Your Best Trip Ever Starts With TravelBook.ph's Destination: PH

Wazzup Pilipinas!

TravelBook.ph, one of the country's leading online travel agencies, will be having its first travel fair entitled "Destination: PH" from March 16 to 18, 2018, at the 4th Floor, Activity Center, Century City Mall in Makati.

As part of TravelBook.ph's objective to promote the country's most beautiful destinations, this event will be an avenue for customers to get amazing and exciting offers from its hotel and tour partners as well as flight loyalty program partners. Lots of prizes and freebies will also be given away. 

Each event attendee will receive one (1) FREE admission ticket with numerous stubs that will entitle them to discounts on the following hotels when they book through TravelBook.ph: 40% off in Circle Inn Iloilo, Circle Inn Bacolod, Azalea Resorts and Residences Baguio, and Azalea Resorts and Residences Boracay; 30% off in The District Boracay; and PHP 1,000.00 off in all hotel partners for a minimum booking amount of PHP 4,000. In addition to these fabulous discounts at the event, over 100 hotels and tour activities from TravelBook.ph will also be on sale! 

Tourism industry professionals will also be gracing and conducting talks at the three-day event. Among these are Senior Tourism Operations Officer Ms. Azucena Pallugna from the Department of Tourism's (DOT) Office of the Undersecretary for Tourism Development; travel blogger Mr. Arjay Abellara of RJ D Explorer blog; illustrator, designer, travel blogger, and contributing writer for ABS-CBN and Travel Now magazine Ms. Sheena Gonzales; lifestyle and travel blogger Ms. Arnie Villanueva of www.arnievillanueva.com blog; and travel blogger Mr. Rogelio Gabiano, Jr. of the Pinoy Travel Freak blog. 

Actor and model Daniel Matsunaga will also be present in the event to share stories of his travel experiences and to participate in a meet-and-greet. Plus, Japanese comedy trio HPN3 from It’s Showtime’s The Funny One will entertain the attendees with their hilarious skits. 

TravelBook.ph made it even more exciting as attendees will get a chance to win prizes from the following sponsors: Azalea Hotels and Residences Boracay, Midori Hotel and Casino, Subic Bay Yacht Club, Siglo Suites by Century Properties, The Dessert Museum, Enchanted Kingdom, Zoomanity Group, Inflatable Island, World Traveller Bags and Luggage, AirAsia BIG, GetGo, and Mabuhay Miles. Everyone will also be bringing home some cool freebies!

Wazzup Pilipinas is a proud media partner.

Interested attendees can pre-register for the event by visiting TravelBook.ph's event page for Destination: PH on Facebook and clicking the pre-registration link under the details section.

Each visitor who pre-registers through this link automatically earns a raffle entry for a chance to win an overnight accommodation at Midori Clark Hotel and Casino in Pampanga or Subic Bay Yacht Club with breakfast for two!

Start your summer adventure with TravelBook.ph and have the best travel experience ever! See you there!

Written By: Hyacinth Uri

DOE Celebrates Women’s Month with Girl Scouts

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PLEDGE OF EMPOWERMENT: Girl Scouts from various cities in Greater Manila Area pledge their commitment as “Energy Cost Busters” by practicing energy efficiency and conservation measures in their day-to-day living. The oath-taking was part of the collaboration between the DOE and GSP Rizal Council Camp for the celebration of the 2018 National Women’s Month last March 2 in Marikina City.

The Department of Energy (DOE) and the Girl Scouts of the Philippines (GSP) Rizal Council Camp celebrated the 2018 National Women’s Month (NWM) through a joint consumer education campaign last March 2 at the Sto. Niño Baseball Field in Marikina City during the annual camping activity.

Consistent with the 2018 NWM’s theme: “We Make Change Work for Women,” two sub-camps from the GSP Rizal Council Camp took part in the DOE-Consumer Welfare and Promotion Office (CWPO)-led educational seminars - the ENEReady: A Career Talk on Breaking Gender Stereotypes in the Energy Workforce under the agency’s Gender and Development (GAD) program; and the Energy Smart Kids or EnerKids.

Aligned with the DOE's E-Power Mo campaign, the ENEReady and EnerKids programs aims to promote gender balance and development in the energy sector and educate the younger generation on energy efficiency and conservation measures.

A total of 238 Grades 7-10 campers from Antipolo, Las Piñas, Malabon, Marikina, Muntinlupa, Navotas, Parañaque, Pateros, Rizal, San Juan and Taguig were given valuable insights by resource speakers from DOE-CWPO on the work of women engineers and geologists in the DOE whose careers they can aspire for in the future.

Energy Secretary Alfonso G. Cusi said, “As we salute and recognize the vital role of women in our lives, the energy family commits itself to the furtherance of women empowerment and upholding gender complementarities for a more progressive society.”

The DOE Speakers engaged the GSP in a lively and very thorough discussion of practical household energy efficiency and conservation tips that they can apply in their daily lives.

The educational program was capped with the Pledge of Commitment, branding the students as “Energy Cost Busters” to apply their newly acquired learning on energy in their own homes.

Early this year, the DOE and the GSP made a pact through a Memorandum of Understanding to train 2.2 Million Girl Scouts on basic electricity concepts and wise and efficient utilization of energy as well as through hands-on experiments.

The Agreement also entailed the conduct of educational fora geared towards encouraging young girls to take up courses in science, technology and energy.

ENERGY SMART GIRL SCOUTS: Girl Scouts listen attentively to CWPO’s Senior Science Research Specialist Norita C. Froilan as she lectures on basic household saving tips during the annual GSP Rizal Council Camp on March 2 in Marikina City.

EMPOWERING WOMEN IN THE ENERGY FAMILY:DOE-CWPO staff and GSP Rizal Council Camp teachers with one of the sub-camps of Girl Scouts that attended the ENEReady: A Career Talk on Breaking Gender Stereotypes in the Energy Workforce during the council’s annual camp activity on March 2 in Marikina City.

Glass Tiles Artwork - Edwin Coscolluela's Tile Works

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Tile works. Edwin Coscolluela’s latest exhibit at Galleria Duemila consist of his glass tiles on plywood, a visual rendering that saw its stages in Adobe Illustrator and finally composed into concreteness through small, colored glass tiles that are in modes of abstraction. Inspired mainly by the movements of nature, Edwin Coscolluela’s works saw various dynamisms and active gestures that the artist claims to crave.

Creating an image out of many other tiles, the works of Coscolluela are mosaic in nature and a testament to his artistry of non-representational art, gaining inspiration from the momentary, transitory scenes in the environment surrounding him. 

Curling, a 163 cm x 120 cm composition, made up of grays, whites and blacks, with a curvilinear subject draws the eyes in a fluid, whirlwind loop of gradient-like positioning of tiles despite the rigidness of the material used.

Written in the stars, a 240 cm x 60 cm work is evident of Coscolluela’s eye for imagery and his command of materials. All works are but inspired of ordinary circumstances turned into an otherwise sophisticated form of art.

Edwin Coscolluela has participated in more than 100 shows from 1973 up to the present. He is a trained photographer and a retired instructor for more than 36 years.

Tileworks will open on March 17 – April 28, 2018. Opening Reception is on March 17, Saturday at 4pm.

Galleria Duemila is located at 210 Loring St. 1300 Pasay City.