Ang Dabawenyo

It’s less than two weeks away! I hope you’ve booked your flights to Davao already.

The celebration of Davao’s beauty and bounty, Kadayawan sa Dabaw, will be different this year. For the first time, the Indak-Indak sa Dalan ("street dancing") event will be a whole-day affair that will reach into the night. Expect brilliant colors and fierce dancing from the participating groups, many of whom will be coming in from all over Mindanao.

The Pamulak Kadayawan floral parade on the 24th should be a sight to see this year as well. Lots of picturesque floats, I’m sure!

Unfortunately, I won’t be in Davao for the highlights of this year’s Kadayawan festival.

I’ve been invited to join a media conference in Tagaytay — MediaNation 5.2 — and it’s an opportunity for me to apprise the nation’s influential journalists of what blogging and "new media" are all about.

Too bad, because I was looking forward to bringing some new blogger friends around town. The blogger behind BYAHILO will be in Davao for Kadayawan, and so will other bloggers from Metro Manila and Cebu. I guess I’ll just have to settle for meeting up with them at WordCamp in Manila this September.

By the way, one activity that I hope you’ll go and be part of is Kaan Mindanaw. It’s also called "Kaan Dawet" or "eat and sing", to put it roughly. It’s a week-long event that will be held at the Rizal Park, where restaurants and caterers from all over the city will showcase their culinary best.