Empowerment Through Mobility Run : Charity Run For Persons With Disabilities

Running has always been a passion for many. It gives us quite a rewarding experience once we are able to compete and finish a run. We feel strong, alive and fully high-spirited after every run. It's also great if we're running with friends and colleagues who share the same passion as we do. It also adds greater pleasure to know that we are running for a cause - the best reason there is.

The Phi Kappa Mu Fraternity of the UP College of Medicine invites you to the Empowerment Through Mobility Run on January 12, 2013, 5:30 am, at the Quirino Grandstand, for the benefit of people with disabilities!

Les Miserables : Soon at SM Cinemas Nationwide

Les Miserables tells the story of a former prisoner, Jean Valjean, who becomes the mayor of a town in France who agreed to take care of Cosette, the illegitimate child of Fantine, and Jean must avoid being captured again by a police officer, Javert.

The movie features a powerhouse cast including Hugh Jackman as Jean Valjean, Russel Crowe as Javert plus Anne Hathaway and Amanda Seyfried playing Fantine and Cosette respectively, and is led by Tom Hooper, the winner of Best Director during the 2010 Academy Awards for The King’s Speech.

iZone-iHub : Grand Launch and Techno Summit

There’s this company that tries to change the rules of giving support to startups, and they call themselves iZone-iHub.

They advertise themselves as a tech venue where every I.T. person (that includes the nerds, dorks, dweebs and geeks) can go and make use of their FREE services and facilities – Internet access, coffee, computers, even digital projectors, and even assistance form an onsite techie.

http://www.wheninmanila.com/izone-ihub-advocates-of-technology-in-the-philippines/


The big plus is iZone-iHUB has an on-going contest were an individual or group can win as much as fifty thousand pesos worth of prizes, and will provide additional funding and support if they see your ideas to be the next Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.

Watch out for their Grand Launch on January 18 and their Techno Summit on February 16 and get to rub elbows with popular personalities like Vice Mayor Isko Moreno, Representative Angelo Palmones, and Business Magnate Dan Pena.

Big Cypress National Preserve : A Tour of the Wildside

 

Visits to parks like the Big Cypress National Preserve where there's a gator to your left, a gator to your right, an osprey overhead, and a heron right in front of you does a great job to remind me how lucky I am to be able to visit a country with so much biodiversity in addition to parks and preserves that ensure I'm not the last generation that gets to enjoy it.

The preserve is actually more like a swamp that is often called a park. It is a vast area being approximately 720,000 acres in size. The really big virgin cypress trees were cut down several years ago but the preserve maintained its name. The cypress swamp is sort of dry in the dry season and the rest of the year is a swamp.

The preserve also gets rather busy during hunting season. Rifle and bow hunting are allowed at different times of the year so you better check their web page for these seasons.

Marco Island : Sunset Tripping Along the Beach

Just checked in at the Marriott hotel in Marco Island, Florida Resort near Naples. Its a beautiful property with an amazing view of the beach and truly perfect for weekend getaways.This world-class resort is situated on three miles of pristine beachfront property and offers an exhilarating retreat from the ordinary.

Marco Island was originally named San Marco Island by Spanish explorers. It is is a city in Collier County, Florida, United States, located on an island by the same name in the Gulf of Mexico located at Southwest Florida's Gulf coast. It is graced with miles of white-sand beaches, luxurious real estate, beautiful year-round weather, sumptuous restaurants, fine shopping, dining, lively entertainment, attractions and plenty of recreational activities from boating and fishing, to golf and tennis, and more. All set amid the stunning subtropical beauty that is unique to Southwest Florida's Gulf coast.

Wat Buddharangsi : Hanging Around in a Thai Buddhist Temple

For the first weekend of 2013, let me share with you my trip in Homestead, Florida where my friends and I visited the Wat Buddharangsi - a Thai Buddhist Temple.

Wat Buddharangsi is located on five acres of property at the rural town of Homestead, a short drive from Miami, Florida. The Buddhist temple welcomes everyone who is interested or practices Buddhism. It serves not just as a religious function but also as a welcome center.

Entrance is free and the temple is open every day from 5 Am to 7 PM. Everyone is welcome to visit during those hours and talk with the monks.

B's Cupcakes : Sweets for my Tweets, Sugar for my Tummy

I would surely tweet right now, and every second and every day, until it goes trending #B'sCupcakes to let the world know about the heavenly sweets known as B's Cupcakes.

It's pure sweetness for my tummy all baked to perfection, and creatively designed by hand. You can see and feel the love that is given to create every piece of the mouth-watering cute and adorable cupcakes. My favorite was the vanilla flavor, ......and the chocolate flavor, ......and the.......actually every flavor was yum, yum, yum....so good!!!

What you see on the picture above is an empty box of B's Cupcake. It's empty because everyone in the family loved B's Cupcake so much that these cupcakes disappeared immediately the very first minute I placed them on the dining table.

Kingston Announces 1 TB USB Flash Drive

Can you say " I have 1 terabyte of storage in my pocket?"

Maybe not yet but soon you can!...... with the introduction of the world's largest capacity USB 3.0 Flash drive - a 1TB DataTraveler HyperX Predator 3.0! Very soon you can say "I have my whole world in my pocket, and a few more to spare for my friends!"

Kingston Digital, Inc., the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, announced the DataTraveler HyperX Predator 3.0 USB Flash drive. DataTraveler HyperX Predator 3.0 is the world's largest-capacity USB 3.0 Flash drive as it will be available in a 1TB capacity later in the first quarter of this year. It is shipping now in 512GB capacity. DT HyperX Predator 3.0 is the fastest USB 3.0 Flash drive in the Kingston family, with speeds of up to 240MB/s read and 160MB/s write. It has also achieved SuperSpeed USB 3.0 certification.


Capacities up to 1TB allow users to store their entire digital world on the DT HyperX Predator. This prestigious drive is compliant with next-generation USB 3.0 specifications and is backwards compatible with USB 2.0 systems. DT HyperX Predator offers superior quality in a high-end design and also features a custom Kingston key ring and HyperX Valet Keychain for added value.

More information here: http://www.kingston.com/us/company/press/article/6487

Chicken Charlie Starts the New Year with a Lot of Children's Smile

Wazzup Pilipinas!

I have a new chicken meal favorite and its called Chicken Charlie!

Just take a look at my souvenir that I brought home from the Virlanie Foundation. It may not look like much from afar, but when you look at it closer, you'll see that it has memorable writings on it. 

It says "Giving back the smile to street children", and this is highly sentimental because it will forever remind me of my experience with the kids of the Virlanie Foundation, and how generous Chicken Charlie was in organizing such a heart-warming event for the homeless, abandoned and abused youth.

The first kid that I met was "BJ", a young teenager who is also a member of the Virlanie choir. He said he will be graduating this March from elementary studies, and was so proud in telling me about it. Aside from singing, he said he also loves to dance with his friends at the foundation. Wow! such a talented kid - he can sing, dance, and tell a story so vibrant and hopeful of the future.

Airports in the Philippines : The Mystery That Is Digichive

The airports in the Philippines are among the worst in the world. Is that so?

There will always be a few cases of unpleasant bathrooms, lost or misplaced baggage, delayed flights, and the list goes on,  but these are the same problems that other airports in the world are also experiencing.

Well, If compared to the other airports I've been to, ours is not really that impressive.,,,,but I agree to the statement that you get to reach the bathroom quicker in Philippine airports as compared to the huge airports of other countries.

I've been to Bangkok, and I had the longest time reaching their toilets. I swear I almost went pee-pee on my pants....hahaha.