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The game-changing Laoag sandboarding on its 9th year
The LEAD (Laoag Eco-Adventure Development) Movement kids, who helped put the Laoag Sand Dunes on the adventure map, now grown-ups, in a more adultish vid. So many changes since that trial ride on...
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The smoothie bowl comes to Ilocos
We like to Instagram everything, and the so-called breakfast photographers are now the influencers of the world. Yassss, bowls are the new plates! Next to rice, what about spooning our smoothies from...
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Currimao’s Pangil Beach turned “plastic beach”
Such a heart-wrenching story from home, I stumbled upon on social media, photos of Currimao’s Pangil Rock Formation in Ilocos Norte, posted by Jayson Lumbo Navarro — a truth behind the unique coral...
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Pangil Beach Cleanup
It’s comforting to learn that a concerted effort by the local community and multi-group volunteers, together with the Municipal Environment and Natural Resources Office (MENRO)-Currimao, for a coastal...
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Ang buhay ay color color lang
At a meeting in LA yesterday, I heard Leni was set to file her CoC for president. Pacquiao, Marcos Jr., Ping, and Yorme Isko have already made theirs official. When I arrived home, news of her filing...
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Withdrawals and Substitutions
More potent than my current chemo pill, Philippine politics over the weekend sent me into dizzy spells. As of yesterday, Sarah Duterte withdrew her reelection bid for Davao City mayor and filed her...
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A PHP26.1MM floating playground opens in Paoay Lake
Photo from IN Tourism A resident of Paoay before moving to Laoag to live with my family in the mid-sixties, my (nanny) manang Cion had a fave story to tell me when I wouldn’t sleep at night — the...
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Kindness matters
Photo from Cong. Ria Fariñas’ FB page Anything about Adams excite me. If you’ve been following my blog since its inception, you know that Adams was my home away from home. I even actually planned to...
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Leni-Kiko supporters open volunteer center in Ilocos Norte
The first time volunteers in clannish Ilocos Norte came out to make a stand for Leni and Kiko (here), eyebrows were raised, accusations were cast, legitimacy was questioned. Unfazed, the volunteers...
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