Lapu-Lapu City Councilor Harry Radaza and Fritzie Ken, Lapu-lapu City Tourism Officer vis-à-vis with Cebu Bloggers Society, Inc. marks the kick-off of Lapu-Lapu City's Summer Tradition "Kadaugan Street Party 2012". Kadaugan Street Party in Mactan is the biggest festival-mardigras of Lapu-Lapu City patterned after the festivals in South America. Kadaugan Street Party started 2011, in addition to the original "Kadaugan sa Mactan" or "Bahug-Bahug sa Mactan" which is re-enacted annually every April 27th for the 1521 Battler of Mactan, the area now is called Mactan Shrine. Kadaugan Street Party 2012 is on April 27th (Friday) and April 28th (Saturday) 2012 at the stretched of M.L. Quezon National Highway in between Mactan Old Bridge and Marcelo Fernan Bridge.

Below are the Kadaugan Street Party 2012 Schedule of Activities and Events.

April 27, 2012 ( Friday)
Kadaugan Street Party 2012 SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES & EVENTS

• Food Stations – All the delicious street food and local delicacies you can eat plus your favourite drinks and lots of Ice-cold beer.
• Selling Booths – Shop til you drop and enjoy amazing bargain finds on clothes. bags, accessories and other cool items
• Kadaugan Street Party ALA Amateur Boxing Night – Get up close to the boxing action and cheer for your favorite amateur fighters.
• Street Dance Competition – Check out all the exciting moves, tricks and flips by talented dance groups from all over the city.
• Live DJ’s from Penthouse – Dance all day and party all night to the live DJ’s from one of Cebu’s biggest clubs.
• Let’s Share TV’s Wet T-shirt Party – It doesn’t get any hotter with this extravaganza of sexy ladies.
• Kadaugan Street Party Carnival – Unleash the child in you and be amazed by the exciting carnival performers.
• Kadaugan Street Party Midnight Beer Run (3k and 6K) – Run, Walk or crawl your way in this fun activity that is unlike any other you've ever seen and heard before.

APRIL 28, 2012 (SATURDAY)
Kadaugan Street Party 2012 SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES

• Food Stations and Selling Booths are still there. 
• Kadaugan Street Party Car Show – This spectacular show of pimped-out cars and sound systems will make you green with envy.
• Kadaugan Street Party Rampada – The most-awaited event of the Kadaugan Street Party. See most beautiful ladies of the island as they celebrated a centuries-old tradition. (Rampada is coined from two words “Rampa” and “Karsada”)
• Street Entertainment – Live music, games, and a whole lot more for all party goers.
• Live Performances @ 360 Stage – Be entertained by the hottest local music acts in Cebu.
• Fireworks – Watch the sky burst into color in the spectacular fireworks show.
• Rampada After Party – The rampada never ends as everyone is invited to party the night away.

For the Midnight Beer Run (3K & 6K distances only), there is no registration fee but a 100 pesos donation, no singlets but you will receive a race number that entitles you to access to unlimited beer in stations in the run events. Midnight Beer Runners that can complete the run will be entitled for a specially designed shirts “I SURVIVED THE BEER RUN.” from the Organizers.
For more information about Kadaugan Street Party Sponsorships or Inquiry contact (63 32) 233-8518.
Kadaugan Street Party sa Mactan 2012 Schedules of Activities posted at Cebu Events Blog.

Parlor Games or Parlour Games, Street Games or Childhood Games are our kids favourite past time before but the fast-paced technology changes the game play to iPad and Andoid Tablets where Angry Birds or Fruit Ninja is more preferred. This year, as Havaianas celebrates 50 years, fun and fair play brought back big smiles in the missed street games: Bato lata, Chinese garter, Patintero (tubig-tubig), Sipa, Agawan base (bahaw-bahaw), Lakad bunot, Tumbang preso, and Piko in the 3rd Havaianas Playback Invitational at the Siliman University West Quadrangle in Dumaguete City last February 25, 2012.

Havaianas, in cooperation with the Siliman University Student Government and Council of Student Organizations, gathered 12 student organizations: Sigma Rho, Medical Technology, Zambo Sur Sillimanites, AgusanSillimanites, Pan Hellenic Society, Ang Sandigan, Tau Gamma Phi, Omicronian Society, Kadugong Bol-anon (KADBOL), Philippine Institute of Cumputer Engineering Students (PHICES), Renaissance Youth Leaders Forum (RYLF), and College of Education Student Organization (CESO).

• Champion of the Havaianas Playback 2012 Invitational - Sigma Rho (trophy and P20,000 cash)
• 1st runner up - Renaissance Youth Leaders Forum (trophy and P10,000 cash)
• 2nd runner up - Tau Gamma (trophy and P5,000 cash)
• Happy Squad Special Award - Agusan Sillimanites (Plaque) - the team with the happiest and loudest cheer and chant.
• The Most Loved Team Award - Ang Sandigan (Plaque) - the team with the most active fans
• The Early Birds Award - The Omircronian Society (Plaque) -the first team to complete registration.

Havaianas Playback first launched in 2008 at Bonifacio High Street, Metro Manila. Then in August 2010, it was a collegiate inter-organization invitational participated in by schools such as Ateneo De Manila University, U&AP, U.P. Diliman, and De La Salle University.

Havaianas Street Fun at The Terraces, Ayala Center Cebu



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In a flurry of artistic expression, 15 Art students converged suddenly at The Terraces, Ayala Center Cebu giving mall-goers a taste of sunshine with Havaianas Street Fun, a welcome break from the oppressive weather lately. Capoeira Artists and drum beaters quickly joined in the fun in the unique flash mob activity with a chalk art drawing representing Havaianas in the middle of the Terraces. Drumbeaters made passers-by sway to the beat of summer while capoeira enthusiasts showed off awesome high-kicks and acrobatic moves that combined martial arts, music and dance.
About Havaianas.
A.L. Amizade Marketing, Inc. is the exclusive sub-distributor of Havaianas in Central and Eastern Visayas.  In Dumaguete City, Havaianas are available at Hayahay in Piapi and Robinson’s. In Cebu check out All Flip Flops Ayala and SM, Rustan’s, Republik, Maribago Bluewater Resort, Abaca Boutique Resort, Walk In Shoppe at the Imperial Palace Lobby, LYM Virus Boutique-Paseo Saturnino and R.O.X Ayala. The Havaianas Kid's line is also available at Playpen at the Banilad Town Centre. For more information on the next Havaianas Playback, log on to  http://www.havaianas.com/
Havaianas Playback 2012 and Havaiana Street Fun Cebu posted at Cebu Events Blog

Last February 28 marks our visit to The Minantaw Marine Park and Sanctuary at the "backyard" of Cebu Province - The Eastern stretch of Mactan Island (Lapu-Lapu City) and the Northern Part of Bohol Province. The island in vicinity to the Marine Protected Area - The Minantaw Marine Park and Sanctuary is the Caubian Island still part of Lapu-Lapu City District. It takes you approximately 1 hour by motorized boat on high tide and 1.5 hours when low tide.

Chevron Philippines Incorporated (CPI), Project Seahorse Foundation (PSF), United Fishers of Caubian (NAMACA) and local government of Lapu-Lapu City, has joint efforts to the conservation of the rare and little known Danajon Double Barrier Reef or Danajon Bank.

The 214.6-hectare Minantaw Marine Park and Sanctuary within the Danajon Bank, one of six known double barrier reefs in the world and source of marine biodiversity in the region. Danajon Bank, located in central Philippines, is a critical fishing ground for thousands of fishers from Cebu, Bohol, Leyte and Southern Leyte.  It has a regulated fishing zone (62 hectares), seaweed farming zone (55 has.), sustainable use zone (37 has.) and 50-hectare strictly no-take or core zone. Since the 1950s, wanton exploitation and absence of conservation have severely degraded its marine habitats.
Since the creation of the Minantaw Marine Park and Sanctuary, local fisher folks have seen more commercially valuable species like rabbit fish, crabs, squid, seaweeds, “lukot”, and “urok”. To affirm that these initial observations equate to the effectiveness and the sustainability of the marine park and Marine Protected Area, Project Seashore Foundation focused on community organizing, formation and capacity building of the management council, as well as monitoring the biophysical conditions of the marine sanctuary.

“Chevron deserves credit for the success of Minantaw Marine Park and Sanctuary and the community of Caubian in creating the country’s first multi-use marine park and sanctuary. It is admirable that a big commercial company like Chevron includes biodiversity as part of their drive for operational excellence. Chevron unfolded the  Minantaw Marine Park and Sanctuary  using deliberate steps and well-grounded metrics to form a strong tripartite private-governmentcommunity alliance,” said Angelie Nellas, Senior Biologist, Project Seashore Foundation.
“Protecting people and the environment is a core value at Chevron that underlies the work we do to conserve biodiversity in association with our projects and operations. A healthy ecosystem impacts Chevron’s business in two ways: first, it allows an environment that supports the drawing and creation of energy from nature in a sustainable and respectful way and; second, providing for the well-being and progress of local communities will ultimate contribute to the health of the economy,” explains Raissa Bautista, Chevron Philippines Inc. manager for policy, gov’t and public affairs.

3 years after the creation of Minantaw Marine Park and Sanctuary, the reef is not only showing improved health but the lives of Caubian villagers have seen positive changes as well. Seaweed industry in Cebu gets regular produce from Caubian and the resorts in Olango Island get crabs from Caubian fishers. A nearby resort employs Caubian residents. Money lenders also extend loans to Caubian residents whereas before they stay away from Caubian. Trips to Minantaw Marine Park and Sanctuary are also increasing from visitors from Mandaue City, Mactan Export Processing Zone employees, resort guests (for swimming), development NGOs from Mindanao and LGUs from Zamboanga Peninsula have all visited the Minantaw Marine Park and Sanctuary.

People need to be aware of this valuable Marine treasure which few people even from Cebu know about. The vision for Minantaw Marine Park and Sanctuary is to become a well managed dive destination so that nearby villagers can have an alternative source of livelihood. Danajon Bank’s true value lies on the preservation of its marine habitats for Eco-tourism purposes.
Chevron-Project Seahorse partnership for marine conservation has already garnered several local and international awards. They are the following:

• The AmCham Foundation gave MMPS project a “Most Promising CSR Award” given during its 2nd AmCham CSR Awards.
• Anvil Award of Excellence in 2009 from the Public Relations Society of the Philippines.
• In 2011, it bagged third place in the highly prestigious Asean Champions of Biodiversity Awards.
• Early in 2012, the project bagged the Commendation Award in the most coveted Corporate Responsibility (CR) category at the 2011 Gold Standards Awards in Singapore. Among the 150 entries in the Gold Standard’s 14 categories, only Chevron managed to represent the Philippines.

1. Just Fill out the Cebuana 24K Card Application Form and submit to any Cebuana Lhuillier branch. Bring your your valid ID when you apply for the card.
2. 2 ways to avail the card: (a) Earn 50 reward points or or (b) Pay the Php100 processing fee

Cebuana Lhuillier 24K Card New Benefits and Features:

• 24k cardholders can use their points for Iinterest Payment
• Remittance fee
• e-load for Globe, Smart, Sun, and Bayantel prepaid landlines and Internet, and bills payment. 
• Pay for tuition fees at Jose Rizal University and Mapua Institute of Technology. 
• Make Donation to GMA Kapuso Foundation or The Philippine Red Cross.
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Globe Run4Home 2012 - Cebu Online Registrations at www.globe.com.ph/run or at the Paseo de Ciudad, 1st level, Ayala Center, Cebu City. Globe Run4Home is on March 25, 2012 at the Cebu International Convention Center.
Globe Run for Home, now on its fourth year is a race towards changing lives and making a difference. Globe Run4Home in Cebu inspires more individuals to help build homes, build lives, and build dreams. Through running, you actually help shelter key biodiversity areas, impoverished Filipino families and communities, and endangered animals through Partner-Beneficiares: Gawad Kalinga Foundation, Habitat for Humanity Philippines, Cebu Biodiversity Conservation Foundation and the Philippine Tarsier Foundation.

Globe Run4Home 2012 Cebu Registration Fees* Per Category:
P300 for 3K
P400 for 5K
P500 for 10K
P600 for 15K
P700 for 21K
*The registration fee icludes Race Singlets/Shirts in various sizes, Race bib number, Running timing chip, and Finisher’s Medal for the 21K category.
A portion of the runners’ registration fees will be donated to their beneficiary of choice to support their respective advocacies and programs. Beneficiaries inludes:

• Gawad Kalinga Foundation
• Habitat for Humanity Philippines
• Cebu Biodiversity Conservation Foundation
• Philippine Tarsier Foundation

Globe Run4Home 2012 Cebu Singlets are available for viewing at Paseo de Ciudad, 1st level, Ayala Center. Globe Run4Home Cebu Routes, Globe Run4Home Cebu Mechanics, Globe Run4Home Cebu Online Registrations and full details are available at Run4Home website at www.globe.com.ph/run
Globe Run for Home 2012 in Cebu posted at Cebu Events Blog