The 06 September 2005 buyers’ show of Trumpets’ Little Mermaid was held at Megamall Cinema where it is being restaged. An almost bare stage greeted the excited throng of buyers as they hurried to their seats that early morning.

Going onstage before the start of the show, Trumpets head Audie Gemora graciously thanked the buyers for coming to watch the show, while director Jaime del Mundo assured the audience that despite the pared down staging during the buyers’ show, it will ultimately bring Little Mermaid’s message a little bit closer to home.

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Stages, the sister company of the well known theatre company Trumpets, opened their very first foray into the world of theatre production last 02 September 2005 at the Meralco Theater with Footloose the Musical.

Although it may be its official first play, by no means is it the first effort of an inexperienced group of associates for it is headed by Audie Gemora and Butch Gimenez, the very same team behind the successful Trumpets. Unlike Trumpets, though, Stages was created out of the need to service secular projects like corporate events, talent management, Broadway musicals, pop concerts and TV programs.

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My recent three visits to Pizza Hut and Pizza Hut Bistro have all been so wonderful it’s positively shocking. On my first visit, the interior’s new color scheme welcomed patrons with its warm red and blue tones. The mirror treatment that showed abstract lines turned out to be staples of Italian cooking upon closer scrutiny.

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On 02 September 2005, the Learning is Fun booth at the Manila International Book Fair became a crowded scene of children and adults as they danced and played with the Greetings 2Go group.

Learning is Fun has been a pioneer in the book selling market with their unique style of direct selling. By focusing on their products and their dealers, and doing away with extraneous marketing tools like advertising, they are able to lower the prices of their books. This strategy has enabled Learning is Fun to bring the joys of reading to more Filipino children.

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My mind dwelt on the telecommunications industry this last week, sparked by the discovery that one of Globe’s promos was debiting my credit balance unnecessarily by P65–Globe TXT NONSTOP Promo Warning Consequently, the list was almost changed entirely.

Once again, let’s play it by ear this week, but here’s what I’m planning to post.

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And here I was wondering how Sun will react to all the new Smart and Globe promos. Kudos to the Sun brand management team because they seem to be always one step ahead in the telecommunications battlefield.

In a move designed to attract a new market, Sun is now offering the new Sun Daylite Call and Text Unlimited. At P100, it allows you to send unlimited SMS Sun to Sun, and to make unlimited calls for 18 hours (12:00midnight to 6PM) for 12 days.

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The market shift to Sun Cellular in the telecommunications industry seemed to have galvanized the two giants—Globe and Smart—to offer new promos to entice consumers back to its fold. Thus, there is a proliferation of ads that proclaim Globe’s and Smart’s varying versions of unlimited texts and calls, or, at the very least, lower call rates.

So far, no offer has come close to beating the fantastic deal of Sun Cellular’s 24/7 unlimited texts and calls of P350/month or P100/7 days, or the new Daylite service.

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Dining under the stars while listening to Kuh Ledesma crooning with a 15-piece orchestra seemed like a great idea on a Sunday evening, so my friends and I hied off to Greenbelt 3. But we arrived to the sight of Greenbelt 3 park packed with an avid audience, despite the imminent danger of getting wet from the on and off drizzling rains.

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