What Makes Motorcycles Fun? You Get A Lot of Friends!

Wazzup Pilipinas!

The "new normal" provided people ways to continue accomplishing daily tasks and stay in touch with loved ones even amid the pandemic. Thanks to digital tools, such as video conferencing, people had a sense of human interaction, despite being physically distant.

But since no man is an island, face-to-face interactions remain inevitable. For Honda Philippines Inc. (HPI), the No.1 motorcycle manufacturer in the Philippines, motorcycles are among the many "new normal" tools that safely bring people together.

Motorcycles became essential tools in the "new normal" as they serve as a mode of transportation. They also make traveling during the quarantine conveniently and safely. Another benefit a motorcycle gives to riders is meeting new people and building camaraderie amid these difficult times. HPI shows us some of these instances, where connections between motorcycle riders helped themselves and the community. 

Motorcycle Clubs

The number of motorcycle riders in the country started to grow through the years, consequently developing numerous motorcycle clubs in different parts of the country. These clubs helped riders share tips and tricks for their rides, build relationships through their shared love for motorcycles, and surprisingly help communities through charity.

Despite the pandemic's restrictions, motorcycles helped riders build a sense of community without worrying about getting sick since their safety gear also protects them from possible contact from the virus and the motorcycle's ability to distance itself from others.

Motorcycle riding can allow people to safely ride solo, but it can also give them various riding buddies to help them through thick and thin. Just because you are riding solo does not mean you have to go through every hardship alone.


Social Media

Delivery couriers from food delivery apps and e-commerce websites gave people staying at home the convenience of having their daily needs without going out and risking their own safety. And since the start of the quarantine, motorcycle riders started providing their services to people without access to these delivery apps and websites.

Social media became a tool for motorcycle riders through groups like Bayanihan groups and buy-n-sell pages to help local microbusinesses deliver homemade food or sell other items and people needing to get certain essentials like milk for babies or products purchased online that needs to be picked up.

Riders become go-to couriers for people in need of couriers, which further widens their connections and relationships. Social media also helps them stay in touch with other riders since motorcycle groups began developing online for updates, meetups, and charity work.

Before the pandemic, HPI used to hold Riders’ Conventions around the country, but since it is not recommended today, riders can join motorcycle clubs like Honda Genio Club of the Philippines, Honda Supra GTR150 Philippines, Honda AirBlade150 Team Red, AirBlade Riders Club Philippines, Inc. and other local Honda clubs around you. The company recognizes the importance of motorcycles in people's lives as an investment and as an instrument to help each other and further grow the community, especially during these times of uncertainty.

HPI has dedicated its services to create a wide array of motorcycles for every Filipino. This is in line with the company's "ONE DREAM" campaign, which aims to fulfill their dream through the joy of mobility provided by motorcycles.



Explore more from Honda and its wide array of motorcycles. For more details about Honda products and promos, visit our website at www.hondaph.com and follow us on Facebook, Honda Philippines, Inc., and Instagram, @hondaph_mc. You can also contact us through our landline number, (02)-8581-6700 to 6799, and mobile number, 0917-884-6632.

More than 10,000 Students and Public Officials Nationwide Upskilled on Digital Resilience During Microsoft Public Sector ICT Summit: Asenso Pilipinas

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Over 10,000 public officials and students across the Philippines participated today in Microsoft Philippines’ largest-ever public sector cloud summit to date, "Asenso Pilipinas: Building Digital Resilience”.

Today’s gathering aimed to enable stakeholders across the Philippine government and broader public sector to accelerate digital transformation on a national scale. These support the Philippine government’s ambitions to reignite economic growth in 2021 and beyond and return the Philippines to the ranks of high growth developing economies.

"We confront the same challenges in 2021 that we did 2020,” said Microsoft Philippines Country General Manager Andres Ortola. “Management of the Covid-19 public health crisis will drive daily agendas for months to come. Meanwhile, as access to vaccines becomes more prevalent, the transition to economic recovery will be the top concern for governments across the world, including the Philippines. We at Microsoft seek to serve partners across the Philippines’ public sector guided by three core principles: Reset, Rebound & Recover.”

“We envision Asenso Pilipinas to be a catalyst event,” added Ortola. “By working closely with leading private and public organizations across the Philippines we know we can jointly and successfully drive innovations and power purpose-driven digital transformation whenever and wherever it is needed.”


Upskilling Public Sector Professionals for Better Governance

Today’s gathering enabled different departments and sectors from across the Philippine government to accelerate efforts at reigniting economic growth in 2021 and beyond by achieving digital transformation on a national scale. The summit highlighted innovative solutions available to reinvent, reimagine and transform the framework and processes in the public sector.

The event featured four learning tracks focused on a) People: how to close skills gaps and enhance productivity and employability; b) Process: how to stimulate digital transformation across the board; c) Data: building stronger coalitions for responsible digital innovation; and d) Technology: leveraging technological advances to create societal impact sustainably. 

An esteemed roster of national leaders from both public and private sectors joined today’s sessions.

Department of Education (DEPED) Secretary Leonor Magtolis Briones, delivered a keynote speech focused on digital transformation and how education in the Philippines will look in the post-Covid 19 environment.

Department of Information & Communications Technology (DICT) Undersecretary for Legal Affairs, Policy, Planning & Finance, Jose Arturo de Castro participated as well, discussing plans to upskill government employees with digital skills, in partnership with Microsoft.

In addition, the learning tracks featured Supreme Court of the Philippines Court Administrator, Justice Jose Midas Marquez, Department of Environment & Natural Resources (DENR) Undersecretary Analiza R. Teh, and Asian Development Bank (ADB) Director for Digital Innovation and Architecture, Ozzeir Khan.



Tim Cone, Head Coach of Barangay Ginebra San Miguel, giving a talk about The Winning Mindset



Preparing Students with Digital Knowledge and Skills

Meanwhile, thousands of students from across the Philippines’ 7,600-plus islands attended a parallel student track, gaining valuable, inspiring insights, and learning how to access the right tools, experiences, and learning opportunities to build the digital skills necessary to fuel the future.

The student track featured three skilling sessions aimed to empower students in job-seeking and professional networking, digital tools, and resources to strengthen job readiness and essential skills and competencies needed in real-world settings, led by DITO CME Chief Operating Officer Donald Lim; LinkedIn Channel Partnerships Lead Chi Ming Loh; Grab Philippines Country Marketing Head RJ Cabaluna; Western Digital Country HR Director Gil Paolo de Guzman and PJ Lanot of Pino Group of Concepts.



How a Culture of Innovation Can Build Resilience and Accelerate Digital Transformation

Daniel-Zoe-Jimenez, Associate Vice-President of International Data Corporation (IDC), APAC presented the results of an Asia-Pacific-wide, Microsoft-commissioned IDC study, “Culture of Innovation: Foundation for business resilience and economic recovery in Asia."

The study surveyed 213 business decision makers and 231 workers in the Philippines within a 6-month period, before and since the start of the global COVID-19 pandemic. The Philippines study comprised part of a broad survey of 3,312 leading business decision makers and 3,495 workers across 15 markets across Asia Pacific.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, 56% of organizations in the Philippines—like leaders across Asia Pacific (64%)—have found innovation to be easier. The study also indicated that 88% of business decision-makers in the Philippines remarked that innovation is now a "must" for them to quickly respond to market challenges and opportunities and ensure business resilience.



Microsoft Para sa Bayan: Empowering and Enabling Better Government Through Technology

Today’s summit forms a core service offering from Microsoft Philippines’ “Para sa Bayan” initiative. “Para sa Bayan” is a nationwide, holistic series of programs, technology interventions, and skilling efforts to empower stakeholders across the Philippine government, public and private sectors.

Four core strategies drive the Para sa Bayan program: stimulate digital transformation; build coalitions for responsible innovation; close the skills gap to enhance employability; and create societal impact sustainability. The program was built to support and empower the different national digital initiatives of the government and strengthen the Philippines as a digital nation--ready to meet the challenges and capitalize upon the opportunities that will become available for post Covid-19 pandemic governance.

"Through Para sa Bayan, our national goal is to serve as a proactive agent of positive change for at least 25 million Filipinos by 2023. By working closely with government and stakeholders across the public sector, we can help deliver improved digital skills, inclusive opportunities, and digital citizen services for every single Filipino," said Microsoft Philippines Public Sector Director, Joanna Rodriguez. “In 2020 Microsoft celebrated its 25th consecutive year operating in the Philippine market. We are committed to continue our service for the Filipino people and look forward to building—through technology—a stronger, more resilient nation together.” 

Content Creators Chuck and Joe: Promoting Theft on TikTok

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RestoPH condemns irresponsible behavior of “influencers” Chuck Aquino and Joe Abad. 

Gusto ko na naman manampal nang bakla ngayon. Online Sampalan is now Open for Joiners. Basta bakla talaga, mas madalas na Hindi matino ang pag-iisip. Feeling nila nakakatuwa sila palagi.

Bad influences.  Dapat banned nA sa social media platform for advocating stealing.   Kahit na ba sabihin na bayad,   yung condiments should not be used to be taken home. Hindi naman daw ninakaw kasi hindi naman nila kinuha kung hindi kusang ibinigay. Luh. Gobyerno kayo?  Twong mga vaklang twoh. 

Palala ng  palala yung mga gumagamit ng TikTok. Jusko! Kaya dapat na yung ma-ban, palala na sila ng palala sa katoxican nila. Yung mga nagpapakita ng cleavage at mga ibang parte ng boobs...pati puwet nila sa kakasayaw sa TikTok. Ngayon advocating stealing?

It's another case of "influencers" trying to justify their bad behavior for entertainment. But we should use the term "Content Creators" instead as being influenced is subjective especially in this case where they seem to be promoting theft.

They even came out with another unapologetic apology. These two, some would say "influenzas", are actually promoting stealing - a criminal act so enough posting in social media and just file the necessary criminal case as per law.

Make video for clout - it goes viral - public outrage - non-apology apology - repeat...

Kaloka nga yung non-apology nila. Huwag daw magsayang pero nagrequest naman pala sila talaga ng extra togarashi. Pwede naman daw i-take out yun hingi ka ng hingi with an intention to refill your lagayan. Ah, ewan!

Jusko! Itatapon lang naman daw kaya iuuwi na lang nila. Ay bawal pala humingi ng humingi tapos itatakeout lang? Charms! May naalala akong bigla. Yung mga intentional na kumukuha ng marami sa buffet tapos hindi uubusin para i-takeout. Karamihan diyan mga mommy bloggers ang gumagawa para may pasalubong sa bahay.

Ang kukupal nila. It is not a prank, that is theft. 

Anybody laughing about it? Palitan dapat ang headlines of "influencer" ng "huwag tularan". They should be banned in restaurants.

Kawatan is kawatan, so fucking cheap!

Do we have 'persona non grata' in restaurants and fast food chains? Bagay na ipataw sa kanila.

File a criminal case against them so they will learn? Or let go since they just did it for clout? Papansin lang? KSP? All for the views? 

There are 2 outcomes to what this couple did:

1- They are blacklisted from Landers & the restaurants.

2- Landers & the restaurants start charging people for the extra condiments.

If #2 happens, thank #chuckandjoe. Clout pa moooooore.

They paid for it naman daw. Wtf! Ganitong ganito yung naging case ng Family Mart dun sa green matcha ice cream nila. People abuse it kaya inalis na lang. You know pag di na nagserve ang restaurants ng free condiments at may extra fee na these people should be blamed.

Chicken oil at mang inasal is now 7pesos per sachet pack.

Parang sa Burger King dati na you refill soda on your own. Inabuso ng iba. Ang pinupuno nila, yung Coleman jug nila. Kaya, tinanggal din eventually. The same people who steal it will complain kung bakit may bayad na.

So far wala pa naman ako nakikitang ganyan sa S&R.

Food Industries are on strict Cost Saving measures - pero etong mga hampas lupa at patay gutom mga walang malasakit at pag iisip na matino! ANG PAPANGIT NILA!

Hindi lang sa inventory may cost cutting,  kahit sa labor cost.... at yang dalawa ay hindi nakakatulong. Baka matagal na nilang ginagawa iyan. Nangatwiran pa nga na nagbayad naman daw sila. Lol!

Serial nakaw food for clout couple. No remorse or whatsoever maybe you don’t deserve rights.

Just wanna let y’all know na 30petot sa Shopee yung isang pouch/bag ng spices na ninakaw nila. They can’t buy spices and class, I guess.

Yung mga ganitong so called “INFLUENCERS” daw, dapat hindi binibigyan ng chance na sumikat. Lalo kung puro clout contents lang naman. Lalo na yung puro pranks lang ang content. Puro panggagago lang ang alam gawin.

It's easy to be 'influencers' nowadays. Post ka lang ng sexy video mag vviral ka na. They're up for everything. They're like stray dogs waiting to get noticed by people who are willing to feed them, clothe them & have them stay sa resorts. But hopefully there are still some legit influencers who are not patay-gutom.

Why do we have these influencers who are not educated enough as to what they need to to. Bad behaviour is never meant to be a tool to influence people. They should learn that if they had proper education or good family values at the least and obviously they dont have both.

Being an influencer is becoming a stupid concept. They will do anything for content. People have got to stop supporting this type of thing.

Hindi na dapat pinatulan ng RestoPH? Chuck and Joe just gained more views and hits equals money money money!!!! The joke's on RestoPH?

So keep quiet na lang kapag nagnanakaw kasi influencer? Kaya yan ineexpose ng RestoPH ay para mawalan ng sponsors. 

Tingnan natin kung may mukha pa silang ihaharap sa mga restaurants. They should stop food vlogging/blogging. 

So imbes na maging mabuting tao, mag Sleepasil ka na lang so you can get better sleep because that’s much better than doing the right thing.

Tanong natin yung mga brands that seemingly pay them to get promoted, what do they think?

PayMaya

Sleepasil 

Cloud9 Philippines

Samsung Mobile 

Food Panda PH

Create. Relevant. And. Meaningful. Content. Please. 

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