Grace

  The Viva Vigan Festival of Arts is celebrated during the first week of the month of May. Binatbatan Festival traces its roots from the abel weaving industry of Vigan which has been in existence even before the Spaniards came to colonize the Philippines. It comes from the word “batbat”, a pair of bamboo stick used to separate cotton pods that come from a tall tree called kapas sanglay. The word "kapas" from kapas sanglay means "cotton" in Ilocano.                 Binatbatan dancing is connected to Vigan’s abel Iloco craft. The dance depicts how cotton pods are beaten with bamboo sticks to release the cotton fluff called batbat from its seed. This festival was started in 2002 to showcase this traditional weaving craft that is said to predate the arrival of the Spaniards. Wearing clothes made from abel Iloko, a woven fabric endemic in the Ilocos Region, Binatbatan Festival is not merely just a festival. It ...

  Here I write again my reflection for the third quarter, It was fast and the next month we will be welcoming the 4th quarter already. This quarter’s lesson made me appreciate my community more for this quarter's tackles and asked us to make community-based research. At first, I don’t know why the need for us to do a list and more list regarding our community, I don’t know what to put to fill the blanks but later on, I made some research and knew more about my community.                Later on, I found out that we will be needing what we made for the 4th quarter for web design. All makes sense now, but no matter the reason we did that, I’m fine and thankful for it for I knew more and appreciate more my community. I rarely go out in our house and this lesson really makes me appreciate my community. As I was doing some research, I was surprised by some things that I don’t know that my community has.   Posti...

                             Months have passed and almost two years being in this pandemic situation and the covid cases were still here and increasing. Within these months, different covid-19 vaccination has made, studied, and presented for preventing the spread of the virus. People were asked to take the vaccine when it arrived. Some don’t want to for they are afraid which is understandable because in this time of pandemic it makes the people panic, afraid, and doubtful for everything. Tho the vaccine has a limit, people that are sick were advised to not take the vaccine.                 According to WHO, Equitable access to safe and effective vaccines is critical to ending the COVID-19 pandemic, so it is hugely encouraging to see so many vaccines proving and going into development. WHO is working tirelessly with partners to...

   The Day of Valour, also known as the Araw ng Kagitingan, commemorates the Filipino and American soldiers who stood up against Japanese forces during World War II. The story of the Fall of Bataan remains to be a devastating tale. But unlike The Shining or American Psycho, this is not a story ripped off of fiction books. It is a tragedy engraved in the dark pages of our history. It falls on April 9. On 9 April 1942, Luzon Force, Bataan commander Major General Edward P King, Jr, surrendered more than 76,000 of his starving and disease-ridden troops (64,000 Filipinos and 12,000 Americans) to Japan. As captives, the soldiers were forced to endure the infamous 140-kilometre Bataan Death March to Camp O'Donnell in Capas, Tarlac. Along the way, thousands died due to famine, heat prostration, untreated wounds, and wanton or execution-style murder. Historians believe that only 54,000 of the 76,000 prisoners were able to reach Camp O'Donnell. The exact number of deaths and escapees wa...