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I just had a feeling good moment with my Lipton Milk Tea. Imagine this scenario….

You go to work and open your computer and you are greeted with dozens of emails all needing urgent responses. You dash from meeting to meeting, encountering heavy traffic in between. You sigh and say to yourself that the time wasted in transit could have been better put to use crafting and drafting the many presentations and reports your boss is expecting you to submit by the end of the day! Before you even jump to your next thought, you receive several text messages from people following up your deliverables. Just another typical day in your own private hell–work. And, you go through it every single day, five times a week, sometimes even more. You cry out, “I need a break!”

Break Time Magic

And Lipton couldn’t agree with you more. Yes, you need a break. With today’s fast-paced lifestyle and cutthroat competition, more and more people are getting the feeling of always being on-the-go and being constantly pressured to rush from one task to the next. They are required to perform more tasks and deliver these in lightning speed. Studies conducted worldwide have consistently shown that employees need to go on breaks. But, if that vacation leave is short of a miracle for the time being, a simple 15-minute break will do.

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Quick service restaurant giant McDonald’s today announced it will soon start serving half-rice to customers in response to the government’s call to help conserve the country’s rice supply.

In a statement, McDonald’s Vice President for Marketing Margot Torres said the decision came after Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap and Malacanang officials called on Filipinos to help in government efforts to avert a possible rice crisis.

Since early March, rice prices have been steadily rising reportedly because of global shortage in supply.

McDonald’s is one of the first restaurant chains to express support to the government’s call.

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Candy can be so much than a kiddie treat—that is, if you take it seriously.

And for the country’s leading confectionery, candy is definitely a serious business: Candy Corner hosted a banquet in Le Soufflé Rockwell Club to showcase candy creations inspired by Jelly Belly beans, the world’s #1 gourmet jelly bean. Ms. Bubu Andres, queen of the confectionery kingdom Candy Corner, hosted the event where attendees toasted with Jelly Belly Mocktails and Cocktails, ate desserts inspired by true-to-life Jelly Belly flavors, and admired the edible table masterpieces bursting with color and texture.

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There are a lot of ways for you to drink your coffee: You can drink it with a little bit of milk; you can have it short, sweet and with a lot of kick; or you can take it naughty.

Take it from the man who invented the Irish Cream Coffee after his plane bound for the US had to turn back due to bad weather. In his quest to sneak in a little rotgut into his drink, he sweetened coffee with sugar, spiked it with Irish whiskey, topped it with lightly whipped cream and the first steaming cup of java jolt was born.

This exciting twist to enjoying a cup of coffee is of course, dependent on the right mix of flavor and spike. A sprightly Mexican coffee calls for Kahlua or Tia Maria, while a rich cup of Italian joe will likely call for a healthy serving of Amaretto, Frangelico or Sambuca. And Irish Coffee certainly, deserves a dash of Irish Whiskey.

For the most part however, Filipino coffee aficionados had to settle with spiking their cups with rum or whichever moonshine they happened to come across; until the Euro-continental expertise of Delifrance translated its gastronomic savvy into an exciting line of spiked coffee. And guess what, they’re doing it for FREE via the new after-five experience with a twist: Spiked after 5.

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If you have so much work you feel like you don’t even have time for a healthy bite, take heart. People have been in this dilemma for centuries.

John Montague, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, is the 18th century counterpart of the workaholic urbanite. Too preoccupied by his commitments to the navy, politics and the arts, the Earl barely had enough time for a nutritious lunch out. His cook solved this impasse by presenting him with sliced meat inserted between two pieces of bread—the perfect meal as it required no utensils and could be eaten with one hand, leaving the other free to continue with his work. Soon orders for this dish, the frequent favorite of John Montague, became known as the “same as Sandwich” and then simply “sandwich.”

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