cool-yun 100 years...

cool 100 years...

Culion is an island situated at the northernmost part of Palawan. It belongs to the Calamianes Group of Islands. It has a total land area of 415 square kilometers which includes the 41 surrounding islands and measures 1,191.39 square kilometers including its territorial water. It is bounded on the north by Busuanga Island, on the east by the Coron Reef, on the south by Linapacan Island, and on the west by the South China Sea. Three ecosystems sustain the rich marine life of Culion: mangroves, seagrass, and corals. 17 mangrove species cover the coastline of Culion. 9 seagrass species and 47 coral genera representing 60% of the total genera found in the Philippines are found in Culion. It used to have high density forests with hardwood or “iron trees” like narra, mahogany, molave, kayataw, wasi and ipil.

On June 22, 1988, Congress passed R.A. No. 6659 that authorized qualified residents of Culion Leper Colony to vote for the elective provincial officials of the Province of Palawan. In 1991, Speaker Ramon Mitra and House Representative David Ponce De Leon introduced a house bill for the creation of the Municipality of Culion. On February 12,1992, President Corazon C. Aquino signed Republic Act 7193 creating the Municipality of Culion in the Province of Palawan.

The sudden conversion of Culion into a municipality brings with it problems both internal and external. These are all interconnected with integrity of sustaining each others continues existence. But somehow people began to realize the shift in power and authority from the sanitarium to the municipality. An aftershock of shifting sand or governance.

It’ll give Culion disservice if we will not mention the beautiful Indigenous People or the ‘Calamian Tagbanua’ the original residence of the place, as old as the Philippine history. We simply need a kind of respect to the sacredness of our roots, not only Culion but most of all our motherland itself before the influx of migrants bringing their customs, habits, regional characteristics and even dialects that made the place uniquely heterogeneous population. Not to mention the gaining numbers of its residence.

Through these complex series of events within and without, the past and the present, we can also recount the facts like Divine message of a truly unique gift, chronicled not only in our country but for the whole world that we would like to expressed this great joy of ‘healing’ which lots of people ought to know and must learn against the prejudices and misunderstanding if not ignorance of this so called stigma.. This is the message of the manifestation of dignity.

Today when you hear the word Culion it’ll simply whisper to you a meaningful logo against the backdrop of its past displayed now in our museum. But that scary isolation is now a cool word like “cool-yon” that offers a meaningful journey complimenting with adventure or something you’ll remember the rest of your life. I remember some friends telling me about their tour in many places, they said go first to the rest of the world and make your last tour in this place and you’ll forget all those places that you've seen, but of course that’s an exaggeration until you encounter the place itself. It's some kind of retreat and communion that can lead you to a garden of wisdom... ;) Many travelers have been in awe of the tranquility of this place because the experienced is not just about the views but most of all the compassionate kindness that one senses of harmony and peace that in the end you'll will find out that this peace is all about right relationship with ecology and awareness of the environment in likeness to the call of natural world. The very reason of Culion's ecological realization that reaches out into something like a spiritual journey...

Like Divine message of a truly unique gift, chronicled not only in our country but for the whole world that we would like to expressed this great joy of ‘healing’ which lots of people ought to know and must learn against the prejudices and misunderstanding if not ignorance of this so called stigma.. This is the message of the manifestation of dignity.

So from here we can now travel around Culion sphere and rediscover the whole new world called the land of a meaningful journey.

My love for this place simply echoes its message that's embedded in every pixels of all these images, just like the trillion trillions of stars in the universe and the innate or universal language that even alien world utters on this magic word beautifully;
i love you i love you i love you

i love you i love you i love you i love you :))

till eternity :))

voice of pinoy live...

voiceofpinoy

survival of the fittest

flying lion... A young male lion in South Africa discovered that it had taken on more than it could chew when a water buffalo flipped the lion several feet into the air in a daring attempt to rescue a fallen comrade.

operation lift culion

We would like to make a DIFFERENCE in a collective way like a synergy to support this project in simple or unique ways and giving back the blessings we have received.

This is also our simple gift of EDUCATION to our alma mater, our share of kindness and generosity. To give as frequent as we can.. as what Mother Teresa once said: 'give until it hurts'...

Just like a symbolic action when we drop a pebble into a pool, we make ripples all the way to the shore as when we drop a good deed into another person’s life, those ripples, tiny and imperceptible though they may be it will also be like a light that leaves the star goes everywhere in the universe, forever... so is our good deeds even as small as it can be...

 culionaires in action

lapis papel atbp.

Lapis, Papel  atbp.

 

 

OUR OWN WAYS OF THANKSGIVING.

We are the online group culionaires mostly outside our beloved town Culion and as our ways of gratitude we would like to help our kababayans or fellow culionaires who are living in remote areas especially their children studying in elementary schools without immediate access to basic needs mostly relying on their farms or the sea for fishing and farming. This website calls for help for these students who can't afford much of the school items for their studies, as we all know the situations of the majority of our people are in dire needs. This is our simple gesture as small as it can be, to support our beloved kababayans most importantly on their studies...

Just like a symbolic action when we drop a pebble into a pool, we make ripples all the way to the shore as when we drop a good deed into another person’s life, those ripples, tiny and imperceptible though they may be it will also be like a light that leaves the star goes everywhere in the universe, forever... so is our good deeds even as small as it can be.

so for all of us who have been blessed in little or many ways, it is time to give back to Isla Culion. 

We would like to make a DIFFERENCE in a collective way like a synergy to support this project in simple or unique ways and giving back the blessings we have received.

This is also our simple gift of EDUCATION to our alma mater, our share of kindness and generosity. To give as frequent as we can.. as what Mother Teresa once said: 'give until it hurts'.

Our call to action: Project ng 'Alay sa Mag-aaral ng Culion - Lapis Papel Atbp.' for Culion Kids! (para sa mga batang culion) Please support us. We do not have to break the bank, just a few pens, pads of paper, notebooks, pencils, used books for elementary, construction papers, crayons, watercolors, little scissors, atbp. can go a long way para sa ating mga pag asa ng bayan. Maraming nagsasabi na tulong tulong tayo. Heto na po ang chance na ipakita natin ang pagbabahaginan. Maraming-maraming salamat po.

This is another sign of love. A simple gesture of oneness.. a new kind of 'Bayanihan' and 'Bahaginan'.. this is Beyond dole-out... ito'y para sa mga kabataan na magkaroon nang pagpapahalaga sa edukasyon. 

our heartfelt thank also to Swiss-Culion-Connexion

here's our site - http://lapispapelatbp.weebly.com/