10 things you need to know about Kapampangans

So you want to live in Pampanga, or room with a Kapampangan, or even marry a Kapampangan?  Prepare for a bumpy ride!  Here are tips to help you survive the company of this much-admired, much-reviled, and much-misunderstood people:

1.      Kapampangans talk loud when they’re together.  They enjoy listening to themselves and to the sound of their language.  They love their language with a child’s love for his mother, calling it amanung sisuan (“suckled word”).  They’d navigate across a crowded room to find anyone speaking in Kapampangan, and when they do, they’d gush like long-lost friends.  They sound like they’re arguing, but they’re actually just tracing their six degrees of separation in search of a blood relation or a common acquaintance.  You can’t blame them for savoring each other’s company.  There are only 2 million of them left on earth, compared to 22 million Tagalogs, 20 million Cebuanos and 8 million Ilocanos.

The Mais Festival in Mexico

The fourth of May marks the town fiesta in the municipality of Mexico. After several years, the feast committee decided to relive the Mais Festival, since there is a really good number of the pupul mais or corn harvest this season.

There are several events to sizzle up the feast week like a cooking show and a ladies' beauty pageant.




Check out the Mexico Fiesta Calendar of Events.

#Happenings Today (04/26/2014)

Gone Google. 

That's what I have gone today. Thanks to the Google Business Group (GBG) Angeles, I was able to join the biggest Google event in Central Luzon this year, the GDays Pampanga.

"GDays Pampanga is a one of a kind and fun Googley experience so expect a day of learning and showcase of cool stuff from Google which you may be able to use in your career, profession or in your business or classroom. Whether you’re in small/medium business, academe, government, IT industry, GDays Pampanga is for you... and oh did we mention joining GDays events are free of charge." (Source: GBG Angeles Page)