...Logic wars Alegre, I Babac, R Ga, J. Nemenzo, K. Sangho, M Silva, G. First event: Riddle me this The first event will involve 3 sets of riddles and a whole lot of courage. Each team will choose one brave participant to go inside the panic room for a quick challenge that we have prepared. It will then lead your team to the first riddle set. After your team has completed or has used a “pass.” Your team must then return to the room but must choose a different member to go inside, which will then lead them to the second set of riddles and so on. The team with the lowest score will be eliminated. Scoring: Retrieving the destination of the Riddle Master (The one facilitating or giving out the riddles.): * 1 minute or less: 5 points * 1 – 3 minutes: 3.5 points * 3 – 5 minutes: 3 points * 5 - 6 minutes: 2 points * 6 minutes above: 1 point Answering the Riddles: each riddle answered: 5 points Time: * Within 5 minutes: 10 points * Within 8 minutes: 6 points * Within 12 minutes: 4 points * Within 15 minutes: 2 points Note: Teams can “pass” a riddle but cannot return to the unanswered riddle after. Second Event: Brain Trauma Each member will have a certain injury inflicted on them. It would either be their eyes, mouth, hands or legs, the injured body parts will be tied with a handkerchief and will be unusable all throughout the event. Each team will then be free to roam around after being given a certain clue that will lead them to each...
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... One of the most famous koans next to “Does a dog have the Buddha Nature” is: “Two hands clap and there is a sound. What is the sound of one hand?” This Koan comes from the Zen master Hakuin and is commonly misquoted as: “What is the sound of one hand clapping?” When Zen master Michael Elliston gave his talk about Zen he explained this to us, and although I would not describe this as a moment of “enlightenment” I felt a moment of sudden understanding for this Koan. The simple knowledge of the word clapping not being a part of the koan was not the only reason for this feeling of understanding. At the start of the talk Abbot Elliston explained the bowing motion done by Buddhist. He explained how one hand represented the Buddha nature and the other hand represented us as we are already, and putting them together symbolizes that they are one and the same. So when Master Elliston said “What is the sound of one hand” I thought of it in the same way as a hand being used to bow. The way I understood this koan was that the sound of one hand is nothing, and more specifically using a Buddhist term, mu. Mu not necessarily meaning nothing or no, but more over nothingness or emptiness. Emptiness relates to the concept of dependent origination in that nothing exists in and of itself. Everything exists only because of a series of causes and conditions and then ceases to exist because of other cause and conditions. So in the case of this koan both hands when together make the sound that is commonly...
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...Memorable Kapampangans and Their Contributions MEMORABLE KAPAMPANGANS | DESCRIPTION | CONTRIBUTION/S | | | | 1. José Abad Santos | He was born in San Fernando, Pampanga to Vicente Abad Santos and Toribia Basco. He was the fifth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. | He briefly served as the Acting President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines during World War II, in behalf of President Quezon after the government went in exile to the United States. After about two months, he was killed by the Japanese forces for refusing to cooperate during their occupation of the country. | 2. Eliseo Fernando "Bro. Eli" Soriano | He is a Filipino televangelist. He is the current Presiding Minister of thePhilippines-based Christian organization Members Church of God International, colloquially known through its radio and television program Ang Dating Daan He was born to Triunfo Soriano and Catalina Fernando in Pasay City and is the seventh of eight children. He grew up in Pampanga. He started school at the age of eight. | His radio and television program is considered the longest-running religious program in the Philippines.Soriano is known for his signature method of "Bible Expositions". This live event adopts the symposium format where guests and visitors get the chance to ask Soriano with their questions personally or by live video streaming. | 3. Satur Ocampo | He was born in Santa Rita, Pampanga, Philippines. He is a Filipino party-list representative...
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...4.Ang Barlaan at Josephat 5.The Pasion 6.Urbana at Felisa 7.Ang mga Dalit kay Maria (Psalms for Mary) 9. LITERARY COMPOSITIONS 10. 1. Arte y Reglas de la Lengua Tagala (Art and Rules of the Tagalog language) 2. Compendio de la Lengua Tagala (Understanding the Tagalog language) 3. Vocabulario de la Lengua Tagala (Tagalog vocabulary) 4. Vocabulario de la Lengua Pampanga (Pampango vocabulary) 5. Vocabulario de la Lengua Bisaya (Bisayan vocabulary) 6. Arte de la Lengua Ilokana (The Art of the Ilocano language) 7. Arte de la Lengua Bicolana (The Art of the Bicol Language) 11. FOLK SONGS 12. Example: • Leron-Leron Sinta (Tagalog) • Pamulinawen (Iloko) • Dandansoy (Bisaya) • Sarong Banggi (Bicol) • Atin Cu Pung Singsing (Kapampangan) 13. RECREATIONAL PLAYS 14. There were many recreational plays performed by Filipinos during the Spanish times. Almost all of them were in poetic form. 15. CENAKULO Dramatic performance of the passion and death of Christ...
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...PEOPLE, CULTURE AND THE ARTS The Pampangos share the general culture and traditions of the lowland Christian Filipinos, especially of their Tagalog neighbors to the east and south. However, they speak a distinct language, which is a source of ethnic pride. Spanish chroniclers and early anthropologists have remarked on the distinctiveness of that language and they have proposed theories that the Pampangos may have come to the Philippines from Java or elsewhere in Southeast Asia. The Pampangos apply themselves to the same industries as the Tagalogs but are renowned for certain crafts for which they excel. They are exceptional jewelers and goldsmiths, as well as furniture makers and woodcarvers. Antique jewelry and furniture from Pampanga are considered valuable heirlooms by Filipino families and as priced possessions by antique collectors. Pampangos are renowned throughout the archipelagos as excellent cooks. They have ingeniously incorporated indigenous, Spanish and Chinese elements into their cuisine that have made the Pampanga food preparation and culinary arts both exotic and sumptious. Among the more known specialities of the Pampangos include buro, which is meat, fish or vegetables preserved in brine or fermented with rice, tapa, or dried beef or venison, tocino, or cured pork, longaniza or spiced pork sausages, aligi, or crab fat, and sisig, or sizzling pig cheeks. The province of Pampanga had been held under the influence of the Catholic Church since the beginning of...
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...Suban-ons are just few examples of these epics. As for legends, we have the Legend of Mt. Mayon, the Legend of the Banana, The Legend of the Pineapple, The Legend of the Makahiya, the Legend of the Frog among others. Ancient Filipinos search for explanations for natural phenomena and their closely knit relations with nature have ignited their imaginations and led them to create legends. The Kapampangans are a perfect example of this. Mount Arayat, a mountain located in a town in Pampanga with the same name has aroused the imagination of ancient Kapampangans to create the legend of Sinukuan. Mount Arayat, also known as Mount Sinucuan of Arayat, is a dormant volcano whose last eruption dates back some 500,000 years ago. According to the theory of Fray Martin de Zuniga, this mountain which is visible from Manila Bay, was created by a giant whirlpool at the beginning of time. Old Kapampangan folklore says that it used to be located in the present site of the Candaba Swamp in Candaba, another small town in Pampanga. Evangelina Hilario-Lacson, in her book entitled, Handumon 2 Kapampangan Writing: A Selected Compendium and Critique mentioned that, according to the legend, Sinukuan got extremely disappointed with the people of Candaba that he lifted up the entire mountain and transferred it to its present site in Arayat, thus, leaving behind the basin...
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...B. overview: Pampanga’s Best Incorporated This is a true-to-life story of a reputable family enterprise that emerged from humble beginnings about four decades ago; a simple home industry that has grown through the years into a multi-million peso corporation which is nationally known today as Pampanga’s Best, Incorporated. Attribute this success to the ingenuity, hard work, patience and a lot of sacrifices of a woman and her supportive husband, coupled with her abiding faith that works, to an Almighty and Eternal Loving God. When Mrs. Lolita O. Hizon, the woman, was asked by a newspaperman in an interview on “what she thinks is the secret behind her success”, she said, “I believe it is more of a divine plan; in other words, providential. All these years, I see as a visible hand guiding us always for a purpose. I would say it is Divine Providence-that is the secret”. Ever optimistic and persevering, the couple, inspite all the loss and sufferings brought about the unfortunate calamities of the past decades, without fret and complaint saw beyond them an opportunity. With Mrs. Hizon’s ring as collateral, they borrowed P3,000.00 from a local savings bank to put an extension of their kitchen at Dolores Homesite to be used as a place for a new kind of pork processing, which Mrs. Hizon had discovered and experimented on, to improved “tapa processing”, making an edge over other competitors. She devised a formula of her own, which involved the right kind of mixture, temperature...
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...the Philippines located in Central Luzon or Region 3. City of San Fernando is the capital which surrounded by the provinces of Bataan and Zambales, Tarlac, Nueva Ecija and Bulacan. Pampanga is called as the Culinary Capital of the Philippines because the province is blessed which great cooks which are trained by the Spaniards during the colonial period. These great cooks pass their culinary expertise from generation to generation. Pampanga is very much known for its first-rate cuisines and delicacies according to culinary experts that’s why it was tagged as the Culinary Capital of the Philippines. Blogger, Ravaged Face who is a pure Kapampangan, shared her insights about their province’ food expertise. It’s indisputable that we are the home of the best dishes in the county and this has always makes me proud to be a Kapampangan. We don’t settle for anything less than the best- I guess the passion and talent for food runs in the blood of every...
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...GENERAL TYPES OF LITERATURE Literature can generally be divided into two types: prose and poetry. Prose consists of those written within the common flow of conversation in sentences and paragraphs, while poetry refers to those expressions in verse, with measure and rhyme, line and stanza and has a more melodious tone. I. Prose There are many types of prose. These include novels, biographies, short stories, contemporary dramas, legends, fables, essays, anecdotes, news and speeches. 1. Novel. This is a long narrative divided into chapters. The events are taken from true-to-life stories and spans a long period of time. There are many characters involved. 2. Short Story. This is a narrative involving one or more characters, one plot, and one single impression. 3. Plays. This is presented in a stage. It is divided into acts and each act has many scenes. 4. Legends. These are fictitious narratives, usually about origins. 5. Fables. These are fictitious and they deal with animals and inanimate things who speak and act like people and their purpose is to enlighten the minds of children to events that can mold their ways and attitudes. 6. Anecdotes. These are merely products of the writer’s imagination and the main aim is to bring out lessons to the reader. 7. Essay. This expresses the viewpoint or opinion of the writer about a particular problem or event. 8. Biography. This deals with the life of a person which may be about himself, his autobiography...
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...PHILIPPINE LITERATURE Philippine literature is the body of works, both oral and written, that Filipinos, whether native, naturalized, or foreign born, have created about the experience of people living in or relating to Philippine society. It is composed or written in any of the Philippine languages, in Spanish and in English, and in Chinese as well. Philippine literature may be produced in the capital city of Manila and in the different urban centers and rural outposts, even in foreign lands where descendants of Filipino migrants use English or any of the languages of the Philippines to create works that tell about their lives and aspirations. The forms used by Filipino authors may be indigenous or borrowed from other cultures, and these may range from popular pieces addressed to mass audiences to highly sophisticated works intended for the intellectual elite. Having gone through two colonial regimes, the Philippines has manifested the cultural influences of the Spanish and American colonial powers in its literary production. Works may be grouped according to the dominant tradition or traditions operative in them. The first grouping belongs to the ethnic tradition, which comprises oral lore identifiably precolonial in provenance and works that circulate within contemporary communities of tribal Filipinos, or among lowland Filipinos that have maintained their links with the culture of their non-Islamic or non-Christian ancestors. The second grouping consists of works that show...
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...PHILIPPINE THEATER Theater in the Philippines is as varied as the cultural traditions and the historical influences that shaped it through the centuries. The dramatic forms that flourished and continue to flourish among the different peoples of the archipelago include: the indigenous theater, mainly Malay in character, which is seen in rituals, mimetic dances, and mimetic customs; the plays with Spanish influence, among which are the komedya, the sinakulo, the playlets, the sarswela, and the drama; and the theater with Anglo-American influence, which encompasses bodabil and the plays in English, and the modern or original plays by Fihpinos, which employ representational and presentational styles drawn from contemporary modern theater, or revitalize traditional forms from within or outside the country. The Indigenous Theater The rituals, dances, and customs which are still performed with urgency and vitality by the different cultural communities that comprise about five percent of the country’s population are held or performed, together or separately, on the occasions of a person’s birth, baptism, circumcision, initial menstruation, courtship, wedding, sickness, and death; or for the celebration of tribal activities, like hunting, fishing, rice planting and harvesting, and going to war. In most rituals, a native priest/priestess, variously called mandadawak, catalonan, bayok, or babalyan, goes into a trance as the spirit he/she is calling upon possesses him/her. While entranced...
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...IGOROTS * Home * IGOROT SONGS * IGOROT DANCE * IGOROT TRADITIONS * MONEY ON THE MOUNTAIN IGOROT TRADITIONS IGOROT TRADITIONS When we talk about Igorot identity and culture, we also have to consider the time. My point is that: what I am going to share in this article concerning the Igorot culture might not be the same practiced by the Igorots of today. It has made variations by the passing of time, which is also normally happening to many other cultures, but the main core of respect and reverence to ancestors and to those who had just passed is still there. The Igorot culture that I like to share is about our practices and beliefs during the "time of Death". Death is part of the cycle of life. Igorots practice this part of life cycle with a great meaning and importance. Before the advent of Christianity in the Igorotlandia, the Igorots or the people of the Cordilleran region in the Philippines were animist or pagans. Our reverence or the importance of giving honor to our ancestors is a part of our daily activities. We consider our ancestors still to be with us, only that they exist in another world or dimension. Whenever we have some special feasts (e.g., occasions during death, wedding, family gathering, etc.), when we undertake something special (like going somewhere to look for a job or during thanksgiving), we perform some special offer. We call this "Menpalti/ Menkanyaw", an act of butchering and offering animals. During these times we call them...
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