Pinoys’ Guardian Angel in Singapore

The author with Philippine ambassador to Singapore Mindy Cruz By Arpee Lazaro Did you know that Singapore ranks 10 in the list of countries with the most number of Filipinos? The US tops the list with close to one million Filipinos, including those who have been naturalized and those who were born... 

Source:  PinoyCentric.com

Asia Pacific Leadership Program

Asia Pacific Leadership Program East-West Center Honolulu, Hawaii Website: www.eastwestcenter. org/aplp Deadline: 31 January 2010 PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Entering its tenth year, the Asia Pacific Leadership Program (APLP) is the center of excellence for leadership education in the Asia Pacific region... 

Source:  Filipino Scholar . Com

Halili-Cruz Ballet School

It is probably one of the best dance and ballet schools in the Philippines. Their students performed very well during the 10th Asia-Pacific Dance Competition in Singapore last July. Many in the Philippines must have read about it in the papers there. I have a niece who joined them for the first time this year. So, along with her mom, my younger sis, they traveled to Singapore to join the team. When I was young (ehem) and in our place, ballet was not so popular as in the cities. Although at school, we had the basics for dancing in our PE classes. But it never went beyond that. Folkdance was much cheaper so we had to settle for it. It would have been nice for our posture and the way we hold ourselves if we had ballet as part of our regimen …

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