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November 29th, 2011, 05:18 PM

ALI plans to integrate business, IT parks
By Katlene O. Cacho

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

AYALA Land Inc. (ALI) recently launched Cebu Park District, a new brand that aims to promote further its two major developments here, the Cebu Business Park and Cebu I.T. Park (formerly Asiatown I.T. Park).

ALI president and chairman of Cebu Holdings Inc. Antonino Aquino last week said the new brand is meant to uplift the image of Cebu’s twin business districts as a “complete destination in itself yet complementing each other to create the premier
district of business, leisure and living in the region.”

He said the new branding would help them reinforce the firm’s footing in the real estate industry in the Southern Philippines.

Aquino compared Makati and Bonifacio Global City with CBP and Cebu I.T. Park, which have similar integrated developments. “We want to replicate the success of our developments in Manila here in Cebu,” Aquino said.

“Cebu Park District is a testimony to the company’s proven track record of building integrated cities that offer diversity, vibrancy, and dynamism. Already recognized as the city’s leading destination for shopping, dining, and recreation, on top of being a thriving business hub, efforts are now underway to integrate CBP with Cebu I.T. Park,” ALI said.

Aquino said the Cebu Park District will be a home of an integrated urban community.

“Our intent is to continue to build toward this vision: to introduce people to a mixed-use and integrated living concept where the live-work-play equity comes to life.”

more >> http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/business/2011/11/29/ali-plans-integrate-business-it-parks-193143

diehardbisdak

November 29th, 2011, 06:05 PM

^^ i want a monorail between CBP and CITP...heheh!

Sinjin P.

November 29th, 2011, 07:25 PM

^ Like Sentosa's ? :lol:

E-Jeeps or other similar E-Vehicles might be rolled out soon to provide free interconnection between the two ;)

zeargs

November 29th, 2011, 11:11 PM

Alcoy
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6110/6409771881_c046546ba0_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/markstravelandadventure/6409771881/)
Alcoy Cebu - National Highway Winding Road (http://www.flickr.com/photos/markstravelandadventure/6409771881/) by Marks Photography (http://www.flickr.com/people/markstravelandadventure/), on Flickr

dili ba Boljoon ni bai? dba Club Fort Med ni nga resort?

junstein

November 30th, 2011, 01:30 AM

Manila (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN)- Baguio City in northern Luzon in the Philippines is most vulnerable to climate change of the four cities outside the National Capital Region that were studied by the World Wide Fund for Nature-Philippines.
A Climate Risk Assessment Study made by the WWF and the Bank of the Philippine Islands Foundation Inc. of the cities of Baguio, Cebu, Iloilo, and Davao showed that the northern Luzon metropolis is most vulnerable to extreme weather events.
According to the study, this was due to Baguio City's density and amount of rainfall that it gets every year. Of the four cities surveyed, Baguio City, also known as the country's Summer Capital, is the only that is on the direct path of the typhoons, which usually hit Central and Northern Luzon.
Davao was seen as the least vulnerable among the cities with room for sustainable, integrated area development, the WWF said.
Although Iloilo is rapidly becoming urban and is flood-prone, it has managed to keep its population growth down to 1.53 percent, addressing the population density issue.
Cebu, dubbed the Queen City of the South, remains prominent in manufacturing and trade industries and as such has an opportunity to reinvent itself with investments to "climate-proof" infrastructure and technology to strengthen its current economic supply chains, the WWF study said.

hans boy

November 30th, 2011, 02:05 AM

^^
Cebu is just so blessed! Amen!

wakeuptoreality

November 30th, 2011, 04:29 AM

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Tune Hotel Cebu (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tunehotels/6428168175/) by Tune Hotels.com (http://www.flickr.com/people/tunehotels/), on Flickr

from their facebook page:
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LordCarnal

November 30th, 2011, 04:59 AM

i hope for the sake of Tomas' detractors that the Ciudad project will bring nothing but positivity. because as someone who personally uses the ban-tal road every work day, I can attest that even a single tiny sports car leaving the compounds of the Cebu Country Club and headed towards Ayala can literally stop the traffic flow on both sides of the street. ten-second stops at the country club area can stuff the flyover and even cause a jam in front of the BIR.

i hope that tomas is indeed wrong and that the flow of traffic will not be affected in any way. cause the way i see it, I'd have to add 40 minutes to my travel time every day just to get to country mall. and that's just lame.

It's also a matter of strictly enforcing traffic rules Ley.

I used to traverse the BanTal road going to work before and I have observed that that part of the road starting from the Archbishop Reyes flyover all the way to Paradise Village is divided by double-yellow lines.

The double lines mean that no car should be allowed to cross the other part of the street so as not to hamper the free flow of traffic.

But it seems that CITOM is not strictly enforcing the rule hence the traffic.

Thus with these double yellow lines, if you are coming from Banilad or Talamban, you are not supposed to make a left turn if you want to go to CrossRoads or to the Shell gasoline station.

Same thing if you are coming from CrossRoads or the Shell gasoline station, you are not supposed to cross the street and make a left turn to go to Cebu City.

It's either you go to the Banilad flyover in Foodland and make a U-turn beneath it or just go to Mandaue City via A.S. Fortuna Street and find a way to get back to Cebu City. But then again a lot are violating this rule because they don't want to travel far.

As for the Cebu Country Club and the Aboitiz Corporate Center, I hope CITOM will also disallow vehicles coming from these facilities from crossing the street. They should just make a U-turn beneath the flyover in Foodland or go to Mandaue City.

CITOM also disallows vehicles coming from Cebu City to make a left turn going to Gaisano Country Mall, or vehicles from Gaisano Country Mall making a left turn going to Talamban or Banilad but only at certain periods. I hope they will make the ban permanent so that traffic will be free-flowing.

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As for the CICC it looks bad obviously because no funds can be released to improve it after the string of charges that have been filed. I heard that the contractor was not paid too.

So if there's anyone to blame for the CICC looking bad, then it should be Tomas and the CICC critics who are preventing money from being used to expand, beautify, and improve it or repair the damages brought about by time.

.:.

slerz

November 30th, 2011, 05:14 AM

I just hope (kung dili man gani na politics iyang tuyo) i regulate sad nang pag tukod og mga Hypermarkets along N Bacalso. Although dili naman siya Mayor pero ipakita sad unta niya ang iyang concern sa traffic dihang dapita sa south highway kay pareha ra gyud tawn nga daghan kaayog mag yawyaw og ma late gikan sa south tungod na sa ka traffic sa N Bacalso pero nganong ang Ciudad raman iyang gipakamatyan? Mo pabor ko ni Tomas kung fair lang sad siya sa ubang dapit sa dakbayan kung concern man gani gyud siya sa traffic situation, tagaan sad niyag gibug aton ang pareho nga mga scenario sa dakbayan...
Kanang sa Escario sad, nganong wa man sad siya nakpakabana anang Escario Central gitukod nga grabe naman sad na ka traffic ang Escario... :ohno: Kay ang tinuod, NAMULITIKA na's Tomas which is not good for Cebu already. He's not concern with the peole but he's concern of himself nga dili siya mapildi sa iyang kaawah...haaayst!

Di sad ko kaingon nga detractor ko ni Tomas pero kay nakita nako nga di nasad mao na iyang gipang buhat...
Ingnon talang nuon nga ang uban diri, diehard kaayo sa mga politiko nga bisag sayop na, duphan gihapon... they're public servants, never treat them as IDOLS...:D

stephencan

November 30th, 2011, 05:19 AM

Alcoy
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Alcoy Cebu - National Highway Winding Road (http://www.flickr.com/photos/markstravelandadventure/6409771881/) by Marks Photography (http://www.flickr.com/people/markstravelandadventure/), on Flickr

dli mani Alcoy. Boljoon mani. ^^ pirmi mi ngari taga fiesta.

Wolfranz

November 30th, 2011, 05:27 AM

slerz

November 30th, 2011, 05:34 AM

di makita bai...

edit:

thanks sa update bai :okay:

Wolfranz

November 30th, 2011, 05:35 AM

^^resizing kay dako ra kaayo..hehe

Wolfranz

November 30th, 2011, 05:36 AM

NEW LAMP POSTS AT OSMENA BOULEVARD

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diehardbisdak

November 30th, 2011, 06:50 AM

DFA to open soon in Mandaue’s Pacific Mall
Sunstar Online
30 November 2011

PASSPORT applicants in Central Visayas can look forward to improved services in a more convenient setting when the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) opens its new Regional Consular Office at the Pacific Mall-Super Metro in Mandaue City next month.

In a press statement, Gaisano said the P13.5-million passport processing facility, located on the top level of Pacific Mall, will be turned over to the DFA as scheduled tomorrow, Dec. 1, and is expected to serve the public by Dec. 12.

“Those who have seen the existing DFA passport office in Cebu will be in for a big surprise when they see the new consular office in Mandaue City,” Gaisano said. “What we will have in Pacific Mall is a modern facility that will serve as the flagship of all DFA offices in the Visayas.”

source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/business/2011/11/29/dfa-open-soon-mandaue-s-pacific-mall-193145

^^ nice daw ang facilities but kalayo na oy kung mag renew sa passport or getting one for those who don't have passport

:D

miyay

November 30th, 2011, 07:01 AM

dili nila i keep ang old place? kalayo na :(

kLyxx

November 30th, 2011, 07:04 AM

after all the beautifications, i hope there will also be uniformity in the cuts of those trees. :) para limpyu najud tan.awn.. dli lang sad unta muabot sa point nga maihap nlng ang dahun nga mahabilin...

Sinjin P.

November 30th, 2011, 07:14 AM

dili ba Boljoon ni bai? dba Club Fort Med ni nga resort?

yeah, the Southern Bend is so prominent in the photo

diehardbisdak

November 30th, 2011, 07:16 AM

NEWSIM is now in Cebu City
The New Simulator Center of the Philippines Inc. is for Advanced maritime upgrading of skills and assessment of competencies of seafarers.

Courses:

DECK COURSES
Ship Simulator and Bridge Teamwork with BRM
Ship Handling and Maneuvering in Critical Conditions (Advance SSBT)
Electronic Chart Display Information System (w/ AIS)
Simulator Training in Collision Avoidance (w/ AIS) (FOR OIC)
Simulator Training in Automatic Identification Systems
Bridge Team Management
Radar Navigation, Radar Plotting and Use of Arpa
Radar Simulator Course

MANAGEMENT Level Course
Function 1: Advanced Navigation
Function 2: Advanced cargo Handling and Stowage
Function 3: Advanced Shipboard Operation and Management

ENGINE COURSES
Engine Room Simulator Course w/ ERRM
Engine Room Simulator Course for Ratings
Engine Room Resource Management
Engine Team Management
Control Engineering (FOR OIC)
Pneumatics / Hydraulics (FOR OIC)
Auxiliary Machinery (FOR OIC)

MANAGEMENT Level Course
Function 1: Marine Engineering
Function 2: Electrical, Electronic, and Control Engineering
Function 3: Maintenance and Repair
Function 4: Advanced Shipboard Operation and Management

MEDICAL COURSES
Medical Emergency First Aid
Medical Care

SECURITY COURSES
Port Facility Security Officer Course
Company Security Officer Course
Ship Security Officer Course
Ship Security Awareness Course

SPECIALIZED & CUSTOMIZED COURSES
Ship Handling & Maneuvering with BRM/BTM (for PCC, VLCC, Bulk Carrier, Twin Screw and General Cargo Vessel)
Crew Resource Management
Shipboard Environmental Management System
Shipboard Management and Leadership
Trim and Stability
Simulator Training in Tug Handling and Manuevering
Vetting Inspection

MARINE POLLUTION COURSES
Marine Pollution and Prevention (MARPOL 73/78 Annexes 1 & 2)
Marine Pollution and Prevention (MARPOL 73/78 Annexes 1 to 6 )
Marine Pollution and Prevention (MARPOL 73/78 Annexes 3 & 6)

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:D

kLyxx

November 30th, 2011, 07:25 AM

Wow!! NewSim diay ang mugamit ata nga building? I've been waiting for some updates kung unsa nga business ang naa ana nga building.. mejo daugay naman gud since nahuman na. :D

kato sang usa ka building tapad sa jollibee escario... nahuman nalang ang skyrise4, wa pa ghapon too nahuman..

diehardbisdak

November 30th, 2011, 08:17 AM

^^ jollibee escario? mcdonald's you mean?

diehardbisdak

November 30th, 2011, 10:47 AM

...wala ko katoo at first when i read about sa pilferage case filed by VECO against Waterfront Hotel Cebu City...saun na lang, more than 100 million ang nakawat sa kuryente? ...2 times na gi-inspect ang power station sa Waterfront with severed cables from the meters (reading machine)

rage@cebu

November 30th, 2011, 11:50 AM

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ang room mura ug D'Morvie sa Cagayan ug Iligan... hehehe

slerz

November 30th, 2011, 02:00 PM

DOWNTOWN REVITALIZATION PROJECT
presents
Kasadya sa Downtown
Nov 30, 2011

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Mayor Mike Rama: Don't teach the people to clean the Downtown coz it won't work but with Downtown Revitalization, it will teach them about the importance of our Heritage. By knowing about its importance, people will cooperate and protect our Downtown area. :okay:

CebuMagigger

November 30th, 2011, 03:11 PM

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maybe small lamp posts are really like that haha like the one in czech

slerz

November 30th, 2011, 03:27 PM

Nov. 30, 2011

Cebu IT Park
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Bohol (Chocolate Hills visible) @ the background
Cebu Business Park
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Downtown, Fuente , Escario area...
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great184

November 30th, 2011, 03:56 PM

^^^^ You coudn't tell that those were the Chocolate Hills at background. Since thy are located on a plateau, it would appear as a mountain from Cebu's standpoint

Btw the skyline is filling up very well. Like a adolescent with raging hormones, Cebu's skyline growth spurt is reaching unprecedented levels :)

Sleepwalker

November 30th, 2011, 03:56 PM

^^
Sipa gud kaayo ka'g mga updates, bai Slerz...Daghan salamat... :)

Nov. 30, 2011

Bohol (Chocolate Hills visible) @ the background
Cebu Business Park
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Sa kani nga angle, unsa na'ng U/C nga tungod gud kaayo sa Aboitiz Persimmon towers? :)

slerz

November 30th, 2011, 04:14 PM

^^La Guardia Flats 2...:okay:

^^^^ You coudn't tell that those were the Chocolate Hills at background. Since thy are located on a plateau, it would appear as a mountain from Cebu's standpoint

Btw the skyline is filling up very well. Like a adolescent with raging hormones, Cebu's skyline growth spurt is reaching unprecedented levels :)

yup, those are the Chocolate Hills. Sagbayan and Carmen is right infront of Metro Cebu. There's no mountain range that covers the view of the Chocolate Hills from Cebu and VV...:yes:

great184

November 30th, 2011, 04:29 PM

^^La Guardia Flats 2...:okay:

yup, those are the Chocolate Hills. Sagbayan and Carmen is right infront of Metro Cebu. There's no mountain range that covers the view of the Chocolate Hills from Cebu and VV...:yes:

On the other side of the straight, you can the city's buildings quite well with binoculars on a clear day @ Sagbayan peak (aka the eastern terminus of the chocolate hills)

siatong

November 30th, 2011, 04:33 PM

Downtown Pedestrianization Project

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diehardbisdak

November 30th, 2011, 04:45 PM

^^ thanks sa pics @slerz...bag-ong angle :okay:

slerz

November 30th, 2011, 05:10 PM

^^lol, it's not a new angle. New picture of the skyline nuon nga fully grown na ang ubang highrises nga dili pa visible sa old pic of the same angle...:D

We went to Marco Polo earlier with Henz and Redjie for the Marco Polo Residences (will post tomorrow)...:yes:

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KASADYA SA DOWNTOWN
Nov. 30, 2011

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Sleepwalker

November 30th, 2011, 05:19 PM

SM wants to buy Mactan airport lot (http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=753816&publicationSubCategoryId=107)
By Rene U. Borromeo/FPL (The Freeman) Updated December 01, 2011 12:00 AM Comments (0) View comments

CEBU, Philippines - The SM Prime Holdings Incorporated has offered to buy the 797-hectare property currently occupied by the Mactan Cebu International Airport if the airport management is serious in its plan to build a new airport in Cordova.

SMPHI president Hans T. Sy, in a letter addressed to airport general manager Nigel Paul Villarete, but was coursed through Cebu City South District Rep. Tomas Osmeña, said “we are willing to discuss the terms of our possible participation in the disposition of the subject property.”

Sy said he understand that the current location of the Mactan Airport is already proving to be too small because of the increasing number of domestic and international passengers using the airport and the plan to build a much bigger and modern airport is a right move.

Villarete said there were 33,119 incoming and outgoing domestic flights passengers and 6,957 incoming and outgoing international flights passengers from January to September 30 this year.

“We heard that among the options being considered by the MCIAA is the possible privatization or sale of the airport’s current location. We believed that SM’s proposal will help the MCIAA raise the necessary funding for the (airport construction) project,” Sy said.

Osmeña believes that the proceeds of the sales of the property, if the MCIAA officials would agree to the proposal of SM, is already enough to fund the construction of an airport that may only need to reclaim at least 100 hectares.

The congressman recalled that when the City of Cebu reclaimed the 295-hectare South Road Properties in 1994, its cost was only about P2,000 per hectare. He, however, admitted that the amount may now be higher. He said the price of the existing airport lot is much higher.

According to Sy, SM’s proposed development on the existing airport property will provide Mactan, as well as surrounding communities with convenient access to a world-class and modern commercial and mix-use complex, which stands to create significant economic activity, including thousands of employment opportunities.

Osmeña said he already endorsed Sy’s letter to the MCIAA Board for the members to discuss it.

He added that the airport’s transfer to Cordova will also solve the traffic problem in Lapu-Lapu City and Mandaue City because the government can already build a wide road parallel to the runway.

Osmeña explained that Cordova has shallow coastal areas that can be reclaimed easily. The existing runway can be expanded from the Lapu-Lapu North Reclamation Area to the Cordova reclamation, which would be the biggest boulevard in Visayas and Mindanao, he said. — (FREEMAN)

Zeibu

November 30th, 2011, 06:04 PM

Jimbu

November 30th, 2011, 06:10 PM

SM wants to buy Mactan airport lot (http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=753816&publicationSubCategoryId=107)
By Rene U. Borromeo/FPL (The Freeman) Updated December 01, 2011 12:00 AM Comments (0) View comments

Osmeña explained that Cordova has shallow coastal areas that can be reclaimed easily. The existing runway can be expanded from the Lapu-Lapu North Reclamation Area to the Cordova reclamation, which would be the biggest boulevard in Visayas and Mindanao, he said. — (FREEMAN)

kanindot sa Lapu-Lapu City kung madayon ni :cheers:

diehardbisdak

November 30th, 2011, 06:50 PM

^^ kung sa Cordova na ang airport, will that affect the height restriction sa SRP? if so, sayang, wala na ta'y nindot nga harbor skyline in the future :(

MatudNilaBaby

November 30th, 2011, 09:24 PM

ug nganong gi channel man kuno ang letter to tomas O nga dili mana iyang territoryo. unsa iyang i bypass ang mga radaza nga another congressional district man ang lapu2x. whats the politics behind this move? your guess is as good as mine:lol::cheers:

Parchie

November 30th, 2011, 11:43 PM

sugbuanon

November 30th, 2011, 11:52 PM

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weewit

December 1st, 2011, 01:55 AM

another BIG, sporting event coming to CEBU this AUGUST!!!!

weewit

December 1st, 2011, 01:55 AM

and i mean HUGE!!!! its a comeback for CEBU!

weewit

December 1st, 2011, 01:56 AM

WELCOME TO CEBU!

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jochval

December 1st, 2011, 02:04 AM

^^ kung sa Cordova na ang airport, will that affect the height restriction sa SRP? if so, sayang, wala na ta'y nindot nga harbor skyline in the future :(

mao2x....:(...pwede ra man pud siguro mangita sila ug flight path nga mo skip sa SRP...

Parchie

December 1st, 2011, 02:24 AM

mao2x....:(...pwede ra man pud siguro mangita sila ug flight path nga mo skip sa SRP...
Congested ra ba kaayo ug ilang i-move farther south. Puno kaayo ang air lanes over Naga! Hahahahahaha

jochval

December 1st, 2011, 02:30 AM

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bakasaurus

December 1st, 2011, 02:45 AM

mAiNsTrEaMhunter

December 1st, 2011, 03:00 AM

Congested ra ba kaayo ug ilang i-move farther south. Puno kaayo ang air lanes over Naga! Hahahahahaha

mao! congested Naga airspace! nyahahahahaha :rofl::rofl:

Sleepwalker

December 1st, 2011, 03:11 AM

Re: SM buying the airport: whaaat!?
That's quite the surprise. All of the almost 800 hectares of airport lands for SM?

When I think about it, it's exciting to imagine all sorts of changes, very major ones that will happen to my hometown. The development that will happen.

However, a bigger part of me feels
cheated. My great grandparents (basically farmer-fishers) owned some portions of that vast land (and some people I know who are lumad nga taga opon) and they at that time had no choice but to sell out to the government for the greater good of everybody. And I actually had a very tiny grudge, if any, because the airport was "common property" after all. However, I feel rAther strange now when I contemplAte THE RICHEsT family in the country controlling that expanse of prime property, a part of which was what sustained my forebears. I don't know if there are any legal basis but I feel that it's unfair for those poor previous owners when it will fall to te hands of private persons again ( and the SY's at that!) while we now have just less than 200 sq.m passed on through my mother.

Sorry for the rant. I'm all for the dvelopment of our cities but I just felt a gut-level sense of injustice here.

This is one of the reason why Filipinos stopped being patriotic....Kinsa man uro'y ganahan mosakrapisyo sa usa ka gobyerno nga manggilupigon ug wa'y pakabana.

Nakadungog ko sa una, nga panahon sa krisis, ang mga koreano kay ningdonate sa ila mga alahas ngadto sa gobyerno...Di ko sigurado og tinuod ni'ng storyaha, pero ang puntos kay diri sa Pinas, ang mga tawo di na ganahan mobuhat ana, kay kita mismo, wa ta kakita'g self sacrifice gikan mismo sa ato mga opisyales...Asa man ka kakita'g public servant nga mao'y mangasaba sa iyang amo, which in the case sa gobyerno, kita mao'y amo?

Ingon pa's taga-Cabadiangan: "Sa motoo lang sa botbot sa mayor!"

vicven2

December 1st, 2011, 03:32 AM

Zeibu

December 1st, 2011, 03:40 AM

does MCIAA own the airport 100% legally? or will this lead to a supreme court case in the future?

jochval

December 1st, 2011, 03:44 AM

Take a looks sa expropriation laws at that time. Dili ba mao pud na nahitabo sa Lahug airport? And gi kasohan sa previous owners ang MCIAA kay dapat mu revert to the old owners ang lot kung wala na gigamit as an airport? I thought nakadaug sila adto? IANAL. :D

On the other hand, if i-sell back to the previous owners at it's current price, musugot sad kaha sila? Ni mahal napud baya na nga lot ron.

mas maayo gani wa girevert kay gihimong IT Park noon, kung gibalik pa nila, puros ra na mga balay nang Old Airport..di jud unta makacontribute sa skyline sa Cebu..wa jud ayo ato skyline kung mao pa na ang nahitabo..:bash::bash:

i hope kung mahitabo pud ni sa MCIA kung ugaling ibalihin man gani unya paliton sa SM, kaayo ra pud ah, another business district na pud na sa Lapu2x, makatabang pa hinoon na sa kadaghanan (labi na sa mga Radaza...:D)..di na lang na nila bawion wui di pa sila ana, nindot na ang Lapu2x ana, super highly urbanized na ang dating..hehe

Parchie

December 1st, 2011, 03:45 AM

This is one of the reason why Filipinos stopped being patriotic....Kinsa man uro'y ganahan mosakrapisyo sa usa ka gobyerno nga manggilupigon ug wa'y pakabana.

Nakadungog ko sa una, nga panahon sa krisis, ang mga koreano kay ningdonate sa ila mga alahas ngadto sa gobyerno...Di ko sigurado og tinuod ni'ng storyaha, pero ang puntos kay diri sa Pinas, ang mga tawo di na ganahan mobuhat ana, kay kita mismo, wa ta kakita'g self sacrifice gikan mismo sa ato mga opisyales...Asa man ka kakita'g public servant nga mao'y mangasaba sa iyang amo, which in the case sa gobyerno, kita mao'y amo?

Ingon pa's taga-Cabadiangan: "Sa motoo lang sa botbot sa mayor!"

Ang ako sad nga nahibaw-an bay, ang mga Hapon nagsakripisyo ug pugong sa ilang kaugalingon nga di mogamit ug asukal sauna aron di sila maka import kay lisud gyud sila kaayo paghuman sa giyera.

Kita kaha no? Unsa may atong isakripisyo?

cyberCEBU

December 1st, 2011, 03:50 AM

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Tourism Sec. Ramon Jimenez Jr., the newest fan of the famous dancing inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC), was so impressed that he just had to go down to meet the inmates after recording their performance on his Blackberry. Jimenez told them how proud he is of them. The inmates, more than 1,000 of them, put on a special show for Jimenez and delegates of the 1st Asian Underwater Federation Photography Championships being held in Cebu. Department of Tourism 7 officials accompanied Jimenez to the CPDRC today and were welcomed by Vice Gov. Agnes Magpale.

bakasaurus

December 1st, 2011, 05:23 AM

mas maayo gani wa girevert kay gihimong IT Park noon, kung gibalik pa nila, puros ra na mga balay nang Old Airport..di jud unta makacontribute sa skyline sa Cebu..wa jud ayo ato skyline kung mao pa na ang nahitabo..:bash::bash:

i hope kung mahitabo pud ni sa MCIA kung ugaling ibalihin man gani unya paliton sa SM, kaayo ra pud ah, another business district na pud na sa Lapu2x, makatabang pa hinoon na sa kadaghanan (labi na sa mga Radaza...:D)..di na lang na nila bawion wui di pa sila ana, nindot na ang Lapu2x ana, super highly urbanized na ang dating..hehe

Bai hinaot unta og nagjoke-val ra ka bai. Haha. Sorry to say this but mura og simplistic ra pod kaayo nga line of reasoning. So we must all sell our private lands to the government so then the government can sell them to all the AYalas and Sys later and then we could have a terrific skyline !!

@vicven. Naa diay precedent Kung ugaling magkisaw ni sa opon? Wala gyud koy alamag sa legalities Mao nga I was speaking out from a more visceral POV nga murag I was taken quite a back when I heard about it.

Ang ako lang, sa akoa pod nga simplistic nga pagbanabana, mura og naa na poy government favoring the rich to become richer at the expense of poor people. You have no choice but to give up ur property ( of course paid by government at their assessed price) and then the government can easily sell it to some rich family just like that. I was under the impression that even back then, my great grandparents and my grandparents didn't really want to sell them even at that time when these were not as expensive or prime a lot as it is now.

I have no qualms about it being used for the airport Kay para man sa tanan. But SM? Although they would develop the place and employ people, it's not as if they are doing it out of charity. Or that we get freebies and discounts from SM. It's business for them!! I don't feel it is right for us to have given up so much for the richest man in the country to even get richer!!!

Asa man ang lami ana? Matulon ba kaha na ug ingon ana kadali basta makakita Lang tag nindot nga skyline.?

gud2ya

December 1st, 2011, 06:16 AM

Parchie

December 1st, 2011, 06:25 AM

Bai hinaot unta og nagjoke-val ra ka bai. Haha. Sorry to say this but mura og simplistic ra pod kaayo nga line of reasoning. So we must all sell our private lands to the government so then the government can sell them to all the AYalas and Sys later and then we could have a terrific skyline !!

@vicven. Naa diay precedent Kung ugaling magkisaw ni sa opon? Wala gyud koy alamag sa legalities Mao nga I was speaking out from a more visceral POV nga murag I was taken quite a back when I heard about it.

Ang ako lang, sa akoa pod nga simplistic nga pagbanabana, mura og naa na poy government favoring the rich to become richer at the expense of poor people. You have no choice but to give up ur property ( of course paid by government at their assessed price) and then the government can easily sell it to some rich family just like that. I was under the impression that even back then, my great grandparents and my grandparents didn't really want to sell them even at that time when these were not as expensive or prime a lot as it is now.

I have no qualms about it being used for the airport Kay para man sa tanan. But SM? Although they would develop the place and employ people, it's not as if they are doing it out of charity. Or that we get freebies and discounts from SM. It's business for them!! I don't feel it is right for us to have given up so much for the richest man in the country to even get richer!!!

Asa man ang lami ana? Matulon ba kaha na ug ingon ana kadali basta makakita Lang tag nindot nga skyline.?

"But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime."

Parchie

December 1st, 2011, 06:33 AM

can sir paul, tomas, and the proponents justify that mcia has become too small for our growing needs?

@bak, wa man cguro tuyoa na gipalit ang mga yuta from the poor to sell it to the rich later on. it is really unforeseen and beyond our control that the volume of air traffic and passengers would grow this big. i bet our LGUs back then didn't know we would come to this point (and may have even thought a second cebu-mactan bridge was not necessary).

its the case of changing needs... if they can prove that the expansions cant be accommodated and that the only way to solve this is to relocate, then by all means sell it... i guess we need the rich to develop this area and bring about employment and economic activity - for the greater good.

Sa akong ubos nga panglantaw, ang ilang quentadas sa future traffic gisandig nila nga way laing airport nga himuon nga duol sa Sugbo! Unya kay naa naman unya'y airport sa isla diha sa Bohol, mo-agi pa kaha sa Cebu ang mga tourist ug uban pang negosyante? Siguro kaha ta nga ang ubang lugar di sad maninguha ug improve sa ilang lugar? Aron gud unta tang tanan mo-asenso, kinahanglan nga tanang lugar i-develop, pero ug kuwang sa panglantaw, nulo lang ang mga paninguha!

Manindog palihug, ug ang tubag . . . . .

jochval

December 1st, 2011, 06:40 AM

MatudNilaBaby

December 1st, 2011, 07:02 AM

wa ko ga joke bay, i know mabaw ra na nga rason pero di nato ikadeny nga ganahan pud ta ana kay we are all common here (skyscraper fanatic..:D), makagenerate man pud ug income sa LGU, as well as makaemploy ug mga tawo, pero wala man sad na tuyoa ba kay kinsa man sad nagtoo sa una nga magboom ang Cebu nga usa ra tawn ka isla unya bukiron kaayo mao nga nilapas pa sa expectations ang mga taw kaniadto so ang airport karon kuwang na sa space nga gitagana sa una unta mao para di anogon ibaligya na lang na sa mga private sector nga makatupong o makalapas pa sa benefits sa nahatag sa previous business anang yutaa...IMO lang...

kang baka nga point of view joc kay ang legalities involved ani unya nga deal sa mga sy ug mciaa. kanang yuta sa mciaa karon belongs to the lumolopyo sa opon ug gipugos sila ug baligya sa govierno kay himoan nga airport for public use.

sa polsci 101 pa "law of eminent domain" nga mapugos ka ug baligya sa imong yuta ngadto sa govierno at a fair value kon dunay mahinungdanon gamitan niini sama sa road widening or bag-o nga airport. ang synonyms ana could be compulsory purchase or acquisition or as what parchie said "expropriation".
based sa case nga ipasaka ni baka sa mga sy nga dili sila mo deal sa mcia kon dili sa previous owners anang mga lots comprising mcia kay nausab naman ug purpose karon sa govierno instead of public use nahimo naman hinuon nga makaganancia ang mcia ginamit ang yuta sa mga tao.

but my question is? isnt mcia a quasi-government or semi-private institution kay duna gud silay own mcia authority.

EdithB

December 1st, 2011, 07:16 AM

I don't feel comfortable with public land being sold to private entities.

CebuIsGreat

December 1st, 2011, 07:19 AM

Re: SM buying the airport: whaaat!?
That's quite the surprise. All of the almost 800 hectares of airport lands for SM?
When I think about it, it's exciting to imagine all sorts of changes, very major ones that will happen to my hometown. The development that will happen.
However, a bigger part of me feels
cheated. My great grandparents (basically farmer-fishers) owned some portions of that vast land (and some people I know who are lumad nga taga opon) and they at that time had no choice but to sell out to the government for the greater good of everybody. And I actually had a very tiny grudge, if any, because the airport was "common property" after all. However, I feel rAther strange now when I contemplAte THE RICHEsT family in the country controlling that expanse of prime property, a part of which was what sustained my forebears. I don't know if there are any legal basis but I feel that it's unfair for those poor previous owners when it will fall to te hands of private persons again ( and the SY's at that!) while we now have just less than 200 sq.m passed on through my mother.

Sorry for the rant. I'm all for the dvelopment of our cities but I just felt a gut-level sense of injustice here.

What is happening in Europe does not have to happen here.

Local economy and the buying public cannot afford
all these Western lifestyle and
imported branded goods made here? and China.
(and charge western prices? or whole day's pay !!!!!
)
The common people today survives (with extreme hardship)
Fortuntely, the traditional Inday's and Manong's stores and goods
such as in Carbon, Pasil and Tabo-an are still there.
The owners are also like us not big corporation..

Big foreign investment capital run by greedy Fund managers are here.
With the premise to make money for their investors, the managers
actually aims to make fast big money for themselves regardless.
In fact, a Philippine owned largest and biggest property investor is now controlled
by a foreign investor bought not with cash but with on-paper stock.

Honest government officials should not allow themsleves to be manipulated.
Buying government property guarantees low price.
The government rents it back from the buyer
is the common scheme and end-result.

The fear of an economic disaster.
When these imported economy's asset becomes illiquid.
And when its secondary market disappears.
These toxic assets cannot be sold, as they are often guaranteed to lose money.
Global Mortgage-backed securities, collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps, all of which could not be sold after they exposed their holders to massive losses.

..

jochval

December 1st, 2011, 07:27 AM

kang baka nga point of view joc kay ang legalities involved ani unya nga deal sa mga sy ug mciaa. kanang yuta sa mciaa karon belongs to the lumolopyo sa opon ug gipugos sila ug baligya sa govierno kay himoan nga airport for public use.

sa polsci 101 pa "law of eminent domain" nga mapugos ka ug baligya sa imong yuta ngadto sa govierno at a fair value kon dunay mahinungdanon gamitan niini sama sa road widening or bag-o nga airport. ang synonyms ana could be compulsory purchase or acquisition or as what parchie said "expropriation".
based sa case nga ipasaka ni baka sa mga sy nga dili sila mo deal sa mcia kon dili sa previous owners anang mga lots comprising mcia kay nausab naman ug purpose karon sa govierno instead of public use nahimo naman hinuon nga makaganancia ang mcia ginamit ang yuta sa mga tao.

but my question is? isnt mcia a quasi-government or semi-private institution kay duna gud silay own mcia authority.

yeah i understand, pero kung unsay makaayo gani anang yutaa adto jud ko, even if ako usa pa sa tag-iya anang yuta sa una nga gitukoran ron sa MCIA, ok ra kaayo na nako basta himoan lang nila ug nindot nga developments sa private sector labi na murag pina CBP ug CITP kanang makapanindot ug samot sa atong skyline, ug naa na pud tay lain nga first class business district, nakaemploy pa ka sa mga taw, nakatabang pa ka ug generate ug income sa gobyerno ug mas monindot pa unya ang serbisyo(kana kung tarong pud ang gobyerno)...ug usa pa nabayran naman pud ko sa gobyerno sa yuta nga nabaligya...malipay nako makakita ana kung unsa na kaboom ang kanang lugara...

MatudNilaBaby

December 1st, 2011, 07:28 AM

What is happening in Europe does not have to happen here.

Local economy and the buying public cannot afford
all these Western lifestyle and imported branded goods.

The common people today survives (with extreme hardship)
Fortuntely, the traditional Inday's and Manong's stores and goods
such as in Carbon, Pasil and Tabo-an are still there.
The owners are also like us not big corporation..

Big foreign investment capital run by greedy Fund managers are here.
With the premise to make money for their investors, the managers
actually aims to make fast big money for themselves regardless.

The government should not be allowed to be manipulated.
Buying government property guarantees low price.
The government rents it back from the buyer
is the common scheme and end-result.

The fear of an economic disaster.
When these imported economy's asset becomes illiquid.
And when its secondary market disappears.
These toxic assets cannot be sold, as they are often guaranteed to lose money.
Global Mortgage-backed securities, collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps, all of which could not be sold after they exposed their holders to massive losses.

..

palihug kuno ko ug binisaya ani imong point sir. kay mora ug naglibog akong kutaw ani imong mga sentence fragment nga mora ug phrase bani or sentence bani or paragraph bani. :lol::lol::bash::bash::cheers::cheers:

Zeibu

December 1st, 2011, 07:38 AM

It's best if they sell MCIA. Tomas is a type of guy who thinks ahead of others. Cordova-Cebu International Airport is our future.

jochval

December 1st, 2011, 07:42 AM

kadako pud nga binuang noh kung kadtong mga tag-iya atong old Lahug Airport bawion nila ang yuta, wala nay IT park..lol....

Zeibu

December 1st, 2011, 07:52 AM

MatudNilaBaby

December 1st, 2011, 08:07 AM

Sleepwalker

December 1st, 2011, 08:10 AM

kadako pud nga binuang noh kung kadtong mga tag-iya atong old Lahug Airport bawion nila ang yuta, wala nay IT park..lol....

Dako gud kaayo nga binuang bai Joke, kay dili man ikaw ang hingtungdan... :)

Ikaw ba'y pugson og pabaligya sa imo'ng yuta kay tungod gobyerno ang mogamit, unya diay to, pipila ka-tuig ang molabay, ibaligya ra diay pud sa usa ka dato nga pribadong negosyante.... :)

bakasaurus

December 1st, 2011, 08:13 AM

In my point of view, I think there is no injustice. It wasn't the intention of the government to sell properties of MCIA to the private sector during the time they purchased it from the original owners. The government gave the right compensation to the original land owners at that time and they used the land as an international airport for decades. If you guys can prove to me that at the very beginning, the true intention of the government in buying the land that is currently occupied by the MCIA was to sell it to the private sector, then there is injustice.

That is entirely beside the point bai @zebu. We cannot defend intentions in the face of the law. If you kill someone by accident (say run over by car), is there no injustice there? You didn't really intend to kill anybody right but you just checked your phone quickly when you were driving and bam!

Secondly, it's an entirely different story when the government buys from you, and when you, by your own accord, sell something. For one, who decides the price in the two scenarios? Do you know how "fair" compensation means by government standards?

Lastly, the economic value of lands and paper money (or even stocks as in the case of hacienda luisita) aren't just the same! My ancestors weren't talented businessmen (unlike Henry sy) and so that's probably why they weren't happy even if they received "fair" compensation from the gov't because they knew as farmers and fishermen (land was close to the sea as well) that it was more valuable to them and their children.

And the difference between us and others who are in the same boat is you are seeing things from a theoretical POV because it is not happening to you yourself. Timan-i nga it was already a "sacrifice" for the greater good of everyone when they were obliged to sell albeit unwillingly to the airport. But to resell it to SM? And then say ah wala man tuyu-a ba. Hahaha. Paeta.

jochval

December 1st, 2011, 08:14 AM

well mao man jud nay dangatan sa old airports...like Makati, Nielsen airfield ra na sa una pero karon flaship carrier sa Pilipinas in terms of skylines ug skyscrapers, ang old Iloilo airport pud, murag diha man siguro ang Megaworld ron ug kana sigurong smallville pud, ug kana pud Lahug airport nga CITP na ron...naa jud nay common denominator tanan....

Dako gud kaayo nga binuang bai Joke, kay dili man ikaw ang hingtungdan... :)

Ikaw ba'y pugson og pabaligya sa imo'ng yuta kay tungod gobyerno ang mogamit, unya diay to, pipila ka-tuig ang molabay, ibaligya ra diay pud sa usa ka dato nga pribadong negosyante.... :)

kung usa ko sa hingtundan ato, nipalit na lang ta ko ug lain nga yuta gikan sa halin nako sa gobyerno para secured gihapon ko nga naa koy yuta...

bakasaurus

December 1st, 2011, 08:17 AM

Dako gud kaayo nga binuang bai Joke, kay dili man ikaw ang hingtungdan... :)

Ikaw ba'y pugson og pabaligya sa imo'ng yuta kay tungod gobyerno ang mogamit, unya diay to, pipila ka-tuig ang molabay, ibaligya ra diay pud sa usa ka dato nga pribadong negosyante.... :)

Tumpak kaayo ka bai. Dali ra kaayo musulti ana kay layo man sa canyon. Unya tagaan lag rason nga munindot ang skyline. Hahaha. Fan baya ko ug skylines malingaw gud ta og picture2x. But it's an entirely different chapter.

bakasaurus

December 1st, 2011, 08:22 AM

"But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime."

Asa ni gikan bai @parch? Kanindot gud ani nga quoted statement bai. Nashot gyud sa kabo. Labaw pas bull's eye. Bisan ang mata sa lamok igo og tuhog gyud.

mAiNsTrEaMhunter

December 1st, 2011, 08:30 AM

That is entirely beside the point bai @zebu. We cannot defend intentions in the face of the law. If you kill someone by accident (say run over by car), is there no injustice there? You didn't really intend to kill anybody right but you just checked your phone quickly when you were driving and bam!

Secondly, it's an entirely different story when the government buys from you, and when you, by your own accord, sell something. For one, who decides the price in the two scenarios? Do you know how "fair" compensation means by government standards?

Lastly, the economic value of lands and paper money (or even stocks as in the case of hacienda luisita) aren't just the same! My ancestors weren't talented businessmen (unlike Henry sy) and so that's probably why they weren't happy even if they received "fair" compensation from the gov't because they knew as farmers and fishermen (land was close to the sea as well) that it was more valuable to them and their children.

And the difference between us and others who are in the same boat is you are seeing things from a theoretical POV because it is not happening to you yourself. Timan-i nga it was already a "sacrifice" for the greater good of everyone when they were obliged to sell albeit unwillingly to the airport. But to resell it to SM? And then say ah wala man tuyu-a ba. Hahaha. Paeta.

+1000! parehas gyud tag utok idoool! :okay::D:hammer:

NO TO TRANSFER AIRPORT TO CORDOVA! :down::down::down:
NO TO RESELL AIRPORT TO SM! :down::down::down:

bakasaurus

December 1st, 2011, 08:32 AM

well mao man jud nay dangatan sa old airports...like Makati, Nielsen airfield ra na sa una pero karon flaship carrier sa Pilipinas in terms of skylines ug skyscrapers, ang old Iloilo airport pud, murag diha man siguro ang Megaworld ron ug kana sigurong smallville pud, ug kana pud Lahug airport nga CITP na ron...naa jud nay common denominator tanan....

kung usa ko sa hingtundan ato, nipalit na lang ta ko ug lain nga yuta gikan sa halin nako sa gobyerno para secured gihapon ko nga naa koy yuta...

Kana imong last statement bai, it is again beside the point. Lahi na pod na nga storya bai, ug bisan tubayan ta ka padung diha dili gyud gihapon majustify ang ilahang buhaton karon.

It's not that I'm totally against the sale, but they must make sure that no one, not even the littlest of persons was taken advantage of, especially when it's the government itself which is involved, and which was supposed to protect these littlest of persons from being taken advantage of in the first place.

Zeibu

December 1st, 2011, 08:34 AM

That is entirely beside the point bai @zebu. We cannot defend intentions in the face of the law. If you kill someone by accident (say run over by car), is there no injustice there? You didn't really intend to kill anybody right but you just checked your phone quickly when you were driving and bam!

Secondly, it's an entirely different story when the government buys from you, and when you, by your own accord, sell something. For one, who decides the price in the two scenarios? Do you know how "fair" compensation means by government standards?

Lastly, the economic value of lands and paper money (or even stocks as in the case of hacienda luisita) aren't just the same! My ancestors weren't talented businessmen (unlike Henry sy) and so that's probably why they weren't happy even if they received "fair" compensation from the gov't because they knew as farmers and fishermen (land was close to the sea as well) that it was more valuable to them and their children.

And the difference between us and others who are in the same boat is you are seeing things from a theoretical POV because it is not happening to you yourself. Timan-i nga it was already a "sacrifice" for the greater good of everyone when they were obliged to sell albeit unwillingly to the airport. But to resell it to SM? And then say ah wala man tuyu-a ba. Hahaha. Paeta.

actually, determining the intention in court cases is very important. in your example, it is intention that determines if you committed murder or manslaughter or homicide or whatever legal terms related. you could use intention as a defense in court.

in the MCIA, it is clear that the government's intention was to really use the land as an airport because that airport has been standing for decades now.

if for example MCIA bought the land saying that they will use it as an airport but never really built an airport on it because they sold it to SM, then you can use it in court that their intention was that the land they bought was really not for building an airport but for purposes of earning money in selling land.

jochval

December 1st, 2011, 08:41 AM

di na lang ta mag-away, anyways naa man jud nay good side ug bad side ug i know lisod ibalhin ang airport sa pagkakaron kay wa pa gani mareclaim ng Cordova unya ASAP na kaayo nga magkaterminal 2 ta so way choice kun dili magterminal 2 sa current MCIA ron ug usa pa basin maaffected ang height restriction sa SRP, wa unya tay supertalls didto, hehe...kung ibaligya ang airport karon dayon unya magrelocate, di lang ko mo oppose basta matukod dayon ang new airport dunganan sa tunnel, mas modako na unya ang core urban center sa Metro Cebu kay dili lang ang Cebu City, Mandaue City, ug Lapu2x City, maabot ang range hangtud Cordova basin pa siguro ang Talisay pud, unya mas bibo na unya ang Mactan Island ana kay fair naman sa tibuok isla ang progress and more and more progress labi na sa Lapu2x city kung ugaling mapalit gani sa mga Sy ang yuta sa airport..unya sa far north Consolacion and Liloan naa na pud didto ang New International Port mao maabot pud didto ang progress..one of the reasons nga gusto nako nga sa Cordova ang airport para katag ang progress, mas dako ang range, pareha sa Metro Manila, dako kaayo ang urban area ug aron decongested pud ang mga taw kung asa magwork...then south of Cebu ganahan ko diha matukod ang theme park, water park, new Cebu zoo, nato para naa pud development sa South para even ang range sa developments...it's either in Minglanilla or Naga...then kining mga lugara connected sila through BRT...:okay:

another thing kung ibalihin ang airport sa Cordova kunohay, unya unsaon man nang yuta sa airport kung di na ibaligya? ibalik na sa mga tawo? unya himoong basakan...lol..my point is i know naay balaod, labi na mga taw nga tag-iya anang mga yutaa...pero kung mahitabo ugaling na ibalhin ang airport, maybe lang ha, unsa may future anang yuta nga gitukoran anang airport ron? kung ibalik sa mga taw, di kaayo puslan, himoan ra na ug balay2x o di ba mangsquat ang mga taw diha, dako na noon problema sa sanitation ug image diha lugara.... maayo pag idevelop na siya pareha sa CBP ug CITP, mas dako pang puslan, it would be another pride of Cebu pa hinoon na...pwede ra man pud hinoon saboton nga bahinan lang sila gud sa income anang lugara murag minor stockholders....

Mercato

December 1st, 2011, 08:58 AM

I've only done a quick scan of the last page so I haven't read all the nitty gritty since I'm preoccupied with other matters. :D I was always under the impression that the Mactan International Airport used to be a U.S. military airbase which was a secondary base to Clark. It was common knowledge back then that it was the Americans that built that sturdy Mactan runway, or that's as far as I can recall offhand. Correct me if I'm wrong. :D

CebuIsGreat

December 1st, 2011, 10:24 AM

palihug kuno ko ug binisaya ani imong point sir. kay mora ug naglibog akong kutaw ani imong mga sentence fragment nga mora ug phrase bani or sentence bani or paragraph bani.

Pangan-li ug stock corporation ug ang PM mo makadawat ug insiders report.
Mga "sample" nahitabo karon.
Sa mga financial tools nga "Global Mortgage-backed securities, collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps" nga gi-invento sa mga Judeong dako
and Mortgage-backed securities mao tingali gigamit sa mga datooh like SY etc..
An alumni ni-sulti sa iyang pagka-dato.
Gipalit ni Lucio T ang ilang Savings Bank ug cash.
Pagka-homan dayon gi hi-gop ug balik sa utang nga taga li-og.

Asa gikan man ning mga milyon nga milyon o bilyon nga kwarta
para i-tukod iing globally owned multi-story, nga murag uhong nagaturok bisan-asa.
Taga-i ta ug napulo ka tawo bisag intial lang nga taga-atoa ug dili "politiko"
nga nikabayad nga dili inutang aning mga condo.
kanang gi-utang nga condo, mahibalik ra pud ang kwarta sa bangko
kay ilaha ra pud na ibaligya kuyog sa lain-laing utang as "collateralized debt obligations"
Ang mopalit ini i-hedge pod nila.
Mga Hedge funds mopalit dayun ug government bonds.
Anhi na ang tanang tao sa nasud Pilipinas ma-apil sa best and worst of the game.

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Parchie

December 1st, 2011, 11:13 AM

Asa ni gikan bai @parch? Kanindot gud ani nga quoted statement bai. Nashot gyud sa kabo. Labaw pas bull's eye. Bisan ang mata sa lamok igo og tuhog gyud.

Ako nang nasurikbot sa sinuwat sa Frances nga economic journalist/thinker nga si Claude Frederic Bastiat(1801-1850), bai @baka! Ang title sa iyang libro "The Law". Maayo kaayo mohan-ay sa iyang mga gipasabot bahin sa balaud.

-sharkleman125-

December 1st, 2011, 11:18 AM

Mas maayu unta kung ang SM magreclamation dha sa Cordova more than what the size of the airport property. They can do 1,000 hectare reclamation there AFAIK. Basta ang ako kay, MCIA is under utilized, i mean daghan pa ug Rooms to expand! (except for the runway) Build more terminals, Rapid Exits etc! Increasing number of passengers? Well the perfect solution for that is the T2. Tommy O is just making fuzz in the scene. IF Tommy O is really itchy about the new airport, well go to some other places as well! Go to Danao, Naga or somewhere else! Because the trend is, if a landmark will be there, businesses will come in to that place and will multiply in just few years. In which it will drive more jobs and oppurtunities for the people of Cebu. Why are they congesting that damn airport near Metro Cebu, they should think outside of the box. The perfect place is Compostela-Danao area which there are lots of areas there. Public Transpo? in the first few years it will be a problem but soon as years pass by, businesses like SM and Ayala will go there. In that way Metro Cebu could also be expanded.

wakeuptoreality

December 1st, 2011, 11:20 AM

Mantayupan Falls, CEBU

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7143/6434076901_c1272bc429_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/sheren/6434076901/)
Mantayupan Falls (http://www.flickr.com/photos/sheren/6434076901/) by sheren (http://www.flickr.com/people/sheren/), on Flickr

mAiNsTrEaMhunter

December 1st, 2011, 11:24 AM

^^ stunning Mantayupan more beautiful than Kawasan! bias lang :D

federalist

December 1st, 2011, 11:25 AM

if this materializes. we are one step closer to cebu-cordova tunnel :)

para nko uyon ko nga e develop sa SM in the future ang current airport location.

wakeuptoreality

December 1st, 2011, 11:25 AM

SOUTHERN CEBU AERIAL SHOTS
by edgar j. ediza

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Simala Aerial (http://www.flickr.com/photos/edgarjediza/6429234929/) by edgar j. ediza (http://www.flickr.com/people/edgarjediza/), on Flickr

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Kepco Naga (http://www.flickr.com/photos/edgarjediza/6429097073/) by edgar j. ediza (http://www.flickr.com/people/edgarjediza/), on Flickr

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SRP FREEWAY (http://www.flickr.com/photos/edgarjediza/6429194269/) by edgar j. ediza (http://www.flickr.com/people/edgarjediza/), on Flickr

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Where I Used to Work (http://www.flickr.com/photos/edgarjediza/6429160727/) by edgar j. ediza (http://www.flickr.com/people/edgarjediza/), on Flickr

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7167/6429219019_3423cb1e4d_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/edgarjediza/6429219019/)
SANTANDER CEBU (http://www.flickr.com/photos/edgarjediza/6429219019/) by edgar j. ediza (http://www.flickr.com/people/edgarjediza/), on Flickr

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7002/6429026685_4f8256d167_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/edgarjediza/6429026685/)
Argao (http://www.flickr.com/photos/edgarjediza/6429026685/) by edgar j. ediza (http://www.flickr.com/people/edgarjediza/), on Flickr

jochval

December 1st, 2011, 11:40 AM

sugbuanon

December 1st, 2011, 12:15 PM

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radisson blu hotel

photo by: sugbuanon

slerz

December 1st, 2011, 03:16 PM

PASKO sa SUGBO 2011 Launching
Dec. 01, 2011

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slerz

December 1st, 2011, 03:19 PM

PASKO sa SUGBO 2011
Dec. 1, 2011

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mAiNsTrEaMhunter

December 1st, 2011, 03:21 PM

slerz

December 1st, 2011, 03:23 PM

PASKO sa SUGBO 2011
Dec. 1, 2011

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slerz

December 1st, 2011, 03:25 PM

PASKO sa SUGBO 2011
Dec. 1, 2011

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mAiNsTrEaMhunter

December 1st, 2011, 03:26 PM

^^ ganahan ko sa christmas tree karon. :okay:

Zuburbia

December 1st, 2011, 03:41 PM

It's best if they sell MCIA. Tomas is a type of guy who thinks ahead of others. Cordova-Cebu International Airport is our future.
mutubag sa kog kadali ha...unsa man diay kalainan og advantage kung ipabilin ang airport sa iyang nahimutangan ron og kung ibutang sa cordova? gatupad raman na sila, duol ra jud kaayo...naa raman pod siya sa isla atbang sa cebu...unsa may kaayohan diay if ibalhin sa cordova? maayo ra man siya sa iyang nahimutangan ron oi...if they want to expand, just expand at the present site....gusto lang jud ni tomas iyahon sa cebu city tanan...usa ra gani ka-isla nga gamay teritoryal gihapon kayog mga utok, maong wa jud mag-unify atong development...Master plan for the whole metro cebu is what we need right now, di nang mga impulsive2x ra kayo nga mga project, ahak mura man pod tag datu, kung unsay mahuna hunaan hala birada....master plan man gani nang mga datu nga syudad kita pa kaha nga way nahot, diritso tira wa kasigurado-an unsay sampotanan, resulta samot kahugpa!

HER

December 1st, 2011, 03:47 PM

nice pics @slerz. kanindot sa pasko sa sugbo.

Parchie

December 1st, 2011, 04:38 PM

virgin pa kaayo ang mantayupan compared sa kawasan...:D

Molalis gyud ko nimo ana bay @joch. Gamay pa ko, de-virginized na man na siya! Hahahahaha

Parchie

December 1st, 2011, 04:39 PM

nakabantay ko pagagi nako ganiha sa Osmena Blvd gikan Ayala na ang katong gipatungan sa mga lamppost kay gipintalan na og itom! IMO, ganahan ko nagtanaw. mas neat na sya tanawon ikompara sauna coz mura naman syag niblend sa lamppost na itom pud. nice! :okay:

Hilig sad diay ka'g itom bai, pareha nako? Hehehehe

isla

December 1st, 2011, 04:53 PM

Wolfranz

December 1st, 2011, 05:09 PM

I will not categorically say if I'm in favor of MCIA's transfer to Cordova, but one thing's for sure: kung madayon ni ang transfer, ma-justify najud sa mga Radaza ang ilang Mactan North Reclamation Project, which will be a BIG BIG BIG destruction to the environment, to the corals of Magellan Bay.

So think twice.

Parchie

December 1st, 2011, 05:21 PM

mutubag sa kog kadali ha...unsa man diay kalainan og advantage kung ipabilin ang airport sa iyang nahimutangan ron og kung ibutang sa cordova? gatupad raman na sila, duol ra jud kaayo...naa raman pod siya sa isla atbang sa cebu...unsa may kaayohan diay if ibalhin sa cordova? maayo ra man siya sa iyang nahimutangan ron oi...if they want to expand, just expand at the present site....gusto lang jud ni tomas iyahon sa cebu city tanan...usa ra gani ka-isla nga gamay teritoryal gihapon kayog mga utok, maong wa jud mag-unify atong development...Master plan for the whole metro cebu is what we need right now, di nang mga impulsive2x ra kayo nga mga project, ahak mura man pod tag datu, kung unsay mahuna hunaan hala birada....master plan man gani nang mga datu nga syudad kita pa kaha nga way nahot, diritso tira wa kasigurado-an unsay sampotanan, resulta samot kahugpa!

Ako lang usa'y mosumpay sa estorya bay kay natu'g pa sila!

Una, bag-o na gyud tanan nga atong makita ikumparar sa karaan nga MCIA (klaro!).
Ang outside marker sa airport adto sa Cordova adto ibutang sa dagat kay duol naman kayo ang threshold sa dagat (assuming North-South orientation)
Kinahanglan na sad ta ug bag-o ug lapad nga da'an aron way congestions.
Ibalhin tanan nga gamit gikan sa old MCIA unya paaboton puhon. Ampo lang ta nga wa'y madaut inig hulbotanay na sa mga equipment.
Ang tanang support services offices ug shops kinahanglan sad mobalhin.
Hasta ang Camp Benito Ebuen, kinahanglan sad nga mobalhin ug asang dapita maghimo ug kaugalingon nga airfield. Asa naman sila ug runway nga gamiton nga SM naman ang naa diha!
Balhin sad ang mga government offices related sa airport.
Mogasto ang govierno ug dako2x. Magkinahanglan ug daghan2x gyud nga truckloads of filling materials kay tubigan baya ng ubang parte diha.
Maghimo pa ug drainage system nga molabang ilawon sa runway kay mapundo ang tubig anang sapa diha.
Ang peso kaniadto, gamay naman lang ug bili kon gastuhon karon o dili ba ang peso karon gamay na lang ug bili kon puhon kanus-a gastuhon. Maayo unta ug ang halin sa karaang airport mas dako pa sa gastuhanan aron di ma-yawa ang mga opisyales nga mo sign-off sa mga dukomento.
Magbayad pa gyud diay sa mga squatter ug mga professional squatters nga maigo. Duna may "Human Rights" nga kinahanglan gyud nga tagaan ug pagtagad.

Nah, kamo na la'y puno sa wa masuwat diha. Hinaut nga dili molapas sa usa ka gatos ang listahan ha.

Jimbu

December 1st, 2011, 05:47 PM

Cebu in CNN feature on top BPO countries
By AJ De La Torre
(The Freeman) Updated December 02, 2011 12:00 AM

CEBU, Philippines - Is the Philippines the “new call center king?”

This question was raised in a CNN report featuring Cebu where more business process outsourcing (BPO) and shared services companies have located.

CNN, in a report, asked whether the Philippines “is better” than India which has always been ranked first in terms of having the most BPO and shared services companies.

Cebu City, specifically Asiatown IT Park in Lahug was featured in the CNN report due to the number of call center companies in the area.

Joel Marie Yu, president of the Cebu Investment Promotion Center, said during the CNN interview that there are two main factors why the Philippines is gaining popularity among BPO investors.

One reason is a labor cost lower than India and the other one would be the proficiency in the English language.

In an interview with The FREEMAN, Yu clarified that there is no statistics to confirm the CNN report. In fact, he added, it was a question on whether the Philippines has completely overtaken India.

But one thing is definite, though, Yu said. When it comes to the voice sector for information technology, we are far better than India: “The Filipino call center workers can mimic almost exactly how Americans speak without the accent.”

more >> http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=754257&publicationSubCategoryId=107

MatudNilaBaby

December 1st, 2011, 06:42 PM

no.1ta

December 1st, 2011, 10:14 PM

[QUOTE=slerz;86222426]PASKO sa SUGBO 2011
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double celebration na Christmas and Sinulog :dance::dance:...thanks sa mga pics bai slerz appreciate it.:okay::okay::okay::okay::okay:

CebuIsGreat

December 1st, 2011, 11:35 PM

Mantayupan Falls, CEBU
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Waterborne Pathogens and Toxic run-offs
Are these fresh water natural beauties submitted to Health authorities by
the owners to test for Watherborne pathogenes and toxic materials and run-offs??
Schistosomiasis is common is Asia.
Visitors and tourists may bring in eggs of worms that stays in their bodies?
Ecoli contamination?
Arsenic, lead and mercury levels etc...which we all drink when in water?

sugbuanon

December 2nd, 2011, 01:42 AM

+1000 points. Gikan sa usa ka lumad taga-Opon, I am not in favor of this plan. Tomas plan is too complicated and expensive. U need to reclaim Cordova first, build an entirely new airport, then build a new bridge between Cordova & Cebu for accessibility. That cost billions w/c Cebu can use to build a drainage masterplan and widen roads to improve Metro Cebu's infras. Why spend so much when we can just expand the existing MCIA? There are still many rooms for expansion inside the Mactan Airbase and in that vacant lots near IAU.

murag naa ngari ang tubag sa ato mga pangutana ngano ganahan si tomas ibalhin sa cordova ang airport..

Bill to annex Cordova mulled
Monday, March 14, 2011

REP. Tomas Osmeña (Cebu City, south district) is planning to propose a bill that seeks to create a third district in the city.

The city is entitled to have three congressional districts since it has a population of about 798,809, based on the population census in 2007.

Although the City can comply with the 250,000 population requirement, the congressman wants to annex the town of Cordova in the proposed third district.

Osmeña said Cordova has the potential for a reclamation project and it can be a “beautiful expansion area” for the City.

“They will benefit, they will be very modern just like Dubai, but they don’t know how to do it, and the province can’t do it, the only one who knows how to do it is Tommy Osmeña,” Osmeña said.

LINK (http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/local-news/2011/03/14/bill-annex-cordova-mulled-144729)

SC_00

December 2nd, 2011, 03:08 AM

Sleepwalker

December 2nd, 2011, 03:16 AM

Wow...Bisan tuod, simple lang ang Christmas Tree sa Fuente, pero nindot siya tan-awon...Og sa ako obserbasyon sa mga pictures, mousab usab pud ni siya og color.

Sa lain nga bahin, hinaot unta nga mosugot na lang ni's Mayor Rama sa pag settle down ana'ng bayranan sa siyudad ngadto sa mga Ralloses, kay basin mas modako pa na siya ug makagubot na hinoon.

Sleepwalker

December 2nd, 2011, 03:26 AM

Now, it's not only tourists and job hunters come to Cebu...Even whale sharks are coming!!!

Is this a proof that Cebu is indeed one of the best place to live? :D

"Butandings" seen off Sumilon Island (http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=754277&publicationSubCategoryId=107)
By Raffy Osumo/LPM (The Freeman) Updated December 02, 2011 12:00 AM Comments (0) View comments

CEBU, Philippines - They call them “Dodong,” “Lucas,” “Joaquin” and “Fermin” - that’s according to size - but huge or small, they are the latest attraction off Sumilon Island.

Dodong, Lucas and Fermin are whale sharks (butanding) that appeared off the coast of the island in February last year.

“There was only one butanding sighted around February last year,” says Nikki Gutierrez, the assistant operations manager of Sumilon Island Resort. “Then in October last year, three others appeared,” he added.

And there is no sign they are going somewhere else.

The biggest among these butandings according to Gutierrez is Dodong that is almost a Ceres bus in length. Lucas and Joaquin are all medium sizes. Fermin is the smallest, and the most playful of all.

These whale sharks all feed from “uyap” a local word for a certain species of shrimps that is abundant off the coast of Sumilon Island.

Gutierrez said its Fermin and the others, (although Dodong would seldom swim near the bancas) would always come out from around six in the morning up to 12 noon and would swim and play with fishermen. These fishermen would feed them “uyap.”

Gutierrez, who had fed and touched Fermin, said this whale shark and the three others are playful. “I have fed Fermin, stroked his scales, touched his head and tummy and even hugged it, and it played around. The only part of that you don’t touch is the tail. For some reasons they don’t want their tails touched,” Gutierrez said.

Lately, guests of Sumilon Island Resort would go out to the sea and feed these whale sharks with local fishermen. A group of employees from a hotel in the city took a time off to experience feeding these whale sharks.

Fermin was swimming along the shore when they came. From a bigger outrigger, the fishermen divided the group and brought then near the whale shark in smaller bancas, literally surrounding the mammal.

Fermin played along.

“I got excited when he (Fermin) swam towards me and touched my foot (which was dangling over the banca) with his jaw! I jumped out of the water but then remembered to relax because the fishermen told us before the trip that they are harmless and friendly. It was a great experience,” says Kraig Encabo.

Those who fed and played with butandings all liked the experience.

The resort offers diver tours for divers who would want a closer look at these butandings underwater and swim with them or even ride their big backs.

“Most of our guests have only heard about butandings in Sorsogon. Some of them have seen features about them on TV. Now it’s real and it’s here. They are all amazed that they could actually, played, touched, and swam with them,” says Gutierrez. (FREEMAN)

ydderf101

December 2nd, 2011, 04:40 AM

"But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime."

kinahanglan ang mga nahingtundan ani nga magmata aron dili malingla sa gobyerno. Unfair kaau sa mga yanong lungsuranon.

sfo way sipyat

December 2nd, 2011, 05:16 AM

Parchie

December 2nd, 2011, 05:18 AM

kinahanglan ang mga nahingtundan ani nga magmata aron dili malingla sa gobyerno. Unfair kaau sa mga yanong lungsuranon.

Nibati lang gud ko sa mga rants ni @baka bay! Tiaw mo na nga gipugos pagpabaligya sa luna kay aron magamit nga airport unya nga gipul-an, ibaligya sa dako nga negosyante!

Maayo gyud siguro aning mga forced sale thru expropriation, himuon nga deed of conditional sale. Buot nako ipasabot, nga kon di na gani gamiton sa original nga purpose, adto ibaligya sa karaang gipalitan aron way masakitan.

cebuboi

December 2nd, 2011, 05:45 AM

mAiNsTrEaMhunter

December 2nd, 2011, 10:38 AM

OT: What's the Cebuano term for butanding or whale shark? albeit butanding is a tagalog or bikolano term.

Jimbu

December 2nd, 2011, 10:46 AM

Cobra 70.3 Ironman leaves Camsur for Cebu; 2012 edition attracts 400 early registrants
| More | By Iste S. Leopoldo

Friday, December 2, 2011

CEBU will soon be hosting the country’s top triathlon event--the 2012 the Cobra Ironman 70.3 on Aug. 05, 2012 at the Shangrila Mactan, Cebu.

Sunrise events, Inc. general manager Princess Galura said the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC) told them to look for another venue because WTC wanted the 1.2- mile swim on an open sea instead of a man-made lake like in Camsur, which hosted the early editions of the Cobra 70.3.

“Cebu also has the logistics like the hotels and an international airport. Everything is needed by our foreign and local participants is there,” Galura told Sun.Star Cebu in a phone interview.

The registration for the 2012 edition started at noon yesterday and almost 400 signed up. The group will limit the number to 1,500 to ensure the safety of the participants.

“We want each participant to have the same experience as the others kaya we are limiting our number for their safety,” Galura said.

She added that they were also convinced to hold the event in Cebu because of the support the Cebu Province under Gov. Gwen Garcia has shown.

“If the 2012 Cobra Ironman 70.3 will run smoothly next year, we are planning to have it in Cebu in 2013 and 2014,” Galura said.

more >> http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/sports/2011/12/02/cobra-703-ironman-leaves-camsur-cebu-2012-edition-attracts-400-early-registra

mAiNsTrEaMhunter

December 2nd, 2011, 10:56 AM

^^ WOW! Kudos Cebu! :cheers:

federalist

December 2nd, 2011, 11:48 AM

Charice pempengko is now featured in CNN's Talk Asia.

Wind Shear

December 2nd, 2011, 11:52 AM

OT: What's the Cebuano term for butanding or whale shark? albeit butanding is a tagalog or bikolano term.

Tawiki. :)

Narjz

December 2nd, 2011, 12:18 PM

OT: What's the Cebuano term for butanding or whale shark? albeit butanding is a tagalog or bikolano term.

^^

or Ambuhotan :)

Zeibu

December 2nd, 2011, 12:45 PM

more >> http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/sports/2011/12/02/cobra-703-ironman-leaves-camsur-cebu-2012-edition-attracts-400-early-registra

wow mu anhi diay si tony stark!!! :)

junstein

December 2nd, 2011, 01:32 PM

This weekend: RWM’s Mega Satellite 1 to the APT Asian Series Cebu

In 31 days, the Asian Poker Tour is bringing live poker action to Cebu – just in time for the indeed festive Sinulog Festival!

Prep up for the event and secure your seats to the APT Asian Series – Cebu as the Resorts World Manila (RWM) holds two satellite tournaments, each with a guaranteed prize pool of PhP 200,000 to the main event. Also, Mega Satellites leading to the said satellite tournaments are being held still at the RWM.

The first of the two satellite tournaments is happening this weekend (Dec. 12) for a Buy In of PhP 3,000 + PhP 200. While the Mega Satellites are up at 2pm today (Dec. 10) and tomorrow (Dec. 11) with a PhP 300 Buy In amount. (View the tournament structure and details here)

A seat to the APT Asian Series – Cebu Main Event is waiting for you, so hurry up and grab it!

CebuIsGreat

December 2nd, 2011, 01:59 PM

Let us create a new Cebuano for it. The world creates words like "I google it".
How about:
bayotiho, iho-maka-hilo

slerz

December 2nd, 2011, 02:48 PM

nakabantay ko pagagi nako ganiha sa Osmena Blvd gikan Ayala na ang katong gipatungan sa mga lamppost kay gipintalan na og itom! IMO, ganahan ko nagtanaw. mas neat na sya tanawon ikompara sauna coz mura naman syag niblend sa lamppost na itom pud. nice! :okay:

Dec. 2, 2011

http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/5924/beautification27.jpg

http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/690/beautification27a.jpg

mAiNsTrEaMhunter

December 2nd, 2011, 03:04 PM

^^ yes! thanks sa photos bro! :okay:

slerz

December 2nd, 2011, 04:14 PM

development beside Mananga Bridge in Talisay
Nov. 30, 2011

http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/7383/nov30mananga1.jpg

http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/7712/nov30mananga2.jpg

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Henz

December 2nd, 2011, 04:45 PM

murag naa ngari ang tubag sa ato mga pangutana ngano ganahan si tomas ibalhin sa cordova ang airport..

Bill to annex Cordova mulled
Monday, March 14, 2011

REP. Tomas Osmeña (Cebu City, south district) is planning to propose a bill that seeks to create a third district in the city.

The city is entitled to have three congressional districts since it has a population of about 798,809, based on the population census in 2007.

Although the City can comply with the 250,000 population requirement, the congressman wants to annex the town of Cordova in the proposed third district.

Osmeña said Cordova has the potential for a reclamation project and it can be a “beautiful expansion area” for the City.

“They will benefit, they will be very modern just like Dubai, but they don’t know how to do it, and the province can’t do it, the only one who knows how to do it is Tommy Osmeña,” Osmeña said.

LINK (http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/local-news/2011/03/14/bill-annex-cordova-mulled-144729)

Tommy is being DELUSIONAL...:ohno: Its so frustrating to hear this coming from a well respected person like him... tsk tsk tsk

Sinjin P.

December 2nd, 2011, 05:02 PM

Just talked with someone who's privy to matters concerning Lapu-Lapu City and he merely laughed at the Cordova Airport proposal. Tomas and Sitoy are delusional. Walay bisag-unsang papeles to begin with. If ever, the earliest nga masugdan ni kay 20 years from now pa

AmbutLang

December 2nd, 2011, 07:31 PM

I guess it's just a matter of perspective. if that's the way you see it, then there's clearly nothing other forumers can do to make you think otherwise. the way i see it, though, is that Tomas just knows when a certain activity/project/proposal will do more harm than good. it's a trait that you can't find in other politicians.

Tomas had a lot to say against the CICC. And it turns out that he is right. The CICC is basically just an overpriced piece of junk after just two years. Tomas had a say on the purchase of the Balili property. Turns out that it is underwater and clearly, not a sound investment.

Tomas knows more about these other politicians than we do. In short, Tomas plays 'dirty' politics only with those who play it themselves.

^^I agree with you Ley.

Gwen is starting to look sweet to Cebuano for she has another political office to look for and needed their votes.

AmbutLang

December 2nd, 2011, 07:44 PM

MatudNilaBaby

December 2nd, 2011, 09:37 PM

Tommy is being DELUSIONAL...:ohno: Its so frustrating to hear this coming from a well respected person like him... tsk tsk tsk

he is using all his might to elevate his sagging popularity for doing nothing in his own congressional district. he also knew that governor gwen garcia sits on the board of mciaa. so he can use this issue when election comes.

leylander

December 3rd, 2011, 03:11 AM

wakeuptoreality

December 3rd, 2011, 03:21 AM

^^ srp was needed kay wala namay flat land sa cebu city.

pero kaning transfer sa airport dili needed kay napa may ample space sa current terminal!

nanung si tomas man ang nangusog ani? diba sa cebu city raman siya na congressman?

Sleepwalker

December 3rd, 2011, 03:39 AM

^^While Cebu City needed a major traffic solution for BanTal corridor, Tomas was only able to create a moratorium and he's sticking into it.

Whereas, there seems to be no need to transfer the location of the current airport, Tomas is very bold in transferring it.

OK..Let's say, BRT will solve the problem of traffic congestion along BanTal road, but MCIA also has plan for Terminal 2 to resolve congestion. Both infras might be finished almost simultaneously.

Two separate issues, one common person... :D

And to add more, Tomas has indeed proved himself as a visionary official... :) Do we hate or unlike Tomas because of his unconventional way of thinking? Why we seems to forget Gov. Garcia's CICC and Balili scandals? Is this because Gov. Gwen has done nothing but to please the people?

slerz

December 3rd, 2011, 03:43 AM

the Green portion is Cordova's boundary

http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/8766/cordovaboundary2.jpg

jochval

December 3rd, 2011, 03:56 AM

why if iannex na lang Cordova to Lapu2x, mas duol ra gani hinuon sila to have one mactan congressional district..

zubuwood

December 3rd, 2011, 03:59 AM

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2306/5822766035_c18cfe2cda_b.jpg
^^^^ Hoping for CEBU's next banner :cheers:
@Slerz... Your photos captivate the true colors of CEBU :cheers:

zubuwood

December 3rd, 2011, 04:24 AM

the Green portion is Cordova's boundary

http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/8766/cordovaboundary2.jpg

^^^^ My estimate would be around 6,000 hectares of land area... :cheers:
More than 20 times larger than Bonifacio Global City :)

jochval

December 3rd, 2011, 04:39 AM

the Green portion is Cordova's boundary

http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/8766/cordovaboundary2.jpg

if ever ang airport naa na sa Cordova, murag layo2x ra man diay sa SRP kung ang flight path straight lang jud...

Sleepwalker

December 3rd, 2011, 04:58 AM

Speaking of SRP....Just a repost... :)

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1212/5124141263_07ca5ffea0_b.jpg

slerz

December 3rd, 2011, 05:52 AM

nag yawyaw nasad intawn siya :lol:

sgc3F6Zn3vE

PINOYmeat

December 3rd, 2011, 06:57 AM

ALI to put up 5-tower condo in Cebu
By: Irene R. Sino Cruz
Inquirer Visayas
10:51 pm | Friday, December 2nd, 2011

CEBU CITY—Confident that the demand for residential condominiums will continue to grow, Ayala Land Inc. (ALI) will soon put up a five-tower
establishment on a 2.6-hectare lot at the Cebu Business Park.

Tony Aquino, Ayala Land president and chair of Cebu Holdings Inc. (CHI), cited the dramatic growth in Cebu’s residential condominium sector, noting that the city has been growing faster than other urban centers elsewhere in the country.

Aquino said the low mortgage rates and the presence of many business process outsourcing (BPO) firms also fueled growth in sales of residential condominium units.

Market appetite

CB Richard Ellis Philippines (CBRE), a real estate services and advisory firm, said the expansion in the office market led to growth in demand for residential condos.

“The influx of expatriates working in BPOs … has whetted the market’s appetite for high-rise dwellings and are observed to be moving closer from the fringe areas to Cebu’s business centers,” CBRE said in a statement posted on its website.

ALI’s ongoing residential condominium projects in Cebu are the 1016 Residences and Sedona Parc at Cebu Business Park, and Avida Towers at Cebu IT Park (formerly Asiatown IT Park).

Other upcoming residential projects in Cebu are the Azalea Place, a project of Robinsons Land Corp. located across the University of the Philippines campus in Lahug, Cebu City; the Marco Polo Residences, a P3-billion, two-tower project of Federal Land Inc. within the Marco Polo Plaza Cebu complex; and Horizon 101, a 55-story tower project of Vicsal Development Corp., which owns the Metro chain of department stores and supermarkets.

MORE (http://business.inquirer.net/33221/ali-to-put-up-5-tower-condo-in-cebu)

no.1ta

December 3rd, 2011, 08:45 AM

nag yawyaw nasad intawn siya :lol:

sgc3F6Zn3vE

naa sad point si manoy oy hasta sad ang mga medication nga gi take ni Tomas it probably affect his brain :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

mAiNsTrEaMhunter

December 3rd, 2011, 08:53 AM

^^ hahaha... feeling nako wala sya nagdrive sa Cebu kay smooth kaayo iyang dagan! :lol: updated siguro si manoy basin lurker sa SSC! :lol::lol::lol:

slerz

December 3rd, 2011, 09:03 AM

a video of Pasko sa Sugbo launching.
I willl really miss this scene a lot...

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great184

December 3rd, 2011, 10:33 AM

Speaking of SRP....Just a repost... :)

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1212/5124141263_07ca5ffea0_b.jpg

Here's a good a question that some of our forumers may lend their suggestions.

What is, in your opinion, the best kind of development for the parcel of land between FILINVEST and SM that would complement both developments?

slerz

December 3rd, 2011, 10:37 AM

^^a Business Park like CITP or CBP...:okay:

diehardbisdak

December 3rd, 2011, 10:52 AM

Chinese Models having the Underwater Boxing Pictorial for a Lingerie products - Shot in Cebu!
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7142/6438511109_a244b9aeec_z.jpg

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7014/6438509779_cd7dd38343_z.jpg

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http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7009/6438507207_a68a0983c0_z.jpg

flickr (http://www.flickr.com)pics by @steadichris (http://www.flickr.com/photos/steadichris/)

:D

great184

December 3rd, 2011, 10:52 AM

^^a Business Park like CITP or CBP...:okay:

I second that motion :cheers1:

slerz

December 3rd, 2011, 01:36 PM

PASKO sa SUGBO

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qailord

December 3rd, 2011, 01:51 PM

Cebu pic (Photo is mine)
http://i1196.photobucket.com/albums/aa410/calbayogcity/2011-11-300907.jpg

Henz

December 3rd, 2011, 01:54 PM

The concept of the SRP was also once just a 'delusion.' Definitely a new airport on another island is not an impossibility. No other politician in this island of ours has the political will to change things.

morag dako dako man seguro ang kalahian between the a VISIONARY... and DELUSIONAL.... I think aTOMMY would fit both... But for the record I am not against him..I liked his being a visionary.. but hated his being a delusional.. :cheers:

Sleepwalker

December 3rd, 2011, 02:07 PM

PASKO sa SUGBO

http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/4776/paskosasugbo2011aa10.jpg

Kanindot sa Osmena Blvd oi..Colorful na pud lagi ang GV tower hotel

HER

December 3rd, 2011, 02:15 PM

Kanindot sa Osmena Blvd oi..Colorful na pud lagi ang GV tower hotel

mao sad ako nabantayan sa pic ni @slerz. nindot kaayo tan-awon.

:cheers:

slerz

December 3rd, 2011, 02:27 PM

yup, coloful gyud kaayo ang GV...
here's a closer look of GV Hotel.
Daghan gyud kaayog Christmas tree ang Jones kay kada idian tree kay Christmas tree..:D

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/1152/paskosasugbo2011aa11.jpg

:D
http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/4185/paskosasugbo2011aa12.jpg

slimer

December 3rd, 2011, 04:39 PM

no hitting below the belt part!:lol:

Chinese Models having the Underwater Boxing Pictorial for a Lingerie products - Shot in Cebu!

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7014/6438509779_cd7dd38343_z.jpg

:D

mAiNsTrEaMhunter

December 3rd, 2011, 05:25 PM

^^ wala gyuy lingaw ning mga insika! :lol::hammer::nuts:

mura ma'g kuwang sa advertisement ning awaya...walay audience! :lol::D:nuts:

Zuburbia

December 3rd, 2011, 06:57 PM

The concept of the SRP was also once just a 'delusion.' Definitely a new airport on another island is not an impossibility. No other politician in this island of ours has the political will to change things.

well of course if they will do it it can be done.. but the question is would the ordinary Cebuano benifit from it big time? or magpabilin lang gihapon tang mag-nganga, maghangad maglantaw sa mga tag-as og dagkong building gikan sa atong mga payag, sa baho, gibaha og hugaw nato nga kasilinganan? maglaway magtan-aw sa mga mahalon nga palaliton og pagkaon nga gitagamtam sa mga pipila ra ka mga elitista og mga banyaga????...kung kini nga mga development mosuyop ras ginagmayng kita sa middle class o sa mga matawag tang ang-ang pagkabutang, kay daghan na nya pong mosocial climb???.. hahaha!....ang dakong pangutana if priority bah niini nga development ang dakong kaayohan sa kinabag-ang mga pobreng sugbuanon??? kung ang maayong economiya nga mamugna niining mga giplanong development motakod, modagayday ngadto sa publiko, pina-agi sa mga social services, well-planned infrastructure og livelihood development sa mga ordinaryong lumolupyo, mopakpak jud hasta akong lapa-lapa!
pero sa akong tan-aw layo ras tinuod nga modagayday nis mga ordinaryong taw ni ilang mga plano, silang SY, Ayala og uban pang dagkong developer, negosyante, mga DATU, og ang mga nagpasi-ugda aning politiko ang mabulahan!!! may untag pareho ta aning Singapore, Dubai, etc..nga ang local nga katawhan ilang prioriting gihatagan og serbisyo! atong nasod unahon man ang kaugalingong bulsa sa politiko, mga pipila ka elitista og banyaga!!!!! :bash: di jud ni mawagtang sa ato ang panultihong "ang datu mosamot kadatu, ang pobre mosamot ka pobre"... mao ni ron ang kalaki ni TOMAS way lamas!!! :bash:

cebu_go

December 3rd, 2011, 08:15 PM

The concept of the SRP was also once just a 'delusion.' Definitely a new airport on another island is not an impossibility. No other politician in this island of ours has the political will to change things.

sakto jud ka brod wa juy maka buhat ana c tomas ra jud ... kay sauna btaw sugdan panang srp ug himo daghan kaayog kontra bda delusional kuno unya karon perting lipaya kay nindot na kuno kaau ang srp ... mao nay mga tawng dagkug ngipon :lol: ang ako lang d lang ta mag una unta kay dli man ta mga hanas aning mga butanga usa pa wapa btaw niy klaro plano pa gani:ohno:

hugodiekonig

December 3rd, 2011, 08:24 PM

just an OT guys. sorry to interrupt your discussions in the thread. I just think this is urgent

to all PH forumers, I humbly ask your support to vote for 5 stars at these banners and to other Philippine banners for this year 2011

Metro Manila Skyline
http://xl.skyscrapercity.com/images/headers/2011/11/21.jpg
http://xl.skyscrapercity.com/?page=banner&bannerday=20111121

Makati Syline
http://xl.skyscrapercity.com/images/headers/2011/11/17.jpg
link: http://xl.skyscrapercity.com/?page=banner&bannerday=20111117#discuss

Cebu skyline
http://xl.skyscrapercity.com/images/headers/2011/11/08.jpg
link: http://xl.skyscrapercity.com/?page=banner&bannerday=20111108

let us join our hands to elevate our banners' ranking at the Top 100 banners for 2011. Mabuhay ang Pilipinas!

slerz

December 4th, 2011, 02:19 AM

sakto jud ka brod wa juy maka buhat ana c tomas ra jud ... kay sauna btaw sugdan panang srp ug himo daghan kaayog kontra bda delusional kuno unya karon perting lipaya kay nindot na kuno kaau ang srp ... mao nay mga tawng dagkug ngipon :lol: ang ako lang d lang ta mag una unta kay dli man ta mga hanas aning mga butanga usa pa wapa btaw niy klaro plano pa gani:ohno:

Kinsa may ni kontra sa SRP sa una? In what grounds nga ni contra ang mga contra bida? Si Gullas siguro imgong pasabot:D Nilaban man gani nuon ang mga taw ni Tomas against ni Gullas sa Talisay nga dawat ra'g limpyo sa bahin sa SRP :bash: Para nako, wa gyuy problema nga mag reclaim diha sa SRP kay tugkaran mana sa syudad. Dako gyud kaayo mig pasalamat nga na mayor si Tomas sa syudad kay napa lambo niya ang syudad. Pero lahi nasad nang sturyaa nga mang hilabot siya sa ubang teritoryo.

Mo pak pak ko sa taw nga hanas anang mga butanga basta sa sakto nga pamaagi pero kung iyahon nalang sad tanan kuwang nalang mo ingon nga siya nala'y maayo aning kalibutana, thumbs down gyud dayon...:lol:

Sa tanang issue, kanus-a man sad mo react ang mga taw? Diba sa plano man? Wapa ko kadungog og issue nga mo react ang mga taw ig dayon nag implement sa project:D

Kasayang ni Tomas kung mawad an og respeto ang mga Sugbuanon niya. Sa radio, permi nalang siyang birahan sa mga commentator. Mas nindot unta to nga ang madunggan nato niya from the people of Cebu kay pasalamat ngadto niya kay dako kaayo siya'g papel sa kalambu-an sa Cebu pero di sad ta ka blame sa mga Sugbuanon kay siya raman sa'y nag hugaw hugaw sa iyang maayong record..:ohno:

slerz

December 4th, 2011, 02:54 AM

Sayop nasad ang writer

Bus system for SRP may be ready in 3 years, says City consultant (http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/local-news/2011/12/04/bus-system-srp-may-be-ready-3-years-says-city-consultant-193966)

Sunday, December 4, 2011

THE mini-Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) system at the South Road Properties (SRP) may be an afterthought of the main BRT that will run through Bulacao and Talamban, but it could be finished sooner than the main mass transport system in Cebu City.

Nestor Archival, Cebu City consultant on BRT matters, said the mini-BRT at SRP will be easier to implement because it doesn’t have to go through an extensive feasibility study.

The main BRT system is at the feasibility study stage, where the economic and social impact will be thoroughly studied.

Proponents of the BRT, which will be funded by the World Bank, have to look at the effect of the system on the working class, particularly jeepney drivers who may be displaced.

The implementation of the mini-BRT will not displace drivers because there is no route at the SRP right now.

The mini-BRT is expected to be fully implemented in the second half of 2014, just in time for the SM Seaside City and Filinvest Land Inc.’s (FLI) Citta Di Mare to be fully operational.

SM Prime Holdings Inc. is expected to open its biggest shopping mall servicing Visayas and Mindanao next year, as FLI also turns over some units of their condominium units of the Citta Di Mare.

The 30-hectare SM property will feature P20 billion worth of projects including a church, convention center, hotels, residential condominiums, a school, and a hospital.

The Citta Di Mare is the condominium complex at the SRP with amenities such as a swimming pool, park, basketball court and others. Across the property is another FLI development in SRP called Il Corso, a commercial complex.

The SRP-BRT, according to foreign consultants Integrated Transport Planning (ITP), will cost P1.48 billion.

Archival, though, said this cost estimate is too high, which is why he plans to meet with the BRT technical working group (TWG) to refine the costing.

The TWG will also study where the SRP-BRT route will be and that will include identifying areas for a terminal.

“We may ask Talisay City that if they agree, the terminal could be there but if not, we will look at the other areas,” Archival told Sun.Star Cebu.

As to the main BRT system, Archival said the planned flyovers will have an effect on how the mass transport system works.

The consultant, though, would not say if this is a negative thing because a study could be conducted on how to work around the flyovers.

As in the Mambaling flyover, the BRT system could either go over the flyover or connect with the SRP-BRT.

At the rate the project is going, the BRT system may be finished in 2016.

Published in the Sun.Star Cebu newspaper on December 04, 2011.

mAiNsTrEaMhunter

December 4th, 2011, 05:12 AM

^^ salamat intawon! :cheers::cheers::cheers:

SRP-BRT 2Q 2014 = :okay:
Main BRT 2016 = :okay:

superdaloydoy

December 4th, 2011, 05:49 AM

whats the plan about the inayawan landfill? srp near the talisay area still stinks...

superdaloydoy

December 4th, 2011, 05:50 AM

and citta de amare is very near that... if im a millionaire i wont live near that place....

slerz

December 4th, 2011, 05:53 AM

^^you love that place to live Sir that's why you don't wan't to leave the place?

mAiNsTrEaMhunter

December 4th, 2011, 05:54 AM

and citta de amare is very near that... if im a millionaire i wont leave near that place....

^^ sorry pero sure ka na you won't leave that place which stinks?! lahi ra pud! :D

btw, its not citta de amare. its citta di mare! :)

slerz

December 4th, 2011, 06:00 AM

^^bugal bugalona gyud nimo bro uy...:lol::D

wakeuptoreality

December 4th, 2011, 06:31 AM

parang it park lang ang banner today! may calyx centre pa

Parchie

December 4th, 2011, 10:19 AM

^^ sorry pero sure ka na you won't leave that place which stinks?! lahi ra pud! :D

btw, its not citta de amare. its citta di mare! :)

Citta, with "C" pronounced as "chi"! Hehehehe

CebuIsGreat

December 4th, 2011, 02:33 PM

^^ sorry pero sure ka na you won't leave that place which stinks?! lahi ra pud! :D
btw, its not citta de amare. its citta di mare! :)

Look and behold from Most Beautiful Cebu City hidden tourist spot Philippine Largest Man-made Cesspool.
Tom Osmeña DAMN an environmental disaster
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7150/6452397537_dc306f62ec_b.jpg
...
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7155/6452564529_b64d902e62_b.jpg
safe for fish at sea but not for Cebu. Enviromentalist love animals not people.
Cebu's future Love Canal - where toxic chemicals, sewage run-offs meet.
A future sewage treament plant will be too late..
Until cancer and deformed children,.. intrusion into Cebu's aquafer happen,
we do not need to abandon Talisay even Cebu City..
Who knows if it is already happening? Who knows?
Mga pobre dinhang lugara makaing-ngon lang nga gi-barang.
Talisay City mayor should ask (sue) to find out for the health of his Talisay citizens.
Cebu might even surrender it to Talisay..!!!!

Lawyers would surely make money by advertising pro-bono
to residents who are victims of this monstrous cesspool.

...

slerz

December 4th, 2011, 02:39 PM

Philippine Daily Inquirer Front page :cheers:
SM City Cebu Christmas Village of Hope
Dec. 4, 2011 Sunday Issue

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mAiNsTrEaMhunter

December 4th, 2011, 02:48 PM

^^ WOW! starring man gyud ang SM Cebu Christmas Village sa broadsheet! :okay:

slerz

December 4th, 2011, 02:50 PM

^^:okay:

Dec. 4, 2011
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http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/9576/smcebuchristmasvillagep.jpg

diehardbisdak

December 4th, 2011, 03:20 PM

@tammendoza (http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrlnm/)'s flickr (http://www.flickr.com) pics

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7019/6452467373_9eb100e31a_z.jpg

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6230/6307338449_d96aa4f803_z.jpg

:D

diehardbisdak

December 4th, 2011, 03:37 PM

^^ here's the full story at Inquirer Lifestyle:

Philippine Daily Inquirer Front page :cheers:
SM City Cebu Christmas Village of Hope
Dec. 4, 2011 Sunday Issue

A Christmas Village of Hope that offers exactly that (http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/25577/a-christmas-village-of-hope-that-offers-exactly-that)
The Tugonons’ miniature holiday setup at SM City Cebu helps cheer up sick kids in more ways than one
By: Cheche V. Moral
Philippine Daily Inquirer
3:47 am | Sunday, December 4th, 2011

It started out as a personal indulgence. Eighteen years ago, Joji Tugonon set up a miniature Christmas village in her own home in Cebu. It had seven measly pieces. The following year, she added seven more, building her collection little by little for her own enjoyment. On one trip to the United States, she found so many miniature model pieces that she came home with 30 balikbayan boxes! Then came the ease of online shopping, such that her once modest holiday village set would eventually grow to 440 pieces, with moving trains and motorized sets, and dozens of miniature vignettes, now worth about P3 million. Tugonon’s husband, Clayton, a Cebu furniture designer and manufacturer, had also come onboard to design the massive little village.

http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/files/2011/12/t1204moral-sm-cebu_feat1_11.jpg

The Tugonons’ elaborate 70-sq-m Christmas Village of Hope, as it has become known, is now on view in a mall setting for the first time at SM City Cebu, unveiled last weekend by the Tugonons with SM Prime Holdings president Hans Sy, and his sister, Elizabeth Sy, president of SM Hotels and Conventions, gracing the event.

“At first, I just did it for my enjoyment, and for my nieces and nephews,” Tugonon recalls. But in 2008, a foundation that supports kids with autism asked if she was willing to receive the kids at her home to view the collection. She said yes. Then someone suggested she bring it to a public venue.
“It has also gotten so big for the house. But for security reasons, we couldn’t receive that many guests in our house,” she recalls.

The general manager of a Cebu hotel read about her collection in a magazine article and offered the hotel as venue. The Tugonons were initially reluctant, but eventually said yes, with one condition: that the setup should have a charity component. The hotel agreed: Each miniature house and train will be up for “adoption” to benefit children with cancer.

Cancer awareness

Tugonon knows intimately one pediatric cancer patient. The child of their nanny, who lives with them, is afflicted with the disease. Tugonon, who is childless, often accompanied the child to her chemo treatment. It always broke her heart, she says, to see the sick kids in the hospital’s waiting area.
She talked to her husband about her plan to help. He, in turn, arranged a car caravan on New Year’s Day 2008 to raise cancer awareness and funds for Kythe Foundation, a nonprofit organization supporting pediatric cancer patients. Kythe works with 11 government hospitals nationwide.
Clayton Tugonon’s first effort raised P100,000.

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In 2009, at Marco Polo Hotel, the couple raised P1.4 million from the Christmas Village. Last year, it was P1.9 million, plus a P5-million donation from Sen. Tito Sotto, who unveiled the mini village. This year, the couple hopes to raise P2.7 million at its SM venue. Each “house” may be adopted for P5,000; a train/carriage for P20,000. It costs a minimum of P5,000 for a course of chemo per child, Tugonon says. The individual or corporate donor’s name is identified with a marker. (Call Tugonon at 032-5149899, 032-3163730, 0917-7167705, 0922-8222167, or e-mail jorpz_yuman@yahoo.com.ph.) As of writing, only 85 pieces are left for adoption. When SM City Cebu heard of the Tugonons’ intention to bring the Christmas Village of Hope to a more public venue, it immediately offered to host it at the Northwing Atrium.

“By coincidence, SM City Cebu’s planned holiday theme of a ‘A Magical Christmas’ that had been decided earlier was a good fit for the Christmas Village of Hope centerpiece,” notes Marissa Fernan, vice president of SM Prime Holdings. The concept of the Christmas Village of Hope is the first and the only one among all the SM malls in the country. While this year’s Christmas Village is the biggest by far for the Tugonons, it took them the quickest to set up, with friends and family volunteering to put the massive showcase together in only six days. One trivia: they required 1,200 bars of Perla detergent bar mixed with 10 gallons of vinegar and 5 kg of salt to create the ersatz snow.

Gift and blessing

At the unveiling attended by the children-beneficiaries, guests were serenaded by the University of Cebu Chorus and the award-winning Mandaue Children and Youth Chorus, which sang SM’s holiday jingle “ChriSMs Bop,” originally performed by YouTube singing sensation Maria Aragon. Cebu’s Double String Quartet also played well-loved Christmas tunes.

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“It is both a gift and a blessing that SM City Cebu has been given this opportunity to bring the joy and spirit of the Christmas season through the Christmas Village of Hope,” says Fernan. “Through it, the thousands of people who come to the mall every day are transported to a wonderful miniature world of houses, buildings, trains and people in a winter setting. For the generous donors, it is an opportunity to share their blessings. To the children, the Village provides the hope of having a normal life.” “My husband and I sometimes say we should stop buying the pieces,” says Tugonon, who’s in the sugarcane trade. “It can get really expensive. But then we realize that each ‘house’ is equal to the life of one child. That’s how Clayton came up with the figure P5,000; that’s how much it costs to extend one child’s life.” She adds, “At the end of the day, when you see these children, they make all your hard work seem worth it.”

source (pics & text): Inquirer Lifestyle (http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/25577/a-christmas-village-of-hope-that-offers-exactly-that)

:D

slerz

December 4th, 2011, 03:56 PM

^^Was able to take pictures of their Marco Polo set up last December 2010.

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/6382/marcopolo2009a.jpg

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Blueleo

December 4th, 2011, 04:14 PM

Paskuhan 2011 sa Fuente sa Cebu :applause: :applause: :applause:
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slerz

December 4th, 2011, 04:38 PM

Cebu's weather earlier...

http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/1626/cebuweatherdec4.jpg

twIco

December 5th, 2011, 12:03 AM

:ohno::ohno:
Until cancer and deformed children,.. intrusion into Cebu's aquafer happen,
we do not need to abandon Talisay even Cebu City..
Who knows if it is already happening? Who knows?
Mga pobre dinhang lugara makaing-ngon lang nga gi-barang.
Talisay City mayor should ask (sue) to find out for the health of his Talisay citizens.
Cebu might even surrender it to Talisay..!!!!

Lawyers would surely make money by advertising pro-bono
to residents who are victims of this monstrous cesspool.

...

:ohno:

CebuIsGreat

December 5th, 2011, 12:37 AM

Cebu's weather earlier...

Kinsa man ang Gilobung

flesh_is_weak

December 5th, 2011, 06:10 AM

nag yawyaw nasad intawn siya :lol:

sgc3F6Zn3vE

hahaha ngano kaha ga-shades ni siya...high siguro :lol:

btw, naa siya'y point regarding the aiport...kung short-term ra atong tan-awon, but in the long term, mas maayo na investment kung ibalhin ang airport ug lahi na location, especially nga pas-pas kaayo ang pag-tubo sa Metro Cebu

Sleepwalker

December 5th, 2011, 06:25 AM

Kung unta naa ta'y ingon ani pud o!

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6187/6057303443_3e12608bbf.jpg

jochval

December 5th, 2011, 06:34 AM

maynta ingon ana atong BRT...:D

Sleepwalker

December 5th, 2011, 06:48 AM

^^Mas maayo kung pang sight-seeing lang na siya...Kung double decker ang gamiton sa BRT, mora'g hasol kaayo ang pagsaka ug kanaog sa pasahero gikan sa ikaduha nga andana...Og usik pud sa oras... :)

Anyway, ACC's Fountain
photo from Leylander's MCRPB

http://coverme.in/.i/_3DNGC29mMjczYzATB1DwMxuQA38IA4DQA1NGZmZmY5HGZi02ow5vpeAJnfMzYwyTquE3phRGolSzMi8vBr8qn

Sleepwalker

December 5th, 2011, 06:56 AM

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http://www.cebuholdings.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/Inpage_banner/banner-inpage/chi_our-projects_banner.jpg

mAiNsTrEaMhunter

December 5th, 2011, 10:31 AM

Kung unta naa ta'y ingon ani pud o!

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6187/6057303443_3e12608bbf.jpg

nice! pwede pud ni sya gamiton unya sa downtown pedestrianization! :okay:

jochval

December 5th, 2011, 11:04 AM

mosangko na sa mga spaghetti wires sa downtown...:lol:

mAiNsTrEaMhunter

December 5th, 2011, 11:14 AM

^^
aw, naa man pud tigdawat sa mga cablewires nga ibutang sa atop sa bus aron maoy tig-pasaka para dili masangko! :lol:

ydderf101

December 5th, 2011, 11:18 AM

bai palain sa ta, kinsay makapost ug fotos sa mga specialty resto/carenderia diha sa csr road talisay nga mostly nag-offer ug mga kanding specialty as for promotion purpose para sa mga dili taga dere nga masayod usab. thank you..........

mAiNsTrEaMhunter

December 5th, 2011, 11:24 AM

^^ kanding ra gyud bai?! :D:nocrook:

mura'g tuyuonon gyud na sya.

britrey

December 5th, 2011, 12:06 PM

mosangko na sa mga spaghetti wires sa downtown...:lol:

Bwahahaha! Korek! Pero, gi-ahak ui. Wala na gyu'y solusyon na nuh? Samuka sad gyud bitaw tan-awn ui. Maka-bati sa view. :(

julfinch

December 5th, 2011, 12:59 PM

O ha! Guess-who game. Maayo sad pagkatabon .:lol:

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h126/julfinch/Photo0754.jpg

julfinch

December 5th, 2011, 01:18 PM

This FB page entitled to himself,looks like it's the first time I saw 3 consecutive posts not meant to his enemies.:lol:

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wakeuptoreality

December 5th, 2011, 02:55 PM

IF THERE’S A WHALE, THERE’S A WAY. There’s no more need to go to Donsol, Sorsogon, to catch a glimpse of the famous butanding (whale shark). These gentle giants have been spotted off Barangay Tan-awan, Oslob town, Cebu, since October. Lately they have become a magnet for local and foreign tourists. FERDINAND EDRALIN/FREEMAN NEWSPAPER

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7027/6459580639_c621fe49d0_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ferdinand_edralin/6459580639/)
butanding (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ferdinand_edralin/6459580639/) by ferdinand edralin (http://www.flickr.com/people/ferdinand_edralin/), on Flickr

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7171/6459573161_ff31efbf61_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ferdinand_edralin/6459573161/)
butanding (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ferdinand_edralin/6459573161/) by ferdinand edralin (http://www.flickr.com/people/ferdinand_edralin/), on Flickr

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7166/6459580625_a3a662bb15_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ferdinand_edralin/6459580625/)
butanding (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ferdinand_edralin/6459580625/) by ferdinand edralin (http://www.flickr.com/people/ferdinand_edralin/), on Flickr

diehardbisdak

December 5th, 2011, 04:43 PM

^^ i hope ikontrol nila ang pag diving/swimming with the Butanding...even the smallest living things on earth needs privacy...hehe!

Sleepwalker

December 5th, 2011, 04:47 PM

O ha! Guess-who game. Maayo sad pagkatabon .:lol:

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h126/julfinch/Photo0754.jpg

Silhouette effect pa si Del Mar... :D

slerz

December 5th, 2011, 05:09 PM

Kinsa man ang Gilobung

lubong gud tawn...lol

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/2940/urbanpoor4.jpg

http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/1461/urbanpoor3.jpg

BTW, samot ka bibo ang Fuente kay gi butnagn og mga clored bulbs nga gi dayan dayan palibot sa rotunda like this pic below..:okay:
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/254/paskosasugbo2011x.jpg

Bandila 12-5-2011
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Sleepwalker

December 5th, 2011, 05:38 PM

Ganahan kaayo ko's mga lakang ni Mayor Rama karon sa pagpabibo sa mga inila'ng bahin sa siyudad sa Sugbo, sama sa Fuente O/Osmena Blvd, Downtown/Colon/Carbon ug siguro pud ang V. Rama.

Kani man gud baya'ng kamao pud magpakabana ang ato mga opisyales, ang mga tawo kay aduna'y tendency nga mosunod pud...Mora og by default, role model gud ang mga opisyal.

Medyo tas-on na lang nako ni ako storya ha...Duna bitaw lugar sa Shenzhen City, China, nga kadtong pirmero nako'ng taak pag 2005, makaingon gud ko'g ang tibuok lugar kay basurahan, kay ang mga tawo (kasagaran mga migrant workers), kay pataka lang og labay sa basura, pataka og pangihi ug pataka og panluwa...Pero, niadto'ng 2007, kadto'ng nangandam ang tibook China para sa 2008 Olympics, gi-overhaul ang 80% sa mao'ng lugar. Hamis na og dalan, bag-ong ligo og pintal ang mga building, han-ay ang sidewalk, hayag kaayo og mga street lights, gipangnindot ila'ng mga parks ug nagbutang og mga basurahan...Pwera buyag, sa kada duaw nako sa mao'ng lugar, nagpabilin na gud siya nga hapsay ug hinlo...Og ang mga tawo, magpangikog na pud og labay sa ilang basura.

Bisan tuod og dili parehas kadato sa Shenzhen ang Cebu, pero sa mga ginagmay'ng mga maayong lakang nga pagabuhaton sa ato gobyerno, makakuha kini sa respeto, koopera ug suporta sa mga lumolupyo.

Hinaot nga magpabilin si Mayor Rama sa iyang gibuhat...Kung hinlo, hapsay ug malinawon kanunay ang Sugbo, modagsang ang mga turista, modaghan ang mo-invest, mas modako ang pagsalig sa mga tawo ngadto sa mga opisyales ug mas madasigon ang kada usa nga makatampo og mga maayo'ng butang ngadto sa katilingban.

Manindog palihug... :)

mAiNsTrEaMhunter

December 5th, 2011, 05:40 PM

:bowtie::bowtie::bowtie::bowtie::bowtie:

Para sa masipang pakpak! :applause::applause::applause:

diehardbisdak

December 5th, 2011, 06:18 PM

Medyo tas-on na lang nako ni ako storya ha...Duna bitaw lugar sa Shenzhen City, China, nga kadtong pirmero nako'ng taak pag 2005, makaingon gud ko'g ang tibuok lugar kay basurahan, kay ang mga tawo (kasagaran mga migrant workers), kay pataka lang og labay sa basura, pataka og pangihi ug pataka og panluwa...Pero, niadto'ng 2007, kadto'ng nangandam ang tibook China para sa 2008 Olympics, gi-overhaul ang 80% sa mao'ng lugar. Hamis na og dalan, bag-ong ligo og pintal ang mga building, han-ay ang sidewalk, hayag kaayo og mga street lights, gipangnindot ila'ng mga parks ug nagbutang og mga basurahan...Pwera buyag, sa kada duaw nako sa mao'ng lugar, nagpabilin na gud siya nga hapsay ug hinlo...Og ang mga tawo, magpangikog na pud og labay sa ilang basura.

...i've been to this city and it's teeming with young professionals and loads of tourist bus from Hongkong...! Here's a pic i took in 2009:
http://i41.tinypic.com/20749pi.jpg
uploaded on www.tinypic.com

EdithB

December 5th, 2011, 10:24 PM

mosangko na sa mga spaghetti wires sa downtown...:lol:

LOL How about open sided jeepneys with bus like seating? It's uniquely Filipino. Maybe have a jeepney stop by the tourist sites every 30 minutes like what they do in Monterey Bay and San Diego only they have street cars instead. Make it hop on hop off so it's easy to get to the tourist sites from the Lapulapu monument to the Tops and the various sites in between. I think visitors wouldn't mind paying P500? for a one day ticket.

What happened to the Mega Cebu proposal and the General Plan for the whole island and the cities? Frankly, it's disheartening to see patches of luxury and affluence in the midst of a third world metropolis. It's disturbing to see such extremes. Cebu should avoid becoming like Manila where you can see small patches of affluence in an ocean of poverty and everybody being choked by dirty air and wading in flood water when it rains.

Why are the politicians talking about a new reclamation when the SRP is still empty and the NRA is still mainly open? Can Cebu afford all these loans? Selling public lands to private entities could lead to the abuse of the power of eminent domain.

wakeuptoreality

December 6th, 2011, 12:39 AM

after SM, Ayala naman :)

Ayala Land eyes rehab of Mactan Cebu airport
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/business/12/05/11/ayala-land-eyes-rehab-mactan-cebu-airport

MANILA, Philippines - Property giant Ayala Land Inc. (ALI) is training its sights on the 300-hectare Mactan Cebu International Airport, which is in dire need of rehabilitation.

The privatization/sale of the airport’s current location is among the options being considered by the MCIAA (Mactan-Cebu International Airport Authority) to raise the necessary funding for the development of a world-class and modern airport.

“We are interested in both the upgrade or the transfer,” said ALI president Antonino Aquino.

He said the company is awaiting the decision of the MCIAA and the Department of Transportation and Communications on whether they will upgrade or transfer the existing airport.

“We will participate in the bid of whichever option the government decides to pursue,” Aquino said.

SM Prime had earlier submitted a proposal to acquire the existing airport site, which it intends to develop into a mixed-use complex.

Rep. Tomas Osmeña (Cebu City) was earlier reported to have said that selling the Mactan airport property and putting up a new one would be a more feasible option than refurbishing the existing airport which could cost some P5 billion.

Osmeña also said the runway could be converted into a highway, which can be extended from the Lapu-Lapu City Reclamation Area to the Cordova Reclamation Area should the sale push through.

With both SM Prime and ALI signifiying interest in the aiport property, analysts are speculating that the rivalry between the two groups could heat up anew. ALI and SM Prime are locked in a dispute on who has the right to develop a 7.7-hectare prime property in Bacolod City, Negros Occidental.

ALI said it sealed a deal with the provincial government of Negros Occidental for the development of the property into a mixed-use complex at an estimated cost of P6 billion.

SM Prime, however, questioned the deal, saying it was invalid, saying a case it filed regarding the July 7 auction of the property was still pending. The company said it had offered a “far more superior bid” for the property.

The bidding, however, was a declared a failure after both firms purportedly submitted bids lower than the property’s appraised value.

mahusay

December 6th, 2011, 12:54 AM

Hello cebuanos,

pwde magpatulong kung saan ako pwde mkabili nga candies/lollies dyan sa cebu na per kilo sya?

Salamat!

kindofperfect82888

December 6th, 2011, 01:00 AM

^^ there is a stall in SM City Ceu that sells candies by the kilos. my girlfriend is obsessed with gummy bears and we used to by it there. you can see it at the upper ground floor (i think). i don't also know if it's still open.

mahusay

December 6th, 2011, 01:49 AM

wakeuptoreality

December 6th, 2011, 01:55 AM

^^ i think sa 3rd floor atbang sa jollibee na

mahusay

December 6th, 2011, 02:33 AM

^^ i think sa 3rd floor atbang sa jollibee na

Thanks :)

Sleepwalker

December 6th, 2011, 03:29 AM

...i've been to this city and it's teeming with young professionals and loads of tourist bus from Hongkong...! Here's a pic i took in 2009:
http://i41.tinypic.com/20749pi.jpg
uploaded on www.tinypic.com

Futian district (not sure) na siya, bai @diehard...Equivalent ni siya sa CBP or CITP, on a larger scale lang..

Zeibu

December 6th, 2011, 06:43 AM

MatudNilaBaby

December 6th, 2011, 07:31 AM

nagaway na ang ayala ug sm sa mactan airport :nuts: basin mu apil sd ang robinsons..

and that's the work of the visionary or the delusional:lol::cheers:

Zeibu

December 6th, 2011, 07:53 AM

the difference between a visionary and someone delusional? tomas has proven that he can make things happen so that makes him a visionary.. with sm and ayala waiting in line, the transfer of mcia to cordova will make it easier for him. i would say he would be delusional if he does not get enough support for its transfer. tomas could have been delusional if the japanese government did not support the SRP. SM and ayala is willing to support the transfer of MCIA so I say he is one step closer to his vision and not his illusion.. :)

usaHAI

December 6th, 2011, 08:52 AM

nagaway na ang ayala ug sm sa mactan airport :nuts: basin mu apil sd ang robinsons..

Di man na sila magaway pareho lang sila nga inspired and want to join the bandwagon and share the experience. Alegre jud kaayo kon moapil ang ubang heavyweights like Megaworld, Robinsons and Filinvest.

Henz

December 6th, 2011, 09:42 AM

jochval

December 6th, 2011, 10:00 AM

si Tomas kay hambugero pero naay agi...that's my comment...:)

ang dili lang nako ganahan niya kay manghilabot ni Rama ug mangaway ni Gwen mao divided ang politics sa Cebu tungod niya...ug dako kaayo ug pangandoy mao nga angkonon na lang ang airport ug ang Cordova bahala ug kinsay ligsan matuman lang...

jochval

December 6th, 2011, 10:12 AM

taken ganina, niadto lang jud ko ug Fuente kay naay kunoy signature campaign didto pagpaimpeach ni Chief Justice Corona unya naay free Jollibee ug KFC, pero pag-adto nako kay wala na...:bash::bash:

http://i1198.photobucket.com/albums/aa456/jochval/Photo0348.jpg

CebuIsGreat

December 6th, 2011, 11:05 AM

Hello cebuanos,

pwde magpatulong kung saan ako pwde mkabili nga candies/lollies dyan sa cebu na per kilo sya?

Salamat!

Inside and around Taboan and Carbon Market, you will find wholesale price. Sari-sari stores from outside city get their items. The distributors or manggaderos get their stuffs to trade for inter-island commerce..

wakeuptoreality

December 6th, 2011, 11:06 AM

CEBU 2010

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3391/4564553733_6f53edaac6_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisgots/4564553733/)
Cebu Panorama (http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisgots/4564553733/) by dongfengju (http://www.flickr.com/people/chrisgots/), on Flickr

CebuIsGreat

December 6th, 2011, 11:25 AM

LOL How about open sided jeepneys with bus like seating? It's uniquely Filipino..... Frankly, it's disheartening to see patches of luxury and affluence in the midst of a third world metropolis. It's disturbing to see such extremes. Cebu should avoid becoming like Manila where you can see small patches of affluence in an ocean of poverty and everybody being choked by dirty air and wading in flood water when it rains.
Why are the politicians talking about a new reclamation when the SRP is still empty and the NRA is still mainly open? Can Cebu afford all these loans? Selling public lands to private entities could lead to the abuse of the power of eminent domain.
All these bubbles !!! All these glitters and skyscrapers !!!
All real estate property are beyond the reach of the local folks.
SM and Ayala are fighting to acquire cheap government properties, which
they in turn will use as equities to become 10 to 1,000 times profits in value.
And these are recourseable loans!!! (even politicians and businessmen do not know what it mean.)
When the day of reckoning comes and foreign investors get what they want and pull (sell) out,
Philippines or Cebu hopes to sustain that impact.
Do our people understand what is happening in Europe?
Do politicians and greedy business care?

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bakasaurus

December 6th, 2011, 02:02 PM

All these bubbles !!! All these glitters and skyscrapers !!!
All real estate property are beyond the reach of the local folks.
SM and Ayala are fighting to acquire cheap government properties, which
they in turn will use as equities to become 10 to 1,000 times profits in value.
And these are recourseable loans!!! (even politicians and businessmen do not know what it mean.)
When the day of reckoning comes and foreign investors get what they want and pull (sell) out,
Philippines or Cebu hopes to sustain that impact.
Do our people understand what is happening in Europe?
Do politicians and greedy business care?

.

For once, I would have to agree with you. We ought to also be prudent when it comes to these things. With SRP and other reclaimed lands, I have no qualms if the government treats them as purely business, to sell them for profits or long-term profitability.

However, government selling public lots, especially those which the government acquired through Eminent Domain, throws in some murky things in these transactions.

Dili lang unta ta muingon nga WOW, KANINDOT MADEVELOP NA SA SM OG AYALA!. Atong susihon atong hunahuna kay sa gituyo man o wala, insulto pod baya sa mga nanag-iya sa maong properties sa niadtong wala pa gipugos og palit sa gobyerno. And right, it is big injustice when SM and Ayala will now use these lands to add to their already LARGE COFFERS more money and assets, while we can't even afford to buy property from them. If the government really wants to pursue this, they should justly compensate those who were aggravated by these actions. Sa maong paagi, makaingon ta nga naay social justice, og wala nahimo ang gobyerno nga ahente sa pagpanamastamas sa mga oyamot og gagmay sa katilingban.

Tomas, hinaut imo intawon nang hunahunaon. What is progress when it favors the already favored and puts common folk at a disadvantage.

Frankly speaking, ang paglambo sa Opon, dili gyud namo intawn mabati sa bahin sa serbisyo publiko. Ambot og kang kinsang bulsa ang nagawas-awas sa kalamboan.

bakasaurus

December 6th, 2011, 02:17 PM

Nibati lang gud ko sa mga rants ni @baka bay! Tiaw mo na nga gipugos pagpabaligya sa luna kay aron magamit nga airport unya nga gipul-an, ibaligya sa dako nga negosyante!

Maayo gyud siguro aning mga forced sale thru expropriation, himuon nga deed of conditional sale. Buot nako ipasabot, nga kon di na gani gamiton sa original nga purpose, adto ibaligya sa karaang gipalitan aron way masakitan.

Salamat diay bai @Parch sa imong pagempathize sa akong yangongo..
sakto ka bai, naa koy nakit-an na article. Gipalit og balik sa previous owner ang ilahang yuta nga 1000 sq.m. for the same price that the government bought it from them through eminent domain in the 60's which was P 3,018. Hehehe.

So sa ato pa, naa gyu'y precedent case. Kung idayon ni og baligya sa SM or Ayala, dakong gubot!!

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/sc-ato-return-lot-family

Here's a snippet of that article..

SC to ATO: return lot to family

By Karlon N. Rama

Saturday, March 6, 2010

THE Supreme Court (SC) has ordered a government agency to return to a family in Cebu City a 1,017-square meter parcel of lot it expropriated in the ‘60s for P3,018.

In the en banc decision penned by Associate Justice Eduardo Nachura, all the Lozada family has to do is return the government’s P3,018 to get back the lot near the Cebu Asiatown IT Park.

Promulgated last Feb. 25, the ruling will affect future cases involving expropriation.

The ruling holds that all property the government expropriates should be returned to the original owner when the government no longer uses it for the purpose it was obtained.

“The taking of private property, consequent to the Government’s exercise of its power of eminent domain, is always subject to the condition that the property be devoted to the specific public purpose for which it was taken,” the ruling read.

slerz

December 6th, 2011, 02:45 PM

KASADYA SA N. BACALSO AVENUE Launching
Dec. 6, 2011

12 Barangays along N. Bacalso Avenue
Poblacion Pardo
Basak Pardo
Bulacao Pardo
Kinasang-an Pardo
Basak San Nicolas
Calamba
Sambag I
Labangon
Pahina Central
Mambaling
Duljo Fatima
San Nicolas Proper

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SC_00

December 6th, 2011, 02:57 PM

PNLENGLAND

December 6th, 2011, 03:17 PM

slerz

December 6th, 2011, 03:22 PM

FOODA Mambaling opens this Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011:cheers:

PNLENGLAND

December 6th, 2011, 03:24 PM

Feling's Store
Palm Beach, Marigondon, Lapulapu City, Cebu
BBQ/Grill/Seafoods

Some of their dishes:

Bat* (a variant of sea cucumber) (Rating: 5/5)
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Sunlutan* (a variant of sea cucumber) (Rating: 5/5)
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Guso* (seaweeds) (Rating: 5/5)
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Tihi-tihi (sea urchin meat) (Rating: 5/5)
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Puso (Hanging Rice) (Rating: 4/5)
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Grilled Pork Barbecue (Rating: 5/5)
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The view (Rating: 4/5)
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Waiting time - 1 to 5 minutes

Legend:
* - raw seafoods soaked in very sour vinegar together with spices such as onions, garlic and pepper

lami kaayo ni pila kaha ang price nila

PNLENGLAND

December 6th, 2011, 03:41 PM

^^Kini inyo gipangita?

Cebu Baboy'ng Inasal
flickr photo by Ravemaster
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laway man sad ta tan - aw ani nga letson

Sleepwalker

December 6th, 2011, 03:42 PM

So sa ato pa, naa gyu'y precedent case. Kung idayon ni og baligya sa SM or Ayala, dakong gubot!!

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/sc-ato-return-lot-family

Here's a snippet of that article..

Mao na diha...Maayo na lang gani, kay naa'y provision sa balaod nga pwede paliton og balik sa mga orihinal nga tag-iya ang mga luna nga gipugos og palit gamit ang eminent domain nga rason.

Imagine-na'g wala na nga provision? Tabla ra og gitulis ka's kaugalingon nimo'ng gobyerno...:lol:

Siguro, nakahimatngon na's Tom ani'ng mga possible nga mga issues kung idayon man gani gud og baligya ang MCIA

slerz

December 6th, 2011, 04:07 PM

naay 4 new escalators sa northwing(2-near duty free and 2-near bdo)

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:cheers:
BDO / Cyberzone side
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CebuIsGreat

December 6th, 2011, 04:28 PM

Nibati lang gud ko sa mga rants ni @baka bay! Tiaw mo na nga gipugos pagpabaligya sa luna kay aron magamit nga airport unya nga gipul-an, ibaligya sa dako nga negosyante! Maayo gyud siguro aning mga forced sale thru expropriation, himuon nga deed of conditional sale. Buot nako ipasabot, nga kon di na gani gamiton sa original nga purpose, adto ibaligya sa karaang gipalitan aron way masakitan.

Salamat diay bai @Parch sa imong pagempathize sa akong yangongo..sakto ka bai, naa koy nakit-an na article. Gipalit og balik sa previous owner ang ilahang yuta nga 1000 sq.m. for the same price that the government bought it from them through eminent domain in the 60's which was P 3,018. Hehehe.So sa ato pa, naa gyu'y precedent case. Kung idayon ni og baligya sa SM or Ayala, dakong gubot!!http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/sc-ato-return-lot-family Here's a snippet of that article..

By Karlon N. Rama, Saturday, March 6, 2010
THE Supreme Court (SC) has ordered a government agency to return to a family in Cebu City a 1,017-square meter parcel of lot it expropriated in the ‘60s for P3,018. What the Lozada family has to do is return the government’s P3,018 to get back the lot near the Cebu Asiatown IT Park.

So what happen?
Any highrise standing on it. Any improvement is included free..
The heirs may be suing each other now !!!
Maybe the wife of the next of kin Lozada who pays <$100 wants it all.
The Lozada is a big family.
The Lozada family corresponds to Bernardo Lozada Sr. and the heirs of Rosario Mercado, namely Vicente, Mario and Bernardo Lozada Jr., Marcia Godinez, Virginia Flores, Dolores Gacasan and Socorro Cafaro.
O boy, ...that's another 50years.......