Wazzup Pilipinas is People's Choice Winner for Bloggys 2015

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The people have spoken.

We would like to thank the many people who voted for WazzupPilipinas.com making it the winner of the People's Choice Award for News and Events category at the recently concluded Philippine Blogging Awards or Bloggys 2015 held on November 21, 2015 at the SMX Convention Center of SM Aura located at Bonifacio Global City (BGC) in Taguig city.

This is another recognition for WazzupPilipinas.com that will serve as a powerful motivation for us to continue working hard in delivering significant news that aims to inform, engage and educate our readers.

Sharing the stage with other finalists for the News and Events category, our founder, Ross Del Rosario, received the award for People's Choice with great appreciation. The award signifies that there are many people out there who believe in us. We hear the people loud and clear so we promise not to disappoint as we further improve our site to always make it the preferred choice for news that many would appreciate.

Though WazzupPilipinas.com features various topics ranging from travel and destinations, food and restaurants, health and wellness, ats and entertainment, sports and leasure, technology and gadgets, and everything else from most categories presented at the Bloggys awards, we do recognize our strength is really in delivering the news and partnering with the latest events out there since we often collaborate as media partner and brand ambassador of many organizations and brands. However, we try our best to provide a wide array of features to give a more holistic approach and substance in our news and information sharing for both personal and promotional story-telling and campaigns.

#APECtado Ka Rin Ba ng APEC Summit?

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In this modern world, almost everything could have been done through online (e-mail, video-conferencing. chat, etc.). Though a personal transaction is nice, technology is there to make it more convenient and less expensive for us as compared to personally traveling to a destination just to initiate agreement(s) that would eventually fall in the hands of advisers or team of experts, like economic and legal advisers, for consultancy before it gets a final approval. Even before coming here to our country, the other world leaders must have consulted already with their advisers. It would be dumb for anyone of them if they will just come here without any offer of assistance or collaboration. After all, each one of them knows what APEC is all about.

Thus, pampering the leaders with luxurious meals, accommodation, outfits, entertainment, etc., eventhough our country is poor, should not have been necessary. We did not need to excel what China did for last year's APEC Summit. It would have been more interesting if we showed the world that we would not spend billions just to make us look good to countries who already knows who we are even before they landed in our country.

How can the world leaders recognize what the country really needs if we hide the real situation from them?

Filipinos are naturally like that. The attitude is similar to the annual holding of a town fiesta. The traditional heads of the families or clans would always find ways to serve a festive feast regardless if they borrow money, use credit or sell their belongings just to gain enough money for a celebration.

But I'm not that knowledgeable to to the nitty gritty discussions involved during an APEC Summit so I could not really justify both my opinions and the rants of the many "intellectual" netizens out there with their many viewpoints.

The SALt Lamp Is Not Really Salt-Powered But Still An Innovative Light Source

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There has been a widespread misconception about Engr. Aisa Mijeno and his brother Raphael's SALt (Sustainable Alternative Light) lamps. The product and its inventor has been on the spotlight lately after Aisa was invited by the Whitehouse to sit down with US President Barack Obama and Jack Ma of Alibaba at an Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit discussion where her invention was highlighted. While many people praised the inventor for the honorable opportunity, there were others who tried to dig deeper about the invention and now declaring the SALt invention has been falsely advertised.

Many think that the invention need nothing but a continuous supply of ordinary salt water for it to run indefinitely. The truth is, the salt water only facilitates the disintegration of a piece of metal—called an "anode" electrode—that is immersed in the solution. It's the disintegration of this anode, rather than the salt water itself, that produces electricity.

Some are reacting because the invention doesn't really run on saltwater. The saltwater only carries the accumulated negative charges between two different kinds of metals (from the cathode and brings it to the anode). The saltwater closes the circuit, allowing a steady flow of charges that powers the device. Saltwater is only one of the elements involved but can be replaced with other items with dissolved ions like lime juice, vinegar and sports drinks.

What has contributed to the misconception? Well, the name of the product is one, and the many press releases and features about them with headlines containing the words "salt-powered lamps."

But why did the siblings market their product that way? Maybe to be easily understood by their targeted users?