FUN GAMES TO PLAY DURING SCHOOL BREAK

 

School break had just started for most students and is yet to start for some, especially those from public schools. However, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) has already declared that the Philippines is now in the rainy season. Thus, swimming on the beach or hiking might become extra challenging for students, groups of friends, and/or families who are planning their school break. 

Also, there is still the pandemic going on, although the confirmed cases have started to drop for most cities that are now implementing lighter restrictions. However, we do not want another surge to happen. So, if you are a homebody or a converted homebody due to the lockdowns, here are some fun online games that you can play while spending your school break at home.

Word Search

Daily Online Word Search Puzzle Video Game, is a no-brainer game, but it would definitely need those keen eyes. This game can be played solo or with family and friends. You can have some friendly competitions on who finds the words the fastest or who finds the most words on the puzzle board.

Minesweeper

Of course, we have in our list the classic Minesweeper. To be honest, I don't know how to play this game. I just click a square tile randomly and hope I don't get those spiky bombs. Then, I pretended to be an expert by just randomly flagging some squares as if they were fancy decorations on the game board. (LOL).

Even if I don't really know how to play this game, I still enjoy it. I love the feeling of being able to avoid bombs without having to use a lot of brain cells. 

Sokoban

This game keeps your brain working. Daily Sokoban Logic Puzzle Video Game is a classic box or crate pushing puzzle game wherein you try to place them in specified or marked locations. You may have played a similar game before on your good old Nokia phone. This game will test your strategic thinking skills as you will be required to use your brain cells in moving the crates strategically to avoid a dead-end and push them to their correct placements. This is indeed a good brain exercise while you are not in school.

Same Game

Daily Same Game Stone Breaker Logic Puzzle Video Game is somewhat similar to the computer game – QBz. The goal of the game is to clear the board by clicking the squares with the same color that are adjacent or connected to each other. You can be strategic in choosing a square/s to break or you can just click randomly. It is really up to you as long as you are having fun.

Have Fun!

You may feel a bit bored while staying at home during school breaks so playing games is one of the best options. However, do not just do this just because you are bored, you can do this to sharpen your brains while you are not in school. A simple Solitaire game will help keep your brain working.

Moreover, playing these games can be a good opportunity to have fun and connect with family and friends. Games are fun to play if it is shared with a family member or a friend.

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Get “Better than Cash” rewards when you use PayMaya QR

Get “Better than Cash” rewards when you use PayMaya QR at PayMaya Preferred partners this holiday season 

 As the Christmas season goes into full swing, the shopping lists of Filipinos everywhere are also steadily growing—gifts for family and friends, treats for yourself, and groceries for your feast at home. Add to that the much-needed gas for the holiday traffic rush and for travel to parties and out-of-town trips. What if there was a way to make your holiday shopping more convenient and more rewarding? 

Beginning this holiday season, PayMaya is the preferred payment option at your favorite supermarkets, retail stores, fast food restaurants, gas stations, and pharmacies—offering PayMaya Preferred exclusive promos and discounts that will definitely give you better value for your money than cash or credit card. 

By simply using PayMaya QR to #ScanToPay for your purchases at select PayMaya Preferred partner merchant locations, you get amazing offers that are available exclusive to PayMaya QR users. You can enjoy this on top of your cashback promos from PayMaya and other deals from your favorite establishment. 

“As more Filipinos use PayMaya for all their payment needs, especially during the holiday season, we’re ramping up our efforts to give our customers an even more rewarding experience at our PayMaya Preferred partner merchants. With these awesome exclusive deals offered by our partners whenever you use PayMaya QR, PayMaya is enabling a shopping experience that is truly better than what cash can give them this holiday season and beyond,” said Raymund Villanueva, Head of Growth and Brand Marketing at PayMaya. 

A “BETTER THAN CASH” PAYMENT EXPERIENCE WITH PAYMAYA QR. PayMaya account holders can enjoy a better than cash payment experience at select PayMaya Preferred partner merchants this holiday season when they shop, dine, or fill up their gas tanks and pay using PayMaya QR. Shown in photo are some of the initial PayMaya Preferred partner merchants as announced recently by PayMaya Head of Wallets Business Kenneth Palacios (left) and PayMaya Head of Growth and Brand Marketing Raymund Villanueva (right).

Get P100 more for groceries for your Christmas feasts 

Grocery shopping for your Christmas party spread? Let PayMaya help you cook up a better feast for your loved ones. Shop at Robinsons Supermarket, Easy Mart, and Selections to enjoy P100 cashback once a week when you spend a minimum of P500 via PayMaya QR. To add to that, you can also get a chance to be among the 14 lucky winners of a 1-minute shopping spree worth P10,000. 

Landers also offers PayMaya customers a 5% cashback of up to P2,500 every month on no minimum spend when you #ScanToPay via PayMaya QR for your purchases. Meanwhile, PayMaya users who will get an SMS containing a unique voucher code from Landers can get their free membership until December 31. 

Enjoy more perks when you dine out 

Enjoy more perks when you dine out with family and friends by using PayMaya QR at BonChon. Get a P100 voucher for a minimum spend of P200 when you #ScanToPay via PayMaya QR. You can enjoy this deal twice a month and even stand a chance to win one year’s worth of BonChon chicken for your K-food cravings. 

Drive up better rewards for your trips 

Paying for gas, especially for all the trips you will be taking this season, does not have to be painful anymore because PayMaya QR drives up better rewards for you. #ScanToPay at Total, Metro Oil, and Marz Fuel to get P5 cashback for every liter*, up to P1,000 a month, until Feb 2020. 

More perks to help you live better 

Live well to live better with the help of PayMaya. When purchasing your medicines or vitamins, keep in mind that paying via PayMaya QR is preferred at Mercury Drug as you can get P100 cashback once a week for a P500 minimum spend until February 2020. 

Unwrap the best holiday shopping deals 

This Christmas season, unwrap better PayMaya Preferred deals when you start your holiday gift-shopping at Robinsons Department Store and Toys ‘R Us. 

Better than cash deals beyond the Holiday season 

More exciting deals from KFC, Rustans Supermarket, Shopwise, Wellcome, and Powerfill are also waiting for you in December! 

You can enjoy your better than cash perks at PayMaya Preferred partners even beyond the holiday season, as PayMaya is looking to work with more partner merchants to offer the best deals and rewards for all. 

For customers, this means a more rewarding experience at your favorite merchants through exclusive deals on top of PayMaya’s ongoing promos. For PayMaya Preferred merchants, on the other hand, this means driving more business to their stores and branches, as they offer a better payment experience to their customers. 

“We are thrilled to roll out more PayMaya Preferred promos in the coming months and work with merchant partners in offering customers an easier, more convenient, and more rewarding way to pay—taking us a step closer to a more digital and cashless society,” Villanueva added. 

To start getting more out of your holiday shopping and purchases, #ScanToPay with the PayMaya app now. If you don’t have your own PayMaya account yet, it’s never too late to go cashless. Download the PayMaya app for free on iOS or Android now and avail of great deals, promos, and offers. For more information on exclusive deals and offers available to users, visit www.paymaya.com/deals or follow @PayMayaOfficial on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. 

EXPECT A “BETTER THAN CASH” EXPERIENCE AT PAYMAYA PREFERRED MERCHANTS. PayMaya Head of Growth and Brand Marketing Raymund Villanueva reveals that Filipinos can expect a “better than cash” experience with even better rewards as he announces the initial lineup of PayMaya Preferred merchant partners, where account holders can get awesome cashback and discount deals whenever they use PayMaya QR beginning this holiday season.

PayMaya, the digital financial services arm of Voyager Innovations, is the only financial technology company in the Philippines that offers integrated consumer and merchant payment solutions with the widest on-ground branch network. It is the first to give millions of Filipinos an e-wallet that allows them to pay cashless transactions at any time of the day, anywhere in the world, and from any device. It is the financial technology arm of Voyager Innovations, the leading technology company in the country backed by PLDT, KKR, Tencent, World Bank’s IFC and the IFC Emerging Asia Fund. [END]

 *via cashback or voucher. At least P5 cashback is based on a minimum P40/liter fuel price.

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SMART AND SAFER CITIES WITH SEAGATE AND DAHUA

Public security has been one of the major concerns for cities worldwide. Cities around the world will soon be safer as Seagate Technology, a world leader in storage solutions and Dahua Technology, a world-leading video centric IoT solution and service provider, teamed up to deliver the next wave of highly intelligent video surveillance servers with DAHUA IVSS and Skyhawk Al. 

Over 100 participants from different companies joined the Smart City Surveillance Seminar at Limketkai Luxe Hotel, Cagayan de Oro City. Seagate and Dahua shared their Safe City vision to the participants.

Smart City, Safe Living

Dahua's safe city solution provides and integrated platform and intelligent technologies to make sure that cities are well guarded and efficiently run by providing end-to-end solution through the use of surveillance technology. It also provides enhance features such as Face Recognition which boasts 99.8% accuracy, Abnormal Behavior Detection, License Plate Recognition, and Traffic Violation Detection. This unified safe city platform tasked with unified command and centralized data storage, this can also provide emergency response on or cross-department information sharing among authorities. Dahua Technology also provides Mobile Enforcement that enables location detection and video footage sharing to security centers via 3G/4G for faster and more accurate action.

Photo courtesy of dahuasecurity.com

Moreover, Dahua solution provides good quality video images and smart detection in any weather conditions. After being widely used by many cities, the Dahua safe city solution has been proven to be both efficient and effective in protecting the safety within a city.

AI-Enabled Surveillance

Because Seagate understands the unique date storage challenges of providing safe city highly intelligent video surveillance servers, it teamed up with Dahua Technology and with its SkyHawk and SkyHawk AI, the first drive created specifically for artificial intelligence enables video surveillance solutions.

SkyHawk AI, the market leader in surveillance storage provides bandwith and processing power to manages always-on data workloads, while simultaneously analyzing and recording footage from 64 HD cameras and support 16 AO cameras with minimized dropped frames, reduced downtimes and can withstand 24/7 operations. Equipped with Seagate Image Perfect AI firmware, which means it can record high quality, sharp video footage while simultaneously facilitating AI-enables NVR analytics that ensures files gathered through video surveillance are properly stored and easily accessible.

Dahua's partnership with Seagate complements to Dahua's date challenges particularly on face recognition, ANPR, PFA and other advanced video analytics. In addition, this strategic partnership can boost the AI application across the surveillance industry. 

For more information about Seagate you may visit www.seagate.com. For more information about Dahua you may visit www.dahuasecurity.com.

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Cyberzone's Cyberlegends Taking E-Sports by Storm

Cyberzone the leader in tech and innovation in the country is now taking the E-sports by storm with its latest tournament, CYBERLEGENDS. 

“With the fast growth of the gaming community, we aim to take it a notch higher as we offer Filipino e-gamers and fans an extraordinary experience through live tournaments and exclusive access to the latest in tech in select SM malls,” said SM Supermalls Senior Vice President for Marketing Jonjon San Agustin. 

Cyberzone’s Cyberlegends is the first of the three big gaming tournaments for this year and it’s powered by Smart/PLDT & Samsung. Mobile Legends enthusiasts, amateurs and pro gamers can win P300,000.00 of total cash prizes at stake and freebies from Cyberzone brand partners. 

The first Cyberlegends Tournament happened last May 25, 2019 at SM CDO Downtown Premier. Participants of the said tournament are not just from Cagayan de Oro but they came from different towns and cities of Mindanao. 

The next tournaments will be on June 29 at SM Seaside Cebu, Juy 14 at SM City Pampanga and August 24 at SM North Edsa.

No matter what your tech interest is, whether it be gaming, virtual reality, tech upgrades, cosplay, photography, music, or other hobbies – there will be something for you at Cyberzone. For more information, visit www.smsupermalls.com.

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Little Me Academy to Launch Academe Philippine Online High School in Cagayan de Oro

CDO-based school Little Me Academy will launch the Academe Philippine Online High School (APOHS) on October 23rd. This is the first online open high school in the Philippines, catering to learners in grades 7 through 10.

APOHS has partnered with a Japan-based, e-learning platform called QUIPPER, which gives learners a challenging and engaging digital curriculum that is also aligned to Philippine's K-12 Basic Education Curriculum.

APOHS students have the freedom to complete their 100% online coursework wherever they are in the world, ensuring accessibility for Filipino students from around the globe. Because lessons are modular, learners can work whenever they want and at their own pace. This is helpful for students who have fallen behind, optimal for those who want to get ahead, and accessible for any Filipino learner.

"Filipinos seeking high school education come from all sorts of backgrounds - local talents engaged in outside pursuits, children who frequently travel with their families, housebound or working students, and so much more," noted Little Me Academy's Chief Education Officer, Teacher Ram Olandesca. Such situations can make it difficult for these students to be accommodated in traditional classrooms; however, in an online learning environment, limitations arising from location, physical ability, availability, or age are overcome.

"The faculty and staff at APOHS are highly qualified educators passionate about teaching, having undergone rigorous training for years at Little Me Academy," enthused Teacher Ram. "Little Me teachers are known throughout CDO for their dynamism, creativity, and outstanding communication skills. They'll bring that and more to the online school setting with tutoring, live instruction, corrective feedback, daily reminders, and check-ins." 

Socialization is also taken into account at the school. Personal connections and communications are made possible through mandatory, weekly online meetings and in-person meet-ups. "With this," Teacher Ram said, "the APOHS learner gains not just the intellectual profits of a high school education, but the social and emotional growth of a complete high school experience."

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PayMaya in Messenger

Did you know that you can now send money as easy as chatting on Facebook Messenger?

PayMaya on Messenger Welcome Message

Yes, you heard that right! Sending money is now as easy as 1-2-3 because PayMaya is now on Messenger. Aside from sending money, PayMaya on Messenger allows you to pay bills and buy load with discounts. 

One of the things that I like about using PayMaya on Messenger is the ease of paying my bills. 

These are the list of companies that accepts PayMaya payments.

Last Tuesday,  I tried paying my Sun Postpaid Account and I was so happy because of the effortless transaction. Since, the transaction was very fast, I tried paying all my other bills and it only took a few minutes to complete every transaction.

With regards to safety, every transaction you make will require your Facebook password. So please keep yours safe and secure. 

Do you want to experience paying your bills using PayMaya on Messenger? Download the PayMaya app now and link your account to Messenger. Make sure you have the latest Messenger app to make this work. 

Moreover, did you know that you can you can earn P50 credits when you refer a friend with PayMaya? 

Here’s how to refer and earn: 

1. Access your PayMaya account in Messenger by visiting this link: http://pymy.co/get50 

2. Click on the promo notification and share the promo message to your Messenger contacts (open to both Smart and Globe subscribers).

3. Alternatively, you can also click on “Promos” in the menu and select “Refer Friends, Get P50” to access the promo message which you can share to your friends. 

4. Each time a friend successfully opens or links a PayMaya account in Messenger, you (sender) will get P50 in your PayMaya account. Your friend (receiver), in return, will also receive P50 in his/her PayMaya account. 

5. Users can only share the promo message to up to 25 friends, and can then earn a maximum of P1,250 worth of incentives (maximum of 25 successful referrals only). 

6. Rewards will be credited to both the sender and receiver within one to three business days after the PayMaya account has been created/linked. The promo will run from December 6 to December 19, 2017.Visit this link for more details.

Promo rules:
 1. The promo is only available to senders/receivers who have Facebook/Messenger accounts created before December 6, 2017.
2. Users must have a PayMaya account linked to Messenger before referring a friend in order to earn the incentive.
3. Rewards will not be given if a pre-existing PayMaya in Messenger user creates another account with a different number.
4. If a new user (receiver) is invited by multiple people, the referral will be attributed to the account (sender) who referred the new user last.
5. The promo message cannot be shared to a group of contacts or a Page (must be shared individually).
6. A user who is invited cannot unlink and relink accounts.
7. Any users who receive an invite and create/link a PayMaya account after the end of the promo will not receive any incentives.
8. The sender and the receiver cannot have the same PayMaya account. The receiver cannot link a PayMaya account that has been previously linked to another user’s Messenger account.
9. The promo is open to Android users only. For iPhone users stay tuned.

For more information about PayMaya, you may visit https://stories.paymaya.com/ You may also follow them on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/PayMayaOfficial/ for updates on promos and exclusive treats.

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Samsung Soundbar Festival Nationwide Promo

Last chance to raise the bar of home entertainment with Soundbar Festival Nationwide Promo

Imagine going home where your family is all set for another binge-watching night. You have agreed what food to order. The playlist is ready. Your pillows are waiting to be cuddled during those heart-stopping scenes. While this seems exciting, you should know by now that a sub-standard entertainment system simply will not do.

Get the ultimate home entertainment package by taking home your very own Samsung Soundbar through their Nationwide Promo until September 17. You have a few days left to complement what you see on screen with outstanding audio quality while saving big time. Samsung is offering discounts of as much as 40% on its premium-grade soundbars to bring cinema perfection closer to your home.

On top of the huge markdowns, Samsung's Soundbar with Dolby ATMOS (HW-K950) comes with free items such as the Wireless Audio 360 speaker and a Blu-Ray player. Meanwhile, get free wireless rear speakers when you purchase select soundbar models HW-MS751, HW-MS650, HW-M4501, and HW-M550.

Being number 1 in global sales year on year, Samsung Soundbars promise to raise the bar of your home entertainment as you watch your favorite films, stream music, or play a video game. Its multiple built-in speakers, each with dedicated amplifiers, are crafted to make stunningly realistic multi-dimensional audio achieving theatre quality in the comfort of your own home. It also delivers the right level of bass so that whatever you hear through the soundbar is exactly how the artists and filmmakers intended it to be. Lastly, with the consumers in mind, the Samsung soundbars champion wireless connectivity to freely connect your TV and smartphone conveniently via Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. 

Grab your chance to experience sound like never before! Get to know more on how to raise the bar of your home entertainment system by checking out the lineup of high-quality Samsung soundbars when you visit the Samsung Facebook page. 

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ASUS Opens Concept Store in SM CDO Downtown Premier

ASUS in partnership with Oro Gadgets, Inc. celebrates the opening of their newest concept store in Cagayan de Oro City last June 29, 2017. The newest store is located at the 3rd Floor Cyberzone, SM CDO Downtown Premier. 

The ribbon cutting ceremony was headed by Mr. Geroge Su (ASUS Country Manager), Mr. Roger Chiu (Oro Gadgets, Inc. CEO), Mr. Edward Chiu (Oro Gadgets, Inc. VP and CFO). 

ASUS, a pioneer for innovation has been committed to introduce remarkable products that meet the evolving demands of Filipinos. This 2nd Quarter of 2017, ASUS will be focusing on the following products: 

NOTEBOOK CATEGORY

• Zenbook 3 Deluxe
• Zenbook Flip 
• Zenbook Pro 
• Vivo Book Series 

ZENFONE CATEGORY

• Zenfone 3 Zoom 
• ZenfoneAR 
• Zenfone Live 

ROG CATEGORY 

• ROG GX800 
• ROG GX501 
• ASUS FX SERIES  

Visit  the ASUS Concept Store in SM CDO Downtown Premier and check out the best and the latest  mobile phone and laptop that will surely suit your need.

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