11:39 AM, February 6, 2012, the city of Cebu was struck with an earth-shaking intensity 6.9, a magnitude deemed very alarming to Cebuanos that lasted in 30 seconds. Casualties were not reported so far within Metro Cebu, but intense damages were experienced in the cities and towns of Negros, a neighboring island west of [...]
How’s life in Cebu in 2011?
January 4, 2012 By 1 Comment
iPhone 4S is now in the Philippines
December 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The launch of iPhone 4S was done simultaneously in major cities in the Philippines. Two giant telecom companies made the launching on the same date, December 15, 2011. PNoy was made the first Subscriber of iPhone 4S by Globe while Smart made a launching part of the same unit from Apple at midnight in [...]
A bigger SM in SRP: SM Seaside City Cebu
December 16, 2011 By 1 Comment
SM City Cebu has often been dubbed as a city within a city. It is one of the largest malls in the Philippines and factually, the largest mall in the Visayas. It has landed among the 15 largest malls in the world. With a land area of 11.8 hectares encompassing the 268,611 square meter of [...]
CITE: Shaping the Future of Deserving Youths for Technical Education and Entrepreneurial Professionalism
December 15, 2011 By 1 Comment
The stairway to CITE is among the challenging steep steps that I have trudged through going to the main building of CITE Technical Institute, Inc., which happens to be on the hills of Talamban, Cebu City. I took these steps in strides and sometimes with considerable exhaustion—though the accelerating concrete steps could be taken as [...]
Virtual Staff Finder Ties Up With Cebu Bloggers Society, Inc. for VBS2011
November 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Recognized as the No.1 provider of outsourced virtual assistants, Virtual Staff Finder makes its presence known offline in its partnership with Cebu Bloggers Society for the biggest gathering of bloggers in the Visayas and, undoubtedly, in the Philippines: the Visayas Bogging Summit 2011. Virtual Staff has formally tied up with Cebu Bloggers Society, Inc. for [...]
Paquiao won by unanimous decision– nope, it's majority
November 13, 2011 By 1 Comment
Pacquiao won by unanimous decision with judges’ tally of 114-114, 115-113 and 116-112 over Juan Manuel Marquez. It was a close fight between Pacquiao and Marquez with many Filipinos (if not all) hoping for Manny to win despite unprecedented jabs and paws in combos from Marquez in many rounds. I was watching a liveblog stream via [...]
Why You Must Attend Visayas Blogging Summit 2011
November 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
It’s less than two weeks to go for Visayas Blogging Summit 2011. For those who haven’t had a clear-cut understanding of what Visayas Blogging Sumit is, then you are in for a good learning as this event will be about learning things in blogging and social media. Just like other Filipinos who don’t want to [...]
CITE Runners at CEDf-IT Fun Run 2011
November 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Bjorn Cebuano joined again another Fun Run this year with CEDf-IT Fun Run 2011. He is with a bunch of CITE Runners Club who are avid runners and sportsmen. The Fun Run was mostly attended by “callboys” and “callgirls” and yuppies in the IT sector of Cebu. However, the running event was also open to [...]
Chrome is the No. 1 Browser in the Philippines
November 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Based on StatCounter Global Stats, Chrome from Google is the leading browser in the Philippines with a market share of 57.41% as of early November, 2011. This might change in the coming months and years but it is amazing how Chrome has managed to beat Firefox and has even made Internet Explorer in [...]