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Yes, motherhood won even against Lea Salonga’s stature.
She is five months pregnant today, but once the baby comes in some time in mid-May, everything takes a back seat.
As everybody knows, my mother was a stay-at-home mom. Im not the strong or the type A mother like her, she is quick to add […]
Ongoing until January 23 is the Mangyan Exhibit luncheon at the M Café of the Ayala Museum.
Mangyan is the general name for the indigenous tribes who live in the province of Mindoro (Occidental and Oriental).
This group of people comprises 10% of Mindoro’s population.
Tags: Mangyans, Mindoro
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Bicol is my native language. Well, the Bicol of Sorsogon at least, which actually sounds like 50% Bisaya.
According to Maria Lilia F. Realubit, a retired University of the Philippines professor, the Bicol language has several dominant dialects like those spoken in Naga (Camarines Sur), Albay, Daet (Camarines Norte), Catanduanes, Masbate and Sorsogon, the Rinconada in […]
There’s a famous Filipino saying that goes: “manakawan ka na, wag lang masunugan”. (Your house is better robbed out than burned down).
As if one is better than the other?
In the past, house robbers just select few precious items and leave the rest behind. That’s why, in the above saying’s context, robbery is “preferred” because fire […]
January 9 marks the Feast of the Black Nazarene at Quiapo Church in Manila.
For more than 200 years the church has been placing the statue of the Black Nazarene on a gilded carriage every January 9 and pulling it through the streets of Quiapo.
Traffic has to be re-routed, the procession usually becomes a nuisance to […]
I’ve already mentioned balut, a pinoy delicacy, that’s only available on the streets at night time.
Balut and its variants (balut,1-day-old chick-egg, quail eggs fried in some orange-colored batter and eaten with vinegar) have evolved into famous street foods.
BALUT EGGSPRESS brought that balut business a notch higher: Balut Eggspress serves penoy, batter-coated eggs (kwek-kwek), quail […]
I’m not a Judy Ann Santos fan and I don’t go ga-ga over Piolo Pascual, but I think he is not so bad: both physically and as an actor.
But every time these two team up together on a movie (or on TV), I swoon like a mushy teener and I (shamefully) swear that I’ve […]
Gov. Linda Lingle of Hawaii arrived Tuesday night in Manila for an eight-day visit to celebrate that community spirit and hospitality and the contributions Filipinos have made to Hawaii over the last 100 years.
Actually, December 10 formally commenced the yearlong celebration of the arrival in Hawaii of the first 15 farmworkers from the Ilocos […]
Angono, Rizal is popularly known as the Art Capital of the Philippines. It was home to two National Artist of the Philippines awardees, Carlos V. Francisco (or “Botong”: the great Filipino muralist) for Painting (1973) and Lucio D. San Pedro for Music (1991).
Paete, Laguna on the other hand is the center of wood sculpture in […]
I couldn’t agree more with Dan Mariano (Manila Times, Opinion column) when he said:
It is ironic that in a country whose inhabitants are wont to describe themselves as predominantly Catholic, the business of fortune-telling, especially the Oriental variety (feng-shui), is a brisk one, notwithstanding the fact that Church dogma does not look too kindly on […]
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