For
the past year that I have live here in Cubao, Quezon City, the
one thing that I really like it here is because it was near everywhere. It’s
near to hospitals, market and even to shopping centers.
Cubao
is known for the biggest shopping complex which is Araneta Center. These past
few years it was not just your usual shopping destination but also a concert
destination for concert aficionados. Thanks for the #NoOtherVenue- SMART
ARANETA COLISEUM. It was the venue for almost all of the anticipated concerts.
But
with passing years that I have passed by these very busy district of Quezon
City, there’s still one thing that I continue to anticipate every year.
Who
would not? Araneta Center is the home venue for the yearly anticipated and the
most grandest Filipina Beauty Pageant Search ever- the BINIBINING PILIPINAS
2013.
For
the Year 2013, it will celebrate its 50th year of giving chances to
every Filipinas dream of becoming a beauty queen. For almost 50 Years,
BINIBINING PILIPINAS does not fail to give us the most charming, smart and
beautiful Filipinas who will represent us to the MS.UNIVERSE pageant.
And
true to its mission- we recently almost won the MS. UNIVERSE 2012 title
courtesy of Binibining Pilipinas-Universe 2012 Winner Janine Marie Tugonon who
won 1st Runner-up at the Ms. Universe 2012.
So
Binibining Pilipinas has a lot to celebrate its #50BeautifulYears- the triumph
of Ms. Universe 2012 1st Runner-Up Janine Tugonon and this years’
Top 50 Binibining Pilipinas 2013 Candidates.
Since
this year is 50th Year of celebrating Filipina beauty- Binibining
Pilipinas 2013 has 50 candidates who will all vie for the crowns- Binibining
Pilipinas-Universe, World, Ms. International and Tourism.
I
was so lucky that I wasn’t able to miss this year’s “Grand Parade of Beauties”.
If the past years I was just one of the spectators of the yearly parade, for
this year- I am both a spectator and media guest.
I
am very humbled and honored at the same time to be able to see the
#50BeautifulYears of Filipina prowess and beauty.
The
parade started at around 5pm at the South Garage parking of SMART ARANETA. Even
it was so hot, the supporters and fans did not mind it all-what was important
is that they will be able to see their lovely bets.
Since
it was the Golden Year for Binibining Pilipinas, the 50 lovely candidates was
clad in golden bikinis. The ladies also paraded in Miata Cars making it more posh than ever.
Wait no more here's the photos of the Binibining Pilipinas #50BeautifulYears Grand Parade last April 6, 2013
Ms.Universe 1st runner-Up Janine Tugonon
For more of the actual photos please click the link here.
On my next post watch for Binibini#15 Pia Wurtzbach....
How do we love our dear Mother Earth? As for me, I stop using plastic and instead use paper bags or ecobags for grocery shopping. In deed in these little ways, we are helping Mother Earth.
And what awesome way to celebrate the anticipated Earth Day is be at Bonifacio Global City Taguig and join the anticipated EARTH DAY JAM 2013.
EARTH DAY JAM 2013 is already on its 13th year. It is a musical marathon that commemorates Earth Day which celebrated worldwide.
MasterCard recently launched the third edition of Project Inspire: 5 Minutes to Change the World, and awarded an additional USD25,000 grant to past Grand Winner Hapinoy, as a renewal of its commitment to women empowerment.
Co-organized with UN Women Singapore, Project Inspire is a digital and social media driven program that encourages young people across the world to empower disadvantaged women and girls in Asia/Pacific, the Middle East or Africa (APMEA). This year’s winner will receive a USD25,000 grant from MasterCard.
Leading the event is MasterCard Worldwide Georgette Tan, group head of communications, APMEA, who said, “This project is a tribute to the women who put the needs of their children, husbands, families and communities, ahead of themselves. These women’s goals are to take care of their families by putting food on the table and having access to medicine, ensuring that their children go to school and to augment their husband’s income. And as a result of their economic empowerment, these women gain self-confidence.”
She is joined by MasterCard Philippines vice president for marketing and client relations Judith Dayrit, who welcomed the attendees, including Hapinoy’s co-founder and president Mark Ruiz, executive director TJ Agulto, and managing director Erika Tatad.
Ruiz recounted the Hapinoy story, and shared, “Hapinoy was founded in 2006 out of the desire to tap the sari-sari store industry, which is the humblest of businesses but has so much power,” he explains. Through the Project Inspire grant, his team was able to roll out a scalable microentrepreneurship training program, which allowed them to reach out to more ‘nanays’. Today, Hapinoy’s listed beneficiaries are up from 2011’s 100 to today’s 1,300, and there are now 7,000 stores under its network found all over the country’s South Luzon area.
Also present were Hapinoy nanays Maribel Tolentino, Joy Sallan, and Marina Reyes, who shared the good business practices they learned through the microentrepreneurship program, such as the conscientious recordkeeping, the ‘first in, first out’ principle, visual merchandising, and setting limits to the customers’ credit line.
For Project Inspire 2013, MasterCard welcomes more of such transformative and sustainable ideas to support women empowerment. Interested participants are encouraged to visit www.5minutestochangetheworld.org to know more about Project Inspire 2013. The deadline for the submission of entries is June 30, 2013.
Activities include face painting, balloon twisting and egg paintingAfter being hiatus for the momentarily for the Holy week, here's my Easter Sunday Destination Pick #1 for families and kiddos out there. SM SUPERMALLS will have an Easter Sunday Celebration on March 32, 2013 on selected SM SUPERMALLS branches.
The grand easter celebration is dubbed as the "EASTER CARNIVAL".
"EASTER CARNIVAL" includes “Circus Fun”, which features a circus show with magical acts and performances by clowns. There will also be a grand parade of mascots and a costume contest where kids can play dress-up with their cutest, most colorful and wackiest Easter costumes to get a chance to win cool prizes. Egg-hunting tradition will be held through “Eggstream Hunt” in select SM malls. Another interesting event to watch out for is the “Easter Fair” where booths will be set up for fun activities and food that kids will enjoy, such as Activities include face painting, balloon twisting and egg painting, hotdogs, popcorn, ice cream, and many others.
Schedules for the various Easter Carnival activities mall-wide is posted on the poster already so feel free to browse!
For more
information about SM Supermall Easter celebration schedule of activities, visit
SM Supermalls facebook account at facebook.com/smsupermalls or www.smsupermalls.com , tweet via
@smsupermalls, or call (02) 470-2222.
Are you one of those online peeps who always hunts for gadgets, clothes, shoes or even accessories online? Well I'm one of them also. before I used to be skeptical about buying stuff online because, you don't know if you're really buying on the legit ones.
Internet has done a lot most especially when it comes to e-commerce. We know enjoy its perks like buying stuff online, track our finances online and even pay for our basic utilities (like electricity bills. water bills and even cellphone bills).
When browsing or shopping online, what I'm used to seeing is items like gadget items like cellphones, cellphone accessories, laptops and fashion items like clothes so when I was invited to Goods.Ph launch and learned that they are selling grocery items online-I got interested right away!
GOODS.PH was launched last February 25, 2013 at 55 Events Place. Luckily I was one of the bloggers invited to its launch. The launch was well-attended by its customers, FB fans and suppliers.
Mike Chan and his band during the Goods.Ph launch
MYMP sung greatest hits love song during the launch
The guests were treated to a fun night of celebration coupled with lots of goodies and music. Well known band and musicians like Mike Chan and MYMP were there to entertain the guests. The guests prior to its program were also treated to fun treats like playing roulette which entitled them some awesome prizes which the new online store and hub offers such as Grocery items,cellphones and home appliances too!
Blogger-Friend Aki also won a Goods.Ph gc
The fun night didn't just stop there as guests did also enjoyed the various cocktails and mocktail drinks from Neo ELEMENTS!
Neo Elements Mobile Bar beer pong anyone?
GOODS.PH is your one-stop shop
for just about anything—from pasta, beverages, and even food supplements with
just one click. This online store also offers a wide array of products from gadgets to even grocery items like instant noodles.
GOODS.PH is an answer for those people who are always busy that they don't even have time to shop for their grocery needs.
Now here's my quick guide if you are not yet a member of GOODS.PH
1.) First go to www.Goods.Ph and then this what will pop on your screen:
Then VOILA! You can now browse various categories like:
As for me I chose to check out their mobile and Tablet category an bought a ZTE phone
And I chose the pick-up option- and got my purchase right away.
What's great with Goods.Ph is that when you order online, they will still call you and verify your order- that's why they got your contact no. when you ordered and after giving your desired date for shipping or pick-up ofthe item , they will still call you. I have not experience anything like that before with other online-shops.
Another thing to look forward in this new online shopping site is that they also offer groceries like noodles, pasta, condiments, etc. If you are busy mom or dad you can schedule your grocery shopping and then just wait for the groceries right at your doorstep!
GOODS.PH is continually growing site so be update once they upload more items on sale.
In 2073, a 37 year-old former-Marine
Commander Jack Harper (Tom Cruise) is one of the last few drone repairmen
stationed at Earth which was nearly destroyed by an alien invasion 60
years ago. As part of a massive operation to extract the planet's remaining
vital resources, he lives in an airborne "town" floating thousands
of meters above the Earth.
His
mission nearly complete, Jack's soaring existence comes crashing down
when he rescues a 22 year-old female stranger from a downed spacecraft.
Her arrival triggers a series of events that forces Jack to question
everything he knows about the war and its aftermath. In addition, after
being captured by an insurgency led by 102 year-old Malcolm Beech (Morgan
Freeman), Jack is told that the society in which he lives may in fact
be a police state.
Tom Cruise stars
in Oblivion, an original and groundbreaking
cinematic event from the director of TRON: Legacy and the producer of Rise of the Planet of the Apes. On a spectacular future Earth
that has evolved beyond recognition, one man’s confrontation with
the past will lead him on a journey of redemption and discovery as he
battles to save mankind.
Tom Cruise
had expressed interest in the film for a considerable period of time,
and officially committed to it on May 20, 2011.
For
casting one of the lead roles opposite Cruise, the producers considered
five actresses: Jessica Chastain, Olivia
Wilde, Brit Marling, Noomi
Rapace and Olga Kurylenko,
and all five auditioned on August 27, 2011.
It was subsequently announced that Chastain would play one of the film's
two female leads. In January 2012 Chastain entered into talks for a
part in the Kathryn Bigelow film Zero Dark Thirty and subsequently dropped out of Oblivion
contention. It was later announced that the role had been given to Kurylenko.
Production began on March 12, 2012 and wrapped on July 14, 2012. Filming
locations included Baton
Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana. Oblivion, shot in stunning digital 4K resolution on location
across the United States and Iceland, is an upcoming 2013 science
fiction film based on the Radical
Comics graphic novel Oblivion by Joseph Kosinski and directed and co-produced by
Kosinski.
Oblivion is a Universal Pictures presentation. It is distributed
by United International Pictures through Solar Entertainment Corporation.
Coming soon at your favorite theaters and cinemas this April.
With the fast changing
and ever revolving world like ours, it may seem hard to cope up with how
demanding our everyday lives can be. Just like me, I work part-time as a
Marketing Associate for an up-coming events company and I also blog on the
side. Aside from being a worker , I am also a full-time wife and mom to two
adorable kids.
I am so blessed right
now that everything is falling into place. I blog and I have job that keeps me
sane from the same and usual routine of being a house-keeper. I'm not saying
i'm bored with being a wife and a mom, but let me just say that when I finally
had to work after being eight years of being a full-time mom-It made me work
and aspire more. It made me strive more and after all these years that I'm
craving for success, I finally say that I was in the "game".
Being in the
"game" made me want to go to work everyday and prove to everybody
that I'm worth every penny my boss pays me. It gives me natural high that I can
also do two things that I both love, "being in an events company and still
manage my own blog". My peg is like "work, blog and pray".
With all the
challenges, failures and triumphs that I actually face every day, it's just an
added spice. But do you agree that work can get in the way sometimes? Hey, I
can relate with it so much. Having to work part-time 3x a week and blog in
between day, that has left me an ample time with my family. It should be a
win-win situation but that is where I fail this time.
Let me share a personal
experience where I actually missed a very, very important celebration in our
family. I know, till now I still feel guilty why I actually missed that very
momentous celebration of our lives.
Just to give you an
idea about it, let me start by sharing that I'm actually married to my husband
for almost 4 years, but if I will include the years since we got together and
gave birth to our first-born- we're almost together for 8 years and
...counting!
Maybe by now you have
an idea what is that very special occasion that I missed- Yeah I missed our
WEDDING ANNIVERSARY. Yeah I know it is very unlikely or normal for a wife to
forget or skip it but hey I'm not perfect.
On that particular day,
I had a coverage and thought it would start on time. But just like most events,
unavoidable circumstances are likely to happen. It started a bit late. If it
would have started on time I might have surprised my husband with a surprise
dinner. I still feel awful not having been carried my plan out for our
anniversary. While I was on coverage, he texted and his message felt so
disappointed with my missing our own anniversary. How could he not? It’s not
normal for wives to forget or missed on it. He’s also busy but he actually
found the time to go home early that night just so the whole family could
celebrate. As you see, if you would be reading my previous posts, it’s a normal
thing that I usually go out with my two boys but we’re pretty strict with
family occasions. We see to it that we strictly go out and celebrate family
occasions.
To continue the story,
I arrived home late found no one at home. My husband still disappointed just
went out for dinner with the kids-without me L.
I told him I was so
sorry but I guess it wasn’t enough. He gave me the cold shoulder for months. He
didn’t want to go out with us on weekends. It had me thinking what to do to
make up for the “fail” wedding anniversary date.
After a few months, I
said this can’t go on forever. I have to think of something to make him feel I
am truly sorry about what happened. So I thought of taking them out on my
birthday. I’m crossing my fingers that of course he won’t miss it.
So on my birthday, I
skipped work and texted him that after his work he should meet us somewhere.
Just an hour before dinner, I texted him to meet us at Max’s Restaurant in
Scout Tuason. Max’s Restaurant is my family’s favourite. Even when I was a kid
when my Mom and Dad would fight, my Dad would take us out to lunch and eat at
Max’s Restaurant. My dad would order their Kare-Kare and house specialty which
is the Max’s Fried Chicken and everything would be back to normal. It’s my dad’s
way of making it up with my mom. And I did that also with my husband. I wanted
him to feel that I appreciate all his efforts and hard work just to support our
family most especially for really taking the time out just to go home early for
our anniversary and celebrate.
Hoping against hope
that it will work.
At Max’s we celebrated
it with a birthday dinner. After eating a sumptuous dinner, little did he know
that I when the cake was served, it was for him. Instead of me blowing it, I
had served unto him, with matching dialogues, “I’m sorry I had to miss our
anniversary”? And there I saw him smile shyly because the dining attendants
were also surprised with what I did. His smile made me think that now
everything’s settled. I realized it was never really too late to make up for
what I did. Max’s Restaurant is “sureball” answer to my problem. I realized I
was so right by following my instincts. I was thankful that those fond my
memories that I had when I was a kid really paid off.
Looking back, maybe I
should have something delivered at our house during anniversary, right?
Oh how could I missed
it? I should have ordered our favourite Max’s Restaurant dishes via Max’s
Delivery Online at www.maxschicken.com
. It might have prevented my hubby and kids from leaving the house and dined
somewhere without me.
Or maybe I should have
called Max’s Restaurant via their delivery hotline 7-9000
Max’s Online Delivery is now even made
efficient most especially for busy moms like me, party planners, and individuals
working on a graveyard shift. It is one of the best options to satisfy cravings
and even the biggest appetites during get-togethers.
Just follow this easy and quick to follow
steps on how to order max’s real food and goodness regardless of the time
location that you are and just make your guests taste “real food” at the
comfort of your homes or where ever you guys maybe.
