By: Kim Atienza
SOMETIME ago, we featured on our Sunday morning TV show, “Matanglawin,” a woman who collected figurines of dwarves as a hobby.
She is Myrna Manansala, who surprised us with an amazing 400 dwarf figurines in her collection.
She has no plans on stopping anytime soon.
Myrna shared that her hobby started with a dwarf she endearingly named Amboy. She believed it gave her good luck. Her collection grew from there.
She claims that her day becomes a lot better whenever she sees or chats with Amboy. That’s why she considers the dwarf figurine lucky.
Aside from dwarf figurines, Mrs. Manansala also collects angel figurines. This collection of hers has a sad origin, though.
A child of hers tragically passed away. The child had for a hobby cross stitching images of angels. Now, she considers collecting images of angels as a beautiful remembrance of her deceased child.
From the cross-stitched angels, her angel collection expanded to figurines as well.
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TRIVIA PA MORE (Various Sources): Lipa City in Batangas is dubbed as the “Little Rome of the Philippines” because of the number of seminaries, convents, monasteries, retreat houses based in the city. It is also home to the famous cathedral of San Sebastian.
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Sa planetang Venus, umuulan ng asido (sulfuric acid) pero, diamante naman.
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Solar energy installation is the cleanest and greenest source of renewable energy available for home, business, or community establishments.
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LEGO enthusiasts, anyone? In 1978, the first female LEGO mini figure was a nurse while the first male figure was a policeman.
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According to PAGASA, the longest day of the year happened on June 21, 2017 as the Philippines experienced summer solstice.
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