LIBOD SUROY

Hidden Valley Resort is located at Lamac, Pinamungajan, Cebu. FYI: The Cebu Bloggers Society with the Tsinelas Association will be having an outreach program to some students at Lut-od High School, Lut-od Pinamungahan, Cebu . The program is dub as: " CBS & Tsinelas Computer Literacy Outreach ". Basically, will be staying overnight at Hidden Valley Mountain Resort for free. For more details, you can visit Hidden Valley Resort website or dial 032 516-0450. photo credit: lamacmpc.org

I've been scanning through our team website and I was able to find some of our photos during our last year's team Christmas party which was held at Villa, Teresita-Talisay, Cebu City . Below are some of the captured moments during our party. Camera courtesy of our supervisor: Neil a.k.a Agent47

SIMALA : Located at Sibonga, Cebu - a 3rd class municipality in the province of Cebu, Philippines. For those who really have strong faith, who believes in miracles, they must be familiar with the Holy Place. I remember the very first time I went here, that was sometime in March 2007, and when I came back the 2nd time around, I saw a lot of changes or shall I say progress with the holy place. Photos were randomly captured, during our (me and my team mates) several visit at Simala last year.

Photos were taken a year ago at La Playa - Badian, Cebu , during our Midyear team building, headed by our supervisor: Neil Parilla . A brief fact about Badian, Cebu : Badian is a 4th class municipality in the province of Cebu, Philippines. According to the 2007 census, it has a population of 35,876 people. More photos go to: La Playa Thanks to Neil for the camera and the photos.

Last May 16, 2009 the Cebu Bloggers Society were having their Summer Blowout at Maribago Bluewater Beach Resort through Mr. Ruben Licera Jr. of Pinoyworld.org . But, unfortunately I wasn't able to come with the group due to conflict of schedule. However, on the next day, May 17, we had our company's summer outing at the same resort as well. It was specifically held at Alegrado Island , a man made island at Maribago. Below are some photos of the resort. Photos (with out libod-suroy) credits to Dahonglaya.com

Last Saturday March 7, we the team 04- Reloaded went at Alegria, Cebu. We stayed at Batong Malunhaw Beach Resort for 2 days and 1 night. Below are some of the beautiful scenes I captured there. Acknowledgment: Thanks to Neil and Fher for their camera. Bad enough I still don't have my own.

Last night was theDigital Filipino Club and Bloggers Cebu Networking Event, held at Teatro Casino,Waterfron Cebu. And as a part of our little community - Cebu Bloggers Society (CBS) : we were invited as well to attend the event. And thanks to PAGCOR for sponsoring the event. As a recap, the event started with a registration and dinner followed by a guest introduction / plugs, updates by Ms. Janette Toral, a short talk by Kevin of http://marroxas2010.wordpress.com (one of the CBS leader ) and Winston of BatangYagit.com (Davao Blogger, who united the CBS), then a talk by one of the PAGCOR representatives, raffle, networking, games and of course with the band playing on stage. For the photos, kindly click here

The DigitalFilipino.com Club is organizing a fellowship/networking event where e-commerce industry players and bloggers can catch up and exchange updates. This will be on October 23, Thursday, 6 to 11 pm at the Waterfront Cebu City Hotel & Casino, 1st Salinas Drive Lahug, Cebu City. This event is sponsored by our club member PAGCOR . 6:00 - 7:00 Registration and Dinner 7:00 - 7:30 Guest introduction / plugs 7:30 - 8:00 Updates by Janette DigitalFilipino Web Awards 2008 DigitalFilipino.com Club Updates (online workshop and other efforts) Ratified.org Philippines Top 100 Blogs 2008 (blogs that had big moves in 2008) 8:00 - 8:30 - PAGCOR launch Internet/E-Commerce project 8:30 - onwards - Raffle, Networking, Games Bloggers are welcome to attend this event for free. If you wanna join, you may visit the main site at http://digitalfilipinoclub.blogspot.com List of attendees can be found here.

Photos below were captured last year during our teambuilding at Bas Daku, Moalboal, Cebu.

Sinulog . The Sinulog festival is Cebu's biggest and most popular festival. It is celebrated every 3rd Sunday of January. The feast is in honor of the holy image Señor Santo Niño de Cebú. Fiesta Señor, as it widely known, is the most celebrated among Cebu's festivals where people converge along the route of a grand solemn procession and partake in the gaiety amidst a mardigras parade immersed in vivid colors and the constant drums of the Pit Señor. Mantawi Festival . Unique and exotic, dance steps are accompanied by a different beat, played by a brass instead of the usual drum and bugle. This makes up a one-of-a-kind festivity that entices and seduces the crowd to gather and witness one of the most anticipated celebration in the City of Mandaue, the Mantawi Festival. In April 7, 1521, Magellan first sighted the island of Sugbo in search for food and supplies for his vessels’ voyage back to Spain. Mandaue at that time was called “Mantawi” - derived from a vine that grew abundant...

(click image to see full size ) I was doing some kind of research last night about our very own, Cebu when a certain image from wikipedia caught my attention. The image above is the Escondrillas Plan of Cebu 1873 with the surrounding Barrios of Pari-an and San Nicolas.

1521 . Magellan arrived and planted the wooden cross, which became Cebu’s first symbol of Christianity. The said cross is now located at the upper Magallanes, a street named after Fernando de Magallanes. He was intrepid Portuguese explorer who made the great voyage of exploration under the flag of Spain. April 3, 1898 . General Leon Kilat of Bacong, Negros Oriental, organized a revolution against the Spanish colonialism. The Spaniards then decided to build a shelter for themselves. It was Miguel Lopez de Legazpi who insists on building a fort, which is now famous for being the oldest and smallest fort in the country, the Fort San Pedro. December 1898 . The Americans beat the Spanish fleet during the war of Manila Bay. And the fort fell into the native Cebuanos’ hands. 1901 . The American reign in full force in the Senate Pro Tempore, late President Sergio Osmena Sr. and the Congressman and majority floor leader in the House of Representatives, late Senate Manuel Briones took action for...

Cebu is one of the provinces of the Philippines . It lies to the east of Negros Island ; to the west of Leyte and to the southeast is Bohol province. It is flanked on both sides by the straits of Bohol (between Cebu and Bohol) and Tañon (between Cebu and Negros). Cebu is located between 9°25'N and 11°15'N latitude and between 123°13'E and 124°5'E longitude in the center of the archipelago. Cebu Island is a long narrow island stretching 225 km (140 mi) from north to south, surrounded by 167 neighboring smaller islands, that includes Mactan Island , Bantayan , Malapascua , Olango and the Camotes Islands . Of the hundreds of small islands some are uninhabited which make them the targets of adventure-seeking tourists. Cebu is known for its narrow coastlines, limestone plateaus, and coastal plains, all characteristics of a typical tropical island. Cebu also has predominant rolling hills and rugged mountain ranges traversing the northern and southern lengths of the is...