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Weekend At the University of the Philippines Los Banos (Laguna)

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     If you live in the Philippines, there are various ways to spend your weekend. You can go to a spa, have a massage. Go to a gym and hang-out with friends, but of course, I'm sure you've already done that during the week days. Since, it's becoming an "in" thing these days to spend your weekends with your family or go for a stroll on the countryside for a change of scenery! And, that's what we did. Since we have relatives all over Laguna and cousins stay in a nearby campus, the UPLB. During a visit this weekend, we checked this famous monument inside the UP Los Banos campus, the "kwek-kwek" monument. It is said that it was nicknamed as such due to its resemblance to a local street food in Manila, the kwek-kwek which is like fishballs, but only made differently.      The place where it stood becomes a park and a favorite hang-out for students, kids, families with kids during weekends when the weather is good for a stroll and picnic since t...