Launching of Daigdig Pinoy

Visit us in our booth this week during the SYSTEMS INTEGRATION PHILIPPINES 2007 in World Trade Center Manila this August 16-18, 2007 as we distribute Daigdig Pinoy's condensed printed maiden issue. This event serves as the official launch of Daigdig Pinoy and WorldSourceDirect.com

This event features companies specializing in Telecommunications, Broadcasting, Electronics, Gadgets, Information Technology, E-commerce, Audio and Video, Lighting, Music Movie Technology, concept designs, visual communications, multimedia, digital printing and graphic design.

See you there!

Sandugo Festival

This year’s Sandugo celebration was highlighted with the street dancing parade and competition last July 22, 2007 Sunday in Tagbilaran City, Bohol.

Sandugo is one of the most important historical events etched in the annals in the Philippine history and immortalized in canvass by the famous Filipino painter Juan Luna as one of his masterpieces, is the famous Blood Compact between Datu Sikatuna, a local native chieftain, and Captain Miguel Lopez de Legaspi, the intrepid Spanish explorer and colonizer.

That historic event took place on an unpretentious coast of Bool, now a district of Tagbilaran, on March 16, 1565, a day after Miguel Lopez de Legaspi and his crew of conquistadores on four ships were drifted into the shores of Bool during the course of their trip to the province of Butuan from Camiguin Island because of strong southwest monsoon winds and low tide. On that day, March 16, 1565, Captain General Miguel Lopez de Legaspi, the conquistador from Zumaraga, Spain, with Fray Andres de Urdaneta and some of his crew set foot on land for an audience with the local chieftain Sikatuna. The two bands of different nationalities, race and creed met at a murky place, a few hundred meters away from the beach, and after a few pleasantries, the Basque seafarer and the native chieftain of Bool sealed off and strengthened their newborn friendship in a historic Blood Compact. READ MORE.

Philippine Tarsiers

“Tarsius Syrichta” or as we all know, the “Philippine Tarsiers” can be found in Bohol, Samar, Leyte and parts of Mindanao.

Tarsiers’ eyes are 150 times bigger than humans relative to body size. Their head can rotate 180 degrees and their ears move to the direction of sounds. They have elongated leg bone, elongated feet and toes that grip. Tarsiers can jump up to 5 meters and uses its long tail for balance.

Tarsiers eats grasshoppers, crickets, locusts, ants, bees, wasps, dragonflies, beetles, stick insects, butterflies and moths. These nocturnal species are very sensitive and tends to kill themselves if in captivity by holding their breath, refuses to eat or bang their heads in the cage until they die. Tarsiers can only live for 30 days in captivity. Know more about these tarsiers in http://daigdigpinoy.com