Two of the tricycle entries to the “ILAWAN ANG DAAN-Light Up Your Tricycle” Competition of Gen. Santos City’s “PASKO SA GENSAN 2007” Christmas Festival.
Bariles is Tagalog word for “Tuna”, the primary source of income of the people of General Santos City which hosts 6 of the Philippines’ 8 tuna canneries and more than 80% of its tuna processing plants.
The city boasts of the only “Tuna Festival” in the world celebrated every September 5 in commemoration of its charterhood anniversary.
Bariles is also the alias of this blog\'s author who would like nothing than to write about his beloved city by the bay and share it with his kababayans from all over.
He has worked throughout Southeast Asia and Papua New Guinea. Currently, he devotes his time, beauty, and talent in the fields of Communications, Marketing and Media.
arfel-toronto Says:
shucks! why havent i thought of this gimmick when i was still PR consultant of the GSC-TA?!!!! this is fantastic! imagine with the thousands (i guess 5,000 before i left for toronto) of tricycles going around the city lighted this beautifully!!! these are the equivalent of travelling lanterns! fabulous! i hope the prizes for the best lighted and decorated tricycle are substantial to inspire others to join! this might land gensan in the national map for being a novel idea! felicitation pour le inventeur du bonne idee! arfel
Posted on December 19th, 2007 at 11:19 AM