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The town of Balayan is best known for parada ng lechon and its product, Bagoong Balayan or anchovy sauce. Bagoong Balayan or anchovy sauce is indeed a growing industry in the town. Right now, there are many backyard producers of anchovy sauce, making it a profitable business in the area. …

Matuko. “Weird or funny name?” but for me this is one of the beautiful places here in Batangas. The picture of this place is still fresh in my mind, a picture saved in my memory though it has been five years ago since I last visited or shall I say …

Classes for this year are a bit early. In fact, public schools in the counrty will start their classes on the first day of June. At this time parents are probably busying themselves on buying school stuffs like uniform, shoes, bags, notebook etc. And long queue of people on bookstores …

I think I was only on the fourth grade when this Himno ng Batangan was first introduced to us. I could still vividly remember my music teacher when she was teaching us this song for a contest. This Himno ng Batangan was so new (and so as the beat) to …

On Sunday, April 5, 2009 will be the feast day of San Vicente Ferrer. And here in Batangas, St. Vincent Ferrer Parish at Banay-Banay, Lipa City is known to be frequently visited by those sick old and young devotees from different parts of the Batangas and nearby provinces. Inside this …

I was never an environmentalist. I never advocated those clean and green projects some concerned folks would reiterate at seminars time and again. Issues of pollution just made me tired. Nitrogen loading reports didn’t ring a bell. Distress about biomass burning didn’t stop me from absorbing every detail of an …

by Anjenelle Amante After a three-day, tranquil experience in the land of pines where the weather is pleasingly cold, tourists who crave for the sugary taste of peanut brittles, strawberries and other native treats flock and echoes of a historic past linger softly in the present, I am back to …

A gripping story that draws readers into an exceptional world with unnervingly close echoes of our own, the Giver delineated a community in which every individual and his or her experience was precisely the same. Competition was eliminated in favor of a community where everyone worked for the common good– …