Enjoy newly-reopened stores, active lifestyle spaces and convenient online services as you Celebrate Life with Ortigas Malls

With the shifting of the Community Quarantine guidelines, many have already gone to their most-frequented malls to visit their favorite restaurants and shop in their favorite stores.

Re-opening of salons and dine-in restaurants

With people eager to have their hair cut after being in quarantine for almost three months, salons in Ortigas Malls finally opened their doors to mall goers with strict sanitary measures and 50% capacity, making more room for those who are in need of a haircut, hair recoloring, or a pedicure.

Well-loved restaurants in Ortigas malls such as Kimpura, Gloria Maris, Manam and Wildflour have already started accepting dine-in customers. They don’t only provide safe dine-in options with acrylic dividers and observe allowed maximum capacity with social distancing, but also offer exciting deals to guests!

Cashless Parking and Car Wash Service

Customers can now enjoy worry-free parking transactions as they visit Ortigas Malls as payment is made more convenient with PayMaya terminals accepting Bancnet, Mastercard & Visa cards.

You can even save time by getting a car wash while completing your shopping with Greenhills’ Shop N’ Wash. Mall-goers can request for the carwash service upon entering the parking ground of Greenhills Mall.

Click & Collect and My Personal Shopper Online Services

For those who prefer to order online and pick up their own goods, they can still do it safely by collecting all their essential needs from designated pick-up areas through the Click & Collect program available in Greenhills, Tiendesitas, and Estancia from 9AM -8PM daily.

For those who need extra help in shopping for essentials or completing transactions, Ortigas Malls partnered with MyKuya app to provide personal shopping services for its patrons. Through the app, you can easily pay your bills, shop for your groceries, medicines, food and other essentials from Greenhills, Tiendesitas and Estancia at the safety of your homes.

Catch your favorite sellers at Live Studio

In an effort to support all tenants as they bounce back from the health crisis, Ortigas Malls is providing an avenue for them to maximize their online presence through the Live Studio  – a content creation

hub located inside the mall for all tenants to showcase different products and explain their features in a live feed. Each studio will be equipped with a complete camera and lighting setup for them to shoot their updates, latest deals and newest products that consumers can watch safely at home.

Active Playground for a healthier shopping experience

Greenhills will also be pioneering the launch of an Active Playground that promotes a convenient space for bikers, joggers and people who want to have a leisurely workout throughout the day!

Greenhills will have dedicated bike lanes and bike parking with signages placed throughout the complex to guide bikers and to lead them to the designated parking spaces where they can lock their bikes before shopping. For those that bike for fitness, every day from 6 AM to 8 AM, Greenhills will be implementing “Bike Priority” lanes for bikers.

To encourage mall goers to stay fit and active while going around, there will be pop-up challenges in different areas of the mall, encouraging patrons to jump, hop, balance and have fun.

Check out the Gardening Buys at SM Supermalls

The quarantine period has certainly sparked trends in food, hobbies, even with the dramas we watch on our favorite streaming platforms.

One of the trending hobbies these days are gardening. A lot of people now have this new found passion in collecting and growing plants in their homes. Every nook and cranny of houses these days are now filled with eye-refreshing greens. SM Supermalls got our ‘plantitas’ and ‘plantitos’ covered with their gardening needs when they visit the mall.

Growing kits, seeds, pots and planters are widely available in all Ace Hardware branches in your favorite SM Supermall. Personal tools to take care of your plants - sprinklers, gardening scissors, gloves, twist ties are also available at Japan Home Center in SM Center Angono and SM Cherry Antipolo. Select SM Supermarkets also have fresh blooms, live potted plants and succulents which are ready to display like in SM City Masinag.

While growing plants may not be for all, faux flowers and succulents are available for home or office decorations at The SM Store. They also have indoor fountains, pots and vases that go beautifully with indoor greeneries.

Stay connected with the latest updates of your favorite shops through official social media accounts of your nearest SM Supermall.

Call & Deliver with The Body Shop

The Body Shop brings beauty and wellness to your home with its new Call & Deliver service. As you stay safe and take care of yourself and your loved ones, take a moment and treat yourself to an exciting self-care routine your skin and senses will thank you for with our new products:

• Revitalize your bath time with fruity new bath blends and fizzing animal bath bombs. Sit back, soak up, and relax with new bubbling Bath Blends enriched with superfruits and veggies rich in antioxidants and minerals that will leave your skin feeling hydrated, nourished and comforted. Or make a splash with seriously fruity and fragrant animal Bath Bombs that transform every tub into an uplifting immersive escape.
• Cool your skin with a quick spritz of The Body Shops new Vitamin E Gel Mist. With raspberry extract, its light and refreshing and can be used wherever, whenever, for that instant ahhh feeling and 48- hour hydration.
• Get the perfect sun-kissed look with less time in the sunshine with The Body Shops new sensorial bronzing range looks. Enriched with Community Fair Trade Coconut from Samoa and 100% vegan, it looks exactly how the sunshine feels.
• Treat yourself to a calming bedtime routine with The Body Shops new French Lavender Pillow Mist infused with lavender essential oil from beautiful Provence. Simply spritz on your pillow, close your eyes, breath in . . . and sweet dreams.

The Body Shops self-care essentials are available in The Body Shop stores, Call & Deliver, Lazada, Shopee and ShopSM. Join The Body Shops Viber Community to know more about Call & Deliver and other promos. The Body Shop now accepts SM Advantage Card for points earning and redemption, SM and Sodexo premium pass in all The Body Shop stores nationwide.

ORDER TO DELIVER WITH SM APPLIANCE CENTER

After being homebound for quite some time, we’ve all come to appreciate our living spaces more. We’ve seen them transform into work spaces as WFH becomes part of the new normal; and into family centers as we embrace more time together.

With that, we’ve come to realize how having the right home essentials can help everyone to stay happy, comfortable and safe. And the good news is that SM Appliance Center now has its Order To Deliver service that will help creating your dream home more fun and convenient.

Now you can shop on line for air conditioners to keep your home cool and comfortable especially during the summer months. Some brands have a Nanoe technology which deodorizes and purifies the air in your home.

It’s also the best time to create nutritious meals for your family with stylish inverter refrigerators which not only keep your ingredients fresh and frost free but also make your home energy efficient and elegant looking. SM Appliance Center also has chest freezers with dual functions, serving as a freezer and chiller for all your favorite frozen goodies.

You’ll also be amazed how innovative inverter washing machines help you save energy, time and money in doing all your laundry chores. There are all in one washer and dryer combo inverter washing machines, which you can remotely operate your laundry, download additional cycles and interact with it with smart convenience with Smart ThinQ features.

You can also check out family entertainment centers that will bring the cinema-experience to your home, as well as personal computers that will help you be creative and productive as you work from home, and stay connected with your family, friends and co-workers.

Create a smart lifestyle for your family and live life more with these home essentials from SM Appliance Center.

How to shop with Order To Deliver service? Browse SM Appliance Center products at https://bit.ly/3d53Z8t and place your orders at https://bit.ly/2WN5aEn then an SM Appliance representative will contact you for your order confirmation. SM Appliance Center can deliver to all areas within Metro Manila and accept orders from 9am – 7pm, Monday – Friday. For inquiries, you may also join SM Appliance Center’s Viber community at https://bit.ly/SMApp-Viber. With our easy & secure home delivery service, you can Stay Home and Stay Safe.

You may also shop online at www.smappliance.com. For more updates, you may also want to like us at facebook.com/smappliance or follow us at instagram account/smappliance.

PLDT partners with PBSP to provide food packs and vitamins to families in Malabon and Cebu

PLDT Inc. recently donated food supplies and vitamins to over 1,000 families in Cebu City and Malabon City adversely affected by the COVID-19 in partnership with the Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP).

"Urban poor families are some of the most vulnerable at any given time, more so in this period of uncertainty and hardship. Thank you to PLDT for choosing to allocate its Motolite PBSP Balik-Baterya funds to support our COVID-19 campaign. The provision of food packs is incredibly important in minimizing the adverse impact of job losses and suspended economic activities. Our communities are grateful for PLDT's generosity and solidarity," said PBSP Deputy Executive Director Elvin Ivan Y. Uy.

Families in Brgy. Mambaling, Cebu City received food packs containing vegetables, crops, onion and garlic and canned goods. Condiments, germicidal soap, as well as Cebuano-translated info sheets about COVID-19 are also included in the food pack donations. In addition, 450 boxes of Vitamin C were also distributed.

To support over 40 farmers and fellow farm laborers, all the vegetables were sourced locally from barangays Tabunan, Gaas and Sudlon 2 in Cebu.

In Malabon City, PLDT distributed food packs containing rice, eggs, dried fish, dressed chicken and vegetables to the indigent families surrounding Catmon Integrated School, which is among the beneficiaries of the Company's school-building programs. The families are from PBSP-assisted homeowners associations.

"PLDT recognizes the power of unity in these trying times, and we are truly grateful for our partnership with the PBSP as well as on-ground organizations in Cebu and Malabon, who enabled us to reach out and touch the lives of these families in need,” said PLDT Community Relations Head Katherine P. Diaz De Rivera.  

PLDT’s donations were taken from its Balik-Baterya funds, PBSP’s institutional environmental program which involves the collection, proper recycling and selling of used acid-lead batteries to fund various corporate social responsibility projects. PLDT, as its pioneer supporter, remains to be the Program's top donor.

PLDT and PBSP's efforts to fight COVID-19 goes all the way back at the onset of the Enhanced Community Quarantine, when the Company donated P1M to the Bayanihan Musikahan, which was used to fund food packs for 1,300 families in various underprivileged communities in Metro Manila. 

To know more about the efforts of the PLDT Group in beating the COVID-19 pandemic, please visit https://beta.pldt.com/covid19.

This July, learn about the WORLD’s FIRST EVER BlendFlex and TripTeach program!

4+4 =8 but so does 5+3. The way you do things isn't always the only way to do them. RESPECT other people's way of thinking.

In this time of pandemic, parents are looking at homeschooling as a learning option.

Join Ms. Rossana Llenado, Founder and President of Ahead Education, and her team as they talk about how it can help you and your children face real-world challenges using the best attributes of traditional education, progressive learning, and homeschooling.

TripTeach is a learning approach that combines the structure of traditional education, the synergies of progressive learning,  and the commitment of homeschooling.

Click here to register https://www.eventbrite.com/e/parent-seminar-tickets-111914252542. You can also set a reminder directly from your Facebook messenger here: https://m.me/AHEADAlpha?ref=w11647324

Seven Exciting Promotions to Look Forward to at Shopee’s 7.7 Free Shipping Fiesta

It is a grand fiesta! Shopee, the leading e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia and Taiwan, launches 7.7 Free Shipping Fiesta with huge discounts and fantastic promotions. Running from June 22 to July 7, 2020, Filipinos can look out for deals such as ₱7 deals, free shipping with ₱0 minimum spend for featured stores, up to 90% off on selected products, and cash prizes.

Here are seven things to look forward at Shopee 7.7 Free Shipping Fiesta:

1. ₱1.9 million in cash prizes up for grabs on July 7 

On July 7, Shopee-holics can stand a chance to win cash prizes of up to a total of ₱1.9 million. Shoppers need to tune in to the following Shopee TV specials in order to win:
-- Shopee 7.7 Free Shipping Fiesta: Shake & Win at 11:30 AM on Shopee Live and at 12 NN at Eat Bulaga GMA
-- Shopee 7.7 Free Shipping Fiesta: Shake & Win TV Special at 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM on Wowowin GMA

2. Free shipping with ₱0 minimum spend

On July 7, users can avail of free shipping with ₱0 minimum spend all day sitewide from 12:00 AM to 2:00 AM, 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM, and 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM. Shopee will also offer free shipping vouchers from the main campaign microsite which is accessible from the homepage.

3. Amazing ₱7 deals

Shopee-holics can buy high-value products for as low as ₱7. On July 7, users can score a Nintendo Switch Labo Variety Kit Bundle, a Platinum KS-10 Plus Junior 2 Karaoke Player, and an ACE 32" Slim LED TV for only ₱7.

4. Exclusive Discounts up to 90% off

Users can get huge discounts on various products from categories like beauty, electronics, fashion, groceries, and health & personal care. Users can enjoy exciting discounts up to 90% for items, including a Knight Black WaterProof Sport Watch, a Transcend SD Card with 128GB of memory, a JBL Portable Bluetooth Speaker, and a 33 cm-Inflatable two-ring swimming pool.

5. Big prizes on Shopee Candy

Filipinos can win amazing prizes when they play the new in-app game, Shopee Candy. Users can stand a chance to win Shopee coins, cashback vouchers, and exclusive rewards, including a Nextbook Flexx 11 2-in-1 laptop and a Huawei Nova 3.

6. Convenience and bigger savings with ShopeePay 

Shopee users can enjoy greater convenience and cost savings with ShopeePay. Users can enjoy special promotions and discounted offers when they pay via ShopeePay. Shoppers can check out more of the ShopeePay deals and 7.7 promotions here (https://shopee.ph/m/shopee-pay).

7. Exciting deals and promotions from leading brands

Users can look for exclusive offers and up to 90% off on products from leading brands such as Globe, Pampers, Nestle, Unilever, Maybelline, Wyeth, and The SM Store.

Ruoshan Tao, Head of Marketing at Shopee Philippines, said, “We are excited to launch another campaign that lets our users shop conveniently and lets them save more. With the Shopee 7.7 Free Shipping Fiesta, users can shop, play, redeem amazing rewards, and win cash prizes right in the comforts of their own homes. We understand the many challenges Filipinos face as they embrace the new normal, and we commit to provide them with bigger and better offers. Shopee will continue to innovate our platform to serve our users better and elevate the online shopping experience for all.”

For more information, visit https://shopee.ph/m/double-double

Download Shopee for free through the App Store or Google Play.

COVID-19 Update: Newfound discovery makes some dishwashing liquids effective home disinfectant.

In response to the global coronavirus pandemic, Japan Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) commissioned the National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NITE) to look into other options for disinfecting homes and workplaces. This was undertaken to mitigate global alcohol shortage, and cope with the sudden surge in demands of alcohol disinfectant at medical facilities as well as home and workplace environments.

Lab studies conducted by METI/NITE have proven that some cleaning actives also known as surfactants, when used at the right levels, can be effective against SARS-CoV-2 which causes COVID-19. Test findings by Japan’s NITE have confirmed that there is a significant reduction in the virus count on items or surfaces that are exposed to a surfactant diluted to 0.05%-0.2% for twenty seconds to five minutes.

According to the review committee of experts, these seven types of surfactants are commonly found in household products like dishwashing liquids.

-- Sodium linear alkylbenzene sulfonate (0.1% or more);
-- Alkyl glycoside (0.1% or more);
-- Alkylamine oxide (0.05% or more);
-- Benzalkonium chloride (0.05% or more);
-- Benzethonium chloride (0.05% or more) (newly added on May 28, 2020);
-- Dialkyldimethyl ammonium chloride (0.01% or more) (newly added on May 28, 2020); and
-- Polyoxyethylene alkylether (0.2% or more)

With this research confirming more accessible ways to disinfect your homes and workplaces, dishwashing liquids containing these ingredients can benefit Filipinos and serve as a reliable substitute to alcohol-based disinfectant. This would mean convenience and better value for money given the product’s multi-purpose use of disinfecting various items, not just in the kitchen but other household items as well.

Japan METI/NITE recommends the solution ratio of one teaspoon of dishwashing liquid mixed in 500ml water. To sanitize, wipe all items or surfaces with a cloth soaked in this solution. Ensure to squeeze excess liquid out of the cloth to prevent the liquid from dripping. Wipe firmly in one direction to prevent spreading dirt and virus. Leave the items or surfaces to rest with the mixture for about five minutes. Then, wipe off the soap solution with a cloth soaked in water. Finally, wipe dry all items and surfaces with another clean cloth.

To learn more about the research findings, visit this link:   meti.go.jp/english/press/2020/0529_001.html

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