Wazzup Pilipinas News and Events

Monday, July 6, 2015

A Royal Performance from the Michelin Pilot Sport EV in England

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The inaugural FIA Formula E Championship concluded in style, with e.dams-Renault clinching the Teams’ title after Race 1 on Saturday, June 27, thanks to the lights-to-flag victory of pole-winner Sébastien Buemi. The Swiss driver’s points haul of 28 points closed the gap to leader Nelson Piquet Jr to just five units ahead of Sunday’s action. That boosted his confidence, which was lifted further when Buemi got a dry qualifying slot (Q2) for Race 2, while title rival Piquet was slowed by a heavy shower during Q3.

For the first time this season, the drivers faced wet conditions but the MICHELIN Pilot Sport EV rose to the occasion to provide the necessary grip. “We’ve been waiting for this sort of weather since the beginning on the championship,” says Serge Grisin, manager of Michelin’s Formula E programme. “We designed the MICHELIN Pilot Sport EV to be a very versatile tyre and we finally got the opportunity to see how it performed in a wet qualifying session on Sunday. Technically, that was very important because we wanted to collect data and get feedback from all the drivers. Now we know we met our objective because we received positive praise from everyone.”

The wet session shook up the start order for Race 2, with Stéphane Sarrazin (Venturi) claiming pole position and title challengers Buemi and Piquet starting from sixth and 16th places on the grid respectively. Forty minutes later, after one of the season’s most exciting contests, the Swiss driver and the Brazilian collected fifth and seventh places overall. That was enough for Piquet (144 points) to seal the Drivers’ crown by a single point. The race itself was won by Sam Bird (Virgin Racing), ahead of Jérôme D’Ambrosio who claimed his second strong result of the weekend.

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The Interscholastic Debater’s Association (IDeA) proudly welcomes another stellar line-up of events for the year 2015.

IDeA is a youth-initiated and youth-targeted organization, formed in 1997 and comprised of more than 200 high school debaters from over 23 institutions in Metro Manila. Geared towards providing an avenue for its members to discuss, analyze, and evaluate issues of domestic and international concern, the Association has hosted multiple events in its years of existence. This year, under the guidance of Angelique Leda (President for year 2015-2016) and Colleen Anne Chua (Vice President for year 2015-2016), the Association commits to host at least 4 debate tournaments and 1 debate symposium, in order to cultivate rationale thought and awareness among the youth.

The highly awaited symposium, the Integration Seminar (IntegSem), is slated on July 11, 2015 from 7:30 AM to 6:30 PM at the North Greenhills President Hall, San Juan City. With help from major sponsors such as Universal Robina Corporation, Smart Telecommunications Inc., and Ardent World Inc., and media partners with the likes of Rappler, WhenInManila.com, WazzupPilipinas.com, Circuit Magazine, Magic 89.9, and Radyo Inquirer, it can be assured that this year’s IntegSem will be grander than ever before.

Kung Paano Ako Naging Leading Lady The Musical: Well Deserving of a Repeat

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My childhood was filled with superheroes. From the comic book to the cartoons in both movies and TV shows, I enjoyed learning about super-powered beings with out of this world capabilities. From aliens to mutants, or humans that transformed into powerful beings because of accidents like exposure to gamma rays or a bite from a spider, we all loved how the ordinary guy turned into an image respected and adored.

But just like any superhero story, there would always be the evil counterparts aiming to bring down the superheroes due to many reasons like as simple as robbing a bank or bigger like world domination.

Do you now why we love superheroes? It is because we all have that inner longing to save the world, or be saved by a superhero. Yes! We all want someone to rise up against the oppressors to bring forth the downfall of a tyranny, or we want all the criminals behind bars, or the corrupt politicians to finally be exposed for the real reasons why they would spend millions and even die just to be in government office.

Kung Paano Ako Naging Leading Lady the Musical Repeat does not only tackles the eminence of being a superhero. It also deals with so many life challenges and realities. From the unfavorable conditions of the masses who are forced to work as maids because of lack of better work opportunities, to how we are easily brainwashed into submission due to lack of education and support from family, to the sibling rivalries at home.