Ángeles and San Fernando Cities, and Pampanga Province [Archive] - Page 7

overtureph

August 19th, 2007, 07:26 AM

Sunday, March 04, 2007
PAINTINGS TO REMIND US OF JAPANESE CRUELTIES IN WORLD WAR II

John L. Silva
(Unpublished, written April 2005)

Recently, the Office of the Solicitor General filed before the Supreme Court a 37-page memorandum arguing that the Philippine Government was correct in denying assistance to “comfort women” the term used for the tens of thousands of Filipina women who were forced into sex slavery by the Japanese Imperial Government in World War II.

Citing two treaties the Philippines has signed with Japan which supposedly waives all claims for compensation, the Philippine Government has become a party to Japan’s long-standing refusal to officially apologize and compensate comfort women in this country as well as other formerly colonized countries in Asia.

The Solicitor General will be enlightened if he makes a visit to the National Museum’s current temporary exhibition entitled Figurations of Art. Along with other artifacts and paintings on display are three very profound paintings that will remind him and this government that we were once at war with Japan, had resisted bravely, suffered three years of occupation and subjected to a debauchery of violence upon their retreat.

The most disturbing and largest of the paintings is Diosdado Lorenzo’s Rape and Massacre in Ermita. The former head of the University of Santo Tomas Fine Arts Department painted it in 1947 at a time when the country was still reeling from the shock of the over 100,000 men women, and children slaughtered, bayoneted, and senselessly butchered in Manila in February 1945. The pain was so intense that many, to survive psychically, buried these events in the deepest recesses of their minds for many years. My generation had parents who were teenagers during the war and whenever they were asked about those times, spoke little and with much reluctance.

Lorenzo’s painting portraying two Japanese soldiers raping and killing family members in an Ermita home depicted a common horror not just in Manila neighborhoods but throughout many parts of the country. A young girl in the foreground is already dead from stab wounds, while another young girl with long hair in the background is naked and wounded. The husband has just been bayoneted. The wife struggling with a Japanese soldier clutching a knife, her breasts exposed, is about to be raped and murdered. A crying baby in a crib is a foreboding sign. There were countless stories by World War II survivors who saw Japanese soldiers flinging babies into the air and thrusting them with bayonets as they fell to earth. An altar with dangling rosaries is set on one side, mute and helpless. A tropical foliage seen from an open window vainly hides the fire and terror occurring outside.

Dominador Castaneda’s work, entitled Doomed Family is of a different intensity but harrowing as well. Done in 1945, this oil on canvas has the feel of a silent scream. A mother lays dead; her long hair on the floor simulates blood. A lifeless father is bound in rope, his bloodied back mercilessly whipped. A child, still alive and tied, has her mouth open emitting perhaps a frightened helpless wail. One cannot tell if they are depicted in a home or in a cell. Their doom in the dark is the only certainty.

A third painting related to World War II is entitled Capas by Demetrio Diego, a distinguished painter and former chief artist for the Sunday Times Magazine. It depicts the slow and agonizing death of Filipino prisoners-of-war in a Tarlac internment camp. The prisoner in the center seems to check on his companion’s condition beside him. The act is noble but futile. A man seated at the foot of the bamboo bed is malnourished and ready to die.

Exhibition curator Patrick Flores’ choice of these three paintings was a conscious and apt decision on the museum’s part as a 60th anniversary remembrance of the liberation of the Philippines. They loudly echo, in the midst of national silence, the vigorous protests in China and Korea over the Japanese Government’s decision in April of this year to distribute Junior high-school textbooks revising Japanese military history in World War II. One of many revisions in the textbooks is the total deletion of the sufferings of comfort women hired by the Japanese Imperial Army in Asia to sexually service its troops during the war.

The Chinese and Korean Governments have also protested the continued visits of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and members of Parliament to the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo where the 2.5 million military dead are revered as gods in the Shinto religion. This includes Class-A war criminals who ordered the rape and killing of civilians For many years, out of deference to the war, the former and current Japanese Emperor as well as a string of prime ministers did not set foot on Yasukuni Shrine. Prime Minister Koizumi and his rightist legislators have revived the practice and have seriously jeopardized relations between Japan and the Korean and Chinese Governments.

The Yasukuni Shrine has a museum recasting World War II as the Greater East Asian War, with Japan at the lead liberating the colonies of Asia and fighting western imperialism. The Philippines is included in their “liberation gallery” and Filipino personalities such as Artemio Ricarte, Benigno Ramos, and Presidents Emilio Aguinaldo and Jose P. Laurel are extolled as “…cooperating with the Japanese Military.” As expected, there is no mention of Filipino guerrilla resistance, the cowardly murder of Filipino and American prisoners of war, the countless civilian deaths and the sufferings of the comfort women.

The revising of Japanese military history and the forgetting of past brutalities are pathetically being spawned in this country by Filipinos themselves. A statue of a Kamikaze pilot almost identical to the one at the entrance of the Yasukuni museum has been erected, with the town mayor’s consent, in Mabalacat, Pampanga to commemorate, with ahistorical insouciance, the founding of a Kamikaze airfield there. In the last elections, markers and shrines in tribute to Bataan Death Marchers were pasted over with the campaign posters of Vice-Presidential Candidate Noli De Castro. Just the sight of thousands of Japanese male tourists today arm-in-arm with Filipino prostitutes and the continued export of “entertainers” to Japan, it’s hardly surprising that the comfort woman issue gets no support from a government whose president purports to be a “feminist” and a pious Catholic.

The remembering of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Philippines has gotten its share of re-enactments, bronze plaques, long-winded speeches and hollow celebrations from this government, the United States, and even that of Japan. But it is the personal recountings, painted on canvas, written on paper, or orally told, that evokes the deepest sentiments of recoil, recollection, and understanding. The most meaningful way to appreciate our yearly celebration of sovereignty is to remember those who suffered - like the comfort woman - for our country, and maintain our collective umbrage until they receive the compensation and official apology long due them.

Posted by John Silva at 3:48 PM

http://johnsilva.blogspot.com/2007/03/paintings-to-remind-us-of-japanese.html

portludlow

August 19th, 2007, 10:18 AM

Time for a new thread. :) Continue on thread IV.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=14866703#post14866703

portludlow

August 19th, 2007, 10:34 AM

^^ Oooops, I thought its only up to 500. :lol:

tisoycuba

August 19th, 2007, 12:44 PM

updated naman sa mga development dyan sa pampanga, like new construction building ..thanks po!

tisoycuba

August 19th, 2007, 03:21 PM

Time for a new thread. :) Continue on thread IV.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=14866703#post14866703

dapat yun thread IV may picture nang capitol of pampanga at angeles city hall,kasi ANGELES and PAMPANGA thread ito tol:) kung pwde po :cheers: at sana pati mga school sa pampanga ang kulit nohhhhhhh:) thanks @portludlow

chocolato1000

August 19th, 2007, 04:35 PM

sure, we suffered a lot. But that what happens in a war right? did we forget of the attrocities suddenly? no, i don't feel so...so how come we don't rant like the chinese? because, innate in a filipino is to forgive.

and when we forgive do we still let our past drag us behind? look at the chinese' and koreans whom until today nurse the pain of the war. result? is a bitter unforgiveness. obviously this hinders them to co-operate in many areas.

one message - we have learnt the evils of war, and with that we have to forgive and move on. coz trust me, issues of war never ends.:)

zelrich82

August 19th, 2007, 09:29 PM

this part of the venue evolved:?

zelrich82

August 19th, 2007, 09:31 PM

^^ Oooops, I thought its only up to 500. :lol:

what is the limit:?

tisoycuba

August 20th, 2007, 10:07 PM

wala paba updated sa Q Shopping Mall at Marquee place subdi. updated naman:) picture ba :cheers: sa development of construction..thanks po!!

portludlow

August 20th, 2007, 10:10 PM

what is the limit:?

1000 posts per mod Sinjin. :)

TheAvenger

August 21st, 2007, 01:24 PM

Sun.Star: Angeles City -- The death mask of the late senator Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr., done by National Artist Napoleon Abueva hours before the hero was buried 24 years ago, is on exhibit at the Holy Angel University's Center for Kapampangan Studies.

The article was posted Tuesday as the country marked the anniversary of the assassination of Aquino, which happened on Aug. 21, 1983.

The exiled senator and opposition leader was killed at the tarmac of the Manila International Airport - later renamed in his honor - upon his return to the country from exile during the Marcos regime.

"They both have Kapampangan blood. Ninoy was a full-blooded Kapampangan from Concepcion, Tarlac while Poe's maternal grandmother was a Kapampangan from Candaba," Tantingco said.

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/56964/Ninoy-FPJ-death-masks-on-exhibit-at-HAU-Kapampangan-Center

zelrich82

August 23rd, 2007, 02:46 AM

1000 posts per mod Sinjin. :)

half way there, medyo malayo pa.

portludlow

August 25th, 2007, 07:01 PM

i find this interesting with globe asiatique president delfin lee talking about real estate in angeles city and pampanga.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zRE-JXMJHUw

zRE-JXMJHUw

tisoycuba

August 26th, 2007, 11:26 AM

updated naman sa development sa enclave angeles city plssssss

Sinjin P.

August 28th, 2007, 08:28 AM

The latest on Q Shopping

http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/9920/qshoppingvp1.jpg

overtureph

August 29th, 2007, 08:45 AM

are there any other shrines (spanish or american) similar to this one anywhere in the philippines? tanong lo lang po.
i don't agree with this shrine, kaso naitayo na; if you try to remove it - mas malaking gulo.
i guess we gave them bragging rights as to how they destroyed the people who were trying to help the philippines from being permanently conquered, they are bragging about how they destroyed all those vessels who were attempting to remove them; di ba? or am i reading that memorial wrong?
seems like it's all about money, tourism; anything to make a buck...:ohno:
it was a research done by the local tourism office / a WWII reseacher, he seems proud of verifying how the help for the filipino people was delayed by these noble fighters who had one thing in their minds - and that's to make sure the filipino people were not liberated. where is the pride in that... just a thought.:cheers:

If we don't try to protest and have it removed, then it is an act of cowardice, o kaduwagan. Let other nations mock and blaspheme the memory of our heroes and those who fought and died for our country in our own land.

Besides there is no direct proof and assurance "na mas malaki ang gulo" if we remove this Kamikaze shrine. And if the consequence is mas malaking gulo, we have the prerogative and we are within our rights to have it remove.

It is an act of resignation, apathy and defeat to say " kaso naitayo na; if you try to remove it - mas malaking gulo".

overtureph

August 29th, 2007, 08:48 AM

I am posting this article from the column of Conrado de Quiros. It is my belief that these are the reasons why such an act as erecting a shrine to the Kamikaze was done right here in our own country.

THERE’S THE RUB
Museum

By Conrado de Quiros
Inquirer
Last updated 02:39am (Mla time) 08/29/2007

There’s a part in Gabriel García Márquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude” where the residents of the village of Macondo begin suffering from an affliction of forgetfulness. Not just amnesia or loss of memory but total blackout. They forget the use of household articles and even their names. To help them recall what they are and what they do, they attach labels to them. But soon they forget the meanings of the words themselves and the letters that form them.

I leave the reader to learn what happens afterward. But I remembered it after I read about the Bantayog ng mga Bayani now having a museum that houses memorabilia about martial law, including a reproduction of the cells that held the people who fought it. It’s not exactly Madame Tussaud’s House of Wax, there are only life-sized photographs of Ferdinand Marcos and Jose Diokno in lieu of lifelike wax figurines of Torquemada and Joan of Arc, but it does a creditable job of showing a horrific part of our history. Beats any tent of horror in a traveling "perya" [circus].

I remembered Márquez particularly in light of one thing. The point of the museum, as Carolina Malay points out, is to help our youth remember one of the darkest moments of our past and make sure it doesn’t happen again. “It’s not their fault that they don’t have memories of martial law. It’s up to us, their parents, to show them something about martial law and impart lessons to them.” That is admirable, except for one thing: Most of the youth, and adults, of this country don’t remember Bantayog ng mga Bayani [Monument of Heroes]. Hell, most of them don’t even know there’s one.

The word “museum” to refer to the place that houses the martial law memorabilia is not a little unkindly ironic. Museums, of course, are not the most popular places in other countries, luring only the occasional tourist or the class of a determined teacher -- hence “museum piece” to refer to forgotten, or ignored, relics -- but they are not also horrendously unpopular ones. To go by the fate of our National Museum itself, a near-magical place where our past unravels in tangible vitality before your eyes, but which drags in only the cat and bedraggled groups of people who look like they’d rather be elsewhere, museum for us doesn’t just rhyme with mausoleum, it might as well be synonymous to it.

It’s nice to have reminders, if you can remember what they mean -- or where they are.

FYI, Bantayog ng mga Bayani is in a perfectly accessible spot of this earth, which is the corner of Quezon Avenue and the Edsa highway, a stone’s throw (by a very feeble stone-thrower) from the Metro Rail Transit's Quezon Avenue station. You can do worse than spend a nice Sunday afternoon there, while the breezes blow and the sun shines, looking at the names carved on the Wall of Remembrance, which belong to those who did something heroic for us in more recent times, which claimed many of their lives, and which is why the breezes blow and the sun shines for us today. You can do even worse than going to the National Museum itself and bathing in the waters of the past, which flow copiously into the present.

In this light, I’d like to repeat the suggestion I made a couple of weeks ago on how to improve our education by leaps and bounds, which is to emphasize history. My other suggestion, of course, is to line up the crooks that steal education money at the Luneta and make them history. I do think that Bantayog ng mga Bayani, the National Museum and their kind are beacons in a windswept sea, but I don’t know why we should always flounder in the storm when we can sail in balmy weather. This country’s inability to remember martial law is but a drop of water in the deep well that is this country’s inability to remember what went before. Jason Bourne at least was determined to recover his past, Juan de la Cruz isn’t. We’re a rudderless country drifting aimlessly in the present.

My suggestion comes from my own experience, which I’ve told readers countless times over the past 20 years. (Come to think of it, this column will be 20 years before the end of this year!) That is that when I began devouring books on Philippine history in my college years, flailed on by the activism of my time, I had the sensation of having my eyes opened after being blind all my life. I read “Noli” and “Fili” outside of class, not inside it, out of dogged curiosity and not out of abject assignment, and saw Rizal climb down from his monument in Luneta and join our “dg” (discussion group) as it was called at the time. It was the first time I felt a sense of home, it was the first time I got to know who I was (you’ll never know who you are until you know who you were). It was the first time I felt proud to be a Filipino.

We want to produce citizens with idealism and purpose, I don’t know anything more guaranteed to do it than to make the kids read history. By whatever means, the classroom being the least of them. I’ve always said that if I were to run for president of this country (I really should apply for it given that the position is vacant), I’ll have only three things on my agenda: food, history and education. The first should take care of the present, the second of the past, the third of the future. None of those elements is dispensable. We need all three to survive, we need all three to flourish.

Of the three, teaching history is what we most need to do because it is what we most lack. That (and, yes, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo) is what’s producing the mammoth ills we see today, not least history repeating itself. Not least the little shop of horrors in the Bantayog museum spilling over into our lives again today. The past is Ariadne’s thread leading out of the Minotaur’s cave. We don’t have a past, we won’t have a future.

We’ll just be, well, a museum or mausoleum, take your pick.

http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view_article.php?article_id=85263

zelrich82

August 29th, 2007, 09:22 AM

If we don't try to protest and have it removed, then it is an act of cowardice, o kaduwagan. Let other nations mock and blaspheme the memory of our heroes and those who fought and died for our country in our own land.

Besides there is no direct proof and assurance "na mas malaki ang gulo" if we remove this Kamikaze shrine. And if the consequence is mas malaking gulo, we have the prerogative and we are within our rights to have it remove.

It is an act of resignation, apathy and defeat to say " kaso naitayo na; if you try to remove it - mas malaking gulo".

point taken, i'm not trying to pick a fight or have a debate; you've said your peace and i've said mine. i'm on your side, i'm not resigning - 'coz i'm not fighting them; i'm just stating what i think. if you can do something to have the shrine in mabalacat removed, i'm all for it; go for it. i didn't intend to make you agitated with that comment i made, it was simply talk. you are within you rights to rebel against this shrine, and if it turns out the shrine is removed - then my hats off to you. salud...

tisoycuba

August 29th, 2007, 11:22 AM

updated naman sa marquee place angeles:) debate na ang lumabas :lol:

Animo

August 30th, 2007, 08:36 AM

ANGELES CITY -- Pampanga Provincial Board (PB) Resolution 945, which gives recognition to the Spanish missionaries' role in the province's history and culture, was officially presented to the Spanish government and the Order of Saint Augustine during the launching of two translated Kapampangan books recently.

The Spanish Embassy's Head of Missions and Chargé d'Affairs Alvaro Trejo, Vicar of the Orient Rev. Fr. William Araña, and San Agustin Museum director Fr. Pedro Galende received a framed copy of the resolution inside the San Agustin Church in Intramuros, Manila.

The resolution, drafted by the Holy Angel University's (HAU) Center for Kapampangan Studies and sponsored by Board Members Catalina Bagasina and Karl Domingo, was presented by San Fernando Archbishop Paciano Aniceto, HAU president Arlyn Villanueva, and Provincial Tourism Officer Paolo Mejia, who represented Governor Eddie Panlilio during the event.

With the resolution, Pampanga became the first province in the Philippines to officially thank the Spanish missionaries for their role in history and culture.

Among those who witnessed the event were Kapampangan luminaries chairman Ambeth Ocampo of the National Historical Institute (NHI) and National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), former solicitor general Estelito Mendoza, former NHI chairperson Serafin Quiason, Professor Randy David, lawyer Dante David, Martin de Jesus, Gang Gomez, PhilamLife chief executive officer Verne Quazon, Angeles Electric president Peter Nepomuceno, Professor Albina Peczon Fernandez, Dr. Salve Olalia, Andy Alviz, Tonette Orejas, Tom Joven, Epifanio Paras and members of the media and academe.

The two auxiliary bishops of San Fernando, Roberto Mallari and Pablo David, also came.

Prominent non-Kapampangans who attended the affair included Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF) chairman Ricardo Nolasco, Malacañang Museum director Jeremy Barnes, linguists Anicia del Corro and Consuelo Paz, topnotch lawyer Ramon Pedrosa, Dr. Bernardita Churchill of the Philippine National Historical Society, NCCA commissioner Alfred Gabot, Professor Nilo Ocampo and representatives of bookstores.

The highlight of the occasion was the launching of 18th-century Kapampangan books, a dictionary and a grammar, written by Spanish missionary Fray Diego Bergaño, which have been translated by Kapampangan priests Fr. Venancio Samson and Fr. Edilberto Santos and published by HAU.

A high mass, concelebrated by Pampanga bishops and clergymen as well as Spanish Augustinians, was held before the book launching inside the San Agustin Church, reputed to be the oldest colonial church in the country. The HAU Chorale sang Latin hymns while the readings were all in Kapampangan.

In his homily, Aniceto cited Kapampangan pioneers in the church, including the country's first priests, first nuns, first native members of religious orders like the Jesuits and the Augustinians. He made special mention of Phelippe Sonsong of Macabebe, whose cause for beatification is being facilitated by the archdiocese and the Center for Kapampangan Studies.

HAU president Arlyn Villanueva's opening remarks focused on the enduring legacy of the Augustinians in Pampanga, manifested in Kapampangans' deep religiosity and their excessive respect for their priests and religious leaders. She said the governor's victory in the past elections is a reflection of Kapampangans' high regard for the clergy.

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/pam/2007/08/30/news/pb.cites.spanish.envoys.role.in.pampanga.history.culture.html

dancethingy

August 30th, 2007, 08:56 AM

I love how that inquirer opinion blames GMA completely on why Filipinos aren't being taught history

tisoycuba

August 30th, 2007, 09:55 AM

whippersnapper

August 30th, 2007, 01:18 PM

may PWU ba sa angeles city??

TheAvenger

August 30th, 2007, 02:37 PM

welcome to the new thread museum and kamikazi shrine,napalitan na pala itong angeles and pampanga thread...saan na kaya si tol @avenger,si tol @avenger lang pala ang makakapagbigay nang updated dyan sa pampanga..tolllllllll saan kana!

actually hindi ko pa rin makita ang sinasabi mong marquee ... sa loob ba ng subdivision sa may Mountain View yaon. pero yaong camera ko ay nahiram noong sister in-law ko, baka sa next week pa ibabalik.

@whippersnapper ......... yes there is a PWU extension school in Angeles City, located on the Angeles-Magalang Road (yaong street na pag dineretso mo ay dead-end ang Angeles Catholic Church)

tisoycuba

August 30th, 2007, 08:52 PM

@avenger.if u goin to magalang,right side sya before nlex bridge..former springside farm !

overtureph

August 30th, 2007, 11:56 PM

welcome to the new thread museum and kamikazi shrine,napalitan na pala itong angeles and pampanga thread...saan na kaya si tol @avenger,si tol @avenger lang pala ang makakapagbigay nang updated dyan sa pampanga..tolllllllll saan kana!

Teka lang, tingin ako ng mapa ng Pampanga. Ang Mabalacat pala parte pa rin ng Pampanga. Teka tingnan ko yung heading nung thread...... Angeles and Pampanga pala yung thread. Kasi kung Angeles lang yung thread, baka mispost yung Kamikaze Shrine at yung museum article. Kaso nakalagay sa thread Angeles and Pampanga. Hindi naman Angeles lang o kaya Whats new in Angeles and Pampanga thread.

So sa madaling salita, yung puedeng i-post dito ay kahit ano na related sa Pampanga province. Unles mali yung heading ng thread na ito.

tisoycuba

August 31st, 2007, 12:13 AM

overtureph

August 31st, 2007, 03:28 AM

Try reading the reason why I posted the article. It's above the article itself. Peace! Let's move on. This is beginning to be trivial.

portludlow

August 31st, 2007, 04:07 AM

welcome to the new thread museum and kamikazi shrine,napalitan na pala itong angeles and pampanga thread...saan na kaya si tol @avenger,si tol @avenger lang pala ang makakapagbigay nang updated dyan sa pampanga..tolllllllll saan kana!

OK lang yan dre, maraming ma-icocontribute sina @overtureph @animo at iba pang nagpo-post dito sa lalawigan ng pampanga. Masigasig sila sa pag-siyasat sa larangan ng cultura ng iba-ibang probinsya. Di ba ang forum ay para sa ating lahat? :)

portludlow

August 31st, 2007, 04:16 AM

updated naman sa marquee place angeles:) debate na ang lumabas :lol:

Wala pang masyadong balita dito. Ang alam ko maraming bumili dito at tinaasan nilang masyado ang presyo :ohno: 8K per SQ dahil sa napakaraming nagkainteres bumili. Matagal pa bago makapagtatayo ng bahay dahil nasa first phase palang sila ng construction. Ang natapos pa lang ay yung gate.:)

TheAvenger

August 31st, 2007, 06:17 AM

@avenger.if u goin to magalang,right side sya before nlex bridge..former springside farm !

a doon ba .... cge next time pag nadaan ako doon.

whippersnapper

August 31st, 2007, 01:12 PM

actually hindi ko pa rin makita ang sinasabi mong marquee ... sa loob ba ng subdivision sa may Mountain View yaon. pero yaong camera ko ay nahiram noong sister in-law ko, baka sa next week pa ibabalik.

@whippersnapper ......... yes there is a PWU extension school in Angeles City, located on the Angeles-Magalang Road (yaong street na pag dineretso mo ay dead-end ang Angeles Catholic Church)

ah ok tnx... sana magka lasalle o kya ateneo din sa pampanga... hehehe

overtureph

September 4th, 2007, 04:04 AM

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a89/overtureph/pampanga%20bacolor1/Bacolor/edit.jpg

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a89/overtureph/pampanga%20bacolor1/Bacolor/edit8363.jpg

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a89/overtureph/pampanga%20bacolor1/Bacolor/edit8364.jpg

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http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a89/overtureph/pampanga%20bacolor1/Bacolor/edit8359.jpg

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a89/overtureph/pampanga%20bacolor1/Bacolor/edit8362.jpg

Photos by overtureph.

defUSED_bOi

September 4th, 2007, 06:56 AM

The latest on Q Shopping

http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/9920/qshoppingvp1.jpg

sa pampanga ba ito itatayo? ayala mall?
tnx!

defUSED_bOi

September 4th, 2007, 07:06 AM

I was watching TFC, and there was an interview on a guy being cruxifixed. I mean, wtf, that is really rude. The should be praying instead of being interviewed. :ohno: I hate the imitations.

Thanks for the pics @TheAvenger!

@portludlow: Eto ang mga puni sa Mabalacat. (Pics from last year)

Talimundok Phase I (South)(My neighborhood)
http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/6358/talimundokphase1hg9.jpg

Talimundok Phase II (North)
http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/1070/talimundokphase2in3.jpg

Dela Cruz
http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/6099/delacruzkf5.jpg

kakamis ang pabasa sa amin sa pampanga.
there's only one line sa pabasa sa amen na lagi kong naririnig tuwing mahal na araw mula noong bata pako. it goes like this...

"AY AY NAKU, NAKU AY AY"

seryoso! haha!

tisoycuba

September 4th, 2007, 12:09 PM

sa pampanga ba ito itatayo? ayala mall?
tnx!

sa angeles city ito itatayu ang ayala mall:)

tisoycuba

September 4th, 2007, 12:19 PM

mahal na araw na pala!!!

OtAkAw

September 4th, 2007, 04:49 PM

^^Diba late yung pics? Anyway magpapasko na! Kanina sa Pisambang Maragul sa Angeles may mga Bibingka and Puto Bumbong na, bumili ako tuloy.

zelrich82

September 4th, 2007, 05:30 PM

^^ now that i truly miss, the puto bumbong. iba talaga when it's locally made, pag di gawa sa pilipinas mismo (freshly made) nag-iiba ang lasa (not good at all).:cheers:

overtureph

September 6th, 2007, 06:38 AM

For me the church of (San Guillermo) Bacolor, Pampanga is a great symbol of faith, determination and perseverance of it's town's folks.

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a89/overtureph/pampanga%20bacolor1/P7022248.jpg

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Pre-lahar photo of the church at the museum besides the church (the old convento)

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They said that they excavated the altar from the lahar and is now being used again in the church. Maybe Ivan Henares can share some info about this. Photo also from the museum.

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This is a beautiful large crucifix from the church but I don't know if it's an antique and was originally part of the church.

Photos by overtureph.

lightsaber46

September 6th, 2007, 07:21 AM

Ask ko lang if anyone has update sa construction ng Angeles University Foundation, kelan ba completion nito???

overtureph

September 7th, 2007, 06:35 AM

INQUIRER NORTHERN LUZON
Pampanga honors Augustinian legacies

By Tonette Orejas
Inquirer
Last updated 10:30pm (Mla time) 09/04/2007

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO – Kapampangans filled the San Agustin Church and its nearby museum in Intramuros, Manila, on the night of Aug. 24 to pay tribute to Augustinian missionaries who had sailed from there to Pampanga 435 years ago and influenced the natives’ character, culture and history.

As they stood on the same grounds where some of those 100 friars lived and trained, they bridged the time, seeing past and present connections between Fray Juan Gallegos, who set foot in Lubao in 1572, and far, far, far down time when Fr. Eddie Panlilio, who finished theology at the St. Augustine Major Seminary, was elected governor in 2007.

“Holy ground,” was how Dr. Arlyn Villanueva, president of the Holy Angel University, called the event’s venue.

By the way the tribute and the celebration of continuing collaboration turned out, it was apparent the people wanted to remember the Augustinian fathers beyond their white robes and emblems of a flaming heart.

Their “enduring legacies” are the Roman Catholic faith and values, heritage churches and architectural knowledge, schools and education initiatives, publications that chronicled the language and culture, ecclesiastical arts and culinary tradition, said San Fernando Archbishop Paciano Aniceto at the Mass he celebrated with Bishop Roberto Mallari and eight priests.

Other legacies are the archival documents, the solidarity of friars with the faithful in times of wars, calamities and epidemics, the opening of roads, and their engineering attempts to provide irrigation to farmers.

The extent of the Augustinians’ work and the breadth of their influence spoke of the fervor with which the pioneers lived out the dictum of their founder, St. Augustine, that “our hearts are restless until they rest in (God),” said Fray Francisco Musni, archivist and researcher of the HAU’s Center for Kapampangan Studies, which organized the tribute.

Aniceto said the Archdiocese of San Fernando was “most profoundly grateful for the gift of faith” because it steeled the people in adverse times like Mt. Pinatubo’s 1991 eruptions and the lahar flows that followed.

That gift, he said, flourished because several Kapampangan, like Rufino Cardinal Santos, the first Filipino cardinal, became church pioneers themselves.

In gratitude, the provincial board presented a copy of Resolution No. 945 to Fr. William Araña, OSA, vicar of the Orient of the Philippines, Augustinian Province, and to Alvaro Trejo, charge d’affaires of the Spanish Embassy.

The resolution gives “due recognition and honor to the friar missionaries of the Calced Order of Saint Augustine for their pioneering efforts in Pampanga and for their role in the preservation of the culture.”

That made Pampanga, the first and last Augustinian territory in Luzon until 1960, to be the “first province in the Philippines to officially thank the Spanish missionaries who labored in the country during colonial times,” said Robby Tantingco, the center’s executive director.

One of the high points was the launch of the English translations of Fray Diego Bergaño’s two books, the “Arte de la Lengua Pampanga” (1729 Kapampangan Grammar) and the “Vocabulario de Pampango” (1732 Kapampangan Dictionary).

Bergaño and his collaborator then, Don Juan Zuñiga of Mexico town, managed to reach out to the present through the translations of Fr. Edilberto Santos and Fr. Venancio Samson.

Copyright 2007 Inquirer. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/regions/view_article.php?article_id=86675

tisoycuba

September 7th, 2007, 12:25 PM

wala lang!

ivanhenares

September 7th, 2007, 07:34 PM

INQUIRER NORTHERN LUZON
Pampanga honors Augustinian legacies

In gratitude, the provincial board presented a copy of Resolution No. 945 to Fr. William Araña, OSA, vicar of the Orient of the Philippines, Augustinian Province, and to Alvaro Trejo, charge d’affaires of the Spanish Embassy.

I'm very, very disappointed with the provincial government of Pampanga with regard to this event. I was at the book launching and there was no official (no Among Ed, no Yeng Guiao or board member). Imagine, during the turnover of the resolution to the Augustinian vicar and the Spanish ambassador, it was the OIC tourism officer who represented the province! Talk about respect for protocol. :ohno:

overtureph

September 8th, 2007, 04:56 AM

I'm very, very disappointed with the provincial government of Pampanga with regard to this event. I was at the book launching and there was no official (no Among Ed, no Yeng Guiao or board member). Imagine, during the turnover of the resolution to the Augustinian vicar and the Spanish ambassador, it was the OIC tourism officer who represented the province! Talk about respect for protocol. :ohno:

Don't be surprised Ivan. History and culture ranks very low in our policies and priorities even in our national consciousness.

The tourism office and the municipality of Mabalacat even erected and allowed a monument/shrine to a Kamikaze pilot. What the h*** is that? If that isn't distorted then I don't know what is.

And to drive the point even further, I'll post the pics of the museum besides the church of Bacolor. Try visiting the place and see the multiple holes on the roof.

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Holes on the roof of the museum besides San Guillermo church, Bacolor.

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Photos by overtureph/bogs.

overtureph

September 8th, 2007, 05:01 AM

Carrozas and andas left outside or being kept outside the old convent (museum) of San Guillermo church, Bacolor, Pampanga.

I don't know if these are antiques and if they are, they are poorly stored or sheltered.

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Photos by overtureph/bogs.

tisoycuba

September 8th, 2007, 05:27 AM

ganoon ba!

diz

September 8th, 2007, 09:31 AM

ew spiders. damn provincial government of mine.

tisoycuba

September 9th, 2007, 02:42 AM

sino kaya makapagbibigay nang updated development dyan sa pampanga, yun mga ginagawa po like construction building at saka mabalacat near future city of mabalacat, sa city of angels naman sa fields ave. sa Gold Nile building meron na sila slot machine and soon poker game added to the machine.Welcome to a touch of las vegas in ANGELES CITY...

zelrich82

September 9th, 2007, 06:48 PM

Don't be surprised Ivan. History and culture ranks very low in our policies and priorities even in our national consciousness.

The tourism office and the municipality of Mabalacat even erected and allowed a monument/shrine to a Kamikaze pilot. What the h*** is that? If that isn't distorted then I don't know what is.

And to drive the point even further, I'll post the pics of the museum besides the church of Bacolor. Try visiting the place and see the multiple holes on the roof.

that is kinda sad :ohno: when they create a new so-called historical museum like the kamikaze shrine, and they wouldn't even shell out some funds to restore or at the very least fix the roofs on these original meseums that depicts the true history of pampanga. those carrozas looked antique to me, they should keep them indoors - away from the elements

ivanhenares

September 10th, 2007, 11:02 AM

Don't be surprised Ivan. History and culture ranks very low in our policies and priorities even in our national consciousness.

The tourism office and the municipality of Mabalacat even erected and allowed a monument/shrine to a Kamikaze pilot. What the h*** is that? If that isn't distorted then I don't know what is.

And to drive the point even further, I'll post the pics of the museum besides the church of Bacolor. Try visiting the place and see the multiple holes on the roof.

Holes on the roof of the museum besides San Guillermo church, Bacolor.

I beg to disagree on this one Bogs. In Pampanga, history and culture is a priority. Which is why I was disappointed with that event in particular. And I wasn't the only one because we have high expectations of our local officials when it comes to culture. I would not have even bothered to comment if it was still Lapid there. In San Fernando alone, history and culture is embodied in two points of the mayor's 8-point agenda.

Mabalacat is a different story. Let their tourism officer fry in hell with the kamikazes.

ivanhenares

September 10th, 2007, 11:06 AM

that is kinda sad :ohno: when they create a new so-called historical museum like the kamikaze shrine, and they wouldn't even shell out some funds to restore or at the very least fix the roofs on these original meseums that depicts the true history of pampanga. those carrozas looked antique to me, they should keep them indoors - away from the elements

Bacolor Church is the property of the Roman Catholic Church. Government officials don't want the Commission on Audit after their necks. There is a prohibition for the use of government funds to favor the properties of any religious group if I remember it right since there were plans to fix the plaza (church patio) of San Fernando. But there were complications due to COA rules. And there's also the part that the church may not be willing to accept government donations. The clergy are very territorial. And this has happened and continues to happen.

You can ask Tom Joven about their plans there. I'm sure the carrozas are being restored. Let's ask the people involved before we assume that nothing has been done or is being done.

zelrich82

September 10th, 2007, 09:27 PM

^^ got it, separation of church and state; happens everywhere.
my curiousity is just running wild there, it is a museum (if i'm right) that's why i kinda hinted local gov. to assist; but if the church is solely responsible for it - o.k. lang. i just hope they don't wait too long as far doing the rennovations/restorations, kasi those holes didn't seem like they all appeared just recently and all at the same time (at least i hope not); don't mind me - i'm just thinking out loud.

and i think the japanese funded that shrine, kaya sya maayos; and it is new.

can't the church do a self help type of thing, where the local residents would create a volunteer group and do the repairs? there's gotta be some well-to-do catholic families around Bacolor to pitch in for the materials. just a thought... :cheers:

overtureph

September 11th, 2007, 12:18 AM

tisoycuba

September 12th, 2007, 01:07 AM

sino kaya ang taga pampanga na masipag makapagbigay nang updated :) like yun mga construction updated sa pampanga:cheers: with picture hah:) thanks po!

zelrich82

September 12th, 2007, 09:07 AM

tisoycuba

September 15th, 2007, 05:16 PM

saan na kayu :ohno: updated naman dyan sa pampanga about the development of the province at sa angeles city like ayala mall or Q Shopping mall :) salamat !

tisoycuba

September 16th, 2007, 11:27 AM

baka hanggang thread 3 lang itong angeles city and pampanga thread..wala na masipag magbigay nang updated dyan sa pampanga eh!!

OtAkAw

September 16th, 2007, 02:23 PM

^^Yung AUF Medical Tower nasa 4th floor na! :)

ivanhenares

September 17th, 2007, 06:15 AM

^^ From my brief experience with heritage conservation which happens to be church property, it is difficult (on a certain degree) to work with the clergy. They seem to have a certain mindset and Ivan is right, they strike me as being territorial. They too would not want to seek assistance from the government.

Bogs, I forgot to add that Bishop Ambo David is pushing for preservation of heritage among the clergy in Pampanga. They are in the process of restoring the Archdiocesan Chancery (the former home of Don Luis Dison). I heard they already removed those ugly windows which used to cover the charming balconies of the home. The Archdiocesan Commission for the Cultural Heritage of the Church will soon be set up. So there is hope. And once the commission is there, you can forward to them concerns such as the Bacolor Church Museum.

tisoycuba

September 17th, 2007, 03:27 PM

^^Yung AUF Medical Tower nasa 4th floor na! :)
bilis yata nila noh 4 floor na :) diba hanggang 12 floor yun gagawin nila eh di 8floor na lang :cheers: @otakaw thanks sa updated hha:)

ivanhenares

September 18th, 2007, 02:29 AM

^^ Updates you mean.

tisoycuba

September 18th, 2007, 04:29 AM

o.k na yun parihas din naman eh:cheers: @ivan wala kana yata time hah missed kuna yun mga picture mo eh:)

ishtefh_03

September 18th, 2007, 02:48 PM

Busy mga tao... :D

ivanhenares

September 18th, 2007, 07:15 PM

o.k na yun parihas din naman eh:cheers: @ivan wala kana yata time hah missed kuna yun mga picture mo eh:)

Just check out my Multiply. The newest restaurant and spa destination in Pampanga, Abe's Farm in Magalang, at the foothills of Mt. Arayat:
http://ivanhenares.multiply.com/photos/album/192

zelrich82

September 19th, 2007, 12:00 AM

Busy mga tao... :D

i think natuloy ang bakasyon ni The Avenger... :cool:

zelrich82

September 19th, 2007, 12:07 AM

Just check out my Multiply. The newest restaurant and spa destination in Pampanga, Abe's Farm in Magalang, at the foothills of Mt. Arayat:
http://ivanhenares.multiply.com/photos/album/192

can they do the hilot without the coconut oil, o.k. sana - i just don't like the smell of that oil. 500 bucks was the special of the day, how much na ang regular rate nila.:)

ivanhenares

September 19th, 2007, 03:06 AM

I guess you can request that. The regular rate of Nurture Spa is between P1000 to P1500 most probably.

tisoycuba

September 19th, 2007, 01:26 PM

akala ko mga ano na,hindi pala. mga taga cabalen musta na development dyan sa atin,dami na ba bago construction on goin,balita naman dyan plssssssss!

lightsaber46

September 21st, 2007, 03:51 AM

bat walang pumapasok sa email ko ng daily udates??? on this thread and other thread??

tisoycuba

September 21st, 2007, 05:38 AM

wala pa:ohno: tamad na yata hah:cheers: wala lang:cheers:

portludlow

September 23rd, 2007, 09:06 AM

Formula 1 Circuit in RP?
San Miguel Corp., Renowned Engineering Firm to Build World-Standard Track in Angeles City
BusinessMirror
September 20, 2007

The Philippines may soon realize its dream of hosting international car racing events with the proposed construction of a world-standard F1 Circuit in Angeles City.

This was revealed by Filipino racing legend and Marcelo Group of Companies chairman Eddie Marcelo, who recently accompanied Rainier Buchmann, managing director of world-renowned Hermann Tilke Architectural and Engineering Ltd. and a long-time friend during the glory days of his late son Jovy Marcelo in the Indianapolis 500.

Buchmann met San Miguel Corp. president Ramon Ang and Motorsports director Boy Ochoa to survey the 2,000 hectare proposed site in Angeles City fronting the North Luzon Expressway from Angeles City to Subic.

Ang and his group of investors will be financing the project.

Hermann Tilke Architectural and Engineering Ltd. is the famous builder of most of the new F1 Circuits such as Sepang F1 Circuit, the Bahrain F1 International Circuit, the Shanghai F1 International Circuit, the Fuji F1 International Speedway, the Nurburgring Ring Circuit, the Hockenheimring Circuit, the Cancun International Circuit and 2 other tracks still under construction- the Singapore F1 International Circuit and the India F1 International Circuit.

"Ramon Ang, a long-time supporter of Philippine Motorsports has collaborated with a group of investors for the proposed world-class F1 circuit here in the Philippines and Hermann Tilke Architectural and Engineering Ltd. is very much interested in the said project. The company has the technology and the specs to pass the world racing and safety standards for a Formula One track," Marcelo said.

"If plans push through, the country may soon play host to prestigious international car racing events and possibly bid to become one of the venues of the world-renowned Formula One series. This will be a big boost to the tourism industry considering the influx of tourists coming over to watch these races, " he added.
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Sana matuloy ito at saan naman kaya itatayo??.....

portludlow

September 23rd, 2007, 09:14 AM

Pati ba naman ito naging kontrobersiyal :bash: Magpasalamat na lang at merong itatayong interchange sa Angeles City.

The politics of interchanges

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/pam/2007/09/18/oped/editorial.html
THE construction of an interchange along Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway or SCTEx is now officially a controversial one.

Over the weekend, one group composed of no less than Governor Ed Panlilio, City of San Fernando Mayor Oscar Rodriguez, business leader Rene Romero and a slew of businessmen and professionals met to make it known to all and sundry their position on the interchange issue. It is supporting strongly the proposed interchange at the Manuali portion (Porac) of SCTEx.

The particular interchange was the one approved by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and so it was aptly dubbed GMA-Porac interchange, probably to scare off others who have different proposals.

For the record, Senator Manuel Lapid has proposed the original Porac interchange, not in Manuali area, for sure, and which apparently was approved in principle by the President who mentioned it in her State of the Nation Address (Sona) last July.

Come now the honorable Secretary Edgardo Pamintuan of the Subic-Clark Alliance for Development (SCAD) and Congressman Carmelo Lazatin who have come up with another proposal for an interchange somewhere in Angeles City.

In the weekend briefing before the Panlilio-Rodriguez-Romero group, Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) chairman Narciso Abaya Jr. made it clear and certain that among the three proposed interchanges, the one likely to materialize is the one with the President’s initials on it.

And he was not simply being politically correct, although that argument counts much if not the most, even if he did not admit it.

It’s not just that the President has already issued an official directive to BCDA that the Manuali site should be where the GMA-Porac interchange should be. And Abaya has declared that he has no intention whatsoever of risking being fired by his boss for not following her instructions.

The Manuali site is the most ideal of the all the competing locations vis-à-vis the proposals of Senator Lapid and Secretary Pamintuan and Congressman Lazatin.

By ideal, he meant less cost, less technical difficulty and less of other problems that BCDA would want to face to do its job of building an interchange at SCTEx.

It doesn’t also help -- and this one did not come from Abaya but from one of the leaders of the group -- that Senator Lapid reportedly has 60 hectares near his proposed interchange. Ditto Secretary Pamintuan, who reportedly owns about 30 hectares near the Margot area where he and Congressman Lazatin would want BCDA to build an interchange.

Aside from the perceived vested interest of the proponents, the problem with the Margot proposal, is that it will compromise the building of another runway near that area for the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport.

The last has not been heard on this issue, what with the other proponents apparently bent on politically muscling their way for their favored interchanges. Somehow, building interchanges along the SCTEx, especially in the President’s home province, is too important to be left to engineers and technocrats.

Politicians want more than just being heard. They want to have the last say.

portludlow

September 23rd, 2007, 09:19 AM

Ano ba yan! :ohno: :bash: walang kita sa jueteng at ngayon gustong pakialaman ang quarry.

Pampanga mayors’ bid to control quarry tax questioned

By Tonette Orejas
Central Luzon Desk
Last updated 10:47pm (Mla time) 09/13/2007

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/regions/view_article.php?article_id=88437
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO -— A “syndicate in the offing” is what a former local official sees in the proposed ordinance of the Pampanga Mayors’ League (PML) to regulate the province’s multimillion-peso quarry industry.

The potential for monopoly is seen in a provision of proposed Ordinance No. 172 on the procurement of official receipts, said the source who did not want to be named due to possible reprisals from some mayors.

Return of scam

Section 5 of the planned measure states that “only the duly authorized representatives of the Provincial Federation of Quarry Associations shall be authorized to purchase official receipts for extraction of quarry resources from the province.”

The source, who is knowledgeable in the province’s quarry operations, said this was an attempt to return to the pre-1998 set-up when officials during the time of former governor and now Sen. Manuel “Lito” Lapid used leaders of quarry operators’ associations to collect illegal fees of P80 on top of the P40 allowed by law per truckload of sand.

The Office of the Ombudsman sued Lapid for graft and suspended him twice in 1998 and 1999. The Ombudsman withdrew the information in July 2004, prompting the Sandiganbayan to close the case.

No resolution

The Inquirer called Lubao Mayor Dennis Pineda, PML president, twice but he did not take the calls on Wednesday.

The draft ordinance was not accompanied by a resolution of the PML so it was not clear who among the mayors supported the measure.

According to the source, the proposed scrapping of the P150 administrative fee, which the provincial government spends to pay for the salaries of field personnel, will leave no funds for the provincial government to monitor the quarry industry, mainly in verifying the authenticity of the receipts and their re-use or faking.

Pre-determining the number of receipts per town or village opens the receipts to misuse, he said.

The source also found it “unconstitutional” that the mayors will regulate the quarry operators’ associations or require them to join such organizations.

Unconstitutional

“This violates the right to self-organization or their freedom of association,” he said.

The PML’s plan to establish checkpoints and dispatch their own checkers also “encroach” on the governor’s executive powers as mandated in the Local Government Code of 1991 and Philippine Mining Act of 1995, he said.

Even as the PML proposes a P300-tax per truckload and wants to divide that as P90-P90-P120 for the province, town and village, respectively, its draft was silent about local taxes. The towns collect between P50 and P90 on top of the capitol’s P150 tax and P150 administrative fee.

Rationale

In the draft, the PML said the reforms it was introducing was meant to protect the environment; install checks, counterchecks and monitoring; make the collection location-based so the actual amounts due to towns and villages are properly computed; protect the welfare of operators; and put transparency in the use of official receipts.

Gov. Eddie Panlilio said he has instructed provincial legal officer Maria Elissa Velez to study the proposed ordinance.

“As we are mandated by law to do, we will put a high regard on the right of the people to truly benefit from mineral resources by way of social services from taxes that are properly collected and protected from any irregularities,” Panlilio said.

tisoycuba

September 23rd, 2007, 01:58 PM

Sana matuloy ito at saan naman kaya itatayo??.....

oo nga pala saan kaya ito ilalagay noh:) sana nga matuloy :cheers: @portludlow salamat hah:)

ivanhenares

September 24th, 2007, 05:42 PM

Pati ba naman ito naging kontrobersiyal :bash: Magpasalamat na lang at merong itatayong interchange sa Angeles City.

That was my point. The proposed interchanges in Porac and Angeles were all vested interest. I'll go for Manuli.

tisoycuba

September 25th, 2007, 05:05 AM

@ivan,hindi kana maglalagay nang mga picture dto hah,kaw pa naman ang nang simula nang thread 3!

ivanhenares

September 25th, 2007, 05:42 AM

@ivan,hindi kana maglalagay nang mga picture dto hah,kaw pa naman ang nang simula nang thread 3!

I did not start thread 3. What gave you that idea?

If you want to see my pics, just go to http://ivanhenares.multiply.com/tag/pampanga. I'm very busy.

zelrich82

September 25th, 2007, 09:25 AM

^^ hi Ivan, i looked at those photos uli sa resort at the foot of arayat "Abe's Farm"; do they have accomodations if you wish to spend a night or so? kita ko kase yung food (lots of it - nakakagutom) and also saw the place for the massahe or hilot, is it just a pure resort spa? walang sleeping rooms?

btw, thread 3 was started by The Avenger...

tisoycuba

September 25th, 2007, 01:30 PM

no need !

ivanhenares

September 25th, 2007, 01:56 PM

zelrich82

September 25th, 2007, 05:32 PM

^^ salamat po :)

Animo

September 26th, 2007, 11:42 PM

By Robby Tantingco (http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/pam/2007/09/25/oped/robby.tantingco.peanut.gallery.html)
Peanut Gallery

THE year was 1796. Don Angel Pantaleon de Miranda had just finished his one-year term as capitan (town mayor) of San Fernando, and he and his wife convinced their friends to invest in clearing unchartered territory in the northern part of the town.

The area was called Culiat. It was thickly forested and teeming with Aetas (the headhunting kind) as well as with a variety of vine called culiat, from which it got its name. Don Angel believed that once the place was cleared, many San Fernando families would relocate there to take advantage of the new frontier as well as escape the annual floods.

The couple initially set up a farmhouse in Barangay Saguin, which was a short distance from Culiat. From there, they walked daily to Culiat for the clearing operations, always bringing with them a wooden image of the Nuestra Señora del Santo Rosario (Our Lady of the Holy Rosary), and praying the rosary as they approached the forested areas, to ask for divine protection against the Aetas.

Hardly had the clearing begun when Don Angel was recalled to active military duty in Manila, which meant that his wife, Rosalia de Jesus, would lead the clearing in the next few years. Thus, for her heroic role in the town's history, this woman deserves to be recognized as a co-founder of Angeles.

In 1811, the couple finally ended clearing activities and led several pioneering families from San Fernando in moving in to the new settlement. Don Angel built his first house near what is now the Nepo Coliseum. He also built the first chapel where the present Chowking Restaurant is located at Sto. Rosario Street.

In 1813, the archbishop of Manila came to Culiat to inaugurate the new parish, which covered Barangays Cutcut, Pampang and Pulung Anunas. Thus, Culiat became a parish 16 years before it became a town. It did not have its own parish priest, although, because the parish priest of San Fernando, Fray Jose Pometa, OSA was making all kinds of objections and threats, probably because he didn't relish seeing his wealthy parishioners transfer to another parish. In fact, whenever he and his coadjutors said Mass in Culiat during weekends, they could not resist humiliating the parishioners from the pulpit. This prompted Don Angel to request the archbishop to send the Porac parish priest instead to say the weekend Masses. Sometimes the parish priest from Floridablanca was invited, other times it was the priest from Apalit. Any priest would do except the ones from San Fernando! It was only when Padre Macario Paras, the first Culiat native to become a priest, was assigned to Culiat that the parishioners heaved a sigh of relief.

The official creation of the town of Culiat was being delayed because the number of tax-paying residents totaled only 160, or 340 short of the government minimum of 500 taxpayers. Why weren't more San Fernando families transferring to Culiat as fast as Don Angel had hoped for? Was it because of Fray Pometa's ranting and raving? Were the conservative ilustrado families adopting a wait-and-see attitude? Was Culiat going to be a failed experiment?

Unable to wait any longer, Don Angel dug into his own pocket to pay the government the equivalent amount of taxes needed to meet the required minimum of 500 taxpayers. And so, on October 16, 1829, the decree proclaiming the independence of Culiat from its matrix, San Fernando, was finally signed. Culiat was renamed Angeles, because it was now a full-fledged town, much larger than the original barangay of Culiat, because it included Sto. Rosario (the poblacion), San Jose, Cutcut, Pampang, Amsic and Santol. (Later, Angeles would acquire seven barangays from San Fernando, namely, Pulungbulo, Mining, Tabun, Capaya, Sapa Libutad, Pulung Cacutud and Pandan; and three barangays from Mabalacat, namely, Balibago, Malabanias and Pulung Maragul).

Angeles was named in honor of the founder, Don Angel, but since it was customary to dedicate new towns to saints who were the namesakes of their founders, it was dedicated to the Los Angeles Custodios, or the Guardian Angels (Angel a Talaingat in Kapampangan). When Don Angel had the patron saint's image made, he singularized it to San Angelo, or Holy Angel, for practical reasons.

But the patron saint of Angeles is not the Guardian Angel(s), but Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, known in the Philippines as La Naval, because it was this Marian image that led the Spanish fleet to a naval victory during an invasion by Protestant Dutch ships in 1646. (Kapampangan soldiers played a role in that battle, which is why Bacolor, formerly the capital of Pampanga, is the only place in the country outside Manila where La Naval is celebrated).
Angeles came to celebrate La Naval only because she was the patron saint of the founder's wife, Rosalia de Jesus.

Strangely also, while both Manila and Bacolor celebrate La Naval in November, Angeles celebrates its own La Naval on the second Sunday of October, probably because the proclamation of the town's independence from San Fernando was signed on an October 16, most likely the month's second Sunday.

Don Angel was found dead in his bed on the morning of June 21, 1835. He was 70. His remains were buried in the old cemetery in Cutcut, later transferred to the new church in 1892. His gravesite was a pilgrimage site for many years; there were reports of miracles and apparitions, including one that said his body was found to be incorrupt when it was exhumed.

I hope government officials in Angeles City would erect a statue of Don Angel Pantaleon de Miranda, made of bronze, not fiberglass, because he deserves it. It was the force of his vision and personal sacrifices alone that created Angeles, against the objections of influential people at the time. For starters, Holy Angel University has recently named its Main Building, the oldest structure on campus, as the Don Angel Pantaleon de Miranda Building.

(References: Mariano Henson, A Brief History of the Town of Angeles (1965); Nicolas Vicente Navarro, Ing Pangatatag ning Balen Angeles (1840); Macario Naval, H. Otley Beyer Collections (1916).

Magdiwang

September 27th, 2007, 04:47 AM

Some new photos of San Fernando on the below Blog :

http://jibrael.blogspot.com

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tisoycuba

September 27th, 2007, 05:45 AM

Some new photos of San Fernando on the below Blog :

http://jibrael.blogspot.com

.

may kuha ka rin ba sa angeles at clark :) mga nga bagong development :cheers: thanks hah tol:cheers:

ivanhenares

September 30th, 2007, 07:23 PM

The Archidocesan Chancery of San Fernando, Pampanga is currently being restored thanks to Auxiliary Bishop Pablo "Ambo" David. This is great news for church heritage. Bishop Ambo got a copy of the old photo of the chancery and is trying to bring it back to its original form. To date, the ugly windows that covered the balconies and the small portico added to the facade have been removed. The structure also received a fresh layer of paint.

1956
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Culiat

October 1st, 2007, 01:12 AM

I think I should repost this here since these were shot in Angeles City.

Here are some short docus I made during this trip.

Hanapbuhay: Mananahi
http://www.probetv.com/view_video.php?viewkey=a2aee2df08cf09d7016c
hF_Xn-PuH5Y

Hanapbuhay: Pintor ng Paso
http://www.probetv.com/view_video.php?viewkey=4cbf16240daa92d8d50e
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ishtefh_03

October 3rd, 2007, 06:16 AM

ivanhenares

October 3rd, 2007, 07:19 AM

^^ Ok :)

ishtefh_03

October 3rd, 2007, 07:22 AM

^^ thanks!! for the research ng thesis ko lng naman lang...:D

tisoycuba

October 3rd, 2007, 11:04 AM

:banana: nakakatuwa!

tisoycuba

October 3rd, 2007, 11:06 AM

:lol: :banana: nakakatuwa!

Culiat

October 6th, 2007, 01:31 AM

uy Oktoberfest na sa Angeles ah. Sayang sana andyan ako hehe.

OtAkAw

October 6th, 2007, 04:20 PM

^^Ibabalik na sa daan ang Tigtigan di gaya nung kabliwan nila dati! Sa parking lot ng SM ba naman! Kungdi ba sila mabaliw baliw nun!

tisoycuba

October 7th, 2007, 02:53 AM

musta na pala ayala mall dyan sa city of angels,start naba ang construction sila..updated naman hah mga tol. thanks po!

portludlow

October 7th, 2007, 05:43 PM

Saturday, October 06, 2007
Lexus Hotel gives Pampanga a new meaning to ‘high rise’
By Albert B. Lacanlale
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/pam/2007/10/06/bus/lexus.hotel.gives.pampanga.a.new.meaning.to.high.rise..html
FOR so many years, Pampanga—including Angeles City—has been a haven for people who likes huge spaces to live in. The vast land area of the province in the past years made it practical for everybody to construct their homes and offices at a maximum of four storeys and no higher.

However, due to fast-paced urbanization wide land spaces for buildings have become a thing of the past and the next best thing to allow construction is by going up, building high-rise edifices, that is.

In this exact spirit does the Lexus Hotel and Condos is anchored.

The Lexus is located in the center of Balibago, Angeles City. The hotel/condos provide the resident unit owners with many facilities that they would not normally find in ordinary condo projects.

Lexus will be operating with all the services a frequent traveler or a homebody would find in a quality hotel. One can use the Lexus Condo as his home. If one is in regular travels, he can join in the shared rental pool in which the hotel management services will rent out the unit while the owner is out of town to assure that the unit does not become a dead investment.

“Many people are concerned about the security of their investment in foreign countries. We would like to assure you that your investment in the Lexus is a safe one,” the Lexus Land Holding Group said.

The Lexus Hotel/Condo is located right in the center of the vibrant nightlife of Angeles City; within walking distance to shopping malls, theaters, stores, supermarkets and dozens of restaurants.

Within 10 minutes of the Lexus is the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport and several minutes to the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway and North Luzon Expressway.

With the completion of the new NLEx, trip to Manila from Angeles City is barely an hour.

Originally the Lexus was designed as a nine-storey building with one elevator. However, the management decided to re-engineer the hotel into a 12-level high edifice with two high speed elevators.

Floors 7-12 will be condo units with unobstructed views as each unit has floor to ceiling glass windows; Floors 3-6 are hotel rooms; and Floors 1 and 2 will be lobby services.

There will also be limited parking in the basement with storage lockers for unit owners.

The rooftop garden bar also offers a fantastic 360 degree view of Angeles City and nearby areas. This facility is ideal for a relaxing drink and evening snacks.

The Lexus Condo units are facing either east or west and the hotel will have an entrance on both sides of the building for easy access.

portludlow

October 7th, 2007, 06:38 PM

GMA to confer awards to Pampanga’s
most inspiring entrepreneurs

By Jacob Cunanan
Correspondent
http://www.businessmirror.com.ph/10082007/economy06.html
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga—President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will personally confer awards to Pampanga’s most inspiring entrepreneurs today, Monday, a highlight kicking off the latest leg of the Philippine Center for Entrepreneurship’s (PCE) entrepreneurial campaign Go Negosyo sa Pampanga.

PCE executive director Ramon Lopez said the President will be joined by Presidential Consultant for Entrepreneurship and PCE founding trustee Jose Concepcion III in awarding her cabalens who, through their businesses, have helped develop Pampanga as a new frontier for progress.

The awardees are: Ryan Razon of Razon’s; Jose Bituin of Betis Crafts; Jaime Uy of Saver’s Mall; the Garcia Family of the Mekeni Food Corp.; Lolita Hizon of Pampanga’s Best; Michael Escaler of the Pampanga Sugar Development Corp. (Pasudeco); Willy Tan of Hausland; Peter Nepomuceno of the Nepo Group of Companies; Teresa Carlos-David of the Bank of Florida; Dr. Emmanuel Angeles of the Angeles University Foundation (AUF); and Fatima del Rosario of Sasmuan Delicacies.

“The 11 awardees to be recognized in Pampanga will serve as role models for the youth to provide a mindset for the youth as well as show the faces behind the brands that they are familiar with,” Lopez said.

Lopez said Go Negosyo, slated at the Bren Z. Guiao Convention Center, is a one-day affair aimed at offering the public with business opportunities through exhibits and discussions to be led by some of the country’s well-respected entrepreneurs.

Speakers include Ronald Pineda of Folded and Hung, Les Reyes of Reyes Haircutters, and Dr. Rolando Hortaleza of Splash Corp.

“It is part of the PCE’s latest endeavor, the Go Negosyo Caravan, which seeks to bring Go Negosyo’s entrepreneurial revolution to key cities outside Metro Manila,” Lopez said at a press conference here Wednesday.

Lopez said more than 30 companies in the cities they have visited have become PCE’s partners in advocating entrepreneurship. He said some are even competitors when it comes to business but cited their partner-entrepreneurs have a common denominator: They share a common interest to help the people and the country forward.

“Go Negosyo is PCE’s advocacy promoting entrepreneurship and a mindset of entrepreneurship among the people, especially the youth.

Since last year, we have been going to other cities to share with them our mission of empowering the people by giving them business advice and frameworks and create innovative products. It is our way of inspiring participants attending our seminars to talk about business opportunities,” he said.

“We are, at the same time, promoting optimism and a culture of entrepreneurship in a country where most people seem to be pessimistic and negativists,” he added.

Lopez said although they do not provide funding, they have links with microfinancing institutions to which they refer those that seek funding once equipped with entrepreneurial know-how.

“In our coordination with the Metro Angeles Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc. (MACCII) and the Pampanga Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PamCham), we have learned that Kapampangans are very entrepreneurial as seen by their ability to turn a problem, such as the Pinatubo eruption, into opportunities,” he said.

For his part, Concepcion said PCE is focused on promoting entrepreneurship among the people of Pampanga “to serve as a beacon of hope despite the economic challenges of the times.”

Nice.......but those food companies originally from Pampanga hopefully will not be absorb by bigger firms from metro manila like Red Ribbon (Mercado), greenwich pizza (baluyot) which were bought by Jolibee.

Im wondering why others were not selected like the Ocampo's (Cabalen, Mangan, and ebun), Larry Cruz ( Cafe Adriatico, Cafe Havana, Abe's), Trellis (Tayag) and many others.

tisoycuba

October 7th, 2007, 10:03 PM

wala ba tayu bago picture sa mga construction dyan sa pampanga at angeles!plssssss share naman

zelrich82

October 8th, 2007, 01:40 AM

tisoycuba

October 8th, 2007, 08:37 PM

last january pa yan na post dto ang wedsite nang thelexushotel bro,kaya dami na nakasilip dyan:cheers:

ivanhenares

October 9th, 2007, 06:59 AM

^^Ibabalik na sa daan ang Tigtigan di gaya nung kabliwan nila dati! Sa parking lot ng SM ba naman! Kungdi ba sila mabaliw baliw nun!

Will it be in MacArthur Highway this year?

zelrich82

October 9th, 2007, 05:46 PM

^^ sinasara ba nila ang McArthur Highway:?

tisoycuba

October 9th, 2007, 08:25 PM

yes closed po nila,mula liberty hotel mula sa balibago supermarket..yesssss happy naman ang tropa dyan sa.

zelrich82

October 10th, 2007, 12:02 AM

that's a hell of a traffic, kahit na may alternate route pa...

Farirah

October 10th, 2007, 08:46 AM

Subic to be featured as RP’s ‘Harbor City of Charm’ at China fair
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Jonas Reyes

Link:http://www.mb.com.ph/PROV20071010105355.html

SUBIC BAY FREEPORT – This freeport, which is bustling with trade activities, will be featured as the country’s "Harbor City of Charm" when the Philippines joins the 4th China-ASEAN Exposition (CAEXPO) on Oct. 28-31, 2007 at the port city of Nanning in Guangxi, China.

Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) Administrator Armand Arreza said, "the participation of the Subic Bay Freeport in the international trade fair was recommended by the Department of Trade and Industry."

"The CAEXPO secretariat decided to feature harbor cities in this year’s ‘Cities of Charm’ pavilion, which showcases tourism destinations in China and member-countries of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)," he said.

"This is a big opportunity for us because of our need to attract more investments from China, which is now recognized as an economic giant," he said.

"We would try our best to rise to the challenge of representing the Philippines in this event because our participation would also boost President Arroyo’s program to turn the Subic-Clark corridor into the most competitive services and logistics center in the region," he also said.

The exposition, which serves as a platform for trade, investment and tourism cooperation between China and the 10 members of ASEAN, features 5,000 booths for commodity trade, investment cooperation, agricultural technology, and "cities of charm".

The Philippines has traditionally set up booths for the commodity trade and cities of charm pavilions since the annual exposition opened in 2004, but it will be the first time for Subic Freeport to join the fair.

"We’d also be taking part in the ChinaASEAN Port Development and Cooperation Forum, which will be held as a side event in the exposition," Arreza said.

To promote Subic’s competitive edge at CAEXPO, Arreza said, SBMA will highlight Subic’s "best of both worlds" attractions — Its strategic location as a maritime hub and its pristine environment.

He said the Subic Bay booth in the Nanning International Convention and Exhibition Center will feature a floor display of a topographical map of Subic and a transparent dome onto which film clips about the freeport will be projected.

portludlow

October 12th, 2007, 04:41 AM

Friday, October 12, 2007
Capitol to fund GMA-Porac interchange
By Albert B. Lacanlale and Marna H. Dagumboy

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO -- Stressing his support to the GMA-Porac Interchange proposal, Pampanga Governor Eddie Panlilio said the Capitol would be willing to fund the construction of access roads connecting Pampanga towns to Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway (SCTEx).

Panlilio made the announcement during a meeting on the proposed interchange with Pampanga second district Representative Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo, Mayor Oscar Rodriguez, Clark Development Corporation (CDC) president Levy Laus and other prominent personalities in the province.

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The stakeholders met in Panlilio’s office to strengthen their position regarding their proposal to have the Manuali Interchange in Porac serve as the gateway of the province into SCTEx.

The meeting was held at the heels of reported massive campaigning waged by some camps who have been also proposing for other interchanges in Pampanga.

Accordingly, some camps have been discrediting the Manuali proposal, claiming that the government needs huge amounts to fund the interchanges itself and the access roads connecting Pampanga towns to SCTEx.

The Provincial Board has expressed its support of the Manuali Interchange through a unanimous resolution.

Panlilio said the Provincial Government may commit millions of pesos for the access roads to encourage the National Government, through the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) and Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to construct the interchange at the boundary of Porac and Angeles City.

While Senator Manuel “Lito” Lapid and Representative Carmelo Lazatin have purportedly vowed to allocate parts of their Priority Development Assistance Fund (Pdaf) for the proposed Hacienda Dolores interchange and Angeles-Clark Interchange, respectively, the Provincial Government particularly placed its bet on the Manuali interchange being pushed by the Advocacy for the Development of Central Luzon (ADCL), various non-government organizations and local government units in the province.

Although the governor did not mention any particular amount for the access roads, he hinted that the Provincial Government’s financial support for the project may reach hundreds of millions of pesos.

Panlilio, with Rodriguez, believed that the GMA-Porac interchange in Manuali is the most ideal access point of Pampanga to SCTEx since many towns of the province will be directly connected to the toll road.

The Manuali interchange, if realized, will provide direct access to Angeles City, Porac town, San Fernando City and other towns in the province’s second, third and fourth districts.

The component city, led by Rodriguez, said interchanges, other than that in Manuali, will surely bypass the capital city.

Arroyo said he will support all requests for interchanges but would let the National Government’s technical people to determine the most viable and economically feasible among the three proposed interchanges.

According to the group, the proposed Porac-Angeles Interchange will be more viable than to other two locations because of the following economic impacts:

* Cost Efficiency, because the proposed interchange will skirt the traffic-congested Angeles-Porac Road, making the transport of cargo more economical, thus lowering vehicle maintenance cost and allowing for safer and faster travel.

* Convenience, because it will provide for easier access via multiple routes, such as Friendship Highway, Cuayan Access Road and FVR East Lateral Dike Road.

* Income Generation, because a bigger volume of traffic will be able to use the expressway due to its proximity and accessibility to SMEs and industries.

* Strategic Location, because it will help in the economic growth of the whole province, since more motorists can access Manuali than the two other proposed interchanges.

In terms of social impact, more sectors of the province will have an easier access to the interchange. Motorists coming from the Metro Manila area will also cut their travel time if Manuali is opened. Establishments, institutions, business and recreational facilities lie within its 20-kilometer radius, thus increasing social activity.

It is also more viable because there are already two existing access roads, and advocacy groups like ADCL are offering to help in negotiating with landowners for rights-of-way.

Others who discussed their common position were Rene Romero, Pampanga Chamber of Commerce and Industry chairman; Mayor Edgardo Flores of Minalin; Sonny Dobles of ADCL; and Art Punsalan who represented Pampanga Vice Governor Joseller Guiao.

I hope that the best location will come out the winner. Politicians should listen to reason and let the experts decide which is the best location which will benefit the most number of people.

overtureph

October 12th, 2007, 04:55 AM

Bacolor, Pampanga.

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a89/overtureph/pampanga%20bacolor1/edit8354.jpg

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a89/overtureph/pampanga%20bacolor1/edit8355.jpg

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a89/overtureph/pampanga%20bacolor1/edit8353.jpg

Photos by overtureph.

ivanhenares

October 12th, 2007, 05:23 AM

I hope that the best location will come out the winner. Politicians should listen to reason and let the experts decide which is the best location which will benefit the most number of people.

Manuali, Porac is the best since it will benefit the entire southern half of Pampanga. Without the GMA-Porac (Manuali) exit, only District 1 will feel the benefits of the SCTEx. If politicians have their way in Porac and Angeles, it will benefit their personal land holdings only.

Magdiwang

October 13th, 2007, 01:26 AM

just seen today they were decorating the side street adjacent to macarthur hiway in balibago in front of metrobank up to marlin mansion and it seems that is for the Tigtigan street dancing. Any idea when is the actual date of that Tigtigan so that I can visit Angeles City and take photos.

tisoycuba

October 13th, 2007, 01:31 AM

octo. 26 to 27, 6pm until 4am po!

Magdiwang

October 13th, 2007, 06:10 AM

octo. 26 to 27, 6pm until 4am po!

still 2 weeks to go, I'll try to visit pampanga angeles by that date. thanks a lot.

portludlow

October 13th, 2007, 06:45 AM

Manuali, Porac is the best since it will benefit the entire southern half of Pampanga. Without the GMA-Porac (Manuali) exit, only District 1 will feel the benefits of the SCTEx. If politicians have their way in Porac and Angeles, it will benefit their personal land holdings only.

That is sad, tama na sana ang transactional politics and for such a big project which can make a big difference on the lives of many people, they should choose the location that is deserving.

tisoycuba

October 14th, 2007, 03:01 AM

:cheers: happy fiesta naval angeles ka ren cabalen tamu:cheers: :)

ivanhenares

October 14th, 2007, 12:51 PM

That is sad, tama na sana ang transactional politics and for such a big project which can make a big difference on the lives of many people, they should choose the location that is deserving.

If it's any indicator, Honest Ed chooses GMA-Porac (Manuali)! :)

zelrich82

October 14th, 2007, 09:06 PM

Bacolor, Pampanga.
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a89/overtureph/pampanga%20bacolor1/edit8355.jpg
Photos by overtureph.

is this going to be a museum? :)

ivanhenares

October 15th, 2007, 03:47 AM

is this going to be a museum? :)

It's still lived in. Private home.

zelrich82

October 15th, 2007, 09:45 PM

cool, a mini highrise. :)

waste not, want not...

tisoycuba

October 16th, 2007, 01:25 AM

wala lang!:lol:

tisoycuba

October 16th, 2007, 05:39 PM

tagal pa thread 4 ,para naman mas o.k diba!

ivanhenares

October 16th, 2007, 06:26 PM

wala lang!:lol:

Please read Rule No. 11 (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=12448334&postcount=5)...

11. Bumping of threads (outside Samahan) should consist of a post with "substance" or something that could add value to the thread. It has been noticed that even if the thread has not been posted on just for a few hours, some will bump them to the top just to keep the pace of the thread quick. It seems that there is a competition with the thread numbers. Remember, we look at quality over quantity. Consistent commission of this will result to a "Reset" of the thread number.

Stop the annoying posts please!

zelrich82

October 17th, 2007, 08:17 AM

ditto...

i was informed na inulan daw ang Korean Festival that was held last week of September sa may bandang friendship, i also learned that a street was closed up (creating some traffic congestion) - but it was exclusive for koreans only; and that the banner only had korean characters on it that noboby understood. i know (now) about the Tigtigan Terakan keng Dalan :banana:(music and dance in the street), this is open to everyone; how are foreigners allowed to close up a street and make it exclusive - meron na naman sigurong nasuhulan.
i guess everyone have their day, there's Australian day, Dutch Day, meron na ring malaysian festival plus this korean festival; so sad that some don't want to share...:ohno:

portludlow

October 17th, 2007, 04:29 PM

^^:lol: ha ha ha...mukhang nagbabasa ka ng blog ni Harry. I thought it is very informative blog and kind of gives you the run down on whats going on in Balibago. Alisin lang niya ang ang mga pics ng mga exotics. :) :lol:

zelrich82

October 18th, 2007, 12:39 AM

dang skippy... :D:D:D

he talks about things that happens somewhat close to the area where i grew up, so he got my attention; the pictures don't bother me - i just wouldn't post the site here kasi baka question pa. :) keeping it clean... :D although i believe it was posted here before.
Harry's cool, he says it as he see's it... :cheers:

kevinb

October 19th, 2007, 06:01 AM

Hello! I'm here in Clark! Nasa Angeles ba ang Clark o sa Mabalacat? Nalilito kasi ako eh. :D

portludlow

October 19th, 2007, 06:10 AM

^^ yung main drag (casinos, hotels, restaurants, offices)or southeast side sa Angeles City, yung far north Bamban and Capas. Tarlac...yung near North Mabalacat. West side sa Porac. Far West Zambales mountains.

nasaan ka ba.....baka naman nasa Fields Avenue ka. :lol::lol::banana:

Kevin, maraming mapupuntahan sa labas ng Clark. Walang magawa sa Clark sa gabi. Ano ba ang trip mo. Meron lahat diyan sa labas lang ng Clark. :)

kevinb

October 19th, 2007, 06:18 AM

^^ I'm staying in Dau. But I'm going to Clark for a daily training for Sutherland. :)

Hati-hati pala ang Clark. Hehe. I like SM Clark. :D

Farirah

October 19th, 2007, 08:14 AM

Foreign business chambers wail over RP’s poor airport infrastructure
By Rainier Allan Ronda
Friday, October 19, 2007

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Business&p=49&type=2&sec=27&aid=2007101897

The Joint Foreign Chambers of the Philippines (JFC) has raised its concern about the poor airport infrastructure in the country that is hindering the growth of the tourism industry, urging the government to fast-track efforts to develop the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport in Clark, Pampanga as the main gateway to the Philippines.

In a statement, the JFC said the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) complex has been inadequately serving as the country’s doorstep to foreign tourists, especially to investors interested to pour investments here.

Brian Lane, chairman of the transportation and infrastructure committee of the American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines Inc. (AmCham) and director of the Australian-New Zealand Chamber of Commerce, said the bleak runway and terminal conditions at the NAIA Terminals I and II and the problematic opening of the controversial NAIA Terminal III further raised the need to push ahead efforts to develop the DMIA.

“We are suggesting, urging very strongly, that after serious thought, we feel Clark is the future for Philippine aviation as an international gateway,” Lane said during his presentation of the JFC statement in a briefing the federation of foreign business chambers organized yesterday morning for Department of Transportation and Communications officials led by Secretary Leandro Mendoza.

Among the members of the JFC are AmCham, the Australian-New Zealand Chamber of Commerce (Philippines) Inc., the Canadian Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines, Inc., the European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines Inc., the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Philippines Inc., the Korean Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines, Inc., and the Philippine Association of Multinatinational Companies Regional Headquarters, Inc.

“With the terminal and runway congestion at NAIA, Clark needs to be developed and developed now. Because the pace of development is slow in any country and we understand that in a country like the Philippines, it’s probably slower than international standards so we really got to get things going,” Lane said.

“Failure to do that will impose constraints on the airlines and quite honestly, we lose the business that we could have had to Thailand, to Indonesia, to Malaysia, to the tourist competitors,” Lane added.

“And on top of that we lose the business of investors who complain about the inadequate connection to Manila. And these are small things, but if you are a CEO of a major international investor and you can fly wherever you want, when you decide to open a new plant, to make a new investment, if the first impression you get of a country you are looking at or considering is a difficult airport with all kinds of old-fashioned constraints, your attitude to that country start in a very negative basis even if your local team are pushing very hard for Philippine investments, so it starts on the wrong footing,” Lane pointed out.

A JFC study conducted on the NAIA complex has found out that the two intersecting runways at the NAIA are old and not designed for the needs of modern aviation.

“The runway’s design is well below standards for new generation aircraft, raising serious safety concerns,” the JFC study stated.

“Distances between the centerline of runways and centerlines of taxiways do not meet the new International Civil Aviation Organization standards for new generation aircraft such as A380s,” the study pointed out, referring to the jumbo jets now being produced by Airbus Indistrie that is now regarded as the biggest jumbo jet in history.

Aside from runway safety brought on by the vintage design of the NAIA runway, the JFC also raised the limitations brought on by effectively having one runway at the NAIA because of the intersecting runways.

It noted that the runway congestion at the NAIA is even causing arriving planes from international flights to wait on a “holding pattern” for as long as 30 minutes.

This it pointedout, has already resulted to increasing incidences of planes being diverted to the DMIA to refuel “adding costs and delays”.

Lane said that JFC ias not pinning much hope on the opening of the controversial NAIA Terminal III.

He noted that with the opening of the terminal, one runway leading to the domestic terminal will have to be closed and become a taxiway as found in their study on NAIA.

“The country’s main airport will only have one runway for all planes,” Lane pointed out.

Lane pointed out that in comparison, the DMIA offered two runways with international standards.

“Look at the runway capacity. It does have two international parallel runways. And they are of international standards,” Lane said.

However, at its current state, the DMIA has yet to be fully developed.

“Like any airport, it has constraints. It has, like Manila, inadequate domestic and international terminals,” he said.

Lane said that they were closely monitoring the development of the DMIA.

ishtefh_03

October 19th, 2007, 03:13 PM

^^ I'm staying in Dau. But I'm going to Clark for a daily training for Sutherland. :)

Hati-hati pala ang Clark. Hehe. I like SM Clark. :D

uy! may friend ako na nagwowork sa sutherland... andyan ka pala... tara kita tayo sa SM Clark... baka punta rin kase ako ng Angeles... one of these days para mag research... :D

btw... lapit na feast day sa village namin... hehe... sa ST. Jude Village... Sn. Fernando... :D

Sinjin P.

October 19th, 2007, 08:07 PM

^^ I'm staying in Dau. But I'm going to Clark for a daily training for Sutherland. :)

Hati-hati pala ang Clark. Hehe. I like SM Clark. :D

Yeah, for me, SM Clark is the best provincial SM Mall

tisoycuba

October 21st, 2007, 12:03 AM

sa friday na pala ang terakan tigtigan ken dalan hah,happy days mga cabalen!

cabalen25

October 21st, 2007, 06:53 PM

it's tigtigan terakan keng dalan (music and dancing in the streets). lol! how i wish i could be there to witness the PI! happy la naval fiesta quen angeles! :cheers:

cabalen25

October 21st, 2007, 06:55 PM

err... it's tigtigan terakan keng dalan (music and dancing in the streets). lol! how i wish i could be there to witness the said event! sorry for the lapse in my previous post. :laugh: anyways, happy la naval fiesta to all angeleños!

portludlow

October 22nd, 2007, 07:29 AM

welcome cabalen25!

BTW people who are interested on new housing in Pampanga. Here's a good comprehensive website to look.

http://www.jpfelicianorealty.net/default.asp

zelrich82

October 22nd, 2007, 11:51 PM

cabalen25

October 24th, 2007, 12:29 AM

i heard about enclave and ayala residential in angeles... are these areas safe? looks like the development in angeles is getting better than ever. can't wait to get back home for a vacation next year! whoohooo!!!!

portludlow

October 24th, 2007, 04:22 AM

thanx Portludlow, this is the first time i've seen something as comprehensive as this; kung mailalagay lang sana nila ang ang layout ng Punta Verde Lots - that'll be great. dito ko kasi gustong bumili ng lot noon pa, but if i was to get in to that - i need to choose the spot that i want. thanx ulit... :cheers:

hmmm... Punta Verde. Actually maganda ang location niya, compared sa Marquee IMO. The cuts on phase 1 and 2 are bigger and probably sold out. Medyo mapapalayo ka lang sa Balibago. :lol:Try researching Pulo Amsic subd which is now pre-selling near Friendship.

i heard about enclave and ayala residential in angeles... are these areas safe? looks like the development in angeles is getting better than ever. can't wait to get back home for a vacation next year! whoohooo!!!!

The Enclave is in a central location which is near Clark and at the same time easy to get to downtown AC. Nice houses/development but again probably sold out. The Marquee by Ayala Land....he he he siempre Ayala so maganda talaga. If you are an investor, dito ka na bumili.

Safe is a relative term......I dont think there are safe places anymore anywhere. :nuts:

ivanhenares

October 24th, 2007, 07:58 AM

Ed Panlilio and the nation
by Robby Tantingco, SunStar Pampanga

Dogs never bark at parked cars.

The only reason I can think of for all the undeserved criticisms against Among Ed is that he is moving. Kapampangans have gotten used to absentee governors that when a real working governor comes along, they get disturbed and suspicious.

In the past (I won't say how long ago because you'll know whom I am referring to, but I think you know), on the three or four separate occasions I came to visit the Capitol, the Office of the Governor was always empty, as in nothing was going on—the Governor wasn't around, his table and shelves were clean, the carpet had not been stepped on for days—while across the hall, the Offices of the Vice Governor and Board Members were swarming with people and abuzz with activity.

Today, Governor Panlilio reports for work daily and on time like a regular employee, and what's even better is that, his work ethic has inspired the others to do the same. He was right when he said, during the campaign, that the first thing he would do if he won was to lead by example. He has no family to prioritize, no vices and no extra-curricular activities, so he can devote longer hours at work.

I am saying this because I am really disturbed by the criticisms our fellow Kapampangans hurl against the Governor for what I think is an extraordinary, unprecedented, even historic act—a public official admitting he received money, admitting he may have erred in doing so, and admitting, in effect, his political naiveté.

The Governor's critics, I'm sure, are mad at him because he dared embarrass a sitting President of the Republic, and also because he broke the code of silence which protected the honor among thieves. They probably also suspect that he did this only as an afterthought, or only after a reporter had confronted him with the question.

If you were in his shoes and you attended a meeting at Malacanang, after which one of the President's men handed you a bag, would you peek at its contents before taking it and, finding cash in it, return it? The Governor, in my mind, was merely observing protocol (or at least simple courtesy) when he took the bag with him back to Pampanga, discovered its contents, and then figured out what to do with it. The discrepancy between the stature of the giver and the nature of the gift posed a dilemma to the Governor, for which he needed time for introspection. Given the implications of the situation and his inexperience in politics, why should we blame Among Gob for locking himself up in his room to pray and grapple with it for a while? What is important is, when he finally emerged from that room, he was at peace with himself and had God beside him.

Governor Panlilio's courageous move is probably the catalyst for change that this country has been waiting for. Graft and corruption in this country is already cultural, i.e., it is so ingrained in our way of life that it has become normal—we already expect to find some form of it in everything we do, by everyone and in one way or another. When we pay only P10 for the residence certificate instead of the required amount based on our income—that's graft. When we give someone P100 to fix our driver's license—that's corruption. When we look for our friend or relative in the city hall and sweetly ask him to facilitate our papers ahead of the others—that's corruption, too. These things, I'm sure, also happen in private companies, in schools, in the Church, both in high places and low, by young people and old, by the rich as well as the poor—the only difference is, the poor do it in small scale, involving only a few pesos and centavos, while the rich bribe big-time, in hundreds of millions and even billions, in dollars, not pesos.

And so while millions of poor Filipinos starve, while soldiers die in battle because the military cannot provide them decent shoes and weapons, and while our boys and girls grow up delinquent because their parents are working abroad—our government officials approve overpriced deals so that they can get fat kickbacks and still have enough left to distribute to every visitor in the Palace.

In this country, one of the reasons the rich get richer and the poor poorer is that the rich get into deals that make them richer, and then leave behind the debt for the poor to pay. Another is that the rich shamelessly underdeclare their total earnings and properties, and therefore pay taxes that are only a fraction of their total worth, while the poor work so hard for so little money, a full one-third of which automatically goes to the pocket of government through withholding tax.

If I compute all the withholding taxes I have paid this government since I started working, I can probably buy myself a house and lot with a brand-new car in the garage, and yet, what has this government given me in return for all the millions of pesos it has taken from my salary? The amount it deducts from my hospital bills is so small it's insulting. And the long process it takes to get that amount is even more insulting.

And then I hear about hundreds of billions of pesos floating around in Malacañang and given away in brown paper bags like party goodies—you tell me this government cannot afford to build classrooms and augment social security funds? You tell me this country is poor?

And this disgusting spectacle of politicians (partymates at that) pointing fingers and blowing the whistle on each other—look how greed is making our leaders self-destruct and bring the whole nation down with them, and they don't even realize it.

Just last month, a former Philippine President was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for accepting bribes and kickbacks. Did it scare us? Did it stop our public officials from giving and accepting bribes?

Last week, Governor Panlilio made the simple announcement of receiving and returning potential bribe money, and that's the one that rocked the country.

Why did the conviction of a President not send shock waves and the simple gesture from one honest man did?

It means that good example is more effective than punitive action. Punishment does not deter crime; role-modeling does. Again, Fr. Panlilio was right: he would lead by example.

Last May, when God came down from heaven to protect Fr. Ed Panlilio's votes, I thought He only had Pampanga in mind. Now I think I know: He had the entire Philippines in mind.

What could be a Divine Plan for both the province and the country is probably unfolding right before our very eyes.

tisoycuba

October 24th, 2007, 04:35 PM

is also happen in church!

zelrich82

October 24th, 2007, 05:58 PM

hmmm... Punta Verde. Actually maganda ang location niya, compared sa Marquee IMO. The cuts on phase 1 and 2 are bigger and probably sold out. Medyo mapapalayo ka lang sa Balibago. :lol:Try researching Pulo Amsic subd which is now pre-selling near Friendship.

that was the concept i had, to be close to Balibago but not in the middle of it; a bit away from the hussle and bussle of Balibago and Angeles. siksikan na rin kasi sa fields ave eh :D , and i'm noticing sa mga nababasa ko na there's too many koreano's sa friendship; don't get me wrong - i've met some koreans when i was in Pusan who are nice, but like most dayuhans they tend to stick to themselves:grouphug: - i guess i can't blame them, being away from their country.

Safe is a relative term......I dont think there are safe places anymore anywhere. :nuts:
agree ako dito, anyone can be anywhere at anytime and still be unsure of their safety...

Culiat

October 24th, 2007, 06:59 PM

tisoycuba

October 24th, 2007, 07:13 PM

hmmm... Punta Verde. Actually maganda ang location niya, compared sa Marquee IMO. The cuts on phase 1 and 2 are bigger and probably sold out. Medyo mapapalayo ka lang sa Balibago. :lol:Try researching Pulo Amsic subd which is now pre-selling near Friendshi

The Enclave is in a central location which is near Clark and at the same time easy to get to downtown AC. Nice houses/development but again probably sold out. The Marquee by Ayala Land....he he he siempre Ayala so maganda talaga. If you are an investor, dito ka na bumili.

Safe is a relative term......I dont think there are safe places anymore anywhere. :nuts:
Punta Verde last year meron nang nanakawan dyan sa Punta Verde,kasi lapit lang sa bukid at sa epza,:ohno:
pero Marquee Place at The Enclave look same kasi may mga video camera sila sa every street..naka monitor pa sila sa police station na malapit sa village..:)

Sinjin P.

October 25th, 2007, 04:58 AM

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/6011/newsarticle881file384smqr7.jpg

The newly-opened SM City Pampanga Annex 3

cabalen25

October 25th, 2007, 08:24 PM

diz

October 27th, 2007, 05:09 AM

Lakeshore seemed very unsuccessful.

whippersnapper

October 27th, 2007, 07:06 AM

Lakeshore seemed very unsuccessful.

pano mo nasabi

zelrich82

October 27th, 2007, 09:26 PM

http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/6011/newsarticle881file384smqr7.jpg

The newly-opened SM City Pampanga Annex 3

sensya na po, magtatanong lang; is this a separate building?

cabalen25

October 27th, 2007, 11:46 PM

I read elsewhere that the SM City Mall Annex 3 in Mexico, Pampanga is an expansion. Here's a link: http://www.smprime.com/Announcements.php?BlurbID=892 :)

cabalen25

October 28th, 2007, 12:00 AM

THE BIGGEST JUST GOT BIGGER! SM CITY PAMPANGA OPENS THIRD ANNEX

SM City Pampanga shoppers can only expect more shopping, dining and fun options as the mall opens its newest Mall Annex, now having more than 433 shops and boutiques to satisfy every shopper’s needs.

The very first SM Supermall in Central Luzon when it opened in 2000, SM City Pampanga is now the longest and biggest mall in the region, with more than 668 meters sprawl of mall shopping area. Its major anchors include the SM Department Store and the SM Supermarket along with other retail outlets such as ACE Hardware, Our Home, SM Appliance Center, Toy Kingdom, Watsons, SportsCentral and Surplus Shop.

Shoppers can always get the best food choices at reasonable prices at the SM FoodCourt, and watch the latest movies at six cinemas at the mall. For added customer convenience, the mall has more than 2,800 parking slots and two public transport terminals for easy access to shoppers within the vicinity and nearby provinces such as Bulacan, Bataan, Nueva Ecija and Tarlac.

SM City Pampanga’s newest annex is the third addition to the mall’s main building, after the first two mall annexes added in October 2002 and October 2003 respectively. Located at Barangay Lagundi in Mexico, Pampanga, the new annex has a 17,439 square meter area, with 46 new shops offering more shopping and dining options. It also has a 9,700 square meter area which will house a call center next year.

New apparel shops to look forward to are Kipling, Von Dutch, Tribal, Bysi Boutique, Celine, Celio, Chales & Keith, Crocs, Flojo’s, Florsheim Kids, People are People, Periwinkle,Triumph, Mossimo Underwear, Red Hot Chili Jeans Wear, and Swiss Gear. Shoppers can try a new dining experience at these restaurants - Tempura, Flavours of China, and The Aristocrat.

Specialty shops opening at SM City Pampanga Annex 3 are Davids fore Rever, George Optical, Hearts and Arrow, Kitchen One, and SF-QI Wellness Holistic Spa, and 7 Eleven. Banco de Oro will also open another branch at the mall while China Bank will open its first branch at SM City Pampanga.

Come to the biggest mall in Central Luzon - and enjoy more shopping, leisure and entertainment only at SM City Pampanga!

http://www.sminvestments.com/Events.php?BlurbID=881

zelrich82

October 28th, 2007, 02:54 AM

salamat po, it seems like it's gonna keep on getting bigger pa...

kevinb

October 28th, 2007, 11:25 AM

uy! may friend ako na nagwowork sa sutherland... andyan ka pala... tara kita tayo sa SM Clark... baka punta rin kase ako ng Angeles... one of these days para mag research... :D

btw... lapit na feast day sa village namin... hehe... sa ST. Jude Village... Sn. Fernando... :D

Oi Tep!Mishu na!Hehe.Tagal na natin hindi nag-uusap.Musta na si Ash?Si Kuya Greg?Silang lahat?Hehe.Oist here's my new number.Nawalan na naman kasi ako ng phone.:D 09165407152.Text ka kung kelan ka pupunta dito.Hehe.:)

Sinjin P.

October 29th, 2007, 03:39 AM

I read elsewhere that the SM City Mall Annex 3 in Mexico, Pampanga is an expansion. Here's a link: http://www.smprime.com/Announcements.php?BlurbID=892 :)

Kaya nga annex kasi expansion siya :nuts:

sensya na po, magtatanong lang; is this a separate building?

Connected to the main building

Sinjin P.

October 29th, 2007, 03:41 AM

Cool! The SM City-Pampanga in Mexico looks much like the facade of SM City along EDSA. Is Mexico, Pampanga not yet on its way to become a city quite soon? Afterall, the Lakeshore, SM and Robinson's are all situated in this booming town. :banana:

Mexico, Pampanga is still a 2nd class municipality. Before dreaming about cityhood, you should first target becoming a 1st class municipality ;)

portludlow

October 29th, 2007, 04:48 AM

that was the concept i had, to be close to Balibago but not in the middle of it; a bit away from the hussle and bussle of Balibago and Angeles. siksikan na rin kasi sa fields ave eh :D

Hmmmm....di bale ten minutes ka lang naman sa faves mo Blue Nile at Wild Orchid. :nuts: :D :devil: :rofl: j/k

I strongly agree with this one.

Fr Ed will be a good governor. I hope he will be different and does not go into his head. Just what they say power corrupts.

Punta Verde last year meron nang nanakawan dyan sa Punta Verde,kasi lapit lang sa bukid at sa epza,:ohno:
pero Marquee Place at The Enclave look same kasi may mga video camera sila sa every street..naka monitor pa sila sa police station na malapit sa village..:)

yeah, but Ayala's Marquee is also situated in a not too good area. Maraming HMB doon. :nuts:

Lakeshore seemed very unsuccessful.

I think because most buyers there are speculators and dont intend to live there.

Mexico, Pampanga is still a 2nd class municipality. Before dreaming about cityhood, you should first target becoming a 1st class municipality ;)

Its kind of interesting that a HUGE mall is located on a 2nd class municipality. The truth is the mall services more of the urbanized city of San Fernando and the sorrounding areas.

tisoycuba

October 29th, 2007, 04:52 AM

balita pala sa Q Shopping Mall,mga tol!

zelrich82

October 29th, 2007, 05:38 AM

Connected to the main building

salamat po...

Hmmmm....di bale ten minutes ka lang naman sa faves mo Blue Nile at Wild Orchid. :nuts: :D :devil: :rofl: j/k

mmm... don't remember if i got in the blue nile (might've), wild orchid pwede pa; a beer per bar - couldn't remember much those nights :drunk: :puke:
i know for sure voodoo and roadhouse, cleopatra (nung bukas pa); the rest was a blur... :D:colgate:

icarusrising

October 29th, 2007, 07:08 AM

Could anybody post a picture of SM City Clark?

OtAkAw

October 29th, 2007, 10:08 AM

The newly opened Annex 3 of SM Pampanga is not that big compared to the former annexes, and so far, only a few stores are opened. May Crocs store, pero walang Havaianas.

Sinjin P.

October 29th, 2007, 10:13 AM

Could anybody post a picture of SM City Clark?

SM City Clark by aufboy93 (http://flickr.com/photos/aufboy93/), ?munsterinc (http://flickr.com/photos/munsterinc/), bentio168+ (http://flickr.com/photos/roborescue/), martindemo (http://flickr.com/photos/martindemo/) and triggerbeatnik (http://flickr.com/photos/fireant2006_triptych/)

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cabalen25

October 29th, 2007, 06:20 PM

It's because the location of SM City Mall in Mexico, Pampanga is just adjacent to both San Fernando and San Simon, making Barangay Lagundi a good strategic business location in Pampanga. Mexico was upgraded to a 2nd class municipality a couple of years back and no doubt will it vie for 1st class town and eventually its cityhood soon.

cabalen25

October 29th, 2007, 06:23 PM

Mexico, Pampanga
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mexico is a 2nd class municipality in the province of Pampanga, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 109,481 people in 20,382 households. It is named after Mexico, the name of the country in North America.

The town has seen such significant economic progress since it became home to large commercial malls, such as the SM City Pampanga supermall and Robinson's Starmills (both situated in Barrio Lagundi). It has also become a home of one of the world-class residential, commercial and recreational developments in the country, The Lakeshore Leisure Estates.

History
In the 16th century, the place we now call Mexico sat as a crossing point between the Áitâ Mag-Anchî and Áinu (Abûrlin) nations at the upper reaches of the Ábakan River and the international port cities of Bétis and Lúbao to the south. Upland products such as deerskins and beeswax became important commodities to the 16th century Japanese who made candles out of beeswax and samurai armours out of deerskins. Plying their goods down the Ábakan River, these upland traders would have had no choice but to slow down and dock at the place anywhere the river bendsâ€ (nung nú ya másíku ing ílug) or â€œwhere the river has an elbowâ€ before continuing their trip downstream. From there, the river is straight all the way to its mouth at Uáuâ. Enterprising merchants from LÅ*sòng Guo (Luzón: circa 13th AD â€“ 1572 AD) and perhaps even from Japan and China formed a trading base at this natural checkpoint known as Makisíku or Másíku.

Mexicans, during the Spanish regime, settled in that same place, hence, in memory of the Mexicans whom settled alongside the Filipinos and named the town Mexico.

icarusrising

October 29th, 2007, 06:29 PM

SM City Clark by aufboy93 (http://flickr.com/photos/aufboy93/), ?munsterinc (http://flickr.com/photos/munsterinc/), bentio168+ (http://flickr.com/photos/roborescue/), martindemo (http://flickr.com/photos/martindemo/) and triggerbeatnik (http://flickr.com/photos/fireant2006_triptych/)

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1425/741402125_315b7736d5_o.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1427/587503886_1253dd0cbc_b.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/141/402931003_4a51204270_o.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/180/392884801_7863a524e6_o.jpg

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http://farm1.static.flickr.com/121/286942561_31a5e90f19_b.jpg

Salamat sa iyong maagap na pagtugon!

cabalen25

October 29th, 2007, 06:32 PM

Sinjin, an annex may be contiguous or not adjacent at all to an existing building. They may not always be linked together. :lol:

cabalen25

October 29th, 2007, 06:40 PM

tisoycuba

October 29th, 2007, 07:11 PM

cabalen25

October 29th, 2007, 11:48 PM

ang balita ko yun itatayu dyan ay 12 floor or 10 floor building, yun first floor to fifth floor ay apartment yun 6 to 12 floor ay hotel sya. kung medyu malaki lang yun wet market sa check point,Mcdo sana ang itatayu doon eh ang problema,not enough space for parking lot,at almost farm lot sa anunas halos binibili na nang mga koreano. wait for 3 years lang boom na boom na ang friendship area..this is Gerald project.for fields ave.

So it's a 12-storey hotel that they're constructing along Fields Avenue. Would that mean tuloy pa rin ang mall or Uniwide Sales sa Dau Plaza??? That'll be great then and it will appear na extension na ng Angeles City ang Dau, which will surely do good for the economy of Mabalacat.

cabalen25

October 30th, 2007, 12:01 AM

portludlow

October 30th, 2007, 02:13 AM

I heard they're putting up another mall (or department store perhaps?) along Fields Avenue corner McArthur Highway. If that's true, then this is the 6th mall in Angeles City after Jenra, Nepo, Robinson's, SM City Clark, and the proposed Ayala Shopping Mall.

Ang sabi they're supposed to construct this mall where Dau Plaza is but they decided to relocate and invest somewhere near the SCTEx. My sources may not be that reliable so anyone has any scoop on this?

Good sleuthing cabalen25 :)but Im not sure if another mall will be good in that area, i think its hard to compete with SM Clark on the westside, Makro on northside (is it still open?), soon to rise Ayala mall on the east side and Robinsons and Jenra on the southside. This are all within 5 to 10 minutes of each other. Baka ibang klaseng mall yan ahh! :lol:

cabalen25

October 30th, 2007, 03:03 AM

Good sleuthing cabalen25 :)but Im not sure if another mall will be good in that area, i think its hard to compete with SM Clark on the westside, Makro on northside (is it still open?), soon to rise Ayala mall on the east side and Robinsons and Jenra on the southside. This are all within 5 to 10 minutes of each other. Baka ibang klaseng mall yan ahh! :lol:

Not sure though, Portludlow. Haven't been there in Angeles for more than a year so I've no way to verify these developments. But I've seen the SM City Clark pics posted here, looks like ok sya cause it's not as crowded as a typical mall and the structure (IMHO) is way way better than SM City Pampanga in Mexico.

BTW, which is the biggest mall now in Angeles, in terms of area? Is it Robinson's Place, SM Clark, or Nepo Mall?

tisoycuba

October 30th, 2007, 04:04 AM

mas malaki ang SM Clark!wow hah uniwide sale sa DAU.. sulong mabalacat for cityhood!

overtureph

October 30th, 2007, 06:29 AM

I am posting this article in relation still to the Kamikaze shrine in Mabalacat.

Japanese vet haunted by WWII surgical killings in RP

By Harumi Ozawa
Agence France-Presse
Last updated 01:47pm (Mla time) 10/29/2007

Akira Makino, 84, kept his stories of what he saw and did while he was a naval medic during World War Two to himself. But when his wife died, he finally started talking. More than 62 years after Japan's wartime surrender, many elderly veterans are eager to share their experience with the generations of their compatriots who have no real knowledge of Japan's wartime role, and Makino's account of Japanese atrocities in the Philippines was widely regarded as the first of its kind. Before he died earlier this year, Makino sat down with Agence France-Presse correspondent Harumi Ozawa and talked of the horrific abuses committed by his unit, which led to the deaths of at least 50 people, many of them during unnecessary and experimental surgical procedures.

OSAKA, Japan -- More than 60 years had passed, but Akira Makino still suffered nightmares about Filipino hostages and the injections that rendered them unconscious.

Then there was the one about the surgical knife gouging a human liver.

Every time he woke up to the flashbacks of horrific killing scenes, he shut his eyes tight and tried to turn his mind away from something he no longer wanted to think about.

But Makino, 84, also felt he had to speak out about his wartime experiences to as many people as possible during the final years of his life.

"These were nothing but living-body experiments," Makino said as he sat on a bench wearing just his pajamas at a hospital in the western Japanese city of Osaka, making some of his last comments before he died earlier this year.

"My captain combat-surgeon often showed us human intestines, and said this was the liver and that was that and so on," he said. "He did that to train us. The captain said if he died, we would have to take up a scalpel to conduct the operations instead of him."

Makino, a low-ranked medic deployed to a Philippine island during the final years of World War II, began making his striking statements on Japanese war atrocities in public just last year.

He was regarded as the first former Japanese soldier to have been stationed in the Philippines to speak of vivisections on hostages and his remarks caused some controversy as historical memory remains a point of simmering friction between Japan and the countries it invaded.

Nationalist Internet sites launched a campaign branding Makino a liar.

Makino said what he experienced was not systematic atrocity, but rather a glimpse of soldiers' desperation during the disorganized, last-ditch struggle of a nation on the verge of defeat.

On a deserted frontline

It was one year before Japan's surrender when Makino landed on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao in August 1944.

He was assigned as a medic in the 33rd coast guard squad of about 20 soldiers who were in charge of detecting enemy airplanes.

His squad joined a landing force of some 1,500 troops on the fabled Yamato, once the world's largest battleship which US bombers sank later in the war.

"The Yamato was such a huge ship that it could not easily find a suitable port," he said. "So the ship anchored in the middle of Manila Bay and we dispersed to a variety of destinations in the Philippines."

Soon after arriving at the Japanese military base at Zamboanga on the western tip of Mindanao, Makino found himself and his unit cut off from headquarters, with the situation growing worse by the day.

They received no military supplies or orders, let alone medical packages.

The main enemy facing the small Japanese squad were the guerrilla bands formed by Moros, who constantly threatened their station, he said.

"We were told the Moros were such cruel people that they attacked enemies with spears, and we actually rescued some people assaulted by them," Makino said. "I was told many times I should not walk in the palm tree jungle after dark."

Naturally, he said, almost all the hostages they captured were Moros. "We were supposed to keep them alive in captivity, but it was no problem if we 'disposed' of them, in the beheadings the Japanese have become infamous for."

He remembered at least 50 hostages being killed, "including those who got this," he said, moving his hand to imitate a sword cutting off a head.

The frail old man recalled that many others were kept alive as human guinea pigs for his superior combat doctor, who wanted to show young medics like himself how to conduct surgical operations.

"We first anesthetized them -- we usually used injections or oxygen gas," he said. "Then they passed out in a few seconds."

The combat doctor would tell him to watch as he sliced open a hostage's stomach, a scene that Makino says made him so ill he couldn't eat or drink for days afterwards.

"When cooking chicken, the doctor would get amused and say, 'Oh, this is just like human intestines,'" he said.

But Makino said he eventually became accustomed to what he had to do.

"I was desperate," he said. "I didn't want to do anything like that if possible. But I had to follow the orders of my superior as a military man, otherwise I'd have been beaten up."

He could not put a definitive number on how many of the 50 people the unit killed were vivisected or how many of the operations he took part in.

He did say he could never forget those days on the tropical island and even six decades later he could barely talk about his experiences without breaking down.

As he talked about his experiences and memories with AFP, he lowered his eyes and said he felt the most profound guilt over the way the bodies were handled afterwards.

The Japanese made Moros dig holes in the ground, he said, and then they hurled in the bodies with the stomachs still open. "The mud got in all over the human stomach. My captain said there was no need to close the wounds because that would just be a waste of suture thread."

His voice suggesting the troops had some mercy, Makino added: "But we didn't leave any of the bodies out on the ground."

Driven to desperation as war's end neared

Makino's confession revives memories of Imperial Japan's "mad scientist" Lieutenant General Shiro Ishii, who led the infamous Unit 731 in northeastern China, where the Japanese made their colonial base of Manchukuo and conducted germ warfare tests on prisoners.

Ishii is believed to have attempted the mass production of biological weapons by testing deadly germs such as anthrax, dysentery and cholera on prisoners of war, mainly Chinese, and dropping plague-carrying fleas and rats on their villages.

Makino said his unit in the Philippines did not have any organized plan and that it did not test plague germs.

"It was a one-off thing," Makino said. "We didn't take data or anything."

Another veteran, one of only a handful surviving from the Philippine battlefield, said the final days of the war were so desperate they did whatever they thought necessary just to survive.

Yoshihiko Terashima, 86, a former naval chief commander, said he did not commit any living-body experiments himself but added: "That could have easily happened."

"It must have been natural for military doctors to come up with the idea of using whatever they had for tryouts in such destitute situations," he told AFP in a separate interview.

"They had no medicine and no supplies, so then of course they would have had to come up with ways with whatever they had. And they must have done the same thing to injured Japanese soldiers as well," he said.

He contrasted the situation in the Philippines with that in northeastern China, then known as Manchuria.

"There [in Manchuria] Japan was winning the war. During the time of Makino [in the Philippines] we were losing it."

The Americans landed on the Philippines' main Luzon Island in January 1945 and within six months declared victory. An estimated 218,000 Japanese soldiers were killed in the battles on Luzon alone.

Like many Japanese soldiers, Makino and Terashima each fled into the jungles.

At his home in a Tokyo suburb, with cabinets full of war documents and a rolled-up map of the world lying on the floor, Terashima recalled the destitute conditions that he faced while fleeing from US attacks.

"When you holed up in a cave at night, you see huge rats crawling up on the faces of dead bodies, eating the eyeballs," Terashima said in a firm voice. "So we took an iron helmet to catch them and ate them."

"Those dying just lay on the ground, living a few days by eating the maggots that were infesting their own faces."

In later years, both Makino and Terashima repeatedly returned separately to their former battlefields to collect the remains of Japanese soldiers.

Makino traveled back and forth between Japan and the Philippines more than 10 times, taking everyday supplies like rice, pencils and clothes to needy residents of Mindanao.
"I've done it out of a quest for redemption," Makino said.

Remaining silent for his wife

Makino said the past haunted him for years, so much so that he hesitated to marry. "I would tell people that I had reasons for not being able to marry."

It took him 10 years to make up his mind to marry a friend's sister, but said he could not talk to her, or anybody, about the surgical killings committed by his unit in the Philippines.

"It was cruel, too cruel to talk about it to a woman," he said. "My wife might have thought I was such a cruel person. That's what was in my mind."

"While she was with me, I just didn't want her to know about it," said Makino, who kept a monochrome photo of her on his bedside at the hospital where he died in May.

The small, business-card size photo showed a young woman posing in a silk dress, a capeline and gloves.

Another photograph, in color and taken years later at an amusement park, showed two boys wearing baseball caps and his wife, all smiling.

"We were together by fate, so I didn't want her to know anything bad. She grew up as the youngest of four children in her family and totally depended on me."

Makino said her death more than three years earlier freed him to talk publicly about the experiences that haunted him.

"You have to talk when you know you have done something guilty," he said.

"We lost the war because we deserved it," Makino said with bitterness. "We didn't have enough soldiers, enough arms or enough bullets. We didn't have enough of anything."

Makino, whose jobs after the war included laboratory assistant and salesman for a water pipe company, said his life has been one of ups and downs.

"My life was such a mess, not planned at all," he said. "Maybe it was my fault because I had volunteered to join the navy. But I would have been drafted eventually anyway," he said.

"In those days people would have thought something was physically wrong with a man if he was not in the military. Born as a man during that era, I had to go to the war."

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zelrich82

October 30th, 2007, 08:26 AM

tisoycuba

October 30th, 2007, 02:01 PM

But wait Tisoycuba, are you refering to The Lexus Hotel and Condos (http://www.filbuild.biz/lexus_condos/lexus_condo_hotel_angeles_city_pampanga/01_condominium_units_sale_angeles_city.htm) along Rosario Avenue? If it's the one you're pertaining to, then the one along Fields Avenue corner McArthur Highway is definitely an entirely different establishment.

Remember the lot next to where Rosas Handicraft Store is, the one on the right side and if you're facing Chic N' Ribs, nasa left side naman sya? Yup, doon "daw" may itatayong mall or something but it has to be verified yet.

Doon ba,baka yun malapit sa johnny's supermarket.diba yun tabi nang Rosa's handicraft ay mga tailoring shop sila.ic o sige balita na lang kung tuloy talaga yan mall or office bldg. thanks hha :)

overtureph

October 31st, 2007, 06:38 AM

^^they branded him a liar, why would a person that's about to die - lie about something like that. at least he made peace with himself, many are still in denial. it still doesn't clear him though, 'coz he didn't own up to how many errors his done to the filipinos. :ohno:

I think the way the Japanese anesthetize or concealed the true extent of their involvement during the last world war helped them greatly in achieving a sense of nationhood and economic advancement despite the imposition of the allies like for example the post-war Japanese constitution. On the opposite end, the Koreans and the Chinese who also suffered cruelly under Japan even before the war, depended I guess mostly on themselves and took their bitter history to heart and thus progressed and as we can see now, has also advanced in terms of technology and economy (I guess this has something to do with import substitution, as compared to the Philippines). As for us, we where left far behind. We don't even seem to be on the same page when it comes to our own history as a nation and as a people, let alone appreciate it. And thus a policy of mendicancy.

zelrich82

October 31st, 2007, 09:27 AM

^^i like the way you think, i couldn't make out the last part; sensya na, beggars? are you relating it to politics? yon ang understanding ko, i must be wrong...

tisoycuba

October 31st, 2007, 12:59 PM

But wait Tisoycuba, are you refering to The Lexus Hotel and Condos (http://www.filbuild.biz/lexus_condos/lexus_condo_hotel_angeles_city_pampanga/01_condominium_units_sale_angeles_city.htm) along Rosario Avenue? If it's the one you're pertaining to, then the one along Fields Avenue corner McArthur Highway is definitely an entirely different establishment.

Remember the lot next to where Rosas Handicraft Store is, the one on the right side and if you're facing Chic N' Ribs, nasa left side naman sya? Yup, doon "daw" may itatayong mall or something but it has to be verified yet.

balu mo pala ken iglesia ni cristo church ken perimeter road goin to friendship tol:)next to the new hotel goin up beside the iglesia church on perimeter road.The land has been clearing for another hotel .The owner is american ang a 260 room hotel is planned with the entire bottom floor is 7 or 10 floor building hotel and 7 separate bars:cheers:

overtureph

October 31st, 2007, 03:38 PM

^^i like the way you think, i couldn't make out the last part; sensya na, beggars? are you relating it to politics? yon ang understanding ko, i must be wrong...

Yup beggars. Hingi ng assistance dito, hingi ng assistance doon. Utang dito, utang doon. Kahit sabihin pa na soft loan. Sa dinadami dami ng assistance na naibigay, did it make a difference? Or did it mean more money to subsidize the politicians?

Instead of import substitution, import tayo ng mga px goods. We might be one of the top exporters of electronic goods, but is there a transfer of technology? Instead of being innovators, we are assemblers of this products.

cabalen25

October 31st, 2007, 06:17 PM

balu mo pala ken iglesia ni cristo church ken perimeter road goin to friendship tol:)next to the new hotel goin up beside the iglesia church on perimeter road.The land has been clearing for another hotel .The owner is american ang a 260 room hotel is planned with the entire bottom floor is 7 or 10 floor building hotel and 7 separate bars:cheers:

Yup I heard about it but I'm not quite sure if you're refering to Grandview Tower Condominium. Yun ba yun? Or is it another hotel that's under construction? Looks like high-rise buildings na ang tinatayo sa Angeles City ah. Sayang I'm here in North Carolina and I won't be able to attest all these developments happening there in Angeles. Hopefully makapagbakasyon ako next year dyan and see all these.

I foresee na ang area near Barangays Margot and Sapang Bato (along Clark Perimeter Road) are destined to boom in a couple of years, don't you think so? Kung madedevelop lang ang vast land na yan like what the Ayalas did in Makati, ok na ok yun.

tisoycuba

October 31st, 2007, 07:29 PM

the Grandview Tower Conduminium malapit sa Gallion clarkview papunta sa VFW..I think anunas at cauyan mga couple or years boom na sila..

cabalen25

November 1st, 2007, 12:41 AM

the Grandview Tower Conduminium malapit sa Gallion clarkview papunta sa VFW..I think anunas at cauyan mga couple or years boom na sila..

Hmmm... not so good in geography. Hehehe! Where exactly are Barangays Anunas and Cauayan in Angeles? What are they like now? May mga establishments na ba sa areas dyan?

tisoycuba

November 1st, 2007, 12:41 PM

anunas was is friendship h-way area villasol subd. is also part of anunas,cauyan kung saan ang The enclave subd.The Westin Plaza hotel 3 Story Hotel in Clark ave. Villasol subd.open this dec.korean owner hotel.@cabelen etan ken fields ave. corner mcAthur hiway. ay 10 story hotel ang itatayu doon also american ay may-ari si Gerald..

cabalen25

November 1st, 2007, 11:59 PM

thanks, tisoycuba! so hotel pala ang itatayo sa fields avenue corner mcarthur highway, not a mall as it was fed me. seems like tuloy-tuloy ang hotel and condo establishments dyan sa Angeles area na adjacent sa Clark ah.

btw, anyone has pics of tigtigan terakan keng dalan? pa-post naman, pls?

tisoycuba

November 2nd, 2007, 01:13 PM

sorry bro ala ku rin keka tamu eh!

tisoycuba

November 2nd, 2007, 07:10 PM

pero sabi da ken chat room second day kanu masaya bro!@cabalen

cabalen25

November 3rd, 2007, 12:13 AM

okarin ka tol? keni ka rin US? bala ku sa tsu ka rin ken angeles. hehe!

tisoycuba

November 3rd, 2007, 04:19 AM

key west ko bro,atsu ko ken u.s naval !

whippersnapper

November 3rd, 2007, 10:59 AM

i've been to sm pampanga yesterday together with my sweetheart heheheh
haba talaga. nilakad namin dulo sa dulo. kakapagod nga.. peo ok naman

OtAkAw

November 3rd, 2007, 02:33 PM

^^Galing palang kami diyan kanina. Super haba na nga siya and it looks like there may be more room for expansion! Most of the stores in Building 3 are still unopened. I'm rather excited for the new stores, there's Kipling and Von Dutch.

zelrich82

November 3rd, 2007, 04:56 PM

i can't seem to find any listings online kung anong meron sa loob ng SM Pampanga and SM Clark, can anyone give me a link; if there is one.

cabalen25

November 5th, 2007, 01:06 AM

pero sabi da ken chat room second day kanu masaya bro!@cabalen

tol, was it held in the streets of balibago or keng SM Clark pa rin? who were the guests pala? everyone pa-post naman ng pics sa tigtigan terakan pls?

ah keywest ka pala in FL, right? pilan na ka years ken? so that explains why your name is tisoycuba due to FL's proximity to cuba. kewl!

cabalen25

November 5th, 2007, 01:09 AM

whippersnapper

November 5th, 2007, 05:36 AM

btw, is there an ice skating rink in annex 3?

wala akong nakita nung nangpunta kami don at wala talaga ata..

OtAkAw

November 5th, 2007, 03:21 PM

^^Maliit lang yung expansion, imposibleng makapaglagay sila ng ice skating rink dun. Sana sa future...

tisoycuba

November 5th, 2007, 08:23 PM

tol, was it held in the streets of balibago or keng SM Clark pa rin? who were the guests pala? everyone pa-post naman ng pics sa tigtigan terakan pls?

ah keywest ka pala in FL, right? pilan na ka years ken? so that explains why your name is tisoycuba due to FL's proximity to cuba. kewl!

last 3 years atsu ko gitmo,cuba:)

cabalen25

November 6th, 2007, 03:46 AM

last 3 years atsu ko gitmo,cuba:)

pues, habla español, mi paisano? donde esta vive en angeles? :lol:

tisoycuba

November 8th, 2007, 04:25 AM

no habla amigo only puketo! wala ba bago ngayun sa atin like yun mga bagong construction site dyan !

ishtefh_03

November 9th, 2007, 05:02 PM

ang alam ko before plan talaga na maglagay ng entertainment area.. my bowling alley pa nga daw... pero di naman natuloy...

giant lantern schedule... dec. 16, 22, 28-31...

tisoycuba

November 9th, 2007, 08:38 PM

sana yun Q SHOPPING MALL may bowling alley,o kaya yun sa SM PAMPANGA LAGYAN NILA.. like yun sa SUBIC ang cute!

ivanhenares

November 10th, 2007, 01:31 PM

ang alam ko before plan talaga na maglagay ng entertainment area.. my bowling alley pa nga daw... pero di naman natuloy...

giant lantern schedule... dec. 16, 22, 28-31...

Giant Lantern Festival on December 15

cabalen25

November 10th, 2007, 05:55 PM

Giant Lantern Festival on December 15

Willl it still be held at SM Mexico, Pampanga just like the previous years or at Hilaga (Paskuhan) in San Fernando?

Can't wait to see pics of giant lanterns...

portludlow

November 11th, 2007, 06:56 AM

Good News!!! GMA finally succumb to pressure from the local politicos. I hope these proposed interchanges will also benefit the capital city?? Does this also mean GMA is planning to run there for a local post in the future?? :nuts: :banana:
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/pam/2007/11/11/news/p750m.ready.for.3.new.interchanges.html

P750M ready for 3 new interchanges
By Albert B. Lacanlale

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO --- Funds amounting to P750 million for the construction of three new interchanges approved for the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway (SCTEX) are available, the state-owned Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) said in a statement early this week.

Confirming reports that President Arroyo had instructed them to construct the Clark Logistics-2Interchange, the Porac Interchange in Dolores and the Basa Interchange in Floridablanca, BCDA officials said they have raised the necessary funding requirement to build the three interchanges.

These funds, the BCDA said, will be obtained from a supplemental loan the BCDA got from the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC).

All of the new interchanges, which were actually revivals of the original interchanges intended for the toll road, are in Pampanga.

The three interchanges, BCDA said, would cost between P700 and P750 million.

The President's directive to construct the three interchanges was confirmed during a high-level meeting held on November 6, 2007 at the Presidential Management Staff (PMS) office inside the Malacañang Compound.

Among those who attended the meeting were Pampanga Governor Eddie Panlilio, Subic-Clark Alliance for Development Council (SCADC) Chairman Edgardo Pamintuan, Presidential adviser for Central Luzon Lorelei Fajardo, San Fernando Mayor Oscar Rodriguez, Clark International Airport Corp. (CIAC) President Victor Luciano, Clark Development Corporation (CDC) President Levy Laus, and BCDA President Narciso Abaya.

The meeting put to an end the battle for interchanges waged by groups supporting different proposed interchanges.

BCDA said although they have the funds for the interchanges, access roads would still have to be constructed to connect the toll-road to existing roads.

The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) was tasked to seek funds for the access roads.

Detailed engineering designs are expected to be ready in a few weeks, as the SCTEx is hoped to be open to the public by March 2008.

ivanhenares

November 11th, 2007, 05:37 PM

Willl it still be held at SM Mexico, Pampanga just like the previous years or at Hilaga (Paskuhan) in San Fernando?

Can't wait to see pics of giant lanterns...

According to SM, the amphitheater is located completely within the territory of San Fernando. The creek behind the amphitheater marks the boundary with Mexico.

ivanhenares

November 11th, 2007, 05:38 PM

tisoycuba

November 11th, 2007, 08:39 PM

eh di magsikap sila noh,alam mo ang kahirap nasa tao!kaya nga gusto nila magkaroon nang interchanges sa kanila para naman umasenso rin ang lugar nila.dapat lahat makinabang ang city or town kung saan sya dumaan ang ang SCTEX na yan ..

ishtefh_03

November 12th, 2007, 01:20 PM

Giant Lantern Festival on December 15

yup, 15 pero bat may nakalagay dun na 16-22 &28-31? may show every night?? pero 15 yung mismong competition?

portludlow

November 12th, 2007, 03:53 PM

This is one reason why as a nation we cant just put our act together. Among ED was not even given the chance to implement his vision of leadership. Local politicos have wasted no time in underminig him every step of the way. Sad, really sad. :ohno: :bash:

Its the same thing for any president of our country, they are forced to become "trapos" just to get things done. So where do you go from here if you are an incumbent politician. Either you capitulate with them to get cooperation or stand firm and risk being an ineffective leader. :nuts:

Ateneo official rallies support for embattled Panlilio

By TJ Burgonio
Inquirer
Last updated 08:57pm (Mla time) 11/12/2007
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MANILA, Philippines -- A youth leader at the Ateneo de Manila University is rallying support for Pampanga Governor Ed Panlilio who has come under fire from local officials over his exposé of alleged bribery in Malacañang.

Harvey Keh, director for Youth Leadership and Social Entrepreneurship of the AdMU's School of Government, urged the public to send an email of support for the embattled governor at wesupportgovpanlilio@gmail.com.

"I'd like to ask for a few minutes of your time to send an email of support to Governor Ed Panlilio. Let us all tell him that we are behind him in his quest for the Truth,'' he said in an email.

"What is at stake here is not only the people of Pampanga but the nation as a whole. Governor Ed exposed what has long been happening in Malacañang and now he is being punished for it. Will you do something about it?''

Keh said that Panlilio has come under fire from local officials in the province since his exposé.

"Right now, local officials in Pampanga led by Vice Governor Yeng Guiao are ganging up on him and marginalizing him by not respecting his authority as governor,'' he said.

Some media publications in the province were also being used to "destroy his credibility,'' he added.

Panlilio admitted receiving a P500,000 cash gift following a breakfast meeting with President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in Malacañang on October 11. Some congressmen later followed suit.

The President disclaimed any knowledge of the handouts that came on the heels of a fresh complaint to impeach her over a controversial broadband deal with a Chinese firm, among others.

Occidental Mindoro Representative Ma. Amelita Villarosa, a member of the President's party, Kabalikat ng Mamamayang Pilipino (Kampi), said that Kampi was the source of P500,000 given each to at least two congressmen.

Keh said that Panlilio has been performing well in less than six months in office, but has now become the object of black propaganda.

He said for instance that the governor managed to raise a certain amount of quarry taxes in two months, which his predecessor raised in a year.

The mayors and board members are now demanding part of this collection money, and were blackmailing the governor by threatening not to pass key legislation that will benefit the people of Pampanga, according to Keh.

"Isn't this a familiar refrain in our country? Someone does good and yet he is often punished for doing what is right. And worse, while this is happening, many of us just turn a blind eye, without doing anything,'' he said.

"It is no wonder why majority of our government leaders are becoming bolder and bolder in becoming corrupt since for them, no one would dare complaint about it.''

Keh said the Filipinos deserved the current crop of leaders "because we continue to do nothing despite the fact that we see there is something wrong.''

He said that any email of support would be printed and given to Panlilio "to show him that he is not alone in his quest for the Truth.''

"Let us show the world that the Filipino people will not just allow another Good Man to fail and let evil prevail,'' he said.

ivanhenares

November 12th, 2007, 05:33 PM

yup, 15 pero bat may nakalagay dun na 16-22 &28-31? may show every night?? pero 15 yung mismong competition?

Yes. It's always held on a Saturday.

overtureph

November 12th, 2007, 07:21 PM

INQUIRER NORTHERN LUZON
Pampanga’s vanishing ‘talangka’

By Tonette Orejas
Inquirer
Last updated 00:49am (Mla time) 11/07/2007

MACABEBE, Pampanga – Thirty years ago, Teresita Catis, 54, could easily fill a big milk can with talangka (shore crab) in less than a minute in her native town of Macabebe in Pampanga.

Back in 1975, she remembers that the tiny crustaceans were given free by the sackful, which she would make into buro (fermented rice with crablets) and taba ng talangka (crab roe paste).

But in 1991, Mt. Pinatubo erupted. Later, government engineers had to dredge and widen by 500 meters the Pampanga River delta to hasten the flow of floodwaters to the Manila Bay and minimize flooding in Pampanga. Since then, the talangka have been a rare catch, Catis said.

Catis stopped making the native delicacies.

“Napakadalang na nila. Noon, nakatambak sila sa prenza kaya akala mo maitim dun (They’re very rare nowadays. Back then, they crowded the banks, giving the impression that area is dark),” Catis said, remembering better times in her village of Consuelo. The village lies on Pampanga’s boundary, flanked by Hagonoy, Bulacan, in the east and Orani, Bataan, in the west.

Because the talangka has been getting fewer, makers of tabang talangka in Macabebe have been “importing” the crustaceans from Bicol to augment their raw stocks, Masantol Vice Mayor Marcelo Lacap Jr. said.

Catis knows why the talangka come few and far between now. “They’ve lost their homes,” she said, referring to the mangrove forests lost to rain-swept lahar and to a Japanese-funded flood control project built in 1995.

Conversion of banks into brackish fishponds further denied them homes.

Mario Mangiliman, provincial agriculturist, agrees, pointing out that the tiny marine creatures breed in the mangrove forests, which have since been wiped out.

In Consuelo, small mangrove patches account for only 50 hectares, said Jimmy Aberin, chief of the coastal and marine management unit of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Central Luzon.

The entire region, with a coastline of 680 kilometers, has only 900 hectares of mangroves left, Aberin said. The remaining stands are thicker in Dinalungan, Casiguran and Dilasag towns in Aurora, he said.

Central Luzon’s mangrove area, however, has improved, thanks to the efforts of people’s organizations to maintain plantations, Aberin said.

Because they are storm breakers, the mangroves are also sanctuaries of birds of various colors and sizes. The birds render a chorus unheard of anymore in Pampanga’s urban centers.

The mangroves also protect the fishponds from the strong waves from Manila Bay during these days of the amihan (northeast monsoon).

But the mangroves in Macabebe, as perhaps in other coasts in the region, have become repositories of garbage. Plastic bags, noodle and juice packs, Styrofoam or just about any trash have clung to the roots of trees, strangling the propagules or young shoots.

Despite the situation, Catis is hopeful the talangka will eventually come back to Macabebe’s banks.

The local governments of Macabebe, Masantol and Minalin have formed a tandem with the Advocacy for the Development of Central Luzon (ADCL) to rehabilitate the mangroves. Backed up by provincial Board Members Ricardo Yabut and Nelson Calara, they hope to turn the patches into protected forests which, they hope, will make the towns tourist destinations and a center of marine resources trade.

River cruises are among the activities lined up.

ADCL Chair Renato Tayag Jr. said the program should be matched by environmental protection to “sustain the marine ecosystem that supports the communities.”

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