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When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: and when I became an adult, I did not really put away all childish things — like poking makahiya leaves and watching them in amused amazement as they close. Can’t resist. Can’t pass a makahiya bush without poking the leaves. It makes me happy.
Makahiya is also known as bashful mimosa; the scientific name is Mimosa pudica.
Photo taken at the Golden Sunset Resort in Calatagan, Batangas.
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I have to say I can totally relate to this.
A.k.a. Mussaenda Gloria Macapagal Arroyo after the “bashful” head of the P.I.
Something that is very disturbing with KK’s link on Dollaga’s claim-
“With the Islands’ old custom of turning flower legend into object lesson, how, Dollaga asks, “can a leader widely perceived as corrupt, fraudulent and a cheat be cute? Naming a flower after Ms Arroyo is a betrayal of the people and dishonors flowers. Flowers must be adored and respected. Dr. Rosario’s flower deserves better.”
Dollaga is telling her reader that her opinion is a perception. Is it correct to make a conclusion, a bias conclusion, based on perception?
What are these kind of people?
Or shall I say what kind of people are these breed? And of course those mob that would go along blindly with them.
Trosp,
After all, it was Dr. Teresita L. Rosario, a plant breeder from UPLB who started naming new hybrid plant after a controversial politician, which can be interpreted as pandering to her boss.
Ms. Norma P. Dollaga who is one of the voices on Human Rights Violations and Extra-judicial Killings in the Philippines and chaired a human rights organization KASIMBAYAN, is entitled to her own opinion and reaction.
Ms. Dollaga experience with unsolved human rights crime under Pres. Gloria Arroyo has a good basis.
Besides, it is a public knowledge and the President herself who acknowledge her voice in the Garci tape -the 2004 election cheat. And Ampatuans delivered 200,000 votes in 2004 presidential elections that the president in return gave virtual control of the Maguindanao fiefdom to the Ampatuans that led the 2009 Maguindanao massacre.
It is easy to forget the massacre is done by the President’s closest and trusted ally.
d0d0ng,
Is there something wrong with what I posted that why would somebody can make a conclusion based on perception? (Babalik na naman tayo sa mga previous comments mo na you’re concluding without basing it on available facts.)
It applies both for Dollaga and Rosario.
However, for Rosario, who bred the plant, she can name it after Hitler and would I care? No. She bred the plant and it’s her effort.
On the other hand, here is Dollaga from nowhere. Telling us based from her PERCEPTION that she can conclude that Rosario’s naming a flower after GMA is not correct.
And what is your public knowledge your talking about Garci tape? It was GMA’s voice but the question is where is the transcript on that tape that she was ordering Garci to cheat?
Be a gentleman to show it to the readers.
Or is it a perception again?
Trosp, you are free to criticize Ms. Dollaga’s opinion. And so she does too of Dr. Rosario if you are asking what is wrong with what you posted.
Are you hoping you can change Ms. Dollaga’s perception? Not a chance based on her background and experience. Everybody is entitled to one’s opinion. And please don’t take it too seriously.
It’s not that primarily criticizing Dollaga on whatever her belief is. My concern is her snipe, not her as a person, which she based on a perception.
And she as a person – para bang makatira lang, sige lang. Nagmamarunong.
I don’t hope to change her perception. I’m telling her readers that she is making her claim based on perception.
It’s just me.
Regardless the controversy and political unpleasantness, the wonderful picture of makahiya bush reminds me how I was delighted as a child to run my fingers and the plant closed its leaves.
Thanks for the picture-brought back happy, chilhood memories. Now I’m homesick…
Personally, I consider it bad taste to name a plant after a politician. Or a saint. Or a devil. The makahiya does not even figure in any political event or issue.
Even the practice of naming a street or a public building after a politician or a priest or cardinal makes me cringe. They didn’t build street or building with their personal money, noh?
It would be more understandable to name a plant after its discoverer or to the first person that successfully bred or cross bred it.
A Wonderful picture of something so insignificant. Just shows even the littlest things have a place in our lives. Thank you for sharing.
very true. this brings back fond childhood memories.
nakaka-miss din yung kataka-taka leaves na iniipit naman sa mga textbooks when we were in grade school.
Bakit iniipit sa libro?
iniipit sya sa book para magkaugat bago mo itanim sa paso. sikat na sikat ako nung high school sa biolog dahil jan
yep, tama si kotsenkuba. sa leaves kasi umuusbong yung ugat ng kataka-taka.
Dr. TL Rosario was my husband’s thesis adviser. I remember him pointing to an anthurium variety that Mam TL named Gloria-Angara. Which by the way are very beautiful. It’s a good thing blooms are not commonly known by their scientific names, otherwise, some great varieties might look less appealing than they really are.
Pronouncing some scientific names are difficult enough to pronounce, if we have to memorize them to boot, heck, how difficult will HS Biology be?
Reminds me of my happy childhood.I didn’t know until now that it blooms
such pretty flowers.
Don’t tell me there’s a rose named after GMA.That would be some news!
Wag naman LOL
i couldn’t help but smile after reading this blog… because, i must admit, i STILL find utter amusement in poking makahiyas and would be elated to ‘introduce’ the makahiya to my very young nephews and nieces and almost always get the same astonished reaction when i was a child….
i also tasted nectar from santan flowers…. ha ha ha! =)
and enjoyed the bubbles from mashed gumamela flowers mixed with water….
aaaahhhh! happy childhood….!
Today’s generation don’t even know about gumamela leaves for making soap bubble mixture which was SOP during my childhood.
yeah! the santan nectar. i remember nauubos yong santan sa garden before. after tasting the nectar, we make garlands out of the flowers.
my fond memories of makahiya was that after i poke the leaves i would wait for it to open again and poke them again and repeat the same thing. hehehe! simple lang ang hilig ng mga youngsters noon compared now.
What about the evening fragrance of the Dama de Noche tree–and the multo stories we’d scare each other with? Remember the Lady of Balete Drive? Maski dito, it’s my kids’ favorite-on stormy nights at kandila lang!
Oh, my lola used to have a dama de noche tree in the garden. Not only were the flowers fragrant, they were so pretty too — like star-tipped sunbursts.
Thanks, Connie, for this beautiful picture. As a child I enjoyed making the makahiya curl up. I had a pleasant surprise at Thomas Jefferson’s home in Monticello, Virginia. I found lots of makahiya in the garden! Apparently Mr. Jefferson had planted the makahiya in the 1760s. The store there even sells makahiya seeds. Check this link:
http://hemings.info/gardens/inbloom/fullsearch.html?id=110&search=
Haaaay, kapag di tayo mag care sa environment wala nang makahiya na kukulitin natin at santan na sisip-sipin. Pag sinipsip mo kung may bulaklak man, alikabok! At yong makahiya ala na rin, puro na walang hiya, he he. Pero serious ako, nakakaworry talaga kung sira na ang nature! Pinaglalaruan ko rin ang makahiya. Magaling na gamot pa naman yon sa may sakit na arthritis iinumin ang nilagang ugat ng makahiya. nakalakad ako, hulaan nyo edad ko. he he
when i introduced makahiya to my 8-yr old son here in KL, each day after his class as we walk home, he never fails to touch them and watch as they become “ashamed”..ang nakakatuwa, he still cant pronounce the word makahiya correctly.. “makakakahiya” daw, hehehe…
Wow, it’s been ages since I’ve seen a makahiya. Time to get out more. Bakit wala nito sa UP academic oval?
Dati sa likod ng main lib, merong pa-konti-konti.