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3M and Good Housekeeping Good Ideas Workshop

Wednesday, August 03, 2011

Good Housekeeping Good Ideas Workshop

The good people who make those excellent Post It's 3M Corporation Philippines and Good Housekeeping Magazine publisher Summit Media held a workshop entitled Good Ideas last July 30 at the event place of SM Megamall in Mandaluyong City. They brought along health, style and design experts along so people there would learn a thing or two about how to keep their homes organized, make it spick and span. I learned a couple of things too!

Dr. Patricia Santos-Abes is an Allergologist and head of the Allergy and Immunology Section of the Asian Hospital. She gave a lot of tips on how to keep the home and your family safe from allergens which causes countless diseases. Cleaning up and making sure you have some things that could filter your air were some of the few things she showed beneficial to everyone's health. Samples of what bad microbes and disease causing bacteria could do were shown to the public in that event. I took note on some of the obvious things but learned more about the products that could help eliminate the possibilities of me getting sick in the long run. There were also lessons about how pets can also carry these elements and made sure everyone knows how it would affect home owners if they keep these four legged family members inside the home. She gave some tips how to use Filtrete for Air Conditioning units and told us how it could do a lot of things for our health by improving indoor air quality and ventilation. That's just smart!

Also in that event was Johanna Victoria Acab - Faustino who is the Principal designer of Ideal Interior Design Services. Aside from being an Interior Designer, she's a well decorated herself LOL! She's a Cum Laude, graduated from UP Diliman and ranked third overall in the licensure exams 1998. Pretty and stylish, she made a great presentation about how people can simply get their simple homes jazzed up with a couple of style ideas and organize it with small knickknacks from 3M particularly the damage free hanging solutions from Command and the furniture savior Scotch Gard. We were also treated to some of her tips on storage solutions and how to maximize space. We also were shown how to get things together and how to achieve the real eclectic look. It's not a mumbo jumbo; but a pretty simple concept and a design philosophy. Pretty neat!

The event was hosted by Ms. Issa Litton-To. Beautiful isn't she?!

People who attended the event also participated in the games prepared by the organizers.
They won a lot of 3M products! Congratulations!

3M Corporation Philippines is starting off it's advocacy on home space management in the country and their solutions are phenomenal! Congratulations on holding a wonderful event!

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Ang Babae Sa Septic Tank!

Monday, August 01, 2011

The title alone is a dead giveaway. How can you not have a hilarious time with Eugene Domingo and her antics on this indie film turned "soon to be blockbuster" coming on theaters this August 3, 2011. Yeah, it was jumpacked! They had to turn down about half a billion (more or less LOL) people outside the CCP theater, UP Theater where this was first shown.

How can they resist the charming, beautiful Ms. Eugene Domingo (shown here walking the red carpet) as she dares to swim something down there! Yes ladies and gentlemen watch as she swims on poo and win that elusive best actress trophy everybody wished for!

I'm a fan. I could not tell you how much I adore Ms. Eugene Domingo because she is so smart and can pick up a punchline from any given situation and still make you die from laughing inside the cinema. She plays the role of an actress called "Eugene Domingo" also in this film. You have to watch her make this indie film inside the indie film (no that's not a typo!) with hunky rockstar Kian Cipriano as her Director and the cool, good looking, calm and collected JM De Guzman as the Producer. Cai Cortez also plays as a PA in this movie... people behind the movie industry surely felt how she played the role so good in this movie and you definitely should watch out for that!

The STAR Ms. Eugene Domingo!

Hunk Actor - Rockstar Kian Cipriano of CALLALILY

JM De Guzman, another reason why you know you have to watch this film!

This was a dream role for Ms. Cai Cortez.
Working with Ms. Uge was a dream she said!

Make sure you watch them in your favorite SM Cinema outlets and soon on other movie theaters nationwide!

For those who were not able to go to the press conference, let me show you a couple of videos I took during that bit! I'm sure you'll love how they answered the questions from the media!

This is the biggest Cinemalaya film entry of all time! It won 5 awards so you better bring your A game in the cinemas come August 3! Make your family watch this if you want to have a good time! Here's the official trailer from Star Cinema!

Congratulations to the cast I'm sure my friends and I will watch this film!
I can't wait!

Watch Ang Babae Sa Septic Tank shown in theaters on August 3, 2011 nationwide!

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The Western Union Network Challenge

Sunday, July 31, 2011

Do you know how connected you are in Facebook vs the world?!
Their app can literally get that information, show it to you and more!

Life lessons can be learned from experience and we can't have enough of it. History in itself explains the who, what, when, where and how's of the country you live in and I'm glad I live in a noble one called The Philippines. Today, we have a few million people living outside the country that still send help to their relatives/friends here and it's like part of the culture. Almost every family in our 80 million strong population have one or two relatives elsewhere in the world and that plays a significant part in nation building; a fact that Western Union knows. They made a site that would graphically explain everything to the ordinary Juan/Pedro. Initiatives that impressed people like me who spends quite a lot of time in the blue collared industry.

You can also see graphical representations of different economic aspects here and around the world. You can see how ours fare versus other nations. You will see how much aid a country gets, export growth, foreign investment, remittances, GDP rates, import growth and population. This is essential to predicting and verifying the economic stability of a country. Without looking at previous data and comparing them to the current one today: not a single member would make sense.

When asked about the application and the site about its incapacity to earn or generate income, Ms. Angela Heng VP for Corporate Affairs said that they are doing this as service to help people better understand Western Union and its history. What a noble gesture from one great corporation celebrating it's 160th year in the business.

Since Western Union is one of the world's most connected corporations, they are looking for the most networked person in the world by the use of the Social Media network Facebook and a site they dedicated for this located at http://www.westernunionworld.com/yourworld. You can compare with your friends and show them how globally connected you are. Check out your Facebook photos after using the application and you'll get an idea how connected you are (in photos) too! Your personal score will also contribute to your respective country of residence; so the app will soon know who's the most geographically connected country.

I have my friends and family in around 29 countries around the world; and it was shown there too!

Since the Philippines is one of the most well connected people in the world, Western Union is using the data to be gathered with this application to also know how we would rank against other countries. If their theories are correct we probably would place second to one or more first world countries. Pretty amazing if you ask me. Would you want to rank first? Why don't you visit the site and use the application now; tell me how you fare against other Pinoys and people across the globe!

These guys already took the challenge; so why don't you?!

P.S.

Thanks to the generous people at Western Union because we'll have a contest about this! That's coming up in a few days! Watch out for that! =)

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Maria La Del Barrio - Watch it on August 15!

Friday, July 29, 2011

Maybe you have watched this Mexican Telenovela original and grown quite amused of Thalia's antics while she battles her way through life as a peasant in Maria La Del Barrio. ABS CBN and Televisa - as part of their commitment to world class broadcasting will stage the Philippine version of this program on August 15, 2011. Aren't you guys excited?! =)

(Image from antena3.123listas.com no copyright infringement intended)

Do you know who's going to play the part of Maria and Luis Fernando?! It's two of the hottest stars of Philippine Television; Erich Gonzales and Enchong Dee. It was actually my first time to see them and I wasn't disappointed. They were so nice and accommodating in spite of their very busy schedules that day.

One by one they went out of the studio and into the Red Carpet!

Ms. Angel Aquino was stunningly beautiful. I still want to have a photoshoot with her someday. Ian Veneracion was still looking so young! It was like he didn't age! The ever so gorgeous Assunta de Rossi who made waves in PNOY's SONA was there also since she portrayed the role of Maria's Mom in the flick.

Pau Diaz was nice and sunny in her yellow dress. She was excited to see all her batchmates from SCQ. They had a reunion a couple of days ago and it was nice that they still are that close even if some of them have their own lives in the states. She will play the villainess Soraya's character. Arron Villaflor plays the role of Enchong's brother who had a soft spot for Erich in this program. He's doing matured roles it seems and this is a pretty good break for him.

That's WAPAAAK! Ms. K Brosas who arrived early (so professional!) and was a ton of laughs while on stage during the press conference. She is a breath of fresh air and I'm so glad I follow her on twitter. :) She's going to make a little difficult for Erich though in the program. That's Jake Roxas on the right and he's coming back from a long hiatus because of some management problems he had in the past. Now he's going to get more acting jobs since he did quite great in the Vampire-Werewolf local flick he did a couple of months ago. Still good looking like me. :)

Playing villain is Gio Alvarez who played quite a number of roles in the movies but didn't get that much breaks on TV. He's doing this for his family and it was nice to hear that they (his real life wife) are getting married soon. Katya Santos (fresh from a breakup I think?!) was also there because she'll play a very important part in the coal factories where Maria will work in the beginning of the show. She did lose a lot of weight and followed a strict diet plus her engagements with Hotbabes made her dance quite a lot, she's very pretty still.

Banana Split regular Badjie Mortiz played the role of the household driver and love interest of Ms. K Brosas. This will surely be something hilarious when you guys get to start and see their story. Young and off her days of Going Bulilit; Jane Oineza will also have her share of love interests in the story but you have to watch it as they said. Newcomer Justin Gonzales will also be in this tv program and thanks everyone for giving him a break. This will truly be a test on his acting skills and might be a make or break thing in ABSCBN, I'm sure he'll do a pretty good job on this one!

Proud Directors Ms. Rory Quintos and Richard Somes assures everyone that each bit and piece of this Maria la del Barrio staging will adore the hearts of primetime viewers here and abroad! "Working with great actors and actresses who gave justice to the roles would guarantee this will be one great show" said Director Rory about Marila la del Barrio.

Did I forget anyone?!

Of course! The stars of this show!

Erich Gonzales and Enchong Dee was VERY excited to work with each other. Although they admit they wanted to be romantically involved they had an agreement to just keep the friendship they have so as to not affect their professional lives. They know that sometimes it also affects other actors and actresses if they fight (as lovers) so they wanted to do this so as to keep everything on status quo while they are young and in the prime of their careers.

Erich was so nice to stop and pose for me when I asked her in the very last bit because I didn't get to shoot them that much while a throng of reporters from other agencies were there. They are so excited about this project and was so glad it is going to be shown now on primetime. Their fans must be on their toes awaiting August 15 to come!

Here's when I wanted to shoot them while watching the trailer!