Miss Haluhalo

My friends, Rose and Norman,  invited me to their wedding last year so I was able to visit some of the places in General Santos. The photos here were taken on December 2012 exactly on the 14th, two days after their wedding day.  We drove from General Santos City to Lake Sebu.  Both the bride's and the groom's family, young and old, joined the trip as well as the other bridesmaids including myself.  I did not bring my son with me because he was only six months old by then and the thought of giving him to somebody else while I was walking down the isle, well as a bridesmaid that is, did not sound so appealing to me.  After all everybody in my friends' families were very very busy.  So I left my son at home with my parents again.   We arrived in the area after just about an hour. Lake Sebu is about 100 km from General Santos. Both places are in South Cotabato province and consequently part of SOCCSKSARGEN region. Lake Sebu is a natural lake located ...

What does icon mean? The dictionary on my phone has five meanings of icon depending on the words' use.  Well here on my blog, an icon means none of that defined in my phone's dictionary and instead takes its modern definition from the wikipedia which says that an "icon" is  in the general sense of symbol — i.e. a name, face, picture, edifice or even a person readily recognized as having some well-known significance or embodying certain qualities: one thing, an image or depiction, that represents something else of greater significance through literal or figurative meaning, usually associated with religious, cultural, political, or economic standing. Ok, so it says symbol so I my dictionary had it right after all. What about heroes? Heroes is the plural form of hero. Kidding!  A hero or heroin for a female is again from my phone takes this meanings: Taking these meanings, icons and heroes are just synonymous with each other. Anyway...