MV Doulos left Bacolod City for Manila last March 3, leaving us with happy memories of the experience of being on board the biggest floating bookstore in the world. I went there twice during their Bacolod revisit. I was one of the more than 100,000 visitors who explored the thousands of book titles on board […]
Learn Hiligaynon (Ilonggo) Language
Filipinos from other regions have a general impression of the Ilonggos (people of Western Visayas) as “malambing”, meaning sweet or affectionate. It can be attributed to our language, Hiligaynon. We speak with a sing-song intonation that could sound very sweet to the ears of a non-Hiligaynon speaker. Hiligaynon is a member of the Visayan language […]
Queen of Peace Church (Hua Ming)
The Queen of Peace Church in Bacolod City is located inside the St. John Institute (SJI) campus better known as Hua Ming in a 5,000-sq. m. lot donated by Alfredo Montelibano Sr. The SJI and the Queen of Peace Church are still referred to as Hua Ming by the locals which came from Hua meaning […]
Sharyn’s Cansi House
Cansi (kansi) is a traditional food both in Iloilo and Negros which is bone-in beef shank stew soured with the local fruit batuan. Cooking cansi takes hours so the meat becomes very tender it falls off the bone. Cansi may be just plain meat but others add langka (jackfruit). It’s a little similar to the Tagalog’s […]
Sweet City Captel
I recently discovered a new budget accommodation in Negros Occidental. The Sweet City Captel was inaugurated last February 2, 2009 by Gov. Isidro P. Zayco. The hostel located at the North Capitol Road corner Gatuslao Street in Bacolod City is now being managed by the Capitol Government Employees Multi Purpose Cooperative (CAPGEM). The newly renovated […]
New Proposed Sites for Bacolod Flyover
Due to oppositions from business estalishments along Lacson St., the proposed sites for the Bacolod flyover were changed from Lacson – B.S. Aquino and Lacson – Burgos junctions to Lacson-Circumferential (Bangga Pepsi) and Araneta-Magsaysay. It was reported that the project consultant Woodfields Consultants Incorporated was on the stage of designing the flyover together with Geoscience […]
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