2 WFH Sisters and 1 Dog Sharing Our Travels in Bicol and Manila

Bataan Nuclear Power Plant for Nuclear Tourism

"This will be the only tourist-friendly nuclear power plant in this part of the world," Dennis Gana, spokesman for state-owned power firm Napocor that runs the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant. Described as  one of the country's most expensive and troublesome burdens,  this nuclear power plant will be revived for Nuclear tourism to pay for the Philippine site's maintenance budget and also to show it is very safe place.


Built almost 30 years ago under  former Pres. Ferdinand Marcos that costs $2.3 billion, Bataan Nuclear Power Plant never produced a watt of energy. Uranium was actually trucked into the site in 1984.  The plant was closed in 1986 when Marcos was overthrown in a revolution. Visitors are assured there is no uranium at the site -- the nuclear material was sold in 1997 at a huge loss of $35 million.


The  entrance fee is P20  or $.50 cents to Bataan Nuclear Power Plant. For complete details you may read ABS-CBN's  Philippines launches nuclear tourism By Karl Malakunas, Agence France-Presse. You may click here.


[Photo courtesy of THE TECHNOLOGY REVIEW]

Hotelwithheart.com-HWH Launches its Pencil Project


"We can measure statistics of children without the means of Basic Education, we can measure poverty, we can measure the rising crime rate, and we can even measure the cost of ignorance. But can we truly measure the potential of a child?" says Dr. Rudy Sabater, HWH Director. Ânswer is "By providing these children with the materials wherein they can continue to learn, we are offering them a brighter future."


Hotelwithheart .com (HWH) in partnership with Dynamic Teen Company (DTC) is launching its HWH Pencil Project Signature campaign which aims to provide pencils for underprivileged children being taught by DTC. One can sign up the HWH Facebook Page and HWH will donate 1 pencil to DTC for every signature collected.


 


The Pencil Project will run for a month from June 1 to June 30, 2011. HWH hopes to raise 10,000 pencils to be donated to DTC as materials they could use to help children further their education despite their poverty. To join this campaign, you may visit HWH Fanpage at Facebook.com/hotelwithheart.


Hotelwithheart.com is the world's first and only online hotel booking site that gives to charity from commission income at no cost to guests. Hotelwithheart.com offers over 100,000 cheap hotels, luxury resorts, beach resorts, budget accommodations, and 5 star hotels in more than 80 countries worldwide.



Dynamic Teen Company (DTC) is a group of concerned young people with a mission of making a small yet significant difference in other people's lives, particularly the small children in slum areas who have no access to education, basic hygiene and sometimes, even love from their families. The group was founded in August 1997 by four teenagers from Cavite National High School, one of whom was Efren Penaflorida, 2009 CNN Hero of the Year.


Contact Information: Manu T. Ofiaza, Tel: 7280406
Email:marketing@hotelwithheart.com, Website: http://Hotelwithheart.com


 

Turista Magazine: Free for 1-Yr Subscription

Turista Magazine is a local magazine for travel tips and as its byline says "your gateway to Philippine Adventures".  This magazine can be seen in the lounges of our local airports so a  local, a tourist or someone who has been away from home can grab one, head home and have the most updated foretaste of what our country has to offer.

Turista Magazine has 120 glossy pages and divided into many  sections a reader may be interested under:

Scene and Heard - those latest craze for conscious people like slimming programs, weight management etc. Global Closet - local and international products and services that are very much suitable for everyone such as sun-block lotions etcShopping - like who doesn't know what shopping is?Local

Dining / Food Stop - all about food and authentic recipes. this is best for tourists who wanted to know Filipinos by stomach Travel - like who doesn't know what travel isTop Treatments in the City -  since a city is always spelled s-t-r-e-s-s, this is the best to find spas' latest detox and rejuvenation methods

Manila Musts - anything worth mentioning within the city recommended by our local actors and celebrities Postcards - where to be the best  along with memorable stories what hooked them up in more than seven thousand islands we have

Turista Magazine is best of all  FREE subscription for one year. All needed is just pay a P120 delivery fee  or P10 copy.  For more information on how to get one, they have a Facebook Fan Page. This free subscription is for Metro Manila residents only. You may click here for details.


Photos of Male Affection through Philippine history Exhibit

"By the macho 1950’s such restrained but affectionate poses were not acceptable until the sixties and seventies when gay liberation ended all restrictions on male love." From John Silva's official statement who is the  author, curator and photograph collector of A Token of Our Friendship, Philippine Photos of Male Affection, First Half of the 20th Century, picture book and a photo exhibition to be shown at the Silver Lens Gallery on June 29, 2011.


To read the complete details you may click John's blog here. He is by the way a writer, a fundraiser, and an advocate for the arts and heritage preservation


Some snapshots from the exhibit:


Click The City's Jose Rizal Metro-wide Birthday Bash

 


A special screening of one of the most acclaimed biopics locally Marilou Diaz-Abaya's Jose Rizal, thirteen episodes of Noli Me Tangere and Mga Kwentong Rizal,  one hundred fifty people to recite the 70 verses of Mi Ultimo Adios at Instituto Cervantes Manila , a stage performance SI RIZAL AT AKO: Isang Pagpupugay at Pagkilala sa Natatanging Anak ng Biñanat his very own hometown in Binan, Laguna exhibits about him in different museums Metro Manila wide and a romantic stage presentation RIZALizing the future... all of these compiled by Click the City on how to be part of and feel what it's like in the personality and time of the Philippines' National Hero Jose Rizal who will be celebrating his birthday on Monday, June 219th. Yes it is holiday.


To read the whole details please click here

Free: 16th French Film Festival and Nestle's Short Film Anthology


 



16th French Film Festival


June 8-19 Shangri-La Plaza


June 23-25 Ayala Center Cebu


June 28-July 2 UP Film Festival



Watched '7 Ans' w/c won Festival de Venice 2006 as part of 16th French Film Festival at Shangri-La Plaza. About a husband who is serving 7 yrs in prison. He loved so much his wife that he asked a warden he befriended inside to fulfill his wife's biological needs while he can't. One thing I noticed since the titles are foreign, they should have a sign if a movie needs parental consent or not. I saw a mom w/ her 3 kids. When scenes become 'uncontrollable' how can she cover their eyes w/ her hands at the same time w/ that screen so big? Or tell them not to look... could be awkward.

 


 


 


 




 


Nestle's Short Film Anthology


Ten 10-minute short films featuring each of their brands


June 10  SM Megamall


June 11 & 12 11AM at selected SM cinemas nationwide


(Megamall Cinema 3, Southmall Cinema 6, Rosales Cinema 1, Davao Cinema 1 and Cebu Cinema 7)


"Watch it now or wait for another 100 years"


I'd rather wait for another 100 years maybe. The line of people waiting was as long as the Great Wall of China. If the SM Megamall's walls and roofs are transparent, I swear the queue can be seen from the moon like this Great Wall. But I admire the marketing strategy is superb.

Taal Lake is 1 of 12 World's Most Beautiful Lakes in the World



Taal Lake is the deepest lake in the Philippines and home to one of the world's smallest but most active volcanoes. Not only that, Yahoo Travels' 12 Most Beautiful Lakes in the World by Beth Collins ranked Taal Lake number 4th in the list. It also mentioned that "plenty of tour groups offer trips to the natural wonder—in spite of the fact that it has been declared a permanent danger zone."


This post gave me idea to share a few photos of our Taal Lake Adventure last Aug. 2009 with friends & officemates.



Tagaytay Zipline and Cable Car


 



Can't remember where is this exactly at Tagaytay


 



An old wooden & cracked bench I find so mysterious to look at inside a resto in Tagaytay


 



A pair of identical wooden chair that is sitting opposite to each other


 



These flowers remind me of ...





The Gang!