British Ambassador to the Philippines Daniel Pruce celebrates his Christmas by cooking the traditional Filipino food, “bibingka.”
With little over a week left before Christmas Day, the holiday rush is on. Gifts & Graces at LRI Design Plaza in Makati has a selection of handcrafted bags, accessories and homeware made in small batches by underserved communities.
Chef Jessie Sincioco’s food should make any noche buena brighter. But she doesn’t cook on Christmas Day; her family does it for her.
Happy New Year! It’s 2016! And it’s already three days old.
You don’t realize how much energy Christmas takes out of you until you’ve gotten on in age. The season, particularly long as it is in our particularly merry case, ushered in by the first of nine dawn Masses (misa de gallo) before Christmas Day and shown out at the end of New Year week, feels even longer with each passing year. Surely you’ve noticed carols playing in department stores earlier and earlier—actually, every commercially exploitable season is made to run onto the next so that the year becomes one continuous marketing season.
Loneliness—that’s what will do it for you. Even if it’s well-populated. In the middle of a Christmas carol, a Victorian Christmas market, The Nutcracker, in shops with sweaty, top-to-toe crowds braying and yelling, “Here’s the credit card and damn the expense!” Yeah, loneliness.
In a few days it would be Christmas and I believe that the occasion is really for children and the child within us.
A house is nothing but timber, pilings and tiles, and will hold only as many ghosts or memories that you allow to flourish.
It is not known by the average Christian Filipino that many practices and teachings of Christianity originated from paganism.
“San Pedro Calungsod: Ang Batang Martir,” starring Rocco Nacino, will run in 50 theaters in the country during the 39th Metro Manila Film Festival starting Dec. 25.
