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Saturday, September 28, 2013

Ristorante Bigoli: Going Italian in Eastwood

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After an event in Ortigas, Pasig ended early at around 2 pm, I decided to go directly to a restaurant in Eastwood City in Libis, Quezon City. The restaurant was the venue for another event where I was also invited and it scheduled at 6 pm. It was very inconvenient for me to go home and then out again with just a few hours to spend.

I was invited to an event that was primarily arranged due to a tie-up between Ristorante Bigoli and Zomato. Ristorante Bigoli is an Italian Restaurant with branches at Eastwood, Trinoma and SM Fairview while Zomato is an online restaurant guide which started in India and provides information on restaurant home deliveries, take-outs, cafes and nightlife in the cities of India, Brazil, New Zealand, the Philippines, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom.

Zomato has already partnered with several restaurants in the Philippines and invites foodies (both bloggers and non-bloggers) to submit restaurant reviews to their site. It has some ranking or points system where reviewers level up and get rewards.

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Right in the middle of the devastating URCC fights and the exhilarating P.O.D. performances, I went around the Dutdutan Trece booths to meet with as most of the awesome ink masters - one booth at a time!

My intention was to be able to take photos of the creative tattoo artists and their models with their logos or brand name behind so I could proudly post all of their photos on my blog. But the booths were so plenty, and there were so many interesting personalities and fascinating tattoos to immortalize into digital photos, to capture their images using my camera - which ran out of battery even before I had the chance to take photos of majority of the participants and event attendees.

It was truly a huge crowd of liberal-minded individuals who have made their body a canvass of art that further emphasizes their attitude and unique personality. I would like to think that having a tattoo increase your guts and makes you a little more confident. It is a creative medium of expression to show the world our individuality!

Tattoos were all around and all over everyone's body! Masterpieces created for everyone's pleasure!

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For the drum duel competition at Dutdutan Trece, there will be a total of eight two-man teams that will soon be rocking the World Trade Center with their pretty wild noise of their drums. There was even a cool brother and sister team, with the guy on base and her sister on the drums!

Wow! I think she's the only girl contestant but I'm not really sure since there were still a few who have not arrived yet for the practice.

I was lucky to have been at the World Trade Center (WTC) earlier than the event time since I just came from a three-day event at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) in Manila and we checked in and stayed at the Sofitel Manila Pavilion hotel - very near from the WTC.

Get to see some of the teams below when you read more!

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I had the opportunity to drop by earlier during the second day preparations of Dutdutan Trece at the World Trade Center and had the chance to chat with and take photos of some the contestants of the FHM Bikini Competition.

According to the FHM Bikini contestants, there will be ten of them battling it for the best babe in bikini. The eight girls were early that day so I only lack two of them. I arrived at around 8:30 am and they were already there for the practice happening at around 10 am. The actual bikini contest will be held at around 11 pm close to midnight!

These girls had no make-up on, yet they were already oozing with beauty and sensuality, what more after they beautify themselves and don their skimpy outfits tonight at Dutdutan Trece happening at the World Trade Center!

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Get up, clean the house, shower, go to work or school, sleep, and eat in between. These are activities we’ve turned into a routine everyday—give or take a few parties and/or vacations. Wouldn’t we all want to change it up a little to make doing these things much more fun?

Spice up your day by throwing in some music into the mix, using a portable mp3 player that you can bring with you anywhere, no matter what you’re doing.

“The Philips SoundDot range can be used for almost any activity,” remarks Ms. Poi San Mok, Philips Marketing Manager for Lifestyle Entertainment. “It’s compact and with an advanced yet delightfully simple design, making it a reliable mp3 player that’s small in size but big on fun.”

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In NUVALI, the love for nature and for one another go hand in hand.

As part of Ayala Land Inc.’s 25th Anniversary, one of the country’s most successful and well-loved mixed-used developments, NUVALI gives thanks to the community through the Random Acts of Kindness Day.

BIG, BIG, BIG surprises await everybody!

Just like the first time they did a similar event at the Ayala Triangle Gardens, many passersby were surprised to see the gift-giving event open to everyone within the area.

Head on to NUVALI, Sta. Rosa Laguna on Saturday, September 28, 2013 and experience generosity like no other.

How to get there? Check out the instructions by reading more.

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Traffic weary motorists have relief coming soon. Malacanang recently approved the contract for the Metro Manila Skyway (MMS) Stage 3 Project which will connect the Southern Luzon Expressway to the Northern Luzon Expressway. The project will be fully funded by the Citra Central Expressway Corporation at an estimated cost of Php 26.5 billion and will be overseen by the Department of Transportation and Communications and the Toll Regulatory Board (TRB).

This new road is expected to help decongest EDSA and other major roads such as Quezon Avenue, Araneta Avenue, Nagtahan, and Quirino and greatly reduce travel time from Buendia to Balintawak from the usual 2 hours or more to just 15 minutes. In a 2013 report released by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), it estimated that around Php 2.4 billion worth of economic and opportunity loss is incurred daily due to traffic congestion in Metro Manila.

The flood free, mostly elevated 6 lane expressway, has an approximate length of 14.2 kilometers and will help reduce pollution, provide greater comfort and safety to the motorists and result to large savings in travel time, fuel and vehicle maintenance costs. It will also provide around 6,000 direct jobs and an additional indirect jobs of around 10,000 during construction.

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How much do you know about the mobile world?

Studies show that 68% of people sleep with their mobile device next to their bed while 85% admitted that they can’t go a single day without their mobile. Filipinos are rapidly adopting the mobile lifestyle, listing their top four mobile activities with their mobile phone as emailing, surfing, social networking and taking photos.

As we continue to ride the mobile tide, we expect more from our mobile phones. Qualcomm gets to the heart of these devices with processors that enable longer battery life, lightning fast communication and unbeatable efficiency for a better mobile experience.

We are sharing with you an insight on the mobile world by the numbers.

3M Innovation Tour : 3M Unveils Latest Innovations Through Office Tour

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The Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company started as a means to find mineral deposits for abrasives. Now, 3M has become the leader in abrasives, adhesives, and hardware products worldwide, and as a way of thanking the people, especially the Filipinos, in patronizing its products, 3M once again opened its doors to the public through its 3M Innovation Tour at its Makati office along South Luzon Expressway.

Rika Kamibayashi first welcomed us and gave us a briefing on what to be expected in the tour.

Then we set sail to a trip to the entire Customer Technical Center. First up was the Industrial Adhesives and Tapes Room where we found out that what we usually call "scotch tape" should be precisely called cellophane tape. Here are some more of the industrial adhesive products of 3M.

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I admire private companies who incorporate social responsibility in their business. It always gives me pleasure to hear about companies who would exert the extra effort to provide donations or relief good for our brothers and sisters who were affected by man-made or natural disasters.

I hope all private companies will follow the example of those companies who allot a fortune of their budget to provide for the needs of our fellowmen stricken by unfortunate circumstances.

A great example is when the Epson group of companies donated PhP1 million to the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) to help victims of the destruction brought by the southwest monsoon (enhanced by Typhoon Maring/Trami) last August.

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Twitter has launched Twitter Alerts, a new feature that brings us one step closer to helping users get important and accurate information from credible organizations during emergencies, natural disasters or moments when other communications services aren’t accessible.

We know from our users how important it is to be able to receive reliable information during these times. With that in mind, last year we announced Lifeline (a feature that helps Japanese users find emergency accounts during crises), and since then, we’ve been working on a related feature for people around the world.

If you sign up to receive an account’s Twitter Alerts, you will receive a notification directly to your phone whenever that account marks a Tweet as an alert. Notifications are delivered via SMS, and if you use Twitter for iPhone or Twitter for Android, you’ll also receive a push notification*. Alerts also appear differently on your home timeline from regular Tweets; they will be indicated with an orange bell.

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Sharing information in real-time is now the trend, especially with the boom of social media. And with this, not being able to tweet something as it happens or not getting more updates tends to leave us in the dark or left behind.

This new amazing promo gives you unlimited Twitter for free. Now, you can share your thoughts, updates, pictures and videos anytime, anywhere with the power of Sun’s consistent, fast and reliable connection.

With Sun Cellular’ s Tweet Forever, Sun Mobile Internet users can enjoy free Twitter until November 15, 2013. There’s no need to text any keyword, spend money for the offering or subscribe to any special promo. All you have to do is type in m.twitter.com on your mobile browser to enjoy this amazing social media offering.

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Who run the world? The question that we nervously (but somewhat hopefully) asked ourselves that day. The day that we all had been waiting for. The day where we started off arguing and ended up winning. The day I will never forget.. AEROBERZ! August 16, 2013.

Honestly, we weren’t ready. We weren’t even finished with the whole choreography! And yes, we crammed. We crammed our last steps that same day of the aerodance competition. Running (not really just walking) up the stairs to the 7th floor and back, borrowing time for us to have our practice, trying to find speakers that could actually work. We were tired.. Dreadfully tired.

It was around 3 I think? The competition started. We were all happy, ecstatic and nervous at the same time. Happy that the day we all we’ve been waiting for has finally come. Ecstatic to finally be able to perform andshow off all the hardwork we had exerted for this competition. And lastly, nervous that what if we mess up?

We were third in line to perform. I guess we’re pretty much lucky? Marx…Coper… and finally our section, BERZ!

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One Run, One Philippines,” the five-city simultaneous advocacy run of ABS-CBN in the Philippines and the United States this October 6 as part of ABS-CBN’s 60th anniversary celebration.

Thousands participants are expected to take part in the “One Run, One Philippines," in five cities to save five environment projects including Pasig River rehabilitation.

In cooperation of ABS-CBN Foundation’s Kapit Bisig Para sa Ilog Pasig (KBPIP), Regional Network Group (RNG) and The Filipino Channel (TFC), the “One Run, One Philippines” will invade Quezon City, Cebu City, Bacolod City, Davao City, and Los Angeles (USA) to clamor for the protection of various environmental advocacies.

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Many activities were given by the school to help us explore our talents and especially, to know more and bond with our classmates. These past few months, I can truly say that it was so exhausting but exciting. First, we prepared for our Aerodance. We practiced for many nights and days for the competition. We exerted so much effort because we were pressured. Last year's champion were from IV-Berzelius which is my present section. Many stressful moments that we've encountered especially in Leira's part. She patiently choreographed our steps to make it presentable.

The most exciting part is that we crammed our steps! We practiced one day before the competition. It took us 5 hours to finish the last part of our aerodance, the cool-down. Many were raising their voice because of the mistakes we made. Our parents were calling us because it's already late. Leira and Cherry decided to continue practicing tomorrow, which is the competition day. We were very nervous because it's not perfect and maybe we will present it badly.