FAME Gathers Members of the Online Media for a Fun Bloggers' Night at Arts in the City BGC

Ten years ago, a doctor's passion to write, along with the desire to spread health-awareness throughout the country gave birth to Friendly Alliances and Media Expressions (FAME). The past decade in the publishing industry has seen FAME continue to abide by its mission of promoting good health and a healthy lifestyle, as well as sound Christian values, and professional excellence.

FAME's publications

Presently, FAME has seven titles under its belt under the helm of publisher Dr. Rafael Castillo:

1. Health and Lifestyle (H&L) serves as the quintessential guide for the modern-day doctor

2. DiabetEASE gives advice to patients and families suffering from diabetes

3. TravelPlus promotes Philippine and international tourism

4. Zen Health empowers the modern-day woman with health-focused articles

5. Vital Signs, which is in a newsletter format, synthesizes the most recent scientific and healthcare updates taken from notable sources in the field of healthcare, medicine, and public health administration, among others. It is read by doctors, healthcare professionals, and even legislators.

6. Urban Scroll is dubbed as "the businessman's newspaper" slated to keep its readers on top of the latest business news and features

7. Baby On Board aims to help Filipino parents raise smart and healthy children. It covers stories on parenting, homemaking, relationships, child development, and medical care.

Doctors of Shinagawa

In an event dubbed "FAME Bloggers' Night" held at Arts in the City in BGC, Taguig, various bloggers from different niches such as health, fashion, entertainment, lifestyle, and photography, came to support FAME and listen to health-centered presentations.

Staff of Asian Hospital and Medical Center

Representatives from BPeptide, Asian Hospital and Medical Center, Shinagawa Lasik & Aesthetics, Cetaphil, and Restylane gave talks on breast cancer and skin treatments while other sponsors provided really nice raffle prizes and giveaways. FAME also showed us a behind-the-scenes (BTS) exclusive video of Zen Health's most recent cover shoot featuring Marian Rivera.

The Fruit Magic booth

We had fun visiting the different booths and trying out product samples such as Fruit Magic's great-tasting smoothies, delectable cakes from Goldilocks, and cute cupcakes from Glam Cakes by Myca. Other booths gave us goodie bags containing a lot of useful products that I would be reviewing in separate blog posts in the coming days.

Glam Cakes by Myca

My sincerest thanks to FAME's other event partners and sponsors: Pregroe, Gluta Advance, Calvin Plus, VMV Hypoallergenics, J. Thomas, Yumei Mise, Ralph's Wines, Trianon International, Celeteque, Asian Secrets, C-Lium Fibre, Myra-E, Tiny Buds, pH Care, Coco Natura, Poten-Cee, MEGAFIBER, Swish, OraCare, Nu-Moms, Foot Appeal, Summatrade, CalChews, and Ascof for making the night more fun and memorable by generously giving away lots of freebies that we'd be happy to try and spread the word about!

At the end of the night, me, my hubby (of trailsunlimited.blogspot.com) and our friend Ryan (of anakngpasig.com) looked like we just bought a whole store because we all went home with several bags! Thank you FAME and partners/sponsors for the informative talks and free stuff! :) 

Photos borrowed from Trails Unlimited's Facebook album