I Go to School Posted 12/4/2006 5:32:48 AM Every morning, I wake up at seven o’clock. I get up and take a shower. Then I dress for school. I eat my breakfast, brush my teeth, take a look at the mirror and pick up my bag. I leave my home about eight o’clock. I get on a jeepney at Maysan Street and get off at Fortune 6. I arrive at school just in time. I attend class from 9:00 to 11:00. I study English, Math Science, Filipino Language, Management, Computer Science and Technology. Do I have fun then? Yes, I do. I have my snack at school cafeteria and talk to my classmates. At noon, I eat my lunch at the cafeteria. In the afternoon, classes begin at 1:00 and end at 5:00. I leave school at 5:15. I arrive home before 6:00. At night, I eat my supper. Then I study my lessons. I watch my favorite TV program from 8:00 to 10:00. I go to bed at 11:00 in the evening. (0) Comments

ONLY IN THE PHILIPPINES! Posted 11/19/2006 2:33:23 AM PANCIT HAB-HAB Made from rice flour, these local noodles acquired its name and developed its unique attraction by the way it is eaten. Otherwise known as Pancit Lucban, these noodles are hawked in the streets and served on a piece of banana leaf, licking permitted, “habhab” style. LOINCLOTH The loincloth of the Mountain Province is an exquisitely hand-loomed piece of long cloth that is wrapped around the man’s middle. Much of the modern loincloths have found their way to the low land as table manners, serviettes, and other décor and fashion accoutrements. HALO-HALO Halo-halo literally means, “mix-mix”. It is a favorite Filipino dessert or snack. It is basically a mixture of sweet preserved beans (red beans, chick peas), coconut meat, jackfruit, pounded dried rice, sweet yam, cream flan, shreds of sweetened plantain, filled with crushed ice, milk and topped with ice cream. And it is just that, a mixture of sweetened fruits and beans, lavished with crisp flatted rice flakes, sugar and milk, topped by crushed ice and ice cream. The halo0halo is basically sweet, creamy, and a filling dessert. BALUT Unhatched duck’s embryo, another unspeakable ethnic food to outsiders, but oh, to indulge in guilty pleasures! Sprinkle some salt and suck out that soup, with gusto. WALING-WALING ORCHIDS With some 800 to 1, 000 species of orchids, the Philippines has one of the richest orchid floras in the world. Philippine orchids come in amazing shapes, sizes and colors. Most grow only in old-growth forest, often on branches of huge tree dozens of meters above the forest floor. BAKYA Made primarily of light wood lamits and Santol trees, it is sculptured with a slope and shaved to a smooth finish, then printed with floral designs or varnished to a high sheen. The upper portions, which all made of rubber or transparent plastic, all fastened to the sides by thumbnails. The bakya industry prospered during the 1930’s when the Filipinos began exporting these to other countries. (0) Comments