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MT. SAMAT SHRINE IN BATAAN

This is the Dambana ng Kagitingan or Shrine of Valor located in Mt. Samat, Pilar Bataan.  This shrine was build on 1966 in memory of the Battle of Bataan where it has been one of the vicious battle of the Filipinos and Americans against the Japanese Imperial Army in 1942.  Almost all parts of Luzon [...]

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FIRST TIME INSIDE A CASINO

It was the Pacquiao – Clottey fight (March 13 2010), so me and my brother decided to watch some place where it will be shown in a big screen live.  We ended up in a casino somewhere in the mountains between Angono  and Binangonan but on going to the place we took the road from [...]

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BRIDGE FOR BOATS

When I first saw this, I thought it was a joke and just a manipulated image but it is not.  It is real.  Even after you see it, it is still hard to believe !  I know, being an architect I must have known or heard about this especially that this great structure was built [...]

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IN SHOCK OF AMPATUAN, VILLAR, IPAD, SM AND GOODAH

I was shocked when, I was walking towards home when a neighbor (mother of a friend) shouted at me and said “You look like Ampatuan.  Really.”  Yes Ampatuan, the one they said is behind the Maguindanao Massacre.  I just smiled and said “Waaaaaaaaaa.”  I ask this to someone and he just laughed and confirmed that [...]

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THE PERFECT PLACE FOR YOUR FINAL JOURNEY

Are you planning of a suicide?  Do you know where will do it?  You might want to consider Aokigahara.  It is describe as a the perfect place to die in the in Wataru Tsurumui’s bestselling book The Complete Manual of Suicide. A dense, dark forest bordering Mt. Fuji, Aokigahara is infamous throughout Japan as a [...]

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A STROLL IN THE MARIKINA RIVERBANKS

I was able to do last day Christmas shopping over the tyangge in Marikina area.  I made a mistake of parking my car at the Marikina Riverbanks near SM.  I thought the tyangge area is near and easily accessible to the main Riverbanks.  Sadly, I have to walk over almost the  whole Marikina River.  It [...]

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