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Friday, January 10, 2014

Mikey Bustos Is Now a Semi-Regular Mainstay at Bubble Gang

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It was just the other day when we shared the news here in our blog that Mikey Bustos is now a co-host DJ at Magic 89.9 FM Radio station. Now Mikey is happy to announce that he is now also a semi-regular mainstay of the very popular comedy gag show Bubble Gang.

Bubble Gang has always been my all-time favorite comedy gag show on television and having Mikey on it will be another great reason why everyone will surely be laughing out loud every Friday night. It is the longest-running Philippine comedy gag show airing on the Philippines GMA Network since October 20, 1995. The show shot up to popularity for their parodies of television commercials, politicians and current events. The show also airs internationally via GMA Pinoy TV, while re-runs are aired via Fox Filipino.

With Mikey Bustos joining popular comedians Michael V, Moymoy Palaboy and the rest of the equally humorous Bubble Gang cast, Bubble Gang is going to be extremely hilarious.

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The Philippines received 3,867,386 visitors for the first ten months of 2013, recording a double-digit gain of 11.19% versus its 2012 arrivals of 3,478,285 visitors for the same months. The ten-month arrival represents 70.32% of the targeted 5.5 million arrivals for 2013.

Auguring well to the tourism industry is the consistent monthly growth in arrivals, with the month of February registering the highest growth of 15.52% while the month of January recorded the biggest arrivals of 436,079.

Visitors from South Korea led all other markets as it contributed the biggest arrivals of 990,486. It shared 25.61% to total inbound traffic and registered a growth of 18.99% vis-à-vis its arrivals of 832,437 in 2012 covering the same months. Noting its performance for the ten-month period, this market is likely to surpass the 1 millionth arrivals in November of this year.

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The Great Events Plus, in partnership with Philippine Makeup Association would like to invite you for a one-of-a-kind thrilling and heart-pumping experience of a lifetime..Apocalypse Run: All in one Run which will be held this coming February 8, 2014 at Circuit Makati.

With the combined themes of Obstacle run, Color run, Water splash run and Zombie run, Apocalypse run will truly be remarkable and you can just “RUN LIKE IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD”.

After all the breathtaking and nerve-racking experience with the obstacles and the brain eating zombies, be ready for the Party to die hard for! There will be live bands, a DJ and free drinks.

Enjoy the Run and treasure the experience with your family and friends for only Php850 Pesos inclusive of a race bib, singlet,admittance to Power Party and a loot bag with lots of freebies and giveaways from our sponsors!

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Countless tourists flock to the Philippines every now and then to explore and experience what the nation has to offer. According to recent tourism statistics, the Philippines has successfully garnered more tourists than what is expected all throughout the first half of the year. This just means that our country has been doing pretty good in this sector. But what does this imply to the commerce industry?

Tourism is nonetheless a brilliant opportunity for money-making. If you come to think of it, foreigners—and even our fellow Filipino globetrotters—consider travelling as an avenue for trying out new things. They're obviously not only here to enjoy a day basking in our tropical sun. What they're looking for is the Filipino experience—the famous delicacies, sumptuous native dishes, unique activities, and other fun-filled Filipino stuff.

With such premise, we are able to conclude that tourism and business can go side-by-side. As of now, you are probably thinking of ways how you can take advantage of such lucrative opportunity. By all means, opening your own souvenir shop may be the best bet. This type of business—if managed and marketed properly—could prove to reap substantially good profits in the long run.

But how do you start?

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I'm seeing a lot of this tweets supposedly from a Nancy Binay fake account making jokes about herself and linking it with the Nazareno theme depicting Nancy Binay as being confused by people for the Black Nazarene.

I get it. It's because the color of her skin is black like that of the Nazareno? Yeah!

The Binay's always get that kind of joke pertaining to their dark complexion, as if majority of the pure Filipinos are not dark in skin color. Well, maybe some of us are "brown monkeys" but a lot of us really appreciate the more light-colored skin influenced by our foreign neighbors.

Poor Binays being joked around all over the Internet with reference to their unfortunate Filipino skin color, and the rest of the Fil-Ams being praised and idolized for being so "Westernly" attractive.

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It's finally out! Breakfast Magazine's year ender and starter (December - January 2014) issue!

Ross Del Rosario, founder of Wazzup Pilipinas - an online community blog awarded as one of the Top Ten Emerging Influential Blogs of 2013 and Most Outstanding Filipino Community Blog of 2013, is among those featured as guest writer for the said issue. Ross writes about the holiday feast offered by Diamond Hotel Philippines in an article entitled "Diamond Hotel's Delectable Christmas Feast: Delightful Dishes for a Festive December".

"I still remember the photo shoot we did on site with the help of by photographer Justin De Jesus, and the editors of Breakfast magazine, where we captured on film the remarkable food creations of the hotel. This was a few months before the actual release of the article. I imagined it takes a lot more dedication coming out with a magazine. Unlike blogs, a magazine and its feature articles takes a considerable amount of time to prepare with regards to writing the actual story, proofreading, processing the photos, and everything else that, honestly, I am not really aware of."

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The Department of Tourism (DOT) recently partnered with the Provincial Government of Oriental Mindoro in an effort to help the local government units (LGU) in crafting their individual tourism master plans.

In a simple ceremony held on 20 December 2013, the DOT-Region IV awarded to the Municipal Governments of Mansalay and Roxas, together with the Provincial Government of Oriental Mindoro, their remaining and last cash tranches amounting to an aggregate of over one million pesos.

DOT Region IV Director Rebecca Villanueva-Labit personally handed over the check to the LGU representatives at the DOT-Calamba office in Laguna, which was witnessed by Oriental Mindoro 2nd District Representative Rey V. Umali.

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MetisEtrade held the Happy Trading Hours December 2013 Finals at their head office in Fort Bonifacio Global City. The defending top trader, Gabriel Vergara (5.27% gains), was able to keep his title, securing him a spot for the finals on October 2014.

Happy Trading Hours is a weekly financial event conceptualized to cater for trading enthusiasts. HTH happens every Friday, during the hours when the financial market moves the most. This infotainment (information with entertainment) is a combination of a seminar and a demo competition - to educate the basics of volatile forex trading.

The 13 teams that participated can only trade Gold, USDJPY, EURUSD, and GBPUSD where each member of the team can trade at least 3 times with only one instrument out of the four. Team Gabriel was only ahead by $1 against his closest competitor, Mariestelle who finished second. Mariestelle was the best trader in trading Gold (25.4%) while Team Louie Ngo excelled in trading the British Pound (9.82%) and the Euro (7.93%). Team Gabriel dominated in trading the Yen (3.24%).

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Filipinos are truly creative....even in naming their children.

Last December, when the University of the Philippines released their UP College Admission Test (UPCAT) results, we saw one name that was quite odd and thought it was some sort of clerical error. Later we found out that it was confirmed correct as per Facebook post of Sincerely Yours 98 herself.

Yes! You've read it right! Sincerely Yours 98 it is! Truly for short!

Sincerely Yours 98 Pascual or Sincerely Pascual on her Facebook page is actually the third among three siblings with very unusual names given to them by their parents. Their father was the one responsible in giving the "yummy" food names to them composed of his kuya names Macaroni 85 and her ate Spaghetti 88.

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We all know how the saying goes right? ‘Magasawa ka kapag may trabaho ka na!’ or simply put, get a job then get married. But in reality, this isn’t the exact case.

Here in the Philippines, we all know for a fact that the numbers of jobless people are far greater than those with proper jobs who earn enough for their families. Now, let’s start with that thought; A large number of jobless people are married and have a lot of kids. Just the thought of providing for a large family with around P500 worth of everyday budget isn’t enough. That alone could say that we should get a career first, or get a decent paying job, before ever thinking of marriage. A blunter way of saying it is ‘Make yourself useful and productive before claiming your girlfriend/boyfriend in the altar’. Kinda harsh in my opinion, but that’s how some would put it. Of course, there are even more reasons to this.

Let’s look at a futuristic sense, shall we?

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Anne Curtis Smith is Dyesebel, along with leading men Sam Milby and Gerald Anderson to star in ABS-CBN's newest "fantaserye" television series.

Dyesebel is the dream role of Anne since she was a child. She was very grateful that she was chosen by ABS-CBN inspite of the controversy she was involved in last 2013 where the famous line "I can buy you, your friend and this club". Now it seems it will be more like ""I can buy Ursula, her friends and this kingdom"

Biboy Arboleda said that on the process of choosing Dyesebel, ABS-CBN ran a marketing survey among different platforms including social media and Anne topped the list. Thus she was finally given the role of the Philippines' most popular mermaid character.

From Dyosa to Sirena, Anne as Dyesebel this 2014 will be an interesting watch on TV.

Social Media Revolution: Influencing Bloggers to Social Responsibility

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The Social Media Revolution seminar is organized by Benita & Catalino Yap Foundation (BCYF) Technology Institute. In this event, you will learn more about digital marketing and also meet bloggers whose hearts are for social responsibility.

This will be on January 25, 2014 1 pm to 5:30 pm at the Amphitheatre of iAcademy, Makati.

The Social Media workshop this year was created specifically for bloggers to empower them to become socially responsible using social media as a tool. The organizers would like to make bloggers more active in writing blogs that would also benefit other people thru their own theme (ex. fashion, lifestyle, travel, film).

At the end of this event the bloggers would have a social media campaign using their own theme of blogging to apply/ implement right after the workshop.

The speakers are Ms. Janette Toral, Mr. Khoa Bui and Mr. Mark Delgado.

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"Let he who is without sin, cast the first stone. Marvel is proud to announce Original Sin, the eight-part blockbuster comic event of the summer, from writer Jason Aaron and artist Mike Deodato Jr.!" - Marvel.com

The dead body of all-seeing, all-knowing Uatu, the Watcher, is discovered on the Moon. His lunar lair destroyed and looted of its valuable alien technology. The biggest heroes of the Marvel Universe including Captain America, Iron Man, Wolverine, Black Widow and more are on the hunt for his murderer.

This will be Marvel Comics' annual major crossover event called Original Sin, launching in May.

"It's all the skeletons, all the dark things that you never know, all the interesting and intriguing information — not all of it even bad," says Marvel executive editor Tom Brevoort. "And it will all expand out into dozens of stories that will cut to the core of who these characters are."

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LINE, the world’s leading mobile platform with 320 million users worldwide, today announced the release of LINE whoscall, a free call-filtering and number management app for Android developed by Gogolook Co., Ltd., a world leading caller ID service company.

LINE whoscall for Android devices will allow users to identify the source of incoming numbers and filter out unwanted calls and messages. The app is a reworked interface for LINE users based on whoscall, which has been downloaded more than 5 million times worldwide, and was selected for the Google Best Innovation Award of 2013 in eight regions, including Taiwan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, and Malaysia.

LINE whoscall utilizes a database of over 600 million numbers, including businesses and shops, sourced from the Yellow Pages and other public data resources to automatically identify and display the source of incoming calls and messages as they arrive. This allows users to filter out suspicious numbers before they answer a call or message.

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“The Black Nazarene is an ironic pornographic celebration of violence—the overt violence of the past and the more subtle violence of the present.....The familiarity of the Jesus story has anesthetized us from what is at the heart of the ritual. Millions of men, women, and children are parading around with a wooden statue of a bloodied victim of torture, capital punishment, and God-sanctioned human sacrifice. The Black Nazarene is an ironic pornographic celebration of violence—the overt violence of the past and the more subtle violence of the present.” - Filipino Freethinkers.org

January 9, the annual Feast of the Black Nazarene once again drew millions of devotees as expected. It is also expected that around 60,000 devotees are to attend the procession in Cagayan De Oro City. The statue is over 400 years old and has survived fires, earthquakes, and the devastation of the 2nd World War. It is paraded around the city until its way back to the Basilica in what is known as the Traslacion.

The Nazarene devotion is the most successful example of what the church wants to accomplish. The dream that drew the founders of the Church of the Nazarene together is still the same dream that guides it today. Some may vehemently resent the eventual circumstances just to meet the objectives, but a great number probably just want to test and follow their faith blindly. A sacrifice in exchange of favors.