Kris Allen
May 20, 2009 American Idol
Kris Allen is a musician, singer, and songwriter from Conway, Arkansas. His passion for music began when he taught himself to play the guitar at age 13, and he has since learned the piano, viola, and ukulele.
His talents and soulful voice have given him the opportunity to perform at numerous music venues, as well as the chance to share his gifts and faith with many of the underprivileged and oppressed people of the world. His travels to Spain, Morocco, Thailand, Burma, Mozambique, and South Africa have influenced his music and inspired him to share it with others. Kris is known for his laid-back and unassuming personality, yet his music is full of depth, energy, and soul.
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Passi City
May 17, 2009 Passi City
During the early days in Panay, a group of Spanish Conquistadores under Legaspi managed to find their way into the mouth of what is known as Jalaur river at Talaugis near Barotac known as the Nuevo on a mission of exploring the hinterlands of Iloilo. They rode on a unique flatboat “Sciata” (yatch) that could float and move easily on any kind of up or down stream travel. That trip took them to as far as the sitio of Calinog, northwest of Passi.
One day, a bunch of these Spanish explorers came downstream. They anchored a place farther west at the mouth of Lamunan River called Ansig. They stumbled on a small hut by the river’s bank where an old woman was fond winnowing pounded palay. One of them asked her, “Como se Llama Este Lugar” not knowing the native language of course.
Much to the old woman’s surprise and perhaps excitement, she replied without much ado “Pasi” which means some of the unhusked rice on her basket held in both hands. She must have thought that they were eager to know what was in the basket and what she was dong, because she could not understand their language.
From that time on, the Spanish begun to call the place “Pasi” at first. The word later evolved to be known by its present “Passi.”
Since then the settlement founded by Dig-on, Tokiab, and Umawang became known as Passi.
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