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Cebu Dancing inmates has been known from their Thriller Dance Video uploaded on YouTube . Thriller is a viral video featuring the dancing inmates of a high-security penitentiary. In 2007, the inmates of Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC), a maximum security prison in Cebu, in the Cebu Province of the Philippines, imitated the zombie dance featured in the music video of Michael Jackson's "Thriller". The footage, uploaded onto video-sharing website YouTube, became an immediate internet hit and viral video. The idea behind the dance came from the prison's chief, Byron F. Garcia. Garcia first conceived the idea of exercising as an enjoyable way of keeping the prisoners mentally and physically fit. Music was then added to provide additional motivation. The convicts marched and danced to several songs, including "In the Navy" and "Y.M.C.A." by the Village People. Garcia posted the prisoners' dance regimes onto the internet in...

The University of Santo Tomas (UST)   aims to be on Guinness World Records for the world’s largest human rosary today, December 8, 2010, was held succesfully. University of Santo Tomas, according to Philippine history, is the oldest Catholic university in Asia and the largest university in Manila, held the Quadricentennial Living Rosary on its campus in Manila. The Facebook page, with the title UST QRosary , added that the attempt to set a world record is also their way to say a ‘Grand Thank You’ to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of Jesus, for the 400 years of ‘Maternal Protection’ she has given the University of Santo Tomas. UST students and faculty members form the words 'Ave Maria' before forming into a giant rosary chain on the school grounds on Wednesday.  The event, which  took place today, December 8, which is also the feast of the Immaculate Conception, where more than 20,000 ‘Thomasians’ as expected  came and joined the big event. <p>...

click on the image to enlarge Just days before his   resignation , tourism undersecretary Vicente Romano III initiated a public-driven collaboration to replace the beleaguered "Pilipinas Kay Ganda" campaign. Surprisingly, the project has taken on a life of its own as Pinoy netizens heeded his call to devise new ways and collaborate online. Project DOT wiki Dubbed as "Project DOT wiki", the initiative was quietly launched by Romano himself via a post on his personal Facebook page on Oct. 19. People who went to www.tourismpilipinas.com   were shown step-by-step instructions on how to join. "[We] have gotten close to 60 responses... since it was announced [and] I am now doing a matrix of assignments so as to optimize contributions," said Evelyn Macayayong, DOT officer-in-charge of tourism information and the main contact person for the project. In his post , Romano said he started the initiative after people began expressing   via Twitter   their eagerness to...

Manny Pacquiao produced yet another boxing masterclass to claim his eighth world title as he dismantled Antonio Margarito in Texas on Saturday night. The Filipino phenomenon was simply brilliant as he continued his astonishing rise through the weight divisions by claiming the WBC light-middleweight belt. Fighting fittingly in the $1.2billion Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington - known locally as the eighth wonder of the world - Pacquiao proved he is very much the fight game's equivalent with another virtuoso display that left Margarito battered and bruised after 12 rounds of sustained punishment. The Mexican - back in the big time after that well-documented 12-month suspension for having illegal handwraps - achieved some measure of redemption with a brave display. But he was never really a threat to Pacquiao. Before the first bell the physical size of Manny's task was obvious - unofficially he weighed 148lbs to Margarito's 165 on fight night - more than a stone lighter. But...

We always say that jeep/jeepney/dyipni/dyip or however you call it can only be found in the Philippines. But nowadays it can be found in Dubai as well...lol...I just took the photographs of this most common means of transportation in Philippines from one of the vintage car showroom in Dubai. Since jeepney or dyipni in tagalog is synonymous to Philippines you will feel alienated seeing it in another country. Philippines jeepney/dyip in a showroom of vintage cars in Dubai Souce: Wikipedia: The  jeep jeepney  or the dominant type of vehicle in the Philippines. These were made from the  "U.S. Military Jeeps"  left from World War II. Starting with the first creation, the jeepney nowadays has much decor. The jeepney is the most used terrestrial type of vehicle in the Philippines. It is use as public transportation, for trading, and for family travel. A short jeep ride can accommodate up to 12-15 people, while the long dyipni can load 15-20 people. Typically, the jeepney wa...