Purple Ink and Parchment
One of my experiments with my camera’s focusing mechanism yielded this nicely blurred photo.
In my visit to Powerbooks Festival Mall yesterday, they gave me this purple (whoopee!) tote bag to put my purchases in. Kudos to Muntinlupa for doing away with plastic bags and going green!
Plaza Sto. Tomas
Located in the Sto. Tomas corner Cabildo Streets in Intramuros, the Plaza Santo Tomas is the open public space for the University of Santo Tomas. All colleges in Intramuros had their own Plazas for their students and much common in buildings of the Spanish.
The Plaza Sto. Tomas is once the home of the bronze statue of the Manila Archbishop and University founder Miguel de Benavides, where it faces the entrance of the University (now the Arch of the Centuries). After WWII, the said statue was transferred to its current location in the España Campus.
Just two years ago, the Plaza had underwent rehabilitation, a replica of the Benavides statue was placed in the pedestal where the original statue rests and a history of UST and its famous alumni during the Revolution is also there. All is a part of the UST Quadricentennial Celebration.
Now, aside from the Intramuros Administration marker making the former site of the University (A derelict and totally nonconforming building is in it today), the Plaza remains to be the solid mark that the University was once there for 300 years. And currently the plaza is in a sorry state.
Oh I found an archive photo of the Tricentennial Celebration, you might find it interesting.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/maronangel14/4698769874/
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UST Faculty of Engineering and College of Architecture and Fine Arts Building, now Roque Ruaño Building
(1950s)
