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Mabinay Mayor Ernie Uy expressed gratitude after his town harvested all the awards for the best booth competition during the recently culminated ten-day celebration of the Buglasan Festival in Negros Oriental.

The municipality of Mabinay won as Best in Activity Booth and Best in Façade at the Agri-fair booth at the Sidlakang Negros Village.

They also won as the Best Booth among the eight local government unit booths at the Capitol grounds.

Mabinay received a total cash prize of P150,000 for the three awards.
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This is my very first post for the year 2012. Please accept my apologies as I haven’t blogged for a very long time because of work-related reasons. I have become a career woman and I never regretted that I chose this path. There are disadvantages with the job I have now, like, for example, I work 10 hours a day; 12 hours or more on busy periods which is March-June and September-December; which means, sometimes, I only have 5-6 hours of sleep. But the advantages weigh more because, for example, I get paid to do what I like. Apart from the salary, I also earned new friends that I share common interests with. Like, we all  love to travel, go to the movies,  have sparties and taste good food. Speaking of food, we just had our nth get-together. We chose to dine in one of the most kept secrets of Cebu – 10 Dove Street.
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This October, expect bigger and grander surprises as PELÍCULA, the largest presentation of Spanish cinema in Asia and Pacific is turning 10. Screenings of all films will take place from October 5 until 16 at the Greenbelt 3 Cinemas. For complete information on the schedule and films, visit the festival website www.pelicula.ph

Oslob Church

This town called Oslob is located in the south of Cebu. The first time I went there, I was on a History class fieldtrip way back 2002. 9 years later, I thought of this place when my cousin and her boyfriend went to Cebu for a short vacation. I thought they might like to go to the south to see some historical towns and also for me to get away from the metro for a day.

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Discoveringpinas.com is back on the blogging scene. We will update you more starting today as we finally transferred hosting company. We had experience a monthly downtime since January due to a server problem from our previous hosting. But don’t worry Discoveringpinas.com is now back!

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Philippine Tourism industry experiences a new breed of representation through free mini-postcard guides.

First Innovi Corporation does it again! The provider of YOCard, the first and only brand of free postcard advertisement in the Metro, expands its freecards success to our country’s growing tourism industry with the launch of Pocket Philippines. Pocket Philippines are mini-postcard guides that provide tourists information on where to go, what to do and how to experience the spectacle that the Philippines has to offer.

Pocket Philippines kiosks holds postcards, maps, event calendars and pocket-sized information cards that serve as a tool for the perfect amount of information tourists need. The design, structure and appeal of each mini-postcard was custom-made to go straight to the pocket of each consumer; a convenient and handy source of need to know subjects.

Launched in 2007 with only 50 topnotch outlets, First Innovi Corporation’s primary brand, YOCard, has produced freecards of the hippest and most happening brands, establishments, events and adventures in the Philippines. And now, the venues has grown to 250 locations where both brands are present.

Pocket Philippines is now providing tourist with information in the following hotel and tourism-related locations: Adriatico Pensionne Inn, Ayala Museum, Best Western La Corona, Berjaya Manila Hotel, Intramuros, Copacobana Apartment Hotel, Creekside Amorsolo Hotel, CSB Hotel, DOT Office, Garden Plaza Hotel, GO HOtels, Greenhills Elan Hotel, Hotel Las Palmas, Lancaster Hotel, Lourdes Suites, Makati Palace Hotel, Malacanang Museum, Malate Pensionne, Malvar Hostel, Manila Hotel, NAIA 1, NAIA 3, National Museum, National Arts Gallery, Ninyo, L&B Suites, Pan Pacific Hotel, One Roman Suites, Sentro, The Sulo Riviera, Team Manila, The Contemporary Hotel, The Copa Businessman’s Hotel, Tiara Oriental Hotel, Travel Cafe, Vargas Museum and Yuchengco Museum.

For more information about Pocket Philippines or other related inquiries, please call (02) 376-5357 or email info@pocketphilippines.com.

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Domino’s Pizza, the recognized world leader in pizza delivery, recently opened their flagship store in Marvin Plaza, Pasong Tamo, in Makati’s Central Business District. Originally founded in 1960, Domino’s pioneered the pizza delivery business, and its total system sells more than 400 million pizzas worldwide every year. There are more than 9,000 Domino’s Pizza stores in more than 65 countries, employing over 175,000 team members, and involving over 2,000 franchisees.

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Former House Rep. Prospero Pichay is positive that with various sustainable environmental efforts being implemented in this city and the province, it is not impossible for Puerto Princesa and Palawan to prosper more economically because of eco-tourism.

Here on a two-day national summit for watershed management, Pichay said that because of the dynamic and active government and non-government organization partnership to protect, conserve and preserve Puerto Princesas and Palawan’s natural environments, it is not impossible for more domestic and foreign tourists to come.
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The Mind Museum, the Philippines’ first world-class science museum, launches its online fundraising campaign through its redesigned website (www.themindmuseum.org) on May 29, 2010 at the Activity Center of Market! Market!, Taguig City. In order for Filipinos to get involved and help build imaginative minds, the Museum is harnessing cyberspace to invite individuals to donate via its first virtual exhibit: “Light a Star at the Mind Museum.”

For P1, 000 or P5, 000, The Mind Museum will light a star or a constellation in its website. Sponsorship could be done online via credit card and eventually through the ATM as well. The goal is to reach 2 million pesos to help light the night sky of The Mind Museum in the form of a Star Cloth in the Universe Gallery. The Museum will show its appreciation to donors by sending an electronic certificate of donation, and by posting on the donors’ FaceBook wall, if they have one. Donors’ names will also appear by their chosen star or constellation in the Museum’s virtual night sky, and they will also be recognized in a donors’ marker in the Universe Gallery.
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