JAKARTA — Works of art are indeed best viewed at some distance, but the virtual museum tour we currently have...
Francis Rey Pana-Finstad is a 36-year-old Filipino from Mindanao in the Philippines.
It was a modest start by all accounts: a lone employee, a 3-square-meter retail space, and the owner doing multiple duties as designer/delivery girl/tagger/business manager.
It’s almost like automatic for most tourists to get into “Eat, Pray, Love” mode when visiting Bali, Indonesia. But first-timers to this famed Island of the Gods should also be aware that traveling here would more likely result in an “eat, shop and chill” experience.
Indonesian music-lovers got a taste of Filipino musical talent when baritone Noel Azcona and soprano Rachelle Gerodias proved their worth as star soloists in a recent weekend performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at the Aula Simfonia concert hall in Central Jakarta.
