Les Miserables : Soon at SM Cinemas Nationwide

Les Miserables tells the story of a former prisoner, Jean Valjean, who becomes the mayor of a town in France who agreed to take care of Cosette, the illegitimate child of Fantine, and Jean must avoid being captured again by a police officer, Javert.

The movie features a powerhouse cast including Hugh Jackman as Jean Valjean, Russel Crowe as Javert plus Anne Hathaway and Amanda Seyfried playing Fantine and Cosette respectively, and is led by Tom Hooper, the winner of Best Director during the 2010 Academy Awards for The King’s Speech.

iZone-iHub : Grand Launch and Techno Summit

There’s this company that tries to change the rules of giving support to startups, and they call themselves iZone-iHub.

They advertise themselves as a tech venue where every I.T. person (that includes the nerds, dorks, dweebs and geeks) can go and make use of their FREE services and facilities – Internet access, coffee, computers, even digital projectors, and even assistance form an onsite techie.

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The big plus is iZone-iHUB has an on-going contest were an individual or group can win as much as fifty thousand pesos worth of prizes, and will provide additional funding and support if they see your ideas to be the next Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.

Watch out for their Grand Launch on January 18 and their Techno Summit on February 16 and get to rub elbows with popular personalities like Vice Mayor Isko Moreno, Representative Angelo Palmones, and Business Magnate Dan Pena.

Big Cypress National Preserve : A Tour of the Wildside

 

Visits to parks like the Big Cypress National Preserve where there's a gator to your left, a gator to your right, an osprey overhead, and a heron right in front of you does a great job to remind me how lucky I am to be able to visit a country with so much biodiversity in addition to parks and preserves that ensure I'm not the last generation that gets to enjoy it.

The preserve is actually more like a swamp that is often called a park. It is a vast area being approximately 720,000 acres in size. The really big virgin cypress trees were cut down several years ago but the preserve maintained its name. The cypress swamp is sort of dry in the dry season and the rest of the year is a swamp.

The preserve also gets rather busy during hunting season. Rifle and bow hunting are allowed at different times of the year so you better check their web page for these seasons.