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Just roughly 10 kilometers from the northern coast of Mindanao, Camiguin Island has remained relatively low key in drawing tourists in, compared to more popular beach destinations. But after we watched the Camiguin Tourism Office’s No Words ad campaign showcasing this small, but breathtaking island, we’ve filed our leaves and booked our flight out there next year. Once you see the ad you’ll probably do the same too.  The ad campaign, made just in time for their annual Lanzones Festival (which will run until the 31st of this month) has an unusual premise: a tourist is stuck alone in Camiguin, complaining to her friend who flaked out on the last minute about how small and boring the island is. A mute tour guide soon changes her mind and has us convinced that it’s the next holiday destination for us once our boss approves our vacation leave. See Also: Boracay, Cebu, Palawan Top 2017 World’s Best Islands Survey Written by Benson Logronio and produced by James de la Vega, the No Words ad campaign has already gone viral on Facebook, and has amassed 865K views on the social media site. So if you have a few minutes, play the video above and start making plans to visit Camiguin. You’re welcome. The post This Camiguin Ad Will Leave You Speechless and Booking Your Next Flight To The Island appeared first on Good News Pilipinas.

Contrary to popular belief, being an illustrator and comic book artist doesn’t bring in the big bucks. Most of the people that ply the trade are freelancers who go from project to project without a guarantee of repeat business. It’s especially hard to pursue your lifelong passion when dire real-life situations get in the way, but for comic book artist Josel Nicolas, simply stopping his life’s work was not an option. When both of his parents started accumulating expensive medical fees, namely for his mother’s eye operation and his father’s heart surgery, Josel turned to one thing he knew how to do to pay for them: his art. He is devoting the entire proceeds of the third printing of his illustrated book, Windmills, to paying for his parent’s medical expenses. He actually began creating the serialized comic back in 2009, inspired by the medical battles his father has had to face. “Honestly one of the biggest goals I have in ‘Windmills’ is to talk about sickness. I feel like my father falling ill has shaped my life greatly. He had a freak car accident when I was young and afterwards we discovered a pretty big benign tumor, which we had removed, but it left him without balance and with some speech problems (he sounds like he’s angry all the time and forgets words),” Nicolas shared in an interview with GMA News Online. “Although I have yet to actually write more about my dad’s illnesses, it does show up intermittently in some Read More …