Merry Christmas!

Negros Occidental : One Morning in Bacolod City

Water Fountain Fronting San Sebastian Cathedral

Followers of Philippine festivals know this place for Masskara Festival. Yes, that festival that boasts highly energetic dance movement on the street with performers wearing that all-too-smiling colorful masks aka "masskara". Come October, Bacolod City hogs the spotlight and every nook and cranny of Bacolod is adorned with colorful masks with lanterns and just about any ornaments you can think of to boot.

Iloilo: Angelicum in Lights

Lights and the holiday season are like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie - they look good together. Just imagine lights without anything else and you have something that is bland. Or imagine holiday season without lights and you have a misnomer.

Makati: Ayala Enchanting Lights and Sound Show 2012

Curtain of Lights

This time of the year, the Ayala Triangle Gardens turns into an enchanting place surrounded by thousands of lights and colorful spheres that gives an impression that they are floating in the air.

Marinduque - A Preview

The Morions of Marinduque

This is a preview of my photo-adventure in a sleepy little island province which is often eclipsed by its neighbors' heavily marketed popularity. A hidden bounty of both white sand and coral beaches, clear and radiant waters, century old churches and ancestral homes, caves and islands that collectively comes alive every Easter for the quirky Moriones Festival.

Twenty Five and One @ EDSA

Twenty Five and One... Crowds gather at the busiest highway in the country while I am finilizing some documents that need to be submitted on this same day.

Interpix: Birthday Kreme

My younger sister Yoyin celebrates her birthday today.

Pasko sa Pasig: Christmas Through the Eyes of a Child

It's the time of the year when treats of sights and sounds fill your senses. It's when lanterns fill the street and carols fill the air. Not to be left behind by the festivities is the City by the river that is Pasig.

Symphony of Lights and Sounds at Ayala Triangle

One of the treats in living in the metro is that come Holiday Seasons, you will never run out of interesting sights to see. And truly, the nights always come to life with amazing display of lanterns and lights in almost every busy corners of the metro. And to start that Christmas feel in this blog, let me share to you some photos I have taken of the Symphony of Lights and Sounds at the Ayala Triangle in Makati City.

Aliaga's Taong Putik Festival

June 24 marks the observance of the feast day of Saint John the Baptist. This is the day when dousing water on unwary people is an excuse to engage in revelry.

12 Bicol Churches

In line with the Peñafrancia Festival of Bicol, more particularly in Naga City, let me share twelve beautiful and historical churches located in Bicol. I have visited these churches on a couple of occasion that I have been there. The top photo is the Naga Metropolitan Cathedral which is one of the busiest church during the festival.

A Birthday Post

It is almost midnight and in just few ticks of a clock, it will be my birthday. Sleep is a stranger and it is when the surrounding universe is dead that thoughts come alive. Another year older. What have changed? Definitely a lot. This is probably the first time that I will celebrate my birthday away from home. I don’t even know if celebrate is a proper word because I will spend this birthday alone.

Then suddenly, in the stillness of the night, thoughts reverberate…

Kalilangan Festival 2010

Festivities abound in the Islands Philippines, from Luzon to Visayas to Mindanao. I am a frequent spectator of Luzon's Panagbenga Festival having observed the parades in the last two years. This year however, my lakwatsero brothers Dong Ho, Scud and Jon decided to do a Davao City-General Santos trip. And in this trip, we were fortunate enough to witness the Kadsagayan Street Dancing in General Santos' Kalilangan Festival.

A Weekend of Everything That Flies (2 of 2)

Part 2 of this series take-off at dusk when light and dark meet. Paragliders from different part of the world perform areal acrobatics on Mount Arayat backdrop. And as if your eyes ain't entertained enough, the street dancers of Candaba Pampanga lighted the ground with a performance lifted from their recent Ibon-Ebon Festival. It was truly a visual treat for everyone as the colors blend in with the fading light.

A Weekend of Everything That Flies (1 of 2)

There is something in the air that day... and I don't mean those cheesy stuff of emotional rides and anticipations. But... literally, there is something, err, a lot of things in the air that day.

Up, Up and Away!!!

This is just a teaser...

... airplane and helicopter exhibitions, ultra lights, paragliders, skydivers, RC planes, kites and anything you could throw up in the air...

Let The Flowers Bloom - Panagbenga 2010

Other than being a love month, February ushers in one of my favorite Philippine festivities - the Panagbenga Flower Festival in Baguio. Now on its 15th year and amply themed "Celebrating 15 Years of Festival Excellence", this year's festivity promises to be bigger and grander as it aims to solicit more cheers from the crowd.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving gifts are all the buzzwords in a Christmas setting. Make your Christmas a one to cherish for years!

Panagbenga 2009 : Just Walk On By

With all its allusions to colors, costumes and flowers collectively congested in one beautiful presentation for everyone to see - participants of the Panagbenga Festival really deserve all the praises they can get for their well deserved performances.

Panagbenga 2009 : Flower Floats

There were twenty-three entries that particiapted in this year's Float Parade. Some of them, including my favorites, were already featured in my previous posts. And to wind-up with the Panagbenga Float Parade, here are eight more eye-catching entries of floats substantially made from flowers:

Purefoods Float : Kids Can Tell