Taal Volcano featured in Katy Perry’s music video By Evelyn Macairan MANILA‚ Philippines - Tourism Secretary Ramon Jimenez was elated to see the Taal Volcano appearing several times in the music video of Australian singer Katy Perry’s song “Roar.” Jimenez‚ who graced the 73rd anniversary of the Bureau of Immigration (BI) yesterday‚ said he was “very happy” with the positive exposure of one of the country’s famous tourist attractions. He‚ however‚ said he was not surprised that the active volcano
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respondent Director of Posts from issuing and selling postage stamps commemorative of the Thirty-third International Eucharistic Congress. 2. the Director of Posts: a. announced in the dailies of Manila that he would order the issues of postage stamps commemorating the celebration in the City of Manila of the Thirty-third international Eucharistic Congress‚ organized by the Roman Catholic Church. 3. Petitioner: a. in the fulfillment of what he considers to be a civic duty‚ requested Vicente Sotto
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Philippine Music Kulintang Kulintang refers to a racked gong chime instrument played in the southern islands of the Philippines‚ along with its varied accompanying ensembles. Percussive bossed gong ensembles without a melodical gong rack‚ known as Agung‚ are played throughout most of the islands by indigenous groups (such as the Mangyan‚ Lumad‚ Batak‚ Tagbanwa and Aeta) as well as historically by low-land groups such as the Bisaya‚ Bicol and Tagalog‚ yet the kulintang ensembles themselves are only
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on the ire of the authorities. He actively participated in poetry and essay writing and made notable contributions to Philippine literature. He openly criticized Spanish colonization of the Philippines. Rizal graduated from Ateneo Municipal de Manila. He obtained a Land Surveyor and Assessor Degree. He also studied Philosophy at the University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Arts and Letters. And‚ this was not all; he registered for the University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Medicine and Surgery course
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SPANISH PERIOD When the Spaniards arrived in the Philippines in 1521‚ the colonizers used art as a tool to propagate the Catholic faith through beautiful images. With communication as a problem‚ they used images to explain concepts behind Catholicism and tell stories of Christ’s life and passion. Paintings was exclusively for the churches and for religious purposes. Occassionally used for propaganda. Tagalog painters Jose Loden‚ Tomas Nazario and Miguel delos Reyes‚ did the first still life
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a magnificent specimen of Asian manhood. Rizal had a trace of Chinese ancestry that came from a businessman named Domingo Lam-Co‚ the ancestor of Rizal’s father. He was a Chinese immigrant from Fukien‚ who arrived in Manila in about 1690. He married a Chinese Christian Girl of Manila named Ines de la Rosa‚ and assumed in 1731 the surname Mercado (“market” in English)‚ which was appropriate for him because he was a merchant. The couple had a son‚ Francisco Mercado‚ who resided in Biñan. He married
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The Philippine General Hospital (PGH) is a tertiary state-owned hospital administered and operated by the University of the Philippines Manila‚ the University of the Philippines System’s Health Sciences Center. It is the largest government hospital administered by the university‚ and is designated as the National University Hospital. It is located at Ermita‚ Manila in the Philippines. It is the biggest hospital in the country with a 1‚500-bed capacity. It is a mixed-use hospital‚ with 1‚000 beds for
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24 July 1890 in Malolos‚ Bulacan. His parents were Isidro Tolentino and Balbina Estrella. Tolentino first learned how to draw while attending intermediate school in Malolos‚ under his teacher‚ H.A. Bordner. He took up his secondary studies at the Manila High School‚ then pursued a degree in fine arts in 1915 at the University of the Philippines. In 1919‚ Tolentino went to the United States to pursue further studies‚ as he had received a scholarship grant from Bernard Baruch of New York University’s
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“All the world is a stage‚” as Shakespeare puts it. The life of Mr. Gregorio Cesar Y Aguto‚ commonly known to his students as “Sir Hidalgo” or “Dr. Hidalgo”‚ is in fact a stage. His entrance to the very stage happened when he was in Grade IV. War and all the fears that it brought made Sir Hidalgo forget the English language. Survival took over his mind‚ instead of sentences and phonetics. The education in Batanes‚ as with most places‚ continued after the World War II. Everything he knew about
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the seventh child in a family of 11 children (2 boys and 9 girls). Both his parents were educated and belonged to distinguished families. He was an excellent student‚ starting with formal schooling in Biñan then‚ attending the Ateneo Municipal de Manila later‚ the University of Sto. Tomas. He continued his studies at the Universidad Central de Madrid‚ Spain‚ where he earned the degree of Licientiate in Medicine. He also attended the University of Paris in France and earned second doctorate at
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