Condominium living can be a beautiful thing with the Art Deco style Belle Arte Residential Condominiums. The Donya is not usually easily impressed with condominium buildings. Those artless, generic-looking concrete, steel, and glass boxes? Que horror! They assault the Donya’s classically-inclined sensibilities. Really! Would you like to reside in a neighborhood where the buildings are […]
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The First Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Center in Western Visayas Opens with Advanced Hyperbaric Health Care Center
Advanced Hyperbaric Health Care Center gives the Western Visayans their very first hyperbaric oxygen therapy center. Located at Narra Avenue, corner C.L. Montelibano, Advanced Hyperbaric Health Care Center offers two state-of-the-art computerized multi-chambers engineered and built in Germany. These allow simultaneous therapy sessions of up to five persons in one chamber and up to 12 […]
The Donya likes it HBOT! Oh, yes! The Donya likes whatever will keep her looking good, and young, and rich. She is willing to try everything once or a hundred times if it is good for her. Don’t forget – she’s a wealthy woman , and, for her, true wealth is having good health. It […]
I’m a fan of Negrense cuisine and I take pride in our good taste when it comes to putting food on the table either for our enjoyment, or to bedazzle an uninitiated guest. We pull the stops for the sake of hospitality. Is this why we are branded as tikalon? Let me tikal a little […]
Photographs courtesy of Roger Joshua Venzal The Negros Museum is a repository of things Negrense. It tells the story of Negros and its people. The Pre-colonial Room tells the story of Buglas (now known as Negros) before the Spaniards came, and even when the colonizers had established themselves on the island. See how we were […]
Sometimes, Facundo just cannot show up. ¡Que horror! The Donya just has to attend to errands personally if she wants to keep her empire purring nicely like a well-oiled machine. The secret of the Donya’s success is time-management, to plan the day the night before, to stick to a reasonable schedule, and to manage the […]
Donyas are so used to having things done for them. I am no exception, so, I was quite intimidated by the thought that I should have to hail a GrabCar myself, and, horrors! handle cash to pay the chauffeur. Alexri, my faithful, long-suffering Girl Friday, had gone on vacation and got stuck wherever on earth […]
I’ve been told that I’m a wise spender and that I only shop for what I need. C’est true! I have developed this sound habit of separating my wants from my needs, and Heaven knows that I need to shop. Haaayyy…the problem with being rich is that one is just burdened with so much cash […]
“Behold the World Wrapped in Darkness.” Sixteen young Philippine filmmakers tell their quarantine stories in ECQ:Eksena Cinema Quarantine (COVID-19 Filmmakers’ Diaries), a project under the National Commission for Culture and the Arts – National Committee on Cinema (NCCA-NCC), in cooperation with the University of St. La Salle – Artists’ Hub.. Adjani Arumpac (Count), Hiyas Baldemor […]
I am probably the only person I know who uses the patadyong for work in Negros Occidental. As a tour guide, I take pride in the products of my province for I am one of the industry’s frontliners. Whenever I am booked for tours, I check the background of my guests. If my guests are […]
