I waited for my excitement to die down before I attempted to write an objective review of Jason Mraz concert in Manila last October. Looking back, we truly enjoyed the concert, fan or no fan, you will simply be amazed at Jason Mraz’s sheer vocal prowess and musical talent. Jason and Toca confidently confronted thousands of screaming fans that filled the gigantic Araneta Colliseum.

Jason and Toca sang their hearts out, they sang all of my favorites including Butterfly and Dynamo of volition from Jason’s latest album. The concert was a major success, save for a few minor qualms. Most of my complaints will fall under technical difficulties or venue related problems.

First complaint is the lousy sound system. There was too much echo and there was not enough power to fill the stadium. Although as a fan, I am familiar with his lyrics, but newbies will probably have a hard time understanding what Jason was singing about. Next complaint is the decision to do an acoustic set at a giant venue like Araneta. Jason should have gotten himself a full band to back him up complete with sax and wind instruments – it would have been much more fun.

Still acoustic sets have that feeling of intimacy which die hard fans probably preferred, sadly these die hard fans only know Jason’s popular songs like You and I both, I’m yours and Lucky. Overall it was a great concert experience and was well worth the dread of traffic and the hard time we had parking our car.

And honestly I was a bit surprised because there was no mention in the news that Steve’s condition was already that bad. Just a few days after the announcement of iPhone 4s, Apple Macintosh again took the world by storm with the news of its leader’s demise.

The peculiar thing is, when I read the news, somehow I felt sad, and the reaction was virtually the same through out my social networking range. Its like everyone paused for a bit to think about this man, some were probably taking care of their ach payments, feeding their kids, driving to work, eating lunch etc… But I am quite sure that most of us dropped what we were doing when we heard the news and spent a bit of time thinking about Steve Jobs, his life contributions and comparing it to our own puny contributions.

Everyone took the time to remember this great achiever’s life. And to me that is already a great honor in itself for all of Steve Jobs accomplishments.

Still what’s done is done and people will move on. The news and the interwebs will be talking about useless things again in just a few days. I just hope and pray that Steve’s family is coping well and that Apple will continue to produce great innovative and quality products.

And I also hope that I learn something from the life of this man that successfully changed the way the world thinks.

The boxing champion and proud Filipino, Manny Pacquiao, has finally opened his very own twitter account.

“Yes, happy news … I’m pregnant. We’re so excited to have a family,” tweeted Alanis last Wednesday.  Alanis first rose to fame with her album, Jagged Little Pill.

Loaded with a box of popcorn, a bunch of fast food takeouts – we raced our way to the cinema. We got there just in time, advertisements featuring new movies are still rolling.  I was not too excited about the movie because I was not too much of a fan of the first film.  But here is hoping that the second installment would be good, and ofc ourse we wanted to see what the hype was all about.  To my disappointment – the movie turned out to be much like how the first one was, full of high grade special effects and visuals, but lacking in the story department.  Just like part 1, somebody AGAIN copied  Iron Man’s suit and became the villain – there goes my hope for originality.  The only real thing that made the movie bearable  was the graphics – and the funny antics of Robert Downey Jr.  I was also disappointed at the fight scenes… the enemies were bleh.  The only good fight scene was between War Machine and Iron Man, the final fight with the antagonist was not even worth mentioning.  To the creators of future comic book adaptation movies - PLEASE PLEASE and again PLEASE EXTEND and CRAFT great fight scenes – it should be the heart of any comic book super hero adaptation movie!!!  GRRR!!!  OK… now that I got that off my chest, I will give my final rating:  4 out of 5.   It should be lower – but since Z was happy about the movie, I gave it some bonus points.  I’m guessing with Z’s reaction to the movie that we would be present again in the next installment of the film.

Reminder: One thing worth mentioning was Nick Fury’s more prominent role, so word of advice – wait for the end credits roll, you’re in for a small but nice scene.

Here is the Celebrity Apprentice 2010 Cast.

Comedian and former TV Star Sinbad
Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich
Victoria Secret model Selita Ebanks
WWE wresting star Bill Goldberg
Retired Olympic sprinter Michael Johnson
Former WWE wrestler Maria Kanellis
Singer Cyndi Lauper
Comedian Carol Leifer
Rocker/reality star Bret Michaels
Former reality star/TV judge Sharon Osbourne
Actress Holly Robinson Peete
TV personality/retired Olympic swimmer Summer Sanders
TV host/celebrity chef Curtis Stone
Baseball legend Darryl Strawberry

Celebrity Apprentice 2010 airs tonight at 9 p.m. on NBC.