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In celebration of 9 solid years of being the Reader’s Digest Trusted Brand Platinum awardee when it comes to mobile phones, Nokia launched a 3-month contest -  The Nokia Stories.

With this, comes an opportunity to relate the greatest, funniest, heart-warming or most interesting experiences you’ve had with your Nokia phone.  You can start now by just logging on to www.nokia.com/ph/nokiastories, follow the simple directions and starting writing about your experience.

Relate how your Nokia phone saved the day, how it helped you escape a major predicament, how it assisted you in that long distance relationship with your loved ones, how it has become your new BFF, etc.

Nokia will then publish the best entries on their site and every month, two winners will be chosen to receive a brand new Nokia 2220 slide each.

The Nokia 2220 slide is a compact quality slider that helps you express yourself while giving you practical ways to stay connected and organized.

You may listen to the built-in FM radio and stay entertained, browse the internet with GPRS connectivity and access social networking sites, keep up with the news, and search for useful information, all on the move.

You could also use your free email address from Ovi by Nokia on your Nokia 2220 slide, or access free webmail on any PC, write yourself notes to help remember shopping lists, directions, and other information you need throughout the day, and store up to 1000 entries in the phone book.

With all these features in one tiny device, you’d surely find another best friend in the Nokia 2220 slide.

Ever since the GenSan Camera Club was organized two years back, the Tuna Capital’s amateur and budding photographers have been regularly visited by the Masters by way of the various seminars on photography they have been offering.

Now for the second quarter of 2010, the clickers of GenSan and the rest of Soccsksargen are once again afforded the visit of another famous Pinoy photog, and this time, he is no other than Mark Ryan T. Ortega.

This time, he will be conducting a PORTRAITURE WORKSHOP on June 27, 2010 at a still undisclosed place here in General Santos City.  For a workshop fee of P3,500 (which is basically a bargain, mind you) you get to learn valuable lessons, tips and tricks from him, and be let on the reasons why he’s one of the country’s most sought-after portraitist (may word bang ganyan?). 

 

To find out more about Mark Ryan Ortega, here are some facts about him and his work, in short, his credentials. 

 

Art-Related Awards

PLDT-DPC Painting Competition 3 Consecutive Year – National Finalist 2002-2003-2004

ArtPetron Competition – National Finalist 2003

Grand Winner, Singapore MPT Auto & Motor Festival – 2009

Workshops Conducted

(1) Basic Photography

Fundamentals 1- Basic Photography – Singapore, April 2009, Holiday Inn

Fundamentals 2 – Basic Photography – Davao City, October 2009, Lispher Inn

Fundamentals 3 – Basic Photography – Davao City, October 2009, Villa Margarita

Fundamentals 4 – Basic Photography – Davao City, May 2010, Lispher Inn

(2) Portraiture

Statement 1 – Portraiture Workshop – Davao City, May 2009, Leighton Photo Studio

Statement 2 – Portraiture Workshop – Davao City, May 2010, Eden Nature Park

Statement 3 – Portraiture Workshop – Davao City, May 2010, Lispher Inn

Statement 4 – Portraiture Workshop – Davao City, May 2010, Lispher Inn

(3) Post-Processing Workshop

P 1 – Post Processing Workshop – Davao City, November 2009, Lispher Inn

P 2 – Post Processing Workshop – Davao City, May 2010, Lispher Inn

To see Mark’s works, check out these sites:

-Portrait Collection by Mark Ryan Ortega
-http://www.flickr.com/photos/mkryanortega/
-http://www.mkryanortega.multiply.com
-http://www.mryanortega.com

For more information, please call Tzu at 0921-594-8699.

A new computer store is soon to open in General Santos City!  And this time, it will be at KCC Mall of GenSan!

Guys, please welcome PCWORX to the Tuna Capital of the Philppines!

PCWORX GenSan is the company’s seventh branch and their first outside of Luzon. It now joins the few Manila-based computer stores which have opened in General Santos City like OCTAGON, COLUMBIA and CDR-King, among others.

Now we can again directly feel the positive  impact of more competition, with computers and computer peripherals and other gadgets getting more and more affordable.

Here is PCWORX Company Profile.  Please scroll down the Scrbd document below to read the total transcript.

Company Profile

By the way, you can check out PCWORX’s website and order online by CLICKING HERE. 

Bariles checked out the prices of their products and was quite impressed by their affordability.  First it was CDR-King-Robinsons and CDR-King KCC which opened the Pandora’s Box for the rest of the computer shops here to lower their prices.

And now with PCWORX opening soon, it’s gonna be a heyday for computer users and computer geeks of Soccsksargen!

Bravo!

Effective last April 2010, the Regional Consular Office of the Department of Foreign Affairs in General Santos City has been issuing electronic passports or e-Passports to its clients.

Wow!  Wasn’t it just last year in March 2009 when Bariles blogged about the same office issuing him a machine-readable passport  (Click here for that report.) in place of the old manually-scripted passport?  Now it seems that the MRP, altho accepted internationally looks passe with this latest launch of a cutting edge travel document.

A joint project of the DFA and the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), the e-passport makes the Philippines compliant with international standards set by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), of which it is a member.  It is the world standard in travel documents.

The e-passport which is expected to decrease incidents of passport fraud and tampering, will make it easier for Filipino travelers and migrant workers to move across borders due to its various security features, including a hidden encoded image; an ultra-thin, holographic laminate; and a tamper-proof electronic microchip.

Its Integrated Circuit (IC) chip stores the passport holder’s biometrics, that is, his photograph, fingerprint and other personal data for easy verification of identity and is fully inter-operable which means that the chip can be read by border control officials in other countries using a passport chip reader.

Hitech, don’t you think?

Anyway, the lovely Ms. Helen Acharon, a staff of the DFA Consular Office, from whom we got this piece of great news wants to inform all their would-be clients that their office is currently accepting and processing 70 passport applications only every day or 350 applicants per week.  This will go on while they are still putting up their online program.

Priority numbers for the whole week are given out starting at Monday morning until after the allocated 350 numbers have all been given away on that day.

The new e-passport will cost applicants P950 (processing of 30 days) and P1200 (processing of 2 weeks).

For help on how to apply for passports, JUST SIMPLY CLICK HERE.

For more info, call the Department of Foreign Affairs Regional Consular Office GenSan at  (083) 553-8380.

For those with high-end cellphones, Instant Messaging (or IM) and Mobile Email are now the new ways of keeping in touch with friends, family members, business associates or just about anybody who’s wired to the Internet. Since almost everyone needs to constantly stay connected with other people, doing so without missing a beat is the ultimate high!

Bariles has been doing it with his Nokia E63 which is his free retainer phone from Smart when he signed on to another two years of post-paid services.   His wish however is to get the higher model – the Nokia E72.

According to its P.R., “The Nokia E72 is a high performance device tailor-made for seamless business and personal communication – perfect for blasting emails and instant messages!”

WOW!  Now stop drooling and listen to this:

Anybody can stand a chance to win this awesome phone!

How?

By answering the following question in English and in not more than 100 words “Why would you use Email or Instant Messaging on mobile to connect with your family and friends?” in their promo site www.winNokiaE71.com/ph.

This promotion is applicable  to all Smart subscribers who activate their Yahoo! Mail via Nokia Messaging on their Nokia phone*.

Nokia Messaging by Smart Gold costs only Php 299 per month for unlimited push email on Nokia devices.

Visit the nearest SMART Wireless Center to activate and subscribe to Nokia Messaging.  Here in GenSan, the SMART Wireless Center may be found at KCC Mall of GenSan upper floor.

For details, please call *888 through your SMART cellphone or (02) 888-1111 through landline.

Four lucky winners will receive a brand new Nokia E72 each in the weekly draws.

Deadline of submission of entries will be on January 15, 2010, January 22, 2010, January 29, 2010, and February 5, 2010.  That gives everyone 3 more weeks to do what they have to do to win this must-have Nokia phone.

Good luck everyone!!!  Meanwhile, care to exchange IM names?

*To check if your phone is compatible with Nokia Messaging go to http://www.nokia.com.ph/nokiamessaging