88DB.com is the first Service and Community Portal in the Philippines that has been online since August 2006. Our website is a venue for people to advertise themselves and their services. We also feature interesting articles about lifestyle, travel and events. 88DB is an online lifestyle magazine, with a database of members. Our member consists of individuals and small-medium enterprises. Our market demographics range from lower A to upper C, 16 years old and above. We average 65,000,000 hits per month and we have about 130,000 members and 30,000 advertisers
88DB aims to be of service to the Philippine market by providing Filipinos a medium where they can promote their talents, skills and knowledge. It also aims to help both companies and individuals to advertise their product and events.
At this juncture, 88DB.com expands its horizon by initiating events & campaigns to further enhance our brand image and brand awareness. We are determined to capture the Cebu online market and create a good impression on internet surfers and seekers thru these events. Our current project tagged as Search for Cebu’s Acoustic Star aims to showcase Cebu’s budding acoustic performers and to provide for them the platform to be known and potentially be discovered. We are leveraging on the fact that most of the bars & restos around Cebu employ singers for their entertainment component and that Cebu’s rich pool of singing talents deserve more exposure.
The Finals Night will be staged at the Ayala Cebu Activity Center on February 26, 2009 (Thursday) at 3pm. Ten (10) contestants will render their acoustic performance and will be scored
by judges based on criteria we will provide. Winners will be awarded cash prizes such as Php 15,000 for the 1st Place, Php 10,000 for 2nd place and Php 5,000 for the 3rd Place.
Currently, we are vigorously campaigning for brand awareness here in Cebu and come February 26, we are
having the Grand Finals of our Online Search for Cebu’s Acosutic Star. This will be held at the Activity Center of Ayala Center Cebu.
from 3pm onwards. Ten Finalist will compete for the title and will win a big cash prize.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
ms.cebu2009 @ waterfront cebu
Miss Cebu 2009
True enough to the cliché “the last but not the least”, Miss Kris Tiffany M. Janson felt triumph and victory when she was crowned as Miss Cebu 2009 last night at the Pacific Grand Ballroom of Waterfront Hotel, Lahug, Cebu City, Cebu. Among the 12 candidates who vied for the title last night, she was last on the list, but she proved to the people, that she never will be the least.
The ladies who won as runners-up are Rizzini Alexis Gomez as the first runner-up; Kimberley Therese Burden as the second runner-up; Michelle Iva Eguia, third runner-up; and Frances Oliver, the fourth runner-up.
Miss Janson is an accountancy student at the at the University of San Carlos-Main and is currently a model under the AD Models Homme et Femme Agency.
Janson also won the Texter's Choice award, Miss Photogenic, the Miss Belo Essentials Star White Skin awards and the Miss JobsDB award.
Miss Sheda Lynn Dusaban, candidate number two, was declared as the Miss Friendship and Most Radiant Smile.
As prestigious as the event is, the board of judges were constantly, never just ordinary. The Chairman of the Board was commercial model Tweetie de Leon-Gonzales, entrepreneur Beatriz Zobel de Ayala, Cathay Pacific executive Edward Higgs, Belo Medical Representative Dr. Victor Lopez, fashion photographer Patrick Uy, and Metro magazine editor Katrina Holigores.
Ms. Cebu 2009 and JobsDB
Following the legacy of what the previous Miss Cebu title holders had been in the past, JobsDB has made a significant part in the event. It was not just an ordinary choice of who is the most beautiful or the most eye-catching, but who could be the one who epitomizes wit, intelligence and self-confidence.
Before the pageant proper, JobsDB made a one-on-one interview with the 12 candidates. Undoubtedly, all of them have deeply impressed us with their individual definition of intelligence. But only one of them has been in parallel with JobsDB's standards.
JobsDB meets Cebu and beauty
JobsDB has settled in Cebu last April 2008. It has already served and supported four beauty pageants to date. Among those pageants were Ms. Consolacion, Miss Southwestern University, Miss Mandaue and the Miss Cebu 2009.
The company has been catering online voting to the aforementioned competitions, making the candidates known to the viewing public—from addict web surfers to ordinary friends of each contestant.
While Cebu has been producing beauty queens (who would soon be international titlists), JobsDB has been in convergence with the island. Both have been inclined towards each other; both have bore extraordinariness in its own way.Last night, Miss Kris Tiffany M. Janson has displayed many splendor characteristics of what Cebu dreams for her child. Just as Miss Janson enlivens what JobsDB aspires for.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
gay education
Morning conference: the meaning of 'gay'
There are reports of rising hostility towards homosexuality in schools. But is it also -- or only -- a language shift?
Should we be worried about the apparent rise in homophobia in schools? A survey by a teachers' union, reported this morning, believes it is "endemic" and on the rise.
Colleagues expressed surprise at this, given that homophobia in other parts of our society appears to have faded. "Even the Daily Mail has given up," said one.
Our news report notes that, "The word 'gay' was reported to be the most frequently used term to put someone down, followed by 'bitch' and 'slag'."
Is this, though, just a change in the use of the word or evidence of growing hostility?
The online Oxford English Dictionary has recorded changes in the use of the word since its first written mention in 1310, when it meant "light-hearted, exuberantly cheerful, sportive, merry".
It takes us through changes until in 1825 it has a recorded slang use meaning a woman living by prostitution.
In 1935 it begins life as American slang for homosexual.
But the OED also notes another change taking place in the US as early as 1978, when it becomes a description of something "Foolish, stupid, socially inappropriate or disapproved of; 'lame'."
Here are the draft additions to the dictionary from 2003:
1978 G. KIMBERLY Skateboard 41 'It looks terrific on you.' 'It looks gay.'
1987 Creem Close-up Presents No. 1. 6 Your so-stupid-they're-funny captions are gay. Get into some [real] humor.
1999 T. PARKER & M. STONE Cartman's Mom is Dirty Slut in South Park Scripts: Bk. 1 150 (stage direct.) As the camera zooms in on their faces, that gay 'Near/Far' song from 'Titanic' plays.
2001 Washington Post 8 May C9 Today, they [sc. teenagers] often use gay as an adjective meaning 'stupid'... A gay movie is a stupid movie or one that makes no sense or one with a lame plot or all of those things.
2002 Independent 3 Oct. 21/3 At last the first official confirmation that the term 'gay' has now ousted 'pants' as the popular youth slang for 'naff.'
So is the word 'gay' in the vocabulary of school students ahead of our general understanding or a reflection of something more sinister?
If it is the latter, possibly adopting the experience of Holland would help. One colleague reported that Dutch equivalent of sixth form students are required by law to have at least a 2.5-hour session on homosexuality, taught by people from gay organisations and not by their usual teachers. Even faith schools are included in this requirement. However, the Dutch government has also reported increasing hostility to homosexuality in schools.
There are reports of rising hostility towards homosexuality in schools. But is it also -- or only -- a language shift?
Should we be worried about the apparent rise in homophobia in schools? A survey by a teachers' union, reported this morning, believes it is "endemic" and on the rise.
Colleagues expressed surprise at this, given that homophobia in other parts of our society appears to have faded. "Even the Daily Mail has given up," said one.
Our news report notes that, "The word 'gay' was reported to be the most frequently used term to put someone down, followed by 'bitch' and 'slag'."
Is this, though, just a change in the use of the word or evidence of growing hostility?
The online Oxford English Dictionary has recorded changes in the use of the word since its first written mention in 1310, when it meant "light-hearted, exuberantly cheerful, sportive, merry".
It takes us through changes until in 1825 it has a recorded slang use meaning a woman living by prostitution.
In 1935 it begins life as American slang for homosexual.
But the OED also notes another change taking place in the US as early as 1978, when it becomes a description of something "Foolish, stupid, socially inappropriate or disapproved of; 'lame'."
Here are the draft additions to the dictionary from 2003:
1978 G. KIMBERLY Skateboard 41 'It looks terrific on you.' 'It looks gay.'
1987 Creem Close-up Presents No. 1. 6 Your so-stupid-they're-funny captions are gay. Get into some [real] humor.
1999 T. PARKER & M. STONE Cartman's Mom is Dirty Slut in South Park Scripts: Bk. 1 150 (stage direct.) As the camera zooms in on their faces, that gay 'Near/Far' song from 'Titanic' plays.
2001 Washington Post 8 May C9 Today, they [sc. teenagers] often use gay as an adjective meaning 'stupid'... A gay movie is a stupid movie or one that makes no sense or one with a lame plot or all of those things.
2002 Independent 3 Oct. 21/3 At last the first official confirmation that the term 'gay' has now ousted 'pants' as the popular youth slang for 'naff.'
So is the word 'gay' in the vocabulary of school students ahead of our general understanding or a reflection of something more sinister?
If it is the latter, possibly adopting the experience of Holland would help. One colleague reported that Dutch equivalent of sixth form students are required by law to have at least a 2.5-hour session on homosexuality, taught by people from gay organisations and not by their usual teachers. Even faith schools are included in this requirement. However, the Dutch government has also reported increasing hostility to homosexuality in schools.
Friday, December 26, 2008
हैप्पी holiday
Pasko ipinag diriwang natin isang beses isang taon, papaano ba natin ipinagdiriwang ang pasko? Diba kapag pasko naglalagay tayo ng dekorasyun, mga Christmas light, at naghahanda tayo ng mga masasarap na pagkain, nagbabalot tayo ng mga regalo, kapag malapit na ang pasko diyan din natin isinasagawa ang simbang gabi ganyan natin ipinagdiriwang ang pasko. ANO NGA BA ANG TUNAY NA KAHULUGAN NG PASKO? Marami ang nagsasabi na ang kahulugan ng pasko ay pagmamahalan, pagbibigayan, pagpapatawaran, pagkakaisa. Para sa akin ang pasko ay isang simbolo lang at pag respeto sa kapanganakan ni jesus. Para sa akin kailangan gawin natin ang pasko araw araw. Sasabihin pasko kaya magmahalan tayo, pasko kaya magbigayan tayo, magpatawaran tayo pasko kasi eh. Pasko lang ba natin pwedeng gawin ang ganyang mga bagay? Diba dapat bilang tao kahit hindi pasko dapat magmahalan tayo, mag kaisa, magbigayan, mag tulungan tayo , kahit hindi pasko gawin nating malinis ang ating puso. hindi yung gagawin lang natin yan kapag pasko.
For i do believed that the true meaning of christmas is "LOVE" as what the famous song lyrics "for god so love the world he gave his only son", for today in order gain peace all we need is LOVE.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
life meaning
What's the significance of life? Who are we? Is human life just a dream, from which we never really awake, as some great thinkers claim? Are we submerged by our feelings, by our loves and hates, by our ideas of good, bad, beautiful, awful? Are we incapable of knowing beyond those ideas and feelings?
Are we - and all living beings - just «survival machines, blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes», as Richard Dawkins states? Are we incapable of knowing beyond the frames imposed to us by nature?
Love gives meaning to our lives – as do friendship, or art or faith in God. These are factors of true happiness, of inner peace, of feelings of harmony, allowing meaning to our existence.But there is the other side. There is the cruelty of life, the pain, the evil, not to talk of death. They are the hidden tigers, ambushed and ready to attack the imprudent, to use an image present in the Buddhist Scriptures. Is between these pendulums - the positive, the one that gives happiness and meaning, and the negative - that our lives are lived. And when we meditate about all that, we arrive at a diverse and disagreeing set of thoughts about the meaning and purpose of life.
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