UP College Admission Test application for school year 2013 now open!

May 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Applications for the University of the Philippines College Admission Test (UPCAT) are now being accepted. All incoming 4th-year high school students are invited to apply. This was announced by University Registrar Prof. Karen Cayamanda. Application forms are available at the University of the Philippines Mindanao (UP-Mindanao) Office of the University Registrar, Mintal, Davao City. Application forms can also be downloaded from the U.P. website at “www.upcat.up.edu.ph“.

The deadline for application is June 22, 2012. Each UPCAT application should have the following requirements: (a) correctly and completely accomplished UPCAT Forms 1 and 2; (b) four pieces of 2″ x 2″ identical ID pictures taken within the last 6 months; (c) non-refundable application fee of P450; and (d) self-addressed stamped envelope.

Applicants from families with an annual gross income of P100,000 or less, or who are among the top ten prospective graduates of public high schools for School Year 2012-2013, are exempted from filing the application fee. Applicants should send their applications by mail to the following address: Office of Admissions, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City 1101.

For more information, interested parties can contact the Office of the University Registrar of UP Mindanao at telephone number (082) 293-0201. Online application is also possible at “www.upcatonline.up.edu.ph“.

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‘Crepelato Gelato’ more than just desserts!

May 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Crepelato Gelato has now evolved into a place to dine, and merienda place just when you are going  about shopping or just wanting to relax and feed your hunger!

Crepelato Gelato is located at the ground floor of NCCC Mall, MaC Arthur Highway, Matina. The place have been know for their famous for their Crepes and Gelatos but now I know that they have much more to offer.

During the Davao Food Appreciations Tour (DFAT) 2012 i come upon a chance to taste their Fish and Fries, Pancit Malabon, Pork Chop in Vegies and their one of a kind Sanghon. Sanghon became ny favorite since it is a unique sotanghon with bannana blossom and cucumber as garnish on top. A unique combination, I never thought it would hit my palate  nicely. A must try indeed.

I would like to thank the organizers of th DFAT 2012 for the experience:

 

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Pinoy food at its best at ‘Davao’s Piyesta KTV and Resto Bar’!

May 16, 2012 By 1 Comment

GenSans famous Piyesta KTV and Resto Bar is now her in Davao City’s SM City Davao Annex!

As part of the Davao Food Appreciations Tour (DFAT) 2012, we got to visit one of the best restaurant for Pinoy foods in Davao City.

If you love Pinoy food and you are craving for it, then the best place to go to is Davao’s Piyesta KTV and Resto Bar which is conveniently located inside the mall. If you are on a shopping mode and already tired and hungry, just a step away inside the SM City Davao.

The food are reasonably priced, the service is good and the food superb. If you are a group of five. they have a set menus called Piyesta Meals that is made just right for you, the Price ranges from P 1,000.00 – P 1,300.00 and if you are just there alone or wit a date then their a la carte menu is just as reasonable.

Piyesta Meal set is what I could recommend, seafood set meal, pork, chicken, vegetable, just look at their menu and see for yourselves which one just fits to your taste and diet. A Pinoy meal deal indeed!

Try out their famous Kura Sticks, a big chilli wrapped in a wrapper and dipped in a sauce, and savor the mild flavor of hotness, just one of my favorites.

A must visit if you are at SM City Davao, just go to the SM Annex and you wont miss Piyesta KTV and Resto Bar.

This years DFAT event is organized by:
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Davao’s Bioessence launches pH formula with Iya Villania!

May 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment

One of Davao’s homegrown brand in beauty and wellness celebrated its first year anniversary of their Bioessence Serenity Spa at the third level of Abreeza Mall, Davao City with a launch of their new product pH formula.

Blogger JM Monsendo with Iya Villania

 

The event was attended by blogger JM Monsendo on my behalf together with dozen other bloggers and other friends from the press.

The event was also the launch of Bioessence’s newest celebrity endorsers Iya Villania who  graced the event and Nikki Gil. As you can see the endorsers are getting younger and that means that beauty business start them young. This means that the ongoing campaign of Bioessence which aims to encourage not only the older market of forty plus but those falling in to the younger age bracket to start taking care of their health and skin.

This is what Iya said:

‘Aging will come to everyone. We can’t avoid t but yes, we can delay it. So why not start at a young age taking care of yourself?’

 

In line with this  Bioessence had got in store a new product called phFormula which comes straight from Spain.

pH Formula is Bioessence’s answer to the problems where competition falls short are end up being too extreme. It’s the best solution available on the market today for your wrinkling, pigments, et cetera problem that bug you each time you look in the mirror.

If you’re worried that pH formula might end up with bad side effects like darkening your skin after a few weeks from your treatment – worry no more as such is definitely not going to happen with you.

Being a light treatment, pH formula causes limited to zero skin trauma and skin irritation at all. Leaving your skin well and healthy and out of reach from the side effects other treatments might cause. The best thing about it for me is, that this particular way of treatment, the pH formula way, is backed up by scientists and dermatologists in the last three decades.

It’s the penultimate product of thorough research and development over the years and like I said, both the best and safest solution available on the market. No other competitor has this kind of treatment in its clutches but Bioessence.

Congratulations to Bioessence on their first year anniversary celebration of their branch at the Abreeza Mall of Davao.

If you have any skin problems that started early just go to any Bioessence branch and have yourself be pampered and treated in their latest beauty treatment.

 

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Surprise yourself at “Fiesta Sorpresa” in Digos City!

May 15, 2012 By 1 Comment

A new dinning place to go to in Digos City is Fiesta Sorpresa, it is one of the place to be when dining is concerned for anyone who is into Pinoy foods.

People from Digos City can now enjoy and have more food choices aside from their usual dining fare which is usually Lechon Manok and barbeque. Which most of the people got to.

You will be surprised how reasonable their foods on their menu are. You can have a Fiesta Tipid Meals for as low a P49.00. And their Sabaw, Pampagana and Lamang Dagat are not that expensive either.

You can try their authentic Ilocano Bagnet, their Sweet and Spicy Wings, Fresh Lumpia, Rellenong Bangus and Sinampalokang Manok. Surely your family and friends would be delighted to try out any on the menu.

I surely did enjoy my short stay at Fiesta Sorpresa, thank to Davao Food Appreciations Tour (DFAT) 20012, I did not know that such a place exist in Digos City. But it is a new place that just opened early this month and mind you I will go back and eat there again.

Thanks to the organizers of DFAT 2012 for the experience:

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Native Merienda Treats at “Ranchero’s Merienda Cena”!

May 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment

On the first day of the Davao Food Appreciations Tour (DFAT) 2012, our briefing, introductions, and welcome snacks  with other bloggers who participated in this much anticipated bloggers event in Davao City at Ranchero’s Davao at the Abreeza Ayala Mall!

We were greeted with a native merienda treats on the Ranchero’s Merienda Cena. We were served with their Kakanin Trio with free hot tea, Fresh Lumpia, Freid Lumpia and Pancit Bihon Guisado.

Their Kakanin Trio includes Tibok Tibok (Maja Blanca with corn bits), Sticky Rice with Mango, and Suman Sa Lihiya at Latik. From the three, what i love most was the Tibok Tibok, it way very soft and it melts in your mouth and a crunchiness from the corn bits. Their Freid Lumpia, when dipped into the hot vinegar sauce just the right balance of taste.

It was nice to meet and get to know for the first time the bloggers who participated from around the Philippines. Some are familiar faces and acquaintances from Davao and some we met from previous bloggers event and of course new faces since this is my first ever DFAT.

Thanks to the organizers of the events:

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2012 Kadayawan Festival set on on August 17-19!

May 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Just for clarification, this years Kadayawan Festival will be on August 17 -19 and not August 24 -26 as earlier announced!

In the declaration of Kadayawan, it has been stipulated that it will be held every third week of August.

The Kadayawan Festival is the most anticipated event in Davao City. Many balikbayans time their visits during this season while both local and foreign tourists pour in for the festival as well.

 

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Richard Poon Davao Concert slated for Aug. 17!

May 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Big Band Crooner Richard Poon is all set to conquer the whole country with his seven-city tour starting this May 18 at the Cebu Ayala Terraces. And Davao on August 17 at the USEP Convention Center.

It will be followed May 25 at the Iloilo Hotel Del Rio, June 1 at the Koronadal Gym, June 2 at the Le Jardin Arnevel in General Santos City, June 15 at the L’ Fisher Hotel in Bacolod, June 16 at the ABL Sports Complex in Kalibo, and September 22 at the Capiz Gym in Roxas City.

“I am excited to meet everyone in the tour,” says Richard Poon. “It is always nice to perform for different people from different places.”

Richard, who is a mainstay of ASAP 2012 and is a member of the show’s Sessionistas, has a number of new exciting projects lined-up for this year.

“This year marks a lot of groundbreaking things for me,” adds Richard. “I am just thankful that I have been blessed with these wonderful opportunities to share my music to a more people.”

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Davao Museum presents DAVAO KUO: The Abaca, the Japanese and the Making of Davao!

May 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Starting May 17, the Davao Museum of History and Ethnography (DMHE) will exhibit DAVAO KUO: The Abaca, the Japanese and the Making of Davao. This six-month exhibit will be held in cooperation with the Consular Office of Japan in Davao (COJD) and sponsored by the Embassy of Japan in Manila (EOJ).  The exhibit looks into Davao society’s Japanese heritage during the development of the abaca plantation industry in the early 1900s and the historic rise in Japanese migration to the province that accompanied it.

In 1939, there were around 29,000 Japanese in the Philippines and of this number more than 17,000 Japanese were in Davao working in various enterprises including in the abaca plantation in Mintal and Toril.

The exhibit is also very timely since Davao City recently celebrated its 75th founding anniversary. According to some historians, one of the major reasons why Davao was made into a chartered city in 1936 was due to the socio-economic progress brought in part by the Japanese investors who established wide commercial interests such as copra, timber, fishing and import-export trading. The Japanese also shared their knowledge on how to improve cultivation and this has led agriculture to become the core of the province’s economic prosperity at that time.

Japanese Consul Kazuhiko Anzai, Director of the COJD, said that he is delighted to cooperate with the DMHE in holding the historical exhibit that will run until October 2012.  Consul Anzai said that he hopes that the exhibit will further strengthen the mutual understanding between Japanese and Filipinos through the pictures and artifacts from the period.  He also enjoined the Japanese residents here and the Davaoeños to work and collaborate with each other to further develop this beautiful city with a renewed bilateral relationship as equal partners.

The Davao Museum of History and Ethnography is located at Insular Village, Phase 1, Lanang, Davao City. Those with inquiries or who are interested for tour reservations may contact the Davao Museum of History and Ethnography at (082) 233-1734.

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Cakes to die for at the ‘Tiny Kitchen’!

May 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment

One of the best kept secret for your sweet cravings in Davao City is at the Tiny Kitchen. This is one of the stops of the famous Davao Food Appreciation Tour (DFAT) 2012. We went there to have our snacks and was able to try all of their cakes.

Tiny Kitchen is a Davao-based  Spanish restaurant which is now the place to be for your sweet craving needs, with an array of to die for cakes. Also available are breads, pastries, pastas and home-cooked meals.

Their cakes got just the right sweetness, texture and some cakes simply melts into your mouth. A must try is their Frozen Chocolate Brazo, the brazo was extra soft without a hint of any slight overcooked part. With the right sweetness and it was so good. It blended well with the chocolate ice cream sandwiched  in the cake. Their Carrot Cake with walnuts a must try, Mango Sans Rival is heavenly and the rest of their cakes is unforgettable.

If you want to have some filling sandwich, you must try their Hamon Y Queso, Salad and Cheese and Tuna and Cheese, it is very filling.

If you are in Davao City, don’t fail to drop by and have your desserts and it goes well with their freshly squeezed lemonade.

 

Tiny Kitchen is located at  F. Torres St. Davao City with Tel. #  305 9232

Their Restaurant is open Mondays – Saturdays  during lunch and dinner time.

They are open the whole week for the people who wants to eat snacks and desserts.

Special thanks to the people behind DFAT 2012:

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