CBSi @ 4

Cebu Bloggers Society Incorporated (CBSi) has grown from seed to tree so fast. Look at how the years have zipped by! It was four years ago when it started but it seems like it was just four days ago. That's just the feeling you get when one enjoys great company.

On the night of February 11, 2012, the members of the most organized blogging organization in the Philippines will gather in celebration of their four years of unity in the name of blog, bloggers and blogging. Having the theme "It's More Fun in CBSi", the anniversary will highlight the fun moments that they had. Plus they will have games and give-away givings to all the attendees.

Visayas Blogging Summit 2011 in 24 hours!

The countdown begins to the largest gathering of bloggers in the Philippines; Visayas Blogging Summit 2011! In less than 24 hours, over 300 bloggers from the different regions of Visayas and some parts of Luzon and Mindanao will converge for the one-day summit at  SM City Cebu Trade Hall 1, Cebu Philippines from 8:00am to 6:00pm.

There are so many reasons to come! Learn straight from international and local blogging authorities and meet the icons of our society today! Cebu City Mayo Mike Rama, Managing Director of ABS-CBN Foundation Inc. Gina Lopez, Co-founder of GeiserMaclang Marketing Communications Brad Geiser and eight (8) Miss Earth-Philippines ladies will grace the event.

Read old post here.

Visayas Blogging Summit 2011

Cebu Bloggers Society Incorporated together with SM City Cebu, Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc., and PR Works brings you the most-awaited blogging summit of the year, Visayas Blogging Summit 2011.

If you're a blogger in any format or a blogger-at-heart, you're invited to join this free event on November 26 from 8:00am - 6:00pm at SM City Cebu. Topics ranging from Personal Blogging, Professional Blogging, Social Media Marketing for Business and Social Media Responsibility will be tackled by well-renowned speakers from inside and outside of the country. All of them will carry out their tactics and modules on their way to the peak and will cater your queries about their craft.

Cebu Blog Camp 2011

Calling all bloggers! It's time to gather again in one of the biggest summer blogging events in the province! The Cebu Blog Camp 2011!

Cebu Blog Camp (CBC) is a blogging event primarily held in Cebu. It is organized by the Cebu Bloggers of the Blog and Soul Movement, the educating leg of the Philippine Blog Awards Inc. which has been running for four years. CBC is yet the largest gathering of bloggers in Cebu.

Cebu Bloggers Society

IF YOU'RE looking for a group that flaunts Cebu City, you'll have hundreds of results. One of the line-up of names of those groups would include nothing less than the Cebu Bloggers Society (CBS).

The Cebu Bloggers Society is widely known for it's uniqueness of flaunting Cebu not only to the different parts of the country but to the world as well. So what makes CBS a unique group among the others? Good question! CBS promotes the Queen City of the South in terms of blogging.

Numerous organizations help promote Cebu City through writing, televising, and speech -very common channels of handing down messages to people may it be locally or internationally. These means of communication in promoting Cebu are hard to achieve when you have small budget.

Differ blogging. Blogging as it sounds, is very fun to do. You need less speech, less chattering and less watching. You make your fingers do the talking. Yes! That  unique! Aside from the fact that you only need a creative mind to publish out attractive articles in the net, you can create it all for free.

The Cebu Bloggers Society has transformed the face of blogging in Cebu. Founder Mark Monta has started it all; from quite a number of Information Technology (IT) enthusiasts now comes a group of a hundred Cebuanos gathering for one goal- promote Cebu through blogging.

From simple online journals, our blogs have become vital to the society making us more determined to work further at our best. Blogging at times, is considered as a media and we have turned into media people.


CBS participates both government and non-government activities. Its members have learned and experienced many things that made them better beings in the community. All these and more have made Cebu Bloggers Society a multi-awarded group in Cebu.


Being a member of CBS, I can say that the best thing about the organization is the treatment of one another. The creation of the group turned out to be a creation of a family with members of pure creativity and personalities from photography, to graphics to writing, to encoding, to video and a whole lot more!


Cebu Bloggers Society on 3!
In celebration of the 3rd year founding anniversary of the Cebu Bloggers Society, the group opened its doors to its newest members last February 19, 2011 at PAGCOR, Casino Filipino Parkmall Satellite Branch. The gathering was simple yet a memorable one as members introduced their selves, chattered about their blogs, played games and enjoyed the food prepared on their tables.

Big thanks goes to Mr. Renato Z. Osmeña Jr. of PAGCOR, Casino Filipino Parkmall Satellite Branch for the venue and Holister, Inc. for the overall set-up of the place. You made our celebration successful.

Throughout the years, the Cebu Bloggers Society has and will continue to live up its goal in promoting Cebu Province by means of blogging. Congratulations Cebu Bloggers Society! More power to us all!

SM Funky Bowling

There's something new in bowling! And SM City Cebu has it! The best part? The Cebu Bloggers will get to try it first!

Excitement and fun will dominate at SM City Cebu - Bowling Center on January 14, Friday as it will have its very first Funky Bowling! 

Funky Bowling is a fun style of bowling. Bowlers are challenged to play differently as they will be given a card that would dictate how they are supposed to bowl for each frame.

Watch bloggers release heavy bowling balls blind-folded, squatting, sitting, and so much more!

Bloggers are to enjoy delicious food and are up to win prizes. This is bowling like no other. Everything is set. Cebu Bloggers, are you? See you there!

Bloggers Carol and Give Gifts to Fire Victims

Not later in November of this year, tabloids in Cebu City had similar news headlines. It was all about a fire accident that happened. Houses were burned down in Barangay Duljo-Fatima, Cebu City. Over 213 families lost their belongings.

  

To show concern and love, the members of the Cebu Bloggers Society extended help to the fire victims. Since the Christmas Season is present, the bloggers came up with the idea of caroling and giving donations to the affected families.


Last December 19, 2010, the event took place. It was graced by the band Bethany who rendered songs. At the end of the day, the bloggers successfully put smiles on the faces of the fire victims. 

All hands together for the generous bloggers and sponsors who shared their Christmas blessings in the event:

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Everyone!

Best Cebu Blogs 2010

With the aim to recognize the existence and relevance of blogs, bloggers, and blogging in Cebu, Best Cebu Blogs (BCB) came to inception. On its third wave of annual blogging recognition, it spiced up the local scene of blogging in the Queen City of the South.

An online votation screened down 20 blog entries from 41 nominations last November 26. For the final judgement, each of the Top 20 Bplogs will be appraised by BCB Team's handpicked experienced and credible bloggers from different parts of the country namely Azrael Deasis Coladilla (Luzon), Stanley Cabigas (Visayas), and Avel Manansala (Mindanao).


This year, Best Cebu Blogs Awards will be held at the The Penthouse, Sugbutel Cebu City on December 12, 2010 at 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm. I for one will be there to witness the offline gathering of Cebuano and Cebuana Bloggers.


Something catchy in this event: my blog, adventurouslei.com is part of the Top 20 Blogs. My hopes aren't high but wish me luck :) Thank you so much to all of you who supported my blog by voting it in and encouraging your friends in voting it too.

The 3rd Annual Best Cebu Blogs Awards is made possible by the following:

Co-Presenter

Sugbutel Bed and Bath

Gold Sponsors

Virginia Foods, Orange Brutus

Maribago Bluewater

Amuma Spa

Yehey!

Stir.ph

Silver Sponsor

Timex Philippines Inc.

Donor Sponsors

BigSeed Media Solutions

Pinoyworld.org

Business Partner

Mandaue Chamber of Commerce

Official Online Media Partners

Cebu Bloggers Society, Inc.

Yehey!

Stir.ph

Official Photographer

Alvin Asayas Photography

Official Radio Media Partner

Y101 FM CEBU- Always First

Blog Partners

Bugits.com

FaceCebu.net

EmpressOfDrac.Com

Bjorn Cebuano

Blazin 100.com, 

Presenter

Bjorn iMedia

Adventurouslei on Facebook!

Yes! You've read it right readers! Adventurouslei.blogspot.com is now on facebook. I have made a Facebook fan site for adventurouslei.blogspot.com just a few moments ago.

Go ahead, don't hesitate to hit 'LIKE' button. If you do, you'll get all the updates you need and want for free. All my blog entries that I will be publishing will automatically be flaunted in the said social network.

If you haven't 'LIKEd' it yet, click here to visit the fan page to hit like. You can also be a fan without getting out of this page by simply hitting 'LIKE' button seen in the tab bar in this window.

Until then! GOD SPEED Readers! :D

Academy for International Culinary Arts (AICA)

Get ready Cebu! Get ready for a Primier Culinary Education!

The Academy for International Culinary Arts (AICA) wants you to indulge in Culinary Excellence! The Academy believes in the creative Filipino Culinary Talent. By providing a firm theoretical foundation through 100% hands-on applications, the school ensures that their graduates have the sharper edge to succeed in their careers.

I've always loved food and food creation. In fact, it was my second choice of college course when I was still in the process of choosing one. Being practical, I took up Information Technology instead.

My passion for cooking and baking has never changed that is why I really jumped for joy when I knew that I got the last slot of exclusive ten people to indulge in a culinary experience and food trip in the newly opened international culinary school here in Cebu. 

Ten fortunate people, mostly bloggers,  completed the list. It was already 2:00 in the afternoon and everyone settled themselves in the spacious lecture room of AICA. With me were John, John's Mom, Clarence, Rabsin, Debbie, Sinjin, Vernon, Novell and a friend from Pinoy World.

After being oriented with the basics and happenings of AICA through video-clip-watching, we were divided into two groups. The first group composed of Vernon, John's Mom and Novell. They were tasked to bake Churos under the teaching of Chef Marleen Ong.

On the other hand, the rest of the people were my group-mates. We were tasked to cook Quesadillas and make delicious Salsas under the guidance of Chef Nikko Mabugat and Chef Joe Mike Lontoc.

THE ART BEGAN!

The fun began after wearing Green AICA Aprons. The group were separated because there were different kitchens and facilities to use in the different foods to cook but only a big wall with a big open window parted us- we were all in touch with everyone the whole time.

Each of us had our own work station.

Happy cooking bloggers with Chef Nikko! :)

Even before the food were on its half way to be finished, they already looked and smelled so good!

The Chefs who made the delicious Churos!

 Munching out the Mexican foods, Quesadillas and the Churos! Yum! Yum! Yum!

We feasted our food after all the cooking lessons and talking tales.

Left to right: Cheft Marleen Ong, Chef Niiko Mabugat, Chef Joe Mike Lontoc

EVALUATION

The school is the best culinary school in town. I strongly believe that it's perfect for one who is eager to learn the basics and advances of food creation to study in the academy. With just the food party we had, I could say, everyone who is part of the school really live up their name and labels.

International. The people in the front desk attended the visitors professionally. In the first place, I made mentioned that we were divided into groups. Such act just showed that the Faculty Chefs specialized in specific Culinary Fields. During the cooking part, we were Taught with Premium Grade Ingredients. With what I have observed, the school is truly Equipped with Industry Standard Professional Kitchens and Facilities. Chef Nikko and Chef Mike made us work with our own hands with their eyes on the move of watching us in every cut and add we made- showing indeed, 100% Hands-On Learning Experience. What more could I say? The school limits its students showing Low Student Teacher Ratio- just the perfect way to highlight every detail in a lesson application.

I would like to thank the people who make up AICA Cebu most especially to Chef Nikko Mabugat, Chef Marleen Ong and Chef Joe Mike Lontoc. Big thanks as well goes to my fellow bloggers who made the event so fun and memorable.

CONTACT

Adventurouslei highly recommends you to take Academy for International Culinary Arts as your school this coming opening of school year. Remember always that the best utensil around the Kitchen is a SHARPER MIND. And sharper minds start at the Academy.

AICA will be offering more courses soon. Whatever you're craving, you can surely find it at the Academy for International Culinary Arts. Indulge in Culinary Excellence!

The Academy- Cebu is now accepting Enrollees for the June 2010 batch.  AICA is located at The Gallery, Juan Luna St. corner Golam Drive Mabolo, Cebu City. Visit aicaculinary.com for the latest news and events within the academy.

photo credits: Clarence Mongado
                           The Photoblogger

Cebu Blog Camp 2010

Kick off Summer 2010 by getting techy. Participate in the first ever blog camp here in Cebu dubbed as Cebu Blog Camp 2010 - Blogging, Expressions and Opportunities.

Whether a beginner or an experienced blogger, you are welcome to attend the event. Orient yourself about BLOGGING wherein you can pour out your EXPRESSIONS and how you can get countless OPPORTUNITIES from it.

Know more about blog, blogging & bloggers and meet new Cebuano friends who are too, hooked up in the blogosphere on May 22, 2010 at CAP Auditorium, CAP Complex, Osmeña Boulevard, Cebu City. The program will commence at 7:30 am and will end at 5:30 pm.

Register now by logging on to www.cebublogcamp.com. Hurry! Only 200 seats are available!

The Cebu Blog Camp 2010

is co-presented by

Gold Sponsors

Sponsor and Media Partner

Bronze Sponsors

Geiser Maclang Marketing Communications, Inc.

Custom Wordpress Theme by Padd Solutions

South Florida Party Planner Magazine

Weddings, Quinceanera, Sweet Sixteen and Events Magazine

Winston Delawar Photography, a Premiere South Florida Wedding Photographer

Black Friday Deals by Jehzlau Concepts

Jupiter Suites – Free Internet and Breakfast Hotel in Makati

Media and Institution Partners

Mozilla

RCTV 36 – Official Online and TV Media Partner

Cebu Daily News – Official Print Media Partner

Blog4Reviews

Donors

Jaypee Habaradas of JaypeeOnline.net

Cebu Blog Camp 2010 is an event organized by a group of Cebu Bloggers.

World Bloggers' Day 2010

Calling all bloggers in the world! It's your time to shine this month of May! Yes! You've read it right! It's time to pay tribute to all bloggers in the world! Initiated by the Cebu Bloggers Society (CBS), World Bloggers' Day 2010 comes to time!

Whether you are a newbie or a long time blogger, you are welcome to participate in the event!

Be part of history! Be present at Parkmall, Ouano Avenue, Mandaue City, Cebu this coming May 2, 2010, Sunday at 4:00 pm - 6:00pm.

Computer gadgets and gift certificates are up for the grabs! Dinner is served for free care of Parkmall restaturants!

What more? CBS will be picking one blogger of the night who best look as castaway person in the event so be at your best castaway attire!

It's time to mingle with bloggers settled in the different parts of the country and of the whole world!

It's time to acknowledge our existence and significance and how  influential we are in the online world. Don't dare miss this ultimate gathering of the new form of media in town! See you there!

iBlog: The 6th Philippine Blogging Summit

Calling all bloggers residing in the Philippines! The annual iBlog, Philippine Blogging Summit will have its sixth wave on the month of April!

The sixth installment of  iBlog is slated on April 16 and 17, 2010 at the Malcolm Theater, UP College of Law, UP Diliman, from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm.


iBlog6 will be held in two days time this year. The first day (April 16) is targeted for businesses and entrepreneurs wanting to understand how to tap blogs as a medium to promote their products and services. The second day (April 17) is meant to everyone interested about blogging.


Orient yourself in the world of blogging and internet marketing with speakers who are one of the best bloggers of the country.


Day 1 (April 16, 2010)
9:00 – 9:20 Opening Ceremonies (National Anthem, Welcome)
9:20 – 9:40 Blogging for Business (Janette Toral)
9:45 – 10:05 Tapping Bloggers to Generate Buzz (Jayvee Fernandez)
10:20 to 10:35 BREAK
10:35 – 10:55 Advertising in Blogs (Abe Olandres)
11:10 – 11:40 SPONSOR talk
12:00 – 1:15 LUNCH / NETWORKING


1:15 – 1:35 SEO & Blogging to Promote Your Business (Francis Gary Viray)
1:50 – 2:10 Measuring Blog Buzz (Carlo Ople)
2:25 – 2:45 Legal Concerns in Blogging for Business (JJ Disini)
3:00 – 3:20 BREAK
3:20 – 3:40 Blogger and Advertiser: What is the Win-Win Relationship? (Diana Paterno)
3:55 – 4:15 Online Attraction Marketing (Manuel Viloria)
4:30 RAFFLE and GROUP PICTURE



Day 2 (April 17, 2010)


8:45 Opening Ceremonies (National Anthem & Welcome)
9:00 – 9:20 Blogging 101 (Hannah Villasis)
9:30 – 10:00 Video Blogging 101 (Vince Golangco)
10:15 – 10:35 Photo Blogging 101 (Juned Sonido)
10:50 – 11:05 BREAK
11:05 – 11:40 Political, Online Commentary, Social Media, & Election Blogging 2010 (Marck Ronald Rimorin and Noemi Dado)
12:00 – 1:15 LUNCH & NETWORKING
1:15 – 1:35 (SPONSOR TALK)
1:50 – 2:10 Launching Successful Blog Contests (Jinoe Gavan)
2:25 – 2:45 Blog Policies (UP-ISP)
3:00 – 3:15 BREAK
3:15 – 3:35 Impact of Blogging to the Community (Joseph Gonzales)
3:50 – 4:10 SEO: A Must for Making Money Online (Marhgil Macuha)
4:30 RAFFLE, iBlog Video Contest Winner Announcement, & GROUP PHOTO


Take note that you have to register to be able to join the event. Check out the official site of iblog for more information about the event.

Bloggers' Night

TODAY IS A very exciting day for me because it's the time that I'm scheduled to be with the CBS members (to think that I am not one of them literally) in a gathering tonight. After preparing myself at home in Talisay for school, I headed to SM. I attended my classes from 2:00 pm to 5:40 pm and then roamed around the Northwing with Sinjin and Karen. A few minutes to 6:00 pm, Sinjin and I taxied ourselves to Neo Neo Food Grill located at Mabolo.

What we were there for was a politics-oriented event. We were like attending a seminar about the brief basics and vital facts voters should know about the upcoming May 2010 Elections in the country. The discussion of topics commenced after we took our dinner. The media was there. My friend Sinjin and I were interviewed by an ABS-CBN News reporter. GMA interviewed some of the organizers of the meeting. We were able to know so much about the differences and importance of an automated election. It was a wit-filled night!

Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS)

Scanning process

After all the registered voters in a certain place cast and scan their votes, PCOS automatically prints out a receipt-like paper -a summary of the total number of votes corresponding to the different national and local candidates in seconds.

One of the speakers of the event elaborates to the attendees on how quick the results are counted and how important following instructions are.

Part of the event was the demonstration of how the election entries (votes) are going to be processed & transfered and a testing of  Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS). It was one informative night indeed! The event ended past 8:00 in the evening. We all parted ways after a few picture taking.

Some of them went straight home while the others jammed together at I.T. Park. The last ones who were my companions in waiting for a ride were Noelle and Kristian. I would like to thank Kristian for the company that time! I went home in my Lola's house in San Nicholas via taxi. Check out these cool stuff I brought home from the gathering! All the attendees of the event were given freebies and I for one -even thought I'm not yet an official member the Cebu Bloggers Society, I got too! Wweeeee!

After fixing myself around 9:00 pm, I chattered with my friends and cousins in the place. They told me about a dance audition tomorrow at ABS-CBN. Honestly, I was interested with the auditions when I first knew about it on television but I had second thoughts in pushing through with the plan of making a shot. Because my friends were very eager for me to join, I pursued the affirmative side.

To have a good audition on the next day (the second and final day of scheduled auditions), I had to have a dance music. I preferred hip hop. It was already around 10:00 when the crew looked for music for me. *Wweeee! How helpful!* It was then that I had the feeling that I should really take the auditions well. We find it hard to have the right or perharps perfect song to use until 12:00 dawn. *lol* We really searched that long. We were very eager. The guys were not sleepy anyway and the had nothing to do. They must have thought of wasting their time in a way like helping people out. Bwahhaha!

Believe it or not, I began my dance practice pass 12:00 midnight and ended before 4:00 dawn. I was uber tired considering that I attended an event right before I got myself in Lola's house. I took a nap by 4:00 am and planned to wake up before 7:00 to have another round of practice. *laugh*

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photo credits: Noelle and Sinjin