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Meralco Appliance Calculator

Will you be surprised if I tell you, I don’t care about our Meralco bill. Before, I tortured myself finding ways to decrease or lessen our electricity cost, but whatever I do, it stays that way. I tried almost everything, from using stove instead of rice cooker to using electric fan instead of the air conditioner. The thing is, I don’t know where the bulk of our bill came from. Is it the ref that runs 24 hours, 7 days a week (oh we even lessen the times our ref was opened) or is it the TV? Maybe it’s the aircon. Who’s the real culprit? Who?

I wish Meralco will come up with a site or an application that will help me control my electric consumption. Something that will tell me how much electricity my electric fan consumes in a given time. Something that will tell me to turn off my TV so that I can lessen its consumption. And something that will tell me, what kind of appliances will consume more and what type will consume less.

Oh wait! Meralco just launched their new application:Meralco Appliance Calculator

If you frequent Meralco’s website, you will notice that even their site had a makeover.

So what does the Meralco Appliance Calculator or MAC do? TheMeralco Appliance Calculatoris designed to become theelectricity bill management toolof Meralco residential costumers to help them:

Better manage their electric consumption and their electric bill.
Make wiser decision in buying home appliances.
Get home energy efficient tips that are customized to their home electricity consumption.

Actually, the Meralco Appliance Calculator (M.A.C) has been around since 2003. But this time, there has been new features added that cater the needs of Meralco’s costumers. You can access M.A.C in Meralco’s website (http://www.meralco.com.ph/).

Lower left is the MAC icon. Just click it to be go to Meralco Appliance Calculator page:

Click the M.A.C online version. You can see that it has a downloadable version. So yes, you can use it while you are offline. You just need to install the program to your computer.

Before you can use the Meralco Appliance Calculator, you need to read the Agreement and agree. As you can see, you can use “My Appliance Calculator” or “My Bill Manager”.

“My Appliance Calculator” allows the user to calculate the estimated consumption cost of appliances – one at a time.

“My Bill Manager”, on the other hand, allows the user to calculate the estimated consumption cost of appliances in a table format. It allows the user to get an estimate of the household’s total electric consumption cost and see which appliances consume more electricity.

Other features of the “My Bill Manager” menu include: consumption manager, energy efficiency adviser and target bill amount estimator. Consumption manager allows the user to see the corresponding electric consumption pie chart and some text description of the chart based on the information provided by the user. The energy efficiency adviser, meanwhile, allows user to see some energy efficiency tips based on the information provided by the user. The target bill amount estimator, on the other hand, allows the user to see an estimate of his “monthly target kWh consumption” and “estimated price per kWh” by just inputting the “target electric bill
amount”.

Other new features of the M.A.C include:

e-mailing of the M.A.C web link to friends through the “email” button;
sharing the M.A.C web link to FacebookandTwitter accountsthrough the “share” button;
sending feedback to Meralco regarding the new M.A.C through the “feedback” button;
printing the computation results of “My Bill Manager” through the “print” button (for easy access and future reference of the computations), and;
viewing the basis for computing the estimated electricity consumption of home appliances for the M.A.C application through the “formula” button (so that users can validate the results of the computations).

M.A.C is easy to use. Mommy Blogger Fedhz gave it a try while enjoying a foot spa at Beauty and Butter.

Mommy Bloggers trying out the Meralco Appliance Calculator.

Meralco Maliwanag Ang Pasko Grand Lighting Ceremonies

Meralco Christmas Tree

For someone who is living in Pasig,Meralco’s Paskuhan Village and Nativity Belenis hard not to miss. The Nativity Belen made out of recycled copper wire is just amazing. And for someone who has been living in Pasig, every Christmas, we had a feast of lights, color and hope. For some reason, we never had a chance to get up close and personal to the said attraction. But this year, it was a different story. I had a privilege not just to be up close and personal but to witness the grand lighting ceremony of the said display.

Meralco Maliwanag Ang Paskotheme for this year is UNITY or PAGKAKAISA. Aside from the traditional giant replica of theNativity Belenand Meralco’s Paskuhan Village, Meralco Ortigas Compound offers a ride on its life size electric toy train around the candy colored Toy Town with a life size (robot size) Robot on the side. The grand lighting ceremony also gives way to the introduction of Meralco Bolts as Christmas Goodwill Ambassadors.

And once again, Meralco invite their costumers to unite and brighten up their homes and spread Christmas cheers to their community. TheMaliwanag Ang Pasko decor and lighitng campaignstarted in 2006, a campaign that seeks to encourage Meralco’s costumers to spread the beauty of Christmas by decorating and lighting up their houses. For this year’s campaign,Meralco will recognize 9 of the brightest and best decorated homes all over Meralco franchise.Each house will be awarded 25,000 Philippine Pesos. Same as before, Meralco will donate the same amount to the chosen partner charitable institutions. The partner charitable institutions this year areCaritas Manila, Laura Vicuna Foundation and Childhope Asia. Interested Parties may join the campaign by calling the MaP hotline (1-800-10MaPasko or 1-800-10-6272756 for provincial entries and 885-7049 for Greater Manila costumers). Or you can log on to MaP website,www.maliwanagangpasko.com

Meralco Maliwanag Ang Pasko Grand Lighting Ceremonies was hosted by Wilma Doesnt and Jojo Alejar. The ceremonial switching was headed by Meralco Executives including Meralco CEO, Manuel V. Pangilinan. Also present were guests from their partner charitable Institutions.

Aside from the fact that I was there to witness the ceremony, I am ecstatic because that day, I was able to test drive or test shoot my new lens! I had so much fun that day that I promise to bring the kids there so they can experience it too.

Oh I love this display the most. In fact, I thought it was a real Meralco man doing some repairs before the Ceremony.

Meralco’s Paskuhan Village and Nativity Belen is open to public from 7 PM to 10 PM on weekdays and 7PM to 12 PM on Saturdays.

What is Baby Shower and How To Plan Perfect Baby Showers

Johnson’s Baby Shower @ Intercon Hotel, Makati

Baby Shower is a way to celebrate the coming of a new baby. The term shower means showering the mother to be with gifts that will be essential to the baby. By traditions, baby shower are given to first time moms and usually only moms will attend. In old age, shower means, showering the expectant mom knowledge and wisdom about motherhood. Nowadays, baby shower are also attended by dads and even kids. And it is now common that a mom can have as much baby shower as her friends can organize.

The guidelines on how to plan a perfect Baby showers were not established but there are traditional activities that are done during the occasion. For one, baby showers were planned not by the expectant mother. The shower is given by someone else like friends, maid of honor or bridesmaid or coworkers. There are games and the main theme of the event is of course, gift giving. The exact time or place to held a baby shower can vary. In some cases, it is held months prior to giving birth and in some weeks before the due date. In rare cases, there are those that gives baby shower days or weeks after the baby is born. Usually, it is held in a hotel room, small bar or a cozy restaurant. And since most shower are kinda surprise party to the expectant mom, it is advised not to held the party on the her house. The party host also include baby shower giveaways for the guests.

When you are to plan a baby shower, you might want to consider the activities you will include. Below are some game ideas for baby shower that can make your activity fun and of course, memorable for the expectant mom.

Guess the due date game. This is a fun guessing game where guests will have to guess the expected date of delivery.
The baby game. This is a fun game where guests that are not moms yet can participate. Dads can have a chance on this game too! This is a game where participants will have to change the diaper of the baby (of course use a doll) and who does it fastest wins.
Guess the baby’s gender can be fun too if the party is not gender theme related.

As for the giveaways, the party planner can opt for things that can be useful for their guests. If they have more mommy guests, a small toy that the kids will love will do or even a small figurine that says thank you is enough.

Johnson’s and Johnson’s recognize the joy of celebrating motherhood and all the firsts. They know that nothing compares to baby’s most precious firsts. And with that, Johnson’s and Johnson’s launched the Johnson’s Baby Shower.