Signed for Stardom: The New Faces at GMA Artist Center

It's so nice to see new faces, fresh, and really talented bunch when we talked to them at the Signed for Stardom Blogcon this afternoon. Some of them you're very familiar with, some of them come from showbiz families, some from social media, and some are really talented singers and theater actors. Seeing them in one place is encouraging, which means those programs you love will get spruced up with new talented individuals which GMA has always been known for.

We had the opportunity of talking to Hannah Arguelles, Kirsten Gonzales, Saviour Ramos, Jamir Zabarte, Ashley Alcayde, Sandro Muhlach, Gab Yabut, Rain Matienzo, Tanya Ramos, Matt Lozano, Coleen Paz, Alexandra Yap, Jeff Moses, Lala Vinzon, Sheemme Buenaobra, Levince Sotto, Lime Aranya, Carlo San Juan, Gabrielle Hahn, Seb Pajarillo, Shanelle Agustin, Julia Pascual and Briana. Now they could have rode in their relatives or popularity, but when I saw them, they all had that star factor and we can't wait to see them in different shows in the network. Here's part of the interview we had with them that afternoon.

You're going to see more of them soon!

realme Offers This Payday Sale

Hey, I know you've been looking for a good phone and laptop this payday sale so I'll cut to the chase. Our friends from realme are offering a lot OFF their phones, specifically the new realme GT Master Edition and their realme book. Their goal has always been to disrupt, and when they do not joke around when they say they're giving discounts because they're giving up to Php 8,000 OFF on the devices just for today (September 30).

I've been using the realme 6 for coverage, photos and video blogs and I've been pretty satisfied with it. The GT Master Edition though is on another league. They did this with Naoto Fukasawa (design) and utilizes a Snapdragon 778G 5G processor, 120Hz Super AMOLED display, a huge 65W SuperDart Charge feature and a 64MP primary camera on the back which takes crazy clear photos. You should check out the 8+ 128GB and 8+256GB versions on Lazada or Shopee's Payday Sale. It costs Php 17,490 and Php 19,990 respectively.

The realme Book on the other hand comes in i3 and i5 variety. With a 2K Full Vision Display and 11th Gen Intel Core Processor, a huge 54Wh battery and sound by Harman, you can't really go wrong with it. It's offered at Php 29,990 and Php 41,990 respectively.

You can get them here plus a lot of other realme phones and iot devices which they also offered at very low prices, I'm not even joking. You can start here https://shp.ee/err8njh for Shopee or on the Lazada app.https://shp.ee/err8njhhttps://shp.ee/err8njh

LENOVO Unleashes Yoga Slim 7 Pro OLED Display and Lenovo Go Accessories

They've been getting feedback from their users for years and this time, they're putting it to good use as they launch the new YOGA Slim 7 Pro and their very own Lenovo GO Accessories in the Philippines. 

 

Lenovo's Consumer Business Lead Mr. Joey Nocom says "Our latest and newest products are in the country. These are made with smarter technology with a purpose for all in mind. We are accelerating PC's to be mobile, more powerful. We aim to help efficiency, for more productivity. The Yoga OLED devices, and Lenovo GO accessories does that."

Yoga Slim 7 Pro

Consumer 4P Manager for Lenovo JB Aquino explained to us what the YOGA devices are and why it's some of the most premium devices by Lenovo. "We pursue integration, do AI, better performance and security when and where its needed. With the YOGA lineup, you can see why it is made of premium materials. You often see this in YOGA's built and design this year. Right now, we're making more premium colors availbale in Lenovo devices. Lenovo YOGA is built tough, for recreation, for play too. The Lenovo YOGA Slim 7/7i Pro OLED has hybrid parts, built to be used at home or at work. It enables users do things according to their lifestyle. One will come with an intel processor, the other comes in AMD. The AMD variant, you'll get a Ryzen 9 processor, manage a higher CPU and GPU so you get a lot of performance out of it. It's made of metal chassis, aluminum. The other has really good display, 12 hours battery life, thunderbolt ports, has intel EVO certification. OLED 2.8K display at 90Hz, 400 nits, dolby HDS Trueblack display makes sure your content looks phenomenal while editing and after uploading it on your video host/social channels. Better batteries, more performance, can do more when plugged in. It also uses AI machine learning, can manage power for CPU and GPU, drives CPU with more power. It has adequate cooling despite its thin body. The 16:10 OLED display can do 10 bit color and Dolby vision, 1ms response time which is 25% faster than ordinary LCD or 60Hz displays of laptops these days. It's catered for content creation, you can do browsing, word processing, video editing, and is ultra bright with its resolution. You also get great color reproduction, something you have to experience yourself first hand. I hope you can experience this in the coming months too. The Yoga Slim 7 Pro on the other hand has faster RAM, 2.8K OLED display, impressive in all areas. We'll bring this to the market with 16GB RAM, and a price of 64,999+++. The YOGA Slim 7 Pro will come with premium care warranty."


Lenovo Services

Lenovo Premium Care comes three years when you purchase a device. Tech will help diagnose through calls, should there be a need, do onsite repairs.

The Lenovo Smart Performance software removes malware, improves overall laptop performance in the process.

Lenovo Accidental Damage Protection (2 Years of accidental damage protection due to spills, drops, normally an add on for 3-4K pesos. They will introduce this in the models arriving soon.

Lenovo GO Accessories 

 

Work from home is being normalized and now we have a small office space at home. It's all about flexibility, whether we are in school or at the office, everything should be mobile. Remote work sometimes fall short, everyone has work standards, like a quiet space, ergonomic chair, a good table that can handle all. Accessories are needed for this. With the noisy environment and all that trouble, productivity suffers so we need something that would solve that. This is why LENOVO GO was created.

 

The Lenovo GO accessories make it better together. Capable to adapt, it completes power, audio and input for your work at home setup. The Lenovo Go USBC Wireless Mouse costs Php 2,495. The Lenovo GO Wireless Multi Device Mouse on the other hand costs Php 3,495. The Lenovo Go Wireless Vertical Mouse, Wireless Keyboard, Wireless Numeric Keypad, USBC ANC In Ear Headphones, Wired Speakerphones, Wired ANC Headset, USB C 20K mAh Power banks, Wireless Charging Kit will be coming soon. Their goal is to give Filipinos more access for more smarter technology, and I think they're bound to accomplish that. Why? because they're Lenovo!

What Does It Take to Have a #WorldWithoutWaste?

A couple years ago, Coca Cola launched a global campaign with a very bold and ambitious goal. The aim was to collect and recycle a bottle or can of what the company sells by 2030. Year after year, they stepped up, become successful, and that also included the Philippines. Their movement in the country has spawned different models including this NGO called Alternative Indigenous Development Foundation, Inc. (AIDFI). A component of what they did in 2019 called Blastik made use of recycling centers that is funded by The Coca-Cola Foundation. In it, they learned to spread awareness about environmental efforts, earn and provide for themselves, and recycle a lot of plastic. As you may know, a lot of companies make products with packaging and these efforts would hopefully make a dent on that challenge. Coca-Cola currently is recycling over 93% of their waste in bottling plants and now utilize plant based renewable material called PlantBottle.

Blastik's success as a pilot project continued in a partnership wtih PeacePond Farmers Organization based in Binalbagan, Negros Occidental. Farmers from this organization have empowered their community and provided environmental education so they would learn waste segregation, recycling and putting up livelihood projects via workshops, webinars which they host in a regular basis. The Blastik Project taught them how collecting, recycling used and clean plastic bottles would be beneficial and create opportunities for townsfolk so they could earn from re-using plastics in projects, so they could feed their families. Beneficiary Jo Guanco (who's a 53yo farmer from the same place) says "The Blastic Project showed us how important it is to teach our neighbors about segregation and recycling. We are also working with other communities these days so they too can coordinate and schedule collection of plastic bottles in towns, nearby areas and offices, of which some personally call us so we could collect it for them. We continue to be Blastic Eco Rangers til now."

The movement has gone to other communities like Bakyas Community in Oringao, Kabankalan Negros Occidental, Elite Ads Corp in Paranaque City, and Elite Ads Corporation in Carmona Cavite. They also have active partnerships with Seda Hotel in Bacolod City plus Southland College in Kabankalan also. During the pandemic, they continue to process almost 17 tons worth more or less of mixed bottles, bottle caps, plastic sachets and labels too. As of now, Coca-Cola Foundation is supporting over 40 zero waste communities around the countries, and are continuing to grow more in the next few months. Ms. Cecile Alcantara puts this as Blastik's initial success, and says "we are really happy and excited about it."

If you want to know more about their initiatives, just head on to coca-colacompany.com/reports/business-environmental-scoal-governance-report-2020 or their social channels and be part of that change, make the #WorldWithoutWaste possible today!