SM City North Edsa partners with Young Designer Jeffrey Rogador for Independence Day runway

SM City North Edsa celebrates PH Independence Day with a fashion show, showcasing the works of the young and dynamic Designer Jeffrey Rogador,
who has been celebrating immense and diverse Filipino culture. His collection features a style with a concoction of contemporary and deep-rooted aesthetics that both serves form and functionality. lt is about dressing up and celebrating the liberty, diversity, and inclusivity, regardless of age.  His tops are wearable, cute and funky enough to layer with a shirt or accessorize with a shoulder bag and shoes.

The #ManilaStreetWear fashion show is graced by Miss Universe PH 2018 Catriona Gray and some noted celebrity influencers/millennials.

Independence is our freedom to be who we are and to wear the style that represents our goals and aspirations in life. As we celebrate our 120th Independence Day, we should value and appreciate the meaning and substance of diversified fashion styles that showcase the personalities of innovative, talented, and creative generation of the century the Millennials.

Rogador’s works represent style, comfort, and function mostly made as ”ready-to-wear” for the people who love to go with style without sacrificing the comfort of what they wear. in other words, it is simple and staple. Rogador is a Fine Arts graduate from University of Sto. Tomas and is fond of making art that is wearable. To make his vision come to life, he took up fashion design in Fashion Institute of the Philippines and joined the 6th MEGA Young Designers’ Competition and he became one of the mentors of the prestigious Philippine Fashion competition.

In this event, SM City North EDSA, the premier shopping mall in Asia,  highlights,  a glamorous street wear fashion show at The Block Atrium, 60 aspiring models from all shapes and sizes representing the genuine Filipino people of today in an urban setting. Called ”Manila Street Wear,” this fashion show includes famous celebrities, social media influencers and sports enthusiasts. They are Nicole Cordovez, 2016 Miss Grand international first runner-up, the social media guru such as Mike Lavarez, who is also a DJ, Tom Tacwigan, Raven Tacwigan, Chuck Aquino and Joe Abad and De La Salle Lady Spikers Major Baron, Kim Fajardo and Kiana Dy.

At the same time, SM City constant and loyal shoppers will be able to experience and enjoy other art-related activities like hand-painted clothes workshop and live fashion wall art demo. There will be exhibit and selling of seven different Filipino culture-inspired collections of Rogador at The Block Atrium until June 13. These rare collections definitely fit and match to the fashion needs of the Millennials.

Fresh off the #BUMXPepsi Streetwear capsule collection

BUM partners with PEPSI for the limited streetwear capsule collection last June 8.

#BUMXPepsi is the first  collaborative, limited edition collection between the one of the most iconic global consumer brand—PEPSI and one of the country’s hottest streetwear retail brand—BUM.

The event was graced by celebrities led by  Ms.Andrea Brillantes, and some influencers.

It promises to be a beautiful collision of adventurous creations that would surely suit the discriminating taste of today’s generation.

The launch  held at the Trinoma Activity Center, featured a showcase of  the entire collection via a fashion show.


Indeed, the partnership will reflect BUM’s core silhouettes and trendy looks with Pepsi youthful appeal. The limited-edition line is all about self-expression and the ‘Live for Now’ moments.

#BUMXPepsi Limited Collection is based on the iconic color palette and logos of both brands—BUM and Pepsi; fused design elements and street style that can draw that youthful appeal. The line consists of t-shirts, jogger pants and shorts and outerwear, as well as caps and bags.

The collaborative capsule collection will soon be available at BUM Boutiques and selected department stores.

Enjoy freedom to do more with FREE 1GB from Smart, TNT, and Sun!

Celebrate freedom in a big way by enjoying FREE 1GB data when you register to Giga Surf 99 using your Smart, TNT, or Sun prepaid account from June 9 to 17, 2018.

Under this limited special offer, the already data-packed Giga Surf 99 gets a big boost to offer 3GB data (up from its regular 2GB data), plus unlimited texts to all networks valid for seven days.

If you are a Smart Prepaid customer, register to Giga Surf 99 by texting GIGA99 to 9999. With 3GB, you have the freedom to do more of what you love – whether it is watching your favorite series over the break, streaming the NBA Finals on-the-go, uploading a new entry on your passion vlog, or sharing your favorite photos on Instagram and Facebook.

If you are a TNT customer, enjoy Giga Surf 99 by texting GIGA99 to 4545. With 3GB, you have more than enough data to check your tropa’s updates on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram, or play over the holiday break with everyone on top mobile games like Mobile Legends, Clash of Clans, or Arena of Valor.

With the same amount of data, you can also easily share your jams with friends by streaming your playlist of chart-toppers, or watching the latest music videos on YouTube.

If you are a Sun customer, get Giga Surf 99 by texting GIGA99 to 247. With 3GB, there’s enough data to score the perfect deals on your favorite online stores, discounts on shopping apps, and book promo seats from budget airlines running their own Independence Day sales.

You can also get more value out of your 3GB when you use it to reach your goals: book gigs online, cultivate new hobbies and skills through reputable blogs, sign up for free online courses, or grow your network of clients on social media.

Free YouTube every day

On top of your 3GB which you can use for anything, registering to Giga Surf 99 also gives Smart and Sun Prepaid customers up to one hour of Free YouTube every day for seven days. With Free YouTube on top of your data allocation, you don’t have to hold back anymore on streaming your favorite music videos, viewing fresh content from your favorite vloggers, or catching up on the latest viral content on your feed.

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Ginebra San Miguel celebrates 10th #WorldGinDay with a ginstronomic tour of the PH

Ginebra San Miguel recently celebrates 10th World Gin Day at Green Sun with celebrities Gab Valenciano, Mr. World Philippines 2016 Sam Ajdani, and all-around vlogger Vince Vandorpe. Travel and beauty vlogger Angel Dei Peralta, and international model couple/reality TV stars Chelsea Robato and Christian Busby. Some of the country’s top  Master mixologists Enzo Lim, Kalel Demetrio and Icy Mariñas  concocted special Ginebra San Miguel cocktails to represent the country’s three island groups. Chef Lau also graced the event with his signature "pulutan" dishes.

World Gin Day was founded by British blogger Neil Houston and is celebrated every 2nd Saturday of June. What started as a day to bring his friends together to drink gin has grown into a worldwide celebration. Aside from the Philippines, World Gin Day events were also held in the UK, Australia and the US.

Love for gin is something that the Philippines shares in common with the world and for 184 years, Filipinos have been enjoying the distinct taste and quality of the country’s pioneering spirit, Ginebra San Miguel. Our drinking culture is so strong that we even have the concept of “tagay” – a unique way of drinking gin where one drinks from a common glass and passes it on to be refilled for the next round.

Indeed for Filipinos, drinks are meant to be shared and enjoyed with friends. This same feeling of camaraderie, friendship, togetherness and unity is what Ginebra San Miguel aims to cultivate further as it celebrates World Gin Day as One Gin Nation.

Ginebra San Miguel took guests on a “ginstronomic” and a gastronomic tour of the Philippines.

Kalel Demetrio created the “Quatro Katipunero Sour” – a cocktail that incorporates the four dominant Luzon ingredients that he loves to use: kamias, sampaguita, labuyo, and calamansi.

For Visayas, Icy Mariñas crafted the Cebu mango-based “In It to Gin-It” cocktail with flavors of sinamak vinegar, peanut kisses, and Leyte pineapple.

As a representation of Mindanao, Enzo Lim made the Samal Beach Cocktail, a fusion of Pinoy flavors with Davao pomelo as its dominant taste.

These concoctions were, of course, prepared using Ginebra San Miguel, GSM Blue Light Gin and GSM Premium Gin as base.

Rockstar chef Rolando Laudico also prepared a sumptuous “pulutan” feast, creatively paired with the rockstar mixologists’ cocktails. Chef Lau’s cocktail food dishes aptly named “Nilasing na Sisig”, “Chicken Ginasal Wrap” and “Spicy Tuna Ginilaw”, similarly used Ginebra San Miguel, GSM Blue Light Gin and GSM Premium Gin as ingredients.

The three rockstar mixologists were also at the judges’ panel for “Mixologist Showdown”, a contest where the country’s best bartenders whipped up signature cocktails using unique and indigenous ingredients that captured the spirit of the Philippines as a gin nation.

 “Gin is enjoying a wave of popularity the world over right now,” says Ginebra San Miguel Marketing Manager Ron Molina. “Owing to its versatility, gin can mix with a variety of flavors. In the Philippines, this love for gin and Ginebra San Miguel is celebrated with regional flair and flavor. Local mixes and pairing with local food takes the gin experience to a whole new level.”

Among the guests who graced the event were famous personalities like dancer/director Gab Valenciano, Mr. World Philippines 2016 Sam Ajdani, and all-around vlogger Vince Vandorpe. Travel and beauty vlogger Angel Dei Peralta, and international model couple/reality TV stars Chelsea Robato and Christian Busby also had a taste of the gin-credible night.

GSM Blue endorser Myrtle Sarrosa, singer, rapper, and songwriter Quest, and Europop Festival Gold Medalist Ana Ramsey delivered outstanding performances that captured the hearts of the audience.

World Gin Day celebrations were also held in Cabanatuan, Cebu and Davao at selected bars and establishments where Ginebra San Miguel offers the Gin O’ Clock promo.  The World Gin Day celebration carried on throughout the whole Philippines, as they toasted with Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao - now as One Gin Nation.

Here in the Philippines, World Gin Day was first celebrated in 2014 coinciding with the celebration of Ginebra San Miguel’s 180th anniversary, highlighted by the launch of a travelling exhibit showcasing the brand’s colorful history and rich heritage.

Ginebra San Miguel Inc. (GSMI) is the producer of the world’s no. 1 selling gin Ginebra San Miguel and other quality liquor products including GSM Premium Gin, GSM Blue, GSM Blue Flavors, Antonov Vodka, Vino Kulafu, Don Enrique Tequila, Añejo Gold Medium Rum and Primera Light Brandy.

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom: Watch out for Blue!

It may seem difficult to believe, but when the filmmakers behind 2015’s Jurassic World began its development, they had no idea that their labor of love would become one of the top-five grossing movies of all time.

 For Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow, who also co-wrote the first chapter—and returns as co-writer and now executive producer of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom—the relaunch of the series that has captivated him since he was a boy has long been imagined as a trilogy.

 Alongside co-writer Derek Connolly, he has taken great pride in bringing the cautionary tales of Michael Crichton and world creation of Steven Spielberg to a delightfully dangerous and unexpected new level.

Once the global press tour wrapped and riveted audiences celebrated this landmark achievement, it was time to take a deep breath…and then get back to work.  “About two weeks after Jurassic World came out, I had been living in Los Angeles with my family for the year and had to drive back to our home in Vermont,” recounts Trevorrow.

“I asked Derek if he would ride with me, so we could use that cross-country trip to talk about where the story could go next.  I had a very basic set of ideas I wanted to present to him—in a place that we could think freely and just get weird with what the future could be.”

Buoyed with confidence at the film’s rip-roaring success and Spielberg’s confidence in their narrative arc, the pair hit the road to discuss what was next for former raptor trainer Owen, operations manager Claire and the thousands of displaced dinosaurs roaming the land and flying above Isla Nublar.  “This time around, Steven said, ‘Show me what you think this can be, where you think these characters should go and where we should take them,’” shares Trevorrow.  “So we drove to Vermont and, on the way, came up with the story that is Fallen Kingdom.”  

While Jurassic World took the park that was only a promise and brought it to awe-striking, terrifying life, Trevorrow knew the next chapter could and should tackle much darker themes.  The storyteller who first made a splash with the celebrated Safety Not Guaranteed has long been curious by what it means to exist within paradoxical time.

“These dinosaurs were of this Earth 65 million years ago, and now they’re in a place that is completely foreign to them,” he says.  “I thought there was a way we could tell a story that would identify the human angle.  How would you feel if you were brought into a world that you didn’t belong to…just for the satisfaction of others?  That was a realm we hadn’t gone to before, and it was something we knew these movies would benefit from.”  

As the writing partners designed this second act, they strategized where they could take the audience.  Through the greediness of investors playing God and park guests throwing caution and cash toward reason, Jurassic World had been unceremoniously obliterated.  The writers knew there was fertile ground to explore off island, and they’d been quietly planting the seeds for years.  “What would be the result of that destruction; what would be the step beyond it?” asks Trevorrow.

“Fortunately, there were a lot of clues we planted in the first movie; in the film itself, on maps and on the website—in places people wouldn’t think to look for hints about the next two movies—there’s information embedded in all of them.” 

Few characters are closer to Trevorrow than Claire Dearing and Owen Grady, the fiery former lovers who are seemingly destined to pine—and grouse—after each other from afar.  Discussing how the heroes have evolved, he notes: “We thought a lot about where Claire would be a few years later, and how she’d have a lot of guilt, regret and responsibility—which she would take and put it into action. 

Claire knows there’s a natural disaster that is about to occur on the island—one that has posed a question to the world: ‘Do we let these animals die, or do we save them?’  She’s the person who feels the most responsible for rescuing the dinosaurs.  

“On the other side, we have Owen, who is responsible for proving that raptors can follow orders.  He knows there is a capability for them to serve the same purpose as animals that have been used throughout history for war,” Trevorrow continues.  “That opens its own Pandora’s Box.  We have these two characters who are the mother and father of the new world.  They’re the parents of this slowly building biological disaster begun by John Hammond.  It was important for us to find a way to weave Hammond into the story and to connect them together, as well as tell more about the history of how Jurassic Park began.”

The extraordinary dinosaurs are as much players as Claire and Owen.  Nowhere is this more evident than with Blue, the Velociraptor to which Owen has had a deep connection since she was a hatchling.  After a fierce battle with littermate Echo—one that left Blue with a scarred lip—she established her dominance among her pack.  Once Owen pretended to be injured during her training, Blue showed her capacity for empathy.  A virtual enigma among dinosaurs, she is equal parts vicious and nurturing; sadly, in the post Jurassic World era, she is also last of her kind.

For the writers, it was crucial to bring back this fully fledged creature to which we have all grown quite attached.  That storytelling level was extraordinary in Spielberg’s eyes.  “Blue has become a real character that we have imprinted on,” he reflects.  “In the first movie, John Hammond liked to be around every birth, every hatchling, because he wanted the animal to imprint on him.  In this case, the audience has imprinted on Blue, which allows Blue to become a major character that we really care about in this second film.”

It was crucial to the narrative to open the series up and introduce a new set of dinosaurs from multiple epochs.  From a Baryonyx and a Carnotaurus, to a crazy little bull-in-a-china-shop called a Stygimoloch, the writers brought more colorful creatures to Fallen Kingdom than ever before.  As if it that wasn’t enough, they imagined a genetically designed monstrosity known as the Indoraptor.  Its DNA an unholy mix of Velociraptor, Indominus rex and who knows what else Dr. Wu spliced into its codons, this creature is not deadly because of size—it’s due to his intelligence, speed and ability to follow orders…when he so chooses.

 Indoraptor is, without a doubt, the perfect weapon.

There will never be a Jurassic film without our star T. rex, if the filmmakers have anything to say about it.  “The T. rex is also back,” Trevorrow shares.  “We’ve been following this same character since the beginning; she’s the same T. rex that was in Jurassic Park and in Jurassic World.  She is iconic—not just because she’s a T. rex, but because she’s this T. rex.”

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is now open at your favorite cinemas.

Photo Credit: Universal Pictures.