Notwithstanding cancellations from the Miss Universe Organization, the beauty pageant is, after all, still on—with preliminaries in early January and the final pageant on Jan. 30 at SM Mall of Asia Arena. The event is organized by the Department of Tourism (DOT) and financed by the LCS Group of Companies.
For so long, factions in Ayala Alabang Village have been locked in legal battles regarding the use of additional gates in the village to decongest traffic.
On a muggy Sunday on July 5, 2015, villagers of Cuenca, Batangas, noticed a helicopter plummeting to the ground. Suddenly they heard a crash in nearby Mt. Maculot.
While the rest of the country were probably in bed nursing their noche buena bellies, I found myself en route to Batangas province on a blue-sky Christmas morning.
On a trip to Spain many years ago, I wandered into a small village, at sundown, where bricks with the patina of centuries evoked déjà vu. In the deep recesses
When I was a child, my yaya was Segunda, who hailed from Cuenca, Batangas (where the best maids then came from). I must have been 4 or 5 years old because I was still sleeping in a trundle bed with railings on either side.
We stopped at the entrance marker of Cuenca, Batangas, which says “Home of the Bakers.” Our guide was a true son of the town, Lucito Chavez. His family used to have a small bakery, but he decided to open his own in Manila, called Tinapayan Festival, near the University of Santo Tomas.
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