awitan ko ikaw

my new store

2012-01-31T06:16:00.000+08:00

thank you to all sponsors

please pray for my uncle Oscar

2012-01-02T15:30:00.001+08:00

Oscar Balasta Ortiz died around 5 pm, january 1, 2012. please pray for my uncle Oscar

to you all generous sponsors and friends

2011-12-23T08:58:00.000+08:00

wishing you a merry christmas and a happy new year

studio for rent, makati

2011-10-31T20:09:00.000+08:00

available again

- studio is available for a minimum term of 6 month,

- kitchen area equipped with electrical cooking range 3 plates, oven, microwave, fridge, hot/cold water
- dining table
- 2 m long bed with comfortable matrass
- tv, dvd player
- airconditioned
- bathroom with shower, toilet, hot/cold water
- available cable tv, dsl internet

- building managed by ayala, the leading real estate company in the country
- 24 hour inhouse security services,
- spacious lobby
- swimming pool, gym, conference room
- available laundry service, cleaning service
- elevators, permanent water supply, in-house electricity generator

- located benavidez corner paseo de roxas,
- in front of greenbelt 1,
- beside ASIA INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT,
- walking distance ayala mrt station
- walking distance from makati business district, ayala avenue, many embassies, major corporate headquarters, makati stock exchange, call centers etc
- walking distance department stores rustans, sm, landmark, malls greenbelt, glorietta, sm
- walking distance major hotels peninsula, makati shangri-la, intercontinental, dusit
- walking distance greenbelt cinemas, restaurants, 24 hour stores

contact awitankoikaw2009@yahoo.com or princess_maganda@live.com

educational tour school my daughter

2011-10-10T03:16:00.004+08:00

araneta coliseum many stairs, very tiring, very cold. lucky we have jackets. many food vendors but no food allowed. funny no? disney show really nice and beautiful.

somebody happy at seriland. very cold also. much more accessible thn araneta coliseum.

many mirrors, they give gloves to feel way out

AWITAN now on google+

2011-09-22T12:52:00.000+08:00

now on google+, look for princess maganda
still learning how it works

and how do you like my new dress?

september 15, 2004

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2 legs in the morning, 1 leg in the evening = september 15, 2004

very first picture only after september 15, 2004 december 4, 2005, and very much depressed still

singing again in public, around end march 2007

almost end of depression, first time on crutches in public, april 4, 2007

first picture in miniskirt, october 7, 2007, not really depressed anymore

really recovered from depression, picture taken june 23, 2009

jolina magdangal: memory lane

2011-08-23T04:44:00.003+08:00

very nice place, good food, when in tagaytay worth to visit. souvenir shop has no songs or anything for jolina fans

sonya's secret garden: bed and breakfast

2011-08-02T10:17:00.006+08:00

sonya's secret garden: garden

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sonya's secret garden: food

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breakfast complete with chocolate, fish, fruits, vinegar, eggs, squid and more

sonya's secret garden: flowers

2011-08-02T10:13:00.010+08:00

AWITAN sings karaoke: gulong ng palad

2011-07-22T15:59:00.003+08:00

this is first song published in a while. is different friends now help me here and access my old youtube account got lost. that is why new youtube account.
also i sing less now because have my own place with food and music, my store and other small business. thank you too all who made it possible. i happy

a faq in facebook: my artificial leg

2011-06-03T04:47:00.003+08:00

surgery happened september 15, 2004 and i was very depressed long time. was not able see myself in mirror. thn after long time i sing in public again, as replacement singer, only once a week. artificial leg heavy and very warm, i walk slowly and painful, audience react with pity. thn with help i overcome depression and accept myself. so no more need artificial leg and audience react with surprise, not pity

have only few pictures with my artificial leg, that time still depressed so did not like my picture taken.

those pictures already published in myspace, others lost when typhoon

surgery happened september 15, 2004 and i was very depressed long time. was not able see myself in mirror. thn after long time i sing in public again, as replacement singer, only once a week. artificial leg heavy and very warm, i walk slowly and painful, audience react with pity. thn with help i overcome depression and accept myself. so no more need artificial leg and audience react with surprise, not pity

for myspace friends: AWITAN sings

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recorded at one of those events

for facebook friends: AWITAN sings

2010-12-23T15:15:00.003+08:00

wonderful song: PANGARAP KO

recorded at one of those events

2010-11-28T23:02:00.001+08:00

turning 8, happy happy birthday

2010-11-19T16:36:00.003+08:00

AWITAN has fun: bakit ngayon

2010-09-07T06:39:00.002+08:00

watch only if you have sense of humour!

singing for fun with a friend

AWITAN sings karaoke: kung maibabalik ko lang

2010-08-29T16:22:00.003+08:00

my very own banca in gamay, northern samar

2010-04-28T16:50:00.003+08:00

my banca, municipality center behind

she loves the freshj fish

she my life

singing commercials, please consider... or just enjoy the song

2010-03-24T04:52:00.003+08:00

now available again

mansion for sale or for rent, serviced/non-serviced

located white sands resort villas, maribago, lapu-lapu city
mactan island, cebu

- walking distance from white sands beach resort
- 30 minutes from mactan-cebu international airport
- 30 minutes from mepza 1, mepza 2 and light industrial parc

living area 360 sqm
lot area 1050 sqm

- 24 hr security,
- 5 hp generator,
- 2,500 liter water tanks

satellite tv
internet wireless

contact perlita_opalo@yahoo.com

short hair and more healthy gaining weight :-)

2010-03-11T17:44:00.002+08:00

tis is why can not easily have many small internet transactions

2010-02-25T15:27:00.001+08:00

south east in picture my place and home town gamay, nortern samar, south 70 km to west is catarman, is only here have bank and express mail service, i go there every month, north west ist quezon city, part of metro manila

walemavu

2010-02-20T13:36:00.003+08:00

“Walemavu” is a Swahili word for people with disability.
interested to meet know and perhaps help or date nice people from kenya, here is link to their website

http://walemavu.webnode.com/

doorlock, philippine style

2010-01-30T10:36:00.002+08:00

AWITAN sings karaoke: PANGAKO

2010-01-26T04:36:00.001+08:00

sinulog 2010

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AWITAN sings karaoke: LINGATAN KA

2010-01-13T03:39:00.004+08:00

nice song by Carol Banawa, starts at 50" into the video
features clips from 3 different flights to mactan cebu

some do it wrong

2009-12-15T01:11:00.003+08:00

here in blog no need to register, all have access articles, pictures or music clips. so about facebook or myspace if you are no music professional, or have no face picture , or no message/email or no o$er way to make your$elf inter$ting please accept to not be accepted

the good news radio dxgn fm 89.9

2009-08-30T17:36:00.003+08:00

why best?
they first to play my songs end december 2005.
thanks jess

not everywhere is the right to live guaranteed by constitution

2009-08-08T19:55:00.002+08:00

... but thn basic rights should always be guaranteed

crocodile? not THAT one!

2009-08-08T18:26:00.005+08:00

this is for the many who always ask the same question but never ask my favorite
question...

awitan ko ikaw: to love you more

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makati

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makati avenue

daily life in samar

2009-07-04T08:27:00.002+08:00

my 3d store

so dark after summer

more from my place near Ormoc Leyte

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taken around May 2008

finger food at the beach

my little plantation store

near Ormoc, Leyte

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my home near ormoc, leyte, december 2007

my sari sari store

typhoon, june 2008

MY HEART WILL GO ON: awitan rehearsal honors a generous person with a kind heart

2009-04-26T17:40:00.006+08:00

awitan feels so blessed today,
it came so unexpected and so beyond expectation!
she requested blogger to publish something immediately for the world to share her joy.
awitan is in northern samar, and probably a trip 2 days or more from the blogger. so blogger choose from the series you know already: every event needs preparation and rehearsal. here excerpts of MY HEART WILL GO ON, taped in awitans modest place in metro manila .

you dive? i dont, i know how to swim

2009-04-20T21:28:00.003+08:00

many divers paradise in philippines and especially cebu. very accessible with mactan cebu international airport via hong kong qatar singapore korea japan and other

dive corals or dive wrecks of battle of leyte gulf, largest sea battle ever.

haruhay, where austrians and others meet and dine and wine

2009-04-16T19:35:00.004+08:00

whenever in mactan cebu and have have a crave vor schnitzel knoedel wuerste wein pfannkuchen... haruhay is the place to be

open air restaurant, austrian yes, in austria no. comes with rooms swimming pool tennis court and more. real underground wine cellar under construction!

have a look at the beer add, dont worry they dont have it hehe

awitan wasnt here yet, she would find it if someone would ask her to guide

awitan rehearsal scenes & WHAT A FEELING

2009-04-15T12:03:00.002+08:00

every event needs preparation and rehearsal. here excerpts of WHAT A FEELING, taped in awitans modest place in metro manila

Samar, so beautiful

2009-04-07T21:47:00.003+08:00

summer 2008

do you understand now why not possible to be online often? :-)

we now have 2 functioning emails so you have a choice how to reach us.
new:
awitankoikaw2009@yahoo.com
and:
princess_maganda@live.com

additional email address

2009-04-03T13:54:00.005+08:00

we now have 2 functioning emails so you have a choice how to reach us.

new:
awitankoikaw2009@yahoo.com

and:
princess_maganda@live.com

at least in one important case, a senders default email server declines to deliver senders email to live.com, that is why here is an additional address, this time by yahoo

AWITAN sings karaoke: LAGING TAPAT

2009-03-23T16:06:00.002+08:00

beautiful song by jolina

help: your mail server declined deliver your email to our address

2009-03-18T15:45:00.006+08:00

Help anyone with this?

awitan started having email contact with a friendly person from far away. he seems warm hearted and is of proven generosity.

contact started february 24, several exchanges, ... and when it started to really get interesting and important he sents this message via a friends account:
our default mail server declined to deliver our emails to your address

what to do to fix this?

Anyone else has difficulty to email us?
as an alternative to our email please leave a comment here or in youtube

canadian crutches and quality available in manila

2009-03-14T07:09:00.005+08:00

this subject came up in one of the email exchanges.

using 2 canadian crutches full time when outdoors
these are made in taiwan, easily available in metro manila.

often they have quality problems with the cuff and grip which easily become loose.
also the cover of the cuff doesnt seem to be meant for heavy duty.

as of now i have new crutches, same model. so no imminent problem right now.

awitan rehearsal scenes & THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL

2009-02-28T23:54:00.003+08:00

reduced video quality and size for the benefit of those who prefer free and easy sharing and upload

every event needs preparation and rehearsal. here excerpts of THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL, taped in awitans modest place in metro manila dreaming of my own place with food and music http://awitankoikaw.blogspot.com

awitan rehearsal: WOMAN IN LOVE (excerpt)

2009-02-26T16:39:00.001+08:00

every event needs preparation and rehearsal. here excerpts of WOMAN IN LOVE, taped in awitans modest place in metro manila

every event needs preparation and rehearsal

2009-02-18T15:29:00.003+08:00

my simple place in quezon city, preparing an upcoming event

... and by the way: how about my shorter hairstyle now?

this post is for the benefit of those who requested to see more of my facial pictures.
some short clips about the rehearsal will be uploaded when finished editing.

proposed cd covers

2009-02-16T10:17:00.004+08:00

AWITAN sings karaoke: dito ba

2009-01-30T13:53:00.003+08:00

as per request AWITAN shown while singing, with karaoke subtitles

sinulog beat

2009-01-19T14:32:00.005+08:00

sinulog! pit senyor!

beat of sinulog

happy new year to all sponsors and people of goodwill

2009-01-08T13:11:00.001+08:00

philippine new year celebration, fireworks dec 31 2008 at maribago beach, mactan, cebu and dec 31 2007 bf homes las pinas
also shows beautiful awitan singing SAY THAT YOU LOVE ME

dreaming of my own place with food and music http://awitankoikaw.blogspot.com/

Lift up your hands to God

2008-12-30T14:10:00.002+08:00

maligayang pasko = merry christmas

typical christmas lights in bf homes neighbourhood, and 1:30 into the video samples of lavishly illuminated houses in by now famous policarpio street, mandaluyong city

sana'y wala nang wakas

2008-12-18T16:23:00.002+08:00

clip only recently taken, we enjoy flowers in winter while others enjoy a winter garden :-)
... dedicated to a friendly friend who lives in an area where life is celebrated in names of municipalities and cities
... dedicated to those who think less is more, especially when talking about snow in winter

thrill my heart again

2008-12-10T11:46:00.005+08:00

This song is dedicated to

- the special someone for whom AWITAN is history and who is not yet history for AWITAN.
- the friendly hopefulls who dream to be part of AWITAN's future and who please understand AWITAN right now is dreaming of her own place with food and music

8 more songs recorded

2008-12-08T17:11:00.006+08:00

choosing songs

during recording

dreaming of my own place with food and music

2008-11-25T12:32:00.008+08:00

some 6,500 different people visited this blogspot and exactly 8 (as in eight) inquired to learn more about awitans dreams. we tried to answer individually and now for the benefit of all we come up with some pictures.

awitans dream is reasonable, realistic and achievable. here is why:
eatery in the philippines is a bit of all of the following: a diner in the US, bistrot in france, eethuis in netherlands, imbiss in germany,

it can be fastood, junkfood or home cooked,

it may come with entertainment like sports, cable tv, karaoke singing, live band

the locals love to sing dance and eat. it is not uncommon to see people in a public parc ballroom dancing at 6 am before work,

they all sing, many out of tune :-) ,

they love to eat and they amuse themselves almost without alcohol...

a franchise is out of reach, that would be high end
in a good location. more down to reality the investment can be anything starting for a streetcorner pushcart, - and the sky is the limit.

it depends on buying land or not, building a structure or not etc.

going into the business is easy, staying there is difficult, lots of competition

so here is the plan:

- look for good location, dont buy land, just rent

- built own cheap light and open-air structure. please note here they separate ownership of land and ownership of buildings and structures.

- start small expand as it goes, no loans.

- i saw a 24 h well working concept offering only

- grilled or fried or boiled

- fish or chicken or porc,

- vegetable of the day,

- soup of the day,

- mango or papaya or pineapple,

- soft drinks or beer

- for awitan i suggest opening time 11.00am to 11.00pm sun to thu, 11.00am t0 2.00am fri sat)- add a karaoke so guest may sing themselves, live band evenings thu to sun, may be cable tv with sports channel and sure awitan sings herself at times as well

face mask from samar

2008-11-24T12:19:00.000+08:00

artificial body parts have been of interest since centuries, here an artificial face from awitans home island of samar.

nice outfit?

2008-10-17T04:44:00.004+08:00

this is the outfit when performing

celine dion couldnt come, POWER OF LOVE

2008-09-12T13:17:00.002+08:00

again the audio track of this clip dates back to one of my recordings in december 2005.

please note the name of the boat is goteborg, for obvious reasons the titanic was not available...

singing commercials, please consider... or just enjoy the song

2008-09-10T13:42:00.001+08:00

mansion for rent, serviced or non-serviced, weekly or monthly

2008-09-10T12:14:00.004+08:00

contact perlita_opalo@yahoo.com

- mansion for rent,
- serviced per week or per month
- non-serviced

located white sands resort villas, maribago, lapu-lapu city
mactan island, cebu

- walking distance from white sands beach resort
- 30 minutes from mactan-cebu international airport
- 30 minutes from mepza 1, mepza 2 and light industrial parc

living area 360 sqm
lot area 1050 sqm

- 24 hr security,
- 5 hp generator,
- 2,500 liter water tanks

satellite tv
internet wireless

sounds of nature, sounds of awitan

2008-08-30T11:21:00.002+08:00

awitan sings karaoke HINDI KO KAYANG IWAN KA

love birds, storm, thunder, beautiful tagalog song HINDI KO KAYANG IWAN KA

for rent or for sale:

2008-08-28T09:14:00.005+08:00

office building, for sale or for rent, located San Andres Bukid, Manila
lot area 239 sqm, building area 4 floors

contact perlita_opalo@yahoo.com

available next May 2009:
studio 37 sqm, furnished, for rent, located across Greenbelt 1, beside AIM, Makati
contact perlita_opalo@yahoo.com

awitan sings karaoke ALL AT ONCE

2008-08-18T02:33:00.006+08:00

the audio track of this clip dates back to one of my recordings in december 2005.
this weeks post is dedicated to some people very special:

- a lovely 3-year young girl and her very good father
- to the first since years to ask for my autographed picture
- to the one who gives useful suggestions about what is needed to proceed with my career
- to Miss Ma Qi, may she never stop singing
- and last not least to the one who asked what is needed to fullfill my dream

awitan sings karaoke ABBA

2008-08-09T10:42:00.005+08:00

trying abba, bits of dancing queen and fernando
anyway philippine dancing queen! me? hehe

The meaning of AWITAN

2008-07-29T17:07:00.005+08:00

as told by the lady singing, translated by the blogger.

AWITAN is not a name. It is a word, a verb, an order, a battle cry.
Here is why:

What to do when depressed? Sing!
When facing tragedy? Sing!
When struggling? Sing!

Some are around to help. They dont know what to do nor what to say.

The voice of somebody very special says: Sing! Awitan!...
... and I sing! Awitan ko!
I sing for you! Awitan ko ikaw!

The voice of somebody very special says: Mama, sing!
... and I sing! Awitan ko!
AWITAN KO IKAW! I sing for you!

introducing myself

2008-07-25T09:09:00.007+08:00

abba and sheryn regis medley followed by BAKIT NGA MAHAL KITA

dreaming of my own place with food and music http://awitankoikaw.blogspot.com

one of the must-see in this beautiful city

2008-07-25T09:02:00.003+08:00

taoist temple, cebu city, philippines

Cebu City is also known as the Queen City of the South.
The Taoist Temple is a major landmark overlooking the city

me: some glimpses...

2008-07-12T07:14:00.001+08:00

pleasant to the ear... or so i hope

2008-05-18T19:02:00.002+08:00

awitan sings karaoke HUWAG KA NG BABALIK

awitan sings karaoke TILL I MET YOU

2008-03-21T14:19:00.002+08:00

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