Pieces of Baguio

Last week I was assigned to travel north to check our product status in the said area. As I drag my self to the bath room at around 4:30 in the morning and traveling at lease 5 hours. We reach Dagupan and stay there for a night in our office mate's house. The next day, again we travel for 2 hours to reach the summer capital of the Philippines. We stay their for 2 days and 1 night doing our task but still we were able to manage to take some time off to enjoy the place.

I was able to go see Tam-awan Village (the one being brag by di licop in one of her blogs) and see the indigenous aesthetics and exquisite Cordilleran craftsmanship. Ifugao house and Kalinga house where in display where you can actually came in and experience how they live.

I was caught by an Ifugao house called fertility hut, where a couple after living together for a year where not able

to produce an offspring. They will live in the fertility hut for a month while a shaman performs a ritual offering to a male and female bulols. When the time expires, that will be time they will be allowed to look for other partners to know which one is incapable of giving an offspring. As we follow the trail, we found our self inside a house where you need

to bend down to enter. The house is filled with painting from local artist. I don’t if they are on sale but believe me… they are pretty.

After tam-awan, we cross the street where you will find museum named “Arko ni Apo”. There is a mini café where soya coffee partnered with cookies is served. Soya coffee taste… hmmm… good! I love it; it has that strength of the coffee and the after taste of a soya, followed by a sweet biscuit.

After a cup of coffee, we look around at the museum and found out that the man they called Apo is Sir Ben-Hur Villanueva, A Filipino sculptor, painter, educator, lecturer, and art entrepreneur based in Baguio City, and was Cone of the artists who first established the Baguio Arts Guild. He has also served as a president for the Society of Philippine Sculptors (SPS), as Art director for the Ephpheta Foundation for the Blind, Inc., and as vice president-treasurer for Unesco’s International Art Association (IAA). –Wikipedia-

We also visit Oh My Gulay - Artists Cafe of Kidlat Tahimik. Here you can see more work of arts. This veggie resto is located at the session road.

Saturday morning, we wake up at around 7:30am, prepare breakfast, pack up and then head to Burnham Park to witness the G-Sting Soccer only to find out that they do it in the other soccer field which I don’t know where. I took some pictures of children getting ready for a game instead then head out to Lourdes Grotto.

The Grotto is located on a high hill in the western part of the city where you will find the image of the Lady of

Lourdes. It has 252 steps and a small path for a vehicle to pass through which I think where provided for the disable and elderly who wants to visit the Lady of Lourdes.

Our next stop is the Bell church, I think it’s a Chinese cemetery and a temple combined. It’s located north of the downtown area of Baguio along the road leading to the town of La Trinidad, Benguet.

Hmmm… I think that’s it, that’s my work with leisure in the beautiful city of pines… hehehe! Oh… I forgot, I also visit the Mt. Cloud Bookshop located near Victory Liner and the Sky Garden of the only SM with no AC.

Next stuff, fishing with Pat in Dagupan…

...and ill drive for 6hrs and wont mind the distance.

Mohawks

I just had my Mohawk hair do last Saturday... i wasn't expecting that this would come out this good... i just hope that the office would accept such looks... hahaha!!!