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Smoke It Out From The City

The ban of cigarette smoking is not a dream in some part of the Philippines but already a living reality and I wish it could be imposed in the entire archipelago. For as we all know cigarette smoking is really bad to one’s health due it many health complications wherein taking vitamin C, as some favorite excuse for smoking will not suffice to save one from the health implications of cigarette smoking. Yes, perchance, you can save your life from the health damage caused by cigarette smoking by overdosing oneself with vitamin c and other vitamins and minerals the physical body needs in order to be healthy and far away from sickness and diseases, but what about the others who do have such knowledge as yours like the children who imitate cigarette smoking from the adult smoker thinking that it is cool to smoke one, what about the ignorant one, will you let them die due to irresponsible cigarette smoking?

So if you really love your fellow Filipino will let this happen?

Thanks to some cities or region in the Philippines that do really care and love their children or the future Filipino generation by imposing a complete ban on cigarette smoking and their efforts were rewarded of course. One city in the Philippine has been the living example in the Philippines which was awarded by international organization in the world that values the advocacy of the bad health implications of cigarette smoking by the city’s very strong implementation and control of it. The Davao city which every one of us knows to be a typhoon-free city in the Philippines is now recognized in the world as cigarette smoke-free city in the Philippine and the leading city in the Philippines that puts greater value of it.

Global SmokeFree Partnership (an organization in alliance with American Cancer Society and the Framework Convention Alliance) says about Davao city’s anti-smoke task force : “……exceptional leadership and commitment….. Smoke-free policies by a governmental agency….”

The anti-smoke policies of the city of Davao Philippines was implemented on the year 2002 but now recognized by the International health organization recently. The anti-smoke ordinance says that it is unlawful or illegal to smoke or allow smoking in public buildings, vehicles, enclosed and other areas that the local government designated as non-smoking places and one will be punished if one do not obey or break this law.

Feeding Spiritual Blindness

Why ask a blessing from a lifeless dark black statue? You are more blessed than that mere statue for you have life but the statue it hasn’t.

Yearly, sad to say many “Christian” Filipinos participate and blindly set their hope to the lifeless black Dark statue of the religiously so-called “black Nazarene” or black skinned version of “Jesus” bearing a wooden Roman cross that is used for capital punishment for criminals at its yearly celebration called “Feast of the Black Nazarene”. This religious feast is a sensational Christian feast in the Philippines because of many injuries incurred to the blind believers during the procession of the black dark lifeless statue wherein the blind believers blindly believe the black dark lifeless statue makes miracles and blessings to those who blindly believe to it. Moreover, the Philippine media have sensationalized it yearly, thus it is a double benefits for the Catholic Church to milk the pockets of these ignorant fool blind believers. It is a “major, major” celebration for them, an additional thanks to the media for more control and quick deceives tactics.

Let’s play “blind, blind” to this futile and injure-inflicting religious feast wherein never mind the Filipino people being rob of their senses and reasoning; never mind the Filipino people being rob of their hard-earned little money, anyway it is for the sake of a money-face “Christian” god; never mind the Filipino people being rob of their own miserable lives and physical members, anyway the “black Nazarene” will miraculously donate its lifeless existence and its lifeless feet and hands; never mind the Filipino people being seen by the world intellectuals as a mere laughingstock which they could easily deceived and control; Yes, Never mind for the sake of Religious Tolerance : learned to Respect and Honor even though the religion already suck people’s lives, senses, reasoning and money. Yes Never Mind.

This is how every new Philippine administration is doing: NeverMind.

How can the Philippine administration never ban such religious feast that cause multiple robbery crimes every year to the Philippine’s own people, is not it, Christianity is a colonial religion brought by Spaniards, how come the Philippines could not freed itself from this kind of colonial bondage and enslavery? Why let yourselves be enslave if you have the choice to be free? I bet the Catholic Church already know the stupidity of this feast but for the sake of power-keeping they exploit the ignorant believers anyway they could benefit from the ignorance and blindness of these foolish blind believers, financially and socially, at least they serve a purpose for keeping the ground of the Catholic Church strong.

The Catholic Church keeps on feeding spiritual blindness though they already know the truth behind their own-made religion, of course as I said, for Power-Keeping, so that they could do what they wanted to their believers; whatever they command their believers to do, their blind believers, joyfully and blind obey.

Hay Philippines, hay Filipinos! L But anyway, there are intelligent and smart Filipinos out there and do not give in to this faithful but brainless feast.

This is just one of the colonial religious feasts; the Philippine is still bondage of wherein unlearned Filipinos knew that it is a part of the original Pilipino culture and religion whereas it is not. The colonial powers and control is still in effect among the Filipino people and the Philippines is not yet truly Free contrary to what it is projected to the public.

The colonial conquerors may not be physically present in the Philippines but their sphere of influence in the Philippines remain still standing and influencing the Filipino minds because the Filipino themselves LOVE to remain it still.

“Jeweler To The Stars” Now For Filipinos?

Do you love diamonds? Or have you seen real diamonds right in front of your face? If not, this is your chance to behold the glittering beauty of these rare precious stones on earth without leaving the entire Philippine archipelago. How? Visit the newly erected jewelry store at Makati city Philippines at the Greenbelt 5. This jewelry store is brand of Jewelry not known for its real diamond beaded jewels but also the jeweler himself – Mr. Harry Winston. Harry Winston is the known jeweler today that took a risk to use real diamonds on his crafted jewelries and erected a shop or a store that sells these jewelries beaded by real diamonds. Jewelries like necklace and bracelets and wristwatches beaded with a lot of diamond beads is what the Harry Winston jewel store is known for in the world today.

Fortunate is the Philippines because another world renowned personality have grace the Philippines and put his name at stake on the business sector in the Philippines by establishing his own jewelry store at Greenbelt 5 at Adora department store in Makati city last December 11, 2010 which features of course, diamond bearded jewelry and watches for this what the jewelry brand – Harry Winston – is known for –Diamonds.

Harry Winston, the known and respected jeweler in the world and named as the “Jeweler  To the Stars” and “King of Diamonds” because his Jewelry are diamond-filled and because his diamond jewelries are being worn by famous Hollywood celebrities like Madonna, Robert Downey Jr., Hale Berry, Charlize Theron, Gwyneth Paltrow, and other celebrities; is the latest world venerated personality that give his trust to enterprise his name and jewelries in the Philippines, which gave Filipinos an opportunity to behold a real diamond-filled  jewelries and a chance to wear one, if one have a money to afford one. However, I am afraid if Philippines’ local celebrities will spend a time for it just to wear one because of the fear of being kidnapped or robbed by their fellow Filipinos because of the diamonds they wear.

Harry Winston’s international branch at Adora Department store features classic collection of Harry Winston’s Avenue diamond beaded watches for men and ladies, as well as jewelry.

By the way, the Adora Department Store at Greenbelt 5 is said to be the premier department store in Asia or in the Philippines that is upscale and high-end department, however, some said it is not.

Empowering The Philippine Automotive Industry

Vehicle in our times is very important in order to take us to where we want to go fast and easy, thus having a personal vehicle like car is one of the material possessions most coveted by any one of us. However, to have one is very costly for every one vehicle sell on vehicle stores cost beyond what we could afford for by our little money, but to rich and wealthy people, it is nothing.

And because of the expensiveness of having a personal vehicle and not all Filipinos in the Philippines could afford to have one, the automotive industry in the Philippines is quiet not successful and striving. For only the rich ones could afford to buy one. Thus, because of this less consumer patronage specifically on cars, a brand new vehicle association was erected or formed to address some consumer issues, as well as the status of the automotive industry in the Philippines; of what the automotive industry could do regarding such issues. This brand new vehicle association in the Philippines was just recently debut on the Filipino public consciousness which compose of fiftheen(15) vehicle brands in the Philippines.

For the first time ever, fifteen (15) prestigious auto brands in the Philippines have merged into one auto or vehicle association that aims and foster the success of auto industry in the Philippines by giving auto or vehicle lovers the satisfaction they needed in an auto or vehicle, headed by a nine founding members, namely

(1) Hyundai Asia Resources, Inc. (HARI)

(2)CATs Motors, Inc.

(3) The Covenant Car Company, Inc.

(4) PGA Cars, Inc

(5) Scandinavian Motors Corporation

(6) Jaguar Cars, Inc.

(7) Focus Ventures, Inc.

(8) United Asia Automotive Group,Inc

(9) British United Automobiles, Inc.

These nine founding members have outstanding track records in the Philippines’ automotive industry.

The fifteen auto brands are:

(1) Audi

(2) Chana

(3) Chevrolet

(4) Chryster

(5) Dodge

(6) Faw

(7) Fotun

(8) Hyundai

(9) Jaguar

(10) Jeep

(11) Maserati

(12) Mercedes-Benz

(13) Mini

(14) Porsche

(15)Volvo

This newly formed or created vehicle association in the Philippines is the Association of Vehicle Importers and Distributors or AVID. This vehicle association is a private non-stock and non-profit business association recently incorporated last July 2010 with four areas of engagement: (1) Strategic Policy Thinking (2) Communications and Advocacy (3) Knowledge Capital Building and (4) Partnership Strengthening.

Recently the AVID held the First Thought Leadership Forum that discusses consumers’ trends for more competitive automotive industry to address of course what I have discussed above.

Actually, last year 2010 is the year considered by the automotive industry in the Philippines to be the landmark year for automotive industry in the Philippines that have the highest rate of sales so far from the previous years with 168,490 units sold last year 2010.This is really good for automotive industry and good year for the industry which is also not only due to Association of Vehicle Importers and Distributors or AVID thought leadership forum for the Association of Vehicle Importers and Distributors or AVID is still but also for some other auto promotions brought by the auto brands i mention above this article.

The report above about the high sales in auto units sold last year 2010 was reported by the Chamber of Automotive Manufacturers of the Philippines Inc. (Campi) and the Truck Manufacturers Association (TMA), likewise also Chamber of Automotive Manufacturers of the Philippines Inc. (Campi) and the Truck Manufacturers Association (TMA) expected a continual growth on sales this year 2011 as the automotive industry in the Philippines gots a high momentum last year 2010.

“2011 is likewise seen to be a positive year as overall economic environment continues to be relatively favorable with sustained business and consumer confidence, GDP (gross domestic product) growth, stable forex (foreign exchange), positive forecast for OFW (overseas Filipino workers) remittances, manageable inflation rate forecast, continued healthy financing environment, as well as new model introductions by auto players this year,” the Chamber of Automotive Manufacturers of the Philippines Inc (CAMPI), president Elizabeth Lee said.

The Philippines is the Association of Vehicle Importers and Distributors or AVID is just an additional help to boost more the automotive industry in the Philippines to gain more sales in coming years as it already helps boost the sales in autos last year 2010, thus this year 2011 the automotive industry is expected to continue to increase in sales.

“We are likewise hopeful that this year will bring in new investments on the back of government’s direction to support the expansion of local assembly operations, create jobs, and create a competitive environment where the Philippines can participate in a larger scale, regionally. We have to take advantage of the opportunities that are present and use the plant capacities we have available to serve both the domestic and export markets. A strong, clear, and competitive road map is key,” the Chamber of Automotive Manufacturers of the Philippines Inc (CAMPI), President Elizabeth Lee said.

Toyota Motor Philippines Corp. is still on the top most bought auto brands in the Philippines with 33.7 of the total sales, selling  56,855 units last year 2010 followed by Mitsubishi Motors Philippines Corp  with 19.2 percent selling 32,422 units sold, then by Hyundai Asia Resources Inc with 11.1 percent selling 18,696 units last year 2010.

Amazingly For the First Time

It sounds too good to be true but indeed it is good to hear that the Filipino team on The Amazing Race Asia season 4 have truly won the top spot of the race. The two Richards (The Riches: Richard Hardin and Richard Herrera) has reached the coveted prize and made a history to be the first Filipinos who won the regional contest of the world-famous race –The Amazing Race. They break the record of the losing-history of Filipino teams that joins The Amazing Race.

For Of all the three seasons of The Amazing Race Asia, Filipinos were already joining the race contests but unfortunately, they are not been able to win the contests. Thus, the winning of the Filipino team in the current season of The Amazing Race Asia season is indeed a very big surprise among the Filipino public and very special moment of the history of Filipinos joining world-known contests.

Their secret for their winning, according to them is to stop arguing which some contestants often do and balance one’s differences and together make unified strategies to win the Race.

However, though the two Richards were were somewhat not actually purely whole Filipino but their nationality is half Filipino and half Americans, they are still Filipinos which the pure Filipinos could be proud of their winning on The Amazing Race contest. For they do not deny their Filipino blood but proud of it despite they have another blood by naming their team on the contests as Filipino team rather than American team. Moreover, The Amazing Race is not just a mere contest but it is a world-famous contest joined by different races in the world, just like the Miss Universe Contest.

However, that issue doesn’t matter for more modern and open-minded Filipinos but only to those still very strict absurd and conservative Filipinos who value on preserving pure blooded Filipinos that is not tainted by any colonial DNA which is indeed impossible.

But anyway, The two Richards are already known in the Philippines before they join The Amazing Race Asia season 4;Richard Herrera is known in the Philippine showbiz industry as a semi-actor and Richard Hardin as Philippine Basketball player and somewhat known already as buddies.

The secret to their winning, Richard Hardin says: “You know, luck has a lot to do with this race. There are just certain things that never meant to happen. Like, I think the first three teams that got eliminated, they were really strong. Those were the teams that we’d pick and they got eliminated really fast. I think the first team, the car broke down. So, there are times on the race, beyond the fact that physically, me and Rich are really a strong team. ME AND RICH NEVER GIVE UP.”

Ink-ful Philippines PEN

Pen compels one to write and what one has written when published will gain one pals and enemies as well, just like for example the admired and killed journalists.

Writing is another means to express what is in our mind aside from verbally expressed it, which could last forever our thoughts preserved on our writings even though we already dead physically. But on verbal expression, in a split of seconds what we have spoken has gone, unless it is recorded on audio or video technology. Thus, writing is the economical and best way to achieved and records our thoughts and emotions than buying audio or video gadgets just only to record what’s in our mind. All you need is a pen and a paper and a reliable folder to archived our thoughts. Moreover, writing is one of the most important human activities we have now in our planet wherein actually last December 4 and 5 2010 the Philippines host the annual writer’s conference held at Montebello Villa Hotel in Cebu Philippines which attended by local and international writers. The writer’s conference was brought and organized by the Philippine PEN (Poet, Playwright, Essayists, Novelists)

The Philippine PEN is an organization of all Philippine poets, playwrights, essayists and novelists Filipinos in the Philippines which was founded by the National Artist for Literature, F. Sionil Jose since the late 1950s which celebrated its golden anniversary last 2007.The Philippine PEN is one of the members of the International PEN  or international writer’s organization in the world.

This year 2010, the writer’s conference was attended by international writers from Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Africa, USA and Europe; they were:

1. Ignacio Martinez de Pison of Spain

2. Nguyen Bao Chan of Vietnam

3. Nori Nakagami of Japan

4. Alvin Pang of Singapore

5. Robin Lim of Indonesia

6. Lina Zeron of Mexico

7. Ruth Elynia Mabanglo of USA

8. Marianne Villanueva of USA

9. Joseph Akawu Ushie of Nigeria

The purpose of the writer’s conference is of course to foster and enrich the writing industry in the Philippines because without the talented writers in the Philippines some industries and aspects of living in the Philippines will not be as good as now, just like the print media, how can the Philippines able to know and learn what is happening around the Philippines without Newspapers and News journals and magazines?

In the movie and film industry, without a writer how can the film and movies exist and what will be the entertainment portals of Filipinos if Filipinos were or are known to be movie and film lovers and patronizers? Similarly on TVtube, how can a story or show exist without the talented writers behind the cameras or behind the TV show that is shown on TV tube which every Filipino people able to watch?

Also on forming a government, how can the laws and rules be preserved and enacted without the brains and pen of a writer, will there be government without a single writer?

Therefore, writing and writers are very important in a country and they serve as one of the life-bloods of nations of the world.

Therefore, writing is way of life for every one of us, however, some just don’t like to transcribe their thoughts and ideas and emotions in a paper in order for their thoughts to survive even though their physical body no longer exist. Thus, every one of us have the gift to be a writer, one have only to take care of it and nurture in order to become a great and excellent writer: a great and excellent essayists, a novelists, a poets, a song writer, or whatever style and expertise of writings one will possess or developed if one concentrate and nurture his or her gift of writing.

So therefore, one must not be afraid or shrug or ignore one’s gifted ability to write for it is a good thing that one is able to write and transcribe ones’ thoughts and ideas than not to.

Therefore,The Philippine PEN is a living proof that there are many artistic Filipinos in the Philippines yet only some are unknown in the Philippine public eye and some do not want to develop the gifted skills one possessed due to influence motivation to seek primarily Money first that the gift of Talent one have like writing.The Philippine PEN is a good writer’s organization that will help budding Filipino writer enhance their writing skills and give them the needed break and recognition for one’s literary works.

However, some good writers today were up to script writing genre because there is money on it rather than on writing a novel book. Film Productions today needed badly a creative writer to boost their film outfit by producing high quality and well crafted stories for their movie projects.

The Google Zeitgeist Report

The word “zeitgeist” according to Wiki and dictionary, it is the current general spirit of a group of people or nation on intellectual, moral and cultural aspects that is prevailing within or in short what the majority of Filipinos, as I am writing this for the Philippines, think, feel, and do this year 2010; what drives the majority this year 2010.In order to know this current state of drives among the Filipinos, not only Filipinos but also the rest of the world, the Giant search engine Google do a yearly report called “Zeitgeist Report”, in order to determine the current spirit by their search engines or by what majority of Filipinos were searching of using their search engine.

Yes, Yearly the Giant search engine, Google is releasing what Google called “Zeitgeist Report” for the current year as their yearend report revealing the “collective consciousness” of the Philippines(not only the Philippines but also other countries as well) this year 2010 of what mostly Filipinos search on their search engine.

According to Google Zeitgeist Report for the Philippines, among the top most search keywords or items at Google.ph are Facebook, Jason Ivler, Barbie Forteleza, Manny Pacquiao, Miss Universe fourth runner-up Ma.Venus Raj, the “Jejemon” subculture, Apple iPad, Charice Pempengco’s Pyramid lyrics, the current Philippine president Benigno ‘Noynoy” Aquino III, the international Filipina singing sensation Charice Pempengco, Anne Curtis, Willie Revillame, the ABS-CBN teleserye or fantaserye “Agua Bendita”, the ABS-CBN talent show “Pilipinas Got Talent”(with the winner Jovit Baldovino),Cebu city, Boracay, Bohol, Puerto Galera and Camarines Sur, Davao city, Villa Escudero, and others.

1. Manny Pacquiao for his boxing fights this year that is why he is still one of the most search personalities in the Philippines.

2. Miss Universe 4^th runner-up Ma. Venus Raj for her latest winnings at Miss Universe Pageant which makes majority of Filipinos curious to search her on the web. Moreover, her statement “Major, Major” has been her tag which of course sparks curiosity among Filipinos.

3. His Excellency Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III for his winnings at 2010 Election and some funny news reports regarding him followed by his election as the new Philippine president.

3. The “Jejemon” sub-culture for its hit among Filipino teenagers who are inclined much on sending cell phone message in a stylish way.

4. The Apple iPad – I don’t know, perhaps most Filipinos want to have one; yes, Filipinos are curious about this tablet PC like gadget which is indeed looks cool and handy.

5. Jason Ivler – for his young age, music artistry and hot-tempered personality which lead him to jail, plus his connection to Freddie Aguilar, that is why majority of Filipinos were curious about him and mostly he is cute and handsome, thus tweens, ladies and gays were got curious about him.

6. Charice Pempengco – of course we all know why, but what makes her more hit is her inclusion to the famous US TV show “Glee” and her latest hit song “Pyramid” that hits the Billboards top songs.

7. ABS-CBN’s “Agua Bendita” – this fantaserye is quite really beautiful plus the major “bida” and “kontrabida” is also beautiful or should I say the new young artist of the TV drama serious which plays both heroine and villain is simply beautiful and knows how play both her heroine and villain role. Her acting piece suits and perfect for a new comer on the TV drama fantasy series.

8. ABS-CBN’s “Pilipinas Got Talent” – the show is very interesting and entertaining and it has utter similarity with TV5’s “Talentadong Pinoy” plus the talent of the contestant Jovit Baldavino makes the Filipino public curious.

9. Cebu city –the most search Philippine place for tourist destinations, followed by Boracay, Bohol, Puerto Galera and Camarines Sur, Davao city,and other famous tourist places in the Philippines. Of course, the Philippines have some most beautiful tourist spots in the world and this only means the Philippine tourism is still a flourishing and healthy activity in the Philippines which generates government revenues from the foreign and local tourists which visits famous tourist locations or tourist attractions in the Philippines.

10. Anne Curtis – well we all know why or because she is the top “fashionista” “it” girl in town or in Philippine Showbizlandia. Moreover, she is very beautiful and charming young actress of the Philippines. She is the most stylish in terms of dressing up and have somewhat fashion statement on what she wear.

11. Willie Revillame – same also with Anne Curtis, yes because of his show Wowowee and some her controversial remarks.

12. Facebook – of course the favorite social networking site of most Filipinos yet it is still unknown why. What I know is Filipinos loves to play FarmVille- a game in facebook which is the talk of the town among Filipino facebook users.

Anyway, what I enumerate are just handfuls of the results which can be seen on complete lists at the following Google Zeitgeist Report URL link below.

http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist2010/regions/ph.html

Chasing Change For Pinas

We are living on the fast evolving times wherein if we do not concur to the rapid changes happening around us one will die into shrinkage or be remotely left behind by others who evolved into higher level of existence or moved or progressed into a progressed state of existence. Man is indeed evolving into a higher and refined existence and not retarding downward which is indeed very beautiful.

In commercial aspect, the most quickly evolving part of commercialism and materialism is of course, technology. Technology become the benchmark for commercial success and proofs that one company or business is improving or progressing. Handheld electronic gadgets like mobile phones or cellular phone is the number one or on top of the quickly evolving technology mortal mankind have today; from simple call and text message into integration of camera and media features and personal organizer into a mini Browser and computer application integrated into it. The changes on manufactured electronic gadgets and appliances is rapid that every new fad in town is being replaced suddenly by new more fad baby and then by another new again.

In the Philippines, aside from technology changes which prompts the Philippine business sector particularly the telecommunication industry to concur to the technology advances and changes wherein the two Philippine telecommunication giants companies, namely Globe Telecom and Smart Communications, constantly doing innovations and popping-up new ideas for their subscribers, the two Philippine television giant network (ABS-CBN channel 2 and GMA 7 channel 7)do also make a noticeable changes in their programming and TV shows.

Both of their respective shows have display of new concepts and ideas, as well as their shows particularly the drama series were wrap-up quickly and fast and being replaced by a brand new drama series whereas in the past one will be force and drag to watch one drama series for 3 to 5 years, but now 8 months or 1 year is already a drag; the most lifespan now of Philippine drama series is 3 months or 5 months in order to concur for the rapid changes and evolving tastes of Filipino viewers, else they will their respective shows will no longer be watch by the evolving taste of Pinoys in terms of TV viewing experience. Thus, they have to concur to the changes happening around. Moreover, other noticing changes on Philippine television is if the TV show is not or no more gaining audience or viewership even if the show or for example a drama series is not yet finished, the TV network will suddenly out of the blue will axed the show without noticing the Filipino viewers and be replaced by a brand new show.

To stand long now means death for such TV shows instead of success, or to stay for long in one such concept and ideas without evolving into more sophisticated one, means death already of idea or concept. One have to come up with “out of the box” idea to cope for changes of times.

Moreover, not only drama series or drama shows were renovated to concur to the change but also on their live shows. The noticeable display of high-technology settings and fresh new ideas for the shows made their live shows more likeable and watchable on the current times.

Not only the two giant Philippine TV networks but also other TV and Telecom networks in the Philippines are gearing up for innovations.

This is truly a good sign for more evolve Philippines. However, what is not only evolving yet is the Filipinos’ prime religion – Christianity-that is retarding their spiritual life whereas in other countries they have already leave and abandon Christianity because of its forged and false genuine origin, historically, logically and spiritually.

Acai Berry Now On Pinas

Another healthy product have landed on the Philippine Market and for sure health conscious Filipinos will try it without hesitant or should I say before I wrote this short article they already knew it for that is how a health conscious people, they are always first on everything about health and wellness. For, for them, health matters first never mind the pocket; this has been the life motto of every health conscious people due to one time in their life they are very sickly people or have gone a terminal disease but have survive and the fear of death have drive them to be healthy for the rest of their life; to seek life through maintaining their health and never give in again to sickness they are formerly inflicted with. But to non-health conscious people, perhaps they don’t have yet the foretaste of death that is why they don’t seem to care much about their personal health.

The Acai Berry Juice and Supplement is what I am talking about of course which is now available at local selected health stores. The Acai berry which is native at Amazon rainforest in Brazil is one of the leading most loved berries among the berry family on health market today; for according to studies, Acai berry has more protein than eggs and more calcium than milk and have the highest antioxidants than blue berries and red wine. Moreover, according to some who drink it,it cures some of their health problems.

If you are one of the health conscious Filipino, you don’t have to worry no more about ordering an acai berry juice and supplement online and experience the hassles of shipping the products you order into the Philippines. The acai berry juice and supplements are now available at Watson Drug, Manson Drug, South Star Drugstore, Health and Beyond store, Cory Quirino World of Wellness and at Med Express.

The Acai Berry is just one of the newest health products to land on the Philippines which every Filipinos should be thankful of. For aside from Philippine’s rich natural resources of nutritious fruits and vegetables and effective herbal and medicinal plants, imported nutritious food products is still flowing in as an additional health help for Filipinos. However, only some who knows and value this blessedness of the Philippines in terms of healthy food resources but resort to drugging and processed foods as the only foods.

Leaf and Wrap
No food holder? Go banana. It has been a usual custom for most Filipinos that if they do not have any plates, bowls, spoon or pork for eating, they go banana. No, they do not go nuts but they go on their backyards to find help from a banana plant. Most Filipinos, I bet, already know what I am talking about, that is, Filipinos will cut then banana leaves and will use it as their plates or food holder and eat with their bare hands. This style of eating of most Filipinos has been adopted by a food restaurant in the Philippines, the Binalot Fiesta Foods.

Binalot Fiesta Foods is the first and so far the only Filipino restaurant that uses banana leaves as an alternative food holder for the food one will order for dine-in in their restaurant, as well as banana wrapper for the food one will order for take -out. And this “green” style of them of serving foods to their eating customers is not left unnoticed by the Asian Forum on Corporate Social Responsibility (AFCSR) which rewards annually business organization that enforces and practice environment friendly programs and corporate social responsibility (CSR) projects in their business undertakings. For Binalot Fiesta Foods received the Intel-Aim Corporate Social Responsibility Award for 2010.
Amidst the high-technology and improvement in the business sector, Binalot Fiesta Foods resort back to basics despite of criticism they will get from some people that will see and treat their way of food serving as a primitive way of handling food plus the risk of bad micro-organism that will be induce on foods they serve by doing such handling. But Binalot Fiesta Foods never mind such detractions and concentrate of their “leaf of faith” on banana leaves instead.

Actually, it is a “green” marketing strategy in order to compete well with world known successful fast foods and restaurants like Jollibee and McDonald to get a share of the Philippine market in line of food business, which indeed goes well and have received an international recognition for their undertaking.
It is a bright “green” marketing idea that not only they could profit from it but also in the same time help the environment by reducing the percentage of usage of polystyrene packaging on fast food chains that could bring negative impacts on environment when burn or trash anywhere; plus they could give a livelihood for poor communities by hiring them for manual processing of banana leaves to be use as a natural food holder and wrapper for their food chains through their CSR program DAHON (Dangal at Hanapbuhay Para sa Nayon).
Truly, the leaf has given them a lift on their business and a reap of fruits for their “leaf of faith” on the banana leaf. Nature has paid them back by backing up nature’s healthy ways.

Eating on a banana leaf was said to be inherited by Filipinos from their ancient ancestors long before the Spaniards conquered the Philippines. It was said to be a Hindu or Indian origin way of serving food which has some connection to said to be ancient belief system of Filipinos – Maharlikan-Lemurian kind of belief system- which of course have correlation with modern Hinduism and connection to Indian people. Actually, the Spaniards call the Filipinos then “indio” mean “Indian”. The term “Pilipino” or “filipino” was just the term and labeling of the Spaniards to the true Filipinos to designate that these Indian people are now King Philip’s people, thus the Spaniards rename them and baptized the true Filipinos from Indian into now “Filipinos”; so also the Filipinos homeland, the Spaniards labeled or rename it along with King Philip’s name – Philippines

So therefore, eating on banana leaf is indeed a true tradition of ancient Filipinos whose cousins or maybe blood-brothers are Indian people. For the Indian people today have also such kind or style of serving foods, that is serving it on banana leaves and eating with bare hands.

And this ancient old Filipino tradition was used commercially by Binalot Fiesta Foods.