Good song, became number one hit in Europe. The singers were three Dutch sisters. They were all pretty.
The first time I heard this song, I liked it right away when America was crazy about the Abba group from Sweden.
Mississippi song by the Pussycats was so memorable and I bet it would become one of your favorites right there and then, like what happened to me.
REACHING NEW HEIGHTS! 🎾 🇵🇭
Pinay tennis superstar Alex Eala sets a new personal-high in the latest Women's Tennis Association (WTA) rankings, moving to no. 184 from her previous spot of no. 187.
Eala is coming off her first pro doubles title after ruling the ITF Pune event in India with partner Darja Semenistaja of Latvia.
Binondo - the very first, the original, the oldest and the biggest Chinatown in the world - it was because of the 300 years of Manila/Acapulco Galleon Trade, the first globalization of Asian goods to the Americas started here. Today Ongpin is heaven for Chinese food, the best hopia - Eng Bee Tin, almost all Chinese restaurants started here: the oldest restaurant in the Philippines: Toho Panciteria Antigua, Ma Mon Luk, Ling Nam with their "mami," Mañosa with their "maki," ilang-Ilang Restaurant with their original "lomi," Ramon Lee their famous fried chicken, Wah Nam with their "Ho-to-tay," Boy Ching Woo with their "pansit shanghai," all later branched out to other cities of the Philippines.
The Manila/Acapulco Galleon Trade started migration of Chinese selling Chinese products exported in the Americas made Manila the world's trading center and Binondo became the entrepot and the formation of "Sangley Parian" ("Chinese Flea-market" from Chinese word "xiang lei" for traveling merchants and "palien" meaning federation). The original parian was at Mehan Garden (now Liwasang Bonifacio), the reason why the Intramuros gate on that location is called "Parian Gate." The parian was reserved only to baptized Catholic Chinese who were allowed to sell their goods, those unbaptized have to stay at Cavite's Sangley Point where galleons were built. The parian at Mehan Garden just outside the peninsulares Intramuros was getting over crowded, Spanish Governor-General Luis Perez Dasmariñas because of continuous Chinese migration scared of another Sangley uprising donated his "Isla de Binundok" (original name of Binondo because it's hilly, surrounded by Pasig River and esteros), tax free which he purchased from Don Antonio Velada for 200 pesos. He ordered to move the Sangley Parian to "Calle Sacrista" (now Ongpin Street). Governor-General Dasmariñas asked the Dominicans priests to take charge of converting the Chinese to catholicism, build a church in the honor of San Gabriel which is today's Binondo Church. Because Binondo is an island (not visible now because of buildings covering the esteros that are connected with Pasig River), the rich peninsulares of Intramuros have to take "casco" ferry crossing Pasig River to shop in Binondo. "Puente España" (Bridge of Spain) was built in 1632 by the Chineses to allow easier access and to continue the patronage of the peninsulares. The bridge was near "Puerta Isabela II" of Intramuros that spanned to Calle Nueva (now E. T. Yuchengco St), cross street is Escolta where on the foot of the bridge were horse-carts waiting for peninsulares to be "escorted" (hence the name "Calle Escolta" from Spanish word "escoltar" - "to escort") in Binondo/San Nicolas to shop and eat. Binondo became progressive shopping center that Chinese merchants extended the parian to its neighboring district "Barrio Baybay," renamed "San Nicolas" in honor of patron saint San Nicolas Tolentino the patron saint of merchants.
The first time I heard this song, I liked it right away when America was crazy about the Abba group from Sweden.
Mississippi song by the Pussycats was so memorable and I bet it would become one of your favorites right there and then, like what happened to me.
REACHING NEW HEIGHTS! 🎾 🇵🇭
Pinay tennis superstar Alex Eala sets a new personal-high in the latest Women's Tennis Association (WTA) rankings, moving to no. 184 from her previous spot of no. 187.
Eala is coming off her first pro doubles title after ruling the ITF Pune event in India with partner Darja Semenistaja of Latvia.
Binondo - the very first, the original, the oldest and the biggest Chinatown in the world - it was because of the 300 years of Manila/Acapulco Galleon Trade, the first globalization of Asian goods to the Americas started here. Today Ongpin is heaven for Chinese food, the best hopia - Eng Bee Tin, almost all Chinese restaurants started here: the oldest restaurant in the Philippines: Toho Panciteria Antigua, Ma Mon Luk, Ling Nam with their "mami," Mañosa with their "maki," ilang-Ilang Restaurant with their original "lomi," Ramon Lee their famous fried chicken, Wah Nam with their "Ho-to-tay," Boy Ching Woo with their "pansit shanghai," all later branched out to other cities of the Philippines.
The Manila/Acapulco Galleon Trade started migration of Chinese selling Chinese products exported in the Americas made Manila the world's trading center and Binondo became the entrepot and the formation of "Sangley Parian" ("Chinese Flea-market" from Chinese word "xiang lei" for traveling merchants and "palien" meaning federation). The original parian was at Mehan Garden (now Liwasang Bonifacio), the reason why the Intramuros gate on that location is called "Parian Gate." The parian was reserved only to baptized Catholic Chinese who were allowed to sell their goods, those unbaptized have to stay at Cavite's Sangley Point where galleons were built. The parian at Mehan Garden just outside the peninsulares Intramuros was getting over crowded, Spanish Governor-General Luis Perez Dasmariñas because of continuous Chinese migration scared of another Sangley uprising donated his "Isla de Binundok" (original name of Binondo because it's hilly, surrounded by Pasig River and esteros), tax free which he purchased from Don Antonio Velada for 200 pesos. He ordered to move the Sangley Parian to "Calle Sacrista" (now Ongpin Street). Governor-General Dasmariñas asked the Dominicans priests to take charge of converting the Chinese to catholicism, build a church in the honor of San Gabriel which is today's Binondo Church. Because Binondo is an island (not visible now because of buildings covering the esteros that are connected with Pasig River), the rich peninsulares of Intramuros have to take "casco" ferry crossing Pasig River to shop in Binondo. "Puente España" (Bridge of Spain) was built in 1632 by the Chineses to allow easier access and to continue the patronage of the peninsulares. The bridge was near "Puerta Isabela II" of Intramuros that spanned to Calle Nueva (now E. T. Yuchengco St), cross street is Escolta where on the foot of the bridge were horse-carts waiting for peninsulares to be "escorted" (hence the name "Calle Escolta" from Spanish word "escoltar" - "to escort") in Binondo/San Nicolas to shop and eat. Binondo became progressive shopping center that Chinese merchants extended the parian to its neighboring district "Barrio Baybay," renamed "San Nicolas" in honor of patron saint San Nicolas Tolentino the patron saint of merchants.
- great to know facts that gives historical food for the brain when eating in Binondo, the oldest Chinatown in the world.