SOUND TRIP 3: Call of Nature
The Mangyan “Mayor” was nowhere to be found when we went up their village in the mountains of Calintaan. (Their village is the gateway to the Mt. Iglit-Baco National Park, home of the tamaraw.) We were told he was out in his kaingin, usually a fair distance from home.
How to reach him? Simple. A Mangyan boy started shouting towards the direction of the kaingin, giving out the message that visitors are in the village waiting to see the “Mayor”. Pretty soon, we heard another Mangyan shouting on the other side of the mountain, presumably to relay the message he just heard.
An hour later, the beaming Mayor arrived. We asked how many “relay stations” it took for him to get the message. “Four”, he chuckled.
Beats text messaging anytime!
on a hanging bridge leading to the Mangyan village
How to reach him? Simple. A Mangyan boy started shouting towards the direction of the kaingin, giving out the message that visitors are in the village waiting to see the “Mayor”. Pretty soon, we heard another Mangyan shouting on the other side of the mountain, presumably to relay the message he just heard.
An hour later, the beaming Mayor arrived. We asked how many “relay stations” it took for him to get the message. “Four”, he chuckled.
Beats text messaging anytime!
on a hanging bridge leading to the Mangyan village
posted by Miki at
12:13 PM
9 Comments:
Hahaha Just goes to show that Man still has a way of beating the most sophisticated of technologies. :)
sure does, Pan!
nowadays i can't function when there's a brownout and i can't use the laptop
so sad to be so dependent on technology <-- all my work is in there!
it sure is an effective way of relaying messages. I remember one time when we visited a grand uncle in his house some 5km away into the highlands. In the other hill, we saw his daughter. My dad just shouted towards her, then she ran back to their house to inform her father.
hehehehe
you will have no need for that when you move to the big bad city soon... ;p
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i say that is pretty cool. no charges. not even flat rates. perfect.
@prinsesa: efficient, too! hehehehe
pretty efficient communication. no hidden charges. hehe.
korek ka dyan Ry, hehehe
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