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Adrenaline rush and a heart pumping way to welcome the Halloween...outbreak manila!! 500 zombies invaded Enchanted Kingdom to chase 9000 runners in this 3rd fun run event.

Runners move around the “zombified” amusement park and outrun hundreds of zombies, while keeping at least one life flag intact. Prior to the race, each runner will be given a belt with three red flags symbolizing a life. And no matter how scary it gets, runners and zombies cannot have physical contact at any time.

Inspired by Run For Your Lives, Outbreak Manila adds a whole new twist to the typical 5-kilometer run. Organizers say its goal is to come up with a race that stands out from all the rest by giving people a cause that they would really run for. And what better cause can there be than to run as if your life depended on it?
The organizers also say that Outbreak has set its sights on Cebu at Parkmall, Mandaue City on December 21,2012.

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day 225-220: year of the dragon

Kung Hei Fat Choi to all :)

day 235-230: Hala Bira!!

The mother of all Philippine festivals, Kalibo Ati-Atihan is consists of tribal dancing parade and ethnic music that accompanied by indigenous costumes and weapons. Its been observed every third Sunday of January in which people smear thmeselves of charcoal or any black substance to look like Aetas.

The name Ati-Atihan means "to be like Aetas" or "make believe ati's". It started at around 13th century wherein a group of Malay chieftains or "datus" fled from Borneo and accepted by the Ati's the early settlers in Panay Island. Its a celebration to seal a peaceful pact between two different races and cultures. It became a religious feast in 1750 wherein a companion priest of Fray Andres Urdaneta and explorer Miguel Lopez de Legaspi baptized in one day 1,000 inhabitants of the town and surrounding settlements in the place. Since then its been celebrated with masses and novenas to their Patron Saint Sto.Nino.

As time passes by,people add modern touch to the festival such as modern type of Ati-Atihan dance and used of creative masks instead of charcoals. The drum beats are also in tune of some pop music. But the spirit of the festival is still there and it became more lively with these new features. People from other provinces and even in Manila visit this place just to participate in the lively street dancing and witness the creativity of the costumes and props of the locals and the Aetas themselves. Many devotees are also flocking the church to attend the masses and novenas as they believe that they will be bless by the miraculous power of Sto.Nino.

day off tatts

Last August 26-27, the annual tattoo expo event called Dutdutan was held at World Trade Center Pasay City, Manila. Its a convention wherein local and international tattoo artists gathered to showcase their art and to educate the public about this eccentric and unique lifestyle.

Its quite a lively event with drum duels, live action combat, bikini open photo shoot by FHM models and of course cat walk of the tattoo works of the artists. Despite of the heavy rains brought by typhoon Mina, a lot of people still attended the event to witness this wonderful craft and of course to enjoy the free show of beautiful models and free drinks ^_^



A tattoo artist from Tribu in which she uses a traditional tool for carving a tattoo on his colleague's ankle



A model showcase her tattoo the Holy Family as part of the portraits category.



A Japanese youkai (demon) tattoo is showcase as part of the portraits category.



Morgan Eyes poses for the photographers during the event, she's an international tattoo artists from Tribal Gear and one of the special guest for this year's Dutdutan.



May this culture continue to grow and may the public be more open to them and accept them as a form of art and creativity.