Tag: #wala lang
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Repro or Real?
To help prospective bidders, Leon Gallery organized a Webinar with experts talking about Amorsolo paintings, an antique Batangas altar table, a Lao Lanbien black and white abstract, a santo, and a Manansala “transparent cubism” painting.
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Coffee Server or Decision Maker?
In a survey conducted by the OECD Program of International Student Assessment (PISA) of some 600,000 15-year-olds from 79 countries, Filipino teenagers ranked last in ability to comprehend lengthy narratives, to deal with abstract concepts, or to make distinctions between fact and opinion.
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Where and when was the First Mass held?
March 31, 2021 is not 500 years after Pigafetta’s March 31, 1521. We may be celebrating on the wrong day and, if the Butuanons are correct, also in the wrong place.
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THE INSIDE STORY: LAPU-LAPU, AN OLD PIRATE (PART II)
Enrique de Malacca was treated shabbily by Magellan’s successor—he had been promised freedom and an inheritance but Duarte Barbosa, Magellan’s successor, declared that that would not happen.
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The Inside Story: Lapu-Lapu was an Old Pirate (Part I)
Humabon is described as 50-60 years old, fat and short, his stature proclaimed by ornate tattoos, gold adornments and numerous wives, including a sister of Lapu Lapu of Mactan.
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From Inspiration to Reality: The Cultural Center Curtain
The 50-year-old Ocampo was not an obvious choice. A self-taught painter, he worked in an advertising agency. He was also fictionist, playwright, poet, a multi-talented man.
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Trying Out Those Hiking Shoes (Hiking IV)
Located within the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) campus, the Botanic Garden features native and non-native trees and lesser-known plants and flowers. It’s a special treat for plantitos and plantitas.
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What Am I Getting Into? (Hiking III)
You already know more or less what hiking possibilities are but naturally you want to know the specifics: what, where, how—all the details. Here are some questions that Bambi Guevara’s answers.
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Growing Your Own Tree Farm (Native Trees Part III)
Logging, slashing, and burning are easy. Reforestation and tree planting are not. Seedlings don’t grow by themselves. These and more I learned at a personalized webinar on Philippine native trees.
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Rooftop, Vacant Lot, and Flowerpot Gardening
COVID-19 has spawned a new generation of planters. Not sugar barons or coconut tycoons, but plantitos and plantitas growing super expensive plants often with weird-looking inedible green-and-white leaves. Spare time while in self-quarantine made me an accidental farmtito. I had tossed overripe grocery store tomatoes to a snake plant pasô and a plant sprouted, flowered, and fruited, yielding me at least one tomato every day for lunch. Happily growing in other pots are what I think is a turmeric plant and monggo seedlings, one already flowering despite a rather aggressive ampalaya vine that hooks on to anything. A durian seedling is already a foot high, although its future is not too bright in its flowerpot.
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