Diane and Nicolas did it last week and want to come back as soon as possible for passing the Padi Openwater...
Thanks to Uli, Michèle and the whole Action Geckos Team
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Seems to be cellphone orthography...
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( 3 / 24 )Last week we made a rather bad experience with the language they call English in a big city in northern Mindanao. Did you know that an "add-on" for a car is not an extra part such as fog-lamps or roof-rails you get as a form of discount, but a hidden increase of the retail price, you will have to pay? In Mindanao it is!
But instead of being angry, we publish some other Pinoy-English curiosities:
Everybody knows that P and F are the same in the Philippines. The same is true vor B and V. But what drives a beverage to get a baby rage?
Europeans be warned! You may find yourself between to slices of bread. A hot dog, isn't it?
There is nothing wrong. Your bladder even might be very happy.
We got these pictures by e-mail. We are not aware of any copyright. If the copyright should be yours, please inform us.
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( 3.3 / 6 )Stop plastic now!
Our neighbor and friend came back from Bohol yesterday evening.
On board of the Super Shuttle Ferry from Jagna to Balbagon he observed
the dumping of lots of plastic waste in the sea by the Super Shuttle crew just off the coast of Camiguin.
He informed Super Shuttle Ferry using their hotline, but got no answer.
For how long will we have to swim with plastic bags? For how long will the fish we eat be full of plastic, cadmium, chlorine and other plastic add-ons? For how long will our unborn kids be threatened by hormone like plastic chemicals?
Stop plastic now! Use nippa, bamboo and piña.
We ask Super Shuttle Ferry and all other shipping companies to stop immediately the dumping of any waste in the sea!
There is now a junk-shop in any harbor. Sell them your junk.
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( 2.8 / 17 )have you seen the background picture of this page? It's bamboo. Bamboo from the Philippines.
To date, there are 16 local varieties of bamboo in the Philippines that grow in different parts of the country. Some of the native varieties of bamboo in our country today are the kawayan tinik, bayog, botong, buho, bikal, kiling and la-ak. In Cotabato, we have also the giant bamboo variety.
This giant bamboo variety can grow up to 100 feet = 33 meters!
There are also bamboo varieties out of the estimated 1,200 species worldwide, that can grow up to 3.3 feet (more than one meter) a day. Sit down and watch them growing.
And more...
Bamboo, once regarded as the poor man’s timber has long-gained worldwide popularity. Not for its traditional multi-faceted uses in craft items but for its technical construction qualities. Its stability, hardness, flexibility and high-density strength. An architect capsulizes the astounding capabilities of bamboo as a construction material this way: “Beautiful bamboo is stronger than steel in tension, stronger than concrete in compression and more stable than red oak.”
Our new house is built of nearly 50% bamboo! We use it instead of wood, instead of steel and instead of concrete. The only problem that might make troubles are termites and pukpuk. But there are also good preserving products. And as our bat and butterfly visitors show, the preservation products do not harm them.
See also: Animals like our new office
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( 3.3 / 12 )No, the Philippines are not victime of a new oil spill. But to get an idea of the US disaster in the gulf of Mexico, we have projected today's surface of the oil spill on a Philippines map.
It is giant! Stretching from Boracay north to Manila and west to daet and Legazpi. And every day it grows!
Here you may see the growth of the US oil spill and project the surface anywhere on the planet: http://www.ifitwasmyhome.com/
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( 3.3 / 10 )About 2 months ago we moved to our new office.
The house had been newly built in an enhanced native style.
And now we get more and more visits from animals we like - and they seem to like us...
A giant butterfly rested with us for some hours
This bat did hide under our Amakan roof from the sun until sunset tonight.
It's a wonderful world, it's the Philippines.
(And hmm, yes, our neighbor's chicken like our new grass - shshshshs...)
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( 2.9 / 15 )Nicole, the niece of our marketing director Ierene, is 18.
Yesterday evening a wonderful birthday party had been celebrated at the Villa Caceres in Naga-City (Bicol).
But pictures say more than a thousand words...
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( 3 / 44 )Do you remember Herman's Hermits song " No milk today "?
No milk today, my love has gone away
The bottle stands forlorn, a symbol of the dawn
No milk today, it seems a common sight
But people passing by don't know the reason why
(...)
This is what we sing these days on Camiguin Island. Milk is out of stock everywhere! And cornflakes with milkpowder for breakfast is a bit dry...
Let's hope that the milkman finds again a ferry to Camiguin.
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( 3.1 / 32 )Thank you for visiting the silent-gardens.com website.
In January 2010 you have again been more than 1400 visitors every day.
You came from:
1 United States of America
2 Philippines
3 Switzerland
4 Australia
5 France
6 Japan
7 Germany
8 Sweden
9 Netherlands
10 Canada
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