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Little Manila
31 Pinoys qualify as caregivers in Japan
Pinoy Magician in the US wants to be a Surgeon
Magician Matthew Aaron Go did not realize the connection at first until he majored in Neuroscience at NYU and began to study the brain, this walnut- shaped organ powerful enough to mobilize all senses of the body.
Matthew appearing at Makilala TV talk show. Photo by Ronnie Ocampo Jr.
“There is an interesting connection,” Matthew, 22, explained to The FilAm in
an interview. “Neuroscience is the study of brain, how it works and how it controls our thoughts. Magic uses the brain and human thoughts to distract your attention. It’s all in the head.”
Matthew is currently
a senior student taking
up additional courses in Pre-Med Chemistry and Psychology. He is looking to become a brain surgeon.
Magic got him preoccupied as a young boy of about 10 years old. He remembered going on a family trip to Las Vegas and while there watched a magician perform. His father later got him a magician’s starter kit with cards and coins, and he began practicing when he got home.
TOKYO - A total of 78 people from the Philippines and Indonesia have passed Japan’s annual exam to certify caregivers for the elderly and others, the Japanese welfare ministry said.
Japan is trying to bring in more foreign workers in the nursing-care industry, which has suffered labor shortages due largely to the country’s shrinking birthrate and aging population.
The successful candidates -- 47 Indonesians and 31 Filipinos -- accounted for 44.8 percent of 174 people who took the exam after meeting the condition
of having work experience at nursing facilities in Japan for at least three
years under the economic partnership agreements Tokyo has concluded with each country.
The pass rate for the fiscal 2014 testing
was a record high and up from 36.3 percent the previous year, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said. Including Japanese examinees, the rate expands to 61.0 percent.
The Japanese government has taken various steps to have more foreign applicants pass the exam, allowing a longer stay in Japan for study, offering Japanese-language training and even extending testing time.
A total of around 1,500 people have visited Japan from the two
countries and Vietnam to take the annual exam under the partnership agreements. The Vietnamese candidates began staying in Japan this fiscal year.
In a different national qualification exam for nurses, the pass rate among those from the three Southeast Asian nations dropped to 7.3 percent in fiscal 2014 from 10.6 percent the previous year. The rate for all examinees stood at 90 percent.
A total of 357 people from the three countries took the test, but only 26 -- 11 from Indonesia, 14 from the Philippines and one from Vietnam -- got qualified.
“We will analyze (the fall in the rate for foreigners) and re-examine how to offer future training,” a health ministry official said.
Gwen split clears Ellen
When we talked to Gwen Zamora on the set of “Innamorata” a couple of months ago, she was very open talking about her relationship with Raymond Romualdez, the son of Tacloban Mayor Alfred Romualdez. She was even telling stories of how she helped Raymond in the relief operations after typhoon Yolanda and us writers who were listening to her concluded that they must be altar bound after they’ve been on for two years.
But now, she’d rather not talk about him at all. She confirms that they have broken up five months ago and she’d rather not dwell on it as she has already moved on. The fact that she wants to gloss over it indicates that they didn’t part ways amicably as it’s easy to say that they still remain to be good friends and it’s not a case of bad breakup.
The rumor is that Ellen Adarna, who’s now with ABS-CBN, has actually stolen her BF. But Gwen refuses to dignify this. She and Ellen have been friends when she was still with GMA. “I don’t know kunsaan galing ang ganyang issue but I never said or posted anything bad about Ellen in social media,” she says. “So sana, huwag na lang gawaan ng intriga basta I’m very happy now and let’s just leave it at that. I’m with ‘Bubble Gang’ now and I’m about to start a new soap, so okay ako.”
Fil-Am is a Billionaire
Bobby Murphy a Filipino- American co-founder of mobile app Snapchat is now the second world’s youngest billionaire’s at the age of 25 according to the latest list released by Forbes Magazines for the year 2015. Snapchat co- founder Bobby Murphy is now having a net worth of $1.5 billion.
Bobby Murphy ranked second
in the world, while his Snapchat co-founder Evan Spiegel ranked
no. 1 in the world as the youngest billionaire at 24 years old.
According to Forbes, Bobby Murphy and Evan Spiegel’s company Snapchat had received new funding offers at an eye- popping valuation of $19 billion. Based
upon Forbes estimates, Bobby Murphy has a stake of at least 15% shares in Snapchat.
The Filipino-American graduated from Stanford University and met fellow Kappa Sigma fraternity brother Evan Spiegel way back the year 2010 and on 2011 they launched an app originally called Picaboo, which got little traction.
Bobby Murphy graduated with a degree in Mathematics and Computational Science, he is the son of California State employees and a Filipina mother, who emigrated from the Philippines and grew up
in Berkeley, California.
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