book swap

may you be a book lover or not but have some spare books (specially children books) that is just lying around in your house you are invited to a book swap to benefit the abandoned girls of Maritxell, Marikina.

When:    October 23, 2010, Saturday from 10 AM-6 PM
Where:   The Balcony, 110 Dona Angela Building, Carlos Palanca St., Makati City
How to Join:

1. In order to enter you need to bring one (1) educational or children's book plus your unwanted books
2. The educational books go directly to the abandoned girls of Meritxell, Marikina
3. You may choose from the books other people brought and can bring home the same number of books as the amount of unwanted books you brought.

Meritxell, Marikina has been housing marginalized and abandoned girls ages 3 -16 years old since 2007. Those who are old enough to study are sent to private schools for education. Ateneo has recently listed them as one of their NSTP areas. In order for them to further improve their studies, they need more educational books. The event hopes to collect 200 educational books to benefit three more orphanages.


Reposted from Chuvaness

world pyro olympics 2008

First night of the world pyro olympics 2008, this is the 3rd year of this spectacular event - a pyrotechnic display from different countries for the duration of twenty (20) minutes - and it is being held in the Philippines, at the Esplanade behind the Mall of Asia to be exact. There are less crowd today compared to last year, not sure if because it rained tonight or because the event was postponed for like the nth time.


Was late for tonights show, thought the pyrotechnic display will start at 9pm as it was last year but the show started earlier, 7:30pm for the first country and then the next display was at 9:00pm. Tonight's show was presented by China and Germany respectively, this particular photo is a part of Germany's show.

In case you missed tonight's show, dont despair, there's still more shows for the whole month of May, here's the schedule of the World Pyro Olympics 2008

World Pyro Olympics 2008 schedule

May 10,2008 - Canada and France

May 17, 2008 - Italy and Venezuela

May 24, 2008 - Fellowship of Fire - Collaboration of all countries with the Philippines /La Mancha Pyro Productions representing the Philippines - Pyromusical show exhibition

World Pyro Olympics 2008 tickets

for tickets and inquiries call 8173073 (loc 102), tickets is also available in all ticketnet outlets - call 9115555

ticket prices are as follows:

general admission - Php 150
special viewing area (no dinner) - Php 1000
special viewing area (with dinner) - Php 1500

and you can even enjoy the show for free, just look up in the sky within the vicinity of mall of asia, ccp and macapagal area :)