Ginebra San Miguel Celebrates 190 Years with Archangel Reserve

Everyone was in a celebratory mood when we arrived at the ballroom of Novotel Araneta City. To mark Ginebra San Miguel's 190th Anniversary, they had us experience heritage, culture and the good things they whip up at their plants all these years.

Outside was a plethora of memorabilia, including age old bottles they use to contain their products, and how it evolved all through the years. While undoubtedly knowing its Filipino roots, the technology and corporate beginnings have all started in Manila in 1834. It was family owned, then spread throughout the country via major cities. It started a tradition, and products became high quality yet remained affordable. From their Ginebra San Miguel, GSM line, Premium Distilled, Antonov, Anejo Gold, Primera Light, Vino Kulafu, it became the most diverse subsidiary for products through San Miguel Corporation.

The event had a theatrical performance all throughout the night explaining the reason why the company has remained productive, through innovation and continue to become an integral part of Filipino celebrations for almost 2 centuries. The event was also graced by Ginebra San Miguel executives, celebrity endorsers like Boss Toyo, Mikee Quintos from Sparkle, and Attorney Oliver Moeller. Later in the evening, Nik Makino went up on stage and performed for everybody to celebrate #WorldGinDay. He's also a part of the endorsers tapped for this year, and he's mighty proud how his music and the countless Filipinos that made it viral on TikTok. He said he owes much of his success to the people who believed in him, and gives advice to only do it in legal age + and moderately.

Here's a glimpse of the event, please enjoy!

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Here's Nik Makino's performance on video: 

@kumagcow Talented rapper NIK MAKINO Performs at #GINEBRA WordGinDay Celebration #NikMakino #tiktoktainment #tiktokshowbizreporter #tiktoktainmentph @nikmakinobxtch ♬ MOON - Nik Makino

Add to that the new Archangel Reserve Premium 1 Liter bottle (not yet available to the market, maybe soon!) that's in Emerald Green. This is to celebrate 190 years of the brand. Congratulations to the men and women behind Ginebra San Miguel as you celebrate more years in the industry!

Boss is in Town! =)

My boss! =) Stolen shot sorry! =) Heheh..

Yeap my boss is in town hence the very busy schedule and unblogging for a few days. Anyway I'm back and I got some shots off my bb and was so happy with my work. I guess we did good in the reports we prepared for boss. He got me these for lunch!

Baked ZITI! Yum O!

Watermelon Shake! Just right for a hot day! =)

It was a scrumptious meal in Italianni's and I was so liking the baked ziti since it was hot and I was dead hungry! The beef and pasta filled me up in no time. I even like the crusty bread that came with it. All in all, the day was a success. My other boss also sent me something. I'll tell you about it soon because it will probably change the way you are experiencing my blog. =) Are you excited? me too!!! Hahahhaa!

Let's just say you'll be seeing something unexpected and I'm planning to venture out on this more before the month ends. Let's say I'll announce the winner of my blog contest HERE through that. Don't worry or don't freak out too much ok?! Alright! =)

To my boss who just visited and the other one from you know where THANK YOU! =)

August , 2009 : The Meeting with Boss @ Shangrila Hotel

Richard, Jesse, Vince, Tarik, Bernadette and Kennette

It was a tiring day today... but it was great! My boss from the US is in town to meet with us, his people from Manila. It was a relaxed and a great exchange of ideas transpired on what we hope will be the next phase of our project. In the coming months, there will be huge changes in the work that we do. The Internet has various highways, and it seems we will be touching all of them. From social networks, messaging systems and other media, the list just goes on and on. We will never stop creating avenues for the service that we do.

We also talked about a lot of things, about how his trip went in Davao and Cagayan De Oro. The extremities between those cities and how horrible Manila is. It was from a foreigners view so it was quite amusing to hear. He was even updated to local politics so it wasn't an ordinary talk... it spanned everything in the US, Jordan and the differences of how things work in the Philippines. He was a little tired though because he traveled from China, Malaysia and the 2 provinces Philippines. I hope he enjoyed every bit of it since I know the team had a huge boost of morale because he visited us here. Not to mention Shangrila Hotel was posh hehehe. Here's the pictures!

Jesse, Me, Vince, Tarik, Bernadette and Kenette