Tips to make dishwashing fun with "Mighty Mom"

Dishwashing doesn’t have to be a difficult task especially this Christmas season even though you are expecting stacks of it. Here are a few tips to make your life easier.

Get a reliable dishwashing liquid! 
This is very important because your dishwashing liquid will be your sink-buddy so better choose the best and most user-friendly like the Mighty Mom Dishwashing Liquid. As the name suggests, ‘Mighty Mom’ is mighty against tough stains and germs because it is a degreasing, deodorizing and anti-bacterial dishwashing liquid soap that comes in the traditional lemon scent or the uniquely Filipino-kalamansi fragrance.

 Organize your dishwashing session 
It’s very wise to have a standard sequence in washing dishes. You could wash glasses first, then the spoons and forks, and end with the plates when the sink gets less crowded. You could have your own version but make sure to stick to that process as it makes dishwashing faster and more efficient.

Enjoy the task by using cool dishwashing tools
Make dishwashing fun for you and try to find cool items that perk up the chore like having a colorful sponge or using dishwashing liquids with pumps. Instead of lifting the soap every now and then, use one with a pump like the Mighty Mom Dishwashing Liquid. To be more energetic, the product has Lemon or Kalamansi scents as well.

Have the best holidays with Mighty Mom Dishwashing Liquid, available in 1 Gallon Lemon, 1 Gallon Kalamansi, 250mL Lemon, and 250mL Kalamansi at SM Supermarket, SM Savemore, SM Hypermarket, Robinsons Supermarket, Shopwise, Metro Gaisano, Wellcome, AFPCES, Pioneer Center, Fisher Supermarket and San Roque Supermarket. For faster and hassle-free transactions, Mighty Mom Dishwashing Liquid can also be bought online at Marketa.

Jason Magbanua shoots a Wedding Prenup Video using ASUS' Zenfone 3 Deluxe

A prenup video shoot with a smartphone? Master Storyteller Jason Magbanua put ASUS' latest premium flagship smartphone to the test



ASUS Philippines makes the impossible a reality with its game-changing technology. Together with the master storyteller, Jason Magbanua, ASUS sets the bar for incredible possibilities. Watch the video to find out: https://www.facebook.com/ASUSph/videos/10150753839204957/

Words from the Master Storyteller

“Steph and Francis’ love story stood out from the pack of most entries sent. It was a treat getting to know them over Japanese and discussing the approach of how to tell their story best via video. It’s essential for us to really get into the meat of the narrative to pick out details and to focus on the essential, said Jason Magbanua.

To create an incredible love story, an incredible amount of research and work must be done. Steph and Francis were worlds apart in background, culture, personality and geography. They couldn’t be any more different. And there’s the rub - what makes them tick? what makes the relationship work?” Click play and find out:

https://www.facebook.com/jasonmagbanuafilms/videos/10154156831380886/

Saving Sally: A tale of young love, monsters and how dreams come true

Its shaping up to be a very interesting Metro Manila Film Festival,  Gone are the usual big names and franchised movies which have been often criticized for their quality and for being too commercial. Instead we get 8 quality film choices each representing  different genre. If looks alone would be the basis one such film is Saving Sally which got a lot of buzz since its trailer first debut in youtube.

Saving Sally was one of the most anticipated millenial film this coming December which gets an A rating from The Cinema Evaluation Board. The film was inspired by Neil Gaiman's Mirror Mask and is a love story told in a unique way that combines live action & vivid kaleidoscope-colored animation under the helm of Director Avid  Liongoren. 

It took 10 years for Director Avid Liongoren to finish the movie due to budget constraints. Saving Sally is a motion picture that weaves a young romantic story set in wonderful 2D animation hues.


The Metro Manila Film Festival Screening Committee describes “Saving Sally,” one of the eight entries in this year’s December film festival as “an atypical youthful love story replete with child-like elements as applied through 2D animation.”  

How the film was put together is also anything but typical. You might as well call it “epic.”

“Saving Sally” was mounted by a small team of young animators led by its director Avid Liongoren who has directed for television and TV commercials. They began shooting as early as 2005 but production slowed down due to funding.

Production came into full swing in 2010 on a blue screen, which was later replaced with a stylized Manila and 2D animated monsters created by Liongoren and his team of artists at Rocketsheep. Every frame, every background, every piece of art was painstakingly made. “What we lacked in manpower, we made up for with love in every single frame. We spent countless hours checking and rechecking every detail,” shares Direk Avid.   

The result is ready to be served come December 25. "Saving Sally" as director Liongoren puts it is "a  familiar coming-of-age story told with superstylized visuals. The project blends live action, 2d animation and an abundance of warm, fuzzy feelings to create a totally unique and lovable little film."

                                                                                                                                         
Get ready to be dazzled and mesmerized, children, millennials, and the young-at-heart. “Saving Sally” will make you believe in love, comic books, and the monsters in our heads all over again.

Cheer on as Marty (Enzo Marcos), an aspiring comic book artist pines for his best friend Sally (played by Rhian Ramos), a gadget inventor. Sally, however, has monsters for parents and an inconsiderate boyfriend (TJ Trinidad). In Marty’s fantasies, he conjures up ways of defending the love of his life from the big bad world.    

At its very heart, “Saving Sally” is a simple story about love

“Saving Sally” stars Rhian Ramos, Enzo Marcos, TJ Trinidad,  Bodjie Pascua, Carme Sanchez, Sharmaine Centenera Buencamino, Archie Adamos.

Rated Parental Guidance  by the MTRCB.

Bringing you a tale of young love, monsters and how dreams really can come true, "Saving Sally" opens this Christmas in cinemas nationwide.

Shop at Restaurant Depot and Enjoy Big Savings!

Restaurant Depot is a membership-only warehouse club for people involved in the foodservice industry - canteens, food stalls, restaurants, caterers, home bakers, and chefs. Membership gives you access to a large selection of ingredients, food supplies, and kitchenware in a convenient shopping format, where buying in bulk translates to big savings.

At Restaurant Depot, you can find all these great selections under one roof.  Their aim is to be your reliable partner – providing a convenient foodservice shopping experience where SAVINGS come in BIG SIZES.

FRESH AND FROZEN – Seafood, meat, chicken, and pork products have all gone through rigorous quality control standards by trusted suppliers and are priced competitively for your needs.

PROCESSED – From frozen dimsum products to processed meat products and shabu-shabu ingredients, Restaurant Depot has a variety of pre-made food products for business needs.

BAKING ITEMS – Restaurant Depot is a baker’s haven with its specialized sections for fudges, syrups, flavorings, sprinkles, nuts and chocolates.

OIL – Giant sizes of various oil brands are available in the store for easy selection as well as an extensive selection of cooking oils, olive oils and truffle oils.

DRY GOODS – Restaurant Depot has all the staples for a full service meal from flour, rice, salt to sugar products in bulk sizes.

DAIRY – Restaurant Depot’s big sizes of mozzarella, cream cheese and dairy products gives you huge savings where it counts.

CANNED GOODS – Various sizes of canned mushrooms, corn, olives, tuna, and meat products are available to cover your kitchen needs.

NOODLES AND PASTA – Restaurant Depot has pasta and noodles in all shapes and sizes for your kitchen’s recipes.

SPICES – Restaurant Depot has an extensive array of spices with shelves full of choice seasonings for your easy selection. Spices and seasonings are available in large packs, ensuring huge savings and more quantity for lower prices.

BEVERAGES – From ready to drink juices, beverage syrups, purees, to economical juice powder packs, Restaurant Depot provides numerous choices of beverage blends for your foodservice needs. The store also has a wide section of alcoholic products; from imported wines, beers and liquor for your bar needs.          

SAUCES AND CONDIMENTS – Restaurant Depot has all the condiments to flavor your food, from ketchups, mayonnaise, mustards, soy sauces, fish sauces, and vinegars. Apart from this, Restaurant Depot brings world food cuisine to table tops with everything from Thai to Malaysian to Japanese condiments.

PACKAGING – With an extensive assortment of cupcake liners, pastry and cake boxes; as well as various plastic food storage sizes for take-out needs and disposable party products in bulk, the store is filled with options for your packaging requirements.

CLEANING – From scrubs to sponges and cleaning liquids, Restaurant Depot has larger sizes in order to optimize your cleaning budget.

TABLEWARE – Restaurant Depot has dinnerware and drinkware for classic table settings, as well as table accessories to complete your table tops.

KITCHENWARE – From flatware to small electrical appliances, Restaurant Depot has a wide array of pots, pans, kitchen tools and catering equipment to fulfill your needs.

Visit Restaurant Depot today! Membership is free.
Store hours are 8 am – 7 pm, Mondays to Sundays.

Bring your family this holiday season at the newly opened Cinema 7 and 8 at SM Cinema MOA

 

If you are planning to spend christmas binge watching MMFF 2016 entries with the family this weekend. Its about time to visit the newest Cinema 7 and 8 at SM Cinema MOA. The brand new Cinema 7 and Cinema 8 of SM Mall of Asia houses 153 seats each and is both equipped with a top-of-the-line digital cinema projector system, Christie CP 2215, and Dolby 7.1 surround sound technology for the best rendition of your favorite blockbuster films into the big screen.

To complete the cinema experience, moviegoers can sit comfortably in the cinemas’ stadium-type, premium glide seats for the best view inside the theatre.

SM Cinema launches Cinema 7 and 8 last December 15, 2016 at SM Moa with the block screening of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. The event was well attended from the media and moviegoers. We got to enjoy the movies with the kids wearing their favorite Star Wars characters. 

SM Cinema encourages more families to spend the holidays at the movies with 2 new cinemas opening at the SM Mall of Asia

As a standard in all SM Cinema theatres, Cinema 7 and 8 provides further ease of access with its PWD-friendly facilities. PWD lavatories and slots are available for guests of SM Cinema. For the perfect snack to go with your movie, choose from Grub Central’s wide selection of affordable and tasty cinema treats.

Spend the holidays with the family at the movies and be the first to try out SM Mall of Asia’s newest cinemas! For tickets, visit Mall of Asia’s SM Cinema ticket booth or book your seats through www.smcinema.com.

NTC breaches 2016 collection target by P 34.5M three weeks before the year ends

With three weeks left in 2016 to collect Administrative Fees, the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), an agency under the Department of Information and Communications Technology, has already breached its P 4.835B target for 2016 as its collections have amounted to P 4.870B to-date.

 The P 4.835B target was set by the Development Budget Coordination Committee (DBCC) composed of the Department of Budget Management (DBM), the Department of Finance (DOF) and the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA).

The achievement came from the NTC’s concerted efforts to strictly enforce stakeholders’ compliance in remitting administrative, spectrum and penalty fees.  Stakeholders regulated by the NTC include cable and commercial television operators, broadcast radio stations, telecommunications companies and 2-way radio operators.

With still three weeks to go, NTC Commissioner Gamaliel A. Cordoba said that “the NTC management is rallying its entire workforce to try to reach the P 5B mark before the year ends.”  He added that, “this last ditch effort is NTC’s humble way of contributing to various national government public service programs pushed by President Rodrigo Roa Duterte - priorities of which are on infrastructure, agriculture and rural development, as well as peace and order.”

Team Philippines' Maggie and Parul finished at the top spot in the final leg of The Amazing Race Asia Season 5

The last leg of The Amazing Race Asia Season 5 starts with a journey to Bali, Indonesia! Eric & Rona are the first to set out with a ferry from Banyuwangi to Gilimanuk. Here, teams must take a three hour car trip to a holy temple in Sanur where they can find their next clue.

“This is where it counts, this is where you win The Amazing Race so we have to give it all we’ve got,” says Eric.

“We climbed the ladder ever so slowly…but this leg we’ll come in first,” comments Maggie &Parul giving 100% for this last leg.

“We will try to win this for Malaysia. Malaysia boleh!” says Yvonne and Chloe cheering each other on.

Once the teams arrive at the temple, they will receive route info where they will need to assemble a Balinese Penjor to the satisfaction of the Penjor Artist and deliver it to the marked Penjor area at PantaiMertasari.

While Eric & Rona and Yvonne & Chloe are starting to assemble their Balinese Penjor, Parul& Maggie are stuck in a traffic jam. Fortunately for the Philippines beauty queens, both teams are having trouble getting the details right and they have to reassemble.

“Adrenaline kicks in when you know you’re last so you have to bust this one out fast so that we can get to the next,” says Maggie rushing through the task while Eric & Rona are almost done with theirs.

After they assemble the Penjor, the teams receive their next route info where they must make their way to Taman Inspirasi and climb a 10 metrePanjat Pinang Pole to retrieve the marked prize to exchange for their clue.

Teams assemble an outrigger fishing boat and paddle out to a designated area in the sea to search for a marked lobster trap. Although Eric & Rona arrive first, it is a really close race with the three teams just minutes away from each other.

“We had a good lead, we can’t relax. Everything has to have a sense of urgency,” says Eric & Rona are picking up the pace.

“I was quite concerned honestly, because knots…bolts…I have no idea what those two are all about,” comment Chloe and Yvonne, worried about this task.

Eric & Rona, Parul & Maggie and Yvonne & Chloe are the first, second and third teams to find the marked lobster trap to exchange for their next route info where they must now proceed to Pura Samuantiga, a one thousand year old Balinese temple to search for their next clue.

In an unforeseen event, all teams are having trouble getting a taxi. And once they get in, Eric & Rona and Parul& Maggie’s taxi drivers refuse to speed, giving Yvonne & Chloe the lead in this part of the leg.

“Oh my god, we got here first! Best surprise!” Yvonne and Chloe are pleasantly surprised to find three clue envelopes in the clue box.

“This leg is where it counts the most and the last thing you want to do is to be lost.” Parul& Maggie are getting frustrated.

At the Balinese temple, teams receive their final Road Block task – they need to place coconuts in their correct order. One racer must correctly arrange 20 coconuts, representing different elements from each 10 legs of the Race, into the round pods of this larger version of the Indonesian Congklak game. Once teams complete this Road Block task, they must race to the final Pit Stop.

Maggie, Chloe and Rona represent their teams to take part in this task.

Despite arriving first, Yvonne & Chloe are having trouble arranging the coconuts giving Parul& Maggie a chance to catch up. Parul& Maggie manage to be the first to complete this task and they immediately dash out to the taxi with Yvonne & Chloe really close behind. Rona struggles to remember the order of each Pit Stop while Eric can only look helplessly at the other teams leaving for the Pit Stop.

Even with a taxi driver that refuses to speed, Parul& Maggie are the first to reach the Pit Stop and they are crowned the winner of The Amazing Race Asia Season 5!

“We came in first! We still couldn’t believe it…I am pretty sure we will be talking about this moment for decades!” Maggie &Parul rejoice at their win.


  “Of course it will be amazing to win, but we are still really happy that we have come this fair. It’s an achievement itself to come in second.” Yvonne & Chloe, giving a good finish at second place.

“What I learn from The Amazing Race is to believe in your partner, newly married or long time married, you can always work together.” Eric & Rona, despite coming in last, are still keeping their smiles.

The Amazing Race Asia Season 5 is supported by presenting sponsor Wonderful Indonesia, and partners Garuda Indonesia,Grab and Great Eastern.

Dell PH launches Dell Inspiron 15 Gaming Laptop for the casual gamers

According to Wikipedia:   A Core gamer or mid-core gamer is a player with a wider range of interests than a casual gamer and is more likely to enthusiastically play different types of games, but without the amount of time spent and sense of competition of a hardcore gamer.

So being a Candy Crush gamer classifies me as Casual gamer right? As much as I would like to, I only have time to play during traffic and bedtime in my mobile phone. But given the time,  I would like to play games in my laptop just to enjoy a major advantage in graphics.

The only thing that worries me is if my laptop would stand the heat that it would accumulate during playing.  That's why when Dell PH launches the new Inspiron 15 7000 series, I have a change of heart and would save starting today to get a new Inspiron.

Casual gamers rejoice! Just in time for the holiday season, Dell Philippines has launched the new Inspiron 15 7000 series that is specifically geared toward the casual gamers.

Touted as the most powerful in the Inspiron line, they feature the most aggressive performance design and components offered within the entire Inspiron laptop family.

The new Dell Inspiron 15 Gaming laptop is packed with powerful Intel Quad Core processor and latest NVIDIA GeForce graphics for immersive gaming experience, plus a pro-grade cooling system with dual fans keeps everything cool and running at full power while playing.

The Inspiron 15 7000 will have two versions available in the Philippines. The entry-level model has a 6th Generation Intel Core i5 processor, 4GB of RAM and an NVIDIA 960M GPU with 4GB of DDR5 VRAM, and a 5400RPM 1TB HDD and Full HD display. The high-end version sports a UHD 4K display, powered by a 6th Gen Intel Core i7 processor, 8GB of RAM, NVIDIA 960M GPU with 4GB of DDR5 VRAM, 256GB SSD drive paired with a 1TB 5400RPM HDD.

Dell Inspiron 15 7000 Series (Model 7566) notebook computer, codename Firelord, featuring Skylake (SKL) processor.

The dedicated forward and rearward thermal outlets are the first clue to this system’s capabilities. The new Inspiron 15 gaming laptop houses dedicated forward and rearward thermal outlets. In addition, extra-capacity heat exchangers connected by oversized piping to dual cooling fans with high-efficiency blade pitch is specifically engineered to handle the powerful combination of Intel’s 6th generation quad-core mobile CPUs and NVIDIA’s latest GeForce GTX 960M discrete graphics with 4 GB of blazing fast GDDR5 memory which gives high frame-per-second rates in games and immersive experience while playing. Its 6-cell 74WHr battery can power your favorite games or uninterrupted creative works up to 13.5 hours.

Inspiron 15 7566 Gaming Laptop

To keep things running smoothly the extra-capacity heat exchangers are connected by oversized piping to dual cooling fans with high-efficiency blade pitch. These are engineered specifically to handle Intel’s latest 6th Gen H-series quad core mobile CPUs, NVIDIA’s latest GeForce® GTX 960M (15) discrete graphic with 4 GB of blazing fast GDDR5 memory and up to 1 TB conventional or dual-drive M.2 128 GB and 1 TB HDD configurations. That kind of muscle easily handles the latest gaming titles or industrial-grade video editing.


Finally, the front onboard subwoofer and high performance speakers with Waves MaxxAudio Pro delivers a richer and more immersive audio experience.chris-papa-dell-country-manager

“Before gamers used a couple of computers, a laptop for work and a desktop for play. This new series confirms our commitment towards growing and engaging our customers who require a powerful laptop for productivity and social media purposes but also allows them to play most of the latest games on one device,” says Dell Country Manager Chris Papa.

Dell Inspiron 15 7000 Series (Model 7566) notebook computer, codename Firelord, featuring Skylake (SKL) processor.



Papa adds the new series is also perfect for students studying game development, “Game development industry in the Philippines continues to grow and the growing number of colleges and universities in the country offering formal game development courses means we’ll see a large number of developers and game enthusiasts in the near future.”

“Game developers and enthusiast expect outstanding outcome of creative works and performance that demonstrate true professional quality and at the same time bringing rich entertainment experience to life. This new Inspiron gaming laptop is the essential device for them,” he adds.

The Inspiron 15 Gaming (7566) will be available starting mid-December 2016 with starting price of Php 49,990.