Holy Week in the Philippines on Apr 7, 2012 in Philippines Easter Sunday Black Saturday Good Friday Holy Week Palm Sunday Holy Week is a significant religious festival in the Philippines. In this predominantly Roman Catholic country, Holy Week is known as both Semana Santa (the Spanish translation of the religious festival itself) or Mahal na Araw. Here, in Ilo...
Black Saturday declared as a Special Non-Working Day on Apr 2, 2012 in Black Saturday Philippine Holidays Holidays Black Saturday on April 7, was declared as a Special Non-Working Day throughout the country under Proclamation No. 360 by the Malacañang Palace and was released to the media on Monday. President Aquino signed the proclamation last March 29 whic...
It's More Fun in the PHL - Domestic Jingle on Mar 29, 2012 in Philippines Domestic Jingle It's More Fun in the Philippines Domestic Jingle Today (Thursday) the Department of Tourism (DOT) just released the domestic jingle for the agency's “It’s More Fun in the Philippines” campaign via the video-sharing site YouTube. The jingle was trending on Youtube and had been com...
Gali-la Hundred Islands Festival 2012 - Alaminos City, Pangasinan on Mar 15, 2012 in Gali-la Hundred Islands Festival 2012 Alaminos Pangasinan Festivals It is indeed Philippines dubbed as the Festival Country in the World where wide varieties of festivals scattered all throughout the country. Today marks the opening for the Gali-la Hundred Islands Festival 2012 in Alaminos City, Pangasinan with...
Strawberry Festival 2012 - La Trinidad, Benguet on Mar 13, 2012 in strawberry festival 2012 strawberries Benguet Festivals Strawberry Festival 2012 Trinidad, Benguet, Philippines With just a week to spare, the Strawberry Festival 2012 will be at it's highlight with all the activities line up from March 18-April 14, 2012, a month long celebration. Spectators are...
Baggak Summer Festival 2012 on Mar 12, 2012 in Baggak Summer Festival La Union Global Balik-Bauang Homecoming 2012 Bauang Festivals Bauang, La Union will be celebrating it's Baggak Summer Festival 2012 and Global Balik-Bauang Homecoming on April 20-28, 2012. A week-long celebration of fun, colorful street dancing, beauty pageant and many more surprising activities that both local...
Bangus Festival 2012 on Mar 6, 2012 in Dagupan City Festivals Bangus Festival 2012 Bangus Festival 2012 Dagupan City, Philippines The Bangus Festival in Dagupan City, Philippines one of the most notable and colorful festivals in the Philippines, being the Bangus Capital of the World, once again welcome its spectators, balikba...
162nd Foundation Anniversary of Province of La Union on Feb 28, 2012 in La Union The Coastal Province of La Union will be celebrating it's 162nd Foundation Anniversary on March 2, 2012. And in line with this, there are a lot of activities to showcase the province. One of the highlights are the annual Grand Electric Float Parad...
Ash Wednesday 2012 on Feb 22, 2012As we Catholic wear ashes today marks the first day, or the start of the season of Lent, which begins 40 days prior to Easter. Lent is a time when many Christians prepare for Easter by observing a period of fasting, repentance, moderation & sp...
Busy Life + Traveling = Happiness on Feb 15, 2012I know I haven't been blogging recently - fortunately it's due to being ridiculously busy - in an Exchange and Study Visit program and as well training on Philippine Digital Literacy for Women Campaign (PDLWC). Yepper, anyways, I missed my blog so...
