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Matt Tabora's (3rd right) birthday party guests last Saturday include Jasmine Acosta, left, Hayward's Maryjo Montano (3rd left), Santana Row's Agnes Aguirre (6th left), Gina Samson, RN (2nd right), among other friends.
HOLY ANGEL COLLEGE CLASS'68 REUNION. Ms. Cynthia Ocampo of Las Vegas is inviting all her co-alumni to come join the Holy Angel College Class of 1968 (B’68) Las Vegas Reunion, this coming Memorial Day weekend (May 29-31, 2010). This is another Batch '68 event filled with special events and activities you won't want to miss! The weekend includes a Dinner-Dance Party, Picnic, and culminating with a Jam Session circa ’68 style – jampacked with FUN & LAUGHTER. Attached photo was taken during the Dinner-Dance Party of the B’68 Oct. 2005 Las Vegas Reunion. The big smiles in this B’68 class picture say it all. Need we say more?
Half-German, Half-Filipino Michael Back of San Jose, turned 19 last weekend, complete with fun-filled food-overflowing dance party, shown here with proud Dad, left, Walter Back from Germany, mom Maria (3rd left) and cousins, Jennifer andJessamine Jaochico (right).
Dr. Ricky Massido, left enjoys the company during Matt Tabora's birthday party last weekend, shown here with the Pleasanton-based Ms. Reggie Panganiban.
(L-R) Fresno's Lilet Cruz celebrated her birthday together with co-celebrant, Matt Tabora (wife Jocelyn applauds here), with an overflow crowd of family and friends at the Tabora San Jose residence last Saturday.
This could be YOU! Join the MYX® Billboard Photo-BOMB Contest and get the chance to win surprise prizes! Head to http://myx.tv or watch the contest ads on MYX®
MYX Launches Billboard Photo-BOMB Contest
Lone Asian American Music Entertainment and Lifestyle Channel Invites All on a MYX Billboard hunt in 40 Bay Area Locations
MYX®, the only music entertainment and lifestyle channel in the nation catering to Asian American youth, rings in the Chinese New Year with a fun contest for camera bugs with an eagle’s eye and a wicked sense of humor.
MYX® recently launched an outdoor campaign in over 40 locations and on over 100 buses plying strategic routes in the San Francisco Bay Area to announce its carriage on Comcast’s Digital Preferred Tier on Channel 368. To celebrate the launch and in keeping with the excitement for the Lunar New Year, the channel kicks off its MYX® Billboard Photo-BOMB Contest from March 1-12, 2010.
“I think all of us have ‘photobombed’ in our lives. We love hopping in a photo right before it is taken,” said MYX® Channel Head Miguel Santos with a laugh. “And since MYX® always wants to engage its core audience with everything it does, why not involve them and their creativity in our first major campaign of the year which is our billboard launch in the Bay Area?”
The contest idea is simple: Open to all ages 12 and up, contestants need to find a MYX® billboard or bus ad, take a picture of themselves in front of it, and then send the picture – including the location where it was sighted – to any of the following MYX® accounts: myx.tv on the web, myxtv on Twitter, andfacebook.com/myxtv on Facebook. MYX® will select randomly one winner every weekday within the 12-day duration of the campaign. Daily prizes include giveaways from renowned apparel brand Johnny Cupcakes and the Bay Area-based Upper Playground. A surprise grand prize awaits the last winner on March 12.
“We hope that this contest also brings MYX® to more people,” said Santos . “We want them to discover what MYX® has in store for them: relevant programming to the fast-growing Asian American youth population, shows that address the cultural reality that many of them want to reconnect to their roots, and a venue for independent American and Asian American music scene artists to showcase their world-class work.”
MYX® recently drew a lot of attention to the two new programs it launched early this year: Vinyl Addiction, which takes the audience to an up-close look at the Vinyl Toy Revolution, and Visual Crunch which goes behind the scenes of groundbreaking, creative music videos produced at impossibly low budgets – veritable video miracles at this age.
For detailed information on the MYX® Billboard Photo-BOMB Contest rules and regulations, visit http://myx.tv or watch the contest ads on MYX®.
SEEN IN THE CITY
The Philippine Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA) Silicon Valley Chapter , USA inducted their latest set of officers for 2010-11 last December 6, 2010 at the Wedge Restaurant in Daly City , CA .
They are Joey Kimpo, President; Francis Diaz, Vice President; Carlito Non, Secretary; Oscar Attaya, IT Officer; Cristina Torio, VP-Treasurer; Gene Almerido,Public Relations Officer; Lilia Yalong, Director, Government Services; Al Ocampo – VP for Membership; Vir Soto, Director for Public Practice; Marianne Suriaga, Director for Education; Rey Eugenio, Presidential Advisor and Fred Perez, Inducting Officer.
For more information about this event, please visit www.crisantamalig.com
RSVP by March 1st by calling 415.341.6371
TO-BE-SEEN IN THE CITY
Bea Alonzo to Grace US Premieres of “Miss You Like Crazy”
All Philippine High School Students to Study Castillan
PERSONAL NOTES
Advanced Happy Birthday to Daly City ’s Marlon K. Navarro (March 20th), who for more than 10 years of his past birthday life has been feeding at least 200 hungry children in the Philippines. This year, away from home, he will be celebrating via a red-carpet VIP Benefit Event at the Matrix Fillmore in downtown San Francisco with his selected invited guests.
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
" When wealth is lost , nothing is lost; when health is lost , something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.” – by Billy Graham (via Loopt in South San Francisco, CA) as reposted in her FaceBook by South San Francisco’s Power Real Estate Broker, Ms. Thez Santos.
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