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         A mother is someone who is responsible in caring a child for months, she is the one taking care of the family members during days and night. A mother's love is unconditional, they sacrifice and offer everything just to make the family always happy and full of hope and positivity in daily life. She is someone who is working hard to make the family together, she cooks a meal for the family, she cleansed the house daily, she gives light and good advices to the house, she is respected as she show respect to each members of the family and she is someone that can be lean on when you have problems. Mother’s Day is a holiday in honour of mothers that is celebrated in countries throughout the world. In its modern form the holiday originated in the United States, where it is observed on the second Sunday in May.         Mother's Day is an occasion which is celebrated in various parts of the world to express resp...

Viva Vigan Festival of the Arts is being celebrated every first week of May. It was started in 1993 by the Save Vigan Ancestral Homes Association, Inc. to promote awareness of the value of the historic town, which was hoped to strengthen resolve to preserve and protect this heritage site. It is a festival promoting the culture, arts and tradition of the Ilocano people living in the historic town of Vigan, and to the whole Ilocandia.  The festival starts on May 1, when the whole country celebrates Labor Day and Vigan remembers its own Isabelo de los Reyes, who founded the country’s first federation of labor. The catholic faithful also remembers on this day St. Joseph, patron saint of workers. The first day of the festival is followed by the Binatbatan Festival which includes and highlights the street dancing competition. Binatbatan dancing portrays the Vigan’s abel Iloco craft. The dance depicts how cotton pods are beaten with bamboo sticks to release the cotton fluff called batbat ...