Wazzup Pilipinas News and Events

Thursday, November 6, 2014

Scrooge The Musical - A Rollicking Frolicking Feast of Entertainment All Set to Open on November 21

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Repertory Philippines proudly presents its special holiday treat for the entire family with the new production of SCROOGE THE MUSICAL.

The Charles Dicken’s classic tale “A Christmas Carol” comes to life with renowned writer-composer-lyricist Leslie Bricusse’s delightful interpretation in SCROOGE THE MUSICAL beginning November 21, 2014 at Onstage, 2/F, Greenbelt 1, Paseo de Roxas cor. Legazpi St., Makati City.

SCROOGE THE MUSICAL is set during Christmas in London, England and closely follows the classic story with the miserly Ebenezer undergoing a profound experience of redemption over the course of a Christmas Eve night, after being visited by the ghost of his former partner Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas past, present and future.

The musical features a sparkling, tuneful score with traditional Christmas melodies complete with live music, dazzling choreography, and new surprises that will lovingly melt even the hardest of hearts as the true meaning of Christmas is highlighted.

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Tanghalang Ateneo, the longest-running theater company of the Loyola Schools of the Ateneo de Manila University, celebrates its 36th season with the theme “Navigating Identities”. To articulate this, the company will stage plays that explore man’s need to find himself and his place in the world.

After a successful production of Han Ong's "Middle Finger" last August, the company now focuses its attention on Glenn Sevilla Mas's "Rite of Passage: Sa Pagtubu kang Tahud (An adaptation of a Kinaray-a short story by Maria Milagros Geremia Lachica).

The play was first produced by Tanghalang Pilipino for the Virgin Labfest, the Cultural Center of the Philippines' annual festival of new plays in 2005.

Set in Catungan IV, a quiet barrio in the province of Antique, the play opens with a painful ritual that propels reluctant, young protagonist Isoy into manhood. As he is seduced by the promised pleasures of sex, Isoy bravely confronts his past in a bid to take control of his future, and the truth can be as overwhelming as the lurid images of scantily-clothed women in magazines.

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Healthway Medical, the country’s trusted and most preferred network of mall-based clinic begins its search for the best dance group from among the country’s top corporations in Metro Manila as it launches the “Dance for Health 2: Take the Lead.”

Dance for Health is a yearly dance competition sponsored by Healthway Medical to promote dancing as an avenue of maintaining an active and healthy lifestyle.

“This year, we are focusing on corporate employees in order to encourage them to live an active and healthy lifestyle despite their busy schedules in the office,” Carmie de Leon, Healthway Medical’s VP for Sales and Marketing said.

Companies coming from different industries are invited to join the elimination rounds which will be held on November 14, at Glorietta 5. The grand finals will be held in December 14 at Glorietta Old Activity Center.

There will be no joining fee and past winners including the Maynilad Dance Company, who won the first place followed by the Black Panthers of Aegis Global and the LBP-All Stars of the Land Bank of the Philippines, will also be joining the contest.

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Foodies will rejoice once they hear about the upcoming event this coming November 21, 2014 from 5 pm until 10 pm in Kapitan Moy Main Hall located at J.P. Rizal of Marikina City.

Get your appetite ready to celebrate an Eat All You Can Festival featuring a wide array of Paella choices for your own delight! Wow! Paella until you drop! Our tummies will surely feel fulfilled with not only 1 but 6 kinds of Paella. Yummy!

THE PAELLAS
1. SPANISH PAELLA (in tomato sauce with lechon and seafoods.)
2. PAELLA NEGRA MARINARA. (in black squid ink sauce with seafoods.)
3. INDIAN PAELLA (in curried spicy sauce with seafoods)
4. CHINESE KIAMPONG PAELLA (with chicken pork adobo mix with pechay, gabi and peanuts.)
5. KOREAN PAELLA (sweet spicy with sesame seeds and toasted pork ribs.)
6. JAPANESE GOMOKU GOHAN. GREEN PAELLA. (seasoned with herbs and variety of nuts)

Aside from 6 different paellas, they will also serve plain rice, pork sinigang, and kansi (soup with beef kneecap cooked in langka chunks and kamias).

Quench your thirst with their bottomless iced tea. All of these for only Php 550 per person. But there's more, if you reserve 1 table of 10, you get to pay for only 9 persons. Early birds will also get less Php 50 from the price and senior citizens will need to pay a discounted price of only Php 440.

The Paella Festival 2014 is hosted by Song and Lydda's Food Service.

You may pay your reservations through bank deposit at BDO banks, and email your deposit slips to jessgrafilo@yahoo.com

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The University of the Philippines Engineering Radio Guild presents SYNERGY: Electrical and Electronics Engineering Summit 2014, an event now stepping up its version of challenges specially designed for students in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE) courses.

On its third year, SYNERGY brings with it a four-day gathering for future engineers to showcase their skills and intellect. SYNERGY will go beyond learning concepts and exploring theories acquired from the academe. With speakers from trending companies in the technology industry, students also build the career vision and skill potential they acquired from their interest and key studies. The event focuses on professional development and its potential in improving the country.

SYNERGY is composed of five major events, namely, Techno Talk, Ingenious Ideas, Revolutionary Robotics, Dynamic Discourse, and Corporate Connection.

Techno Talk is comprised of three short talks in which distinguished speakers will talk about the current and upcoming trends and innovations in the academe, industry, and government scenes for Electrical and Electronics Engineering.

In Ingenious Ideas, students are encouraged to think out of the box by solving scenarios or questions in the allotted time frame related to topics presented in Techno Talk.

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It's been years since I watched a live musical play. The last one was a ballet show featuring Lisa Macuja, one of Manila's famed ballerinas at Aliw Theater, CCP. A few weeks ago, I had a chance to watch another live musical play this time just a few blocks from Aliw which is in Star Theater for the "Romeo & Juliet The Musical" by Kids Acts Philippines. This play as well all know is a reenactment of William Shakespeare's famous novel but it was made it clear by the production that it will be performed without sacrificing the original texts of the author to let young adults understand and comprehend on how the play is written. The dialogues are sung with full observance of how phrases are being read.

Watching these young actors and actresses portraying the characters was like me being transported when I was a student because I used to memorize these same exact lines just to pass our English literary subject. I wished we should have watched a play like this before because the learning is much better from watching than just merely reading a full text about it.

Though I find it hard to keep up with the fast conversation of the characters, maybe because the lines are written in heavy medieval English. I was also sitting beside my fellow bloggers they also say the same thing. I think it is better if they can also have a Tagalog version of "Romeo & Juliet The Musical". This does not mean though that we doubt the capabilities of the actors by any means but I think we can have this play closer to our hearts if spoken in our language.

Wazzup Pilipinas Original Short Stories Series: Memories and Regrets

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XQ 1019 a robot made by Joseph, Ana's grandfather, to help a certain someone recover from losing someone important. Ana is Jake's lover; both of them treasured each other that is why when one is lost, the other falls into depression.

In Jake's past, he used to obey the authority for the sake of paying his debt to them and to prevent them from punishing him however, as he grew up he learned how to refuse the order of the authority because he is no longer afraid of punishments anymore.

Our story is about a painful love where in the one you love died, leaving you with full of regret. Even after everything that has happened love conquers all. In the story, the protagonist changed for the better after loving someone and even after death he still treasures that special someone.

In the story, the protagonist showed an overflowing emotion and feelings, like after Ana's death Jake felt so much despair and fell into depression. The protagonist used to be a criminal and as the time passes he learned how to value things and changed for the better.

Please enjoy reading our short story below.

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More and more Filipinos are turning to biking for transport, health, fitness and as a competitor sport with various events and activities catering to this fast growing community. For a full weekend on November 15-16 in Hall D of the World Trade Center, the Philippines can finally claim to have its very own biking expo similar to international shows featuring premium brands and exhibit displays through Phil-Bike Expo 2014.

This milestone event consolidates under one roof, for the first time, different categories of bikes from road, mountain, folding, BMX, urban, custom and more. Be immersed in the world of biking and see exhibits of vintage, fixed gear, and custom low rider bikes to interactive product displays from top international brands and local Pinoy manufacturers. Interact with various biking groups and associations who shall likewise take center stage to discuss key topics such as safety, infrastructure, training, support for local athletes and initiatives to make the Philippines more bike friendly.

Phil-Bike Expo also features an indoor BMX Halfpipe and Electronic Racers where local talents will battle it out for the grand prize. To add to the excitement, Red Bull elite athlete and former Trial Biking World Champion Thomas Oehler shall be performing his famous stunts and tricks on two wheels. Top OPM artist and rider Gloc-9 will then close the show with a mini-concert on November 16.

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LINE, the world’s leading life platform, has officially released two new and exciting games: the sequel to LINE POP and LINE Sweets!

The Philippines is home to the most downloaded mobile games in Southeast Asia. Because of this, LINE is happy to offer Filipinos with engaging new puzzle games for recreation.

LINE POP 2 is a hexagon-based puzzle game where players can move blocks in six different directions. Your favorite LINE characters are used as labels for the blocks. Align three or more similar-character blocks to eliminate them and gain higher scores.

As the successor of the first LINE POP, which garnered over 47 million downloads worldwide, the sequel welcomes a huge following of puzzle-game gurus.

LINE Sweets, on the other hand, is a map-based puzzle game that features LINE characters in 3D! Each character has a unique skill, which can be strategically used to gain higher scores. New characters can be unlocked using Gacha or by clearing stages within the game.

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Our lifestyle continues to change as many life-changing conveniences are quickly emerging and becoming so easy to use. Many people are now becoming more comfortable buying stuff online especially using their portable and handy smartphones. The Internet had indeed opened so many opportunities for other technologies to sprung up and be noticed.

Right now, mobile apps are in the verge of ruling the e-commerce world, if not yet considered as claimed and conquered. A lot of start-ups have made a name for themselves with primarily the online community to thank for. Of course, there's so many potential to become a lot bigger, and more financially rewarding.

Take for instance online shopping. It was noted that a 39% increase was established compared to last year’s second quarter based from an infographic released by Realex. This only goes to show that online transactions are still on the rise and will continue to increase in a quarterly basis.

But is it really safe and secure already to deal with online transactions? Though there may be a few scams going around trying to dissuade people to trust online deals, there are so many initiatives and efforts to make our online dealings better than physically being there. This is very helpful now that the Christmas season is so very near, and many of us would like to escape the crowded shopping malls when buying for our season gifts.

Shoppers all over the Philippines can now have a more secure online transaction with the Lamido Safepay – the escrow service of Lamido that allows consumers to avoid fraudulent transactions on the internet.

Lamido has ensured that online transactions are more secure with its effort to launch the Lamido Safepay. It is expected that in the coming months, Lamido Safepay will be the most preferred payment option by most merchant in the Lamido’s online buy and sell platform.