Pakil Laguna

Benito hails from Pakil, Laguna. She is a self-taught painter who first forayed into professional art in year 2007. She has participated in various local and international group shows and two one-woman exhibits, with the third one held last October at the Galerie Joaquin. Jovan Benito's Christmas-themed artwork graces Pan de Manila's paper bags and take-out boxes for the holidays. These are available in their branches outside shopping malls all over Metro Manila, Luzon, Cebu, and Iloilo. Her colorful taste in paints becomes a feminine rendered art into canvas and it attracts a family oriented eye that can feel happiness looking in her works.

September is the special month where Turumba procession is held in Pakil, Laguna. People especially  its own people working and residing somewhere in other cities, will go in their townhomes and commemorate the celebration of Turumba. With this special ocassion, family and friend reunions also happens. In this crucial events in this town, giving special treatment to Mother Mary is the center of attention. People pray and reenact the founding of Turumba. At the Turumba Shrine starts and end the Turumba procession. The folks dance with hymn of Turumba and shouted Sa Birhen!.

Source: Facebook In the past election, Pakil folks voted Mr. Vincent Soriano as Mayor of Pakil and is holding the highest position in this town. Vincent is known for being a nice person and no matter what happen his own vocabulary dictates as "BUSY" person. People decide him to become a leader for any purpose and must be the cause of having him assigned the leadership is about changes. Leadership is one of his skills as he takes courses about governance and being in the family of excellent skills like his mother, father and now the Chief of Police, his brother. His adventures in politics and leadership can viewed in various publications, even in national newspapers. His excellent character has proven by the results he made and the careers he had tackeled. As his goal in life has been read among his people, his leadership should be supported at any time. This will affect all the Pakil folks at the same time. About Vincent Both of my grandmothers were from P...

Pakil folks are hungry of good leadership because of their desire for big leap of changes. Some of them think this as simple as changing their chief or mayor to implement this assumption. Opinions were flooded before but changes in a community of thousand population does not rely on its leaders but also within the power of its people. Opinions is not strong enough if it is not supported by strong evidence, facts and theories. To make a big leap of changes, people should campaign for exposing more reliable information within its community such as solutions to problems, guarding people's funds, government transactions and mediocre activity of their leaders or irresponsible acts. Election is a better way to changes and this opportunity should be given much crucial decisions among Pakilenos to cooperate with positive acts to be orchestrated by its people. Now options are given but careless decisions and selections from the electoral candidate will ruin their dreams in a matter of o...

By JANET MASLIN Published: April 12, 1984 ''TURUMBA,'' the second feature by the Philippine film maker Kidlat Tahimik, unfolds in a gradual and deceptively deadpan style. It takes place in a small village, where the festival of the title is an occasion for every family to make papier- mache figurines. Beginning by showing the various customs that surround the festival, it follows the process by which one family starts a manufacturing operation, eventually producing 25,000 toy dachshunds for the 1972 Munich Olympics. ''Turumba,'' which opened yesterday at the Film Forum, is acted in a slightly stiff style, since it is just scripted enough to lack spontaneity. That does not mean it is without wit, however. Mr. Tahimik's screenplay interjects all sorts of incongruously Western locutions, like ''export order,'' into the speech of the villagers, and has them marvel over each new dividend that their prosperity brings - a radio that pl...

Credit: Pamana  Credit: Daphne - a popular Filipina model and host Danny Lopez of UP Beta Epsilon Fraternity and family at Pakil. Beta Epsilon Fraternity President

Election is near coming and awaiting the hope for folks of Pakil to assume any better changes in this old town. Pakil, Laguna was known for religious traditions, good food and arts. With old folks are saying, hoping the town would goes little bit better has to change everything including leadership. Leadership in Pakil have nothing different than other political talks but with people closer as cousins, family and friends, the people here were divided by mere trust and family or friends attachments. Looking forward to this town in progressive perspective will deal with much talks and critical decisions to choose the best options including leadership. The progress of any town including Pakil should not rely on leadership but also with the help of community and organizations to find resources, skills among people and diplomatic method with neighboring towns. To put business establishments should go further in a way utilizing the people skills and not only for the sake of good inco...