SUPER COOL GLOBE SALES HOT- shot Ferdz de la Cruz, Marylindbert?s brilliant CEO Linda Legaspi and Department of Education Undersecretary Vilma L. Labrador led the launching of the Global Filipino Mind program, palanggas.

The Filipinas Heritage Foundation Library, where the launching was held, was blooming with colorful flowers. It was also bedecked with handcrafted globes topped with an eye-catching salakot in anahaw leaves, orchids and sampaguita. The excellent Filipino meal was served by Via Mare?s Glenda Barretto, no less.

?Our partnership with DepEd and Marylindbert is a milestone for Globe, breaking new ground in making the world recognize the Filipino as truly global?truly world-class,? De la Cruz said.

Approving with loud applause was the audience which included Mario Ramirez and Paraluman Giron, Albert Rosal and Jerry Tarayao.

Marylindbert marketing director, the bubbly Tina Mirabueno-Raines, was like a butterfly hopping from one table to another, making sure that everyone had a good time. Everyone did, dahling, such as Jaz Montelibano, Toni Yanga, Mon Medina, Chuwey Villo and Raya Roa.

Thai Airways join travel fair

The Philippine Travel and Tour Expo 2010 at SMX Convention Hall was highly successful. The fair is an annual event organized by the Philippine Travel Agency Association headed by witty Pat Alberto.

Tourism Secretary Ace Durano and Undersecretary Edu Jarque attended the opening ceremony of the three-day event.

One of the brightest stars of the Expo was Thai Airways International, which is celebrating its 50th Anniversary this year, dahlings. Thai was one of the first airlines to operate in the Philippines. It has received numerous awards and recognition, and is renowned for its legendary in-flight service, the Royal Orchid Service.

?We are pleased to be part of this annual event again this year,? said Nivat Chantarachoti, the popular Thai Philippines GM. ?We observed that the number of visitors has increased. This is a positive sign, and we will be launching many activities and promotions in the months to come. We are working with the Tourism Authority of Thailand to promote the country under the theme ?Amazing Thailand, Amazing Value,? and hoping more Filipinos visit Thailand this year.?

?Also we will resume services to Johannesburg this May 16, in time for the Fifa World Cup,? Chantarachoti added. ?Thai flies to more than 70 destinations across five continents.?

Peter Vermeulen, ambassador of South Africa to Manila, was very pleased with the announcement, palanggas.

The exciting event ended with the airlines giving away several prizes, including air tickets to various destinations. The Thai booth designed by Willy Saw attracted several visitors.

?Age of Stupid?

The Global Campaign on Climate Action (GCCA) organized recently the ?green-carpet gala? of the animated docu-drama ?Age of Stupid? at Glorietta 4 Cinema 3.

?Age of Stupid? is directed by Franny Armstrong and produced by Lizzie Gillett and Oscar winner John Battsek (?One Day in September?). It stars Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite as an old man living in the devastated world of 2055, watching archival footage from 2008 and asking: ?Why didn?t we stop climate change while we had the chance?? It has been described essential viewing to anyone who cares about the survival of our planet.

?Our goal is to get this film in front of 250 million people, and hopefully create 25 million climate activists,? said Von Hernandez, executive director of Greenpeace Southeast Asia. ?It might be an impossible goal, but we?d be stupid not to try.?

?Greenpeace and other organizations of the GCCA have been calling on leaders of industrialized countries to commit and put up an annual fund of at least $140 billion for climate change and forest protection,? said Hernandez and campaigner Beau Baconguis.

The recent onslaught of tropical storms in Luzon, snow storms in Europe and the US, floodings around the globe, and the melting of giant glaciers have served to be super grim reminders, palanggas, of the devastating effects of climate change. Scientists are saying that all these are merely a preview of things to come, definitely nothing to laugh about, or look away from.

The movie is part of the ?Tiktok, tiktok? (or ?Tck, tck, tck? in some countries) global effort, to get people around the world to persuade world leaders to make concrete commitments to cut down on greenhouse gases.

The call has been intensified after the recent UN Framework Convention on Climate Change meeting in Bangkok, which, sadly, again did not make any progress on commitments, despite the incidents of severe weather events all over the world.

I had goose bumps because of the movie. The film made me teary-eyed and worried about what tomorrow might happen to the world.

Call Francis de la Cruz, public campaigns coordinator, 0917-8542103, 414-6512 loc. 118 or fdlcruz@greenpeace.org; and JP Agcaoili, media campaigner, 0917-6312750, 4146512 loc 121, jp.agcaoili@greenpeace.org.