Costume season
All you parents worrying about where to get Philippine national costumes for your kids for the Buwan ng Wika celebrations at their schools, look no further.
The snapshot above is from my daughter Maia’s Buwan ng Wika (National Language Month) Celebration at her school. Maia (second from right) is wearing a Tausug formal dress called the Biyatawi. The biyatawi is a blouse made of plain material like satin and is ornamented with tambuku (gold or silver filigree) on the breast, shoulders, and cuffs. It is usually worn with sawwal (loose trousers) of silk or brocade. A habul tiyahian is either slung across the shoulder or allowed to hang on one arm.
Of course, for this outfit we went to the tried and tested Echague Bazar in Quiapo, which I wrote about sometime last year, after we discovered it while looking for where to buy United Nations costumes.
The costume Maia is wearing cost around PHP400.00. There are cheaper versions of this costume, but we picked this one out because of the finer quality compared to the less costly set.
Teachers looking for their own Filipiniana costumes should look no further as well, because the Echague Bazar also sells adult size costumes. Click through to my other post so find out how to get to the Echague Bazar.
Online shopping advantages
Being an occasional online buyer myself, I have never understood the usefulness of online coupons such as buy.com coupons, till I realized they’re really the same as the ones I can cut out from newspapers and magazines. It’s surprising how these coupons do actually work — discounts of 5% or 10% may not mean much to some people, but when one is on their last few pesos that’s when the appreciation comes in. Discount coupons and cards, store loyalty cards — especially those where you don’t have to shell out any cash for — does help one’s budget. I remember one time when I had to buy a can of my daughter’s powdered milk, which cost just under P500, and discovered that the points on my customer advantage card were enough to cover the purchase. That was a huge relief for me, and from then on I had never passed up the chance to use any discount coupons or freebie cards from the establishments that I regularly go to.
USB Bracelets for Giveaways
The office should have found a better source for our personalized gift giveaways. The latest ones we have are portable USB drives which, while quite useful, have proven to be a bit unwieldy. It’s made out of heavy metallic material and swings on a swivel cover when attached to a computer tower.
USB drives are a good giveaway items these days, because almost everyone has some sort of use for it, whether they have a computer at home or not. Especially useful are those USB drives I’ve seen that are shaped and can be worn like bracelets.
Things start to sound familiar after a year …
It’s been a year and a month since I first got my Nikon D60 DSLR camera, and yearly events are starting to sound familiar now that I’m hearing about them for the second time.
This year’s Aliwan Fiesta will take place on April 22-24, which is Thursday to Saturday. Pretty much like last year’s schedule, now that I’ve looked at my picasa album from the first time I did some shooting at the Aliwan.
I’d like to shoot at the Aliwan again this year, just to see if I can come up with better photos after a year.
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