SIBOL: The Philippines’ Official ESports Team

The egames industry in the Philippines has done a lot as far as representing the country in ESports tournaments internationally. Games require hand eye coordination, teamwork, skill and is just about important as any sport there is, so during the Southeast Asian Games this coming November, we’re putting ourselves in contention with other Southeast Asian countries and developed our own national team for E Sports which we’ll properly call Sibol. (Growth in english) 

The team will be managed by the Philippine Southeast Asian Games Esports Union (PSEU) which is a group under the Philippine Olympic Committee. They would have to be good in Dota2, StarCraft II, Hearthstone, Arena of Valor, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang and Tekken 7 in order to beat other teams which makes this even difficult. The 30th Southeast Asian Games will also be held here in the country so that adds to the pressure these men or women will actually have to go through. Pro players will be invited and tryouts will also be done to complete the pool. This will happen on August 1-11, pretty close already. For more updates please check out sibolesports.ph and their social media pages (FB, IG, and Twitter) via the @SIBOLesports official account. 

Go support your own team and make the country proud! 

Dra. Margie Holmes on HOOQ Originals

She’s been here, the talk of the town, when the rest of the country was still crushing their heads with conservative views, she was the doctor who said otherwise and put it out there. She’s Doctora Margie Holmes. She’s got a HOOQ Originals show called “S3X Talks with Dr. Holmes” and put the information about it out there for the world to see.


This isn’t the first one as they did Viva Films’ ULAN with Nadine Lustre and Carlo Aquino. It has been their goal to provide out of the box entertainment, the kind that pushes boundaries so this really fits. Taboo for others, but really needs substantial healthy and naughty discussions, hence the Doctor is in.

It will be running for 10 episodes, all dropped on a weekly basis. You can watch it now by downloading HOOQ on your smartphones, and even watch your favorite Hollywood movies, K Dramas and so much more on the app! It already has the episodes from last week, and this week so go rush and watch it. You gotta get HOOQed.

Bo’s Coffee Introduces Botty

If you see coffee cups or mugs in my kumagcow IG account, you’ll see something obvious that I’ve been spending a lot of time at the BO’s Coffee branch in SM Megamall. It’s where I work because aside from the ambiance, I get disturbed less because of the seating so I could focus mostly on writing. Their latte is just divine on a humongous sozed mug and I spent hours of fun with myself when I’m there. The place gets packed sometimes and couldn’t get seating sometimes when I have some friends too, plus I couldn’t blame them because food is good, the coffee just tastes so different. It’s what made BO’s pretty successful til now.

For the minor issues, they’re addressing it right away by introducing BOTTY. This is BO’s Coffee’s advanced ordering system so you don’t have to line up just by using the application. Now you can save time, go when you need that coffee break so you could get your schedules fixed. You may order ahead in select branches (for now) but they plan to roll it out to 47 stores more in the near future. 

Steve Benitez the CEO of BO’s Coffee says “We really want to give our customers the best. They can come to our stores and enjoy the ambiance without lining up. That’s where BOTTY comes in. You can easily pay for it using cards including Visa/Mastercard even Paymaya. You’ve got no excuse you’re late, now is the time to make everything faster.” 

So now go to your favorite stores and make the best possible cup of joe from BO’s Coffee chains around the country! 

Andrea Walter Shines at 2019 SOHO International Film Festival

Filipino Americans or Asian Americans in general have this bout of longing, innate part of their lives to feel that they belong somewhere. It happens now, in the US, Europe, even in Commonwealth lead states where mixed race individuals just become enthralled in loneliness, sad, but was mirrored in the film Empty by Design which recently received accolades in the 2019 SOHO International Film Festival, and praise at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival which Fil-Brit Director Andrea Walter dubs as a story not told enough. 

Cignal Entertainment produced this piece, giving total artistic liberty to the director and mostly Asian crew and production. Jane Basas the CEO of Cignal Entertainment says “We felt joy it got recognition and awards it deserved and I hope this gets to more people, to touch the lives of Pinoys abroad. We want them to see themselves in Andrea’s story. So they could feel home, even as it’s daunting, is where the heart is.” 

Andrea adds “We never expected to win, but heard about it when we got off the plane. After closing LA APFF, it was already a win for me. Things went wild after that. I knew we did something right! New York, LA and Austin appreciated it well. Nobody talks about this, but the story had to be told. It has to be understood.” 

This film will be shown on Cignal Play via CignalPlay.com which you can download on Google Play. They’ve got a lot of titles, you should check it out!