Crazy About Indigenous Dwellings!

As marketing director of an organic fertilizer and Purple Corn Juice in a company in Quezon City, I sometimes get to travel in the countryside. It's just frustrating that I don't have a good camera to take pictures of native houses I see on the way. I'm crazy about indigenous dwellings, especially nipa huts I see in rice fields and remote rural towns. 

This job of mine took me to Isabela, Nueva Viscaya, Cagayan, Cavite, Tagaytay, Pangasinan, and Nueva Ecija. I saw a lot of old and rustic houses I was just itching to take pictures of. But I didn't have any camera, not even a cell phone cam. I wish I had one. It's going to be one of my projects--to buy a good camera and video for taking pictures while I'm on travel, and upload them into my blogs, like HOUSEpinoy, among my favorite blogs. I'm really crazy about indigenous dwellings.

Since I was a kid I've always been fascinated by old and archaic houses. They stir up my imagination. I'm transported back to the days when such houses were the "modern" houses. At Sta. Mesa Heights in Quezon City, along Mayon street, you'd see houses that look like the ones you'd see in old movies back in the 1960s. They're old style American mansions with simple facades, mostly white in color. I hope to take pictures of some of them someday. That is, if they don't get renovated or taken down and replaced with a townhouse or condo.

When I went to Guimba, Nueva Ecija there were several very old houses which seemed to date back to the Spanish era. I really regretted not having a cam around. And also, when I and my wife went to Alaminos, Laguna last December 2011 for a meeting with a scientist, we saw this old and mysterious house which the caretaker said dated back to the Japanese times and which had some mysteries happening in it from time to time. 

Oh, the photos I posted on this article are Ifugao houses and others I saw on the net. The modern Ifugao house is amusing. Though I'm crazy about indigenous dwellings, I appreciate something like this--a derivative of a native architecture. That's what HOUSEpinoy is all about. And I hope to be able to post more articles here from now on. My job keeps getting in the way. And I hope to get a new cam soon...God please...plus a video, hopefully.

Because I'm crazy about indigenous dwellings! Really!