Last December, Between Bites hosted a contest on the site: Opening a Minute Maid: Experience the Natural Goodness.  There were two parts to that contest.  One would win the Blog section, while the other would win the Comment section.

Last February, right before Valentines weekend, Minute Maid has announced the Blog winner.  It was the entry of Kate who won.

http://meowbykate.blogspot.com/2010/01/time-for-orange-break.html

I requested Kate to share with us a few photos of her “prize” experience. 

“I am actually quite embarrassed because there are no pictures of me.  I took pics of the room, the food we ate and the complimentary wine service.  I also took a thank you shot for Minute Maid.  Btw, we didn’t get to avail of the massage yet because it was scheduled the next day, meaning we would have checked out na.  We decided that we’d just save it for our 7th Anniversary this April

Anyway, thank you so much for hosting this contest   It was a really tiring week for us, since we came all the way from Clark and then drove to Makati to get the voucher.  The hotel stay plus wonderful breakfast buffet was a perfect way to end our Valentine’s weekend.”   ~Kate

Sharing Kate’s photos from her EDSA Shangri-la stay.  No photos though of Kate herself but she did take a “thank you” shot for Minute Maid.

Thank You Minute Maid!

Thanks Kate for joining the contest!   I hope you enjoyed your EDSA Shangri-la Chi Spa Holiday Package.

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Finally, they’ve picked a Comment winner!!!

Congratulations…

Comment:

Christian Homeschooler

A regular day for me starts with me fixing up breakfast for my boys and getting ready for homeschool. While I won’t have it any other way, it can still be tiring at times. Because the truth of the matter is, my day do not stop at homeschooling. I then have to prepare lunch and zero in on my online job thereafter. It can be crazy, I kid you not. Especially now that I have ventured into yet another online job, as a virtual assistant. This requires me to be glued to my office until the wee hours of the morning.

I’ll have to admit that it’s not always bright and shiny everyday. But I cannot be more thankful that I have discovered a partner that melts away my stress. Even during my “walang tulugan moments,” I’d find myself grabbing a bottle of Minute Maid Pulpy Orange. It somehow perks me up, switching me back to the timezone that I needed to be at a given moment. (Boss’ time zone is UTC-7 hours)

Minute Maid Pulpy Orange refreshes me at random parts of my ever packed days (and nights) — yes, even way after the hubby has gone to dreamland. =)

You just won The Spa package worth Php5,000. 

Congratulations in winning the Comments category of the ‘Minute Maid Get Closer to Nature’ contest. 

An acknowledgment email will be sent to you shortly on how to claim your prize.

Thank you to everyone who joined the Minute Maid contest.

Watch out for more exciting contests soon!!!

For the meantime, the Ovi contest is ongoing.  Check that out! 

You might be the lucky weekly winner!

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*Kindly requesting both winners, if it ain’t such an inconvenience, to send me a photo of their “prize” experience so I can share it with the other readers.  Much appreciated!  Congrats!

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I know, I know.  Waiting is an agony.  It’s been a while and the Blog winner has been announced weeks ago.  So what’s taking the delay?  Well, there are more Comment entries than the Blog entries for one –which the client has to evaluate thoroughly because there are just too many good entries that it’s really difficult to pick a winner.  I’m glad the decision is not in my shoulders since it’s really a tough call.

This is a short clip to update you that the client definitely hasn’t forgotten, but they are taking a bit more time in deciding.  Winners will be announced SOON.  Hold on to your seats!

Cheers!

And Good Luck Mates!

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Hola Minute Maid Drinkers!!! 

I’ve received quite a number of entries.  It’s not too late to send in yours.  You have until TOMORROW to blog or comment and grab a chance to WIN the prizes below:

Prizes: 

BEST BLOG – 1 winner of a Shangri-La Chi Spa overnight holiday package worth Php20,000 (Good for 2:  Yin Yang Harmonising Massage at Chi Spa, overnight stay at Tower Wing Superior Room, Buffet breakfast at HEAT)

BEST COMMENT – 1 winner of The Spa package worth Php5,000 (Good for 2:  Executive Herbal body massage at The Spa Fort and dinner at CAV Wine Shop-Café Fort)

YOU may be indulging in your private retreat in the heart of the city.

To be fair to all who joined, I will round up a panel that consists of 5 judges (Jane not included) who will determine the winner based on the scores they will give on the criteria below.  GOODLUCK mates!!!

***UPDATE (Feb 3, 2010)*** Minute Maid will choose the Blog and Comment winners.

Contest Link

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Short Recap

“When do you refresh with Minute Maid Pulpy Orange?” CONTEST ALERT

Hear Ye!  Hear Ye!  Between Bites readers and fellow bloggers in the community!  Share your refreshing stories with Minute Maid and stand to win amazing prizes!   Awesome, huh?  Simple, too.

Blog Entry:

The contest is open to all Philippine resident bloggers.

Blog about, “When do you refresh with Minute Maid Pulpy Orange?”

You may include photos and/or videos.

Publish your blog post and e-mail the blog entry URL with your name, address, mobile number, and e-mail address to betweenbites@gmail.com

Comment Entry:

The contest is open to all Philippine resident readers of ‘Between Bites’.

Post your suggestion on when to refresh with Minute Maid Pulpy Orange.

Leave your real name (first name will do) and register a valid e-mail address on the Comments section of ‘Between Bites,’ particularly under this entry.

Judging Criteria:

                Creativity (50%)

                Relevance to the theme – “Refreshment time” (50%)

Contest Duration: December 28, 2009 – January 29, 2010

For more details:  CLICK HERE

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There are a multitude of things we enjoy about life.  The naked truth is… the biggest pleasure, most often that not, comes from the simplest things.  Simple.  Natural.  Fun.  Three words when mixed together in a moment can get me (or the Black Eyed Peas) singing, “I got a feeling… woo-hoo… that tonight’s gonna be a good night.”  In another breath, these words can easily improve your outlook and make you feel good.

For some people, fun means drinking beer and partying at events –but that doesn’t necessarily make you feel good all the time.  When I think about fun, I remember doing the thrilling Sky Jump at the Macau Tower.  That was some ultimate fun coupled with extreme adrenaline rush.  Trust me, nothing beats natural high. 

And nothing beats natural pulp.

Thirsty?  Open a bottle of Minute Maid Pulpy Orange –it’s the simplest way to catch the natural goodness of my favorite fruit.  With Minute Maid Pulpy Orange, I enjoy the refreshing juice drink all year round.  Each plump pulp bits contain nature’s best and only Minute Maid Pulpy Orange can bring Nature’s goodness to me.

Preference always goes to the real pulp than a mock one like a real hug is always better than an icon hug in my mobile phone or instant messaging chats. 

In fact, it’s the best.  If I can open a bottle of real hug when I need one, I definitely buy in boxes.  Nonetheless, I get much satisfaction in knowing that the next best thing to enjoying actual fruit juice, without having to pick and grind, is opening a bottle of real pulpy Minute Maid Pulpy Orange or Mango Orange.

How about you, when do you refresh with Minute Maid?

 “When do you refresh with Minute Maid Pulpy Orange?” CONTEST ALERT

Hear Ye!  Hear Ye!  Between Bites readers and fellow bloggers in the community!  Share your refreshing stories with Minute Maid and stand to win amazing prizes!   Awesome, huh?  Simple, too.

Blog Entry:

The contest is open to all Philippine resident bloggers.

Blog about, “When do you refresh with Minute Maid Pulpy Orange?”

You may include photos and/or videos.

Publish your blog post and e-mail the blog entry URL with your name, address, mobile number, and e-mail address to betweenbites@gmail.com

Comment Entry:

The contest is open to all Philippine resident readers of ‘Between Bites’.

Post your suggestion on when to refresh with Minute Maid Pulpy Orange.

Leave your real name (first name will do) and register a valid e-mail address on the Comments section of ‘Between Bites,’ particularly under this entry.

Judging Criteria:

                Creativity (50%)

                Relevance to the theme – “Refreshment time” (50%)

Contest Duration: December 28, 2009 – January 29, 2010

Prizes: 

BEST BLOG – 1 winner of a Shangri-La Chi Spa overnight holiday package worth Php20,000 (Good for 2:  Yin Yang Harmonising Massage at Chi Spa, overnight stay at Tower Wing Superior Room, Buffet breakfast at HEAT)

BEST COMMENT – 1 winner of The Spa package worth Php5,000 (Good for 2:  Executive Herbal body massage at The Spa Fort and dinner at CAV Wine Shop-Café Fort)

YOU may be indulging in your private retreat in the heart of the city.

JOIN NOW!

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NBA star Richard Jefferson called off the wedding ceremony a few days before the big day. 

He broke up with his fiancee and reasons are still unknown. 

Jefferson was scheduled to marry former New Jersery Nets dancer Kesha Ni’Cole Nichols at the Mandarin Oriental in New York City.    Although the ceremony was canceled days before dooms day, many guests were left unnotified thus showing up at the venue expecting to see the wedding go as planned.  

Kesha Ni’Cole Nichols must have been pretty upset to let the supposedly “USD 2 million” wedding go kaput.  

Buzz online are flourishing now about Jefferson being gay or Kesha being a gold digger, when in fact, neither might be the case. 

Since my long pending plan to do ziplining in Camp Sabros, North Davao or in CDO is still pretty much pending, I went for a quick fix and did ziplining in Tagaytay instead.

It’s been two weeks since I told Bubba that there’s ziplining in Tagaytay.  Sunday, we were at Edsa Shangrila for Karie’s 1^st birthday celebration.  Karie is the cute baby tot of Anne and Drew.  We were enjoying our buffet lunch at the Garden ballroom when I asked Marie and Butch their plans this weekend.  They said nothing concrete but told me they are planning to visit the Mango outlet as well as other designer brand outlets in Pampanga.  Bubba and Jim were getting their desserts during this discussion.  I suddenly blurted out about the ziplining in Tagaytay and asked them if they wanted to go after the party.  They shared my excitement and were game about the idea!  We arranged to meet an hour later in Magallanes, just about enough time to get a couple things and allowed me and Marie to change from dresses to jeans.  Jim said yes too and before you know it, we were on convoy to a Tagaytay trip.

The travel was short, an hour and half later, we were in Tagaytay parking our cars.  Upon seeing the zipline area, it took us a good 15 minutes to actually decide whether to go for it or not.  I’ve only tried extreme (not so extreme) sports overseas, parasailing in Malaysia and Sky Jumping in Macau.  I will include the rollercoaster in Ocean Park HK because that was also crazaaay for me.  I went ballistic over the sky jump and rollercoaster but parasailing was a walk in the park (ahem, right.)  But the thorn on my throat is, how safe is it to try terrifying stunts like this in the Philippines, manned by us?  Thank God, it’s safe enough when we tried.

Ziplining is P300 per head for roundtrip and P200 for one way.  If you go one way, you have to walk back using the bridge, which wasn’t too bad a walk.  It’s additional P100 if you want your photos taken by the crew.  The crew was nice like how most of Laguna and Tagaytay people are.

After ziplining, we made a quick stop at Rowena’s for pasalubong.  It’s Jim’s first time to buy from Rowena’s, while I confirmed that it’s really one of the better quality pasalubong stores.  Then I treated my friends to a sampling dinner at Sanctuario Tagaytay.  I’ve only tried the one in Metrowalk but never the original branch.  Good to know that my friends enjoyed their dishes.  We ordered their 2 Pan de Sanctuario bread with 3 kinds of pate: Quezo, Garlic and Smoked Fish, Bulalo with Pasta (always a winner to me because of the bone marrow and sinful creaminess), Tuyo Rice and Adobo Flakes.  I should have ordered their Sizzling Bulalo as well but was worried that we won’t have room for another dinner at Kanin Club.  Sanctuario Tagaytay was a teaser to whet their appetites satisfying enough to hold out til we hit Sta. Rosa.

The only time we’ve tried Kanin Club was during the Pink Kitchen event this year.  Bubba really liked the Morcon he ordered and was looking forward to eating at the actual restaurant.  Currently, they only have two branches –Alabang and Paseo de Sta. Rosa.

We reached Kanin Club around 830pm and it was absolutely packed!  We were the second big group waiting in line for an available table.  Since it’s past dinnertime, it wasn’t long before a table was vacated.  The menu had an extensive list of mouth-watering dishes to take a crack at.

More on Kanin Club on a separate post (interesting twist on Filipino favorites: Sinangag na Sinigang, Crispy Diniguan, etc… and finally I can scratch off one more resto in the Miele Guide list!)

Jim was so great with Joyce!

I really had a wonderful Sunday spent in breezy but not too cold Tagaytay breathing fresh air, trying a new activity and bonding with my sister Joyce and friends.  Whoooweee!!!!

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