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Showing posts with label Inchican. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Inchican. Show all posts
03 December, 2017
Sky & Skyline, Supermoon
24 November, 2017
11 June, 2016
Museo De La Salle
June 4, 2016
De La Salle University-Dasmarinas Cultural Heritage Complex, Dasmarinas, Cavite. Cavite is huge, and Dasmarinas is not as easy to reach from Santa Rosa as one might imagine.
From the Santa Rosa Silang border, specifically the Laguna Technopark and Paseo, it is best reached (for me at least, let me know if there is an even better route) via the "Cardiac Trail" at South Forbes, bgy. Inchican Silang...the road beside SMC's Wedgewoods. Scenic and quick enough. May get confusing, what with a lack of signages through hills and little barangays, but following a compass and map (GPS) can help. Of course, there are tricycle drivers and sari-sari store owners to ask.
Through to Silang town to get to the Emilio Aguinaldo Highway.
For a trip back up to Tagaytay then,it's just the Emilio Aguinaldo Highway all the way. Well, not really "just" that. Dasmarinas, Cavite is notorious for its traffic jams on the main road. Especially on Saturdays. And this was a Saturday.
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| Shaded and lovely University Avenue, where one of three DLSD gates is located |
Beautiful, gorgeous campus!
I do cherish my Jesuit education...but I wish I had it in this campus, with this kind of heritage consciousness. The La Salle Brothers have it, led by Bro. Andrew Gonzalez, from whose family a large part of the museum's collection comes. It was his idea to build it, actually, per the museum guide.
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| central quadrangle of the COLLEGE OF TOURISM (and Hospitality Mgt I think?) |
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| Admin building, a replica of the Kawit Cavite shrine |
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| The chapel, a replica of one in Bulacan, if I remember right |
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| There is a lake on campus |
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| Museo foyer |
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| on the Tagaytay Ridge |
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http://www.dlsud.edu.ph/Museo.htm
http://www.dlsud.edu.ph/museo/history.htm
19 January, 2013
Hiring a housekeeper
I shouldn't tease. After all, this is one of the most difficult things to do and I don't even have the right solution. I will just speak from my experiences in this area.
Lately I have been meeting more and more locals, mothers like myself who have chosen to live without a live-in helper. We thus hire 'part-timers'. The woman who offered her services to me, for example, struck a deal with her solo businessman employer for her to get 'sideline' jobs. He didn't require her to hang around the house anyway, and he encouraged her to get the other jobs in order to earn more and keep sane.
So there is a category of helpers here who are hired by companies to keep house on a live-out basis for their expat staff. A helper can be minding up to 5 houses in one village per contract. Of course that also depends on how many men actually live in one house. It is also her choice how many houses to take on. Mostly the tasks are just cleaning, laundry and ironing. There is a little bit of cooking. There are two sub-categories. There is the helper who lives in one of the staff houses and takes care of around three. There is the helper who lives in the barangay and thus gets to be with her children. In most of my friends'opinions this seems a good situation for many of the women as they do not have to leave their children. They can go to school while she works nearby. Sadly, most of those I've met have 3 to 5 children just one year apart. Most of them also claim their husbands either do not earn much or are not employed.
I've also just recently learned that the tricycle fare from say, the Caltex gas station at the corner of the highway and Laguna blvd, to the barangay Inchican in Silang (towards Westgrove) costs Php 70 per head, in a shared tricycle. So most of the workers walk home. This is not a far distance, and we wonder if it has to do with the fact that the road traversed is within the Laguna Technopark's jurisdiction.
Lately I have been meeting more and more locals, mothers like myself who have chosen to live without a live-in helper. We thus hire 'part-timers'. The woman who offered her services to me, for example, struck a deal with her solo businessman employer for her to get 'sideline' jobs. He didn't require her to hang around the house anyway, and he encouraged her to get the other jobs in order to earn more and keep sane.
So there is a category of helpers here who are hired by companies to keep house on a live-out basis for their expat staff. A helper can be minding up to 5 houses in one village per contract. Of course that also depends on how many men actually live in one house. It is also her choice how many houses to take on. Mostly the tasks are just cleaning, laundry and ironing. There is a little bit of cooking. There are two sub-categories. There is the helper who lives in one of the staff houses and takes care of around three. There is the helper who lives in the barangay and thus gets to be with her children. In most of my friends'opinions this seems a good situation for many of the women as they do not have to leave their children. They can go to school while she works nearby. Sadly, most of those I've met have 3 to 5 children just one year apart. Most of them also claim their husbands either do not earn much or are not employed.
I've also just recently learned that the tricycle fare from say, the Caltex gas station at the corner of the highway and Laguna blvd, to the barangay Inchican in Silang (towards Westgrove) costs Php 70 per head, in a shared tricycle. So most of the workers walk home. This is not a far distance, and we wonder if it has to do with the fact that the road traversed is within the Laguna Technopark's jurisdiction.
21 April, 2011
Churches are our Castles
Here is the less-than-a-year old Church of St. Benedict at the nearby Westgrove Heights. The interior is very unique and awesome, conducive to praise and worship. However, I can't post the photos I took inside as my offspring posed in the foreground. (and I do not want to post offspring's pics).
Now WESTGROVE is the first place that came to former neighbor's minds when I announced our move to Sta. Rosa. Technically, Westgrove is in Barangay Inchican, Silang, Cavite. I first heard the name bgy. Inchican from a receptionist at the beauty salon at Paseo. She said she was from that bgy. I also heard it from the carpenter who needed to buy from "the many hardware shops" at Inchican. I had since wondered about what "Inchican" means. Imagining it spelled as Instikan, I had wondered if it meant something like a Chinese quarter of town. Silly idea? Let me know if you know. I haven't asked the barangay folk (whose barangay hall's design looks like it belongs in Westgrove hehe. nice.).
This church has no parish priest as of this writing. They've got guest priests for the Holy Week, and the weekend masses are said by priests from the parish in Silang. It is right next to St. Scholastica's Westgrove.
St. Benedict's is really elegant-looking, inside and out. It is sure to be A popular wedding venue. But of course our old Spanish churches are still our "castles", which, sayang, could serve as more important tourist attractions than they currently are.
The church of St. John Bosco in Sta. Rosa near this church, is celebrating it's 10th anniversary this year. I promise photos next time. Its design is reminiscent of the Sanctuario de San Antonio's in Makati, or the many other similarly designed '80s-'90s churches in Manila. It is thus cozy, familiar, and just late last year, now airconditioned for everyone's comfort. The cool (no pun intended) thing about this area is that the airconditioner is hardly used except for the summer months. Don Bosco's addition of aircons is going to keep the flock coming I'm sure. I mean, going to Sunday mass had always been difficult in the heat. No matter what a priest lectures about it being part of the sacrifice. I just cannot focus on the Lord, blessings and prayers while fanning myself like crazy.
Here is the Sta. Rosa de Lima parish, which is at the heart of the bayan ng Sta. Rosa. Sta. Rosa is not just the area surrounding Greenfield, Ayala and the Paseo de Sta. Rosa! Sta. Rosa does have a real, colorful history...which I have been failing to learn more of...until I get to talk to Ms. Nonia Tiongco, the historian of Sta. Rosa whose "Sta. Rosa Studies Center" eludes me. (more on this later).
On the day of our visit, the Poong Nazareno (black Nazarene) was in the church. Vendors of replicas, holy oil, handkerchiefs with the novena printed on them, scapulars and miscellaneous Nazarene trinkets were outside in the heat of the church plaza/parking lot. INSIDE the church, mobile versions of those vendors approached us every two minutes or so to sell their stuff. Some of them were lying on the pews, some milling about, barking at each other. Well, talking, and it seemed they came all the way from Quiapo, the black nazarene's home.
Here are photos of that church, built in 1796. For those who have also recently moved to the "new" side of Sta. Rosa, know that here is the "old" town, ready for you to explore (in a later post, the museum and environs).
The statue of Sta. Rosa de Lima was given by Peru in 1999.
There was nobody to talk to about the trompe l'óeil downstairs. This painting, not trompe l'oeil, looks like a typical 1920's rendition found in other churches. Well, I hope we get to contact the Santa Rosa Studies group soon. We missed their exhibition at My SM, My City two years ago. That series is where information could be gathered.
Now WESTGROVE is the first place that came to former neighbor's minds when I announced our move to Sta. Rosa. Technically, Westgrove is in Barangay Inchican, Silang, Cavite. I first heard the name bgy. Inchican from a receptionist at the beauty salon at Paseo. She said she was from that bgy. I also heard it from the carpenter who needed to buy from "the many hardware shops" at Inchican. I had since wondered about what "Inchican" means. Imagining it spelled as Instikan, I had wondered if it meant something like a Chinese quarter of town. Silly idea? Let me know if you know. I haven't asked the barangay folk (whose barangay hall's design looks like it belongs in Westgrove hehe. nice.).
This church has no parish priest as of this writing. They've got guest priests for the Holy Week, and the weekend masses are said by priests from the parish in Silang. It is right next to St. Scholastica's Westgrove.
St. Benedict's is really elegant-looking, inside and out. It is sure to be A popular wedding venue. But of course our old Spanish churches are still our "castles", which, sayang, could serve as more important tourist attractions than they currently are.
The church of St. John Bosco in Sta. Rosa near this church, is celebrating it's 10th anniversary this year. I promise photos next time. Its design is reminiscent of the Sanctuario de San Antonio's in Makati, or the many other similarly designed '80s-'90s churches in Manila. It is thus cozy, familiar, and just late last year, now airconditioned for everyone's comfort. The cool (no pun intended) thing about this area is that the airconditioner is hardly used except for the summer months. Don Bosco's addition of aircons is going to keep the flock coming I'm sure. I mean, going to Sunday mass had always been difficult in the heat. No matter what a priest lectures about it being part of the sacrifice. I just cannot focus on the Lord, blessings and prayers while fanning myself like crazy.
Here is the Sta. Rosa de Lima parish, which is at the heart of the bayan ng Sta. Rosa. Sta. Rosa is not just the area surrounding Greenfield, Ayala and the Paseo de Sta. Rosa! Sta. Rosa does have a real, colorful history...which I have been failing to learn more of...until I get to talk to Ms. Nonia Tiongco, the historian of Sta. Rosa whose "Sta. Rosa Studies Center" eludes me. (more on this later).
On the day of our visit, the Poong Nazareno (black Nazarene) was in the church. Vendors of replicas, holy oil, handkerchiefs with the novena printed on them, scapulars and miscellaneous Nazarene trinkets were outside in the heat of the church plaza/parking lot. INSIDE the church, mobile versions of those vendors approached us every two minutes or so to sell their stuff. Some of them were lying on the pews, some milling about, barking at each other. Well, talking, and it seemed they came all the way from Quiapo, the black nazarene's home.
Here are photos of that church, built in 1796. For those who have also recently moved to the "new" side of Sta. Rosa, know that here is the "old" town, ready for you to explore (in a later post, the museum and environs).
The statue of Sta. Rosa de Lima was given by Peru in 1999.
There was nobody to talk to about the trompe l'óeil downstairs. This painting, not trompe l'oeil, looks like a typical 1920's rendition found in other churches. Well, I hope we get to contact the Santa Rosa Studies group soon. We missed their exhibition at My SM, My City two years ago. That series is where information could be gathered.
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