Hi everyone! I am currently writing a term paper, titled Examining Filipino family heritage expression in family tree mapping. This study is a term paper to be submitted in my PS 215: Special Course on Filipino Heritage course at the Asian Center.
My paper hopes to answer the question "How is family heritage expressed in the work of Filipinos who conduct family tree mapping?"
If you are someone who's done family tree mapping or any sort of genealogical research on your ancestors, then be part of a mini FGD for my study. This will be done remotely, via Zoom. I am looking for 3-4 more participants.
If you are interested in the study and would like to participate, feel free to send me a message here, Facebook (Jericho Daniel Igdanes), or through email (jdigdanes@up.edu.ph).
Anyway why do we #Filipino people call it #brownout instead of #blackout when power cuts out? "Brownout" in other countries means different after all :mima_think:
Never leave the Philippines without eating these fruits, and taking a bunch with you when you fly home.
Mangosteen
While popular in Southeast Asia, the Mangosteen in the Philippines is the best variant in the world. Mangosteen is plenty and cheap in the country. You can find it anywhere, from wet markets to supermarkets to street stalls.
There are also many other products made from Mangosteen, from coffee to juice to daily supplements, even a candy and cookies!
Banana (local: saging)
Like Mangosteen, Philippine bananas are the best in the world. There was even a joke how a Philippine banana was exported in the West, and a local restaurant bought banana supplies from those countries and used it, hence, their very simple banana dish (that is ₱20 elsewhere) is worth a Big Mac (₱200). Without them realising the banana they imported originated from their neighbour.
Of course it's a joke. Or maybe not. (We did have an incident like this decades ago, for shoes. Marikina-made shoes were exported. Branded. And then that brand sold it here. 🤣)
Trivia: An endemic banana, "abaca", is also used to produce "Manila Hemp", which is expensive.
Mangoes (local: mangga)
Yes, the best in the world too! Some of our Asian neighbours visit the Philippines just to eat Philippine mangoes, because it's very expensive in their country.
Pineapple (local: pinya)
The best? Well, some of those popular foreign pineapple brands actually have farms here in the Philippines because they found that Philippine-produced pineapples are better.
Trivia: Pineapple was brought here during the colonial era. It's not endemic.
Trivia: Pineapple fibres are used to make clothes, and are usually expensive. It's the most common Philippine linen. Filipinos were the first to create clothes from Pineapple fibres. In fact, like the Coconut, Filipinos found use to everything Pineapple, generally, nothing goes to waste.
Yes, you guessed it right again! The best coconut in the world. It's also exported as well. Ask a Filipino how to properly eat a coconut. Most foreigners only drink the juice. You should eat the "white" part, that's the actual coconut. Never ever throw it!
After eating, you can use the coconut case for various things. One such is what we call "bunot", it helps shine flat wooden floors after putting floor wax on it.
No part of a coconut goes to waste in the Philippines. It is also used in a lot of Filipino foods!
Durian
No comment on this one. Just look for it. 😉 It's sweet, promise.
Jackfruit (local: langka)
A must! It is also part of the famous "halo-halo" summer crushed ice drink/food. A halo-halo without langka is incomplete.
Papaya
If you haven't tried Papaya, you definitely should. Usually included in dishes to give a dish a different taste, but eating Papaya by itself is better because you'll be able to taste it fully.
Special mention: Calamansi
Usually called Philippine lemon. Calamansi is small. This is endemic as well. According to foreigners, it is better than the regular lemon.
You'll often see this in restaurants. We use this in almost every food, either as part of the ingredients, or as a condiment. For example, combine soy sauce + calamansi and you get an exotic dip for your chicken, pork, fish, and so on.
We use it for pansit (Filipino noodles) like in pancit canton and pancit palabok. Also in goto and lugaw (porridge). Once you've tasted calamansi in various ways, you'll replace your regular lemon, and other ingredients, with it.
Ahhh, and nothing beats the love and respect I have for this country's #rice farmers than taking 4 #unlirice cup scoops and diligently finishing all of them down to the very last butil or grain I can see and eat! :cirno_thumbs_up:
#tagalog gives me two moods when I write with it on the internet
one is "holy shit ang ganda ng wika na ito para akong si Jose Rizal" ✍🔥
the other is "putangina bakit ba napakahaba ng wika na ito sino ba kasi nagimbento ng mga salitang ito hindi nila magaya yung Ingles na mas kaunti ang mga letra at mas maikli ang pagkabigkas" :koishtare:
They're like the 100-in-1 #pirated Game Boy cartridges of #music :sagume_think:
This is the shit I am #nostalgic about :akyuu_headphones:
I'm kinda surprised they still exist here in the #Philippines, but if there are pirated #DVDs and #Bluray being sold in the black market, why not MP3 CDs as well? :satrithink:
try lang ito. nakakahiya pero, push natin. 🤭
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PS. if you have Blind related questions, comment nyo po sa youtube video. i'll try to create a video and explain. this is for everyone's awareness so no wrong question. kapag na offend ako, PM ko nalang kayo. 🤣🤣🤣 joke lang.
Maraming salamat muli sa Philippine Statistics Authority para sa oportunidad na magbahagi tungkol sa Python at ang gamit nito sa larangan ng pagmamapa!
Last week, we successfully completed a Python and QGIS training attended by participants from different offices, services, and divisions of the PSA.
The five-day course—characterized by BNHR's hands-on approach, exercise-driven methodology, and a strong focus on tangible outcomes—culminated with the participants showcasing Python and QGIS projects that included processing automations and models, custom QGIS scripts and widgets for easier layer styling, as well as interactive maps using Python.