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Thursday, April 24, 2014

Wazzup Pilipinas Wins As Top Filipino Community Blog Site: Fourth Recognition and Counting!

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Just when I thought I am already on cloud nine for being conferred with three recognitions, along came an e-mail that arrived just today, April 24, 2014, notifying me that Wazzup Pilipinas just won another award from the Philippine Top Choice Awards for Business Excellence 2014.

Attached on the e-mail is a congratulatory letter from the Philippine Top Choice Awards Council conferring WazzupPilipinas.com as Top Filipino Community Blog Site (National Awards).

If you could still remember, Wazzup Pilipinas was recognized as a Top Emerging Influential Blog last September 2013. It was then awarded as Most Outstanding Filipino Community Blog Site in January 2014, followed by another award as Best Filipino Community Blog Site last March 2014.

Today, I have been notified of winning as the Top Filipino Community Blog Site (National Awards).

Awards ceremonies will be on July 26, 2014 at Luxent Hotel, Timog Avenue, South Triangle Quezon City.

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Many are saying that Philippine beauty pageants, just like all the rest out there in other countries, are tourism efforts that showcase the beauty of the woman, in our case, the Filipina. Not only does our country have endearing tourist spots, beaches and getaways, native products and handicrafts, traditional food and delicacies, and heritage structures, it also has plenty of beautiful women everywhere you go.

From all its 7107 islands, you are bound to see several pretty faces along the way. Pretty ladies with adorable smiles will always stand out among the crowd. You'll fall in love with our women because aside from being charming, they are also sweet and caring, and truly a homemaker. In fact, many foreigners have married Filipino women and retired in the Philippines.

The winning streak of Filipinas in many major beauty pageants is an indication of how lovely our Pinay ladies are. I believe we are the country with the most number of candidates who were able to go home with an outstanding place where majority of which are in the top ten.

Among the many beauty pageants which I consider most relevant is the Miss Earth pageant. It remains committed to its vows to help protect and preserve the environment, this time putting ecotourism at the forefront of its annual quest to raise awareness on various environmental issues.

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Life in a third world country is terribly bad if you're among the poorest of the poor. Imagine having to live in the dumps of the Metro and surviving on extremely below minimum wage earnings. I cannot fathom how an individual can manage to live in a forsaken surrounding more dreadful than an informal settler's area. With heaps of dirty and disgusting trash, and a smell that can intoxicate and make you vomit, you couldn't stomach the suffering one has to endure just to survive Manila's largest landfill and mountain of garbage.

For the residents of Smokey Mountain, life must go on amidst the sickening dirt and the foul smell. They have very little choice, so they cannot afford to be choosy. Resources are too rare to worry about looking for a cleaner and safer neighborhood. They have to make do of what is available. They have to make ends meet in order to make it throughout the day. Even if majority of the Filipinos are in a deplorable state of "isang kahig, isang tuka", noone can beat the Filipino resilience.

Sometimes, it pains me to realize we may have been too resilient that we made very little effort to change our mindset. I know we deserve more than what we are getting right now, and I know our government should intensify their efforts to enrich the lives of the Filipinos. The thought of hearing from the news of how our taxes were spent irregularly in lavishly wrong ways, that benefited only the few, makes me want to shout out for blood.