Baguio Insider

Above is a photo (no — it’s not a painting) of Burnham Park through photographer Ric Maniquis’ eyes. We took a photo of it during the Burnham Park Exhibit at SM City Baguio (by the lower parking basement level elevators), that will run until March 31, 2008.

To protect the image, I have added a watermark for the protection of Ric’s intellectual property.

On one side are photos of a Baguio growing up, while the other features recent images of Burnham Park. Ric, along with Ompong Tan, two of the artists whose works were being shown, said that the challenge is to find an ‘empty’ Burnham Park these days (in taking photos of the landscape). (more…)

When the Mayor of Baguio, whose family owns University of Baguio declared a paradigm shift from tourism to education and (added by Vice-Mayor and UB Chief of Legal Affairs Danny Farinas recently) - ta da! - commercialism, I figured to look into how well our graduates performed in the hugely popular Nursing Licensure Exams last December 2007, just to have a gauge of how valid that claim of his of “Welcome to the Educational Center of the North” was.

Here is an analysis of how well (or how badly) the schools in Baguio performed in 2007: (more…)

Butterfly Sanctuary, Camp John Hay, Baguio City, Philippines. Photo by Nico Cawed.

Happy Easter!

As a Roman Catholic, I love this day, as all other Christians in the world celebrate the greatest gift of all!

Last year, I decided to make 8 resolutions on this occasion (instead of the ones we typically make on the new year) and it is time to review them and make new ones. These were last year’s resolutions: (more…)

Last year, Joseph Lansang and I became friends online. He emailed me photos of Old Baguio that showed a Baguio so beautiful and clean they brought tears to my eyes, and my heart was filled with nostalgia. As this was the Baguio I fell in love with.

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