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Would you rather GoBigger or GoBetter?

I would GoBigger or GoBetter with my mother who has been a Globe subscriber for more than 10 years now.

Why?

My mama and papa live a good 4-5 hours away from where I have settled with my family. it is just the two of them who live together in our home. A home with a roof destroyed by a massive typhoon that wrecked a lot more homes. They have been living in an apartment of a relative for two years now and they are ready to move back any day because the house has been repaired to be livable, after two years.

We constantly get in touch through sending sms daily and by short calls. I opted to keep my Globe prepraid sim card which I have been using since 1999 or so, back when we still had to pay Php165 to use the sms services at Globe stores. I have since exchanged this Jurassic sim card to a newer one, using the same number that old contacts still use to communicate with me. This is what I use to communicate with my parents through sms and calls.

Now that I have read about Globe’s GoBigger and GoBetter plans, I plan to be in constant communication with my parents because I don’t have to worry about the charges that will be used.

If I can’t be there for them physically and them for me, then it is enough that I hear their voices and I am asured that they are all well and good.

Your Globe Prepaid just got better and bigger with more prepaid offers!

Only Globe Prepaid gives me Bigger and Better unli offers.

Go Bigger
– GoCALL100 gives me more call minutes (500 mins) VS Competitors offer (200 mins). No need to use prefix to enjoy unlicalls.

– With GoUNLI30, I get real unlimited service with unli allnetwork texts, unli calls to Globe TM, plus the real UNLI-chat experience with the best apps available. It’s the real deal compared to competitor’s UNLI offer.

Go Better
– GoUNLITXT49 gives me the same UNLI texts to Globe/TM at a BETTER prices VS Competitors offer.

– With GoUNLI25, I get real unlimited service w/ unli Globe/TM calls and texts, plus unli Viber chat to the rest of my friends. It’s the real deal compared to competitor’s UNLI offer.

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We have been HP printer users for years now. As of late, we use HP Deskjet F2480 at home and before that an HP printer that uses a toner which we used for a good number of years.

With the introduction of new and high tech HP Printers, owning a printer for home-use has never been exciting! This techie mom with a super techie husband and equally techie kids who rely on printers for their projects, homework and portfolio requirements sure can benefit from the new features of our well-liked HP printers.

Here are the reasons why these HP Ink Advantage Printers are useful in more ways than one:

1. HP Ink Advantage printers allow users to download pre-designed templates from content providers in the web
2. HP Ink Advantage Printers deliver high-quality prints with low running costs (now, this is what we money watchers-economode printing setting need, LOL)
3. The print apps provide users the ability to download templates and other printables and install them in the printer for access or via deliveries directly to their printers HP scheduled delivery  at a specific day and time of the week.
4. HP has also underscored the value of productive print apps to enhance children’s learning with the inclusion of education apps from Singapore’s leading education publisher, Singapore Asia Publishers Pte Ltd (SAP), and proprietary brand owner of renowned Primary Math programme in Singapore, onSponge Pte Ltd, (We have SAP books at home on reading, Science and Math, so woohoo!)
5. Designed to enhance the learning experience of young students, the print apps provide busy parents and their children with direct access to educational content that spans across pre-school and primary school levels, and is delivered directly on their HP Deskjet Ink Advantage 5525, 6525 e-All-in-One printers.
6. The HP Deskjet Ink Advantage portfolio allows for affordable printing with Original HP inks, which produces high-quality prints reliably, without the cost and hassles of printer damage, messy leaks, spills and clogged cartridges when using alternatives.

HP Ink Advantage 3515

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HP Ink Advantage 3525

HP Ink Advantage 5525

“Busy parents and young students often spend time finding good education content and accessing this content,” said Albert Mateo, Jr., general manager, Printing and Personal Systems, HP Philippines. “The education print apps on HP Deskjet Ink Advantage series will leverage HP’s leadership in cloud technologies and high-quality printing to deliver new learning experiences for families, who can now directly access education content and low-cost printing without having to worry about costs or wasted prints.”

Here is more information about HP Ink Advantage Printers:

This content service is offered in addition to a broad range of mobile printing solutions that HP pioneered, allowing customers to print from virtually anywhere, anytime and from the widest range of mobile devices.

HP’s mobile solutions span HP ePrint, HP wireless direct and HP Printer Control.

There are more than 46 million web-connected HP printers worldwide that have access to HP’s suite of mobile printing solutions. Notably, there are now more than 8 million downloads of the HP ePrint app globally

Delivering premium content to support the preschool to primary academic journey

Developed for young learners across pre-school and primary school levels, the new HP print apps deliver premium education content from the following providers:

• SAP Education Print App complements in-class learning with content that is selected from SAP’s best-selling primary school assessment books, delivered on a daily or weekly basis. Bite-sized practice materials are delivered to encourage good study habits and positive learning by pacing children’s learning through daily practice. The SAP Education Print App now offers assessment content for English, Math and Science. SAP plans to offer content for Chinese language later this year.

• onSponge Learning Print App provides access to the proprietary +hinkingMath™ resource – a flagship product line of the company. Each week, a series of practice problem sums for students in Primary 3 to Primary 6 levels will be made available through the print app, helping young learners to hone their problem-solving skills with core techniques and develop their reasoning abilities. Users can access the step-by-step solutions of the problem sums on www.onSponge.com, where they can also post questions at the Forum for online help.

The print apps offer anything from family activities, business, marketing, home, travel and other interests. Calendar templates, photo albums, coloring pages and signs, game pages, maps and even recipes are just some of the myriad downloadable printables.

Most of the applications from a wide array of choices are free of charge and may be accessed through the HP ePrintCenter.

ABOUT HP:

HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com.

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We attended a Skylanders-theme Party organized by Let’s Paint D Town Red.

The venue was packed. The food was great. The entertainment, game corners and music were great. What made the party more festive and fun are the decorations and the way that the lights played on these (this made me think of artemide lighting fixtures, lol)

As usual, Kim didn’t disappoint her guests. Here are some posts I wrote for themed parties by Let’s Paint D Town Red.

Toucan Balloon

Balloons

Twisted Body

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My guitar-playing daughter uses a Guitar Tuner app on her Android phone. This proves to be a useful app since she is not that adept in tuning her guitar yet because she always asks her father to do the tuning for her.

I say this is what technology is all about, children learning new things independently. Of course, interpersonal interaction is still best but what if, in cases like these when she needs to tune her guitar and my husband is at work

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The Maya Kitchen presents the ‘No Borders Cuisine’ of guest chef Vicky Pacheco, Chateau 1771 Group of Restaurants’ Executive Chef and Chief Operating Officer on August 31, Saturday, 9am-1pm.

Chateau 1771 Group of Restaurants is composed of Chateau, Café, Sentro, WineBar, SideBar and 1771 El Pueblo.

Chef Vicky will demonstrate a signature dish from each of the restaurant concept in the group.

• Lemon Chicken is crisp fried organic chicken leg nuggets coated with honey-lemon sauce from Chateau;
• Salbacho Pizza, a Sidebar staple, is topped with salami, bacon and chorizo;
• Fresh Smoked Fish Spring Rolls from Sentro is a fresh lumpia of tinapang bangus, salted egg, mustasa, onions and tomato;
• WineBar’s Lacquered Salmon is grilled salmon steak with soy sauce and honey reduction, mashed potatoes with parmesan cheese
• Café’s Bread & Butter Pudding is brioche type bread baked in a luscious custard with butter and real vanilla bean.

The first Chateau 1771 opened its doors in Malate in 1988 and has since relocated to its present location in Greenbelt 5. Its patented “No Borders  Cuisine” is a blend of well-loved Swiss, Italian and French creations.

Café 1771 in Ortigas is a beautiful dining destination serving truly unique sandwiches, breakfast, lasagna, stews, pizza and dessert.

WB 1771 is the group’s Wine Bar concept with a wine selection from 11 countries and 48 regions while SideBar is the perfect place to unwind with great food and wine.

The group has not entirely left behind the Filipino palate with its trailblazing Sentro 1771 restaurant concept. It made famous sinigang na corned beef, rated GG and more.  The people behind it describe themselves as ‘living, breathing and dreaming’ Filipino food.

Chef Vicky first joined Chateau 1771 as Assistant Restaurant Manager in December 1988 and has since occupied several positions as Restaurant Manager, Executive Chef and Food and Beverage Manager.

She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Hotel and Restaurant Administration from the University of the Philippines then got a Food and Beverage Diploma at the Les Roches, in Bluche-Montana, Switzerland.

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For more information on other course offerings, log on to www.themayakitchen.com  or e-mailcontactus@themayakitchen.com  or visit The Maya Kitchen Culinary Center every Tuesday to Saturday at 8F  Liberty Building, 835 A. Arnaiz Avenue (Pasay Road), Makati City or call 8921185 / 892-5011 local 108 / Mobile No. +63947 835 2290.

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