Jeepney (dyip-nee)

Did you heard the word "patok" (popular). Patok is the term usually used for the jeepney loaded with accessories and with pleasing sound to the passenger and the fast running vehicles from the Philippines known as " jeepney"
The Philippine "king of the road" and only found in the Philippines. Jeepney are the most popular means of transportation in the Philippines, in Metro and in the provinces. The jeepney became a part of the culture and tradition of the Philippines. A multi- seater vehicle PUV (Public Utility Vehicle) which very common on the main roads of the country. A cheap way of transportation that fit the allowance of the student and a minimum base salary for the employee.
It was also a symbol of Filipino creativity,innovativeness and ingenuity.Nowadays it became a tarnished icon, its threatented from many fronts such as rising cost and competition of the "cheaper alternative" (is there any cheaper than this vehicle) as bullied goverment regulation. Whatever happens jeepney become a part of our tradition.

Some of the well-known jeepney manufacturer /mark in the Philippines includes:

Sarao (pioneer in jeepney production)
Armak ( one of the largest)
Mega (which also produces the Lanceta line in Lipa)
Malagueña (well known factory in Cavite)
LGS Motors
Morales
Marinel (jeepney makers based in Rizal)

EDSA People Power

EDSA was fill of Filipino during People Power

Religious people,offering prayer and peace to the soldier during EDSA 1

Filipino expressing their victory

One of the biggest history happen in the Philippines that out bust the dictatorship of Marcos was happen in 1986. The Filipinos make a world history by showing the world the Filipinos can be united and willing to give their life for the native land.

The People Power Revolution (also known as the EDSA Revolution and the Philippine Revolution of 1986) was a series of nonviolent and prayerful mass street demonstrations in the Philippines that occurred in 1986. It is sometimes referred to as the Yellow Revolution due to the presence of yellow ribbons during the arrival of Ninoy Aquino.These protests were the culmination of a long resistance by the people against the 20-year running authoritarian regime of then president Ferdinand Marcos and made news headlines as "the revolution that surprised the world". The majority of the demonstrations took place at Epifanio de los Santos Avenue, known more commonly by its acronym EDSA, in Quezon City, Metropolitan Manila and involved over 200,000 Filipino civilians as well as several political, military, and religious figures, such as Jaime Cardinal Sin. The protests, fueled by a resistance and opposition of years of corrupt governance by Marcos, occurred from February 22 to 25 in 1986, when Marcos fled Malacañang Palace to the United States and conceded to Corazon Aquino as President of the Philippines.

Now a days the EDSA became a place for people power to express their protest to the Government. People power 1 and People power 2 became succesfully outbust the president of the Philippines.

This event was simply show us the we Filipino people can be better if only united. Set aside our conflict and have the common goal for the country.

Filipino we can do it!!!!!!

Philippine Tarsier (Tarsius Syrichta )

Did you know that this cute tiny animal can be only found in the Philippines. One of the tourist attraction in Bohol (one of the province in Visaya Philippines). The tour in Bohol will not be completed if you miss to see the cutie cutie tiny winnie tarsier.

A cute tiny animal you can only found in our own land,Philippines with measuring about 4 to 6 inches (15 cm) in height. The small size makes it difficult to spot. The average mass for males is around 134 grams, and for females, around 117 grams. The average adult is about the size of a human fist and will fit very comfortably in the human hand.

It is locally known as "Maumag" a Cebuano/ Visayan local name of Tarsier is now an endangered endemic to the Philippines archipelago. The Philippine Tarsier has thick and silky fur which is colored gray to dark brown. The thin tail, usually used for balance, is naked or bald except for a tuft of hair at the end, and is about twice the body length. Its elongated "tarsus," or ankle bone, which gives the tarsier its name, allows it to jump at least three meters from tree to tree without having to touch the ground.

The Philippine Tarsier has been called "the world's smallest monkey" or "smallest primate" by locals before. However, the Philippine Tarsier is neither a monkey nor the smallest primate. It is related to other primates, including monkeys, lemurs, gorillas and humans but it occupies a small evolutionary branch between the strepsirrhine prosimians, and the haplorrhine simians. While it is a prosimian, and used to be grouped with the rest of the prosimians, it has some phylogenetic features that caused scientists to classify it as a haplorrhine and, therefore, more closely related to apes and monkeys than to the other prosimians.

Kingdom : Animalia

Phylum : Chordata

Class : Mammalia

Order : Primates

Family : Tarsiidae

Genus : Tarsius

Species : T. Syricha

Scientific Name : Tarsius Syricha