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Ilocos Norte Post #12: Caught with POT!

Posted in Media Pillar, My Stories, Uncategorized, tagged , , , on October 18, 2009 | 5 Comments »

My Dad, the Colonel, always had a strange sense of humor that often left me glaring or agape. Many years ago, when we were sharing a Malate apartment, he once stumbled upon me in our living room while I was holding a potted plant. I haven’t the vaguest why I had the thing in my hand [...]

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Ilocos Norte Post #11: An Afternoon at the Malacanang of the North

Posted in Media Pillar, Uncategorized, tagged , 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 [...]

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Ilocos Norte Post #10: Bats in Paoay Church!

Posted in Media Pillar, tagged , , , , 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 [...]

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ILOCOS NORTE Post #5: Garlic, Empanada, Tinubong and CORNIX!!!

Posted in Media Pillar, tagged , , , , , , , on September 10, 2009 | 10 Comments »

I once asked “celebrated-man-about-town” Apa Ongpin which garlic was better – the larger-than-golf-balls Taiwan garlic or the dainty braided Ilocos variety. Hands-down, he said, the Ilocos garlic was superior because of it’s clean and strong flavor. He always used it in his baked stuffed Tilapia. From that day on, I made it a point to [...]

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ILOCOS NORTE Post #4: Visiting the Marcos Crypt

Posted in Media Pillar, tagged , , , , , , , on September 9, 2009 | 12 Comments »

I wasn’t really looking forward to seeing my former boss in a glass refrigerator but the Marcos Crypt was the first stop on Media Pillar‘s day-tour around Ilocos Norte. I was a fashion model for Imelda Marcos in the years leading up to her family’s expulsion from the Philippines in 1986 so Ferdinand was sort [...]

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ILOCOS NORTE Post #3: Visiting Solsona Town

Posted in Media Pillar, tagged , , , , , , , , , on September 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »

The Media Pillar group (which I am the Secretary of) was graciously hosted by the Mayor of the Municipality of Solsona – Joseph de Lara. He and his wife opened their home to all 20 of us and prepared a lovely Ilocano spread for us to indulge in. Because it took us about 45 minutes [...]

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Adventures of a Beauty Queen is on VACATION in Ilocos Norte!

Posted in Travelling Tiara, tagged , , , on September 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Well, it’s not really a vacation as I’m here in Laoag to do a workshop on Blogging with a Purpose with some college students at Northwestern University. But it IS a vacation from beauty queen blogging so I won’t have any beauty queen articles up this weekend but I will have my interview with Mutya [...]

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