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Tagum’s Gay Summit formally opens

Mayor Allan L. Rellon recognizes the vital contribution of the gay community 

in Tagum City’s progress and development during the opening ceremony 

of the 1^st Tagum City Gay Summit last July 29, 2013 held at the city’s 

Freedom Stage. Photo by Gleiza Delgado of CIO Tagum

It's happening! 37 Colorful costumes with headdress, an exquisite display of raw gay talents and fun marked the opening day of this city’s first-ever Gay Summit last July 29, 2013 which aims to highlight the role of the gay sector in the community.

The City Government of Tagum under the leadership of Mayor Allan L. Rellon, in line with his EAGLE WINGS program, threw full support to the festival as a way of extoling  the gay community in the city.

In his message of support, Mayor Rellon stressed the need to sustain the city’s festivals like the Gay Summit as he believes that this become an avenue to achieve, unite and recognize each other’s strengths and weaknesses.

Teleperformance launches its 11th site in Davao

I am very ecstatic to share that Teleperformance, the world’s leading provider of outsourced customer experience management services, continues to expand in the Philippines as it inaugurates its 11th branch in the country located at SM City Davao.

Covering an area of 11,200 square meters, Teleperformance Davao features over 1,500 employee workstations and state-of-the-art employee facilities such as a fitness gym, a spacious cafeteria, full service clinic, sleeping quarters, game and recreation area and individual employee lockers. The site will operate 24/7.

Teleperformance Davao likewise hosts a large Recruitment Center with modern amenities that include the applicants’ receiving lounge complete with internet hubs, free coffee and snacks, interview rooms, and testing areas. The Recruitment Center is ready to process applications from 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM, Monday to Saturday on the Second Floor of the Annex Building.

With its convenient location along Quimpo Boulevard corner Tulip Drive, Teleperformance Davao is highly accessible via jeepneys, buses, taxis and pedicabs coming from Toril, Panacan, San Pedro, Bankerohan, Sandawa and other major transport points in Davao City and nearby municipalities.

Isla Lipana & Co. launches Philippine Gems

Isla Lipana & Co., the Philippine member firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers, has led the search for the country’s next mainstream destinations to mark the firm’s 91st anniversary this year.

A corporate social responsibility project of the firm, the Philippine Gems does not only promote foreign tourism but also domestic tourism. With those individuals coming in and appreciating the country, the firm hopes that business investments will follow.

The Philippine Gems aims to recognize up and coming destinations in the country through online voting from 26 June to 9 August 2013. Philippine Gems will showcase not the usual tourist spots but rather the wide range of diverse and hidden natural wonders that bejewel our country from Batanes in the North to Siargao in Mindanao.

Facebook kills Postcards says Skyscanner

Photo from Wikihow.com

I love writing letters and postcards.  Though the last time I did was a year ago, I sent a postcard to a friend in Italy for his birthday.  Sadly, he received it a week later. But as they said, better late than never! Hehehe...I love it as it's something to anticipate, to wait and to finally hold it and keep for a lifetime. The romance postcards bring is something that is priceless, at least for me.

Sadly though, the use of social networking sites, Facebook in particular  has overtaken the use of the traditional postcards specially when travelling abroad. This is according to the recent survey conducted by leading global travel search site, www.Skyscanner.com.ph.

The survey said 81% of the 1,000 Filipino tourists polled said that they would update their Facebook while on holiday. Most of us would just post photos, post it on Facebook and tag our love ones to "digitally" share that very moment. I think, since we live in a very fast world, the need to immediately share the joy of being to places a lot of us have no capacity or means to do, has been an essential part of any Filipino travelers.

Entrusting My Daily Errands with DailyErrands.ph

I love to cook! Like writing poems, the urge to cook something would suddenly hit me anytime. The only thing that hinders me to come up with a sumptuous dish sometimes, is the lack of ingredients. Supplies are not always available at home and I have to step out, and buy the ingredients I need.  Most of the time, I don't have the energy, (and the patience) to go out or the craving would hit me at the most unholy hour that stepping out might not be a good idea. So the cooking urge would end up to frustration and hunger hahaha.

A couple of months ago, a good friend of mine asked me to try his new business --- a new website developed by his team who are mostly young and energetic newly grads.  He said, it will change the way I do my daily errands and will save me from spending too many hours lining up in over-crowded stores.  DailyErrands.ph is basically a solution to people like me who either lack time to do their own shopping or need to multi-task and do personal stuff while working in front of a computer.

AirAsia PH's new hotline and payment partner announced

I love traveling. In fact, I have been to almost many parts of the country but, admittedly, I have never been to Boracay. So when I heard that AirAsia, one of the low cost airlines flying tourists to Boracay via Kalibo announced that they have a new and better hotline, which, by the way is very easy to remember, I got excited.

Beginning today, AirAsia, which also has the youngest fleet, will be reachable through 742 ASIA or 742-2742 and customers can pay for their tickets cash at any 7-Eleven outlet.

 “To provide optimum customer care service for our guest, AirAsia is launching two new significant innovations. We have a new customer hotline that is easy to remember and we are also rolling out our cash payment partner with 7-Eleven store for our passengers who want to avail of our online promo and other privileges but would like to pay in cash instead of using their credit cards,” AirAsia Inc. Commercial head Freddy Herrera said.