Epson Supports 10th CBMS Philippines National Conference

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Epson Philippines Corporation (EPC) recently sponsored the 10th CBMS Philippines National Conference held at the Crowne Plaza Manila Galleria in Quezon City.

CBMS, which stands for Community-Based Monitoring System, aims to serve as a tool for local governance and complement the national poverty monitoring system. It also serves to provide policymakers and program implementers with good information base for tracking the effects of macroeconomic reforms and various policies.

Seen on the photo above are CBMS leaders with Epson Senior Marketing Executives EJ Sulit and Camille Coronel strike a pose with Representative-elect Lucy Torres-Gomez during the 10th CBMS Philippines National Conference at the Crowne Plaza Manila Galleria.

Zamboanga Adventure: Exploring Asia's Latin City (Zamboanga Golf Course and Beach Park)

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Golfers are considered elite because golf is a precision club and ball sport which requires a lot of patience. It is a very slow sport that will never excite me at all. Don't hate me when I say "playing a ball with a club from the teeing ground into the hole by a stroke or successive strokes in accordance with certain rules" is really boring.

But that doesn't stop me from enjoying my time exploring a certain golf course in Zamboanga. However, maybe the fact that it has a beach park beside it was good enough reason why I found it really pleasing. So when I get bored trying to put my balls in a hole...wait that sounded wrong...anyway, I can just walk a few steps and get all wet and wild at the bitch...Oooppss....I mean the beach. Lol!

The Zamboanga Golf Course and Beach Park, originally known as the Zamboanga Golf and Country Club, is located some 5 km from the city hub in Upper Calarian west of the city. It boasts of being the oldest golf course in the Philippines. But wait, though the golf course has been around for ages, the maintenance and renovation of the place was impeccable!

Zamboanga Adventure: Exploring Asia's Latin City (Fort Pilar)

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To continue with our tour of Zamboanga, Asia's Latin City where you'll get hooked on eating tiger prawns, curachas, and knickerbockers, or if you're the more adventurous, you could have indulged on the satti for early morning breakfast. We now take you to a few more popular places we've explored while  immersed between birdwatching and celebrating Zamboanga Day through its many festivities and activities.

Above you'll see another popular landmark and heritage site called Fort Pilar or Real Fuerza de Nuestra Señora del Pilar de Zaragoza (Royal Fort of Our Lady of the Pillar of Zaragoza). The 17th-century military defense fortress built by the Spanish colonial government is now a regional museum of the National Museum of the Philippines.

What you see outside the walls at the eastern side is a Marian shrine dedicated to Our Lady of the Pillar, the patroness of Zamboanga city. The insides of Fort Pilar was under renovation when we visited sometime end of February 2014. They told us it was supposed to have been completed already it the Zamboanga siege did not take place.