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Cebu Pacific Zamboanga Promo

Flisha — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:40:25 +0000

Cebu Pacific is offering a Php888 go-lite promo good for travel from December 1, 2009 to February 28, 2010. This domestic seat sale runs from October 24 to 27 only.

They’re calling this the So Fare, So Good promo. All flights are sold at Php888 one way. Here are the domestic routes:

Manila to Zamboanga (and vice versa)
Cebu to Clark (and vice versa)
Cebu to Zamboanga (and vice versa)
Davao to Zamboanga (and vice versa)

There’s also an international seat sale. Here are the routes and prices:

Php999
Clark to Bangkok (and vice versa)
Clark to Macau (and vice versa)
Clark to Hong Kong (and vice versa)
Clark to Singapore (and vice versa)

Php2499
Manila to Incheon (and vice versa)
Cebu to Busan (and vice versa)
Cebu to Incheon (and vice versa)

Php2599
Manila to Osaka

And the last piece of good news is: if you’re traveling from Clark to Hong Kong, Macau, Bangkok or Singapore (or vice versa), you get 30 kilos free baggage allowance! To book a flight, just visit their website or call the Cebu Pacific hotline numbers (02)7020-888 or (032)230-8888.

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Philippines Travel | Philippine Airlines (PAL)

Flisha — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:24:00 +0000

Philippine Airlines, Inc., also known as PAL, is the premiere and official airlines of the Philippines. PAL operates from the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) in Manila and from the Mactan-Cebu International Airport in Cebu.

PAL was founded on February 26, 1941 and started operating on March 15, 1941.

Philippine Airlines serves flights from the Philippines to the United States (San Francisco, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Honolulu), Canada (Vancouver), Australia (Melbourne and Sydney), the Middle East (Doha, Dubai, Bahrain and Abu Dhabi), China (Hong Kong, Macau, Xiamen, Beijing, Shanghai and Ho Chi Minh), South Korea (Seoul and Busan), Japan (Fukuoka, Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka), Taiwan (Taipei) and South East Asia (Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Jakarta, Bandar Seri Bagawan, Kota Kinabalu and Guam).

Philippine Airlines’ domestic destinations include:

Laoag
Tuguegarao
Cauayan
San Jose
Busuanga
Puerta Princesa
Caticlan
Kalibo
Roxas
Iloilo
Bacolod
Cebu
Tagbilaran
Dumaguete
Dipolog
Ozamiz
Zamboanga
Cotabato
Davao
General Santos
Butuan
Cagayan de Oro
Surigao
Ormoc
Tacloban
Calbayog
Catarman
Legaspi
Virac
Naga

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An Ad Network for the Philippines

Flisha — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:37:00 +0000

So far, there is Asia Century Multi-Advertising (terrible interface, incessant login problems) and AuctionPH (terribly low commission fees – P6 for an actual purchase!).

Now comes Nuffnang Philippines, created by Timothy Tiah and Cheo Ming Shen. Judging from interface and features alone, I think this ad network will blow away the other two to smithereens.

Nuffnang bills itself as Asia’s First Blog Advertising Community and started serving ads in Malaysia and Singapore early 2007. Its advertiser list is impressive, including big names like Nike, Honda, Nokia and Nescafe. This year it planted roots in the Philippines and started the call for interested bloggers.

I like that Nuffnang has its own stats analysis without having to ask the blogger to install any additional code other than an ad unit. It is for this reason that if you’re a Nuffnang blogger but aren’t serving ads, you won’t see any data in your Nuffnang Analytics page. The data comes from the number of times your ad units were displayed. Sure enough, not 15 minutes after I had uploaded the Nuffnang ad unit to my blog, I started seeing some Referral data on my Nuffnang page (Analytics data is delayed by an hour, though).

Ad units come in three forms, leaderboard (728 x 90), skyscraper (160 x 300) and large rectangle (336 x 280). My ad unit is in the form of skyscraper, but so far it doesn’t seem to serving anything other than Nuffnang ads. Hmm. Looking forward to seeing a big name ad on my site soon. Wouldn’t it be cool advertising Nokia? Hehehe! Whoops I forgot I just blogged about Sony Ericsson a few posts ago, hahaha. Guess I won’t see Nokia on my sidebar anytime soon, aww, hahaha.

Exlusive Nuffnang bloggers (defined as bloggers not serving any other Southeast Asian ads apart from Nuffnang) get to be part of the Glitterati club (how posh!) and get higher earnings than non-exclusive members. They are also paid earlier (a month verses two for ordinary members, but I think a month is still too long!!), they get more prizes in contests and they get to bring their boyfriends to community events. Hahaha, I think it definitely pays to be loyal to Nuffnang.

Except that it currently says on my profile I’m not exclusive to Nuffnang. No, Nuffnang, don’t say that! I am! Well, we’ll see, maybe it will change within the week. It does say 48 hours to get the Nuffnang crawl update.

Oh, and they’re giving away P500 to the first 68 Nuffnang-exclusive bloggers to share the good news. Go on, sign up now at Nuffnang.

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Australia’s 2009 Endeavor Awards Open

Flisha — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:03:00 +0000

The 2009 Endeavour Awards opened on April 9, 2008 and will close on July 31, 2008.

Awards for international applicants include:

Postgraduate Awards

Endeavour Postgraduate Awards (2 – 3 yrs)
Endeavour Europe Awards (4 mos – 1 yr)

Research Awards

Endeavour Australia Cheung Kong Research Fellowships (4 – 6 mos)
Endeavour Research Fellowships (4 – 6 mos)
International Postgraduate Research Scholarships (IPRS)

Vocational Education and Training Awards

Endeavour Vocational Education and Training (VET) Awards (1 – 2.5 yrs)

Executive Awards

Endeavour Executive Awards (1 – 4 mos)

Participating countries include:

Europe
European Union Member States (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Republic of Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom), and Norway, Switzerland, and Croatia

North America
Canada

Latin America
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela

Asia, Pacific and the Middle East
Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bahrain, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China (including Hong Kong and Macau SARs), Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Jordan, Kiribati, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Mongolia, Nauru, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Niue, Oman, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Republic of Korea (South), Republic of Palau, Qatar, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Wallis and Futuna, and Yemen

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Pirates Three: A Sure Blockbuster!

Flisha — Tue, 29 May 2007 11:38:00 +0000

Detox Tip #5: Watch Movies

Just watched Pirates of the Carribbean: At World’s End last night, with Gim (boyfriend) and Melisse (little sis).

Loved the special effects, was astonished (though by the third movie, shoulda been used to it) by how realistic Davy Jones and his part-men-part-sea-creatures crew looked. They were all computer-generated, no prosthetics save for Bootstrap Bill! Genius animators!! (One of my dreams, btw

I also loved the sweeping views of the sea – lots of richly hued sunsets and sunrises in this movie. Cinematic seascapes keep this girl happy. Hehe.

What riveted me, though, was really the pace of the story. I don’t think anybody could have afforded to get distracted watching the movie. I listened to every word uttered and still a lot of parts went lost by me. The pirate-swapping/backstabbing was more fun to watch than understand, really. I only got the parlay part, the whole Singapore part with Will backstabbing Jack, Sao Feng backstabbing Will and Jack backstabbing everyone else – that? That I got only after I read Wikipedia’s detailed explanation, hehe.

I think the plot was great, but it was maybe too much plot for a movie limited to three hours long. Lots of stuff went not much explained, that’s what I felt. For example, the death of the Kraken was absolutely random! Wikipedia explained that Beckett had actually commanded Davy Jones to kill the Kraken, but I never heard it during the movie.

Though reading Wikipedia greatly enlightened me, some questions still linger. What was really Calypso’s role in the movie? I understand Tia Dalma, and her being Calypso was a nice twist, which of course made me expect much from her. The only thing Calypso served, though, was to provide some answers about Davy Jones’ history. Calypso, in her fury, created a maelstrom, which I admit did provide a convenient plotline for serving great whirpool special effects, but aside from that, I feel her character was hugely neglected and underdeveloped. She should have helped defeat Davy Jones somehow, or maybe turned against those who freed her to try to save Jones, or something! She was freed – and then nothing. How disappointing.

Also, one bugging question: Why did Calypso not show up to meet Davy Jones ten years after doing his duty? Someone tell me! (Gim thinks maybe it was because Calypso became unfaithful to Jones, and his lover was… Jack! Hmm, may be…)

All in all, though, I loved the third installment of Pirates, despite the racy pace of the movie. The lovely scenes took my breath away and the ending was quite a surprise – not as predictable as most movies (read: Spiderman, but hey, loved the special effects on that one too). The love story between Will and Elizabeth was stirring but not overdone. Although I did feel that Elizabeth’s character was treated quite loosely – she professes love for Will but her lips often seem be to interlocked with those other than Will’s (Jack, then Norrington, then an attempt with Jack again…).

Liplocking aside, the hefty P80 entrance fee I paid for Pirates is not going to be missed. Loved, loved, loved the movie – special effects, story and all.

One complaint, though, and it’s not about the movie. It’ s about the moviehouse. I watched at Mindpro Theater, no choice, the only decent theater in Zamboanga. My gripe is that I went home last night quite shocked and so very sad. I thought that Will and Elizabeth were doomed to being able to see each other only once every ten years, forever! Not known to me was that there was a short clip at the very end of the credits that showed Will and Elizabeth meeting up ten years later, with their son! And that the significance of that was that Will was freed of his duties and free to finally be with Elizabeth! A fairytale happy ending!

And why did I miss that? Because damned Mindpro Theater cuts the credits right away!! You couldn’t even listen to the end of the soundtrack or get to read all the cast names. Grr. Isn’t that illegal or something??

Anyway, thank God for Youtub. I’m gonna be looking it up ASAP!

P.S. I finally have a high-speed Internet connection, yay! Had it installed just today. I’m sad though ‘coz I’ll be leaving soon, won’t get to enjoy it much, but at least I can now video-communicate from Manila (hoping I get myself wifi there too). Happiness all around!

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