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Fiesta Time in The Philippines!

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One of the very most enjoyable things to experience in The Philippines is the celebrations for fiesta which every province, city, town barangay and village seems to participate in at one time or another… sometimes even multiple times in a year for various reasons! Filipinos can be extravagant party makers when it comes to fiesta time. There are even events where the preparations will take months and months to execute and sometimes even upwards of a year. If perhaps you have seen some videos of the more popular island-wide fiestas that occur each and every year involving a multitude of extraordinary entries you will get a sense of what I’m talking about. But I am getting ahead of myself, because I also want to impart what fiesta is like on the micro level, just down the road at the local barangay.

Once you attend a local fiesta event, even at the provincial or municipal/city level, you will find that every resident makes it their personal duty to participate as if they are all personally the birthday celebrants of the event. Everyone feels as if they should go to the extreme on the feasting, drinking, karaoke, games, watching laugh-inducing Vice Ganda movies (click here: http://viceganda.cwh5.com/) and much more. Everyone wants to wake up early to get started on the celebrations after staying up until the late, late hours. I have seen that all the residents in the locality invite and expect all their friends and family from near and far to come to their place to help them celebrate and make the event seem more complete for everyone, even house-hopping to the neighbor’s places to not miss a thing!

And of course you should be ready to be amazed by the variety and abundance of foods prepared by every household for the fiesta. You just have to try out everything before you when you get to a new table and start filling your plate. Filipinos have their own dishes that you will find in abundance that are a treat to explore. Just a few of the staple dishes are Caldereta, Paksiw and Pochero. As well you are sure to find plenty of Adobo, Humba, Macaroni Salads and copious amounts of rice to go with it all.

Throughout the whole of The Philippines once the fiesta season has descended for any particular locality, the whole town becomes your own family at this time. People will travel great distances to come together for this special annual event to spend time once again with their old friends and of course family. Even sometimes family members working abroad will travel home just for this time together. This is a time when it really does come down to the sharing, the love and the celebrations of life and family. My first visit to The Philippines was just such a memorable event, when I met people who have remained close ever since. That first impression of being brought into everyone’s homes and being pushed to try all the foods was not to be soon forgotten. I also remember the first Holy Week that I spent in the country, when again it is a time of very special closeness with family and old friends. As a Westerner I was totally amazed to find on a weekday morning at about 8 am that there was no TV broadcast available on one of the major national outlets. Why, I asked? The answer was simply that there were probably not enough of the necessary people to run a broadcast who had shown up for work yet because of the festivities at their own homes

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friendly, destination tourist spot. It is known as the “Island Born of Fire” since its lush landscape includes several volcanic mountains rising up from numerous white sand beaches between sleepy fishing villages as well 100 other smaller volcanic features here on the Pacific “Ring of Fire.” But it might also be called a playground for adventurers since it offers so much to do for active vacationers.

Like to go on a zip-line? Or how about visiting a Giant Clam sanctuary, an Ostrich farm or a Mangrove Park? Why not rent a motorbike and spending the day exploring Spanish ruins, the Sunken Cemetery (which disappeared into the sea during an 1871 eruption) and the many enticing beaches with swaying coconut palms and untouched coastline around the island’s 64 kilometer (40 miles) perimeter road? The ever-changing shape of White Island, an uninhabited white sand bar a few hundred meters off the coast, is accessible by boatmen always at the ready for a small fee. Visiting Camiguin puts visitors amidst the Southeast Asian culture of the friendly, generously helpful and commonly English-speaking Filipino people while also immersing one in the history of 350 years of Spanish colonialism, bringing exuberant, colorful fiestas to an island blessed with hot springs, roaring waterfalls and amazing diving opportunities in crystal clear blue waters. If you’re a diver or snorkeler or you’ve wanted to try, there’s no better place to get started and check out green sea turtles, painted frogfish, peacock mantis shrimp or hydroid decorator crabs at one of the numerous marine sanctuaries surrounding the island. Many astoundingly simple yet especially charming resorts and accommodations abound, but it’s nearly impossible to find any for over $100 US, and during low season nice rooms at the beach in small boutique-type resorts can be had for as little as $25 at current exchange rates for that once in a lifetime honeymoon or vacation event.

The Republic of the Philippines is in the category of “developing” nations whose residents live mostly below anyone’s marker of poverty, often in squalid, crowded conditions. And, considering it is a nation of over 7,000 islands, it is remarkable that Camiguin is as notable as it is. This is partly because of its fortuitous location, at a distance and uncorrupted from crowded, noisy and aggressive metropolises as well as hordes of tourists. It also might stem from the many visitors who seem to have kept this jewel as guarded as a little secret of their own.

Daily air flights from the international entry points of Manila and Cebu are available for little over $50 US roundtrip and ferries also ply the waters daily from neighboring islands of Bohol and Mindanao.

December Flowers

2010-12-26T14:39:00.000+08:00

December Flower/Poinsettia

Its a good thing that the radio and television continuously always announce how many days left until Christmas. Because the weather during December here in the Philippines is just the same as it was in July and I'm always confused by the Christmas songs playing. Without really short days and cold weather it just doesn't seem quite right.

I had never heard of Poinsettia, that striking showy plant native to Mexico that flowers this time of year, referred to as "December Flower" before. But Filipinos seem to only know it by this name. It's everywhere around here, growing out of doors as I've also never seen before. But then, here in the tropics in December, plenty of other flowers bloom as well!

Poinsettia 8ft. Tall

White & Red Poinsettia


Poinsettia 20ft. Tall

December brings dozens of other flowers into bloom as well, and here's just a small representation (all photos taken during this month of December)...


Hibiscus


Hydrangia


Orchid


Unknown Flower


Lirio


Heliconia


Orange Bouganvillia


White and Red Crown of Thorns


Unknown Swamp Flower


Yucca-Type Plant Blooming


Yellow Canna

Palm Seed Pods

Okay, this last one isn't a flower in bloom but I came across it and couldn't resist snapping it and adding it here since it's quite colorful and interesting. And for a finale, another photo without a December flower, but kids flying their kite upon the cement slab of the solar corn dryer in front of the house, complete with a layer of corn being dried.

Flying the new kite on the solar dryer

Don't Do This At Home

2010-11-01T21:25:00.001+08:00

I once went to the hardware store to buy some paint thinner and a pack of cigarettes. I took a 1 gallon glass jug to be filled up with the thinner from a big drum. The cigarettes were for my mom. Yeah, it was a few years ago now, 1958. I was nine years old and this happened just an hour’s drive from San Francisco, California. The world is a much different place now than it was on that day, and I doubt that anyone now living in the US and reading this is able to witness a child buying cigarettes or a flammable liquid in a glass container today. But where I live now, it’s quite common to see a child buying cigarettes or a bottle of rum for a parent, or a liter of gasoline in a glass Pepsi bottle. These things may even be legally prohibited here in the Philippines, but so is having more than 2 people riding on a motorcycle, yet I observe any of these events everyday.

You have to be on your toes a little bit around here, aware of your surroundings and paying attention to how things work. It’s best not to just sleepwalk through life, in other words. But perhaps that’s just me; I like life to have a little edge to it.

Less than a century ago, there were far fewer laws and regulations in everyone’s lives. These are all meant to make us safer and more comfortable. But as life gets cushier, so do our brains, I think. And come to think of it, a far greater share of the world’s population survive without the aid of legal protective cocoons than what people have become so accustomed to in the Western world.

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2010-10-23T09:03:00.002+08:00

The other day I was chatting with a US reader who is a few decades younger than me, and I mentioned something about “Ninoy Aquino, a national hero of the Philippines.

“Oh, you mean that boxer guy?” was the response.

That would be seven-division world champion boxer MANNY PACQUIAO. So, no, not exactly.Manny is a famous sports figure and is known as the boxing pride of the Philippines, but he's not quite of Nelson Mandela proportions.

“Wonderkid” was the moniker that Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. acquired as a Provincial Governor at the age of 29 (while at the same time becoming Secretary General of his party). He’d already been elected as a Municipal Mayor at 22 (a municipality is comparable to a County). A brilliant, gifted politician and charismatic speaker, he went on to become the nation’s youngest ever Senator at 34, in 1967.

Ninoy Aquino on the Stump

From the documentary, Ninoy Aquino & The Rise of People Power:

Descended from a line of leaders dedicated to Philippine independence, “Ninoy” Aquino fought an unending battle for political reform in the name of the country and people he so fiercely loved…. Aquino maintained that non-violent protest was crucial to sustaining a legitimate democratic movement. His legacy is the “indomitable spirit” and the enduring belief that our “readiness to suffer will light the torch of freedom which can never be put out.”

Marcos at the Height of His Self-Aggrandizing

Ninoy’s senate career began during Ferdinand Marcos’ first term as President, and the two men were pitted against each other from the start. Aquino bedeviled the Marcos regime at every turn with his rapier-like tongue. Marcos declared martial law and suspended habeas corpus in 1971 in his quest to secure leadership for himself; thousands of citizens were rounded up as was Aquino. Ninoy was falsely charged with murder, illegal possession of firearms and sedition and held for 7 years and 7 months. As a private citizen, Aquino protested (even by a 40 day hunger strike) being under trial by a Marcos-appointed military tribunal but was found guilty of all charges and sentenced to death by firing squad. In 1980 he suffered 2 heart attacks from a blocked artery, but refused treatment by Philippine doctors for fear of Marcos’ duplicity and controls, preferring to stay in his cell and face death there. The wife of Ferdinand, Imelda, made an unannounced visit to Ninoy’s room with an offer to be flown to the US for medical attention, which he accepted. Thus began a 3 year exile in the US during which he accepted a Fellowship at Harvard. Eventually, his desire to serve his people led him to return to his homeland, no matter what the personal outcome. When he alighted from his plane in Manila in 1983, he took no more than 10 steps on the tarmac before he was shot dead.

Aquino's wife, Corazon, also became a worthy national heroine. Cory has been called everything from “Woman of the Year” (Time Magazine, 1968) to one of the 20 Most Influential Asians of the 20th century (Time Magazine, 1999), The People’s Queen and the Saint of Democracy in the Philippines. When her husband Ninoy was assassinated, she had previously always been a self-proclaimed "plain housewife" and mother, quietly in the background, acquiring no political experience. After his death, the 50 year-old widow was swept up by circumstances, becoming the reluctant leader of the opposition against the now 20 year-long authoritarian rule of the Marcos regime. In the face of escalating public discontent and under pressure from foreign allies (including the US which had previously supported him), Marcos called a snap presidential election for 1986 to try and legitimize his position. The opposition united behind Corazon and she right away proved to be a skilled campaigner and inspiring orator.

The Marcos-controlled Philippine Parliament (a Marcos invention) claimed that he won this election, but Cory's supporters staged massive protests and Marcos was forced to flee the country, accepting asylum in Hawaii.

Benigno “Noynoy”Aquino III, the 3rd of Ninoy and Cory Aquino's 5 children, was elected this year as the 15th President of the Philippines. It’s been said that his previous stints as Congressman and Senator for nearly 12 years were for the most part un-remarkable. He’s rather soft-spoken, a bachelor and non-drinker. Not your typical national hero profile. He won election because of widespread deep dissatisfaction over his predecessor and Philippine economics in general, but mostly because his mother, Corazon, passed away late last year and brought back again the country’s sentiments toward the Aquino legacy.

Kris Aquino, born 1971 and the youngest Aquino child, seems like she’s in 1/3 of all television commercials, 1/3 of all Philippines-based TV shows (talk shows like Elen Degeneres’, game shows as in Wheel of Fortune, Deal or No Deal and a couple of entertainment news shows) plus she has over 20 film roles to her name as well as numerous awards. She’s very popular, outspoken and has always been a lightening-rod personality. She obviously was also inspired to achieve popularity, but as of yet not in the same vein of public service as her parents.

Weather

2010-10-19T19:36:00.001+08:00

At 3 pm the skies finally filled up and a few drops of rain began to fall. Earlier the day had been calm and warm and I'd staked out another 90 hills for planting new banana suckers in the coming days. 3 is the usual quitting time for the field laborers, so they were going home now, without interruption to their day of field-prep from the rains either. This is the typical pattern for the wet season, nice days, cloud up and rain in the afternoon for awhile with hardly any wind.

But not so for Luzon Island up to the North, for this is typhoon season for them. As usual, typhoons will come onshore from the open waters of the Philippine Sea, then slam into that island while down here on Mindanao we hardly notice a thing; typhoons have never been known to visit this end of the Philippine Archipeligo. Super Typhoon Megi went through Northern Luzon over the past few days, killing ten and leaving untold numbers homeless.

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