Saturday, 10 August 2013
Friday, 9 August 2013
Miss Universe Gloria Diaz wears a PJ Aranador hablon terno at Central Philippine University High School Centennial Homecoming Reunion
TWO MISS UNIVERSE @ CENTRAL. PJ Arañador designs the hablon, Iloilo's queen of handloom textiles, for the Philippines' first Miss Universe and the 3rd Asian Miss Universe winner, Gloria Diaz, and Iloilo's first semi-finalist at the Miss Universe competition, Louise Vail Aurelio. Miss Aurelio became the first winner of Binibing Pilipinas Universe in the history of the organization to represent the Philippines in Florida for the Miss Universe pageant and the first Ilonggo to give honor to Iloilo in an international beauty competition. Miss Diaz will wear a 60's inspired pink hablon serpentina terno with indigenous "senepa/cenefa de boda" ( border) mixed with handbeaded chiffon from India where the designer and Miss Diaz met. The terno is the national long dress of the Philippines. It is characterized with stiff butterfly sleeves.Hablon is an exquisite pedal loom textile that dates back since 1898 at that time Iloilo was the textile capital of the Philippines. It changes its color like a chameleon.
Miss Aurelio will wear another 60's inspired slate blue serpentina terno in hablon with a local "cenefa" motif. All will be hand-loomed in Miagao, Iloilo home to the famous 16th century Miagao church, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Through the use of hablon, CPU High School supports to sustain our heritage in the indigenous arts and crafts.
Both beauty queens will wear their hablon at the Central Philippine University (CPU or CENTRAL) High School Centennial King and Queen, Prince and Princess pageant. CPU is one of the only two pioneering American schools established in the Philippines by American missionaries through the Rockefeller Foundation led by William O. Valentine.
Both Miss Diaz and Miss Vail won their titles in the USA. Miss Aurelio is an alumna of CPU High School and was a football scholar. Miss Diaz first film after proclaimed Miss Universe was shot in Sicogon Island in Iloilo.
They will be joined by Miss Amelia de la Cruz, also from Iloilo, past Bibibining Pilipinas runner-up, Mutya ng Pilipinas winner and the country's first Miss SouthEast Asia Queen, alumna of CPU HS. Ms Gladys Baban Corder, also an alumna, a campus beauty queen such as Miss CPUR, Miss CPU High School, former Queen of JAro and Five Star Miss Philippines Caltex runner-up. Younger set of CPU HS alumni beauty queens include Miss Emily Victoria, the current Queen of Iloilo's Dinagyang.
PAGEANT is on August 30, 2013 4-6 p.m.Rose Memorial Hall, CPU. 100 voice choirs and 100 casts of orchestra, bands, singers will be part of the show. PJ Arañador, also from CPU HS, directs. Tickets are now available at Php 150, 300, 500 CPU High School Office. Call at 320-36-85 Alumni Office, CPU HS Principal’s Office 329-1971-79 local 1064. Or text us at 09093315988. Or message us here in our fb account. Alumni batches are encouraged to reserved their tickets ahead of time like many batches have already done so. HURRY!
Details at https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=418403634934842&set=a.380582875383585.1073741828.380165525425320&type=1&theater
SUSTAINING OUR CRAFTS HERITAGE TO HELP RURAL LIVELIHOOD COME ALIVE.The Philippine national attire for women is called the TERNO. It evolved from an ensemble called “baro’t saya” ( blouse and skirt), transformed into the “Maria Clara” which in turn was metamorphosed into the “Traje de mestiza.” Terno in Spanish means to match. Traditionally, they use only handloomed textiles suchs as pineapple, banana and cotton fiber. Miss Amelia de la Cruz will wear a red orange hablon with classic stripe design. Mrs. Gladys Baban Cordero, will wear a canary yellow also made of hablon with "bit-bit" inserts. The serpentina terno has a glass-hour silhouette.
Iloilo Designers Week
Jojie Lloren finished Clothing Technology in University of the Philippines Diliman and from Ecoles de Chambre Syndicale dela Couture Parisienne in Paris. He won the Grand Prize in the Philippine Young Designers Competition in 1998. Through FDCP, Jojie Lloren also brought the Grand Prize at the Concours de Jeunes Creaturs de Mode in Paris of the same year ( the second to win for the Philippines after Frederick Peralta). Christian Espiritu serves as his mentor. He was a mentor for Project Runway Philippines. He was the president of the Young Designers Guild and the Fashion & Design Council of the Philippines
Cary Santiago is Cebu based designer who trained couture in Beirut, Dubai and Paris. He has a signature look on fabric-wrapped like metalwork, fabrics woven in basket-weave patterns , fabric folding and draping. His couture houses caters to Arab royalty and elite. Cary won the 2004 grand prize of the Philippine Fashion Design Competition by FDCP. In November 2010, he was chosen as a contestant for the Outstanding International Fashion Designer Award category of the China Fashion Awards.
Ivarluski Aseron is a multi-awarded avant garde fashion designer whose collections have been featured abroad, including Malaysia and Indonesia. He jumpstarted his career in the fashion industry by participating in the MEGA Young Designers Competition in 2002. He went on to win the Revolutionary Designer plum at the MTV Style Awards and the Best Evening Wear Designer prize at the MEGA Fashion Awards. His cleints include Gretchen Barretto.
These designers with among over 20 Ilonggo designers will show their collection on the runway August 24, 2013 6:30pm Kalantiao Hall, Sarabia Manor Hotel, Iloilo City. Regular tickets at Php 1k with dinner. You can only get this grand show for so less. Contact me for tickets. I sell my tickets for Php 900 only--that is a huge discount when you buy from me. just message me here. DETAILS at https://www.facebook.com/
Philippine Airlines will always be Philippines' Pride
We will miss PAL in domestic flights. What a great honor though our national carrier will be flying again in Paris London Rome and Amsterdam. More European tourists can experience our Filipino heritage on board. My loyalty to PAL dates back 12 years ago when I was the only Filipino hired to join an elite team of foreign consultants for its re-branding for its first class and business class up-gradation that now still carries the resort look in the cabin-- soft patterns of palm trees, rippling waves , soothing colors of sand, alluring holiday colors of the emerald Philippine seas, exotic local cuisine, neat Maria Clara-like images of FA's with their "pearl of the Orient Seas" accessories, colorful gumamela prints and great Filipino smile! Let Asia's fist airline carry our flag PROUD AND HIGH!http://
THE LARGEST IN SOUTHEAST ASIA IS IN OUR COUNTRY. Members of the Philippine Airlines cabin crew wave at the entrance of a new A321-200 plane owned by Philippine Airlines in Pasay city, Metro Manila August 8, 2013. A Philippine Airlines statement said the aircraft is the first of 45 single-aisle A321s and 20 wide-body A330-300 that are set to arrive until 2019 as part of the airline's refleeting programme worth nearly $10 billion, the largest aircraft purchase in the Southeast Asian country. REUTERS/Erik De Castro (PHILIPPINES - Tags: TRANSPORT BUSINESS)
We are old fashioned at Iloilo Youth Entrepreneurship Program
WE ARE OLD FASHIONED
Look...no iPhone or iPad, no Apple or Android for young people. Only some flour and roller pins, fruits, vegetables and bamboo! And they will build our nation! They will be our future Filipino entrepreneurs. Certainly, they will become better Filipino citizens-- giving them directions to put up their businesses than work for others specially abroad. Family affluence, living in big cities, electronics and college degrees are not the sure tickets for the Filipino youths to help in making our country tick. We train them to be sustainable. We start them young. Their minds embrace the concept wholeheartedly.
Our rural and under privileged youths in Iloilo, many are not in formal school or not able to go to school, are already graduating on 18th August in Lambunao, Iloilo. What a joy! These young people were trained in Baking and Pastry Making, Wine and Beverage Making, Fruits and Vegetable Processing, Bamboo Weaving Crafts, Entrepreneurship, Business Planning and Financial Management. They will show their works for a competition on their graduation day. I can not wait to see who makes the best product!
We thank all the tireless trainors, whose dedication to endure in spite of all the odds, gave themselves beyond their call of duty, rain or shine, far and wide. We thank DTI-Iloilo and Congressman Arthur R. Defensor, Jr.
3rd Congressional District of Iloilo for the project management and funds we all need to make these young people able and steadfast.
Look...no iPhone or iPad, no Apple or Android for young people. Only some flour and roller pins, fruits, vegetables and bamboo! And they will build our nation! They will be our future Filipino entrepreneurs. Certainly, they will become better Filipino citizens-- giving them directions to put up their businesses than work for others specially abroad. Family affluence, living in big cities, electronics and college degrees are not the sure tickets for the Filipino youths to help in making our country tick. We train them to be sustainable. We start them young. Their minds embrace the concept wholeheartedly.
Our rural and under privileged youths in Iloilo, many are not in formal school or not able to go to school, are already graduating on 18th August in Lambunao, Iloilo. What a joy! These young people were trained in Baking and Pastry Making, Wine and Beverage Making, Fruits and Vegetable Processing, Bamboo Weaving Crafts, Entrepreneurship, Business Planning and Financial Management. They will show their works for a competition on their graduation day. I can not wait to see who makes the best product!
We thank all the tireless trainors, whose dedication to endure in spite of all the odds, gave themselves beyond their call of duty, rain or shine, far and wide. We thank DTI-Iloilo and Congressman Arthur R. Defensor, Jr.
3rd Congressional District of Iloilo for the project management and funds we all need to make these young people able and steadfast.
With Iloilo Youth Entrepreneurship Program, there is hope in our Filipino hands. There is an awesome destiny for our Filipino youth.
Cocina de herencia en Iloilo, Filipinas
Cocina de herencia en Iloilo, Filipinas. Heritage Cuisine in Iloilo, Philippines.
Estos son alimentos Filipino típico de la provincia. Pangat es de hojas de taro con leche de coco. Se ha secado de pescado.
Latik es el azafrán coloreado la calabaza. Hacen puré de ello a mano. La leche de coco, las judías verdes y los camarones jóvenes añaden el sabor. Mejor con ajo asado.
Kadios, baboy, langka (KBL) sólo se encuentra en nuestra ciudad debido a los frijoles negros nuevamente cosechados cocidos a fuego lento con la carne de cerdo y fruta del gato joven verde. Estos son en su mayoría sanos y platos vegetarianos. Algunos de los platos populares antes de la llegada de los Españoles a las Filipinas.
These are typical Filipino food from the province. Pangat is from taro leaves with coconut milk. It has dried fish. Latik is saffron colored pumpkin. It is pureed by hand. Coconut milk, string beans and baby shrimps add flavor. Best with roasted garlic.
Kadios, baboy, langka (KBL) is only found in our town because of the freshly harvested black beans simmered with pork and green baby jackfruit. These are mostly healthy and vegetarian dishes. Some dishes were popular before the Spaniards came to the Philipines.
Apan-apan es el ciprés acuático llamado Kang Kong que crece en tierras de arroz. Se cocina con la pasta de camarón.
Sisig tres veces se cocina carne de cerdo joven. En primer lugar, hervido en especias. En segundo lugar, asado en carbón de leña. En tercer lugar, freído y cortado con salsas del hígado y los huevos de la codorniz fresca. No sano pero delicioso.
Apan-apan is water cypress called Kang Kong which grows in rice lands. It is cooked with shrimp paste. Sisig is thrice cooked young pork. First, boiled in spices. Second, roasted in charcoal. Third, fried and chopped with liver sauces and fresh quail’s eggs. Not healthy but delicious.
Wawa PJ Arañador Heritage Restaurant is located at Montinola Mansion, E Lopez Street Jaro Iloilo City, near Graciano Lopez Jaena Jaro Plaza and beside Nissan Jaro Showroom. Link: https://www.facebook.com/wawa.pjaranador?fref=ts
Pictures by Ojie Paloma/ Al Destacamento https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10201059156575383&set=p.10201059156575383&type=1&theater
Estos son alimentos Filipino típico de la provincia. Pangat es de hojas de taro con leche de coco. Se ha secado de pescado.
Latik es el azafrán coloreado la calabaza. Hacen puré de ello a mano. La leche de coco, las judías verdes y los camarones jóvenes añaden el sabor. Mejor con ajo asado.
Kadios, baboy, langka (KBL) sólo se encuentra en nuestra ciudad debido a los frijoles negros nuevamente cosechados cocidos a fuego lento con la carne de cerdo y fruta del gato joven verde. Estos son en su mayoría sanos y platos vegetarianos. Algunos de los platos populares antes de la llegada de los Españoles a las Filipinas.
These are typical Filipino food from the province. Pangat is from taro leaves with coconut milk. It has dried fish. Latik is saffron colored pumpkin. It is pureed by hand. Coconut milk, string beans and baby shrimps add flavor. Best with roasted garlic.
Kadios, baboy, langka (KBL) is only found in our town because of the freshly harvested black beans simmered with pork and green baby jackfruit. These are mostly healthy and vegetarian dishes. Some dishes were popular before the Spaniards came to the Philipines.
Apan-apan es el ciprés acuático llamado Kang Kong que crece en tierras de arroz. Se cocina con la pasta de camarón.
Sisig tres veces se cocina carne de cerdo joven. En primer lugar, hervido en especias. En segundo lugar, asado en carbón de leña. En tercer lugar, freído y cortado con salsas del hígado y los huevos de la codorniz fresca. No sano pero delicioso.
Apan-apan is water cypress called Kang Kong which grows in rice lands. It is cooked with shrimp paste. Sisig is thrice cooked young pork. First, boiled in spices. Second, roasted in charcoal. Third, fried and chopped with liver sauces and fresh quail’s eggs. Not healthy but delicious.
Wawa PJ Arañador Heritage Restaurant is located at Montinola Mansion, E Lopez Street Jaro Iloilo City, near Graciano Lopez Jaena Jaro Plaza and beside Nissan Jaro Showroom. Link: https://www.facebook.com/wawa.pjaranador?fref=ts
Pictures by Ojie Paloma/ Al Destacamento https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10201059156575383&set=p.10201059156575383&type=1&theaterIloilo Festival of Colors
CHAMELEON ILOILO FESTIVAL OF COLORS will be the first in Iloilo this September 7th. Festivals bring in joy to
people, create jobs and make a city interesting---bringing tourists in and
inspire others to build happiness among ourselves.
I think the inspiration is from “Holi” a spring festival celebrated as a festival of
colours in India and Nepal. It is a Hindu religious festival which has also
become popular with people of other communities. In the Hindu calendar, Holi is celebrated on the
Full Moon which comes in February or March. I have experienced Holi in India
while I worked there for years in the past. So I can relate how fun this would
be.
NATURAL TO SYNTHETIC. ( As reported by (en.wikipedia.org): "While the idea is great fun for other
cultures, in the past, natural colours
were used to celebrate Holi safely by
applying turmeric, sandalwood paste, extracts of flowers and leaves.
As the spring-blossoming trees that once supplied the colours used to celebrate Holi have become more rare, chemically produced industrial dyes have been used to take their place in almost all of urban India.
Due to the commercial availability of attractive pigments, slowly the natural colours are replaced by synthetic colours. As a result it has caused mild to severe symptoms of skin irritation and inflammation.
In 2001, they found some toxic chemicals with some potentially severe health impacts. The black powders were found to contain lead oxide which can result in renal failure.
The prussian blue used in the blue powder has been associated with contact dermatitis, while the copper sulphate in the green has been documented to cause eye allergies, puffiness of the eyes, or temporary blindness.
The colorant used in the dry colors, also called gulals, was found to be toxic, with heavy metals causing asthma, skin diseases and temporary blindness. Both of the commonly used bases—asbestos or silica—are associated with health issues.They reported that the wet colours might lead to skin discolouration and dermatitis due to their use of colour concentrate gentian violet. "
As the spring-blossoming trees that once supplied the colours used to celebrate Holi have become more rare, chemically produced industrial dyes have been used to take their place in almost all of urban India.
Due to the commercial availability of attractive pigments, slowly the natural colours are replaced by synthetic colours. As a result it has caused mild to severe symptoms of skin irritation and inflammation.
In 2001, they found some toxic chemicals with some potentially severe health impacts. The black powders were found to contain lead oxide which can result in renal failure.
The prussian blue used in the blue powder has been associated with contact dermatitis, while the copper sulphate in the green has been documented to cause eye allergies, puffiness of the eyes, or temporary blindness.
The colorant used in the dry colors, also called gulals, was found to be toxic, with heavy metals causing asthma, skin diseases and temporary blindness. Both of the commonly used bases—asbestos or silica—are associated with health issues.They reported that the wet colours might lead to skin discolouration and dermatitis due to their use of colour concentrate gentian violet. "
I suggest the colors to be used be skin tested first. Have
them taken to a laboratory in Iloilo City to be examined. We can never be
sure. Public safety first. Cheers and
enjoy!
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