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by Jane Dacumos on October 23, 2012 Moriones Festival is a truly unique attraction that draws visitors to Boac, Marinduque. Throughout the years, the festival is one of the highlights in Marinduque during the Lenten season where thousands of people here in the country join Marinduqueños as they celebrate this truly exotic festival. » Read More
by Jhaypee Guia on October 23, 2012 One of the happiest and grandest festivals in the country again celebrated in Cebu City, the Sinulog Festival. It is a very famous event held every 3rd week of Sunday in the month of January in honor of Santo Niño, the child Jesus and the patron saint of Cebu. It commemorates the Bisayan people's pagan origin, and their acceptance of Roman Catholicism. » Read More
by Jane Dacumos on October 23, 2012 Passi City, also known as the “Sweet City” of Panay, is one of the wealthy cities in the province of Iloilo that showcase the Ilonggo culture by the revitalization of traditional music, arts, and dances. Pintados de Pasi festival is probably one of the finest and most recognized festivals of the regions of Visayas that was well-developed over the years. » Read More
by Jhaypee Guia on October 23, 2012 Voyadores Festival is one of the most awaited festivals of Bicol, held every 3rd week of September where the feast of Our Lady of Peñafrancia is commemorated. » Read More
by Jane Dacumos on October 23, 2012 Have you seen a world of smiling masks where hundreds of dancers dressed in colorful costumes are dancing in the streets to the beat of the drums? If not, then you should witness Bacolod City’s Masskara Festival for even once in your life. » Read More
by Jhaypee Guia on October 16, 2012 The Las Piñas Boys Choir of Las Piñas City, Philippines, is a boys choir made up of scholarship students at St. Joseph's Academy and performs regularly at the annual International Bamboo Organ Festival and at the Parish of St. Joseph. The choir was founded by a Belgian priest and missionary, the Reverend Father Leo Reinier, CICM, who was an assistant parish priest of St. Joseph's Parish and who believed that the parish’s Bamboo Organ could achieve its full glory if there was a good choir to accompany it. Therefore in September 1969, three months after his arrival in the Parish, Fr. Leo began recruiting young boys between 8 and 12 years from the parochial as well as public schools in Las Piñas. » Read More
by Jane Dacumos on October 5, 2012 Festivals in our country have been part of the lives and tradition of many Filipinos. these are celebrations that mirrored and showcase one’s culture and heritage. Through the years, thousands of festivals are held in different parts of the Philippines each year, every year. One particular festival in the province of Catanduanes is frequented of many visitors coming from nearby towns and gradually from all over the Philippines--the Catandungan Festival, one of the most exciting and colorful festivals in the country. » Read More
by Jhaypee Guia on October 4, 2012 Many people dream of having a lot of money, either for themselves or for the benefit of others. Can one get rich in an instant? Many Filipinos believe that a single lotto ticket can change their lives and their fortunes and be millionaires. It is this dream of an easier, more comfortable life that has made the Lotto a part of the Filipino life and culture. It is the dream of every Filipino to win the million-peso jackpot week in and week out. » Read More
by Jane Dacumos on September 26, 2012 Touted as one of the most beautiful Buddhist temples in the Philippines and referred to as the “Temple of Ten Thousand Buddhas”, Seng Guan Buddhist Temple in Tondo is the center of worship of the Buddhist community in Manila. It is crowned by stupas, a decorative structure which is a characteristic of Buddhist temples, and was built in the Mahayana style of architecture. » Read More
by Jane Dacumos on September 17, 2012 Situated in the rustic town of Nasugbu, Batangas, Caleruega Church or Transfiguration Chapel is one of the landmarks of the province. The church stands perfectly in the midst of luscious greenery and colorful flowers that abound the place. » Read More
