Undás 2026 | The Festive All Souls' Day

All Souls’ Day is an annual tradition, a day of remembrance for the dearly departed, observed by Christians on November 2. In the Philippines, it’s more like a festive event, where there’s food and other things that are part of the ‘fiesta’ that has become a tradition in the country. Other countries, like Latin America and parts of Europe, including Italy and Germany, also observe All Souls' Day. This year’s observance has been livelier than ever, but I wasn’t here last year to experience the crowded streets. Despite all the celebratory vibe, security has been very tight, with police on their motorcycles patrolling in and out of the cemetery.

Supergirl Day | The Maiden of Fandom

The end of June is closing in, but local events like Supergirl Day aren’t celebrated quite as often as most major comic book events like Free Comic Book Day, but it’s always a welcome situation when it is about a comic book character never quite the conversation. The premiere week of the movie Supergirl was the right time for it. In the Philippines, how often do you get something like this compared to the recent event that just wrapped up at SM Mall of Asia, which did not even invite a local comic shop like Comic Odyssey to sell their Supergirl comic books? But this one not only promotes the movie, but also brings in local artists who worked on the books!

VoV + PSP XIX | Stickers & Illustrate

The Pilipinas Street Plan (PSP) is a collection of talented artists, designers, and visual creatives that was formed nineteen years ago. The group is more known for its street culture through their artistic mural creations, redefining the term “Street Art” and not just some random, tasteless vandalism that the masses overlook in their work. PSP changes the way you look at graffiti as a way not just to express their views on life, culture, and politics. Some members create their own stories that define what led them to become artists. There are storytellers too, they push their artistry to redefine that organized vandalism can be works of art that others would be inspired to create their own narrative and introduce the grassroots of Filipino Culture.

Kinablangan | Let the Games Continue

Town Fiestas are a tradition in the Philippines; it is a form of social interaction with local communities dating back to pre-colonial days. Most of it is lost in big cities in Metro Manila, but in regional or rural areas, it is a yearly celebration. It's a consistent date, just confused some who had never grown up or lived in these parts. Personally, the last time I had to see a town fiesta in Pura Tarlac was back in 2017, when a former office colleague invited me to visit her hometown, taking a bus to make it there early in the morning and spending most of the day there. They had parades and all the pageantry of a town fiesta had to offer, and it was just about that.

Kinablangan | Power Outage & Fiesta

Saturday did not start well; in fact, the power outage occurred as early as 6 AM (Philippine Time). There’s nothing good when you live in a rural area where there’s no power, regardless of whether it’s for five minutes or five hours. It shows that the power supply to the whole region of Davao Oriental is not enough to be given to every town that’s part of this region. By 9 AM (Philippine time), the only cell site owned by Globe Network had just died. There’s no power or way to communicate online for the next few hours. There was news from DORECO (Davao Oriental Electric Cooperative, Inc.) that the outage will last for twelve hours while the town has a special event.

FCBD 2022 | A Subtle Comeback

Local events have slowly been happening all over Metro Manila. When all hope have been lost, and the least you expected it did happen in its most subtle way. Free Comic Book Day in the Philippines just happen in the month of June 2022 is the most little likely event that everyone thought that was already done. But just like that, an announcement was put up on social media two days prior by local book shop giant Fully Booked has organized their event. It might not be the most eventful it still sent a message to everyone that FCBD is back, and this is was like back in 2009 when they did have this event minus the wild activities.

Manila In't Book Fair 2019 | Scenes From 1st Day

09.12.2019 – The fortieth Manila International Book Fair has finally opened. It is the biggest annual ‘book’ event that brings educators, publishers, writers, creators, illustrators, fans, and everyone who still appreciate reading a good book or a graphic novel that sparks imaginations and inspirations. To sum up the late afternoon trek to the SMX Convention Centre is a prelude to the wild that is about to happen this weekend. For someone who has been visiting this event since those school days this event never loses its lustre. Every year there’s something to look forward to and for this year it’s some books that where hyped.

Big Bad Wolf Manila | Book Sale Madness

03.06.2019 – The Big Bad Wolf Book Sale event has been running for TEN DAYS non-stop 24/7 that most people who has been there would probably have not went home. There’s so much to go around this event that you might get lost into spending too much for something you might not actually need. It’s the biggest book sale event in the country that has been held in the last two years. It is the most anticipated book sale event that most people have camped near the area of the World Trade Center Manila where the event is being held. The magnitude of this event has proven that physical books are still in-demand where in other countries have shrunken into digital files in someone’s mobile phone or tablet. This is also the alternative for some to acquire exclusive book not sold in stores.

In Photography | Pura: Panagyaman 2017

03.20.2017 – Town Fiestas are a common sight in the Philippines, but rarely now a scene if you live in the city mostly part of Metro Manila. It is considered one of the highlights of every town that celebrate its founding anniversary. Pura is one of the small towns in Tarlac that recently concluded its town fiesta that featured coloful and creative floats, which also include a parade of beauty contestants that where seen the night before that had so much pageantry.

Anime Cons | Inside the Animax Carnival 2016

10.17.2016 – Animax Carnival has been consistently hosting events in the Philippines as far back to 2012, but if you’ve been around longer they’ve been having small scale events way back in 2005 when the cable channel was launched the year before. But it wasn’t as consistent that they’ve organized the event annually until “Animax Carnival” was launched, which became the yearly anticipated ‘anime convention’ in the country. It’s been years since I went to a convention that became a staple in the Philippine culture since the ‘anime’ became a mainstream thing.

Reality Inside Book for Less Warehouse Sale!

08.02.2015 – Saturday was the busiest first day of the month this August. There were lots of events that transpired yesterday. One of these events is the month long “Book for Less” warehouse sale, which has been teased last Friday prior to the chaos. It was the start of another month and also a very hectic weekend as hopefuls from all over Metro Manila travelled to Frankfurt Street, where the warehouse sale was held just in front of La Consolacion College in Pasig City…

Book for Less Teases Warehouse Sale!

07.31.2015 – If you’ve got nothing to do on a Saturday and have less budget to spend on something to read probably the “Book for Less” warehouse sale might be right up your alley or unless if your from far off land might be a place to venture with a few friends. “Book for Less” has been teasing a gallery of images what the warehouse would look like when their doors open...

PISM 2013 | Gawad Sinop Awards!

03.06.2013 – The Philippine Institute for Supply Management held the Gawad SINOP Award earlier. The award giving body recognizes and pays tribute to supply management professionals with excellent performance and corporations that have shown exemplary contributions to the development the uplift the supply management profession. It is considered the highest honor given to professionals who has contributed in the industry. The event was held at the 2nd level of the function room in SMX Convention Center where tow recipients was awarded with this honor.

The Collective: Post-Christmas Toy Fair Woes

12.20.2010 - The height of the Holiday Season has been quite hectic over the weekend. Of course, the traffic has been twice as bad traveling to nearby places either a bus or train commute is not going to take you there in less than an hour. These are considered the busiest times of the season and the challenges of weaving through the traffic are definitely the worst idea to travel by 6 pm on a Sunday. You are going to be thrilled about this year, and because due to budget constraints, the local toy fair is quite underwhelming. Despite all the challenging things that go around a last-minute toy run wasn't terribly a missed opportunity. Jump after the cut...