Hi Nuffnangers,

Happy New Year!

Lets start the 2010 right! Here’s another contest to kick off the new year!

Real Leaf Green Tea is made from 100% whole grean tea leaves that’s naturally packed with Theanine, and has a delicious hint of fruit and honey. You know it’s good for your mind and body.

But do you know just who might be drinking Real Leaf Green Tea?

Real Leaf launches its Paparraz-Tea blogger contest, open to all the bloggers of the Nuffnang Network!

Here are the mechanics:

1. This contest is open to all Nuffnangers and will run until January 31, 2010.

2. To join, bloggers must take a picture of a person drinking Real Leaf and create a blog entry about it explaining:

• Why the person was drinking Real Leaf
• The situation the person was in

3. Each blog entry must have the uniform title: “Real Leaf Paparazzi”.

4. Once you’ve published your entry, drop an email to realleafteacontest@gmail.com with a link to your post so we can keep track of it!

5. Entries will be judged by the following criteria:

• Creativity of photo: 30%
• Creativity of write-up: 30%
• Popularity of blog post: 30%
• Brand fit: 10%

6. Only one entry per blogger will be allowed for this contest.

7. Winners shall be notified via email and phone call.

Here are the cash prizes up for grabs:

• First prize: Php 20,000 Cash + 1 Year’s Supply of Real Leaf
• Second prize: Php 15,000 Cash + 1 Year’s Supply of Real Leaf
• Third prize: Php 10,000 Cash + 1 Year’s Supply of Real Leaf
• Consolation Prizes (blog entries ranked 4-10): Real Leaf Product Bundle + Premium Item

It’s so easy to join, right? Catch a Real Leaf now and be your own paparazzi! Good luck!

Cheers,
The Nuffnang Team

Hi Nuffnangers!

Holiday greetings from us and Century Tuna!

Running is fast becoming the go-to sport for many Filipinos, and the folks at Century Tuna will host the Century Tuna Superbods Run this February 21, 2010 at The Fort Global City.  Derek Ramsey, Coach Rio, and the hottest Superbods and Celebrities will run alongside you!

Running is the easiest (and fun!) way to burn those calories from the holiday festivities and it will get you that summer-ready body.  You can do it anywhere, anytime, for free!

You may not be Usain Bolt, but you can choose to run 3km, 5km, 10km, or 21km in the Century Tuna Superbods Run.

To get you joining, Century Tuna is giving away ten (10) race kits!

Contest Mechanics:

1. You must be a Nuffnanger to join.

2. Blog about how you will prepare for the Century Tuna Superbods Run.

Stretch and run on the treadmill? Run around your village or park? Eat Century Tuna to pack up proteins? Whatever preparation you can share with the community is welcome!

Also, tell us why you want to join the Century Tuna Superbods Run.

Contest submissions must have this uniform title, ‘My Century Tuna Superbods Run Training’, and elaborate on this:  “I am preparing for the Century Tuna Superbods Run by/through___________.”

Show your training with a photo or video.

3. Ask your friends to vote for you by posting a comment on your blog entry on why you should win a Century Tuna Superbods Run race kit.

4. Email the URL of your blog entry with your full name, address, mobile number, and e-mail address to <IwantmyCenturyTunaracekit@nuffnang.com>

5. Submit your entries by February 7, 2010.

Blog entries will be judged on the following criteria:

50% Enthusiasm (as will be shown in your preparations, photos, or video)

30% Creativity (as will be shown in answering why you want to run)

20% Quantity of Votes (through number of comments)

You can check the website at: http://centurysuperbodsrun.ph/

See you all there!

Cheers,

The Nuffnang Team

Hi Nuffnangers,

We’re proud to congratulate the winners of the Century Bangus Fillet blog contest! Each winner receives one (1) Apple iPhone 3GS!

1. http://bastaigatsikat.blogspot.com/2009/11/i-enjoyed-my-century-bangus-fillet-at.html

2. http://adventuresofalionheart.blogspot.com/2009/11/i-enjoyed-my-century-bangus-fillet-at.html

3. http://www.pinoymountaineer.com/2009/11/i-enjoyed-my-century-bangus-fillet-at.html

4. http://trippingthelights.blogspot.com/2009/11/i-enjoyed-my-century-bangus-fillet-at.html

5. http://jonnieanzures.blogspot.com/2009/11/i-enjoyed-my-century-bangus-fillet-at.html

And, to thank everyone who joined, Century Bangus Fillet gift packs will be available to those who submitted their contest entries until January 2010! We’ll be contacting you about this soon so keep your lines open!

Cheers,
The Nuffnang Team

Last November 21, JOHNSON’S® Baby held an event for moms and single female bloggers at the Conservatory, Manila Peninsula Hotel in Makati City. The event, titled JOHNSON’S® Baby Bedtime Discoveries: Bedtime A to Zzz’s, aimed to share with bloggers the importance of baby sleep and ways to help babies get that good night’s rest.

Tintin Bersola hosted the event for the bloggers.

Dr. Luis Rivera, a Fellow of the Philippine Society for Sleep Medicine, shared how important sleep is for a baby’s early development. It is during this time at night that a child is most receptive to growth: three times more growth hormones are released by baby’s body during good baby sleep. Thus the importance of keeping babies undisturbed and well-rested through these hours.

Dr. Luis Rivera shares facts about baby sleep.

This is why JOHNSON’S® Baby came up with a 3-Step Bedtime Routine clinically proven to help parents give their babies better sleep. The routine was demonstrated by midwives, which the bloggers could try out as well. The routine is as follows:

Step 1. A warm bath to signal baby that it’s bedtime.

Step 2. A soothing massage to relax baby.

Step 3. Some quiet time as baby drifts off to sleep.

After demonstrating the 3-Step Bedtime Routine, the blogger attendees shared stories on how their experiences were in caring for their baby’s sleep during the early stages of their development. The bloggers’ personal experiences were very interesting and informative in that other parents in attendance were also able to learn from these.

Blogger moms shared bedtime experiences they've had with their kids.

A look into the lives of other bloggers sheds new light on how to improve other parents' experiences with their own children.

JOHNSON’S® Baby, in line with their vision of assisting parents through the experience of giving their babies the best possible sleep through their early years, released the Johnson’s Baby Bedtime website through BabyCenter. The website features a ton of information on baby sleep, tips on how to enrich the experience for parents and babies alike, as well as tools to help parents give their babies better sleep. The bloggers explored the website themselves, browsing through the customizable Sleep Profiler and the new Sleep Diary tools.

Attendees got to experience the Johnson's Baby Bedtime website during the event.

By the end of the event, the attendees were enriched by the discoveries shared by Dr. Rivera, the live demonstration of the 3-Step Bedtime Routine, as well as the introduction to the JOHNSON’S® Baby Bedtime website. The attendees were welcomed into the Bedtime Believer community, an advocacy shared by JOHNSON’S® Baby to spread the importance of faster growth during good baby sleep.

Bloggers, Ms. Tintin Bersola, and J&J representatives wrapping up the event.

Truly an event moms would remember. (To learn more about baby sleep and being a Bedtime Believer, visit http://www.babycenter.com.ph/bedtime.)

Hi Nuffnangers!

Have you had a transformation?  Tried a new make-up?  Updated your wardrobe?  Lost weight?  Cut your hair?  Quit smoking?  Changed mindset?  Share it with us and win fabulous prizes!

GlutaMAX, one of the leading skin lightening products in the market, is giving away an Apple MacBook, a Trip for 2 to Hong Kong, and these white stuff – a Nokia 5000, an Apple iPod, and a Sony Cybershot T70!

Here’s how to join:

1.    The contest is open to all bloggers 18 years old and above.
2.    Upload two photos on your blog:  a BEFORE and an AFTER of any transformation.
3.    Include a short caption describing the transformation (ex:  “30 pounds lighter”, “new hippy me”).
4.    Title the entry, “The New Me”
5.    Include a photo of yourself with any GlutaMAX product at the end of the entry, and the tagline “GlutaMAX, See the Results”.
6.    E-mail the URL of your blog entry with your full name, place of residence, and mobile number to glutamaxcontest@nuffnang.com.
7.    Contest is extended to February 12, 2010.

Sample Entry

The New Me

20 pounds lighter!

Prizes

1st Prize:  Apple MacBook
Plus GlutaMAX Whitening Package from YSA Skin Care Center

2nd Prize:  Trip for two (2) to Hong Kong with pocket money
Plus GlutaMAX Whitening Package from YSA Skin Care Center

3rd Prize:  Sony Cybershot T70
Plus GlutaMAX Whitening Package from YSA Skin Care Center

4th Prize:  Apple iPod
Plus GlutaMAX Whitening Package from YSA Skin Care Center

5th Prize:  Nokia 5000 Cellphone
Plus GlutaMAX Whitening Package from YSA Skin Care Center

Consolation Prizes:  25 winners of GlutaMAX Whitening Gift Packs

Judging Criteria

Blog entries will be judged based on:

Creativity (50%)
Relevance to the theme, “Transformation” (30%)
Quality of photos (20%)

For more information about GlutaMax, please visit www.glutamax.com or “Glutamax lightening” in Facebook.

Cheers!
The Nuffnang Team

Hi Nuffnangers,

The Century Bangus Fillet blog contest has been extended! You can still submit your entries until Monday, December 7, 2009. Remember, five (5) Apple iPhones are up for grabs! For the full contest mechanics, click here.

(For the bloggers who still want to join the contest, Century Bangus Fillet is available in all leading supermarkets and groceries nationwide. Major stores carrying it are all SM supermarket/hypermarket branches, Makro, Rustan’s, Landmark, Pure Gold, and many more.)

Goodluck!

Cheers,
The Nuffnang Team

Hi Nuffnangers!

Signed Manny Pacquiao merchandise up for auction to benefit GK youth communities! As an added initiative to celebrate Manny and his supporters, signed Manny Pacquiao merchandise will be put up for auction on November 12, and will close on the day of the fight on the 15th.

These items celebrate the journey of Manny Pacquiao’s battles in the boxing ring and the roads he had to take in order for him to make his legacy.

Proceeds from this auction will go to the education of GK youth communities who were victims of typhoon Ondoy and who are slowly putting back the pieces of their life together.

Nike announced last November 6 the creation of two special edition tees, the Nike MP Team Pacquiao Eagle Tee and the Nike MP Tee, celebrating boxing great Manny Pacquiao’s possible unprecedented seventh world title in seven different weight classes as he goes into the ring on November 14.

“We are very proud to support Manny Pacquiao in all his battles and feats. As he once again steps into the ring for what could be a historic first, Nike and the entire Philippines will be supporting him,” said Mae Dichupa, Nike Philippines Country Marketing Manager.

The Nike MP Team Pacquiao Eagle Tee comes in bold red, showcasing a gold foil outline of the Philippine Eagle head in the center front, with a screenprint of an outlined Eagle wing in the background. The back carries the Team Pacquiao statement in bold letters, with the Nike – Manny Pacquiao logo below it.

The Nike MP Tee comes in black, and showcases the iconic Nike logo on the front, accompanied by Manny Pacquiao’s initials MP in red and blue respectively and a sun to the lower right, reminiscent of the Philippine flag. The localized version of this tee differs in the writing on the reverse side. Instead of Just Do It, the slogan especially for Philippines bears the statement “Lamang Gawin Ito.”

The Philippine release will be sold exclusively to the local market.

Check these Special Edition tees in select Nike stores nationwide including Nike Park The Fort, Trinoma, and Glorietta 4.

Cheers!
The Nuffnang Team

Hey Nuffnangers!

Well, it’s been a great month for Nuffnang Philippines! We just arrived from Singapore for Nuffnang’s Asia-Pacific Blog Awards, wherein we awarded the best bloggers from all over the region! Our very own best bloggers represented and were flown to Singapore just for the awards. In line with this, Pringles and Singapore Tourism Board also held a contest, and to round out the Philippine contingent, almost 30 people represented the Philippines. There were 400+ bloggers from all over the region all coming together for one night of fun and festivities.

Two Pinoy Bloggers took home crystal trophies from the grand gala night:

Arnold Aranez of http://www.mrgadget.com.au took home the award for Best Geek Blog.

Ferdz Decena of http://www.ironwulf.net bagged the Best Travel Blog award.

The star of the night was Wendy, more popularly known as Xiaxue. She bagged 3 awards and on the third one another celebrity blogger pulled a “Kanye West” on her saying that Stephen Lim had the best blog design of all time! This naturally elicited lots of laughter, adding to the fun nature the night had!

The Philippines also sent famous cosplayers Alodia and Ashley to the blog awards. Here they are posing with Mark, a Filipino graphic designer working in Singapore for Ripplewerkz.

It was a fun night for our Filipino bloggers. There were smiles everywhere. It was good to expose everyone to the kind of blogging community they have in Singapore as well as in Malaysia. Some bloggers they might only know as faces, or by their blog name, but by nights end they knew them as co-bloggers as well as friends.

Here's Nuffnang's co-founder Timothy Tiah with his girlfriend Audrey ("Princess"). If you read his blog, you'll see that she's all he talks about!

Food Bloggers! (That's Kitchencow.com on the far right!)

More updates about this grand get-together soon on our blog! Stay tuned!

Cheers,
The Nuffnang Team

Dear Nuffnangers,

Nuffnang Philippines will be performing a server reboot on 2am, 7th Nov 2009 to upgrade some software on the site. The estimated downtime is 15-20 minutes.

During this time the site will be inaccessible and your ads may not show.

We apologize for the inconvenience!

Hi Nuffnangers!

Ever wanted to take the next level?

Medicol Advance wants you to be A WINNER by being part of Medicol Advance’s ADVANCE THE NATION launch!
Here are the steps to ADVANCE:
1. First, you need to be a Nuffnanger to be eligible for this contest.

2. Bring a friend at Market! Market! Activity Center on Sunday, November 8, 2009.

Registration starts at 10:00 AM.

3. RSVP to the event at least 3 days before November 8 at medicoladvance@nuffnang.com.

E-mail your full name, cellphone number, and blog URL.

At the ADVANCE The Nation Launch:
Enthusiastically listen to the career talks given by some of the country’s winning professionals in their respective fields; be inspired by the collection of Avel Bacudio; or maybe take the next level in love and take the fast lane with the dating game.

A. Winning Career talks:

1) Jason Magbanua – Award-Winning Videographer

2) Camille Farinas Mathay – Online Entrepreneur

3) Charmaine Palermo – Professional Fashion Stylist

4) Sam YG – Radio Jock

5) Olen Lim – Professional Career and Image Consultant

6) Avel Bacudio – Fashion Designer

7) Raymund Isaac – Professional Photographer

B. Fashion Show by Avel Bacudio

C. Dating Game with Searcher Kiko Junio (GMA Talent)

After the event:
1. Write a blog entry about any part of the event where you felt like a WINNER, and advance in your chosen field.
Contest submissions must have the uniform title: “I am ADVANCED to become a WINNER by (NAME OF SPEAKER/PART OF EVENT) at the Medicol Advance The Nation Launch.” Be creative! At least one (1) photo is required.

The best entry will win an exclusive outfit from Avel Bacudio’s Fashion Show.
2. Email the URL of your blog entry with your full name, location, and contact details to: medicoladvance@nuffnang.com.
3. Submission of entries is until November 15, 2009.

JUDGING CRITERIA:
Blog entries will be judged based on the following:
50% Creativity
30% Story behind the experience
20% Relevance to the theme (”WINNER”)

*Medicol Advance is from the makers of Medicol. It is the advance way of relieving your nakakapamaluktot na headache and pain with its breakthrough Ibufluid in softgel capsule format.
Visit www.medicol.ph for more details on the product.