Keeping in touch

Filipinos get together during several events. In Cebu, festivals and beauty pageants are gloriously celebrated and delineate the wealth of our diverse culture. Keeping in touch during fiestas, family celebrations, school events and alumni homecomings, makes good reasons to enrich our arts and culture through creative and colorful stage shows, state-of the-art musicales, foodfests, fashion shows, even fun-runs and wellness projects.

December, January, February and May are favorite months to celebrate! And Cebu is famous for its fabulous shows.

Summer Events: “Serata Di Gala” for the launch of Mezzo Hotel at Milan Ballroom; A special treat for “Mom and Me,” an afternoon tea party at Cebu City Marriott Hotel featuring Pauli Antonie, image and etiquette archon; the unveiling of Foressa, a trailblazing development, a nature community in the mountains of Balamban, Cebu—this is a project of Aboitizland; the 40th founding anniversary of CSJ-R/USJ-R Dramatics Guild Alumni Association at Cebu Port Authority, North Reclamation Area.

SP COMMUNICATION KIT: Tenses are our major problems in constructing sentences. Simple tenses are easy. Present tenses refer to present and habitual actions; truths and state of being. Thus, we say, “I teach English. I teach college every day. English is our medium of communication. She is smart and pretty. I like attentive students. The square has four sides. My father is diligent.”

We have to be careful in doing the subject-predicate agreement. Example: I like to travel. We like to travel. You like to travel. We like to travel. Note, add “s” to the regular verb in the third person singular: “She likes to travel. Does she like to travel,” not “does she likes to travel?” The following are accented on the second syllable when used as verb constructs: contést, contráct, presént, prodúce, desért, dessért, permít, recórd, condúct etc. (Taken from A Handbook in Speech and Effective Communication by Dr. Milagros C. Espina.)

BEAUTY. At the Miss Mandaue event: Mandaue City Mayor Luigi Quisumbing, Rep. Jonas Cortes and director Junjet Primor. At right, 2017 Miss Mandaue Ralfiela Lewis and her court.

FRIENDS. Getting together at malls and restos: University of San Jose-Recoletos’ Drac alumni Kenneth Galano, Losyl Alforque and Ivan Nico Velasquez. Arlene Llenos enjoys being a marketing consultant in travel agencies. At right, Edwin Castañeda is...

CHILL. Home is Cebu for University of San Jose-Recoletos Drac alumni Life Bophi Feniston, flight steward, Qatar and Korea-based Jenny Valentine and children, with their BFF Mabel Canoy, secretary, USJR-Drac alumni.

THROWBACK 40. Zontian Tess Chan during dinner with classmates Lorna Martinez, Miraflor Guieb, Sunta Pascual, Deenia Reyes and Joji Montelibano Cuison at New World Makati. After four decades, the gang met and recalled school days.

BIRTHDAY. Celebrant Cinbeth Orellano of Knapsack with Cebu’s tourism exponent Grace Paulino. Cinbeth was part of the University of San Jose-Recoletos’ Drac show in Utah, U.S. Grace has been with me in decades of EATOF FORUM, spearheaded by Cebu...