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ICE CREAM EXTRAORDINAIRE

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It's Summer and the heat is on! What better way to cool you down from the scorching feeling of the summer heat is to eat your favorite ice cream flavors. But why not challenge and treat yourselves indulging and slurping cool in some of these EXTRAORDINARY ice cream flavors. Read on and indulge on what flavor to taste to cool you down this summer. TILAPIA ICE CREAM Yes!, That swishy wishy fish popularly cooked and served in the dining table was also a flavor for the ice cream locally developed by educators from the Central Luzon State University (CLSU) in Nueva Ecija. CHILI ICE CREAM What would the fiery chilies taste on your tongue if it turned into a cold sweet spicy treat. In the Bicolandia, chilies were prized crop that there was even a saying that townsfolk in the Bicol region would even protect the chili plant with stilts to strengthen them during the storm. Thus, it was but just ordinary that chilies were put in every recipe and food eaten by the Bicolanos. And so, chil...

THE VIRTUE OF AGEING GRACEFULLY A BONSAI TREE

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It is said that as we age added wisdom, values and dignity becomes part of our personality. But these ageing virtues by a humanbeing mostly does not come instantly upon reaching what was considered as one's old age.  Harnessing these virtues as we age comes along the hardships, struggles and ailments as our body transform and signs of ageing such as grey hair, skin sagging, and other bodily changes appears.  Animals and plants like bonsais likewise goes into such phases intheir lives.  But unlike most plants, apparently the aged bonsai tree carefully nurtured and cared by its grower seems to look excellent, exemplary and distinguished yet elegant. Bonsai and the wisdom on the lessons of history. History has taught us the wisdom on the effect of war and its destruction into our lives.  One of the most notable witness to the holocaust of war was this white pine bonsai tree owned by bonsai master Masaru Yamaki.  Mr. Yamaki and his tree was just about two miles from...