Typhoon PEPENG, would it reach Cagayan de Oro?

At 4:00 p.m. today, Typhoon "PEPENG" was estimated based on satellite and surface data at 940 kms East of Surigao City (10.2°N, 135.0°E) with maximum sustained winds of 120 kph and gustiness of up to 150 kph. It is forecast to move West Northwest at 22 kph.

Northern Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao will experience mostly cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms. The rest of the country will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms.

Moderate to strong winds blowing from the Southwest and South will prevail over the Western section of the country and coming from the Southeast and Northwest will prevail elsewhere. The coastal waters throughout the archipelago will be moderate to rough.

CdeO Facebookers ADMIN Pre-Set up

The message you read below is from Cagayan de Oro's Facebookers, you should have facebook account and log in to view the Fan Page.

Hello Kagay-anons,
This is the pre-set up in creating ADMIN in our fan page. I encourage everyone to nominate someone which you think can serve Cagayan de Oro's Facebookers more dynamic. Since its a pre-set up, we just need 10 nominees. The nominees will serve as the organizing body for the official ADMIN/Officers. We are now almost 500 members since the creation of this Page [March 19, 2009], I think this is a good step and it shows great unification of KAGAY-ANONS.

Our Aim is to promote WHAT’s in CAGAYAN de ORO, WHAT’s GOOD for CAGAYAN de ORO and WHAT’s to be Done as KAGAY-ANONS, these are just my ideas, of course we can share collectively for more.

The nominee’s qualifications:

1. Must be KAGAY-ANON (of course, Facebooker)
2. Willing to promote Cagayan de Oro and Kagay-anon online and offline
3. Online Community Builder/Organizer

Mechanics of this Pre-set up page are:

1. Every fan/member has the right to nominate and to be nominated. You can cast your nomination for 3 person at a time.
2. Facebook username will the official name as Nominee, e,g Jual Salvador
3. The results of nominees from March 30 to April 3, 2009 will be counted and the top 10 nominees will be posted on April 6, 2009 and this will be the “CdeO FOB” Cagayan de Oro's Facebookers Organizing Body.
4. Cut off of Casting for Nominees will on April 3, 2009 @ exactly 11:59PM
5. Its online so this should be easy

Cast your Nominees HERE:

Famous song of Kagay-anons

If you are Kagay-anons (the person from Cagayan de Oro) the common language for beautiful, awesome and great are Tsada, chuy, ayos and pyerti jud kaayo! Kagay-anons loves to sing, its the usual past time of the people in the City.

The famous song about Cagayan de oro is the Park View Lodge advertising song. Its not the official song of Cagayan de oro but most people sing it and they loved it. The song goes like..

"People stay in Cagayan, Cagayan Park view Hotel. In the middle of the City you sleep like a baby, I love this place I love to stay in Cagayan.. Park View Hotel"

I just love that song, most FM station here played that commercial song and that makes it famous. I will take a photo of the lodge and post it here, since I can't find a good image in the internet.

The Gateway of Mindanao

Cagayan de Oro City is located at the northern coast of Mindanao, Philippines. It is the capital of Misamis Oriental province and the regional center for Northern Mindanao (Region 10). The city is popularly known for its initials CDO or CDOC.

Jeepney's hired for White Water Rafting

Cebuano or Bisaya is the city's main dialect. English on the other hand is widely used in schools, media, government and commercial transactions. People from Cagayan de Oro are called Kagayanons.

Most are brown-skinned of Malay descent and some with mixed ancestry popularly known to locals as mestizo.

Cagayan de Oro's Best Tourist Spot

The city is home to several universities and colleges. Xavier University, Liceo de Cagayan University and Capitol University are known in the fields of nursing, medicine, agriculture, engineering and commerce.

Typical Cagayanon Family: Riding a Motor Bike

Cagayan de Oro Airport run way

Cagayan de Oro is known as "The Gateway to Northern Mindanao" because of its location and good transportation facilities. However, it is through her warm and hospitable people that the city became more known as "The City of Golden Friendship".

List of Cagayan de Oro City Mayors

Below are the list of Mayor which plays Political Head of Cagayan de Oro City, the list from (1 to 12) are when Cagayan was still named Cagayan de Misamis and later Cagayan de Oro City (18 to 29)

Cagayan de Misamis to Cagayan de Oro
1. Tirso Neri 1901 – 1904
2. Cayetano Pacana 1904 – 1905
3. Pedro Velez 1905 – 1906
4. Cipriano Vamenta, Sr. 1906 – 1908
5. Isidro Vamenta 1908 – 1909
6. Anastacio Neri 1909– 1910
7. Ramon B. Neri 1912 – 1916
8. Uldarico Akut 1912 – 1916
9. Segundo Gaston 1916 – 1919
10. Pedro P. Mabulay 1919 – 1922
11. Fernando Pacana, Sr 1922 – 1925
12. Vicente P. Castro 1925 – 1928
13. Apolinar Velez 1928 – 1931
14. Lucio S. Ramos 1931 – 1934
16. Julio B. Pacana 1934 – 1937&1938 – 1941 (First Mayor to be re-elected)
17. Herminiglido Wanceña 1941 – 1945
18. Lucio S. Ramos 1946 – 1947
19. Maximo Y. Suniel 1948 – 1953
20. Pedro SA. Baculio March 1953 to December 1953
21. Justiniano R. Borja 1954 – 1964
22. Jesus V. Seriña Sr. 1964 – 1971
23. Reuben R. Canoy 1972 – 1976
24. Concordio C. Diel 1976 – 1979
25. Pedro N. Roa 1978 – 1980
26. Aquilino Pimentel Jr. 1980 – 1984
27. Pablo P. Magtajas 1984 – 1998
28. Vicente Y. Emano 1998-2007
29. Constantino G. Jaraula 2007-Present

CAGAYAN DE ORO' Kagay-an Resort

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Philippines - The City Government is confident the local government can get back Lawndale Springs now known as Kagay-an Resort in sitio Taguanano, Barangay Indahag which was reverted into a public land by the Supreme Court (SC).

Kagay-an Resort (formerly: Lawndale Springs)

Lawyer Maryanne Enteria, head of the city legal office, said they expect no problem to arise when the City Government reapplies for a pre-patent title for the resort before the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Land Management.

She said because the local government is a government agency, it will get top priority from the DENR.

The City Government lost ownership of the 12-hectare resort in sitio Taguanao, Barangay Indahag, when the SC handed down a decision reverting the land, which is the former 105-hectare estate of Dona Josefina Graciano vda Neri, into public land.

The landmark decision penned by Associate Justice Leonardo Quisumbing found that the judicial title of Neri did not pass through proper government processes "even bypassing the then-Bureau of Land and the DENR."

Aside from the City Government, claimants to the estate, which include beneficiaries of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), lost all their ownership rights to the property.

The DENR has scheduled a resurvey of all properties claim by the claimants on September 9.

Last Tuesday, the DENR held a public consultation among the stakeholders - its fourth in the past four years -- inside the Kagay-an Resort.

Conrado Mahinay, OIC of Cenro's Land Management said that all the claimants including the City Government will have to reapply with the DENR so they can have the proper land titles of their property.

Cagayn de Oro City

Saint Augustine (Cathedral) one of the known landmark

Cagayan de Oro City - abbreviated CDO, CDOC or Cag. de Oro ; Cebuano: Dakbayan sa Cagayan de Oro; Tagalog: Lungsod ng Cagayan de Oro; lies along the northern coastline of Mindanao. It is the provincial capital of the province of Misamis Oriental and the regional center for Northern Mindanao (Region 10). According to the 2007 census, the city has an estimated population of 553,996 people. There are several places in the Philippines named Cagayan. One must distinguish Cagayan de Oro City from Cagayan Province in Northern Luzon. There are also islands in the Sulu Sea named Cagayan.

Overview at night time in the CITY

The area was first inhabited around 377 AD (the late Neolithic Period), island natives lived in a settlement then known as Himologan[1] (now known as Huluga), eight kilometers from present day Cagayan de Oro. The natives were polytheistic animist and paid tributes to Sultan Muhammad Dipatuan Kudarat, the Sultan of Maguindanao.

Cagayan de Oro is located along the central coast of Northern Mindanao. To the south, the city is bordered by the Bukidnon Province and Lanao del Norte (Iligan City). The Municipality of Opol, Misamis Oriental borders the city on the west and Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental to the east. To the north lies Macajalar Bay facing the Bohol Sea. Its total land area is 488.86 km² representing 13.9% of the entire Misamis Oriental Province. It includes 25 kilometers of coastline and a fine deep water harbor, Macajalar Bay. 44.7% of the surface of Cagayan de Oro is classified as agricultural land, and 38.4% is classified as open spaces.

Moter-rela (Rila) The common transport within the City

Cagayan de Oro is the base to both local and multi-national companies such as Del Monte Philippines, Nestle, Coca-Cola, Pepsi Cola, and others. The city's economy is largely based on industry, trade, service and tourism. Link2Support and Arriba are among the few call centers that have recently opened their doors to the city.