Kadayawan Festival 2013 : A Harvestful Davao Fest

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Kadayawan has been successful withstanding the local rumors of bombing during the event. It was celebrated the whole week of August 13th until the 18th. The weekend was the highlight of the festival where they celebrated ‘Indak Indak’ on a Saturday and the harvest parade on a Sunday.

Indak Indak is where several different tribe representatives dance on the street. The dancing is composed of several kids and young adults dressed in colorful outfits. They have been practicing the dance in preparation for this festival. It is a much anticipated event for the Davaoñeos and its viewers.

The term “Kadayawan” is from the word Mandaya or “madayaw”. This is a warm and friendly greeting used to explain a thing that is valuable, superior, beautiful, good, or profitable. Thus, its colorful and fruitful celebration.

World Supermodel Philippines 2013

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A "supermodel" is considered a level higher than the standard beauty queens. They should walk with style and strike a pose with more confidence (more often than not - exaggerated to be seen prominently). Their facial and body features should be more expressive (cheekbones and height is a necessity while a rounded face and plump body is a no-no). They should look good in photo shoots - photogenic so they say.

Binibining Pilipinas and Mutya ng Pilipinas candidates are already transcending the boundaries of  being a beauty contestant and a supermodel. There is now a thin line separating the two types of beauty queens since everyone wants to become better than the average. Almost everyone is smart and talented enough to multi-task and dwell into many fields.

You'll see both winners of these two different competitions moving into fields like modelling, product endorsements, hosting and even acting.

A Wonderful Experience Like No Other

IV-Berzelius ('13-'14)

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We used to celebrate Pistang Pinoy every year in our school, Pasig City Science School. Filipinos are considering the month of August as the Filipino Month. Pistang Pinoy is a traditional event that shows the culture of Filipino people here in the Philippines. Each section exert and effort in decorating their classrooms. The banquet or the so called “handaan” is the main highlight of the event. Each section prepared the traditional foods of the Filipinos and some of these foods can only be taste here in the Philippines. In my four years of celebrating this event in our school, this might be the best.

This celebration of the Filipino Month is not only about the banquet. The Filipino Department also prepared contests for the students like Maunawang Pagbasa, Malikhaing Awit, Masining na Pagkukuwento, Talumpatian, Balagtasan, and Basag/Pick-up Lines. Each section has its own representatives for each contest except for the Malikhaing Awit because this contest is for the whole section. Unfortunately, our section wasn’t able to win this contest, IV-Lewis won this contest and I’m really happy for them. On the other hand, our representatives in Balagtasan which are Julius Santos, Leira Tolentino, and Cherry Paramio got the first place and I’m really proud of them. They did a really good job. Our section also got the first place in the contest of Pamilyang Pinoy.