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Friday, May 8, 2015

Takbo Para Sa Mga Mandirigma Fun Run on May 10

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Starquest Alliance Production presents "Takbo Para Sa Mga Mandirigma FUN RUN" on May 10 at Quezon City Memorial Circle. Assembly timeis at 5am.

This event is in simultaneous effort to promote the movie entitled, “Mandirigma” (afilm as timely as today’s headlines). “Mandirigma” is a full length film that will serve as a legacy project for the Philippine Marines in line with their 65th Anniversary.

Written and directed by multi-awarded journalist and now film-maker Arlyndela Cruz, main cast is Luis Alandy (GMA-7), Alwyn Uytingco (TV5), Ken Anderson (ABS-CBN), Mon Confiado, Ping Medina, Marc Solis, Carlo Cruz, Jerico Ejercito, Buboy Villar (Kid Kulafu) and some of the homegrown talents of Starquest Alliance Production. “Mandirigma” celebrates the heroism of the Philippine Marines, our front liners and our force of choice against insurgents.

Luis Alandy and cast of the movie "Mandirigma" will be joining the event. They will be the ones to award race finishers. Portion of the proceeds will go to the wounded soldiers of the Philippine Marines and SAF 44 Fallen Heroes' families.

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Many are talking about these mysterious billboards that suddenly appeared in different parts of Metro Manila and supposed to have been posted by a certain Manuel who says "Maghihintay ako" roughly translated as "I will be waiting."

Who is this Manuel and who or what is he waiting for?

There's also an indicated place namely EDSA Shangri-La hotel and a certain date and time in the evening of May 22.

Now what could be happening on the said date at the mentioned hotel? It must be special since the Shangri-La hotels are first class hotels that cater to the affluent. You have to spend quite a lot to organized a meeting at that hotel, or is it probably a big event of one of the top companies in the Philippines, or maybe by some foreigner who's meeting her lady in the country.

I'm intrigued and would like to call up the hotel for some hint but I guess the hotel will not allow me to discover what will really happen on the said date.

If we look closer at the billboard, there's an image of a person writing something on a journal. So is it a long distance love affair as what I've read from some blogs that already posted these similar questions ahead of me or have they guessed wrong.

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Yahoo! today released a number of major updates to Flickr, desktop and mobile, introducing a more intelligent search tool and set of features that make it easier to access, organize, find and share photos and videos across devices. The overhaul brings a seamless, unified experience to the community of over 112 million users, and allows them to more efficiently manage over 11 billion photos on Flickr today.

“At Flickr, we’ve always dreamed of creating a space where you can store and manage a lifetime’s worth of memories,” says Tim Miller, head of engineering at Flickr. “Today, we’re taking that one step further as we bring users a brand new set of tools to unlock the power of 1,000 GB of space. These tools coupled with our advanced image recognition technology will give our community the power to not only access those special moments from their iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV, Android, or on the web, but to uncover the ones that they thought were lost forever.”

Three new significant components of this launch include:

• Uploadrs: Users can upload as many as half a million photos from their desktop, an external hard drive, iPhoto, their mobile phone and more, using Yahoo’s new Uploadr for Mac and Windows and Yahoo’s new Auto-Uploadr for their mobile device. Photos and videos currently on the device or captured as new will be uploaded automatically and marked as private, and duplicates will be removed.