Comments on: The Home of Juan Anacleto Araneta, Bago City

By: isabel

isabel — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:24:27 +0000

i agree with FJD. there are 2 important streets in bacolod: araneta, along which the city hall is located, and lacson, where the provincial capitol can be found.

By: Apicio

Apicio — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:49:00 +0000

Kakusina, yes thatÂ´s it. Thanks, Leyte is close but no cigar I know.

I spy with my little eyes a co-fan of the shining Genji.

By: Lava Bien

Lava Bien — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 12:46:43 +0000

I actually love this kind of houses and would want to build one in the very near future.
The adobe bricks from the churches in Bohol are awesome, the best I’ve seen so far. I asked around to know if they still make it (the adobe bricks) there, most of them said no or not sure.

I embrace the good the Spanish brought us and put them to good use (spanish language and old world architecture) though I forgive them though for the atrocities committed back then. makes for a very interesting history.

By: Lava Bien

Lava Bien — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 12:36:31 +0000

Dodie,

Sun = Star , purong Tagalog

So technically (or scientifically) 4 stars.

Yup, my dilemna excatly. There is the 8 so called provinces (from Luzon), what about any provinces from Mindanao? They were never technically conquered by the Spaniards so the first to reject the Conquistadores, so why are they not the representative of one of the 8 rays? Are they not part of the Philippines?

A little research also would tell us that Manila, under the rule of Rajah Sulayman (his family, before and after him) worked under the Sultanate of Brunei (not even Sultanate of Sulu – although related). So was not orginally part of the Las Islas Filipinas.

We could actually learn so much more history of the Philippines, outside the Philippines – check european sources, chinese sources, middle eastern source and not just Google or internet. (Kung di mo alam ang iyong pinanggalingan [lasing ka] di mo rin alam ang yong paroroonan)

By: Fredo

Fredo — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 09:51:39 +0000

I like old houses, we did’nt have any sort of ancestral house when we grew up. Bahay na bato style houses are designed for tropical climates, with their high ceilings. We visited one in Bohol last year, the Clarin Ancestral house.

It is sad to see how truly effective the followers of manifest destiny were on estranging us from the other latin cultures.