yung mga kaklase niya hindi ko malalaman na tinusok pala siya ng lapis sa ulo,” said Lola Siony, or Mama as Calvin would call her.

Lola Siony, Jovelle, and some of Calvin Abueva's longtime friends commute from Pampanga and back to watch the Alaska rookie play. Photo courtesy of Jovelle Abueva

But it was not all playtime for the young Calvin. Lola Siony said the kid would also often help man their balut stand in the neighborhood, which for a long time was the family’s only source of income.

“Sinasamahan niya ako magtinda. Minsan sasabihin niya, ‘Sige na, mama, ako na lang dito’,” Lola Siony said. “Nakakatuwa nga kasi kapag siya ang nagtitinda nakakarami ng benta, minsan ubos pa ang paninda ko.”

Lola Siony commutes from Pampanga and back these days with Jovelle and some of Calvin’s longtime friends to watch the Alaska star’s every game, her heart filled with pride each time the coliseum explodes into cheers over her grandson’s exploits.

But it wasn’t always like that, she said. Back when Abueva was playing in barangay leagues in Pampanga, Lola Siony said she had to ride tricyles to watch him play and lend moral support.

“Pag nga siya sinisigawan ng mga tao na ‘squatter’ o kundi naman pag minumura siya, nasasaktan ako,” Lola Siony said. “Sabi ko na lang laro lang naman to ‘wag sana sila mang-insulto.”

Long after Calvin had already made a name for himself in Manila, Lola Siony said the Stags star would still come home to Pampanga during weekends, insisting that her ‘Mama’ should be the one to wash all his uniforms.

“Kahit naglalaro na siya sa Maynila, umuuwi pa rin yan sa Pampanga tapos ako maglalaba ng mga uniform niya. Pwede naman iba na gumawa noon pero ako pa rin ang gusto niya maglaba. Malambing talaga siya,” she said.

Calvin’s elder sister, Jovelle, said the player who would stare down opponents after each two-handed dunk, flex his muscles for the camera after a highlight play, and not back down from any fight is a kid at heart who wants nothing more than to help his family have a better life.

“Hindi siya mayabang, kung ano siya dati hanggang ngayon ganyan pa rin siya,” Jovelle said. “Di naman kasi niya iniisip na sikat siya. Basta ang alam lang niya maglalaro siya ng basketball para makatulong siya sa family.”

From the money Calvin had saved playing in the big leagues in Manila as well as in countless small-time leagues all over the country where he used to be a fixture as a ‘hugot,' the Abuevas were able to buy their own house in Porac, Pampanga and have expanded the property little by little.

“Nakabili na kami ng rent to own na bahay sa Pampanga, napagawa na rin namin ‘yung kusina at kwarto,” said Lola Siony. “Ngayon gusto ko naman makabili siya ng bahay niya at makatayo siya ng sarili niyang negosyo.”

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source: http://www.spin.ph/sports/basketball/special-reports/lola-siony-so-proud-of-abuevas-rise-from-balibago-shanty-to-stardom#page-1

Petron’s Jay Washington allegedly damages glass door at SMART-Araneta

Rey Joble, InterAKTV · Thursday, November 8, 2012 · 4:02 pm

The glass door outside the Petron locker room. InterAKTV/Jaemark Tordecilla

Petron Blaze forward Jay Washington faces a possible fine after damaging the glass door leading to the team’s locker room after the Boosters’ game against the Talk ‘N Text Tropang Texters.
Eyewitnesses pointed to Washington as the culprit of the damaged glass door, which was heavily taped due to cracks.
Asked by InterAKTV if there’s any injury sustained by Washington during the incident, Petron Blaze team manager Hector Calma said his player’s “hand is fine.”
“Pero yung pinto dati nang may lamat yan,” added Calma, who didn’t comment on charges that Washington punched the glass door, causing additional damage and cracks to it.
Washington had already left the venue when InterAKTV tried to get his side on the incident.
On Twitter, Petron coach Olsen Racela’s wife Melissa said Washington did not punch the glass door.

Magoo Marjon@magoomarjon7 Nov 12

but accdg to asst coach Gee Abanilla, hindi daw sinuntok ni Jay Wash yun glass door #Petronovela

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MELISSA PUEY RACELA@MelisPueyRacela

@micohalili oo nga, Jay didn't punch that glass door, eh di sana duguan na yung kamay nya people speculate kya nagkaka Petronovela hehe

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Gines Enriquez, executive of SMART-Araneta Coliseum, said they will conduct further investigation regarding the incident and will impose possible charges if proven that Washington caused the damage on the glass door.
In last season’s Governors Cup finals, B-MEG (now San Mig Coffee) coach Tim Cone was fined for throwing a chair inside the playing court, causing damage to the floor of the venue.

source: http://www.interaksyon.com/interaktv/petrons-jay-washington-allegedly-damages-glass-door-at-smart-araneta