In a couple of months Thom and I will be going along with my mom on a trip to the Philippines. I haven’t been back since 1997, and this will be Thom’s first time. Exciting! A highlight will be visiting Lucban, my mom’s hometown, for a couple of reunion events and for Pahiyas, the town fiesta held every year in mid-May.
A while back on YouTube I rediscovered a Philippine Airlines commercial from the 1980s:
(Here’s another version I found, but it’s taped from Hong Kong TV, I think.) Ah, those take me back. I remember seeing them on KTSF Channel 26 here in the Bay Area, during the Filipino block of programming on Saturdays. Love the cheesy music: “Warm as the sun in our skies of blue / Real as the smiles that welcome you / At last it’s true / The beauty of the Philippines is shining through / Philippine Airlines, shining through.”
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Oooh. What fun! I’ve only spent time in the lovely Manila Airport on a long layover.
The CM reminded me of a CD I bought at the Philippines festival here in DC once, Carol Banawa. It’s quite nice with its pop-y goodness 🙂
That’s great! The bf is also planning a visit this June. I warned him about the heat and the crowd and the traffic but he’s pretty insistent. lol. I’m sure you and Thom will have fun. And you’ll be surprised will all the changes that have happened in the last 10 years. (I was only gone for 5 and I was pretty disoriented.)
Hee, all I could think of was that Duran Duran video… Save a Prayer, where they are walking along the beach with the kids and the outriggers…
When!? I’m going in August. The heat! The Heat! Ack! Then, I’m going to Vietnam.