Summer in Cebu is unusually hot this month until April 17. The tropical summer sky is cloudless for sure and the piercing heat of the sun will definitely burn your skin like a lobster fresh from the boiling pot. But why do a lot of people are rushing out of their house and head somewhere despite of the glaring sun?

It’s because it’s Red Hot Sale at Gaisano Main and Gaisano Country Mall from March 23 to April 17. The two shopping destinations, the former, a department store in downtown and the latter, a mall in Banilad are heating up the summer season with mind-boggling discounts on selected items, especially summer wear.

Shoppers will be treated to another exciting mark-down prices on a wide selection of items on sale. Aside from this, there’s also the exciting A Million Thanks Family Car Promo with a Suzuki APV as top prize. Ten units Samsung Flat TVs and 10 refrigerators also await winners.

Summertime is here. School is over. And opportunities abound. An opportunity to spend one’s time on the beach, or tinkering about something you long to do in summer.

What about shopping? For women and children, shopping is great. That is, if you have more than enough moolah to splurge on. But wait, you don’t need to break your piggy bank to buy your favorite pair of jeans you’ve been eyeing for so long. You don’t even need to ask a friend for a P.O. to buy a pair of tees for your teenage son and a pair of shoes for your husband. Bargains are everywhere!

One particular place to find great bargains this summer is Elizabeth Mall. Known as “The Shopping Center of the South”, E-mall gears up for its three-day “Whew Hot Summer Sale” that starts today until Sunday, April 2. It is the only shopping mall in the south of the metro that offers unparalleled value for your money.

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March is graduation month. This is the time of year when most people busy themselves with shopping activities looking for something they can give to a person close to their hearts on his or her graduation day.

Most of them hunt for the best buys in town checking out almost every store hoping to find something that would make a perfect present to appreciate. There seems to be nothing better than shopping in a trendy mall that offer a wide array of shopping options and value for your money.

Ayala Center Cebu is Cebu’s premier leisure and shopping destination for good buys and entertainment. As a tribute to the graduating class of 2006, it is holding a three-day mallwide sale starting today until Sunday, April 2. Ayala Center Cebu has more than a hundred specialty shops offering a broad selection of products, from apparel to zesty food.

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Brace yourself to the biggest sale in town this summer!

A mall-wide sale for theree days at SM City Cebu will surely give Cebuanos more reasons to celebrate this summer. That’s three days of bargain hunting at every store of the mall’s more than 300 tenants plus the mall’s anchor stores, the SM Department Store, SM Appliance Center and SM Supermarket. That will happen on March 31, April 1 and 2.

The mall is not only slashing down the prices of all its merchandise but also giving away prizes to lucky shoppers. To qualify in the raffle, a shopper only needs to present a proof of purchase worth P500, single or accumulated, at the raffle booth at Atrium BC, Lower Ground Floor. Among the prizes at stake are 15 JVC Digital Audio players and 18 SM gift certificates worth P3,000 each. Raffle is held every hour starting at 12 noon during the three-day sale.

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That’s impossible, you would say. Ridiculous, even.

The first time you hear the news about an airliner offering a P1 for its seat, you would surely be rolling in the aisles in disbelief. And probably you would walk away and dismiss the news as a joke. But the Cebu-based airline Cebu Pacific Airways is selling its seats at rock-bottom prices, quite literally. If you think it’s just another cheapo gimmick, then pick up your phone and give them a ring to confirm.

Cebu Pacific (CEB), is known as the country’s low-fare pioneer, giving the flag carrier, PAL, a better competition since its first service in early 1994. To strengthen its mission to fly more people to more destinations around the country, it will offer seats at P1 to any of its domestic destinations from March 29 to April 2 or until seats are sold out.

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The country’s first and only Aerospace University continues to lead in producing future aviation professionals with programs in Aerospace Engineering, Airline Management, Aircraft Maintenance Technology, Aviation Technology-Major in Flying, Hotel & Restaurant Management and Tourism & Travel Management.

Founded in 1992, the Indiana Aerospace University in Lapu-Lapu City was conceived to answer the growing demand for qualified and well-trained manpower in aeronautics and aviation related field, as a result of the Mactan-Cebu International Airport and its opening to direct international flights. Moreover, the expansion of multinational aircraft maintenance and overhaul (MRO) stations in the country plays a vital role why IAU was established.

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It’s quite unlikely for the international space community to look upon an amateur astronomer with utmost respect especially from a third world country. The Philippines is not known for its active participation in the international space studies but not many know that a few groups of amateur astronomers in the country are dead serious about their hobby in space exploration.

One recent honor was bestowed on a Cebuano astronomer, Christopher Go. Go is the first and only Filipino to be invited to join an elite team as a co-principal investigator with the top 10 experts of Jupiter.

Go made headlines in the scientific community across the globe when he discovered the new red spot of Jupiter last Feb. 27. The stunning discovery was quite a surprise to the scientific world that the story was headlined in NASA’s own website and subsequently bannered in almost every major scientific and news media in the world.

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The USJ-R Jaguars, Johnrey Sasing and Joseph Carmel Alguno, are leading in the Men’s division of the 10th Nestea Beach Volleyball Visayas qualifying round by trashing the UV Lancers spikers 25-14, yesterday at De La Salle Greenhills in Manila in their bid for a second straight finals ticket to Boracay on May 4, 2006.

The veterans combined for 11 kills and five aces with sole intention to top the qualifying round for the Visayas region.

The USJ-R spikers, who have been seeded into the second round, needed only to beat University of Cebu (UC) late yesterday to qualify into the quarterfinals today. The same pair lost to College of St. Benilde in the national finals last year. This time around, they hope they will get through the finals and play the same opponents to get revenge.

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Anyone who is interested in this hybrid martial art called Yaw-Yan may now get to know the sport better this summer in Cebu. Yaw-Yan is a portmanteau for its Tagalog origin that best describes the sport,Sayaw ng Kamatayan or Dance of Death owing to its unique body movement and deadly strikes and kicks involved in the sport.

Yaw-Yan sounds Chinese, the movements slightly resemble that of Thai-Boxing and Korea’s Tae-kwon-do but the origin is strictly Filipino. Yaw-Yan is considered as the Philippine’s most lethal martial art. Fighters employ lethal kicks that may send their opponents to canvass physically incapacitated.

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Before the advent of the mobile phone technology, PLDT was the ‘lord of the rings.’ They literally monopolized the telecommunications industry in Cebu without having any legitimate competition that would challenge its dominance in the business.

So naturally, they acted like Gods. They were so powerful you would think they controlled how and when people can exploit the communication technology Antonio Meucci, not Alexander Graham Bell, invented in mid-19th century.

Today, as the mobile communication and information technology threatens PLDT’’s dominance in the telecommunications business, they have started to shed off their God-like persona, doing whatever they can just to stay on the business they have exploited for decades.

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Cebu has been the most preferred tourist destination in the Philippines for many years, especially for East Asian travellers. In past years, Japanese tourists dominated the number of foreign visitors to Cebu until two years ago when Korean tourists overtook them and have taken the position ever since.

Cebu, as a tourist destination, has been growing at a faster rate than any other places in the country that resulted to accommodation shortage in recent years prompting the Department of Tourism (DOT) 7 to encourage local and forein investors to build more hotels and related facilities to accommodate the growing tourist arrivals in the province.

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Bible Baptist Church started as a small congregation in 1957 in Cebu through the dedicated efforts of the late American missionary Rev. Bob Hughes. The first worship service was held on the last Sunday of March 1957 in a small apartment space along Jones Avenue with 14 people in attendance.

Forty-nine years later, it has grown to 28 satellite churches around Metro Cebu that ministers to 1,500 people each Sunday on average. On March 26, 2006, it had its grand celebration of its 49th year of ministry in Metro Cebu and was attended by over 12,000 of its members and guests. Bro. Al Young of Troy, MI, USA flew in as a guest speaker for this year’s anniversary.

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