Annabelle Rama for congresswoman in Cebu?

Well, nothing's new basta nasa showbiz gusto talaga pumasok sa pulitika.
I just find it weird na tatakbo siya. I mean aside from her career sa showbiz  and medyo sikat sa pagiging palaaway what else kaya ang qualifications nya. Kaloka talaga?!

Inihayag ng talent manager na si Annabelle Rama ang intensiyon niyang tumakbong kongresista sa unang distrito ng Cebu City.

Nitong Biyernes, naka-post sa Twitter account ni Annabelle ang pagpunta nito sa City hall ng Cebu City para sa magparehistro bilang botante sa lalawigan.

May mga larawan din naka-post sa account ni Annabelle kung saan kasama niya ang mga kamag-anak niyang pulitiko sa lalawigan.

Ang mga Rama ay kilalang angkan ng mga pulitiko sa Cebu.

Katunayan, ang kanilang patriarch na si Don Vicente Rama (naging senador, kongresista at alkalde) ang kinikilalang "Father of Cityhood" ng Cebu City.

Sa isang ulat na lumabas sa pahayagang Cebu Daily News, sinabing si Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama, pinsan ni Annabelle, ang naghikayat sa ina ni Kapuso leading man Richard Gutierrez na pumalot sa pulitika.

Ayon kay Mayor Rama, walang masama kung pasukin ni Annabelle ang pulitika dahil marami na rin namang tumakbo sa halalan na nanggaling sa mundo ng showbiz at entertainment.

Sa isang tweet ni Annabelle, nilinaw niya na posisyon sa pagka-kongresista at hindi konsehal ang kanyang planong takbuhan sa darating na May 2013 elections.

“Mali ka. I'm running for congress woman of Cebu @KhymaLey: @annabellerama2 Wow! you're running indeed to be a councilor! Good Luck!," nakasaad sa tweet ni Annabelle.

Kapag natuloy, posibleng makaharap ni Annabelle sa halalan ang isa ring kilalang angkan ng mga pulitiko sa Cebu – ang mga Del Mar. Sa kasalukuyan, nakaupong kongresista sa unang distrito ng Cebu si Rep. Rachel “Cutie" del Mar.

Source: http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/258638/showbiz/annabelle-rama-tatakbong-kongresista-ng-cebu-city

Bridge Repair in Lapu lapu: Traffic na sad ni og samot?

I read a news from Cebu Daily that Marcelo Fernan Bridge will close for repair.

This is the content of the news:

CONTRARY to reports, the Department of Public Works and Highways said they are coordinating with the Mandaue and Lapu-Lapu city governments in the repair of the the Marcelo Fernan Bridge that starts next week, Engr. Santiago Suico, OIC district engineer of the Cebu 6th district engineering office of the DPWH, said they already discussed the traffic management with the cities to minimize the impact of the repair works to the riding public.
He said his office wrote the respective traffic management offices of the two cities a month ago and held meetings with them.
Suico said repair works will start on one side of the bridge, where it will be closed to traffic, while the other side will be utilized for a two-way traffic.
Suico said the repair works will focus on the expansion joints of the bridge to avoid accidents.
He said based on statistics, most motorcycle accidents in the bridge were caused by the damaged expansion joints.
The national government appropriated P25 million for the project.
Suico said PLD Construction won the bidding and the firm will have to work 24/7 to complete the project.
Suico said the project will last for 150 calendar days or around five months if there will be no delays.
The 1.2-kilometer bridge was built by the Kajima Sumimoto Joint Venture that amounted to P2.3 billion.
It was funded through the loan obtained by the national government from the Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund of Japan. /Correspondent Jhunnex Napallacan.

Good luck na lang jud. 5 months pa jud :) 

Source: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/183907/dpwh-m%E2%80%99daue-and-lapu-cities-coordinate-for-bridge-repair

Underground river among new 7 wonders

Wow Philippines' underground river in Palawan is formally announced as one of the 7 new wonders. 

GENEVA—The Philippines’ Puerto Princesa Underground River, the Amazon rainforest, Vietnam’s Halong Bay and Argentina’s Iguazu Falls were named among the world’s new seven wonders of nature, according to organizers of a global poll.
The other three crowned the world’s natural wonders are South Korea’s Jeju Island, Indonesia’s Komodo and South Africa’s Table Mountain, said the New7Wonders foundation, citing provisional results.
Final results will be announced early 2012, said the Swiss foundation, warning however that there may yet be changes between the provisional winners and the final list.
Sites which have failed to make the cut include Tanzania’s Mount Kilimanjaro, the Dead Sea and the US Grand Canyon.
The poll organised by Swiss foundation New7Wonders has attracted great interest, mobilizing celebrities including Argentinian football star Lionel Messi calling on fans to pick his home country’s Iguazu Falls.
The results come after a long consultation process lasting from December 2007 to July 2009, when world citizens were asked to put forward sites which they deemed were natural wonders.
More than a million votes were cast to trim the list of more than 440 contenders in over 220 countries down to a shortlist of 77.
The group was then further cut to the 28 finalists by a panel of experts.
Anyone in the world was then able to vote for the final seven via telephone, text messages or Internet social networks.
The Philippine government vigorously campaigned for the Palawan subterranean river in a bid to boost a sagging tourism industry.
Founded in 2001 by filmmaker Bernard Weber in Zurich, the foundation New7Wonders is based on the same principle on which the seven ancient wonders of the world were established. That list of seven wonders was attributed to Philon of Byzantium in ancient Greece.
New7Wonders said its aim is to create a global memory by garnering participation worldwide.
But even as the natural wonders poll came to a close, the New7Wonders foundation has set its eyes on a new survey — the top seven cities of the world. Participating cities will be announced on January 1, 2012.


 Source: Underground river among new 7 wonders

SM Consolacion (Cebu) will open soon in 2012

SM Consolacion will be the second SM Mall in Cebu. It is located in Cebu North Road, Barangay Lamac, 6001 Consolacion, Philippines. As of now it is under construction and is set to open this year, 2012.

For cebuanos living in north cebu shopping will be nearer.

Panglao Island: Best Secret Beaches on Earth

A famous travel magazine "Travel + Leisure" named Panglao Island as one of the Best Secret Beaches on Earth out of 15 in the whole world. Their web link for this article is http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/best-secret-beaches-on-earth/15 .

Panglao Island is located in the province of Bohol, Philippines.  This island has many white beaches to offer.  Aside from white beaches Bohol province has many beautiful tourist spots like the famous Chocolate Hills, Loboc River, Bohol Bee Farm.

Pedro Calungsod second Filipino saint

Another Filipino will soon be proclaimed as saint after the Vatican set the canonization of Blessed Pedro Calungsod on October 21 this year.

Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, confirmed the canonization of Calungsod and six others on Saturday night (Manila time) after a Mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI, the Vatican Information Service reported.

During the announcement, the Vatican official described Calungsod as a “Filipino lay catechist and martyr.”

Calungsod, a Cebuano missionary who was martyred in Guam in 1672, will be proclaimed as saint more than a decade after he was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2000.

Last October, the Filipino martyr passed the third and final stage towards sainthood after the Vatican verified a second miracle attributed to him—the healing of a businesswoman from the Visayas who fell into a coma in 2003.

Calungsod’s canonization will come 24 years after Vatican proclaimed Lorenzo Ruiz, a missionary martyred in Japan in 1637, as the first Filipino saint.

Calungsod was killed at the age of 18 while doing his missionary work on April 2, 1627, a day before Palm Sunday that year.

Born in Visayas in 1654, Calungsod accompanied Blessed Diego Luis de San Vitores to Guam, then the Mariana Islands, and led a number of locals to convert to the Catholic faith.

Calungsod and San Vitores, however, suffered persecution after a certain Chinese named Choco accused them of spreading poison through the baptism ritual.

'I will if you will': Earth Hour advocates save the planet on a dare

'I will if you will': Earth Hour advocates save the planet on a dare

“I will if you will,” is the challenge the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and other organizers of Earth Hour 2012 posed to residents of the planet on Tuesday, Valentine's Day to jumpstart their preparations for the annual campaign meant to tame global warming and climate change.

The Earth Hour lead advocates urged daring individuals to make YouTube videos of their personal pledges to do simple things that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, conserve energy, and maximize use of Earth's resources such as “recycling, to switching to energy-efficient light bulbs, turning off your mobile charger, or signing up for paperless banking.”

“From 8:30pm to 9:30pm this coming 31 March, WWF-Philippines will again stage Earth Hour to inspire Filipinos to switch off their lights and dare their friends to save planet Earth. The ‘I Will If You Will’ digital platform is the result of an alliance among WWF, Leo Burnett, and YouTube - merging the world’s biggest social video platform with the world’s largest environmental event,” the Earth Hour organizer said.

A library of ‘I Will If You Will’ challenges is hosted on Earth Hour's YouTube platform. Those who commit were also encouraged to share their ‘dares’ through social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and via email.

On the WWF Philippines Facebook page, there are various templates of the personal dares which followers can like, share, tag friends and comment upon. Among the image templates are commitments to segregate trash, plant 100 trees this year, and stop using plastic bags.

Some netizens though opted to have some fun with the blank template and sort of committed to do some unusual stuff like "eat a 3lb gummyworm."

Some 1,554 cities and towns in the country joined last year's one-hour lights switch-off campaign and made the Philippines the global leader in Earth Hour participation. The environment campaign has been running since its inception five years ago in 2007.

“We call on corporations, local governments, media networks and other organizations to stand with us for this year’s switch-off. When public and private sector forces unite - then we will be able to effect change on the scale required to change the world,” said Earth Hour Philippines National Director Atty. Gia Ibay.

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http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/248066/scitech/socialmedia/i-will-if-you-will-earth-hour-advocates-save-the-planet-on-a-dare