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As promised, this will be the second part of my Wagayway Festival post, this time I’ll be featuring the “Ladies of the Flag”, each of the lovely ladies will represent a symbol in our National Flag, the first of which are the three stars representing the 3 island group of our archipelago, namely Luzon, Visayas [...]

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The Wagayway Festival of Imus, Cavite kicked off yesterday with a street parade. Wagayway is a Filipino term meaning wave, obviously because it’ll be the National Flag Day on May 28th. It was May 28, 1898 when the Philippine Flag was first waved by the troops of Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo in a battle [...]

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The roads of the Makati’s Central Business District was congested last Friday 09 May 2008, instead of the PUV’s & other vehicles plying the Ayala Avenue, it was closed to traffic to give way to the opening salvo of Makati’s 338th Founding Anniversary Grand Parade.
Higantes (Giant paper mache), Marching Bands, Street Dancers, Floats & Delegation [...]

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It was raining cats & dogs last Friday, which, made me contemplate on covering the Aliwan Fiesta.
But Saturday came & the sun was high up in the sky & it was hot, I went on with my plan of covering the event. It was noon when I arrived at the Quirino Grandstand, the event’s [...]

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I’ve been wanting to witness this event since 2005, the re-enactment of of Christ’s crucifixion which is happening every Good Friday in [...]

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I went to Clark Free Port Zone in Pampanga yesterday to witness the 12th Philippine Hot Air Balloon Fiesta.

It was my first time to go there, in fact, I don’t know how to go there. What I did was I left Cavite around 8PM went to 3 different bus terminals to check which bus [...]

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I’m all set for my first Hot Air Balloon Festival Shoot, I got my ticket, the close range shooting pass & the free Epson cap, the access pass entitles me to come as close as possible to the balloons & a free print (for the contest entry) on the Epson booth.
The festival opened this & [...]

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I got my free ticket for the 12th Philippine International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta from OneWorkshop, Inc. yesterday. Only 20 tickets were given to PiPho forum members & I believe the same number was provided for I-Mag forumers.

The event will happen on Feb 7-10, 2008 at Clark Field in Pampanga. My close range access [...]

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It’s my second time to visit the province of Bulacan, first time in the Municipality of Pulilan. My first visit in Bulacan happened 20 years ago, we visited the (then) Bulacan College of Arts & Trade (now Bulacan State University) in Malolos, Bulacan.
I returned to this culture rich province through the invitation of my [...]

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Every 2nd Sunday ng May ay ginaganap ang fiesta sa aking lupang sinilangan, ang Bacoor. Since 3 ang simbahan dito, i.e. Katoliko, Agalipay at isa pang Aglipay (break away faction), meaning 3 din ang hermanas, kaya naman pinaghahandan itong mabuti, isa sa mga highlight ng fiesta dito ay ang parada ng musiko.

Taon-taon ay pumaparada [...]

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