Bantayan Festival - The Continuation

I would like to share pictures and videos of Bantayan Festival. Hope you'll like 'em!
One of the tribe: Tribu CAMAGONG
Short copy of the presentation of a tribe




Fireworks Display

The Great Event - Bantayan Festival

The great event, March 25-29, 2008 Bantayan Festival, Guimbal, Iloilo. I have shared some thoughts about the 6th BANTAYAN Festival in my previous post. I went home to my proud town, Guimbal to experience the great Bantayan Festival.

Together with my friends, we strolled around the beautiful plaza of Guimbal and enjoyed the shows every evening. There are many shows and events shared by the Guimbalanons which we enjoyed with the talented and good people from Guimbal.




San Nicholas de Tolentino Church

Our proud Guimbal Plaza & Municipal Hall


Eating time! I also enjoyed the food in the Food Fest.. My favorite part of the Bantayan Festival.. Food, food, food.. hmmhmm.. Yummy..!



With the big help and courage of the Mayor of the Town, Ting2x; and the founder of Bantayan Festival, Honorable Richard Garin and his humble family; together with the town officials, the event was a success!

Valentina Hasan-Improved Ken Lee

Here goes Valentina Hasan after she performed in Bulgarian idol. At least she tried to improve her English.

She became popular and accepts many interviews and guesting in some talk shows. Some also liked her English and sing the song Without You using her version. People loved it.



She has her new English version for the song I'll always love you by Whitney Houston.. COMING up..

Upcoming--Bantayan Festival of Guimbal 2008

After a long week holiday for the observation of Jesus Christ's death, here comes the celebration for the 6th BANTAYAN FESTIVAL.

GUIMBAL (gim-bal) - a kind of drum usually 30 cm high and 20 cm in diameter, made from hollowed-out trunk of a palm tree and covered of either goat or deer skin.

This festival will surely be a big tourist attraction for the five-day activities slated to be held starting today, March 25, 2008.

The festival's name "Bantayan" means watchtower. Historical facts tell us that the bantayans were built even before Spain's colonization of the Philippines. The Guimbalanon's peaceful existence was then constantly under attack by the Moro pirates.

But after the great naval battle that ensued in 1796 along the shorelines of the town, the people had to build five bantayans made of bamboo to watch the coast of Guimbal from possible marauders. The watchmen posted at the bantayans used drums then to alarm the people of the coming Moro vintas. To date, only three of these bantayans survived and lately were restored through a funding coming from First District Congressman Oscar Garin, Sr.

The tribal dance-drama to be done with the rhythm of the drums is similar to that of Western Visayas reknown Dinagyang festival, Ati-atihan, and Sinadya sa Halaran which are anchored on the history, customs and religious beliefs of the place.

So let's come to Guimbal and enjoy the beauty of the place and also of the said festival.

Untraceable -- Kill With Me

A film directed by Gregory Hoblit

Within the FBI, there exists a division dedicated to investigating and prosecuting criminals on the internet. Welcome to the front lines of the war on cybercrime, where Special Agent Jennifer Marsh (Diane Lane) has seen it all... until now.

A tech-savvy internet predator is displaying his graphic murders on his own website killwithme.com – and the fate of each of his tormented captives is left in the hands of the public: the more hits his site gets, the faster his victims die. When this game of cat and mouse becomes personal, Marsh and her team must race against the clock to track down this technical mastermind who is virtually untraceable.

There are different comments about this movie. Comments like:

• This movie is disgusting and should not exist.
• This movie is bad on many levels. the script is horrible. the acting is bad. the torture is boring. if this movie wanted to make a statement it should have something going for it. And Chad how dare you compare this with Sunset Boulevard which has amazing acting and dialogue. two things this movie lacks. torture porn is going away, because there is no substance beyond the torture. this movie has no substance and no torture. it was boring. i thought it was going to be funny because of misused tech lingo. it actually did a good job on that just nothing else.
• I thought the movie was way better than I thought it was going to be. I think the movie is really interesting to watch and it really goes at a good pace. The movie gets an 8 out of 10 because it was actually worth the $9.50 unlike some movies that are just better to wait for on DVD.

metacritic.com

So, how do you see this movie?

Ken Lee Tulibudibudaochoo - Without You (Mariah Carey)

My officemate presented this to me. And I can't help laughing about it.
A lady who's very confident created a Bulgarian Version of Mariah Carey's Without You
Watch this video, you'll probably enjoy it!

Ken Lee

No one ken to ken to sivmen
nor yon clees toju maliveh
When I gez aju zavateh na nalechoo more
new yonooz tonigh molinigh
Yon sorra shooo
yes ee shooo, ooo
Ken leeeee
tulibu dibu douchoo
Ken leeeee
tulibu dibu douchoo
Ken leeeee
ken lee meju more

LOLz!!! :)

Never ending Love Story - Interpretation is in Need

A friend of mine asked me a question that really bothered me. I will share a part of our discussion:

******** some discussion missing******* he he he

do you, Monalyn Galera Take as As your boyfriend tell our hair turs grey?

Can somebody please analyze and interpret the sentence above? I kept on asking the experts, these are their answers:


JC: ikaw monalyn gelera..kuhaon mo nga boyfriend kg sugiran ta ang buhok ta nga turs grey


mawe: ikaw, Monalyn Gelera, gnakuha mo bala si As nga imo boyfriend, hambalon ta aton buhok "Turs Gray!"

Bb. Pilipinas World 2008 - Ms. Janina San Miguel

Janina San Miguel

Age: 17 years old

Mass Communications student at University of the East

Why did you join?

“To gain a lot of experiences, new friends and opportunities” “Bata pa talaga ako, dream ko na ito talaga. Nakikita ko sa TV and I think it’s a nice experience. I knew then that I would try it.”


What makes you stand out from the rest?

“My confidence and my personality, even if this is my first time in a big pageant. I was first runner-up in Miss UE.”


She received the awards for Best Swimsuit and Best in Long Gown. She was doing great the entire competition, until the interview came.




her answer:

Well, my family’s role for me is so important becoz there was the wa- they’re, they was the one who’s …. very… Haha .… Oh I’m so sorry, uhmm …. My pamily .… My family .… Oh my god ….I'm.. Ok, I’m so sorry.… I .… I told you that I’m so confident .… Eto, uhhmm, Wait .… Hahahahaha, uhmmm, Sorry guys becoz this was really my first pageant ever becoz I’m only 17 years old and ahahaha I, I did not expect.. that I came from, I came from one of the tough 10. Hmmm, so .… but I said.. that.. my family, es the most important persons in my life. Thank you.

Skin Care Applied

Do you take good care of your skin? Our skin is prone to dirt, virus, and bacteria. We took a bath everyday to keep it clean and to avoid from irritation and skin diseases.

Taking a bath is a way to keep our skin fresh and clean, but this could result dry skin. Some of us apply lotion to moisturize their skin and t avoid roughness of skin. Why is nourishing the skin very important? It is, because our skin can show how beautiful and clean we are.

What if we do not have enough money o buy moisturizers such as lotions, sanitizers, and moisturizers? Well another way to nourish your skin is to drink plenty of water. Water assists the body with it’s natural elimination process by flushing unwanted toxins out.

Wherever, whenever, we must have water with us. Drink plenty of water to have moisturized skin and be healthy!