Bloggers Around Mindanao Gathered Together in One Event in General Santos City
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I am from Cagayan de Oro City and I traveled 7 to 8 hours Bus ride from CDO to Davao via Bukidnon province and stayed overnight at Sampaguita Inn in Davao City. The next day I headed right away to General Santos for another 3 to 4 hours Bus ride with Dennis and Kathy, while the three stoogies (lolz… sorry guys this is my blog) Raphael, Grace and Alma catch us up later that night to GenSan. I tell you, I wasn’t really feeling good on my travel going from the City of Golden Friendship to the Tuna Capital of the Philippines, because I have a diarrhea while I was on the bus and the feeling was so uncomfortable that you need to hold on for that CDO-Davao trip. But I made it just to be on the Second Mindanao Bloggers Summit and meet those people behind the blogs I read and visit from time to time. Anyway, even though I have that scenario on my travel somehow sometimes I forgot that feeling because of the wonderful scenic view of mountain ranges along the way. Those winding roads makes me feel like I was riding on a roller coaster and it was kinda fun.
It was my first time in General Santos City and I did have fun with it. General Santos City, my first impression before on this City is just the tuna. Everytime I heard about the city all I can associate with it are just those big tuna fishes. But when I arrived at the City, aside from being a clean and peaceful city, what I admired most about General Santos City is the traffic. You cannot be congested on traffic on most crossings and junctions in the city with its wide roads and highways I can almost sometimes say it is a runway.
Anyway, the MBS2 theme is entitled: Mindanawon Paminawon Intawon – Blogging the Mindanao Consciousness and it was held at Family Country Hotel & Convention Center. It has been hosted by Migs Hipolito and Joana Grace Banting-Lapore and was facilitated by General Santos City’s true Bariles Mr. Avel Manansala and was headed by Blogie Robillo. Speakers are Walter I. Balane for Voices from Mindanao Heartroots: Notes on life and Living in the Communities, Hector P. Miñoza for Mindanao Consciousness on reshaping Social Outlook and Identity, Google Philippines Aileen Apolo for Tips and New Social Media for Mindanao Bloggers. The cute entrepreneur woman from Davao Ria A. Jose also discussed about Blogging the Entrepreneurial way of life, I won’t also forget Mr. Bobby A. Timonera who inspires me to start photo blogging because of his awesome captures on Images of Mindanao from the perspective of a Mindanaoan. Oh by the way, I forgot about Pierre Tito Galla a.k.a. Jester-in-exile, who also shares his views on Mindanao. (Sorry dude… I started being forgetful after my travel). Lyle Santos also shares how he earns thru his blogs and even fooled us with the Mr. Almighty website at the Family Country Hotel lobby while we were on a break at the summit, but later exposed the secrets of it.
Outdoor Lifestyle Blogger – Dr. Bone Doc MD of Laarni Lozada PDA2 Winner’s hometown Sultan Kudarat talks about his outdoor blog. Tech blogger Migs of Davao and the witty Student blogger Mikko Gozalo. Mark Aethen Agana an Advocacy blogger the one who met us when we arrived in General Santos City also made a shout out at the summit. Of course Blogie Robillo and the Bariles himself Mr. Avel Manansala who made all the people in the summit stand up after he shared his side of blogging and claimed and thanked for the standing ovation. (LOLs, he owned us that time.) By the way the lunch was sponsored by Mayor Jun Acharon of Gen. Santos. How about the Sashimi night cocktail? Of course since we are at the Tuna Capital the organizers won’t let us miss to experience their thinly sliced raw fish. Well, I love eating raw fish or kinilaw as what we called in Bisaya but with sashimi I kinda say no because of the wasabi sauce, I am just not use to the wasabi taste. The Fellowship Dinner courtesy of Hon. Cong. Darlene Antonino-Custodio is great with the jaw dropping few numbers of dance performances of the Magsaysay Memorial Colleges Teatro Ambahanon Contemporary Dance. The “Manoy,” a duet performed by Julius Lagare and Deejay De Vera was the best and the one got the top prize at the CCP dance fest last June 12-16, 2008. After the dinner of course those bloggers are not just good on making their fingers dance on keyboards but they can also dance to the music of the Genrhythmics band composed of government employees from the Local Government Unit of General Santos. Even Blogie Robillo whom I thought a serious one made his way to the dance floor and went crazy with his sexy dance together with the rest of the party lover bloggers and the night ended with all of us wet with our own sweat and satisfied with the party we had and went home for the next day will be a tour around General Santos City and as promised we will visit the “Pambansang Kamao” mansion.
That’s all for now and I will post more about my MBS2 and Northern to Southern Mindanao tour.
For pictures and other infos please visit Bisaya Blog and Raphael’s Web album
Wow..astig, kalbaryo diay imong road trip? may n lng nabawi sa views…bad trip jud ng diarrhea sa road trip…hehehehe
pero ok ra man, dli man pud halata…hehehehe
halow robz! kalbaryo bitaw to, noh..
dili man gani ka mukaon sa cheese ring.heheh!
tama si rap, cge man japun ka katawa, murag wala ra. lolz! maayo pa ka, kabuhat nag entry, nabz jd ko..weheheh! basin later today pa
halow robz! kalbaryo bitaw to, noh..
dili man gani ka mukaon sa cheese ring.heheh!
tama si rap, cge man japun ka katawa, murag wala ra. lolz! maayo pa ka, kabuhat nag entry, nabz jd ko..weheheh! basin later today pa
Sayang wa ko ka apil pre..sige lang next year muapil najud ko sa mga bloggers’ events. I need exposure..char!hehehehe
@RBconnections, kalbaryo mo lang! wala jud ko nag kaon while on board sa bus, kay basin mapuno ang tiyan lisod na ipa stop nato ang bus para mag bangladesh lang. Anyway, thanks sa pics ha… I will grab some of it later… mas ok sana original format akong makuha. heheheh…
@Kathy, Heheheh… sorry nalang di ko tinanggap offer mo na cheese ring heheheh you know na… ga antos pa sa kalbaryo while travelling that time…
@Ferdie, Hahahah… Sige pre apil ta… sa Jolo Sulo siguro next year… heheheh joke… bitaw daghan jud ko na met nga bloggers behind those blogs that we read.
hi rob, nice to meet you there! sori u were not feeling well bt still you made it and mao na ang importante! i envy you for having posted this na. gabie lang ko kaabot so karong gabie pa ko mo blog about my trip experience.
visit by again.
@Arlene – Yeah, kailangan jud maka abot sa Gensan. Anyway, Gabii man sad ko naka abot but akong mga tudlo gakatol na so bisan kapoy gikan sa biyahe… nag blog lang gihapon… para lang ma satisfy akong mga kamot ug akong utok sa sige huna2x sa pag post ani.
Hi Robs, wala ra na sa ako biyahe. mas grabe ko ka bun og. From GenSan last October 26, I stopped sa SM Davao and ate dinner then pagka 8pm nag bus na sad ko going to Bukidnon. I stayed in Pines Hotel in Malaybalay for 2 hours maau didto kay wifi and I took a bus again going to Tacurong City. I arrived to my home town which I visited my parents mga 4:30am October 27 sa morning. Nag visit ko for a few hours sa under contruction na PAWAN Park (my Lolo’s farm) and pag ka 5pm pauli na dayun ko sa CDO. Naka abot ko sa CDO mga 11pm na. wheww! sagdi lang sulit man sab. I love GenSan. Balik din ako.
Check out my photos taken sa akong trip: http://www.zooomr.com/photos/pangitster/
@Pangitster – Wow! grabe pud diay imong travel ha… walay rest, murag di nako kaya… Pero enjoy jud ang bloggers summit this time. Ang next host ani murag ma ulaw jud kung dili nila ipa bongga ang event next year… ehehehehe…
sadya ang event???
@Don Ser – Sadya man Don… wala diay ka didto nag apil? sayang kung wala ka nag apil didto… para sad maka share ka how you earn thru blogging…
hello kapatid,
nice to read your posting, there’s a feeling of encouragement to do the right thing on blogging..
padayun kapatid… chada jud
namaskar!
@Hecky – Chada jud! hehehehe… Yeah you are right sir… Cheers to all Mindanao Bloggers!
Namaskar!
hello.. hirap talaga magbyahe pag may diarrhea susme from cdo to gensan pa… but im sure worthy yung pagpunta mo sa gensan with all those circumstances.. Nice meeting you sa gensan and hope to see you again for another blogging events!…
Oi robs, luoya sad nimu kahimtang oi… diarrhea during the travel… pero cge lang… worth it man sad atong gensan escapade.. hehhehe….
@DeeJames – Oo nga! grabe the event that was! pinahirapan pa talaga ako… Akala nila di ko kaya, ayun talo ang diarrhea panalo ang MBS2. Sana nga lang may mas faster transpo going to and from Davao para gawin kung second hometown and Davao City. Hope to see you again too on next bloggers events.
@Grace – Korek! we really had fun, fun and more fun… gusto ko pa nga sana mag stay longer kaya lang may trabaho… ehehehe. See you when I see you again… I hope maka balik ako ng Davao at the soonest time para mag lakwatsa dyan…
i think we were on the same bus on my way home here sa davao…
were you with charles and kevin…
smile
Really? I am sorry I didn’t see you on the bus… I am so tired and wasted that time…
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Hi there!
Why did I not see this last year? Why did I miss this post? Waaahhh!!!!
Well, better late than never.
Thanks for visiting GenSan and for the kind words you wrote here about MBS2.
Hope to see you during the 3rd MBS in CHADA CAGAYAN!
Mwah!
Heheheh… OK ra Koya Avel. Ana man jud ka kalimtan ko nimo… ahahhaha… Bitaw didto ka sa akong bisaya nga post nag comment… ikaw pa gani ang first nag comment didto…
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