Dali na sa Mandaue!

The heat is on in Mandaue City! As the sweltering heat invades the quiet simplicity of Mandaue City’s lifestyle, the festive air can no longer be quelled. 

Wednesday opened the city’s celebration of its fiesta with this year’s theme, Mandaue: Our Home, Our Future.

The plain statement is a declaration from the heart of its communities that strive through strong familial traditions to keep their city as their home where people live in harmony and families still maintain their closeness and respect for one another. 

Mandaue is urban in its character, being an industrial city, with more than 2000 establishments setting its business anchors here. Yet the presence of large establishments has not fussed up the unpretentious and uncomplicated nature of the people who have been born and are residing here.

The main charm of the city for me is its people. Their disposition is light and amiable and even though they are in a business district, some of them refuse to be carried away by the direct and sometimes cold candidness that enterprise at times requires. They continue to be demure and at times naive though beneath you get a glimpse of the stronger foundations of integrity and dignity that they hide in intrinsic humility.

To experience the spirit of Mandaue is to be in Mandaue! For this year’s fiesta celebration, the city has nightly events at the plaza and their trade fair Dinhi sa Mandaue features various businesses in Mandaue City. The inviting bibingka, massareal, budbud and tagaktak are delicacies that stamp the brand of Mandaue in your palates for they claim that there is no bibingka or massareal as delightful as that in Mandaue.

A most coveted event is the Miss Mandaue competition which parades beauty and brains in a contest that hails the queen of the city. This year’s Miss Mandaue competition will be held at the Cebu International Convention Center on May 7.