Archive for August, 2007
Coffee shops are sprouting everywhere in Davao City. It is becoming more like New York where coffee drinking is a way of life. Anyway, if you see a coffee shop in Davao, chances are it is a wifi hotspot establishment. Davao boasts of having the most number of shops with wifi features in Mindanao. From Mindanao Blog, the site gives us a list [...]
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What the heck I was doing? I have no idea that the moon will be performing a show on the night sky this evening. Thanks to TV Patrol for their updates about this lunar eclipse thing, I hurriedly went out to see nature’s beautiful spectacle. It was so amazing, this is my first time to [...]
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King Cobra alias “banakon”
In the provinces of Davao Oriental and Compostela Valley, it is believed that under the thick cover of forested land lives significant number of king cobras locally known as “banakon”. There are many reports of snake bites in the sorrounding area where victims range from a small child to an elderly farmer. Eyewitnesses reported that [...]
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Riverfront Drag Race
The business park inside Riverfront Corporate City in Ma-a is a favorite venue for drag racing events in Davao City. Racers, not only from Davao but also from other cities in the Philippines, gathered here in this vast empty real estate to showcase their hot race cars ready to burn rubber.People often come by and [...]
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Getting Rid of Spaghetti Wires
The beautiful Mandaya Hotel building is ruined by those ugly spaghetti wires. These cluttering of power lines is common sight to every Philippine cities. (photo by TJ_brewed)
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The Kadayawan Festival 2007
This August saw a very successful staging of the “Kadayawan Festival”. I was everywhere in Davao during the celebration and everywhere I go there were so many people enjoying the festivities. I saw many foreigners both chinks and caucasian in all parts of the city and they were enjoying with the locals having a great time. Buses from nearby provinces as [...]
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Beautiful Dabawenyas 2nd Edition
I heard about the Be Bench Model Search in ABS CBN network. What tickles my fancy is the inclusion of the 2 dabawenyas in the final 8 (i think Martin of Cebu is already booted out). That means there are 2 ladies from Davao who are still on the run for the coveted grand prize and the other [...]
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I got this video from skyscrapercity.com posted by kulasgusgan. The first video is a well crafted video featuring the song “Isang Dabaw”. I notice that there are so many Dabawenyos are into video editing these days, uso?
This one is a tour video of Davao’s main streets as viewed inside a car. You [...]
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Now that the Kadayawan Festival is over its time to get back to business. First thing that comes into my mind is to know the status of these big projects in the city. Any updates of the following?
1. Davao-Samal Bridge
Last Update (May 19, 2007)
Public Works and Highways Acting Secretary Manuel Bonoan, together with USEC Rafael [...]
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Monfort Bat Cave in Samal
Big Thanx From flickr.com
The largest colony of fruit bats in the world is in Samal. It has a population of 1.8 million. The Monfort Bat Cave in Samal where you can see these bats is already developed for visitors who would want to see the amazing colonies. The place actually is very nice and the cave is [...]
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