February 2012
90 posts
There are sometimes that I really do take a long break on Tumblr (3 or more days). I also have a life outside and I’m preparing so many things about other things especially my thesis. I really want to maintain this as consistent as possible but it is not possible. Also, I have a bad habit of holding some posts until I am already contented with the reach of my previous posts.
Also, view my...
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tumblrbot asked: WHERE WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO VISIT ON YOUR PLANET?
Don't worry, I'll share my whole Vigan City...
Anyways, I already reactivated my Tumblr Ask again. But I’m leaving the city now to our town so there, bye!
snobbishfish answered your question: I’m off the net for almost a week already! Hi! I’m…
Tinamad ka na bang mag-blog?
No. I’m here in Ilocos Sur and I am so far removed from the technological civilization.
I’m off the net for almost a week already! Hi! I’m here blogging from Vigan City. How’s life?
Questions actually worth answering. →
roadknee:
firebrickdreams:
1: Apart from tumblr, what do you like to do in your spare time? 2: Name a favorite of each: food, drink, color. 3: If you married rich and your spouse gave you $100,000 a week, what would you spend it on? 4: Name a favorite of each: book, movie, tv show. 5: If you were given the opportunity to spend 48 hours with absolutely anyone (living or dead), who would you...
Anonymous asked: I've recently unearthed an old book of my lola's called "The Streets of Manila". It's brimming with awesome shit and I want you to see it but I don't know how. :(
safeundertheshell asked: Why choose the name theurbanhistorian? I remember when you tried changing it to themanilaboy but reverted it.
Ask Anything tonight →
Well, this will be the last night of the week I would be in the internet if I can’t find a way to access internet up North starting on Saturday. On Friday I would be on a long trek to the Northern Philippines.
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“Epidemics of flies, however, served a good purpose. People never count their...”
– Washing up the Orient, An American Doctor’s Oddyssey by Victor Heiser, MD.
Plaza Roma, Intramuros (Pre-WW2, as I imagined it)
Hello UrbanHistorian!
I love your tumblr! I’ve been following you for months now. My love affair with history and architecture developed when I was a student at PSID. Whenever my schedule permits, I visit Intramuros to wander and “urban sketch”. Documenting “developments” and restoration, particularly the Ayuntamiento Building. I love everything Spanish Colonial, I...
What do you think about mining? →
Whether you’re ignorant or not, the Philippines is super blessed with mineral deposits required for a full steam industrialization. Of course, to get these minerals, you should mine them.
Now, the environmentalists and the mining groups are engaged in a bitter media warfare because of mining. environmentalists, led by Gina Lopez of ABSCBN has the power of media to advance her cause while...
Stop portraying solons as crooks in films, TV—Rep.... →
This lawmaker has had enough.
Dismayed by shows portraying members of Congress as fat, foul-mouthed politicians clad in ill-fitting clothes, Pampanga Rep. Aurelio “Dong” Gonzales Jr. has filed a resolution appealing to film and TV producers to “stop typecasting congressmen and congresswomen as villains or crooks in movies and telenovelas.”
Gonzales proposed House Resolution No. 2140 urging...
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Arroyo father’s name to be dropped from Pampanga... →
Diosdado Macapagal Airport is no more, terminal name na lang siya and then back to Clark International Airport.
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OMG, you just made that Anti-RH photo into an internet meme. With due diligence, please don’t do that. Making that won’t add to the intellect in the discussion of the bill. Of course, I’ll take it against you if you do that.
Yes, respect other people’s work of art.
Sigh.
I have sent a letter of intent for the Tree Planting Meet Up to the Mayor’s Office last January. It’s nearing March already and then still no reply. If March 1 comes and no approval yet, we’ll take the extreme step.
When I say extreme, it might be dangerous.
That marks the end of my poetry attack. I’m sleepy already. I posted my full Batangas Trip Photos in my Facebook Page, here is the link.
Picture book 1945 →
thereluctantbeliever:
CITY SENSE By Paulo Alcazaren
It has been a month since I wrote the article on Trudl Zipper and her husband Herbert. I had suggested that some Hollywood producer make a blockbuster on the life of this refugee from Nazi Europe, with Rachel Weisz in the lead role. Escaping Europe, Trudl found herself and her husband in Japanese-occupied Manila and their story was a...
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would-you-have-sex-with-me-if-i asked: 23. What is your biggest regret?
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PGH 1945: Days of terror, nights of fear
By Miguel P. Avanceña Philippine Daily Inquirer
(Editors Note: The author, a retired officer of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, is the youngest son of the late Chief Justice Ramon Q. Avanceña, who served during the American and Commonwealth eras.)
The battle for the liberation of the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) on Taft Avenue in Manila was only one of a series of street-by-street,...
Anonymous asked: So how was your reading of the "Aquino-Cojuangco brouhaha"? What have you discovered?
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