Thursday, November 06, 2008
Utzurrum: What’s with the Bachelors Femina Clubs?
By Chinggay V. Utzurrum
The scene
ONGOING at the Tea of Spring Cantonese restaurant of Shangri-La’s Mactan Island Resort and Spa, until Nov. 9 is the Hairy Crab Food Promo, which is fast catching on among our burg’s gourmands. What is this breed of crab anyway? During Autumn and winter months, this variety is produced in great number, and is sometimes called Chinese mittens.
Menu is as varied as they come, hairy crab roe, with bean curd, braised hairy crab with broccoli; steamed hairy crab served with ginger tea, and many more.
This variety is grown only in Shanghai so take advantage of this chance, and get a whiff and a taste of these Chinese mittens!
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December is just around the corner, and with it, comes the much awaited Bachelors Femina (BF) Innocents Day Ball, to be held at the Salon España of Casino Español de Cebu on Sunday, Dec. 28.
Recently, the club members held a fellowship-cum-meeting at the fabulous Beverly View Restaurant, way up there in the Cebu hills, affording its guests an unobstructed view of the city below.
Since it was a dinner event, early birds absorbed the ambience, breathtaking, to say the least. As the myriad lights twinkled below, the left-to-right panorama, cast a romantic spell over the party!
Very visible were the BF Alumni who are pledging unstinted support for the initial involvement of the new BF board, in the forthcoming December affair.
BF Alumni president Perla Peterson, and Bachelors/Femina presidents Kit Lopez and Celeste Rodriguez, respectively, are immersed in selling tickets, doing the rigodon rehearsals, and managing a civic effort, besides.
On a more civic-spirited vein, the BF—led by its dynamic presidents, Jonathan "Kit" Lopez, and Celeste Marie Rodriguez, with the coordination of project chairman Berdynne Garcia—braved the elements and went tree-planting at the farm of Jombee Balce, in Busay.
With the assistance of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, the committed members brought 90 mahogany trees, and with the farm children, proceeded with their activity. No problem with their being first-timers—the youngsters enjoyed it.
It is this kind of concern for Mother Earth, and the preservation of our planet for the next generation, that makes young people become responsible adults. In so doing, they also help preserve the Busay Water Shed.
This is not a one-shot deal for the BF. For come next month, they will have a visual inspection to check on their trees, and incidentally, brighten the farm kids with Yuletide bundles of joy. Keep it up, BF!
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