Mickey Mouse Fruit

Have you seen mickey mouse fruit? I first saw them in my cuzin's kitchen  in her house in Davao City. Thought they were some kind of rubber toys which babies squeeze and produce some weird sounds. I did actually try to squeeze one and waited for the familiar sound _nada!.

Then on our breakfast table the next morning, a tray of these mickey mouse fruits was used as a table ornament. Thus got our attention and asked what were they? Were they edible?

They are actually ornamental fruits or so as what we were told. Kindah got the looks of Mickey Mouse with ears standing, in 4D.

We saw them on shrubs in Eden Nature Park and were being used all over the city as decorations for hotels, restaurants, resorts and other public display areas. Nice and bright !

Davao Baywalk

Entering Davao Baywalk, something humongous captured my eyes.

 The statue of Michael Angelo's David.

It's gold or bronze? Huge! It's wt#!!! haha.




When I recovered from the vast structure, I became aware of the pond at the foot of David. There were fishes swimming and I was tempted to pet one cos the pool was so shallow you could easily give the fishes a hand. Right on time, cuzin' S warned me to take my hands off the water...

..cos the fish approaching my hand was a baby shark! wt#. There were plenty of them. I wonder, are they as dangerous as the matured sharks?

At the back of David, The little Mermaid sits thoughtfully , which claimed to be a faithful reproduction of the original sitting at Copenhagen, Denmark.

There's also a mini zoo at the entrance of the park with giant ostrich.




The Baywalk park still awaiting a whole bunch of works to finish_ as of my visit (Aug. 18,2010). I hope to see it complete when I get to visit it next time.

Kublai Ponce Millan @ Davao City

Wandering around Davao City, days before the highlights of Kadayawan Festival was fairly interesting. I noticed a lot of nature, art and cultural exhibits were on going around the city. Different venues (hotels, malls, parks, museums) featured various artists. I even met some of them personally. The province is gifted with bountiful nature, no doubt it produces numerous artists of different medium.

One Davao's phenomenal artist from Cotabato, well known Kublai Ponce Millan , monopolizes the art scene in this side of the Philippines. The most accessible thu' could be found at the center of Davao City, in the People's Park.

I'm talking about some of his sculpture works. I gathered that he is a multi artist and that he excelled in every media he set his talent into.

What tickled me thu' was that my cousin's town house in Davao City where we stayed the whole time in Davao had it's own Kublai creations with an s. Not one but two!




In the dining room, a beautiful Kublai's oil painting cheered up the dining scene of the house.

A Kublai stone sculpture nestles at the lanai

Beautiful.beautiful !!!! It just saddened me when Cuzin told us that she's planning to sell the house. She has other houses and this one is hardly being used if not for some of the guests she entertained in the city. The thing is_ the Kublai's go with the house. haaaay !

Davao

. . .enjoys durian, marang, orchids, Kublai's, Apo, Pearl Farm ,lanzones , rambutan , tuna , . . _ _ . .and the sweetest relatives from Davao.

Happy Kadayawan to Davao !!!

*stay tuned for the latest nature & art loaded trip of Ascertain Bliss.

See ya !