Transforming Manila into Vienna
EVENTS these days in Manila are getting more and more detail-oriented that sometimes I forget I’m still in the Philippines.
EVENTS these days in Manila are getting more and more detail-oriented that sometimes I forget I’m still in the Philippines.
The Philippines posted a historic back-to-back win in the Miss Earth pageant as the country’s representative, Angelia Ong, was crowned Miss Earth 2015 during the coronation night held Saturday
What costume designer Gino Gonzales couldn’t do due to budget constraints, he more than made up for in terms of silhouettes and textures to produce neutral-colored Elizabethan-inspired costumes made of katsa (muslin), raffia, jute and sinamay for Dulaang UP’s staging of William Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure.”
For my two-month tour of Europe with my siblings, I had really wanted to go Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic. Travelers may not gravitate toward these places as much as they do the more well-known ones such as Spain and France, but we decided to add Berlin, Prague and Vienna to our itinerary, and we are glad we did.
My siblings and I had been planning a long Euro trip together for years before we finally did it this year. With all of us grown up and with jobs and other responsibilities, even agreeing on a common schedule was a nightmare. And to make it even more complicated, we wanted to go to 13 cities in six weeks in different parts of the Europe—without having to step into an airport a single time.
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