Top Philippine Festivals confirm participation to the Sangyaw Festival 2008 in Tacloban City
Posted on May 15, 2008 - Filed Under Events, Festivals, News | Leave a Comment
Councilor Cristina Gonzales Romualdez, Tacloban City Council Floor Leader and wife of incumbent Tacloban City Mayor Alfred S. Romualdez has been visiting other cities to invite their Mayors and their City Cultural Dance Contingents to participate in the Tacloban City Fiesta celebration – the SANGYAW FESTIVAL 2008 to be held on June 29, 2008 in [...]
Read More..>>Philippine Independence Day 2008 and List of other Philippine Legal and Special Holidays 2008
Posted on May 15, 2008 - Filed Under News | Leave a Comment
Since last week I have been receiving inquiries on when will Philippine Independence Day celebrations be held. A lot of people are already asking when will the Philippine Independence Day 2008 be observed. Noting that in the previous Philippine Holidays, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo keeps on changing the dates as part of holiday economics where [...]
Read More..>>MAKATI CITY GRAND PARADE ON MAY 9 TO SHOWCASE FAMOUS PHILIPPINE FESTIVALS
Posted on May 8, 2008 - Filed Under News | 2 Comments
The Makati Grand Parade on Ayala Avenue this Friday, May 9, will be a virtual sensory feast resembling the acclaimed Rio Carnival in Brazil, as it will showcase various festivals, including the world-famous Dinagyang Festival of Iloilo City, and floats creatively designed to depict this year’s parade theme, “International Festival.”
Read More..>>Imelda Marcos’ fiesta to be revived in Tacloban City
Posted on April 25, 2008 - Filed Under Events, Festivals, News | Leave a Comment
TACLOBAN CITY, Philippines — A cultural festival that was created by former first lady Imelda Marcos is set to be revived by his nephew, Mayor Alfred Romualdez, and make it one of the highlights of this year’s city fiesta.
City tourism officer Jake Ligan revealed that the “Sangyaw Festival” would be revived in June and would [...]
Department of Tourism mulls turning century-old lighthouse in Guisi Guimaras into viewing deck for tourists
Posted on April 24, 2008 - Filed Under News | Leave a Comment
ILOILO CITY, April 23 (PNA) – The Department of Tourism (DOT) will look into the rehabilitation of the century-old lighthouse in the province of Guimaras and have it converted into a viewing deck for tourists.
The Guisi Light House located in Sitio, Guisi, Barangay Dolores in Nueva Valencia, Guimaras was built in 1896 and is [...]
SEAIR Batanes Airline Ticket Raffle, We have a winner! Make that two winners!
Posted on April 23, 2008 - Filed Under News, Promo | 2 Comments
Our Batanes ticket raffle got 396 comments posted before the 8 p.m. deadline last Sunday, April 20, 2008. Members of the SEAIR Adventure Club met Tuesday to draw the winning comment. To do this, each comment was numbered 001 to 396. The draw was done lotto style. Three piles of numbers were made, the first [...]
Read More..>>Pintados Kasadyaan Festival is giving way to the new Tacloban City festival
Posted on April 19, 2008 - Filed Under Events, Festivals, News | 1 Comment
TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte – In a board meeting Tuesday night of the officers and members of the Board of the Pintados Foundation Incorporated, the consensus is for the Pintados Festival to give way to the new festival, the Pasangyaw Festival as announced by the Tacloban City government. This means that the public will [...]
Read More..>>The ABS CBN issue: So that the public may know…
Posted on April 18, 2008 - Filed Under News, Random Thoughts | 12 Comments
Fifteen days ago, I made a blog post about the incident involving my three photos that were used by ABS CBN’s morning show Boy & Kris.
I never expected to receive huge feedback on this issue. I can’t even imagine people started forwarding messages with my previous blog post. Some even went to as far [...]
