Gintong Pamana - Philippine Gold Treasure

Here are a few images of the gold treasure found in the Philippines. There were belts of pure gold, gold masks, gold daggers, gold ornaments, bowls, bracelets, rings, pectorals, earrings, and a pure gold rope that turned out to be a sacred thread and weighs 400 kilos, so intricately designed that one could just stare at it in wonder. I got the few images but not all.

Dagger Handle

A dagger handle from the Surigao Treasure. The swirling lines and the asymmetric form suggest raging flames surrounding a bird's head with a disk at the tip of its long beak. In Indonesia, the garuda or sun-bird was the god Vishnu's vehicle. In old Philippine languages, the sun was also called hari, or king. The symbolism here, then, is that the Butuan kings were vehicles of the divine.

Facial Covers

Scribed swirls and waves on headbands and facial covers from Butuan inspired by waves or the niaga, the snake or dragon motif, which symbolized the sea, which the ancient Filipinos mastered. The abstract pattern expresses the dynamism of ancient Philippine civilization. Those patterns and motifs survive in the southern Philippine okir design tradition. Artisans used a stylus -- perhaps just a pointed bamboo stick -- to scribe the patterns on the hammered sheet.

Gold bowl from the Surigao treasure

Ear ornament discovered in Arasasan in Mindanao.

Below are the other pictures of the gold ornament discover in Surigao. The man who allegedly found these valuable pieces of treasure sold some of them and left most of the treasure to a priest in their parish. Eventually, these gold pieces found their way to the Ayala Museum and the Central Bank of the Philippines.

 

The gold treasure in Surigao Sur

Philippines Is Rich Of Gold Treasure

Philippines is known of many treasures found from people in any place of the country. The most famous is the finding of Mr. Rogelio Rojas, a former Filipino soldier who had worked as a locksmith before allegedly discovering in a cave north of Manila a hidden chamber full of gold bars and a giant golden Buddha statue.

Lots of people hunting the Yamashita treasure anywhere in the Philippines. Some found the gold, and many of them are not lucky.

In 1981, Mr. Berto Morales, a farmer working as a bulldozer operator in an irrigation project in Surigao struck gold. He discovered a treasure trove of gold ornaments while bringing down a hill to collect filling materials.

According to the Probe documentary film, the treasures were discovered in an excavation site in Surigao. There were belts of pure gold, gold masks, gold daggers, gold ornaments, bowls, bracelets, rings, pectorals, earrings, and a pure gold rope that turned out to be a sacred thread or "sablay" and weighs 400 kilos, so intricately designed that one could just stare at it in wonder. The man who allegedly found these valuable pieces of treasure sold some of them and left most of the treasure to a priest in their parish. Eventually, these gold pieces found their way to the Ayala Museum and the Central Bank of the Philippines.

Gintong Pamana Video Made by Probe Team



After Probe's documentary, I made it a point to search more about the gold of our ancestors. What I found is something important to me since I never learned this in school. We were taught that the Spaniards came here for the spices. Maybe it is partly true but there is more to spices. I actually found a blog that proposes that the Philippines is actually a gold-rich land. In some of the accounts made by the colonizers, they described our ancestors as adorned with gold from head to toe. "Gold as big as eggs" could be found just "lying around." The king had gold in his teeth and ate in golden plates. Even his abode has pure gold as part of the structure. Wow!

Cute and Pretty Girl

I found this pretty girl photos in google. I like her smile, very cute. The legs and body is awesome. I wonder if all pretty girls ever get tired of being pretty all the time. What do you think?

If you're lucky enough to have a pretty girl love you and share herself and sleep with you, make that your secret. The best way to spoil love is by talking to too many people about it.

Cagwait White Beach Resort, Surigao Del Sur

Cagwait White Beach Resort is also known as “Waikiki Beach” of the Philippines.

In modern times, this beach, was credited as “Boracay of Caraga” where the annual “Kaliguan Festival” was held in every 24th of June.

When you have the time to visit this place, your first impression was the scenic horseshoe shape coastline with powdery white sand and crystal clear bright water facing the pacific ocean. And you, will really appreciate its beach pristine beauty. This could be, in the future, another hot spot destination in Caraga for local and international tourists. Here is a few photos of this nice place below:

How to get there?

It is a 4-hour ride by a bus from Butuan City to Cagwait, Surigao Del Sur.

New Looks For Justin Bieber And Selena Gomez

It appears that Justin Bieber, and Selena Gomez has decided it is time for a change.

Oh, don't worry - the super couple still together! The two teenagers decided to change their hairstyles only, that's all ... I'm sorry if I upset anyone!

Bieber showed off a return to the original look made he made famous - eye-skimming swooping bangs- on Wednesday during a visit to the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Selena Gomez, meanwhile, threw caution to the wind and went for a more dramatic transformation. While her boyfriend was busy in Las Vegas, she dropped by her favorite salon in West Hollywood and added striking blue and purple extensions in her hair.

"Change is good," Gomez tweeted on Wednesday, along with a photo of her bright color's locks. "LOVE." Meanwhile, Bieber had no public comment on any of his own or his new gal pal new styles.

Well, now, the verdict is up to you: Do you like Justin and Selena new hairstyles? Post your comments below:

The Splash Island In Laguna Philippines

Time flies really fast. I was there in Splash Island four years ago when im still single and love the place very much. Yesterday is different. Im taking my two-year old son to this wonderful waterworld. Children naturally love playing in water and I thought my son would enjoy this oasis, which is a few kilometers away from the concrete Metro Manila jungle. When it comes to water fun, I must say the Splash Island is one of the best in the Philippines today.

Splash Island Intrance

Anyway, should you intend to visit Splash Island, I suggest you immediately look for a table, hut or place where you could place your things. That’s necessary if you have a few bags with you, but you could always use the locker in case you have not much stuff with you. You can’t bring in water and food, so save yourself the hassle of bringing baon. When you’re ready to go enjoy, change into your swimming gear and take a shower at the Shower Room.

Agos Grandes at Splash Island

Here are some of the stops you may find interesting: Magellan’s Drop (mat-race ride; downhill slide with you on your belly), Rio Montanosa (also called family raft, the starting point is higher than the Magellan’s Drop, with bigger rafts enough to accommodate the entire family). If you want to warm up your butt and slide, take the Dos Supremos and the King Pilipit (both with no mat or rubber — just you and the slide). If you want to slide but prefer a rubber raft between the surface and your behind, take the Big Bam Boo and the Twisted Palms. If you just want to sit around and imagine that you’re at the beach, try the Agos Grandes, a swimming pool with waves.

Splash Island is not entirely for the teens and adults. Children could also run around and enjoy at the Water Wahoo, although it’s not unusual to see adults also enjoying the place. At the back of Water Wahoo are water slides for children (Twin Coco Knot and Curl-of-the-Orient). I thought my son would be afraid of the slides, but here he is enjoying the kiddie slide (and subsequently came to conquer the tallest slide — the Rio Montanosa).

All the activities will definitely make you hungry, so either buy food from the stalls around the place or at the main foodcourt — Fiesta sa Pulo (among the outlets at the food court is Kenny Roger’s Roasters). After eating, relax a bit by floating around the entire area through the Balsa River. Grab a “raft,” then just go with the flow around the entire place.

Splash Island is not open throughout the year, most probably because the revenue is not enough to cover the operating costs during the rainy season. Splash Island is open only between March and June. This year, I heard they will operate only until June 15, in time for the start of classes.

How much. Admission fee is different in weekdays and weekends. During weekdays, admission fee is P250 for adults and P200 for children/senior citizens.

On weekends, admission fee is P325 for adults and P250 for children/senior citizens.

Boracay Island Philippines

Boracay is an island of the Philippines located approximately 315 km (196 mi) south of Manila and 2 km off the northwest tip of Panay Island in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines. Boracay Island and its beaches have received awards numerous times. Boracay was awarded in the "Travelers' Choice 2011" by TripAdvisor as the second best beach (out of 25) in the world. Boracay made a debut appearance on the Top 10 Islands list in the Travel + Leisure travel magazine World's Best Awards 2011, ranking fourth.

The island comprises the barangays of Manoc-Manoc, Balabag, and Yapak (3 of the 17 barangays which make up the municipality of Malay), and is under the administrative control of the Philippine Tourism Authority in coordination with the Provincial Government of Aklan.

Boracay Island Philippines History

Boracay was originally home to the Ati tribe. Boracay is part of Aklan Province, which became an independent province on April 25, 1956.

In the late 1800s the island was "discovered" by Sofia Gonzales Tirol. She and her husband Lamberto Hontiveros Tirol, a town judge on nearby Panay island, took ownership of substantial properties and began to clear and develop the island.

Boracay Island was relatively unknown until tourism began to develop in the 1970s, after the movie Too Late the Hero was filmed on locations in Boracay and Caticlan. In the 1980s, the island became popular as a budget destination for backpackers,an by the 21st century, had grown to become one of the major tourist destinations in the Philippines.

When you visit Philippines, don't forget to include Boracay in your iterinary. Read more info about Boracay

Tiger Woods Ex-Wife Destroys $12 million mansion

Elin Nordegren, Tiger Wood ex-wife bulldozes $12 million home. There are times when divorce forces people to do strange things. Burn sheets. Throw out clothes. Toss rings into the ocean. But when you get $100 million in your divorce, you can trump just about anything and that's what happened with Tiger Woods' ex-wife Elin Nordegren when she bought a $12 million home and bulldozed the whole thing.

Courtesy of Pacific Coast News

Yes, according to TMZ, Elin Nordegren bought a $12 million home in North Palm Beach, Fla., but didn't like it, and has plowed the whole thing.

The house, which had six bedrooms and eight bathrooms, is now just rubble, with no word yet on what is going to replace the beautiful building you see above, but I guess when you have nine figures in the bank, it doesn't really matter what you want.

A comments from yahoo news says:

This story makes me sick to my stomach. What a waste! There are millions of people in this country who can barely make their rent or mortgage payments each month and this woman bulldozes a perfectly good $12 million home. What a crazy world this is. Yahoo news

What do you think? Post your comments below:

Two penguins holding hands

This is a rare photograph of two penguins holding hands. Very cute and fascinating photo. This is a real penguin not in the movie happy feet. It is very interesting to see the two birds loving to each other. These are good lessons for as human to love each other and to apply the golden rule in our everyday life.

Silviu Ghetie, a photographer from Romania, snapped a once in a lifetime shot when he managed to perfectly capture this adorable moment of two penguins holding “hands” in Port Lockroy on the Antarctic Peninsula. See more cuddling-animals photos in Flickr. (Photo: Silviu Ghetie / Caters News)

720 million Euro Top Prize Of "El Gordo"

People celebrates winning a share in the top prize of Spain's Christmas lottery known as "El Gordo" or "The Fat One" with the number 58268 in the small town of Granen, northern Spain, Thursday Dec. 22, 2011, around 300 kilometers from Madrid.

Economic gloom is taking a back seat in Spain as the lottery billed as the world's richest dishes out some euro 2.52 billion ($3.29 billion) to winners across the nation. The top prize of euro 720 million, dubbed "El Gordo" was split Thursday among the holders of tickets bearing the number 58268. The number appeared on 1,800 tickets. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)

Spanish Christmas Lottery

The Spanish Christmas Lottery (Sorteo de Navidad or Lotería de Navidad) is a national lottery game organized every year since 1812 by a branch of the Spanish Public Administration, now called Loterías y Apuestas del Estado. The name Sorteo de Navidad was used for the first time in 1892. As measured by the total prize payout, the Christmas Lottery is considered the biggest lottery worldwide. In 2006, if all of the tickets were sold, the total amount payout of prizes would be worth more than €2.142 billion (70% of ticket sales).

Nature Nice Pictures

I found this nature nice pictures from yahoo taken from different places. It is very good to see. I hope you Enjoy!

Photographer Sam Dobson captured this amazing arctic white rainbow on a recent trip to the North Pole. The rare white rainbow is actually known as fog bow as it occurs in foggy conditions rather than rainy ones. It appears white because the water droplets in fog are much smaller than raindrops and as the droplets get smaller, the colors disappear. See more white-rainbow photos in Flickr. (Photo: Sam Dobson / Caters News)

Jungle Nymphs rest on a zookeeper's hand during a photocall to promote London Zoo's annual stock take of animals on January 4, 2012 in London, England. The zoo's stocktake takes place annually, and gives keepers a chance to check on the numbers of every one of the animals from stick insects and frogs to tigers and camels. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Smoke and ash billows from Mount Etna framed by the Sicilian town of Zafferana, near Catania, southern Italy, Thursday Jan. 5, 2012. The eruption of the Mount Etna volcano lasted a few hours and was the first in 2012. (AP Photo/Carmelo Imbesi)

Melting water creates marble-like ice caves

Melting water creates these marble-like ice caves in the Vatnajokull ice flow in Iceland.

A photographer braved freezing conditions to capture the caverns, which can be deadly because of the shifting ice. “The glaciers are constantly moving and changing their formation,” said the photographer. (Photo: Skarphedinn Thrainsson / Caters News)

 The picture above is taken from Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival. Visitors take pictures of buildings made from blocks of ice for the Harbin International Ice and Snow Festival in Harbin in northeastern China's Heilongjiang province, on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012. The festival is scheduled to officially open on Thursday night, Jan. 5. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Mystery over dead fish discovery

20 tons of herring wash up on Norway coast

An estimated 20 tons of dead herring fish mysteriously washed up on the cost of Norway and then disappeared. The fish remains turned up on Norway's northern coast on New Year's Eve, and officials are still looking to explain just how and why they showed up.

Molly the dog discovers 20 tons of herring on a Norwegian beach

"People say that something similar happened in the 80s," said local resident Jan-Petter Jorgensen, 44, who was walking his dog Molly when he made the discovery.

"Maybe the fish have been caught in a deprived oxygen environment, and then died of fresh water?" Jorgensen asked.

Maybe so. Other possible explanations are that the herring may have been driven ashore by predators or washed onto the shore by a powerful storm. Jens Christian Holst of Norway's Institute of Marine Research told the AP that the great herring surge likely came about via a combination of factors. Holst also said the institute will be testing some of the fish to make sure they did not die from disease.

Locals, meanwhile, had to ponder just what a seaside community does with 20 tons of dead fish. However, nature once more intervened, and the massive dead-herring haul vanished just as quickly as it seemed to have appeared. Holst says that coastal tidewaters most likely washed the fish remains back into the North Sea.

Regardless of how this most recent mystery pans out, one clear takeaway is that ocean-borne weather is fickle--and powerful. Coastal weather storms have been known to carry living things from the ocean before dropping them along the coast. And as the Sideshow recently noted, a shower of 1,000 apples that fell on an English town could well be related to ocean weather patterns. Yahoo News

A BBQ in Britain

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron and U.S. President Barack Obama serve food to a member of the military during a barbecue in the garden of 10 Downing Street May 25 in London, England.

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron and U.S. President Barack Obama

President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle enjoy a glass of Guinness in his ancestral home of Moneygall, Ireland May 23.

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama meet Britain's Prince William and his new wife Catherine at Buckingham Palace May 24. The president's visit, however, was shadowed by the tornadoes that ripped across the U.S. Midwest the day before, killing 116 people. He took time out to say he was "heartbroken" over the losses.

The Iconic Image

President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and members of the national security team receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House May 1.

Intense: President Obama watches the mission unfold at the White House along with (left) Vice President Joe Biden, (right) Defence Secretary Robert Gates, and (second right) Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, alongside other Security staff, including (back left) Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Admiral Mike Mullen, (back without a tie) National Security Adviser Tom Donilon, and (back right, white shirt) Counter-Terrorism chief John Brennan.

Students gather at the fence on the north side of the White House and sing the Star Spangled Banner upon hearing the news May 1 that Osama bin Laden had been killed.

An ecstatic crowd gathers outside the White House May 1, energized by the news that the United States had killed Sept. 11 mastermind Osama bin Laden.

People gather outside the White House May 1 chanting "U.S.A! U.S.A!" as President Barack Obama announces the news that Osama bin Laden is dead.

Report sources: http://www.dailymail.co.uk