Hang Ten Warehouse Sale - December 12-15, 2011

Details

• The Hang Ten Warehouse Sale is from December 12-15, 2011.
• Up to 70% OFF on selected items.
• Warehouse Sale Hours: 12:00nn to 9:00pm.

Location

• Penthouse, Ariato Function Centre, Il Terrazo, Tomas Morato, Quezon City

Mechanics

• Every receipt from the Warehouse Sale worth at least Php1500 entitles you to one raffle ticket to the MAD DASH
• There will be (1) MAD DASH winner per day, and he/she will be chosen by 5:00 PM each day
• Winner is to be present at the Warehouse Sale by 8:00pm, where he/she will be given 3 minutes to wear as much clothes he/she can!
• Everything worn within the 3-minute time frame will be given to the MAD DASH winner for FREE!

FOLDED AND HUNG WAREHOUSE SALE

Details

• Folded & Hung Warehouse Sale is from December 4 to 31, 2011.
• Warehouse Hours: 11:00am to 9:00pm
• Enjoy low low discounts and promos for your favorite Folded and Hung items.

Location

• 63 Scout Albano St., South Triangle Quezon City (View Map)

Converse Warehouse Sale in Marikina will be from December 10-23, 2011

Converse Marikina Warehouse Sale

Details

• Converse Warehouse Sale in Marikina will be from December 10-23.
• Doors will be open from 9:00am to 7:00pm.
• Up to 70% OFF on selected items.

Location

• 65 General Molina St., Parang, Marikina (View Map)

More Details Soon!

The Great Microwarehouse Year-End Sale is from December 11-12, 2011

Details

• The Great Microwarehouse Year-End Sale is from December 11-12, 2011.
• Up to 70% OFF on selected brands and items.
• December 11 Hours: 12:00nn to 8:00pm (Elite Geeks at 10:00am)
• December 12 Hours: 10:00am to 8:00pm
• Items on Sale include laptops, mobile phones, gadget accessories and networking products.
• Brands on Sale include Apple MacBooks, iPods, BlackBerry Phones, Acer Smartphones, LaCie, iHome, Belkin, Gosh!, Phillips, Samsung Cameras and more.
• Register on the Registration Booth for a chance to win in their hourly raffles to be held all through-out the sale (Bring a valid ID for verification).
• Cash and credit card straight payments only (Visa and Mastercard)

Location

• CW Home Depot, Event Halls 1 & 2, Julia Vargas corner Merlaco Ave., Brgy. Ugong, Pasig City. Click on the map to enlarge.

Mircrowarehouse

http://www.microwarehouse.com.ph

What To Expect?

Price list won't be released until the day of the event, but here are some of things instore:

• Up to 50% OFF on selected iHome speakers.
• Less 30% on all Gosh accessories.
• Get 20% off any original BlackBerry accessory with every purchase of a BlackBerry Smartphone or PlayBook.
• Free cleaning of your Apple gadgets when you buy any of Keepit Clean products.

Korina Sanchez interviews Janelle Manahan

Korina: “Janelle, magandang hapon sa 'yo. Kumusta na ang therapy mo? Hindi ka ba nahihirapang magsalita?”
Janelle: “Okay na po ‘yung pananalita. Mas more ‘yung pain dito, so hindi ko po puwedeng i-open masyado ‘yung mouth ko.”

Korina: “Bakit ka naka-sling ngayon?”
Janelle: “Meron po siyang fracture dito. Dito po ‘yung gunshot, so nu'ng lumabas siya dito, parang nabali po 'ata ‘yung buto.”

Korina: “Pero mukha ang tinamaan, meron kang kaunting pekas sa ilalim ng mata. Hindi ba sa ngayon maraming mga panawagan sa 'yo, mula sa nanay? ‘Di ba, si Genelyn ay madalas lumalabas? Ano ang nararamdaman mo o iniisip mo kapag lumalabas siya?”
Janelle: “Nung sinabi niya na nadidiin ko po sila, hindi ko naman intensyon talaga na idiin sila. Kung ano po ‘yung laman ng statement ko, ‘yon po ‘yung totoong nangyari.”

Korina: “Bakit ba sila galit kay Ramgen?”
Janelle: “Marami pong reasons.”

Korina: “Meron bang sumasagi sa isip mo na kaya sila galit kay Ramgen ay dahil sa pera?”
Janelle: “Puwede po sigurong isa sa reasons, pero hindi entirely about doon.”

Korina: “Nasha-shock ka ba?”
Janelle: “Opo. Kasi the time na nalaman ko ‘yung sabi nilang involvement ni Mara at ni RJ, nasa hospital po kasi ako nu'n. Hindi ako nanonood ng news. So nu'ng sinabi po nila sa akin, nagshe-shake po talaga ako. I was crying kasi ayaw ko isipin, and never kong inisip na posibleng sila kasi nga kapatid sila ni Ramgen. So hindi ko po talaga inisip, kasi lagi nga sinasabi ni Ramgen kung gaano niya kamahal ‘yung mga kapatid niya, so kung sila talaga, mas masakit ‘yung pagkawala ni Ramgen.”

Korina: “Nagtataka ka ba sa mga sinasabi ni Ramona?”
Janelle: “Nagko-contradict po at saka may mga sinabi siyang hindi totoo kaya gusto ko rin po siyang makausap. Kaming dalawa ‘yung nando'n, pero ‘yung statements namin magkaiba so hindi ko maintindihan kung bakit gano'n ‘yung statements niya.”
    


Korina: “Sa lahat ng mga sinabi niya, ano ‘yung hindi kapani-paniwala talaga sa 'yo?”
Janelle: “‘Yung sinabi niya na nagtago siya sa ilalim ng aircon, kasi... katabi ko lang siya.”

Korina: “Nasa tabi mo lang siya habang nandoon din ‘yung mga bumaril sayo?”
Janelle: “Opo.”

Korina: “Kausap niya?”
Janelle: “Hindi niya po kausap, pero may point po na may nasabi siya pero okay pa rin siya.”

Korina “Nakita mo ba lahat ng nangyari kay Ramgen?”
Janelle: “Opo.”

Korina: “Nakita mo lahat?”
Janelle: “Nung bumagsak po ako sa floor, doon ko lang na-realize na baka mamatay ako, so in-asthma nga po ako. So ‘yung fear ko, hindi ako... mamamatay ako sa asthma ko, hindi dahil sa gunshots. So kinalma ko lang po talaga ‘yung sarili ko, pero kung hindi ko po siguro nakalma ‘yung sarili ko baka po wala na rin ako. Kasi po ‘yung nangyari nu'n in-ask ko po siya na tumawag for help. Naniwala ako sa kanya na hihingi siya ng tulong.”

Korina: “So kay Ramona ka unang humingi ng tulong?”
Janelle: “Opo. Pero nung nag-aantay ako, natatagalan na ako, nanghihina na rin ako, at saka ko lang naisip na ‘Bakit hindi ako gumawa ng way?’ So nag-text ako ‘yung mga taong possible na gising pa nung time na ‘yon—mommy ko, friends ko. Tapos, luckily naman po, nakahingi ng help ‘yung mom ko through my tito, tapos ‘yung friend ko rin po nakatawag din po siya ng help. So, nag-antay na lang po ako, at saka po may dumating na tulong.”

Korina: “So inasahan mo talaga na si Ramona ang gagawa ng paraan dahil siya ang hiningan mo ng tulong?”
Janelle: “Inantay ko po siya kasi kaibigan ko rin naman po si Mara, hindi lang dahil boyfriend ko ‘yung kapatid niya. Kaibigan ko po siya talaga so iniisip ko na ise-save na rin talaga ako, kaso wala nga pong dumating. Kung talagang gusto niya kaming i-save, bakit hindi siya gumawa ng way para humingi ng tulong eh nandoon lang po naman ‘yung guwardiya? Sobrang lapit lang po talaga ng guard house. Gusto ko silang makausap kasi merong mga dumadating na parang ako pa ‘yung sinungaling, na ayaw ko ng ganon kasi ako na nga po ‘yung nabaril. Wala naman akong motive talaga para magsinungaling pa kasi ang hinahanap ko lang naman po dito is justice.”

Korina: “Kumusta ang magiging Pasko mo ngayon?”
Janelle: “Magspe-spend po ko ng Christmas with may family, pero honestly hindi ko po ma-feel ‘yung Christmas ngayon.”

Korina: “Ano ang mensahe mo sa nanay, kay Genylyn?”
Janelle: “Actually nasabi ko na po sa kanya na wala akong intention na saktan siya, and kung may mga nalabas man ako na katotohanan, kung naapektuhan man sila, hindi ko gusto na saktan siya. Pero kailangan ko lang talaga ilabas kung ano ‘yung totoo para matulungan ‘yung paghahanap sa justice, pero ayaw ko silang sirain, ‘yung family nila o saktan siya.”

Catch the exclusive interview of Ms. Korina Sanchez with Janelle Manahan this Sunday on Rated K.

POEA opens more kiosks to help OFWs

 

The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration has opened additional kiosks at its main office in Mandaluyong City to help the expected 90,000 overseas Filipino workers who will be visiting the country during the holidays.

POEA Administrator Carlos Cao Jr. said they opened 10 additional kiosks at the POEA main office on Edsa, bringing the total number of kiosks to 27, to help OFWs process their overseas employment certificates (OEC).

“These additional windows will accommodate the expected influx of OFWs, who are seeking to have their OECs processed during the Christmas season,” Cao said.

He said around 90,000 OFWs usually return home to the country from December to January to celebrate Christmas with their families.

Cao said the POEA kiosks would be open as early as 7 a.m. and will remain open until all OFWs present are attended to by their staff.

Vacationing OFWs need to secure their OECs so that airport authorities would allow them to return to their jobs abroad.

Cao also reminded OFWs that the POEA main office would be closed on Christmas Day (Dec. 25), Rizal Day (Dec. 30), and on Dec. 31, which has been declared as a special nonworking holiday. -source Inquirer

Mo continues abortion talk on Twitter

Despite facing a temporary protection order, which Rhian Ramos was to have filed on Tuesday, December 6 before the Muntinlupa Regional Trial Court, Mo Twister still talked about his former girlfriend’s alleged abortion, which he first revealed in a video posted on YouTube last week.

In tweets posted Tuesday afternoon, Mo had responded to followers, who have commented on the video. In his first tweet since Friday, December 2, when the video controversy exploded, Mo mentioned how old was his supposed unborn child with Rhian before it was aborted.

Mo answered user @xtrasweetwifeyx: “The difference between you and me dear? Your loved ones get a funeral. My 3 ½ month old child was thrown in the trash.”

In a succeeding tweet wherein he answered user @Mistacey, Mo countered what was commented that he was a “loser.”

'Loser'

“You can call me a loser and I’ll agree with you,” Mo tweeted. “There was been (sic) no denial. I was in that room when, one second, your child has a heartbeat and the next second it’s sucked out by tools and vacuum. I’m a loser? Yes, I’ve lost something that I wish you won’t ever have to endure.”

In his most recent Twitter post also on Tuesday, Mo placed a link to his Tumblr account that bore an image that contains a quote from the late former U.S. president Ronald Reagan: “I noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.”

Mo’s tweets came a day after Rhian made her first public statement since the video was uploaded. She said she had been hurt “unnecessarily” and “undeserved.” She said in an interview with GMA Network’s “24 Oras” newscast on Monday, December 5 that she hoped the controversy “would end so that hopefully I could move on.”

Mo also had a prepared statement that was supposed to air on ABS-CBN’s “The Buzz” last Sunday, December 4, but the show’s producers decided not to air it citing self-regulation.

Rhian’s lawyers said the actress will make a statement soon on the specific details of Mo’s allegations against her in the video.   - Photo source:(Voltaire Domingo, NPPA Images) story from yahoo

PNR TRAIN NOW RUNNING FROM MANILA TO ALBAY

Five years after a supertyphoon battered the Bicol region and damaged vital bridges and stretches of railroad leading to Albay province.  Finally, the Bicol Express train has returned to the land of Mayon Volcano!

Located 480 km south of Manila, Albay offers road travelers a clear view of the volcano, the province’s crown jewel said to rival Japan’s Mt. Fuji for its near-perfect cone. 

 The train clocked a total travel time of 12 and a half hours from Tutuban Central station in Manila to Ligao City in Albay province.  The explorer run began at 10:05 p.m. on Wednesday and ended at 10:30 a.m. the following day, Thursday. 


The initial ride to Albay took longer than advertised: The supposedly 10-hour trip at 110 kph was delayed due to a minor landslide along the route.

It was also slowed down by the other users of the railroad, mainly wooden pushcarts we call "skates" in Bicol. The skates have automotive ball bearings for wheels. Some skates are motorized. This is the makeshift transport for people and goods in most  parts in Bicol. Passengers were rewarded with a breathtaking view of majestic Mayon.

 

The refurbished coaches offer comfort to passengers with first class, sleeper and economy coaches, as well as coaches for dining and cargo. The fleet of trains were donated by Japan East Railway Co. PNR spent about a billion pesos to repair some 400 kilometers of track.

 The train service reaching Albay would retain its old name from the 1960s -Mayon Limited Express. It would start its regular daily trips to Albay province in January 2012 with the completion of a PNR bridge in Guinobatan town. The bridge would stretch the train’s reach to the towns of Camalig, Daraga and Legazpi City.

PNR expects its passenger base to increase from the 400,000 a month to 600,000. If current trends continue, the company said it would schedule more train departures per day and reduce waiting time from 30 minutes to 15 minutes to cope with rising demand.