Your Valuables

If I were to produce a movie, its title would be Your Valuables. I could

then get free advertising with signs like this in various establishments.

At Chowking, SM City Cebu, on one of their air conditioning units.

OPC Hits: Matt Maher, "Because He Lives (Amen)"

After "All the People Said Amen," Matt Maher has released another Amen song. Entering the chart this week just behind Owl City and Britt Nicole who debut on top, here's "Because He Lives (Amen)" at #2:

OPC Hits

November 23-29, 2014

TW	LW	PP	WC	ARTIST	TITLE
OVERALL PICKS
1	-	1@1	1	Owl City	You're Not Alone [feat. Britt Nicole]
2	-	2	1	Matt Maher	Because He Lives (Amen)
3	1	1@1	2	Olly Murs	Wrapped Up [feat. Travie McCoy]
4	2	2	2	Brandon Heath	No Turning Back
5	4	4@1	6	We Are Leo	You're the Best Thing
6	-	6	1	Band Aid 30	Do They Know It's Christmas (2014)
7	-	7	1	One Direction	Night Changes [Acoustic]
8	3	3	2	You+Me	Break the Cycle
9	7	2	4	Taylor Swift	Out of the Woods
10	5	5	2	Phillips, Craig & Dean	Throne of Praise
BUBBLING UNDER
1	1	2@1	2	Mat Kearney	Heartbeat
2	2	2	2	Cheryl	I Don't Care
3	-	3	1	Kari Jobe	I Am Not Alone [Live]
4	3	3	2	Ellie Holcomb	Marvelous Light
5	5	5	2	Avicii	The Days

Throwback Thursday: The Ride

I was riding a jeepney to SM one day and out of boredom, observed my co-passengers: Four women, two ladies, two couples (boyfriend and girlfriend), a husband and a wife with their two kids (son and daughter), and another two ladies with a girl on their lap each. Now, I've got a question: How many people were in the jeepney?

Post your answers and let the world know how smart you are. I might just give away a prize. Hehe.

The original version of this blog entry was first posted at The Talkthrough with Johnny Talker on July 30, 2006.

Olly Murs, "Wrapped Up" [OPC Hits 2014.11.16]

Olly Murs may have only finished second on The X Factor (UK) some years ago, but this time around, he finishes second to no one on the latest OPC Hits. That's the reason why he's Never Been Better, also the name of his upcoming album due on the 21st. Featuring with Travie McCoy, here's "Wrapped Up" at #1 this week:

OPC Hits

November 16-22, 2014

TW	LW	PP	WC	ARTIST	TITLE
OVERALL PICKS
1	-	1@1	1	Olly Murs	Wrapped Up [feat. Travie McCoy]
2	-	2	1	Brandon Heath	No Turning Back
3	-	3	1	You+Me	Break the Cycle
4	1	4@1	5	We Are Leo	You're the Best Thing
5	-	5	1	Phillips, Craig & Dean	Throne of Praise
6	-	6	1	Taylor Swift	Blank Space
7	2	2	3	Taylor Swift	Out of the Woods
8	-	8	1	Relic Hearts	Out of the Woods
9	3	2	3	Disciple	Unbroken
10	5	1@1	6	Jeremy Camp	He Knows
BUBBLING UNDER
1	-	1@1	1	Mat Kearney	Heartbeat
2	-	2	1	Cheryl	I Don't Care
3	-	3	1	Ellie Holcomb	Marvelous Light
4	-	4	1	Ariana Grande	Break Free [feat. Zedd]
5	-	5	1	Avicii	The Days
PINOY PICKS
1	1	4@1	4	Nadine Lustre	Bahala Na [feat. James Reid]
2	2	5@1	9	Victory Worship	Radical Love
3	3	3	2	Kathryn Bernardo	You Don't Know Me
4	4	6@1	19	Tony Alfonso	Intergalactic Gugma [with Kaye Dinauto]
5	5	1@1	21	Kyla	Salbabida

As Good as Advertised: 7-Eleven Giniling Busog Meal

With the Hotta Rice not available, I recently settled for a Busog Meal at the 7-Eleven store near my home. They also had Sisig and Tuna Omelette, but I picked the Giniling meal. Microwaved and served hot, I got rice and a tasty viand for only P29.00. As I had a satisfying fill, I could say that the Busog Meal is as good as advertised: Busog and sulit.

Bookmarked: Serial Heroes from the Pages

You all know about your Harry Potter, Twilight and Hunger Games (which have all been adapted into movies), but what other book series are awesome and worth your time to read? It's time to know these great book heroes. Here's a quick list for the bookworms out there:

Pendragon DJ MacHale 10 BOOKS • WEBSITE Travel with Bobby.

Children of the Red King Jenny Nimmo 8 BOOKS • WEBSITE Be endowed like Charlie.

The Paladin Prophecy Mark Frost 2 BOOKS SO FAR • WEBSITE Run with Will.

And if you're looking for even more books to read, check out the Morpheus Road and The Sylo Chronicles trilogies, also by DJ MacHale. I'm currently reading the Sylo finale, Strike.

Taylor Swift, "Out of the Woods" [OPC Hits 2014.11.09]

Taylor Swift has outpeaked her previous single "Shake It Off" on the OPC Hits chart with a re-entry of a song taken off her newly-released album 1989. After entering at #10 three weeks ago, the two-time Billboard Woman of the Year somehow got lost in the jungle, but she's now "Out of the Woods" as she returns this week at #2.

OPC Hits

November 9-15, 2014

TW	LW	PP	WC	ARTIST	TITLE
OVERALL PICKS
1	1	4@1	4	We Are Leo	You're the Best Thing
2	-	2	2	Taylor Swift	Out of the Woods
3	2	2	2	Disciple	Unbroken
4	-	4	1	Aaron Gillespie	Praise Him
5	3	1@1	5	Jeremy Camp	He Knows
6	4	2	5	Carrie Underwood	Something in the Water
7	5	5	2	Veritas	Dare You to Move
8	6	4	4	Big Daddy Weave	Overwhelmed
9	7	5	3	Ryan Cabrera	House on Fire
10	10	7	3	Meghan Trainor	Lips Are Movin
BUBBLING UNDER
1	1	2@1	3	Nadine Lustre	Bahala Na [feat. James Reid]
2	2	2@1	4	Fall Out Boy	Immortals
3	3	2	4	We Are Leo	Yours 4 Sure
4	-	4	1	OneRepublic	I Lived
5	4	3	4	Yellowcard	One Bedroom

What Is Smart Calling?

On your Android phone (mine is an Alcatel One Touch Inspire 2), you might possibly encounter the Turn on smart calling option under Call settings > Other settings. But what exactly does this feature do?

Smart calling allows you to initiate a call with just a simple gesture of waving your finger or hand at the front-facing camera of your phone. You can trigger it from the Messaging app (it will call the number on the active SMS thread), or while accessing your Address Book (it will call the first number of the contact being displayed).

But should you turn on smart calling? Chances are you'd trigger this accidentally more than the times you'd trigger it intentionally. Could be quite a hassle. I suggest you keep it off.