Ang Dabawenyo

Tonight I was invited to the Christmas party of two long-standing tourism associations in Davao City: the Davao Travel Agents Association and the Davao Association of Tour Operators. DTAA and DATO did a joint year-end celebration at the Waterfront Insular Hotel Davao, and inducted their individual sets of officers for the following year.

I’d like to congratulate my good friend, Global Wings Davao’s Alex Divinagracia, who has been elected president of DTAA for 2008. Alex is the quintessential travel agent: well-traveled, street-smart, and possessed of a one-of-a-kind sense of humor. He has been in the travel industry for many, many fruitful years, and is considered as one of the pillars of Davao tourism. Read more »

The Delirium party @ cups & lowercase was a hit! Awesome sounds by DJ Maxxie and the El Quinto Drumbeaters… free booze the whole entire night c/o San Miguel… dressed-to-kill girls and cool guys!! This is the modern and hip side of Kadayawan.
Viva hot babe Asia Agcaoili was a no-show… But who cares? We got more than enough eye candy in Davao already!
Kudos to Mau Abella and his gang for organizing the best gig of this year’s Kadayawan sa Dabaw festival. Hey Mau, we’re looking forward to more of that! Read more »

You read it right! There’s gonna be a cool, must-attend party on the 15th called DELIRIUM @ cups&lowercase. Oh yeah, I haven’t blogged about that place yet. Anyway, it’s a café on F. Torres street, beside Bistro Rosario. It’s right smack in the middle of the city, but where you could feel you were far away from the hustle and bustle of metropolitan life.

Back to the partée! Delirium. That’s probably what you’re gonna feel when you find out it’s a drink-all-you-can gig, the whole night. That’s beer and cocktails. Get over it, just go and see for yourself — it’s happening!! Read more »

The party got off to a rather slow start due to some unforeseen glitches, but when it got going, boy, did we have fun! What’s great was, we had so many bloggers all in one place — the registration sheet isn’t with me right now, but I believe we had more than 40 boys and girls.

We had entrepreneurs, professionals, students, media practitioners, hobbyists… It was an exciting mix of people that surprisingly did gel and come together as a community of bloggers.

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17 March is fast approaching, and it’s blog party time! Heck, I’m even more excited about it than about Araw ng Dabaw!

Over the past week, the organizers and I have been busy making sure that the preparations are all running smoothly. And last night we had fun choosing the winners for the Davao Blog Awards — this isn’t a serious campaign like the Philippine Blog Awards. There are eight categories (we removed two because we couldn’t even nominate a single blog for those two: darkest blog and most politicized blog). Besides, this is just for kicks. Maybe next time we can do a full-fledged Davao or Mindanao blog awards gig.

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The Davao Bloggers Party #1 organizers will meet this Saturday (3 Mar.) at Casa Leticia, 5:30 PM. We’ll be at the coffee shop at the ground floor, Sagay, where wifi is available free.

The party’s only about two weeks away, so we’re doing our best to make sure that the event is a success. Anyone who’d like to join the meeting is free to attend.

We’ve got most of the pieces in place already — the venue, sponsors, gimmicks, hopefully the food & drinks. So that’s why we have to meet again this weekend to make sure that everything else will be taken care of. We do need some more helping hands, so if you could volunteer, we’d appreciate it!

In case you haven’t yet, please register at the Davao Blogspace, then go to Forum >> Events >> Davao Bloggers Party #1 and sign up for the party!

Yesterday, the organizers of the Davao Bloggers Party #1 met up at Blugré Café in Matina Town Square to discuss the plans for the upcoming party. Most important details: it’s gonna be on 17 March 2007 (Sat.) and it’ll be at Netfront Coffee Shop & Internet Café. Netfront is a brand-new place right in front of Aldevinco and behind Marco Polo.

Your oh-so-dedicated organizers are: Kim C, Ria J, Marc J, Andrew, Wyzemoro, and your truly. Councilor Pete Laviña, who happened to be at the coffee shop, dropped in to give words of encouragement and support.

The party is open to all bloggers who are in Davao (meaning: even if you’re not a Davaoeño but find yourself in Davao on 17 March, you’re in!). Please go to the official announcement page for more details — that page will be kept updated as we go along.

I’m not really much of a photographer, but I do enjoy taking a few pictures once in a while. Last 18th was the start of the Chinese New Year, wasn’t it? It was also a Saturday, and the birthday of a friend… 3 reasons to party! So, here’s my first attempt at photo-blogging Read more »

The Davao Blog Party #1, which will be held on 17 March 2007 @ Netfront Internet Cafe and Coffee Shop, is a sure go! We are expecting around 30 or so Davao-based bloggers to participate, plus friends who are interested in starting their own blogs. I’m happy to announce that two distinguised guests will also be gracing the event: DigitalFilipino’s Janette Toral and Aileen Apolo of Google Philippines.

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Up until awhile ago, 10 Davao bloggers had an impromptu get-together at 51 Coffee Shop. I was finally able to meet Andrew of Alleba Blog and Ria of MyDavaoCity.com. Also in attendance were Doc Jaime (From the Foreroom of My Cranium), Marc (Hoopaddict), Raine (Introspection), Jun M. (Wyzemoro), Dominique (village idiot savant), and Christian (Just Didn’t Make the News). Tope of Fwendz.com also made an appearance.

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