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Friday, June 28, 2013

Alodia Gosiengfao is FHM Magazine Cover Model July 2013

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Alodia Gosiengfiao is FHM's July 2013 Cover Girl!

I'm now drooling with anticipation for the latest July issue of FHM Philippines magazine. I just hope what I see on the cover is not the most daring pose and outfit.

Could it have been bette if she was wearing a sexy and revealing cosplay outfit?

The international cosplay sensation/model/recording artist/TV host/movie actress now adds FHM cover star to her multi-hyphenated résumé!

Click here for more on Alodia's FHM debut and for an exclusive look at the first batch of photos from her cover shoot: http://www.fhm.com.ph/daily-reads/news/alodia-gosiengfiao-fhm-photos-cover-girl-july-2013

FHM's July 2013 issue (which comes with the FHM 100 Sexiest supplement) will be available in newsstands and bookstores everywhere starting this weekend! Digital copies will also soon be downloadable here: http://bit.ly/15X4JVg

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#AlodiaOnFHMJuly

1 World Music Festival and Tenishia : Back to Back Party

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Seventh HIGH, Manila’s premiere boutique nightspot, takes you above and beyond your typical nightlife experience. Known to host the hottest events and sought-after parties that cater to a range of markets, from young professionals to esteemed socialites, Seventh HIGH elevates your usual evening leisure making each visit an experience to remember. This is why we are hosting not just one, but TWO back to back international events to welcome July 2013 with a bang.

This 3rd quarter of 2013, Seventh HIGH will be partnering with 1 Music Festival (http://1worldmusicfestival.com/), the biggest music event to happen in Singapore this year that aims to bring together some of the world’s best nightlife acts. The event will take place at the Marina Barrage, Singapore during the Gran Prix season on September 20 & 21, 2013.

In line with this, Seventh HIGH has been given the privilege to host the pre-party of 1 Music Festival in the Philippines on July 5, 2013. Two foreign DJs - Nicole Chen from and DJ Scotto will be performing at The Club of 7thHIGH, ensuring a night of international clubbing and world-class entertainment.

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The sequel to last year's highly successful Bigas Hackathon- is an event for hacktivists and programming aficionados who are willing to use their much-in-demand skills to benefit the world. IRRI's hackathons bring together young IT whizzes to spend two days.

The next big tech push for rice is slated to come on 31 August-1 September 2013 as the International Rice Research Institute gears up for the Bigas2 Hack—the sequel to last year's hugely successful BigAs Hackathon—an event for developers and programming aficionados who are willing to use their highly sought skills to benefit the world.

IRRI’s hackathons bring together young IT whizzes to spend two days developing an IT-based solution to a rice research problem. Last year’s event involved 57 developers from the Philippines. This year, the plan is to engage more people from the Philippines and beyond.

Bigas2 Hack is co-organized by Smart Communications, Inc. and Smart DevNet.

PhilRobotics, the winning team in 2012, came up with Envilog, a portable device that can take readings of temperature, rainfall, wind speed, wind direction, amount of sunlight, atmospheric pressure, humidity, and water height in rice fields.

Bigas2 Hack comes as part of the list of activities lined-up by IRRI towards rice sector development and in celebrating 2013 as the National Year of Rice.

This year's hackathon will formally allow interested participants to incubate their ideas longer, and then take it even further by developing prototypes.

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Let's move #fwdPH! See you this Saturday!

This 2013, the Philippines celebrates Social Media Day in a different way.

Events get underway a day early, on June 29, when netizens from Metro Manila hold a big meetup at the Glorietta Activity Center in Makati City, the country’s financial capital.

It is a call on all Pinoy netizens to use social media for social good, and to maximize our personal and collective social media capital for social change. We have done it before and we must do it again and again – not just because we can, but because we must.

Meet different online communities during the pre-program at 11am - 3pm.
Listen to amazing speakers and musical performances during the main program from 4pm-7pm!

The fun continues on June 30 with meetups in Baguio, Cebu, Cagayan de Oro, Bukidnon, Davao and other cities Thus, a Social Media Weekend across these amazing islands.

Sign up now and tell your friends about the biggest social media event in the country this year!

Sambo Kojin Birthday Treat

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Celebrate again and again and again…

Up to 14 FREE BUFFETS, Lunch and Dinner for 7 Days in any of the Sambo Kojin branches.

BIRTHDAY PROMO MECHANICS:

1. Free Buffet for Birthday Celebrant who will dine in any of the participating restaurants accompanied by one (1) paying adult on actual birthday, within three (3) days before and three (3) days after that.

2. Free Birthday Buffet may be claimed up to 14 times, lunch and dinner, within those seven (7) days. Only 1 Free Birthday Buffet may be claimed per visit.

3. To claim, Celebrant must present to any of our dining personnel a valid document with proof of date of birth (Birth Certificate, SSS ID, TIN ID, Voter’s ID, Passport, Driver’s License, PRC License, AFP/Military ID).

4. Celebrant must also completely fill out the information sheet.

5. All Firstfoods Food Services, Inc. and Golden Reef Food Services, Inc. personnel and their relatives up to the second degree of consanguinity or affinity are not qualified to join the promo.

6. Promo is not valid with any other existing promotions.
Promo period is from May 15, 2013 to August 15, 2013.

Per DTI-NCR Permit No. 2801 Series of 2013.

June Bride 2013 : Wedding Fair at SM Aura

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We are inviting you all to meet the best suppliers, organizers, products and services for all occasions specially for wedding and Debut.

The very first Wedding & Debut Fair in SM AURA PREMIERE!

"JUNE BRIDE 2013"

June 29-30, 2013 | 3rd Level SM AURA PREMIERE, Fort Bonifacio, Global City. Taguig City.

Register for free entrance at http://islandexhibitlink.com/weddingfairreg.php

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Celebrate music and friendship as the Japan Foundation, Manila (JFM) in cooperation with the Embassy of Japan , Radio High 105.9 and Yoshinoya bring back to Manila the Asian Jazz Band, unit asia for a one-night free concert with singer-songwriter Noel Cabangon on July 9 (Tuesday), 8:00 pm at the Music Museum in Greenhills, San Juan.

A Jazz Night with Unit Asia is an event in celebration of the Philippines-Japan Friendship Month and the 40th Year of ASEAN-Japan Friendship and Cooperation.

Reservations will be accommodated on a first-come, first-served basis.

RSVP: Emilyn/Shiela

811-6155 to 58

Eiga-Sai - Japanese Film Festival Takes the Lad on July 3

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The month-long activities of the Philippines-Japan Friendship Celebration includes “Eiga-Sai “ - Japanese Film Festival to be held starting July 3 Wednesday.

In celebration of the Philippines–Japan Friendship Month in July and the 40th Year of ASEAN – Japan Friendship and Cooperation anchored on the theme “ASEAN-Japan Partnership: Thoughts Connected-Future Connected”, a series of culturally-inspiring and artistically-stimulating month–long activities are to be expected from The Japan Foundation, Manila in cooperation with the Embassy of Japan, Shangri-La Plaza Mall, UP Film Institute, and the Film Development Council of the Philippines.

Wiith the support of WAO Corporation, NET-25, SPOT.PH, ClickTheCity.Com, Cravings, C2 Classic Cuisine, Lombardi’s, Wicked, and the Coffee Beanery. The staging of the much-anticipated “Eiga-Sai” (Japanese Film Festival) kicks-off the festivity and commences with an invitational screening to the film “About Her Brother” (“Otouto”) on July 3 at the Shang Cineplex Cinema 2, EDSA, Mandaluyong City .

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Marian Rivera is the Philippines' Finest for 2013!

This makes Marian only the fourth repeat winner in FHM 100 Sexiest Women in the World history, her first win coming way back in 2008.

She deserves it this year if i may say. Not a fan, but you gotta hand it to her, she really worked her ass out to get that body. Congrats, Marian.

The candidates were all deserving.

Angel has really nice curves, Sam is gorgeous but she's skinny. While Marian has bigger junks, more proportioned body which makes her the sexiest of all.

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Every straight man's fantasy!!!

That' s probably what every guy out there thought about after seeing for the first time the "kissing photo "of celebrity models Isabelle Daza and Georgina Wilson.

The photo was posted by Isabelle Daza on her Instagram account displaying a contoversial "kiss" with her cousin, Georgina Wilson.

The "kissing photo" went viral online over social media networks aside from Instagram. The controversial image was posted a day after the landmark ruling of the US Supreme Court on laws related to same-sex marriage.

Summer Starts in the Pool and Ends in the Pool

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Summer vacation is a time for many people, especially students and employees, to relax, have fun and just enjoy life. But summer has two faces; some do have their happiest and unforgettable experiences but some consider their summer days just like a regular day with nothing to do.

My summer vacation starts when Cavendish, my section when I was in third year, decided to have our outing last March in a clubhouse. Though only few of us attended, we still had fun and enjoy the whole day swimming and playing in the pool.

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I want to share this to my readers of whom some may be the so called "pro-lifers" - those that support a pro-life advocacy thus they fight against the RH Bill with defenses that clings to religion and respect for the life of the unborn.

This was posted in Tumblr and the statement has a good point. Something to think about.

"You want to be pro-life?

Start with the kids already born. Start with the low-income families. Start with raising the minimum wage and start with comprehensive sex education. Start with doing away with abstinence-only education and do away with punishing people with uteruses for having sex.

You want to be pro-life?

Start supporting people living a life they can be happy with, a life their family can be safe and happy and provided for."

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Oh my, Illuminaughty! They're all around us. Secret conspiracies are everywhere, and where can you find the only truth?

Illuminati is the name assumed by the members of a secret society founded by Adam Weishaupt in 1776. The word Illuminati is the plural of Latin illuminatus meaning "enlightened" and is a name given to several groups, both real and fictitious, that has become synonymous with the one world conspiracy.

Historically the name refers to the Bavarian Illuminati, an Enlightenment-era secret society to oppose superstition, prejudice, religious influence over public life, abuses of state power, and to support women's education and gender equality.

The Illuminati were outlawed along with other secret societies by the Bavarian government leadership with the encouragement of the Roman Catholic Church, and permanently disbanded. In the several years following, the group was vilified by conservative and religious critics who claimed they had regrouped and were responsible for the French Revolution.

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Fiesto Bandido—that musical wizard more popularly known as singer/songwriter/showman Rico Blanco—has pulled it off once again.

On Philippine Independence Day, June 12, 2013, Rico made history as he held his first solo concert dubbed “Rico Blanco LIVE!” at the Music Museum. The event was sold out by the week it was held as his fans, friends, and supporters trooped to the venue to witness what was promised to be a highly visual out-of-this-world journey through Rico Blanco's musical career. This wasn't just your standard concert; it was a show in every sense of the word.

Ever since the artist introduced the feather-and-chrome-clad persona of “Fiesto Bandido” for his newest album “Galactik Fiestamatik,” Rico Blanco's fans all over the country have been treated to a dose of the spectacle that has become the trademark for the musical chameleon's current persona. What with all the ati-atihan-inspired attire, the beats, the tribal dancing reminiscent of town fiestas (assuming fiestas are held in space), and the colorful light show that accompanies the music beat by beat.

Bloggers Who Write or Just Copy and Paste Press Releases

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Are you among those media people, not necessarily just the bloggers, that write about the event they've just attended or are you one of those that just settle for a copy-pasted article?

There was this little discussion that got my attention and has somewhat strike a nerve. I am posting this to get comments as I am also somewhat guilty of that dirty habit of copy-pasting press releases as a shortcut method for my blogging whenever I find myself too busy or lazy to "WRITE".

This also happens if I find the event too boring or less interesting and not worthy of an elaborate story. Most of the time I put the press release as part of the blog inserted among my own personal statements. It might be an insult if I don't include the info within the press release. But I do agree that it might be a bigger insult if we don't write about the event using our own words.