M. Travel and Lifestyle Magazine

The second issue of m. Life and Living in Mindanao magazine is now in circulation, available nationwide.

Gracing the cover is another Mindanaoan pride known for her art and innovation in metal craftmanship and jewelry design, the creative Davao-based designer Ms. Ann Tiu Pamintuan. She is a Surigaonon and is a sister of the former City Administrator of Surigao City. Here are some of her notable artworks:

grabbed from her official website: http://www.annpamintuan.com/

Mango bangle made of gold.

Rice necklace.
(Visit http://pinoycentric.com/2008/03/17/ann-pamintuans-midas-touch/ for more of her)

Meanwhile, one of the respondents on the M Speak column that tackles Life Passion is no less than me. It feels lucky when you have a friend in the publishing industry. :D So grab a copy now! Thanks to Ian for the 1/10th portion of spotlight but lifetime chance to be featured in a magazine.

See the second issue's sneak preview here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8gPnSjjsSc

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Repost:

This was the first issue with no less than 1973 Miss Universe Margie Moran-Floirendo on the cover. She is one of the greatest advocate development and a great lover of Mindanao.

Finally got my copy of M Magazine's premier issue launched last April summer via LBC courtesy of my Davaoeño friend Ian, one of the brilliant people behind this glossy and magnificent travel and lifestyle magazine.

m is full and compact with information about life and living in my beloved Mindanao.

I was supposed to have an early copy when we dropped by in SM Davao during out trip in Sultan Kudarat but National Bookstore was ran out of stock. Yeah, out of stock. Sold out.

So if you dont want to miss the second issue, go to your nearest bookstores now and secure a copy. Buy one and see how it will defy your perceptions about Mindanao.

PAL Express Inaugural Flight

Finally. After ten years of suspended flight by PAL in Surigao City, the country's flag carrier is bringing back their service starting today, July 15, 2008, serving daily direct flights Surigao-Manila-Surigao.

The 76-seater Bombardier Q400 turbo-prop aircraft successfully landed in Surigao City airport at around 11:00 o’clock in the morning from its 9:00 a.m. departure in Manila.

As a cozy welcome, a simple program was prepared under the initiative of the Surigao Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Inaugural flight passengers were served with cocktails, adorned with welcome leis and entertained with a cultural presentation. A foreign visitor even jived with the dancers. The inaugural passengers include PAL's Senior Assistant Vice-President Marilou Mendoza and Vice-President for Sales in Mindanao Atty. Domingo Duerme who graced the event.

After Asian Spirit discontinued serving Surigao sometime in late December of last year that have greatly affected the tourism industry and paralyzed the business activities of the province, the government officials and concerned businessmen and personalities enjoined efforts in lobbying with the airline companies to consider serving the jump-off point of foreign tourists coming into the infamous surfing capital of the Philippines. And now after the long wait, the prayers of the Surigaonons have been answered through PAL.

The PAL Express flight comes with a "buy 1, take 1" promo offering the passengers a free one-way ticket for every one-way ticket bought. The complimentary ticket can be used for the return journey or for another one-way flight to any PAL domestic point. Promo sale is extended until July 21, 2008 with a travel period between July 15, 2008 and October 15, 2008.

In preparation to this, the airport installed a new baggage handling facility and an X-ray machine.

Schedule:

Destination: MANILA TO SURIGAO
Flight No.: PR 065
Schedule: Daily
Aircraft: DH4
Time of Departure: 09:00am
Time of Arrival: 10:45am

Destination: SURIGAO TO MANILA
Flight No.: PR 066
Schedule: Daily
Aircraft: DH4
Time of Departure: 11:15am
Time of Arrival: 01:00pm