MANILA, Philippines — Woman about town decided to acknowledge the invitation of Globe Telecom to join a speed dating event with the Philippine volcanoes. After that controversial Bench billboard that had to be put down, I was dead curious about  who these Volcano guys were.

So, off I went on the day of birthday to show my face to this event at Izakaya Sake bar at Greenbelt. I thought some sake and a couple of sushi will be a good break as I celebrated my natal day. It was a post Valentine’s event of Globe that featured speed-dating with the rugby players.

EJ Francisco, corporate communications of Globe Telecom gave two minutes each to every participant to be able to converse and take photos with the athletic players. I have to give it to Globe for creating such a unique press event. Unfortunately, I had to run to my birthday dinner so I missed speed-dating with any of the players. I saw them, though, at the Opus anniversary the next day so that’s when I was able to talk to them, for longer than  two minutes!

Apart from the excitement of the media women getting to know the players more, Globe announced that as a post Valentine's treat to all its loyal subscribers, they are giving their prepaid and TM customers free access to Facebook via their mobile phones until March 14, 2012. Subscribers can now browse Facebook on their handsets and easily post status and comments, add friends, upload and tag photos, edit privacy settings where they are, without the need to log on to their laptops or PCs. With this exciting promo, everything will be a breeze for Facebook fanatics: post a status while braving the traffic, make a comment on a friend’s status, take a photo of that yummy entree you are having and then upload and tag your foodie friends to make them envious, or change account settings to make sure profile is kept private. Capture all these special moments in an instant with the Free Facebook promo from Globe. 

Facebook, of course, is currently the world’s most popular social networking site. All you need to have is an internet enabled phone to be able to access Facebook anytime, anywhere. The promo will run until March 14, 2012.

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