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www.marinduquegov.blogspot.comeli j obligacionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17862600922141415169noreply@blogger.comBlogger2594125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4819756879000457445.post-22122847687475922172023-10-30T11:06:00.000+08:002023-10-30T11:06:33.785+08:001948 State of Israel proclaimed - from History.com<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On May 14, 1948, in Tel Aviv, Jewish Agency
Chairman David Ben-Gurion proclaims the State of <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/history-of-israel"><span style="color: blue;">Israel</span></a>, establishing the first Jewish state in 2,000 years.
Ben-Gurion became Israel’s first premier.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Segoe UI, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjcBkG4FQ4RcpGlIewOiGYIoQ3TdjwKbz7-OYzfKbp1BEiXuR-st5203KKh9ofX2G55NbYbGkLyanOv4DCSJ23fKrmj0PaBQb4tm6W4lPn3OCpwaWZjHNToptqiORDM6GMaGSUftfc0-8PqIpFCjdXLC_tuXTfjQAb8QiNaVKC4nzlbl5leTc6zYfnap9U" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1414" data-original-width="2121" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjcBkG4FQ4RcpGlIewOiGYIoQ3TdjwKbz7-OYzfKbp1BEiXuR-st5203KKh9ofX2G55NbYbGkLyanOv4DCSJ23fKrmj0PaBQb4tm6W4lPn3OCpwaWZjHNToptqiORDM6GMaGSUftfc0-8PqIpFCjdXLC_tuXTfjQAb8QiNaVKC4nzlbl5leTc6zYfnap9U=w400-h266" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; text-align: left;">In the distance, the rumble of guns could be
heard from fighting that broke out between Jews and Arabs immediately following
the British army withdrawal earlier that day. Egypt launched an air assault
against Israel that evening. Despite a blackout in Tel Aviv—and the expected
Arab invasion—Jews celebrated the birth of their new nation, especially after
word was received that the United States had recognized the Jewish state. At
midnight, the State of Israel officially came into being upon termination of the
British mandate in </span><a href="https://www.history.com/topics/middle-east/palestine" style="font-size: 15pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue;">Palestine</span></a><span style="font-size: 15pt; text-align: left;">.</span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Modern Israel has its origins in the <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/zionism"><span style="color: blue;">Zionism</span></a> movement,
established in the late 19th century by Jews in the Russian Empire who called
for the establishment of a territorial Jewish state after enduring persecution.
In 1896, Jewish-Austrian journalist Theodor Herzl published an influential
political pamphlet called <i>The Jewish State,</i> which argued that
the establishment of a Jewish state was the only way of protecting Jews from
anti-Semitism. Herzl became the leader of Zionism, convening the first Zionist
Congress in Switzerland in 1897. Ottoman-controlled Palestine, the original
home of the Jews, was chosen as the most desirable location for a Jewish state,
and Herzl unsuccessfully petitioned the Ottoman government for a charter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">After the failed <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/russian-revolution"><span style="color: blue;">Russian Revolution</span></a> of 1905, growing numbers
of Eastern European and Russian Jews began to immigrate to Palestine, joining
the few thousand Jews who had arrived earlier. The Jewish settlers insisted on
the use of Hebrew as their spoken language. With the collapse of the <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/ottoman-empire"><span style="color: blue;">Ottoman
Empire</span></a> during <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i"><span style="color: blue;">World
War I</span></a>, Britain took over Palestine. In 1917, Britain issued the “<a href="https://www.history.com/topics/balfour-declaration"><span style="color: blue;">Balfour Declaration</span></a>,” which declared its intent
to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Although protested by the Arab
states, the Balfour Declaration was included in the British mandate over
Palestine, which was authorized by the <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/league-of-nations"><span style="color: blue;">League of Nations</span></a> in 1922. Because of Arab opposition to
the establishment of any Jewish state in Palestine, British rule continued
throughout the 1920s and ’30s.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Beginning in 1929, Arabs and Jews openly
fought in Palestine, and Britain attempted to limit Jewish immigration as a
means of appeasing the Arabs. As a result of the Holocaust in Europe, many Jews
illegally entered Palestine during <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii"><span style="color: blue;">World
War II</span></a>. Jewish groups employed terrorism against British forces in
Palestine, which they thought had betrayed the Zionist cause. At the end of
World War II, in 1945, the United States took up the Zionist cause. Britain,
unable to find a practical solution, referred the problem to the United
Nations, which in November 1947 voted to partition Palestine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Jews were to possess more than half of
Palestine, although they made up less than half of Palestine’s population. The
Palestinian Arabs, aided by volunteers from other countries, fought the Zionist
forces, but by May 14, 1948, the Jews had secured full control of their
U.N.-allocated share of Palestine and also some Arab territory. On May 14,
Britain withdrew with the expiration of its mandate, and the State of Israel was
proclaimed. The next day, forces from Egypt, Transjordan, <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/the-history-of-syria"><span style="color: blue;">Syria</span></a>, Lebanon, and Iraq invaded.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Israelis, though less well equipped,
managed to fight off the Arabs and then seize key territory, such as Galilee,
the Palestinian coast, and a strip of territory connecting the coastal region
to the western section of <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/history-of-jerusalem"><span style="color: blue;">Jerusalem</span></a>. In 1949, U.N.-brokered cease-fires
left the State of Israel in permanent control of this conquered territory. The
departure of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs from Israel during the
war left the country with a substantial Jewish majority.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">During the third Arab-Israeli conflict—the
Six-Day War of 1967—Israel again greatly increased its borders, capturing from
Jordan, Egypt, and Syria the Old City of Jerusalem, the Sinai Peninsula, the
Gaza Strip, the West Bank and the Golan Heights. In 1979, Israel and Egypt
signed a <a href="https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/israel-egyptian-peace-agreement-signed"><span style="color: blue;">historic peace agreement</span></a> in which Israel
returned the Sinai in exchange for Egyptian recognition and peace. Israel and
the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) signed a major peace accord in
1993, which envisioned the gradual implementation of Palestinian
self-government in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The Israeli-Palestinian peace
process moved slowly, however, and throughout the 21st century, major fighting
between Israelis and Palestinians has resumed in Israel and the occupied
territories.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://history.com/"><span style="color: blue;">HISTORY.com</span></a> works with a wide range of
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Zapata.<o:p></o:p></span></p>eli j obligacionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17862600922141415169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4819756879000457445.post-444621256661373102023-09-14T04:56:00.000+08:002023-09-14T04:56:24.913+08:00Trivia: Flag of the Marinduque Revolutionary Forces!<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ghvt6d_F_m8/W45O_-HK2iI/AAAAAAAAWGo/zP8a1ZeniyMebCA27XofRup_tEVUUuZCQCLcBGAs/s1600/abad%2527s%2Bflag.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="color: #ff9900; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="406" data-original-width="725" height="358" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ghvt6d_F_m8/W45O_-HK2iI/AAAAAAAAWGo/zP8a1ZeniyMebCA27XofRup_tEVUUuZCQCLcBGAs/s640/abad%2527s%2Bflag.jpg" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There was such a flag of the Marinduque Revolutionary Forces under the command of Col. Maximo Abad. The said flag fell into the hands of American forces in Marinduque in a skirmish in 1901 and is described as </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>“a field flag measuring 18x30 inches. Its colors are red, white and blue with but two bars and a triangle white. In the triangle are handpainted characters representing the sun, surrounded by three large stars, which are black. The material of the flag is ordinary bunting”.</i></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The above drawing is one version only of the flag posted by watawat.net based on a written description. Full text of the undated newspaper clipping, main source of the information, is found below.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBC6d04mYhvQSjytj3ROEm5MEUIl82u5zyrnE4_69TRFQN-0TNaeUFZyrGa413ChOCwi3MrVoFdJ-p24lONxh6Bkw8dftF9HfoUdbWwf_BF4ENVchs3kxEYBXSgZZ07lc2xAeT6C39k62mXdr4xCtP9jSOtoqSZrz3_RExukXCRX-AG6dTveps7OrG6kg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="687" data-original-width="523" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhBC6d04mYhvQSjytj3ROEm5MEUIl82u5zyrnE4_69TRFQN-0TNaeUFZyrGa413ChOCwi3MrVoFdJ-p24lONxh6Bkw8dftF9HfoUdbWwf_BF4ENVchs3kxEYBXSgZZ07lc2xAeT6C39k62mXdr4xCtP9jSOtoqSZrz3_RExukXCRX-AG6dTveps7OrG6kg=w488-h640" width="488" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal">Full text of the mentioned article: <i>"Senator W.A. Harris has received a Filipino flag from Major
Whitman, formerly a member of the famous twentieth Kansas regiment, who is now
in the Philippines. Major Whitman is serving in the second infantry, U.S.A. as a first lieutenant. The
flag was captured in a recent skirmish on the Island of Marinduque. It is a
field flag and measures 18x30 inches. Its colors are red, white and blue, with
but two bars and a triangle white. In the triangle are handpainted characters
representing the sun, surrounded by three large stars, which are black. The
material of the flag is ordinary bunting. Senator Harris also recived a copy of
the Filipino constitution, which was captured at Tacloban, Isle of Leyte. It is a diminutive edition,
being a handy size to carry in the pocket. It is said that every Filipino
soldier carries with him at all times a copy of their constitution. The copy
which Senator Harrris has possession of is the property of Senor Bernabe
Odayate, whose name is very legibly inscribed on the cover."</i><o:p></o:p></p></div><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Information about this flag came to the knowledge of local historical researcher, Curtis Shepard, and was shared with this blogger years ago. Shepard maintains a blog, ulongbeach.com devoted to publication of research materials on Marinduque's past. </span></div>eli j obligacionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17862600922141415169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4819756879000457445.post-33530798286952857452023-08-07T18:03:00.005+08:002023-08-07T21:25:50.810+08:00Ang pinagmulan ng Potong (orig spelling 1609 ni Morga), later, naging Putong sa panulat ni Rizal mismo (1890)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAQCgJD8eGQVzgACpfrTJi_01ZDQOGNSnZcafRA4oMSf7d81CwZySchaNHfjME7rBIN9Qf1iwQLSkEdlngbJPbBJ7f-JEXlqi0xmpZRYbDrv-55DJ-Gbnl720GY2CqfWNaN7FbieUg5oFVa5LerRWqJxanPcO1zKdDN1VK26M_AQYP2tdEQKeeB5y9LzM/s361/GOV.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="361" data-original-width="231" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAQCgJD8eGQVzgACpfrTJi_01ZDQOGNSnZcafRA4oMSf7d81CwZySchaNHfjME7rBIN9Qf1iwQLSkEdlngbJPbBJ7f-JEXlqi0xmpZRYbDrv-55DJ-Gbnl720GY2CqfWNaN7FbieUg5oFVa5LerRWqJxanPcO1zKdDN1VK26M_AQYP2tdEQKeeB5y9LzM/w256-h400/GOV.jpg" width="256" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Marinduque's Gov. Presby Velasco with a putong of nito.</b></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNRpcX0GEUtQxkBcPodtb94bhCXsR4DM7BsqHasTt0l2IEi8lrpXWPd72CEcE3d-BwMnPTH8ltdAYLHrszsKL3X-b7oXIbZClZz3bbCtarVRFvRHyfETRgVYQPmYHAROgepR2dxNGWbBT9Rg7UVPEquFDROZUihwNgds84NgPWApNGLouKR-Qkyw9y_tM/s720/152846792_4346411185388408_5608323182253765183_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="556" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNRpcX0GEUtQxkBcPodtb94bhCXsR4DM7BsqHasTt0l2IEi8lrpXWPd72CEcE3d-BwMnPTH8ltdAYLHrszsKL3X-b7oXIbZClZz3bbCtarVRFvRHyfETRgVYQPmYHAROgepR2dxNGWbBT9Rg7UVPEquFDROZUihwNgds84NgPWApNGLouKR-Qkyw9y_tM/w309-h400/152846792_4346411185388408_5608323182253765183_n.jpg" width="309" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> Not Bruno Mars but a 19th century Tagalog gentleman with original putong</b></span><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Isinulat ito ni <b>Antonio de Morga</b> sa kanyang <b>Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas</b>, literally Events in the Philippine Islands, <b>1609</b>. Isa sa pinakamahalagang panulat tungkol sa kasaysayan ng pananakop ng mga Kastila sa ating bansa.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Sa pagsasalarawan niya stungkol sa kasuotan ng mga katutubo ng Luzon, ito ang sinabi: </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"Nagsusuot din sila ng kapirasong may kulay na tela na </span><span style="font-family: arial;">nakabalot sa paligid ng baywang, at pinapadaan sa pagitan ng dalawang hita, para matakpan ang pribadong mga bahagi, hanggang umabot ito pababa sa mga hita; <b>bahag</b> ang tawag dito. Naglalakad sila ng nakayapak, walang takip ang mga paa, at sa ulo na walang takip, binabalutan nila ng makitid na tela, na tinatawag na <b>potong</b>". </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">{In describing what were worn by the natives of Luzon before the coming of the Spaniards, Morga wrote:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> “ They also wore a strip of colored cloth wrapped about the waist, and passed between the legs, so that it covered the privy parts, reaching half-way down the thigh; these are called bahaques. <i>(bahags)</i> They go with legs bare, feet unshod, and the head uncovered, wrapping a narrow cloth, called <b>potong</b>”.}</span></blockquote><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span><b>'To crown', </b></span><b>'Para Koronahan"</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Hinangaan ni Dr. José Rizal</b> ang mga isinulat ni Morga at ini-annotate niya ito, para mabigyan ng higit na paliwanag ang mga naisulat na. Natapos ito ng dakilang bayani natin a Paris noong 1890. Ipinaliwanag ni Rizal kung ano yung "potong". <b>("Putong" na ang ginamit niya sa pagsusulat).</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> Rizal wrote:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“They wrapped it in different ways, now in the Moro style, like a turban without the top part, now twisted and turned in the manner of the crown of a hat. Those who esteemed themselves valiant let the ends of the cloth, elaborately embroidered, fall down the back to the buttocks.</span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In the color of the cloth, they showed their chieftaincy, and the device of their undertakings and prowess. No one was allowed to use the red potong until he had killed at least one man. <b>And in order to wear them edged with certain edgings</b>,<b> which were regarded as a crown, they must have killed seven men” (Colin).</b> Even now any Indio is seen to wear the balindang in the manner of the <b>putong</b>. <b>Putong signifies in Tagál, “to crown” or “to wrap anything around the head.”—Rizal.</b></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg87J-lafg-L4hkXhHWytTrbldSvPN_kn6Cqh32elUYE1zkmfVfJGHsekz63Zz-AI9fl-2FJbttsfJ4XuOa7RzaWj6Uj9LCj0e35BWHY_UurzQfcQWn-RhGompI2F1MW6VXAu_I00g5Z8F1SNaB5Ezdy8h2W_wkIClw_VlB0qcqQffX-SZuK6MCLoWx9_k/s429/DSC_0505.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="416" data-original-width="429" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg87J-lafg-L4hkXhHWytTrbldSvPN_kn6Cqh32elUYE1zkmfVfJGHsekz63Zz-AI9fl-2FJbttsfJ4XuOa7RzaWj6Uj9LCj0e35BWHY_UurzQfcQWn-RhGompI2F1MW6VXAu_I00g5Z8F1SNaB5Ezdy8h2W_wkIClw_VlB0qcqQffX-SZuK6MCLoWx9_k/w400-h388/DSC_0505.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">To this, the joyous welcome ritual. </span></b></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In <b>Marinduque</b>, where the historic putong (or <i>tubong</i>) has evolved into the practice of performing a happy song-and-dance ritual for a celebrant, an honoree, a special guest, or a family member as a form of thanksgiving.Everyone wishes them the best now and in the days to come. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Te meaning of the Tagalog word has remained the same - four centuries after Morga wrote it. But it has now evolved into a new form, in celebration of the past, present and future.</span></p>eli j obligacionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17862600922141415169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4819756879000457445.post-32950950973524227692023-08-04T23:44:00.000+08:002023-08-04T23:44:17.090+08:00Harold, his father, brother, and how much they cared for Teatro Balangaw<p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ5ocHGx_lTA7zWbY3U7LPFLyyD8CAeItuU1SZjtTIb_27BQGdVVCcUqoQ6u_Z_voPxzAbp2Z3Px36q_C_qaC8lFaL7N0VSAF2MufTeQjUA-57iGhLNmRyh5AIzUk-KIYfqOPxYtgcB_NbF4TWAOnS4cfJwEoctvwVE3ra9HIkbaIojY_r7E-T_nfQwBY/s300/erven%20book.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="180" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ5ocHGx_lTA7zWbY3U7LPFLyyD8CAeItuU1SZjtTIb_27BQGdVVCcUqoQ6u_Z_voPxzAbp2Z3Px36q_C_qaC8lFaL7N0VSAF2MufTeQjUA-57iGhLNmRyh5AIzUk-KIYfqOPxYtgcB_NbF4TWAOnS4cfJwEoctvwVE3ra9HIkbaIojY_r7E-T_nfQwBY/s1600/erven%20book.jpg" width="180" /></a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><b><br /></b></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><b>Cover of 'Community Theater: Global Perspectives' </b><b>by Eugene van Erven</b></b></div><p></p><p><b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><b><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Harold Glenn Miciano has
joined his father, Melo, in heaven. </span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Yes, I do remember how proud his father was
of his Harold, especially, and his brother Hajun, particularly of his sons’
artistic contribution to our humble Teatro Balangaw in the late 90’s.</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #666666;">After all, Mara Unduk, that
dance-drama where the brothers were lead players had performances then in several
Marinduque towns and some barangays in Boac. Not to mention the group’s
performances at the Rajah Sulaiman Theater then at Fort Bonifacio, Nayong
Pilipino and at Museong Pambata in Roxas Boulevard.</span></b><span style="color: #666666;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #666666;">The brothers also took part in a <b>Teatro Balangaw-PETA</b> play
way back in 1997, <b>"Putik sa Karamihan, Ginto sa Iilan"</b> in
Boac. That’s about the Marcopper disaster that transpired a year before and how
it affected the lives of the people.</span><span style="color: #666666;"><br />
</span><span style="color: #666666;"><br />
That particular project was filmed by Oceanic Films for European television and
titled "Swapping Stories". There was a segment in it that included an
interview with Tatay Melo,, Hajun and Harold while fishing along the coast of
Laylay. There, the old man was heard complaineing about their dwindling catch
after the mine spill.</span><span style="color: #666666;"><br />
</span><span style="color: #666666;"><br />
Then a book was later published, <b>Community Theater: Global Perspectives</b> by
renowned expert of community theater,<b> Eugene van Erven who came with
his crew.</b> The book that featured Teatro Balangaw’s work and the Miciano’s was
released with the said unique video record of van Erven's journey in Marinduque.</span><span style="color: #666666;"><br />
</span><span style="color: #666666;"><br /><b><i>
On page 49 of the book, van Erven wrote:</i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #666666;">After the show, Ernie
(Cloma) takes the microphone to tell the audience that the play they have seen
is the result of a five-day workshop with members of Teatro Balangaw and
artist-teachers from PETA and that they dedicate the performance to the people
of Marinduque. <b>Melo Miciano, Harold's and Hajun's father, tells me he
is proud of his sons and expresses the hope that they will perform the play in
other Marinduque communities as well.</b> Several unidentified local
environmental activists comment that they equally enjoyed it and that they
noticed that a lot of the factual information in the play was new to the
audience:</span><span style="color: #666666;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #666666;">Many people from Boac town have never been up
to the barrio. They know about it, generally, but don't seem to care. Looking
around me I also noticed how people tuned in to the entertainment elements in
the show, but turned off during the more serious parts. But this kind of
theater is good; it will draw people's attention, like fish to a bait.</span><span style="color: #666666;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt;">Anyway, ano ba yung madugong labanan na iyon sa pagitan ng Spanish at Dutch sa dagat ng Marinduque?</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span></b></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><b><img alt="" data-original-height="571" data-original-width="436" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgeQCYnDnXLuaevSvKnvSRHl-_l4UbzwIJGfy7-lQdtwpBHNViXdc0KV9vX9sgY0Ou83SbaWQ3MZ9vgRHUJFlVBnXRyqKkQBt6aetPuFa4mHXPH0m-1QTVjce4wf9Rz_G5NEMkOTO-2J22lAyV_6n5ofZ_02lgq9pS0xBmxMJsnCKVHcqy7TPu7WgY45ws=w488-h640" width="488" /></b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><b>I<span style="font-size: medium;">to ang lugar sa may pagitan ng Marinduque at Banton na ngayo'y pinaliigiran ng rich divesite areas. Naroon ang mga Dutch ship, fallen, cold and coral encrusted na.</span></b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><b><br /></b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;">1646</span></b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"> naman naganap <b>sa pagitan ng Marinduque at Banton</b> ang
bombahan sa pagitan ng dalawang Spanish galleons at pitong Dutch warships.</span><span style="text-align: left;"> Ito
ang labanan na itinuturing ng mga mananampalataya na isang tunay na milagro. 1652 nadeklarang milagro ng Cathedral Chapter of Manila at doon pa lamang nagamit ang branding na 'La Naval de Manila'.</span></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Magkahiwalay na sumumpa (vowed), sa publiko baga naman
ang<b> mga Kastilang sina Heneral Orellana</b> at <b>Admiral Lopez </b>na
kapag napanalunan nila ang laban na ito ay maglalakad silang nakayapak mula
Cavite hanggang sa Santo Domingo Church sa Manila sa ngalan ng Virgen ng Santo
Rosario.</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Naganap sa karagatang ito ang pinakamadugong labanan na mula mga
alas-siete ng gabi, <b>July 29, 1646</b>. Pinaligiran ng pitong Dutch
ships ang <b>Encarnacion</b>. Palitan ng mga putukan at may napuruhan sa
panig ng mga piratang Dutch.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ang <b>Rosario </b>naman ay nasa labas
ng nakapaligid na kaaway sa <b>Encarnacion</b>. Walang hirap sa ginawang pambobomba ang Rosario
mula sa likuran at lumala ang kalagayan ng mga kaaway. Sinubukan ng mga Dutch
na pasabugin ang Encarnacion sa pamamagitan ng isa nitong fire ship, subalit
sinalubong ito ng mga kanyon kayat umurong. Binalingan naman ang Rosario
subalit sinalubong din ng sampung sabay sabay na kanyon. Nahagip ang mga
fireworks ng fire ship at sumabog ito, nasunog at lumubog, kasama ang mga
tripolante.</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt;">Walang namatay sa Encarnacion pero nalagasan ang Rosario ng
limang sundalo. Nang sumunod na araw ay ang Spanish-Filipino fleet naman ang
humabol sa kaaway. Nakorner ng dalawang galleon ang mga Dutch noong </span><b style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt;">July
31, 1646</b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt;"> mga alas-dos ng hapon. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nakarating ang labanan sa pagitan
naman ng Mindoro at isla ng Maestre de Campo. Inihalintulad ang putukan ng
magkabilang panig sa animoy "pagsabog ng maraming bulkan". Nalampang
isa-isa ang mga barko ng Dutch at lumubog naman ang isa pang barko kasama ang crew at mga armas.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt;">"Ave Maria! Ave Maria! ang sigaw ng mga bida, "Viva la
fe Cristo y la Virgen Santissima del Rosario!" (Long live the Faith in
Christ and the Most Holy Virgin".</span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I</span></p>eli j obligacionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17862600922141415169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4819756879000457445.post-82186206709815386722023-08-01T17:34:00.003+08:002023-08-04T15:51:03.866+08:00 More intrigue about Mara Unduk, the dance-drama<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ_BjYUjBZ9umktMlzPY0bf_89rLLUi4TIbhWZbwySboKvqpSbz2G2g9xxxALQX2sS1olMKEGNtEsX02C0xZKN8bhqGEDEvKtk6X_pjeixL9f4PhtqVYDoz7nSrXs2pk6O7rPxRsaaaMdi3QOR9gaD1wZqrQmFPezN6YqTIMSpkml3ttRrBS4DQkbijDQ/s640/mara96b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="640" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ_BjYUjBZ9umktMlzPY0bf_89rLLUi4TIbhWZbwySboKvqpSbz2G2g9xxxALQX2sS1olMKEGNtEsX02C0xZKN8bhqGEDEvKtk6X_pjeixL9f4PhtqVYDoz7nSrXs2pk6O7rPxRsaaaMdi3QOR9gaD1wZqrQmFPezN6YqTIMSpkml3ttRrBS4DQkbijDQ/w640-h400/mara96b.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Water-damaged photo of the delubyo scene while the mine tailings continued</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>to enundate daily the Boac nearby.</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Teatro Balangaw's Mara Unduk was restaged in 1996 as part of the Easter Sunday
program in Boac. One week before the event, in the middle of rehearsals hit the infamous Marcopper mine tailings disaster. All too suddenly, death and
destruction was wrought to the historic Boac River.</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">But coincidentally, there was a scene in Mara Unduk that depicted
death and destruction (delubyo), reminiscent of the man-made killing of the river at
that time (above photo}. Like life imitating Art, kumbaga, and that did not escape our attention.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSxO5CZMd32yR7qhjNrGPrxR4U9Rv6pkRP9VVOhelzNY7vOLHRuvxFRcvgX6xXx-u6NYP6as7szY4h1QPJnyg1HtJ3de_EKxco2jX2S1Jrqmh7snlUe9XswEEverDIY7JoiIxxSR97oeB0wOn3gup7ItnNI_OLeYut95MOgu3-C5yiP7q3-tSG8HSBKbI/s661/maradaupan.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="661" height="453" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSxO5CZMd32yR7qhjNrGPrxR4U9Rv6pkRP9VVOhelzNY7vOLHRuvxFRcvgX6xXx-u6NYP6as7szY4h1QPJnyg1HtJ3de_EKxco2jX2S1Jrqmh7snlUe9XswEEverDIY7JoiIxxSR97oeB0wOn3gup7ItnNI_OLeYut95MOgu3-C5yiP7q3-tSG8HSBKbI/w640-h453/maradaupan.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b>Alon and Baylana dance. Daupan Festival for Philippine Revolution, Centennial 1998</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">To this day, but elsewhere online, people still talk about the
Mara Unduk tale. Other than <a href="https://marinduquegov.blogspot.com/2023/07/a-colossal-intrigue-from-teatro.html" target="_blank">NASA trying to study the two-moon theory </a>which Mara Unduk presented more than a decade
before, <a href="https://www.quora.com/The-moon-was-much-closer-to-Earth-millions-of-years-ago-Was-it-ever-touching-Earth/answer/Bob-DeMaria" target="_blank">blogger Bob Demaria </a>stated: "</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;">You need to listen to the ancients rather modern science
that dreams up scenarios that have no reality</span>."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He went on to mention the Mara Unduk tale providing a link
to it, and shared a related story about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1ni" target="_blank">Mani </a>the moon from the Prose Edda.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He just wants to remind his followers and readers, thus:
“Listen <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and read the old tales of the
ancients who passed them down to us. Modern science knows nothing and is thoroughly
ignorant because they’re more intelligent and ancient man was primitive and
full of superstitious beliefs.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Today, I read the news about the passing of Harold Glenn Miciano who played the lead, Alon, many times in many places. Am sharing some of the pictures that have survived natural and man-made disasters. Incidentally, a photo of him as Alon in a Fort Santiago performance had graced The Asia Magazine.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc4n6wBf_4isJ95q_b9ldXFtbucj2cEBPa083H31ll5drg94t0vPA0tDJCwYYERzt8Z7PcIqMyJgjhh7IO8KNVSFD-VYrsoyFrcjMPdxML-fTvpdRzRxlmpd2ilEe53bNhkscd1M6asisJMluyCW_NJ0zV8QGnoye7v4DrKEwxi_Ax-VLdcc_3vo8Xsds/s320/IMG0236A.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="240" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc4n6wBf_4isJ95q_b9ldXFtbucj2cEBPa083H31ll5drg94t0vPA0tDJCwYYERzt8Z7PcIqMyJgjhh7IO8KNVSFD-VYrsoyFrcjMPdxML-fTvpdRzRxlmpd2ilEe53bNhkscd1M6asisJMluyCW_NJ0zV8QGnoye7v4DrKEwxi_Ax-VLdcc_3vo8Xsds/w300-h400/IMG0236A.jpg" width="300" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b> Harold Glenn at extreme right</b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOAvdYHwCWfqriNY7zu3jdv601oOQ_tt6ulcL2gbAyzEanegzEGid3oW0f77EVH1tYtaNPLvxVMWm5CtB4LOa2A9lI8utKfrq6-BYp0VIIim4-peQSWWdDbJlzHI_zYLkEtgQBAbhe_b0WmXPYau7QL70rPL-H0jSCfeZSqGmiqn_rc7U-Z9HA9XDFjSw/s720/359684358_689824522963750_5294268656313560582_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="720" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOAvdYHwCWfqriNY7zu3jdv601oOQ_tt6ulcL2gbAyzEanegzEGid3oW0f77EVH1tYtaNPLvxVMWm5CtB4LOa2A9lI8utKfrq6-BYp0VIIim4-peQSWWdDbJlzHI_zYLkEtgQBAbhe_b0WmXPYau7QL70rPL-H0jSCfeZSqGmiqn_rc7U-Z9HA9XDFjSw/w640-h480/359684358_689824522963750_5294268656313560582_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>A Mara Unduk prformance for Tagalog Fiesta at Nayong Pilipino, 1996.</b></div></b><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVh7entCaRUEZkWZx0f0TiC8Icmk836SbxL5xm4IdTN_OF00PndE3wXYajswDt9ajQu9HYNhCb-nBREK0G_kkXjkP9CciaJScUHkc_VV3OBFTohh_5ON3rxdIMTxgQ9Gc_8ckbZiyjuBX3HsJ3v7jRizeB5rQS6fiBMcpuOd0269QHVUzAp2SkLM0xVO4/s557/404603_548478628501354_61058579_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="557" data-original-width="362" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVh7entCaRUEZkWZx0f0TiC8Icmk836SbxL5xm4IdTN_OF00PndE3wXYajswDt9ajQu9HYNhCb-nBREK0G_kkXjkP9CciaJScUHkc_VV3OBFTohh_5ON3rxdIMTxgQ9Gc_8ckbZiyjuBX3HsJ3v7jRizeB5rQS6fiBMcpuOd0269QHVUzAp2SkLM0xVO4/w260-h400/404603_548478628501354_61058579_n.jpg" width="260" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b> Harold Glenn Miciano</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><br /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><br /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Pakibasa rin, read:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://marinduquegov.blogspot.com/2017/07/matinding-record-baya-part-2-dutch.html" target="_blank">A colossal intrigue! </a>From Teatro Balangaw's 1992 two-moon myth to NASA's 2013 two-moon theory.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>eli j obligacionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17862600922141415169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4819756879000457445.post-64204287892904143452023-07-31T15:53:00.007+08:002023-07-31T23:35:35.553+08:00A colossal intrigue! From Teatro Balangaw's 1992 two-moon myth to Science@NASA's 2013 two-moon theory<p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> <i style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="line-height: 18.4px;">Nawindang lamang ako. Una naming pinalabas sa Boac Town Plaza noong 1992 para sa pista ng bayan ang Mara Unduk. Tungkol ito sa alamat ng dalawang buwan. si Mayana at si Buwana na nagpaikot sa buhay ng mga taga Mara Unduk (nasa ibaba ang buod ng istorya}.</span></i></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, "sans-serif"" style="line-height: 18.4px;">Taong 2013, biglang pumasok sa eksena ang NASA para pag-aralan diumano sa unang pagkakataon ang misteryo ng dalawang buwan sa ating mundo.</span><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">..</span></span></span></b></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;">Who wouldn't be intrigued? The earth had two moons? My original <b>1992</b></span> <b>Mara Unduk</b> story that our community theater group developed as a dance-drama depicted exactly that, How one of the two celestial bodies crashed onto the earth when a moon goddess was angered causing an end-of-days scenario. Few survivors were washed into an island that sprang from the sea, building a community there, yet over time old mistakes were committed, spreading chaos and corruption, angering the gods once more and causing a new delubyo. Enlightenment ensued finally thereafter.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b><span>Now</span><span>,</span></b></span><b> NASA is investigating the two moon theory,</b><span> </span><span>part of its GRAIL Mission launched from Kennedy Space Center on <b>September 10, 2013, </b>watch video.</span></span><br style="font-size: large;" /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/xbZ4MlTw2JA?rel=0" width="560"></iframe> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt;">F<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;">rom NASA's video, "</span><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;">Did Earth Have Two Moons?</b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt;">" recently posted on YouTube:</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">"Did earth have two moons? Nothing stirs the soul of poets and lovers like the sight of a full moon rising on a warm autumn night. Nothing that is, except the sight of two moons rising…</span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">If a paper published recently in the journal "Nature" is right, two moons once graced the night skies of earth. </span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>The idea has not been proven but it is drawing the serious attention of researchers. “It’s an intriguing idea”, says David Smith of the Massachussets Institute of Technology </b>and it would be a way to explain one of the great mysteries of the earth moon system."<br /></span></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-h186QjYGGsw/UjEqvmzpWZI/AAAAAAAAL0E/u7yFqBMABFg/s1600/maraunduk1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="216" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-h186QjYGGsw/UjEqvmzpWZI/AAAAAAAAL0E/u7yFqBMABFg/s320/maraunduk1.jpg" width="320" /></a><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Ganyang--ganyan.</span></p><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XQZnr44Kvi4/UjEqR7LLg-I/AAAAAAAALz8/mrkLceqmbbs/s1600/maraunduk2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" height="179" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XQZnr44Kvi4/UjEqR7LLg-I/AAAAAAAALz8/mrkLceqmbbs/s320/maraunduk2.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"…the two moon theory introduced by planetary scientists Martin Jutzi and Erik</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Asphaug of the University of California at Santa Cruz is the latest attempt. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">NASA’s GRAIL Mission launched from the Kennedy Space Center on </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">September 10 could help unravel the mystery. Smith is the deputy principal </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">investigator for GRAIL which stands for Gravity Recovery and Interior</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Laboratory. GRAIL consists of two aircrafts that will orbit the moon in </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">tandem precisely mapping the moon’s gravitational field and thus reveal</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> how the moon’s interior is layered. Among other things, this could test the </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">two moon theory. Most scientists believe that when a Mars sized object </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">crashed into our planet about 4 1/2 billion years ago the resulting debris cloud </span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">coalesced to form the moon… the debris cloud actually formed two moons..."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ya0AjK0mB20/UjEgd4oKbAI/AAAAAAAALzs/7rAPTFXzfng/s1600/mara_unduk.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" height="444" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ya0AjK0mB20/UjEgd4oKbAI/AAAAAAAALzs/7rAPTFXzfng/s640/mara_unduk.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /><b>Two moon goddesses, Mayana and Buwana in the days of Bathala.</b><br />The subject of Mara Unduk, a Teatro Balangaw play first presented in 1992.<br />Photo by Mel Cortez (1997), published in BusinessWorld.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12.7273px; line-height: 16.3636px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>The MARA UNDUK Story</span><br />by Eli J. Obligacion<br /><br /></span></b><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">In the days of Bathala,
when two moons still sailed the sky, the earth was inhabited by highly-gifted
spirit-people who lived in harmony with all existence. Such immense powers they
possessed, for they controlled the four elements of Fire, Air, Water and Earth.<o:p></o:p></span></p></span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12.7273px; line-height: 16.3636px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dxLXDYPmV7E/UBd7UMl2SKI/AAAAAAAAHbg/nstFlUl73p8/s1600/marakund.jpg" style="background-color: white; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dxLXDYPmV7E/UBd7UMl2SKI/AAAAAAAAHbg/nstFlUl73p8/s400/marakund.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Mayana angered.</i></span><br /><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i>Over time, they became too proud to the point that Mayana, the Goddess of the Lower Moon, was angered, smashing her lunar abode onto the earth. </span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12.7273px; line-height: 16.3636px;" /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12.7273px; line-height: 16.3636px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aR2WDH_OgFU/UBd7aTwcBXI/AAAAAAAAHbo/o15vAfhU5nc/s1600/mara3.jpg" style="background-color: white; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="252" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aR2WDH_OgFU/UBd7aTwcBXI/AAAAAAAAHbo/o15vAfhU5nc/s400/mara3.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Unang Delubyo.</i></span><br /><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i>This was known as the first upheaval - that caused an island to spring from the bottom of the the ocean. The few survivors named it Mara Unduk, sea mountain.</span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12.7273px; line-height: 16.3636px;" /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12.7273px; line-height: 16.3636px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7uCFn199jfM/UBd7fh4IhwI/AAAAAAAAHbw/L22aum-QoBc/s1600/katalona.jpg" style="background-color: white; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7uCFn199jfM/UBd7fh4IhwI/AAAAAAAAHbw/L22aum-QoBc/s400/katalona.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Katalona.</i></span><br /><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i>The Earth was left under the care of the gentle Goddess of the Higher Moon, Buwana. A new order was established under the rule of the sorcerer, Katalona, who dominated the people's lives. But the survivors who have learned to hunt for food have forgotten who they were or where they came from. They had no notion of their destiny.</span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12.7273px; line-height: 16.3636px;" /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12.7273px; line-height: 16.3636px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JHDgpLnnmuI/UBd835fV87I/AAAAAAAAHcQ/2T9DIExUxs0/s1600/vivascburialj.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JHDgpLnnmuI/UBd835fV87I/AAAAAAAAHcQ/2T9DIExUxs0/s400/vivascburialj.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a> </span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"><i style="font-size: small;">Magic</i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span><br />Strange dreams haunted the people for a long time. Through magical rituals they began to understand those dreams with the help of the spirit-protector, Marindik.</span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12.7273px; line-height: 16.3636px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4S3Msw4_I7o/UBd8iVot-KI/AAAAAAAAHcI/uvKHJ4vyooc/s1600/alon09.jpg" style="background-color: white; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4S3Msw4_I7o/UBd8iVot-KI/AAAAAAAAHcI/uvKHJ4vyooc/s400/alon09.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"><i style="font-size: small;">Alon and Baylana.<br /></i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />Alon, a hunter who served as Katalona's apprentice falls in love with the prettiest maiden, Baylana. The relationship ended in a tragedy for the maiden and for Katalona, he who believed that Alon's mission to chart his people's destiny was loftier that Alon's love for Baylana. </span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12.7273px; line-height: 16.3636px;" /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12.7273px; line-height: 16.3636px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-94pnl43xakY/UBeCE-LyCCI/AAAAAAAAHco/TBzeaI7j8-o/s1600/marapic2.jpg" style="background-color: white; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="253" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-94pnl43xakY/UBeCE-LyCCI/AAAAAAAAHco/TBzeaI7j8-o/s400/marapic2.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"><i style="font-size: small;">Chaos</i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br />Such lawlessness and disorder descended upon the village that the people lost their sense of hope and direction. Marindik was so displeased that she caused her dwelling on the mountaintop to emit burning rocks, and the heaven to weep.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12.7273px; line-height: 16.3636px;" /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12.7273px; line-height: 16.3636px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 4px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cOkzcsNzl0g/UBd78fnebbI/AAAAAAAAHb4/Dtsl_C7DD6Y/s1600/maramorion.jpg" style="background-color: white; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="236" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cOkzcsNzl0g/UBd78fnebbI/AAAAAAAAHb4/Dtsl_C7DD6Y/s400/maramorion.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"><i style="font-size: small;">Deluge</i><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span><br />The villages were submerged in mud and sand, bringing havoc and destruction once again. In the midst of it all, Alon finds union with his primeval past, and emerged in harmony with the elemental spirits and with all existence.</span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="background-color: white;"></span>eli j obligacionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17862600922141415169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4819756879000457445.post-303095859404336592023-07-30T20:43:00.000+08:002023-07-30T20:43:55.324+08:00When Poctoy beach was grassy and deserted we were there<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">The year was <span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;">1996. BusinessWorld ran an article for its T</span></span><span style="background-color: white; white-space-collapse: preserve;">ravel & Tourism page entitled Marinduque Memories. It mentioned Teatro Balangaw with an accompanying photo of the cast that performed in the Mara Unduk dance drama. </span><span style="background-color: white; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The photo was taken in Poctoy, Torrijos’ grassy and deserted white beach then with Mt Malindig in the background. Photo by Miguel Cortez.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Excerpts from the article: “TREASURES. A theater group, Teatro Balangaw, performed a dance drama recreating the rich folklore of the province. Utilizing expressionistic and experimental forms as well as stylized dance movements, the group aims to create an awareness and foster a higher sense of appreciation for Marinduque’s culture and history...”</span></span></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyQwq8a1wZaZODYiYRHmqYp5s5OziBR4E4o3j5q08U0tZGWV6GmcbbecaxzWTzVhgBDPNJhIenAy8imNB2PdCbvETcPw5Hv3VKwnob2OhFrueactzIf_uaEGIXnsYGfojSRPnC7nKM8dw5oHHL9mGPnptaJHnI0gUL7WxG06Lpbg7EqaagV669PAD4W2w/s546/ieatro%20clip.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="546" data-original-width="437" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyQwq8a1wZaZODYiYRHmqYp5s5OziBR4E4o3j5q08U0tZGWV6GmcbbecaxzWTzVhgBDPNJhIenAy8imNB2PdCbvETcPw5Hv3VKwnob2OhFrueactzIf_uaEGIXnsYGfojSRPnC7nKM8dw5oHHL9mGPnptaJHnI0gUL7WxG06Lpbg7EqaagV669PAD4W2w/w320-h400/ieatro%20clip.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWDInQ_rz-fVAPQpgq3l-T1DziWLn87eSBlOyH57wwtzR1oY7BTWszih382DzWw_eLeGOe8Orf-v-4tNQ-LOq92hk4T3ieJlgLK-N0BgvbivFC6pGvHeChs6ho4OCLVO0_eeAVKiTIZzY7__aowM3DwYini2SkxD7K-CbHUfzEhkT-6a2X4JGBhzT8ZeE/s1250/TEATEO%20PAGE%20BW.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1083" data-original-width="1250" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWDInQ_rz-fVAPQpgq3l-T1DziWLn87eSBlOyH57wwtzR1oY7BTWszih382DzWw_eLeGOe8Orf-v-4tNQ-LOq92hk4T3ieJlgLK-N0BgvbivFC6pGvHeChs6ho4OCLVO0_eeAVKiTIZzY7__aowM3DwYini2SkxD7K-CbHUfzEhkT-6a2X4JGBhzT8ZeE/w400-h346/TEATEO%20PAGE%20BW.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeCE4i-bFxSZIQ3pi-b5y9PQ-dn82Siq9YCLzpjVmPUI54m9Pa3Bp015sND7aBki86640aFISP0BGD2DjmzhA60Ke199E9OAzFy_a_tFnr_1Ys81ldDvsl6mgjb0BudveyJaU7LYoB4niRxh-UE2wOUbaN4Depx34GBXQVk4MOyVLzTTya2bOr1M8svss/s514/TEATRO%20MARA.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="339" data-original-width="514" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeCE4i-bFxSZIQ3pi-b5y9PQ-dn82Siq9YCLzpjVmPUI54m9Pa3Bp015sND7aBki86640aFISP0BGD2DjmzhA60Ke199E9OAzFy_a_tFnr_1Ys81ldDvsl6mgjb0BudveyJaU7LYoB4niRxh-UE2wOUbaN4Depx34GBXQVk4MOyVLzTTya2bOr1M8svss/w400-h264/TEATRO%20MARA.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div>eli j obligacionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17862600922141415169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4819756879000457445.post-65104420249721026392023-07-30T02:31:00.001+08:002023-07-30T15:56:41.041+08:00Lookback: Walang Sugat dinala muli sa Marinduque after a hundred years<p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Culture vulture ka baga? Alam mo baga that i</b><b style="text-align: center;"><span>n 2010, the MIMAROPA ARTS & CULTURE SUMMIT was held in Marinduque as part of Araw ng Marinduque commemoration. A Grand Parade showcasing local festivals was also held</span><span>.</span></b></span></p><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span>May big surprise pa na naganap.The sarswela "WALANG SUGAT" returned to this island-province after its Marinduque premiere in, take note, 1902.</span></b><br /></span><b><span><br /></span></b><span><b><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eVZOyN3tafY" width="420"></iframe></b></span><br /><span><b><br /></b></span><span><b>"Walang Sugat", the well-loved sarswela masterpiece by Filipino librettist Severino Reyes was presented in Marinduque on February 18 & 19, 2010, only the second time it was seen on the island after more than a century! </b></span></span></span><div><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b>This zarzuela was first presented here in 1902 on the occasion of the Boac town fiesta with no less than then Fiscal of Tayabas and future Philippine president, Manuel L. Quezon as guest of honor. </b></span><br /><span><b><br /></b></span><span><b>That original production was mounted by Gran Compania de Zarzuela Tagala of Manila and was brought to Marinduque in the same year it was premiered to the world. </b></span><br /><span><b><br /></b></span><span><b>The 2010 production was staged by Barasoain Kalinangan Foundation, Inc. (BKFI), recipient of CCP's Gawad para sa Sining as best theater group in the Philippines. </b></span><br /><span><b><br /></b></span><span><b>The project highlighted the 90th Anniversary of "Araw ng Marinduque" and Philippine International Arts Festival 2010 celebration on this island, spearheaded by the provincial government of Marinduque headed by Gov. Bong Carrion in cooperation with National Commission for Culture & the Arts (NCCA), CCP, BKFI and the island-province's six municipalities. </b></span><br /><span><b><br /></b></span><br /></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0bYTzFTQMEg/Vsq43KyOJnI/AAAAAAAAQ2A/leky3hWhNmA/s1600/gintong%2Bbinhi.JPG" style="background-color: #f3f3f3; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0bYTzFTQMEg/Vsq43KyOJnI/AAAAAAAAQ2A/leky3hWhNmA/w480-h640/gintong%2Bbinhi.JPG" width="480" /></span></a></div><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b><br /></b></span><b><span>The occasion also served as an avenue to promote NCCA programs and partnership with LGUs in the MIMAROPA Region with the holding in Marinduque of the "Gintong Binhi" the 1st Mimaropa Arts & Culture Forum. - ej obligacion </span></b></span><br /></span><span style="text-align: center;"></span><span style="color: white; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: black;"><br /></b></span><span style="text-align: center;"></span><br style="text-align: center;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JZ76jMl5CUc/Vsq4W-QYLgI/AAAAAAAAQ14/MncxR1Vv5_4/s1600/walang%2Bsugat.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JZ76jMl5CUc/Vsq4W-QYLgI/AAAAAAAAQ14/MncxR1Vv5_4/w480-h640/walang%2Bsugat.JPG" width="480" /></span></a></div></div>eli j obligacionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17862600922141415169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4819756879000457445.post-91388178494011205782023-07-29T15:00:00.004+08:002023-07-29T15:00:55.158+08:00Ang Gaspar Heritage Island ng Marinduque<p><span style="font-family: arial;">Kamangha-mangha ang naging papel ng Marinduque kapag pinag-usapan ang sinaunang pottery at jewelry. <span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">Kalanay potte</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: arial;">ry complex ang ideya na ipinangalan ni <b>Wilhelm G. Solheim II</b>, archaeologist, matapos niyang suriin ang mga pottery at earthenware sa Guthe Collection sa University of Michigan noong 1957. Nakolekta naman ang mga ito ni Dr. Carl Guthe sa Pilipinas sa pagitan ng 1922 at 1925.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span lang="EN-PH" style="line-height: 14.95px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Iminungkahi noon ni <b>Otley Beyer</b> na ang mga <b>koleksiyon mula sa Marinduque </b>na nahukay ni <i>Alfred Marche</i> noong 1881 ay makikitang taglay ang mga katangian ng Kalanay complex pottery na natagpuan sa iba pang bahagi ng Pilipinas.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><span lang="EN-PH" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 14.95px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Ang mga paunang ulat tungkol dito sa mga unang lugar ay naisulat naman nina <b>Fox at Evangelista, </b>1958.</span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Noong 1959 naman, si <b>Arsenio Manuel, </b>Pinuno ng Kagawaran ng Anthropology, University of the Philippines, ay naghukay sa maraming mga site sa Marinduque, na <b>ang pinakamahalaga ayon sa panulat ni Solheim ay ang mga natagpuan sa Tres Reyes (Gaspar Island).</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="font-size: 13px;"><span lang="EN-PH" style="line-height: 14.95px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-PH" style="line-height: 18.4px;">Aniya, “from partial stratigraphy and typology the contents of the Tres Reyes site have been divided into three groups. The middle strata (not well defined), nearly one and a half meters thick, contains a great variety of Kalanay complex pottery (Solheim 1959b: 103). Unfortunately, no report on this material has yet appeared.</span></span></span><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 18.4px;"><span lang="EN-PH" style="line-height: 18.4px;"> Part of the marterial is with M</span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">anuel, part with Beyer, and some pieces on display at the National Museum…”</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px;"><span lang="EN-PH" style="line-height: 14.95px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>“Decoration and form of the Tres Reyes pottery fits the Kalanay complex style very neatly. Several of the diagnostic designs are present plus several variations on these designs, and one previously unencountered element”. (Solheim)</b></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-PH" style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In addition, b</span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">etween this island and the mainland, a sunken Chinese junk of the Sung and Chang Dynasty was discovered by fishermen and recovered by a joint team of the National Museum </span><span style="font-family: arial;">and a foreign salvage group. Numerous porcelain plates, jars, skillets and others were recovered.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px;"><span lang="EN-PH" style="line-height: 14.95px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-PH" style="line-height: 14.95px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-uulU8J1jgJE/YeEiohMds1I/AAAAAAAAcPs/EcLWD63rnxYus1ms0rFFxSodSKZdhZoLwCNcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="color: #ff9900; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="928" height="640" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-uulU8J1jgJE/YeEiohMds1I/AAAAAAAAcPs/EcLWD63rnxYus1ms0rFFxSodSKZdhZoLwCNcBGAsYHQ/w395-h640/image.png" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="395" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-uTT2CyfN_Cg/YeEjXwjnFqI/AAAAAAAAcP0/8y8sJcgWTF0SQQ7qexG0OqniRS96CY3agCNcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="color: #ff9900; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="926" height="640" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-uTT2CyfN_Cg/YeEjXwjnFqI/AAAAAAAAcP0/8y8sJcgWTF0SQQ7qexG0OqniRS96CY3agCNcBGAsYHQ/w395-h640/image.png" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="395" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--bvZAbytdyY/YeEjuqzXglI/AAAAAAAAcP8/ZMyRcX8W-H4HgNenHcDQ1nEgR7sJlVLAQCNcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="color: #ff9900; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="926" height="640" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--bvZAbytdyY/YeEjuqzXglI/AAAAAAAAcP8/ZMyRcX8W-H4HgNenHcDQ1nEgR7sJlVLAQCNcBGAsYHQ/w395-h640/image.png" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="395" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-O9fDUvGIWgw/YeEm7qba9PI/AAAAAAAAcQM/gaJPwz4jaicnSXEuImT0ptRP8mbqOiw0wCNcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="color: #ff9900; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img data-original-height="393" data-original-width="663" height="380" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-O9fDUvGIWgw/YeEm7qba9PI/AAAAAAAAcQM/gaJPwz4jaicnSXEuImT0ptRP8mbqOiw0wCNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h380/image.png" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><br /></span><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"Katulad ng pulseras na nahukay sa Gaspar Island (Tres Reyes Is.) ang nakuha rin sa Pamintaan Cave" (Torrijos). </span></span><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Bahagi ito ng naisulat ni Marche tungkol sa Gaspar Island (Los Tres Reyes):</span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span><p style="font-size: 13px;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-PH"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“Kabilang sa mga alahas na aking nakuha dito, ay isang pulseras na katulad ng nakolekta ko sa kuweba ng Los Tres Reyes. Ang isa ay isang spiral tulad ng isang pulseras na parang ahas, parehong disenyo ng mga ginagamit pa rin ngayon ng mga eleganteng tao; ang iba ay tinusok, na tila ginagamit ng mga ito na nakalawit sa mga tainga o sa paligid ng leeg; isa sa mga ito ay tinunaw sa isang shell ng pagong…</span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px;"><span lang="EN-PH" style="line-height: 14.95px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span lang="EN-PH"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“…<b>Tulad ng mga bungo na matatagpuan sa isla ng Los Tres Reyes ang mga ito ay deformed. Nagdala ako ng halos 40, karamihan sa kanila ay walang panga at isang dosenang kalansay o higit pa…</b>” (Luzon and Palawan, AA Marche, English translation from the French by Pura Santillan-Castrence)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-PH" style="line-height: 14.95px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-4gWG5vgCmck/YeEobyggKCI/AAAAAAAAcQc/NGnBYuFrYB8q2gPgH1Fh_2MjnFD9Y8aAQCNcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="color: #ff9900; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img data-original-height="530" data-original-width="429" height="400" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-4gWG5vgCmck/YeEobyggKCI/AAAAAAAAcQc/NGnBYuFrYB8q2gPgH1Fh_2MjnFD9Y8aAQCNcBGAsYHQ/w323-h400/image.png" style="border: none; position: relative;" width="323" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Aerial view of the increasing number of houses in Gaspar Island.</div></span><p></p><div><span lang="EN-PH" style="line-height: 14.95px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="EN-PH">With just a few informal settlers many years ago it now </span>boasts of an elementary school. The surrounding waters of Gaspar Island is a protected marine reserve called the <b>Tres Reyes Marine Sanctuary</b> and may need further protection measures.</span></p></span></div></div></div>eli j obligacionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17862600922141415169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4819756879000457445.post-13306169916279773932023-07-28T17:20:00.001+08:002023-07-29T15:02:27.085+08:00My Ancient Marinduque vid<iframe frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/NROzA8FMe8c" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NROzA8FMe8c/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">When there was a dearth of information about prehistoric Marinduque I posted this video on Youtube in 2009 with this description:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); color: #131313; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The beginnings of Philippine archaeology began in the island of Marinduque. In the 19th century the relative fame of Marinduque as the 'Isle of Grottos' drew the French explorer, Alfred Marche, to this island. He returned to France with his booty consisting of 40 crates of Chinese urns, vases, gold ornaments, skulls and other artifacts of pre-Hispanic origin. Understanding the Philippines' pre-colonial past lies in these relics of the past, some of which are probably still hidden and buried under the island's numerous caves. </span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); color: #131313; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05); color: #131313; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">You may now Google Prehistory of Marinduque. </span></span></div>eli j obligacionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17862600922141415169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4819756879000457445.post-10920128796436945052023-07-28T17:05:00.001+08:002023-07-28T17:09:00.665+08:00From 'My Ancient Marinduque' to Wiki's Prehistory of Marinduque <p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b> </b><span style="font-size: large;"><b>T</b>his is one of the earliest articles I've written and posted in this blog in 2009 about precolonial Marinduque. It was followed by numerous posts in years that followed that eventually an entry was included in Wikipedia titled PREHISTORY OF MARINDUQUE. Which other provinces or places in the Philippines have been accorded that distinction by Wiki, incidentally? Mukhang wala, nada. And the subject is continuously updated.</span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgncnjmWxhQuUX-ot_vcEJzNaNoE4N9aWiyBtNJucP2Xfri5mIIBn423A3RTdI2XbWMY7c9y_mW88ikUJorT79ELsYVOL21gQGC-aaFJlHls2VYHRzsyMkHYBvLnlgHT0jxzCzY7U1CRYQNLvVGpPdLjxtZdfxxh3DuIxDe6FruhUys_cKUfveX8RhUL8o" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="334" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgncnjmWxhQuUX-ot_vcEJzNaNoE4N9aWiyBtNJucP2Xfri5mIIBn423A3RTdI2XbWMY7c9y_mW88ikUJorT79ELsYVOL21gQGC-aaFJlHls2VYHRzsyMkHYBvLnlgHT0jxzCzY7U1CRYQNLvVGpPdLjxtZdfxxh3DuIxDe6FruhUys_cKUfveX8RhUL8o=w333-h400" width="333" /></span></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The pursuit for cultural discovery in Marinduque continues that many more discoveries have been unearthed since then.</span></span></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgi1dJN_2UvjIYlPDF_o-ej0IEt5t5O_LBnaPlsxvNADP4re1hT8aBeacNE8zxQ4IDsdicm8m4utMy_wOoxAXgS1ZvYuQc94bTsstOm1rH8XOTShBr1OU2WwRmbq6C_PPIT9S6aOFKX8hKNFDbNAnOgm31e2VUhdynOfB0AaE-_YOvQ938RMqlfWA1VR7M" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="605" data-original-width="1298" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgi1dJN_2UvjIYlPDF_o-ej0IEt5t5O_LBnaPlsxvNADP4re1hT8aBeacNE8zxQ4IDsdicm8m4utMy_wOoxAXgS1ZvYuQc94bTsstOm1rH8XOTShBr1OU2WwRmbq6C_PPIT9S6aOFKX8hKNFDbNAnOgm31e2VUhdynOfB0AaE-_YOvQ938RMqlfWA1VR7M=w640-h298" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1fhfCkxA4tnqAUuqdNgyWq8hOU-eYkapQ4BmS5tbeBICCJW5cV0tmhS8CpVyU0kKskIhTPhMpBk9rqvmyHZ_LcZ4mDonKl31wfR_Iqk6nkfZdM-oVTgQAqeIecTakzLkHJ5TwxicTSOnwEBpPrTL64dVQJZQPNgT9BtvLNLImqgZQlYH4nIKF5d7Gp08" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="520" data-original-width="1366" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1fhfCkxA4tnqAUuqdNgyWq8hOU-eYkapQ4BmS5tbeBICCJW5cV0tmhS8CpVyU0kKskIhTPhMpBk9rqvmyHZ_LcZ4mDonKl31wfR_Iqk6nkfZdM-oVTgQAqeIecTakzLkHJ5TwxicTSOnwEBpPrTL64dVQJZQPNgT9BtvLNLImqgZQlYH4nIKF5d7Gp08=w640-h244" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This writer and this website cited as a source.</span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>My Ancient Marinduque</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="post-entry-content-wrappernbt" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 3px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-7419284006647275993" itemprop="articleBody" style="border: none; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The beginnings of archaeology in the Philippines began right here in Marinduque.</span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-7419284006647275993" itemprop="articleBody" style="border: none; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Prior to 1900, only one important archaeological investigation had been carried out in the country: Alfred Marche’s exploration of Marinduque from April to July 1881. While many other accidental finds have been recorded from time to time, and a few burial caves and sites had been casually explored by European or local scientists, no systematic work had been done anywhere else prior to these explorations. After Marche, the next important archaeological work was undertaken by Dr. Carl Gunthe in the Central Visayan Islands in 1922.(Beyer)<br /><br />"An abundant yield of Chinese urns, vases, gold ornaments, skulls and other ornaments of pre-Spanish origin,” was what the Marche finds represented. He brought back to France in 40 crates the Marinduque artifacts he uncovered. Part of it now said to be housed at the Musee de l’Homme in France. (Solheim). The finds also included wooden images of the Marinduque anito called ‘Pastores’ by the natives.<br /><br />Part of these artifacts have also found their way into the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. <em style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Imagine these fragile jarlets traveling from China to the pre-colonial Philippines. Buried in a cave in Marinduque for centuries, they were excavated in the late 19th century, brought to Paris and eventually ended up in a museum bodega outside Washington, D.C. Part of our history lies in museums abroad and it will take sometime to analyze these artifacts to piece together our pre-colonial past”</em> (Ocampo)<br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oJBgQcdkYqM/SyCbHNGJFGI/AAAAAAAABlA/Nj_s7X6LF5s/s1600-h/gauguin7.jpg" style="border: none; color: #ed7c00; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5413497300176147554" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oJBgQcdkYqM/SyCbHNGJFGI/AAAAAAAABlA/Nj_s7X6LF5s/s400/gauguin7.jpg" style="border: none; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 148px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 400px;" /></a><em style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Trivia:"Where do we come from? What are We? Where are we Going?"</em> is the title of a famous Gauguin painting (photo), a life-sized reproduction of which used to hang in my living room before my house was razed to the ground.</span><br /></div></div></div>eli j obligacionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17862600922141415169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4819756879000457445.post-66918057557357984902023-07-26T08:23:00.002+08:002023-07-29T09:51:25.319+08:00Casa Narvas, nag-iisa na lamang na deklaradong Heritage House sa Marinduque<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b> Nakakapanghinayang, pero ang Casa Narvas na lamang ang natitirang deklarado ng National Historical Commission of the Philippines na Heritage House sa buong Marinduque. Ito na nga lamang ang natira mula ng magkaroon ng malaking sunog sa Boac noong July 2, 2018.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Subalit ang bahay na ito, Casa Narvas, ay hindi naging bukas sa publiko. Wala ring nakikitang pagsisikap ang lokal na pamahalaan at ang may-ari ng gusali para ito maisakatuparan. Isinasalarawan pa naman ang bayan ng Boac bilang isang 'heritage town'.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Sa ibang bayan makikita mo ang aktibong panangalaga na ginagawa ng kinauukulan sa ganitong mga bagay.</b></span></p><p><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">One of the most prominent heritage houses in the town of Boac is Casa Narvas and is located at Gov. D. Reyes Street. The NHI has cited that <b><i>"the house is distinct for its historical and artistic values and today is an example of architecture from the early years of the twentieth century in Boac, Marinduque".</i></b></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><br /><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_Wbh5GS_EPM/W9FwsEesjPI/AAAAAAAAWSg/X_4YvsVeHq80oMDyBCexncUWYcaulNPzwCLcBGAs/s1600/casa%2Bnarvas.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="603" data-original-width="1029" height="374" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_Wbh5GS_EPM/W9FwsEesjPI/AAAAAAAAWSg/X_4YvsVeHq80oMDyBCexncUWYcaulNPzwCLcBGAs/s640/casa%2Bnarvas.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><b>Casa Narvas in Boac, Marinduque. Heritage House.</b></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">So what's the story behind Casa Narvas, the only 'Heritage House', so declared by the National Historical Institute in 2007, that has survived the devastating Boac Fire of July 2, 2018?</span><br /><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lfPi8x-I7hI/W9F1DJwnDcI/AAAAAAAAWSs/VdHlvRM-fJIM2kh9ytfvoJ8sGOHSaYx6gCLcBGAs/s1600/casa%2Bnarvas%2Bfire.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="641" data-original-width="960" height="425" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lfPi8x-I7hI/W9F1DJwnDcI/AAAAAAAAWSs/VdHlvRM-fJIM2kh9ytfvoJ8sGOHSaYx6gCLcBGAs/s640/casa%2Bnarvas%2Bfire.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><b>Volunteer firefighters saving Casa Narvas (in photo), located only a few meters away from the burning Don Piroco Mansion. Photo: Pongkoy Manrique</b></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">It was built in 1920, by Elias Narvas, a local coconut trader in those bygone years, and was called ‘bahay na bato’ also characterized by its massive red hardwood flooring, a balaustre and an azotea of Spanish and Chinese influence. Its design included capiz-shelled sliding windows and stained glass walls.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Narvas’ wife was named Vicenta Miciano Narvas and the house is said to have been built in memory of Bartolome and Hilda Narvas, Elias’ parents.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">During those years it became a hub for social and political gatherings being in the town center. Some dignitaries both foreign and local have dropped by this house to attend a ceremony or to be hosted for a while as house guests.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Among these eminent personalities were Leonard Wood who was Governor-General of the Philippines <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>from 1921-1927, former Philippine Presidents Manuel L. Quezon, Jose P. Laurel, Manuel A. Roxas and Elpidio Quirino.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jXXR3tTye44/W9FvvekDhgI/AAAAAAAAWSU/e7beEfJY3EMc-b7G3lyCP3Lm4mTrHKX6gCLcBGAs/s1600/General_Leonard_Wood_Rol_BNF_Gallica.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1172" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jXXR3tTye44/W9FvvekDhgI/AAAAAAAAWSU/e7beEfJY3EMc-b7G3lyCP3Lm4mTrHKX6gCLcBGAs/s320/General_Leonard_Wood_Rol_BNF_Gallica.jpg" width="234" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><b>Gov.-Gen. Leonard Wood</b></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">An entry in NHI records also stated that Manuel A. Roxas organized the nucleus of his Liberal Party in this house. Roxas was the fifth President of the Philippines who served from 1946 until his death in 1948. Quirino succeeded Roxas when the latter died while in office and was recorded as a house guest.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 177.75pt;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8SXDveCb1fI/W9Fuai1cr3I/AAAAAAAAWSE/j8Rqinx-qRgrf3buJKCokehWe3INrbvEgCLcBGAs/s1600/elpidio_quirino.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="298" data-original-width="235" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8SXDveCb1fI/W9Fuai1cr3I/AAAAAAAAWSE/j8Rqinx-qRgrf3buJKCokehWe3INrbvEgCLcBGAs/s320/elpidio_quirino.jpg" width="252" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><b>Pres. Elpidio Quirino</b></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Jose P. Laurel, who became president during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines had been likewise, hosted by Casa Narvas.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YE30SVeEZYY/W9FvAAkrgDI/AAAAAAAAWSM/O8m9oVHx2AE2NZwRHzE_NSGXnoVeWqjpACLcBGAs/s1600/LAUREL.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="345" data-original-width="229" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YE30SVeEZYY/W9FvAAkrgDI/AAAAAAAAWSM/O8m9oVHx2AE2NZwRHzE_NSGXnoVeWqjpACLcBGAs/s320/LAUREL.JPG" width="212" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><b>Pres. Jose P. Laurel</b></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">In its declaration of Casa Narvas as a Heritage House, the NHI had stated that “as the venue of political meets and social balls, it stands as testimony to the cultural and political life of Boac, Marinduque”. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">It also cited that “the house is distinct for its historical and artistic values and today is an example of architecture from the early years of the twentieth century in Boac, Marinduque”.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Based on recent information, the original owners Elias and Vicenta Miciano Narvas had a son, Gregorio Narvas, who died at an early age of 27. Gregorio had 3 children: Sonia, Violeta and Gregorio Jr. and are the owners of the house.</span><span face="Tahoma, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span face="Tahoma, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">.</span></div><div><span face="Tahoma, "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div>eli j obligacionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17862600922141415169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4819756879000457445.post-79704733968856678522023-07-25T17:34:00.002+08:002023-07-26T06:59:25.773+08:00No one knew, but the Marche journals surfaced, kaya nilibot namin sa buong Marinduque<p> </p><span face="Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"></span><em style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>{Left}</b> A standing Bulol of Ifugao<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oJBgQcdkYqM/TUZT8amzNcI/AAAAAAAACy8/nnQy7AyfKx8/s1600/bulol2.png" style="background-color: white; border: none; color: #ed7c00; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568230286689514946" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oJBgQcdkYqM/TUZT8amzNcI/AAAAAAAACy8/nnQy7AyfKx8/s320/bulol2.png" style="border: none; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 106px;" /></a></em><span face="Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"><i> Bulol, the Ifugao anito, is a carved human figure considered as a rice god and usually kept in the house or rice granary. It is said that there are steps involved in the making of a bulol, from selecting the tree to be used, to its arrival at the owner's house, to rituals involving bathing it in pig's blood, recitations and offerings of wine. There are claims that bulol is actually used by using the image as an object to ritually transfer the sickness of the afflicted to the statue and that the bulol is kept in granaries to drive away thieves. There is a belief that contact with the bulol used for this purpose could cause the sickness to be transferre</i>d to such thieves. </span><div><span face="Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span face="Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"><b>MARINDUQUE ANITOS </b>Anitos, idols, very much similar to the bulol have also been unearthed from various Marinduque caves. Together with skeletons, various gold ornaments, ancient pottery and wooden coffins with crocodile images carved into them, pre-Hispanic artifacts found in Marinduque has opened up a vast world of speculation. </span><b><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oJBgQcdkYqM/TUZbL-gxa8I/AAAAAAAACzE/LTIeh85rimU/s1600/statues_pamine_taan.jpg" style="background-color: white; border: none; color: #ed7c00; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568238250607340482" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oJBgQcdkYqM/TUZbL-gxa8I/AAAAAAAACzE/LTIeh85rimU/s400/statues_pamine_taan.jpg" style="border: none; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 370px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 400px;" /></a><span face="Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"></span><em style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Illustrations of a few anitos found in Pamintaan Cave, Torrijos.</em><span face="Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> </span></b></div><div><span face="Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oJBgQcdkYqM/TUZT1MkDVZI/AAAAAAAACy0/jJS7DLiLTSQ/s1600/DSC00378.jpg" style="background-color: white; border: none; color: #ed7c00; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568230162660808082" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oJBgQcdkYqM/TUZT1MkDVZI/AAAAAAAACy0/jJS7DLiLTSQ/s320/DSC00378.jpg" style="border: none; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 240px;" /></a><span face="Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"></span><em style="background-color: white; 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border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>{Left photo</b>} Replica of one anito referred to as Pastores in the Marche journals, said to have been found in Gasan</em><span face="Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">. <span style="font-size: medium;">These anitos have inspired local cultural groups to incorporate these idols in dance-drama presentations only during the last decade.</span> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oJBgQcdkYqM/TUZeUjwF-WI/AAAAAAAACzQ/hDCAZrrirnY/s1600/vivascpastores2j.jpg" style="background-color: white; border: none; color: #ed7c00; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568241696577550690" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oJBgQcdkYqM/TUZeUjwF-WI/AAAAAAAACzQ/hDCAZrrirnY/s400/vivascpastores2j.jpg" style="border: none; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 300px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 400px;" /></a><span face="Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"></span></span><em style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The local anito featured here, called 'pastores', is from "Bulong" dance-drama first presented in Gasan in 2002, and which I directed as Artistic Director of Teatro Balangaw). -eli j obligacion</em><span face="Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"></span><div style="background-color: white; border: none; clear: both; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="pbtsharethisbutt" style="background-color: white; border: none; float: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; 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margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 227, 227); margin: 0px; padding: 5px 8px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wgTXSCdQqtM/Wb_AWWj1RoI/AAAAAAAAU-A/uLP3Er2tFwsUY473d5OVXAiwq4di3yNjwCLcBGAs/s1600/pastores2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="border: none; color: #ed7c00; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" data-original-height="472" data-original-width="240" height="640" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wgTXSCdQqtM/Wb_AWWj1RoI/AAAAAAAAU-A/uLP3Er2tFwsUY473d5OVXAiwq4di3yNjwCLcBGAs/s640/pastores2.jpg" style="border: none; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="324" /></a></td></tr><tr style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="tr-caption" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 227, 227); font-size: 10.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 8px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Babaeng Pastores, Marinduque.<br />Mula sa dating Koleksyon ng Museum of Man (Oceania).</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><span style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Napakaraming kuweba sa ibat-ibang panig ng Marinduque. Marami rito ang napasok na sa ngayon pero marami pa rin, dahil sa mga di madaling maipaliwanag na dahilan, ay hindi pa napapasok.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hindi na rin bago na marinig mo ang mga kuwento na may mga nakatagong lagusan sa ilan sa mga kuwebang ito patungo sa kabilang dagat sa Hilaga ng isla, pero meron ding nagsasabing papunta yun sa kabilang ibayo ng mga kababalaghan. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 227, 227); color: black; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px auto 15px; padding: 4px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 616px;"><tbody style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><tr style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 227, 227); margin: 0px; padding: 5px 8px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" data-original-height="451" data-original-width="674" height="267" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RKgBAfaNbO8/Wb_Dcq45LgI/AAAAAAAAU-o/SHp652rOOF0ZgYvJTMxnSslILoM_Ngj8ACLcBGAs/s400/marinduque%2Bcoffin.jpg" style="border: none; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="tr-caption" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 227, 227); font-size: 10.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 8px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Maliit na ataol (Marinduque).<br />Mula sa dating Koleksyon ng Museum of Man (Oceania)</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; border: none; clear: both; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RKgBAfaNbO8/Wb_Dcq45LgI/AAAAAAAAU-o/SHp652rOOF0ZgYvJTMxnSslILoM_Ngj8ACLcBGAs/s1600/marinduque%2Bcoffin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="border: none; color: #ed7c00; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; font-size: large; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><span style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Samakatuwid, maraming kuweba sa Marinduque ang hindi pa ganap na nasisiyasat. Hanggang kamakailan lamang ay ilang ahensya ng pamahalaan ay naisipang pasukin ang ilan dito para pag-aralan ang mga ito - mga maiidagdag pa sa kasaysayan, mga buhay na bagay na naninirahan dito, mga sekreto nito at kung ano-ano pa.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 227, 227); color: black; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px auto 15px; padding: 4px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 616px;"><tbody style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><tr style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 227, 227); margin: 0px; padding: 5px 8px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="400" height="300" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8j3IoBtDlWc/Wb_Bb5WS04I/AAAAAAAAU-M/W61EOmE-Cuo8cp7KJARAeRIT7z-KJXvzACLcBGAs/s400/isidro2.JPG" style="border: none; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="tr-caption" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 227, 227); font-size: 10.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 8px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tampok naman sa ibang kuweba sa Marinduque ang mga paranormal orbs.<br />Kuha sa San Isidro (Bagumbungan) Cave.</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; border: none; clear: both; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8j3IoBtDlWc/Wb_Bb5WS04I/AAAAAAAAU-M/W61EOmE-Cuo8cp7KJARAeRIT7z-KJXvzACLcBGAs/s1600/isidro2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="border: none; color: #ed7c00; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; font-size: large; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; font-size: large; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Noong ika-18 na siglo, may mga siyentipikong dayuhan na dumayo dito para mag-imbestiga. Hindi sila nabigo (sina Fedor Jagor (German-Russian), at Antoine Alfred Marche (French). Pinagkaguluhan sa ibang bansa ang kanilang mga nadiskubre at mga nahukay nang kanila itong isulat. Mga prehistoric artifacts at ebidensya na nagpatunay na mayroon ngang mga nanirahan sa isla ng Marinduque libong taon na, na hanggang ngayon ay hindi pa ganap na maipaliwanag.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 227, 227); color: black; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px auto 15px; padding: 4px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 616px;"><tbody style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><tr style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 227, 227); margin: 0px; padding: 5px 8px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7qeOE7YwQyI/Wb_Uwh9C8DI/AAAAAAAAU_g/bGAnDnrVMN4_SsWPW6KguCUorlxWxhAzQCLcBGAs/s1600/pastores%2Bmarinduque%2B2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="border: none; color: #ed7c00; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" data-original-height="523" data-original-width="347" height="640" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7qeOE7YwQyI/Wb_Uwh9C8DI/AAAAAAAAU_g/bGAnDnrVMN4_SsWPW6KguCUorlxWxhAzQCLcBGAs/s640/pastores%2Bmarinduque%2B2.jpg" style="border: none; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="424" /></a></td></tr><tr style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="tr-caption" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 227, 227); font-size: 10.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 8px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lalakeng Pastores (Marinduque).<br />Mula sa dating Koleksyon ng Museum of Man (Oceania)</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sa malaking pulo ng Gaspar, maraming nahukay si Marche - mga kakatwang bungo, kalansay, banga, mga palamuti sa katawan gawa sa ginto at iba pa. Sa ilang kuweba sa timog-kanluran ng Boac na pinamahayan ng mga paniki sa loob ng daan-daang taon, nabatid nila na naglalaman din ang mga ito ng buto ng tao at iba pang mga labi. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 227, 227); color: black; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px auto 15px; padding: 4px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 616px;"><tbody style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><tr style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 227, 227); margin: 0px; padding: 5px 8px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="400" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s5t7eSLWiUs/Wb_BwDjQ66I/AAAAAAAAU-Q/EqGbXvhez2AB8FIwSNkspDdIxKEIK7u9gCLcBGAs/s400/isidro1.JPG" style="border: none; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="tr-caption" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 227, 227); font-size: 10.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 8px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">San Isidro (Bagumbungan) Cave. Mga orbs.<br />Kung minsan naroon sila, minsan ay wala naman.</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; border: none; clear: both; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s5t7eSLWiUs/Wb_BwDjQ66I/AAAAAAAAU-Q/EqGbXvhez2AB8FIwSNkspDdIxKEIK7u9gCLcBGAs/s1600/isidro1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="border: none; color: #ed7c00; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; font-size: large; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; font-size: large; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ang isa pang malaking yungib sa lugar ding iyon </span><span style="border: none; font-size: large; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">na natatabunan ng makapal na mga halaman ay napasok ng Pranses bagamat napakaliit ng lagusan. Sa isang kuweba naman sa bandang Silangan na may mga 70 metro ang taas ay mga buto ng tao pa rin ang kanyang namalas, mga urno at mga sinaunang aksesorya.</span></div><span style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sa isa pang kuweba sa Sta. Cruz ay ganoon din ang kalagayan. Na ito ay ginamit ng mga katutubo noong unang panahon sa ibat-iba nilang mga pakay o ritwal ay hindi maitatanggi.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 227, 227); color: black; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px auto 15px; padding: 4px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 616px;"><tbody style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><tr style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 227, 227); margin: 0px; padding: 5px 8px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" data-original-height="538" data-original-width="716" height="300" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-brI9UwDliJo/Wb_CTUPqktI/AAAAAAAAU-Y/oIkO7s0UtCoD82MUHd6z0xcgpLun-SKBwCLcBGAs/s400/1509154_739128979432503_1306699754_n.jpg" style="border: none; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="tr-caption" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 227, 227); font-size: 10.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 8px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Isang uri pa rin ng Pastores. Marinduque.<br />Mula sa dating Koleksyon ng Museum of Man (Oceania)</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; border: none; clear: both; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-brI9UwDliJo/Wb_CTUPqktI/AAAAAAAAU-Y/oIkO7s0UtCoD82MUHd6z0xcgpLun-SKBwCLcBGAs/s1600/1509154_739128979432503_1306699754_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="border: none; color: #ed7c00; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; font-size: large; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; font-size: large; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ang isang yungib na ginawang libingan sa Pamintaan ay hindi man lamang nagalaw, kayat suwerte si Marche sa kanyang mga nadiskubre. Walang duda si Marche na iyon ang libingan ng isang makapangyarihang tao base sa mga sinaunang kayamanang kanyang nahalukay at inuwi.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><div style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; font-size: large; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 227, 227); color: black; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px auto 15px; padding: 4px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 616px;"><tbody style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><tr style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 227, 227); margin: 0px; padding: 5px 8px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7lwTSdesxrQ/Wb_KcbsKZCI/AAAAAAAAU_E/Yd84wH3tKRw5GOWYs-IP8MyHVVGoQqHRwCLcBGAs/s1600/coffin%2Blid%2Bmarinduque.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="border: none; color: #ed7c00; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" data-original-height="528" data-original-width="351" height="640" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7lwTSdesxrQ/Wb_KcbsKZCI/AAAAAAAAU_E/Yd84wH3tKRw5GOWYs-IP8MyHVVGoQqHRwCLcBGAs/s640/coffin%2Blid%2Bmarinduque.jpg" style="border: none; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="424" /></a></td></tr><tr style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="tr-caption" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 227, 227); font-size: 10.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 8px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Takip. (Marinduque) May disenyong mga reptile.<br />Mula sa dating Koleksyon ng Museum of Man (Oceania).</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; font-size: large; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Maaaring sa ngayon ay napaglimutan na ang marami sa mga kuwebang ito base sa mga naisulat na pangalan ng mga ito na tila wala na ngayon, maaaring naglaho na sa memorya ng mga katutubo. Ilan dito ay ang kuweba ng Macayon, gayun din ang May-Igi at Padua na ani Marche ay nasa bandang Boac.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 227, 227); color: black; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px auto 15px; padding: 4px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 616px;"><tbody style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><tr style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 227, 227); margin: 0px; padding: 5px 8px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" data-original-height="387" data-original-width="581" height="266" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DlNgPkC1CLw/Wb_CGJVaueI/AAAAAAAAU-U/M93fCL55yPUbMhL2z7z8R32d3lZltPQBACLcBGAs/s400/1174699_739128679432533_2119364978_n%2B%25281%2529.jpg" style="border: none; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="tr-caption" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 227, 227); font-size: 10.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 8px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Maliit na ataol kasama ang mga kalansay at bungo.<br />Mula sa dating Koleksyon ng Museum of Man (Oceania)</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; font-size: large; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sa maliit na daungan ng San Andres ay may mga kuweba rin daw at nasa tuktok ng isang bundok sa malapit doon ang isa pa aniya. Sa Gasan ay may mga nahukay rin siyang ibat-ibang artifacts tulad ng maliit na tibor, perlas, mga bungo at banga. May sinabi itong kuweba ng Antipolo kung saan nahukay ang mga estatwang gawa sa kahoy. Sa mga kuweba ng Manoqu at Salombog ay may mga bungo, mga maliliit na tibor, at malaking sirang plato.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 227, 227); color: black; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px auto 15px; padding: 4px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 616px;"><tbody style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><tr style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 227, 227); margin: 0px; padding: 5px 8px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1071" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-447UPe5_oLs/Wb_EPERtSYI/AAAAAAAAU-w/qkEF4UUsY2cCryTKNSeOPjeWBFvLFhm3QCLcBGAs/s400/male%2Bbulul%2B19th.jpg" style="border: none; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="267" /></td></tr><tr style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="tr-caption" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 227, 227); font-size: 10.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 8px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lalaking Bulol mula sa Mountain Province.<br />Inilalarawan lamang ang pagkahawig nito sa mga estatwang nakuha sa mga kuweba ng Marinduque.</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; border: none; clear: both; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-447UPe5_oLs/Wb_EPERtSYI/AAAAAAAAU-w/qkEF4UUsY2cCryTKNSeOPjeWBFvLFhm3QCLcBGAs/s1600/male%2Bbulul%2B19th.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="border: none; color: #ed7c00; margin: 0px 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; font-size: large; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; font-size: large; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Isang kilometro, ani Marche, mula sa Pamintaan malapit sa Boulen ay naroon ang kuwebang may lamang mga inukit na bagay, sa mga kuweba ng Moupon naman ay mga itlog ng Tabon* (Philippine scrubfowl) ang laman. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; font-size: large; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 227, 227); color: black; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px auto 15px; padding: 4px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 616px;"><tbody style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><tr style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 227, 227); margin: 0px; padding: 5px 8px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-84tG3nkaq9s/Wb_Nm0n81_I/AAAAAAAAU_Q/kSQH8aMws-MrCMcD4yAisRP0uvlMVMK4QCLcBGAs/s1600/pastore.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="border: none; color: #ed7c00; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="240" height="400" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-84tG3nkaq9s/Wb_Nm0n81_I/AAAAAAAAU_Q/kSQH8aMws-MrCMcD4yAisRP0uvlMVMK4QCLcBGAs/s400/pastore.jpg" style="border: none; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td class="tr-caption" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 227, 227); font-size: 10.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 8px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ginamit naman ang imaheng ito ng Teatro Balangaw sa<br />ilang pagtatanghal para ipakilala ang mga Pastores ng Marinduque.</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; font-size: large; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ano pa kaya ang naghihintay na madiskubre sa mga kuweba ng Marinduque?</span><br /></div>eli j obligacionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17862600922141415169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4819756879000457445.post-52757607918802051162023-07-24T16:14:00.001+08:002023-07-26T07:01:29.828+08:00Pastores na anito mula Marinduque: Intriga pa rin sa mga banyaga hanggang ngayon<p> </p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; 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So </span></b><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">eksperimento na rin ito kung dapat lamang ipagpatuloy ang mga panulat ko sa Marinduque Rising Blog}.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sabi sa email:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></b></p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: 1px solid rgb(227, 227, 227); border-right: none; border-top: none; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"This statue has been in our friends family since the mid 1800’s. The story is that his 3x’s great grandfather was on a boat somewhere in the South Pacific and Indian Ocean. He got drunk with a bunch of guys, snuck into a village and stole their God. He sailed back home and got sick along the way. He shot the statue thinking it cursed him, and got better. This carved, shot statue has been on a shelf facing east ever since. Do you know where it may have come from?</span></b><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></b></p></blockquote><p> <b style="background-color: white; border: none; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Looking for information to fill in the story. They call him “Joe”. If he doesn’t face east, the family has extremely bad luck.</span></b><b style="background-color: white; border: none; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></b></p><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom: none; border-image: initial; border-left: 1px solid rgb(227, 227, 227); border-right: none; border-top: none; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We found your article online with similar statues that said they were at the “Museum of man.” We called the museum (Which do to social and P.C. Pressure, has changed their name to “The Museum of US”) and due to “Decolonization” and “Reduction of white privileged” they gave those statues back to the Philippines. Can you help us figure out if “Joe” is a statue like the ones you blogged about? <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Thank you for any help,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mike"</span></b></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I responded to Mike also sending him the links to old articles I have published in this blog including a link to Curt Shepard's webpage on the Alfred Marche explorations that the French explorer did on the island of Marinduque from April to July 1881.</i></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This also gave me a reason to place facing East a replica of the anito I am keeping for good luck. We have used it for theatrical presentations on Marinduque's ancient history in the past.</i></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></i></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I am not aware, however of any of such statue that ended up in the Museum of Man (Oceania) collection having been returned to the Philippines for any reason.</i></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></i></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></i></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">- eli j. obligacion, Marinduque Rising</i></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></i></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></i></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, "sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; font-size: large; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Makakatulong din na basahin ang mga sumusunod na link:</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; font-size: large; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; color: #222222; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://marinduquegov.blogspot.com/2017/09/ano-ang-mga-laman-ng-ilang-kuweba-sa.html" style="border: none; color: #ed7c00; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none; font-family: arial; font-size: large; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ano ang mga laman ng ilang kuweba sa Marinduque at nakatago pa kaya?</span></a></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; font-family: arial; font-size: large; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://marinduquegov.blogspot.com/2011/01/marinduque-anitos-idols.html" style="border: none; color: #ed7c00; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Marinduque Anitos, Idols</a></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 0in; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; font-family: arial; font-size: large; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://marinduquegov.blogspot.com/2009/12/my-ancient-marinduque.html" style="border: none; color: #ed7c00; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">My Ancient Marinduque</a></span></b></p><div><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></b></div>eli j obligacionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17862600922141415169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4819756879000457445.post-16323503063271002562022-11-30T14:49:00.000+08:002022-11-30T14:49:04.939+08:00Of Marinduque origin, Malindig, sambars and others<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">The name of Marinduque was derived from the word “Malindug”, which has a significant historical implication because the word means “tall and elegant stature” in Tagalog and has a similar, if not parallel meaning to the Visayan term “malindug”.Malindug also connotes sexiness, 'maalindog'. </span><span style="background-color: white;">In a study of place-names conducted by F. Arsenio Manuel,(National Artist forLiterature), he wrote that these were two cognate terms which fittingly describe the island’s volcano, which today is known as Mt. Malindig.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC7fTM8X5-GbpGaIgKBJrKCZ79Yo06nMCW186_3_INBS2bLMcMmsPh6B-R1B1BJtaqVcJn53eI5bIUipqMV4GXKU1i3uJsAJ5mt07o-p3Mfu4NAdee_UA2jQNk_B4OwG-jawvQ4rrRCZZz8YmdHlMco2bOSDxOx6D0GiDhSZD7j9gnOFelZUIfo5FD/s1515/malindig2a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="866" data-original-width="1515" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC7fTM8X5-GbpGaIgKBJrKCZ79Yo06nMCW186_3_INBS2bLMcMmsPh6B-R1B1BJtaqVcJn53eI5bIUipqMV4GXKU1i3uJsAJ5mt07o-p3Mfu4NAdee_UA2jQNk_B4OwG-jawvQ4rrRCZZz8YmdHlMco2bOSDxOx6D0GiDhSZD7j9gnOFelZUIfo5FD/w400-h229/malindig2a.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><p></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; line-height: 13.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="border: none; font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The past. The Dasmarinas listing of encomiendas in 1751 already spelled Marinduque in this manner. How did this come about then? Manuel explained that the phonetic hispanization of the word “Malindug” followed the Spanish phonetic system. Spanish does not tolerate the voiced velar stop “g” in its phonology. In Morga’s Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas and other Spanish chronicles for example, the term for ‘loincloth’ (bahag in Tagalog), is spelled ‘bahaque’.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; line-height: 13.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="border: none; font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; line-height: 13.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="border: none; font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This spelling and its Spanish pronunciation follows Spanish phonetic laws – ‘bahag’ becoming ‘bahaque’.This change according to Manuel also appear to have happened to “Palanyag” which became “Paranaque”, with additional change taking place, the “l” becoming “r”, again following Spanish phonetic tendencies. This “l” to “r” spin shift is, also evident in “Marinduque” according to Manuel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; line-height: 13.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="border: none; font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; line-height: 13.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="border: none; font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Manuel’s study was also consistent with an earlier study made by Cecilio Lopez, known as the Father of Philippine Linguistics”. Lopez wrote: “In old chronicles, the name of the island occurs in such varying forms as Malinduc, Marinducq, Marinduc, Malindic, and Malindig” </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; line-height: 13.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="border: none; font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; line-height: 13.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="border: none; font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">These are forms, he said, quite evidently to be analyzed into the well-known ‘adjectival’ prefix ‘ma-‘ denoting chiefly existence, and a stem occurring in Tagalog as ‘lindig’, in Bikol as ‘lindog’ or ‘lindug’.”The change of the first sound of the stem ‘l” to ‘r” is likewise in consonance with a common Indonesian phonetic law, while the conversion of final “g” into the Spanish ending “que” finds an exact parallel in the case of the town Paranaque which in Tagalog is called ‘Palanyag’.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; line-height: 13.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="border: none; font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; line-height: 13.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="border: none; font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Therefore, both the names Paranaque and Marinduque evolved this way.</span></span><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; line-height: 13.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="border: none; font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; font-family: arial; line-height: 13.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaXygwy57fmocK6C0tL6ARv2Jkca-uFrjQlHlHCBCSE9gqPQL3vw3aOK6GDBXFmK279S6SpYkieTVRoO4JIOqN4aK_EVio3kmpaQoAncSkWV2hhm4SOlASWN7uQwzjFz517EARMxjDVLaTvXjmy7YHrwAnyEvjIhT5a6Y6pRMNPSmaFz8xp3k7OS16/s959/malindig%20tor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="959" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaXygwy57fmocK6C0tL6ARv2Jkca-uFrjQlHlHCBCSE9gqPQL3vw3aOK6GDBXFmK279S6SpYkieTVRoO4JIOqN4aK_EVio3kmpaQoAncSkWV2hhm4SOlASWN7uQwzjFz517EARMxjDVLaTvXjmy7YHrwAnyEvjIhT5a6Y6pRMNPSmaFz8xp3k7OS16/w640-h294/malindig%20tor.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; line-height: 13.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="border: none; font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; line-height: 13.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="border: none; font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mt. Malindig rises to 1,157 meters, the highest peak on the island-province of Marinduque. At its summit, a mossy forest grows and a variety of ferns and wild orchids. In the volcano’s foothills are areas where rare species of birds, deer, boar, wildcats, monkeys and other endemic wildlife still survive but in danger of extinction due to the encroachment in their habitation of the local populace. Mt. Malindig has been identified as a protected area.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; line-height: 13.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="border: none; font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; line-height: 13.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="border: none; font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I fact. not very long ago. a Philippine sambar was seen in a forest not far away from Mt. Malindig and this last sighting went viral on social media. The animal thought to be extinct in the province has been seen for over two decades.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; line-height: 13.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="border: none; font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; font-family: arial; line-height: 13.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4Zbbr1HPGqi0LUW-6hHzvayrh1uxE597USsfNg1qC7M3lF2W4uu6jdqhawz1iiqxWanT5EZx7msRc_pR5WIoX2Fel5gmstfawDuAPNi6AZwaj1oxXhH5nOEJ3MWzLROOodcserCC_XSAYxzCZ2eJYbDO-3fD5PBDDspFCFgACeoLh2otlcMl1fhsZ/s474/sambar1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="474" data-original-width="474" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4Zbbr1HPGqi0LUW-6hHzvayrh1uxE597USsfNg1qC7M3lF2W4uu6jdqhawz1iiqxWanT5EZx7msRc_pR5WIoX2Fel5gmstfawDuAPNi6AZwaj1oxXhH5nOEJ3MWzLROOodcserCC_XSAYxzCZ2eJYbDO-3fD5PBDDspFCFgACeoLh2otlcMl1fhsZ/w400-h400/sambar1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; line-height: 13.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="border: none; font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Malindig is considered a potentially active volcano, in part because of the existence of the sulfuric springs of Malbog. There is no record of its last eruption though. The volcano’s unique location at the heart of the Southern Tagalog provinces creates a unique panorama that encompasses Mindoro, the Verde Island,Passage, Southern Luzon, all the way to Bicol and Burias Island.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; line-height: 13.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="border: none; font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; font-family: arial; line-height: 13.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2EQp1ECUSXoFpJvND5X_oDzFeCzkyv1cN_L5oTOUsNBnod5rsbmJ3LdxRxgwYUZLVbz8hZpkjWLCVFTWvZ6fk4L2no4T3lajTXnPbUNL84jL4-M53YsUtI3MWxdqFmeYY1YyEU13hBW76PKbHyoelybK-DjDHReGMIevN9E-NZFT8BYkdFbM4z8vY/s640/malindig%20summit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2EQp1ECUSXoFpJvND5X_oDzFeCzkyv1cN_L5oTOUsNBnod5rsbmJ3LdxRxgwYUZLVbz8hZpkjWLCVFTWvZ6fk4L2no4T3lajTXnPbUNL84jL4-M53YsUtI3MWxdqFmeYY1YyEU13hBW76PKbHyoelybK-DjDHReGMIevN9E-NZFT8BYkdFbM4z8vY/w400-h300/malindig%20summit.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div><span face="Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: none; line-height: 13.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="border: none; font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For unclear resason, Mt. Malindig was named Mt. Marlanga by the Americans during the American Period in the Philippines as shown in certain maps, but this has been changed back to the original name </span></span><div><span face="Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: none; line-height: 13.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="border: none; font-family: arial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: none; line-height: 13.8px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Towering over the island-ptovince the volcano has been the subject of folklore, (Legend of Marin and Duque), and has inspired the creation of songs (“Malindig Foxtrot” by Ramon Madrigal) and contemporary dance-dramas (“Mara Unduk” by Eli Obligacion). Years back, a local school-based (Marinduque Victorians College), street festival, “Malindug Festival”, was also held in Buenavista under the auspices of Teatro Balanaw to raise awareness on the need to preserve and protect Mt. Malindig’s remaining biodiversity. More recently, 'Maalindog-Tubaan Festival</span></span><span style="background-color: white;">" was held during the centennial year (2020),of the provice to pay tribute to Mt. Malindig.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbKEynCoDj0bfqUo9VG9PKfpFkKT7brdMsmaaqvMlCN6l5ilMkD1k0KwAWPmcxxrHkeTfYHZG-ukDL8SnIprRFkR8PpsGVXwIpZNXHBZd5bwDAued7ZD-knm7F0lv_jxgCElWP4Hdlgo0GH3r9puDa8OQp_yGPOgeyMZcfJpw7JC-NufPQ_-ernWxw/s6000/maalindog%20tubaan2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbKEynCoDj0bfqUo9VG9PKfpFkKT7brdMsmaaqvMlCN6l5ilMkD1k0KwAWPmcxxrHkeTfYHZG-ukDL8SnIprRFkR8PpsGVXwIpZNXHBZd5bwDAued7ZD-knm7F0lv_jxgCElWP4Hdlgo0GH3r9puDa8OQp_yGPOgeyMZcfJpw7JC-NufPQ_-ernWxw/w400-h266/maalindog%20tubaan2.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvGcbXgz_KyuK7ajT4xLL8P0LN5e0c9lBlYP1pZ1HEc1blR1G4Lp8rqVhfVD57Bi4OM3kat-ady9emhejTyhDi-WZDuGKWUA_ZvLvNoqY2yag5n9oIwF9Ch8srHOqKyGf7rEwMm5N9o9ZYX_FtEdg6J5rIb5GJ2D1f7tKYCUtOK_FZXfdbJjCPb3Hy/s5984/maalindog%20tubaan%20a.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2542" data-original-width="5984" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvGcbXgz_KyuK7ajT4xLL8P0LN5e0c9lBlYP1pZ1HEc1blR1G4Lp8rqVhfVD57Bi4OM3kat-ady9emhejTyhDi-WZDuGKWUA_ZvLvNoqY2yag5n9oIwF9Ch8srHOqKyGf7rEwMm5N9o9ZYX_FtEdg6J5rIb5GJ2D1f7tKYCUtOK_FZXfdbJjCPb3Hy/w400-h170/maalindog%20tubaan%20a.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></div>eli j obligacionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17862600922141415169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4819756879000457445.post-66592831237010463272022-11-18T10:05:00.004+08:002022-11-18T10:05:47.818+08:00PH awarded as world's leading destination for the first time ever!<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjkq7CQXxT-x9JNRjxkCzsVm7kWonJt7t6Q-Ia3E5eWxNCUiGQXMt8untXQ5O2g6faSX5sn-wbsuiTYDBIU5qeGxCr75JKippNH7NNuYgio6e7vtcD8ICekVxDoKbB_mbX2W5aKvp63Y0LheWlHqnKOwM7srW_Xi-Qo6IXfVYgVQGwfGt7IZmvmzcP6" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><strike><img alt="" data-original-height="760" data-original-width="1024" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjkq7CQXxT-x9JNRjxkCzsVm7kWonJt7t6Q-Ia3E5eWxNCUiGQXMt8untXQ5O2g6faSX5sn-wbsuiTYDBIU5qeGxCr75JKippNH7NNuYgio6e7vtcD8ICekVxDoKbB_mbX2W5aKvp63Y0LheWlHqnKOwM7srW_Xi-Qo6IXfVYgVQGwfGt7IZmvmzcP6=w400-h297" width="400" /></strike></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The Philippines has been awarded the title of 2022’s World’s
Leading Beach Destination at the 29th World Travel Awards’ November 11 gala
ceremony in Muscat, Oman. This is the first time the country has bagged the top
spot.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The Philippines bested nominees which include Jamaica;
Greece; Santa Monica, California; Turks and Caicos Islands; Mexico; Thailand;
Mexico, Maui; Maldives, and Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The tropical country was also hailed as the World’s Leading
Dive Destination for a fourth consecutive year, beating Azores Islands; Belize;
Fiji; Galapagos Islands; Australia’s Great Barrier Reef; Maldives; Mexico; and
French Polynesia.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhgvtStmds7PHORQj-IqQULNI-hEsILAWO7s5gCXjxLaU3V1MWmpcEkvX00DxXXMIKXimR8MkDUFslscNHs6f_L_fIMEcMTM1BrzdvIazDJb3kkjf5lTDepw94533HOWt3NFxx83JTPu1ZEwDxEx5yUGGre6snkeFeeDx9tzH8GO2Y7tOZEITfc6rv7" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img alt="" data-original-height="513" data-original-width="801" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhgvtStmds7PHORQj-IqQULNI-hEsILAWO7s5gCXjxLaU3V1MWmpcEkvX00DxXXMIKXimR8MkDUFslscNHs6f_L_fIMEcMTM1BrzdvIazDJb3kkjf5lTDepw94533HOWt3NFxx83JTPu1ZEwDxEx5yUGGre6snkeFeeDx9tzH8GO2Y7tOZEITfc6rv7=w400-h256" width="400" /></span></a><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p></blockquote>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Aside from the World’s Leading accolades, the Philippines
also bagged Asia’s Leading Beach Destination and Asia’s Leading Dive
Destination for 2022 once again.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This year, the World Travel Awards also recognized </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Three
other Philippine establishments: City of Dreams Manila as the World’s Leading
Casino Resort; Amanpulo as the World’s Leading Dive Resort; and Ascott
Bonifacio Global City Manila as the World’s Leading Serviced Apartments.
Intramuros also reclaimed its title as Asia’s Leading Tourist Attraction.</span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Siargao was nominated for World’s Leading Island Destination
2022 and Cebu as well for Asia’s Leading Wedding Destination 2022, but they
lost to Madeira Islands and Bali, Indonesia, respectively.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The World Travel Awards “acknowledges, rewards, and
celebrates excellence across all key sectors of the travel, tourism, and
hospitality industries,” according to the website. The brand, which is
“recognized globally as the ultimate hallmark of industry excellence,” picks
from nominees across Asia, the Caribbean, Central America, Europe, the Indian
Ocean, the Middle East, North America, Oceania, and South America.|</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>eli j obligacionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17862600922141415169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4819756879000457445.post-70803053456419689142022-06-28T13:11:00.000+08:002022-06-28T13:11:22.680+08:00The first Boy Scouts: When young and free Marinduquenos dared to explore and learn <p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJfeTdYFLtWc-OjLOgSqTXHlLurXd-tEdsq8t29sdKbe1LaTcTD5idM5uTudHQ5_7T_fZRaQ8krfTXpK9XZ2mK4i8tQsdibmyF2EhpHtGZiKXgD9ox7Rz1jy4uyRleszJXpjJ9HIADXfSHcj3hbbbxFTM7EGwp2whpY-vemZmRG1rL3l5liJju9NfK/s640/BSP.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJfeTdYFLtWc-OjLOgSqTXHlLurXd-tEdsq8t29sdKbe1LaTcTD5idM5uTudHQ5_7T_fZRaQ8krfTXpK9XZ2mK4i8tQsdibmyF2EhpHtGZiKXgD9ox7Rz1jy4uyRleszJXpjJ9HIADXfSHcj3hbbbxFTM7EGwp2whpY-vemZmRG1rL3l5liJju9NfK/w640-h480/BSP.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Did you know? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">A Boy Scouts troop formation was documented in 1922 when 16-year
old Celso Mirafuente, a student of Marinduque High School formed a troop in
Boac, Marinduque based on a BSA handbook and clippings of Boys Life magazine
that came into his possession. This led to the recognition of Mirafuente as the
pioneer of Scouting in the province. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">Through the initiative of the Rotary Club of Manila, in
cooperation with other civic oriented groups like the Young Men’s Christian
Association, Knights of Columbus, Masons, Elks, the Filipino and Chinese
Chambers of Commerce, the United States Army, Catholic and Protestant Churches,
and the American Legion, Scouting was officially established in the country as
the Philippine Council of the Boy Scouts of the America (BSA). The Council was chartered as a first class council on
December 27, 1923.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p></p><span style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Note the above 1922 photo of the very first Filipino Boy Scouts formed in Marinduque. In those days there was almost absolute freedom for the young and the adventurous to dare to explore and to learn. </span><br /><br /><span style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This Marinduque Boy Scouts preceded the founding of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines in 1923. It was organized by a 16-year old boy from Boac, Celso Mirafuente, who was inspired upon getting a copy of Handbook for Boys of the Boy Scouts of America and clippings of Boy's Life magazine.<br />The existence of the group surprised American Governor General in the Philippines, Leonard Wood, who kept a diary and wrote therein the following entry on December 10, 1922:<br /><br /><i style="border: none; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"We arrived off Boac about five o'clock or a bit afterwards and were met on the beach by the Governor, the Provincial Treasurer, the Judge of the Court of First Instance, the Mayor of the town, and a number of local officials, and also by about 25 or 30 boy scouts, an organization made up of young men of, I should say, 15 to 20 years of age. They were armed with wooden guns, carrying the American and Filipino flags and also a flag of their own company. They are full of enthusiasm and I did everything to encourage them by showing an appreciation of their turning out. Told them that I hoped that every boy in the Philippines of proper age and character would belong to the Boy Scouts; that we should soon have military training in the schools and colleges; that I felt the Boy Scout organization would have a fine influence throughout the Islands; all of which pleased them very much, and all of which I meant in all sincerity..."</i><br /><br /><b>A few days later came out in the Manila Times issue of December 13, 1922, the following entry: </b><i style="border: none; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Boy Scouts Unit praised by Chief Executive" "-xxx. He also mentioned the reception accorded to him in Boac, Marinduque, by a company of some 30 boy scouts who, he said "made an excellent showing".</i></span></span></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border: 1px solid rgb(227, 227, 227); color: black; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px auto 15px; padding: 4px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 616px;"></table><div style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Photo and source documents courtesy of Mr. Ernesto Sotto, BSP MARINDUQUE. </b></div><div style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></b></div><div style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Above photo shows: 1st Row: Scouters GAUDENCIO LEONIDA, ARTURO STO. DOMINGO, MANUEL MORENO, LUIS ALINO, EFREN JABAT, JOSE GARCIA </b></div><div style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">& HILARIO NEPOMUCENO.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2nd Row: Scouters SANTIAGO LUZ, JOSE MARAPIA, ENRIQUE NEPOMUCENO, EUFEMIO ROSAS, ARTURO MARIPOSQUE & GREGORIO MONTALES.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3RD rOW: Scouters TOMAS ANGELES, NAZARIO MANAY, CELSO MIRAFUENTE (Organizer), PEDRO DEL MUNDO (Adviser) & JOSE RIVERA.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4th Row: Scouters BENITO ABAD LUKBAN, MARTIN MONLEON, PERFECTO MIRAFUENTE, IGNACIO ARAULLO and LEON MANDIA.</b></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><br /><p></p>eli j obligacionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17862600922141415169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4819756879000457445.post-6922073520861612332022-06-27T15:29:00.002+08:002022-06-27T15:29:30.885+08:00NCCA now accepting proposals for 2023 competitive grants<p> <span style="text-align: center;"> </span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgnMZSkZdMmxwqS58oDunNqnYXojYOF2oIXNgqBq1-D8vb17D2Fd4wSn4QYrxK3lh3bkPst4K1YdmXa1KN5aW-_nHtMjaaWdEmJL3E_K62kb0wbj-BnCZbu5AH8yI7zrJUnbWjKpKuHfDECP1IBbFsNi8fijv1a_cJ-bklbKyT0c3g2W9R9uGvR2a7/s1536/2023-Grants-Call-banner-1536x750.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1536" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgnMZSkZdMmxwqS58oDunNqnYXojYOF2oIXNgqBq1-D8vb17D2Fd4wSn4QYrxK3lh3bkPst4K1YdmXa1KN5aW-_nHtMjaaWdEmJL3E_K62kb0wbj-BnCZbu5AH8yI7zrJUnbWjKpKuHfDECP1IBbFsNi8fijv1a_cJ-bklbKyT0c3g2W9R9uGvR2a7/w640-h312/2023-Grants-Call-banner-1536x750.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The National Commission for Culture and the Arts’ (NCCA),
the overall policy making body, coordinating, and grants giving agency for the
preservation, development and promotion of Philippine arts and culture, is now
accepting proposal for the 2023 Competitive Grants until August 31, 2022. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Section 12.a.4 of Republic Act 7356 [NCCA Charter]
authorizes the Commission to give grants to artists and cultural groups which
contribute significantly to the Filipino’s cultural legacy as means to extend
artistic achievement. Further, Section 13.h of the same law mandates the
Commission to administer the National Endowment Fund for Culture and the Arts
(NEFCA) and give grants for the development, protection, preservation and
dissemination of Philippine culture and arts. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The NCCA Competitive Grants Program is competitive in nature
since the approval of project proposals pass through a rigorous and
confidential evaluation process based on merit such as quality and relevance to
Commission priorities. The projects are categorized per
Subcommissions—Subcommission on the Arts (SCA); Subcommission on Cultural and
Traditional Arts (SCCTA); Subcommission on Cultural Dissemination (SCD); and
Subcommission on Cultural Heritage (SCH), and proponents interested in
implementing projects in each category shall submit a Project Proposal
following the requirements and shall be addressed and submitted to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Program Management Division (PMD)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">National Commission for Culture and the Arts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Room 5-C, Fifth Floor, NCCA Building<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">633 General Luna Street, Intramuros 1002 Manila, Philippines<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Telephone Nos: (02) 8527-2192 (TL) loc. 509<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Fax Nos: (02) 8527-2198 / (02) 8527-2209 / (02) 8527-2194<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">E-mail: ppmd@ncca.gov.ph<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><p></p>eli j obligacionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17862600922141415169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4819756879000457445.post-79629897509480428842022-06-27T14:27:00.003+08:002022-06-27T15:04:53.742+08:00That's Boac's Raymond Kawataki Go: Kawataki’s time machine<p><b> <i style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">The artist travels to heaven and
back through his masterpieces</i></b></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh3WS6GG83rDzfg3HbtFFSZmwJXBL7-0wjQADcLe1pfiY_-Z0Bh4haY4n9mNsq3F4XD17hI13-OwerH4uJdBo0Qt1c4pNYCByCmUN0bwm1MwM_1Ze_gYLRwV71s5OoDJrxMOwW5GRg3Io50hEdp53_ULCcxleGk9zM0yEYQAwPP-Qpcv4T5tjOq3bGo" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1109" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh3WS6GG83rDzfg3HbtFFSZmwJXBL7-0wjQADcLe1pfiY_-Z0Bh4haY4n9mNsq3F4XD17hI13-OwerH4uJdBo0Qt1c4pNYCByCmUN0bwm1MwM_1Ze_gYLRwV71s5OoDJrxMOwW5GRg3Io50hEdp53_ULCcxleGk9zM0yEYQAwPP-Qpcv4T5tjOq3bGo=w395-h640" width="395" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>In today's Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle page</b></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">An art restorer and conservator for more than two decades,
Raymond Kawataki Go often wonders if he is overpainting the vintage piece he
is trying to restore and transforming it into his own style. It is through this
pondering that his thoughts started to travel. He decided to create seemingly
whimsical pieces with a touch of modern and vintage in his “Time Machinne”, a
collection that’s part of the three-man solo show 'Diskart 3s' at Cervio Art
Haus in Pasig City.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"My creative process is experimenting with new ideas. My
favorite moment in this exhibit is when I time traveled to the world of other
artists, enjoying the idea and the experience,” he says talking about his
coartists in the show Hessie Mondares and Francis Daniele Fajardo. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Kawataki graduated from FEU College of Fine Arts and then later
took Art History and Connosseurship under Professor Santiago Albano Pilar. His
comprehensive knowledge of the worl of old masters came from his grandfather
Paulino Go Chio, an avid collector of masterpieces from the 1820s to the 1920s.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">After being inspired by his grandfather and mentor, Kawataki
decided to forge his path as a painter, combining his intellect and interest in
art and history into one, and even risking going beyond the styles he learned
and becoming a social expressionist. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">”Of all the artworks, my favorite is the smallest artwork
signed by Hidalgo, my<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>concept of overpainting
the piece with my so-called Time Travel to Heaven w</span><span style="font-family: arial;">ith my mentor and connoissership teacher Santiago Albano
Pilar and Irene Cometa, who supported me and my friends in promoting our art in
exhibitions,” say Kawataki.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Despite being whimsical, Kawataki’s palette is dead, subdued, juxtaposed with small torches off striking colors. As you go through his
well-thought-out details, you'll find the profound meaning of his pieces, the
underlying symbolisms. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“Being a social expressionist is still present<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in my artworks but this time, I needed a
twist of overlapping paintings with my own concept and style,” he says.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">His talks about the abuse of power and money in government
and politics. The painting shows how easily people can be fooled throughout
history, from the very first president of the Philippines, Emilio Aguinaldo, to
the present.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In a phrase that must’ve come put of every hungry
and struggling Filipinos mouth. But the phrase falls on deaf ears because the
peole shouting are merely chess pieces for the governments, pawns in a huge
machine. The only hope left for people to progress in life is by working
abroad, represented by the black-faced figure with a blank face that shows how
these people accept the system because they do not have much choice. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><i>'My creative process is experimenting with new ideas'.</i></b></span></p><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In the artists favorite Time Travel to Heaven are two portraits of his mentors
Cometa and Plar. This piece is his collaboration with Felix Ressurection
Hidalgo, over whose work featuring a balangay, a traditional Filipino boat,
Kawataki painted. It represents the journey of the charactrs to another life
while waiting for God to join them.</span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"I was born to be an artist. The drive has always been
there, To all aspiring artists, my advice is to go beyond your style and
explore your own creativity. One of the best parts of having an exhibit is when
I showcase my new style,” he ends.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Diskart 3s runs until June 28 at the Cevio Art Haus, Pasig
City.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This article first appeared in Manila Bulletin, Lifestyle</span></i></p><br /><p></p>eli j obligacionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17862600922141415169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4819756879000457445.post-26360156173375620692022-06-27T11:57:00.003+08:002022-06-28T12:06:55.852+08:00Speaker Velasco takes oath as Marinduque solon with Sara Duterte as guest of honor<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjmp08oIN1NCHiSdd_Op0xeWcTiarXNZe0EGbvu3VgJjuFXd4rv3kK9VA424_xrQRCTFbO5Pc6r1HBPFIstw_rn8oFECriZvdFCGy1-Ir2TRK4FOQx_xtkl566lCmev8r1jXpUFIkAfLm3kppkG0QyI1G0i1CPnK0eL_YutBFPB2TejTxeE_ngBx9N/s1000/lav%20oath.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="666" data-original-width="1000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjmp08oIN1NCHiSdd_Op0xeWcTiarXNZe0EGbvu3VgJjuFXd4rv3kK9VA424_xrQRCTFbO5Pc6r1HBPFIstw_rn8oFECriZvdFCGy1-Ir2TRK4FOQx_xtkl566lCmev8r1jXpUFIkAfLm3kppkG0QyI1G0i1CPnK0eL_YutBFPB2TejTxeE_ngBx9N/w640-h426/lav%20oath.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">House Speaker Lord Allan Velasco has taken his oath as the re-elected Marinduque lone district representative in the 19th Congress while he shared the stage with Vice President-elect Sara Duterte-Carpio.</span></b></span></p></span> <p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Outgoing House Speaker and re-elected Marinduque lone
district Rep. Lord Allan Velasco takes oath beside VP-elect Sara Duterte (photo
from House of Representatives Media)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Velasco has held this post from 2010 to 2013 in the 15th
Congress; and then from 2016 consecutively In the 16th Congress into the
incoming 19th incoming Congress.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He took oath at the Marinduque Sports Complex, Municipality
of Boac, Marinduque Province before Supreme Court Associate Justice Jhosep
Lopez; Duterte held the bible upon which Velasco swore his oath.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“Sa bawat pagsubok at hamon na ating kinaharap sa Kongreso,
iisa lamang po ang aking pangunahing gabay— ang Pag-ibig. Pag-ibig sa
Panginoon, Pag-ibig sa Bayan, at Pag-ibig sa Pamilya. Ito ang nagpapabangon sa
atin tuwing umaga upang gawin ang lahat ng ating makakaya upang lalong bumuti
ang kalagayan ng ating bayan at ng ating bansa (For every trial and tribulation
faced by the Congress, there was only one guiding principle: Love. Love for
God, for country, and for family. This is what got us up every morning in order
to do what we could to improve the situation of our province and country),”
Velasco said in his speech before the Marinduqueños present at his oath taking
on Sunday, June 26.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“Ito rin po ang dahilan kung bakit lubos ang paghanga ko kay
Mayor Inday. Dalisay po ang pag-ibig niya sa ating bayan. Isang probinsyanang
Punong-Bayan na nakinig sa hiling ng mamamayan na maglingkod hindi lamang sa
isang lungsod bagkus, sa buong bansa (This is what I admire most in Duterte.
Her love for our country is pure. She is a provincial leader who listens to the
voice of the people and serves not only the province but the entire country),”
he continued.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Duterte, during the swearing in ceremony, asked that she be
recognized as an “adopted daughter” of the Marinduque Province–a request which
Velasco affirmed by asking that the Provincial Council resolve to recognize her
as such.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He concluded his speech by issuing a reminder to the youth
of Marinduque.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“At sa paglipas ng panahon, nais kong ipaalala sa mga
kabataan, lalo na sa kabataan ng Marinduque, na ‘kaya natin;’ na huwag magduda
at huwag maliitin ang pinanggalingan. Kaya nating mapabuti ang bayan, mapabuti
ang ating pamayanan, mapabuti ang ating barangay at mga tahanan (As time goes
on, I want to remind the youth, especially those of Marinduque: we can do this,
don’t doubt or underestimate your origins. We can improve our province, our
community, our barangays and our homes),” Velasco said.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">“Kaya natin kahit ang tanging tangan lamang natin ay ang
pananampalataya sa Panginoon, ang mabuting prinsipyo, at pagmamahal sa bayan.
Kaya nating itakda ang sariling tadhana, dahil tayo ang susunod na pagbabago
(We can do this through our faith in God, our principles, and love for country.
We can forge our own destiny because we are the incoming change),” the outgoing
House Speaker concluded.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>This article first appeared in Manila Bulletin</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><br /><p></p>eli j obligacionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17862600922141415169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4819756879000457445.post-40068130736838632042022-06-15T21:31:00.002+08:002022-06-15T21:34:06.649+08:00Arts & Culture: Botong Francisco's Moriones Festival got P23M opening bid, setting record and sold for P35M<p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">See how much you’d have to shell out for pieces by Philippine National Artists.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Leon Gallery, helmed by its founder and director Jaime Ponce de Leon, held its “Spectacular Mid-Year Auction” last June 11. During the weekend of Independence Day and the announcement of eight new National Artists, the afternoon made records in the Philippines art world.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzyz_RK7Ux4ye4WucSPCoDGOMIXTYeXKLuqGR7i1IdTl6Ze3YFzoWqqq48HnbjAxxxw1Bj5MhFi_xC5H4zC28nBfAk9DSqR9XMlYpf71S89JzHRR6F6SX5eMHXYOU2y3Q1TzA2W7r2ngD_cl32q-1m_-wc4xO-kFZ2xu7m_mXH_dJbeKesGuDlBUSm/s708/moriones%20botong%2066.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="708" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzyz_RK7Ux4ye4WucSPCoDGOMIXTYeXKLuqGR7i1IdTl6Ze3YFzoWqqq48HnbjAxxxw1Bj5MhFi_xC5H4zC28nBfAk9DSqR9XMlYpf71S89JzHRR6F6SX5eMHXYOU2y3Q1TzA2W7r2ngD_cl32q-1m_-wc4xO-kFZ2xu7m_mXH_dJbeKesGuDlBUSm/s16000/moriones%20botong%2066.jpg" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Botong Francisco’s Moriones Festival (1966)</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The event’s highlights include Carlos V. Francisco’s (Botong
Francisco) Moriones Festival (1966) painting that sold for P35,040,000. De Leon
told ANCx that it’s the third-highest painting sold for a Botong piece at
auction. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRoUMSIjLGNamS2_1d86LngUOCcaFVQjcLm_th9S1lVQQYzyn1JxINpkcaHbSbbAnX-AfMARZXK_XXjOGGOagAjo_qskQTJLmU5VRE2OvOGyJJ-ftb6-soHule5XDgPQkZ8nvWbAz62qoASZapuPF9vY5rW1a-1xyjTQkBOozdEfOux5IBpws7hHra/s704/Art1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="704" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRoUMSIjLGNamS2_1d86LngUOCcaFVQjcLm_th9S1lVQQYzyn1JxINpkcaHbSbbAnX-AfMARZXK_XXjOGGOagAjo_qskQTJLmU5VRE2OvOGyJJ-ftb6-soHule5XDgPQkZ8nvWbAz62qoASZapuPF9vY5rW1a-1xyjTQkBOozdEfOux5IBpws7hHra/s320/Art1.jpg" width="273" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Victorio Edades‘ Poinsettia Girl</b></div></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">With a one-go bid of P23 million, the Victorio Edades’
painting Poinsettia Girl set a record for Filipino National artists. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">L</span><o:p style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </o:p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyFNhVezNKTJ59uPrPYiOOsas_pj9Ttt5Y4jb8GxQwTIulfr3M7hBN83RpafwsBjyW8iIFzoUa32_w9MbhD4TrO9tXDUnja8UGc21uwKRNJuI8Cfpb_VG7zj9eJeEa3BCNSLi8UK8ibLRY5qNpblBw8MPIvFwOCGfCKbnXEqbyyH9c9CT1s6iI9YUb/s619/art2%20joya.jpg" style="font-family: arial; font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="619" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyFNhVezNKTJ59uPrPYiOOsas_pj9Ttt5Y4jb8GxQwTIulfr3M7hBN83RpafwsBjyW8iIFzoUa32_w9MbhD4TrO9tXDUnja8UGc21uwKRNJuI8Cfpb_VG7zj9eJeEa3BCNSLi8UK8ibLRY5qNpblBw8MPIvFwOCGfCKbnXEqbyyH9c9CT1s6iI9YUb/s320/art2%20joya.jpg" width="258" /></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Clout Burst by Jose Joya</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Sold for: P5,139,200<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUL3zqzrSElFoO4UlV5KSREld55p228HDXoPrD-UKx-WvYn7SbYrC9xcRFEpuzIm_XphgzqpfWEJOrLEyBGMT8a8mjFZLzJh-nyzL7AKVgXSfCEaw1zntQox-EYld7t3W-zYW8HIUsQYkWGW4cuyQaFfDwLSnjaZu1gcSlpuIc7Tl2YJzRn9aELNCH/s855/art3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="855" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUL3zqzrSElFoO4UlV5KSREld55p228HDXoPrD-UKx-WvYn7SbYrC9xcRFEpuzIm_XphgzqpfWEJOrLEyBGMT8a8mjFZLzJh-nyzL7AKVgXSfCEaw1zntQox-EYld7t3W-zYW8HIUsQYkWGW4cuyQaFfDwLSnjaZu1gcSlpuIc7Tl2YJzRn9aELNCH/s320/art3.jpg" width="299" /></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Lady in Red (Portrait of Mable Reese Robertson) by Fernando
Amorsolo<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Sold for: P1,168,000</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga8qaIK-KlKK70hwPogB3KCJPzFX-_hxisXy5K_Symm6SZ11RpDXwcd91ty_E1P1IUUlNpTy8Tcm2_XT7AmxFTkyxVJPeDuPaiLSZ00y8Kwa8Z1wolncNahL-5ocdncx_MLEz9Ymdmnh9JECDv49BOib2jev8qCUsXy2z_KZxl8CV78KB5hsoBHC_h/s800/art4.jpg" style="font-family: arial; font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="704" data-original-width="800" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga8qaIK-KlKK70hwPogB3KCJPzFX-_hxisXy5K_Symm6SZ11RpDXwcd91ty_E1P1IUUlNpTy8Tcm2_XT7AmxFTkyxVJPeDuPaiLSZ00y8Kwa8Z1wolncNahL-5ocdncx_MLEz9Ymdmnh9JECDv49BOib2jev8qCUsXy2z_KZxl8CV78KB5hsoBHC_h/s320/art4.jpg" width="320" /></a></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Tryst 83 by Lao Lianben</b></div></span><b>
</b><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Sold for: P8,176,000</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0XQEnpe46nT4Lztxhy7S6Ud6zV3o0oORWWEaIT9_F9Nc2ExKFInl80n9GYd9QuRW31uKt1-JcAh1k8EgcZoRzAD8pu8KxYqY01aXWdNS9MS_HWs66ly9gniPk35kA216XKoIv_aCFIN1lM--PibOg9SnXvu4A5AN3FYvKimT0tPys11XIupBG6fkU/s800/art5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="736" data-original-width="800" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0XQEnpe46nT4Lztxhy7S6Ud6zV3o0oORWWEaIT9_F9Nc2ExKFInl80n9GYd9QuRW31uKt1-JcAh1k8EgcZoRzAD8pu8KxYqY01aXWdNS9MS_HWs66ly9gniPk35kA216XKoIv_aCFIN1lM--PibOg9SnXvu4A5AN3FYvKimT0tPys11XIupBG6fkU/s320/art5.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Mont-Saint-Michel by Oscar Zalameda<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Sold for: P1,051,200</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIFdxlZ54WjrarL8-MATIih434cGk_PGImVSmM5yYyDnKpRy6986bt6HztLIjLU8avuGTqqTMCUGELlbeV2zJvUSzg8uAUIheC-07ccZrDSvhUPyukaW7zzv0l1s9O3wrOtMSZXSa8nS-4EHHGImeuUwUD3Rtn4HEueTWJ6ri45c2h3tsmfTfbN_wF/s800/art6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="605" data-original-width="800" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIFdxlZ54WjrarL8-MATIih434cGk_PGImVSmM5yYyDnKpRy6986bt6HztLIjLU8avuGTqqTMCUGELlbeV2zJvUSzg8uAUIheC-07ccZrDSvhUPyukaW7zzv0l1s9O3wrOtMSZXSa8nS-4EHHGImeuUwUD3Rtn4HEueTWJ6ri45c2h3tsmfTfbN_wF/s320/art6.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Sacred Mountain by Arturo Luz<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Sold for: P2,569,600</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb9W2G8NP76erNDh3yQwiEmfPhwGY-SYSpa0yOzncy9h2AgxbRwsst7AvdYNKiPKCyEGx-puM9-0e2CAZKfqZSJ7U7arg8wVdnVd0ByTeWNjk2i7tScLjD1G4JstXyfhz46EazxLVzIZ6RjrdKgWqL4OM1zx3R5S8pEuv02OWJAjqz68s9EMuGwFQn/s800/art7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="793" data-original-width="800" height="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb9W2G8NP76erNDh3yQwiEmfPhwGY-SYSpa0yOzncy9h2AgxbRwsst7AvdYNKiPKCyEGx-puM9-0e2CAZKfqZSJ7U7arg8wVdnVd0ByTeWNjk2i7tScLjD1G4JstXyfhz46EazxLVzIZ6RjrdKgWqL4OM1zx3R5S8pEuv02OWJAjqz68s9EMuGwFQn/s320/art7.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Flourishing Growth by Ramon Orlina<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Sold for: P1,518,400</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_A-3TUbiL3b7o2K3hbkbjL_kVEWEAUgp-3duAXdSvMFS2iR7OXnavxxB0BEvh41rOckCq5l5deTbSDtq6kuHmJU0v2PpwrcVviHAIVcoGMkEb8EZ1J668mXRQCG1cVsuTzm8_kyippurcTLiTYO5jL2MwPDwsKhdkvUHcOvyuSWYI6HEWd7NkjVUO/s888/art8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="888" data-original-width="524" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_A-3TUbiL3b7o2K3hbkbjL_kVEWEAUgp-3duAXdSvMFS2iR7OXnavxxB0BEvh41rOckCq5l5deTbSDtq6kuHmJU0v2PpwrcVviHAIVcoGMkEb8EZ1J668mXRQCG1cVsuTzm8_kyippurcTLiTYO5jL2MwPDwsKhdkvUHcOvyuSWYI6HEWd7NkjVUO/w236-h400/art8.jpg" width="236" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Dark Plant by Ang Kiukok<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Sold for: P1,600,000</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdfOpCyMjnHmlgYXE3FWAyqkyi_Na1a7Q214Nkx8oGSDFjAdlZ-N5pWe4v17eCAC_9I6tTzZykwObbLin25tMa4G1gD_ydTqe2P--WgFHybAfTHmFFX3JddEl2IMqOqiLUnIdafvaOfv1A_1aEsY_kz6gvCvbf9x9VdZXiu0gDgrEtqbxJcQcVWn5w/s600/art9.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="487" data-original-width="600" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdfOpCyMjnHmlgYXE3FWAyqkyi_Na1a7Q214Nkx8oGSDFjAdlZ-N5pWe4v17eCAC_9I6tTzZykwObbLin25tMa4G1gD_ydTqe2P--WgFHybAfTHmFFX3JddEl2IMqOqiLUnIdafvaOfv1A_1aEsY_kz6gvCvbf9x9VdZXiu0gDgrEtqbxJcQcVWn5w/s320/art9.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Still Life with Rose and Apples by Frederico Aguilar Alcuaz<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Sold for: P1,868,800</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-umByqLugafz8yTpKCeSpkWpm3_jmUiRmJM-ak7afAJhjIBQY_OZuDyoMpvswwIP2nRW52rYEhB5HJ_J_pqigxmYw7PUZiVFltMkG1TxG7d3L19nvrYbx0KACxKNeNrdtZNRAWs00FXzK6Im3jBzff4nE45Od045wP1oPKk2wP-tF22gGJC_vJw3i/s753/art10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="753" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-umByqLugafz8yTpKCeSpkWpm3_jmUiRmJM-ak7afAJhjIBQY_OZuDyoMpvswwIP2nRW52rYEhB5HJ_J_pqigxmYw7PUZiVFltMkG1TxG7d3L19nvrYbx0KACxKNeNrdtZNRAWs00FXzK6Im3jBzff4nE45Od045wP1oPKk2wP-tF22gGJC_vJw3i/s320/art10.jpg" width="212" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Dusk Flower by Juvenal Sanso<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Sold for: P1,985,600</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifGZnx6dF0vc_51AWbYyFDp-7nMGDudJveCXEvjccU-VVq3btoz0TI0tsrPhSD7ukkSsEpXTKcj9oYFPxoJ5CBHQOd8VVOOx4TzUNrtVt-vFD_CCiIZQzUlL3QdSVePnNRSwReFODKInZV8dLZrnSnVSNcERJvSLUgee2otzYvSmPqHIia8a7XPVDv/s804/art11.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="804" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifGZnx6dF0vc_51AWbYyFDp-7nMGDudJveCXEvjccU-VVq3btoz0TI0tsrPhSD7ukkSsEpXTKcj9oYFPxoJ5CBHQOd8VVOOx4TzUNrtVt-vFD_CCiIZQzUlL3QdSVePnNRSwReFODKInZV8dLZrnSnVSNcERJvSLUgee2otzYvSmPqHIia8a7XPVDv/s320/art11.jpg" width="239" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Different Tunes by Emmanuel Garibay<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Sold for: P1,635,200</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Images from leon-gallery.com<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i>This article first appeared on Life Style Asia</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>eli j obligacionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17862600922141415169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4819756879000457445.post-11521112134995687692022-06-13T08:30:00.040+08:002022-06-13T09:17:28.110+08:00Marinduque tourism infrastructure and new hotels, restaurants gearing up as tourism reopens<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZRROWfEF7v9qKAzo3khn_mejBeKQCeZRSkL-ppeaAJ8n7KCnaGrPalSiXFVe9MS8qXBJoa2SBLnMwayq3K_r72xAKDcnbcFg1rFoAPbITkcf43vuJ7IcatJGN0k4nAkaghq1UOqhvPriYPqDhZrdF3ScTL6CPZ2_zgGScU-95vPJDz5ABpCBPAS__/s2000/boac%20bypass%20bridge2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="2000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZRROWfEF7v9qKAzo3khn_mejBeKQCeZRSkL-ppeaAJ8n7KCnaGrPalSiXFVe9MS8qXBJoa2SBLnMwayq3K_r72xAKDcnbcFg1rFoAPbITkcf43vuJ7IcatJGN0k4nAkaghq1UOqhvPriYPqDhZrdF3ScTL6CPZ2_zgGScU-95vPJDz5ABpCBPAS__/w640-h480/boac%20bypass%20bridge2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: arial;">By-pass road in Boac includes the on-going construction of Santol-Lupac Bridge. </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: arial;">This photo courtesy of Jkristian Dpaz</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: arial;"><br /></b></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">In Marinduque during the last decade, provincial and national government have invested quite aggressively in the
development of needed infrastructure. Such that there’s probably little catching
up to do now with neighboring provinces. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">A momentum has gathered all in support of serious tourism promotion and economic development initiatives. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">For example, the new road project from the mountains of Boac to the steep slopes in Torrijos that has simply remained a pipe dream for more than six decades is nearing completion now. That includes the building of two bridges. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Boac interior through Brgy. Tumagabok, once regarded so remote it was seriously dreamt about only by politicos in the mid 60’s to establish a separate town there, but it never came to pass. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Now, barangays Hinapulan, Sabong and others
in Boac to the West and Talawan, Sibuyao in Torrijos to the East are seeing four lane road projects in place.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN36AlEIEPJjGcOac8iYfjZ1j8yYYpCZJP-k979p09al-fvK8azR1Q2gBm8RbJKvzPqb0Pyy1pl0CQVqBBwDufocKzGFKTu5qg0JCKNBxGUayksYRIdz3YML2yECuAgit8Y0r3Z4cjH8AXyygcjqaUx-V6U7V-EE6pSQf4pvUN_wQyONISMmplgFe5/s876/boac%20interior.bmp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="539" data-original-width="876" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN36AlEIEPJjGcOac8iYfjZ1j8yYYpCZJP-k979p09al-fvK8azR1Q2gBm8RbJKvzPqb0Pyy1pl0CQVqBBwDufocKzGFKTu5qg0JCKNBxGUayksYRIdz3YML2yECuAgit8Y0r3Z4cjH8AXyygcjqaUx-V6U7V-EE6pSQf4pvUN_wQyONISMmplgFe5/w400-h246/boac%20interior.bmp" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Sections of the new winding road from Boac to Torrijos</span></b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQQGwDsZh3gXCwEfUeyrw6fedd34I5Dp_02u5u8qEIqTyuEvLX3dkq93YOvZXCaBysUGQRN0nS8lWpManfr7HmXB5zI5bYnXSFaxf5FFts23DQ6MT56acX7w4IWt1YvvQ2--sIKEdwx-ubXkr4KWlb-g4ABDBxgKQZhiUiZLfdDJrT7EV8Y7GnqJAw/s829/boac%20torrijos%20interior.bmp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="495" data-original-width="829" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQQGwDsZh3gXCwEfUeyrw6fedd34I5Dp_02u5u8qEIqTyuEvLX3dkq93YOvZXCaBysUGQRN0nS8lWpManfr7HmXB5zI5bYnXSFaxf5FFts23DQ6MT56acX7w4IWt1YvvQ2--sIKEdwx-ubXkr4KWlb-g4ABDBxgKQZhiUiZLfdDJrT7EV8Y7GnqJAw/w400-h239/boac%20torrijos%20interior.bmp" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">NEDA has reported that in 2016, in support to
the Duterte administration’s<b> “Build, Build, Build”</b> program, the provincial
government of Marinduque strengthened the improvement of core and priority
rural roads in the province.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Most of the priority road infrastructures of
the provincial government <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>led to
production and tourism areas.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii3klXmBUH2H-scEjForuRC0DjihMpfX94zRSPiyA8VBu-lVimsCmK2uQbV0NEzEzOGohqcdPT5pZF2154r_nRcJr9fKDOT3GySTJ78va11en19xa82KKT-vzV3neicjHP82toU28fpG2DHo4C11PIX1K-DtmwK5XUBXbVMW50Ckr-CwaYgRcGHzOC/s677/road%20proj3.bmp" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="464" data-original-width="677" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii3klXmBUH2H-scEjForuRC0DjihMpfX94zRSPiyA8VBu-lVimsCmK2uQbV0NEzEzOGohqcdPT5pZF2154r_nRcJr9fKDOT3GySTJ78va11en19xa82KKT-vzV3neicjHP82toU28fpG2DHo4C11PIX1K-DtmwK5XUBXbVMW50Ckr-CwaYgRcGHzOC/s320/road%20proj3.bmp" width="320" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzee-FpDWRuofseSEjdRGr6o7d1E75M6LB1pfuhc2e6vKNP57nlOayPkTElKxUmvN-6aX7YEkzgWGV0X8OWMrirGc40O6a_rlIxLQJwWbezjYFqR6BJ3iz16oY3UkOhILO8xRnBBCj5d9icvMCMHAGP6gAD8SGhmQ3pDWew0MYEFds_WxQ0-aN0qFS/s722/road%20proj2.bmp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="524" data-original-width="722" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzee-FpDWRuofseSEjdRGr6o7d1E75M6LB1pfuhc2e6vKNP57nlOayPkTElKxUmvN-6aX7YEkzgWGV0X8OWMrirGc40O6a_rlIxLQJwWbezjYFqR6BJ3iz16oY3UkOhILO8xRnBBCj5d9icvMCMHAGP6gAD8SGhmQ3pDWew0MYEFds_WxQ0-aN0qFS/s320/road%20proj2.bmp" width="320" /></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">In 2018, two road projects, the
Caigangan-Bagtingon Road in Buenavista was accomplished, as well as the
Boac-Mogpog via Tagwak-Danao, Mataas na Bayan Road.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">New road construction and upgrading undertaken
was the eight kilometer long Balanacan–Hinanggayon Road in Mogpog providing
easy access to the Luzon Datum Marker of 1911, now a major tourist attraction,
a convergence project of the DOT and DPWH.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">With the new tourism access road built with
an approximate cost of 180 million pesos (Phases 1 and 2), Luzon Datum has
gained more visitors who want to experience a leisurely trip and capture
souvenir photos taken right at the center of the Philippines. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Luzon Datum Marker is the geodetic reference
center of the Philippines where all geodetic surveys in the country are
referenced from, not to mention the reference point of all geographic
positioning systems (GPS) in the globe. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijtIEl_Bqvw28P_k7GlR7t7lZiV0uePGuz5mCCtyB28wxH3FYUhnAP0qfKQWIl6uWUMDz1xcJI8IjtmlnoGVMsYf_gjs2fSz_e5YhP4_F3OxwjZ2aoGZ7ULfw-mKg0MZNio2KVoPIjvCmwcc_uwWS6SkIGIz0T0Gg-FcMT9XW1TCqQAaQEg0IRRTWZ/s4032/luzon%20datum%20angel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijtIEl_Bqvw28P_k7GlR7t7lZiV0uePGuz5mCCtyB28wxH3FYUhnAP0qfKQWIl6uWUMDz1xcJI8IjtmlnoGVMsYf_gjs2fSz_e5YhP4_F3OxwjZ2aoGZ7ULfw-mKg0MZNio2KVoPIjvCmwcc_uwWS6SkIGIz0T0Gg-FcMT9XW1TCqQAaQEg0IRRTWZ/w400-h300/luzon%20datum%20angel.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Road to Luzon Datum</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">By-pass roads from Matandang Gasan to Pangi
and Boac-Mogpog are on-going.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
completed, one can leave Buenavista and drive straight to Balanacan Pier without passing
through the town propers of Gasan, Boac and Mogpog. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Other roads leading to and connecting tour
destinations have also been recently completed: Brgys. Argao, Guisian Mogpog to
Botilao (Sayao Bay,Hacupan Island); Brgy. San Isidro (Bagumbungan Cave) to Brgy
Ipil (Bathala Cave), to name some.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYrwo8euxd6aT6TTBgsemt5EjIDrdCpO_rouYhbhSw4DAbQl95Tm7n0cn3uNB8YivAh2izdPuDDx7jmkETpdSsNRaFo_-ztkAto3UpO4xtUEjRcSRUKBqwy9Ytr9dtZU_696rzf3N3oBh2gmPV95chk49KxSBlIipjlS5uRonR1k8QhfNOXbQECqPl/s775/road.bmp" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="506" data-original-width="775" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYrwo8euxd6aT6TTBgsemt5EjIDrdCpO_rouYhbhSw4DAbQl95Tm7n0cn3uNB8YivAh2izdPuDDx7jmkETpdSsNRaFo_-ztkAto3UpO4xtUEjRcSRUKBqwy9Ytr9dtZU_696rzf3N3oBh2gmPV95chk49KxSBlIipjlS5uRonR1k8QhfNOXbQECqPl/w400-h261/road.bmp" width="400" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3TWtnQAJrjoaSeVnBSb5AJ9cMQxV56QmaDTsmHQ1yKzeV8VpNrhxQMZ0AP5fheh4kWtuwfvua-Ie5Z6IVRSwp4qQAxklOMFNZhuAHdOJQEEuZ-H3V4jPt1zusklv2XeFVaTvJ0g-SwIdUAFGPf4OoguSP4OZrPL8zzfCVDBlGMrmbiohxvP-Z7KO2/s892/road%20widening.bmp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="454" data-original-width="892" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3TWtnQAJrjoaSeVnBSb5AJ9cMQxV56QmaDTsmHQ1yKzeV8VpNrhxQMZ0AP5fheh4kWtuwfvua-Ie5Z6IVRSwp4qQAxklOMFNZhuAHdOJQEEuZ-H3V4jPt1zusklv2XeFVaTvJ0g-SwIdUAFGPf4OoguSP4OZrPL8zzfCVDBlGMrmbiohxvP-Z7KO2/w400-h204/road%20widening.bmp" width="400" /></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Access is crucial in tourism development,
hence, travel to and from Marinduque is also a concern: More seaports have been constructed and airport
development for a bigger one is in the pipeline as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIg8CC9kIaDQtRfglEBICZrfcH5OY9oIsj9i5UZGw9VsRPtXILqyIUgstjh1Juae2_W9NALKUE-ZHqUL5AW7dSoKRg41VEyjO1JvZx0v5NnTk5sfZrBUbdOfnCY3rN4fXAnvZ3V9RezjAhnKp1BEKm_t8VkZB8a6nr23zKGlffwjLlRbdDNiFvATlX/s759/seaport2.bmp" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="485" data-original-width="759" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIg8CC9kIaDQtRfglEBICZrfcH5OY9oIsj9i5UZGw9VsRPtXILqyIUgstjh1Juae2_W9NALKUE-ZHqUL5AW7dSoKRg41VEyjO1JvZx0v5NnTk5sfZrBUbdOfnCY3rN4fXAnvZ3V9RezjAhnKp1BEKm_t8VkZB8a6nr23zKGlffwjLlRbdDNiFvATlX/w400-h255/seaport2.bmp" width="400" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvH4KTse60r6RVnkkkRHxYIPJ9MeZkky9iczEzq3OAtQJ2RGelfCuxltbYXZPzrAd7wmILDA1ogucefSKKFi18BHormXby2tfagfLEiC7d4uiXKfcN7df_6L06eSiQT1NIldKOY6-BFk978y9YdUWW26oBC6P5g-XlFUKWvNxgyM2Cs2LFIMMLsSGy/s679/road%20proj.bmp" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="451" data-original-width="679" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvH4KTse60r6RVnkkkRHxYIPJ9MeZkky9iczEzq3OAtQJ2RGelfCuxltbYXZPzrAd7wmILDA1ogucefSKKFi18BHormXby2tfagfLEiC7d4uiXKfcN7df_6L06eSiQT1NIldKOY6-BFk978y9YdUWW26oBC6P5g-XlFUKWvNxgyM2Cs2LFIMMLsSGy/w400-h266/road%20proj.bmp" width="400" /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmcTMsQv2Wtt3R9pd2BViDtOKcV-OlMBNZqeSwZLLHi45a4KURhs5p8o3eH7j3tJi1wfRh-8_743fAbd88YqCPoQXEsqSIUoU5LrhnTg5TEh2D8rd2HTut0nXtGjtkZV5bOFbAteTSpz4gnl4iHTkfjn9RY5g7SHcAATTa_OesgGQFvGzPDqEpsoIr/s814/seaport1.bmp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="507" data-original-width="814" height="249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmcTMsQv2Wtt3R9pd2BViDtOKcV-OlMBNZqeSwZLLHi45a4KURhs5p8o3eH7j3tJi1wfRh-8_743fAbd88YqCPoQXEsqSIUoU5LrhnTg5TEh2D8rd2HTut0nXtGjtkZV5bOFbAteTSpz4gnl4iHTkfjn9RY5g7SHcAATTa_OesgGQFvGzPDqEpsoIr/w400-h249/seaport1.bmp" width="400" /></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Marelco currently has
supply capacity of 15 megawatts including the power barge to meet the peak load
capacity of about 13 megawatts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is
also a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3-megawatts generator in
Torrijos currently in the testing phase that would increase the power supply in Marinduque.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-PH" style="line-height: 107%;">PLDT has started connecting Marinduque to Batangas
via submarine cable as it continues to improve telco service in the
island-province following fiber optic deployment and clamor for it.</span><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs-uUOSRx0sbatR0fEnveiNGLxaer_VDu-Wn75W_rBUVYPFUt8Rk3u3R5NdpNSbGXHlIlsJ3DdC7vB9Ru14B1Jy4FyETu9i3JGbDr1ZGL5CA1djnVar0_k0Ee-qCHDFnUeZml6KCkHazhsMgy3nFlE_OOmtH5jwC5Lm4y2nLTY8ufhoT24JuRdfd3S/s960/hotel%20marina.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs-uUOSRx0sbatR0fEnveiNGLxaer_VDu-Wn75W_rBUVYPFUt8Rk3u3R5NdpNSbGXHlIlsJ3DdC7vB9Ru14B1Jy4FyETu9i3JGbDr1ZGL5CA1djnVar0_k0Ee-qCHDFnUeZml6KCkHazhsMgy3nFlE_OOmtH5jwC5Lm4y2nLTY8ufhoT24JuRdfd3S/w640-h360/hotel%20marina.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Encouraged by these strong official and
private sector initiatives, developers have come in to invest some more in tourist
facilities like hotels, resorts and restaurants. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-PH" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">We see the likes of new establishments in
Boac, the capital town, such as Balar Resort and Spa, Hotel Marinduque, Hotel Zenturia,
Marina Marinduque Hotel and Resort, Freedom Eco-Adventure Park, Happyroo Hotel
and Restaurant in Gasan and Amara Resort and Beach Villas in Torrijos among
others.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2wCnxZnA9QZIC-egv8vgq6IeyBf2GXFOrANYFX8F25hyLMXeHNGApviC78oaP3lPAJLEPjQmcoRi_EjHBIzR1zo70aALOPOJ1uJqh19tx4U-65xVmVabqXyvxO4GkMLiMUMoFL7yzUuovP7o67oNmVQm1xjiSZGbEJWus_YKoDlLD2J1w121IPYBI/s2048/hotel%20balar.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1153" data-original-width="2048" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2wCnxZnA9QZIC-egv8vgq6IeyBf2GXFOrANYFX8F25hyLMXeHNGApviC78oaP3lPAJLEPjQmcoRi_EjHBIzR1zo70aALOPOJ1uJqh19tx4U-65xVmVabqXyvxO4GkMLiMUMoFL7yzUuovP7o67oNmVQm1xjiSZGbEJWus_YKoDlLD2J1w121IPYBI/w640-h360/hotel%20balar.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Balar Hotel and Spa</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixLqVeLmwV1mICA6olCm38KGtOLPzM6OIM1S7beNiggVZYgJ0cxeHsjppKp03cKpr4yHVaXGLfuqnKpcQqZf9LPvdTaz18PhGrb4tZpHcNurrkHJ0-vvkczcvjSYdD0LlZ8NzihwLhs_GNIV8ML3zb-S3OCRfBVxdwR7DiZ0wQCTlto1E0zn_Amre9/s960/hotel%20adi's%20h%20&r.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixLqVeLmwV1mICA6olCm38KGtOLPzM6OIM1S7beNiggVZYgJ0cxeHsjppKp03cKpr4yHVaXGLfuqnKpcQqZf9LPvdTaz18PhGrb4tZpHcNurrkHJ0-vvkczcvjSYdD0LlZ8NzihwLhs_GNIV8ML3zb-S3OCRfBVxdwR7DiZ0wQCTlto1E0zn_Amre9/w400-h225/hotel%20adi's%20h%20&r.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmrgBN8MYNUZc1umClpGKdT5gEKY65iBarztjJrdXAYO-mCMcQyHnCounKb4SJt-IbU4GNOmM_YUc3nJ-ZdhXWVDrzwSNTCA3HxIycp7nZf8dc5Gp52MxXk66pm1pRRoN5U2fPTDvFVP5Gfl45z2KmYq7kphH7uK47rByd20XhRTVffrE5THCyPp8T/s500/hotel%20zenturia.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="333" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmrgBN8MYNUZc1umClpGKdT5gEKY65iBarztjJrdXAYO-mCMcQyHnCounKb4SJt-IbU4GNOmM_YUc3nJ-ZdhXWVDrzwSNTCA3HxIycp7nZf8dc5Gp52MxXk66pm1pRRoN5U2fPTDvFVP5Gfl45z2KmYq7kphH7uK47rByd20XhRTVffrE5THCyPp8T/w266-h400/hotel%20zenturia.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Hotel Zenturia</span></b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjukuEANSY737rcJm3EIhEwf3UC3IW0ZhDQB-c6PAP4NCmtEXQXWgZyVPVKwalcQOqWwgM15Kunt_mX3mlGyT56PfiyFg5Y94H7y6wTkMphUj_9h1KL70WWe6FWZKbYL7m95aZke7jff8_pveMwSLbn2T5lRXkVU-EU96B2-PhDh56Hsj8s3eCqwOz/s1080/hotel%20freedom%20eco%20adventure%20park%20h&r.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="498" data-original-width="1080" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjukuEANSY737rcJm3EIhEwf3UC3IW0ZhDQB-c6PAP4NCmtEXQXWgZyVPVKwalcQOqWwgM15Kunt_mX3mlGyT56PfiyFg5Y94H7y6wTkMphUj_9h1KL70WWe6FWZKbYL7m95aZke7jff8_pveMwSLbn2T5lRXkVU-EU96B2-PhDh56Hsj8s3eCqwOz/w640-h296/hotel%20freedom%20eco%20adventure%20park%20h&r.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-PH" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Noteworthy among newly established restaurants include Villa
Negro in Argao, Mogpog, and there are many more food establishmenrs in all the six municipalities. </span><o:p style="font-size: 12pt;"></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-PH" style="line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-PH" style="line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivQhTXF5ngOjWO6RY2ZtjFZmayR4CUwfypoWMZDqWk7Y8GQ2UrgGSpDUuuNUHjD9Z_HGsQInMdiEHomoLcGYEpBHgu8UC0SR7ZaScHrUFG_xsSUhndtyQ4ijMLTfTp2MDfaaNtRGhL54XijEiPprsf6LkBrUbN6ajLhkvZGbXUWGNQimxshPj6qIVQ/s960/273749102_163885412637836_6904795946654741244_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="960" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivQhTXF5ngOjWO6RY2ZtjFZmayR4CUwfypoWMZDqWk7Y8GQ2UrgGSpDUuuNUHjD9Z_HGsQInMdiEHomoLcGYEpBHgu8UC0SR7ZaScHrUFG_xsSUhndtyQ4ijMLTfTp2MDfaaNtRGhL54XijEiPprsf6LkBrUbN6ajLhkvZGbXUWGNQimxshPj6qIVQ/w640-h360/273749102_163885412637836_6904795946654741244_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-PH" style="line-height: 107%;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Villa Negro Cafe in Argao, Mogpog</span></b></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFY0QCMHpq47JuxXf8Fj5Q887kBeWfUbpa18fy1qi57cQ2bBimU2_HNgNtY_S8D_aZoVW-1txE6MzMfVBvRkw9O1-Rv5r5_Wz1wybQLuidOdUZH_FE1-OogGGkQXEWPpchmdX47YmxU13tildx3SMjW3ZIGEGMSvo_VwcrOjnYKT6U2RI4XZ6vCsvU/s801/maniwaya.bmp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="513" data-original-width="801" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFY0QCMHpq47JuxXf8Fj5Q887kBeWfUbpa18fy1qi57cQ2bBimU2_HNgNtY_S8D_aZoVW-1txE6MzMfVBvRkw9O1-Rv5r5_Wz1wybQLuidOdUZH_FE1-OogGGkQXEWPpchmdX47YmxU13tildx3SMjW3ZIGEGMSvo_VwcrOjnYKT6U2RI4XZ6vCsvU/w640-h410/maniwaya.bmp" width="640" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP_pnm1-s_QSstQaChJyjNzIVaOcrQlXe0z0ucEdnbpdjBz08HeCAOFPeV-SfMdtAkN7umQR0E3T4kg7HinBMUDq1xLujJBwVaIC0LXhLDtRAD3laUd-QljaWwdH5yzG-R-ny3W5aa3X0FCHHaF06_6Q11eHAAVhBQZk13EljWFciFdvoynbKJECmS/s689/mainland%20view.bmp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="453" data-original-width="689" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP_pnm1-s_QSstQaChJyjNzIVaOcrQlXe0z0ucEdnbpdjBz08HeCAOFPeV-SfMdtAkN7umQR0E3T4kg7HinBMUDq1xLujJBwVaIC0LXhLDtRAD3laUd-QljaWwdH5yzG-R-ny3W5aa3X0FCHHaF06_6Q11eHAAVhBQZk13EljWFciFdvoynbKJECmS/w640-h420/mainland%20view.bmp" width="640" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Other photos: Screenshots from BaRuzkie Reynes vids</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Also read:</span></b></p><h2 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-family: Oswald, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://marinduquegov.blogspot.com/2022/06/bbm-family-marinduque-visit-call-to.html" style="border: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 1s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ffa400;">BBM family Marinduque visit; Call to push real tourism and pull all mining threats altogether</span></a></h2><p></p>eli j obligacionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17862600922141415169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4819756879000457445.post-31225648385658182712022-06-12T17:10:00.002+08:002022-06-12T17:10:51.341+08:00Bishop Junie Maralit: Poll results a 'slap in Church's face'<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuOHzlKmB66RJpjdhyU_muaM-s-h3TZdqHnkaH-sMrL4jKhPlGodRZxxTnhQTOM06KW9tU16-ShldZzC-nUFMCxW_s_MDI1L8Qr5m2jtxuR2PEScp6gZzI-fp3kC_3dksGxRt19Heaw94ViqYkKCaHHBUeBD7tg5uWJ_bSfEb0uxvxd_Rl2Ke1QmK4/s640/bishop%20junie.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="379" data-original-width="640" height="381" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuOHzlKmB66RJpjdhyU_muaM-s-h3TZdqHnkaH-sMrL4jKhPlGodRZxxTnhQTOM06KW9tU16-ShldZzC-nUFMCxW_s_MDI1L8Qr5m2jtxuR2PEScp6gZzI-fp3kC_3dksGxRt19Heaw94ViqYkKCaHHBUeBD7tg5uWJ_bSfEb0uxvxd_Rl2Ke1QmK4/w640-h381/bishop%20junie.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Bishop Junie Maralit</span></b></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">An official of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the
Philippines (CBCP) said on Friday the outcome of the last elections is "a
slap in the face" of the Church's local hierarchy.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Boac Marinduque Bishop and CBCP Episcopal Commission on
Social Communication Chairman Marcelino Antonio Maralit expressed his view in
an interview posted in Caritas Philippines website.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The Church tacitly endorsed the presidential run of Vice
President Maria Leonor "Leni" Robredo, referring to her as "the
moral choice." Robredo lost badly to Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos
Jr.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Maralit said the question now is "whether we have lost
our voice as the hierarchy of the Church." "What happened to our
voice? Is it because we're not that credible anymore, and sometimes it's very
hard and very painful to ask that question, but credibility when it's a moral
choice is based on your own moral ascendancy," he said.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Another possible explanation why the Catholic Church failed
to convince the faithful into making the moral choice is that its hierarchy may
already be "disconnected with our people," he said.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Maralit admitted that the results of the election is a
"slap in the face to wake [the Church hierarchy] up to the reality that we
should be really re-thinking about."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"Maybe we still have the morality and the moral
ascendancy but our message does not reach the people... maybe we are not
speaking the same language," the bishop said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdE-MwnxCkt-LJlkXCHjjl019FEQqBmtoKpObNN6RNOifve3iEdA0zw20XCbYJ20Kbxs0TGKyP8sgGbOlF_M7p-Fclhe2wWUIA_vLe4HqA3rMMAbZZMOohhL7lZ8ctXnDIv7uOnpg6cjFQgdhfZx0YmnLoRcMB-3cO5VsmkzOHWyx2cEROYOixEQ9Q/s825/cbcp.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="670" data-original-width="825" height="520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdE-MwnxCkt-LJlkXCHjjl019FEQqBmtoKpObNN6RNOifve3iEdA0zw20XCbYJ20Kbxs0TGKyP8sgGbOlF_M7p-Fclhe2wWUIA_vLe4HqA3rMMAbZZMOohhL7lZ8ctXnDIv7uOnpg6cjFQgdhfZx0YmnLoRcMB-3cO5VsmkzOHWyx2cEROYOixEQ9Q/w640-h520/cbcp.webp" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines. </span></b></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><o:p>Bishop </o:p><span style="text-align: left;">Maralit</span><span style="text-align: left;"> is Chairman of </span><span style="text-align: left;">CBCP Episcopal Commission on Social Communication </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"Maybe we have already failed them by not listening to
them," he added. "The election is just a phase of what our people
were already telling us. It's really hard to give your message when the person
is already disconnected and I think that is another question that we have to
ask."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The Church must accept the challenge "to be instruments
of not bringing out the message but bringing in the message to the church from
the people," he added.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The trust of the people in the Church has never changed,
said Maralit.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"When it comes to the pandemic response, specifically
on relief, the people really trusted the Church because we were never
questioned when it comes to relief."</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Maralit believes this all changed when it comes to
governance which was based on disinformation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"Because the question on whether [Marcos] is credible
or not was all based on information and now that was the issue that was
played," Maralit said. "And that is where disinformation really did its
damage to the Filipino people, I believe."</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"So all the narratives that were supposed to create
mistrust and distrust on the type of governance that he will offer were already
changed because of disinformation which really worked," he said.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">He said it is time for the Church to strategize.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"It's really not the problem of the Church. It's just
something that we live by. We react. We usually respond when there is a
problem. Instead of being proactive, sometimes we are always late. We have to
also be preventive. In the sense that we should really start
strategizing," Maralit said.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">"After this, what do we say about the truth? How do we
re-educate our people not only about the truth but also about their values? As
a Church we really need to re-assess ourselves, especially the leaders and to
rise from the ashes," he said.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p></p><p><i><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This article first appeared in The Manila Times</span></i></p><p><br /></p>eli j obligacionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17862600922141415169noreply@blogger.com