Foot and Fire

HOW DO WE MEASURE LOVE? Is it by the years of togetherness or one's willingness to wait? Is it by the times of thoughtfulness or one's joy in receiving? Is it by the times of care or one's ability to share? Is it by the moments of despair or one's capacity to contain pain? Is it by the few moments of joy or one's ability to multiply it? How do we measure love? Is it by how we love or how love matters to us? by Gerlie M. Uy copyright 2013 Photo taken at the Malacanan of the North Ilocos Norte 

Posing before the Arzobispado Nueva Segovia Immediate to our memory is the Spanish period in our history given the more than 300 years of occupation of the Spaniards. I believe Filipinos should pay a visit to this place to at least get the feel of the oldness of the houses, the villages, the streets in order to aid oure remembrance of our history, good or bad it may be. Upon visit, Vigan, Ilocos Norte actually nests an admirable series of houses built during the Spanish era. Hence, it was named as UNESCO World Heritage site.   Vigan was inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List of Sites and Monuments last December 2, 1999 which now includes 630 cultural and natural properties of exceptional universal value in entire the world and one of the only five heritage sites found in the Philippines. With its inclusion in said prestigious list of world heritage sites, Vigan has become a source of pride, and a national symbol of the Filipinos," as proudly declared in  Vigan web...