9-Year Old Fil-Am Angelica Hale Shines As the Next Whitney Houston in America's Got Talent

Whitney Houston might be probably singing along as a nine-year old sang a cover version of her song The Greatest Love of All at the annual conference of the Children's Miracle Network Hospital in Orlando, Florida in March 2016.  (Watch Angelica's performance via the Youtube video we've provided below.

But, Angelica does not stop wowing her audience just last Tuesday with her powerhouse voice when she faced the judges of America's Got Talent singing flawlessly Alicia Keys' Girl on Fire.  Judge Chris Hardwick had no choice but to give her the golden buzzer as he yells, "You are the chosen one!"    

A miracle child herself, Angelica have undergone a kidney transplant donated by her own mother, Filipina Eva Bolando at age 4 after battling  with double pneumonia that made her kidney stopped working and put her on life support in the hospital's pediatric intensive care unit (ICU), as relayed by her father James.

Watched Angelica's exceptional talent on the Youtube videos below.

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The author who is a fellow Filipino wholeheartedly supports talents like her as I wish and pray for her complete wellness and her wish to share her exceptional talent and become a superstar like Whitney Houston. 

Building Instant Islands, the China Way of Changing Territorial Maps

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All across the world, there is no doubt that the China is  growing as fast as it could be. As their population breaks population charts, so was their rising economy breaking stock exchange tradings. And now there is another venture China is getting into. China is into building instant islands on disputed waters west of the Philippine seas.  Out of nothing, the water territories on the Asian disputed seas suddenly grew islands that in no time became small archipelago-like in the area. China is changing their territorial map by building instant islands on hotly disputed waters. Complete with airstrips and military zones for battle aircraft carriers, the islands are now being inhabited on what China claims as maritime observation facilities. But neighboring countries are getting into the idea that the area could become a military defense zone with all the possible military armaments that could be brought to the site like long range sensors, missile systems and other sophisticated military arsenals. The area seems to be getting more and more a fortress for China's battleground defense in these territorial waters claimed by the neighboring Asian countries other than them..