2 posts tagged “home”

Oh, it's been a while since I updated.

Part of my time now goes to gardening, I have a relatively big garden to fill.. and I began digging my garden the other day and literally shovelling soil like I work at a construction site. ^_^

Whomever would say that gardening is easy should be hanged. It's really difficult. It requires work and sweat. In fact, my body is in pain and my muscles are hurt. *sad lips*

My work is somewhat rewarding, though, however, it is pretty expensive, I need to collect plants and do extensive flower and tree choices to make the perfect tropical landscaping I have in mind.

Some of my favorite flowers are in a group called Mussaenda Philippica I learned about it a few years back and that there are several hybrid flowers in it and are named after the First Ladies of the Philippines..  wow, a flower created and named after you.. could there be any ghey-er than that? ^_^

Here are the "Doñas"...

- named after the 1st wife of General Emilio Aguinaldo, Hilaria del Rosario

- named after the wife of President Manuel Quezon, Aurora Aragon

- named after the wife of President Jose P. Laurel, Pacencia Hidalgo

- named after the 2nd wife of President Sergio Osmeña, Esperanza Limjap

- named after the wife of President Manuel Roxas, Trinidad de Leon

- named after the wife of President Elpidio Quirino. Alicia Syquia

- named after the wife of President Ramon Magsaysay, Luz Banzon

- named after the wife of President Carlos P. Garcia, Leonila Dimataga

- named after the second wife of President Diosdado Macapagal, Evangelina Macaraeg

- Named after the wife of President Ferdinand E. Marcos, Imelda Romualdez

- named after the first lady president of the Philippines, President Corazon Cojuangco-Aquino

- named after the wife of President Fidel V. Ramos, Amelita Martinez

 

..but, as a girl's notebook asked, "why isn't there a flower named after Former First Lady Loi Ejercito and President Gloria Arroyo?" ^_^

My auntie/"ninang" celebrated her birthday last weekend, she threw a small informal dinner for 15 at home with us and few of her neighbor friends.

I loved her dinner party! It's themed "Kamayan", where she set up a long table at the backyard garden under the trees and covered it with banana leaves and no spoon and fork will be used, only with our hands, then a nice mood music set the cold evening, and lit torches made of kawayan on the garden walls made the scene very tropical.

She served seafood, crabs, stuffed squid, "sugpo", then there's noodles and rice.

After the dinner, it was turned into a bar where the music became upbeat and modern, and only candles filled the area.. I left while they started getting drunk, I know how different their generation is from mine. Aha. ^_^