Aetas give birth squatting against a tree or I can't seem recall what they call the 'haligue' of their houses. I find that a little unusual but giving birth in...
Addendum: Aetas measure where to sever the umbilical cord halfway between the belly button to the child's knee. They get a thread fibers from a fresh cut...
Pathless Travels: Death squad psychology http://amianan.schtuff.com/pathlesstravels_6702 Comments welcome of course. The Pathless Travels blog runs on wiki....
I actually met some who do this for a living, and one spends it on nothing but shabu and he gets protection from the police for that. The other is a planner,...
I recall watching a local TV documentary that had one segment focused on this very topic. They interviewed perhaps 3-4 hitmen, two of them retired from the...
Pathless Travels: Rallyista, manikurista et al. http://amianan.schtuff.com/pathlesstravels_6430 Medyo 3 buwan na itong nakaraan, pero baka may interesadong...
They already are doing that, open warfare on Al Q'eda, warfare on reporters and legal dissenters is not legal that is why it is being done overtly by paid...
Horrible. But for some twisted reason, I take solace in the fact that sometimes, things balance out, when the same type of people aim at indivuduals who are ...
The most renowned boxing announcer Michael Buffer came down to Manila as announcer for the super featherweight title fight between Manny Pacquiao and former...
Boondocker is a known word already in use. I can't remember where I read it. Gilpini nestor <nestor143@...> wrote: The most renowned boxing announcer...
In a message dated 7/2/2006 8:46:26 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, litogo@... writes: I finally found some time to dig up my files. I'm not sure if you...
We almost spoke German.. The year was 1898. As Commodore Dewey blockaded Manila with his fleet, England, France, German, and Japan Navies were like vultures...
I remember there was talk about ancient statues of Ganesh and other ancient sites being newly discovered in the Philippines. Can anyone plz tell me where in...
Did Bismarck squadron then had the same flagship, the mighty battleship Bismarck of W.W.II fame? Was Hitler's favorite battleship that historic already that's...
Anybody here has some details on ancient Filipino undergarments or any idea at all? Maybe it wasn't necessary here in the tropics unlike in temperate to cold...
At the time USA was the only one with the most modern Navy, having been modernized, German Navy was on its way out(in technology like the rest of Europe) but...
jed, like you, i visit my ancestral "fields of green" - romblon islands which boast of three indigenous languages: romblomanon, unhan and asi. asi is my...
I have a similar sentiment as a Kapampangan. I could probably count the number of Kapampangans I know who can read & write the dialect well. A lot of people...
Thanks. Never thought of the word 'salawal' that I failed to ask directly. Most probably people were already wearing undergarments when they got here just that...
Yes, this is interesting. Did the Germans had Korea or any stronghold here early in the 20th century? Japanese occupied Shanghai maybe? But that's after WW I...
May I be enlightened on this subject: why is federalism the answer to (what I think is a self-proclaimed) linguistic crisis which I see as a lobotomy to get...
Let me put some color on this thread. Rainbow we call "bahag ng hari"- bahag if bahagi ng bayag is alibata but hari is Arabic, unless you are kapampangan...
I guess they were successful in their indoctrination of you... you keep calling Kapampangan a dialect when it's really a language. We have dealt with this ...
I odn't think Filipinos wear any at all before the turn of the century, except for those who has some money. There is such a thing as a wrap around for men,...
Except for Thailand and Japan, Asia was pretty much under some colonial power, including the small islands in the pacific. China although supposedly under...