Posts under ‘Proud to be Pinoy’

Last February was my “semi annual” trip back to Davao City. This time we decided to go south of Davao, particularly Mati Davao Oriental. On our 3 days 2 night stay, our first stop over was of all places, along the highway overlooking the “sleeping dinosaur”. The view was very, very nice.

After depositing our stuff [...]

BACOLOD CITY, — Preparations are underway for this year’s MassKara Festival  2007 in Bacolod City slated next month.
Bacolod City Mayor Evelio Leonardia said the festival will kick off on October 1 with daily activities and programs.
Its highlights will be on October 18 to 21.
Information dissemination and awareness about Bacolod’s tourism, economic and investment attractions and [...]

Stirring up enterprises, generating employment, increasing farmers’ income, turning idle lands into productive lots are rolled into one as Tagum City bids to become the region’s Durian capital.
Beyond gaining the name Durian Capital, the City government wants to help Durian farmers who have been beneficiaries of plant-now-pay later program of the local government, to directly [...]

SEO Philippines takes the bayanihan spirit to the SEO world with the first ever social SEO contest. Paradise Philippines is the newest keyword for this season, it aims to help our local tourism industry in providing social awareness by showcasing business websites and blogs promoting our country by optimizing the keyword Paradise Philippines. The battle in now on [...]

The word ”jeepney” is commonly believed to be a conflation of “jeep” and “jitney”, or “jeep” and “knee”, the latter referring to the jeepney’s crowded face-to-face seating.
When American troops began to leave the Philippines at the end of World War II, hundreds of surplus jeeps were sold or given to local Filipinos. Locals stripped down [...]

Cebu City  — The nation will celebrate the 109th Independence Day today, June 12, 2007 and Cebu City celebrates it with a Civic-Military Parade with the theme “Panaghiusa Ang Tubag sa Kalamboan” (Unity is the Answer to Progress). The parade starts at 3 pm from various points in the city and ends up at the [...]

BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya (May 28) — With pride and cheers from her fellow Novo Vizcayanos, Janet Belarmino, one of the three women who conquered Mt. Everest received admiration from mountaineers here, saying her feat could encourage other people to join mountaineering as a way of loving and protecting the nature.
“We salute her not only for [...]