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Monday, September 23, 2013

Metro Magazine Has The Women You Love To Hate Gracing Their Covers

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Metro Magazine shares "They're the women you love to hate--but have also come to love: Magkaribal's Vera Cruz, Princess and I's Ashi Behati, Pangako Sa 'Yo's Amor Powers, and Tayong Dalawa's Ingrid Garcia have redefined the way we look at kontrabidas, and this month in Metro, they get together for a fashion showdown unlike any other!

Angel Aquino, Gretchen Barretto, Eula Valdes, and Agot Isidro reprise their roles as Philippine television's most glamorous and memorable bida kontrabidas, on this luxe cover where they're all decked in Louis Vuitton's Autumn/Winter 2013 collection. Grab a copy of this issue, out now in bookstores and newsstands, to see the fashions of these TV queens redone the Metro way. Have a great week ahead, everyone!"

The "kontrabida" queens are doing it "bold and beautiful" proving they are indeed televisions most glamorous antagonists.

Last month's cover for September was Ruffa Guttierez and my golly - Ruffa was totally working it in Italy with two covers for Metro Magazine!!! It was so hot that it made it to Yahoo's hottest magazine covers for September!

You have to admit you somehow hate her for that! Lol!

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Mark Joseph Solis, an alumnus of the University of the Philippines - the country's premier state university - admitted to passing off as his own a photograph that won the Smiles for the World Calidad Humana contest sponsored by Roberto Mayorga, Ambassador to Manila of the Chilean Embassy.

Solis is a political science alumnus of UP and is currently taking up his Masters in Public Administration at the National College of Public Administration and Governance. The website of the International Association of Political Science Students said Solis is a legislative staff of Senator Pia Cayetano but Senator Pia already tweeted that Solis was just a probationary staff employed for just three months and is no longer connecetd with her office.

Solis was awarded $1,000 and round trip tickets to Chile and Brazil last September 18, Chile's National Day celebration, at the Cultural Center of the Philippines.

Social Entrepreneur Gregory John Smith, the real owner of the photograph, revealed how "an impostor... abused my copyright." The photo belonged to the Children at Risk Foundation, which he founded.

What is more shocking was that this was not the first time that Solis entered contests using photos he doesn't own.

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The Digital Influencers Marketing Summit 2013 was an awesome gathering of digital influencers and social media experts sharing their profound knowledge and vast experience to a huge crowd all eager to be the best in their chosen profession.

It was even bigger and better than the previous summit. I was amazed at the turn-out of attendees and never imagined it will still be that big despite the fact that another social media event, The Social Good Summit organized by Maria Ressa's Rappler, was happening the very same day.

I attended the first Digital Influencers Marketing Summit last year, as well as the Social Good Summit, and another one - the Laguna Blogging Summit (scheduled sometime November this year). All of them have scheduled a second run.

It was unfortunate that the Social Good Summit was held at the same time as the Digital Influencers Marketing Summit because I wanted to attend both events. I attended all those events last year and learned a lot from the speakers that were all very popular and inspirational.

However, I needed to make a choice. Choose only one because I couldn't possibly attend both events.