Dansansoy is a popular Ilonggo Folk Song, sung even by non-Ilonggos. Dandansoy is one of the folk songs featured in a dance medley used in the Bacolod MassKara Festival. In the song, the singer bids farewell to a boy named Dansoy. I remember my mother singing this song to me when I was a kid […]
Hacendera for A Day: My Negros Hacienda Tour Experience
The sugar barons of Negros Occidental lived in an era long forgotten. They lived in mansions in the middle of sugar plantations, attended by their servants and money seem to be overflowing. It is a life that most of us can only dream of. Thanks to Imelda Tinsay of Next Stop Negros Tour, my friends […]
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 […]
Do you know where Fr. Ferrero Street is?
The Fr. Mauricio Ferrero, OAR Street was inaugurated last January 19, in the eve of the Feast of San Sebastian. The City Council recently approved the City Ordinance No. 473 S. 2008 authored by Councilor Jocelle Batapa-Sigue, an Ordinance Naming Road Lot 4 and Road 9 at the Bacolod City Reclamation Area as the Fr. Mauricio Ferrero, […]
Negros Occidental Catholic Churches
Catholic churches have both historical and spiritual values to us Filipinos. Colonial churches are proof of Spain’s influence and provides a wealth of information to the life of our ancestors during the colonial period. Many of us know that our local delicacies dates back to the time some of the colonial churches were built. Egg […]
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