Mention Panay Island and the story of the golden salakot comes to mind. The Maragtas Chronicles tell the story of the ten datus who escaped from Borneo and arrived in Panay. Story has it that in exchange for a golden salakot (a wide brimmed native hat), the Bornean datus bought the island from the Aetas [...]
A couple of nights ago, Speedy was cleaning out his closet and he took out a stack of playing records. Alex stared and said, “What’s that?” Kinda hard to explain to a kid whose earliest memories of music storage are audio CDs. The exchange inspired me to take photos of the playing records with Sam’s old Girst Generation iPod Nano which was handed down to Alex a few weeks ago.
For those too young to know, those large cardboard containers house playing records… which were played on things called turntables like these. Playing records are the iPods of the 1880s through the mid-1980s when audio CDs first hit the market. Their content were non-changeable unlike the iPods that you kids have today.
Inside Sampaguita Garden’s Resort in Aklan is Jojo’s Christmas Cottage. If the structure looks interesting by day with its unique colors and accents, it is doubly pretty at night when the directional lights are on. Stuff straight out of the pages of a storybook.
But what’s even more interesting is what’s inside. Hundreds, if not thousands, [...]
In Europe, 42 consumer groups want the following food colorings banned: E102 Tartrazine, E104 Quinoline Yellow, E110 Sunset Yellow, E122 Carmoisine, E124 Ponceau 4R and E129 Allura Red.
The reason: These food colorings…
The first made millionaires of prawn farmers but led to the destruction of mangroves. The second are radical proposals for Constitutional amendments that will make the presidency less palatable to traditional politicians.
Several days ago, a local TV show aired an episode about beauty pageants hot on the heels of the Janina San Miguel phenomenon blockbuster. The segment mentioned former Miss Universe Gloria Diaz and a famous question she once asked when she was a beauty pageant judge: “What would you choose — be smart or be [...]
I used to think that there were shining exceptions to the crappy politico mentality. I used to think that Bayani Fernando was one of them.
Video of the rerouted Olympic torch relay in San Francisco to avoid Tibetan protesters who had been waiting along the waterfront.
I’m not a morning person. You can’t make me get out of bed before 9.00 a.m. unless it’s a schoolday and I have to cook the kids’ packed lunches. Or, if we’re going somewhere special. Or, if Speedy makes it a condition for buying me something nice like new camera lenses.
No, really. Seriously. [...]
People today buy exercise equipment called “steppers” and “stair climbers” to simulate physical activities that one used to do naturally in one’s home.
