Philippine Climate

As you planned to visit the Philippines, I want to tell you the types of the Philippine climate. We have four types of climate here in our country. The latitude, surrounding bodies of water and mountains of the Philippines. You will have understand why we have there types of climate.

First type:
Two pronounced season: dry from November to April, wet during the rest of the year. All regions on the western part of the island of Luzon, Mindanao, Negros and Palawan are shielded by mountains from the northeast winds but open to the southwest winds.

Second type:
No dry with pronounced maximum rainy season from November to January in Catanduanes, Sorsogon, the eastern part of Albay, the eastern and western part of Camarinez Nortre and Camarines Sur, the eastern part of Quezon, Samar, Leyte and Mindanao. These regions are along or near the eastern coast. They are not sheltered from the northeast winds and storms.

Third type:
Seasons are not very pronounced relatively dry from November to April and wet during the rest of the year. Region with this type of climate are the western part of Cagayan, Isabela, Nueva Viscaya, the eastern part of the Mountain Province, southern Quezon, Masbate, Romblon, northeast Panay, eastern Negros, central and southern Cebu, Northern Mindanao and Eastern Palawan. These places are partly sheltered from the northeast winds but open to the Southwest winds and storms.

Fourth type:
Rainfall in more or less every evenly distributed throughout the year. The regions with this type of climate are Batanes, Northern Luzon, Western Camarines Norte and Camarines Sur, Albay, Eastern Mindanao, Marinduque, Northern Cebu and Negros, and most of Mindanao

Baskets and Textiles

In the world’s new interest in crafts and collectibles two items have come to the fore: baskets and textiles. Ironically, the advance of technology has brought people back to the primary crafts as items of concern and care.

The many different peoples and their divergent lifestyles have given the craft a multitude of unusual and specialized forms. The union of these forms with selected materials to create useful tools has put the users into a unique relationship with their environment. The baskets utilize the natural materials of the environment, as in the case of fish traps and creels, to build the ethic and style of a culture. The true appreciation of a basket as a work of skill and artistry comes with its use. However, a layman can analyze the union of a selected materials with all its inherent characteristics and see that it is unquestionably suited to a particular form and use.

When one looks carefully at the fold basketry of the Philippines, one can always notice the care with which the gauge of the material is scaled to the size of the basket. To too, the finishing details such as the fit of a cover, the insertion of a handle, the use of a natural lock, all evidence the eye of master craftsmen who take pride in their work.

There is a logic to the use of light natural materials in basketry. The form created satisfy the demands of heavy work, repair ability and flexibility. Good baskets don’t just happen, they are carefully planned. It remains for the general public to develop the discerning eye that will appreciate the details of form and construction.

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Memories and Family Practice

Call it your family tradition, ritual, or practice. Traditions that families do together can act as a thread to weave them closer to each other. When effort is exerted to uphold and continue doing these activities, the more meaningful these tradition can be and the more treasured they become among family members.

Memories are then build of the treasured moments spent together. In some families, it can take the form of going on trips during weekends or holidays, celebrating occasions, cooking or baking together, engaging in sports, telling stories, and the list could go on. In contrast, changes in the family’s routine or usual practices ma possibly indicate changes in family structure and even breakdown in communication or conflict between members.

There is a certain security and warmth that emanates from being with family and doing a specific activity together at a specific time. Strong ties may result from these practices and the same traditions may be handed on from one generation to the next. In families who love cooking and baking, recipes of the older generation are treasured and passed on to the younger ones.

I have a friend whose family books a room at a certain hotel while visiting their extended family for the holidays. They stayed at the same hotel for several years. When my friend one time suggested to try another place, her children were horrified at the thought of breaking their ritual and exclaimed, “But mom, it’s tradition!”

Integrity of Heart

Integrity is based on the word “integer” which means a whole number or a complete unit. Integrity means wholeness and a double standard. A person with integrity is a whole person, and undivided person. This is someone who is the same person at the office and in church; someone who is the same person in private as well as in public. Jesus the Messiah was a Man of integrity. He was not two-faced or uneven while representing both earthy humanity and His Heavenly Father.

I have just thought of something! One other way to view “integrity” is to consider the way a civil engineer would when speaking of a building with “structural integrity”. This kind of integrity keeps the building strong and safe. Faults in structural integrity are revealed under pressure or unusual stress. A few years ago there was a major earthquake in Taiwan. Many people were killed and injured when the quake caused hundreds of reinforced concrete buildings to suddenly collapse. The shattered buildings revealed that some had been built with large, empty metal cans inserted into columns and beams where there should have been solid concrete. Structural integrity had been sacrificed for profit. How many of our lives have empty spaces where there should be something solid and strong? When we speak the Word of God, are we building a house of faith that will stand up under stress?

Believers are people of truth. We should never fear that speaking the truth in love will cause us to fail. The opposite is true. I have found that while we often do need wisdom regarding how and when to speak the truth, God will never forsake the righteous in heart. He is a shield of protection for the one whose life is committed to the Word of God. Integrity, however, is more than simple honesty in business. It is more than “doing the thing right.” Integrity means keeping out commitments, whether it is a matter between us and God (such as tithing) or in relationship with our fellow human beings.

Integrity requires a lifestyle of worship and prayer that under binds all business and ministry activities. Worshiping God draws us into a place of intimacy with Him. In our inward, personal life with the Lord that is carried forward by trusting in Him, we learn to stand before God and man in honesty. He sends us forth from the holy meeting place of prayer ready for whatever kind of works our calling demands. Through prayers and the Word of God, we receive wisdom, grace and moral understanding to deal with tough decisions. Through prayer and the wholeness of integrity, we receive courage from the Spirit to act on what God has shown us to be the right path for our lives.

The World’s Largest Living Fish is a Shark

The whale shark, locally known as “ butanding “, is the world’s largest fish. This gentle giant is known to grow to great lengths of up to 18 meters and can weigh up to 34 tonnes. As a highly migratory species, whale sharks are distributed worldwide in warm and temperate seas of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. They can migrate long distances through international waters to favored coastal areas in a few months of the year when the plankton they feed on is abundant.

Food is an important factor for the growth, migration and abundance of whale sharks in time and space. Its presence is highly associated with blooms of planktonic organism and changes in water temperature. Unlike other species of sharks, the whale shark can neither bite nor chew. Its thousand of teeth are so tiny that it can only eat small shrimps, fish and plankton by using its modified gift rakers as suction filter.

Whale sharks are slow growing, maturing sexually only after so many years and with long interval between pregnancies. Female have been found to produce as many as 300 embryos in her uterus, although it is thought that less than 10% of the young survive to adulthood. Upon giving birth, the mother sharks leave her young to fend for themselves. In effect, the species have low reproductive potential and low capacity for population increase. These make the species highly vulnerable to exploitation.

The ecological role of whale sharks is not yet fully understood but the links of these giants with other processes within an ecosystem cannot be underestimated. Whale sharks are related to important ecological processes such as crab, fish and coral spawning. As possible indicators of plankton-rich patches, whale sharks may be using baitfish to locate their prey.

Philippine Classical Music

Philippine music today is a unique blend of the traditions of the East and the West. It represents a flexible and wide variety of oriental and occidental influences, with the scale tipping heavily to the latter. Because of our long exposure to the culture of the western world, an imbalance in our cultural values was brought about by inevitable historical circumstances and foreign domination in the course of our growth as a nation. Our Asian heritage which existed prior to colonization was almost wiped out. A large percentage of our population understand and perform 19th century European and American types of Philippine music, both parochial and secular.

Philippine music present the collective experience of its people as expressed in its folksongs and creative music, a reflection of their feelings, hopes and aspirations. Philippine music may be classified into traditional/indigenous and contemporary/western. There are two types of traditional Philippine music – the indigenous music of the pre-hispanic origin, and the hispanized or western-derived. This paper specifically deals with western-derived classical music.

Healthy Body

Eating healthy foods, you need to eat food rich in calcium, proteins, carbohydrates and vitamins. Eating healthy foods especially when you are still growing is important because it makes you stronger. Starving your body of important nutrients causes your bones to stop growing. It can also make you feel bad!

Drink your milk. Eating and drinking food rich in calcium, a substance found in dairy products such as milk, cheese and yogurt, is an excellent way to keep your bones and teeth strong and healthy. Bone matter is partly made up of calcium. So calcium-rich foods help the body improve your bones and encourage bone growth. That means that chocolate milk is actually good for your bones. (Just brush your teeth after drinking to get rid of any sugar build-up!) Research has shown that having healthy bones as kids play a big role in preventing bones diseases, life osteoporosis.

Have a sound sleep. Sleep helps the body and brain develop and grow. You can do better when you get enough good sleep. Kids like you need 10 to 11 hours of sleep each night.