Manila Guide Online

Hormel Foods Corporation has donated 30,240 pounds of SPAM products to the Philippines National Red Cross to provide aid to the people who were hit by the recent series of typhoons, Typhoon Ondoy and Typhoon Pepeng, in the Philippines. Aside from this, they are also matching up to $10,000 from employee monetary donations.

Hormel Foods and San Miguel Corporation have a joint venture, Purefoods-Hormel Company, located in Marikini. The employees who were at the plant during the flood were able to evacuate, but many of these individuals lost their homes and cars.

The SPAM product donation to the Red Cross was made possible with the product and logistical cooperation of Puregold, a retailer in the Philippines.

(Source) Press

For people who frequent Metrowalk in Pasig, Metro Manila, please beware. Especially for car owners who bring gadgets and valuable stuff and leave them in the car, you may come back to a surprising scene such as a tampered rear window and all your belongings gone.

Now this happened despite security personnel present. The parking space is free and while there are guards around (would you believe they only have three guards for such a big parking lot?) there are robbers lurking around. And they hit cars in random.

Just the other night, an acquaintance lost a laptop (well-hidden) and cellular phone batteries. This all occurred despite a heavily darkened tint Toyota Fortuner during the evening. But the only problem was I guess that his Toyota Fortuner did not have an alarm installed.

Regardless, all people who go there to dine, drink or buy some pirated DVDs or apparels, beware. You may be losing more than you bargained for.