Garden Orchid Hotel of Zamboanga City: My Home at Asia's Latin City

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Your friendly neighborhood pambansang blogger of the Philippines visited Zamboanga under the invitation of the Department of Tourism of Region 9 to cover the many festivities of the city during its 77th Dia De La Ciudad De Zamboanga. This includes the 9th Philippine Bird Festival and the 2nd Zamboanga International Film Festival when Cinematheque Zamboanga was also inaugurated as the venue of the said film fest.

From the very moment we stepped out of the Cebu-Pacific airplane at the Zamboanga International Airport, we were greeted warmly by the Chavacano-speaking people of Zamboanga starting with a display of some traditional dance as a welcome treat for all the passengers from Manila, and a placard bearing my name carried by a true Zamboanguena to fetch and take me to Garden Orchid Hotel - my temporary home during my stay in Zamboanga Hermosa.

Garden Orchid Hotel is located at Gov. Camins Avenue and is just a stone's throw away from the airport. It is  approximately 10 minutes away form the commercial places like Paseo Del Mar where you can go dining by the sea.

I was booked at the new wing with its own driveway and grand lobby with amazing chandeliers, cylindrical staircases and a wide lounge area. There's a mini-bar at the far end and you can directly see the pool area from the lounge area because they are divided by a see-through glass wall.

The Attack of the Flappy Bird Clones

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After Flappy Bird.... there's Flappy Superhero Birds by Free Hot Games (iOS), Flappy Pipe – Revenge of the Birds by Ben Gaddy (iOS), Flappy Sperm by mantisincgameproductions (Android), Flappy Pipe by WAEEBA (Android), Flappy Troll by EgxGameFree (Android), Flappy Stars - Miley Wrecking Ball Edition by Storm Factory (iOS), Flappy Bieber by App5ive (Android), Flappy Fish by Frojo Labs (Android), Flappy Stache by Team Chaos (Android and iOS), Flappy Fish Escape by Entwickler-X (Windows), ......wait.....let me....rest a bit.....plus a lot more out there resembling the crazy game that made almost everyone insane.

When they said Flappy Bird is dead after the developer pulled it out of the online app stores, out came dozens of reincarnations banking on the popularity of app game that made you wanna wish you have no other worthwhile things to do in life but play on your smartphone.

Yeah, it was insanely addicting because it was a ridiculous game where you only have one life and do nothing but stay away from banging into those pipes. Fortunately, some of the new app games which followed Flappy Birds surprising "success" (if you may call it that) have features that make gaming more interesting. With a lot more eye-candies, things to collect for power-ups, and a few more animated highlights, game time is more "fun" time to leisurely spend the hours and get carried away by the game to reach the highest score possible.

UP-JMA Presents Emirati: Party! Party! Party!

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February has done its way for the Love month and of course the UP-JMA Emirati Party was also held 1ast week of March at the World Trade Center (WTC) in Pasay city.

Wazzup Pilipinas was one of the Media Partners of the event and is here to give you updates of what does this generation of youth has been through.  We share their kind of jamming and idea of fun not limited within the four corners of their rooms, from their homes and their schools, and just proudly giving their best to finish their dreams and aspirations in life.

Indeed, there’s no other student group that can beat the UP JMA parties. This year, they once again dominated the WTC and like the past years they have been so successful in inviting almost every student from the many different colleges and universities to their social activities, parties, and everything else they organize.