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I arrived at AVL 4:50 in the morning since our call time was 5 a.m. I wanted to sleep because I didn't get to sleep the night before. Since the people was still sleeping when I arrived.. I went to sleep also.. LOL!

When I woke up they already left for Rizal Park where the showdown for all the street dancing participants will take place. I immediately went there also to help them setup the equipments. We will be covering the street dancing showdown live, for a local cableTV station. Since our airing will be in the afternoon and I won't be able to take pictures then, I took some pictures that morning.. :D

There were a lot of photographers taking pictures that day, Pro's, tourists, and hobbyist as well.

You have to pass these warriors before you can rent the place..

The Coverage (Cheng²'s shot)

Float parade the next morning

I was surprise to see the sales ladies in Victoria Plaza Dept. Store are dancing every hour during my Kadayawan shopping with Mama, here is a video I recorded.




(^_^) nice sila noh

I haven't watch the Kadayawan parade personally on the streets... so I have no pictures to show (Y_Y)


But I have one video to show when I saw this biggest beer ever in our streets (^_^)



ahihihih (^_^) galing pagkagawa


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Just finished shooting a part of the Kadayawan 2008. Was so tired since I didn't get to sleep because I edited a video last night and I finished at 3 a.m. Since our calltime is 5 a.m. I didn't sleep because am afraid to be late. Anyways, I got some pictures of the "Indak-indak sa Kadalanan" comin' up so.. balik kayo pls..

Kadayawan Event on

August 17, 2008

Metro Avenue Davao City

Here are the pictures in Cosplay Metro Avenue Davao, taken from my camera, joy's and aubrey's "Princess Cinderella" camera... Thank you so much


I went to Metro Avenue around 4:00pm and saw the singing competition wow they really have pronounce the Japanese lyrics very well I'm impressed, so sad I wasn't able to take any photos on that event because I was sited at the side area (Y_Y) pangit kuha kung sakali

Anyway here are the pics slide show:
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As of speaking err more of blogging, Davao City has kicked off to start the annual festival of all festival, Kadayawan sa Dabaw 2008. Last year i had the chance to experience Kadayawan sa Dabaw again after so many years. And my excitement was filled with the grandiose Flower Parade and of course the much awaited [...]

August 16, 2008 Saturday around 6:00pm

Get together kamustahan with BCT classmates since first year ... upon making this post my head is aching from hang-over over the weekend... waaa!!!
We have scheduled this get together since last month as one of our classmates' Mary Jane Peralta along with her future husband to be Papa Mark is introduced to us... here are some of our videos

the attendee are:
Me of course (^_^) ang pasimuno ng event (^_^)
Joni Joy Gatmaitan
Mary Jane Peralta and her BF Mark
Rudith Lariosa and her BF Wilmer
Jason Quimpo
Malou Sosmeña
Maribeth Borre
Rencel Villanueva and his Gf Cheche Bahala
Ramon Christopher Ham
Gary Tampos
Miah Rechelle Wenceslao and her BF
Bernard Barcharpa
Ramon Lavega and his GF

I will be making more details later (^_^) here are the videos

Watch out for more
to be continued... (^_^)

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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.

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That is the Kadayawan 2008 theme for this year which means “Flourishing Indigenous Heritage, Protecting Ancestral Nations” The Kadayawan celebration this years is from August 17, 24, 2008. Aside from the annual Floral parade and Indak indak sa dalan, other events are the : Agro-Industrial Trade Fair & Floral Exhibit August 8-31, 2008, SM City Grounds Ka-an [...]

This morning I was at a planning session for the promotions activities of the Kadayawan sa Dabaw festival. Marco Polo’s Art Boncato invited me just this morning to be a part of this committee. It was rather sudden and spur-of-the-moment, but I gladly obliged. I wouldn’t miss the chance of helping organize Davao’s own traditional festival.

I don’t want to jump the gun on the Kadayawan organizers, so I’m not going to divulge anything before the official announcements. But I would like to mention that this year is going to be different. For one thing, the younger generation is starting to take over the reins, and we’re bringing in fresh ideas.

The changing of the guards, so to speak, will surely be evident in the way the festival will be marketed to the rest of the country, and — to a limited extent — to other countries. And hopefully, this freshness will also be apparent during the festival itself in August. Expect the unexpected!

Of course, I know that the planners won’t for a second neglect the origins of the Kadayawan. No matter how we would like to modernize the event, we mustn’t forget that it is a celebration that’s deeply rooted in our past, in our indigenous culture.

The Kadayawan (”beauty” or “goodness”) festival is historically a celebration of everything that is good about Davao. It has also been identified with the traditional symbols of our city: the famous Waling-Waling orchid, the Philippine Eagle, Mt. Apo and our fruits. This year, it is being proposed that we carry all of this under one overarching idea, that of abundance.

I just hope that those who are still the ultimate decision-makers for this event will see the sense in what the young bloods are trying to inject into the planning of this festival.

Ok. I’ll stop there. We’re supposed to have another meeting to discuss the brochures and other collateral materials, but I’m going to be in Manila for the iBlog4 Conference this Saturday. At any rate, I’m going to keep you, my dear readers, updated on the Kadayawan sa Dabaw event details.

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check out these photos!

pawikan sanctuary in punta dumalag, matina. who would've thunk the heart of the city nestled these beautiful creatures?

a sumptuous lunch enjoyed with lots of laughter with friends. davao peeps, you should try pards seafood. yummy!

stealing the show from imago at jack's ridge. i think we were banned from staying near the stage. just in case we end up stealing the show from the main band again. hehe!

there are more, more, more! let's just see if i can upload them anytime soon.

i love kadayawan because i get to eat mangosteen everyday without having to worry about the dent in my pocket. yummmmy. and durian with coke. ooooooohhhhh. and free rambutan from friends with farms. yeaaaaaahhhhh.