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Recently, I posted that wine might be a good pair for our local dishes, and mentioned Ellaine Villamin of Eden Canyon Winery. She’s the daughter half of a father-daughter who “run the first Filipino American-owned winery in the country to grow its own grapes and bottle its own wine“.
Not knowing anything about wines and Filipino […]
Last night, I turned on the TV to NBC just in time to hear Carlos Ponce say “Philippines” during the Miss Universe beauty pageant. I waited for more and learned that, for the umpteenth time, the Philippine candidate to the yearly pageant has won the Miss Photogenic award.
Lia Andrea Ramos won in an online vote […]
Like all Philippine legends, there’s more than one story that attempt to capture the essence of the majesty that is Mount Mayon. Mayon is derived from “Magayon”, which means beautiful in Bicolano.
There’s the story of two lovers not unlike Romeo and Juliet, as told by Laura Agpay, a native of Bicol:
Once there was a princess […]
That’s the vision of one man, Jason Banico, a Stanford University fellow, former chief technology officer of Yehey.com, and a native of Davao City.
“The larger objective is to move forward the state of ICT in Davao City in two to three years in areas of job creation and innovation. The personal objective is to assist […]
What started out ten years ago as a watered-down search engine and e-commerce service, YEHEY! has eventually become a competitive portal for everything Filipino. The site has almost 30 mllion page views a month, with 1.8 million unique hits and 300,000 registered users.
And with a P27.9-million cash fund from its parent company iVantage Corporation, Yehey.com […]
Volcanologists continue to monitor Mayon Volcano since it starting erupting quietly last Friday. Residents have been asked to evacuate the villages at the foot of the mountain as lava flowed down the slopes and clouds of ash were seen shooting into the sky Wednesday morning.
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) raised alert level […]
You never know where wanderings take you.
I took a couple of days off to work on this. It’s a personal project which caused me some late nights, not being highly experienced in coding. But the bones are there and I like how it came out. In the course of my wandering in the name of […]
He has no script. He has but one camera, one light and one location. He is today’s independent filmmaker. And he is the future of Philippine cinema.
That’s how the independent film director is described in ABS-CBN’s feature about Cinemalaya 2006, which will show screenings of the ten finalists in the short film and full feature […]
I’ve never heard of Bob Ong before this week, but Ruel S. De Vera of the Sunday Inquirer seems to be in the know.
According to De Vera, Bob Ong is “a publishing phenomenon whose blockbuster book sales are equaled only by the anonymity he maintains”. Apparently, the author hides behind the name Bob Ong and […]
Continued airstrikes prompted the Philippine Embassy in Lebanon to call for evacuation of the more than 30,0000 Filipino overseas workers still trapped in the country. Unfortunately, because of limited resources, we do not have any ships or military aircraft that could be flown into Lebanon so the embassy has asked the Philippine consul in Syria […]
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