Starting today I will be showing the postcards that I just purchased last weekend, mostly buildings. First one is the Kuala Lumpur International Airport, commonly known as KLIA, which is situated in Sepang district, in the south of the state of Selangor, about 50 km from Kuala Lumpur. Built at a cost of some US$3.5 billion, KLIA was opened on 27 June 1998 in time for the 1998 Commonwealth Games. Kuala Lumpur International Airport is currently ranked as the 13th busiest airport in the world by international passenger traffic in 2007.
Kuala Lumpur International Airport Postcard
The concept of KLIA's terminal building area was prepared by the late Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa. The terminal building area was designed using the concept of iirport in the forest, in which it is surrounded by green space. An entire section of rain forest was transplanted from the jungle and put in the satellite building.
The Santo Niño Shrine & Heritage Museum is just one of the 29 rest houses built by former Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos for his wife Imelda Romualdez Marcos. The two-storey Sto. Niño Shrine and Heritage Museum showcases the seven bedrooms of the Marcos family (one for each member, with Imelda's room with the jacuzzi as the highlight). Also on the second floor are a ballroom and a 30-seater dining conference room and downstairs are 13 guest rooms, each with its own native motif and dioramas of Imelda's growth to womanhood.
Santo Niño Shrine and Heritage Museum Postcard
The Sto. Niño Shrine and Heritage Museum houses the Italian-imported ivory Sto. Niño which attractively surrounded by lighted diamond-pattern cut glass. A St. Remedios icon stands to its right, and a St. Vincent icon to its left (which are incidentally the names of Imelda's mother and father). A brass monstrance, studded with diamonds, stands next to the St. Vincent icon. There are also rows of narra pews and rows of chandeliers light the whole place. Inside the heritage museum are priceless art pieces, antique Chinese jars and collections of icons, original paintings of noted Filipino artists (Malang, Manalad, and Amorsolo), Italian sculptures, and French and English-period furniture. At the back of the building is a stainless steel kitchen that will impress even a 5-star chef, and overlooking that is an Olympic-size swimming pool.
From: Southwall Magazine, Premier Issue, February 2005
Rizal Memorial Library and Museum at Fuente Osmeña houses some 100 paintings, 50 sculptures, antique chinaware, furniture, and woodcarvings. There are also a few archaeological finds. A modern sculpture by Eliseo Pepito meets you at the door beside a mega-size 15th century Chinese vat donated by Fred Labra.
Rizal Memorial Library and Museum Postcard
As you move around the museum, you run into landscapes, portraits of well-known Cebuano figures and personalities, floral renditions, and murals. Antique chinaware from Carcar from the personal collections of Eva Mesa and Luther Galicano are stacked in a 40-year-old cabinet owned by Matilde Palicte. Its upper floor is utilized as a performing arts hall for concert and theatre productions by Cebu talents. On the ground floor is the Rizal Memorial Library which keeps some important books on Cebuano history and culture.
The National Museum of the Philippines is the official repository established in 1901 as a natural history and ethnography museum of the Philippines. It is located next to Rizal Park and near Intramuros in Manila. Its main building was designed in 1918 by an American Architect, Daniel Burnham. Today, that building, the former Old Congress Building, holds the arts, natural sciences and other support divisions and the adjacent former Finance building, in the Agrifina Circle of Rizal Park, houses the Anthropology and Archaeology Divisions and is known as the The National Museum of the Filipino People.
Last July 7th, I had an entry entitled "Chinese Laborers Postcard." I was browsing the Filipiniana book "100 Events that Shaped the Philippines" when I noticed on page 165 that the picture and my postcard are the same! The caption on the book reads "Sangleys delivering tobacco to factories." Sangley is an archaic term used to describe and classify a person of pure Chinese ancestry.Now I know what they were carrying, but still have no clue what's the name of the church in the background .
Kuala Lumpur International Airport Postcard
