Ang Dabawenyo

My very good and long-time friend, Jojie Alcantara, has come up with a great plan for bloggers to do a tour within Davao City. A perfect way to start the summer! Jojie says she’ll be able to accommodate 10 bloggers per tour. To give everyone a chance, we’ll ask you to sign up for one [...]

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 [...]

Being with a group of Manileño bloggers a couple of days made me realize that I overlook a few little things that make Davao such a livable place. The Japanese adjective is more apt: sumiyasui (easy to inhabit). Bottomless rice. When I blogged about Davao cuisine, it failed to occur to me that this "bottomless [...]

It all started when GlobeQuest (later known as Innove) connected Basti’s Brew in Victoria Plaza to the Internet and broadcast Davao’s first public wireless Internet signal. The service was offered free to the customers — at first, only as a promotional offer, but then the offer lasted for about a year! So when another coffee [...]

Hello! This is a brand new blog that’s all about Davao City and its environs. My name is Blogie (no kidding! like I’ve said in my personal weblog, it must’ve been foresight on the part of my folks…, and I’m a Davaoeño. I was born 30-odd years ago to a Davaoeño and a Manileña, who [...]