A Malaybalayan (Bukidnon, Philippines) by birth but went to other places to broaden our horizon: 2 years in Cebu City; 20 years in Davao City;4 years in Cagayan de Oro City and then back to Malaybalay, my birthland. One of the characteristics of Malaybalay, is its cool weather. The poeple in-charge of Tourism prefer to describe Malaybalay as the place of cool weather but warm people. We want to believe the caption hopes to invite guests to savor the "cool fresh air" that comes with mountain atmosphere amidst residents who are friendly, warm, hospitable.
Nowadays, however, we do not seem to experience a good blend of coolness and warmth but the "unhealthy mixture of warmth in the morning, a rush of cool to very cold evening to dawn" and then warm feeling the whole day and we are sure a rush of cool to very cold evenings and so on and so forth. The results: colds, cough, intense sinusitis, ashthma attacks, dizziness and the like. . . So how do you cope? In our case, we take vitamins everyday, wear sweater when it gets cold(common sense!) and then take it off when it is too warm for comfort (again, common sense!), accept the reality of climate change as something global, thank God Malaybalay remains generally a cool place even as denudation has done its destruction, experience what global warming is and how pollution is affecting every corner of the world.
The time has come for intensive tree planting, vegetable gardening right in our backyard, augmenting your supply of ornamental plants inside your homes, begin vermi composting. This new year, 2010, let us make the world, a world right here where we are. Let us love Malaybalay with all our heart, all our mind and with all our soul!
Nowadays, however, we do not seem to experience a good blend of coolness and warmth but the "unhealthy mixture of warmth in the morning, a rush of cool to very cold evening to dawn" and then warm feeling the whole day and we are sure a rush of cool to very cold evenings and so on and so forth. The results: colds, cough, intense sinusitis, ashthma attacks, dizziness and the like. . . So how do you cope? In our case, we take vitamins everyday, wear sweater when it gets cold(common sense!) and then take it off when it is too warm for comfort (again, common sense!), accept the reality of climate change as something global, thank God Malaybalay remains generally a cool place even as denudation has done its destruction, experience what global warming is and how pollution is affecting every corner of the world.
The time has come for intensive tree planting, vegetable gardening right in our backyard, augmenting your supply of ornamental plants inside your homes, begin vermi composting. This new year, 2010, let us make the world, a world right here where we are. Let us love Malaybalay with all our heart, all our mind and with all our soul!
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