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Monday, September 9, 2013

Kadayawan Festival 2013 : A Harvestful Davao Fest

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Kadayawan has been successful withstanding the local rumors of bombing during the event. It was celebrated the whole week of August 13th until the 18th. The weekend was the highlight of the festival where they celebrated ‘Indak Indak’ on a Saturday and the harvest parade on a Sunday.

Indak Indak is where several different tribe representatives dance on the street. The dancing is composed of several kids and young adults dressed in colorful outfits. They have been practicing the dance in preparation for this festival. It is a much anticipated event for the Davaoñeos and its viewers.

The term “Kadayawan” is from the word Mandaya or “madayaw”. This is a warm and friendly greeting used to explain a thing that is valuable, superior, beautiful, good, or profitable. Thus, its colorful and fruitful celebration.

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A "supermodel" is considered a level higher than the standard beauty queens. They should walk with style and strike a pose with more confidence (more often than not - exaggerated to be seen prominently). Their facial and body features should be more expressive (cheekbones and height is a necessity while a rounded face and plump body is a no-no). They should look good in photo shoots - photogenic so they say.

Binibining Pilipinas and Mutya ng Pilipinas candidates are already transcending the boundaries of being a beauty contestant and a supermodel. There is now a thin line separating the two types of beauty queens since everyone wants to become better than the average. Almost everyone is smart and talented enough to multi-task and dwell into many fields.

You'll see both winners of these two different competitions moving into fields like modelling, product endorsements, hosting and even acting.

A Wonderful Experience Like No Other

IV-Berzelius ('13-'14)

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We used to celebrate Pistang Pinoy every year in our school, Pasig City Science School. Filipinos are considering the month of August as the Filipino Month. Pistang Pinoy is a traditional event that shows the culture of Filipino people here in the Philippines. Each section exert and effort in decorating their classrooms. The banquet or the so called “handaan” is the main highlight of the event. Each section prepared the traditional foods of the Filipinos and some of these foods can only be taste here in the Philippines. In my four years of celebrating this event in our school, this might be the best.

This celebration of the Filipino Month is not only about the banquet. The Filipino Department also prepared contests for the students like Maunawang Pagbasa, Malikhaing Awit, Masining na Pagkukuwento, Talumpatian, Balagtasan, and Basag/Pick-up Lines. Each section has its own representatives for each contest except for the Malikhaing Awit because this contest is for the whole section. Unfortunately, our section wasn’t able to win this contest, IV-Lewis won this contest and I’m really happy for them. On the other hand, our representatives in Balagtasan which are Julius Santos, Leira Tolentino, and Cherry Paramio got the first place and I’m really proud of them. They did a really good job. Our section also got the first place in the contest of Pamilyang Pinoy.

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"What do you do if a famous blogger "spins" your blog post and passes it off as his/her own at his/her blog site? Do you call his/ her attention, do you let it pass, or do you call an all-out war?"

I was intrigued by a discussion seen at a thread looming at a certain Facebook bloggers group. The members were having quite a long discussion about a blogger that has allegedly spun an article of another blogger, and how the PR firm, after being notified, belittled the situation.

They go on talking about how article spinning is under the crime of plagiarism since the content or idea is the same as the original article.

But the real problem is on how to confront the blogger being accused of article spinning.

The discussion continues to become a very long thread. I actually stopped reading and it must have died down since I no longer see updates or new post form the thread. Here below are selected portions of the discussion with very minor revisions just to correct or improve the flow of the discussion.

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It is admirable to hear news about private corporations, as well as individuals and organizations, taking an active role in social responsibility in the form of partnerships, sponsorships, donations and other means.

With the government not able to provide for all the necessary funding to elevate the standards of sports in the country, private entities take over to subsidize or pay in full for the needs of noble efforts. Competing in international events will bring pride to our country especially if we win a considerable spot in the finals.

Taking part in an international event is great enough to promote our country globally. To have Filipino representatives taking part in such grand events inspires our countrymen to excel in their endeavors so that someday they to will be representing the Philippines.

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We are proud to be one of the online media partners of Lorenzo the musical which is currently running scheduled shows at the SDA Theater of St. Benilde.

The musical is an extremely extravagant offering of spectacular lighting, music and sound effects, costume, and acting. Add to that several surprises you will never expect in a show as grand as this operatic performance. Plus you'll definitely be at awe when you see the humungous robot ala Voltes V coming out from the back stage.

I was having goosebumps seeing scenes after scenes of sensational acting and fancy outfits. The press preview attended by members of the media was a huge success of which I'm sure Christopher De Leon will be very proud seeing a lot of satisfied attendees.

The new original Filipino musical drew a standing ovation and its one of those rare moments when you will feel that you are truly proud to be a Filipino.

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This 2013-2014 Pistang Pinoy is the greatest of all Pistang Pinoy that I ever experienced. Students were tremendously happy with the events that happened in school. Furthermore, "Pistang Pinoy" is not considered as fiesta if there are no food to eat. Below are some dishes of Filipinos that I consumed a lot.

We also had a program at the gymnasium. The program was wonderful, our principal had his speech, the teachers performed and the students that won in the competitions showed their master pieces to the crowd.

Also, the senior scouts had their own presentation in which the people laughed hard and enjoyed the show. These people are my best friends and we are called "Dabarkads".

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Jessy Mendiola takes the cover of Esquire magazine's annual fiction issue where Luis Katigbak writes 22 truths about the lovely young star of ABS-CBN’s Maria Mercedes.
The magazine also features several short stories from the most acclaimed writers in the country.

Jessy Mendiola is in the news lately not just because of her taking on a role of Maria Mercedez made popular by Mexican actress Thalia in the early '90s but also because of the news that Sam Milby is courting the Kapamilya star.

Mendiola is the fourth Filipina actress to reprise the role of the international star. Marian Rivera played Marimar, Carla Abellana portrayed Rosalinda, and Erich Gonzales did a remake of Maria la del Barrio in the GMA 7 and ABS-CBN adaptations.

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Rogue Magazine presents five "iconic" cover models for their September 2013 issue!

Anne Curtis, Judy Ann Santos, Charlene Gonzalez, Marian Rivera, and Angel Locsin graces the cover of Rogue Magazine's "The Style Issue" this September.

All of them except for Marian Rivera are from the ABS-CBN Kapamilya network. It seems Marian is the only GMA 7 Kapuso network star that was chosen to be among the five cover models with a solo set each on the digital version, but in my point of view, Marian turned out to be the most stunning. Just look at those eyes, the hair, the leg and the cleavage. She really has the most alluring pose and most charming face among the five.

I am also wondering why Charlene Gonzalez was included among the five. She's not that iconic unlike the four whom you'll see very often in print ads, posters, billboards and TVCs as product endorsers. Charlene's age bracket may be a little off from the other four, maybe except for Judy Ann Santos who is also a wife and a mother. But compared to Judy An Santos, Charlene stands out more in the cover and seems to look like of the same age as the others.

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Garage magazine celebrated its 5th anniversary by holding a fab fashion ball at Republiq in Resorts World Manila. The men's magazine's best-dressed list for the past years and now were all reunited into one classy party.

August issue cover star and best-dressed awardee, Enchong Dee kicked off the night’s festivities and was then capped with a fashion show directed by Robbie Carmona and sponsored by clothing brand, RRJ.

Several stylish denizens, including my friends and I, were all invited to attend the event in support of Garage magazine.

We rubbed shoulders with a lot of popular celebrities including recently awarded Miss World Philippines 2013, Megan Young.

Please see below for some photos with celebrities, friends and other guests of the event.