It’s Monday, another start of the week. Though my body urges me to go back to bed my mind is telling me to wake up or I’ll be late for work. That’s what I feel every Monday whenever I get up and prepare for work. My morning starts around quarter or few minutes before 5 am, preparing myself and getting ready to go to work. I leave the house at around quarter to six.

Before moving out of the house I make sure to have a last peek of the kids. It is a little keepsake for the whole week that I’ll not be around with them. I would be missing them for some time and it breaks my heart leaving the kids and my wife. They are Daddyless for the week but I have to because it’s for them.

Last February 23, I was able to cover the Grand Finals of the Yoshinoya Beef Gyudon Eating Contest.   A yearly activity of Yoshinoya Philippines headed by President and General Manager Timothy James Yang.  The event was held at the New Activity Center of Glorietta 1 in Makati City with twenty eight (28) finalists who competed during the qualifying rounds from different stores of Yoshinoya in past month.


Aside from the 28 contestants present in the Grand Finals there were also contestant from different medias, like the print, television, radio and online.  One of our famed blogger friend Florencio Jusay, Jr. was one of the contender.

Here's one of Kwento Ni Toto's mostly likely things to do... save the environment!  Yup, and since we cannot literally pick trash online well sharing things that can help reduce waste and help MOTHER EARTH is the least that we can do online.  Gladly here's one brand that aims to do the same as well with their reusable bags and it is called BagsGo, an on-the-go bag.  This is exactly what this new, revolutionary reusable bag is trying to do: HELP YOU HELP SAVE THE EARTH.

I know it's a bit late for the love month but I just want to share this great moment that I experienced last Valentine's Day at the Rockwell Power Plant Mall. It was an awesome dinner date with my loving wifey! The night was filled with plenty of surprises from Rockwell, there was an awesome and tasty three way course dinner with some goodies and it also comes with a movie viewing. Now, isn't it great and an awesome Valentine's date?!

Too bad, I wasn't able to get to visit the recently concluded 18th Hot Air Balloon Festival.  Though my place of work was just a ride away from the venue of the said festival I wasn't able to enjoy the great views of gigantic and colorful hot air balloons.  Anyway I did enjoy watching their air show which is just a glimpse away from my place of work.

After his very successful venture into artist management, former Hale frontman Champ Lui Pio, now CEO of Mecca Music, proudly announces the launch of Luigi D'Avola-- a fresh new face and talent who brings more to the entertainment world than just music.

“At Mecca Music, we take pride in producing and managing our artists. It’s a process that we put a lot of time and hard work. We really invest in our artists and make sure we guide them to reach their full potential. Luigi is a testament to that commitment, we are very excited to launch his music which we have worked on for almost a year now. We believe that he will break grounds in the music industry this 2013.” Lui Pio said

It's rare for me to get invited in big time concerts and especially if it is a concert of big time foreign artists, that's why when I was invited to watch this once in a life time concert I made my self very sure to attnd this concert. It was the one night show of Psy, the Korean hit maker that sung the Gangnam Style. Take note as well, though it's embarrassing I admit this was my first time to watch in SM Arena. So, definitely I don't know the whereabouts and ways inside the arena, if ever I was alone I'll definitely get lost and ask for help. Good that my better half is with me, she has been here a couple of times already and perhaps she's more knowledgeable of the place.

The PAO or The Philippine Academy of Ophthalmology (PAO) recently organized one of their projects which is called the “EyeBags,” a campaign that seeks to support the education of students from underprivileged families through the donation of various school materials. Incorporating ‘green’ into the advocacy, eye doctors from all over the Philippines have committed to donate hundreds of unused bags from medical conferences that they attend every year.

After reviewing and listening to thousands of entries, this coming February 24 12 different love songs or the P-Pop songs will be judged to hail the most well love Pinoy Pop Love Song. 

In celebration of 60 years of Philippine television, ABS-CBN and Star Records once again set the stage for brilliant Filipino composers to share their musical masterpieces to the world as it relaunched the country’s biggest multimedia songwriting competition “Himig Handog” with the theme, “Pinoy Pop (P-POP) Love Songs: Mga Awit at Kwento ng Pusong Pilipino.”

Perhaps if you enjoyed watching the motion picture of this movie then you'll definitely enjoy having a copy of its soundtrack.  A great way to reminisce the moment of watching the Les Miserables.  Know more about this great offer from MCA Music.

MCA Music (Universal Music Philippines) is proud to announce that an expanded, two-disc deluxe edition of the soundtrack to the film version of Les Miserables will be released next month. The complete Motion Picture Soundtrack will have 22 more tracks than the Highlights edition currently available.

Sunday has always been a busy day for Kwento Ni Toto but for this specific day it is much more busier than what I have thought. Of course this has nothing to do with the usual Sunday regimen, this time it's a busy day inside the mall. If you're one of our dear followers, I'm sure you've already read about the recent post regarding the sale that will transpire at one of the SM Malls which is the SM City Sta. Mesa or mostly known as SM Centerpoint.


In last year's sale features we have already featured some of their sale activities here in this blog. Kwento Ni Toto believed that many have seen it and we just don't know if shoppers was able to hunt for some good discounts and best buys. But of course with SM's sales you'll definitely find one for you. I do hope that you, my readers, was able to go there as well.

If you have been missing the member of the famous rock band before then perhaps you'll his company with his new group as they rock your world once more with their music.  Get the details below.

MCA Music’s latest superband The Oktaves successfully launched their self-titled debut album last Feb. 17 at the Glorietta New Activity Center. The event was presented by MCA Music, Ayala Malls, Glorietta in cooperation with Red Box, Astroplus, Businessworld and Herword.com.

Few days ago one of Kwento Ni Toto's correspondent was able to be part of the group that Chef Robby introduced and have a taste of his entry for the Manila Food and Wine Festival which is called Porchetta which is an Italian dish but what make it interesting is that Chef Robby put a Filipino twist in it.


Chef Robby will present his take on Porchetta, which is usually referred to as the "Italian pulled pork" made of savory, fatty and moist boneless pork roast of Italian Culinary Tradition, spice with garlic, rosemary, fennel and other herbs.  Chef Robby puts a Filipino twist in this Italian dish by using the Pinoy's well love lechon, spice and dressed with caramelized onions and arugula leaves to suit the Pinoy taste.

If you're one of the Rivermaya fans you'll definitely know how long they have kept in silence.  Here's the details of what's new with them.  Read the story below.

Iconic and multi-platinum-selling band Rivermaya releases their much-awaited single Pilipinas, Kailan Ka Magigising? This single is the band’s first single in four years.

Pilipinas, Kailan Ka Magigising, penned by founding Rivermaya member Mark Escueta, is reminder to everyone to go against crab mentality, and selfishness, especially now that another elections is within the horizon once again.