All I want for Christmas is everything!

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Christmas is the season of giving, sharing. . . .  having fun, having reunions and parties. Do you have the list of gifts to our loveones, friends, to others, and to yourself? What do you want to have? Here is to share for you to have it easily. 

All I want for Christmas is everything!

• Spread the holiday cheer with Philips gift ideas
• Celebrate Christmas by giving exciting Philips gifts your loved ones can enjoy all year round

The season for hot chocolate, mistletoe, twinkling lights, and catchy yuletide tunes is here again. As the festive air of Christmas settles, Philips offers a collection of exciting gift suggestions that can help you skip the stressful task of brainstorming for your holiday shopping list.

Gifts for him

Every man wants to look his best during the Yuletide season.

The Philips Aquatouch Electric Shaver can help men look spic and span for their holiday get-togethers. This electric shave can be used for refreshing wet shaves and convenient dry ones. It’s equipped with CloseCut blades with rounded edges, which allow for a smooth glide over the skin—getting nasty nicks out of the picture.

If you want a little more versatility, the Philips StyleShaver lets users trim, style, and shave all at the same time. The dual-ended electric beard trimmer is the perfect beard-styling tool, with 12 length settings and reversible trimmers built for detailing. It’s also equipped with high-performance self-sharpening blades.

Gifts for her

Christmas is an opportunity to make that special woman feel extra special.

You can help her skip expensive salon treatments and hair care products with the Philips Hairdryer. It comes with innovative ionic care conditioning technology that prevents hair static while also conditioning and smoothening the hair for a shiny and glossy mane.

To prevent hair damage, the hairdryer also provides optimum level of airflow and gentle drying power. What’s more, its foldable design allows users to bring it anywhere for instant hair fixes.

For styling, the Philips Curler helps create natural bouncy curls perfect for partying and everyday looks. Its medium-sized barrel is perfect for making fashionable waves and curls, while its high temperature offers flexible style options. Additionally, this hair care tool comes with a protective ceramic coating that ensures even heat distribution for shiny, soft, and healthy hair.

You can also give her something that can help flaunt her gams with confidence—the Philips Epilator. It comes with an efficient epilation system that helps pull hairs by the root, leaving skin smooth and stubble-free for weeks. This epilator also has two-speed settings that allow for gentle epilation.

And to help her get ready for those holiday selfies and close-ups, you can give her the Philips Sonicare EasyClean. This electric toothbrush uses dynamic cleaning action, which effectively reaches between the teeth and along the gum line while helping remove plaque and stains with its teeth-whitening feature.

For an even better cleaning experience, up the bar with the Philips PowerUp Toothbrush. It is designed with Sonic Technology that offers over 15,000 brush strokes per minute. It also has a two-minute timer that indicates brushing time recommended by dental professionals.

Christmas is a time of giving so make the best out of it with a roster of presents your loved ones can enjoy the whole year round. Be the neighborhood Santa and spread the cheer with Philips’ line of products that everyone can enjoy!

For more information about Philips, log on to www.philips.com.ph. 

You can also call our customer hotline at (632) 6679000 if you are within Metro Manila or 1-800-10-7445477 if you are outside Metro Manila.

Jane The Virgin

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This story of Jane is about something to watch and follow all its teleseries.  I was so curious, really. Stated on an article of "Jane the Virgin, that "A young, devout woman discovers that she was accidentally artificially inseminated," well, here this goes:

When Jane Villanueva was a young girl, her grandmother, Alba, convinced her of two things: 

-  telenovelas are the highest form of entertainment, and
-  women must protect their virginity at all costs.

Now age 23, Jane is a driven young woman studying to become a teacher, nursing a dream to be a writer, and supporting herself with a job at a hot new Miami hotel. 

All the years of watching telenovelas with the two women who raised her – her sexy, young-at-heart mother, Xiomara (known as “Xo”), and her still-devout grandmother, Alba – have given Jane a slightly unrealistic view of romance. Although she is determined not to make the same mistake Xo made – becoming an unwed mother at 16 – Jane could not be closer to the two wonderful women who have shaped her life.

They are very different people – Xo lives her life as a perpetual teenager, performing at local clubs and always looking for a new man, while Alba makes religion and prayer the focus of her life – but both women consider Jane the center of their universe and love the grounded, compassionate and ambitious young woman she has become.

Despite the conflicting influences of her mother and grandmother, Jane has managed to find a wonderful fiancé: a handsome, hard-working detective named Michael, who loves her enough to accept her detailed timeline for their future together and even her insistence on “saving herself” until they’re married. All of Jane’s meticulous life plans are turned upside down, however, when she sees her doctor for a routine check-up and is accidentally artificially inseminated with a specimen meant for the patient in the next room.

Unbeknownst to her, the specimen belongs to Rafael, a reformed playboy and cancer survivor, who is not only the new owner of the hotel where Jane works but also a former summer crush of hers.

A few weeks later, the unsuspecting Jane is faced with the most important decisions of her life. Will she continue with the pregnancy?

How can she explain the situation to her fiancé and family? And what should she do about the wishes of the biological father, Rafael, and his scheming wife Petra? At the same time, Jane’s mother Xo is facing a life-changing decision of her own: after years of letting Jane and Alba believe she didn’t know the identity of Jane’s father, the time has come to admit the truth – Jane’s father is Xo’s former boyfriend Rogelio.

Making the situation even more surreal, Rogelio is now a huge telenovela star, and he definitely wants to meet his unsuspecting daughter. 

Though she has always tried to be the responsible good girl who does the right thing, Jane’s normally quiet life has suddenly become as dramatic, complicated and unpredictable as the telenovelas she has always loved.

The series stars Gina Rodriguez (“Filly Brown,” “The Bold and the Beautiful”) as Jane, Justin Baldoni (“Single Ladies,” “The Bold and the Beautiful”) as Rafael, Brett Dier (“Ravenswood”) as Michael, Andrea Navedo (“Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” “Golden Boy”) as Xiomara, Yael Grobglas (“Reign”) as Petra, Ivonne Coll (“Switched at Birth,” “The Bold and the Beautiful”) as Alba and Jaime Camil (“Devious Maids,” “Que Pobres Tan Ricos”) as Rogelio.

Jane the Virgin airs every Sunday, October 19 at 9:05 pm, in the same week as the US telecast, first & exclusively on Sony Channel. 

Sony Channel is seen on SKYCable Channel 35, Cignal Digital TV Channel 60, Destiny Cable Channel 62, Cable Link Channel 39.

About Sony Channel

Sony Channel is the premier destination for female-skewing entertainment with the biggest and best of Hollywood. Designed for the socially connected viewer, Sony Channel features some of the most captivating and talked-about drama, comedy, lifestyle and reality programs on TV, all airing close to the U.S. telecasts, together with popular feel-good movies. 

Fresh, confident and stylish, with a dash of clever wit, Sony Channel is visually stunning with a brand identity that perfectly complements its line-up of high calibre programming. Sony Channel appeals to a female-skewed, male-inclusive audience who loves to escape, engage and lose themselves in premium content. Viewers are modern, social, stylish and aspirational.

Sony Channel is wholly owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment and managed by Sony Pictures Television Networks, Asia, which also operates pay-TV channels AXN, beTV, Sony Entertainment Television, Animax, ONE and GEM. See www.sonychannelasia.com, as well as follow www.facebook.com/SonyChannelPH and https://twitter.com/SonyChannelPH for more.

“BELIEVE” Maja Salvador ! The first OPM album to be mastered for iTunes

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Maja Salvador will be leaving a huge footprint on the music scene with her debut album “Believe”. And it is not loosely said so. As apart from the album being certified Gold last June (only 2 months after the official release) and obtaining an official Vevo channel on YouTube with views summing up to almost 6 million, the album takes the cake off the plate of its contemporaries once again by becoming the first OPM album to be mastered for iTunes.

A “mastered for iTunes” song is a digitally downloadable track on iTunes, taking legs of optimization to make every bit of it in the highest definition possible and as close to how artists and their production team intend every song to be heard as possible, while keeping the music file size down for portability and for more efficient digital distribution.

The calibre that “Believe” has set for itself makes it well-worthy of this iTunes mastery. As it geared away from traditional instrumentation and instead adopted modern production, it has become the most ideal vehicle to drive our eardrums to crave newness from the OPM department. All the while the album never lost sight of what is really important: it’s an OPM record. Note that all songs were penned in Filipino to butter up Maja’s new-fashioned Pinay image interbred with pop-house-R&B sound that could run parallel with American Top 40 tracks.


This leap of Maja’s music to verge into the digital age is a gutsy deal in changing the game face of the local music industry not just in the manner of distribution and consumption of music, but also in its production and ultimately, the artistry. Now you can listen in hi-def to the album with crystal-clear vocals, smoother strums and deeper thumps as if each of the tracks just got off the LASIK chair.

A milestone like this wasn’t far from Maja’s horizons to begin with. The way she wants things to happen in her music career is to take the qualitative side of the road, obvious in the production of her songs and the videos for them: never dry and juiceless.

 Maja believed that “Believe” would go places, and the album took the entire industry with it.

There’s no denying it. “Believe” is a key part of OPM music history now.

The mastered for iTunes “Believe” contains the original tracklist:


KILIG

HALIKANA (feat. Abra)

WALA NA BANG PAG-IBIG

DAHAN-DAHAN

URONG-SULONG

BUONG GABI (feat. Project Pinas)


BONUS TRACKS:
KILIG (INSTRUMENTAL)

DAHAN-DAHAN (INSTRUMENTAL

Hear the difference by getting “Believe” off iTunes via https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/believe/id849627454

4th PMAP Makatao Awards for Media Excellence Winners

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TV Station of the Year: ABS-CBN 2

People Management Association of the Philippine (PMAP) presents the Makatao Awards for Media Excellence to honor members of the mass media (TV, radio and print) for their outstanding works and contributions that enhance public understanding of the role and impact of good people management in both the public and private sector in the country. 

Radio Station of the Year: DZMM Radyo Patrol 630

Mass Media touches virtually every aspect of our daily lives. It plays a significant role in shaping public perceptions on a variety of important issues, both through the information that is dispensed through them, and through the interpretations they place upon this information. When journalists or talk show hosts are insightful and judicious in their reporting, citizens can play a more informed role in the many issues and debates that shapes their communities.

Newspaper of the Year: Philippine Daily Inquirer

Here are of winners for the 4th PMAP Makatao Awards recognized in a ceremony held at Hotel Intercontinental, Makati City on November 25, 2014.

Organizations:

TV Station of the Year: ABS-CBN 2

Radio Station of the Year: DZMM Radyo Patrol 630

Newspaper of the Year: Philippine Daily Inquirer

Television:

Best TV Best Public Affairs Program: Kapuso Mo Jessica Soho (GMA 7)

Best TV Public Affairs Program Host: Jessica Soho (Kapuso Mo Jessica Soho, GMA 7)

Best TV News Program: TV Patrol 

Best TV News Anchor: Mel Tiangco (24 Oras,GMA 7)

Radio:

Best Radio Best Public Affairs Program: Usapang De Kampanilya (DZMM)

Best Radio Best Public Affairs Program Host: Joe Taruc (Damdaming Bayan, DZRH)

Best Radio News Program: Radyo Patrol Balita (DZMM)

Best Radio News Anchor: Noli De Castro (Radio Patrol Balita, DZMM) 

Best Newspaper Columnist: Cito Beltan (CTalk, Philippine Star)

Special Citations:

Ellen C. Fullido (Manila Broadcasting Company) 

Good Job Philippines (DZRJ 810) 

TV 5 

Ernie O. Cecilia, DPM 

PMAP is the premier organization of people manager and HR practitioners in the country and has more than 1.800 corporate members and individual members and 23 chapters nationwide.

For news and updates, you may visit www.pmap.org.ph or like https://www.facebook.com/PMAP1956 on Facebook.

Behold...BOHOL travel fair in Glorietta Mall Dec. 8-10

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Visit the Philippines Year (VPY) 2015. AirAsia’s super low fares to Bohol and bargain hotel and tour deals are up for grabs!

One of the top holiday destination in the Philippines - Bohol, as it launches new and exciting tourist destinations with rock bottom prices for airfares, hotels and resorts during a travel fair to be held in Glorietta Mall on Dec. 8-10.

Bohol provincial governor Edgar Chatto said the province will also formally launch its new branding “Behold...BOHOL,” which positions the province as a destination that exudes a sense of awe in every visitor.

Tarsier

The three-day event is the first time ever that tourism sector in Bohol comes together in a massive campaign to entice tourists to visit. It is part of the Bohol Tourism Action Plan developed through the collaboration of the United States Agency for International Development through its Advancing Philippine Competitiveness Project (USAID-COMPETE), the Department of Tourism (DOT), the United Nations-World Tourism Organization (UN-WTO), and the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) as well as local tourism stakeholders.

The new branding “Behold...BOHOL” was developed with the help of CNN’s branding expert Anita Mendiratta. Bohol is the first province that benefited from an outreach program of CNN. 

AirAsia, the leading budget airline in the Asian region, is the exclusive airline partner for the campaign and will offer seat sale. The airline that has been awarded the Skytrax’s World’s Best Low Cost Carrier for six consecutive years is also committed to offer year-round low fares for flights between Manila - Tagbilaran (Bohol) and Manila – Cebu.

At least 50% discount in accommodation, tours and other travel essentials in Bohol will be offered during the three-day travel fair. Boholano products will likewise be on sale.

Loboc River 

The travel fair will open in a grand program featuring the world-famous Loboc Children’s Choir. The chorale group will have a nightly concert during the three-day event.

Bohol province is dubbed as the eco-cultural tourism capital with its fascinating Chocolate Hills, pristine and white sand beaches in Panglao and Anda. It is also home to the well-loved Tarsier, considered the smallest and oldest primate in the world.

“We want to develop Bohol as the tourism superpower and a top holiday destination in the Philippines,” said Bohol governor Edgar Chatto.

He said the launch of the 'Behold... BOHOL' aims to promote the province as a complete tourist destination because every town has a unique tourist attraction to offer to visitors. 

Aside from the iconic destinations, the province is surrounded by caves, tranquil rivers, fascinating water falls, marine sanctuaries, mangroves and diving sites.

Chatto said Bohol is now promoting the powdery white sand beaches of Anda, as the next tourist destination. Road and infrastructure access to Anda are underway through the convergence program of Department of Tourism and the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) that seeks to connect airports to tourist destinations. 

Anda is a must visit in Bohol for its unique and wider coastlines making it a perfect destination both for relaxing walk on the beach or water sports activities.

The town is also home to the Lamanok Mystical Island and is fast becoming a popular destinations. Lamanok can be reached within a two-hour drive from the capital, Tagbilaran. The island has a rich lush mangrove protecting the community from flooding, pollution and water surge. It hosts some mystical caves where ancient Boholanons bury their loved ones in jars.

Governor Chatto said Bohol is also home to Asia's largest mangrove forest called Banacon located north of the municipality of Getafe. It has a total of 425 hectares with only 15 hectares dry land and the rest are extensive mangrove plantation.

In a press statement, the Governor credited the strong support and cooperation of tourism stakeholders in Bohol in promoting the new tourist destinations of the province.

“ The strong partnership between the local government and the private tourism stakeholders, a well equipped manpower with innate hospitality as well as the rich natural, cultural and historical attractions of Bohol are the three main factors why we are confident to become a tourism superpower,” said Chatto.

AirAsia, the Filipino Low Cost Carrier is fully supporting the ‘Behold...BOHOL’ campaign by offering its lowest possible rates for tourists visiting Bohol.

AirAsia, the world’s best low cost airline flies three times daily to Bohol.