Voices in Harmony 2015: The 17th Annual Awit-Tagisan ng Batang Pilipino

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The Children’s Museum and Library, Incorporated is a youth leadership organization that promotes the welfare, development, and empowerment of the Filipino youth through its conventions, competitions, seminars, and tournaments. The CMLI Junior Council Alumni Association (JCAA) presents the grandest, the most prominent, and most sought-after high school choral competition in the country entitled, Voices in Harmony 2015: The 17th Annual Awit-Tagisan ng Batang Pilipino.

Now on its seventeenth year, the Voices in Harmony Finals Night will feature the musical prowess of some of the best high school choirs in the country. It will be held on December 6, 2015 at the AFP Theater, Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City. The competition continues to promote the talents of choir members and conductors, celebrate the deeper appreciation of Original Pinoy Music (OPM), and encourage the development of the high school choral community.

The top ten finalists are choirs from: Colegio De Sta. Rosa-Makati, Don Bosco Technical Institute-Makati, Immaculate Conception Academy, Miriam College High School, Ramon Magsaysay High School-Manila, School of the Holy Spirit, St. Scholastica’s Academy-Marikina, St. Paul College-Makati, St. Paul College-Pasig, and University of Santo Tomas High School. 

Wazzup Pilipinas is People's Choice Winner for Bloggys 2015

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The people have spoken.

We would like to thank the many people who voted for WazzupPilipinas.com making it the winner of the People's Choice Award for News and Events category at the recently concluded Philippine Blogging Awards or Bloggys 2015 held on November 21, 2015 at the SMX Convention Center of SM Aura located at Bonifacio Global City (BGC) in Taguig city.

This is another recognition for WazzupPilipinas.com that will serve as a powerful motivation for us to continue working hard in delivering significant news that aims to inform, engage and educate our readers.

Sharing the stage with other finalists for the News and Events category, our founder, Ross Del Rosario, received the award for People's Choice with great appreciation. The award signifies that there are many people out there who believe in us. We hear the people loud and clear so we promise not to disappoint as we further improve our site to always make it the preferred choice for news that many would appreciate.

Though WazzupPilipinas.com features various topics ranging from travel and destinations, food and restaurants, health and wellness, ats and entertainment, sports and leasure, technology and gadgets, and everything else from most categories presented at the Bloggys awards, we do recognize our strength is really in delivering the news and partnering with the latest events out there since we often collaborate as media partner and brand ambassador of many organizations and brands. However, we try our best to provide a wide array of features to give a more holistic approach and substance in our news and information sharing for both personal and promotional story-telling and campaigns.

#APECtado Ka Rin Ba ng APEC Summit?

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In this modern world, almost everything could have been done through online (e-mail, video-conferencing. chat, etc.). Though a personal transaction is nice, technology is there to make it more convenient and less expensive for us as compared to personally traveling to a destination just to initiate agreement(s) that would eventually fall in the hands of advisers or team of experts, like economic and legal advisers, for consultancy before it gets a final approval. Even before coming here to our country, the other world leaders must have consulted already with their advisers. It would be dumb for anyone of them if they will just come here without any offer of assistance or collaboration. After all, each one of them knows what APEC is all about.

Thus, pampering the leaders with luxurious meals, accommodation, outfits, entertainment, etc., eventhough our country is poor, should not have been necessary. We did not need to excel what China did for last year's APEC Summit. It would have been more interesting if we showed the world that we would not spend billions just to make us look good to countries who already knows who we are even before they landed in our country.

How can the world leaders recognize what the country really needs if we hide the real situation from them?

Filipinos are naturally like that. The attitude is similar to the annual holding of a town fiesta. The traditional heads of the families or clans would always find ways to serve a festive feast regardless if they borrow money, use credit or sell their belongings just to gain enough money for a celebration.

But I'm not that knowledgeable to to the nitty gritty discussions involved during an APEC Summit so I could not really justify both my opinions and the rants of the many "intellectual" netizens out there with their many viewpoints.