The Prudential Bank and Trust Company building stands behind the Basilica Minore del Santo Nino, at the corner of D. Jakosalem and Magallanes Sts. It was built in the early 1900’s in the middle of what was still the city’s main business district.

A vintage photo from the Internet showed the building occupied by Singer before being utilized as a bank. In that photo, the canopy with the Greek bas-reliefs and ionic-style columns were not part of the building yet. Read the rest…

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Justin Anjuli K. Vestil, USJR Masscom Intern

The Wolverine is a stocky and muscular animal, considered carnivorous but known on occasion to eat plant material.

It is remarkably strong for its size, and is considered one of the most ferocious of the Mustelidae(weasel) family. It has been known to kill prey as large as moose, although most typically when these are weakened by winter or caught in snowbanks.

Mirror pieces break
like crystals in my chest,
Even though I did my best,
Sorceress heart turns
to crystal blue,
Drops to leaves like morning dew.

In the eyes of the beholder,
Lie tears that will never be over,
Waiting for something was
such a waste of time,
Drops to a deeply,
lovely rhyme…

April Ruth G. Casulla
12 yrs.old
Talisay City Science High School

Tita Dulce Festin-Baybay

If you want to succeed in life and get what you are after, then you must have discipline and work very, very hard for it, everyday. Look at boxing champion Manny Pacquiao who will be fighting again today. He did not get where he is without practicing, doing a lot of sacrifice, eating well, and just being disciplined with himself.

Can you just imagine how his little boys must feel every time they see their famous father on the television creen being watched by millions of Filipinos worldwide? Can you just imagine how his sons feel whenever they ee their father boxing and even getting hurt at the same time?  Read the rest…