Kadayawan 2007

It was indeed a long weekend as everyone has anticipated, holiday was declared on a Friday to give way to the Kadayawan Festival. And Monday was also a holiday for Ninoy Aquino's Memorial day. I don't go out during Kadayawan since the crowd is totally overflowing. A lot of people come here to join in the celebration, not only from mindanao, but also all over the Philippines and world wide.  Would you believe that the hotels are all fully booked!

Unfortunately, we forgot about the crowd on saturday, as I was just done with work, my hubby and I decided to grab something to eat at SM before going home. Tsk! tsk! tsk!   Bad idea, it was hard getting in SM grounds, harder to park, and harder still to find a spot to sit down and eat.  And both of us were famished! Grrrrrrr!!!!!!


The picture I took in SM is quite blurry, as many people was passing by my side. Not to mention we were on a hurry to find something to eat.

SM is never this full, not only SM but the whole Mall of Davao.

This holiday,  while staying home with my family, we ate and ate! And used much the delivery services of fast foods. At least, no traffic, no haggling with the crowd and waiting in line.

As for fruits of the season during Kadayawan! Fruits are in abundace but it's the ever famous Durian, that gets the limelight! The price is at 25 or 10 per kilo, and not at 100+ but to me it's still expensive. Coz back in my younger days, durians were sold per piece and not per kilo.

Durian Parks are expected to open during this time.

But, I am more fond of Marang than durian, I use to like Durian, but when the different variety started to come out the market here in Davao, my fondness of it slowly wane. Am not good at spotting which are native, some say it's the small ones, since those are the ones I prefer to eat, so every time I bought one, I would hope that I got the native type.

Every kadayawan, that is the only fruit I look forward to. The Marang and Durian.

As for the Indak Indak, and Floral Parade, I just watched it on TV, I use to go out and take videos of this event, but each year the crowd gets bigger and bigger. Now, it's hard to get a good spot to snap some photos, plus thousands of photographer novice or not is already covering it, care to visit a few sites?



* Xtian's Project - the link was already dead, have to look for it again.
* Inkblots

To those who brave the crowd and heat of the sun, I salute you!


I hope you guys enjoyed the long weekend, it was a good day to spend with the family.









Originally posted in Multiply on Aug. 21, 2007

Review : Neo*Davao A city arises!

Was doing my regular checking of emails when I found this link in one of the latest mailing list that am currently on, the MindanaoBloggers.com, and I didn’t even know I was on it, just found my inbox one day cluttered with emails from this mailing list. I don’t mind at all, since it has great links to some interesting websites.


Am always fond of visiting sites I haven’t seen before, and some websites can perk my interest at first glance, other times….well, takes a few more reading of their post.

This new blog - the Neo*Davao A City Arises! , totally catch my attention, aside from the  title heading which was nicely done, the content was not only informative, but the author delivers the information in a way that is not too boring - straight and concise, not peppered so much with one’s opinion(like mine?). The nice thing about it also is, it’s not cluttered with ads, everything has it’s place.

Neo*Davao tackles about the latest structures being done in the city, news on the IT happenings on the business side, IT entrepreneurship, a few places and events. And pictures! And for me that is important, pictures that is nicely taken makes reading more enjoyable, doesn’t it?  It helps the reader digest the information better than letting them visualize on their own. Kind of…a bit of a task, specially when reading about business and imagining….I’d prefer a few pictures.  I learned that a lot of buildings is to be constructed not only in the city proper but mind you, also in Samal Island! Really? That is a big step considering with what happened to Ekran resort, condominiums in Samal? It's a good news that people are still interested to invest in Samal. It’s hard to imagine a condo in the island, good thing there were pictures, so you get a little sneak preview. The site also gave me an idea as to where the Information Technology Parks are located in the city, which I have no news already for a few years.


Sometimes reading this things in the newspaper can be a boring task, it’s a good thing blogs became popular, reading business information and news is more interesting this way.

Neo*Davao, is a good site to go for information about the latest news on Davao’s infrastructure and IT happenings.

This is my very first review on a website, I wasn’t counting on doing this as this is something that I think should be left to the pros, but what the heck, this is just a shot in the dark for...

Originally posted in Multiply on August 9, 2007

I'm attending the Mindanao Bloggers Summit!

There's an upcoming event this coming October 27, 2007. At the 4th floor of NCCC Mall. It's for everyone who is fond of blogging and has registered at Mindanao Blogger site. Don't worry registration is free. So come join the fun!

If your blogging for money or for personal reasons only, this is the place to go.

It seems there are still alot of changes happening on the program and activities for this summit. For further information kindly go to this site: 1st Mindanao Bloggers Summit

So what made me join? Out of curiosity and after getting rating of  : 

I decided to join.  Why? If it was a 30% I wouldn't bother, but since that's half way to 100% it means I have a pretty good chance of blogging seriously in the upcoming years. So might as well prepare for it and be equipt. 

oh well, sometimes I'm addicted to surveys....

Sponsors to the event are:

Councilor Peter Laviña

Join the DigitalFilipino.com Club!

BisayaBloggers.com

Davao's Food Huntress

Lane Systems

Originally posted at Multiply on Aug 07, 2007