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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

KC CONCEPCION ROGUE MAGAZINE COVER TRENDED ON TWITTER

KC Concepcion's mother Megastar Sharon Cuneta expressed her anxiety over the daring Rogue cover via her Twitter account before it's release on Tuesday

Excerpt from KC Concepcion and Sharon Cuneta's tweets:

Sharon tweeted this:

"tutti! I'm nervous about rogue! Did u stay your decent self or steal my future daring pose?!!"

KC replied:

"I'm nervous too! Kasi I did the future daring pose. Hahaha don't look na! :)"

In another tweet, KC, whose interview with Jose Javier Reyes is featured in the magazine issue, explained her Rogue cover.

KC tweeted:

"Women have a strength they might not always believe they have... • And that's what my ROGUE Jan/Feb 2012 mag issue is all about. :)"

Revenge is definitely best served cold for singer-TV host KC Concepcion, whose sexy cover photo for Rogue's magazine title is wowing men and women alike. KC Concepcion trended in twitter and facebook, making the rounds of social networking sites on Tuesday.

Here are some reader reactions on twitter on KC:

David Milan
"Off with his head" probably best describes KC Concepcion's Rogue cover. And that ***... Wow.
23 Jan

in reply to ↑

Mich Dulce
@DavidMilan I know !!!! @kc_concepcion 's butt is beyond EPIC! seriously its perfect! hi kace, congratulations you look HOT!! x

Rogue Magazine
@annecurtissmith Thanks for the retweet Anne!!!!

23 hours

Anne Curtis-Smith
Reeeow! Sexeeeeh! ♥ RT @rogueonline: Styled by @pamquinones makeup by @juansarte snake by (cont) http://tl.gd/fgputi
23 hours ago

Gerard C. Gotladera
KC Concepcion lookin' fine on @rogueonline (http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...type=1&theater)
23 hours ago

Thysz Estrada
KC as Medusa. That severed head looks like Pi... nevermind. RT @rogueonline Here's KC Concepcion for Rogue http://twitter.com/rogueonline/statu...240578/photo/1
23 Jan

Sea Ex
our lovely colleagues @rogueonline have just released the stunning new cover with kc concepcion!
23 Jan

Rogue Magazine
@kc_concepcion talks to @DirekJoey "Now, I feel like...let the games begin. I think I've grown some fangs and claws after this situation."

KC Concepcion
First seen on ROGUE.

RT @rogueonline: That snake is real by the way, that's @kc_concepcion 's beloved python named Coco #RogueJanFeb2012

mark nicdao

The cover is open for interpretation. Up to you what you want to see.

The photos inside you'll see the new and improved stronger Kc:-) a new year indeed. The article is a Must Read.

During the shoot I saw genuine happiness and contentment from Kc. she's moved on:-) one of our bravest shoot.:-)

KC Concepcion is sexy and sophisticated in her daring magazine pose @ Rogue Magazine January-February 2012 issue .

The Rogue cover teases with a promotional description: "That can be on the record...The KC Concepcion Confession," hinting a tell-all feature to follow her infamous TV interview in November of last year.

Other articles about KC Concepcion:

KC and Piolo Rogue

Sexy KC Concepcion's X-factor and Pet Snake

KC Concepcion's Complete Rogue Magazine Photos

Sexier Photo of KC Concepcion for Rogue Magazine

Daring KC Concepcion in Rogue Magazine

KC Bikini Cover Shoot for Cosmopolitan Magazine

KC Concepcion dons two-piece Bikini on Cosmopolitan Magazine

ABS-CBN PR heads vs. KC Concepcion

Mark Bautista tagged as third party in the Piolo Pascual and KC Concepcion break-up?

Piolo and KC's break-up

Sharon Cuneta - KC's new suitor is real man

KC Concepcion 2013 Tanduay Cover Girl

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

DARING KC CONCEPCION IN ROGUE MAGAZINE COVER JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2012 ISSUE

KC Concepcion is Rogue Magazine Cover girl for January- February 2012 issue where she is shown holding a snake and a man’s head. Does that pose mean something?

KC Concepcion in a daring pose in the January-February 2012 issue of Rogue Magazine.

Rogue January-February 2012

Shot by Mark Nicdao

Styled by Pam Quinones

Makeup by Juan Sarte III

Hair by Celeste Tuviera-Querido

Production Design by Dindo Pangalangan, Elmer Pueblo, and Che Katigbak

This is what you missed Papa Piolo!

This one is more daring than any of her photos in previous magazine covers. It is also her first magazine cover after her ugly breakup with actor Piolo Pascual. KC Concepcion’s Rogue cover appears natural and the photo does not deviate from the actual appearance of the actress.

In 2008, KC Concepcion is also in the cover of Rogue Magazine

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Monday, January 23, 2012

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YEAR OF THE WATER DRAGON BEGINS TODAY JANUARY 23, 2012

Year of the Water Dragon begins today January 23, 2012, and ends on February 9, 2013. The year of the Dragon brings many possibilities for good fortune.

Days of colorful festivals, intense preparations, parades, dragon and lion dances, ﬁreworks display, visits to friends and relatives, and the largest human migration around the world to travel home to attend reunions culminated yesterday with the onset of the Chinese New Year, also known as Spring Festival or Lunar New Year, the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays.

New Year’s Eve traditions were observed including the thorough cleaning of homes, wearing of new clothes and shoes, opening of doors, windows, and lights, getting a new haircut, cleaning and repainting of altars, preparation of fruits believed to invite good fortune on tables, and the repainting of doors and window panes. The color red, the emblem of joy and prosperity and which is believed to scare away evil spirits and bad fortune, was liberally used in painting and decorating.

Lucky money in red envelopes were given to children, sweets were served, while some bathed in boiled pomelo leaves for good health.

The Eve of the Passing Year reunion dinners were also held serving an abundance of food like ﬁsh, chicken, dumplings, nuts, noodles, and sweets like the popular glutinous rice ﬂour (tikoy) to symbolize prosperity, abundance, longevity, and good fortune as well as in thanksgiving for the blessings of the past year.

The celebration of the Chinese New Year traditionally begins on the ﬁrst day of the ﬁrst lunar month in the Chinese calendar and ends 15 days later with the observance of the Lantern Festival.

For the Chinese, dragons are the divine mythical creatures that bring with them intense power, ultimate abundance, and good fortune.

In Sung dynasty manuscripts, the dragon is described as having the “head of an ox or donkey, eyes of a shrimp, horns of a deer, body of a serpent covered with fish scales, and a feet of a phoenix,” and it usually clutches a pearl symbolic of its supernatural powers.

To the Chinese, the dragon is born in the most desirable year and is the mightiest of the signs.

The Oriental dragon is regarded as a divine beast, the reverse of the monster that Westerners

felt necessary to find and slay.

Free spirits of the Chinese zodiac, people born in the Year of the Dragon are extroverts who have a deep love for nature and are innovative, passionate, enterprising, brave, self-assured, colorful, and flamboyant. Gifted and irrepressible, they are fearless of any challenges that may come their way, able to see clear the paths and take a radical approach to any harsh conditions.

Of the 12 signs of the Chinese zodiac, the dragon is the most special and is sometimes called a karmic sign. Bigger than life is very much a dragon thing and in this context we can expect grand things to happen this year. There may be flames and failures, but there will also be spectacular achievements.

For those born in the Year of the Dragon, this year is the time to pursue and act on the impossible dream, change the world or at least your life.

And for the other signs, it is the best chance to make your dreams come true. The dragon sign is associated with spring and the dragon water sign is likely to become a flowing river rather than a stagnant lake, which means that you need to begin 2012 off to a fast start as things are expected to happen early in the year.

Hopefully we used some of the quiet time in the past year to plan your moves for 2012.

KUNG HEI FAT CHOY!

TODAY IS A HOLIDAY JANUARY 23, 2012- CHINESE NEW YEAR

President Aquino declared January 23, 2012 as a special non-working day in the country in celebration of the Chinese New Year.

By virtue of Proclamation No. 295 signed by Executive Secretary Paquito N. Ochoa Jr. on November 24, 2011, the President declared Jan. 23, which falls on a Monday, as a special non-working day in the country to give both Chinese-Filipinos and Filipinos alike the opportunity to celebrate the holiday.

Chinese nationals all over the world celebrate Spring Festival today, January 23, 2012, popularly known as the Chinese New Year. One of the most revered and festive events celebrated not only in China but also in the Philippines by both Chinese Filipinos and ordinary Filipinos as well.

The joint celebration is a manifestation of our solidarity with our Chinese-Filipino brethren who have been part of our lives in many respects as a country and as a people according to President Pnoy.

HOW TO SAY HAPPY NEW YEAR IN CHINESE

All dialects of Chinese be it Fookien, Mandarin or Cantonese write these greetings using the same characters, but we will split them up because they're pronounced differently.

Mandarin Chinese:

新年快乐 (xīn nián kuài lè) pronounced as "sheen nyen kway luh" meaning Happy new year! (literally "The new year comes fast!")

恭喜发财 (gōng xǐ fā cái) pronounced as "gong shee fah chai" meaning Wishing you a prosperous new year! (literally "May you have much joy and wealth!")

Cantonese Chinese:

新年快乐 (san nin faai lok) pronounce as "Sun Nin Fy Lok" meaning Happy new year! (literally "The new year comes fast!")

恭喜发财 (gung hei faat choi) pronounce as "gong hey fat choy" meaning Wishing you a prosperous new year! (literally "May you have much joy and wealth!")

Fookien Chinese:

'Kiong Hee Huat Tsai!' means Wishing you prosperity and good fortune in Hokkien

Let me greet all Chinese all over the world:

Happy New Year!

Shalani Soledad and Pasig City Rep. Roman Romulo's Sunset Wedding Video

"To have and to hold from this day forward, for better or worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish to death do us part."

- Book of Common Prayer

A brief kiss but filled with longing sealed the wedding vows of Valenzuela Councilor Shalani Soledad and Pasig City Rep. Roman Romulo are married in simple and solemn rites at St. Benedict Church at the Ayala Westgrove in Silang Cavite, Sunday, January 22, 2012.

“I’m very happy that I’ve found you,” Romulo, 44, said during the ceremonial exchange of vows.

“I promise to love you from now on until forever,” Soledad, 31, replied.

Soledad wore a Kate Middleton-inspired off-white romantic gown with a lace bodice, skirt made of 17 layers of soft tulle and off-shoulder neckline with tiny cap sleeves. The bride’s face was shrouded in a thin layer of tulle. The look was simple yet elegant, calling to mind Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton’s lacey wedding gown when she married Prince William of Britain. Shalani chose to show off her arms instead of covering the. Designer Inno Sotto created the simple, feminine and elegant gown for Shalani Soledad.

Shalani wore a pair of shoes by Lila Almario.

Romulo wore a midnight-blue tuxedo, a white shirt and a gray bow tie by Hugo Boss and a pair of black leather shoes by Louis Vuitton.

The 22 principal sponsors came from the business and political sectors. The Mass lasted over an hour. The 500-seat church was full-packed.

The bride’s mother, Evelyn Soledad Yumol, and uncle Mon Soledad, who looked after the young Shalani while her mother worked overseas, gave the bride away. The bride met her real father only last year.

Soledad was born out of wedlock to banker and businessman Adolfo Aguirre and Evelyn San Ramon, a flight attendant. While her mother worked, the young Soledad grew up with her grandparents, aunt and uncles. Her mother never brought up the subject of her biological father, whom Soledad met only after 30 years.

The wedding invitation, made from an off-white paper material, had an embossed “RS” insignia, which stood for the couple’s initials.

After waiting for Soledad for 20 minutes, the guests at the church heaved a collective gasp at the sight of the resplendent bride emerging before them for her march.

The simple and solemn wedding ceremony, began at 5:45 p.m.

Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales, Bishop Mylo Hubert Vergara, Rev. Msgr. Bartolome Santos Jr. and Rev. Fr. Isagani Avinante officiated the wedding mass.

The wedding that took months to prepare was soon over. Cardinal Rosales commanded the groom, in jest, to “now take over.” Roman gladly did and planted a kiss on the bride’s waiting lips.

Roman Romulo, son of former Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo and Rosie Lovely Tecson-Romulo, arrived at 5:15 p.m. Soledad came minutes later in a white S-Class Mercedes-Benz.

The principal sponsors were:

Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario and Gretchen del Rosario
PLDT-Smart-TV 5 chair Manuel V. Pangilinan and Norma Ona
Sen. Panfilo Lacson and Corazon Ong
Emilio Yap and former Las Piñas Rep. Cynthia Villar
Ambassador Antonio Cabangon-Chua and Betty Chua
San Miguel Corp. president Ramon Ang and Bettina Aboitiz
Roberto del Rosario and Elizabeth Gan-Go
James Sy Gaisano and Lily Lee
Felix Tuikinhoy Jr. and Maria Jessica Bautista
Manuel Dy and Natividad Cheng
Bench founder Ben Chan and Janet Napoles.

Romulo’s best friend, J. Antonio Cabangon, was the best man while Joy Marie Castellvi was the matron of honor.

Romulo’s groomsmen were his brother Erwin, Davao del Norte Rep. Antonio Lagdameo, Ilocos Norte Rep. Rodolfo Fariñas, George Rafael Lorenzana and Dante Soliven.

Soledad’s bridesmaids were Catherine May Hervas, Annaliza Jacinto, Ma. Lourdes Romero, Monica Garcia and Diamond Villar.

The entourage consisted of 21 flowers girls.

Broadcaster Karen Davila and Leyte Rep. Lucy Torres-Gomez, wife of actor Richard Gomez, were gospel readers at the Mass.

Sunday’s reception was held at Evolving Center Dockside of the nearby Nuvali, in Sta. Rosa.

In lieu of gifts, Soledad and Romulo had asked their guests to donate to the victims of the deadly Tropical Storm “Sendong.”

Roman Romulo and Shalani Soledad Wedding Video source: @24 oras