We’re On Ellentube!

Ellen DeGeneres and Warner Bros.’ Ellen on Thursday launched a new digital video destination, Ellentube. Announcing the new site on her show, DeGeneres said: “I am so excited to tell you about this. It’s a new thing called ellentube, and it’s a place that you can find videos that are hilarious and interesting. We’re going…

Guinarona: A Culture Renaissance

Culture is simply the environment we live in. It includes our mores, livelihoods, traditions, stories. You nurture and enhance culture, and you ensure peace and prosperity. With that said, we are going out on a limb to focus on A Culture Renaissance for Guinarona, and would like to enlist your support. There are three components…

Father and Son

Peter Ignacio is the father of a boy, now entering high school. He himself did not reach secondary school, having to quit it to help his parents till their farm. Peter married late, in his 40’s, to Criselda, a comely lass from the neighboring barrio. They only had a son, Ricardo, 13 and in the…

Poetic Justice and Philippine Politics

By Benjamin Maynigo In the 2010 Presidential elections, I endorsed Noynoy Aquino for President. I also wrote: “Mar Roxas must be elected as Vice President to work with Noynoy. To institute the educational, environmental, economic, electoral, military/police, judicial, civil service, social and constitutional reforms needed, it would take more than six years; in fact, a…

A Special Page

Quaint, yet elegant and majestic.  That’s the Guinarona Fiesta for you, May 16-17. Since its inception as a separate and independent parish, Guinarona in the Philippines, has established a yearly tableau of the icons on parade.  The icons are from the barrios that compose the parish, whose inhabitants are more than eager to participate in…

On the New San Pascual

STATUS REPORT, the new San Pascual Baylon de Guinarona. In the same manner that there are changes to the altar of the Guinarona SPB Parish Church (it is being razed to give way to a new and modern one), our new San Pascual image is now standing and its hands free of any accoutrements. The…