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The video shown above was my capture of the Search for Ginang ng Santacruzan later that night we arrived in Dumaguete City. The emcee declared that it was the first of its kind, an addition to the Santacruzan festival they have been celebrating annually. The show, especially the talent portion, really proved the prowess of mothers in field of beauty pageantry. It’s a timely celebration of revealing mothers’ beauty and talent during the day the Mothers around the World are given honor; that Sunday (May 13) was a Mother’s Day. It was indeed a welcoming treat for us firstimers in the city. It was about a decade since my last visit to this city; 2003 was too long to remember what Dumaguete is for me. It was granted to me by my first foreign-assisted project with Department of Finance, the Community-Based Resource Management Project (CBRMP). Now and again, I was given to chance to revisit the place through my new project under the DSWD, the KALAHI-CIDSS. We chose Dumaguete as the ven...

George RR Martin is lately the culprit of my latest book addiction. Inspired by the HBO TV series Game of Thrones, I was lured by the story of its adaptation... in the books. I discovered that the whole story was based on the 4-book novel entitled, A Song of Fire and Ice. I started scanning the first book, A Game of Thrones, and found the movie series very faithful to it. Just like the episodes in the movies, the book drowned me into the world of fantasy very relatable to current state of the Earth - the conflict, the war, the greed of power, the politics, the game of thrones! A Game of Thrones was not enough to quench my hunger to know the mind of the author. I believe that book 1 was just the introduction, knowing its magnanimity and full of thrills, unexpected twists and turns, and an image of new world, the second to fourth books would definitely contain more of those. It kept me going... and going... Book 2, entitled A Clash of Kings, deserved another patronage. I...