List of MMFF 2011 Awards

Taking home the huge awards was the movie Manila Kingpin: The Asiong Salonga Story in the Awards night of the 37th Metro Manila Film Festival. The event was held at Resorts World Manila Performing Arts Theater in Pasay. A total of 11 trophies were bagged by Manila Kingpin  which includes: Best Picture, Best Screenplay for  Roy Iglesias and Ray Venura, Gatpuno Villegas Cultural Award, Best Supporting Actor for  John Regala, and Best Director.

 The Best Actress was Maricel Soriano for their movie Yesterday Today Tomorrow. Earlier, it was reported that the actress will not attend the awards night along with the other actors after the controversial disqualification of their movie by the festival committee.  The disqualification came about after knowing that  the movie violated the rules of MMFF. In the Best Actor category, Dingdong Dantes  was the winner, however the actor was not present. He starred in the suspense-thriller movie Segunda Mano with Kris Aquino.

Here is the list of Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) 2011 Winners:

Best Picture:

Manila Kingpin: The Asiong Salonga Story

2nd Best Picture:

Enteng ng Ina Mo

3rd Best Picture:

Shake, Rattle and Roll 13

Best Director:

Gary dela Cruz (Asiong Salonga)

Best Actress:

Maricel Soriano (Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow)

Best Actor:

Dingdong Dantes (Segunda Mano)

Best Supporting Actor:

John Regala (Asiong Salonga)

Best Supporting Actress:

Eugene Domingo (My Househusband)

Best Child Performer:

Bugoy Cariño (Shake, Rattle & Roll 13)

Best Original Story:

Shake, Rattle & Roll 13: Lunod

Best Screenplay:

Roi Iglesias and Rey Ventura (Asiong Salonga)

Gatpuno Antonio Villegas Cultural Award:

Manila Kingpin: The Asiong Salonga Story

Best Production Design:

Manila Kingpin: The Asiong Salonga Story

Best Editing:

Jason Cahapay and Ryan Orduna (Asiong Salonga)

Best Musical Score:

Nonong Buencamino (Asiong Salonga)

Best Sound Recording:

Mike Idioma (Asiong Salonga)

Best Visual Effects:

Riot, Inc. (Ang Panday 2)

Best Make-Up:

Enteng ng Ina Mo

Best Original Theme Song:

“La Paloma” by Ely Buendia (Asiong Salonga)

Best Cinematography:

Carlo Mendoza (Asiong Salonga)

Gender Sensitivity Award:

My Househusband, Ikaw Na!

Best Float:

Panday 2

Success of VBS 2011

Yes! I was there…

The Visayas Blogging Summit 2011 was successfully done with the passion, learning & smile.  Cebu Bloggers Society Inc.  organized the event in partnership with the following sponsor(SM City Cebu, )  It was a full blast of speakers that trigger me blog & blog & blog! I’ve learned something new about blog as a newbie. I’ve been blogging for 2 years. But I know that there’s a lot of stuff about blog that I need to know. The VBS 2011 was a big opportunity I didn’t missed. It was done perfectly!!!

It's Time BCB

Best Cebu Blog 2011 is the most awaited event I’ve waited for so long. WHY?  Because this year I am nominated  as one of the http://www.bestcebublogs.com. I don’t have any idea about it. Why not I try to be one of them? To be on the next level in the world of BLOG! It’s really an admiration why I started to blog. I admired so much with my dearest  friend Jaysee John Pingkian, he’s the best person I’ve meet in my life. He always told me to blog & blog even if your not that good but it’s enough.  http://mcjobz.blogspot.com/ being nomineted for Best Cebu Blog 2011. Now Best Cebu Blog announced the 40 bloggers to be qualify as Best Cebu Blog Awards Finalists. 

I’m so proud that I’m one of the nominees in both Personal and Travel Category and YES! I will be attending the awards night I’m a scared & shy because it’s my first time. I’m just hoping for the best, & also hoping that I will win for the raffle.. hehe..!!! hopefully! :-) 

The 4th Annual Best Cebu Blogs Awards December 9, 2011 @ 5pm – SM City Cebu Conference Hall A

In partnership with the following sponsor   Nokia Philippines, Maribago Bluewater Beach Resort, SM City Cebu, Timex Philippines, GT Cosmetics Manufacturing, GT & Me, Globe Telecom, Wacky Tots PhotoBooth,Orange Brutus, Cebu Bloggers Society Inc., Empress Of Drac, Bjorn Cebuano, Face Cebu, Pulso.PH andOld’s Cool Online.

Most Awaited Event of this year

Yes! I was there…

     

The Visayas Blogging Summit 2011 was successfully done with the passion, learning & smile.  Cebu Bloggers Society Inc.  organized the event in partnership with the following sponsor (SM City Cebu,Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc.,PR Works,GeiserMaclang).

me with Jaysee John Pingkian & Jomar Lipon

      It was a full blast of speakers that trigger me to be onto it and blog & blog & blog! I’ve learned something new about blog as a newbie. I’ve been blogging for 2 years. But I know that there’s a lot of stuff about blog that I need to know. The VBS 2011 was a big opportunity I didn’t missed. It was done perfectly!!!

The Visayas Blogging Summit 2011

 The most awaited event of this year Visayas Blogging Summit 2011 will be held here in cebu. This coming November 26, 2011 at SM City Cebu. In partnership with SM City Cebu, Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc., PR Works and Geiser Maclang.

CBSi  represents an ongoing lifelong commitment. Its mission is to promote Cebu’s overall beauty through blogging and social networking and at the same time be a productive group and productive individuals towards nation building.

This year’s event will be my first time to attend VBS 2011. My friend of mine Jaysee John Pingkian told me how successful the event last year in ILOILO. He inspired me to continue doing my personal blog.  Topics that would be tackled on this event would be divided into 4 segments namely: Personal Bloggging, Professional Blogging, Social Media Marketing for Business and Social Media Responsibility. There will also be panel discussion and Q&As from the participants.

 Personal essays in which blogger  from all over the world, living different lives and working in various fields, reach a pivotal moment or series of events that triggers within them the acknowledgement that they simply cannot continue on in the same manner.  Honestly, I’m not good in writing an article. But in expressing myself through blogging would not matter for me if I’m in wrong grammar.  Who care’s? It’s my personal blog.

Attending this coming event would be an achievement for me to be on the next level. 

 So, what are you waiting for?

Start  to socialize and explore the world of blogging.  You will not going home without something to bring. The experience itself.  World Class Speakers! Loads of Prizes and Freebies! Largest Social Media Event! Register now! http://vbs2011.cebubloggers.com/participants/

Paskong Pinoy

Christmas is the time when we get to eat foods especially made for this season. Whether these are for Christmas parties or for Christmas reunions or for the Noche Buena (celebrated on Christmas Eve), we look forward to these times for the fun or for the simple joy of partaking a meal with people whom we love or are friendly with.

Christmas in the Philippines is no exception. In fact, Filipinos are people who are really known to love their food, especially during this special season. We love food so much that if we’re going to have a Christmas party in the house, we’ll literally spend days preparing the food. Despite the rising popularity of catered foods, we still prefer to make our own, from scratch.

 MCJ featured are some of the favorite foods we love to eat during christmas season.

Lechon

Otherwise called the roasted pig, this is a staple food for any kind of celebrations such as Christmas, birthdays, weddings and fiestas.

Leche Flan

It has two main ingredients: egg and milk and is a favorite dessert for parties, no matter how big or small the party is. It is a great take home food too.

Ham

The most common is the Hamon de bola or a ball-shaped cured ham. You can also have the pear-shaped ham or the chicken ham. You can glaze it with pineapple juice / sauce, fry it or bake it.

Queso de bola

Castanas

These are best served newly-roasted and hot. Of course, there’s the tedious process of trying to peel the chestnuts but it’s worth it just to get a taste of this delicious food.

Kalamay

a sticky sweet dessert made from glutinous rice, grated coconut, margarine, brown sugar and even peanut butter. It is topped by fried coconut milk.

Puto Bumbong

This is what we commonly eat after the early dawn mass called “Simbang Gabi”. It is made from ground rice (in purple color) and is cooked in bamboo tubes over special steamer-cookers. When they are removed from the bamboo tubes, they are then placed on banana leaves, where they are spread with butter and sprinkled with grated coconut and sugar.

Christmas Fruits

Christmas is the time when we see an abundance of fruits in the country, such as grapes, oranges, apples, mangoes, banana, cherries, papaya, etc. If you can’t have them fresh, there’s always the fruit salad

Bibingka

this one is made from glutinous (malagkit) rice. In appearance, it looks like the pancake, however this is where their similarity ends. This one is cooked on a special clay pot, wrapped with banana leaves and with live coals above and underneath it. White cheese (kesong puti) and salted duck eggs (itlog na maalat) complete this delicious native dessert.

Scholars Upscale Social Marketing To Promote Hero Farmers

Can you imagine life without farmers? A team of scholars from the Young Minds Academy (YMA) Season 5 leadership program can’t. They harnessed the power of marketing strategies mostly through the new media to promote a farmer empowerment project in Consolacion, Cebu. Because of the on-going training that the farmers are undergoing, they will soon yield better and abundant harvests in their respective farms all over Cebu.

The online community has been abuzz with the iluvfarmers farmers campaign that champions hero farmers in Cebu.

About Kabalikat sa Kabuhayan

Team CPMPC of the YMA program of the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. created a campaign for the “Kabalikat sa Kabuhayan.” The project aims to educate farmers in vegetable and fruit production and innovations as part of the poverty alleviation goals of the Municipality of Consolacion.



Around 120 farmers go to the 5,000 square meter demo farm site in Brgy. Danglag to learn from the trainers from Harbest Agribusiness Corporation and the Department of Agriculture Regional Offices.



The program’s aim is to empower our farmers with knowledge to improve farm practice and increase yield, thereby providing better income opportunities.



The project started last September 11 and is set to end on November 18, 2011. This has been done in 18 other project sites all over the country as well, and as of writing, graduated more than two thousand farmers.

About iluvfarmers

The Team CPMPC scholars of YMA drafted and implemented a massive campaign to help these farmers gain social awareness and support from the public with the parameters set by RAFI which is 1,000 likes on the Facebook page and 10,000 peso donation or signature of commitment within a one month period.



But instead of focusing on achieving the goals, they turned to the notion that the quality of interaction and support they get is more important especially within the deadline.



As part of the marketing strategy, they branded their campaign as “iluvfarmers” to imply the need for people to appreciate our farmers who are considered as unsung heroes. Meticulous planning and execution was done from designing the logo, content creation and development, setting of specific goals, art direction of campaign materials such as online posters, advertisements, teasers, blog posts, endorsements from different personalities and regular updates in the social networking sites. They also went to the farm demo site and worked with the farmers themselves under extreme weather conditions and poor classroom setting.



The scholars themselves underwent input sessions with social marketing experts in the region today.



They created a Facebook page with a custom designed landing page which can be accessed at http://fb.me/iluvfarmers where details of the program and how you can support the campaign and the farmers are placed. They also created a Twitter account http://twitter.com/iluvfarmers where conversations and interactions are done not only with netizens but as well as Agriculture and Farming organizations all over the world. To curate the beautiful life stories of the farmers and to regularly update the supporters with the latest developments of the project, Team CPMPC scholars also had created a blog site http://iluvfarmers.blogspot.com for better content and brand establishment.





The iluvfarmers Campaign is being spearheaded by Jaysee John R. Pingkian, Lorbe Catadman, Babykit Marie Nunez, Irish Nunez and John Rhecel Solon members of the Team CPMPC of the YMA Season 5.

Why you should help?

Farming is not as fun as you would experience through games like Farmville. It actually takes a lot of effort and life as we know it and some people have not only considered it as livelihood but life in itself.



The project needs to sustain because they have learned to pursue a reliable source of income with very little capital through the technologies and knowledge imparted to them.



They need not only awareness from people but as well as donations in money or in kind such as farming tools and fertilizers, vegetable and fruit seeds and seedlings because after the training they are expected to apply their knowledge unto their respective farm lands.



Keep in mind that they are also the providers of their families.



They also need social awareness because little attention and support is given to these people whose efforts are barely recognized and compensated for the amount of work they are doing.

How can you help?

4 Steps to Help Them!

1. LIKE and SHARE this page! COMMENT on photos and posts as well!
2. DONATE your Facebook or Twitter Status:

• They work hard to provide us food. We can help them do better. FOLLOW @iluvfarmers and LIKE http://fb.me/iluvfarmers 
• Somewhere in the mountains are heroes who work tirelessly to provide us and their families. FOLLOW @iluvfarmers and LIKE http://fb.me/iluvfarmers
• Facebook is not just for emo stuff. It could also be used to support our hero farmers! FOLLOW @iluvfarmers and LIKE http://fb.me/iluvfarmers
• Or you could CREATE YOUR CREATIVE STATUS and post it on the Facebook page so they could feature you!

1. FOLLOW us on Twitter http://twitter.com/iluvfarmers
2. DONATE or ask people to donate money, farm tools, farm supplies, seedlings or seeds.
• Contact iluvfarmers Campaign Ambassador Lorbe Catadman: 09299613737

Farmer's in Cultivating a Vital Role

"Farmworkers play a vital role in cultivating the food we eat every day". Even though 85 percent of our fruits and vegetables are harvested by hand, farmworkers remain largely invisible.

Agricultural labor includes planting, cultivating, harvesting and preparing crops for market or storage. Afarmer’s work can be very hard. Hours are long, often sunrise to sunset. During planting and harvesting seasons, crop farmers rarely have days off. The rest of the year, they sell their crops, fix machinery, and plan for the next year.

The Philippines is still primarily an agricultural country despite the plan to make it an industrialized economy by 2000. Most citizens still live in rural areas and support themselves through agriculture. The country’s agriculture sector is made up of 4 sub-sectors: farming, fisheries, livestock, and forestry.

The country’s main agricultural crops are rice, corn, coconut, sugarcane, bananas, pineapple, coffee, mangoes, tobacco, and abaca. Secondary crops include peanut, cassava, camote(a type of rootcrop), garlic, onion, cabbage, eggplant, calamansi(a variety of lemon), rubber, and cotton. The year 1998 was a bad day year for ariculture because of adverse weather conditions. The Philippines exports its agricultural products around the world, including the United States, Japan, Europe, and ASEAN countries.

"Farmworkers play a vital role in cultivating the food we eat every day"

"Helps the Surrounding Clean and Green"

"Our Contemporary"

MAJOR EXPORT PRODUCTS

● Coconut Oil & other coconut products

● Fruits

● Vegetables

● Bananas

● Prawns(a type of shrimp)

● Cavendish banana

● Cayenne pineapple

● Tuna

● Seaweed

● Carrageen

One of the most pressing concerns of the agricultural sector is the rampant conversation of agricultural land into golf courses, residential subdivisions, and industrial parks of resorts.

 "source of income"

Small land-holders find it more profitable to sell their land to developers in exchange for cash specially since they lack capital for seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, and wages for hiring workers to plant and harvest the crops.

"Hardworking"

Another concern is farmer’s continued reliance on chemical-based fertilizers or pesticides that have destroyed soil productivity over time. In recent years however, farmers have been slowly tuning to organic fertilizer, or at least to a combination of chemical and organic inputs in addition, environmental damage is another major concern.

http://iluvfarmers.blogspot.com/

Farming is not as fun as Farmville. Somewhere in the mountains are unsung heroes who work so hard without complaining so they could provide us with food basic needs for their families at home.

ILUVfarmers is a fundraising and awareness campaign spearheaded by the Team CPMPC scholars of the Ramon Aboitiz Inc. for the “Kabalikat sa Kabuhayan” program of the Municipality of Consolacion.

What is Kabalikat sa Kabuhayan?

Kabalikat sa Kabuhayan is a farmer empowerment program in the Philippines that aims to give local farmers proper trining to yield abundant and qualify fruits and veggies.

It is currently being done in the Municipality of Consolacion with over 180 farmers. Every Friday, Farmers gather at the farm demo site in a 5,000 square meter agricultural land in Baragay Danglang, Consolacion to take part in the training given by Harbest Agribusiness Corporation. 

The program has graduated more than 2,000 farmers nationwide in different farm sites. Because of it, farmers have learned about intensitive dual-tech hands-on traiing on commercial production technology for different vegetables and short-term fruits such as melon, watermelon, cucumber, eggplant, squash, ampalaya, sweet corn and papaya.

Iluvfarmers is another project of the Young Minds Academy (YMA) Season5 Scholars of the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (RAFI). Team4 Generation A Team CPMPC members are Jaysee John R. Pingkian, Lorbe Catadman, Babykit Marie R. Nuñez, Irish L. Nuñez and John Rhecel V. Solon.

For more info:

FACEBOOKhttp://facebook.com/iluvfarmers

TWITTERhttp://twitter.com/iluvfarmers

 BLOGhttp://iluvfarmers.blogspot.com

Basilica Minore Del Santo Nino Museum Cebu City

 Aimed to preserve the Catholic Heritage, the Basilica Minore del Santo Nino museum was created inside the Basilica which is known 

to be the oldest church in the Philippines.

The place that usually attracts tourists, foreigner or native alike, reflects and showcases the history of Christianity in Cebu. The museum was formerly housed in one of the rooms on the first storey of the church but was relocated under the pilgrim’s center. It was opened for public showing since 1965 and has been a major sightseer attraction for being related to the reverence of the image of the holy child, the Santo Nino.

Another reason for its establishment is the preservation of artifacts owned by the Augustinian friars such as the century-old furniture, and other antique objects , vestments worn by the icon of the holy child that had been contributed by various devotees over the centuries. On display also re religious statues and relics; several playing objects said to be gifts to Baby Jesus, various images of the Santo Nino from other parts of the country and the world, ecclesiastical books, also religious artworks, liturgical vessels, jewelry and large Santo Nino rosary of 15 beads.

Interested viewers could easily reached the place through public utility jeepneys, a taxi or can even take a hike from historic Colon street and find the area in less than 30 minutes. The museum is open from 8 am to 5 pm and closed during Wednesdays. An entrance fee of P10 for adult and P5 for children is required to have a glance inside.