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Inside Malacanang – before Noy came in
by Eli F.J. Tajanlangit I was in Malacanang in the dying hours of the Gloria Macapagal Arroyo administration. The atmosphere reminded me of Christmas time in school – you know, the last day before we all go on vacation, when the party is over, the food partaken and the gifts already opened and we linger, waiting for nothing in particular. I spent an hour or two in the Guest House, where President Noy now holds office. Some of the yellow ladies were already there, looking at which paintings will go where, mentally rearranging the furniture, I suppose, talking in hushed tones. There ...
Luna is lost!
This apricot-colored toy poodle called Luna was lost last week from the Buaron house in City Heights Subd., Taculing, Bacolod. Luna is male and has a cut in the right side of his tongue. If you find him, please call Maribel at 09095479552 or Mae at 433-0250
Curtain Call: Yellow Fellows, All
By Millie L. Kilayko We started the website www.negrosfornoy-mar.com as we began to kick-off our campaign for Noy and Mar. The site became available online for the world to see just after we finished up our celebration of Noynoy’s birthday on February 8 and opened up the Heroes’ Headquarters - Negros Occidental’s first Noy-Mar Volunteer Center. Today, after finishing up our celebration of Mar’s May 13 birthday, we prepare this website to say good-bye. Good night, actually, because we will still be online until February next year so you may continue to view our Noy-Mar campaign history, but it ...
Suddenly, Albee
[caption id="attachment_39" align="alignleft" width="256" caption="Alejandro Yap Kinya"][/caption] Nobody knows exactly when it started , but the buzz turned up last year, reverberating in a provincial political landscape littered with tired old names, pretenders and wannabes . There's this successful and intelligent young man who is joining Negros politics and he is armed with more than just charm and resources. Initially thought to be just another high-flying brat awash with cash, Albee Bantug Benitez, in fact, is mounting the ring with every right of an accomplished businessman: he is chair and president of one of the country's top 150 corporations with ...
Big Little Schools
These new-generation pre-schools are preparing our children to face an ever-changing world with new tools and new approaches By MILLIE L KILAYKO Once upon a time, it was a mother’s major accomplishment to have her little child memorize the ABC song before entering Grade 1. Mothers of the baby boomer generation took pride in having their kids sing the ABC song first before the papas, then the lolas, all the way to the titos and titas. Then, Kinder and Prep School came, and children truly became better prepared for higher learning. A few years later, Pre-Nursery and Nursery schools which specialized in ...
Off to the mountain and the sea
[caption id="attachment_280" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="Taking Advantage of the pool"][/caption] It is not often that we get to explore the other side of the island with the majority of our fellow Tourism Officers and officemates, so we exerted extra effort to ensure we enjoyed the trip. It was, after all, a mix of business and pleasure. We left Bacolod City at around 8:45 a.m. enroute to the newly-declared Summer Capital of Negros Occidental, Don Salvador Benedicto. Board Member Nene de la Cruz and his family were waiting for us at the Stone House and treated us to a sumptuous breakfast of ...
Summer Getaway Places
By Karen R. Dinsay Summer is here. It’s time to pack our bags and experience the lush mountain resorts and beautiful beaches that Negros Occidental offers. Come, let’s explore the spectacular attractions of the province. [caption id="attachment_267" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="Dipping pool, Mambukal Resort"][/caption] If you are the nature-adventure type, an overnight stay at Mambukal Resort is a must. Mambukal Resort is 31 kilometers east of Bacolod. It surrounded by therapeutic sulfur springs, leisure trails leading to three waterfalls, mountain streams, lush valleys and hiking trails leading up to Mount Kanlaon. The resort has accommodation facilities, ...
Blessed and Bountiful Negros
By CHARLIE COJUANGCO I’ve been to many parts of the Philippines and the world, and if there is one realization I’ve had in all of these travels, it is this: There’s no place like home. It may sound trite or cliché, but it is true. There is no place like Negros. Always, in foreign lands, I cannot help but thank God at how blessed and bountiful Negros is. by Charlie Cojuangco [caption id="attachment_531" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Sunset in Pontevedra"][/caption] People ohh and ahh over the famous Manila Bay sunset but they haven't seen the one in Pontevedra, my hometown. I've been watching that ...
Charlie’s art gallery opens in Makati
Manila’s glitterati turned out in full force last week for what has been dubbed “The First Hanging” of selected works from the collection of Charlie Cojuangco. “This is the who’s who of Manila’s art and social scene ,” a gallery owner gushed at the crowd that came to the show at Warehouse 10 A La Fuerza Compound at Pasong Tamo Extension in Makati. Artists, art collectors, family and friends of Cojuangco attended the cocktails. The COC Collection First Hanging was the launch of the NOVA art gallery which will hold regular art shows. Among the art works featured ...
Bacolod, my home
by Pinky Concha Colmenares Going home still means going to Bacolod, the city of my birth and the home of my youth. Despite having a fully functional home in Metro Manila for decades, where memories of my three adult children have been cultured, "home" to me is 50 minutes away by plane. Recently, as my long drives delightfully discovered, it is 22 hours by the Strong Republic Nautical Highway connected by "moving bridges" which to the cargo handlers simply means, the RORO or roll-on-roll-off ferry. [caption id="attachment_297" align="alignright" width="256" caption="San Sebastian Cathedral"][/caption] I left Bacolod in 1981, when my second child, Jaclyn Anne, ...
Wild Wild West in the South
[caption id="attachment_290" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="Cowboys with Indian Chief."][/caption] While others flocked to the public plaza on the night before the Sinulog Festival, my friends and our families traveled two hours from Bacolod to spend a night at the place called “Apache Gamefarm” located in the outskirts of the City of Kabankalan. Apache Gamefarm is a two-hectare farm in Barangay Orong surrounded by big mahogany trees and sugarcane fields planted in a gently sloping terrain, about five kilometers from the city proper. It is owned and managed by Brgy. Captain Jo-an Albayda and his sister, Babette Alcala. The day was turning to dusk when ...
Summer Getaway Places
By Karen R. Dinsay Summer is here. It’s time to pack our bags and experience the lush mountain resorts and beautiful beaches that Negros Occidental offers. Come, let’s explore the spectacular attractions of the province. [caption id="attachment_267" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="Dipping pool, Mambukal Resort"][/caption] If you are the nature-adventure type, an overnight stay at Mambukal Resort is a must. Mambukal Resort is 31 kilometers east of Bacolod. It surrounded by therapeutic sulfur springs, leisure trails leading to three waterfalls, mountain streams, lush valleys and hiking trails leading up to Mount Kanlaon. The resort has accommodation facilities, swimming and therapeutic warm dipping pools, picnic ...
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Inside Malacanang – before Noy came in
by Eli F.J. Tajanlangit
I was in Malacanang in the dying hours of the Gloria Macapagal Arroyo administration. The...
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Luna is lost!
This apricot-colored toy poodle called Luna was lost last week from the Buaron house in City Heights Subd., Taculing,...
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Curtain Call: Yellow Fellows, All
By Millie L. Kilayko
We started the website www.negrosfornoy-mar.com as we began to kick-off our campaign for Noy...
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Suddenly, Albee
Alejandro Yap Kinya
Nobody knows exactly when it started , but the buzz turned up last year, reverberating...
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Big Little Schools
These new-generation pre-schools are preparing our children to face an ever-changing world with new tools and...
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Food
In love with Takway
If there’s a native dish that is sorely underrated, it must be adobong takway, that slimy but fiber-rich plebian...
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Blessed and Bountiful Negros
By CHARLIE COJUANGCO
I’ve been to many parts of the Philippines and the world, and if there is one realization...
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A truly Bacolod beer
Bogsbrew
The enterprising architect Bugoy fulfills a long-held dream – and produces Bacolod’s first truly-local...
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Places
Blessed and Bountiful Negros
By CHARLIE COJUANGCO
I’ve been to many parts of the Philippines and the world, and if there is one realization...
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Bacolod, my home
by Pinky Concha Colmenares
Going home still means going to Bacolod, the city of my birth and the home of my youth....
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Wild Wild West in the South
Cowboys with Indian Chief.
While others flocked to the public plaza on the night before the Sinulog Festival, my...
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Travel
My Romanian Rhapsody: Visiting the land of Dracula
By Natalie Lacson
Town Square in Brasov, Transylvania
Mention Romania and people immediately think of Dracula...
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Budapest, “Queen of the Danube”
by Natalie Lacson
Cantral Market
As our plane descended, I caught a sight of a city clustered around a sweeping...
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HongKong Holiday
From the land of tricycles, pedicabs and jeepneys, I went to Hong Kong, land of the red cabs, the double bus, cable...
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Places
Bacolod, my home
by Pinky Concha Colmenares
Going home still means going to Bacolod, the city of my birth and the home of my youth....
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Summer Getaway Places
By Karen R. Dinsay
Summer is here. It’s time to pack our bags and experience the lush mountain resorts and...
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Piyaya et Piyayitos
You bite into these small, slightly sweet flat orbs and you get a mouthful of my province’s past, present and future. Actually biscuits made from unleavened flour, they are the dainty, downsized but no less delicious version of The Piaya, the famous pastry of Negros Occidental. My province is known as the...
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Bangkok High
Before Bangkok stirs back to life in the early mornings, old men balancing baskets on their backs hawk boiled...
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Keepers of a Family Legacy
The grandchildren of Raul and Imelda Tanpinco are on the cusp of change. Now pursuing their passions and professions...
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Finger tacos and other Bago tales
Finger Tacos
The recent St. John the Baptist feast in Bago brought me back to the town-city I have truly grown...
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Some unpleasant foodie memories
It happens even to the best. Over the years, I’ve had plenty of experiences with our restaurants, mostly...
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Fried salted eggs
Fried Salted Eggs
Just found another way of eating salted eggs. Eat it fried. Just buy the eggs fresh from...
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