Museo Dabawenyo, the repository of the city’s cultural and historical heritage, will host a month-long art exhibit in celebration of the Kadayawan Festival featuring portrait and landscape paintings of Engr. Manuel Mendros.

Dubbed as “Hulagway: Davao Faces and Places”, Mendros art works will also include paintings of Davao City mayors past and present as one of the highlights of his second solo exhibit.

The exhibit is open to the public from August 11 –September 11. Admission is free.

A must-visit destina-ion for locals and guests, Museo Dabawenyo is a favored venue for exhibits, arts shows and various educational enrichment activities in the city.

Locals and visitors to the city will be treated to a back-to-back-to-back bargain bonanza in this year’s celebration of the Kadayawan Festival.

The annual Agri-Industrial Trade Fair which will commence on August 1, 2010 at the SM City Davao Future Development Site will showcase flowers, fruits and livestock, and other locally produced products. The activity is managed by Mindanao’s premier floriculture institution, the Floriculture Industry Council of Southern Mindanao together with the City Veterinarian Office, City Agriculture Office and the City Cooperative Office with their services and show booths. It is open to the public until August 31.

Meanwhile, the Kadayawan Tabo: MagNegosyo ‘ta, Day Fair Trade on August 16-22, 2010 at the SP Lobby will showcase crafts and crops by women’s groups and grassroots small entrepreneurs utilizing principles of fair trade, the program beneficiaries of City Mayor Inday Sara Duterte.

The city’s Chinese community will also be joining the festivities with the Kadayawan Tiangge sa Chinatown slated on August 20-22, 2010 along the Unity Arc, R. Magsaysay Avenue. The bazaar will feature various local and imported merchandises sold at bargain prices.

Malls and shopping centers in the city are expected to join in the festivities and offer discounted rates on their goods and services. For more information, contact the secretariat, Door 8, Magsaysay Park Complex, R. Magsaysay Avenue, tel. nos. 222.1956-57. Visit the official website at www.kadayawan.com or check out the Facebook page, search for “Kadayawan Festival 2010”.

Bangkok Wok
Robinson’s Cybergate, J.P. Laurel Avenue, Davao City
(082) 282-1231

When in Davao City and you want to have a taste of Thai, then the place to go to is Bangkok Wok. You can enjoy your meal with a classy ambiance at their restaurant. Not only that, you can really enjoy their food since most of the spices and some ingredients are imported direct from the source to get that authentic Thai taste and consistency in taste.

I was lucky enough to be invited for the food tasting experience of a lifetime together with some bloggers from Davao. We were graciously welcomed by Carmina and Raffy Del Rosario the owners of Bangkok Wok. Carmina who lived in Thailand for a while, explained to us that the dishes she has prepared for us are some of their best sellers and some that they will introduce to their menu in the coming days.



Here are the food that we savored and it was really yummy. Have to go back for more and taste the rest of what’s in the menu:

1. Yam Pak Boong – crispy kangkong salad in a sweet lime dressing with shrimps and crunchy shallots P225 (Good for 4-6 pax)
2. Kai Luk Koei – “son-in-law” eggs — it’s the Thai version of devilled eggs – deep fried hard-boiled eggs with tamarind sauce and fried chili P75
3. Laarb Gai – minced chicken salad with cilantro – P P195
4. Thai Oxtail Stew – slow-cooked oxtails served piping hot with cilantro, thai lime and thai vinegar P 300 (serves 4-6). This recipe was a best-seller at Chef Pam Panyasiri’s in NYC and took months for us to develop until we achieved a perfect blend of herbs consisting of cinammon sticks, cumin, ground coriander.
5. Ka Moo Pad Ped – cripsy pork knuckles on top of red curry P595(serves 4-6)
6. Grilled Lamb Riblets – Australian lamb riblets grilled thai style with a spicy lime dipping sauce and somtam (green papaya salad) on the side P 480
7. Shrimp Fried Rice - Kao Pad Goong P 195 (good for 6)
8. Kao Kluk Gapi – our best selling rice- Bagoong Rice P 165 also good for up to 6 pax
9. Kao Soy – Chiang Mai noodle soup with crispy and soft egg and rice noodles topped with chicken, cilantro, pickled mustard P165
10. Dessert – Ruamit - Thai halo-halo P85

It is really a good place for Family or Barkada to go and eat, the food served is good for group of people to share and enjoy the hearty meal served.

A TOTAL cash prize of P60,000 is up for grabs when the 1st Kadayawan Festival Cup (KFC) Wakeboarding Competition plunges into action on August 20 at the world-class Deca Wakeboard Park (DWP) in Barangay Tacunan, Mintal and P30,000 worth of giveaways are also at stake for the participants.

Some 60 adult and kid competitors in the one-day free admission event that will have varied categories for different age-groups are expected.

The holding of the events in celebration of the Kadayawan sa Dabaw Festival will give awareness to Dabawenyos and Mindanaoans on the sport of wakeboarding.

The participants will be judged according to their tricks and stunts and how they go about all the obstacles.

A photo competition for photographers will be a side event. Cash prizes will also be awarded to the winners of the photo contest.

Deca Wakeboard Park is the third wakeboard park in the Philippines and the only one in Mindanao. The first one built was the Lago de Oro in Batangas and second was in Camarines Sur.

Entry fee for the wakeboard competition, which is presented by DWP with 8990 Housing Development Corporation, is P500 for all categories.

Getting your National Statistics Offices documents is now a breeze with the recent tie-up between the SM Department Store and NSO. You can now work on your NSO papers as you shop, as SM Business Centers can now facilitate the application, processing, and releasing of copies of civil registry documents. These include copies of birth, death, and marriage documents, copies of No Record of Marriage (CENOMAR) and copies of annotated and endorsed documents.

Simply visit SM Business Centers, sign the forms, make the payments, and come back for your documents in a few days.

The tie-up was recently formalized in a Memorandum of Agreement between SM and NSO. NSO Administrator Carmelita Ericta and NSO Director Lourdes Hufana recently signed the agreement with SM Retail SVP for Controllership Ricky Lim and AVP for Business Center Operations Dennis Yaw at the Prestige Lounge of SM Cubao.

The best part is that you can get your NSO documents while availing of other SM Business Center services: foreign exchange, BDO Remit, bills payment, and SSS and Pag-Ibig contributions.

NSO services is one of the many ways SM serves its customers through its Business Center, which is located at almost all SM Supermalls.

The search is on for scholars of the Philippine Science High School System for SY 2011-2012. It is open to all graduating elementary pupils for the current school year from a duly recognized school by the Department of Education. Applicants must belong to the upper 10% of the graduating class and must not have a grade below 80 as certified by the school principal.

Requirements:

• Applicants must also be Filipino citizens with no pending application as immigrants in any foreign country;




• not more that 15 years old by June 30, 2011;




• in good health; fit to undergo a rigorous academic program;




• of good conduct and behavior;




• should not have previously taken the PSHS National Competitive Examination (NCE).

All applicants must submit a fully accomplished application form in duplicate with two recent iden-tical 1×1 pictures. Applicants from private schools will pay a non-refundable processing fee of P100 while applicants from public schools will not be charged. For applicants not belonging to the upper 10% of the current graduating class, a copy of report card for SY 2009-2010, with minimum grades of 85 in Science and Math and 80 in all other subjects, is required. Application forms are available in any of the PSHS campuses or DOST Regional Offices. For more information, you may call telephone nos. (02) 929-1606 or (02) 924-0614. PSHS NCE application forms are not for sale, no reservation fee is required and may be downloaded from the PSHS website: www.pshs.edu.ph. Deadline for filing of application in on August 27, 2010.

Only one test will be administered, a scholastic aptitude test (SAT) designed to measure Scientific Ability, Quantitative Ability, Abstract Reasoning and Verbal Aptitude. The PSHS NCE is scheduled on November 6.

The PSHS System is one of the agencies under the Department of Science and Technology which contributes to the expansion and development of the country’s scientific and technological manpower. At present, there are 11 campuses located in Dili-man, Quezon City; San Ildefonso, Ilocos Sur; Ba-yombong, Nueva Viscaya; Clark Freeport Zone, Angeles City; Goa, Cama-rines Sur; Jaro, Iloilo City; Argao, Cebu; Palo, Leyte; Balo-l, Lanao del Norte; Camp 8, Baguio City; and Tugbok, Davao City.

Interested applicants are advised to call the Registrar’s Office of the nearest PSHS Regional Campus. PSHS Southern Mindanao Campus (Davao) may be reached through telephone numbers (082) 293-0002 or (082) 293-0004.