Philippines - Facts and other Trivia

     How much do we know about our country? Sometimes we claim our nationality but has very little knowledge about its facts. There are moments that foreign people would ask us something very simple question about our country but takes us forever to answer them. Even I admit to this.

     Here are some few interesting facts that our teacher's thought us during school days but we might already forgot.

along the paradise

Paradise Philippines!! That's how I see our beloved country. Finger-licking foods, very hospitable people, two fun-loving season (summer and rainy), and of course very awesome, very beautiful
places to travel.

I know most of us are well aware of the beautiful places in the Philippines. We are well-informed about them because we love to travel to those places. But  do you know that there are
tourist spot places that are not so developed and considered as poor?

Although most of the poorest provinces in the Philippines are in Mindanao area, I still felt a little bit sad to learn that one of the listed provinces is in Bicol (well, I came from Bicol, though not Masbate).

The ten poorest provinces (in order of poverty incidence) are 

1. Tawi-Tawi, 


2. Zamboanga del Norte, 

3. Maguindanao, 

4. Apayao, 

5. Surigao del Norte, 

6. Lanao del Sur, 

7. Northern Samar, 

8. Masbate,

9. Abra and

10 Misamis Occidental.

 If you noticed most pictures are of water, well, I love water even if I'm not a good swimmer. Water gives me peace and calms my soul.

These poorest provinces result was conducted by NSCB in 2006. So does your province in the list? How does it feel? Isn't it sad to hear that your province belong to the poorest provinces in
the country? I feared that our province would be included in the top ten poorest provinces, hah, imagine my relief to learn that despite the lack of opportunities, the lack of employment and agricultural development, we still beat some of them, that we still crawl our way up. Higher than these ten. But not to be too negative, I believe these places also holds so many tourist spot
places, specially the Surigao del Norte - the surfing capital of the Philippines - isn't that a boast? Something to be proud of?!

They may be poor, but they have something that richier provinces envied..right?

laBor Day

it's our day..the worders' day!!

How i wish this day we won't have to report to the office, it's our day..it should be our rest day in a year..

Labor Day in Philippines was observed since 1903 so it's already history..and i believe, it's the only regular holiday that the PGMA administration since "her" administration..and since "she" started moving holidays to different dates..cannot move to any date..

Well, I am still looking forward to that additional rest day this week.. :D

Palawan - dReam pLace in tHe Philippines

Last year, everyone is holding their breath for the result for the 7 new wonders of the world votes. Every beautiful places, architectures, forests, parks, and many others that hold peoples breathe that takes a look at them are nominated for the title. The voting is through the online and telephone voting. So everybody's welcomed to vote for their choices. I even joined this, but it slipped my mind to check out who had won.

It occured to me last week when I read about the Subterranean River National Park in Palawan topping the the global voting for the new seven wonders of the world under the category forest, natural parks, and nature reserves. I was so delighted reading this, not only because it really is a beautiful place, it is water-based, nature spirirted reserves, but also it belongs to my beloved country - the Philippines!

I check the net for the new 7 wonders of the world, I am a bit disappointed of the result, frankly. I admit that all of the winners are eye-catching. They have unique beauty. Everything is beautiful in it's own way. What I am a little disappointed is that all the winners are mostly architectural based. No parks, no water related, no nature, no forest. Everything is an architecture, an manmade stone built.

I don't know, I love these sites, too. But I am disappointed maybe because I am a lover of water. I love sights with water.

And I think the judges - no spun intended - are mostly architecture professional, so the rumors that judgment may be biased cannot be erased in my mind. Is it true that they've been biased in their judgment? I hope they are not. I hope they've been professional in judgment, most specially.

Voting through online and telephone is not very reliable either, I think. Countries that are widely users of internet could win much that vote. Countries that are financially stable enough, with my spare coins to to use for calling and voting could win much votes, don't you think so? Well, I think so.

Whatever, winner or not, I still love rivers, forests and nature.

The Subterranean River National Park has been consistently at the top spot upon checking in the website of the New7Wonders.

It is said to be the world’s longest passable underground river, which measures 8.2 kilometers of winding stretch that passes through a cave with major formations of stalactites and stalagmites.

Of course, I wouldn't forget that the winners are interesting. they are beautiful, as I said before, in their own ways. Here they are.

 



chichenitza









mechu picchu

colloseum

petra







taj mahal








great wall

And my favorite among them .......? ^_^

christ the redeemer

ninoy aquino day..

Today, 21 August 2009, one of the days where Filipino's remember one of our best man of all time .. Sen. Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino. He was a Philippine Senator, Governor of Tarlac and an opposition leader against President Ferdinand Marcos. He was assassinated at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Manila International Airport (Now Ninoy Aquino Int'l Airport-NAIA) upon returning home from exile in the United States.

     His death catapulted his widow, Corazon Aquino, to the limelight and subsequently to the presidency, replacing the 20-year Marcos regime. There a lot of things showing how Filipinos honoured him. He has a monument on different historical places and frequently visited areas. He's on a Five Hundred Philippine monetary (P500), he's on history books, t-shirts, and a lot other things, small or big, cheap to costly. There are streets and places named after him.


    Now a days, you can find very few Filipino who's like him; mostly love, dedicated and determined. We just hoped that his goals will continue to the young ones today.

and filipino's would still be proud to say "FILIPINO'S ARE WORTH DYING FOR"..

(^-^)