About Asia, by Asians
Gustave Eiffel’s Prefab Iron Church in Manila [08/14/2009@12:45 am]
It has its beginnings in 1621 when Don Bernardino Castillo, a generous patron and a well-known devotee of San Sebastian donated his lot for the dream of having a steel church in Asia become a reality. The original church, which was made of wood, was burned in 1651 during a Chinese uprising. The succeeding structures [...]
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Relax, Read and Weep (A Closure Post) [07/21/2009@12:20 am]
Remember this post?
The one about the old tree that suddenly bloomed…?
Well, after googling more than 30 pages of Yucca Flowers I still couldn’t find which kind of Yucca family our tree belongs to. Most flowers were creamy white, others with large elaborate flowers and edible fruits. I found out there’s a not-to-be-confused edible yuca [...]
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Three Roads to Quezon: One Old, One New and One Forgotten [07/15/2009@1:31 pm]
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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Warts…Perfectly Imperfect Just Went a Wee(d) Step Up. [07/08/2009@3:04 pm]
Another weed from the garden. It grows profuse
when the rains come. It doesn’t have that much sap in the summer..
maybe when the virus come; so does the [...]
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Buddy’s — Southern Tagalog Fastfood Chain [06/30/2009@4:07 pm]
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 [06/29/2009@6:35 pm]
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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Ecopsychology…a book review [06/17/2009@3:36 pm]
The complete title of the book is ECOPSYCHOLOGY; Restoring the Earth; Healing the Mind edited by Theodore Roszak, Mary E. Gomes and Allen D. Kanner published in 1995 by the Sierra Book Club and printed on acid-free paper containing 50% recovered waste paper, of which at least 10% of the fiber content is post-consumer waste. [...]
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Relax, Read and Weep [06/12/2009@7:37 pm]
There’s another old tree in our garden… (I guess there’s two points I want to make here: one is that you don’t have to go too far to find inspiration to write and two, with all the juicy prime-time news tonight, here in the Philippines, there’s still nothing much to blog about).
It’s been standing [...]
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Citromint, Natural Bug Repellant for the Home [05/21/2009@8:06 pm]
Aromacology, the scientific study of the effects and uses of scents on the human psyche and the environment, found that citronella essential oil has a bug repellant effect.
I have a puppy and an 8 year old at home and I’ve read about how chemical disinfectants can have a downside effect on children and pets [...]
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Backyard Spirulina Cultivation Eradicates Malnutrition [05/19/2009@5:17 pm]
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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