The View from Mt. Maculot: a Pictorial Blog
Mount Maculot in Cuenca, Batangas up close. This was taken after registering with barrio officials. So, it being March and summer being ...Read More
Batangas and its Reputation for Fine Horses
Image source: Allfreedownload.com . Back in 1969, when I was a Grade 5 student at De la Salle in Lipa, the Principal, one Brother Rafael ...Read More
How Batangas’ Towns and Cities Have Grown in Terms of Population Since 1970
Uptown Lipa City. Image source: Google Earth Street View. I am old enough to recall when a trip from inside Fernando Air Base to the Li...Read More
Valerie Celis: Top American “Supermodel” Actually Lipa-Born and Raised
Image source: IMC Magazine. Downloaded from ImageBam.com . The name Valerie Celis will not ring a bell as far as many contemporary Bata...Read More
The Foul-Smelling Buro on Batangueño Tables of Yore
Buro jars at a stall in a public market. Among the most frequently told family dinner stories my late mother loved to tell was this one t...Read More
Can New City Santo Tomas Challenge Batangas’ other Cities in Terms of Competitiveness
Image source: Google Earth Street View. When I first shared on social media an article on how the cities of Batangas fared in the 2018 C...Read More
Bauan, Calaca, Lemery, San Juan and Santo Tomas Batangas’ 2018 Most Competitive Towns
Image source: Google Earth Street View. The municipalities of Bauan, Calaca, Lemery, San Juan and Santo Tomas were adjudged Batangas’ mo...Read More
Tanauan Reclaims Most Competitive City of Batangas Title; Lipa Remains Least Competitive
Image source: Google Earth Street View. Tanauan has wrested back from Batangas City the distinction of being the province’s most competi...Read More
Explaining the Padre Pio Cloud over Lipa on the Visit of the Incorrupt Heart
The strange cloud formation over Lipa. Image source: Jerwin Lasin on Facebook. Just before five in the afternoon the other day, Wednesd...Read More
Junior Muñoz: the Batangueño Philippine Azkal Batangueños Don’t Know About
Batangas' own Junior Munoz being interviewed at the Aboitiz Football Cup. Image source: Aboitiz Football Cup Facebook page. Mainly...Read More
The Daily Batangas-Manila Commuters of Yore
A typical BLTBCo bus in the seventies to nineties. Image source: BLTBCo_1918 on Flickr. Back when I first went away to college in mid-1...Read More
To All Graduates of DLSL… From Your Former Teachers
DLSL teachers during commencement exercises late 70s or early 80s. During a lively conversation with a few of my former colleagues a fe...Read More
First Lomi Festival in Lipa, 2010
Documentation of Lipa City's first ever Lomi Festival in 2010. ---------------------------------------------------------------------...Read More
Chef Sandy Daza Shooting Food Prints at Panciteria de Lipa
Celebrity chef Sandy Daza shooting an episode of ABS-CBN Lifestyle Network's Food Prints at the Panciteria de Lipa. ----------------...Read More
DLSL Alumna Richie Tumambing: Destined to be an Architect despite the Twists of Life that came her way
Image from Richie Tumambing. Sometimes, God just finds ways to nudge you back in the direction you are meant to take. Or so thinks De la...Read More
College Students in Lipa Highlight the Barako Coffee as Food Ingredient
Creamy chicken liberica served with mashed potatoes. The chicken meat was marinated in ground kapeng barako beans while the cream of the ...Read More
Comparative 2017 College Tuition Rates of Schools in Batangas
The other day, I was in a discussion with some friends about the tuition rates of schools in the Lipa City area. Having retired from educa...Read More
Barako Festival: Lipa History on Canvass Unveiled at SM
A painting by Reynaldo Bautista depicting the Calle Real of Lipa during the American Regime. These palatial mansions were razed to the gr...Read More
The Great 1993 DLSL Palarong Pambansa-Winning Girls’ Volleyball Team
The 1993 DLSL-led STRAA team posing in front of quarters. February 1988 in Calapan, Oriental Mindoro. DLSL’s girls’ volleyball players s...Read More
How a Person becomes and Aswang; and How to Spot one in a Crowd According to a 1924 Paper
You will probably struggle to find a Filipino who has never heard of the aswang, as indeed stories about it are standard fare to scare chil...Read More
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