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Showing posts with label sinulog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sinulog. Show all posts

January 15, 2014

Things To Do And Be Aware During Sinulog

One of the most celebrated festivals in the Philippines would be Sinulog. And a lot of things you should prepare if you want to enjoy it. One of it would be preparing physically and faithfully. Don't forget to light a candle in Basilica del Santo Niño and say your prayers.

Before you go out crazy over the street party because a lot of things that will be there to entertain us. This things might be considered for safety purposes:


  • Wear Shoes  - Let's face it and lets be practical about it this one. Expect the streets to be crowded during day time. So wearing shoes would be the best thing to do since random accidents like someone would stomped your feet. Shoes would protect your feet at the same time giving it comfort. Especially during night time when the streets are getting wet and wild due to the parties happening everywhere.

  • Bring Extra Clothes - Bringing extra clothes is really a necessity when it comes to Sinulog. Rain or shine you need to bring extra. And yes you are attending a party but not that casual type. You are attending a city party were in the entire city of cebu is attending. So bring some extra clothes for hygiene purposes just in case you will be sweating badly. Or in worse cases some random drunk dude would puke on you.

  • Bring Extra Pocket Money - Practically the purposes of this one would be for emergency reasons. Since you can never tell the things that might happen so it would be better to be prepared.

  • Walky Talky - Sounds new right? actually it's not but this would be the best and effective way to communicate to others. If you will rely on your cellphone to contact your friends forget about it. Networks would be busy and your messages would arrive at their inbox with no ETA. Although you can use your tablets and login to facebook or other social media to contact people. But then again your a first target to those people who have bad intentions on your gadgets.

  • Bring a camera - I did say above that you will be the target of those culprits that would have interest on your gadgets. But at least we should be very careful of our things and don't just leave them unattended. Having a camera during this occasion would be the best thing to have since you can capture memories. Pictures and videos would be the best thing you can retrieve after the party is over.

And the best thing to remember is to enjoy the celebration!




Disclaimer: The picture is for illustration purposes no other intention for it

January 20, 2013

The Beat The dance The music of Sinulog!

This would be another appreciated year when it comes to the best occasion's that Cebu will be celebrating. Yes it's Sinulog once again and a lot of people are excited about it not just the cebuanos. But also other people from other places and countries who came to Cebu in order to celebrate. Sinulog is known as one of the greatest street parties ever. So expect a lot of wild parties and street craziness dancing in the heart of the city of Cebu.

When you can hear that sound and the beat of the music you could just not resist to rejoice. You would basically join the rhythm of the music by stomping your feet or snap your fingers from it. Cebu has been recognized also because of Sinulog and during this moment Cebu would be the best place around the world at the moment.

Some of the things that people are expecting from this celebration are the street party that's happening every where. As always the Sinulog Grand Mardigra contest that are held on Abellana Cebu City Sports Center. the Parades of the contestants on the streets together with there float and street dancers. Expect also some local celebrities that are participating on this activity since some of them would join. While others are unexpectedly found on the streets and other corners just chillin and watching.

And during night time when the contest ends, winners are declared and awarded. Firework's display would occur three times, first in Abellana, then fuente's turn to ignite there fireworks. And last but not the least Ayala will be the last one to showcase with theie own firework's display.

Sinulog is all about fun , religion and Cebuano's are known for this. It's the time were strong solemn faith are observed and then the big bang celebration after it.

January 27, 2008

Sinulog 2008

Although it was rainy, our Sinulog getaway sure was memorable. We started to roam around the city at 1:00 pm although it was planned at 7 in the morning, all decided to skip it and rested for a while. Ever since I was a kid our daily routine was to attend first the Procession, which is always a day before the Sinulog Mardigra.

As we got out of the house, we were welcomed by a line of passengers and jeepneys stuck in the traffic. Watching jeepneys and passengers waiting for a chance to move an inch made us decide to walk. Walking along the empty high way made me reminisce about the things I had done during my elementary days. Back in those days, me and my friends used to walk a kilometer away from school just to enjoy arcade games. I save almost half of my daily baon so I could play Dragon Ball Z on a coin-operated supernes modified arcade, or in our term "Hulug-hulug piso".

We arrived at our first destination, the Basilica del Sto. Niño. Like all fiesta it wouldn't be complete with out offering a candle so we decided to do it first before everything and walked from Panganiban to Magallanes. I remembered last time, Jade and I almost suffocated due to the number of people crowding the streets near the entrance of the Basilica. Although it was the same, we managed to find a good route towards the Main entrance. Getting towards there was easy, but getting out was a challenge. After we offered candles we head towards our next destination Colon St.

Colon St was full of vendors, all kinds of stuff was there. I even got myself a buckle and a couple of anime DVD's which was only Php 10.00 each. The most beautiful part of it was food. Yes, all kind of street food was around. If you are on diet then don't ever come to there because you'll just give in to the temptation.

After a countless kwek-kwek balls consumed, we head to our next destination, Fuente Osmeña. But before getting there, we must cross a barricade of crowd watching the Street Dance starting from High-Way on towards Ramos St. We managed to got around that part easily, (hint: there are less people on Ramos St and you can easily get across).

Fuente was our last destination, we mana Although tiring, the atmosphere there was pure fun. We stopped by at the park to eat someged to get snapshots of the thing happening there. Barbeque. We also got ourselves freebies.
After a tiring event, we started to walk our way home, but before our adventure ended we got the chance to see the fireworks display at abellana.