and yet another procession... complete with bands from different schools
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Feast of Sto. Nino
and yet another procession... complete with bands from different schools
Sunday, January 11, 2015
Ang Punong Mapagkawang Gawa, The Giving Tree
The Giving Tree
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| "a time to plant |
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| a time to uproot the plant" |
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| Sixty-two years of giving In your branches birds lived In your trunk an orchid grew In your shade man's best friend rested. Another witness to a family's Life cycle: births, deaths; comings and goings; Laughter and tears. |
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Tent for those height challenged, myself included
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| I went to Antipolo, the provincial capital of Rizal. We stopped at Taytay Municipal Hall where Atty Moreno's office is located. Along the side of the building was this tent. I don't know why I found it so hilarious. I decided to take a picture of it. |
Sunday, January 4, 2015
Trip to Paete, Laguna
This post is picture less, a challenge for students to visualize the scene and have them create the picture. I ask Ms. Collins to scan the pictures students create. I will give prizes to those who most accurately portray the scene. Deadline for turning in drawings is Jan. 12. Ms. Collins, perhaps you can post students' drawings for Parade of Nations display. Good luck, students!
Monday, Jan. 5, 2015
Ate Diday, Ate Tessie, and I left for Paete, Laguna about 8:19 am. We rode Tito Ramon's blue tricycle with a black top. With us are the statues of the Sacred Heart and the Baby Jesus. These statues are 65 years old and I'm taking them to Paete, a town famous for making statues. My mother had written a letter asking me to have the statues repaired and enthroned in the new house.
We traveled on winding and narrow streets. We passed several small stalls that people had set up in front of their homes. Some stalls sold coconut, others sold watermelon. Still others had bananas still in the stalk. Many sold combinations of these fruit along with sweet potatoes and casava.
We passed by many small towns where we saw stores that sold hammocks made of rattan, a kind of vine. Other stores sold furniture: tables, wicker chairs, benches, etc.
As we traveled, there were times when we were up on a hill and we could clearly see the boats on Laguna Lake. The lake from this view was beautiful, still as glass. I was cooled just looking at the water.
When we were in the valley, we saw rice fields newly green with young plants. There were plots that the farmer, walking behind his carabao, is just tilling the land. We also saw pineapple and corn growing on the hillsides.
Every where I looked, the primary color was green: all kinds of green. Coconut trees, banana plants, mango trees, jackfruit trees. Being in the tropics with its humidity and almost daily rain brings forth all kinds of vegetation.
Monday, Jan. 5, 2015
Ate Diday, Ate Tessie, and I left for Paete, Laguna about 8:19 am. We rode Tito Ramon's blue tricycle with a black top. With us are the statues of the Sacred Heart and the Baby Jesus. These statues are 65 years old and I'm taking them to Paete, a town famous for making statues. My mother had written a letter asking me to have the statues repaired and enthroned in the new house.
We traveled on winding and narrow streets. We passed several small stalls that people had set up in front of their homes. Some stalls sold coconut, others sold watermelon. Still others had bananas still in the stalk. Many sold combinations of these fruit along with sweet potatoes and casava.
We passed by many small towns where we saw stores that sold hammocks made of rattan, a kind of vine. Other stores sold furniture: tables, wicker chairs, benches, etc.
As we traveled, there were times when we were up on a hill and we could clearly see the boats on Laguna Lake. The lake from this view was beautiful, still as glass. I was cooled just looking at the water.
When we were in the valley, we saw rice fields newly green with young plants. There were plots that the farmer, walking behind his carabao, is just tilling the land. We also saw pineapple and corn growing on the hillsides.
Every where I looked, the primary color was green: all kinds of green. Coconut trees, banana plants, mango trees, jackfruit trees. Being in the tropics with its humidity and almost daily rain brings forth all kinds of vegetation.
Thursday, January 1, 2015
Happy New Year
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| fish for prosperity |
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| prosperity bowl: rice and coins As rice is cooked each day one is to take a little of rice from this bowl and added to what is cooked. |
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| From the top beginning with the prosperity bowl, chili con carne sinukmani, sticky rice cooked in coconut milk: family unity water: unity ham: strength Outer circle: round fruits: life, new beginnings round buns barbeque pork: strength fish: prosperity meat carbonara (any noodle will do): long life fruit salad: sweetness in life bananas: wish for education |
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| another good luck: bag with rice, grapes, cotton balls bag hung over doorway |
Rizal Day
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| Day care kids from Barangay Malaya and Niogan |
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| Cousins: Ronnie Bias (councilor) and Sylvia Yamane (teacher at Pililla National High School) Dr. Jose Rizal is the National Hero of the Philippines. He came from an affluent family and therefore was well educated. He became an optometrist because his mom suffered from eye disease and he wanted to help her. From Rizal's growing up years he felt the continued oppression of the Spanish who ruled all aspects of life: government and religion. He wrote several books, including children's books encouraging Pilipinos to see the value of being Pilipino, not just slaves to Spanish whims. Toward the end of Rizal's life, the government accused him of treason. He was imprisoned and was executed by firing squad on Dec. 30, 1898. |
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