Wazzup Pilipinas News and Events

Monday, June 10, 2013

More Pictures from the Yahoo OMG Awards Press Conference

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Right now, thousands of people across the country are voting for their favorite celebrities in the hopes of getting them to the stage so they can accept the award on July 12, 2013.

Yahoo OMG! Awards night will surely be an amazing night!

Check out more pics from the pre-event party here

WU! Fest 2013 : Promoting Awesome!

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WORK HARD, PLAY RIGHT!

It's been a tiring workweek for all of us. We've all felt the stresses of the daily grind in our lives. So why fight it? This month WU! gives you some ways to both escape your work life and enjoy it.

WU! Manila Magazine is now pulling together all the awesome talents and tastes Manila has to offer. From Fire Juggles to Booze Juggling Bartenders, Live Art to Live Music, Beer gardens to Burgers, Bamboo bikes and Social enterprises and we're inviting out all the local expat clubs, groups and everyone in between.

Ramen Lovers Will Love Ikkoryu Ramen

The Ajitama Tonkotsu Ramen highlights the fact that it has two boiled eggs. Just like the other ramens, the noodles are slow cooked and they were prepared for 10 hours before being mixed with other ingredients.

The special vegetable paste Tonkotsu ramen will tickle the taste buds of ramen lovers. It is certainly in a class of its own.

What were the other ramens served to us at the newly opened Ikkoryu Ramen at SM Aura? Find out this week at aldousatetheworld.blogspot.com

Saturday, June 8, 2013

Coca-Cola : One Glee-Ful Visit in Manila

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It is a known fact that Filipinos are natural born singers. Regardless of the genre and artist, give a Filipino a microphone and we instantly transform into our own versions of musical gods and goddesses. Karaoke mics aside, when it comes to celebrations and parties, we are first in line. That goes without saying, best enjoyed with an ice-cold Coca-Cola.

Now, time to fill your hears with glee as your favorite stars from the hit T.V. musical series, Glee is coming to Manila! After bringing youthful tunes and timeless renditions in their world-famous show, Jacob Artist, Melissa Benoist, Dean Geyer and Becca Tobin, the musical rookies who were all introduced in the fourth season of Glee, are all set to make one gleeful visit to Philippines.

The four gleeks will open the red Mystery crates that suddenly popped out in Market! Market!, Glorietta and Trinoma on June 8, 2013 at 2PM. Together with Coca-Cola Ambassadors Enchong Dee, Kathryn Bernardo, Julia Montes, and Joseph Marco, the teen stars will go around the three Ayala Malls to finally reveal what the surprise is all about.

WD Delivers the Thinnest 1 TB Hard Drive in the World

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WD announced at COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2013 (booth L0810) it is shipping the world’s thinnest 1 TB hard drive with its new 2.5-inch WD Blue 7 mm hard drive. Offering OEMs, channel integrators and consumers a unique storage solution for thin and light systems, slimmer notebooks, as well as compatibility with the industry-standard 9.5 mm drive slots of mainstream notebooks, the WD Blue hard drive family, in capacities from 320 GB to 1 TB in the 7 mm height, now provides a singular option of thin design and high capacity storage.

"Users with large portfolios of content no longer need to sacrifice capacity when buying an Ultrabook or upgrading to a thin and light notebook," said Matt Rutledge, Vice President and General Manager for client storage products at WD. "This most compact 1TB hard drive to-date offers manufacturers of systems an upsell path for their customers who will now be able to choose systems offering both sleek design and high capacity.

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The moment we stepped into the event venue, we heard people singing Happy Birthday, and then there were several kids and decorative balloons per table. My companion thought there was a birthday party so he asked the people at the registration area where is the venue for Blue Water Day Spa event. He was surprised it was at the same room where they had just finished singing the birthday song.

Hahaha...I sort of laughed at the thought. It wasn't a kids party after all.

We were there to witness a presscon about the ongoing search of Blue Water Day Spa for an adorable baby that can take part in the promotional campaign of Blue Water Day Spa's "baby massage."

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The artist: This woman’s music career started in grade school, when she sang a Filipino folk song on stage. A few years after, she then recorded her first album “Fair Tales”, in which she realized that music was indeed her lifelong calling..

She’s definitely no diva or pop princess though. If you see Lally Buendia aka Domino in person, you know that with her leather-wearing vibe and blunt, edgy ‘do, she’s sharp and feisty and she surely won’t sing you any love song. But worry not because she just might, in her latest album Mantis.

On Mantis : Two years in the making, Lally would write songs on days when she was on either side of her emotional spectrum. She believes this album is her unabashed attempt to come out and kick ass.

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The word Renaissance, which means rebirth, is rich with historical meaning and emotion and signifies the highest aspiration of humanity and its search for artistic excellence.

What better name to use for an art gallery that was christened by mutual agreement by the couples Noli and Agnes Romero.

This year, Renaissance Art Gallery celebrates a decade of existence, a feat in itself in the highly competition world of Philippine Art marketing.

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Everyone needs to be involved in the issues of the country. It is our obligation to take part in nation-building. It is admirable to see the youth, and even the younger generation of girls taking an active role in expressing their needs and aspirations to our leaders to create a better society.

To culminate the nationwide campaign, “Your Voice, Your Move,” MODESS Philippines unveiled at The Mind Museum in Bonifacio Global City a special edition publication called “Girl, Talk” – a compilation of messages for the country’s leaders from teen girls who were too young to vote in the recent elections. The clincher? These books will be delivered to the offices of our senators for their serious consideration.

“Sana bigyan nila ng pansin ang mga kabataang nasa kalye,” said Joyce.

“Hopefully we can have enough equipment like books, electric fans, and desks in every school,” said Yssa.

Deannie says: “Lahat ng sinasabi ng running senators ay importante sa tao. So, sana lahat din ay galing sa puso.”

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If the name was not descriptive enough of what to expect at Spring Singapura, then you probably haven't heard of Singapore.

Officially called the Republic of Singapore, it is a Southeast Asian island city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. It is also an island country made up of 63 islands (not as many as our own Philippines). It is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the Singapore Strait to its south.

In Singapore, food is viewed as crucial to national identity and a unifying cultural thread. Singaporean literature declares eating as a national pastime and food, a national obsession (quite similar to the Philippines where there's a restaurant or food kiosks at every corner).

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OPM bands rule! They totally hit the spot whenever I get to hear them play a tune and sing a song that would normally blew my head off.

I kinda like it when the beat would somehow make my body move to the rhythm. It would start with some finger tapping, head going up and down, feet stomping to the ground, then all of the sudden, I see myself rocking to the magnetic beat. It feels like I'm totally free to do anything. To let my body follow in total freedom.

FREEDOM ROCKS! That’s why OPM bands Join The Club and Tanya Markova are rockin’ the night away on June 12 at The Araneta Center…for FREE! Yes, it’s FREE! We are giving you a FREE CONCERT on Independence Day!

WD Designs First Enterprise-Class Hard Drives For Exploding Scale-Out Datacenter Market

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WD announced availability of its innovative WD Se line of hard drives, the first designed for scale-out datacenter deployments. Built on an enterprise-grade platform for reliable 24x7x365 datacenter operation, WD Se is tailored to deliver the right combination of performance, reliability and robustness for large-scale replicated environments, mid-sized network attached storage (NAS) deployment, and backup/archiving applications.

WD Se is a true enterprise-class drive with the right blend of affordability and capabilities to address the massive growth of semi-structured data, which is accelerating the scale-out of datacenters of all sizes. Now shipping in capacities up to 4 TB, the new WD Se hard drives enables customers to balance their data growth challenges in multi-drive enclosures without compromising enterprise-class features.

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The Old Spaghetti House, otherwise know as TOSH, will be here and everywhere for a very long time!

Why? Just one bite of any of their highly recommended dishes will keep you coming back for more!...and more! ...and more! ....and I'm not exaggerating!

My friends and I just had the opportunity to dine at their Eastwood branch and every dish served was a favorite among everyone form the starters to the main dish, and down to the dessert trio. It was simply amazing!

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Bodog Nation is hiring more than 100 employees for IT and Social Media gig
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They have 3 offices in the Philippines (RCBC Plaza at Makati, The Enterprise Tower at Makati and Eton Centris at Quezon City) and global offices.

It's founded by Calvin Ayre, a billionaire who was at the cover of Forbes Magazine in 2006. Their main business is online gaming and they need support from the Philippines but the market is all abroad.

A celebrity who owns the posh and mega nightclubs at Resorts World Manila will become the brand ambassador. Guess who?

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"Kainan na!" that's what my mom would normally shout everytime breakfast, lunch or dinner is all set on the "mesa" or the dining table.

The "mesa" has always been the center of everything in the house. That is the only part of the house, aside form the living room, where everyone in the family gather round to enjoy sumptuous meals almost everyday.

Mesa Filipino Moderne extends the dining table from home to a restaurant where Filipino food is also at its finest. Almost better than my mom's home-cooked meals. "Don't be jealous, mom!"