This holiday season, little hands will be busy building huge Christmas trees as part of Dusit Thani Manila’s annual Christmas Tree Project. Using recycled materials, children from nine elementary schools will have a month to prepare their 10-ft-tall trees.
Santa Claus can go ho-ho-ho even in Bangsamoro. You can have a pig in the backyard, and eat it, too. Christians can eat lechon there. Or raise pigs. No problem. The assurance comes from Ghazali Jaafar, vice chair for political affairs of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) that has signed a preliminary agreement to end the Muslim insurgency in Mindanao by establishing a new autonomous region there, to be called Bangsamoro.
No matter where we are in the world, we Pinoy concertphiles stand out. Just ask The Fray frontman Isaac Slade. “We just played a show in Muscat (Oman) last night. It was crazy cool. This is our first show and it was insane. And to be perfectly honest with you, the craziest fans here were all from the Philippines,” he said during an exclusive phone interview with Super just recently.
“Manila!!!” David Guetta boomed over the mic, heavy French accent and all, and the slightly inebriated crowd whooped loudly in response. The SM Mall Of Asia Arena was set up like a huge club, complete with futuristic laser lights, a giant, dazzling LED-lit DJ booth, and complimentary Captain Morgan Spiced Rum drinks that gave the concertgoers a nice buzz.
James Morrison, in a white shirt that restricted circulation and a leather jacket that would make Marlon Brando proud, stepped in front of a large Smart Araneta Coliseum crowd with energy incongruent to the soulful, contemplative vibe of most of his songs.
There are many kinds of music out there—rock, hip-hop, electronic, classical, jazz, blues, country—and I have been lucky enough to have been exposed to all these different kinds of music.
Move over, vampires. Or at least make some room for another type of the living dead because zombies are slowly but surely walking their way to our hearts. They’re everywhere, from the book shelves to the silver screen—even the streets, as proven by the Outbreak Manila runs, 5-km marathons that involve being chased by flesh-eating zombies (now how’s that for inspiration to reach the finish line?). There is actually another one scheduled on Halloween at Enchanted Kingdom.
I traveled to Europe with my mother to rediscover France and Italy. In contrast to the Philippines where there were monsoon rains, it was summer in Europe (July/August). It was the best time to travel there because airfare was cheaper and almost everything was on sale.
South Korea must be the best country in the world to be homeless. Perhaps that is not something you would read in a Lonely Planet, and it is doubtful that South Korean tourism authorities would include that information in their next 30-second spot on cable news.
A Jack Russell terrier has survived after being poisoned and buried alive — and he can thank the man who saw the ground wiggle.
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