"Just as Buddhas are covered with gold, so people want fine clothing"
(Chinese proverb).
In 1997, I started changing my Barong Tagalog wardrobe from the Santana of the 90s to the Gusot Mayaman of the 2000s.
Of course before the Santana we have the chiffonile of the big-collar fame. While the never-out-of-fad Piña and the hand-woven embroidered [...]
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JUETENG
Did you know that jueteng has been with us for the last 100 years? Some historians may dispute this, as some kind of lottery was already mentioned by Jose Rizal in one of his writings. And when you say circa Rizal, you are talking of the 19th century or 200 years ago!
Anyway we found an [...]
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He now belongs to the league of icons that never grow old. His picture will always reminds us that he's all that: irreverent, unorthodox, fashionable, incisive, humorous, and naughty.
To die at thirty five is duplicative of the great men who died before him. Dying at a little over three decades seems to be the benchmark [...]
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