The stories are enough to reduce animal lovers to tears. There was Popeye, the dog whose owner poured kerosene all over him last month and set him on fire to allegedly manage a flea infestation. (Popeye eventually died.)
As a little girl, I loved it when the circus came to town. A colorful truck with a loud horn drove through our streets with aerialists and acrobats on its roof, followed by an elephant wearing a beaded mask. “Saltimbanquis” did cartwheels down the street. Clowns in full costume danced to the music of a brass band.
A radiant Erika Bianca Gonzales Paras celebrated her 18th birthday on Sept. 1 at The Conservatory of the Peninsula Manila in Makati City.
One night over drinks in the Jesuit community of Gonzaga University, one of the members of the community made a comment: “Boy, oh boy, nothing much has changed! We still make rules out of the hardness of our hearts!”
There are several kinds of farmers. The common types are the poor ones you often see plowing the fields using their carabaos. He’s the rural, do-it-yourself farmer. If he does not farm, his family will starve.
An urgent message from the office of Ambassador Mercedes Tuason in the Vatican urged Filipino priests and bishops going to Rome for the canonization of Blessed Pedro Calungsod to e-mail or SMS her assistant, Josie Bantug ([email protected]; tel. +393296856458) if they would want to concelebrate with Pope Benedict XVI or distribute Holy Communion during the Canonization Mass on Oct. 21 at St. Peter’s Square.
Consul General Zhang Weigou hosted a reception to celebrate the 63rd founding anniversary of the People’s Republic of China. It was held at the ballroom of the Marco Polo Plaza Hotel, beautifully adorned with numerous red silk lanterns. A wall-to-wall mural depicted the Great Wall of China.
Mexican archaeologists say they have determined that the ancient Mayas built watchtower-style structures atop the ceremonial ball court at the temples of Chichen Itza to observe the equinoxes and solstices, and they said Friday that the discovery adds to understanding of the many layers of ritual significance that the ball game had for the culture.
It tasted great. It’s actually really good,” Zac Efron said, tapping the table in front of us to stress his point.
“I’m nervous, I’ve got butterflies,” Zac Efron said hours before the Penshoppe Fan Conference 2012. Someone asked if he had seen his Penshoppe billboards all over the city. “Not yet,” he said. “I saw one in a picture. It was huge.”
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