And just in time for the holidays, too! Prizes are probably going to be the same as the first TAWAD NA promo, since today’s prize is a Compaq Presario (sounds familiar, fellow Tawad na veterans?). As for the mechanics, a few things have changed. For one thing, bidding for one prize lasts for one whole week - a good idea for Globe since they get more texts for less prizes, and I believe it’s also a good thing for us texters because the playing field is fairer (ie. The winning tawad will probably be on higher values and one person will have a harder time texting all tawad combinations). Apart from that, you get an upgraded prize if you bid X times.

Am I going to join again this time around? You can bet your load, haha! As long as Globe has something juicy to offer as a prize, then I’m probably going to bite. How about you guys?

Posted: October 29th, 2008 under Buzz in the Philippines.
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Have you been parking in malls lately? Have you noticed the different high-tech gadgets they’ve been putting in? G4 Makati parking lots have the parking counter for every floor and the Link parking lot (the one near Anson Makati) has that camera that takes a picture of your plate number. Both are very useful, but nobody can top Mall of Asia’s latest gadget - the car vacancy sensors!

If you’ve ever parked in a mall carpark, and during peak hours at that, you’ve probably cursed a word or two, scouring through all the lots, and trying to look for an available slot. Sometimes, you encounter those parking oasis slots - it looks like a vacant slot from afar, then when you get near you realize that it’s really not. And the frustrating search continues on.

MOA has almost completely obliterated this problem. Each slot has a light above - red for occupied, green for vacant. So when you just get into that floor, you can immediately rush to the nearest green light you see! The sensor is simple - as long as an object is standing above this detector (sort of looks like a small smoke detector), the light turns red. My friends and I tried standing below these detectors, and the lights turned red.

Now if only every carpark adopted this handy gadget.

Posted: October 26th, 2008 under Buzz in the Philippines.
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