AXN Holds Media Launch for Pinoy Participants of The Amazing Race Asia Season 5

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The Pinoy participants that were selected to compete at The Amazing Race Asia Season 5 are husband and wife Eric "Eruption" Tai and Rona Samson Tai, and beauty queens Parul Shah and Maggie Wilson-Consunji.

AXN Philippines recently held a launch featuring the two Pinoy teams plus an advance screening of the very first episode of The Amazing Race Asia season 5. We were fortunate enough to be among the very few who were able to witness the triumph of the two teams to make it pass the first challenge. Kudos to the two Pinoy teams for exerting all effort to complete the challenges presented on the first episode held in Indonesia.

The Amazing Race Asia is a highly anticipated reality show which requires participants to have physical, emotional and intellectual endurance to be able to accomplish most challenges. Luck may have something to do with how a team would successfully pass certain challenges but participants stand to gain an advantage if they know how to make use of all three attributes.

Filipinos are naturally very competitive in their every endeavor. This is why there are a lot of Filipinos that are making a name for themselves worldwide. Competing in reality shows such as The Amazing Race Asia is nothing new since we also had Pinoy representatives back then. However, last season was not a good one for the Philippines since we were already eliminated at the very first episode.

The advance screening of the first episode of Season 5 is a lot better since both teams were able to complete the challenges. On the first episode, the team of Parul and Maggie made it in fourth place while the team of Eric and Rona made it to 7th place.

World Pandesal Day at Kamuning Bakery Cafe

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Kamuning Bakery Cafe will host on October 16, 2016 a FREE breakfast of pugon-baked pandesal & coffee, FREE medical, dental & optical services to the less privileged & urban poor, giving away FREE 30,000 pugon-baked pandesal breads & other gifts.

Join special guests; medical doctors & dentists (young medical/dental/optical volunteer teams coordinated with the Federation of Filipino-Chinese Chambers of Commerce & Industry, Inc. & Chinese General Hospital); media guests; public school teachers, students; etc.

Why “World Pandesal Day”? The pandesal is the historic and unique national bread of the Philippines, it is bread eaten by the masses, middle-class and by all. The pandesal is a basic necessity of the people, like rice. The humble pandesal bread represents the people’s simple wish for liberation from hunger. Hot freshly pugon-baked pandesal also represents happiness. In celebrating “World Pandesal Day”, Kamuning Bakery Café hopes to give honor to this humble yet great Filipino bread, and to remind all about the goal of eradicating poverty, inequalities and the age-old problem of hunger.

“World Pandesal Day” was started on October 16, 2015 by Kamuning Bakery Cafe owner & writer Wilson Lee Flores at this historic bakery cafe at 43 Judge Jimenez Street corner K-1st Street, Kamuning, Quezon City, the Philippines which coincided with the annual “World Bread Day”. Wheat foods do make up 20 percent of the world’s calories, according to the United Nations.

8 a.m. to 12 noon---Free Medical, Dental, Optical Mission for the less privileged & urban poor.

9:30 a.m.---Start of ceremonial gift-giving of Free 30,000 pugon-baked pandesal breads & other gifts.

Venue---77-year-old, artisanal & pugon-style Kamuning Bakery Cafe at No. 43 Judge Jimenez Street corner K-1st Street, Brgy. Kamuning, Quezon City. Tels: 4161637, 9292216, 4126685, 09178481818

Directions to 77-year-old artisanal & pugon-style Kamuning Bakery Cafe:

If in Kamuning Road coming from Morato Avenue, pls turn right after Caltex into Judge Jimenez Street... If in Kamuning Road coming from Edsa highway, at first traffic light pls turn left, that is already Judge Jimenez Street & QC’s first bakery Kamuning Bakery Cafe is on right side at the first corner.

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Whisky Live Manila: The Biggest International Whisky Tasting and Sampling Event of the Year

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Whisky Live Manila will be Manila's biggest international whisky tasting and sampling event of the year as it boasts of over 121 brands and whisky distributors from around the world to showcase their rare, unique and hard to find whiskies, as well as some of the main stream brands.

At a media launch held at The Brewery at the Palace located in Bonifacio Global City (BGC) of Taguig, Johnssen Lee led the discussion about the event happening on October 28 to 29, 2016 at the Shangri-La hotel at the Fort. Together with Alan Harrow and Raj Sadhwani, Johnssen talked about the biggest whisky event which started in London, Tokyo, Paris, New York and now in Manila.

Aside from the many brands of whiskies you can try at the Whisky LIve Manila event, there will also be masterclasses where attendees can learn extensive knowledge on whisky. Two of these masterclasses will be conducted by two world-renowned whisky masters: Jim Murray, the author of Whisky Bible, is one of the world’s leading authorities in whisky; and Dominic Roskrow, author of the ‘World’s Best Whiskies’ and one of the UK’s top Whisky Experts.

After enjoying the great food from The Brewery, a Whisky 101 was also held for the media who were all given a sampling of some whiskies namely the Kavalan, the Glengoyne and Old Ballantruan, The Peated Malt Whisky.