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It was a bit awkward for me and Omar, a reserved Maguindanaoan who tried to be informative, as we took a peek at the wedding of a couple from two big Maguindanaoan families in Cotabato City.
We were looking through the window from our side of the conference hall— we looked like kids wanting to gate [...]
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Davao City’s renowned Himig Singers won the grand prize of the 1st Asian Choir Games in Jakarta, Indonesia over the weekend, City Councilor Myrna Dalodo-Ortiz said. But Ortiz still could not give other details of the group’s victory. The all-Dabawenyo choral group won in one of the 21 categories of the pioneering tilt participated by more [...]
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Congratulations to Dabawenyo film director Sherad Anthony Sanchez for bagging more awards for the film Huling Balyan ng Buhi in Germany and France.
Last year, Sherad’s team showed hard work WORKS despite the film’s ordeal with budget constraints while shooting it in Davao’s suburbs and remote points.
Read more on the director’s and the film’s additional feathers [...]
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MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews/21 May) — Bukidnon is still Zubiri country.
Gov. Jose Ma. R. Zubiri, Jr. won over lone opponent, three-termer 1st district
representative Juan Nereus Acosta with a margin of at least 250,000.
Zubiri got 323,238 votes.
His son, Jose Ma. III, also won as representative for Bukidnon’s 3rd district.
The governor’s nephew, Iñaki, also won as vice [...]
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If the Comelec figures are reliable, Mindanao accounts for around 25 percent of the country’s total voters as shown by this report by MindaNews’ Carolyn Arguillas:
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/30 April) — The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has
yet to release an updated statistical data on registered voters for the 2007
elections but based on the 2004 figures, Mindanao’s [...]
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Posted in Davao, Entertainment on April 26, 2007 | No Comments »
I’m back for a day of hiatus. “I just arrived from Disneyland in a quickie trip.”
I’ve wanted to use that quote the moment I thought I’m blogging on this.
Actually, before you would think about a stupid trip that I might have taken (10 hours?!!! even DL-HK, still not logical even if possible), I’ll put it [...]
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Even if in the strictest sense I am not a Dabawenyo because I am originally from Monks’ Blend Coffee country, Bukidnon; I am a Dabawenyo by heart.
And I am bit prouder as a Dabawenyo tonight. (At least three hours ago: 11p.m. Thursday night)
Its actually for a mundane reason. I heard my new found friends from [...]
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People around Mindanao and the rest of the country would be glued to television again for the anticipated Pacquiao-Solis fight Saturday night (Sunday morning in Davao) at the Alamodome, in San Antonio, Texas, USA.
It’s the same venue where Pacquiao defeated Marco Antonio Barrera in an 11th round technical knockout on November 15, 2003.
From [...]
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Posted in Davao, Entertainment on March 28, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I have scheduled to watch the top gross Zack Snyder-directed film “300″ thrice this month. I thought tonight I would fail again for the 4th time.
King Lionedas Photo grabbed from Wikipedia entry on Battle of Thermopyle
All the while I was thinking I should probably read, not watch the movie about the Battle of Thermopyle. Every [...]
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As has been tradition here, Dabawenyos will spend a holiday to celebrate the city’s 70th foundation day with pageantry.
Residents and tourists to the Araw ng Dabaw festivities will be treated to trade fairs, parades, concerts, celebrity gigs, sports events, beauty contests, and other highlights.
Organizers, however, warned they will not allow the celebration to be [...]
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Five days more to go for blogosphere’s most anticipated gathering in Davao City.
I’m actually trying to convince myself to ditch some changes in schedule just to make it to the celebration. (The title is meant to remind me this is the first time and I’d better make up my mind.)
When I got Blogie’s invitation a [...]
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Posted in Agriculture, BIMP - EAGA, Bukidnon, Business, Davao, Economy, Entertainment, Environment, Malaybalay City, Mindanao, News, Philippines on February 28, 2007 | No Comments »
The local tuna industry here has disputed statements by Secretary Romulo Neri, of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), that the Mindanao has made
a mistake by partnering with fellow poor areas in the Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines – East ASEAN Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA)
The Mindanao Business Council (MinBC), meanwhile, said that Neri’sstatement was “an [...]
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