It’s the blogger, not the blog
Share Last year, I begged Jun Asis for an extra ticket so I can bring my wife to the 2007 Philippine Blog Awards. He was nice enough to pull some strings, and bend a few rules to accommodate a stranger’s request. This year, I won a special BlogBank award. Noemi says (via Plurk) that it’s [...]
September 22, 2008
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Tags: arpee lazaro, blog bank special award, blogbank, person more famous than his blog, philippine blog, philippine blog awards 2008, philippine blogosphere, pinoy bloggers, the blogger not the blog award · Posted in: events, pinoylife
WikiPilipinas at the Manila International Book Fair
Share The World Trade Center served as the venue for this year’s Manila International Book Fair. Thanks again to Khursten and the wonderful people of Read or Die, I was given the opportunity to be among the people of WikiPilipinas for a day and got to learn more about their new website which is, apparently, [...]
September 2, 2007
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Tags: arpee lazaro, filipiniana, filipiniana.net, manila international book fair, read or die, rodcon, shirley sta ines, vibal publishing house, wiki, wikipilipinas, world trade center · Posted in: Uncategorized
All the world’s a PETA stage…
Share My first taste of theater was in my freshman year at the University of the Philippines in the Visayas. I saw a play by resident UPV theater group, Teatro Amakan, which I think was entitled “Baloy” or something like it. I enjoyed it immensely, even though it was dialoged in pure Hiligaynon. No matter, [...]
August 25, 2007
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Tags: arpee lazaro, batang rizal, cecile garrucho, gibbs cadiz, noreen lazaro, noreen ponce-lazaro, PETA, peta theater, philippine theater, pinoycentric · Posted in: Uncategorized
My birthday lunch at Conti’s
Share Ah another year has been added to my age. Need not be so negative. A lot of things have happened and I am still reeling from the effects of my mother’s untimely demise in 2006, but life has to go on. Another year and I can no longer claim to be in the calendar. [...]
August 14, 2007
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Tags: arpee lazaro, birthday, conti's, edwin ray ponce, serendra · Posted in: restaurants
Miag-ao church in Iloilo, revisited
Share The Miag-ao Church in Miag-ao, Iloilo is included in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites as one of the Baroque Churches of the Philippines (San Agustin Church is included in this prestigious roster). Its real name is Sto. Tomas de Villanueva Church. The interior of the church is just as dazzling and steeped [...]
July 5, 2007
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Tags: arpee lazaro, iloilo, miag-ao, miagao, noreen ponce-lazaro, philippine's oldest church, world heritage site · Posted in: Uncategorized
