Chinatown Lai Lai Hotel Chinese New Year Celebration

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Chinatown Lai lai Hotel celebrated Chinese New Year with a big bang as several programs along with talent competitions entertained both local business owners and residents, as well as the numerous visitors from all over the Philippines and even from other countries, on the eve of the Chinese New Year fro 2016.

Not to be missed out are the many dragon dances all over Chinatown Binondo. In fact, on my way to the hotel for their media event were many dragons of all shapes, sizes and colors. Chinese people often use the term “Descendants of the Dragon” as a sign of ethnic identity. They are often seen on festive celebrations especially the start of the Chinese New year.

The Dragon has always been the highlight of the celebration and represents power, wisdom, and wealth.. The Dragon Dance performed on New Year's Day scares away the evil spirits and all the bad luck with them.

I passed a couple of them on my way to the location of Chinatown Lai Lai Hotel in the corner of Ongpin and Padilla streets in Binondo, Manila so I was surprised that these similar dragon dances have been occurring for the entire day.

Discovering the Content Hub of Marketing through Blogging with Blogsmash: Tour. Eat. Blog!

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A new adventure-packed seminar is coming your way! 5TRIVED Productions proudly presents BLOGSMASH: Tour. Eat. Blog! “Discovering the Content Hub of Marketing through Blogging”. It will be held this coming 23rd of February, from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm, at SM City Sta. Mesa, Cinema 9. Generally, it is for the marketing students of PUP-Manila, but the event will also gather the students from different courses, as well as from the different schools/universities like Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, Quezon City Polytechnic Univerity, Centro Escolar University, and more. The seats are limited, so the organizers will implement the First-Come, First-Served policy. Nevertheless, the admission is free, and interested participants are all welcome.

The seminar aims to achieve the following objectives: 1) discuss the importance of making blog as the company’s content marketing hub, 2) enlighten the audience about how influencing the blog media today, and the bloggers as the new brand ambassadors, 3) exploring the nature of Food and Travel blogs, and 4) showcase the Blogging Community in the Philippine. These objectives will be possible to tackle, with the help of the three (3) guest speakers who are in line and known in the realm of blogging. The event also wouldn’t be possible without the support of the sponsors and media partners. Please see poster for details.

5TRIVED Productions is a group which composed of twenty-three (23) fourth year marketing students from Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Main Campus.

The Philippines is 7107 No Longer with 400 New Islands Discovered

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Mapping agency National Mapping and Resource Information Authority (NAMRIA) recently announced the discovery of 400 more islands within the Philippines where mostly can be found within Mindanao.

So now the Philippines can be called the country with 7507 islands. Textbooks need to be rewritten, and teachers need to be aware of the discovery. I'm sure there are more than 400 islands out there that are still waiting to be discovered as advancement in technology will allow us to become more skillful in determining our geographical status.

If there are islands somewhere within the West Philippine Sea, then we should guard these islands or else China will try to claim if it...so to speak. They say the entire Philippine Islands is in the watchful eyes of greedy China. Lol!

The Republic of the Philippines is a sovereign state in archipelagic Southeast Asia categorized into three main geographical divisions which are Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. Our islands are hotbeds of life, with approximately 12,000 plant species, 1,100 land vertebrate species and at least 400 coral species. And more are being discovered as you read this! More than 5,000 islands of the archipelago are yet to be named. With the addition of 400 more, that means 5,400 are now still nameless. Where does one register to have an island named after a person? Who do I need to pay to have an island named after me?