EARTH HOUR PHILIPPINES

Manila,CEBU, BACOLOD and many other Philippine cities are gearing up for Earth Hour 2009. Last year in the Philippines, millions of people switched off their lights to signal their support of this global warming action. Manila, being the largest city, will be a big focus this year and Earth Hour continues to spread its positive message about the importance of energy saving. The Department of Energy in the Philippines is a supporter of the Earth Hour campaign.
Local businesses in Manila are contributing to Earth Hour and will be switching off their lights on the night. Thousands of people, around the Philippines, will be coming together to light a candle in support of this global warming awareness initiative.
An estimated 50 to 100 million people around the world switched off their lights for Earth Hour in 2008, and global landmarks including the Golden Gate Bridge, Rome’s Colosseum, the Coke billboard in Times Square and Jumeirah Hotel in Dubai darkened for one hour.
In 2009, Earth Hour aims to reach 1 billion people around the world in more than 1000 cities involving business, government and the community in the world’s largest global action on climate change on 28 March 2009.
In 2009, millions of people from all walks of life will join together for Earth Hour and show the world that it’s possible to take action on global warming.
Come on Philippines, join us for Earth Hour 2009, turn off your lights at 8.30pm Saturday 28 March and sign-up here at earthhour.org.

Director PEQUE GALLAGA YOUNGEST SON positive for HIV

Director Peque Gallaga is one of the Best and Old time director in the Philippine Movie industry. He is a Bacoleno. Pround of being a Negrense. He is infamous of movies like Oro plata mata , sa Piling ng aswang and many more. He was shocked when he knew that his youngest son has HIV. His son admitted to him and came out in the scene. He is 29 years old and works in an advertising field. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a lentivirus (a member of the retrovirus family) that can lead to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a condition in humans in which the immune system begins to fail, leading to life-threatening opportunistic infections. AIDS has no cure for now but there are medications and treatment that can prolong life.
AIDS is not only focus to sex workers but to anyone else. maybe your friend, neighbor, your lover or your partner WE really dont know.. So beware SEX wise!! and that's it for now.

STARBUCKS coffee in BACOLOD CITY!

A new coffee shop will soon rise in bacolod, one of the highly urbanized midsized city in the Philippines.

Other coffee shops like bos cafe, cafe bobs, figarro, kuppa, Mc Cafe bascon cafe,etc.
How can this well known coffee shop will compete with other coffee bars in the city. A very alarming to local cafes.
hmmm... well?
The opening of STARBUCKs cafe bacolod will be on DECEMBER 9, 2008. See you There!!!





Special thanks to www.bacolodlive.com for the pictures

"MUGazine" and the City of Smile!!!!

Bacolod City will be the first to witness the launching of the "MUGazine",a blog that's full of suprises and entertainment with the latest updates about lifestyles, gadgets, all about confessions and revelations, parties, fashion, festivals and more...

SO sit back relax and enjoy a MUg of beer not a cup of coffee while reading your online blog MUGazine :)

The smiles depicts the faces of bacolodnons and that's why we are celebrating the famous MASSKARA FESTIVAL.

History
It was born 30 years ago at a time of crisis, when sugar prices were crashing. It was also a time of tragedy; in April of that year, the vessel Don Juan carrying many Negrenses, including
those belonging to prominent families in Bacolod, sank.
In this dark and tragic time, Bacolod artists as well as the local government and civic groups decided to hold a festival of smiles, because the city at that time was also known as the City of Smiles. hey also thought a festival was a good opportunity to pull everybody out of the gloom and doom.

In effect, the festival was a declaration of the people that no matter how tough and bad the times are, Bacolod is going to pull through, survive, and in the end, triumph.

MassKara is a festival for local and international tourism. It is intended to provide a venue for the activities and cultural expression.
The word "MassKara" was coined by the late AAB president Ely Santiago from the two words "mass" which means "many or a multitude of the people" and the Spanish "kara" meaning "face". The mask worned by the participants during the parade are always smiling. MassKara thus means a multitude of smiling faces.
Since its inception, the MassKara Festival is held every third weekend of October nearest the Charter Anniversary. It features a MassKara Street Dance competition where people from all walks of life troops to the streets to see colorful masked dancers gyrate to the infectious rhythm to the Latin musical beat in a stunning display of mastery, gaiety, coordination and stamina. Major activities are the beauty pageant, carnivals, drum and bugle corps competitions, food festivals, sports events, musical concert, agri-trade fair, garden show, NEWLY REINVENTED ELECTRIC MASSKARA-means masskara parade and floats during the night with colorful lights around their costumes and mask.

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links: www.friendster.com/masskarafestival


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