Business Updates

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I will have a bit of Cebu City business updates. These are based on Sunstar articles.

Tourist Arrivals:
Cebu has a total of 1,131,230 tourists in the first seven months of 2011, an increase of 10.52%, which was 1,023,564 in the same period in 2010.

Relaunching of Colonnade Mall:
Colonnade Mall relaunched last October 9, 2011. The company spent P20 million for the renovation.

For many years, parts of the mall were neglected. I still have to take photos of the renovated look.

Krispy Kreme opens in Cebu:
Krispy Kreme opens its 25th outlet in the Philippines at the Ayala Center Cebu and Asiatown IT Park, and will also open a third outlet in SM Cebu City within this year.

Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral

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Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral is one of the two popular catholic churches in Cebu City.

I’ve had a very close encounter with this magnificent church back in college. As an architecture student, I and my group mates were assigned to do a documentation of the whole church complex. In simple terms, we drew a floor plan. What we basically did was manually measure all the floors meter by meter, centimeter by centimeter, then draw it by hand.

Contact address:
Chancery, P.O. Box 52, Cardinal Rosales Pastoral Center, Cor. P. Gomez and P. Burgos Sts., 6000 Cebu City, Philippines

Telephone number:
(032)254.1861; 253.0123

Metro Cebu Cathedral
The facade of the Cebu Metropolitan Cathedral.

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The closeup of the facade.

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Stained glass window.

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Corinthians architecture inspired columns.

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Chapel door.

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Bell tower. I’ve climbed this bell tower. I felt so proud when I did it.

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The bell tower, zoom out.

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The chalice.

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Guardian lion. This should not be here. I believe this is of Buddhism origin.

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The cherub carving of the main door of Cebu Metro Cathedral.

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The main door of Cebu Metro Cathedral.

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The other door.

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The main door of Cebu Metro Cathedral.

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The main aisle of Cebu Metro Cathedral.

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The ceiling of Cebu Metro Cathedral.

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The altar of Cebu Metro Cathedral.

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The altar of Cebu Metro Cathedral.

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The side aisle of Cebu Metro Cathedral.

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The ceiling of the side aisle.

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The pathway going to the priests quarters.

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Pocket park inside the Cebu Cathedral complex.

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Side chapel.

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Closeup coral stone blocks of Cebu Metro Cathedral.

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Who can tell me who this friar was?

Di Ingon Nato Trailer

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“Di Ingon Nato” or Not Like Us in English is a horror movie set in a far flung Cebu village.

The language used in movie is purely Cebuano. The production is also composed of Cebuanos, although I’m not sure how many of them.

The trailer scares me a bit, I hope the actual movie is scarier.

According to their Facebook page, free screening will be on November 7 in Bonifacio High Street in Metro Manila. But the commercial screening, meaning it will be shown in cinemas will be February next year.

Tara’s Cafe

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Me and my church friends went to Tara’s Cafe to ate our dinner at 10:00pm.

The more than a hundred peso price of each meal was worth it. The taste is so gooood. I would love to go back to dine at Tara’s Cafe.

This set was shot before we went to Bubble Bee.

Contact number:
(032) 5168069

Address: Asiatown I.T. Park Lahug Cebu City

Tara's Cafe Cebu City
This was taken last September, not sure why the poster says “Summer Promo Only”

Tara's Cafe Cebu City
Tara’s Cafe and Restaurant is open 23 hours and it has WiFi.

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Tara’s Cafe menu.

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Tara’s Cafe menu.

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The chandelier.

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Table napkin holder.

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The dining area. Yes, we paid for these wonderful ambiance as well.

Tara's Cafe Cebu City
The place is good for dating. Yeah! Hahaha..

Tara's Cafe Cebu City
I ordered a pasta, because it’s cheaper. Hahah grabe ka kuripot nako no? I think this is P135.00.

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My drink. It’s not alcoholic.

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I forgot the price of this juice.

Tara's Cafe Cebu City
It think this is Tom’s Long Spareribs, worth P179.00

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Cesar’s Salad, 90 pesos. My friend’s because he is on a diet. Dya ka!

Chilling at Bubble Bee

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It was my first to hangout in an unusual atmosphere. They serve tea drinks of various types. The usual hot tea, cold tea and the shake, they call it the “Slush”.

Me and my friends ordered the Slush.

I think the prices are okay. The taste of the shake we ordered was good.

Bubble Bee is located in Ground Floor, TSI Building, Ouano Avenue, North Reclamation Area, Mandaue City, Cebu

Contact numbers: 032 – 238-8053, 0922-815 -7595

Cebu City Bubble Bee
At the parking lot. Upstairs of Bubble Bee is Bulldog KTV Lounge.

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Bubble Bee Tea House sign just out the entrance.

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The main entrance of Bubble Bee Tea House.

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The menu.

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The table in the first floor. In the second floor, the setup is different.

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Cakes and pastries.

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The Slush series we ordered.

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Me, while my friend at the background is sitting like he owns the place.

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At the second floor, you feel like a sheik.

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Ako nagpa cute, while my friend is about to strike me with a pillow.

V. Rama Avenue

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I already had a V. Rama Avenue photos, but the previous set was shot during early morning.

This one was taken during the afternoon of September.

V Rama Cebu City
The Spire located in Private and V. Rama streets.

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I was riding a passenger jeepney during the shoot.

V Rama Cebu City
These two girls are students of University of San Carlos – Girls High School

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The skywalk just adjacent of USC-GHS

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Papa’s Restobar.

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Wait, I forgot which part this is, I’m not really familiar of this side of Cebu City.

V Rama Cebu City
Rush hour during 4 to 5 in the afternoon during weekdays.

V Rama Cebu City
Ludo or Calamba Cemetery.

V Rama Cebu City
The street going to Sun Valley.

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Cecilia’s Shellcraft.

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Queensland. Yup, they’re expanding it here.

Here’s the map of V. Rama Avenue, just to give you an idea where in Cebu City this is.

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Cebu City Street Art Part 1

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These street mural can be seen along Queen City Memorial Garden, located in Cebu Reclamation Area, just close to Gaisano White Gold and SM Supermarket.

I started shooting at the SM side.

We used to have our own mural art here in 1997, we painted it at the old White Gold/Queensland side. It was part of a mural art contest. We did not win, but we got a consolation prize of P700, I think.

Cebu City Street Mural Art
Anime inspired.

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At first glance, I thought it was a real person.

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Perfect World.

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I think this murals were sponsored by the Perfect World online game.

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Ragnarok characters.

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I think the theme for these murals is promoting responsible gaming.

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This is a good painting, nicely done.

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Freestyle, an online basketball game. I used to play this everytime I visit the gaming cafe.

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The caricature looks good, but overall it looks bare.

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Using old fonts for a modern game.

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RF Online. Not for kids. :D

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Level Up, is the company behind Ragnarok, the first online game in the Philippines.

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Play Hard, Study Harder. I hope the gaming kids follow this.

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Voyager, I have not played this game.

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Another version of the art based from Freestyle.

P. Gullas Street

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My regret is I did not eat, I just photo walked. Well, anyway, I did eat here years ago, probably once or twice.

It would not hurt if I would eat here again. Just don’t drink the water being served here, hehe..

I have no idea who P. Gullas was. But I knew, Eddie Gullas is owner of University of the Visayas and politician, not sure if they’re related. I could not find any information on the web.

P. Gullas Street Cebu City
I started shooting at the Osmeña Boulevard area, or where Metro Gaisano is located.

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Going in now, the wall on the right is Gaisano Metro or Metro Gaisano, whichever sounds good hahaha.

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Looking back at Osmeña boulevard.

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The shadow of Gaisano Metro providing additional shade.

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Fried chicken, pork and tina-e.

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P. Gullas street sign.

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Eating snacks or late lunch. It was past 12:00 pm.

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Nag sugba ug manok.

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Are you hungry, ladies?

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Delivering softdrinks to the food stalls.

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La Fortuna Hotel. In the first floor is the famous La Fortuna Bakery.

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La Fortuna Bakery. Call them (032) 256-2196