AS I was updating my biodata on Facebook – to include my ongoing/soon-to-resume PhD in Education Management which has long been in the pre-dissertation stage – look at what I discovered:
The “private Catholic university located in the city of Baguio, Philippines” is the largest university north of Manila!
“Saint Louis University is the largest university north of Manila with more than 30,000 students (not counting the elementary and high school) as of academic year 2016-2017. It is centrally situated in a six-hectare campus in the heart of Baguio City and has more than 30 buildings.
The university offers programs at the elementary, secondary, undergraduate and graduate levels. The university comprises eight schools or colleges with campuses throughout the Baguio metropolitan area. SLU's main campus is on A. Bonifacio Street where the seven schools or colleges are housed while the Maryheights Campus houses the School of Accountancy, Management, Computing and Information Studies.”
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Louis_University_(Philippines)
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PERSONAL NOTE:
For my high school studies, I had attended the Saint Louis Girls’ High School...
I had also enrolled at SLU for my PhD studies in Education Management / Language Education when I started teaching at the Philippine Military (PMA).
The campus for higher studies in education then – in 2003-2004-2005 – was at the former gym of the Saint Louis University Boys’ High School (SLU-BHS) along General Luna Road which my two younger brothers Regino and Edward had attended.
And then from PMA, I transferred to Malacañang (Office of the Press Secretary – Office of the President) and then to the United Nations in Afghanistan and Iraq...
When I returned to explore continuing my PhD studies – where I took so many subjects that I practically could qualify for two PhD’s, according to one of the ladies at the front desk of the SLU School of Teacher Education (STE) – the campus for those taking up Masters and Doctorates had been transferred to Navy Base as well...
I went to Navy Base – and found out that online subjects were no longer offered...
And then the SLU-STE was transferred to the SLU main campus along Bonifacio Road – and there I learned that I have to take two additional subjects for every year that I was away...
(To be continued...)
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"Patupat"
I have joined a group called “FOODTOGRAPHY” – where I have regularly been marvelling at the foodie and cooking posts of our SunStar Baguio Publisher Peter Rey Bautista – former Mayor of the City of Baguio.
And here is my first-ever post: One of my favourite native merienda/meryenda in my childhood...
“Patupat”
My own description as I know it:
"Diket" (glutinous rice) wrapped in "nipa" (palm) leaves woven in basket-weave design;
Then immersed in "taga-pulot" (solid block of boiled/solidified sugar cane juice);
Then cooked over low fire...
The cooked "patupat" is then wrapped in newspaper to absorb the molten sugar cane juice... :-)
My siblings and I grew up eating this native delicacy bought by our mother from the Baguio City Market – or brought up to Baguio City by our relatives from the hometown of our grandparents (Verceles & Alambra ancestors) – Santo Tomas, La Union...
But this "patupat" was from Pozzorubio, Pangasinan, neighboring province of La Union...
Last week's "pasarabo" – Ilocano word for "pasalubong" (arrival gift) – from Benedictine Sister Pauline Dacanay who is currently assigned/based in Pozzorubio...
"Diyos ti ag-ngina" (God will repay), dear Sister Pauline! Many thanks! Au
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PERSONAL NOTE:
I have since created an album dubbed “Native delicacies: Northern Luzon – Philippines” on FOODTOGRAPHY...
Standby for more features on our native Ilocano/Filipino merienda delicacies!
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