Makarov Tale: Mindanao Bloggers

Christian Bautista’s “Constant Change” Concert at GenSan:Makarov Tale joins a blog contest

by Paragon Shirts | 8:57 AM in Gensan tayo, Makarov Experiences, Mindanao Bloggers, Music | Any Reactions? (2)

I have been an avid fan of Jose Mari Chan’s songs since I was a kiddo like Beautiful girl, Sing me a song again Daddy and First romance. To my surprise, some say my choice of music was awkward and deviant when it comes to my age. So I say, it’s not really about my choice of music, age generation, genre and the like it’s all about the meaning of the lyrics and the total message of the song itself, for me to like and prefer it.

Presently, Christian Bautista is one of my most favorite singer and it’s because of the voice he has, those amorous and exquisite voice. That’s why for now I have at least three main desperate reasons and counting (LOL) not to miss his performance and concert.

1. For sure he will sing the songs of Jose Marie Chan whom is one of my favorite singer and composer since my childhood.

2. Christian Bautista’s amorous and exquisite voice

3. It is his third time to perform at Gensan I think, yet I haven’t seen him perform live. May be now is the time :)

4. Hearing his new songs and album live

5. Most of Christian's songs are on my playlist

Christian Bautista will be performing on April 23, 2010 (Friday), 7:00 P.M at Lagao Gym, Gen. Santos City to let the Generals feel the romance as it goes along with the warmth of the summer. It would be a great news and oppurtunity for the Generals and neighboring places to watch and hear him performing. For sure Gensan music lovers would do almost anything just to see the Asia’s Prince of Pop Christian Bautista’s “Constant Change” Concert.

Christian Bautista’s Constant Change” GenSan Concert

Davao Bloggers Creative Writing Workshop: a cupcake experience

by Paragon Shirts | 10:27 AM in Blogging Obstacles, Davao Bloggers, Mindanao Bloggers | Any Reactions? (11)

Where can you find the best chocolate chip banana cup cake?
Of course, at Davao Bloggers creative writing workshop only.

yummy banana cup cake

I joined the creative writing workshop for bloggers held at the Training Rooms of the PLDT Davao Branch along Ponciano Street, Davao City. The workshop started by 8:00 A.M something and ended by 5:00 P.M something.

The workshop was a very rare educational experience for me because I had the opportunity of meeting the writer, Toast Master, and former educator, Mr. Rene Lizada of Sun Star Davao. He taught us so many lessons and shared a lot of humorous jokes too and the number one thing I've learned on him was that effective writing is not that hard to achieve when you're not lazy.

The workshop was just a one day experience but it had a very profound effect on my soul not to mention that I'm a frustrated writer. He revitalized the writing passion on me again.Thanks to http://davaobloggers.net and avatar media for creating such activity like this.

Pilipinas Got Talent's premiere episode

by Paragon Shirts | 4:45 AM in Davao Bloggers, Mindanao Bloggers, Pinoy News, Proudly Pinoy | Any Reactions? (1)

Today was the first airing of the Pilipinas Got Talent and I was quite entertained with the talents shown by the competitive contestants of the said show. As defined by wikipedia.com Pilipinas Got Talent is a Philippine talent show, which will be shown on ABS-CBN starting February 20, 2010 (today). It is based on the Got Talent franchise, a British TV format conceived and owned by Simon Cowell's SYCO company. "Pilipinas" is the Filipino word for Philippines.

Pilipinas Got Talent host's Billy Crawford and Luis Manzano

ABS-CBN acquired Got Talent franchise, advertising it as "the first and only nationwide talent reality show in the Philippines," although other talent shows from other networks are currently airing with a similar format, such as Talentadong Pinoy on TV5.

Viewers are able to join through text and online registration via Internet. Auditions are held in key cities such as Manila, Cebu and Davao. Unlike Talentadong Pinoy, viewers will vote the contestants and whoever gets the highest votes, will win. In Talentadong Pinoy, there are the jury, which will decide who will win.

The Talents of Filipinos were trully simply exceptional because of its uniqueness and outstanding qualities. Though the show is aired during saturday and sunday at 8:30 pm only, It will surely gain massive ratings judging from what I've seen on its first airing. Here are some sample videos...

Big Winner si Ate MelaY

by Paragon Shirts | 8:13 AM in Davao Bloggers, Gensan tayo, Mindanao Bloggers, Proudly Pinoy | Any Reactions? (1)

Mabuhay ang Generals...Mabuhay ka Ate Melay!!!

The Pinoy Big Brother- Double Up edition's Big Winner is, no other than Melissa "Melay" Cantiveros. A 21 year old, tubong General Santos City. She got 32.08 percent on the total number of votes while his Close competitor Paul Jake got 27.** percent on the total number of votes.

With the witty remarks and comic facial expressions of hers, people find her extremely funny. She just brings out the sunshine in Kuya’s house plus her funny love team Jason. The two of them really put Color on the PBB's house double up edition.

The battle for the Big winner's place was fought between the bets of the queen city of the south "CEBU city" and Tuna Capital of the Philippines "General Santos City".

Sugarfree Band will rock the Sarangans

by Paragon Shirts | 4:09 AM in Mindanao Bloggers, Music | Any Reactions? (17)

Sugarfree band will be performing on Sarangani's 16th munato festival!

Yes folks the band behind the songs Loveteam,Hari ng Sablay and Kung ayaw mo na sa akin, will be entertaining sarangans and other visitors who will be enjoying the munato festival.

They will be performing on Saturday Nov 29,2008 which will start on 7pm at the Sarangani capitol complex inside the Sarangani Capitol Compound.Before everything else I would like to give you a brief background on the sugarfree band here's the details...

Sugarfree is a three-piece Filipino band composed of Kaka Quisimbing on drums, Jalton Taguibao on bass, and vocalist Ebe Dancel on guitars, influenced by the likes of bands Popsicle, Oasis and Radiohead. Under EMI Philippines, they have launched three successful albums — Sa Wakas (2003), Dramachine (2004), and the repackaged version of Dramachine (2006). Their 3rd studio album, entitled Tala-Arawan produced by Robin Rivera, who also produced the Eraserheads, was released on November 24, 2006. Sugarfree first became known in 2003. They climbed their way to fame through their songs Telepono, Mariposa, Burnout, Hari Ng Sablay, Prom, Kwarto and a lot more of the band’s compositions from their albums Sa Wakas (2003) And Dramachine (2004). If you want more here's some facts and details about them.

I'm very excited to be in their concert (hopefully) because our provincial sports meet is also held on that date specifically November 26-29,2008 in which I will serve as an assistant staff together with my fellow scouts. The capitol compound is just 15-20 minutes travel from gensan when you're riding jeepney.So what are you waiting for grab your tickets now.

Well see you folks on the munato festival, and May God shower all blessings to Sarangani."ANG GALING MO SARANGAN"

Visit the sarangani's official website for more details and updates about the events. Here

My Mindanao Bloggers summit and E-business week experience

by Paragon Shirts | 8:55 PM in Davao Bloggers, Events, Mindanao Bloggers | Any Reactions? (7)

Mindanao Bloggers Summit 2 and E-business week held at General Santos City

Last October 25, 2008 I woke up early because I'm excited what will happen on the Mindanao Bloggers Summit which will be held on that day. I'm kind of nervous because I know that I'll be meeting some new person not just persons but professional persons whom I'm sure had more experience on blogging than me. I went at the Venue together with my Classmates: Dioveth commonly known as PULL and Bien as bientot. (Never mind on their weird nicknames)

As we walked at the grand ball room, the place where the summit will be held. We saw People talking and chatting, some of them are having fun talking while laughing. We didn't enter immediately because It seems like Were the youngest among them and maybe we will be out of place. But when we take another look on the place, one man asked us "Bloggers?". I smiled and said yes. He said well you can enter now. After we entered on the venue Mr. Avelmar Manansala known as Bariles approached us and Shake hands with us he told us to register on the Computers now so we can the finish the process.

After completing our registration we gave our e-pass to the in charge and they gave us our MBS KIT.The kit is full of journals and magazines that shows the Simply Exceptional Beauty of Mindanao. After we finished the registration we looked for our table, and we saw Joanna Eve Ramos Our schoolmate we sat at the table where she is sitting.
After few minutes ate Ria Jose and Ms. Joana Banting talked to us and they ask us some friendly questions, the way they approached me, made me a positive impression.We Introduced our selves to them.

After 15 minutes the Summit started solemnly with a prayer and followed by The Singing of our national anthem.
The summit started with some messages given by the emcees (wow nice emcees good in punch lines and they are very humorous).

The summit has about 13 speakers all of them thought me lesson about blogging, the different types of blogging and ways to make our Mindanao the land of fulfillment. The best thing I learned are the words that came from Kuya Pierre Galo (The jester in exile ) he encouraged us that Mindanao has everything it got so It will be successful it only needs Better Interpretation and elaboration on the main reason why there is no total peace here at us. We must also let the people from the north and people from other countries know the in-depth of the conflicts in us. When we successfully do those things we can improve Mindanao and encourage more tourists, when we do this we make mindanao the land of fulfillment.

At the end of the first part of the summit the facilitator told us that we'll have a break and we will return at 6:30 pm for the sashimi night Bientot and I decided to go to KCC. At the entrance of the KCC we saw some new stalls. The stalls have something in common they are all concerned in networking, printing, all stuffs about computers and things behind it known as e-business.

At the end of the stall we saw a tarpaulin. The tarpaulin is about the e-business week and contest about e-business. We looked at it and we have seen different contest such as animation, poster making, I.T quiz bee, 3D CADD,Blog writing, programming and web designing contests.

I told Bien that we we'll join the Blog writing contest its an opportunity for us to develop our blogging skills. Not just Blogging skills but our writing skill as well.

After walking around the stalls and mall we decided to go back to the family country hotel for the sashimi night. We enjoyed the night we ate and laughed on the shows they prepared for us.

CO-PRESENTERS:
City Mayor Pedro B. Acharon, Jr.

Congresswoman Darlene Antonino-Custodio

NOKIA

Department of Tourism XII

ABS-CBN Regional Network Group

Bariles Republic

Gen. Santos City Tourism Association

SOCCSKSARGEN Blogers

GOLD SPONSORS:

Friendster

Globe

ACLC COLLEGE

AMA Computer Learning Center

Grab A Crab Restaurant and Coffee Club 101

Gregoria Printing Press

SILVER SPONSORS:

Nokiahost.Com

Asia United Bank

Family Country Hotel & Convention Center

East Asia Royale Hotel

Fine Pixel Advertising

IDEAS

BRONZE SPONSORS

GenSan Sale.Com

Blogging from Home Book

Pacific Seas Seafood Market

Shalom-Crest Wizard Academy

Generals Logimark Exponent

Prints and You

Sta. Cruz Seafood, Inc.

Dellosa Design Builders, Inc

Forest Lake San Carlos

Rolees Bakery & Cafe

Jehzlau Concepts

Blue Media Communications

Kristan Bookstore

DOLE Philippines

Husky Bus Lines

Shakey's Pizza

Family Brand Sardines

Gaisano Mall of GenSan

Chowking - KCC

Jollibee National Highway

Procter & Gamble Phils, Inc

Mega Sardines

Once again...I would like to thank...The following sponsors
for making our MBS2 possible...Thank you...

MBS2 Next Door

by Paragon Shirts | 7:33 AM in Davao Bloggers, Mindanao Bloggers, Proudly Pinoy | Any Reactions? (3)

Mindanao Bloggers Summit 2 Im knocking on your door...
MINDANAWAN, PAMINAWON INTAWON: Blogging the Mindanao Consciousness.

"Blogging Blogging Blogging"

These words keeps on repeating on my mind.It Seems like im destined to be a professional blogger who could influence and improve the world,well the world is not yet my focus now.Im still up to Mindanao my HomeLand.Through Blogging I would like to promote my Homeland which showcases different beauty which I'm sure One of the best.

This is just one of the beauty hotspots

I'm Proud of,this is the Gumasa Beach Resort of

Glan Sarangani Province

My main objective in my desire to join Mindanao Bloggers Summit 2 is to meet new individuals whom Im sure friendly and approachable.Which can help me improve and promote the Mindanao Archipelago.Well Guys hope its not too late for passing my application on MBS2.

THANK YOU TO THE FOLLOWING SPONSORS FOR MAKING THE Mindanao Bloggers Summit 2 possible and free...

CO-PRESENTERS:

City Mayor Pedro B. Acharon, Jr.

Congresswoman Darlene Antonino-Custodio

NOKIA

Department of Tourism XII

ABS-CBN Regional Network Group

Bariles Republic

Gen. Santos City Tourism Association

SOCCSKSARGEN Blogers

GOLD SPONSORS:

Friendster