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"The Emperor’s New Clothes" Is All Set To Open On July 29


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Another classic work of Hans Christian Andersen will be premiered through its famous story of “THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES” by Kids Acts Philippines, the premier children’s theatre in the country. This is the company’s 14th Musical Theatre Season offering for schools, parents, children and the entire family.

Kids Acts Philippines proudly presents “THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES” with script, lyrics and direction by LUIGI NACARIO, who won his first writing crown from BroadwayWorld Philippines Awards through Hansel and Gretel Musical and music by EUGENE BELBIS, who recently won his Best Musical Director Trophy of last year’s ALIW Awards through Beauty and the Beast Musical. These two collaborators of creating children’s musicals were named by critics as the Philippines’ “Jim Eiler and Jean Bargy”, the renowned creators of children’s musicals of the world.

The Emperor’s New Clothes is a story of honesty, forgiveness and humility. It corners the Emperor’s vanity to clothes and living a life of extravagance, luxury and lavishness. It was said that the Emperor loved beautiful new clothes so much that he spent all his money on being finely dressed. He loved going to the theater or fond of riding about in his carriage to show off his new clothes. He had a different costume for every hour of the day. He was the ruler who spent most of his time in his dressing more than at the palace’s court. 

One day his royal wife and at the same time his fashion confidant suggested of a grand and extravagant thanksgiving parade. The royal couple invited all the finest weavers in the kingdom to create cloth that will exalt the emperor to be envied by all. Until, he was swindled by the two weavers, who claimed to be weavers who knew how to make the finest cloth imaginable with colors and patterns were extraordinarily beautiful, that its material had the amazing property which was invisible to anyone who was incompetent and stupid. 

What Happens If One Doesn’t Pay His Debts?


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Being unable to pay your debts will reflect negatively on your credit history, making it tough to take out loans in the future. It is important to keep in mind that once you decide to borrow from any lender, you take yourself to be responsible enough to pay your debts on time.

Applying for loans may be tricky but if we engage ourselves with the following scenarios, we will be able to pick up some tips on how to properly manage finances.

Here we have Pedro. He took out a loan for the latest rose-gold tablet. Eventually, he quit his job because he couldn’t tear himself from watching the latest episode of his favorite TV series. Because he was inactively seeking for a job, he found himself facing a problem – not having the money to pay the debt for his loan.

Here is what will happen to Pedro in the next months if he doesn’t sell his tablet or find work to pay off his loan.


Of course, it is fair to say that not all who fail to pay their debts are irresponsible just like Pedro. They can be reliable borrowers, but unforeseen circumstances such as an illness or death in the family can make it difficult or impossible to repay a loan on time. But regardless of whether one is a “Pedro” or not, the consequences of not paying a loan are the same. Let’s take a look.

We will go through 5 stages with Pedro. Within each stage, his debt will grow along with the risks of saying goodbye to his rose-gold tablet. Pedro may be confident that his health and life are not under threat because he took out a loan from a legal lender so the collection process will flow according to the law where collectors will not beat him, shout at him, or kidnap him.

First SONA of Rodrigo Duterte, 16th President of the Philippines


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"And I was hopeful that the next six years will be different, but it seems a lot of people want to see the world as a grim place, maybe the world is a grim place, maybe the Philippines is a grim place, the more we see it that way, the more it becomes, it's the law of the Universe.

While I see, what you see, I am choosing to see my world and my country not as dark, not as grim, it is the story I want to tell myself in the next six years.

To quote Robert Redford, he said,

" But the story, I think, can be retold, and I really believe that you’re the ones to do it.”

I can't and won't tell anyone how to see their world, the only thing I ask, is for us to have a little more faith, in ourselves and in our country.

I believe what you don't strengthen, you weaken." - Napo Belran

The first State of the Nation Address (SONA) of the 16th President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Roa Duterte happens on July 25, 2016 at the Batasang Pambansa in Quezon City.

Around 3,000 guests have been invited, but hoping it won't be another fashion or modeling show for the politicians who will flaunt their outfits personally created for them by popular designers. I think the dress code for President Rodrigo Duterte’s first State of the Nation Address has just gotten more specific. Guests were asked not to wear long dresses.

All four living former presidents are invited to the very first SONA of the President, but it appears his immediate predecessor, former President Benigno Aquino III, has decided to skip the event.

My impression of Digong has evolved. He’s not as bad as I thought he would be. But is he? or is his people doing the "campaign" to make him look good eventhough he continues to be the dirty politician who would not hesitate to kill to cleanse society.

But are we indeed witnessing the elimination of the bad elements of society, or are all we seeing are just the small time crooks, and yet the real sources of these crimes are still safely enjoying their illegally accumulated riches.

When they announced that they finally killed a big time drug lord, I still had doubts he was just a pawn sacrificed to further deceive us. This is how doubtful many of us are since we could not really erase our previous impressions of Digong. He would remain the bad boy of Davao who won the Presidency because the rest of the presidential candidates were more of the traditional politician and he stood out as the only one annoyingly different among them.

"What I would do is urge Congress to restore the death penalty by hanging, especially if you use drugs," could really mean his sincerity towards the fight against drugs.

He said he was going to clean up the force by asking the guilty to voluntary resign, I know you will lose your jobs, but please look for an honorable way out.”

He is equally warning corrupt journalists: "Just because you're a journalist you are not exempted from assassination, if you're a son of a b----,"

But what I liked about him is his plan to open up Malacanang for public visit. “I want the people, especially school children, to learn more about the presidency and the government,” said Duterte of his plan to open the palace to the public.

He also said that “During my time there will be no demolition pag walang relocation, ‘di ako papayag." However, this should not mean that informal settlers or squatters should use that as an excuse to build houses and claim properties not of their own. There are many who abuse and misuse, and then cry violation of human rights in defense.

Before he had no intended cabinet position for Vice President Leni Robredo, but it soon changed after they personally met at a certain event because soon thereafter he offered her the housing chief.

Last news I've heard about him was the signing of a sort of Freedom of Information (FOI) Executive Order (EO) but still with limitations especially when it pertains to national security. But with every existing limitation, the lawyers of every government agency would still find flaws especially when the people have no capacity to legally fight back.

There are many things to say about Digong, yet just as how there are many detractors (and supporters) of the previous presidents, we have never seen any President who is generally favored and seen without any flaws.

However, Digong is to be considered an enigma for he is the only one who was seen as obviously faulty in most of his ways yet he emerged as teh triumphant winner of the Philippine Presidency. 

We welcome his presidency, but we have to disagree with him on how he looks at human rights and how he addresses criminality.”

For us, the SONA is actually not necessary. The same information can be easily shared in several other mediums. It is merely a very expensive and grand propaganda only meant to further make him look good by uttering words only intended to please the masses and irk his political adversaries.
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