Who died and made a Moai-wannabe & a little English castle into Bohol icons?

This is the newest attraction at the Plaza Rizal in Tagbilaran. Yes, attraction. I can see people taking pictures in front of this hardscape now. Next thing we know, they’re making an amusement park out of our beloved plaza. Me, I want a mug.

Oh silly, silly me, but that’s an agta – body buried by an anthill, you know, a torture device right out of that hoax-of-a-code by that Kalantiao character.  Pwede, no?

Uh, but what about those darn brick crenellations and machicolations? Ah, basta.

Arts Exhibit: Mugnang Bol-anon

In celebration of the National Arts Month, Bol-anon visual artists are staging a group exhibit aptly titled: Mugnang Bol-anon (Bohol-Made) at the Lion Club’s Oak Brook Museum and Children’s Library in Tagbilaran City.

The exhibit formally opened 5pm, February 16 and will run through the whole arts month. Governor Edgar Chatto, Vice-Governor Conching Lim, and Center for Culture and Arts Development (CCAD) head Mdm. Equit Butalid, led the cutting of the ceremonial ribbon, alongside Bohol Tourism Council Chair Atty. Doy Nunag, and Bohol Arts and Cultural Heritage (BACH Council). Several Lions Club members and arts enthusiasts also showed up to support the event.

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Video: “Amigo” Bohol Premiere

“Amigo” comes home

Bohol Republic attended the Bohol Premiere Screening of Amigo in ICM ScreenVille last night, 9 Feb 2011.

It was a single screening only here in Bohol, the film will be toured around the Philippines this arts month in what organizers dubbed “Amigo Lakbay”. A commercial release scheduled in July this year will surely bring the film back to our shores.

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Ocho-ocho fare starts today

We pay P1 more in jeepney/multicab/tricycle fares today.

This, after the provisional fare hike of P1 in the minimum jeepney fare was approved by the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) on Monday, and after a slew of similar increases in fares in MRT and LRT, as well as toll fees in Metro Manila. It is no surprise, President NoyNoy Aquino is being named “the fare hike president”.

Fare increases on public transport are never welcomed by public commuters. I have a personal grudge against tricycle drivers in Tagbilaran City, especially. (And don’t even mention taxi drivers.) Don’t get me wrong, I love Tagbilaran tricycles and the biblical sayings in their tooshies. But those rickety three-wheeler drivers bottlenecking the entrances of BQ Mall, ICM, UB, etc. and charging unsuspecting passengers with absurdly exorbitant fares? It’s so easy to detest them to pieces.

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