December 2010
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Biotope Chronicle: Halfbeaks Found!
24th DECEMBER, 1043Hrs
Finally! The primary inhabitant I needed for my biotope set up has been spotted.
Today, Friday morning. I asked my father for a ride to go to a friend’s house in a community near our land to return some keys (Our land looks like this). Of course, I wouldn’t let the opportunity pass without paying a visit to the waters near the area.
This was a continuation of my journey in...
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Biotope Chronicle: Roots Added
19th DECEMBER 2010
After a month of drying and soaking I finally put in the roots that I gathered (click here to review my mini-expedition).
The outcome is not close to the original ‘draft’ layout.
Click on the picture to go view the planning stage.
I had a hard time soaking the largest piece of root which consequently leached so little tannins and I don’t want it to...
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Candid Snapshot: Feast Their Way
How many times have you been begged by street children? By homeless beggars?
How many times have you given them a coin?
There were these two non-migratory old lady beggars at the shuttle terminal to our town who would poke you till you give them something. They, the two of them, would come and start their job at the front of the line until they reach the end.
The terminal has three queues...
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lakbay: Baras
One of the thirteen municipalities of the Rizal Province (Rizal’s got one city, Antipolo), Baras lies north of the Laguna Lake and bound by Morong and Tanay by the east and west, respectively.
Greening rice fields carpet the roadsides of town which turn brown when the rice are ready for harvest. It’s probably the lake that makes the soil in this town extra fertile and favorable for...
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lakbay: Mosses
I sometimes see pieces of stones or small chunk of soil/land on top of high-rise buildings in the Metro where mosses grow. It’s probably the altitude that make them somehow far from the pollution. Like these for example:
I always love mosses, above all other types of plants, whether aquatic or terrestrial. I am always in belief that they are an indicator of a good environment. I took...
declutter
going to clean my page. a bit more on travel, people, hobby, and li’l less on personal stuff. :) just a little nudge.