Metered-stamp postcard from the place of origin: BOHOL
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
PHILIPPINE POSTCARDS COLLECTION
ATI-ATIHAN
Ati-Atihan is a January festival of Aklan, Panay Island in honor of the Christ Child. The participants, representing the Negrito or Ati of the hinterislands, carry spear and are painted in soot and dressed in bright colors.
PHILIPPINE POSTCARDS COLLECTION
MUSLIM WOMEN
Muslim women of Mindanao and the Sulu island in the far South are shown dancing barefooted on the straw mats. Their daily wear is a blouse usually beaded, and a colorful sarong of batik or silk material.
PHILIPPINE POSTCARDS COLLECTION
KULINTANG
The Kulintang is a percussion instrument made of brass in different sizes and placed on an elaborately carved base. Is is common in Muslim communities. Here a Muslim woman in her native costume plays the Kulintang by striking the instrument with a pair of wooden sticks.
PHILIPPINE POSTCARDS COLLECTION
SUGAR CANE AND FILIPINO MAIDEN
The Philippines is blessed with the sweetness of cane sugar, of which US$200 million worth is exported each year, and by pretty maiden, one of them shown here on a sled by a carabao.
HONG KONG POSTCARDS COLLECTION
TWO INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CENTRE
Central District, HONG KONG
Tallest Building in
Hong Kong (2003 – 2009)
Present Second Tallest
building
Two International Finance
Centre, a commercial offices completed in 2003, is attached to the second phase
of the IFC mall. This 415-metre-tall (1,362 ft) building, currently Hong
Kong's second tallest, is quoted as having 88 storey’s and 22 high-ceiling
trading floors to qualify as being extremely auspicious in Chinese culture. It
is behind the International Commerce Centre in West Kowloon. It is the fourth-tallest building in the
Greatest China Region and the eighth-tallest office building in the world,
based on structural heights; by
roof height.
It is, however, short of the
magic number, because "taboo floors" like 14th and 24th are omitted
as being inauspicious – because 4 sounds like 'die' in Cantonese.
IFC was constructed and is
owned by IFC Development, a consortium of Sun Hung Kai Properties, Henderson
Land and Towngas.
In 2003, Financial Times,
HSBC, and Cathay Pacific put up an advertisement on the facade that stretched
more than 50 storey’s, covering an area of 19,000 m² (0.2 million square
ft) and a length of 230 m, making it the world's largest advertisement ever put
on a skyscraper.
MALAYSIA POSTCARDS COLLECTION
Kite Making Process
Thanks to Isabella Xiao Fang of Malaysia
Received: Dec. 17, 2015
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