Pinakamahabang Todo Patintero 2015

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The UP Association of Business Administration Majors (UP ABAM), based in the Cesar E.A. Virata School of Business, University of the Philippines-Diliman, together with the Sociedad de Historia of De La Salle University (SDH), are taking a step further not only in achieving their goals of molding the future corporate leaders and history advocates of the country, but of making relevant events happen for the benefit of the society at large.

UP ABAM and SDH, in partnership with Yabang Pinoy, a Filipino pride movement which envisions every Filipino being proud to be Filipino, believing in fellow Filipinos, and patronizing Filipino ideas, concepts and services, have brought together a group of exceptional individuals specially formed to lead a campaign that aims to inspire the youth into becoming advocates of Filipino pride and culture.

They will be holding an activity entitled “Pinakamahabang Todo Patintero 2015”. Living up to our campaign of promoting Filipino pride and culture, Pinakamahabang Todo Patintero, now on its 6th year, is a tournament of Patintero games whose goal is to encourage our original Larong Pinoy.

The said event will be open to teams of five; composed of high school students to young professionals, of ages 15 and above. It will be held on March 22, 2015 at the Sunken Garden of UP Diliman, Quezon City.

Cate Blanchett Reveals a Beauty Secret: Daily Sun Care and Protection

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Skincare has evolved withtechnological breakthroughs thatcontinue toidentify causes of skin damage, as wellas preventive and restorativetreatmentsthat address specific problems to make our skin more vibrant and healthier-looking.However, with each milestone in the science of skin, we have yet to master the biggest beauty secret of all: sunscreen.

Daylong, from the makers of Cetaphil, is now taking the advocacy in encouraging everyone to commit to using sunscreen every day. 

Daylong brand manager, Jon Lee, stresses the importance of using sunscreen daily. Backed by information from the World Health Organization and Daylong’sstudy into everyday UV levels, Jon reveals,“Sun exposure in the city is not at all that different from the beach. UV radiation levels can get as high in the urban environment as when you’re out of town. Even indoors, the sun’s rayscould still seep through windows or bounce off from walls or surfaces – and even laptops, video screens, and room lighting emit radiation. When we deal with daily UV exposure, we’re talking about accumulated, cellulardamage, which translates to both cosmetic problems such as wrinkles and skin health problems like photodermatitis and melanoma.”             

Michelin Tires Chosen for Porsche Cayman GT4 Launch

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For the dynamic launch of its new Cayman GT4, Porsche AG has chosen to equip all of the cars with MICHELIN Pilot Sport Cup 2 ultra-high-performance tires: 245/35 ZR20 (91Y) TL N0 front and 295/30 ZR20 (101Y) XL TL N0 rear.

The MICHELIN Pilot Sport Cup 2 tyre is the latest generation of road-legal track tires designed for ultra-high performance cars. The performance levels that this tyre offers are clearly demonstrated by the fact that it is the OE fitment on recent Porsche models including the 918 Spyder and GT3.

Further evidence of the performance of this tyre is highlighted by the Nurburgring lap record set last year by the 918 Spyder which was fitted with exactly the same model of tires, albeit in a different size, that can be bought from any Official Porsche Centre.

Compared to its predecessor, the Pilot Sport Cup+, the Pilot Sport Cup 2 lasts up to 50 per cent longer on track and also offers faster lap times* due to technology developed in motorsport, at races such as the Le Mans 24 hours. Plus, these improvements in performance are achieved with no compromises in other areas, and are an example of Michelin’s Total Performance strategy.

2nd Entrepreneur and Franchise Expo: Take Your Step 2 Success On June 5 to 7

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With the upcoming ASEAN integration, the country's fast growing economy, plus an annual growth of 20 percent in the franchise industry, the Philippines has the potential to become the franchising hub in the region. With over 1,300 local and international franchises, franchising remains a preferred route for many Filipinos to start their own business.

The 2nd ENTREPRENEUR AND FRANCHISE EXPO, with the tagline, Your Step 2 Success!, now on its second year is set to be held on June 05-07, 2015 at the Megatrade Hall 1, 5th Floor, Mega B Building, SM Megamall, Mandaluyong City, Philippines to strengthen the growth of franchise businesses and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).

In 2014 the show featured 88 businesses and attracted over 11,000 visitors covering over 1,348 square meters of exhibit space. In 2015 the show will feature 108 top franchise businesses and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) from various business sectors and expects over 15,000 attendees. Visitors will be able to explore franchise opportunities from various business sectors, such as food, retail, eduction, travel, health and beauty. The show is also featuring industry suppliers and SMEs from the agriculture, manufacturing, technology, automobile, logistic and financing sector and will hold several activities to encourage business professionals, company owners and decision makers to meet face to face.

Mu Sigma Phi Fraternity and Sorority Presents Scholarship Week 2015

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It's going to be a week long busy schedule for the organizers of Scholarship Week 2015 starting March 16 until 21.

For eight decades now, the Mu Sigma Phi Fraternity and Sorority of the UP College of Medicine, the first Medical Fraternity and Sorority in Asia, have upheld the pillars of Brotherhood, Sisterhood, Leadership, Scholarship, and Service. Dynamic and socially responsive, the Fraternity and Sorority were hailed as national finalists in the Ten Accomplished Youth Organizations (TAYO) in 2008 and 2009 respectively.
 
This March 16-21, 2015, they will be launching a series of activities under their annual MU SIGMA PHI SCHOLARSHIP WEEK. This week aims to highlight the organization’s continued commitment to the promotion of exemplary scholastic performance, generosity in sharing knowledge and resources, as well as showcasing academic skills and talents of future doctors all over Luzon and the Philippines.

Listed here is a brief rundown of exciting talks, quiz shows and events for Scholarship Week, explained in greater detail below.

Brainstorm 2015: Inter-Medical University Quiz Show in Robinsons Manila 
Mu Sigma Phi Book Donation for the Philippine General Hospital Pediatric Ward 
Excellence, Knowledge, Genius 2015 (EKG): An Inter-University Pre-Medical Quiz Show
Double Duty: A Call Beyond the Clinics 
Mu Scholarship Week Opening Exhibit 
Code! Party: The Mu Sigma Phi Post-Scholarship Week Inter-University Party 

Lights, Camera, Action for Wazzup Pilipinas TV

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WazzupPilipinas.com has really grown bigger and stronger in such a short time. We are so much surprised of our accomplishments already. After our online media partnerships with many government agencies, brands and other organizations, your Pambansang Blog ng Pilipinas has indeed reached greater heights when it opened its doors to many more partnership opportunities which included contributions to newspapers and magazines, guesting on TV and radio shows, organizing media events, advocacy programs and promotional campaigns, spearheading long-term collaborations with more brands, organizations and agencies, and a lot more activities beyond online media partnerships. 

We are proud to announce that we now have a new TV show dubbed as Wazzup Pilipinas TV and it will soon be shown at IBC 13 every Saturday from 8 to 9 in the evening. It is a lifestyle show that will be more than just an online version of the WazzupPilipinas.com blog. We have made it into a witty and intentionally humorous show to make it more appealing to a wider audience but at the same time filled with useful facts and information to educate and inform the more intellectual audience. In short, we tried our best not to make it boring. Lol!

The Wazzup Pilipinas TV show also capitalizes on using many forms of media to promote both the show and its sponsors so expect your product or service to receive a multitude of media mileage opportunities when you collaborate with us as among our partners or segment sponsors. 

Since all of the individuals forming the production team and hosts are multi-talented and well-connected with many forms of media and social influences aside from television, you are assured that it's going to be a comprehensive promotional campaign.

UP DOST Scholars' Association Presents DOST Scholars’ Summit 2015

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The UP DOST Scholars’ Association, Medilink, DOST-Science Education Institute, and Philippine Alliance of DOST Scholars bring you the DOST Scholars’ Summit 2015. With the theme "Scholars' Eye View: Widening Career Dimensions" Get to hear career professionals engage you in interesting and inspirational talks, ranging from the academe, research and to the industries. 

There are expert speakers to prep you up on personal finance and business and job application! You can also meet the wide range of student-scholar-participants from the metro and the nearby provinces! 

Register now at tinyurl.com/DOSTSummitReg and be a part of this big event. 

Registration fee is worth P35.00, including many freebies and loads of knowledge. 

So reserve your day on March 28, 2015, from 7:30 AM to 5:00 PM at the College of Science Auditorium, University of the Philippines-Diliman. 

Wazzup Pilipinas TV Jingle: Nakaka - LSS Talaga!

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The Wazzup Pilipinas TV jingle is now a reality! Nakaka -LSS talaga!

We will post it soon with our video teaser when it's ready to be heard by the world! It's still the raw acoustic version and may evolve into a full musical production soon.

Super thanks to our talented composer for such a wonderful masterpiece! He never lost his touch even after two years of lying low on composing. I think he never slept when we parted that night after another day of shoot all over the metro. It was our second day doing several shoots for our special sponsors and guests for our pilot episode, that will be tentatively shown on the first Saturday of May, which is May 2, 2015, and succeeding Saturdays thereafter.

Though it feels like we've done a lot already, there's still a lot more stuff to do. More shoots and interviews scheduled, more events coverage in line for next week, and of course what comes next is video editing - selecting and deciding what will be shown from all the raw video footages, applying the special enhancements, incorporating animated and still graphics, conducting promotions and marketing of the show - presscons, marketing campaigns, and a lot more necessary to make this production effort a success.

We are so excited for the TV version of Wazzup Pilipinas!

Ano man ang iyong hilig, ano man ang iyong ibig.... ang show na ito ay para lang sa inyo!

Tutok na sa Wazzup Pilipinas!

Money Options: The Road to a Good Life as a Calculated Investor

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Almost everyone are experts in earning money but a lot of people are not-so skilled when it comes to protecting and growing the money they earn - MONEY OPTIONS was created to fill this gap in a casual, fun and simple manner for only P1,200.00 per person (inclusive of snacks, lunch, hand-outs, certificate of attendance and possible freebies from sponsors).

If you want to become rich or if you don't want to becom...e poor, then we advise that you attend this seminar on April 04, 2015 (Saturday), 8:30AM - 4PM at Unit 1704, Prestige Tower, F. Ortigas Jr. Rd. (formerly Emerald Ave.), Ortigas Center, Pasig City.

We only have a maximum of 25 seats in the venue so make sure that you register as early as possible.

Procedures in joining the seminar:
1. Reserve a seat by asking for our bank account details via 0927-314-3283 or finiqsinc@gmail.com.

2. Deposit the P1,080.00 seminar fee per pax (regular fee discounted by 10%) to our bank account and then email a clear/readable photo of the deposit slip together with your complete name and cellphone number as proof of payment at finiqsinc@gmail.com. Please bring your deposit slip on the actual seminar which will serve as your seminar ticket. Official receipt shall be given at the seminar venue. If you paid using a check, please make sure that it made 3 business days before the actual seminar for clearing.

You Won’t Get Rich in the Stock Market Unless…

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Andrew Stotz, CFA, an award-winning financial analyst with more than two decades of experience in Asia, is coming to Philippines to conduct a seminar on his upcoming book, “You Won’t Get Rich in the Stock Market Until You Change the Way You Think about It” happening this March 19, 2015 at the Ugnayang La Salle, De La Salle University – Dasmariñas, Dasmariñas City, Cavite.

“I am very happy to come to Philippines again and share to 2,000 students the 12 investing principles from my newest book You Won’t Get Rich in the Stock Market Until You Change the Way You Think about It”, says Andrew.

In his presentation, Andrew will review the principles, showing where they came from and most importantly, what a person needs to know about them to build a sturdy financial future.

“It has been a journey for me to come up with a road map that anyone can follow and implement. I am excited to help students construct their own financial plan as I walk them through each point”, says Andrew. After the seminar, attendees will be equipped with a new hope and a clear path toward managing their own financial lives. And crucially, they will have in their hands a simple financial plan that they can follow for the rest of their lives.

PLDT SME Nation, Samsung Philippines and Microsoft Philippines forge a Partnership to Empower SMEs

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Three Industry Leaders: PLDT SME Nation, Samsung Philippines and Microsoft Philippines forge a Partnership to Empower SMEs with Broadband and Digital Solutions

The Philippines’ fast-growing digital, social and mobile users definitely creates unprecedented opportunities for the 800,000 strong small and medium enterprise (SME) market segment. However, the challenge today is how SMEs can efficiently tap and engage this community. Today, there are over 34 million Facebook users, over 10 million Twitter followers and with over 44 million Filipino internet users and counting.   

With this, PLDT SME Nation partners with Samsung & Microsoft Philippines to create innovative business solutions that will enable entrepreneurs to run their business better, grow faster, be more globally competitive and engage with the country’s digital, social and mobile population.

SMEs can now enjoy the benefits of having PLDT SME Nation’s premium and faster fixed and wireless broadband solutions running on our latest fiber and LTE network. These broadband offerings provide unlimited access which give entrepreneurs the ability to continuously conduct online activities without the fear of bandwidth throttling. Our services also feature committed information rates or CIR, which guarantee minimum bandwidth speeds for businesses and a static IP used to power up their websites and enable faster inter-office data transfers. 

WD Delivers World’s Most Power-Efficient High-Capacity

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WD, a Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) company and world leader in storage today introduced new datacenter hard drives that deliver to today’s modern datacenter architects the lowest power consumption of any high-capacity 3.5-inch hard drive available today. The WD Re+™ hard drive family is the newestcomponent of WD’s full, tiered portfolio of high-capacity datacenter storage devices. Further expanding that portfolio willbe 6 terabyte (TB) capacitiesfor WD’spopular WD Re™ and WD Se™ datacenter product lines, providing customers a spectrum of capabilities, tiered totheirvaried demands of application intensity, power optimization and cost efficiency.

In the modern datacenter, the total cost of ownership (TCO) formula is comprised of capacity, price, power consumption and the relationships between these variables. The WD Re+ drive provides the mostpower efficient andhigh-intensity high-capacity platform available today.

With power consumption a primaryconsideration in today’slarge web-scale cloud infrastructures,and the WD Re+ drive consuming only 6 wattsfor 6 TB, customers’ TCOsincrease and savings for large deployments could be millions of dollars per year.
“Dollarsand watts are the finite currenciesin the modern datacenter,” said Matt Rutledge, senior vice president of storage technology at WD. “With a leading watt-per-gigabyte ratio and the long-trusted reliability of the WD Re hard drive platform, WD Re+ offers our customers having limited power budgets a WD Re-class choice for tier-2, high-intensity storage applications.Massive, scale-out deployments must deliver tremendous value to customers across a range of applications, while providing a healthy return to the infrastructure owner. WD is focused on offering that value across its portfolio.”

Maynilad Holds World Water Day 2015 Run: Let's Run for Water and Sustainable Development

 

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Maynilad is presenting the “World Water Day 2015 : Let’s Run for Water and Sustainable Development” organized by Runners Republiq and RG Events this March 22, 2015 at the CCP Complex, Pasay City.

The event is expected to draw some 4,000 runners, including employees of 25 private organizations and government agencies led by DENR.

As culminating activity for the week-long celebration of World Water Day 2015 from March 16 to 22, the run aims to inspire Filipinos to do their part in promoting greater access to clean water and environmental responsibility. The initiative also aims to create awareness on the role of water in meeting all development needs. 

Race categories include 1K and 3K for fun runners, as well as 5K, 10K and 21K for competitive runners.

A special touch to the event shall be a symbolic 1K fun walk, wherein the participants shall be carrying saplings throughout the race. These saplings shall be the planted in Maynilad’s La Mesa Water Treatment Plant Compound, the facility that produces drinking water for 8.9 million people daily. 

SCG Showcases ‘The Inspiration of Living’ at WorldBex 2015

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SCG continues to celebrate its legacy as one of ASEAN’s sustainable business leaders as it participates in the 20thWorldBex, Asia’s largest building and construction exposition. From March 11 to 15, 2015, SCGand its subsidiaries will be showcasing its latest collection of innovative products at the World Trade Center, Manila.

With the theme “Experiencethe Inspiration of Living,”SCG, Mariwasa and COTTO will be showcasing its world-class, top-quality products and innovations to inspire Filipinos to create beautiful homes that are reflective of their lifestyles.

“Self-expression is something that Filipinos value highly, and this is reflected in the way they dress, the music they listen to and even in how their homes are designed,” said Mariwasa Siam-Ceramics VP for Sales and Marketing Jakkrit Suwansilp. “As an industry leader for over a century, we at SCG are committed to deliver world-class quality products and services that will aide Filipinos in creating a home that truly reflect their individual styles.”

To let consumers truly experience the inspiration of living, SCG will be hosting an Architect showcase during WorldBex 2015. Here, one of the Philippines most renowned architects, Jose Ramon Carunungan, principal architect and environmental planner of renowned local architecture firm, Carunungan & Partners Co., will showcase his expertise in architectural design. With 29 years of industry experience, Arch’t. Carunungan will be joining SCG at WorldBex 2015 by creating various design spaces using the SCG Smartboard, as well as how it can be applied to different designs based on the user’s preference.

“Asia’s Got Talent” to Thrill the Region Starting March 12

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The stage is set and the thrills are about to begin as“Asia’s Got Talent” bows across the region in a week’s time on AXN!

Debuting first on AXN on Thursday, 12 March at 8.05pmwith subsequent episodes airing in its regular Thursday 8.30pm slot, the brand new series is the biggest talent competition in the world featuring some of the region’s most breath-taking, jaw-dropping and mind-blowing performing artists competing for the coveted winning title.

“Asia’s Got Talent” is the 63rd adaptation of the Guinness World Record-breaking hit “Got Talent” format, which was created by Simon Cowell’s Syco Entertainment and is co-produced by Fremantle Media. The “Got Talent” format is officially the most successful reality TV format in history and currently airs in 186 countries.

Each act competing in “Asia’s Got Talent” will have to win over at least three “Yeses” from the esteemed celebrity judging panel comprising 16 time Grammy-winning Canadian musician David Foster, UK pop sensation and former Spice Girl Melanie C., Indonesian rock icon Anggun, and Taiwanese-American pop idol and actor Van Ness Wu. 

Watch out for the glittering “Golden Buzzer moments”, where each judge has one opportunity to send a brilliant act straight to the semi-finals at Marina Bay Sands. 

The four judges must select the most incredible and amazing performances from thousands of hopefuls from 15 territories across Asia. Those who make it to the semi-finals will contend with an even tougher judge, the home audience who will decide the winner of “Asia’s Got Talent”.