Int’l Pro Skaterboarders to Grace Converse Phils. Asia Crown Skate Summit

What better way to hold the country’s biggest Skate Summit than to let two of the world’s best pro skaterboarders to lead it? 


This is exactly what Converse Philippines has in store for the hundreds of skateboard enthusiasts who are set to compete for the Converse Asia Crown title on March 31 at the Trinoma Mindanao Open Parking in Quezon City. 

During the summit, US-based pro skateboarders Kenny Anderson and Mike Anderson are set to show Filipino skaters how skateboarding is really done with their extremely polished skate tricks that seem effortless.


Kenny Anderson, who returns better than ever as an alumni to the Converse Skate Team (having been on the original team in 1997), is considered “untouchable” on a skateboard for his consistent style and fluidity; while for Mike Anderson’s part, his skating is often described as “effortless,” because he is said to make his tricks look as if was very easy to do. 

Kenny Anderson (Intl Pro Skateboarder)

Catering to the best skateboarders around the Metro, the Asia Crown aims to give Filipino skateboarders the chance to show off their dope moves on the board and compete with the best of the best skateboarders across the country.


More than bragging rights, the local Asia Crown skateboarding champion will be hailed as the first official skateboarding ambassador of Converse Philippines—That means a year of Converse skateboarding goodies, P50,000 cold hard cash, and plane tickets to official Converse skateboarding events worldwide.


An open skate for all, free of charge, the skate summit will also be a day-long celebration of physical recreation, while fusing music and the arts, to reinforce Converse Philippines’ position as a key proponent of the global sport that is skateboarding,


For interested registrants, check Converse Philippines Facebook page or visit Converse site . Registration forms are available for download at the Converse Philippines’ Converse Asia Crown FB event page and in stores nationwide.

THE BODY SHOP launches a new beauty movement: BEAUTY WITH HEART

Last March 22, 2012, The Body Shop, one of the 21st Century's most iconic and pioneering Brands, launched a new beauty movement – called Beauty With Heart – that will inspire individuals everywhere and transform the boundaries of beauty.

Beauty With Heart places emphasis on a beauty experience that is more than skin-deep, putting a human stamp on beauty and empowering people the world over to Look Good, Feel Good And Do Good.

Beauty With Heart will spring to life through a new store experience called Pulse, as well as through the active support of the first global Brand Advocate for The Body Shop, Lily Cole.

Activist, model and actor Lily Cole is the embodiment of the Brand’s strong Values and the first of a community of inspiring young activists.

Sophie Gasperment, Executive Chairman, The Body Shop, said: "We know that our Brand delivers more than beauty; our products truly contain heart as well.  Today, we’re looking to a future where our vision of beauty can be experienced by new generations for whom it is all about looking good, feeling good and doing good, too.”

Lily Cole, global Brand Advocate for The Body Shop, said: “I have long been an advocate of the potential of using business and consumer power to cause positive change.  The Body Shop takes a responsible attitude to people and the environment, and it feels amazing to be supporting a brand who are pioneers in that way of working.”

The launch took place in central London and attracted figures from the world of fashion, beauty and lifestyle such as Vivienne Westwood and Jo Wood.


The Body Shop became one of the world’s first ethical businesses when it opened its first store in 1976 in Brighton, UK. Today, The Body Shop welcomes over 275 million shoppers to its stores every year, and has over 2,700 stores in 63 countries worldwide.

Beauty With Heart will be rolling out in the UK from 3rd May, with global roll out to follow from 15th May onwards.

Hush Puppies Philippine (share and win some prizes)!!

For your comfortable shoes, Hush puppies is the name!!! Visit Hush Puppies Philippines for more updates on their shoes. Like and share their page and have a chance to win some prizes from Hush Puppies.

Here's the mechanic:

• Be sure to be fan of Facebook page  and follower on Twitter.
• Share or suggest us to your friends by creating an event, direct messages, or sharing to your wall.
• Take a screen shot and email it with your full name, contact number, and twitter id to hushpuppies.philippines@gmail.com
• Top 3 shares will get a pair of Hush Puppies shoes.
• 3 pcs. of Php 1,000 gift certificates will be raffled off for all the remaining emailed entries.
• Deadline of entries is on March 31, 2012

  

Latest flip flops from Ipanema!!

Ohhh It's gettin hot in here!! Summer is in the air. And people take advantage of the warmer temperature by spending more time outdoor during summer. Activities such as going to the beach picnic occur during summer months. And Ipanema features the latest flip flops collection for your summer activities.

Ipanema Solar Temas fem Php 1095  

Inspired by the retro funky 70's, adding a mixture of tropical and natural colors. Straps have this handmade finish effect to flatter the feet.

Ipanema Tropicalia Php 1295 

Php 1495 

Oriental prints were the main inspiration for this style.

Ipanema Sem Igual Php 995 

Various prints compromise the soles of Ipanema Sem Igual. This is the collection made for the teen universe! Mix of 7 different prints inspired by a mania for collecting and trading shoes creating new combinations. Highlights for the main function of the trend icons: animal print, owl, hearts, fruits & lips.

For more latest collection of your favorite flip flops visit Ipanema Philippines. And grab one now at your nearest Bambu store. 

Latest from Grendha Sandals!!!

Here comes the latest from Grendha Sandals that for sure you'll love it. Presenting, the "Ana Hickmann Collection" for Women's Line 2012.

Fall in love with this "Cashemere" style.

Php 1995

Ana Hickmann collection "Tropican" will make you fabulous.

Php 2695

And last, but not the least "Marina" style. And this is my favorite!!

Php 2695

Visit your Bambu store for more colors and avail these pretty sandals from Grendha.

Summer is hotter with Banana Boat Sunscreen Lotion, Schick, & Nuffnang

My ideal Nuffnang summer is definitely a day with my hubby and my 2 kids. And the best place for that is no other than Beach, and we'll just enjoy  being under the sun and explore the beauty of water. And I just love the moment that my kids and hubby running on white sand and having fun as I built the sand castle for them. So simple, but for me is a great summer. 

And Summer won't be complete without "Schick. Free your skin” and “Banana Boat Sunscreen Lotion. We’ve got you covered". Share your Summer plans here through comments....

Free MakeOver from The Body Shop talented make up artists

Treat yourself with a FREE makeover this weekend featuring The Body Shop's talented make-up artists at Festival Mall, Rockwell and SM Mall of Asia stores today March 9-11 (Friday to Sunday) from 3PM onwards. 

Also, come visit The Body Shop booth at SM The Block, Atrium Activity Center for the International Women's Month Event! ♥ See you all there!

DELL launched PowerEdge 12th Generation Server

Dell announced a portfolio of blade, rack and tower PowerEdge servers optimized for use in demanding enterprise environments. As the only one of the top five server vendors to grow server revenues in Q4 2011 with 9.7 percent year-over-year revenue growth, Dell continues to innovate to deliver features that are industry firsts and make the PowerEdge 12th generation servers the company’s highest performing, most manageable servers ever. With this new server series, customers ranging from small businesses to hyper-scale data centers can help maximize efficiency by streamlining and automating operations, help achieve better business application performance and business continuity.  

Mr.Christopher Papa (Country Manager, DELL Phil.), during the Virtual launch. 

The new PowerEdge R820, R720, R720xd and R620 rack servers, the M620 blade server, the T620 tower server and C6220 based on a shared Dell infrastructure server built on the Intel® Xeon® processor E5 product family are the foundation of a complete, flexible IT solution including Dell’s extensive portfolio of storage, networking and client components and professional IT services. The next-generation PowerEdge servers, along with systems management and workload solutions, are designed to deliver performance and management gains to effectively power the most demanding applications, including collaboration, IT and web infrastructure, high performance computing, decision support and business processing.

PowerEdge R720xd rack server, optimized for collaboration.

PowerEdge R720 rack server for demanding workloads, with server fans that cool with less power than it takes to runs a nightlight.

PowerEdge R620 rack server packing in up to 300% more SQL virtual machines per rack.

PowerEdge T620 rackable tower server.

PowerEdge M620 2-socket blade server for extreme density and power efficiency.

PowerEdge C6220 with optimized performance-focused shared infrastructure. 

PowerEdge R820 rack server for dense virtualization and scalable database applications.

The new PowerEdge 12th generation servers are designed to maximize infrastructure efficiency, with innovations including:

• Increase performance per watt up to 101 times over Dell servers ten years ago, enabling large data centers to save up to $1.8 million per year on server power alone. 
• An expanded Fresh Air offering for all PowerEdge 12th generation servers, based on customer feedback. Operate up to the highest excursion temperature (113° F/45°C) warrantied in mainstream servers in the industry and save up to an estimated (US) $3,000,000 in capital savings.
• Server fans in the R720 and T620 models that use less energy to cool the system than it takes to power a nightlight.
• OpenManage Power Center – leveraging Node Manager developed by Dell and Intel – controls and optimizes energy usage at the server, rack, row and room level from a single interface.
• The industry’s first power supply unit to be awarded the highest level of energy efficiency, the Titanium certification, based on independent testing by 80 PLUS.
• The ability to pack in up to 300 percent more SQL Virtual Machines per rack for higher data center utilization compared to previous generation Dell servers.
• The unique Select Network Adapter portfolio to protect investments with a choice of networking I/O, connection speed – including 10GbE, across the portfolio – and vendor, without using a valuable PCI slot all deeply integrated with iDRAC7 with Lifecycle controller 2.0.
• New all-in-one appliances built on PowerEdge 12th generation servers. Dell vStart for Dell Private Cloud, including Dell VIS Creator software, enables IT and business end users to accelerate application and IT service delivery. The Dell Quickstart Data Warehouse Appliance, which is based on the new Dell PowerEdge servers, will be the first data warehouse appliance available on Microsoft SQL Server 2012, and will help mid-market and departmental users easily organize, access and analyze data, enabling them to make more informed decisions.    

Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to customers and delivers innovative technology and services that give them the power to do more. For more information, visit www.dell.com.

Complete your Summer Get Up at Bambu store!!

Getting ready for your complete outfit this summer? Don't forget to drop by at your nearest Bambu store for the complete summer get up!!!

You can pick from the Grendha Sandals.

Or love the Riders Footwear that will fit perfectly for you.

And of course don't miss  the Ipanema flip-flops.

Even the collection from Giselle Bundchen will make you OHHH!!

And also check out the latest collection of Ipanema RJ for Men and Women.

Visit Bambu stores at Glorietta 4, Trinoma, and Alabang Town Center.

Your Ticket To A Healthy Body; Get Fit and Fab with Soyami and Fitness First

It feels so good when our body is fit and healthy. It can handle every stress that will come our way.  But, how can we achieve a healthy and fit body? The secret is very simple and easy to follow. All it takes is to have a regular exercise and a proper diet.  Let Soyami and Fitness first lead your way to a great and healthy life. 

Our body needs nutrients to be healthy. Proper nutrition involves supplying the body with the right nutrients that it needed to achieve it. In order to do that, we need to eat the proper foods, minerals and vitamins. Soyami (“Soyami snack healthy with soyami, so healthy so young”) can provide the nutrients that our body needed to make it fit.  Their wide range of Soyami products that are made from 100% Soya (Soyami Chips, Soya Sticks, and PutoSeko) are packed with full of nutrients that will surely help maintain both our physical and mental well-being. Since Soyami products are made from pure Soya, expect that you can only get the “best nutrients” that Soya has to offer to our body. 


Furthermore, maintaining a proper diet is still not enough to make sure that our body is fit and healthy. Physical exercise plays a big important part in keeping the body fit and Fitness First can provide and educate people the right exercise to achieve their goal to become fit. As what their tagline says “Make the World a Fitter Place”, Fitness First is committed to achieving every individual fitness and health goals.  They inspire everyone to lead a healthy lifestyle. 

It takes more than eating the proper food and doing the right exercise to feel fit and fab!  So what are you waiting for? Start your journey to stay healthy and fit with Soyami and Fitness First – Your Powerful Tandem to a healthy lifestyle. 
For more information about Soyami and Fitness First, like http://www.facebook.com/healthysoyami on Facebook, follow @healthysoyami on Twitter, or visit http://www.amsoyami.com and http://www.fitnessfirst.com/.

Thanks to Pensive Thoughts and Grendha for my pretty prize

Last January, I joined the first ever birthday giveaway of mommy blogger Tetcha at her  "Pensive Thoughts' Birthday Giveaway". In partnership with ELRO Corporation, lucky winners will receive Grendha  sandals (2 winners), Ipanema flip-flops (2 winners), and Rider footwear (1 winner). Believe it or not, I won one of the Grendha sandals yahoo!!

Finally, when I got the sandals from Ms. Cel Mabalot of Elro Corporation, I felt that I am lucky in joining contest. Hoping until next contest to be lucky again (hehehe).  

I love the color of my newest Grendha sandals so pretty in Pink. Thank you so much to Pensive Thoughts and Grendha Philippines for this wonderful gift.

BUM’s Free Tumbler Promo

All you have to do is purchase of any BUM items worth P400 Single receipt and  you can get 1 card plus automatic 1 sticker at any BUM Boutique or SM Dept. Stores nationwide. Collect all 5 stickers and get the limited edition tumbler for free. The promo will run from March 1 to April 30, 2012.

For every completed cards, you may claim the Tumbler at  their Promo Staff at any BUM Boutique and SM Dept. Stores nationwide. Redemption is until June 30, 2012.

·         Customer can accumulate/earn a sticker for every P400 single receipt purchase in any BUM Boutique and SM Dept. Stores nationwide through our Promo Staff.


·         Each card has a control number and must be distributed in an arranged series per outlet/store.


·         Each completed card must be surrendered to the staff and stamp it with “CLAIMED”.  
·         Combination of 2 cards is not allowed.

·         Uncompleted card after the duration date will be mark as void.


·         Customer must present card and receipt to get corresponding sticker at our Promo Staff. Each sticker and receipt must be signed and dated by the staff and the receipt must be stamped “CLAIMED” as well.


·         Each outlet/store will be provided with a number of cards and stickers.


·         This cannot be used in conjunction with other promo.


 ·         The free Tumbler cannot be exchanged for cash, other products or discounts.