The Anthem Philatelist

    Born on April 28, 2002, he is one of the youngest emerging artists making waves both locally and internationally is a 20 year old native of Danao City, who is currently living in Carmen , Cebu . His name is Leodito Rosales Bongo III.   Currently a Fine Arts student of the University of the Philippines Cebu, he was also a  personal student of Master Cubist Celso Duazo Pepito since 2020. He  garnered several local and international awards for his art and was the champion of the 7th World Youth Art Festival 2020 in South Korea . He started creating art when he was in grade 3 but did not take it seriously until he was 16.    His journey in pursuing his passion for creating art was not easy - with initial opposition from his parents.  He started losing hope because no one believed in him. But God sent him two angels in the person of Sir Paul Llideau and Celso Pepito who started to mentor him and changed his life for good.  He was g...

           Cebu2World Development Inc.  Presents  "Katahum sa Carbon- An Art Exhibit"   The Unveiling and Groundbreaking  New Freedom Park, Cebu City

I've on occasion been asked, how do you remain fit? Now, I'm going to reveal my secret- Hormesis. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. This is the basic layman concept of hormesis.  Our body responds to transient, acute physiologic stress or discomfort by triggering the adaptive stress response pathways. This reaction makes  our cells - especially the mitochondria, (the powerhouse of the cell) work better, making our body more efficient machines. The stress should be acute; chronic stress leads to debility and disease. One of the most common hormetic activity is exercise.  We stress our heart and muscle  to a certain degree and our body responds by making our muscles stronger, bigger and more adaptive to stamina. As in life and hormesis, too much of anything, including exercise is bad. I ran too much in my 40's and I injured myself then. So now in my 50's, running has become an occasional activity. Fasting is another hormetic activity. I have always skipped bre...

   As we bring the 4th installment of Tubô Cebu Art Fair back to its physical format on September 16-18, 2022 at Ayala Center Cebu, we invite the community to ignite their playful side–“Duwa ta,” as we say in Cebuano, Arvin Allen A. Tan , Tubô project chairman and Cebu Art Council Board of Trustees, said. Let’s create a space where we can play and grow together.

  After shifting to Cubism in 1994, Celso Pepito thought of ceasing to paint in an impressionistic manner.  However, after thinking that such privilege to paint this way is a gift from God, he opted to paint again in this style in 2009.  It was one of his ways to commune with nature.  He usually does this on-the-spot painting with friends. Painting below are scenes from Consolacion , Liloan and Oslob , Cebu . Oslob, Cebu While his friends were doing the whale shark, he painted this road in Oslob                                                                           Bagacay Point, Liloan, Cebu, 2009                                 Sometimes beset with boredom,...

      Ryan Cipriano Pujante Cayabyab is an icon in Philippine music industry and my idol since the Ryan Ryan Musikahan days in the 80's. He is one of the those who inspired me to continue learning and playing the  piano until the present.    I love his piano playing, arrangements, compositional style and the joy which he exudes while he is on his piano. I almost have his complete CDs (more than 20) which i started collecting since the first CDs came out in the 80s, including the instrumentals as rendered by the San Miguel Philharmonic Orchestra and Master Chorale,  Roots to Routes Jazz album, Christmas Albums, A Capella Albums, Commercial CD he made for Dunkin Donut and rare works like his Sacred Music which won the Onassis International Cultural Competition for Original Music Composition for Dance and Spoliarium , an opera on Juan Luna with coloratura soprano and National Artist for Music, Fides Cuyugan Asencio .    I also collected a...

I have been buying and collecting CDs since the 80's until the stores stopped selling them around 2010. This collection started when my Dad came home from the US in 1984 bringing with him one of the first CDs to ever come out of the US market.  It was a CD of Pat Benatar from her Live from Earth Album with the hit song Love is a Battlefield and Yes Owner of the Lonely Heart 90125 album. Thirty years after,  I have collected around 2K CDs with complete Albums and sets (mostly 80's and alternative rock, up to the time when the the CD stores closed)  of The Beatles , Queen , U2 , The Police , The Cure , Madonna , Green Day , Duran Duran , Tears for Fears , Depeche Mode , Stone Temple Pilots , Dishwalla , Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins , and many more.  My two favorite Filipino Artists to collect are Ryan Cayabyab and Eraserheads . I completed the collection through buying the physical CD in stores, here and abroad, and when the stores disappeared- online. Nowadays m...