Makalanyog Festival Celebrated at Lipa, Batangas

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Lipa City of Batangas is celebrating for the very first time its "Makalanyog Festival". Makalanyog pays tribute to their St. Sebastian, their patron saint, and to showcase Lipa City's prime agricultural products or crops where the name of the festival was derived namely "mais" (corn), "kape" (coffee and cacao), lanzones, and niyog (coconut)./...thus MaKaLanYog was born!

The "Makalanyog Festival” is the celebration of the Lipeños' way of life, a thanksgiving for the city’s abundant harvest, and the Lipeños' way of promoting the preservation and conservation of the city’s environment.


This year's theme of the newest grand fiesta of the Lipenos is “Patrong San Sebastian, Gabay at Pag-asa sa Patuloy na Kaunlaran” and is being held from January 11 to 20.

The ten day merriment composed of religious activities and night parties is really something to look forward to every year.

Ateneo Blue Repertory Presents Toilet: The Musical

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High school is that point in life that many adults consider to be the epitome of shallow problems – pimples, crushes, and popularity, as well as a vast collection of other hormone-driven dilemmas. This, of course, is just the stuff spoken of in the outside world– in the privacy of one’s own thoughts, however, is where deeper and darker problems are kept secret.

Toilet: The Musical is a story about the inevitable painful experiences one must go through in high school in order to ‘grow up’. Toilet: The Musical forces its audience to ask: Am I doing the right thing? Am I ready? Where do I go from here? Questions that all uncertain adolescents seem to know too well, especially when life seems like it’s being flushed down the drain.

In line with blueREP’s 22nd theme “Magkano Mabuhay?” Toilet: The Musical leads its audience on a journey into the lives of eight seemingly ordinary students, each with a story to share and a secret to disclose within the cold confines of the toilet walls. Toilet: The Musical discourses upon grim territory close to home – suicide, unrequited love, religious disparity, bulimia, sexuality, and fear of what the future holds- yet never forgetting to show the light at the end of the tunnel, and the struggle to remember that there are no real endings, just new beginnings.

AAP Travel Drive Tour Caravan to Banaue: A Journey from Land to the Sky

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AAP Travel is staging its 7th Drive Tour Caravan in Banaue on February 06-09, 2014. With the theme “Banaue (formerly Ifugao) Drive Tour Caravan: A Journey from Land to the Sky”, the caravanning program aims to promote domestic tourism and at the same time serve as a family bonding activity for AAP members and friends. It informs and educates its participants not only on the historical and cultural aspects of the place but on various products and practices.

The Banaue tour will take the AAP convoy to explore one of UNESCO’s world heritage sites. Guest will have an outstanding preview of the beautiful countryside surrounded by mountains and tribal villages. The caravan will visit the Banaue Museum a proud repository of rare photographs and artifacts that includes beads, baskets, pottery, woodcraft and woven materials.

The Viewpoint a perfect spot on top of a plateau for taking pictures of the rice terraces in a much larger and deeper magnitude. Shoppers will definitely enjoy the Banaue Trade Center it offers a wide variety of curio souvenir items that ranges from authentic wood carving, basketry to fabulous wooden bicycles. The caravan with not be complete without the tour of magnificent terraces such as Hapao, Hiwang and Banga-an and Tam-an Village.