Filipino photographer George Tapan won National Geographic’s Photo Contest (Places category) last year with an image of a rainbow stretching across the clear blue waters off the shore of Onuk Island, south of Palawan.
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The Department of Education (DepEd) has decided to drop “Science” from the roster of subjects taken up by incoming Grade 1 pupils in line with its efforts to decongest the Basic Education Curriculum and to make learning more enjoyable to young learners.
Education Secretary Armin Luistro said that the move to exclude Science in Grade 1 subjects starting this coming school year is based on the design of K to 12 curriculum. “The overall design of the new curriculum to be introduced and implemented this coming June to both Grade 1 and First Year high school students is based on the idea that we should be taking the students where they are,” Luistro said in an interview.
RELATED: This June, Grades 1-3 will be taught in mother tongue
The Chinese started migrating here in the Philippines to settle concurrently at the start of the Spanish Rule. But the Spanish Colonial masters distrust them, they are a constant source of trouble for them because some of them are unruly. That is why the Spanish located them in a cannon distance from the San Gabriel Bastion in Intramuros. There are two Chinese settlements during the first two centuries of the Spanish Rule: Parian and Binondo.
Parian was once located in the sites now located by the Post Office, Metropolitan Theater, Arroceros, and up to SM Manila. Some might wonder the lack of a market inside Intramuros, it is because Parian acts as the market (or mall) for the walled city. In modern terms, Parian got it all for Intramuros. By the opening of the drawbridge at 4AM, Intramuros residents will flock in Parian to shop. Parian is the first mall in the Philippines, everything is in there: traders, merchants, craftsmen and laborers.
Because of the advance the British made through the suburbs nearest the walls of Intramuros in their invasion, the Spanish decided to demolish these villages, Parian was not spared. By 1780, Parian was no more and some former residents relocated to Binondo. Only a gate in Intramuros exiting at Parian became the sole mark of the existence of the Parian.
Binondo is originally the parish for the Chinese Converts by the Dominicans, no wonder that their patroness is also the Lady of the Rosary. But when the Parian was dissolved, Binondo became the sole enclave of Manila’s Chinese Mestizos and Chinese Immigrants who love to engage in trade and business. This is the one of the reasons why Binondo is the first Business District and the Chinatown of Manila. Even today, at any Chinese Festival the meeting point of these celebrations will always be at Binondo, as always the best known Chinese festival is the Chinese New Year, which we will celebrate few hours from now.
(via theurbanhistorian)
thiswoulddofornow: PLEASE HELP MY FRIEND FIND HIS MOM!
“This is my mother, Lea Angeles Ng. The last time I saw, 1/20/12, approximately 10AM her I gave her a kiss on the cheek and out of nowhere she told me she loved me. She left the house a few minutes after I did in our silver Toyota Prado, plate number JUS-77 and I can’t stop blaming myself for not telling her I love her too.”
5”2, medium build, 40 years old (but looks 35)
She said she was going to the bank but she never got there (Bank of The Philippine Islands (BPI) in front of Eastwood, Quezon City)
She lives in St. Ignatius, Quezon City, Philippines (if it helps)
Please contact this number if ever you find her :( 09178045878
THANK YOU! :(
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Totem Pole to be finished in 4 days.
This is Baguio’s oldest tree, dating as old as 224 years and is now being carved in the image of a mother by 8 Ifugaos to give it a new life. To serve as a reminder to the people what a tree can provide to our existence, to never forget that before we happened, she has been around serving the earth we live in, down from our ancestors to the future inhabitants that we are now until 2 years ago when it died.
Amidst all these environmental issues we are faced with in the Philippines, one currently getting a mass of attention is the cutting of 182 mature trees as part of SM Baguio’s plan to create a 7-storey parking space for 1,000 vehicles. This means that eventually, 42 fully grown pine trees will be earthballed along with 43 alnus trees and 97 pine tree saplings will be cut by the developer. And knowing the pine tree’s sensitivity to up-rooting, all this move to expand a mall will only kill the trees despite their planned “green architecture”.
As of now talks of legislative matters and public education are ongoing to fight against this and the concerned people of the city are banking on all the help they can get from anyone who supports the idea of preserving the existence of these trees and a city that is now being threatened of heavier pollution and eventual lack of protection against natural disasters.
Since last week, environmental advocates have gathered 3,000 signatures and need more to help counter-act this problem and has produced several protests, one tomorrow, Jan 20 on Session Road - including artists and students.
Hoping this post serves as an image of urgency to us all. We’re currently mobilizing a movement that could extend support not just to Baguio but to other patches of land in the Philippines that could be in danger in the wrong hands.
(via worldcitizenshe)
(CNN) — If you don’t have the time, inclination and, more importantly, the money to go to university in Manila, you can still get a degree. It will cost you between $US10 and $US60, it will take about two hours to complete and it will be fake.
Welcome to “Recto University,” the name Manila mockingly gives to the strip of document counterfeiters that openly ply their trade between Claro M. Recto and Rizal Avenues in the Philippines capital.
Hey you!
Did you make a FILM for your THESIS?
Or made a VIDEO for a PROJECT?
Or maybe, made a VIDEO with your friends just for fun?
Interested in entering in a competition?
It’s your lucky day!
Join the Ateneo Video Open 13!
This is a great opportunity for you to exhibit your talent and passion for filmmaking!
Deadline of submission of entries is on January 27, 2012
For inquiries, contact the AVO Team through ateneovideoopen13@yahoo.com.ph . You can also contact Will Fernandez at 09175358025 or Hanna Abdulrahman at 09178526145.
(via ateneovideoopen13)
