The flying adventure continues in Lubao, Pampanga
The biggest annual hot air balloon festival in Southeast Asia is bound to happen this March 26-29 in Pradera Verde, Prado Siongco, Lubao, Pampanga.
March 8, 2015
The biggest annual hot air balloon festival in Southeast Asia is bound to happen this March 26-29 in Pradera Verde, Prado Siongco, Lubao, Pampanga.
No tinikling, rondalla or cheesy folk songs. Instead, there were hip-hop, tribal drums and sopranos in Grecian gowns because, finally, the bureaucracy has realized the need to upgrade the entertainment offered to foreign guests.
If 2013 was the year of “pageant virgins,” 2015 must be the year of also-rans and repeaters, as Binibining Pilipinas crowns a new set of winners on March 15 at Smart Araneta Coliseum.
It happens often enough: Traffic has caught you running late to see a concert, you haven’t had dinner, but the food sucks at the concert venue. The lesson: Leave the house or office at least four hours before showtime to allow you to eat and have a little drink somewhere, before proceeding to the gig.
A few weeks ago, I had been feeling unusually tired. It was a week where there was simply too much negativity on social media.
I am 18 years old and a part-time model. Recently, I was watching a docudrama about the fear of “coming out of the closet” and it hit close to home. I’m bisexual and neither my family nor my friends know about it.
Your mantra for the week: “I am happy because I am God as me.”
Are parents insecure around their children? I find that more and more young (and not so young) moms and dads with children in their teens or older seem tentative and uncertain in their presence. What happened?
This Sunday, we read the story of the Cleansing of the Temple in the Gospel of John. What’s interesting with John’s narrative is that he places it at the beginning of Christ’s ministry, right after the miracle at the wedding in Cana.
Ukay has become respectable. Ukay-ukay has made the middle- and lower-income Filipino look better. All you need is a quick eye and a modicum of good taste. Maybe we’re wearing the discards of other countries but most of us don’t care. Beautiful clothes are beautiful clothes.
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