Good news for travelers! If you are a member of the AirAsia Super App, AirAsia is running a buy one, get one sale just in time for summer!
The offer is available for flights from Manila, Clark, or Cebu to any AirAsia domestic flights from April 25, 2022 to May 1, 2022.
Booking period: April 25 – May 1, 2022
Travel period: April 25 – Sept 30, 2022
One booking must be made for two people with distinct identities. Only AirAsia members are eligible for this offer. Take a look at the one-way basic fares shown below.
The AirAsia Super App, which is available for download on iOS and Android devices, was launched in the Philippines on April 8. The app allows you to book hotels, vacation packages, and even shop for discounted food, clothing, and other items.
On Tuesday evening, the Department of Health Central Visayas (DOH-7) released its official, consolidated data of the COVID-19 cases in the region as of April 26, 2022.
The whole island of Cebu — Cebu City, Lapu-Lapu City, Mandaue City, and Cebu Province — recorded 9 new confirmed COVID-19 cases, 3 new recoveries, and 2 new deaths. Cebu’s total active cases slightly increased to 436 (from 434).
Cebu City – Total confirmed: 53,899 (+7 new) – Total recoveries: 51,945 (+1 new) – Total deaths: 1,698 (+0 new) – Active cases: 256
Lapu-Lapu City – Total confirmed: 17,061 (+0 new) – Total recoveries: 16,535 (+0 new) – Total deaths: 519 (+0 new) – Active cases: 7
Mandaue City – Total confirmed: 15,433 (+0 new) – Total recoveries: 14,919 (+1 new) – Total deaths: 499 (+1 new) – Active cases: 15
Cebu Province – Total confirmed: 46,368 (+2 new) – Total recoveries: 43,370 (+1 new) – Total deaths: 2,840 (+1 new) – Active cases: 158
SUMMARY OF COVID-19 CASES IN CEBU:
Total Active Cases in Cebu: 436 (from 434)
Total Confirmed Cases in Cebu: 132,761 (+9 new)
Total Recoveries in Cebu: 126,769 (+3 new)
Total Deaths in Cebu: 5,556 (+2 new)
A total of 1,740 laboratory results were released.
NOTES from DOH-7:
*As per DOH-7, the additional deaths in the report are not due to the overnight spike in deaths but due to more accurate data collection and validating efforts. Not all of those deaths occurred today but occurred more than a week ago.
Reports maybe subject to change as these claims undergo thorough validation by the local healthcare offices and health personnel.
You’ve probably heard of crypto these days, and with that topic, you’ve also probably heard of NFTs. For those who don’t know, NFTs or non-fungible tokens are digital assets, either images, songs, or videos which can be sold online via cryptocurrency or digital tokens.
Photo from Bored Ape Yacht Club on Opensea.io
By producing anything including art, anyone can potentially earn by trading your work via NFTs. This became the case for Nyla Hayes, a 13-year-old artist who had already earned millions of dollars by selling her digital portraits as NFTs.
By producing a collection called “Long Neckies”, where she paints iconic and powerful women of history including Oprah, Michelle Obama and Serena Williams, Hayes portrays these icons with elongated necks which proved to be valuable.
Photo from Latoy Hayes, Nyla’s MotherPhoto from Long Neckie Ladies on Opensea.io
“Long Neckie Ladies is a fine art, hand drawn, computer generated collectible of 3,333 diverse and elegant females,” Nyla posted in her OpenSea page.
Hayes mentioned in an interview that as a child, she was always been fascinated with the Brontosaurus, a type of dinosaur known for having long necks. The creature’s prominent feature was incorporated to her paintings.
“At first I just wanted to put two things that I love together, and that was a Brontosaurus and women,” she said. “I wanted to show how beautiful and strong women were, and I thought of the brontosaurus as that as well.”
Photo from TheNylaHayesCollection on Opensea.io
Hayes’ parents have already noticed Nina’s affliction for art, specifically at the age of 9 where they gave her a smartphone to use for drawing. Eventually, together with Nina, they researched and learned more about NFTs through YouTube videos.
Since then, Hayes has managed to sell her artwork via NFTs where she reached the one million dollar mark way before she became 13 years old. Just in March this year, Hayes’ painting called “Long Neckie Lady” was sold for $6,621.70 or Php 343,401.36 on Instagram.
Photo from TheNylaHayesCollection on Opensea.io
Hayes has made headlines with her artwork and earnings that even TIME Magazine, the prestigious and globally recognized magazine has named Hayes as its first TIMEpiece artist in residence, where they select an Artist-in-Residence quarterly to develop an intimate, focused collection of art in addition to the larger initiatives featured in the Build a Better Future Genesis Collection.
If you’ve never heard of the familiar statement “ay okay” in the familiar voice of Telma then apparently you’ve been living under a rock.
Photo from Telma Facebook Page
To the Bisaya community, Telma has become our happy pill every time we open tiktok or any other social media with her witty, funny and very relatable contents.
We know him as Telma but did you know that his real name is Jaime Onod and that he is a teacher.
Photo from Telma Facebook Page
Jaime Onod is currently 25 years old and works as an online teacher in Davao City but was born and raised in Bislig, Surigao del Sur. He has a degree in Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education major in English and graduated as Cum Laude.
Photo from Telma Facebook Page
His humor is anchored on simple daily life experiences. He is also a fan of the OG comedians Redford White-Babalu-Bayani Agbayani.
He started making videos at the start of the pandemic due to boredom with no expectation to have such great number in following and was already satisfied if he could have 100 ‘Haha’ reactions. As of this writing though he now has 1.2M followers on Tiktok.
Telma is his Lola’s neighbor who is noisy and always nagging who became the inspiration for his online persona.
His “Ay Okay” line that he is known for is really his usual response when he talks to his friends, just delivered differently when it comes to the tone.
Photo from Telma Facebook Page
Jaime also believes in quality over quanatity in delivering contents as well as being a responsible content creator as to his audience in particular children.
“Just better yourself, focus on you”
–JAIME ONOD TO NEW CONTENT CREATORS
Critics and bashers are also part of rising to the top and Jaime deals with it just by going back to his purpose which is to entertain and spread happiness to people.
On Monday evening, the Department of Health Central Visayas (DOH-7) released its official, consolidated data of the COVID-19 cases in the region as of April 25, 2022.
The whole island of Cebu — Cebu City, Lapu-Lapu City, Mandaue City, and Cebu Province — recorded 4 new confirmed COVID-19 cases, 11 new recoveries, and 1 new death. Cebu’s total active cases declined to 434 (from 440).
Cebu City – Total confirmed: 53,904 (+4 new) – Total recoveries: 51,953 (+3 new) – Total deaths: 1,698 (+0 new) – Active cases: 253
Lapu-Lapu City – Total confirmed: 17,061 (+0 new) – Total recoveries: 16,535 (+0 new) – Total deaths: 519 (+1 new) – Active cases: 7
Mandaue City – Total confirmed: 15,436 (+0 new) – Total recoveries: 14,921 (+2 new) – Total deaths: 498 (+0 new) – Active cases: 17
Cebu Province – Total confirmed: 46,366 (+0 new) – Total recoveries: 43,370 (+6 new) – Total deaths: 2,839 (+0 new) – Active cases: 157
SUMMARY OF COVID-19 CASES IN CEBU:
Total Active Cases in Cebu: 434 (from 440)
Total Confirmed Cases in Cebu: 132,767 (+4 new)
Total Recoveries in Cebu: 126,779 (+11 new)
Total Deaths in Cebu: 5,554 (+1 new)
A total of 960 laboratory results were released.
NOTES from DOH-7:
*As per DOH-7, the additional deaths in the report are not due to the overnight spike in deaths but due to more accurate data collection and validating efforts. Not all of those deaths occurred today but occurred more than a week ago.
Reports maybe subject to change as these claims undergo thorough validation by the local healthcare offices and health personnel.
Whoever hasn’t heard this? Almost every Filipino has and we especially associate it to our childhood.
Photo from Soy Bueno Taho Facebook Page
Taho is one of Filipino’s favorite comfort food, especially for breakfast and for kids. We would go running the moment we hear “taho!”. It’s warm and not overly sweet complete with its very soft tofu and fun tapioca pearls.
It is said that taho from China during the Han Dynasty and was brought here in the Philippines by Chinese migrants.
It is a street food originally made from soya beans (traditional making) but we are too lazy and time constrained to do it so there is an easy shortcut recipe that can be done at home using “softened tofu or silken tofu”.
Photo from Lyrus Sanchez
Homemade Taho (DIY Recipe)
Ingredients:
700 grams soft tofu (silken tofu)
1 + ¼ cup dark brown sugar (divided); light brown sugar for lighter syrup
3/4 cup uncooked tapioca pearls
6 + ½ cups water, (divided)
1 tablespoon vanilla essence
Photo from Unsplash
Procedure:
For the Tapioca Pearls:
Boil 6 cups of water in a cooking pot
Add-in the tapioca pearls and leave it for 30-40 mins in medium heat (or until cooked)
Add 1/4 cup sugar and mix it well.
Remove tapioca pearls from heat and let it stand and cool in the pot for 30 mins
After that, drain the water.
For Arnibal/Sweet Syrup:
Boil 1/2 cup of water in a saucepan.
Put-in 1 cup of sugar and mix well.
Add vanilla and simmer until it becomes thick.
Set aside the sweet syrup/arnibal.
For the Taho:
Heat the extra soft tofu in a microwave oven for a minute or just steam it.
Remove it from the microwave oven/steamer once hot.
When everything is cooked and done, you can now assemble all of it. Add-in the cooked tapioca pearls and arnibal/sweet syrup to the soft tofu and serve it warm as we like it.
The sun has always been our friend but it is also one of the most dangerous things in space for us and right now it’s been acting out with solar flares and solar physicists has reason to believe that there will be more that will be Earthward bound.
Photo from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory
Last April 20, between 9 am and 10.30 am, an intense solar flare (X2 class) has hit Earth and affected India and large parts of Southeast Asia and since the Philippines is also a Southeast Asian Country, we were affected too.
Solar flares are massive bursts of electromagnetic radiation emerging from the Sun’s surface. These flares are the result of changes in magnetic fields on the sunspots (the darker areas on the solar surface) that lead to a massive explosion.
Now, solar physicists are warning us that the Sun may continue to send strong flares on the coming days as a large sunspot is most likely to face Earthwards soon.
Asubset of extreme ultraviolet light that highlights the extremely hot material in flares | Image from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory
Possible effects of solar flares
Not all solar flares are harmful but Earth-bound flares can:
They can interfere with telecommunication and GPS-based services
It can hit satellite and space station operations (especially the sunlight side)
High frequency radio signals can be completely lost or rendered of poor quality
According to the latest forecast by the Space Weather Prediction Centre at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) last April 20, there are at least two large sunspots that have significant potential to emit flares for the next three days.
Photo from NASA/SDO
They are identified as:
2993
2994
Solar flares do not have any evidence or measurable influence of affecting earth’s temperature though so the heat wave we are experiencing may have nothing to do about these flares.
Nevertheless, we should be aware of what is going on in our surroundings and on space.
Going on a diet but can’t give up your love for donuts?
Worry no more, as Dunkin’ cereal is now available in the Philippines. You can eat healthy without sacrificing the delicious treat that is a dunkin’ flavor.
Photo from Dunkin’ Cereal Official Website
It was a long time coming to the Philippine market though as it was already about two years ago when Dunkin’ launched a line of Dunkin’ coffee-flavored cereals under Post Consumer Brands.
These cereals come in two different flavors:
Mocha Latte
Coffee + chocolate combo is the best, no contest. And to have it in a cereal meal is a dream come true indeed. The Dunkin’ Mocha Latte cereal taste has the caffeine fix we need and all the goodness of chocolate. The Mocha Latte also has sweet marshmallows.
Mocha Latte | Photo from Dunkin’ Cereal Official Website
Caramel Macchiato
Now, if you prefer something sweeter, sweet caramel with your coffee is for you. The Dunkin’ Caramel Macchiato has the cereal itself having caramel flavor and a coffee flavor. Instead of drinking caramel macchiato, you can devour it together with marshmallows that are sweet as caramel.
Caramel Macchiato | Photo from Dunkin’ Cereal Official Website
Dunkin’s Caramel Macchiato and Mocha Latte are available at Landers Superstore. The Mocha Latte costs P330 and the Caramel Macchiato costs P420.
As with all cereals, Dunkin’s Caramel Macchiato and Mocha Latte cereal, certainly goes well with milk, but nothing is stopping you to have a mix and match experiment according to what you want.
On Sunday evening, the Department of Health Central Visayas (DOH-7) released its official, consolidated data of the COVID-19 cases in the region as of April 24, 2022.
The whole island of Cebu — Cebu City, Lapu-Lapu City, Mandaue City, and Cebu Province — recorded 6 new confirmed COVID-19 cases, 214 new recoveries, and 2 new deaths. Cebu’s total active cases declined to 440 (from 650).
Cebu City – Total confirmed: 53,900 (+2 new) – Total recoveries: 51,951 (+214 new) – Total deaths: 1,698 (+0 new) – Active cases: 251
Lapu-Lapu City – Total confirmed: 17,061 (+0 new) – Total recoveries: 16,536 (+0 new) – Total deaths: 518 (+0 new) – Active cases: 7
Mandaue City – Total confirmed: 15,436 (+0 new) – Total recoveries: 14,919 (+0 new) – Total deaths: 498 (+0 new) – Active cases: 19
Cebu Province – Total confirmed: 46,366 (+4 new) – Total recoveries: 43,364 (+0 new) – Total deaths: 2,839 (+2 new) – Active cases: 163
SUMMARY OF COVID-19 CASES IN CEBU:
Total Active Cases in Cebu: 440 (from 650)
Total Confirmed Cases in Cebu: 132,763 (+6 new)
Total Recoveries in Cebu: 126,770 (+214 new)
Total Deaths in Cebu: 5,553 (+2 new)
A total of 988 laboratory results were released.
NOTES from DOH-7:
*As per DOH-7, the additional deaths in the report are not due to the overnight spike in deaths but due to more accurate data collection and validating efforts. Not all of those deaths occurred today but occurred more than a week ago.
Reports maybe subject to change as these claims undergo thorough validation by the local healthcare offices and health personnel.
Who wants to drink with no limit and hesitation without worrying for the great hangover tomorrow?
It’s safe to say that it’s all of us as hangovers are our lifelong enemies.
Now though, get ready to drink to your heart’s content as the answer to ease the hangovers of all hangovers is here.
Photo from Salamat Shopee Facebook Page
The first hangover-relief jelly in Korea, Ready Q-Chew is making rounds in social media as many netizens are now recommending it for its effectiveness.
It is also much talked about as the ‘popular Korean hangover cure (Haejudang, hangover candy), in Korea and China.
The attractive yellow packaging with a smiley face may look just cute but it packs a strong hangover-relief jelly that would make you feel just normal by the morning and with little to no hangover at all.
Ready Q-Chew is a small round jelly, the size of a thumbnail. It features sweet tropical fruit flavor, mango, and has a chewy texture.
Photo from Salamat Shopee Facebook Page
How to Use
According to the customers, there are four jellies inside a pack. You need to eat three mango flavors 20mins before a drinking session, and then eat the remaining one honey-flavored after drinking.
Photo from Salamat Shopee Facebook Page
Ingredients
It is said to always know what is inside what you consume. Here is the list of ingredients that composed the jelly:
This hangover relief product protects your health, maintains good body condition at the drinking party, and is easy to carry and sweet, unlike all the bitter-tasting hangover products.
