Greenwich Hosts Pizza Making Camp for Bloggers

Pizza is love! Ask several adults if they love pizza and for sure, you would get a big YES for an answer.

I've always loved pizza and I've made a few at home in the past. But it's a different experience if you are made to create your own courtesy of a well-known national pizza chain in the Philippines.

Greenwich recently invited several groups of Davao bloggers for a pizza making camp at their Ilustre branch. All of us from the Davao Bloggers Society had no idea that the event would let us make our own pizza because we only expected the gathering to be some of kind of a simple get-together wherein we would get to eat our favorite Greenwich pizza. It was only when the program started that we learned about this very first pizza making camp for bloggers from Mindanao marketing head Arvin Tolentino.

Christmas, A Time To Be Thankful

THANK YOU. These are the two words taught to us early in life and which we should never hesitate to utter when the situation calls for it.

In  my daily life, it has always been automatic for me to say "thank you" even to the smallest gestures of kindness shown to me. Like when a vehicle stops to let me cross the street or when somebody offers to give my money to the driver while riding a jeep. When we experience these acts of kindness, great or small, it makes life a little better despite the challenges that we face.

This Christmas season, we should be reminded that apart from giving love, we also have to be grateful for the blessings we received throughout the year. We give thanks as well for the birth of our Savior Lord Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace, who is the real reason for the season.

Workout Whenever You Want To at Anytime Fitness Gym

Do you crave to hit the gym late at night or perhaps after a morning jog but can't because your favorite gym is closed? This should no longer be a problem as Anytime Fitness is now open to serve health buffs any time of the day or night.

Anytime Fitness is the world's largest gym franchise with more than 3,400 branches across the globe. It is a fitness club that fits your goals and feels just right and the good news is that it recently opened its first branch in Mindanao situated at the second floor of Abreeza Mall, specifically at the Corporate Center fronting the Redemptorist Church.

DBS Christmas Party: 'Twas the Fairest Night of All!

When members of the Davao Bloggers Society (DBS) get together, it's bound to be one awesome party. And that's exactly what happened during the Fairest Night of All Christmas party last December 3 at the Garden Oases Inland Resort.

It was my first Christmas party with the group and my first costume party as an adult. We were notified about the Disney theme more than a month earlier so there was enough time to think about what costume  to wear and what character to be. I came as Snow White and surprisingly, three generations attended that night (with me as the most senior haha!). But I guess one is never too old to dress like a princess, right?

3 generation of Snow White with their evil Queen stepmom. (Photos by Jim Carlo) 

Bayad Centers Launches Online Facility for OFWs and Local Consumers

As a wife of a former OFW, I know how difficult the situation is for Filipino migrant workers who work hard in a foreign land away from their families. The sacrifices of both husbands and wives should never be looked down.

I know as well what land-based workers have to go through to send money to their loved ones back home. They need to find a specific time from their regular work schedule to be able to go to a bank and transfer funds. Or if they're too busy, they will just request a friend to do the task for them.

Thankfully, the process of remitting money to the Philippines is easier these days. The good news is that Bayad Center has launched its online facility to help OFWs do faster transactions such as sending money to their families. And not only that because local customers can also take advantage of this technology and innovation particularly when paying their bills.

Sarangani Bay Partners with Pepper's Iberica to Bring Delicious Milkfish Dishes to Davaoenos

Davao has an abundance of fruits and food of all kinds. When it comes to fish, it also has rich resources and that includes the local milkfish or bangus in Tagalog and in the local dialect. The Ilonggos call it bangrus.

I've always loved eating this national fish since I was small despite the fact that it has perhaps the most number of bones. I just love its taste which is creamy (it's a milkfish, after all) and different from the rest of the fish species.

About Sarangani Bay Prime Products

Here in Davao, Sarangani Bay is a leading supplier of frozen milkfish products available in most grocery stores and supermarkets. It also has the largest and only commercial bangus fry hatchery in the Philippines spanning 50 hectares situated in Lun Masla, Malapatan, Sarangani province. Among Sarangani Bay's prime products include the split regular-sized and baby bangus (unseasoned and marinated), milkfish belly, sliced bangus, smoked milkfish, whole regular and the whole baby, sinigang cut and fillet tocino style.

It also has a cooked and frozen line such as the milkfish regular and baby size smoked, stuffed relleno style and embutido. The cooked and bottled milkfish is another line featuring the regular and spicy variants.

Lazada's Grand Christmas Sale is On and Why I Trust Lazada

Online shopping did not appeal much to me in the previous years. Although I do book flights online every now and then, I was too hesitant to buy personal items online for security reasons particularly when the only payment option is using one's credit card.

But Lazada changed my perception. Thanks to the Lazada affiliate marketing team who came to Davao City for a roadshow and to inform bloggers about its 2016 Online Revolution, now I'm enjoying online shopping.

Lazada Roadshow in Davao (Photo by Davao Bloggers Society)

Star Express Shows Off Amazing Tupperware Gadgets

I grew up with Tupperware products (and loads of them) in the house. Yes I admit, I'm a Tupperware baby being the daughter of a former dealer back in the 1970s. As a kid, I was already aware of these Tupperware parties and how sturdy the products are. I remember the products then were mostly colored yellow or light blue unlike today which come in various vibrant colors.

Through the years, the Tupperware products have really evolved and I'm amazed to know that the company has created items beyond the usual food and water containers. Now, they have gadgets and even cologne, powder and lotion.

Some of the brilliant gadgets they have today are the Mando chef vegetable slicer, speedy chopper and their unique can opener and peeler. I only got to know about them during a recent product demo for Davao Bloggers hosted by Star Express, Davao City's major Tupperware distributor. It was a 'wow moment' for me when Ms. Madel Alderite showed us how efficient the two kitchen gadgets are as they can save so much time and effort when preparing ingredients.

Gabay Guro Pays Tribute to Davao Teachers

"Teachers are our second mothers. They are candles that light our path."

Having grown up in a home with one teacher, my Aunt (Nanay's eldest sister), I know the hard work that goes with their profession. I thank my Aunt Inday and second mother for molding my character and for being my source of inspiration especially in my studies back then. A strict yet loving person, I've seen how dedicated she was as a teacher that even after her retirement in the public sector, she continued to pursue her passion in the private sector. I'm proud to share, too, that she was the high school teacher of the late Ilongga Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago at the former Iloilo High School now Iloilo National High School.

Teachers deserve accolades for their dedication, patience and all the hard work they do for their students and schools. And I salute PLDT-Smart Foundation for its Gabay Guro program that lifts the spirits of teachers across the Philippines through its various enriching and fun activities. This year, it organized a major event called TeacherFest 2016 that gathered tens of thousands of teachers from around the country in the Mall of Asia Arena last September in time for Teacher's Day. The star-studded event provided great entertainment and fabulous prizes for the attendees.

Photo by Donn Riel