Author: Agnes Alpuerto

John Mulaney, considered a golden boy of comedy, has checked himself into the rehab for 60 days for alcohol and drug addiction, according to reports from the New York Post. Mulaney, 38, was a former writer for Saturday Night Live and hosted the show twice this year. He has previous opened up about his history of addiction, revealing that he stated drinking when he was just 13. “I drank for attention,” he told Esquire last year. The drinking then led to cocaine. “I was really outgoing, and then at 12, I wasn’t. I didn’t know how to act. And then…

Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island erupted on Sunday night, placing the island on a red alert on Monday. The eruption was followed by an earthquake that struck at the volcano’s south flank. The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said the situation is “rapidly evolving”, though it is still unclear what damage has occurred so far. The red alert advisory warns residents that an eruption is imminent with the likely emission of significant volcanic ash into the atmosphere. Video from W rim of the caldera just before midnight. As of December 21 at 1:30 a.m. HST, the growing lava lake has almost…

Apple’s long-rumored electric vehicle, Apple Car, is years ahead of schedule and is apparently rolling out in September next year, according to fresh updates obtained by Economic News Daily citing unnamed Taiwanese manufacturer executives. According to previous statements, the Apple Car will be presented to the public and will be in mass production in 2023. But new reports emerged that the vehicle has been put into overdrive, meaning that we could see the product much earlier than expected. The iPhone maker has reportedly tested dozens of prototypes already on the roads of California. Taiwanese suppliers such as Heda, BizLink-KY, Heqin…

Thailand’s prime minister, Prayuth Chan-o-cha, has urged for calm on Monday as new coronavirus outbreak emerges in the country. At least 821 new infections were detected in Thailand’s worst outbreak yet. The government said there are no immediate plans for a wider lockdown, and testing has begun for tens of thousands of people on Sunday. The coronavirus outbreak began at a shrimp market in Samut Sakhon, southwest of Bangkok and a center of the seafood industry in Thailand. Samut Sakhon is home to thousands of migrant workers. Only four cases were detected on Friday, but the number had jumped to…

In this digital age, YouTube has become everyone’s companion. Millions of YouTube videos are available for free, all you need is a smart phone, a tablet or a computer and of course, an Internet connection. According to a YouTube blog, there over 2 billion logged-in users in the video site each month; this amounts to on-third of the Internet. And every day, people watch over a billion hours of video and generate billions of views. And with the pandemic keeping us all from going to cinemas or watching outdoor concerts, we’ve all resorted the site for easy, free and fast…

Still don’t know where to go on Christmas Day? Here’s a suggestion you won’t regret following: spend Christmas (or at least an hour of it) onboard the Hop On-Hop Off bus for an exciting Saigon city tour. Yes, there’s no better way to make Christmas and the whole holiday season more meaningful and educational than going on a tour around most iconic tourist spots in Saigon and learning more about this oh-so-marvelous city. The Hop On-Hop Off bus, which rolled in January this year, is an open-air double-decker bus that takes passengers around the city. The bus goes through 24…

Let us all pray for a fine weather on Monday night because a rare celestial event is about to happen! The “Christmas Star” will be clearly visible as Jupiter and Saturn come closer to each other than they’ve ever been for nearly 400 years. Though on the past days and for the rest of December, they will appear to be so close to each other in the post-sunset night sky. The “Christmas Star” is basically the conjunction of the solar system’s two largest planets – Jupiter and Saturn – that they will look like a single, giant bright star. Tonight,…

Pop singer Ariana Grande has just announced on her social media account that she’s engaged to boyfriend Dalton Gomez. The 27-year-old shared a photo of a gleaming diamond ring on her left finger on Sunday, with the caption “forever n then some”. The engagement ring features a large diamond solitaire with a pearl to one side of the stone. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ariana Grande (@arianagrande) The lovebirds’ relationship was made public in May this year, with the release of Grande’s “Stuck with U”, in collaboration with another pop singer Justin Bieber. In the music…

Indonesia has found a creative way to raise coronavirus awareness – through a giant tree! A Catholic church in Surabaya, Indonesia decorated a Christmas tree with protective masks and hand sanitizers as a way to encourage every Indonesian to protect themselves and help curb the spread of coronavirus in the country. The move comes as Indonesia’s daily death toll hit a record high on Sunday. “The tree was made with the intention of making people more aware of the importance of maintaining health protocols,” Markus Marcelinus Hardo Iswanto of the parish of The Catholic Church of Christ the King in…

Some twists will be explained, too. The trending headline is, “Pedro Pascal is Suffering Severe Back Injury from Carrying Entire Star Wars Franchise”. Clearly a joke but admit it… he totally did — along with his friends. The Mandalorian season 2 was beyond amazing — the fandom is still in awe, and well, some are still emotional in absorbing what just happened. SPOILER ALERT: Don’t say I didn’t warn you. For the record, I haven’t picked up my jaw back from the floor. The Mandalorian Chapter 16, “The Rescue”, brings another season of the Star Wars live-action series to an…