One of the most heartbreaking things for a writer is to lose his or her journals. Typhoon Ondoy managed to get to 5 years worth of my personal journals. Although they were kept safe in a big wooden chest that kept the mud out, the water seeped in anyway, leaving me with a collection of [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Beauty Queen’s Sweet 17 in the Ms Intercontinental Pageant 2009
Posted in Miss Intercontinental, tagged Ms Interncontinental 2009, Miss Afghanistan Zallascht Sadat, MS BAHAMAS Dashanique Poitier, Miss Brazil Camilla Brant, Ms Colombia Veronica Velasquez, Ms Czech Republic Zina Stovickova, Ms England Laura Gallagher, Ms Honduras Leslie Kristoff, Ms Hungary Claudia Dedei Aryee, Ms Martinique Andy Govindin, Ms Panama Yanni Penaloza, Ms Philippines Jacqueline Schubert, Ms Poland Anna Tarnowska, Ms Russia Anna Mezentseva, Ms Slovak Republic Lea Sindlerova, Ms Thailand Charlene Sathiraboot, Ms Venezuela Hannelly Quintero on September 24, 2009 | 6 Comments »
NOTE: HANNELLY QUINTERO OF VENEZUELA WINS THE MS INTERCONTINENTAL 2009 TITLE! CLICK HERE FOR THE LIST OF WINNERS… How I envy Hector Joaquin who is in Minsk, Belarus covering the Ms Intercontinental Pageant 2009. But he is most deserving: Hector runs one of the top beauty pageant blogs which covers all the big beauty pageants [...]
Ilocos Norte Post #11: An Afternoon at the Malacanang of the North
Posted in Media Pillar, Uncategorized, tagged Ilocos Norte, Malacanang of the North on September 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wow, so this is where Ferdinand Marcos and Imelda hung out when they were in their home province of Ilocos Norte! The tree-lined driveway could fit about 10 army tanks in a row. Of course it had to be IMPRESSIVE; this was where the Marcoses entertained their hoity-toity guests – they had the Paoay Lake [...]
Ilocos Norte Post #10: Bats in Paoay Church!
Posted in Media Pillar, tagged bats, Ilocos Norte, Media Pillar, Paoay Church, St. Augustine on September 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Don’t ask whose rear end is walking toward Paoay Church, the oldest church in the region of Ilocos. We only had 15 minutes to spare in our tight schedule so I high-tailed it into the church after taking a few shots of the exterior, which I was told, is the original facade. The inside, on [...]
Ilocos Norte Post #9: So, this is how you make TUPIG!!!
Posted in Media Pillar on September 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Members of the Media Pillar team (which I am the secretary of) placed a collective order of like 200 pcs of TUPIG at this little tupig bakery in Batac, Ilocos Norte. Now, 200 pieces is A LOT because these delightful little banana leaf-covered rice cakes are made one at a time, by hand, and then [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on September 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
My La Bulaquena 2009 Judging Experience!
Posted in Provincial Pageants, tagged Abbygale Rey, Christine Meryil Angeles, La Bulaquena 2009, Laurese Ann Caparas, Ma. Paula Chavez, Mary Christine Balagtas, STI Balagtas on September 16, 2009 | 11 Comments »
One of my co-judges in the La Bulaquena 2009 leaned over and told me: “It looks like you take these beauty pageants seriously!” and I said, “Oh yes, I definitely do! Because I know how it feels like to be on stage high on adrenaline and scared as a rabbit.” It does takes an extreme [...]

