Cebu

The Dinagyang Festival is a religious and cultural celebration in Iloilo City held on the fourth Sunday of January, or right after the Sinulog In Cebu and the Ati-Atihan in Aklan. It is held both to honor the Santo Niño and to celebrate the arrival on Panay of Malay settlers and the subsequent selling of the island to them by the Atis.

gianvinz said Hi treysdad, need your help ...

Hi treysdad, need your help and clarification lang po regarding family visit visa. Today i've got the family visa visa for my 5yrs old son. ano po ba ang dapat gagawin noon sa pinas? I will have to send it to Qatar Embassy in Manila with his original passport right? Also ano pa po ba ang mga requirements when travelling to Doha. He will be with my wife who has got RP already in here under my sponsorship. Does affividavit of support needed? Letter from DSWD or dept of tourism??? please paki advice naman po yung requirements kasi i dont want them to have problems pag nasa airport na sila. They will flying from CEB-DOH.

I just had to post this...from an editorial

THE kids watched as I tightened a shoe lace along one of Cagayan de Oro city’s poorer but remarkably clean-swept barangays. A tutorial on urban sociology was the last thing I expected.

“My mother is in prison,” volunteered Clara, 7. Why? “Shabu,” she said matter-of-factly. Paula, 6, claims a neighbor rival tipped off the cops. “Her mother burned all the shabu before the police arrived.”

Will you visit her in the Davao jail? “We have no money. But my lolo has been released.” He’d also been in the clink for drugs. “He often beats us though,” Clara gripes.

They proudly point to “our school.” Paula likes to color. “But I have no Crayolas.” Clara’s schoolbag has a book and a pencil. Nothing else.

‘Dear God, why do you punish your people with useless leaders?’ - Lito Banayo (Malaya)

Those of us who had the good fortune to be spared from the life-and-death crisis that was the killer-weekend Typhoon Ondoy brought about, and whose only annoyance was being caught up in endless traffic, or having had to suffer the inconveniences of flooded streets and brownouts, will do well to ponder at the travails of our fellows --- friends, relatives, as well as simple kapwa-tao.