Archives for May 2011

Make Or Break On Live Writer

Finally, after so many drafts on my wordpress blogs, I realized it is about time to use Live Writer.

All Blogger users will agree that the Create Post area is not spacious at all and it’s really hard specially if you are writing a long review such as accutane reviews. It’s a bit hard to picture/ imagine what your post will look after you publish it not unless of course if you keep looking at the preview, which can be very time consuming. That is what I like most about WordPress, you have an option to toggle the draft page into full screen. In blogger, the only way you can do that is when you set your dashboard into Blogger Draft and it’s even in full screen.

They say that when using Live Writer, you can post in you blogs even without signing to each of them. Now that is good for someone like me who maintains a lot of blogs. And I can do my entries without peaking much on my browsers, which always led to spending more time in Facebook than doing my post.

So this is my first post, later I will try it with my WordPress blog

Pampers Dryness Test

During the “Pampers Salute Moms” campaign at Crowne Plaza Galleria, a team from Pampers demonstrated how dry Pampers Diaper can be.

As you can see in the video, the first part was to see how absorbent that materials used in the diapers. After pouring a glass of liquid which is equal to one wetting, the materials used in Pampers were still dry while the materials used in another diaper brand was wet. They used another diaper and still use the same Pampers diaper and the result is pretty much expected, the Pampers is still dry after two wetting!

The second part of video, the dryness of Pampers was demonstrated using he diaper itself. This time it was seen how fast Pampers can absorb the wetting. And just as expected, Pampers was faster than the other diaper. And after the wetting is absorbed,it was also tested fro dryness and Pampers still won over the other diaper brand.

The Road To Good Health With GSK

I know that most warehouses and plants of some companies are located here in Pasig and Cainta, but I did not know that GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) plant is just a few minutes from me. When we were invited to have a tour of the plant, I just asked them to pick me up somewhere in Ortigas Avenue Extension instead of me going to the pick up point. From Ever Gotesco to GSK plant was fast. We were greeted by their staff and was treated to a hefty breakfast.

After the breakfast, we headed to their conference room and Mr. Edgardo Alvinez (Site Technical Director) gave a brief introduction about the company, its mission, vision and was able to learn about GSK’s Road To Good Health. The company is committed to improve the health of the Filipino by producing quality medicine at the lowest possible price. After that, each one of us got a free shot of flu vaccine.

We were able to see what’s inside the GSK plant and toured their manufacturing plant. For sanitation purpose, we are asked to wear lab gown, wear a mask, sanitation cap for our hair and plastic shoe covers. We were asked to leave our cameras for safety and security purpose. But we have a pro with us (the following photos are the photographer of the tour)

After the tour, we had lunch at Laya Personal Dining inside Pinto Gallery in Antipolo. The lunch was really great and the organic iced tea matches the summer heat.

Dr. Oscar Tinio, Philippine Medical Association head talks about the dilemma and challenge each health care professionals face whenever they treat a patient. That is how it goes in most medical cases, a health care provider will prescribe a medicine and a patient will no be very keen on following what is prescribed. There are so many factors that contributes to it and the top is the availability and afford-ability of the medicine. And what is GSK response to this challenge? Ms Daisy Cembrano, GSK’s VP for Government and External Affairs talked on how GSK are reducing the price of their medicines as a response to this challenge.

GSK also cooperate with the government in ensuring that Filipino health will be improved. GSK Philippine President and managing director Roberto Taboada also elaborate on the quality of medicine GSK are producing and their steps in making these medicine more affordable to every Filipino.

The talk was very informative and enlightened us to what is the real condition of the people in terms of health care. To cap the day, we were able to roam freely inside the gallery and marvel on different art works in different mediums.