The Ferraris still have a few problems with their car.  Meanwhile, the next race will be the Turkish Grand Prix at the Istanbul Park on May 6-8th.

1    3    Lewis Hamilton    McLaren-Mercedes        
2    1    Sebastian Vettel    Red Bull-Renault   
3    2    Mark Webber    Red Bull-Renault    
4    4    Jenson Button    McLaren-Mercedes      
5    8    Nico Rosberg    Mercedes   
6    6    Felipe Massa    Ferrari   
7    5    Fernando Alonso    Ferrari   
8    7    Michael Schumacher    Mercedes   
9    10    Vitaly Petrov    Renault   
10    16    Kamui Kobayashi    Sauber-Ferrari   
11    15    Paul di Resta    Force India-Mercedes   
12    9    Nick Heidfeld    Renault    
13    11    Rubens Barrichello    Williams-Cosworth   
14    18    Sebastien Buemi    Toro Rosso-Ferrari   
15    14    Adrian Sutil    Force India-Mercedes 
16    20    Heikki Kovalainen    Lotus-Renault      
17    17    Sergio Perez    Sauber-Ferrari    
18    12    Pastor Maldonado    Williams-Cosworth     
19    21    Jarno Trulli    Lotus-Renault  
20    25    Jerome d’Ambrosio    Virgin-Cosworth     
21    24    Timo Glock    Virgin-Cosworth    
22    23    Vitantonio Liuzzi    HRT-Cosworth    
23    22    Narain Karthikeyan    HRT-Cosworth  
Not classified
    19    Jaime Alguersuari    Toro Rosso-Ferrari   

Do you already have a summer destination in mind where you’ve always wanted to frolic on the beach and get that sun-kissed complexion that your friends will envy?

Easy Pha-max Philippines, the country’s leading distributor of Wheatgras-based health products has launched a summer getaway promo that you can’t ignore.
Called the Easy Pha-max Boracay Getaway, the summer promo offers you the chance to win a Boracay vacation for you and three of  your friends for three days and two nights, all expenses paid!  Topping this generous offer is a PhP5,000 pocket money for the lucky group.

How to join?  Just “LIKE” the Wheatgrass CAN Facebook page to qualify for the instant barkada summer vacation promo which ends on April 30. Only one raffle entry  per account is allowed. The electronic raffle will be held on May 2.

Visit http://www.facebook.com/#!/EPPIwheatgrass to know more about the promo.

That’s me in Boracay, staying in shape with healthy Wheatgrass now in CAN!  Stay healthy, live fully – enjoy summer everyone!

Do check out of course the next few week’s run of the International 2011 SM Mall of Asia Pyromusical Fireworks Competition on the weekends of February and March.  Full schedule of the pyromusical 2011 is shown here on my other blog post.

2011 Pyromusical Fireworks Videos Spain Finale at SM Mall of Asia

This is just a preview

I’m with your other favorite Axe Girls  like Betina Beatrix Acosta, Jahziel Manabat, Karen Bordador, Arra Castro and Carolyn!

You can download the Axe Calendar via their official facebook page below

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150175447112786&set=a.375716032785.208632.350337822785

Two things I look forward to watching the Super Bowl other than the game itself: Half Time entertainment and the Super Bowl Commercials.

Well, first of all the Packers won the game today but let me share the other entertainment and the feedback it got from the crowd.

Christina Aguilera and Lea Michele singing the National Anthem and America the Beautiful

I know, I know.  The singing of Christina Aguilera was flawed but OMG her vocals are just awesome!  I have been a fan of her since Genie in a Bottle.  She has a great voice and she delivered the song well, except for the scrambled lyrics.  Singing in that big stadium could bring butterflies in the stomach even to experienced and well established singers.  They often get criticized and most often than not, people would bash them for not singing them the right way.  It’s like our local artists here in the Philippines who get bashed when they sing the Philippine national anthem too slow or too fast.  But, I mean c’mon guys, stop hatin’ I don’t think she meant to skip some lyrics while singing.  I’m pretty sure she tried to give her best. 

And since I don’t know the lyrics of the American National Anthem, I didn’t notice her mistake until Vince told me.  I almost cried even if I am not an American.

Video of Black Eyed Peas, Usher and Slash of Guns and Roses for Super Bowl Half Time

I heard many complaints and negative comments about their performance but after I watched the video I’m like “what the heck guys, stop HATIN’”

They might have complained about vocal qualities and Darth Vader (fake account) — (DUH?!?) even tweeted about the half time entertainment saying…

“That half time show did more to crush the morale of the rebellion in 30 minutes than I ever did.”

okay, fine. that’s funny but those glowing dancers were fun!

and c’mon at least there were no nip slips unlike Janet Jackson’s performance before!  Or would you rather have seen one from Fergie? you nasties!

People say they sound too different from their recorded album vs live.

One, studio and stadium are both different venues.  Sound quality is definitely better if recorded in a studio.  The stadium was pretty noisy with all the crowd cheering and the loud background music – it would be so hard to hear yourself singing that’s why I think they were all shouting.  But anyway, even if they weren’t that “in-tune” it wasn’t as bad!

What did you think of the two videos? 

and oh, I didn’t like Lea Michele’s performance though, I felt like she held back her vocals or something.  I don’t know. What do you think?

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Anyway, some people just watch the Super Bowl games to watch the advertisements or commercials.  Since millions and billions of people watch the Super Bowl games live online, on the game itself and on television, these people are also exposed to the commercials being aired with the game.  And with this, placement for ads cost $3 million for only 30 seconds of airtime.  This excludes production costs and other stuff like that.  Therefore, the companies placing ads in Super Bowl must have a super awesome commercial that impacts everyone watching the superbowl games.

The challengers for the Super Bowl Sunday games are the Pittsburgh Steelers vs Green Bay Packers.  Here is the list of advertisers that you should watch out for while watching the Super Bowl 2011 live either online, on TV or physically happening in the Cowboys Stadium in Arlington Texas. 

List of Super Bowl 2011 Advertisers

Anheuser-Busch

Audi

Best Buy

BMW North America

Bridgestone

Careerbuilder Cars.com

Chrysler

Coca-Cola

E-trade

General Motors

GoDaddy.com

HomeAway Inc.

Hyundai

Motor North America

Kia North America

Mars Mercedez-Benz

PepsiCo’s Dritos

PepsiCo’s Pepsi

Max Pizza Hut

Skechers

Teleflora

Volkswagen of America

*You can watch YouTube’s Annual Gallery of Super Bowl Commercials on their adblitz page here.  They will post Super Bowl commercials once they get played during the NFL game.

Here are other things you need to look forward to when watching the Super Bowl XLV 2011:

• National anthem will be sang by Christina Aguilera. 
• Coin Toss will be done by Dion Sanders.
• Halftime Show will be performed by Black Eyed Peas.  It’s back to hip hop this year and the Black Eyed Peas, especially Fergie, is trying to make sure that there wouldn’t be any wardrobe malfunction unlike what happened years ago with Janet Jackson’s performance.

Rumors going around that Justin Bieber is going to have the best Super Bowl commercial ever?

We’ll see about that.

Here are other screen shots of other super bowl commercials in the past years.

this is lol and I think this is fake

Day 15 of Project 365

I’m a licensed Certified Public Accountant and here’s my story.

College? What to take?

I went to College not knowing what course to take.  I just went to school anyway and picked a course that was practical.  I decided to take “BS Management.”

I underwent  enrollment process and had a couple of interviews from the Dean.

“You scored very high in the entrance exam” she said.  Why don’t you take BS Accountancy instead?

I wanted to say “Okay, whatever” but I just blurted out “Really?… Okay” I said as I just don’t care what course I’m taking.

I went to college in the humble city of Bacolod, my hometown.  It is still considered a province.  I wasn’t exposed to other career opportunities and I took a safe turn, and took accountancy.  I figured, a lot of businesses would need accountants.  They need people like the future accountant me.

I went to rigorous Accountancy training in La Salle Bacolod.  Our school was known for a good Accountancy program.  It was a struggle for me since I was juggling lots of extra co-curricular activities like being involved in Student Government (but I stopped), dancing a lot and cheerleading, handling the events for JPIA (Junior Philippine Institute of Accountants) for a while and organized JPIA night and production night.  I even joined a beauty contest because no one else in my batch would join.  I guess I just have big balls to try to do anything no one would.

On my first year, we have this “qualifying exam”.  If you fail this exam, you can’t proceed to the second year of the Accountancy program and you’d have to shift to another course.  I took the exam but I was already thinking of shifting courses.  I was considering “nursing” at that time.  Until the result of the exam came and I saw my name on the “passers” list @_@  Before there were 5 sections but it got narrowed down to like 50 (ish) remaining students.  Some were crying and I was being ungrateful for destiny’s gift and I wanted to shift.

Passing the qualifying made me decide to stay.  I mean, some people wanted this so bad.  I didn’t want it as much, but I got in.  Destiny must be telling something.

More struggles in the second to fourth year but I am not a quitter and I pursued Accountancy with my whole heart.  I even had to quit dancing partly because I am struggling with Accounting classes and partly because of my hyper jealous boyfriend who doesn’t want guys holding my butt when we’re doing stunts.

If there was one thing I regret doing in college, that was giving up DANCING.  I regret it like crazy.  I love dancing, and that’s one thing I’m certain I’m good at.  I wasn’t even that good in Accounting.   If I worked hard, I know I can still juggle the two.  But I don’t know what happened.

Graduation and CPA Review

I did it! and the next step is to pass the CPA Board exam!  But first, I need to go to a CPA Review School.  I won a scholarship for a review school in Iloilo.  I won this through winning the title “Miss JPIA 2002”  (yes, the beauty contest I joined – I won).

I wanted to study in Manila though so I gave this scholarship to someone more in need than me.  I honestly forgot who OMGG… It has been a long time.  But, I’m definitely sure that he passed the board exam and I am so happy I helped someone achieve this dream To me it was nothing, but to him, it might be everything

CPAR

CPAR stands for CPA Review School of the Philippines and one of the owners is Mr. Conrado T. Valix, author of Financial Accounting texbooks for accounting students.  His book became our bible as we studied.  I met a lot of people here and got exposed to other CPA students.  I am super friendly ^_^ but sir Valix often call it “paduding”.  There’s no direct translation but it’s close to being “friendly” and “flirty” ~_~

Sir Valix, along with the other reviewers of CPAR were awesome.  I think I enjoyed the new environment too much that I wasn’t able to focus much on the review. – I FAILED.

Yes, I failed my first CPA Board Exam.

Take Two.

I didn’t give up.  I know I was just a little bit distracted.  On my take two, I really focused but this time, it was also more relaxing.

I did very well this time that I got in the top 100 (topnotchers) for the mock CPA Exam.  I got invite letters from SGV asking me to visit them for interview.  and I scored a spankin 94 on the CPA Board Actual Exam.

One thing I learned is to never give up no matter what.  Learn from your mistakes and try again.  One of my friends took the exam 5 times.  and she passed the fifth time.  As long as you want it, pursue it… over and over again

3 years then

3 years after, I decided to let go of being an Accountant and try Internet Marketing, Digital Entrepreneurship and Blogging

I loved accounting at that time.  But, I found a new passion – blogging, photography, travelling, being adventurous and the internet and social media.

I missed those days though so me and my friend Charm decided to visit our review school CPAR and UST.  UST is where we stroll around if we want to de-stress.  What a lovely campus

back then there were no:

facebook

twitter

and I wasn’t blogging.

a lot of things could happen only in 3 years and I wonder, 3 years from now, what would I be doing?

What would you be doing?

This is Charm – looks like we’re in some place other than the Philippines, but we’re just chillin’ in UST

Good thing the guard let me in, it was a school day Saturday and I was wearing off shoulder top and shorts

Sir Valix.

We kinda disturbed him from work

This is mang Cards who always cooks for us when we join sir Valix for lunch XD

la la la… those were the days