Erwan Heussaff, Janet Hsieh, and The Fabulous Baker Brothers Featured at TLC Festival

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The TLC Festival was recently held for the first time in the Philippines last November 21, 2015 and has invited their talents like Taiwanese beauty Janet Hsieh, host of TLC's Fun Taiwan, and The Fabulous Baker Brothers Tom and Henry Herbert, as well as our very own Filipino celebrity Erwan Heussaff, TLC's newest brand ambassador featured in a series of four vignettes called Food Fix with Erwan Heussaff, to grace the festive occasion for several hours of fun activities, cooking demos, live music from Ransom Collective and The Bloomfields, and remarkable artisanal fare.

TLC, the leading international travel and lifestyle channel, brought to life the excitement of its shows at an outdoor festival at the long stretch of Bonifacio High Street of Bonifacio Global City (BGC) of Taguig city.
First launched in Singapore last September, the Philippines is the second stop of the TLC Festival and immediately proceeded to Malaysia the next day, November 22. Similar to the Singapore event, the TLC Festival is open to all and of free admission allowing many fans to witness their favorite TLC star up close and personal and the audience were treated to a few appearances of the said stars.

Members of the media got the chance to see the three stars showcase some cooking demos at the Village Tavern restaurant. Erwan cooked up his own version of a Filipino favorite called "palabok" assisted by the lovely and newly-married Janet, while the humorous brothers Tom and Henry prepared a fabulous meaty sandwich. Everyone got the opportunity to sample their special dishes that afternoon.

WD To Transition WD Green Hard Drive Models Into WD Blue Family

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WD, a Western Digital Corporation company and a worldwide leader in storage solutions, will be transitioning WD Green hard drive models into the WD Blue family of drives. The company is simplifying the hard drive selection process for customers by streamlining its model families for mainstream PCs to onlythe WD Blue line.

All currently shipping WD Green models will remain available through their lifecycle, as they transition to the WD Blue label. WD Black models will remain in the PC drive family,yet designed for high-performance applications such as gaming and workstations and for those building high-end systems for creative professionals.

WD’s color-coded productportfolio enables customers to easily choose the right hard drive designed for their intended application. Its other colors include WD Red for network-attached storage (NAS) appliances and WD Purple for video surveillance systems. WD’s datacenter drives are identified with gold labels.

“The market for mass storage has expanded broadly beyond the PC,” said Amy Tan, Senior Sales Manager, South Asia, WD. “Every application for storage requires different hard drive attributes for optimal data recording and preservation, and every drive WD designs has a specific purpose. What can be easier for customers than matching a color to their application?Moving forward, they will only need to know whether they are building PC, high-performance, NAS, video surveillance or datacenter systems.”

The new WD Blue model numbers inherit the same nomenclature as the prior WD Green generation products, but end with a ‘Z’ instead of an ‘X’ (example: WD60EZRX to WD60EZRZ).

Cheery Ideas For Repurposingpre-Loved Holiday Decorations

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Christmas is just around the corner, and without a doubt, if you’re part of a typical Filipino family, you’ve probably already started decorating your home to get into the holiday spirit. If you don’t have the budget for new ornaments and you’re stuck with old or damaged ones, don’t despair; you can still use them to deck your halls with a bit of creativity. Follow these tips from MyProperty.ph on crafting fresh, new pieces out of these worn but much-loved traditional Yuletide knick-knacks.

Adorn a frame. Got Christmas tree ornaments like figurines and balls with missing hooks and strings? Don’t toss them out; all you need is an old picture frame and a hot glue gun to use them again. Simply stick these ornaments onto the frame and put a picture of your family or any holiday-related image or quote in the frame for a unique wall hanging. If you can’t spare a picture frame, you can do this to a mirror with a frame.

Create a wreath. This is the same concept as using decorations to adorn a frame. Only this time, you’re sticking them together to create a circular form that you can hang on any door that needs cheering up. Form a piece of wire into a circle and use it as the base for your wreath so your creation keeps its looped shape as you keep adding ornaments.

Use a shadowbox. A shadow box—an enclosed glass-frame case—would be the perfect way to group broken ornaments and put them on display. You can either toss in Christmas balls alone, or keep things varied by also popping in a few toys, figurines, and holiday ribbons.For best results, choose a color scheme to make your shadow box look simple but elegant. For additional appeal, you can also decorate the glass itself using poster paint or Yuletide decals.

Create a centerpiece. Is your coffee table looking a bit lonely? You can quickly put together a centerpiece by throwing old ornaments in a clear glass bowl or platter. You can even make the centerpiece more festive by laying some Christmas lights over and around the ornaments. Just make sure the table is close enough to an available outlet, and that there are no flammable materials in and around the bowl.

Lay it flat.Instead of hanging your Christmas wreath like you usually do, place it in the middle of the dining room table and place a candle in the hollow middle for a nice lighted centerpiece. If there are parts of the wreath that have lost their evergreen, you can hide these gaps by gluing in—you guessed it—ornaments.

Make Christmas topiaries. You know those shrubs you see outside hotels and mansions that are trimmed into geometrical or animal shapes? You can do the same with your broken ornaments. Just glue them together into any figure you want, like an inverted cone for a tiny Christmas tree, or a sphere stuck to a branch or stick (use a Styrofoam cone or ball to keep the ornaments together). Place the arrangement on an available vase or decorative pot, fill the container to keep it stable, add some ribbons and you’re good to go. The best part is, unlike a real topiary, your holiday version won’t need watering.

Dress up your old Christmas bulbs. Do you have a string of extra-large Christmas bulbs that won’t light anymore? Collect the bulbs before tossing the string into the trash. Brush each bulb with glue and roll them one by one in some glitter until each one is completely covered. You can also use poster paint to give them each a bright-hued refresher. There’ll be enough cheer to go around with these newly decorated bulbs since a single string consists of multiple bulbs, so you can actually put them in separate containers and proceed with brightening up any surface of any room. You can also tie a string to each and turn them into Christmas tree ornaments.