Sun Drying

Sun Drying of  Palay on the road

After the recent typhoon, the roads in rural areas of Isabela are back to normal - used as dyer for newly-harvested palay.

Sun drying like this is a common practice among the locals. Although each town has their heated air and in-store drying facilities as well as those Flatbeds being distributed by the Department of Agriculture, some farmers still opt to manually do the job. Mainly because it is cheaper. When they use machines, drying will only take a couple of hours but they have to spend for fuel which is relatively more expensive.   Relying on the sun means lower cost although labor intensive.

The farmers manually need to turn the rice every 30 minutes or so. It is indeed a tough  job. And it's itchy.

Isabela is the second largest province next to Palawan and it is known as the Rice Granary of the North. It produces around 15% of the country's total  rice output.  So during the harvest season, rice in a stretch of streets and even in national highways is a common sight.

After the Storm

Morning after the storm

Super typhoon Megi has now moved to Taiwan and China, but the the havoc that it left behind the Philippines is kind of  sad. Random people have been killed. Now that the roads are clear, but apparently public transport is not available, how do I get home?

Learning and Beyond

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UP keychain

A 10-year old UP key chain

 This is the closest I could get to post about the centennial celebration of the University of the Philippines. Yes, my alma mater is celebrating 100 years since its founding in 1908.

I was browsing the web when I saw the videos of the 100-gun salute and sky-diving exhibition. I didn't realize that the programs and celebrations for this year's is that extravagant and super bongga.

UP has gone a long way. In fact, its system is even way different now than during my college days, which is not too long ago.

Since I am far from being able to dig stuff about my stay in the university as a student, I saw this key chain sitting on the table and I thought of taking a picture of it. This thing itself is old. Somebody gave it to me 10 years ago.

I miss being a student again. No worries, no nothing.  Your only responsibility is to do well and get a high grade.