Up In the Air Again at the 21st Philippine International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta

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We flew on a hot air balloon again at the 21st Philippine International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta (PIHABF)!

Thanks to our sponsors like Power Mac Center and Adam elements, who also made a product launch to coincide with the event, we got to return once again to Clark to witness for the nth time the PIHABF and all its glory.

The venue may have changed, but the wonder of seeing numerous colorful hot air balloons, some of different shapes and sizes, that are slowly being inflated until they are fully on their grandest form, is still a sight to behold. This becomes a lot more spectacular so soon as they slowly fly off into the Pampanga sky, and each one joining them until all are out of sight.

Yup! The event is not something to be missed even only as a spectator from afar. The photos up close are exhilarating but it becomes even more amazing if we get to capture the hot air balloons as a group from a distance.

Some would do videos to immortalize the moment - an opportunity to rerun the scenes all over again every time we want to reminisce the majestic flights. We may be witnessing the very last production of the Clark hot air balloon event since there were rumors that it may be the last run. But some are telling us that the contract can be renewed if both parties agree to continue the longest-running weekend of everything that flies.

The Groundbreaking, The Heart-Pounding, The Explosive New Musical: Bomba! (Yes, It's A Musical)

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Artistang Artlets, the Official Theater Guild of the Faculty of Arts and Letters of the University of Santo Tomas, has been in active service to the Thomasian community for the past 36 years. As part of their guild’s thrust to promote theater as an alternative educational tool for the people inside and outside their university, they will be staging their Minor Production for this academic year 2016-2017.

THE GROUNDBREAKING, THE HEART-POUNDING, THE EXPLOSIVE NEW MUSICAL: BOMBA! (YES, IT'S A MUSICAL.) is written by Rani Mae Aberin, Mark Aloysius Mailom, John Michael Peña, and Miko Jan Portes. Choreography by Aira Megan Castro and Music composed by Mark Aloysius Mailom and Shekinah Isles, directed by Dana Marita Imbing and produced by Xiayra Mae Magtibay.

Showing on March 6, 7, and 8, 2017 at 10 AM, 1 PM, 4 PM and 7 PM at the Albertus Magnus Auditorium, Education Bldg., University of Santo Tomas.

Cebu Inmates Stripped Naked by PDEA

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If you can't do the time, don't do the crime, especially when the lawmakers also break the law by inflicting violations to your rights as human beings. It seems this administration has a penchant to do several crimes against humanity.

The Commission on Human Rights should conduct an investigation regarding what happened at the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center.

Several photos have been shown having inmates stripped naked, and all of them at once., by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA).

The UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners states that "intrusive searches, including strip and body cavity searches, should be undertaken only if absolutely necessary." These prisoners could have just been subjected to a thorough search (frisking, if you may call it), instead of degrading them by dressing them down like animals waiting to be slaughtered.

But once you share the photos all over social media, that may be seen as an act of public shaming.

The mandate of the CHR is to investigate potential human rights abuses of LAW ENFORCEMENT and GOVERNMENT AGENCIES against civilians, suspects, prisoners, etc. They have a great of work under the current administration who knows nothing but to abuse the rights of the people.

Everyone was not given a choice and stripping down was mandatory. This is a clear violation of human rights. They are inmates of which many are not yet convicted criminals. They are still entitled to rights just like you.