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.

By: Doddie from Korea

Doddie from Korea — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 07:45:16 +0000

Lava Bien,

Are you Filipino? Most Filipinos know that the eight primary rays of the sun represent the first eight provinces (Batangas, Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna, Manila, Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, and Tarlac) that sought independence from Spain and were placed under martial law by the Spaniards at the start of the Philippine Revolution in 1896.The three stars represent the three major geographical divisions of the country: Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao (note 3 stars, ONE SUN, not 4 stars as you would like to point out).

And a little research would tell you that the Spanish government moved the capital city from Panay to Manila after relentless seiges from Portuguese pirates. The capital has remained there ever since.

By: Lava Bien

Lava Bien — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 06:44:25 +0000

Dee Bee & Ted,

Thanks, so the the 8 rays from the Sun.. Do they represent any provinces from the Visayas or Mindanao? If not, then why not?

Alain Matti Savillo,
I was referring to the native Brown Filipino’s Last Name only not the real Filipino (Island born Spanish blood).

Y’all,
I’m also puzzled as how did Manila become the center of all the islands when the Spaniards came to the Visayas first?

By: Marketman

Marketman — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 06:25:06 +0000

Apicio, hahaha. Have I misspelled it? I spelled it as I would say it… it could very well be an orinola… I have never used one myself, actually :)

By: Crissy

Crissy — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 05:09:32 +0000

Glad to see the grand old house still standing. Was there in 1995, the caretaker was plenty hesitant to let us in….it was haunted he claimed. But at the time, the floor was in disrepair with large gaps between the large wooden planks, I thought I might fall through. It was also sparsely furnished, the heirlooms supposedly spirited away by an acquisitive family that married into one of the branches. Now who do you suppose that might be!

By: Marketman

Marketman — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 05:05:12 +0000

In quite a few cases, Spanish surnames were assigned to the “natives” or locals. However, there are also lots of cases where there is some ancestor that arrived either from Mexico, Spain, Macau, etc. and hence the Spanish/Portuguese surnames as well. Then there are the offspring of a myriad of frisky friars and priests many of whom, I once heard, were named Santos, de los Santos or Reyes (not sure if that is an apocryphal story)… so I wouldn’t be too hung up on the last names. In many cases, in provincial birth registries, the names were poorly recorded or if parents were unsure, the registrars sometimes made up awful first and last names, and hence some of the bizarre sounding names you find today… And what’s in a name, anyway?…considering the countless numbers of legitimate and illegitimate children running about in any given town, the biggest and oddest risk must be marrying a close relative without knowing it. :)