Flow: Surf Yoga Samba Grand Anniversary Retreat at the San Juan Surf Resort, La Union

Wazzup Pilipinas!

"While you're young, you should travel. You should take the time to see the world and taste the fullness of life. Spend an afternoon sitting in front of the Michelangelo. Walk the streets of Paris. Climb Kilimanjaro. Hike the Appalachian trail. See the Great Wall of China. Get your heart broken by the "killing fields" of Cambodia. Swim through the Great Barrier Reef. These are the moments that define the rest of your life; they're the experiences that stick with you forever....This is the time for small paychecks and big memories. This is the time for travel." - Travel While You're Young

You really need to take advantage of your youth and spend it with all the zest and enthusiasm possible. Always grab the opportunities to travel and experience the world at a time when you will appreciate it the most. Life offers no "fountain of youth" so make the most of everyday as if it was the last, though spend it wisely and fruitfully to avoid feeling shortchanged or regretful.

We have such a huge world to explore! Let us not waste our time with the superficial and become one with the universe!

To mark their 4th year creating unique boutique weekend retreats, the Flow:SurfYogaSamba is having another grand anniversary retreat at the San Juan Surf Resort, La Union on November 1-3, 2013 long weekend holiday! This is your chance to reunite yourself intimately with the wonders of an adventure!

Devina DeDiva Racist Comments Against Miss World Megan Young of the Philippines

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"A Facebook comment supposedly calling Miss World 2013 Megan Young and Filipinos "poor, filthy maids" triggered online outrage on Tuesday, as screenshots of the alleged post made the rounds on social networking sites.

"Miss Philippines is Miss World? What a joke! I did not know those maids have anything else in them," a certain Devina DeDiva was quoted as saying in the viral photos.

Responding to a comment saying Filipino women are "cute, humble and honest," DeDiva said, "They are poor, smelly from cleaning toilets and uneducated."

"They are less privileged everywhere," she added. "What a joke those people cleaning our toilets won Miss World!"

The account went on to call Filipino girls "easy," as she challenged commenters to air their "baseless opinions."

Placebo Paintings at Galleria Duemila on October 7 to November 2

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“Placebo Paintings” stems from the drawn parallelism about thoughts on the act of painting to the empty placebo drug that produces miraculous effects. Painting, itself, is empty in pragmatic functions, but this too, is its oxymoronic reflex, as its inability to define itself makes it viable for various audience to regard its importance. 

“Placebo Paintings” recognizes the power of the commonly misunderstood medium, or the empty pursuit of painting, to change views, to take an effect on psyches, and for a momentary but reverberating moment, to pinch a nerve in what is our understood humanity that proves to be moving and inspirational.

Working on the medium of painting for the past two decades, the artist-personnel composing “Placebo Paintings” have wrought the meandering extensions and possibilities of the medium, in their own ways. 

Opted strategies have included working on paintings under the microscope of conceptualism. The paintings are done from at least a degree removed stance that necessitates the consideration of the work from the point of view of the artist’s context. The detached aesthetic employed is characterized by wit and humour in its artistic hedonism bordering on the esoteric. The mix is weaved with a preference for the past, opening cracks that romantically filter nostalgic fragments that expand and enrich the hunting grounds of the pursuit.