Wazzup Pilipinas Nominated at Philippine Tourism Awards as Best Travel-Related Online Magazine

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Your Pambansang Blog is proud to have been nominated at the Philippine Tourism Industry Awards as Best Travel-Related Online Magazine. The awarding ceremonies was held at Okada Manila in Pasay city on November 7, 2017 and attended by a huge audience that filled up the grand ballroom of one of the newest hotel and casino in the country. Okada is also known for it dancing fountain highlighted by its sound and lighting effects.

With so many featured events, products, services, and people in our online site, Wazzup Pilipinas is contributing to the tourism campaign for the country. Through our site, people from all walks of life, both local and foreign individuals whether from any class, sector, race or religion, get to be informed with the latest happenings and destinations within the Philippines.

Since we are also partnering with foreign brands, our content is not only limited to Philippine attractions. We also feature international destinations and brands that aim to tap the Philippine market too.

Sitting inside the luxurious ballroom, dining at the marvelous feasts, and chatting among fellow nominees, was already awe-inspiring. Eventhough this is not our first time to be recognized, the moment would be quite memorable as it already defines Wazzup Pilipinas as a trusted brand when it comes to informative and substantial content.

Wazzup Pilipinas Guesting at DWBL 1242 AM Radio

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Wazzup Pilipinas recently got invited again to guest at a radio show called Radyo Negosyo: Kabahayan At Iba Pa which airs every Sunday from 10 to 11 am at DWBL. The station is located at Paragon Plaza building along EDSA corner Reliance streets in Mandaluyong city.

One of the hosts, Donna “Ganda” Raquiza interviewed Wazzup Pilipinas founder Ross Del Rosario about his blogging activities, and his latest stint as a television host for Brand TV Season 2 Travel & Tours: Let’s Unwind.

Ross is proud to share his experiences and accomplishments as a blogger, and is so excited for the upcoming developments or upgrades in his career. True enough, his passion towards blogging has taken him to more opportunities. His aggressiveness may have irked some colleagues who questioned both his ethics and sanity, but that same eagerness or “kapal ng mukha” has given him more rewards that he is so thankful for.

For those who have not been able to follow the career path of Ross, everyone should know that his humble beginnings coupled with the thirst for information and social engagement has led him to more epic achievements unlike those ever achieved by other bloggers that started just almost at the same time as him. 

His secret is probably because he remains an idealist. He never resorts to accepting the culture for he believes we could all do and deserve more. He never tries to follow the trends, or make dirty gimmicks just to increase his numbers. He prefers organic followers who would look for and read his articles because they want to and not because they are obligated to exchange deals with other bloggers. So all those Like, Comments, Sharing exchanges are frowned upon because what it only does is fool the readers of their actual viewership and engagement.

Thank you to the people behind this radio show for recognizing Wazzup Pilipinas as a reliable source of information that could be benefitted by its listeners. With its primary goal to share stories about businesses, specifically focusing on real estate, it is quite surprising that I got invited as a guest.

Why not? Blogging could become one’s source of income as well. We must constantly remind ourselves not to fall victim to selling ourselves short. We should remain vigilant so as not to fall prey to users who would try to use us. If the need to be picky to stay away from defective brands is necessary, we should exert every effort to do so.

The trend to effectively promote almost everything has been very successful through online means, thus many brands are making their online presence strongly felt with the assistance of bloggers or online/social media influencers. The future is ours only if we keep ourselves aligned to what is right and proper, and still have lots of fun while doing it.

It's A Kaleidoscope Christmas at Greenfield District

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This is the nth time I’m attending a Christmas-related event and so I could safely declare that it is undoubtedly “beginning to look a lot like Christmas” everywhere we go. Colorful holiday season decorations could now be seen from snowman, to reindeers, to Santa Claus, to elves, to candy canes, and a lot more “shining shimmering splendid” eye-catching items hanging from trees or light posts that look best at night when the lights are all turned on.

But the most prominent among them all would forever be the Christmas Tree. May it be a green or white tree, there would never be any other symbol that would be as grandeur as the Christmas Tree.

Come and visit the Greenfield District in Mandaluyong city now as they officially opened their Christmas celebrations through their Christmas Tree Lighting held recently on November 24, 2017. The event was graced by a Chorale group singing the melodies of the holiday season, and fabulous fireworks that lit up the dark skies that night. A few bads provided entertainment through their songs but it got cut short because of the rains.

There was also a Russian Santa Claus adding cheer through many photo and video ops and selfies with the customers and guests of the Weekend Market. It so happens that I knew the guy playing Santa and that he is actually a Filipino who is also the owner of Monster Burger which had a food stall that night too. Guess what happened next? Of course, I brought home one of his burgers.

I would have loved to eat the burger that moment, but I was already full of the Persian cuisine the served that night at the event dubbed as Kaleidoscope at Greenfield.

Though the weather was not cooperative during the event because of the sudden rain showers that made the activities fall short of expectations, the important thing is that the management of Greenfield Development Corporation took the effort to recognize a very important tradition that we should never forget. Since Christmas is really created to remember the birth of Christ, it should be realized as the most important day of the year. It is but right that we celebrate the occasion with more than a month-long of activities until the start of the New Year.

The Christmas Tree would forever be the gloriously majestic and towering symbol to make everyone see that Christmas is fast approaching. You can see its beauty from afar, and I’ve heard that the fireworks we did that day was seen even as far as Greenhills, San Juan city.

We also had the opportunity to interview the Executive Vice President of the Greenfield Development Corporation. We learned a lot about their visions for the 14 hectare property that invites people to a kid-friendly place that’s with lots of open spaces especially meant for kids and adults alike to roam and walk freely from one point to the next. Though they are small as compared to big properties like the Bonifacio Global City, they still want to instill a place where everyone would feel comfortable and at ease as they would soon have their establishments connected in such a way that you could securely walk from and to any of them through bridges and pathways.

We have the complete interview in two-part videos that we’ve altready uploaded on our social media pages so please be sure to watch them either on our official YouTube or Facebook pages.

Thanks to the Greenfield Development Corporation for including Wazzup Pilipinas among their invited media to cover the event. We hope to be covering all of their other events soon.