Oktoberfest 2008 schedule of events happening in Ortigas Center:

• Oct 11 – Silver City, Tiendesitas, Pasig City
• Oct 17 – Metrowalk Central Plaza, Pasig City

Here’s some of the Oktoberfest events happening outsite of Ortigas Center:

• Oct 15 – Bagaberde, Roxas Boulevard, Pasay
• Oct 16 – NBC Tent Fort Bonifacio Taguig
• Oct 18 – Pacita Complex, Laguna
• Oct 18 – Marikina Riverbanks
• Oct 17 – NCCC Mall, Davao
• Oct 24 – Eastwood City
• Oct 25 – Taal Vista Hotel, Tagaytay
• Nov 8 – Toril Gymnasium, Davao City
• Nov 14 – San Miguel By The Bay
• Nov 22 – Boardwalk, Iloilo City
• Dec 5 – Araneta Coliseum Parking Lot, Cubao
• Dec 12 – People’s Park, Roxas City
• Dec 15 – Avenue Square, Naga City
• Dec 26 – Grill Avenue, Cebu City
• Dec 27 – Grand Central Park, Lucena

For confirmation and additional information, you can visit the San Miguel web site.

This workshop/seminar aims to enhance the knowledge and skills of Peri-operative Nurses, CSSD, and Operating Room Clinical Instructors in handling surgical instruments. In particular, it intends to review current practices on the care and maintenance of surgical instruments; to provide updates on the different types of reprocessing of surgical instruments; and lastly, to provide recommendations on the proper care and maintenance of basic and surgical instruments.

The seminar is scheduled on the following dates and venue:

• October 17, 2008, November 11, 2008 and December 12, 2008
• Aesculap Academy, JMT Corporate Building, Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Philippines.

Participation fee is P300.00 (includes kit and snacks). Pre-registration and Reservation is required to all participants (50 seats only).

The following are the speakers/lecturers of the said seminar-workshop; Antonieta D. Palafox, RN, MAN Chief Nurse, Ospital ng Muntinlupa, Sterile Processing Specialist, and Jennifer C. Fernando Certified Aesculap Academy Trainer Sterile Processing Specialist.

For details and inquiries please contact: Aesculap Academy 2/F JMT Corporate Center, ADB Avenue, Ortigas Center, Pasig City, PhilippinesTel. Nos. (02) 633-7284 to 95 local 118.

Longest beer bar

San Miguel Corporation, the organizers of the Oktoberfest 2008, is all ready and set to break the existing world record for the longest beer bar in the world.

The current record in the Guinness book of world records is 240 meters held by Taiwan.

San Miguel is aiming for a staggering 600 meters in total, stretching along the length of San Miguel Avenue and winding down to Julia Vargas Avenue in Ortigas, Mandaluyong City. It is one of the main attractions of the San Miguel Oktoberfest kick-off party slated today.

The event, which will also feature four stages and around 40 local bands and artists, will also attempt to set a world record for the largest beer-toasting crowd. Third Eye Blind will be featured as one of the main acts. Dubbed “San Miguel Oktoberfest 120,” the event launches the longest-ever celebration of the world-renowned festival, now extended to 120 days.

San Miguel Pale Pilsen, world famous beer, will try attempt to put the Filipinos on the record books by celebrating the biggest Oktoberfest celebration ever to get more than 13,500 beer drinkers to raise their glasses and toast at the same time to topple the current record held by the United States.

In addition, Pinoys will be attempting to break another world record which is for the longest bar. The event organizers will create a 600-meter bar stretching throughout San Miguel Ave from Julia Vargas to Lourdes Avenue to up the ante from current record of 240 meters held by Taiwan.

San Miguel Pale Pilsen division, the organizers of the event, will put up four stages along San Miguel Avenue for 40 of the country’s hottest bands, including a popular foreign band, to provide entertainment to the merrymakers.

The world record attempts are set to take place on September 5, Friday, all over Ortigas Center in Mandaluyong City, at the kick-off of this year’s celebration of San Miguel Oktoberfest. The event is open to all.

Organized by the Philippine Tour Operators Association in cooperation with the Department of Tourism, the 19th Philippine Travel Mart is gearing to showcase the country’s adventure side with the theme “Triple X: Xtreme Adventure, Xtreme Wellness and Xtreme Leisure.”
This year’s theme coincides with the Department of Tourism’s new focus on adventure travel, and both highlight the travel public’s growing taste for extreme rush and recreation.

It will feature packages that highlight a different kind of Philippines that takes one from the beachside lounge chair and off on the surf, on a skimboard, on a raft, on a sail, on a hanging bridge, or off to the jungles on the look out for some of the world’s rarest birds.

The three-day Travel Mart is the country’s largest travel fair and features showcase pavilions of the regional tourism offices, tour operators, hotels, airlines and transport services, plus other usual stakeholders of the local travel industry.

So designed to spur local tourism and to draw foreign tourist traffic into the Philippine shores, this year’s Philippine Travel Mart will feature a heady buffet of adventure travel packages to choose from, covering a wide spectrum of intensity—from bird-watching in Cebu, spelunking in Boracay, ocean kayaking in Bohol or volcano-crater kayaking in Mount Pinatubo, to jungle trekking and treetop canopy walking in Subic, paddling and surfing in La Union, river-tubing in Kidapawan, and rafting and rappelling in Cagayan de Oro, among a host of numerous adrenaline-pumping travel options.

For those who are keen on all-out relaxation, the Xtreme Leisure packages of beach and mountain holidays are also available. Those searching for the rejuvenating high of wellness spas and other healing destinations can likewise have their pick of just the right kind of package that suits their vacation needs.

Adventure travel encompasses the principles that responsible travel embraces. Apart from the physical aspect, adventure travel also promotes encounter with nature and ecotourism, as well as cultural involvement in terms of interaction with the local communities.

For a peek into what’s coming in the travel fair, the 19th Philippine Travel Mart has collected the works of six photographers, Bahaghari, Levi Nahayangan, Romy Ocon, Ivan Sarenas, Nicky Sering, and Anton Sheker, for a visual tour of the country’s adventure-filled escape.

Dubbed “The Philippines Like You’ve Never Seen It Before”, the exhibit which will be launched on July 30, 2008 at the Travel Café in Greenbelt 5, captures the lesser-known side of the country’s idyllic countryside, the beautiful and rugged terrain, the raw power of nature, wildlife going even wilder, and the energy of the people.

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The Philippine Wedding Summit 2006 is on June 3 to 4, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. at the Crowne Plaza Galleria Manila, located at the corner of Ortigas center and ADB Avenues.

The Philippine Wedding Summit is otherwise known as “The Wedding Expo in June” and is envisioned to help soon-to-weds in their middle-of-the-year wedding preparations. The well attended wedding expo showcasing top caliber wedding designer, florist and others. Click here Exhibitors’ Directory…

Register on-line at themesnmotifs.com or call 3719783 or 8139794.  Themes & Motifs showrooms at the Podium and Makati Shangri-La Arcade offer supplier matching for corporate events, parties and wedding; special services such as home styling and gift registry; and wedding accessories and novelty gifts and items.

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The worshop was held in Astoria Plaza Suites in Ortigas Center in Pasig City. The four-day workshop last May 9-12 aims to upgrade the attendees’ skills in television reporting.

The workshop was graced by Hope Abella a noted child rights advocate. Cheche Lazaro who spoke on the power of media and the duty of the reporters to be balance, fair and truthful. The United Nations Childrens Fund (Unicef) Communications Director Dale Rutstein is also one of the speakers.

All the speakers explained the concept of human rights and gave a situationer on the current human rights situation in the Philippines touching on children and women’s rights, economic social and political rights issues. (Source: Click Here)