RJ LEDESMA: Book Signing

RJ LEDESMA: Book Signing

SIGNING WITH POGI! Good News to all RJ Ledesma's fans! Pogi will have a book Signing on September 14, 2012.

Yes, I admit I am a fan of RJ Ledesma! He is so talented!  Plus he exudes this charisma that radiates as if telling everyone around him to be happy.

He always makes it a point to smile and make other people smile as well.

Aside from hosting television shows, weddings ( I personally saw him in action at my cousin's wedding, I tell you, RJ is a fantastic host! ) and events, organizing the Mercato Centrale group of food markets, editing a men’s magazine and writing a weekly newspaper column, (and yes, he was ‘Joey’ in the Royal Tru-Orange that came out in the eighties), RJ is also the author behind four best-selling humor books Lies My Yaya Should Have Told Me (2008), I Do Or I Die (2009), Is It Hot In Here Or Is It Me? (2010) and It Only Hurts When I Pee (2011) from Anvil Publishing. His third book, Is It Hot In Here Or Is It Me, was a National Book Award Finalist in the 30th National Book Awards. His books are a collection of his “Pogi from a Parallel Universe” columns in the Philippine Star.
                        

Join RJ Ledesma as he signs all four of his books on Friday (September 14) from 5:00pm-6:00pm at the National Book Store booth of the 33rd Manila International Book Fair in SMX Convention Center, Mall of Asia Complex, Pasay City.

For more information, please visit www.facebook.com/AnvilPublishing.

PLDT SME ( SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES): Appreciation Night

Ola! Are you an entrepreneur who uses PLDT Services?

PLDT cordially invites you to PLDT SME ( SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES): Appreciation Night

Where: Outback Libis
When: Friday, September 14, 2012
Time: 6pm-10pm

A Special Treat for our Bossings. You are cordially invited to an exclusive night of dining!

Please RSVP to Mr. Godwin 09497927399 

E-mail: grmagat@gmail.com 

* Don't forget to bring your updated PAID PLDT RECEIPT. 

NOTE: This is not a paid post. I am just helping a friend.

JULIE'S BAKESHOP: Istoryaheee Promo

Have you heard the latest Buzz about Julie's Bakeshop? It is none other than the JULIE'S BAKESHOP: Istoryaheee Promo!

It is not everyday that you get to share your heartwarming story to other people. It may be the story about your first date with your crush at Julie's Bakeshop or how your boyfriend proposed to you while buying  pan de sal at Julie's Bakeshop. 

One funny Julie's Bakeshop moment I had, was when I had just arrived in the Philippines from my vacation in China and I was wearing warmers, jackets, winter boots, yeah, yeah , yeah, the works, and everyone ( saleslady, baker, customers) at Julie's bakeshop in Cubao were staring at me, ha ha ha! They were wondering where the heck I came from, because I was in winter clothes and everyone around me was in shorts, slippers and sando. The temperature? 28 or 30 degrees Celsius. Ha ha ha! Funny but true. But they can't blame me, I miss eating pan de sal . I went to Julie's Bakeshop Cubao straight from the airport to have my pan de sal and coffee fix.

Why keep to yourself your Julie's moment story? Everyone, grab this chance and turn your Julie's Bakeshop moments into CASH! Join and Win up to P 15,000 ! I bet, like every bread loving Pinoy, you don't want to miss the Julie's Istoryaheee contest which by the way will end on September 20, 2012 at 11:30 p.m. So what are you waiting for?  Share your Julie's moments now for a chance to win Php 15,000!

How? Just share your memorable moments you had with Julie’s Bakeshop.

MECHANICS:

• The Istoryaheee Promo Campaign is open to all legal residents of the Philippines, 18 years old or older.
• No purchase necessary.
• Write a story describing your memorable moments with Julie’s then log in to Facebook and Like Julie's Bakeshop on Facebook then fill up the comment form.
• Post and share your stories on the Official Julie’s Bakeshop blog at 
• Entry must be the original work of the contestant and should include a description about the moment or experience being represented.
• Contestants must post the title of their stories. Stories must be no more than 1,000 words. 
• Please do not submit duplicate entries. Duplicate entries will be discarded but contestants are encouraged to submit multiple unique entries.
• Time and date of the posted stories will be traced and monitored. This will also be a First Post, First Acknowledge basis.
• If and there will be a tie, the three (3) Best stories will be given another one (1) day to break the tie.
• The best stories will be produced. Contestants must be willing to let Julie’s produce their stories. A waiver will be sent to whoever wins the contest.
• Contestants must have expressed consent of anyone featured in their entry.
• Contestants may only vote for their own entry or story once during the duration of the campaign.
• All selected contestants will be required to respond to the phone and/or e-mail notification within the time period specified in the notification. The failure to respond timely to the notification may result in forfeiture of the prizes.
• Upon selected contestants, Julie’s have the right to use winning submissions in merchandising, advertising, marketing or promotion or for any other commercial or non-commercial purpose without additional compensation to the contestants.
•  Anyone can participate except for JFC Employees and all Julie’s Bakeshop staff.

I am so excited of what will the results be of the ongoing Julie's Bakeshop Istoryaheee contest. Folks, please take note that the contest started  last June 20, 2012 12:00 AM and will end on September 20, 2012 at 11:30 P.M.

Rewards:

Top 3 BEST stories will be given the following cash prizes. These winners will be selected by Julie’s.

1st Prize:  Php 15,000.00
2nd Prize: Php 10,000.00
3rd Prize:  Php    5,000.00

Bread Certificates worth Php 150.00 each will be given to the first 100 entries as the campaign begins.

Looking forward reading your story my dear readers!

Good Luck!

The Art and Business of Wedding Photography

The Art and Business of Wedding Photography

Attention: Photographers, Hobbyist, Entrepreneur

Here is your chance to know the secret of one of the successful wedding Photographer in Metro Manila, ang batikan lawyer na si Atty. Raymond Fortun.

Details:

When:  September 14, 2012
Time:    9am-4pm
Where: 2nd floor Ortigas building Pasig City

Fee comes with Free lunch and snack

visit www.innovetraining.com for details

Please be sure to come if you reserve a slot.

Official statement of Tutuban Properties Inc. Re: Cluster Building "Fire Out"

Official statement of Tutuban Properties Inc. Re: Cluster Building "Fire Out"

Updated Statement

7 September 2012

Ikinagagalak na ibahagi ng Tutuban Center na mula kaninang ika 1 ng umaga,
idineklara ng Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) ang "Fire Out"  status sa
Cluster Building . Kasalukuyan ding ginaganap ang "mopping-up operations" sa
mga oras na ito.

Nais din naming pasalamatan ang mga magigiting na kalalakihan at kababaihan
ng BFP sa ilalim ng pamumuno ni General Santiago Laguna, pati na din ang mga
miyembro ng mga iba't-ibang volunteer firefighting organization dahil sa
kanilang walang sawang pagtulong. Nais din naming pasalamatan ang suporta ni
Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Undersecretary Rico Puno,
Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim, at ang Manila Police District.

Dahil sa balitang ito, ang mga tagapamahala ng Tutuban Center, kasama ang
mga Cluster Building Tenant Association, ay maaari nang itutok ang atensiyon
nito sa pangangalaga ng mga pangangailangan ng mga tenant.

Maaari na ding makipag-coordinate ang mga tenant sa Tutuban Center Building
Administration o magtungo lamang sa Cluster Building Help Desk na
matatagpuan sa Loop Road Skybridge A.

Nagpapatuloy na din ang normal na operasyon sa Centermall, Prime Block,
Robinsons Supermarket at Robinsons Department Store.

Patuloy din kaming umaasa na aming malalampasan ang pagsubok na ito at
magsimulang magtrabahong muli para sa isang bago at maliwanag na bukas.

Press Release
6 September 2012- 10am

Collective efforts of the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) and volunteer firefighters have not ceased since the fire broke out early yesterday morning at Cluster Building. At 10 am today, BFP officials have declared the fire control.

So effective 10am today, Centermall 1 and 2 and Prime Block buildings have resumed normal or "business as usual" operations, including the Robinsons department store and supermarket. Safeguards are in place to ensure that the resumption of operations will in no way hamper fire control efforts.

We believe that the current situation is but a minor setback in the redevelopment of Tutuban Center. Management affirms its commitment to move towards a new and revitalized Cluster Building.

InnerShine® Berry Essence

The Seven Super Berries

BRAND'S® InnerShine® Berry Essence is a delicious fruit-based, ready-to-drink essence with extraordinary health benefits

When I first read about InnerShine® Berry Essence I got really interested. I told myself, I ought to try this real soon. Who wouldn't? Imagine the wonders it does to one's body! It gives you a 

• Clearer, sharper vision. 
• Age-defying, healthier-looking skin. 
• Better protection from free radical damage.

This isn't a list of some superhero's extraordinary powers. It's only a sampling of the many health benefits that come with every bottle of the new InnerShine® Berry Essence (IBE).

Made by BRAND'S®, a company with a pioneering presence in the health and wellness industry for the last 170 years, InnerShine® Berry Essence is a delicious fruit-based, ready-to-drink essence that serves as a natural source of vital nutrients and powerful antioxidants. It contains the goodness of seven premium types of berries from Europe and the U.S.—acai berry, bilberry, blackcurrant, chokeberry, cranberry, elderberry, and strawberry—combined to form an exclusive "super berry" blend, providing health, nourishment, and protection in ways that no other fruit-based drinks can.

Available at all the following stores in the Greater Manila area:

•  Watsons
•  Landmark supermarkets
•  and Mercury Drug

SRP of P85 per bottle, BRAND'S® IBE is also fortified with Vitamins A, C, E, and zinc. It contains no added artificial colorings or preservatives, and bursts with an irresistible all-natural taste that also remains unrivaled by regular diet drinks and artificial supplements.

IBE’s Seven Super Berries

The seven super berries make every bottle of InnerShine® Berry Essence the perfect nutritional drink in today's increasingly stressful modern environment. As you carry out a very hectic and stress-filled work day facing the computer for long hours, exposure to many types of environmental pollution, spending late nights at work, and other situations that may create problems for both your skin and eyes, IBE works to deliver special benefits that promote supple and smooth skin and clearer and healthier vision. The berries, in fact, each have rich antioxidant qualities that help protect the skin and eyes from free radical damage, such as that caused by UV radiation, environmental pollution, and heavy visual workload.

Apart from shielding the eye cells, which make up the human body's most delicate and sensitive sense organs, BRAND'S® InnerShine® Berry Essence also packs vital nutrients that help improve overall health as well as support one's ability to have a beautiful, well-nourished body. The exotic acai berry has been heralded for centuries for the many benefits it brings to the body. Not only is it extremely high in anthocyanins, it has powerful antioxidants that help defend the body against life’s stressors.

The rare bilberry fruit from northern Europe, just like the acai berry, is also rich in anthocyanins to strengthen and protect the eyes’ blood vessels and help lessen eye fatigue, while the blackcurrant further enhances eye health with its unique ability to synthesize a biological pigment called rhodopsin (or "visual purple") that enables vision in low-light conditions.

Filtering intense sunlight and providing increased protection from constant exposure to UV radiation is the role of the chokeberry, a shrub fruit native to eastern North America. Thanks to its high levels of anthocyanins and flavonoids, chokeberry is also known as a dietary deterrent against diseases caused by oxidative stress.

Cranberry, on the other hand, is a nourishing fruit with a balanced profile of Vitamin C, dietary fiber, manganese, and essential phytonutrients. They are known to help protect the body from free radical damage, optimize urinary tract health and provide important anti-inflammatory benefits. Also with similar health-boosting capacities is the elderberry, which helps boost the immune system by driving the production of cytokines, the cell-signaling proteins used to regulate immune response. 

Rounding out the IBE's set of seven super berries is the sweet, bright red strawberry. Like the cranberry and elderberry, it packs Vitamin C, dietary fiber, and phytonutrients. Strawberries have also recently been linked to the prevention of heart disease and diabetes, while stimulating proteins with antioxidant qualities.

Specially formulated with these seven super berries, BRAND'S® delicious new InnerShine® Berry Essence indeed packs a healthy punch. A chilled bottle a day of IBE not only serves to build a strong foundation for a lifestyle of health and wellness; it also brings the thought of having extraordinary powers closer than we can ever imagine.

TITO SOTTO: Opppsss He Did It Again!

TITO SOTTO: Opppsss He Did It Again!

Comedian and now Senator-elect Vicente"Tito" Sotto's Privilege Speech today, September 5, 2012 side by side with Robert F. Kennedy’s speech during Day of Affirmation, June 6 1966.

Robert F. Kennedy:

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.


Vicente Sotto III:

Iilan ang magiging dakila sa pagbali ng kasaysayan, subalit bawat isa sa atin ay maaaring kumilos, gaano man kaliit, para ibahin ang takbo ng mga pangyayari. Kapag pinagsama-sama ang ating munting pagkilos, makalilikha tayo ng totalidad na magmamarka sa kabuuan ng kasaysayan ng henerasyong ito. Ang mga hindi-mabilang na iba't ibang galaw ng katapangan at paninindigan ang humuhubog sa kasaysayan ng sangkatauhan. Tuwing naninindigan tayo para sa isang paniniwala, tuwing kumikilos tayo para mapabuti ang buhay ng iba, tuwing nilalabanan natin ang kawalan ng katarungan, nakalilikha tayo ng maliliit na galaw. Kapag nagkasama-sama ang mumunting galaw na mga ito, bubuo ito ng isang malakas na puwersang kayang magpabagsak maging ng pinakamatatag na dingding ng opresyon.

Sought for an answer for the alleged Tagalized version of the former US Senator's speech, Sen. Tito Sotto said he was not aware that the passages came from a Kennedy speech. He said a friend texted it to him then he had it translated in Tagalog.

The senator only laughed off the allegation that he copied from a Kennedy original. "Marunong na palang managalog si Kennedy ha," he said. "Sino ngayon ang kinopyahan ko na Tagalog? Meron ba silang alam na pinanggalingan na tagalog nun?" he asked.

Mukha ho yatang napapadalas na Senador Tito Sotto III. Sino ho ba ang gumagawa ng mga speech ninyo? Maari mo na po yata ninyong sibakin yan. Masyado ho niya kayong nilalagay sa kahihiyan hindi lamang sa sambayanan Pilipino kungdi sa buong mundo.

Buti ho kami ay hamak na BLOGGER LANG, eh kayo ho ay isang kagalang galang na senador, ang labis na panggagaya ang maghahatid sa inyo sa putikan este kapahamakan dahil pwede ho kayong matagurian na "Plagiarist". Pwede mo naman pong i quote, basta may attribution.

Maaaring ipinagkikibit balikat lamang po ninyo at pinagtatawanan ang nakaraang panggagaya ninyo sa mga sinulat ng isang Amerikanang blogger dahil sa estado at posisyon ninyo sa senado. Pero pag isipan po ninyong mabuti kung ano ang dulot ng pang aalipusta ninyo sa mga hamak na blogger lang na yan. Pinapansin at napapansin na po ang mga sinasabi ninyo. Pag isipan mo pong mabuti bago kayo magbukas ng bibig. Pag-aralan po ninyo kung ang inyong mga sinasabi ay sadyang galing sa kaibuturan ng inyong apdo este puso.
 

Bakit po ba puro mga sinulat ng mga taga Amerika ang laging ginagaya ng inyong tagasulat? Gayahin naman po niya ang Pinoy. Tangkilikin ang sariling atin. Go Pinoy!

Tagalog translation of ripples on google: galaw, bulwak, kulo.

Ripple of hope should not be translated verbatimly. Ripple of hope simply means "Nagbibigay ng kaunting pag-asa" and not "Kaunting galaw". You should tell that to your translator po.

Geez, I can't help reacting. Opps, may I go out now Siree.

Bawal akong ma stress.

FREE DLSU Entrance Exam Plus 50 scholarships to public school grads

Free DLSU entrance exam for public highschool students + 50 scholarships to public school grads

De La Salle University now gives public high school students the opportunity to take free entrance exams at its different testing centers nationwide. The University also offers 50 full scholarships under the Vaugirard Scholarship Program (VSP), which is exclusively for graduates of Philippine public high schools.

 

To qualify for the scholarship, a student should be among the top 120 examinees of the DLSU College Admissions Test (CAT) and should pass the screening process. Apart from full waiver of tuition, miscellaneous, and other fees, scholars will receive a monthly stipend to cover accommodation, meals, transportation, and book expenses.

 

Public high school students who wish to apply for the college entrance exams may now inquire at DLSU. The application period is from June 16 to September 26 while the freshman entrance exams at DLSU falls on October 7, 14, and 21.

 

Applicants from public high schools in the provinces may also inquire at the Office of Admissions and Scholarships (OAS), De La Salle University, with telephone numbers 536-0225 (direct) or 524-4611 loc 162. Applicants may also email scholarships@dlsu.edu.ph or visit the Facebook page at www.facebook.com/DLSU.HiptobeHere.

Press release from De La Salle University