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Ayala Malls Green Fridays

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Ayala Malls is encouraging everyone to save the planet with their Ayala Malls' Green Fridays promo. Bring an eco bag every time you shop on Friday (although, it's best if you make this an everyday habit) at any participating Ayala Malls nationwide (Glorietta, Greenbelt, Alabang Town Center, Ayala Center Cebu, Market! Market!, Bonifacio High Street, Serendra, TriNoma, Marquee Mall, Abreeza Mall, Metro Point and Pavillion Mall). For every P100 single-spend transaction, you get one (1) raffle coupon. Complete the details and drop it in drop boxes located at the mall's concierge or promo booth. Get drawn and win Cerise House and Lot at Avida Village Cerise, NUVALI, Calamba, Laguna. On the other hand, be one of the twelve winners to enjoy the El Nido travel package (inclusive of airfare), that is, a 3-day/2-night stay for two (2) in El Nido Lagen Island or Apulit Island Resort Water Cottage with full board meals. Just a note: For every 10,000 raffle coupons, Ayala Malls commit to plant 100 trees in partnership with World Wildlife Fund.



Promo Requirements:
  • Open to all shoppers of Glorietta, Greenbelt, Alabang Town Center, Ayala Center Cebu, Market! Market!, Bonifacio High Street, Serendra, TriNoma, Marquee Mall, Abreeza Mall, Metro Point and Pavillion Mall
  • Minimum single purchase of P100
Promo Mechanics:
  1. Every Friday, bring an eco bag every time you shop at any participating Ayala Malls nationwide
  2. Make a single-spend transaction of P100 and be entitled to one (1) raffle coupon
  3. Present your same-day official receipt with stamp and signature at the mall's concierge or promo booth of the Ayala Mall where you made your purchase
  4. Fill out the required information and drop it off at the drop box located near the mall's concierge or promo booth
  5. One(1) stamped and signed receipt is equivalent to one( 1) raffle coupon
  6. You can only win once. In case your name gets drawn more than once, you get the prize with the higher value
  7. Prizes are subject to the following conditions:
    • 20% tax shall be shouldered by Ayala Malls
    • For the house and lot prize, the winner shall shoulder all costs of transfer of ownership and other charges and all other charges and costs incident to ownership
    • Airport terminal fees, and pocket money shall be at the expense of the winner
  8. View complete promo mechanics
Promo Period: March 9, 2012 to June 8, 2012 (Every Friday)
  • Last day of submission - June 8, 2012, before mall closing hours
  • Raffle draw. June 13, 2012, 3PM

Promo Prize:
  • One (1) winner Cerise House and Lot at Avida Village Cerise, NUVALI, Calamba, Laguna
  • Twelve winners of El Nido Travel Packages (inclusive of airfare)
    • Five (5) winners of a 3-day/2-night stay for two in El Nido Lagen Island Resort Water Cottage with full board meals
      • One (1) winner from Greenbelt, Alabang Town Center, Ayala Center Cebu, Bonifacio High Street, and Serendra
    • Seven (7) winners of a 3-day/2-night stay for two in El Nido Apulit Island Resort Water Cottage with full board meals
      • One (1) winner each from Glorietta, Market! Market!, TriNoma, MarQuee Mall, Abreeza, Pavilion Mall, and Metro Point
Upside
  • House and lot prize!
  • You can only win once. In case your name gets drawn more than once, you get the prize with the higher value
  • P100 minimum spend transaction only
Downside
  • Airport terminal fees, and pocket money shall be at the expense of the winner
  • Every Friday only
For more information, log on to facebook.com/TriNoma.AyalaMalls

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Star Baby 2012

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The search for the Star Baby 2012 is on! Now, with bigger and better prizes. If you think your baby deserves the title, pre-register at any SM Department store branch and check if you have reached the qualifying amount of purchases to get a Star Baby registration form. Upon registration, you will also be entitled to one (1) raffle entry for the grand draw. Submit the needed requirements and wait for your baby's name to be drawn. Prizes at stake for the Star Baby grand winner are P20,000 SM GC, P5,000 Goldilocks GC, P6,000 worth of Johnson's Baby Products, Star Baby Grand Winner Cake form Goldilocks, Go Grand 16×20 Portrait with frame from Great Image, Baby Photobook from Great Image and an opportunity to be featured on the cover of Baby Magazine. There will also be an online poll for the Quarterly People's Choice and will take home Precious Collection 1 11R (or equivalent ) Portrait Package from Great Image, DVD slideshow of images from Great Image and Johnson's Gift Pack worth P1,500. For the grand raffle draw, one (1) lucky winner will drive home a Toyota Avanza (1.3 J 5-Speed M/T).



Contest Requirements:
  • Babies who are 18 months old and below, as of registration
  • Parent or guardian must be a member of Mom Card, SMAC or SM Prestige
  • Accumulated purchase of P5,000 at Baby Company in any SM Department store during the promo period
    • Must include P500 worth of Pigeon and/or EQ Dry items
    • Items purchased at SM Hypermarket / Super SM branches as well as Baby Company specialty stores at The Podium, The Power Plant Mall, The Annex SM North Edsa, Southmall, SM City Cebu shall not be counted for purposes of computing the accumulated purchases
Contest Mechanics:
  1. Pre-register at any SM Department store branch to start tracking if you have reached the P5,000 qualifying amount of purchases to get a Star Baby registration form. Information on the purchases is recorded through SM Advantage Card's computer system. You will also be entitled to one (1) electronic raffle entry for the grand raffle
  2. Entry Guidelines
    • Star Baby
      • Two (2) of baby's best colored photos (wearing a plain, light colored shirt (pastel pink, blue, yellow, green, etc) in 5R prints
        • 1 close-up shot from head to shoulder
        • 1 full body shot against plain white background (lying down, sitting or standing)
      • Completed Star Baby registration form
      • Certified true copy of birth certificate
      • Letter of authorization from parents or legal guardian (in case registrant is not the child's parent/ legal guardian)
    • Grand Raffle
      • Every succeeding P5,000 worth of accumulated purchases (inclusive of P500 worth of PIGEON and/or EQ DRY items) entitles you to a new raffle entry
      • Name to appear on the electronic raffle entry should be the same as the one on the registration form and Mom Card/SMAC/ SM Prestige card
  3. All requirements must be placed in a short brown enveloped and submitted to the Baby Company Branch Manager or Supervisor. Once approved, it will be placed in a designated drop box at Baby Company branch
  4. Your baby must be brought to the store during the submission of requirements to authenticate the photos
  5. All baby photos representing their branches compete for the zonal area elimination
    • METRO MANILA (18 branches) - Fairview, Novaliches, North Edsa, Megamall, Taytay, Makati, Cubao, Marikina, Masinag, San Lazaro, Quiapo, Manila, Mall of Asia, Harrison, Bicutan, Sucat, Las Pinas, Bacoor * and all soon-to-open Baby Company at SM Department Store branches within the promo period
    • LUZON (16 branches) - Baguio, Rosales, Tarlac, Pampanga, Clark, Baliuag, Marilao, Sta. Rosa, Lucena, Naga, Batangas, Lipa, San Pablo, Calamba,Dasmarinas, Rosario
    • VISMIN (6 branches) - Cebu, Mandurriao, Delgado, Bacolod, Davao, CDO
  6. Baby Company will pre-select a set of 20 quarterly finalists from the 3 regions for the online poll which will be conducted via the Baby Company website. This is to determine the Star Baby People's Choice
    • Metro Manila - 10 finalists
    • Luzon - 5 finalists
    • Vismin - 5 finalists
  7. Voting Guidelines
    • Register at the Baby Company website using your valid email address to participate in the online poll
    • Only one (1) vote per email address per day is allowed
  8. Three (3) quarterly winners (1 winner per region) will be determined from the twenty (20) finalists
  9. Judging Criteria
    • 50% Photo Appeal and Model Potential - Baby is attractive and has the potential to be a model
    • 20% Physical Built - Baby looks healthy and in prime physical condition
    • 20% Complexion – Baby’s skin is clear and vibrant
    • 10% Results of online poll – results of online voting via Baby Company website
  10. View complete contest mechanics
Contest Period: January 29 - December 31, 2012
  • Important Dates
    • 1st Quarter
      • Cut-off: March 31, 2012
      • Quarterly Finalist Selection: April 10, 2012
      • Online Poll: April 13-19, 2012
      • Quarterly and Grand Winner Judging: April 23, 2012 2PM
    • 2nd Quarter
      • Cut-off: June 30, 2012
      • Quarterly Finalist Selection: July 6, 2012
      • Online Poll: July 11-17, 2012
      • Quarterly and Grand Winner Judging: July 19, 2012 2PM
    • 3rd Quarter
      • Cut-off: September 30, 2012
      • Quarterly Finalist Selection: October 5, 2012
      • Online Poll: October 10-16, 2012
      • Quarterly and Grand Winner Judging: October 18, 2012 2PM
    • 4th Quarter
      • Cut-off:December 31, 2012
      • Quarterly Finalist Selection: January 7, 2013
      • Online Poll: January 10-16, 2013
      • Quarterly and Grand Winner Judging: January 18, 2013 11AM
    • Electronic Raffle Draw - January 10, 2013
Contest Prize:
  • Grand Raffle
    • One (1) winner of one (1) Toyota Avanza(1.3 J 5-Speed M/T)
  • Star Baby
    • Grand Winner - One (1) winner of
      • P20,000 SM Gift Cards
      • P5,000 Goldilocks Gift Certificates
      • P6,000 worth of Johnson's Baby Products
      • Star Baby Grand Winner Cake form Goldilocks
      • Go Grand 20×30 Portrait with Frame from Great Image
      • Baby Photobook from Great Image
      • May be featured on the cover of one issue of Baby Magazine
    • Quarterly Winner: One (1) winner per region (Luzon, Metro Manila, Vismin) will EACH receive the ff.
      • P20,000 SM Gift Cards
      • P5,000 Goldilocks Gift Certificates
      • P10,000 worth of EQ Dry Products
      • P10,000 worth of Pigeon Products
      • P4,000 worth of Johnson's Baby Products
      • Star Baby Cake from Goldilocks
      • Go Grand 16×20 Portrait with frame from Great Image
      • May be featured on the cover of one issue of Baby Magazine
    • Quarterly People's Choice
      • Precious Collection 1 11R (or equivalent ) Portrait Package from Great Image
      • DVD slideshow of images from Great Image
      • Johnson's Gift Pack worth P1,500
    • Quarterly Finalists
      • 8R Photo from Great Image
Upside
  • Big prizes
  • Bragging rights of having the cutest baby
Downside
  • Lots of requirements
  • Spend P5,000 to qualify
  • "All photos and documents submitted automatically become the property of Nursery Care Corporation and SM Retail, Inc."
For more information, log on to babycompany.com.ph

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Top 3 FREE Photo Hosting Sites

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Where do store your photos? On your camera's flash disk? On Facebook? Or maybe on your PC. Well what if it suddenly breaks? Do you have a backup for those oh so precious photos? Consider these Top 3 FREE Photo Hosting Sites I have compiled and selected. These are the services I use for both work and personal photos and images and I have been using all 3 services with a FREE account. I have outlined below the pros and cons of each service so you may select one that best fits you and your usage. I actually use Picasa for my blog work on Boy-Kuripot, Flickr for my personal photos, and Photobucket for my banner ads and other materials. Go ahead and try it if you aren't signed up yet and let me know how it works out for you. Also let me know what other services that deserves to be listed here.

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Picasa

Upside
  • FREE 1GB storage space.
  • Unlimited bandwidth (this means your embeded photos will stay up wherever you placed them)
  • Pay $5/yr for 20 GB
  • Photo editor and other nifty features on Picasa web
  • Has a desktop application (which I personally use)
Downside
  • For FREE account, photos cannot be larger than 2048 x 2048 pixels and videos cannot be longer than 15 minutes

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Flickr

Upside

  • FREE upload of 2 videos (90 seconds max, 150MB per video) and 300MB worth of photos (15MB per photo) each calendar month
  • Pro account is just $1.87 per month (for the 2 year plan)
  • Desktop application ready but some say it's slow and buggy
  • FREE account only provides access to smaller (resized) images (though the originals are saved in case you upgrade later)
  • Easy to embed on different site
Downside
  • 300MB bandwidth limit for photos
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Photobucket

Upside

  • Unlimited upload of web-size images
  • Pro account is just $1.66 per month (for the 2 year plan)
Downside
  • 10GB bandwidth limit per month
  • NO desktop application but many upload options available (ex: FTP, Firefox addon, etc)

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FREE Canon Photo Workshops

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Canon PowerShot and IXUS owners are invited to join the FREE Canon Photo Workshops dubbed Photoskwla Weekends. Slated on March 17, 24, 31 and April 14, 2012 from 9AM to 12PM at the Training Room, Canon Customer Care Center in Magallanes. Learn photography basics like composition, filming the light, depth of field, elements of design, and more. At the end of the workshop, you should have a better understanding about your camera. Register now by emailing your name, contact number, camera model, serial (you need to have purchased your Canon here) and workshop dates to photoskwelaweekends2012@gmail.com. Only the 1st 20 registrants will be accommodated. Wait for a reply form Canon if you are eligible for the workshop. This is a much smaller version of the previous Canon Photoskwela held last year

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Nescafe 3in1 Brown 'n Creamy

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When it comes to coffee, we all have our own preferred mix. More sugar or no sugar, more or no cream, stronger or milder coffee. Nescafe realizes these different preferences which is why they came out with not 1 not 2 but 4 Nescafe 3in1 variants. If you prefer a mix that uses the distinct sweetness of brown sugar and coffee creamer, then NESCAFÉ 3in1 Brown 'n Creamy is definitely for you. Since we are on the topic of combinations, what do you think would go well with the NESCAFÉ 3in1 Brown 'n Creamy? Tell me about it below and Win a Nescafe 3in1 gift pack of your choice and a NESCAFE notebook.



NESCAFÉ 3in1 Brown 'n Creamy is available in 20g sachets (good for 1 cup). It comes is box of 10 and 30 sachets.

You may also want to join NESCAFE 3in1 143 Facebook application so you can send Nescafe Gift Packs to your friends and earn some Nescafe points along the way.

Promo Mechanics:

  1. Tell me what food you think goes well with NESCAFÉ 3in1 Brown 'n Creamy variant. Write it using the Disqus commenting form below.
  2. The comment with the most creative/unique answer will win
  3. Judging Criteria
    • 60% Creativity (photos will have additional points!)
    • 30% Originality
    • 10% Relevance
  4. Winner will be chosen by Boy Kuripot
  5. Winner will be announced here on this blog post as well as emailed or contacted using the credentials that is used in the Disqus comment section
  6. Prize will be delivered to the preferred address of the winner for FREE
Promo Period: March 8 - March 13, 2012

Promo Prize:
  • 1 Winner of a Nescafe 3in1 gift pack of their choice and a NESCAFE notebook


For more information, log on to facebook.com/nescafe.ph. You can also join another promo in the NESCAFÉ 3in1 143 tab



WINNER UPDATE:

Wow! Seems like we have a good turnout of entries. You guys really came up with some awesome Pinoy food to pair with a nice hot cup of NESCAFÉ 3in1 Brown 'n Creamy. There can however be only 1 winner and I choose the entry of Jaype Lagrimas. I like her entry because it's such a traditional Pinoy meal and nothing beats a traditional Pinoy meal than a Pinoy made coffee.

Jaype, please email me your contact details and address where we should deliver the package at ceo@boy-kuripot.com

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