Abaknon Festival: Tribu Magbibintol


This is the entry of Barangay San Luis to the street dancing contest. Representing one of their major livelihood - catching crabs, the team members brought along their traps and would you believe, live crabs!

And while most of the other teams were composed of the young ones, this group managed to gather the participation of many senior community members. That deserves our congratulations!

This team won Best in Street Performance.



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  1. atto aryoAugust 12, 2009 at 6:51 PM

    To anonymous: I have to reject your comments because they are tasteless. I understand if you have something to say as regards the candidates, but please remember that you are not dealing here with Ms. Universe beauties. We should just appreciate the participants' effort to showcase Abaknon beauty. On the winners, i think you should know that the final ranking was based on the answers given during the final interview. Back to zero na i grades after the top 3 were selected. I am pretty convinced that the final result was fair and right.

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