Starbucks brewing in CDO!

It's official. Rustan Coffee, the sole licensee of Starbucks Coffee International in the Philippines, confirmed that Starbucks CDO will have its grand opening next month. 

SB is located at Parking A of Limketkai Mall.

The structure is almost complete. Timely for next months' opening. You may say that the exterior is quite boring, but lets just say they will surprise us in their interior. Grandiloquence perhaps.!?

This is it! Starbucks is on the way. Excited for the first SB in Mindanao! Now put your hands up! :-)

From Fans to Fame...

From fans....

to Fame....


Shakey shake!

Exactly one week ago, Ms K

Exactly one week ago, Miss Kagay-an 2010 was held at The Atirum. with 12 lovely candidates vying for the prestigious title. It was a decision of two, whether to attend my company's Pop fiesta concert or watch the pageant night. Oh well, the rain didn't stop pouring that day since 3 in the afternoon, I opted to watch the pageant night just because the concert arena had to be in open air.

So here comes the big night. It started with opening prayer, cultural numbers and the opening act. The first part of the event was on hiatus. Where the crowd gone wild when VMayor Acenas zipped his way down from the 2nd level of the atrium to the pageant stage. He opened his speech and boast CdeO to be the adventure capital of the Phils (really?) and so on.... 

Okey stripped down on the core of the night. It has always been a pageant failure when there is so much plugging, killing the time, dead air segments, corny hosts icebreakers and whatsoever. I happened to comment on how the show came from 10 to 3 ratings. mygoodness. These are just my judgments.

4. The stage was like a huge mural of coral. It's like that they borrowed ocean park for a night.

3. Repetitive of the sidecourt hosts speeches. It was cyclic! 

2. The Gowns! My Goodness the gowns. The moment when the first candidate came out, I knew it its gonna be a 2009 rundown (if you know what I mean). In my opinion you just can't let the other lady wear The Same Exact Design of the other. I'm pretty sure that some of the judges are dismayed  of the long gown competition. The excitement had just gone with the wind. Remember this is a Beauty Pageant not a Fashion Show. Please. You can do better.

1. What made the Pageant night even become tedious, is the Host. He's by far the most undecided, not-ready-to-become-host-of-the-night. I feel sorry for him. Didn't the organizers brief him  days before? Because as I remember, during the 1st Q&A segment, he just made up an impromptu queries. Looking in to his papers back and forth and thinking if this would be the best question to ask. Mygoodness. You can do better.

Local Beauty Pageants or even nationals are still stucked on the old tradition. Maybe next time we should be keen enough to adopt the style of how International Beauty Pageants do their airing. Not so much flaws, quick and alert, and go down to the core. 

And good thing is, we were rooting for Ms Jeminah Ferrer to win and she did! JEM for the win! 

Latest Perspective of Ayala Mall CdeO

Shown above is the latest perspective of the proposed Ayala Mall in Cagayan de Oro City taken from City Hall…unless another one will be posted onsite in weeks to come.

Based on the latest design, the mall will still have three levels. The anchor store on the left (along Capt. Vicente Roa) is reportedly Robinsons Department Store, same with that of Abreeza in Davao. Quite interesting as clearly shown is the boutique hotel on the right rising above the mall.

The boutique hotel shown below is I think 10 storeys high and will become a landmark structure in this area.

Construction work (pile driving) will reportedly begin in October.

The latest design is better than the first two.

1st. Based on the perspective, it will be 4-storeys high, with a rotunda on the lower left and an 11-storey (or is it 17-storey?) BPO at the south end of the property.

The hotel and BPO component are fully integrated into one huge building complex. I think Ayala maximized the use of the prime lot which has been idle for so many years. It’s safe to assume that the hotel (around 10 storeys) is the one at the corner of CM Recto and Corrales Avenue while the BPO (approx. 5-6 storeys) will be at the other corner of CM Recto and Capt. Vicente Roa Street.

Well, what made me more grateful is that they will retain the two old huge trees. Those trees deserve a new owner that will be taken care of but nonetheless by the name of Ayala. Huge SMILE for Me!

 The Two Old Trees

Lets Go Green!

INCEPTION

If Inception is a metaphysical puzzle, it's also a metaphorical one: It's hard not to draw connections between Cobb's dream-weaving and Nolan's filmmaking, an activity devoted to constructing a simulacrum of reality, intended to seduce us, mess with our heads and leave a lasting impression. Mission accomplished.

Though it cost Php350 for 2hrs and 25mins movie, it is all worth it.

Leonardo Dicaprio as Cobb 'The Extractor'

Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Arthur 'The Point Man'

Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Arthur 'The Point Man'

Ellen Page as Ariadne 'The Architect'

Legendtina

Mirror mirror on the wall who's the flyest ***** of them all? It's ME! Bow down get on your knees!

Divine Mercy Shrine

Jesus I Trust In You

JESUS I TRUST IN YOU!
The message and devotion to Jesus as The Divine Mercy is based on the writings of Saint Faustina Kowalska, an uneducated Polish nun who, in obedience to her spiritual director, wrote a diary of about 600 pages recording the revelations she received about God’s mercy.

The message of mercy is that God loves us no matter how great our sins. He wants us to recognize that His mercy is greater than our sins, so that we will call upon Him with trust, receive His mercy, and let it flow through us to others. Thus, all will come to share His joy.

It is a message we can call to mind simply by remembering ABC.
A — Ask for His Mercy. God wants us to approach Him in prayer constantly, repenting of our sins and asking Him to pour His mercy out upon us and upon the whole world.
B — Be merciful. God wants us to receive His mercy and let it flow through us to others. He wants us to extend love and forgiveness to others just as He does to us.
C — Completely trust in Jesus. God wants us to know that the graces of His mercy are dependent upon our trust. The more we trust in Jesus, the more we will receive.

The message is nothing new, but is a reminder of what the Church has always taught through scripture and tradition: that God is merciful and forgiving and that we, too, must show mercy and forgiveness. But in the Divine Mercy devotion, the message takes on a powerful new focus, calling people to a deeper understanding that God’s love is unlimited and available to everyone, especially the greatest sinners.

It is the tallest Statue of Jesus Christ in the Philippines, standing 50ft tall. Half the size of Lady Liberty in the US. 

This awesome shrine is located in the small city of El Salvador (The Savior), which is about  30 minutes away from Cagayan de Oro City, close to the shores of Northern Mindanao, the Philippines.