Tonight's rant may be inspired by three things, or not. First, my walking along my child's school pathway and seeing a row of about four dead honeybees. On the other side of this path is a flower bed of different colored blooms. The school is located on hilly land, blessed with a moderate climate and vegetation is abundant. I wondered if their deaths were part of the normal cycle of honeybee life...to suck their last blossom's nectar and then just pass out on the side. Or, if the recent almost-daily burning of grass (again by the big property developers...see March 2011 post) had anything to do with their demise. I did read somewhere that honeybees' navigation has been affected by the world...
Second...my child's current piano piece, "Honeybee" and her second visit to a farm animal and botanical ''zoo" with a honeybee section have made her wildly passionate about them. Third, and this is related to the first and second...I just swatted one inside my house today. The child found it flying against a closed window. As we were in a hurry to leave and I worried about not seeing it and it buzzing around later when we were asleep...I immediately did the deed. I apologized, actually apologized to the bee and explained my action to the child. She only echoed what I usually tell her ..."it won't harm you if you don't harm it". She was then worried it might harm me in retribution. I was worried about how it found its way inside.
Well, my child hasn't grasped the effect of "death", but her worries about retribution are not unfounded. Honeybees are probably too sweet (sorry) to do that...but the reality is, they go, humans go. It's not retribution, it's self-inflicted.
And this is the latest out there:
http://tvnz.co.nz/sunday-news/honey-bees-under-attack-5847035
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I'm just a small fish in a small corner of this big Laguna, and this is how I've been swimming it
Showing posts with label Ayala Land. Show all posts
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24 February, 2014
03 October, 2011
Solenad 2 NOT an outlet mall
Solenad 2 shops facing Solenad 1. Beaming along Nuvali road and the highway. |
Just a quick note, my husband gasped wondering at the prices in one of the shops there. He asked, "these are outlet prices?". The sales associate clarified that these shops are BRANCH stores and not outlets.
Remember, outlet stores are in Paseo de Santa Rosa, run by Greenfield Development. Solenad 2 of Ayala Land, which also has Bench stores, Payless, Nine West, and some others that are in Paseo, is not meant to be an "outlet" shopping mall.
Just gets a bit confusing because the outlets in Paseo generally display their merchandise in 'regular store' fashion. Except I guess in places like the Bench Depot where Charles &Keith shoes are in bins and piled on the floor; Brand Smart, where clothes tags are trimmed but are obviously Zara brands (and possibly knock-offs, really); and where discounted prices are boldly displayed on shelves.
All this info isn't really essential to life; just fun I guess. And forgive my husband for his retail ignorance. He's a simple man who isn't aware of retail merchandising. Can't quite make the link between a display that looks expensive marketing-wise, fashion seasons, and price. The bottom line is what speaks to him of course.
01 June, 2011
New roads, car stickers and rice paddies
Residents of Ayala Land villages this side of Binan and Sta. Rosa, get the Greenfield Parkway stickers for a shortcut to home. We exit the SLEX via Mamplasan, and go through the parkway. It is a big deal to be skipping the traffic when exiting via the Sta. Rosa toll exit. Going past and reaching the Paseo de Sta. Rosa area via the Eton exit is alright, scenic, but more expensive and longer.
Recently I learned there is yet another stretch of 'scenic' road from Mamplasan to the Laguna blvd, and that cuts through the entrance of Verdana Mamplasan, and the Tamayo estate, among others. I hadn't heard about this place before, so I really don't know if there are lots for sale, or if it is some sort of club.
I actually hope the rotunda from the Greenfield Parkway to Verdana never changes. There are rice fields, their accompanying egrets, and banana plants by that small roundabout. It's nice and green, and I consider it very important for our children to view it. When I was growing up, we passed roads to Pasig with rice fields as well. I remember my mother practicing driving with us as passengers...and my fear of her driving us to the edge of the road into a muddy paddy.
Driving through the new roads to Nuvali, I still saw some cows, and various birds. I believe the bird population from the Laguna blvd. to Nuvali has dwindled though...
So I guess I can't decide...rural or urban. I want to live in both.
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19 May, 2011
I heart Earth?
A friend in another village found 6 copies of this brochure in her mailbox. I received mine electronically a week earlier. 6 pieces of glossy color paper. She says she received around 4-5 brochures for the Xavier school before.
So much for loving the earth.

Would love to attend something, but my schedule does not permit. Anyway, weekend traffic on the highway to Nuvali is a deterrent, and the crowd on the Solenad is getting too uncomfortable for me. Traffic jam is probably still not as bad as Metro Manila's, but it's enough for us residents to stay away. Road improvements and corresponding advisories have begun, to Ayala land's credit.
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