And
we’re off! Negros Season of Culture takes you on a tour. This March, www.negrosseasonofculture.com launches
a series of virtual tours spread throughout 2022. We begin with food. In Bacolod Coffee & Sweets, food and
travel vlogger Debbie Oca stops at seven pastry and coffee shops in the city. This
enterprise, run mostly by millennials (and elder millennials), requires innovation
and daring-do, qualities needed to rebuild communities post-lockdown.
We
sifted through candidate shops using meaningful criteria. First off, we limited
our picks to local brands. And not just local, but relatively new in the scene.
In fact, our final choices were opened either just before the lockdown or
during the lockdown. This way, the story narrates a continuum of experiences,
from struggle to success, to sustainability. Finally, each pastry and coffee shop
must bring a uniqueness to the table, and indeed, there’s nothing similar
between any two of the seven. No enterprise with foresight can remain generic.
It must be differentiated.
The
vlog accomplishes a second goal. It also begins a robust and extensive coverage
of food that followers of NSC enjoyed in 2021 and will continue to delight in
in 2022.
The
“merienda culture” of Filipinos pervades all social classes and eras. And in
Negros where sugar is everyone’s middle name, merienda fare can easily become a
feast. And so, the piaya is just icing on the cake. The breadth and depth of
Negrense delicacies, both sweet and savory, parallels the Negrense’s
imagination to create new ones and tweak the old.
Local manuglibod, Maricar, replenishes her basket daily with an array of native delicacies from Silay Public Market
In
March we feature the manuglibod, the
traditional itinerant vendor of heritage snacks. In time, her fashion has
evolved, from wearing a patadyong and
kimona, and balancing a round native
tray on her head, to today’s jeans and white cotton shirt, and toting updated bayongs. Because the time calls for it,
our modern manuglibod now wears a
face mask, too. From morning till the last native snack, she moves about,
knocking door-to-door, showing up at the appointed hour, almost without fail.
Butong-Butong is a local candy made from muscovado that is among the many products of Negros Occidental.
Finally,
what’s a buffet without a take-home? What’s a food edition without a video
instructional to try out? Here’s your takeaway for March. This classic, even
nostalgic Negrense candy is a top seller. The sweet delight takes baby-boomers
back to fun school days with sticky fingers, sticky lips, and sticky school
uniform sleeves. Negros Season of Culture dares all, let’s get cooking with Butong-Butong.
It's a sweet and savoury time as guest vlogger Debbie Oca takes us on a pastry and café crawl across seven new spots in Bacolod.
Food vlogger Debbie Oca shows off surprisingly hearty yet healthy treats at KetoMom, one of seven pastry and coffee shops we visit in our virtual tour, Bacolod Coffee & Sweets.
The phenomenal young-adult tome “The Fault In Our Stars” penned by John Green is brought to life on the big screen produced by blockbuster producer Wyck Godfrey (“Twilight” films) and directed by Josh Boone (“Stuck In Love”). Written for the screen by the creative minds of Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (“500 Days of Summer,” Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”), “The Fault In Our Stars” features two of today’s most followed young actors – Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort as extraordinary teenagers who fatefully meet and takes their love on an unforgettable and exhilarating journey into infinity. Hazel Grace Lancaster (Shailene Woodley) is sixteen years old. She alternately loves and tolerates her sometimes over-doting parents. Hazel has developed a crushon a young man, Gus Waters (Ansel Elgort), who seems equally smitten with her. As they grow closer, Hazel and Gus share their fears that accompany their health issues, as well as their love of books, including Hazel’s touchs
MANILA – 16 boys -- 9 from Metro Manila, 2 from Bacolod, 2 from Cavite, 1 from Rizal, 1 from Tarlac and 1 from Batangas -- emerged as the best of the Manila Regional Selection Camp of the Jr. NBA Philippines 2014 presented by Alaska held at the Philippine International Conventional Center (PICC) Forum Tent at the CCP Complex April 13. 10 girls – 6 from Metro Manila, 2 from Laguna, 1 from Cavite and 1 from Sorsogon -- will join the first-ever pool of Jr. WNBA aspirants who will compete in the inaugural Jr. WNBA tilt this year. The Manila Regional Selection Camp is the last tryout for this year’s Jr. NBA Program and immediately precedes the high point of the Jr. NBA – the National Training Camp – which will be participated in by 50 male players and 30 girl players -- top picks from the various regional selection camps conducted in Surigao, Iloilo, Cebu, Dagupan, Puerto Princesa, Manila and the Alaska Power Camp. 709 boys and 88 girls from Metro Manila, Cavite, Laguna, Batan
In Photo (L-R): Dr. Emmillie Joy B. Mejia (Dean of Nursing, Mapúa, Sean Zantua (Healthway Medical Network Chief Human Resource Officer) , Jimmy Ysmael (Healthway Medical Network President and CEO) , Paolo Borromeo (President and CEO of Ayala Healthcare Holdings, Inc. (AC Health)), Dr. Malaya P. Santos (Dean of School of Health Sciences, Mapúa) , Dr Reynaldo B. Vea (President and CEO, Mapúa) , Alfredo Ayala (President, iPeople) , Dr Bonifacio T. Doma Jr. (EVP for International Alliance & Cintana Partnership Executive Director, Mapúa), and Justin Fabia (Country Manager - Philippines, Cintana Education). Manila, Philippines – Mapúa University partners with Arizona State University (ASU) for School for Health Sciences. This was announced at the official launch event held June 6, 2023 at the Mapúa University Makati Campus. The event also served as an announcement of Mapúa University’s partnership with the Ayala-owned AC Health. The School for Health Sciences is part of Mapúa
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