Salamat sa Joy: Jollibee shares in the collective gratitude of Filipinos in the new normal

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For many Filipinos, Jollibee is a place that holds many joyful memories. From family celebrations, impromptu work lunch dates, thesis meet-ups after school, and even simple family lunch out on weekends, Jollibee has been witness to these countless memorable moments.

These ordinary joys, however, were temporarily put on hold because of the pandemic and the restrictions that had to be set for everyone's safety. While Jollibee continued to serve its customers as they stayed home or experienced limited mobility, most still longed for the joy of getting together and eating out at their go-to happy place.

Now, with the continuous vaccination roll-out and easing of quarantine restrictions, people are slowly having the confidence to enjoy their pre-pandemic activities again. After two years of lockdown, people have a newfound sense of joy and gratitude as they look forward to making more happy memories with their loved ones.

Jollibee shares in the joy and excitement while still ensuring the safety of its customers as it releases its latest safety video – Salamat sa Joy ng Muling Pagsasama. Featuring a cover of the song “Salamat” originally sang by the Dawn, the video captures the experience of dining out in the new normal and the greater appreciation of being able to spend time again with family and friends.

As people slowly embrace the new normal, Jollibee hopes to bring back

the joyful moments that Filipinos miss in its stores

Jollibee’s store teams are fully vaccinated, ensuring the safety of customers as they enjoy 

their Jollibee favorites

Nothing compares to the joy of eating out and getting together again 

with one’s family and friends at Jollibee

“Much has changed in the past two years, but one thing that remains constant is the joy that Jollibee offers families and friends whenever they dine in our stores. We’re grateful that our stores are now at 100% capacity and our store teams are fully vaccinated, and our goal is to keep offering our customers the same ‘Alagang Jollibee’ customer service that they’ve known to trust. This way they can continue having joyful moments safely as we embrace the new normal,” shared Francis Flores, Jollibee Global and Jollibee Philippines Marketing Head.

Since the start of the pandemic, the country’s leading fast-food chain has strictly adhered to COVID-19 protocols. Specific safety measures have also been implemented for Dine-In, Take Out, Drive-Thru, and Delivery operations to safeguard the well-being of both employees and customers as they enjoy their Jollibee favorites.

What are you waiting for? Invite your friends and family to the nearest Jollibee store to experience the joy of eating out once again. If you’d like to find out what to expect, watch the latest Jollibee safety ad on the brand’s YouTube and Facebook pages.

Your Jollibee favorites are also available via Take Out, Drive-Thru, and Delivery through JollibeeDelivery.com, Jollibee App, #87000, GrabFood or Foodpanda.

6 Binge-Worthy Shows and Movies to Watch

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Looking forward to a lazy, relaxing weekend? Snuggle up in bed, light some scented candles, grab your favorite snacks, and pick out a show or movie! 

This weekend, find comfort in rewatching your old faves or joy in discovering new ones. Whether you’re into comedy, action, sci-fi, or fantasy, you’ll definitely find a show that suits your taste on streaming service HBO GO. 

We understand decision paralysis, so we’ve narrowed it down for you. Below, we’ve got six of the best shows and movies to stream this weekend: 

For sitcom lovers

For a fun, lighthearted fare, you can’t beat Friends. This beloved series, which ran for around a decade, features six twenty-somethings trying to navigate adulthood, career, and relationships. Now, 17 years after the last episode aired, watch Rachel, Monica, Phoebe, Joey, Chandler, and Ross as they join celebrity guests in this one-off reunion special. Stream with the rest of the world starting May 27.

For parents looking for a family-friendly movie

Is your whole family staying in for the weekend? Keep kids and adults alike entertained with Tom & Jerry. This animated movie brings these two nemeses and their silly antics to modern-day New York. Kids will definitely enjoy this slapstick animated film, while kids at heart can reminisce about their childhood days by watching along. Stream starting June 4. 

For DC loyalists

With theaters closed last year, Wonder Woman 1984 made its Philippine debut exclusively on HBO GO. This superhero film follows Diana’s journey to learning more about the human world and of course, defeating supervillains—this time, the nefarious Cheetah and Maxwell Lord. Eighties babies will enjoy all the throwbacks referencing the colorful decade. Stream now. 

For fantasy fans

You can’t call yourself a proper fan of the fantasy genre if you haven’t seen Game of Thrones! This show tells the story of noble families—the Lannisters, Starks, and Targaryens, to name a few—warring to win sovereignty over the fictional land of Westeros. Throw a lot of drama, romance, dragons, and monsters into the mix. You can now stream all eight seasons, a reunion special hosted by Conan O’Brien, and its feature documentary, The Last Watch.

For genre bender aficionados

If you like mixing your genres, check out The Nevers. This show combines sci-fi and drama in Victorian era-London and follows a band of women with special abilities, called the “Touched.” Tune in to watch these superwomen battle their enemies with grace and panache, hoop skirts and all.

For sci-fi enthusiasts

Christopher Nolan’s latest Academy Award-winning movie, Tenet, is a thrilling sci-fi adventure. Its nameless protagonist is a CIA agent who manipulates complex rules of time travel to prevent global destruction. This is definitely a cerebral film, so it may require several viewings to fully digest! 

To watch Friends: The Reunion, Tom & Jerry, Wonder Woman 1984, Game of Thrones, The Nevers, Tenet, and other cool shows and movies, get your HBO GO subscription on Shopee: https://shopee.ph/hbogoofficialstore. 

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Amaia Steps Bicutan partners with BAGA Manila for exciting weekend cookouts

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Amaia Land partnered with Barbecuers and Grillers Association (BAGA Manila) to set up weekend with bright lights, happy vibes, and a friendly gathering of foodies and families laughing and bonding over delicious dishes.

These grilled cookouts can now be experienced  for homeowners, potential buyers, and shoppers who are in the area at Amaia Steps Bicutan every Thursdays to Sundays.

Walking its talk about providing convenience and a fun lifestyle to its residents, Amaia Steps Bicutan offers its carpark and retail area as venues for this fun weekend event—which began last August 18, and will last all the way to January 2017. 

Retail shops will likewise be to provide prospective homeowners with entertainment and shopping opportunities.

BAGA Manila is a well-known association of food stall vendors that serve good barbecues, grilled specialties, and quality regional dishes and delicacies. The group is a fixture at different gastronomic events and at leading weekend and night markets in the metro.

PSMG Geo Head Rodney Reyes describes the event as a simple treat for Amaia Steps’ homeowners that also serves to showcase the vibrant lifestyle Amaia offers its community. 

Reyes likewise points out, “Occasions like this promote stronger family ties and better kinship among the residents. So what better way to sustain the goodwill than organizing such activities all the time?”

During this open-for-all weekend activity, potential homeowners and guests can view Amaia Steps Bicutan’s model units, retail area, and amenities. Units in this mid-rise residential project range in size from 23 to 44 square meters—or from studio to deluxe and premier, innovatively and uniquely designed. 

Located along West Service Road cor. Sun Valley Drive, Brgy. Sun Valley in Parañaque, this mid-rise residential project is strategically located close to establishments like SM City Bicutan, Bicutan Public Market and Robinson’s Supermarket. The property also has a terminal for tricycles and jeepneys, providing easy access to public transport. 

While it lies close to several commercial establishments, residents need not venture too far as they can enjoy fun dining, quick errands, and bonding activities in Amaia Steps Bicutan’s retail area.

Homeowners may likewise enjoy the property’s recreational facilities such as a swimming pool, reading nooks, retail shops, lush central courtyard, basketball court, jogging loop and children’s playground. 

Finally, as in all of its properties, Amaia assures quality, safety, security and easy-on-the pocket payment options. 

For inquiries about Amaia Steps Bicutan, please visit www.amaialand.com or www.facebook.com/AmaiaLand.

Taste the Feeling, Share the Feeling as Coca-Cola and KFC bring fun to every meal with EmotiCups!

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Here’s an exciting and fun way to show how much diners really feel when eating their favorite finger lickin’ good chicken with families and friends as KFC comes out with the limited edition Coca-Cola EmotiCups.

The emoticons says it all!   #WOW #LOL #Love # Kilig #Incredible

Coca-Cola together with KFC is giving everyone a fun and creative way to share their feelings using Coke Emoticons, while enjoying the finger-licking goodness of their favorite KFC fried chicken. 

Coca-Cola EmotiCups are free for every chicken bucket meal which includes 8 pieces of chicken, 2 spaghetti, 4 rice and 4 medium drinks in collectible EmotiCups.

Diners can also avail of the EmotiCups by simply adding P20 to their combo meal with drink, Fully-Loaded meal, Fill-Up Box, 1-Piece chicken meal, or Teriyaki Pepper Steak rice bowl.

Make eating with friends more special and fun with the finger lickin’ good KFC meals and ice-cold Coca-Cola in unique EmotiCups – the latest collaboration between two of the biggest global brands, available from July 8 to September 8 at your nearest KFC branch.

 Celebrity Blogger Karel Marquez during the media launch of Emoticups 

To know more, visit the official Facebook pages of KFC Philippines and Coca-Cola Philippines. Taste the Feeling, Share the Feeling with Coke and KFC.

Cheers ! Reunions with Rossi Sweet Red

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Living life to the fullest is what we are enjoying and making the best of everything. Socializing, celebrations during holidays, vacations, parties, occasions, even just small get-together or bondings or hanging up with friends, reunions with colleagues, long lost friends and relatives.

These parties, reunions and bondings are best time of life with thunderous laughter, sweet tears of joy, an endless weave of stories, telling where you’ve been and what you’ve accomplished and reconnecting over shared stories, creating new memories with long-lost friends, sharing your passion . . . and the passage of time become irrelevant as though the earth has temporarily stopped from its tedious orbit around the sun.

These are the glorious moments when friends and family suddenly find each other, whether planned or by surprise, in one table sharing precious moments. Reunions, the best, in other words, are priceless.

Bestselling author Jerry Spinellie described it better when he wrote in his book Love, Stargirl: “May our reunion be not a finding but a sweet collision of destinies.”

In many gatherings, wine-drinking has become part of many Filipino festivities and has become evident in Philippine lifestyle. While it has become a common sight, one may note that a hurdle to wine drinking among Filipinos is the preference for sweetness.

And these moments can be made even more special with delectable food and a flavorful wine that would satisfy everyone’s sweet palate, like Rossi Sweet Red, another masterpiece from California winemaker Carlo Rossi, the Number One Table Wine in the world and the Number One Imported Table Wine in the Philippines.

Rossi Sweet Red has layers of vanilla, bright cherry, and wild raspberry flavors. Its light medium body stays with you, no matter how you drink it—chilled or with ice—and goes smoothly well with any food whether fish, meat, cheese, or vegetarian.

Rossi Sweet Red is healthy because there is no sugar or artificial sweetener added to make it sweet. It is crafted from grapes grown in California where the sun nourishes the grapes to perfection, assuring you of wines that are bursting with flavor and aroma.

Reunions between friends or loved ones may be just a short flicker of time that can easily pass. But it can be time well spent and even more meaningful and special with lodes of stories, memories and good food.

Enjoy your wonderful world with friends and love ones. Cheers, smile more, hug a friend and show your love, made extra special with Carlo Rossi Sweet Red. 

Rossi Sweet Red is now available at leading supermarkets and convenience stores for all those gatherings.

For inquiries about Carlo Rossi, you may visit their Facebook page, www.facebook.com/CarloRossiPhilippines.

#TheBestFriendEver ! Globe leads National Best Friend’s Day in the Philippines

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Celebrate National Best Friends Day! Create and enjoy your wonderful world with your family and best friends! 

Globe Telecom is bringing National Best Friend’s Day to the Philippines this Sunday, June 8, alongside the launch of its new offer GoUNLI20 for prepaid subscribers.

Globe as the digital brand for the youth, leads National Best Friend’s Day only in the Philippineies with fun activities.

“We are excited to offer to our prepaid customers our newest calling and surfing combo GoUNLI20 which allows them to keep in touch with their best friends at a price that’s within their easy reach. We understand that calling makes conversations more meaningful and personal, so we give them a promo that enriches their relationships anytime, anywhere. A real friend calls and with GoUNLI20, we give everyone the opportunity to be a real friend by calling all you want to make your presence felt all the time,” shared Issa Cabreira, VP for Globe Prepaid Business. 

GoUNLI20 is an all-in-one prepaid promo perfect for best friends and pals to stay connected with each other at an affordable price.

For only P20 a day, Globe customers can enjoy unlimited calls to Globe/TM, 15MB of surfing, and 20 texts to all networks, allowing them to keep their bonds and connections intact may it be via call, a text message, or a social media post. 

This June 8, Globe celebrates a day of friendship with the National Best Friend’s Day, where best friends visiting SM North EDSA, SM Mall of Asia, SM Baguio, SM Megamall, Ayala Fairview Terraces and Ayala Cebu to spend the weekend can enjoy exciting activities, freebies and prizes. 

Special “Best Friends” cards with Globe Prepaid SIM will be distributed to those who will be at the Globe Best Friend’s Day event on Sunday. Globe Prepaid customers can also enjoy the new GoUNLI20 for free this National Best Friend’s Day. 

To be in the loop this National Best Friend’s Day, Globe invites netizens to share their wonderful moments and experiences with their BFFs on social media using the official hash tag #TheBestFriendEver.

To register to GoUNLI20, dial *143# for free or text GoUNLI20 to 8888. To know more about GoUNLI20, visit www.globe.com.ph/prepaid/gounli20.

#BetterTogether ! Let's Celebrate real-world connections with McDonald’s and Coca-Cola!

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Partners McDonald’s and Coca-Cola celebrates with us in the real-world connections! People nowadays have a lot of options when it comes to interacting with one another. All the advancements in technology, smartphones and gadgets allow us to communicate online via messaging apps and social networking sites. 

And more often than not, more connections start happening in the digital world than in the real one. 

This is why these two iconic, global brands and long-time partners, McDonald’s and Coca-Cola, which champion happiness, enjoyment and togetherness, are taking a stand and encouraging people to stay offline a little longer and enjoy real-world connections.

And as embracing online connections, McDonald’s and Coca-Cola believe it is our physical interactions which make our digital lives more meaningful—that real-life moments, such as hearing a story in person, receiving a warm hug and sharing a McDonald’s meal and Coke drink face-to-face, are those which create lasting memories.

“McDonald’s and Coca-Cola have been partners for close to 60 years, together providing millions of customers great tasting food and beverages best shared together”, said McDonald’s Philippines President and CEO, Kenneth Yang. “Today, together as well, McDonald’s and Coca-Cola are taking a stand that real-life connections fuel our digital lives and enrich our relationships”, added Coca-Cola Philippines President and General Manager, Guillermo Aponte.

We really have fun and enjoyed with real-connections last Monday, April 7, 2014 as McDonald's and Coca-Cola celebrates with bloggers and celebrities and treats us with BFF Bundles, held at McDonald's Eton Centris Quezon Ave. Edsa. 

Inviting people to create these genuine moments of connection, McDonald’s and Coca-Cola are introducing the new BFF Bundles, an exciting menu offering designed to be shared among friends and family.

With the BFF Bundles for just Php 399 for a group of three or Php 559 for a group of four, customers can customize their bundled offers, choosing between their favorite McDonald’s products. 

With the BFF Burger Bundle, customers can choose from seven of their favorite McDonald’s Burgers and enjoy them with the new BFF Fries, big enough for the entire gang to enjoy together, and a refreshingly ice-cold Regular Coke for each one.

Friends who prefer Chicken McDo can opt for the BFF Chicken Bundle and choose between 1pc Chicken McDo and McSpaghetti or 2pc Chicken McDo with rice, complete with BFF Fries and Regular Coke.

For a delicious shared snack, those who constantly find themselves wanting to get their hands on McDonald’s World Famous Fries paired perfectly the Coke McFloat, Coca-Cola drink topped with soft serve vanilla and chocolate syrup, the BFF Fries and Float combo is theirs to enjoy for an affordable price of only Php 150. 

So what are you waiting for? Head to the McDonald’s store nearest you, call 86-2-36 or log on to www.mcdelivery.com.ph to enjoy quality time with your friends over the newest BFF Bundles. 

Tell us how you’re celebrating real-world connections by using the hashtag #BetterTogether.

Red Ribbon Dedication Cakes Birthday Budget Planner!

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Getting ready to throw a party? Parties are fun and exciting with great people we love. And party planning can be easy if you plan ahead.

Determine what’s the theme, when and perfect schedule, make or buy invitations, party games, music, people you want to invite, and what food to provide.  And we really want to sweeten the parties, browse hundreds of unforgettable themed birthday cake ideas. But the most amazing heartfelt cake ideas will treat everyone to enjoy and be touched.

And another more importantly, decide on a budget.

Red Ribbon, one of the country’s most recognizable bakeshop brands, is proud to officially launch the Dedication Cakes Birthday Budget Planner. The Birthday Budget Planner makes celebrations easier and more convenient for all those who love to make parties a little more special without breaking the budget.

The Birthday Budget Planner, accessible at www.birthdaybudgetplanner.com, helps budget a party for you. It points you to the right direction to help you get everything you need, from the delicious Red Ribbon Chocolate Dedication Cake 8x8 to the decorations and where to get refreshments refreshments for the celebration or party. 

Just put in your budget, and the Red Ribbon Party Planner will help you get the most out of your budget! After planning on the website, just print your list of party suppliers and go!

Here's a sample of the Red Ribbon Party Planner:

And of course what truly sets any celebration apart is having a personalized cake with a dedication on a birthday cake.

The Red Ribbon Chocolate Dedication Cake 8x8 makes the occasion so much more than a photo-op moment; it becomes a treasured occasion that brings everyone closer together.

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We would love to have you try out the Red Ribbon Dedication Cake Birthday Budget Planner yourself and see just how easy and convenient celebration planning is with us!

Red Ribbon Bakeshop was founded in 1979, along Timog Avenue in Quezon City. The high quality and delicious products of Red Ribbon Bakeshop quickly became a Filipino favorite, and in 2005, Jollibee Foods Corporation acquired Red Ribbon Bakeshop to add to its renowned portfolio of truly Filipino chains.