Santa Rosa City Laguna Philippines - attracting investors from all over Asia and the world.
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THE UNITED KINGDOM BACKS THE PHILIPPINES
ENGLAND IS THE HOME OF MODERN FOOTBALL (AKA SOCCER), AND BRITISH AMBASSADOR STEPHEN LILLIE, speaking from the Embassy of the United Kingdom in Manila, gives a strong thumbs up to doing business in the Philippines. To avoid confusion, England is part of Great Britain which is part of the United Kingdom which is part of the European Union.
Therefore with reference to the 2011 Royal Wedding, Prince William and Princess Catherine are now second in line to be King and Queen of the United Kingdom - but not of the European Union, although millions of Europeans have publicly expressed the opinion that 'Will & Kate' also belong to them, as Will's ancestors came to Britain from from Germany and they have branches all over Europe.
Stephen Lillie does not discuss this issue and states that the Philippine population of 92 million makes us the 3rd English-speaking country of the world. He goes on to praise the international success of Philippine call-centers, whose clients include British blue-chip companies such as Shell, HKBC, and the Financial Times.
He says that our battle against corruption is being won, and the presence of more than 200 major British companies here signifies clearly that now is an excellent time for British and other European companies to invest in the Philippines.
Enthusiastic about the developing popularity of Filipino football and the inspiring progress of the Philippine Askals, most Englishmen everywhere look forward to seeing them qualify for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, and they also hope that before then Filipino sports fans will join them in visiting the 2012 Olympics in London.
Welcome to Santa
Rosa Magazine - the accessible open e-magazine of Santa Rosa City,
Laguna, Philippines. No payment, no registration, no login required.
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Forget the negative attitudes of stick-in-the-mud critics and do a Google search to see the creativity of Filipinos who have posted on the internet their own versions of DOT's inspiring
new tourism slogan. Who cares what the Swiss did in 1951? They didn't invent the English
language and they didn't coin the "it's more fun" phrase. Positive-thinking Filipinos like the
new slogan and are having lots of fun proving the truth in it. DOT deserves congratulations!
(See Angel Tugado's comments on our Opinion page.
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Congratulations to Miss Universe 2011 above, Leila Lopes from Angola,
and to our own Shamcey Supsup, who was placed 3rd Runner Up,
one position higher than Venus Raj last year. Editorial photo courtesy of Miss Universe Organization. (More...)
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No need live in Manila to get superfast internet. Now you can apply online in Sta. Rosa.
Globe continues to lead the way in Sta. Rosa with its innovative customizable broadband.
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Laguna BelAir
More space. more home. more value from the country's most successful community. American Living in the Heart of Mother Nature.
Five best-selling home designs that bring you a rich, new lifestyles fashioned to your expectations. With larger and cozier living space, higher ceilings and spacious rooms, plus a cozy porch and a bigger lot area with ample space for a category.
Through the Metro Skyway, the business hubs of Alabang- Muntinlupa and Makati are within easy reach, and so are the offices at the Laguna Technopark, Laguna International Industrial Park and the manufacturing plants of multinational corporations including Toyota, Nissan, Ford and Coca-Cola.
Enjoy great shopping and sumptuous dining at the Commercial Center, you neighborhood’s own version of Californias famed Rodeo Drive. It’s Central Plaza will delight you and your children with kiddie shows, mini-concerts and exhibits. And for your daily shopping needs, convenience stores called the Village Shops are scattered strategically around the neighborhood.
Fresh every single day: the sun, the breeze, the blooms embracing you on your way to and from work. And on weekends, you can instantly escape with a good game at the putting green, a tan by the pool or a quick set at the tennis court.
From state-of-the-art infrastrature, to professional maintenance and security systems, to uninterrupted power and water supply, Laguna BelAir boasts an abundance of modern conveniences for worry-free living.
Within your neighborhood is the DECS- accredited Laguna BelAir school, a science high school with an advanced curriculum oriented towards science, mathematics and information technology. And other prestigious schools nearby fulfill your children’s learning requirements, such as Brent School, Lasalle, St. Scholastica, Don Bosco and University of Asia and the Pacific.
Laguna BelAir IV
With the needs of a growing family in mind, Empire East Land Holdings, Inc. has made the 25-hectare Laguna Bel Air IV a showcase of suburban living at its finest. It has taken the best features of the township’s earlier phases—and made them even better. From Audrey to Chloe, Daphne, Francine, and Realezza, the homes come in bigger lot sizes, giving homeowners a bigger, more efficiently designed living space, and leaving enough room for a front porch, a carport, and a spacious yard ideal as a gardening plot or a children’s play area.
Being a part of a self-contained community like Laguna Bel Air IV comes with a host of privileges. For one, access to quality education for grade school and high school students is guaranteed since the subdivision boasts its own science and mathematics-oriented school. And nearby are well-known schools like Brent, La Salle, St. Scholastica, Don Bosco, and the University of Asia and the Pacific.
Residents enjoy convenience as well to major work and recreation centers. The South Luzon Expressway and Metro Manila Skyway make it easy to commute to Alabang and Makati. Industrial hubs like the Laguna Technopark, Laguna International Industrial Park and Silangan Industrial Park are a short drive away, as are weekend getaways like Enchanted Kingdom, the mountain resorts of Tagaytay, and the scenic spots of Calamba.
The above photos, graphic, and text are from the developers. Visit their official website to find out more: Laguna BelAir
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THE MOST ROMANTIC DAY OF THE YEAR BEGINS AND ENDS
WITH "I LOVE YOU"
Eric Santos sings to lucky wedding couples
at SM City Sta. Rosa.
City Mayor Arlene Arcillas, looking like a Hollywood movie star, flanked by Vice Mayor Arnel Gomez and city councilors, made sure that Valentine's Day 2012 would be a day for 355 wedding couples to remember and tell their children about.
THE ANNUAL KASALAG BAYAN was held at the mall's Event Center on February 14. A total of 355 couples exchanged marital vows in a ceremony overflowing with promises of undying love and devotion. Santa Rosa Mayor Arlene Arcillas, together with Vice Mayor Arnel Gomez and city councilors, made their special wedding day an event to remember for the rest of their lives.
Later, like cream on their wedding cakes, the newly married couples were serenaded by popular romantic crooner Eric Santos. This emotion-packed Valentine's Day tradition at SM City Sta. Rosa gives couples engaged to be married a wonderful opportunity to celebrate their weddings on the day of the year that's dedicated to love, and enhanced by sharing it with others who also wish to marry on the same symbolic day. Without a doubt, it's a tradition that their children and grandchildren will wish to follow when their time comes.
Relatives and friends shared this special occasion, enjoying every moment, full of love and joy for the happy couples who invited them.
Today Valentine's Day is celebrated in many countries around the world, mostly in the West although it is gaining popularity in the East. The original St. Valentine was an early Christian saint named Valentinus, but romantic connotations were added centuries later by English poets. The date February 14 was first associated with romantic love by Geoffrey Chaucer. To honor the first anniversary of the engagement on February 14 1381 of King Richard II of England to Anne of Bohemia, he wrote in 1382: "For this was on Saint Valentine's Day, when every bird cometh there to choose his mate."
In the next hundred years it evolved into an occasion in which lovers expressed their love for each other with flowers, confectionery, and greeting cards known as 'valentines'. Edmund Spenser wrote in 'The Faerie Queen' (1590): "She bathed with roses red, and violets blue, And all the sweetest flowers, That in the forest grew." William Shakespeare's play 'Hamlet', written 1600-1601, has Ophelia saying: "Tomorrow is Saint Valentine's day, All in the morning betime, And I a maid at your window, To be your Valentine." And John Donne's 'Epithalamion' (1613) says: "Let not this day, then, but this night be thine, Thy day was but the eve to this, O Valentine."
Modern Valentine's Day symbols include the heart-shaped outline, doves, and the figure of the winged Cupid. Since the 19th century, mass-produced greeting cards have replaced handwritten 'valentines', but the fundamental message remains the same: "I Love You."
- Pam Peters-Baun (Photos courtesy of SM Prime Holdings. History courtesy of Wikipedia.)
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Breaking News, February 2012:
"THE PAINFUL TRUTH IS THAT I MARRIED AN ABUSER, A SCROOGE, AN INCORRIGIBLE PHILANDERER, AND WORSE - A PERVERT."
Susana Ortigas, the wife of Francisco Ortigas for 43 years, stated the above in an affidavit to the police.
IN YET ANOTHER CASE OF IMMORALITY AND CORRUPTION IN HIGH PLACES, FRANCISCO ORTIGAS HAS BEEN CHARGED WITH CONCUBINAGE. His wife of 43 years also accused him of frequent sex with a company employee and a maid. If convicted, Ortigas will be sentenced to from 6 months to 4 years imprisonment.
Especially in the month that Filipinos with true integrity celebrate their love on Valentine's Day, this story is a sad confirmation of the decadence and spoilt-brat mentality of so many rich and powerful Philippine families. As one of the Philippines' richest, Ortigas enjoys enormous inherited wealth, and can afford to pay vast sums to all the lawyers who represent him and attempt to defend his corruption and immorality.
But what he no longer has is any credibility with stockholders or leverage with SM's Henry Sy, who is negotiating the purchase of Ortigas Holdings Inc., owners and developers of prime Manila real estate. Corruption and immorality of existing management always undermines investor confidence, especially when evaluating a takeover bid.
This means that under Ortigas control the stocks will fall in value, and under SM control they will rise. Not a good legacy for any rich man to leave either his immediate family or his company's wider stockholders. And not a good reputation for any eminent citizen to bequeath as example to patriotic Filipinos who wish to believe in their country.
We applaud Susana Ortigas for standing up for her rights, and we encourage all Philippine wives - rich or poor - to do the same. Women are equal to men and should not be subjected to such humiliation and disgrace by arrogant, dishonorable, immoral, unfaithful husbands.
Every High School student, male or female, knows that Philippine Hero José Rizal warned us in El Filibusterismo of dangers that oppressed peoples must protect themselves against when seeking freedom from tyrannical foreign occupation. He asks: "Why independence if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow?"
Now, after several decades of independence on the surface, layer upon layer of corruption below the surface have created more oppression in the Philippines than that of the Spanish in Rizal's time, camouflaged by the bribe-taking lawmakers and judges whose job is to stop it.
Too many former "slaves" have indeed become today's "tyrants", just as Rizal feared, making our nation a global laughing stock and undermining all the good works that genuine patriotic Filipinos are doing to build the Philippines into the shining light of Asia that it can become. - Angel Tugado
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Watch
this YouTube animated video by Ericsson Multimedia about life in 2015
and the networked society. (Read more....)
History and culture of Santa Rosa City Laguna Philippines were lovingly revived with colorful displays and entertainments in the "My City My SM" event at SM City mall. (Read more:)
There's no live theater in Sta. Rosa yet, but the Insular Life Theater at nearby Alabang
features productions by the talented and popular drama group Theater Down South.
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WOMEN INSPIRING THE
WORLD IN 2011
Women from around the globe are making a big difference to the whole world
and taking lead roles in finding ways to make it a better place for everyone. Click here to read more and see videos
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Do you and/or your kids need to know the nutritional values of different foods and the necessity of a healthy balanced diet? Michelle Obama has launched...(Read more:)
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See our Home Page to find out how the new "I Am Involved" SM Eco Bag helps to conserve Philippine forests
You can win a great iPad2 in SM's latest promo. There's nothing to lose, so it's worth a try!
Treveia is Alveo Land's maiden project in Nuvali.
It is a 60-hectare development located in Canlubang,
Calamba, Laguna, centrally located within Nuvali,
Ayala Land's newest and biggest township development
for the 21st century, offering modern urban conveniences
to be readily available for its residents.
Nuvali
Less than an hour south from
Metro Manila is Nuvali, Ayala Land's vision of a new,
fully-sustainable metropolis of the future. Nuvali
represents the evolution in Ayala Land's approach
to master-planning and is the first large-scale development
in the Philippines to be built in the principles of
sustainable design.
Treveia
Alveo Land Corp. sets its
mark in Nuvali with Treveia, a residential haven that
introduces a lifestyle that warmly nurtures close
family and community ties in a healthy, upscale and
eco-friendly environment.
Modern
and Eco-friendly
Treveia offers modern conveniences
which are readily available for its residents. Eco-friendly,
tech-ready and cutting edge amenities in Treveia will
revolutionize contemporary living. Eco-Friendly In-line
with Nuvali's sustainability campaign, Treveia is
designed to be an eco-friendly living environment
with sustainable elements infused in the design. Living
an eco-friendly lifestyle will be easy, if not effortless
for Treveia's residents through forward planning of
community facilities, utilities and educational programs.
Family
and Community Nurturing
Treveia will foster relationships
within the community. Treveia's extensive and innovative
open spaces will give residents a venue to nurture
the bond between family and neighbors. Highlighted
by its 2.5 hectare grand central park and nature-
themed pocket parks, Treveia will provide much needed
space for community building among its residents.
Available
for sale:
Phase
1
Size of Lot: 239-576 sqm
Price Range: 2.6-4m
Phase
2
Size of Lot: 250-400 sqm
Price Range: 2.6-5m
For more information and site
viewing call: ADZNA MALLI
0917.523.9626 / 0939.363.5225 or
email: adznamalli@gmail.com.
VERDANA
HOMES MAMPLASAN
In Bi?an, Laguna, just outside the stress and pollution
of the city, Verdana Homes Mamplasan offers houses
and lots that are perfect for those who want to combine
the warmth and traditions of suburban living with
modern-day facilities and amenities. With clustered
units to keep the neighborhood intimate, as well as
wide open spaces and recreational amenities for everyone
to enjoy, this sprawling 42-hectare subdivision is
designed to foster ideal family living.
Family
focused and neighborly
Verdana is a walkable, intimate
community primarily offering ideally sized residential
lots with an average size of 200sqm. Its unique sub-cluster
concept allows residents to get to know their neighbors
easily and enjoy the lush greeneries in the parks
near each cluster. The Asian-Balinese theme accentuates
this 42-hectare masterplanned development with a total
of 804 lots. With its top-of-the-line security features,
wide array of amenities, and accessibility, Verdana
is the ideal community where it's easy to become a
family.
Close
to all your family needs
By virtue of its location,
Verdana connects its residents to an extensive roster
of dining options, leisure and recreation destinations,
as well as prestigious educational institutions in
the South. Located in Binan, Laguna which is only
15minutes away from Alabang Town Center and an easy
drive to Paseo de Sta. Rosa. It's proximity to reputable
schools such as Brent International School, St. Scholastica's
College - Westgrove, Ateneo Graduate School and De
La Salle University - Canlubang.
Convenient
for work and leisure
With a scenic drive away
from vacation hotspots like Tagaytay, Batangas, Cavite
and Laguna. Easy access to Nuvali and its rising metropolitan
area creating possibilities for shorter commutes to
work, larger venues for interaction, and a more vibrant
community.
Available
for sale:
Phases
1 and 2
Size of Lot: 181-499 sqm
Price Range: 2-6m
For more information and site
viewing call: ADZNA MALLI
0917.523.9626 / 0939.363.5225
or email: adznamalli@gmail.com.
