Sorbetes!
I’m stopping in Manila for an hour. It’s so short, but I know that it’ll feel great just to be back home, even though I’ll be stuck inside the airport.
I need to follow people who are awake at this time for me :)
Scientists braved leeches and a host of venomous creatures from the mountains to the sea to uncover more than 300 species that are likely new to science. These findings include dozens of new insects and spiders, more than 50 colorful new sea slugs and a number of deep-sea armored corals ”which protect themselves against predatory nibbles from fish by growing large, spiky plates,” said researcher Terrence Gosliner, dean of science and research collections at the California Academy of Sciences and leader of the 2011 Philippine Biodiversity Expedition. -Y! News
I’m only gonna post 6 of those cos my powers can’t find more.
These swell sharks can make like giants by inflating its stomach with water to bulk up and to scare off predators.
Petalomera crab
This colorful worm is likely a new species of the genus Myrianida, which was found in coral rubble in the Philippines.
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Hurrah!
I wasn’t able to watch this last Spring since we weren’t able to reserve a ticket for the show. Haha.
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Hurray for the Phantom of the Opera! It’s a must-see! Classical music lovers will definitely enjoy it.
tiffany is joining miss lanao 2011..^^
& i so love the rock formations..
Dumaguete along with Davao we were able to learn and connect with many organizations working for development in the communities. While at my homestay Kim and Lu spent a day taking us around to many organizations they have worked with or been to before. Being in the social work college at Silliman University they are required to do so much community service, an aspect many of us on the trip from Mason really liked. Mason doesn’t have a required amount of internships but we see the good it can do. Most people wouldn’t mind the community service or internships once in them but I believe it takes an initial shove for people to do it. Requiring it for school is the perfect solution.
Our first organization we went to was Casa Esperanza. Casa Esperanza is an organization for battered and abused women. The organization works at providing a place for those in abusive homes and works at finding a place for the women to go trying to incriminate the ones who did the harm.
The next organization we went to visit is a government program set up at the Dumaguete Dump. The dump is helping to teach the people of composting to get rid of how much garbage going into the dump. They have cut down from 60 tons to 35 tons of garbage coming into the dump per day and are creating examples as to what they can do with many items they find in the garbage. These things include planting pots, necklaces, handbags, bricks, and others.
The planting pots were made out of waxy paper as found in magazines as well as the necklaces. They can be made as a way to decrease the garbage but also to create an income for the people who had been living off of scavenging at the dump.
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The bricks and the candles are made out of melted down plastic bags. Being in the Philippines in the last six weeks you come to find out how much those bags are used. These products are good solutions for getting rid of the bags.
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The compost program run at the back of the building across from the dump. The garbage is put into soil with African Night Crawlers to help break down the garbage. This creates less garbage and more good soil.
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One traditional way to travel in the Philippines is to use a jeepney. It is also the most common vehicle for public use. Why not? It’s the cheapest way to travel. Aside from that, you also get to see a lo of different personalities. Different personalities that can sometimes be annoying. So here is my blog that will list the 6 people that you wouldn’t want to be with in a jeepney.
1. The Lady-in-skirt
These are the women who like wearing short skirts in jeepneys. And I find them annoying, because instead of sitting straight, they sit diagonally. This consumes more space, thus making the jeep tighter. I mean, if you are going to take a jeepney and you’re afraid that someone may peep on you, then don’t wear a short skirt! (Working uniform that requires you to wear it are excused from this.)
2. The Headbanger
Travelling early in the morning to work (or going home late in the evening) is really difficult for most of us. Most of us haven’t slept enough making us drowsy on our way to work. I totally understand this. What I don’t understand is why others have to bang their heads towards someone else if they feel sleepy. I mean, you can try to rest your head on the backrest (or on your side if you are sitting at the end of the jeepney) or perhaps on your laps if you feel sleepy. Try to think of others too. We lack sleep too, making us easier to get annoyed with things.
3. The Skunk
Since jeepneys are the most affordable way of travelling in the Philippines, we cannot remove the fact that people who physically works take it. I just hope that when they take it in the afternoon, at least they try to wash up a bit, because it’s a little bit insensitive and embarrassing to take a public vehicle smelling like rotten egg. If you don’t have water in your working area (which is a bit impossible to happen) at least use some alcohol or perfume (cologne).
4. The Ass-hole
Since jeepneys can accommodate a lot of people, it usually draws the attention of robbers. These are the people that you would certainly not want to be sitting next to you. They may be pickpockets, hold-upers, or some member of a gang who would use some strategy just to get your valuables. Anyway, whatever persona they may be, they are still f*cking annoying. May all of them burn in hell.
5. The Bitch
How poor a jeep may look like, wannabe queenbees still take it. They are the ones who think that they should be given importance in a jeepney. They will even push you away from where you are sitting, if you are sitting in the place where they want to sit. They will rant about how tight or how hot the jeepney is. They will even verbally assault you for whatever reason if they are feeling uncomfortable. Uneducated with poor breeding - that is how I’ll describe them. They make you want to shout, “take a taxi if you want to feel more comfortable, okay?!”
6. The Whores
A whore is usually accompanied by a man-whore (or sometimes a man-whore accompanied by another man-whore). These are the people who completely violates every inch of conservatism in our country. They keep on flirting all throughout the travel. They do all these slutty activities and throw some disgusting cheesy lines at each other. If you are quite unlucky, you might even hear the annoying flirty giggles of the whore. Their activities seem that they would end up having sex in the jeepney anytime! Disgusting. Especially if they look like people who came from a sewer.
Anyway, I know there are more people that you would hate in a jeepney. But the heck, we can’t do anything about it, but to wish that they try to be more sensitive to others next time. It is because it’s a public vehicle and we cannot just ask people to be what we would want them to be (or else we’re going to be categorized as the jeepney’s bitches). Bitch out discreetly. :)
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