Do we really define the Dinagsa’s connotation?

A crowd of both young and adults enjoy smudging themselves, particularly on faces, with colorful paints, and smudge on anyone’s faces, anywhere. And do smudging again.

                This is a wonderfully festive scenario on every Dinagsa Festival. We call it the “Lamhitanay”, a significant segment of the Festival that draws tremendous crowds. To most, Dinagsa is about ‘Lamhitanay’.  

That’s how we make it out: Dinagsa is all about ‘Lamhitanay’. The term colloquially refers to the artistic and creative smudging on body parts, particularly on faces, with colorful paints.

The word “Dinagsa” literally refers to the sudden surging of school of fish ashore and/ or to the 12 whales that landed in Cadiz shoreline on May 7, 1967. Thus, the ‘Dinagsa Festival’ is inspired to create the influx of local and international tourists. As the ‘Dinagsa sa Cadiz’ that becomes a charade of fun and pageantry.

Does 37^th Dinagsa Festival 2011 truly define the connotation?

Let’s face it! The people come for Dinagsa’s ‘lamhitanay’ alone. Most people arrive during noon time. That’s certainly the post-Dinagsa competition  where they enjoy on what we call ‘lamhitanay’ that takes place anywhere, from Cabahug across the Abelarde Streets. This is where we smudge ourselves with colorful paints, roaming around the crowded areas, and smudge on other’ faces, both friends and strangers. These revelers execute the ‘lamhitanay’ while dancing to the beat of deafening drumbeats and remix ‘tech-no’ rhythm.

The Dinagsa Festival is not all about ‘lamhitanay’. But it plays a great part of the activity.

Imagine the Dinagsa without that ‘lamhitanay’. Imagine the streets without those people who come and get back every year just to frolic with the ‘lamhitanay’ passion. The festival will get bored. The streets will be empty. And it will transform the celebration into an ‘inverted podium’ that delivers nothing but uncertainties. Just like the old-aged man being amputated with the wheelchair.

Now then, what?

The Dinagsa Festival just won the national award as the country’s 2010 Best Tourism Event First Runner up. This is all indebted from all the people who worked hard in the accomplishment. We salute you all.

As we are obviously aspiring for the top award, however, I would suggest for the conceptualization of an innovation that would surely railroad Cadiz to a beautiful map of world-class festivals.  This will include the creation of the Dinagsa Festival Foundation or the Cadiz City Event Management Group that would definitely focus on the celebration.

The Foundation’s main objectives would include to conduct research, create and develop the strategies and initiatives that partly or wholly modify or innovate the Dinagsa concept./*

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Tanduay’s Boracay Rum: the Pinoy’s New Rum

(One of the Winners in the Boracay Rum Contest 2011, a nationwide search for 
best blog on Tanduay's new product. Contest duration: April 24, 2011 to May 27, 2011. 
Date announced: June 10, 2011.)
The country’s islands are the tropical places where I take my Boracay Rum!

The TV Commercial That Dominates The Air

The Two Rum Flavors That Stir Your Senses

Boracay Rum: the Philippines’ best, the people’s choice!

            Hilariously, I am totally clueless on how that Tanduay’s new product becomes the country’s best, the people’s choice.

But the Tanduay’s latest innovation is still taking the 7,107 islands by storm where people are apparently celebrating the advent of the TRUE RUM. And it continues to draw the influx of Boracay Rum lovers and fanatics from across the archipelago. That this NEW RUM speaks about us, the Boracay landmarks and the “party-lover” Pinoy.

The Boracay Rum, a perfect blend of quality and style, is truly the Pinoy’s rum. That we “Pinoy” all love the rum. That we “Pinoy” all love the world-famous Boracay’s pristine waters and the powder-like white sands, where night life parallels to none.

Since that Boracay Rum is Pinoy’s rum, we Pinoy from all corners deserve to enjoy its good, relaxing taste. And that I take and promote that rum w

Two Flavors That Complete Your Party

herever I party with both friends and strangers alike. And feast till we all drop with the flavored rum of Cappuccino and Coconut.

It’s all party time, Philippines: I take the Boracay Rum all over the country! From the finest Boracay up to Vigan, Baguio, Tagaytay, Makati down to Palawan’s beaches, Iloilo, Bacolod, Cebu’s resorts, Zamboanga, General Santos, Cagayan De Oro and Davao. Not to mention the Dapitan’s Dakak Park and Beach Resort.

Let’s all flood the country with BORACAY RUM!

 “Ka-bonding ko, Ka-Rum ko”./*

The Negrense: A Tourism "Fashionista"

How do we see and feel about “fashionista”? Do we have to wear Prada and Armani products? Clad ourselves with Gucci and Louis Vuitton accessories? Or, marvel at what we have to draw a beautiful map for Negros?

Negros, a sugarlandia, has been famous since time immemorial. It has survived with its rich human and natural resources that have subsist at their sorts. And that M/V Don Juan tragedy was not actually a profound downfall for sugar industry. In fact, it has generated a great spirit for all Negrense to work for a better tomorrow all through the years.

From the infamous sugar industry now comes a business enterprise in a new way: the craftsmanship, arts and culture, and fashion that have enormously caught the attention of a global market, the tourists who have enjoyed the all-good package of fun, people, places, weather, traffic and safety. This is the ultimate personality we all exude. And we must live with it at all cost, at all times.

In Negros, we never build a rift in fashion. We simply innovate it. We create and develop a fashion statement. Like a shawl on one's shoulder, instead of a traditional plain cotton fabric, we just stuff it uniquely with multi-colored paintings, beads and rhymes. Not to mention a native bracelet, a pendant, a ring, earrings, a baller and an anklet. These are minimal, less expensive, authentic pieces, but prides themselves with the Negrense's ingenuity and creativity on craftsmanship, art and fashion.

This we call "an artistic Negrense" earns an inspiring income and humility. This has converted into an economic enterprise that develops a multiplier effect for both the government and the people. These have become a business suit for some, and a holiday routine for others. And we have befallen as peddlers of our own venture. That we have to hop from one place to another in order to introduce our merchandise to the broad markets: Festivals where any form of enterprise are in usual boom.

The Negros province, a home of world-class festivals, illuminates its seal with vibrancy. This is virtually eloquent and superlative as those local and international tourists just throng and enjoy the cheerful moments at town or at city who proffers a festive mood. From San Carlos' "Pinta Flores" down to Cadiz' "Dinagsa" up to Silay's "Kansilayan" and many others, revelers discover a new stage for unlimited fun and merriment.

The La Carlota's "Pasalamat", La Castellana's "Bailes de Luces", and Kabankalan's "Sinulog" literally mirror the true picture of "fashionista": a fizzy dancer wearing a colorful, brilliant costume, accentuated with flourishing light decors. These festival costumes are artistically designed and created with indigenous materials that would depict the real "us", the environment-friendly happy people who have been on the forefront to protect and manage the island's biodiversity condition.

In expression of passion and of obsession, the Negros' array of local festivals illustrates a political charade where no animals and plants are being harmed. Costumes, again, are tailored with recyclable and/ or old materials, a living proof of advocacy. But they are all crafted by skilled hands and creative minds. And that we all hold the all-rounded truth that their habitats are dramatically being enhanced.

A common scene of celebration and a picture of togetherness similarly recur at every festival around the province. This is so because we Negrense always think the same thing big, always create the same thing great, and always reap the same thing sweet. This is a social union, a oneness that never fades away.

That's the Negros way of celebrating festivals, where all areas are turned into business surfaces; where all corners are flowered with make-shift stalls of various locally-dolled up things; where both local and international tourists buy original delicacies, souvenir items, and novelty products; where revelers enjoy and dance all along the streets; where everything about Negros, its people, its tourist destinations, and prides are tied in one spot to define the meaning of "us".

The "us". That's the reason why most tourists wander in the island. It's not how the Cadiz' white-sand Lakawon island offers its pristine water for swimming and scuba diving; it's not why the Bacolod's world-renowned Masskara Festival is smiling; it's not what the Negros' spectacular Panaad Festival brings about or the province's amazing landmarks; it's always the people's behavior and warm welcome that invite a flock of tourists to come incessantly. They all love us for we always embed goodness in our hearts, for we are who we are and what we are: the "fashionista Negrense" in minds, in hearts and in deeds./*

Two minds create Cadiz port park

Port conversion attracts tourists, generates revenues, making Cadiz City a night life destination of the north.

            I am referring to the existing finger port situated in Villa Beach, Barangay Zone Ill. This port has been idle for years. But if we would take initiative as to convert it into something worthwhile, this would have been a multiplier effect for years.

            I had once a little dialogue with Victor Parina and he has suggested for renovation of the port into a “people’s park”. He hit the point for this would result a venue where Cadiznons can leisurely walk, play and embrace the breezy air as the sun beautifully rises and sets. Of course, the management and maintenance would fall into the hands of tourism office.

Jerry Artuyo, on the other hand, has carved up another bright idea for the port. He has advocated the port can help raise the City’s income. He has blueprinted it to become a night spot for everyone. He calls it “port front” where one can dine, drink and enjoy the nightly acoustic.  He has signified for tent or stall installation along the pathway. This would produce both an entertainment avenue and revenue.

A “people’s park”. A “port front”. These are the two port conversion tips for possible considerations. Though each concept differs from the other, perhaps they clash in some forms, the two can be literally linked up as one. Initially, we can label the plan tandem as “Cadiz City Port Park”. I personally coined the term from “people’s park” and “port front”.

The Cadiz City Port Park, if materialized, would be the first-ever in Negros and in the country. The “Park” can house bars, restaurants and music rooms; and set up benches, diving boards, swimming rinks and fun planks. Its unique, long-narrowed and elegant complex and location can surely invite more investors and patrons.

Aside from employment and income generation, the “Park” can illuminate the once shadowy port, as well as the coastal areas of Zone lll to lV. The “Park” can paint the City more colors. And it can fashion a more vibrant night life. This would indisputably transform Cadiz City into a night life destination.

The question is: How can this proposal probably come into reality? Do we have sufficient budget for the lucrative project? I understand that this park construction no doubt costs much.

The answer is: Let the investors build and operate./*

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