Twisted Body?
For this Saturday’s Photo Hunter theme twisted, I present to you, the magician’s assistant with her twisted body. Well, it is more like body cut in half 🙁
Fear not, it IS a magic trick we saw from this party. Woot, woot!
Bucao River
Bucao River is one of the rivers in my home province.
My other entry gives emphasis on the side of this bridge that brings me closer to our family home, where my parents and brother live.
Bucao River flows from Mount Pinatubo, a volcano that erupted in the early 1990s after being dormant for almost 500 years. Its ash fall reach other South East Asian countries.
Anyway…
When we went home last Sunday to celebrate my father’s birthday, I asked my husband to stop so that I could take photos of the river and of the bridge on the other side.
The bridge in the foreground is newer because the bridge before that was destroyed by lahar flow.
The Water is Wide
One of the few songs that I love to listen to is the song “The Water is Wide/Deep River” as sung by Barbara Streisand. Click here to listen to her sing. The song has a relation to my entry, in terms of its lyrics, and NOT its interpretation.
Below is a photo of a river whose bed rose because of the sand deposits from the lahar flows as aftermath of the Mount Pinatubo eruption which happened in the early 1990s, after being dormant for 500 years.
Click here to read about its effect.
The Macolcol River was not a wide river before the volcanic eruption but it became so due to the forces of nature that men can not stop. The water has stopped flowing too. To think this river suffered only minor damage compared to other river system just shows how nature is really a force to reckon with.
Pardon the photo quality because we were in transit when I took a snapshot while on the new and taller bridge crossing the river:
The river is not flowing anymore, except maybe during typhoon season. It looks like a wide expanse of white desert with pine trees on either side and the mountains as its backdrop.
I wonder if Pomegranate trees will survive here?
The water should flow towards the sea, though I have not seen that happen in a long time.
photohuntRodic’s Tapsilog
Lasang Pinoy Sundays theme for this week is all about the “walang kamatayang” SILOG.
The more popular terms are tapsilog, longsilog and tocilog.
But now there are different varieties like hotdogsilog, Ces’ entry pusitlog, danggitsilog, spamsilog, cornedbeefsilog, friedchickensilog, hamsilog and anything and everything that catches the fancy of the one preparing the food or the one who will eat the preparation.
Imagination has no limitation when it comes to the silog combination.
Below is our all-time favorite Rodic’s tapsilog, which I also featured several times in my blogs with the tapa already flaked for easier chewing 🙂
Rodic’s tapsilog on our picnic mat.
When my hubby had our photo taken, our son didn’t look at the camera because he was busy eating his tapsilog. When asked why, he said he missed eating the combo 😉
Sipa, a Philippine Native Sport
I have never learned how to play this game called SIPA, the Philippines national sport. This requires agility and speed which I know nothing about.
Perhaps because I was a bit clumsy as a child who never learned how to to do jump rope moves not jump on Chinese garter being played during recess nor ride bikes, I wasn’t able to “master” games that require some physical prowess.
Sure I excelled in playing Jacks and running after friends in a game of “Tagged, You’re It” but that is the extent of how sporty I was.
I bought this toy for my children to play with but alas, they too are awkward about how to execute the moves. How would they know if I can’t teach them the moves.
I hope they can figure out a way on how to do this or I better ask hubby to demonstrate his moves, if he can still do these things 😀
