Last month we were invited by some friends to eat “bulalo” in Lucky Plaza, the mecca of Filipino overseas workers here in Singapore. During weekends Filipinos, mostly domestic workers, congregate around the area. We shared stories about our diversions. I told them I enjoy biking around the 4 kilometer shoreline of the Bedok Reservoir especially […]
Category: Cebu
Nothing could be more dispiriting to a heritage advocate than seeing centuries old churches turned into piles of rubble. I don’t know what to make out of this cataclysmal tremor. Maybe I was so used to seeing people dismantle historic religious structures that I never thought that God could take them away too. Internet has […]
Last year when I visited my last surviving lola we spoke a lot about her memories growing up. She’s the youngest of more than a dozen siblings. I was reminded of her and our conversation when a few weeks ago, an Australian man I’m training with told me about his experience and facsination with “arnis”. […]
Those of us educated in the old manner keep a very pond memory of the town church. This church symbolized our home, our small country, and recalled our childhood. Members of all social classes founded these temples and mansions, “stone by stone and story by story”, to serve as the religious and social center of […]
My mother’s long time friend and trusted cabulig [she prefers this term over katulong] in her small food stall asked me how my Cebu experience was. I told her it was awesome. I haven’t visited the stall ever since I left for Cebu in ’09. Nida’s from El Pardo, once a small coastal old Barrio of […]
I’ve been around the country and I’ve yet to see a municipio or a city hall without a Rizal monument. Is there a law instructing all local government to have one? I’ve seen some odd ones, some really old ones (early 1900’s), some neglected and some that doesn’t even look like the hero – but […]
One of the image that stuck in my mind during my trip in the southern portion of Cebu was this small but unique church that stand out among its natural surrounding. The church of San Francisco de Asís of Naga is a wonderful discovery in what seems to be an endless treat to the eyes and […]
The best thing about Cebu is that you will never run out of places to go and things to experience. Its such a great place to live in . While I was there I worked during the weekdays and spent my weekends going around. If things work out for me I’ll probably retire there someday […]
Mt. Kanlaon (Canlaon, Kan-laon) with a strange cloud formation hanging on top of it. I took this photo at the port of Toledo just before the sun rose. It was a perfect day and we were headed back to Negros. Tañon strait was so calm that one could mistake it as a lake at that […]
Almost three hours of traveling – from Dumaguete to San Carlos. We rested at the San Carlos public market where my mother sold vegetables from Canlaon as a child. We then went to Toledo crossing the beautiful strait of Tanon. The journey was fast but very rough. The waves were high and the commuter boat, […]
A friends post reminded me that Cinco de Abril was the feast of San Vicente Ferrer. We honor his memory with naming many towns after him, the exuberant fête during his feast day, but who is this so called “ángel del Apocalipsis” . I started reading about him when I read an article about a […]
While I was in Cebu, I submitted an entry for a photo contest, using my now defunct point and shoot sony digicam! There were a lot of people that joined, as it is the case here in Manila, there are many photography enthusiast in Cebu. My concept was promoting the province not through the eyes […]
I was browsing pictures of the trips I had in Visayas and just realize that I have a terrible back (b)log! there are a lotta places that I haven’t posted here. So I would be trying to put some of them here together with the most recent trips (Luzon). Though I don’t consider the site […]
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