Christmas bazaar combines enterprise and charity
Mention the word bazaar and bargain shopping immediately comes to mind.
Mention the word bazaar and bargain shopping immediately comes to mind.
THE FILIPINOS celebrate the longest Christmas season in the world, beginning as early as September and extending until January of the following year. Because of this interesting fact, we are also looking at the longest period when the country may experience the most number of heart attack cases.
RED AND green may be the colors of Christmas, but when it comes to buildings, green reigns supreme. Green is especially radiant in this era of environmental consciousness.
Overseas Filipinos have been seen by some property analysts to take the Christmas break opportunity to view model units and make purchasing decisions this Christmas. However, other analysts disagree with this observation.
I couldn’t agree with this more! Christmas is enchanting, to say the least. Just take a drive down our major avenues or stroll into the malls and department stores, and you feel like the world has changed into a better place. It’s the joyful, happy feeling you’d want to keep—if only for a few weeks. Needless to say, the assemblage of lights, sparkle and color make the Christmas season a visual feast.
So Christmas in Metro Manila went well, the highways and byways, not to mention the shopping centers and business districts, turning into ghost towns, deserted and empty of cars, people and mayhem. I was thankful as I was delivering gifts to friends and colleagues last minute on Sunday afternoon. I was also glad that Metro [...]
In Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” The Ghost of Christmas Past transports the cantankerous old miser Ebenezer Scrooge back in time to the place Scrooge first had apprenticed as a young man.
Just in time for Christmas, a study from American researchers suggests that when it comes to gifts, quantity can diminish quality.
Five days before Christmas Day this week, we discharged a patient with severe heart failure who has defied medical science with her resiliency.
There’s a cool breeze in the air, festive lights illuminate roads and houses, and carollers go house to house singing familiar and nostalgic tunes. Christmas time is here! It’s time to do some Christmas shopping, spend time with loved ones, gorge and stuff ourselves silly with the most scrumptious food, and to be merry and spread happiness. It is indeed a season that waves a magic wand over this world, making everything softer and more beautiful.
Christmas gives us many reasons to celebrate. Aside from the traditional commemoration of the birth of Christ for Catholics, the holidays would be the time for festivities, merry-making, as well as sumptuous feasts and a lot of good cheers.
As a segue to last week’s article on increased risk of heart attacks and strokes during the holiday season, we’d like to clarify that there are other health risks other than heart-attack or stroke-related. In fact, these other risks are responsible for the tripling of emergency room consultations this time of the year.
