About 10 seconds into Don Ramon Village in the City of San Fernando, Pampanga, if you look to the left, you’d see a green building and a small café that is easily one of Pampanga’s newest go-to coffee places. But more than that, it’s a safe space that makes patrons feel like they are a …
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From ER to podium: driver wins race after a nasty crash at the Vios Cup 2022
Just like the protagonists in many movies, Kapampangan racer Jiro Garbes literally took the blow first before earning a top spot at the Vios Cup 2022 in Clark. A champion in the Promotional Class in 2021, 21-year-old Jiro Garbes has advanced to the Sporting Class of the Toyota Gazoo Racing (TGR) Vios Cup this year. …
Father and son gear up for this year’s Vios Cup
Ordinarily, dads would tell their kids to drive slowly. But this is not the case for father and son, Darrell and Jiro Garbes– at least while on the race track. A seasoned racer, the elder Garbes and his 22-year-old son Jiro are suiting up for this year’s Vios Cup at the Clark International Speedway on …
Make your type: a guide to mechanical keyboard modding
Working or studying from home has allowed us to discover various interests: food, tv series, plants, home improvements, and having a nice desk among others. Of course, we practically did everything from our home with our desktops or laptops for the past two years– and having a good workstation is nothing but necessary. For some, …
Young Kitchen: The Tiger and His Lair, Casa Tigre
You know, you’d think it’s easy writing about something you like. As it turns out, you have to deal with a weeks-long slump, delaying the writeup, waiting for inspiration to come to you. It doesn’t. So you sit there in front of your laptop writing this exact paragraph that you probably won’t edit out later. …
There’s nothing wrong with my Kayumanggi skin
When I was younger, I always considered my Kayumanggi skin as a flaw. I hated my skin color so much, to the point where I avoided going out of our house in my hopes to lighten my skin. I used pile up whitening filters on my photos to hide my brown skin and convince myself …
Relive moments from the past, the modern way
If you have memories dusting away in your old VHS or Betamax tapes, bring ‘em over! Meet the millennial Kapampangan who digitizes/immortalizes these moments. Gather ‘round, kids, let’s learn about VHS tapes! No, not the circular things with a hole at the center (like a flat doughnut); those are called CDs. Nope, not the square …
Young Kitchen: Geli in the house, literally
A cute kitchen—small, with calming pale orange color all around, a fancy, tall refrigerator, a table for a small family, a gas range in the corner, and Geli Ronquillo, a 26-year-old chef standing over it most days, cooking what she feels like cooking. Or in other terms, a hustle day for the young chef. Chef …
6 things that help improve my mental health
Keeping my mental health in good condition allows me to handle my emotions and stress appropriately. It took me years before I found the courage to improve myself. It may not be an easy journey but I’ve been trying my best not to feel pressured and to just trust my own pace. Here are six …
AUF’s SAMASKOM makes kindness an endless ripple
Kindness is like magic. It positively impacts your life and the lives of the people around you. Kindness, if practiced by many people, can be an endless ripple that is impossible to stop. It can be shown in several ways. You can be kind to yourself, to the environment, to animals, and to other individuals. …