The Sudoku (Japanese word for mind games) Craze hits Cebu as the NGenius IT Hub launches the SUDOKU CHALLENGE 2005. The objective of the Sudoku game is simple, just fill in all grids so that every column, every row, and every 3×3 local grids will contain numbers 1-9 without any redundancy.

Just go in to your nearest NGenius Branch (SM or PIPC IT Park Lahug), Premium Concepts Branch (PIPC, SM, Ayala, BTC), make a minimum purchase of 2,000 and be given a puzzle (raffle) card. Answer correctly and dropped to box of the branches.

Or make a minimum purchase of 5,000 for ESprint Software and Ng Khai Development Corporation and you will be eligible to qualify.

check this site to see how to play Sudoku, and another post on why and how Sudoku develops your logical skills.

Daily tips and hint will be posted through www.ngkhai.net

For every P300 and above single purchase of goods and items, you are entitled to register your kids for a Trick and Treat Promo of Elizabeth Mall which is good for 100 kids only.

This promo will run from October 1 to October 31 only.

A lot of surprises and gift items that await for your children. A Halloween Party will transport the kids into a wonderful World of Magic with shows and clowns and a film showing on Barney and Friends plus a mixture of games with prizes.

There are also participating E-Mall tenants that will also give your children goddie bags.

There will be also a Best In Costume Contest which, the first prize winner will receive a P500 plus a gift item, P300 for the second plus a gift item, and P200 for the third plus gift item.

So hurry and shop now to join the Trick or Treat!

Cebuano Carl Bryan Go Taguiam placed first in the board exam given by the Members of the Board of Mechanical Engineering this October 2005. Taguiam graduated magna cum laude and obtained his bachelor’s degree at the University of San Carlos last March 2005. He is as well a recipient of one of the the top ten outstanding graduate awardee.

Another Cebuano who made it to the top ten are Genri Solano Belarmino of the University of Cebu placing sixth 6th and Jonas Marco Villanueva Quinones of the University of San Carlos placing 7th.

Oath taking in Cebu is said to be on November 26, 2005, Saturday @ the Grand Convetion Center in Cebu along Archbishop Reyes Street in Banilad.

Cebu tops again!

” I wondered why my pencil case was lost. I later found out she used it to hide drugs”, Sheila (name withheld) said, referring to her mother.

Sheila was eight when she started to notice her mother acting oddly. Her parents quarrelled all the time. Her father had caught her mother taking prohibited drugs.

Her mother was not the only one in the family who got addicted to drugs. She was hooked too.

She said she started taking drugs when she was 13. She was then living in Cagayan de Oro City. Her friends introduced her to shabu (methamphetamine hydrochloride), an addictive stimulant that has toxic effects on the central nervous system. She told herself that if her mother could do it, why couldn’t she. It started with drinking sessions with her friends that turned into long nights of drugging. They would gather their money to buy shabu, also known as speed, chald, glass, ice, and crystal.

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Welcome to AIESEC!

AIESEC, the world’s largest student organization, is the international platform for young people to discover and develop their potential so as to have a positive impact on society.

Towards this aim, we run more than 350 conferences, provide 3,500 work abroad opportunities, and offer over 5,000 leaderships positions to our members each year. Together with a focus on building personal networks and exploring the direction and ambition of their future, AIESEC has an innovative approach to engaging and developing young people. Present in over 800 universities in 91 countries and territories.

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JOMARI YLLANA AND JEFFREY JETURIAN, lead actor and director of the movie “Minsan Pa” (One Moment More), were the country’s representatives to the 18th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF).

The film fest kicked off on Saturday with a lavish red carpet ceremony at the Roppongi Hills in Tokyo, Japan.

“It was a great feeling to represent the country and speak on its behalf,” the movie’s producer, lawyer Joji Alonso, told Inquirer Entertainment yesterday. “We took the opportunity of inviting everyone to visit the Philippines, especially Cebu.”

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Three men–one American, one Japanese and a Filipino were sitting naked in a sauna.

Suddenly there was a beeping sound. The American pressed his forearm and the beep stopped. The others looked at him questioningly. “That was my pager,” he said, “I have a microchip under the skin of my arm.”

A few minutes later a phone rang. The Japanese fellow lifted his palm to his ear. When he finished he explained, “That was my mobile phone. I have a microchip in my hand.”

The Filipino, not to be outdone, decided he had to do something just as impressive. He stepped out of the sauna and went into the toilet. When he returned, a piece of toilet paper was dangling from his behind. The others raised their eyebrows and stared at him. The Filipino finally said, “Well, will you look at that, I’m getting a fax.”

What do toothpaste and ice cream have in common? And then you burst into a laughter thinking how could that be? Or you turn perplexed by the thought of associating a toothpaste to an ice cream.

Perhaps most of us don’t know that almost all processed foods and cosmetics we use everyday have, at least, shared the same common ingredient that beer and infant formula do. Then you derisively ask what?

For the record, and to the curious, the foamy San Miguel beer, the Dento toothpaste, your favorite Selecta icer cream, the Lactum infant formula, the Revicon max capsule, the hair styling gel, all have the same edible factor - the carageenan. It is a natural substance extracted from, yes, the common red algae (guso) that we usually eat pickled. Carageenan has a natural gelling, suspending, thickening, or water-holding properties that acts as emulsifiers to numerous chemical processes in various applications such as in food and pharmaceutical industries.

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Cebu is rich in schools and trends of artistic tradition. It has continued to produce artistic talents in conservative and modern painting tradition. Art is very much alive in Cebu as countless artists and art groups continue to flourish in an atmosphere of freedom, encouragement and a strong support from patrons and collectors.

With the commitment of making art strongly vibrant in Cebu and its neighboring places, group of active and committed Cebuano artists have organized themselves and decided to form Cebu Artists Incorporated or CAI.

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Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry won 2 awards at the recent 31st Philippine Business Conference in Oct 10 to 13, 2005, held at the Manila Hotel.

Area Governor, Jose Ng, gets the award from President Gloria M. Arroyo and Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry president, Donald Dee.

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The Cebu Volleyball Open will start on November 5 at University of San Carlos Gym with varsity teams mixing it up with commercial squads in two divisions.

The tournament will run in two weekends and will separate competitions from the Men and Women. Each division will have 10 teams.

Ceva President Glen Anthony Soco said the project will serve as Ceva’s year ender as they hope to get the support of all varsity and commercial teams.

Cebu Volleyball Association (Ceva) and Spike Sports aims to unify different teams and volleyball associations to further promote the sport in Cebu .

Wishing the best luck to all players!

If the company gains recognition from a prestigious national award-giving body after long years into the business, most people think it is but natural to acknowledge the fruit of its labor. But what about a company who is barely a year old into the business and already reaps award?

Is it worked hard for? Did they belabor themselves in order to get the award? Or simply good luck?

If you didn’t lock up yourself inside a cellar or maybe bedridden for the past months, chances are, you got a chance to take notice, if you ever ventured outside the comfort of your abode, of that ubiquitous 5-gallon container with orange liquid inside, placed upside down on a dispenser almost everywhere in the metro.

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