RIDE ON, WE'LL TRAVEL!

Some houses have their porch planted with flowering plants or decorated with potted flowering plants as shown in the photo above, and the lawn neatly covered with pebble stones or grass.

Some people choose plants of varying degrees that are already big enough not necesaarily flowering plants and this depends on how big the porch is and how articulate the ideas of people living there.

Yes, it’s lovely and very nice to have one as this as long as they are maintained periodically; the beauty will be there of course.

Also, carefully landscaping the lawn will count a lot to have a scenic and captivating view, and that depends on how large the area of the lawn will be.

Well, I am just one of those guys who appreciate the beauty fronting every house I come across or passed by and there are aplenty of them here in the area where we are at the moment.

Weekends … oh it’s nice to have them after five days work! What do you normally do during weekend? Do you love going to the parks and enjoy the weekend there, getting yourself relaxed with the beauty of nature, plants, animals, or whatever is in there? Or you love fishing, go for the sea and its waves, the smell of fresh air ocean breeze? Or go shopping, or visit some relatives?

Whatever you love to do during those days, it’s nice to give and pamper the whole body including our human spirit with a flash of relaxation and leisure time. Of course, the more if together with the family or friends.

But most of the time, weekends are spent at home, preoccupied with house cleaning, car maintenance, taking care of children, maintaining the backyard garden, fixing whatever is inside the house and whatever that are for beautifying the world we live and breathe, the house.

Some people work six days a week, and do have their one day break mostly during Sundays. To have a one day break is a bit harsh I believe to the human body, well of course that can be negotiable if the reward is financially or monetarily excellent.

But to give nothing to the body even just a day of relaxation and peace keeps the body worn out fast and no time to recover much of energy needed for another week again for work.

It is a house, a cozy though small made from the finest nipa, or coconut leaves or finely split carefully laid on clipped bamboos, very refreshing especially during summer times.

The Nipa hut also known as Bahay Kubo, is an indigenous house used in the Philippines with a thatched roof using dried grass we call in our dialect as “Pan-aw” or “Cogon”.


Nipa huts were once the native house of the indigenous people of the Philippines before the Spaniards arrived, and is still being used today, especially in rural areas.

Different architectural designs are present among the different ethno-linguistic groups in the country, although all of them conform to being stilt houses, similar to those found in neighboring countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Palau, and the Pacific Islands.


The modern Nipa Hut

I still remember those days when I was still a kid, it was my past time to go visit our relative across the river where most of the houses were Nipa Huts, spread out a few meters away from the river bank.

There I spent and enjoy the whole breezy, cool afternoon, and later on chat with our relatives when they go home from a day’s work from their farms. I go back home later around past six in the afternoon riding on my bike, when the sun sets in.