Miss Wilhelmina

Greenwich American Idol Pizza

April 30, 2010 was one of the busiest days of the month for me. I’m not going to go into details, but the best thing was that it ended with one of my favorite groups, the Cebu Bloggers Society, and to top it all off, it ended on a pizza trip. But this is no ordinary pizza. What you are about to see is the Limited Edition Greenwich American Idol Pizza. Read the rest of this entry »

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In this age and time, it’s a surprise that there are still people who don’t know anything about computers. Last weekend, the Cebu Bloggers Society Inc. and Tsinelas Foundation came together for a worthy cause: a Computer Literacy Program. The Tsinelas Foundation had 25 scholars under their wing and the CBSI was nothing but glad to be part of this good thing.

Call time was at 6AM at the Citilink Terminal. We were supposed to get ourselves settled in at the school by 9:30AM. In preparation for the weekend, I was busy setting up an automatic program to keep my Karma up on Plurk (integrated with Twitter and Facebook, of course!) to make it appear like I was never gone from cyberspace. :lol:

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On May 1, 2010, the Cebu Bloggers Society Inc. will hold its first ever General Assembly. That means we’ll be expecting the largest number of members during an event this coming Saturday. This event will be held at Parkmall, Mandaue City between 5PM till 8PM.

The CBS Executive Heads will be reporting to the members regarding team plans which have been accomplished, as well as those that have not been realized, and the accomplishments of CBS as a group. Flow will be as follows:

1. Presidential report – Mark Monta
2. Membership Committee report – Guada Esmeña
3. Content Management report – Agnes Jimenez
4. Events Committee report – Sinjin Pineda

After the discussions, the elections for the new set of CBS officers will take place. Then there will be an oath taking.

The hosts for the whole event are Atty. Ethelbert Ouano and Guada Esmeña.

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On April 24-25, the Cebu Bloggers Society Inc. in cooperation with the Tsinelas Foundation will hold the first Computer Literacy Program to held at Lut-od High School, Lut-od, Pinamungajan, Cebu. The purpose of this program is to enrich the knowledge of the 25 students to prepare them for life beyond high school with at least some Information Technology.

Since the Cebu Bloggers are not natives of Pinamungajan, the Hidden Valley Resort will serve as its host for the mentioned dates. It is currently being managed by the Lamac Multi-Purpose Cooperative (LMPC). Hidden Valley is a mountain resort which is approximately two hours worth of travel from the Cebu Capital, which is about eight kilometers away from Lutopan in Toledo City and 14 kilometers away from Poblacion, Pinamungajan.

That may sound like I’m about to get myself tortured from traveling, considering the fact that it’s been a while since I’ve been on such a land trip, but take a look at what awaits you when you get there. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m not a yogi or a Buddhist, but randomly surfing the Internet can get you pretty much anywhere. Including shopping web sites. In my case, the word “singing bowl” got my attention. I mean, how can a bowl sing? A 5-minute research on my favorite search engine gave me the answer. Turns out that the bowls don’t literally sing, but they’re used as a support for meditation, trance induction and prayer.

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March 23, 2010, I was invited along with some of the Cebu Bloggers Society members again to cover the press launch for a new company that’s about to open in Cebu City soon. I’m pretty excited about this since it means more jobs that don’t really involve call centers, meaning it gives Cebuanos more job options other than being call center agents.

The press conference was done at the Coral Room of the Waterfront Hotel in Lahug. Media from local newspapers were also invited to the event and thanks to them, any question that the CBS might have been too shy to ask, they voiced out loud and clearly.

Technopaq Philippines/Thakral Infotech/OrionElec General Manager Mr. Teddy Sumulong welcomed us, introducing the new company that is about to open. The target opening date is this coming June, so the pressure is on since they were still shopping for office spaces when they were here in Cebu. The local newspapers may start publishing job openings from Technopaq Inc. soon as well, so keep on the lookout.

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