1800 Tequila Celebrated at Punta Mandala

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Think that tequila’s only good for slamming? Think again. Think that aging is only limited to “high brow” spirits like whiskey and cognac? Think again because 1800 Tequila® is about to change your life.

This past Saturday night, March 4th, 2017, 1800 Tequila was celebrated at popular resto bar and events place, Punta Mandala, owned by prominent actor/host Paolo Bediones. For many in attendances, it was the chance to savor one of the finest tequila products in the world not as a shot, but rather, on the rocks, neat, or in one of Punta’s signature cocktails, the 1800 Magnum Margarita.

1800 Tequila earned its name from the year tequila was first aged in oak barrels. The brand celebrates the moment when distillers broke from convention in order to produce a smoother, one-of-a-kind characteristic that has defined its taste for generations. As such, 1800 Tequila has prided itself as “not for most people.”

On hand for the celebrations was Genrev Paul Bacasno, brand-ambassador for 1800 Tequila. His passion for mixing and his knowledge of spirits and taste has established him as among the best mixologists in the country. 

Idea Hack Highlights Road Safety in the Philippines

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The Department of Transportation (DOTr) and partner agencies will gather Filipino developers, IT and digital media talents, and road safety enthusiasts in a national Road Safety Idea Hack, which also features workshops using traffic and road safety data sets at the Crowne Plaza, Ortigas Avenue, Quezon City on March 13 and 18.

The Road Safety Idea Hack welcomes people from diverse backgrounds, whether in app development, digital media, social science, data sciences, road safety advocacy and all who are excited and interested to learn more about open data and road safety.

Interested participants will form teams to produce ideas, analyses, methodologies, digital media, advocacy campaigns and app prototypes to improve road safety in the Philippines, using OpenTraffic data provided by Grab, road crash data aggregated by the DOTr, and other datasets, such as jeepney routes and school locations. Entries will be judged according to expected impact, creativity, feasibility, and presentation. The panel of judges will be announced shortly.

Registered participants who are not joining the competition are also invited to free workshops on March 13, where they can learn new skills, such as using Mapillary or the Open Street Map, or about how to become a road safety advocate.

Be Marvelled by the Selection of Anime on Animax this March!

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The marvelous month of March is set to usher in the best of Anime, turning prime-time viewing into a truly enjoyable experience for anime fans of all ages. 

Girlish Number

College student Chitose Karasuma begins a new phase in her life when she lands a job in a voice-acting agency. Believing she is destined for greatness, Chitose is excited at the prospect of her becoming a famous voice actress.

But when she’s cast in mediocre roles, Chitose feels disappointed because her ambition fell short of her expectations.

As she continues to find her way to fulfil her dreams, Chitose faces tough competition from other aspiring girls when she realizes that there’s more to succeeding in the industry than she could ever imagine.

Girlish Number airs every Wednesday & Thursday at 8pm, with 2 episodes back-to-back, first & exclusively on Animax. 

Danganropa 3: The End of Hope’s Peak High School – Future Arc

The optimistic Makoto Naegi and his friends join the Future Foundation, an organization founded to save the world from chaos. However, Makoto becomes suspected of treason for harboring their enemy.

As Makoto’s friends gather to decide his fate, the evil bear Monokuma imprisons them. To find the true traitor, Makoto and his friends are pushed to their limits as they are forced to participate in a final game of death.

Danganropa 3: The End of Hope’s Peak High School – Future Arc airs every Thursday & Friday at 10pm with 2 episodes back-to-back, first & exclusively on Animax.

Danganropa 3: The End of Hope’s Peak High School – Despair Arc

Promising student Hajime Hinata dreams of becoming a part of elite students at Hope’s Peak Academy, a special school that nurtures those with exceptional talent and abilities.

However, little does he know that something foreboding is about to happen…..

What follows is a series of unfortunate events that will lead Hinata to a fateful encounter which will bring about tragedy and despair for the elite school’s students who are thrust into a world of murder and mayhem in order to survive.

Danganropa 3: The End of Hope’s Peak High School – Despair Arc airs every Thursday & Friday at 10:30pm with 2 episodes back-to-back, first & exclusively on Animax.

Luck & Logic

Mankind faces great danger following the end of the hundred-year war in the land of Tetraheaven. With purely evil intentions, the losing gods search for a new place to live and invade the human world.

The government employs the Logicalists, a special police force to protect its citizens from these otherworldly beings.

Now back to his fighting form, 17-year-old Yoshichika Tsurugi makes a covenant with the Goddess Athena in combining their powers. They work together to stop the threat and fight side by side to defend their world.

Luck & Logic premieres 24 March, every Friday at 8pm, with 2 episodes back-to-back, first & exclusively on Animax.


Animax is available on Sky Cable Channel 46, Cignal Channel 73, Dream Satellite TV Channel 07, and G Sat Channel 24.

Foreign(er) Affairs Secretary Perfecto Yasay is an "Alien"

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"Yasay it best when Yasay nothing at all." 

Yasay is apparently "stateless." That lying (dying?) old man is "stateless."

I could swore I heard myself singing, but that's just in my head. Nothing said saved me from the ridicule. But Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Acting Secretary Perfecto Yasay has not learned his lesson when it comes to keeping mum about his nationality, and thus he is now in deep shit with regards to his appointment.

Sec. Yasay takes the meaning of foreign secretary literally, as he is truly a foreign(er) in real life.

Though we all know he is there at the DFA only to keep it warm for former Senator and Vice Presidential running mate of Rodrigo Duterte, Allan Peter Cayetano, he still needs to undergo an appointment at the Commission on Appointments (CA).

Secretary Perfecto Yasay Jr. says he is a "Filipino in thought, in word, and in deed. But then we also have that video in which Yasay lied under oath with regard to his U.S Visa.

Rep. Josephine Ramirez-Sato says Yasay handed her last week an envelope containing docus showing he was granted US citizenship.

Ramirez-Sato to Yasay: Were you ever an American citizen? Yes or no? 

Yasay: I have always admitted I was granted US citizenship in 1986.

But Yasay also said he never became an American citizen. He said he had documents to prove he was not an American.

Practicing lawyers in the U.S. have also spoken. Sec. Yasay, you have a lot of explaining to do. Taking an oath of allegiance to the United States is not a requirement to obtain LPR/green card status. But it is a requirement to become a naturalized citizen of the US.

Is Yasay saying that the US Embassy where he applied for disqualification ran out of forms so they gave him a form for renunciation instead?

Yasay apologizes for 'inadvertently' misleading on US citizenship. But misleading is an understatement. Yasay lied and he knows it!

Now, Yasay admits he had a US passport. He has apparently discovered his US passport but still can't find his backbone.

Yasay should set the record straight. His citizenship is moot in my opinion but he should be honest as he is a gov't. official.

Both Duterte and Yasay are putting the Philippines' national security and sovereignty at risk!

Yasay, stop using alternative facts smh!!! You are a US citizen and that's it! Ang dami pang paligoy ligoy! He thinks he can get away with it by citing lying by omission and perpetuation of continuing misrepresentation? Lol!

When Yasay flip flops, it's not Yasay vs. Yasay but Yasay vs. Yasaid. He's consistently inconsistent. Not once, not twice. But perhaps all the time. This guy is is boneless.

The fate of SFA Yasay will be announced later during the plenary session of the CA. Junk or approve the ad interim appointment of Sec. Yasay? A resounding "Yes" is inevitable.

"Any assertion that I am an alien must be proven in the proper forum in accordance to the rule of law and due process" - Perfecto Yasay

4 Years and Counting for Wazzup Pilipinas

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We're nearing almost 5 Million views for Wazzup Pilipinas, your Pambansang Blog ng Pilipinas - the multi-awarded news, events and lifestyle blog of the Philippines. Help us reach more by spreading the link http://www.wazzuppilipinas.com so we could continue serving the Filipino people with great news and features, personalized stories and honest thoughts and point of views from the community.

Wazzup Pilipinas (which also goes by the tag line as The Pambansang Blog ng Pilipinas) is a community lifestyle and news & events site that started in 2013 and has actively partnered with several brands, organizations, including government agencies and colleges and universities, and correspondents, to deliver the latest happenings to all of its readers. 

It has consistently been receiving awards on a yearly basis from many different award giving bodies conferring notable recognition which began with the Top Emerging Influential Blog award way back 2013. Since then, Wazzup Pilipinas has been receiving multiple awards every year making it the most awarded blog site in the Philippines. As of today February 24, 2017, it has already received four notifications of awards, and hopefully there will be more coming soon.

Blogs are patronized by more people not only because of its convenience and accessibility, but also due to its personalized treatment of topics which makes it more engaging and convincingly believable for the readers compared to traditional media where journalists could rarely speak out their own thoughts and opinions unless they are columnists. Since bloggers do not answer to an editor or the management and owners of a publication, people tend to rely more on our unbiased reviews, praises or criticisms.
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Bernard Palanca Fleshlight Scandal Circulates Online

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Why is Bernard Palanca trending? So I checked the ever reliable Twitter, and got the surprise of my life!

But when faggots started tweeting "Shit! Suddenly I'm into daddies!", "Daddy Bernard FTW!" and a lot more either complaining or thanking for having an early morning controversy for breakfast, I knew it was another sex scandal....but I never knew it would be a one-man effort - signs of a desperate and troubled soul!

Now I know what a fleshlight means...thanks to Bernard Palanca!

But I really couldn't continue watching as he plays with his penis throughout the video.

Such a waste. Another life gone down the drain of desperation or was he in drugs?

Another celebrity reduced to satisfying his sexual urges with a sex toy? Has he gone loco? No more ladies into him that he settles for a fleshlight?

Well it's better than raping, or going to a girl's condo just to be accused of harassment, just as how Vhong Navarro's career almost was lost but due to extensive PR campaigns and a daily noontime TV show, he got back up to regain his dying career. But I wouldn't call him living again as his Mang Kepweng Returns movie was a disaster.

But back to the scandal, we knew Bernard as a character actor and a former member of The Hunks along with Diether Ocampo, Carlos Agassi, Jericho Rosales and Piolo Pascual, and now he seems to be a wreck.

I have a copy of the video, as it is still leaked online as of this writing, but I won't dare upload and share it because it is just nothing but a shitty man with a shitty perspective in life.

"This time, don't use your heart. You know how unreliable that is" - Bernard Palanca

Madam Secretary Punches Lecherous Philippine President in the Face

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On a future episode (Season 3 Episode 15) of CBS TV series' Madam Secretary, the show featured the Secretary of State punching Datu Andrada, the lecherous President of Philippines, in the face.

Elizabeth McCord (Tea Leoni) is shocked when the Philippines’ unconventional new president, Datu Andrada (Joel de la Fuente), makes a pass at her during their meeting to discuss his refusal to participate in an Asia-Pacific territory treaty. So she slaps him in the face!

The Philippine government is terrified of its own reflection, even in fiction!

I remember the defense of some ka-DDS (i.e., Mocha and Sass) about fiction as art. But now they attack Madam Secretary?

Well, the truth really hurts for many in the Philippines most especially for those pro-Duterte fanatics.

I wonder if Filipinos will be able to complain with a straight face that the fictional PH President in Madam Secretary is a sexual harasser.

Let me guess what comes next: Persona non grata for the cast ng Madam Secretary? Congressional hearing? Biblical quotes?

Madam Secretary should really edit the scene where the President was punched. I believe it should include a House Speaker, a PNP Chief, and some senators.

Piolo Pascual Is New Celebrity Endorser of Mega Sardines

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Who doesn't know Piolo Pascual. The guy is seen almost everyday in the news, especially celebrity or showbiz shows, and he's always the face seen on many TV commercials, billboards, magazines, newspapers, etc., I've just seen him being announced as the new ambassador of the Optical Media Board (OMB), just one of his many advocacy movements, and it is without any doubt that he stands out among the other celebrities when it comes to good looks and talent. The guy is a real charmer that it is no surprise that many brands have gotten him as their brand ambassador or endorser.

Mega Global Corporation, a leading distributor of canned goods and ready-to-eat viands, recently penned its partnership with Kapamilya actor, Piolo Pascual, as Mega Sardines’ newest celebrity endorser. 

While they just recently announced their collaboration with actress Liza Soberano as their brand ambassador for Mega Tuna, this is the only time I got to attend an actual contract signing as they officially welcome Piolo Pascual as their chosen face to endorse Mega Sardines.

Sardines is one of the most affordable and convenient food for most Filipinos since they could easily be bought almost everywhere - from the biggest grocery to the smallest "sari-sari" or variety store.

Mega Global Corporation has even made it more convenient with their Easy Open Can (EOC) that frees you from a can opener, and their products are also available in pouches. They started this with sardines making them the innovator, and many have followed their footsteps ever since even with other canned foods.

Senate Passes Expanded Maternity Leave Law, House Urged to Do the Same

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On Monday, in a vote of 22-0, the Senate passed on third and final reading a bill granting working women 120 days maternity leave and 150 days for solo mothers.

Senate Bill 1305 or the Expanded Maternity Leave Act, authored by Akbayan Senator Risa Hontiveros, seeks to revise Republic Act (RA) 1161 or the Social Security Act of 1997, which currently grants only a 60-day (for normal childbirth) to 78-day (for caesarean) maternity leave for women workers.

Hontiveros, who is the Chairperson of the Committee on Women, said that the last time the number of maternity leave was increased was 25 years ago or in 1992.

"Amid the current climate of misogyny and sexism, the passage of this important measure in the Senate is a clear triumph of women over antiquated thinking and policies," Hontiveros remarked.

"I would like thank Senators Nancy Binay, Loren Legarda, Juan Edgardo "Sonny" Angara, Francis Pangilinan, Manny Pacquiao, and Antonio Trillanes IV for helping me pass this landmark measure," Hontiveros said.

The Senator however said that the fight is far from over as the measure's counterpart bill in the House of Representatives has yet to be passed. DIWA Partylist Representative and House Women Committee Chair Emmeline Aglipay-Villar is leading the campaign for the passage of the Expanded Maternity Leave in Congress.

Prioritize expanded maternity leave bill, not death penalty

Hontiveros appealed to her congressional colleagues to reciprocate the action of the Senate. She said that the House leadership should prioritize the passage of the Expanded Maternity Leave bill rather than measures that seek to restore the death penalty.

"What the people need are policies that will radically improve their quality of life not laws that will bring death. What the people demand are adequate protections and safeguards that will lead to welfare enhancing outcomes at par with international standards," Hontiveros said.

SAP Showcases New Technology for Connected Vehicles with Concur, Hertz, Nokia and Mojio

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SAP SE demonstrated new technology to make life easier for drivers and rental car users through Internet of Things (IoT) collaboration with Concur Technologies, Hertz and Nokia. A part of the SAP® Leonardo portfolio, the SAP Vehicles Network solution creates an intelligent, automated experience — from car rental to parking and fueling location and payment, to integrated navigation and expense management for business travelers.

SAP also announced that Mojio, the connected vehicle platform and app provider for Deutsche Telekom and T-Mobile USA, has joined SAP Vehicles Network and will provide parking and fueling through its app in the United States and Europe. The announcement was made at Mobile World Congress 2017, being held February 27–March 2 in Barcelona, Spain.

SAP Vehicles Network, built on SAP Cloud Platform, enables participating network companies to provide mobility services to drivers and passengers. By standardizing the business processes, SAP Vehicles Network enables integration and collaboration to facilitate new revenue streams and business opportunities for network members. Through the network, member companies can offer secure, convenient services — independent of devices or vehicles — such as parking, fueling and location-based food services, tailored for the business traveler or the individual consumer.