Personal Project - typography accompanied by simple illustration/elements to spread positive messages.
Happening on August 12, 2012 4PM
RONAC ART CENTER
One should never end with ‘mata’.
Oro, Plata, Mata
There are guidelines, too, governing the number of steps in one’s stairs. Starting with the first landing, count the steps using the words oro (gold), plata (silver), and mata (death). The perfect last step should be oro. Ending up plata is not too bad either but, understandably, do not ever end up with mata. This ruling is strictly observed especially if it involves the first steps going into the house. If your home has a slight elevation, choose four steps but never three.
This building belief is not limited to stairs alone. It also applies to walkways that are made of individual flagstones or the popular circular or square slabs of pebbled concrete or even an entire concrete walkway or ramp that is divided into sections by lines drawn onto the pavement itself, especially if they lead to the main entrance of the house.
The Yakans of Mindanao, however, believe in odd numbering of steps. They also require an odd number of bedrooms. Chinese Filipinos, on the other hand, count their steps by fours.
Just a thought.
In the Philippines, Democracy is abused. Rich families gain control of the ‘free country’. Media abuses the so called ‘Freedom of Speech’. And all that.
Makes me think, a Communist Republic is not that bad. Two words. Control and Discipline.