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Serpentine Blanc - designed by a Cebuano E n t r e p r e n e u r - d e s i g n e r
Gil Zaire “Butch” C. Carungay received the Gold Prize in the Professional Category during the 2nd Asian Fashion Jewellery and Accessories Design Competition
in Hong Kong.

Serpentine Blanc bested entries by 60 professional designers from China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand.

The winning designs were chosen based on saleability, originality, beauty, wearability, creativity and workmanship of the finished pieces by a panel that included representatives from the respected Hong Kong Fashion Designer Association, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University Institute of Clothing and Textiles, Elle Hong Kong / Elle Accessories, Asia’s Fashion Jewellery & Accessories
Review and CMP Asia LTD.

Cebuano fashion designer Alan Del Rosario with one of his clients, Glee’s Lea Michelle,

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Cebuano fashion designer Alan Del Rosario with one of his clients, Glee’s Lea Michelle, during the Golden Globe Awards.

He is the first Filipino fashion designer to be a finalist in the first Oscar Designers Challenge contest.

He is also the recipient of the California’s Designer of the Year award and GenArtLA’s Fresh Face.

Smokers in Cebu City face stiffer fines

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Smokers in Cebu City face stiffer fines - THE Cebu City Anti-Smoking Ordinance was passed a decade ago, but its implementation remains lax.This is why the City Council amended the ordinance to raise penalties to P2,000 to P4,000 from just P100 to P500.

The Cebu City Anti-Smoking Ordinance is trying to encourage people to stop smoking by showing them what happens to the body when a person smokes.

The task force unveiled the tarpaulin of a smoker’s body.

According to the tarpaulin, smokers go bald because smoking causes hair loss. A smoker may also develop cataracts, wrinkles, hearing loss, tooth decay and worse, cancer.

City Ordinance 2241 consolidated previous ordinances related to smoking, among which are the ban on smoking inside public utility vehicles and public places.

The people of Mactan,

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The people of Mactan, conquerors of Magellan and his men, in 1521, continue to defy Spain. To subdue them, Legaspi sends an expedition under Master-of-Camp Mateo de Saez and Captain Martin de Goiti. This expedition puts Mactan to the torch. The people of Mactan retaliate by raiding the Spanish settlements in Cebu and burning more than 20 Spanish houses.

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“City Soho” : A New Addition to Cebu’s ever growing Skyline

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As they say, “Cebu never fails to Amaze”.. certainly because Cebu is simply amazing!!!! And with its continued booming real estate industry comes another project of the Cebu based Golden Peach Properties, Inc. dubbed as the ” City Soho”.

City Soho is designed within the concept of Small Office, Home Office. This new concept gaining popularity in Manila is a fusion of both office and home right in your own lifestyle condominium living. The “City Soho” is a 30 storey edifice with a commercial enclave in its mezzanine floors located in the busy B. Rodriquez St., near Fuente Osmena, Cebu City. The project designed by TVA Partners Architects is a sequel of Golden Peach Properties highly successful “One Pavilion Mall and Condo Project” located in Guadalupe., Cebu City.

The “City Soho” project will house a mall with supermarket, plenty of car parking’s, and condominium units (Condo-Hotel & or Condo-Residential). The first few floors are ideal for Small Office Home Office (SOHO) for Business Office, Doctors Clinics, Dental Clinics, Law Firms, BPO offices, Medical Laboratories, and many more. As saying goes “Why Rent, If You Can Own” “Small Down-Payment and Balance is under the Rent to Own Program”.

The location of City Soho is ideal as a very good investment as well as offering an ideal living opportunities considering its location which is a good value proposition.

Goldpeach Properties, Inc. is a newly established entity under the Cebu based Gaisano Capital Group. It will be its second foray into the lucrative high rise residential condominium business, but there’s still more project in the pipeline which would not just amaze but truly makes all Cebuano’s proud.

City Soho Perspective

“City Soho” prides of being located right smack into the heart of the uptown Cebu area where everything such as church, hospitals,clinics, entertainment centers, restaurants and food outlets, government offices, malls, commercial establishments etc., is just within a walking distance.

As a Skyscraper enthusiast, I certainly welcome this new and exciting development in our beloved Cebu, especially that this is another development of a future true blooded Cebuano…

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A Cebuano Entry to the Cinema One Originals Digital festival

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Di Ingon Nato trailer - A Cebuano Entry to the Cinema One Originals Digital festival which will be held on November 9-15, 2011 at the Edsa Shangrila Cineplex.

synopsis:
In a remote mountain village in Cebu, Philippines, a farmer will commit murder, a young doctor will lose her first patient, and a baranggay captain will find a girl, brutally murdered in a cemetery. Within the next few days, a mystery surrounding the entire boondock will be unraveled, and they will have to rely on each other to survive. And so begins the string of horrific events that is Di Ingon Nato, a film by Brandon Relucio and Ivan Zaldarriaga, which accounts the last days of the townspeople, and how they respond to an incurable afflication that can take away the living, as well as breathe life to the dead. Di Ingon Nato is a gritty ensemble piece (Lead by Rez Cortez, Mercedes Cabral, Franco Reyes, and Donna Gimeno) portraying how people cope with the death of their loved ones. It is also a film about how they react when their loved ones return......

DI INGON ‘NATO Plot:

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DI INGON ‘NATO Plot: “Not like us” or “Di Ingun na’to” is the story of far–flung villagers in a Cebu boondock and how they respond to a zombie infestation. Armed with their old age beliefs and practices, the narrative is a fresh take on the zombie genre and boondock sensibilities. It is written & directed by a tandem : Ivan Zaldarriaga and Brandon Relucio and produced by Ronald Arguelles.

A Cebuano entry to the Cinema One Originals Digital Festival which will beheld on November 09 to 15, 2011 at the Edsa Shangri-la Cineplex.

Mactan Cebu International Airport - Safest Airport in the Philippines

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Mactan Cebu International Airport - Safest Airport in the Philippines

After three years since the effectivity of Republic Act RA 9497 (Act creating CAAP), the Philippines Civil Aviation Regulators awarded yesterday Mactan-Cebu International Airport Authority (MCIAA) its first Aerodrome Certificate mandated by said law for passing the international aerodrome standards according to ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) protocols.

Under Aviation Regulation 139.050, otherwise known as the "Civil Aviation Regulations for Aerodrome," Mactan airport was the first airport in the country to have complied all the requirements for the conduct of safe airport operations, from manpower, safety, fire and rescue, and other services requirements on what certified airports should be.

"It is the first airport in the country that is certified by CAAP in accord with ICAO aerodrome standards" Inocencio Ynsierto,ICAO representative in the Philippines said yesterday.

Mactan-Cebu International Airport bested Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Luzon and Davao International Airport in Mindanao on the race for certification. NAIA and Davao airports are operated by MIAA.

Cebu's airport authority who is headed by General Manager Nigel Paul Villarete was grateful for the recognition, saying that it was his Airport Operations Department that made compliance possible.

“Since the MCIA is now the safest in the Philippines, it will attract more people to come to Cebu,” statement from the airport operator said.

Fifteen other airports in the country are undergoing certification process. Among them are Manila-NAIA, Manila-Clark, Bacolod, Iloilo, Tacloban, Davao, Cagayan De Oro, Zamboanga and Puerto Princesa.

Blessed Pedro Calungsod Song

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Blessed Pedro Calungsod Song

Prayer to Blessed Pedro Calungsod

Blessed Pedro Calungsod,
student, catechist, young migrant,
missionary, faithful friend, martyr,
you inspire us
by your fidelity in times of adversity;
by your courage in teaching the faith
in the midst of hostility;
and by your love in shedding your blood
for the sake of the Gospel.
Make our troubles your own
(here mention your request)
and intercede for us
before the throne of Mercy and Grace
so that,
as we experience the help of heaven,
we may be encouraged to live
and proclaim the Gospel here on earth.
Amen.

PRAYER FOR THE CANONIZATION OF BLESSED PEDRO CALUNGSOD

O God, through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, graciously grant the canonization of Blessed Pedro Calungsod, if it be for the greater glory of your Name and for the good our souls. AMEN.
Our Father... Hail Mary... Glory be.

"Blessed Pedro Calungsod"

There was once a lad from the Visayas
Left his land in search for graceless souls
He Spread God's words with lips untiring
He is the servant of the Lord

Chorus:
O Blessed Pedro Calungsod
Faithful Child of God
Be to us a guide
Lead us to the light of Jesus Christ
O Blessed Pedro Calungsod
Our young inspire in the darkest hour
Look down on us from where you are

Steadfastly you walk where Jesus trod
Never mindful of what's left behind
We entrust the young to your watchful care
Walk with them and never leave their side

You chose to die with Padre Diego
But your faith in God remains undying
Be to us a true companion
When at the end death closes in

(repeat chorus)

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Blessed Pedro Calungsod a candidate for canonization; diocese of Laoag is 50

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Visayan Martyr Pedro Calungsod, who was beatified by Pope John Paul II on March 5, 2005 in Rome, might be canonized in 2012 if the major miracle submitted to the Congregation of the Causes of Saintswould be approved during a meeting of Cardinals in February 2012.

I asked permission from Cardinal Emeritus Ricardo Vidal if I could announce this and he said “yes”—only for the reason that more sick people can pray to him for healing.

I was able to interview Cardinal Vidal at the Collegio Filipino in Rome on May 1, after the beatification of Blessed John Paul II in the morning.

But the first one to tell me the good news was Fr. Rommel Par, OSA who invited us for coffee at the St. Augustine Convent across the Vatican. The postulator of the cause is Fr. Fernando Rojo, OSA. The major miracle attributed to Blessed Calungsod was the miraculous waking up of a woman who had been dead for two hours, without suffering brain damage. It is, according to doctors, medically unexplainable.

Cebuano catechist

Pedro Calungsod lived in the 17th century in Cebu. He was a catechist who could read, write and speak Bisaya, Spanish and Chamorro. He was mentored by the Jesuits, particularly Father Diego Sanvitores, who brought him to Saipan. Both were martyred for refusing to renounce their faith.

Fr. Roy Rosales told me that the body of Pedro Calungsod was thrown into the sea. A shrine was built in his honor along the seashore. Consul General Medardo Macaraig heads the Philippine Consulate in Saipan. He also initiated the devotion to San Lorenzo Ruiz, our first Filipino saint among OFWs and migrants there. San Lorenzo’s image, donated by the San Lorenzo Ruiz Global Ministry, is enthroned at the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Cathedral.

Immediately after Calungsod was beatified on March 5, 2005, a three-ft statue made by Francisco Vecin was brought to the Guam Cathedral for enthronement by Cardinal Vidal.

Today, a three-ft statue of San Lorenzo Ruiz faces him along the halls of the Cathedral. San Lorenzo Ruiz was brought to Guam by the San Lorenzo Ruiz Global Ministry for enthronement on Aug. 15, 2009.

Milestone

Laoag, Ilocos Norte, where I was born and had my studies, marks a milestone on June 4-5, 2011 when it celebrates the Golden Jubilee of its canonical erection as a diocese in 1961. Formerly belonging to the Archdiocese of Nueva Segovia, the Diocese of Laoag headed by Bishop Sergio Utleg held the blessing of the Jubilee Cross yesterday at the Ermita Hill in Laoag City.

Archbishop Orlando Quevedo of Cotabato officiated the Concelebrated Mass at Sta. Monica Church inSarrat town at 9 a.m., followed by the blessing of the Diocesan Museum.

During the testimonial lunch at Sta. Monica Parish, awards were given to bishops from and of Laoag, namely: Laoag Bishop Sergio Utleg; Archbishop Emeritus Edmundo Abaya of Nueva Segovia; present Archbishop Ernesto Salgado of Nueva Segovia; Urdaneta Bishop Jack Jose; San Fernando Bishop Artemio Rillera, SVD; Cotabato Archbishop Orlando Quevedo, OMI; Bishop Emeritus of Bangued Cesar Raval, SVD.

Catholic schools

The heads of the different Catholic schools in the province were also given awards. The schools included the Holy Spirit Academy of Laoag where I studied from kindergarten up to high school; St. Joseph High School in Laoag; St. Andrew Academy in Bacarra; Sta. Rosa Academy in San Nicolas; St. James Academy in Pasuquin; St. Jude High School in Pagudpud; St. Joseph Institute in Dingras and Divine Word College of Laoag.

Am I glad that I studied in a Catholic school which prepared me, I think, for the work I am doing now.

Bill Fariñas, president of the Diocesan Council of the Laity, and his wife Soledad Ventura-Fariñas must have been prepared, too, when Bill went to St. William High School (now Divine Word College High School) and Soledad was ahead of me at the Holy Spirit Academy.

They are the founding couple of the Laoag District of Bukas Loob sa Diyos Covenant Community. They joined BLD in Manila way back in 1987 and brought it to Laoag in 1993 with two other couples from Laoag: Ronnie and Ida Tionko (nee Simon) and Sammy and Cora Tomas.

BLD is very actively supporting the parish in its evangelization programs.

Jubilee theme

If I translate it right from Ilocano, the theme of the Golden Jubilee celebration—“Rambaken Pannakapabaro”—is “Celebrating what is made new.”

The Diocese of Laoag, which was established in 1961, shares the early history of its Mother See, the Archdiocese of Nueva Segovia.

Christianity came to the northernmost part of Luzon in 1572 as part of the “pacification campaign” led by conquistador Juan de Salcedo, who used the cross and the sword to plant Spanish rule and Christianity in this part of the world.

The seat of the diocese is St. William’s Cathedral, with Bishop Utleg as parish priest and Fr. Policarpo Albano as parish Rector.

New deacons and priest

The Archdiocese of Tuguegarao will hold the ordination of two deacons on June 10, 9 a.m., at Our Lady of Chartres Chapel in St. Paul University.

Archbishop Diosdado Talamayan will ordain seminarians Edgardo Baculi and Mark Anthony Ventura as deacons, while Rev. Bernice de la Peña Rio will be ordained priest on June 11, 9 a.m., at the St. Peter Thelmo Parish Church.

St. Anthony de Padua fiesta

The Catholic Women’s Club in Santuario de San Antonio, with Betty Roxas Chua as president, is celebrating the feast of St. Anthony de Padua, June 13, with Novena Masses June 4-12 and with a series of spiritual and medical activities to help the less fortunate. Bishop Broderick Pabillo will officiate the Concelebrated Mass on June 13 at 6 p.m.

Every morning starting June 4, breakfast will be served to 600 indigents from the different barangays around the area in the parking lot of the church. Mass baptism will be held on June 8, 9 a.m., with 65 babies up to two years old. The confirmation of l20 young people will take place on June 9, 9 a.m., with Bishop Emeritus Manuel Sobreviñas as presider.

A mass wedding of 24 couples will take place on June 10, 10 a.m., followed by reception for the couples’ families and guests at the Parish Center.

A medical mission will also take place on June 11 at the parish center. It will provide minor surgery, optical refraction and dental treatments.

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