One knows that the Christmas season is upon us when the radio starts playing Yuletide songs, malls are decked with holiday decorations, and people start making Christmas gift lists.
Christmas is all about making memories. With FUJIFILM’s instax cameras, it is now possible to preserve them and have physical copies of moments spent with friends and family.
Fujifilm brand ambassador Bea Alonzo knows the importance of spreading holiday cheer and sharing her blessings. On screen, she makes it a point to always deliver a good performance. Away from the spotlight, she is a great believer that you best learn about the world when you travel. Bea comes from a small family, with only one sibling but like most Filipino families, she has uncles and aunts and nephews and nieces. She has explored the many beautiful spots in the country with them.
But when Bea wants time for herself, she goes on travel adventures on her own, solo flight. In all these little expeditions, she never forgets to bring her FUJIFILM mirrorless cameras with her, particularly the X-A2 and X-A3. The X-A2 and X-A3 are both lightweight and thus easy to carry around. “A camera phone is not enough,” says Bea. “Tayong mga tao nakakalimot. Maganda na may isang bagay na nagre-remind sa atin ng mga magagandang alaala.”
The X-A2 allows users to capture important moments with superb image quality that FUJIFILM’s X-Series is known for while the X-A3 comes with a retro design that is fashionable and a hit with the younger set.
Recently, Bea has grown to love the instax cameras. “I am learning to appreciate scrapbooking,” Bea shares. “Or I can hang the prints on the walls of my room or I can deposit them in a box.”
With the launch of FUJIFILM’s Photo Diary, Bea can look forward to having her photos gathered together into an album, properly selected and labeled, and accomplished in minutes. Developed through FUJIFILM’s Image Organizing Technology, it makes possible owning your own coffee table book instead of the traditional photo album. It is not bulky and can be tagged along everywhere, a constant reminder of moments well spent.
With Christmas fast approaching, you can take Bea’s word for it. It is best to give our loved ones gifts that we ourselves thought of and spent time working on.
Try the following DIY Christmas gift ideas that Bea highly recommends:
Make a calendar. Use your instax to take snaps of whatever catches your fancy or moments that are fleeting. You can also print them using the instax Share SP-2 printer. The Share SP-2 lets you edit your photos first before you print them. The next thing to do is to attach the instax prints to a store-bought calendar. Also try to write on the margins of every page memorable lines from popular Bea Alonzo films like One More Chance and A Second Chance.
Mark it with a bookmark. Books don’t grow old. They function not only as a physical copy of stories with characters, lines, and moments that we carry with us as we go through our lives. If the person you’re thinking of giving a present to is a big Paulo Coelho fan like Bea, why not take a photo of a river (one of the Portuguese writer’s books is entitled “By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept”) with your instax and embellish it with the print?
Create a wine tasting journal with instax photos. Wines are never missing at Christmas parties. Start by choosing well-loved wines. Take photos of bottles, labels, etc. with your instax. Attach the photos to pages in a notebook, and write down flavors, aromas, vintage and regions.
Delight with a hanging mobile with instax photos. Liven up the room of a gift recipient with a hanging mobile decorated with instax photos. Add text and embellishments on the photos as you wish, and then clip or tape the photos to strings. Tie the strings to the sticks and hang the completed mobile from the ceiling.
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Congressman Albee Benitez has a surprise Christmas gift to his constituents. His office confirmed that the Negros Occidental representative is putting up Enchanted Kingdom in Silay City. He said the amusement park will start operations before the end of 2017.
This is good news to all Negrenses and those living in nearby island provinces as they don’t have to travel to Manila to experience the fun one gets in an amusement park.
The total cost of the Silay branch of Enchanted Kingdom is more than P600 million.
Apart from making his constituents happy, the park also puts Silay in the Philippine tourism map as a new destination among Ilonggos and Visayans.
Also, the Negrenses don’t have to travel far to either Hong Kong or Tokyo or China to experience the fun in an amusement park, like Disneyland and Ocean Park.
Congressman Benitez has also been invited by park operators in London who want him to put up something similar to their parks in Negros. That’s why he is rushing the completion of Enchanted Kingdom in Silay.
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Gabby Concepcion seems to be on a roll these days. After moving from the Kapamilya network to rival Kapuso with which he signed a contract recently, he is now seen more often on the small screen.
After the dramedy Because of You with Carla Abellana, he is back as a policeman in Tsuperhero with Derrick Monasterio.
Soon, he will be your afternoon delight as he stars in Ika-6 na Utos opposite Sunshine Dizon and Ryza Cenon.
Laurice Guillen takes the directing chore for the Afternoon Prime series that will premiere soon on the Kapuso network.