Three Roads to Quezon: One Old, One New and One Forgotten
Quezon province formerly known as Tayabas, was explored by the Spaniards in 1571 and 1572 when Juan de Salcedo visited and explored upon the order of the first Spanish Governor General of the Philippines, Miguel Lopez de Legaspi. They passed through the central portion of Tayabas in his march across Laguna Province to Paracale. The [...]
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Buddy’s — Southern Tagalog Fastfood Chain
And here it is..fast-rising Southern Tagalog Fastfood!! With franchise outlets in Pearl Drive,
Ortigas Center, Pasig; Quezon Avenue, Lucena City; Shoe Mart, Lucena City; and a lot of
other places like Makati..I hear from family and friends its also good there.
There’s a fat noodle that’s made in
Lucena City, Quezon Province and
it sells at the public market at
PhP [...]
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Difficult to Believe a Common Weed cures Dengue
Dengue is a mosquito-borne infection that in recent decades
has become a major international public health concern.
Dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF), a potentially lethal complication,
was first recognized in the 1950s during dengue epidemics in the
Philippines and Thailand. Today DHF affects most Asian countries and
has become a leading cause of hospitalization and death among
children [...]
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Backyard Spirulina Cultivation Eradicates Malnutrition
School’s starting again and mothers have a problem with budgeting for proper nutrition what with school expenses. This diet supplement can answer for the protein, vitamin and mineral requirements of children and it can be cultivated at home or at a community plot using claypots buried in the ground. Once harvested it can be mixed [...]
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Ifugao Organic Rice: Healthy and Responsible Consumerism
A significant number of farmers all over the Philippines are now busy shifting to organic farming after pilot farms have demonstrated that organic farming has not, contrary to the previously circulated propaganda, lowered the farm yield.
MANILA, Philippines - It is not true that only the cultivation of hybrid rice would enrich farmers.
This claim is false, organic [...]
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Virgin Coconut Oil vs. Swine Flu
A newsclip recommended VCO to boost immune systems to counteract the virus Swine Flu that seems not to have spread too much in asia thus far.
Virgin coconut oil vs swine flu proposed
By Lira Dalangin-Fernandez
INQUIRER.net
First Posted 12:51:00 05/04/2009
MANILA, Philippines—The spread of the new influenza virus called the H1N1 or commonly known as the swine flu has [...]
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Kalamias: Medicinal Herb and Main Ingredient for Claypot Tambakol, Tulingan or Tawilis
There’s a very old kamias tree that grows in our backyard.
Last year, a businessman asked me to try out his new product that was still on R&D - liquefied kamias and coconut oil cleaning fluid. He gave me a a few liters of it and I used it to clean kitchen tile and wash [...]
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Rainy April Afternoon Forest Fruits Tea and VCO French Fries
I woke up this morning thinking I’d do machine-washing and the batch would be dry by late afternoon with the summer sun out; then I’d write this post in the kitchen beside my drip-drying laundry just in case it showers again. It has rained, and even thundered, for two days running now and just after [...]
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Kleptocracy; endnotes to What is a Filipino?$#&@)@#@&$@^%??
Kleptocracy (sometimes cleptocracy, occasionally kleptarchy) is a term applied to a government that extends the personal wealth and political power of government officials and the ruling class (collectively, kleptocrats) at the expense of the population, sometimes without even the pretense of honest service. The term derives from the Greek root klepto (theft). Characteristics Kleptocracies are [...]
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Domaine du Cagueloup BANDOL 2007/Chateauneuf-du-Pap 2002; From my Basyô Collection
I trust wikipedia for kicking the can of inspiration down a bleak road … but my friends’ “loose sallies of the imagination” are the absolute clincher for a blog categorized as “entertainment”.
So over dinner last night, our trés magnifiquè, graciosa hostess - whose husband was out of town on a golf trip - held court with [...]
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