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Monday, August 12, 2013

Toyota : Waku-Doki at the World Trade Center

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Toyota Motor Philippines (TMP) is currently holding the biggest Exclusive Motor Show at the World Trade Center, Pasay City. Experience fun and excitement (“Waku-Doki”) until August 18 as you witness the biggest showcase of Toyota vehicles.

The grand event highlights vehicles from the past and the future as you immerse yourself in the world of Toyota. The World of Toyota is a rare opportunity for you to experience on a whole new level! It was really designed and built to be at par with global Motor Shows.

Car enthusiasts are also in for a treat during the week-long event, the full product line-up of Toyota will be displayed with a sneak preview of upcoming models. TMP also showcases over 30 classic cars that have shaped the local automotive industry for more than four decades.

Get a glimpse of the future with the display of its concept car, the Toyota FCV-R and Toyota’s luxury line Lexus will also be under the spot light at the motor show.

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I first learned about kebabs when I won a grill ideally designed for cooking kebabs at a company sponsored event. The grill had a pair of long shiny metal skewers. Skewers are thin metal (or wood sticks) used to hold pieces of food together. They are used while grilling or roasting meats, and in other culinary applications. More or like similar to what is used for barbecues.

According to Wikipedia, kebabs are a wide variety of skewered meals found worldwide that originated in the Middle East, and later were adopted in the Balkans, the Caucasus, other parts of Europe, as well as Central and South Asia. In English, kebab with no qualification generally refers more specifically to shish kebab cooked on a skewer. In the Middle East, however, kebab refers to meat that is cooked over or next to flames; large or small cuts of meat, or even ground meat; it may be served on plates, in sandwiches, or in bowls.

As what their Facebook page says, Kebabers is considered to be the first Kebab fast-food in the Philippines. It is the only Persian Fastfood Restaurant that serves affordable yet quality Middle Eastern cuisine with a twist of Filipino taste.

You've got to try out their variety of kebab dishes all created for a pleasurable dining experience.

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The Department of Tourism (DOT) is very much involved in promoting Eid'l Fitr celebrations in the Philippines as another tourist attraction in the Philippines.

Events promoting Eid'l Fitr festivities are lined up at the Atrium of The Block at SM City North EDSA until August 18 to highlight the amazing culture and crafts of our Muslim brothers.

A mini-exhibit started the celebrations at the Podium in Ortigas Center last August 2 to 8 and then August 9 began the opening of the Eid'l Fitr Festival to greet everyone Eid Mubarak.

The Eid'l Fitr Festival is organized by the Magbassa Kita Foundation led by it's chairperson, former Senator Santaniuna Rasul is featuring a variety of activities from country displays by the different Islamic embassies in the country; institutional exhibits by LGUs, government agencies, and donor agencies working on peace and development initiatives; trade fair products from Mindanao; fashion exhibit on traditional Muslim attires; interactive Salam villages; and cultural presentations.

The sights, sounds and even the food during the opening of the festivities was remarkably fascinating. Do check out the details of the event from my previous blog:

http://www.wazzuppilipinas.com/2013/08/dot-joins-filipino-muslims-in-eidl-fitr.html

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Statement of Secretary Edwin Lacierda on Gilas Pilipinas’ silver medal finish in the 2013 FIBA Asia Championships:

"The Aquino administration joins the Filipino people in congratulating Gilas Pilipinas for winning the silver medal in the 2013 FIBA Asia Championships—and with it, a ticket to the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup in Spain.

This victory is the culmination of years of hard work, belief, and perseverance from our players and their families, from our coaching staff, from the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas led by Chairman Manny V. Pangilinan, and, most of all, from the entire Filipino nation, who has always stood behind the national team through their struggles and triumphs.

In unison, the nation urged our team forward, and with consummate “puso,” they laid everything on the line for flag and country. Gilas Pilipinas has shown the world that no one can outsize the heart of the Filipino. May their performance inspire every Filipino to relentlessly pursue excellence, no matter what field they find themselves in, so that, together, we may fulfill our shared aspiration of a Philippine nation greater than ever before."

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"Ukiyo-e", Japanese traditional woodcut printing exhibition is on view at Baguio Museum from August 10 to 27. The exhibition is part of a month long celebration of Tanabata Festival in Baguio.

The art of ukiyo-e ("pictures of the floating world"), originated in the metropolitan culture of Edo (Tokyo) during the period of Japanese history, when the political and military power was in the hands of the shoguns, and the country was virtually isolated from the rest of the world.

It is an art closely connected with the pleasures of theatres, restaurants, teahouses, geisha and courtesans in the even then very large city. Many ukiyo-e prints by artists like Utamaro and Sharaku were in fact posters, advertising theatre performances and brothels, or idol portraits of popular actors and beautiful teahouse girls.

But this more or less sophisticated world of urban pleasures was also animated by the traditional Japanese love of nature, and ukiyo-e artists like Hokusai and Hiroshige have had an enormous impact on landscape painting all over the world.

credits: unknown owner ( japanguide.com)

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Who loves travelling here?
Well I do!
You see travelling isn't just the sceneries but also the memories. It is not only a mere pleasure but sometimes it turns into treasure.
Sometimes the most boring place is where you can calm your heart and ease your mind.
So this time, I'll tell a very nice story about a person's desire to go to Japan, especially to Kyoto, and that person is me.

Here it goes,

My mother was a former secretary of a pediatrician or we simply call her a nurse.
The doctor, Dra. Isada, went to Japan for travelling purposes. As I scrutinize the photos taken, I realized that they were in Kyoto and what's more is that it's in Kankakuji!

Wazzup Pilipinas Joins the Top Ten Emerging Influential Blogs of 2013 Writing Project

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WazzupPilipinas.com is thinking of joining the Top Ten Emerging Influential Blogs of 2013.

Of course, we are including our WazzupPilipinas.com community blog in the list. As they say, love and proudly promote your own home.

Wazzup Pilipinas was created as wazzuppilipinas.blogspot.com only last September 2012 and was turned into WazzupPilipinas.com just last March 2013. Thus we are requesting for your help to include us also in your list of top ten by blogging about it.

You can follow the instructions here : http://www.influentialblogger.net/2013/06/join-top-10-emerging-influential-blogs.html

We would also like to get your help by suggesting other new blogs out there that were created only last July 1, 2012 and onwards so we could include them on our list of top ten.

Thanks and more power to our community!

Laguna Blogging Summit Core Team Meetup at Greenwich

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The Laguna Blogging Summit core team is all excited for the upcoming biggest social media and blogging event happening in Laguna this year - The 2nd Laguna Blogging Summit!

At another meetup at Greenwich Philfirst, Ayala Avenue Makati branch, the team discussed possible ways to make the 2nd Laguna Blogging Summit bigger and better as compared to the first one. The organizers aim to make the second run of the Laguna Blogging Summit more memorable and exciting for the attendees. There were also talks of continuing to hold online contests and raffles for the promotion of our beloved sponsors as well as the summit itself.

Special guest speaker that day was Pepi De Leon, one of the pioneering member of the 1st Laguna Blogging Summit core team and a professional blogger and social media specialist as well. His topic was all about the Domain Name System or DNS. He also shared the advantages of using a dot com domain rather than the free Blogger or Wordpress sites.

Impromptu speaker was Ross Del Rosario who shared the improvements he experienced when he decided to convert his Wazzup Pilipinas blog from a free blogger site to a dot com. His site, WazzupPilipinas.com, is a new community blog that is only a few months old but has already a lot of viewers and is partnered with many prime agencies and establishments.

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Naga smiles to the world with Xplore Naga 2013 Blogging Contest. WIN A TRIP FOR 2 to Naga + Tour of Camarines Sur on September 12-14!

Simply answer this question on your blog: Why do you want to Xplore Naga?

Post on your blog and paste link on The Photography Academy- Manila's Facebook Page. Winner of the most interesting answer will win! Contest deadline is on August 31. Winner announcement on September 4.

Xplore NAGA 2013 is the Biggest Social and Travel Project to hit the Philippines this year. An Opportunity to Support the Love the Philippines Movement by the New, Effective Leaders of today.

DOTC Says NAIA Terminal 3 Will Be Fully Operational by 3Q of 2014

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The Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) is pleased to announce that it has reached an agreement with Takenaka Corporation of Japan, for the latter to complete and integrate the systems works for the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 3.

Under the terms of the agreement, Takenaka, the original subcontractor, will complete the works within 12 months, allowing Terminal 3 to be fully operational by the third quarter of 2014. These works include baggage handling, flight information displays, computer terminals, gate coordination, and fire protection systems, among others.

With this agreement in place, the DOTC commits to having Terminal 3 fully operational by August 2014.