Hannah Villasis

*All pictures are copyrighted and property of flaircandy.com. Pictures can be grabbed with the author’s permission and credits to my site hannahvillasis.com. All pictures in this article are taken by Nikon D40 kit lens and 70-300mm Nikkor G.  If you want to see specs of the picture, kindly click on it to be directed to my Flickr page and view exif data. I was browsing through my pictures and I realized that I have not uploaded all of the pictures from the 2009 Singapore Formula 1 night race.  Last year, I still had a day job and I was too busy to upload the pictures and blog.  When I was in Singapore, I did not have the liberty to touch my computer and update my blog all the time which is sad but you know why… Anyway, to those who are going to this year’s Singapore Formula 1 then good luck guys and I envy you… Michael Schumacher will be there!!!  Oh, I love F1… I’m still working my way to be the first female driver in the Formula 1… time will come lol :D This is Lewis Ha

Christmas in the Philippines A Christmas Lantern in the Christmas Capital of the Philippines (1st Place winner to the Keso de Gallo photo contest sponsored by Eden Cheese) The Philippines has been greatly influenced by Spanish traditions and Misa de Gallo is one of them.   Misa de Gallo is a Spanish phrase which means " Midnight mass ."  In Spain, Misa de Gallo pertains to a midnight mass starting around 12am on Christmas eve. Here in the Philippines, we have a novena of a series of 9 dawn Masses (usually around 3am to 4:30 am) starting from December 16 up to the eve of Christmas, December 24.  Filipino farmers in the early days would want to attend Christmas masses but they could not leave their fields in the day.  With this, the priests held early dawn masses to these farmers and they were held before day break and thus the term " Simbang Gabi " or Midnight Mass.  Even until now, Filipino devotees attend these midnight masses as an expression of