Paving paradise part nth

  So we chose to move up to the hills...far from the highway now regularly jammed on weekends...away from the commercial areas...never mind their convenience...

  But now the two big developers have joined together to create even more of the same up there too.   

  Saw the forest bulldozed...very very very sad.

  And yet in the future, I know I will patronize it. Or even be a tenant. 

  Surely, an asthma attack after twenty years of clear lungs...may be related to the construction around.  And what about EVERYONE now having respiratory problems.  It's not just the pollen, I say.  For former Manila residents maybe it's even being used to the cement dust and THEN experiencing pollen.

  I used to hear about "Green Lungs" in the city of Kuala Lumpur every day. Not once have I heard it here.  Just because we are not prone to the smog from Indonesia, or are not in a valley like KL is, does not mean we do not need the "green lungs" too.

  Bye bye birdies.

  

Rainbow over Qualimed

It was difficult to stop along Nuvali Blvd early rush hour morning, but I could not resist...a double rainbow, full from end to end and wide, over Sta.Rosa-Silang, over the Sta. Rosa-Tagaytay Road.  So...beautiful on a sunny August morning.

If you try, maybe you can see at least one, faint because I could not stop right away.  Just look above the tree in the center.

In the middle is Qualimed, the hospital due to open in the 1st quarter of 2017.

The healthcare options are getting wider in this area...

Federico's (or where to get your laing fix)

One noon time I saw a sign at the Laguna Technopark Gate 1, advertising a "Laguna Technopark Square" (or was it really a "square"), with restaurants as Paotsin, Aline Nene's, Potdog, and more.

Turns out its location is just outside Gate 3, which can be accessed from inside the technopark if an insider, or along the Laguna blvd, crossing the bridge to the Binan side, along Don Bosco, Ayala's Santa Rosa Village and San Jose Villages, De La Salle, Westgrove, Beacon Academy, and out on the road that leads towards  Palma Real, Dalta, and Verdana Mamplasan.  

The place also houses TBS The Blue Corner, which may be a branch of the place at the Paseo Market.  At the end of the building, I found Federico's, which has the most friendly and warm staff, and an equally accommodating owner. As she is Bicolano, the specialty of the house is actually LAING with anything. Laing with fried tilapia, laing with chicken, laing with bopis...

There are many Bicolanos in the Sta. Rosa-Silang area, and while they can probably cook up their own native food...I am nowhere near being from Albay so I am happy to have found them.  Their food is good, and as I said, they are so very nice.

They also specialize in "Boodle Fights", they lay out the banana leaves and you can choose to put together your own Boodle Fight menu.  

I'm sorry my photos are or poor quality, and I am sorry it was a Saturday night, which means there were no employees enjoying Boodle Fights, which means, no banana leaves spread on the tables...  
but here I will show you their really delicious and bestselling Mango Graham Shake, served in a corked bottle:

Venare, Nuvali Sunset

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.

Shaded and lovely University Avenue, where one of three DLSD gates is located

Well, photos are not allowed inside much of the Museum, so...snippets of its surroundings in De La Salle Dasmarinas instead.

  

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.

central quadrangle of the COLLEGE OF TOURISM (and Hospitality Mgt I think?)

Admin building, a replica of the Kawit Cavite shrine

The chapel, a replica of one in Bulacan, if I remember right

There is a lake on campus

Museo foyer

on the Tagaytay Ridge

http://www.dlsud.edu.ph/Museo.htm

http://www.dlsud.edu.ph/museo/history.htm

Makiling Sunset

From one of the Alveo villages in Nuvali, Canlubang, Laguna.
June 5, 2016

Glass sculptures

JUST AT THE TOP OF THE RIDGE IF YOU TAKE THE STA.ROSA-TAGAYTAY HIGHWAY ALL THE WAY UP...

Beautiful art and a beautiful view...

Greetings from Museo Orlina!

We are inviting you to an exhibit entitled Blue Shirt by the remarkable glass artist Dong Hoon Kwak from Busan, South Korea.

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In addition, we recently unveiled the replica of Ramon Orlina's "Arcanum XIX, Paradise Gained"—the first glass sculpture in the Philippines. This is part of his continuing celebration in the arts as a sculptor.

Operating hours: Tuesdays-Sundays, 10am to 6pm

Regular admission fee: Php 100

Student/senior citizen/ PWD admission fee: Php 80

Be sure to include Museo Orlina in your itinerary this summer! See you!

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