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Ang Poet N’yo with a Balloon Art Rabbit Sculpture in Macao. Hmmm… the creator of this piece is really a CON Artist. Contradicting kasi yung obra n’ya eh — balloon ‘tapos rabbit?! Condom y Conejo! Ngek! Sa tingin ko ang “Francis Effect” ay meron pa, Kaya naman Ang Poet N’yo sasagarin na! At dahil ngayon din sa month tayo’y nag-jump na, Jump? Love month pa? Swak! Eh di RABBIT ANG TEMA! Sagot sa tanong kung bakit “rabbit antenna,” Entertainment ( Article MRec ), pagematch: 1, sectionmatch: 1 Madalas marinig ganon kasi ang tenga, Ngunit kung ibabase sa ugali nila, Eh kasi nga dapat lagi ay nakabuka! Maraming iniwan ang Pope sa ating WOW ha, Pero ‘di MALI at ang LAKAS NG TAMA pa! WOW o Words Of Wisdom ang ibig sabihin ba Na pagnilayan n’yo at lahat maganda. Kuha ko lahat pagkat ako’y matanda na, Natural lang sa akin lagyan ng patawa, ‘Yan din sabi ng Pope na maging natural ka, Kaya ‘wag seryo’t magalit sa’kin ‘yung iba! Tulad nung kung manganak ay galit na galit! Sabi tuloy ni Pope Francis, “Don’t be like RABBITS!” At s’yempre ang sundot naman ng inyong Poet — Kung hindi n’yo talaga kaya eh JUST RUB IT! Ngek! Nangyayari’y you love doing it! Hold it please! You rub it! Parang Hapon? Hai! Kayo GAPANG-NESE! Alalay naman mga darling sa paglilis! Not yet gapang youngest but gapang na si TER-MIS! “Learn how to cry and beg …” ang dagdag pa ng Papa, Ngunit iba yata Read More …

MANILA, Philippines – Want to know how much is the cost of using a certain household appliance, say per hour of use or per day of use ,so you can manage your electricity expenses? Manila Electric Co. (Meralco), the country’s biggest power distributor, unveiled recently its Power Lab, a multi-purpose facility that can test the power consumption of appliances and gadgets.  The goal is to educate Filipinos on their electricity usage and help them understand the impact of energy management in their daily lives, Meralco said.  “We want consumers to visit the Meralco Power Lab to discover how much electricity typical home appliances and gadgets consume and to realize how this impacts on their household expenses,” said Al Panlilio, Meralco senior vice President and head of customer retail services and corporate communications.  Energy Secretary Carlos Jericho Petilla welcomed Meralco’s initiative.  “You can see the consumption of your appliances. It’s for people to be more conscious of the appliances that they use,” Petilla said.  Business ( Article MRec ), pagematch: 1, sectionmatch: 1 Panlilio said the facility would encourage consumers to become more conscious about electricity use and become more energy efficient.  The Meralco Power Lab houses an Equipment Testing Laboratory, a Demo Area and an Intelligent Living Space.  In two months, Meralco, through the facility, would also launch the so-called Orange Tags which would be placed on different household appliances sold in appliance stores. The tags would indicate the cost of using the appliance per hour, per day or per Read More …

An employee counts Philippine pesos inside a money changer in Manila September 19, 2013. A Philippine official said a weaker peso will benefit Philippine exporters by making their products less expensive and thus more competitive in the global market. MANILA (Mabuhay) – The Philippine output rebounded sharply in the fourth quarter last year, growing as the second fastest economy in Asia – next to China – for the whole of 2014. This is on the back of the robust growth of the three productive sectors and the fulfillment of government’s promise to ramp up public spending, the country’s chief economist said. The gross domestic product (GDP) in the fourth quarter expanded by 6.9 percent, bouncing from the disappointing 5.3 percent in the third quarter but slower than the 6.3 percent growth in the fourth quarter of 2013, National Statistician Lisa Grace S. Bersales announced in a briefing in Makati City Thursday. The Philippines was the third fastest growing economy for the period, next to China’s 7.3 percent and Vietnam’s 7 percent. Annual GDP rose 6.1 percent, slower than the 7.2 percent growth posted in 2013. As expected, the full-year output is below the 6.5 to 7.5 percent government target for the year. However, the Philippines posted the second fastest growth in Asia last year, next to China’s 7.4 percent, said Balisacan, who is also the director-general of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA). “Growth in the fourth quarter appears to be broad-based as all three major productive sectors – Read More …

The Japanese occupation of the Philippines represented the most traumatic collective experience of my father’s generation. For my generation, the closest equivalent was the military occupation of the Philippines by the martial law dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos, which also featured executions, tortures, rapes and countless violations of civil rights. The “cathartic” prelude to Marcos’ imposition of martial law was the First Quarter Storm,  which began 45 years ago this week. January 26, 1970 was the opening day of the Philippine Congress and a newly reelected Marcos was set to deliver his version of the State of the Nation. But outside the Congress, various student groups had also planned to deliver our version of the true state of the nation in a mass rally jointly sponsored by the “moderates” led by Edgar “Edjop” Jopson, president of the National Union of Students of the Philippines (NUSP) and the “radicals” led by chairman Fernando “Jerry” Barican of the University of the Philippines (UP) Student Council. I was part of the rally organizing committee as president of the National Union of High School Students (NUHS) which was aligned with the NUSP and so I participated in the meetings which drew up the program and the order of speakers. Quarrel over the mike As agreed, Edjop was the featured speaker and his speech was timed to coincide with Marcos delivering his state of the nation address. When Edjop completed his recitation of the abject conditions of the country, he called on Gary Olivar, a leader of the “radicals”, to speak according to the program we had agreed on. Even though Read More …

L’OREAL consumer marketing director Chad Sotelo is a veteran of many battles in the marketplace. In this interview, he shares his thoughts on growing while defending one’s brands from competitive attacks, a difficult but doable strategy. Question: Your competitors have attacked your makeup and skincare categories. How are these products doing now and what did you do to defend your turf? Answer: Being the world’s number one beauty company gives us two huge competitive advantages in “defending our turf.” The first one involves product innovation. Given our huge investment in our research and innovation division (L’Oreal consistently ranks as one of the top companies in the world that allocates the most resources to research), we have thousands of winning products available globally that we can easily bring in. The second one involves “big ideas.” Given our commanding presence in multiple beauty categories across countries, there is a wealth of market winning beauty ideas that we can easily bring in as well. Combine these two advantages and that really puts us in a position of strength when it comes to “defending our turf.” Q: In 2013, you won the Mansmith Young Market Masters Award (YMMA) not just because you have defended and recovered market shares of Safeguard against Vaseline’s “germs out, nutrients in” campaign, but also because you have innovated, combining both Safeguard and Olay soaps for counterattack. This expanded the market as well, right? Can you share insights about this defense? What was the critical factor that made your defense Read More …