Last Sunday, Yonina Chan was kind enough to write about Filipino fashion blogs. And of course, Style Manila and Style Cebu were featured, along with such luminaries like Bryanboy and Chuvaness:
In the realm of fashion, local blogs all carry a unique, interesting voice. Whether this voice is categorically “Filipino” or not seems beyond the point, as it seems the “personal” appeal—including, of course, the individual, sometimes larger-than-life character of the blogger—has become the largest part of what makes the local fashion blog attractive to readers.
For some reason, the article’s no longer available on The Manila Bulletin website. Luckily, Google did a great job of caching the page for posterity. Read it now!
Today is the last day of a long weekend for many Filipinos. If you’ve been too busy having fun over the long weekend, here’s some reading to catch-up on:
LJ Enjoys Her Working Vacation
Style Manila features some stylish reads
Vista Pinas wondered why an important Filipino monument is being neglected
See what happened over at Cebu
Write Life Guide wonders if you wrote anything down during Holy Week
Kikay Kits ends this round-up on a “cool” note
Hope you’ve enjoyed your Easter vacation! I sure have, thanks to our beautiful beaches!
Vista Pinas recently covered the Capas Death March Monument:
The monument is poorly maintained and has become a mere playground and park for the residents of the area. The monument is located along MacArthur Highway about 7 kilometers from Bamban Bridge on the route going to Baguio from Manila. I’m sure a lot of travelers to Baguio have seen this monument but don’t recognize its significance.
I have seen the monument before, and like Eugene I wondered how such an important landmark could be neglected. The Bataan Death March was a dark moment in our history, when nearly a hundred thousand Filipino and American POWs were forced to march over 97 kilometers from Bataan to Capas. Over 25% of the men died on the way, thanks to poor treatment at the hands of their Japanese captors.
I do not intend to generalize the Japanese as monsters. The point is that we should keep this monument well-maintained, to remind future generations of what atrocities men are capable of, and hope that this helps such terrible actions from occuring again. If anyone knows what can be done to help the Capas Death March Monument, I’m all ears.
You Had Me at Hello features Call Center Charlie, the call center game.
Style Cebu was at Cary Santiago’s fashion show.
Style Manila experiences some Block & White applied to the underarms.
Kikay Kits wants you to know about School of Fashion and the Arts’ free workshop.
Vista Pinas takes a virtual tour of the tallest building in Davao.
Write Life Guide talks about the first payment from Sponsored Reviews.
Yahoo! Answers, the Philippine edition, has been out for more than a week now. Thanks to the popularity of Yahoo’s answering service, one of the rare victories it has over Google, there’s already a lot of content on the local version.
But once again, the weakness of Yahoo! Answers—lack of quality—rears its ugly head. I mean, would you answer a totally silly question like: “Why phillipines is known as sex nation of asia?????” (a thread deleted a few days ago).
To be fair, Yahoo! Answers does have a lot of… answers to offer Filipinos. But we also have our own, quality answers here in the BBN. We indulge curiosities that include interest in Cebu’s stylish nightlife, to just how beautiful Marian Rivera is.
Yesterday, Lester sent me an email detailing another online poll. Once again, it’s our chance to make the Philippines win!
Basically, all it involves is signing up for an account at www.new7wonders.com (don’t worry, there’s nothing wrong with using a fake name and email, if you’re a bit shy), and using this link to vote for Tubbataha Reef, a natural Philippine landmark.
new7wonder’s contest aims to name the seven natural wonders of the world. And if you’ve experienced the Philippines’ beautiful beaches and ecosystems, then you know that Tubbataha Reef deserves to be on that list!
If you want to know more about this natural landmark, Eugene’s post on the Tubabataha Reef gives the lowdown.
Click here to vote for Tubbataha Reef!
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Connie Luayon has cut her teeth as a freelance writer, and now we’re officially announcing the launch of Write Life Guide, a blog dedicated to offering practical advice on earning a living through writing, online and offline.
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You Had Me at Hello has been pretty prolific as of late, sharing with us 34 Ways To Get Back at Telemarketers, 10 Steps to Becoming a Great Supervisor or Manager, and that it’s Business As Usual During a Time of Rebellion
The Comic Blurb tells you where you can get Gerry Alanguilan’s Elmer #3
The Pinoy Urban Blog announces the MSI-ECS warehouse sale
It’s the Controversy-plagued Philippine Web Awards over at The Pinoy Tech Blog
The Pinoy Travel Blog covers a Freedom Fiesta
Sophie of Kikay Kits gets the job done, using her kid sister to prove the benefits of mineral makeup.
But there’s more to this made up 14-year-old. She’s the young blogger we featured a while back, also blogs at juniorproblogger.com, obviously knows how to snap up good domains, and even knows how to tweak Wordpress themes. Check Junior Problogger’s new theme. Congrats on your grade school graduation Sarabeth, and here’s to your productive use of sem break!
