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UPDATE as of 15 April 2009

You are all invited to join the Blogger’s Meet with Joy Rojas

When: Saturday, April 18 (Event moved from April 15 to April 18)
Where:  Powerbooks, Megamall A
Time: 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM

PRESS RELEASE

If you think that Takbong Pangarap—one Filipina‘s attempt to run 5,000 kilometers across the United States in 120 days—is still an impossible dream, perhaps it’s time to meet the people who will put one foot in front of another and make the ambitious idea a stunning reality.

Get up close and personal with ultrarunner Joy Rojas and her Takbong Pangarap teammates, trainer/navigator Mateo Macabe and manager Chuck Crisanto on April 15, Wednesday at Fully Booked, The Fort in Taguig City. The meet and greet, sponsored by The Philippine Online Chronicles (POC), will be held from 6pm to 8pm at the bookstore’s Uview Theatre.

The event will be hosted by noted bloggers Dine Racoma and Noemi Lardizabal-Dado of filipinaimages.com, a website dedicated to reshaping the Filipina image online.

Kristine Mandigma, editor-in-chief of The POC, will introduce Rojas before the latter, a freelance writer and magazine editor, takes the floor to entertain guests’ questions about her historic endeavor.

The POC is also inviting blogger/runners to give short talks on the sport that has blossomed under the radar in the Philippines over the past few years.

“POC Presents Joy Rojas” is the second in a series of events sponsored by the POC that features personalities from different sectors of society who, through their uniquely inspirational stories, may serve as alternative icons for the Filipino. The POC first introduced BB Gandanghari to a pool of bloggers last March 14 at Mag:net Café in Bonifacio High Street.

Read more about Takbong Pangarap and how you can help the monumental project in the POC’s special channel dedicated to the event.

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