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A worm from coolmyspacecomments.com has hijacked hundreds perhaps thousands of Friendster accounts. It only takes one friendster member to accept a comment from coolmyspacecomments.com in a form of a weird graphic image and the worm activates like wildfire. Today I, Mike Ligalig, deleted several worm-infested comments that went to my inbox. I keep on deleting them but the next time I open my comments box I still receive several weird images from coolmyspacecomments.com.

If this won't stop, I might delete my friendster account altogether. I am already annoyed with forwarded messages about Bill Gates giving me millions of dollars, now this clever worm hijacking friendster is giving me more headaches.

Feel free to share your experience here.

This is for Agila.
She's looking for Fulton Cervantes.

Latest research effort tells me that Fulton Cervantes lives in

Cantara St
Reseda, CA 91335

This place is near Wilbur Avenue.

You may write to him by letter. If you get a reply, then he is there.

This is what Bambi did. She tried writing to a lost friend using all the addresses I gave to her until she hit the right address.

What do you know about this Langaw Scandal in the town of Valencia, Bohol?

There also was another Langaw Scandal in Maribojoc or Corella ba to.

Kindly enlighten us about this Langaw Scandal in Valencia, Bohol whether it is still a big problem to many people of Valencia.

And what's the update, Bambi?

Quote from: ms da binsi on October 01, 2007, 10:48:43 PM
Mike naa pa diay Bisaya Magazine???

Still alive, Ble. Hapit na mag-80 anyos.

Re-posted with Macky Ferniz, Junayag, and Asianfairy in mind.

By John Gokongwei, Jr.
Speech delivered at Ateneo de Manila University
Gokongwei is the owner/founder of Cebu Pacific Air


Good morning.

I am John Gokongwei, Jr. I am not an Atenean but I feel at home with you. Today, at least. Sixty-two years ago, I could not have dreamt of appearing before the Jesuits and their students to tell the story of MY life. I was no more than a student then, at San Carlos University in Cebu, when my father died suddenly. It left me, the eldest, the responsibility of taking care of my mother and five siblings. That was tough for someone who was 13. Creditors had just seized our home and business and I had no experience with earning a living.

But here I am - not all on account of my good looks or charming personality but because I somehow survived. And when I look back, I know now that I did so because I recognized CHANGE when I saw it.

The first change was war. I had turned 15. My mother had already sent my brothers and sister to China where the cost of living was lower. From Cebu, she and I had to make money to send to them.

I turned to peddling. My day began at 5 in the morning. I would load my bicycle with soap, thread, and candles, and then bike to neighboring towns to sell my goods. On market days, I would rent a stall, lay out the goods from the bike, and make about 20 pesos a day, enough for me to survive and to buy even more goods for next time. Those days, you might call my BICYCLE AGE.

After two years of biking and peddling at 17, I entered my BATEL AGE. The batel was a small very utilitarian boat that defied the open sea and would take me farther from Cebu and all the way to Lucena, from where I would take a truck to Manila, with companions twice or thrice my age. The sea trips could take two to three weeks depending on the weather, and the land trips another five to six hours. (I was lighter then, you can imagine.) On the batel, I read books like "Gone with the Wind" under the great blue sky to pass away the time - even if we traders were always in fear of sea pirates and the bad weather.

Once, our batel hit a rock and sank. Thank heavens for my rubber tires! Those were the goods I had with me to sell in Manila. Well, we all held on to those tires, which meant I saved all those traders and those traders saved all my tires.

At that time, the War was still going on. Ironically, I look back at the War with the fondest of memories. It was the great equalizer. Almost everyone I knew had lost big and small fortunes at the time. This meant we all started at ground zero.

When the war ended, I was 19. Because of the war, the economy was more dependent than ever on imports. So when I set up Amasia, my first company, it was to import textile remnants, fruit, old newspaper and magazines, and used clothing from the U.S.

There was a side benefit to this. I would wear some of my own stock, so I would have different clothes to wear when I went courting Elizabeth, the woman who would be my wife. But at the end of it, I made some money. The Bicycle Age was over. The TRADING AGE began. By then, my brothers and sister returned from China. Together, we worked in the trading business I had begun - as bodegeros, clerks, warehousemen, cashiers, and collectors. And all this while they were all still going to school; me, I stopped schooling. Like most Chinese-Filipino families, we worked where we lived, and at times, we had to endure the stench of rotten oranges and potatoes filling our two-story apartment.

By the early '50s, we were importing cigarettes and whiskey as well. Business was good. But two factors made me change strategies again. First, I saw that trading would in time become a low-margin business BECAUSE we were at the mercy of our suppliers and buyers. Second, I saw that the government was working on import-substitution policies to encourage local business. President Quirino wanted to shore up the country's foreign exchange reserves that had been depleted as a result of the high importation of the post-war years.

So I decided to enter the AGE of MANUFACTURING. In 1957, I started a corn milling plant producing glucose and cornstarch. Why cornstarch? Because I thought - and it turned out, correctly - that the unglamorous cornstarch would be in great demand from better known businesses like textiles, paper, ice cream, pharmaceuticals, and beer.

But there was one problem: I needed capital. This was not easy. I was 30, had no big company success to back me up, and I didn't know any bankers. Thankfully, Dr. Albino Sycip, then chairman of China Bank, and DK Chiong, then president, gave me a clean loan of P500,000 to start my business. He would be asked later why he did that and he said something about knowing a good man when he saw one. (Maybe he knew something I didn't.) Anyway, from there Universal Corn Products, the predecessor of Universal Robina Corporation, was born.

Of course, the bigger cornstarch players did not give us an easy time. They engaged us in a price war. That is a nice way of saying they tried to kill us by selling low.

But we prevailed, and started to get clients like San Miguel Corporation. It was my first real taste of competition. And I liked it. I think THAT first experience prepared me for the bigger tougher competitors in my future.

By 1961, corn starch was becoming a commodity, and I saw that there was no future in a business where we had to keep lowering margins to survive. It was time to get into bigger, and riskier, games played by big multinationals like Procter and Gamble and Nestle. I saw that all they did to capture the market was to brand their products, for instance their coffee and their toothpaste. That is, give their coffee and toothpaste a name, a face, and an image that customers would instantly recognize - and identify with quality. Me, I dreamt that one day I would be the Philippine Nestle or General Foods. So the Manufacturing Age for me was giving way to the AGE of BRANDS.

So, we put up CFC, and our first successful product was Blend 45, an instant coffee we put out to directly compete with Nestle's Nescafe. We positioned it as "the poor man's coffee," hired top movie star Susan Roces to endorse it, and employed Procter-and-Gamble veterans to sell it. Basically, we took a page out of the multinational book and applied it to our business. We gave our coffee, snack food, candy, and chocolates a name, a face, an image. Today, Jack and Jill, Max candy, and Cloud 9 have become household names. It was also at this time that I returned to school for an MBA - with all due respect to the Jesuits, at De La Salle University - and a decade later for a 14-week advanced management program at Harvard. Going back to the university for studies which war had interrupted gave me an appreciation, believe me, for the beauty and the breadth of business life. This is something I believe I would never have gained if I had chosen to stop my education. The success of URC opened up many opportunities for our group. We had the choice to focus on food where we were very successful - or to pursue other businesses. We decided that there were too many good opportunities to pass up, and that remaining in our comfort zone would stunt our growth. So we got into the Age of Expansion.

For the next two decades, we pursued businesses that answered positive on FOUR CRUCIAL QUESTIONS.

First: Is there a market?

Second: Could we compete against both local and foreign players?

Third: Could we find the right people for the job and did we have enough capital to pursue the business?

Last and most important: Did we have the stomach for it? That is, could we take the sleepless nights, the cutthroat competition?

We went into textiles, retail, real estate, telecommunications, aviation, banking, and petrochemicals because we said YES to all those questions. Still, in all those industries, we were faced with tough and worthy competitors - the mighty SM Department Stores and Malls, the unbeatable PLDT, the entrenched Philippine Airlines and the powerful San Miguel Corporation. Most pundits expected us to fail. They were wrong. Robinsons Stores and Mall, Digitel, Cebu Pacific Air and Universal Robina Corporation are now market leaders in their respective fields.

That's because they offered the public a choice.

Remember the story of David and Goliath? Every industry has its Goliath. But every David knows that all giants have their weaknesses. Every weakness is an opportunity.

In a few months, we will launch our mobile services to compete with two giants, Globe and Smart. Our stomachs are churning for sure - but we know that we faced similar challenges before, and we are hopeful we can prove the pundits wrong again.

In the past decade, which is one-sixth of my entire business life, the company has tripled in size. This was the decade when our companies raised money from the global equity and debt markets, brought our companies public, and hired the best professionals to run them. In six decades, we grew from a one-man team to a group with 30,000 employees.

Now I am in what you can probably call the AGE of GLOBALIZATION. I am always asked where I stand on this issue. I say that it does NOT matter where I stand because as sure as the Ateneo Basketball Team will win next year's UAAP championship, global barriers will come crashing down, and we have no choice but to prepare ourselves for that.

Still our company will not take globalization sitting down - OUR future and the country's depend on how we act now. JG operates branded food concerns in Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Hongkong, China, and soon, Vietnam. We also sell our snack foods in India, Korea, and Taiwan - one of the few ASEAN companies to do so.

In a few years, when foreign products find their way into OUR shopping carts as they already have, we want Piattos and Chippy to find their way into THEIR shopping carts as well. Our dream is to be the first group to plant the Philippine flag throughout Asia.

As I look back, I ask myself, "What if I had stopped at cornstarch?" I would probably be the owner of the biggest cornstarch group in the country today or just as possibly, be broke.

But I chose to live my life unafraid even during times when I WAS afraid. I discovered that opportunities don't find you. You find your opportunities.

I found those opportunities when MY FATHER PASSED AWAY, WHEN WAR CAME, THROUGH CHANGES IN PRESIDENTS AND THEIR POLICIES, DURING MARTIAL LAW,DESPITE THE COUPS D' ETAT, PAST ECONOMIC BOOMS AND BUSTS, AND IN THE MIDST OF MARKET SHIFTS AND MOVEMENTS.

Now I'm 75 and retired. And funny, but I often wonder what ever happened to my first bike! The bike that was my companion during those first years when my family had lost everything. I wonder where it is now. That bike reminds me that success is not necessarily about connections, or cutting corners, or chamba - the three C's of bad business.

Call it trite - but, believe me, success CAN BE ACHIEVED through hard work, frugality, integrity, responsiveness to change - and most of all boldness to dream. These have never been just easy slogans for me. I have lived by them. I hope that many of you in this room will some day choose to be entrepreneurs. Choose to be an entrepreneur because then YOU create value. Choose to be an entrepreneur because the products, services, and jobs you create then becomes the lifeblood of our nation. But most of all, choose to be an entrepreneur because then you desire a life of adventure, endless challenge, and the opportunity to be your BEST SELF.

Thank you. *

Delivered at Ateneo de Manila University
By John Gokongwei, Jr.
Owner, Cebu Pacific and other companies

Good morning.

I am John Gokongwei, Jr. I am not an Atenean but I feel at home with you. Today, at least. Sixty-two years ago, I could not have dreamt of appearing before the Jesuits and their students to tell the story of MY life. I was no more than a student then, at San Carlos University in Cebu, when my father died suddenly. It left me, the eldest, the responsibility of taking care of my mother and five siblings. That was tough for someone who was 13. Creditors had just seized our home and business and I had no experience with earning a living.

But here I am - not all on account of my good looks or charming personality but because I somehow survived. And when I look back, I know now that I did so because I recognized CHANGE when I saw it.

The first change was war. I had turned 15. My mother had already sent my brothers and sister to China where the cost of living was lower. From Cebu, she and I had to make money to send to them.

I turned to peddling. My day began at 5 in the morning. I would load my bicycle with soap, thread, and candles, and then bike to neighboring towns to sell my goods. On market days, I would rent a stall, lay out the goods from the bike, and make about 20 pesos a day, enough for me to survive and to buy even more goods for next time. Those days, you might call my BICYCLE AGE.

After two years of biking and peddling at 17, I entered my BATEL AGE. The batel was a small very utilitarian boat that defied the open sea and would take me farther from Cebu and all the way to Lucena, from where I would take a truck to Manila, with companions twice or thrice my age. The sea trips could take two to three weeks depending on the weather, and the land trips another five to six hours. (I was lighter then, you can imagine.) On the batel, I read books like "Gone with the Wind" under the great blue sky to pass away the time - even if we traders were always in fear of sea pirates and the bad weather.

Once, our batel hit a rock and sank. Thank heavens for my rubber tires! Those were the goods I had with me to sell in Manila. Well, we all held on to those tires, which meant I saved all those traders and those traders saved all my tires.

At that time, the War was still going on. Ironically, I look back at the War with the fondest of memories. It was the great equalizer. Almost everyone I knew had lost big and small fortunes at the time. This meant we all started at ground zero.

When the war ended, I was 19. Because of the war, the economy was more dependent than ever on imports. So when I set up Amasia, my first company, it was to import textile remnants, fruit, old newspaper and magazines, and used clothing from the U.S.

There was a side benefit to this. I would wear some of my own stock, so I would have different clothes to wear when I went courting Elizabeth, the woman who would be my wife. But at the end of it, I made some money. The Bicycle Age was over. The TRADING AGE began. By then, my brothers and sister returned from China. Together, we worked in the trading business I had begun - as bodegeros, clerks, warehousemen, cashiers, and collectors. And all this while they were all still going to school; me, I stopped schooling. Like most Chinese-Filipino families, we worked where we lived, and at times, we had to endure the stench of rotten oranges and potatoes filling our two-story apartment.

By the early '50s, we were importing cigarettes and whiskey as well. Business was good. But two factors made me change strategies again. First, I saw that trading would in time become a low-margin business BECAUSE we were at the mercy of our suppliers and buyers. Second, I saw that the government was working on import-substitution policies to encourage local business. President Quirino wanted to shore up the country's foreign exchange reserves that had been depleted as a result of the high importation of the post-war years.

So I decided to enter the AGE of MANUFACTURING. In 1957, I started a corn milling plant producing glucose and cornstarch. Why cornstarch? Because I thought - and it turned out, correctly - that the unglamorous cornstarch would be in great demand from better known businesses like textiles, paper, ice cream, pharmaceuticals, and beer.

But there was one problem: I needed capital. This was not easy. I was 30, had no big company success to back me up, and I didn't know any bankers. Thankfully, Dr. Albino Sycip, then chairman of China Bank, and DK Chiong, then president, gave me a clean loan of P500,000 to start my business. He would be asked later why he did that and he said something about knowing a good man when he saw one. (Maybe he knew something I didn't.) Anyway, from there Universal Corn Products, the predecessor of Universal Robina Corporation, was born.

Of course, the bigger cornstarch players did not give us an easy time. They engaged us in a price war. That is a nice way of saying they tried to kill us by selling low.

But we prevailed, and started to get clients like San Miguel Corporation. It was my first real taste of competition. And I liked it. I think THAT first experience prepared me for the bigger tougher competitors in my future.

By 1961, corn starch was becoming a commodity, and I saw that there was no future in a business where we had to keep lowering margins to survive. It was time to get into bigger, and riskier, games played by big multinationals like Procter and Gamble and Nestle. I saw that all they did to capture the market was to brand their products, for instance their coffee and their toothpaste. That is, give their coffee and toothpaste a name, a face, and an image that customers would instantly recognize - and identify with quality. Me, I dreamt that one day I would be the Philippine Nestle or General Foods. So the Manufacturing Age for me was giving way to the AGE of BRANDS.

So, we put up CFC, and our first successful product was Blend 45, an instant coffee we put out to directly compete with Nestle's Nescafe. We positioned it as "the poor man's coffee," hired top movie star Susan Roces to endorse it, and employed Procter-and-Gamble veterans to sell it. Basically, we took a page out of the multinational book and applied it to our business. We gave our coffee, snack food, candy, and chocolates a name, a face, an image. Today, Jack and Jill, Max candy, and Cloud 9 have become household names. It was also at this time that I returned to school for an MBA - with all due respect to the Jesuits, at De La Salle University - and a decade later for a 14-week advanced management program at Harvard. Going back to the university for studies which war had interrupted gave me an appreciation, believe me, for the beauty and the breadth of business life. This is something I believe I would never have gained if I had chosen to stop my education. The success of URC opened up many opportunities for our group. We had the choice to focus on food where we were very successful - or to pursue other businesses. We decided that there were too many good opportunities to pass up, and that remaining in our comfort zone would stunt our growth. So we got into the Age of Expansion.

For the next two decades, we pursued businesses that answered positive on FOUR CRUCIAL QUESTIONS.

First: Is there a market?

Second: Could we compete against both local and foreign players?

Third: Could we find the right people for the job and did we have enough capital to pursue the business?

Last and most important: Did we have the stomach for it? That is, could we take the sleepless nights, the cutthroat competition?

We went into textiles, retail, real estate, telecommunications, aviation, banking, and petrochemicals because we said YES to all those questions. Still, in all those industries, we were faced with tough and worthy competitors - the mighty SM Department Stores and Malls, the unbeatable PLDT, the entrenched Philippine Airlines and the powerful San Miguel Corporation. Most pundits expected us to fail. They were wrong. Robinsons Stores and Mall, Digitel, Cebu Pacific Air and Universal Robina Corporation are now market leaders in their respective fields.

That's because they offered the public a choice.

Remember the story of David and Goliath? Every industry has its Goliath. But every David knows that all giants have their weaknesses. Every weakness is an opportunity.

In a few months, we will launch our mobile services to compete with two giants, Globe and Smart. Our stomachs are churning for sure - but we know that we faced similar challenges before, and we are hopeful we can prove the pundits wrong again.

In the past decade, which is one-sixth of my entire business life, the company has tripled in size. This was the decade when our companies raised money from the global equity and debt markets, brought our companies public, and hired the best professionals to run them. In six decades, we grew from a one-man team to a group with 30,000 employees.

Now I am in what you can probably call the AGE of GLOBALIZATION. I am always asked where I stand on this issue. I say that it does NOT matter where I stand because as sure as the Ateneo Basketball Team will win next year's UAAP championship, global barriers will come crashing down, and we have no choice but to prepare ourselves for that.

Still our company will not take globalization sitting down - OUR future and the country's depend on how we act now. JG operates branded food concerns in Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Hongkong, China, and soon, Vietnam. We also sell our snack foods in India, Korea, and Taiwan - one of the few ASEAN companies to do so.

In a few years, when foreign products find their way into OUR shopping carts as they already have, we want Piattos and Chippy to find their way into THEIR shopping carts as well. Our dream is to be the first group to plant the Philippine flag throughout Asia.

As I look back, I ask myself, "What if I had stopped at cornstarch?" I would probably be the owner of the biggest cornstarch group in the country today or just as possibly, be broke.

But I chose to live my life unafraid even during times when I WAS afraid. I discovered that opportunities don't find you. You find your opportunities.

I found those opportunities when MY FATHER PASSED AWAY, WHEN WAR CAME, THROUGH CHANGES IN PRESIDENTS AND THEIR POLICIES, DURING MARTIAL LAW,DESPITE THE COUPS D' ETAT, PAST ECONOMIC BOOMS AND BUSTS, AND IN THE MIDST OF MARKET SHIFTS AND MOVEMENTS.

Now I'm 75 and retired. And funny, but I often wonder what ever happened to my first bike! The bike that was my companion during those first years when my family had lost everything. I wonder where it is now. That bike reminds me that success is not necessarily about connections, or cutting corners, or chamba - the three C's of bad business.

Call it trite - but, believe me, success CAN BE ACHIEVED through hard work, frugality, integrity, responsiveness to change - and most of all boldness to dream. These have never been just easy slogans for me. I have lived by them. I hope that many of you in this room will some day choose to be entrepreneurs. Choose to be an entrepreneur because then YOU create value. Choose to be an entrepreneur because the products, services, and jobs you create then becomes the lifeblood of our nation. But most of all, choose to be an entrepreneur because then you desire a life of adventure, endless challenge, and the opportunity to be your BEST SELF.

Thank you. *

Written By Fr. Roy Cimagala
Chaplain of Center for Industrial Technology and Enterprise (CITE), Talamban, Cebu City

This piece is inspired by Michael Franks' light and breezy samba song, Down in Brazil, where, you know…

“It takes a day to walk a mile / Time just stands still / And when the people you meet look at you / they smile…"

The big exception is that Bohol does not conjure some dreamy images of good life and fantasy, especially of petty amorous adventures and sugary infatuations. It does not bewilder you in this way.

It brings you to the real, unvarnished world of its natural and pristine charms that come in sharp transparency. But it also shows all its local warts and cracks quite plainly. It seems unafraid and unashamed to expose itself as it really is.

I just had a blast recently of being asked to spend a week there. The reason was to teach Canon Lawâ€"that's right, Canon Lawâ€"to a group of young and enterprising men who, coming from different parts of the country, have decided to hold a seminar in that southern island.

That reason alone already gives me infinite excitement. Imagine, teaching a highly specialized and cerebral subject in a rural setting, reinforcing my belief that subjects like Canon Law can actually be learned anywhere.

It's like living out the Latin motto: “Per aspera ad astra" (from the rustic to the stars), the ordinary prose of humble circumstances turned into beautiful verses of human greatness.

Besides, the class was given to men in different fields of earthly affairsâ€"business, politics, academe, etc. They are taking seriously their faith and their duties both in the Church and in the world. This always fascinates me no end.

But all this has to take a back seat to the fact that Bohol is my place of birth and childhood. There I'm no tourist, visitor or stranger. Going there is going home. Spending time there is like returning to the past and to the roots.

You would understand if there I find the coconut trees swaying more beautifully, the wind blowing more refreshingly, the people more of my own with whom I could easily identify myself, etc.

It was nice to see the roads, still dusty though they may be, full of children with happy faces, completely simple and guileless. It gave me the impression life abounded quite naturally there and was swimming in rich potentials.

I've heard the province has become a favorite tourist destination of both locals and foreigners. As a kid, I already dreamt of when others would discover our beaches with the white, fine sand, our chocolate hills, our tarsiers…

I enjoyed them tremendously, and spontaneously thought it was a good idea, a supreme act of generosity to share these treasures with as many people as possible. I'm happy to note this dream is becoming real.

But there's one thing that I most emphatically recommend. This is to visit churches, and even more, to spend some time there. Many churches are truly and effortlessly beautiful. And they smell a great deal of history.

If you really want to know the soul of the province or the character of the people, look for it in the churches. There you will see the instant and miniature portrait of the ethos of the place.

There is strong and living faith, in spite of the usual human frailties. Piety seems to be an inborn trait. And this, not only among the women, but also among the men; not only among the old ones, but also among the young ones.

I did some of my prayers seated in a corner of some churches I visited. Praying was made easy for me by just observing people coming in and out. Oh, how they prayed, showing practically their true colors before the Blessed Sacrament and the religious images.

Their actuations simply spoke that there is a caring God. If they could only remain like this forever, I prayed, even if their conditions become better or worse!

Down in Bohol, in dear old Bohol, I think you stand to get your faith reinvigorated if you know what to really see.

Is she your lola, Princess?

looks like an award-winning photo from you.

welcome to Tubag Bohol, edcelros.

we're building a better Bohol.

hope you'd enjoy our company here.

"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Naunsa na ni? Bohol's tarsier under the edge of photoshop.

photo courtesy of flickr.com

Loboc River Boat, Bohol.

photo courtesy of flickr.com

The Philippines produces about 3.5 metric tons of bananas (est. value U.S. 700 million in 2004) and yearly exports more than US$ 200 million worth of bananas.

The Philippines is the fifth largest exporter of bananas in the world after India, Ecuador, Brazil and China (2002 figures).

This is made possible because of the favorable climate in the Philippines and 382,491 hectares or half of the Philippines' land area planted with bananas.

Banana can be more profitable than rice, corn and other agricultural crops if given proper culture and inputs for production.

This was proven by Winston Adier, Aborlan Municipal Planning and Development Coordinator, in his comparative cost and return analysis of banana, rice and corn crops grown under Aborlan town condition for a three- year production period.

Within a three-year production of banana, rice and corn, Adier, the husband of Aborlan Mayor Celsa Adier, said that banana ranks first in total net income of P121,870.00 compared to rice (P20, 047.00) and corn (P5,505.00), respectively.

He said the total expenses incurred in the production of bananas was only about 23.83 percent (P38, 130.00) as compared to rice with 72.50 percent (P52,852.30) and corn 84.11 percent (P29,145.00).

Adier insists that banana is most productive, even without inputs such as fertilizers and insecticides.

source: Philippine News Agency

Senator Edgardo Angara is calling on the government and agriculture stakeholders to implement drastic measures for Philippine agriculture which contributes hugely to the national economy.

Angara made the call during his recent visit here to speak in the two-day 2007 Agri-Summit, sponsored by the Iloilo Business Club.

Angara, Senate committee chairperson on agriculture, said even though agriculture contributes about one fifth to the national income and ultimately to the economy, every body still looks down on agriculture.

“It is the foundation of the economy of every progressive country like Japan, Taiwan, and China, but it attracts the least public investment here,” he expressed.

He likened the said sector to a “step child” because of the low priority given to it, instead of being the country’s “first born”, the Philippines being predominantly agricultural.

The senator pointed out that come 2010, there will be 100 million Filipinos, and by 2015, the population is expected to balloon to 120 million.

“We need a big amount of food to feed all those people,” Angara said.

source: Philippine News Agency

The president of the US-ASEAN Business Council on Thursday expressed befuddlement that public perception in the Philippines does not match reality of the country’s economic growth.

Matthew Daley pointed out: “The statistics tell the story: The Philippines is experiencing the highest average economic growth, the greatest job creation, the lowest inflation, and that is a remarkable accomplishment! And this, of course, happened under your leadership,” he added, addressing President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

Daley made the observation during the roundtable discussion of the US-ASEAN Business Council with the President at the Waldorf Astoria Towers. The forum was hosted by Martin Sullivan, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of AIG.

Composed of prominent business leaders, some of whom are listed in Fortune 1000, the US-ASEAN business called on the President to exchange views on business prospects in the Philippines.

Daley told the President that the US-ASEAN Business Council will send a business mission to the Philippine next month to further expand public “access between the Philippines and the American audience” on business and investment realities in the Philippines.

“We will be bringing this mission to Manila in October and we look forward to seeing you and many of your colleagues,” Daley told the President.

“I think one of the greatest challenges now is to focus (on public) perception to match with the reality of economic growth,” he pointed out.

Daley said the business mission to the Philippines will strive to narrow the gap between public perception and the reality of the Philippines’ economic turn-around.

“That is something that we… will work with you and (the Philippine) government in bringing the access between the Philippines… to the American audience, and that we will be bringing this mission to Manila,” Daley said.

source: The Philippine News Agency

Come December, international flights using Airbus 320 directly from Puson, Inchon and Seoul all of South Korea will commence at the Tagbilaran City Airport until such time the Panglao International Airport Development Project shall be completed and operational.

In preparation to this, the request for a temporary assignment of Customs personnel were discussed by Gov. Erico Aumentado and Congressman Edgar M. Chatto with Bureau of Customs Commissioner Napoleon Morales during their Panglao Island Tourism Estate Inter-Agency Task Force Meeting at the Bohol Beach Club on August 17, 2007 and official communication thereto was made and received on August 22 and 30 respectively.

In a reply letter dated September 4, Morales granted the request and further informed Aumentado and Chatto to advice the South Korean Travel Operators and the Airline Companies that they will charter to apply for Special Landing Permit from the Bureau in accordance with the law.

source: www.theboholstandard.com

This isn’t just a horse’s talk, but recent research shows that the lowly kalamunggay, kamunggay or malunggay (Horseraddish) is the only herb which us a potential source of anti-cancer compounds that helps cure female reproductive disorders called the epithelial ovarian cancer.

Recent findings from the Medical College in Calcutta, India revealed that among the different medicinal herbs, the kamunggay rates high as an alternative medicine.

According to medical sources, epithelial cancer afflicts the epithelial cells lining the female ovaries, and in here starts all ovarian cancers.

The effectiveness of kamunggay in the treatment of ovarian cancer is attributed to a combination of anti-tumor and hormonal properties that can be found from the plant’s root bark extracts, according to the research.

As a green-leafy vegetable, kamunggay is also found to contain phytochemicals that can prevent the development of cancer cells.

Epithelial cancers start as tumors and has been one of the most fatal reproductive disorders in women and the “silent killer” has accounted for over 50% deaths in women afflicted with this kind of cancer, the same medical sources said.

While cancer treatment could be one expensive treatment regimen at the country’s medical institutions, several quarters now are promoting alternative treatments.

And owing to its miraculous properties, the Department of Agriculture (DA) has committed to promote and develop it not just as alternative herbal medicine but as a revenue-generating agricultural product as well.

The DA commits to put the lowly kamunggay under its biotechnology program while considering its myriad health and medicinal benefits.

Kamunggay, dubbed as “miracle vegetable,” is also among the many indigenous plants in the country that offers promising health benefits.

Aside from cancer, the onset of other chronic diseases like arthritis, heart complications and kidney diseases can be prevented because of the potent antioxidants from malunggay.

The kamunggay is highly rich in vitamins A, C, and E, which combat free radicals that can impair the body’s metabolism and eventually cause cell death, the research continues.

“It also helps maintain good eyesight and facilitates digestion and bowel movement, and is used to cleanse wounds and ulcers, cure stomach aches, scurvy, asthma, earache and headaches”, it said.

source: PIA and www.theboholstandard.com

Cebu Pacific (CEB), the Philippine's leading domestic airline, offers its 10 international-to-international connecting routes via Manila starting October 1, 2007.

CEB passengers can now take international connecting flights from Hong Kong or Taipei  to Bangkok, Shanghai , Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore with Manila as a transit station. 

Candice Iyog, CEB vice president for marketing and product, said "With the growth of our international operations, we are now able to offer our guests the convenience of international connections as well.  Guests can now purchase tickets for their connecting flights online.  More importantly, this service also gives the country a significant role as a key travel hub in the region."

CEB's Hong Kong and Taipei connections to Bangkok , Shanghai or Singapore and vice versa are offered daily.  Meanwhile, connections to Kuala Lumpur are available four times weekly while flight connections to Jakarta are available three times weekly.

Iyog said, "We would like to make Manila a major international connecting hub.  We believe that this is good for the country's tourism agenda because travelers are likely to stopover in the Philippines while going to or from their final destination.  As Singapore has shown the world, short-stay tourism can be the backbone of massive tourism growth."

"We are already the number one domestic airline in the Philippines and we want to take our leadership position to the rest of Asia.  We are sure that our low fares will stimulate travel in all countries that we operate in."  Iyog added.

Iyog concluded that the opening of new international routes and international flight connections is part of CEB's strategy to achieve its target of carrying more than 5 million passengers this year.

Now in its 12th year, CEB has the youngest fleet of aircraft in the Philippines. CEB operates 14 Airbus aircraft to its 20 domestic and soon to be 12 international destinations with the addition of Guangzhou, and Macau  starting this month.

--press release sent directly to Tubag Bohol news desk

Tshomlee Go went through the proverbial eye of the needle to take his place in the 2008 Beijing Games and make up for teammate Mary Antoinette Rivero's heart-breaking quarterfinal loss Saturday in the World Olympic Qualifying at the Manchester Evening News Arena here.

The 26-year-old Go scored four straight victories, including one against a Thai World Cup and Asian champion, to reach the male -58kg semifinals where he lost to eventual champion, reigning Olympic titlist Mu Yen Chu of Chinese Taipei.

But there was no denying the Athens Olympics veteran for making yet another run for the Games, beating a gutsy Egyptian in the battle for the bronze medal in a thrilling sudden-death..

Go finished the three rounds in a -1 deadlock with Tamer Salah Bayoumi after incurring deductions for failing to get into action. But the extra two minutes passed by without anybody making that first point which would have sealed the win.

That left the four corner referees to decide who takes the win, and unanimously handed the victory to the more aggressive Filipino jin.

source: Philippine News Agency

Benjamin Abalos Sr. on Monday afternooon announced his resignation "effective immediately" from the chairmanship of the Commission on Elections (Comelec), gleefully reiterating that by his detreactors naming him as the government's "sacrificial lamb" in the nearly-botched broadband telecoms deal with China, his "innocence"s is affirmed.

Abalos made his bombshell announcement before a multitude of supporters--mostly residents of Mandaluyong City which he once served as mayor--who attended a Catholic mass held at his private residence.

"I am resigning the chairmanship of the Comelec effective immediately," he said in a prepared statement to the press, adding that "it is not an admission of guilt for any wrongdoing" ascribed on him as regards the alleged Php 200-million and US$ 10-million bribes in connection with the controversial national broadband network (NBN) deal with the Shenzen-based ZTE Corp. of China.

source: Philippine News Agency

An Indian journalist who allegedly persuaded a depressed businessman to kill himself on camera, before police stopped him, has been charged with abetting suicide.

The video journalist, identified only as Vipin, urged Tilak Raj to drink poison outside a police superintendent's residence in northern Punjab state yesterday.

"Tilak Raj was extremely depressed after losing a property case in court,'' the superintendent, R.K. Jaiswal, said.

"He approached Vipin for help and Vipin told him to kill himself to attract public attention to his plight.''

Police managed to thwart the suicide bid.

source: news.com.au

Princess, kindly re-upload your avatar to see a new size format.

I wish we have this service in Thailand.

Tubag Bohol Prolifics as of October 1, 2007

The Magic 9 of Tubag Bohol

Happy         3783
Hajji       2557
ms da binsi       2286
Ginger       2099
C2H4       1794
Lorenzo       1647
..yadz..       1626
Bambi       1526
buenavista    1184

--This Bohol image is courtesy of who.log.why of flickr.com

Welcome to our website, Fidela.

Get tons of information about Bohol and the Boholano people.

Meet your compatriots from all over the world.

See the clear waters of Jagna, Bohol...

--this Bohol image is courtesy of momsfavorites of flickr.com

A sepia image.

--this Bohol picture is courtesy of justpedalhard of flickr.com

--this Bohol image is courtesy of justpedalhard of flickr.com

--this Bohol image is courtesy of justpedalhard of flickr.com

Congratulations, Atty. DeLaguna.

What a lovely essay.

And your kids' names are indeed nutritious.

--this Bohol image is courtesy of jeepney of flickr.com

Quote from: David Dennis on October 01, 2007, 02:23:35 PM

So you can see the Philippines has an enormous appeal since houses by the water cost far less than that to buy and proportionately far less to rent, too.  And the weather is almost always nice, without this awful "winter".

Dennis, many of us in the Philippines dream of touching snow and playing with it.

Quote from: David Dennis on October 01, 2007, 02:39:20 PM

I might add another thing.  The corruption in the Philippines makes personal relationships, and harmonious relationships between people, very, very important.  People in the US are far ruder and far less nice to others.  Certainly in the US I am almost never treated with the friendliness and courtesy I was in any Filipino store, however humble it might be. 

D

Dennis,

I am based in Thailand and you can also expect the same friendliness from the Thai people.

Bran, you make my heart long for Bohol with deeper longing.

I'm about to be teary now. I miss my father, my mother, and my sister.

Quote from: Mari on October 01, 2007, 03:17:00 PM
dont look like Duero Mike. i remember they dont have white beach

Dili ni white sand, Mari. This must be in Duero or in the town boundary before Guindulman.

walay specific nga location, Mari. sige ko mahospital sa Maui, Duero sauna. The hospital is gone now. It was owned by Dr. Maning Tan, your mayor in Duero today.

Duol ra man ang bukid ug dagat sa Duero.

Fruits of labor.

--this Bohol image is courtesy of jeepney of flickr.com

A marriage of greeneries, leaves, sea and mountain.

--this Bohol photo is courtesy of jeepney of flickr.com

Quote from: Mari on October 01, 2007, 03:06:01 PM
aguy makasuroy diay ko ani sa Norway kinsay muoban?

Mari, i think GEC would love to travel with you. 

A picture of serenity and abundance. I love you, Duero.

--this Bohol picture is courtesy of jeepney of flickr.com

Brewpoint closes at 2 a.m. Uli na pud ko at 2:01 a.m. Usahay pukawon nalang sa staff sa Brewpoint. Nakatulog ug binasa ug libro.

Quote from: C2H4 on October 01, 2007, 03:12:03 AM
Agay, agay, agay...

naghuwat diay atong damsel nga pangutan-on sa atong superhero.



PS. Teng, andama imong tsinelas kay kumbera na ni.

Ang Kumbera didto pagasaulogon sa nasud sa Norway. Busa Sigbin, tigum-tigum na diha ug plete.
Murag magdajon gyud ni.

Leo, kindly re-upload your avatar to see the size change.

Quote from: David Dennis on October 01, 2007, 02:04:02 PM

D

• I mention him because whenever I noticed a business in the Philippines that seemed unusually well run, from the malls to the airlines, his company seemed to be behind it somewhere.
  
  

Of all Chinese businessmen in the Philippines, the story of the father Gokongwei is the most inspiring. He grew up in Cebu, selling charcoal, pushing wooden cart as a merchant boy.

Now he owns a business conglomerate in the Philippines.

More about Gokongwei...let me research...

Bran, you've met a neighbor.

David, thank you for spreading hope for the Philippines.

Yes, we citizens of the Republic of the Philippines are warm and friendly. Of course, there are bad eggs in a basket.

Quote from: Lorenzo on October 01, 2007, 02:38:15 PM
Mike and Leo,

What kinds of fish are in the sanctuary? The waters look really pristine...very inviting.

Bran, nakaligo na ko didto. All exotic fish in the world will swim with you right there by beach. Fishing is not allowed in the area, so the fish are not disturbed by human noise.

--this Bohol photo of Duero, Bohol is courtesy of who.log.why of flickr.com

Cool sea breeze in Duero, Bohol. Open the window of your van or bus.

--this Bohol image is courtesy of jeepney of flickr.com

Duero is not blessed with white sand.
This picture, however, is lovely.

--this Bohol image is courtesy of flickr.com

Alicia Bamboo Ensemble founded in Alicia, Bohol

--this Bohol image is courtesy of flickr.com

Hello Fheps, welcome drinks from all of us here in Tubag Bohol.

We are warm and friendly fheple, so don't hesitate to join our discussion.

Cheers!

David, there are not much resources about the Bisaya language both online and printed.

But I'm building an online learning center (for free) where people from all over the world can learn Bisaya in the Internet. I am even coming up with a poetry book in Bisaya.

This language is spoken by more than 30 million Filipinos in the Philippines and abroad (Australia's population is less than 25 million). But our government is Manila-based (sort of Washington-based) and officials don't care much about our Bisaya language.

Fish Sanctuary in Guindulman, Bohol.
Nakaligo na ko diri.

I miss this place now.

this bohol photo is courtesy of flickr.com

Many of us in this website are not based in Bohol but abroad.
Most are in Europe and in the U.S.

At times we miss to speak our own language because we are living in foreign lands, so we may be speaking Bisaya from time to time.

Be assured that in interacting with you, we will be using English at all times.

David this language is called Bisaya.

95% of the first postings are in English. Some would like to comment on these postings in Bisaya, though many of us here are writing in English.

There are three expats in this website. you are the fourth one. you may proceed to our expat section.

whenever and wherever you post something, we will make our comments in English.

From Galen of Tubag Bohol sent through PM

lain pa atoa, nakaMeet akoa cousin diri ug tagaDavao (3 girls) a month ago nag-stay sila ug hotel nga SGD38/night man tngali to kay nailad sila sa ilang kasabot nga malaysian employer dri. as in gidala ang ilang SGD7000/person worth nga processing fee.  luoy tawon kaayo, maayo sad gani kay mohawa akoa cousin sa iyang gipuy-an nga transient room so iyang gi-recommend didto.

ang nakasayop pa jud sa taga-davao kay wla nila makuha ang mga document numbers sa malaysian, dali ra unta kaayo to i-reklamo.

sige gyud na ko malabyan ning guindulman. no choice kay taga anda man ko.   

this bohol image is courtesy of flickr.com

Quote from: C2H4 on October 01, 2007, 12:53:46 PM
akong brain kay food, food, food...

i wanna eat lechon right now 

maniudto sa ko kay wa pa koy pamahaw.
brb. be right back. 

Muhammad Yunus has come a long way since he first began giving money to poor people in his homeland of Bangladesh 31 years ago.

"I started giving them money out of my own pocket. The first loan I gave was to 42 people, a total of $27," he told ABC News. "And that got them so excited that I thought I should continue with this."

Since then, his revolutionary micro credit organization called the Grameen Bank (which means "village bank" in Bangladesh) has loaned money to 7½ million people and earned Yunus the Nobel Peace Prize.

...read more of this article in <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Voices/story?id=3670338&page=1">ABC News HERE</a>

Quote from: preciousNpolite on October 01, 2007, 12:48:43 PM
It comes from influences generated by outside the family in most cases. I am a great parent and when my daughter tries to be sneaky it is her outside away from home environment.
Yes the gangs are bad and if i know and see one kid involved I would literally sit on him.
I agree with you Macky It is also do to not enough being organized for the kids to do.
Always boxxing or beauty pageants for chicks.
Bohol has allot of talented Kids here and there should be a wider variety of options for the with in the civic areas of Bohol.

Kids learn from their parents.

Quote from: C2H4 on October 01, 2007, 12:41:55 PM
marka bungo?

hehehe

Mike: isn't that the symbol of the Skull & Bones society at Yale University, of which George W. Bush was a member?

I don't know that, Galen.
Maybe Iluminati.

Cockroaches learn new tricks well in the evening, but they're lousy students in the morning.

A new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, showed that while cockroaches were able to pick up and remember lessons taught in the evenings, they might as well have stayed in bed during the morning hours.

Similar research performed on rodents suggested that the ability to learn and retain lessons is regulated by "biological clocks," which adjusts the body's alertness and hormone levels over a 24-hour cycle. One study even revealed that mice subjected to jet lagâ€"a sudden disruption to the biological clockâ€"were more likely to die.

...read more of this article in <a href="http://www.livescience.com/animals/070930_cockroaches_learning.html>LiveScience.com</a>

Scientists have known that on the whole, females of all ages tend to worry more and have more intense worries than males. Women also tend to perceive more risk in situations and grow more anxious than men.

Now we know why.

Women are more likely than men to believe that past experiences accurately forecast the future, according to two new studies.

The research, involving both 3- to 6-year-olds and adults of both genders, tested the extent to which participants' thought that worry can be caused by thinking that a bad event that happened in the past could happen again in the future. (This skill, in its simplest form, is critical to social understanding as it is important to making decisions and assessing risk.)

...more of this article <a href="http://www.livescience.com/health/070928_women_worry.html">HERE</a>

Quote from: C2H4 on October 01, 2007, 12:36:09 PM
Mike,

is this your message to yourself?

I should send a PM to myself. 

Quote from: ms da binsi on October 01, 2007, 12:38:10 PM
mao ba?


marka----

unsa gani na sa atoa Mike???

ilimnon gani na???

gitawag na ug Tayodan, Ble.

terrified of my research?
it makes Bambi happy.
so don't be afraid.

Quote from: swakee on October 01, 2007, 12:35:16 PM
means naked? hehehe...

swakee, literal bones.
kana bitawng sign sa mga drug addicts
or that one makit-an nimo sa botelya which means lethal.

Quote from: C2H4 on October 01, 2007, 12:31:28 PM
Sus, kung mag uban tang tulo ni Miss Bambi,

murag ma tagak man gyud mga brief sa mga male strippers ba

Thyl, dili matagak, mabugto ang garter. 

need more research? 

Cappuccio and colleagues at the University College, London, gathered sleep data on 10,308 civil servants in the late 1980s and then again in the early 1990s. Of course, some of those government employees had died in the meantime, and so the researchers could factors out such variables as smoking, exercise, obesity and blood pressure and concentrate on how sleep might send us into the Big Sleep.

It seems that how much sleep the civil employees got (not at their desks, but in bed at night) played a part in putting them to sleep permanently.

Those who changed their sleep habits by cutting the time in bed from 7 to 5 or less hours were 1.7 times more likely to die, and twice as likely to die from cardiovascular problems.

Oddly enough, sleeping too much also turned out to be bad. Going from the standard 7 hours of sleep to more than 8 hours also upped the risk of death twofold.

This research suggests that we all should be getting 7 hours of sleep a night, and we should religiously stick to that quotient.

source: livescience.com

The first direct evidence that early Europeans were unable to digest milk has been found by scientists at UCL (University College London) and Mainz University.

In a study, published in the journal 'PNAS', the team shows that the gene that controls our ability to digest milk was missing from Neolithic skeletons dating to between 5840 and 5000 BC. However, through exposure to milk, lactose tolerance evolved extremely rapidly, in evolutionary terms. Today, it is present in over ninety per cent of the population of northern Europe and is also found in some African and Middle Eastern populations but is missing from the majority of the adult population globally.

Dr Mark Thomas, UCL Biology, said: "The ability to drink milk is the most advantageous trait that's evolved in Europeans in the recent past. Without the enzyme lactase, drinking milk in adulthood causes bloating and diarrhoea. Although the benefits of milk tolerance are not fully understood yet, they probably include: the continuous supply of milk compared to the boom and bust of seasonal crops; its nourishing qualities; and the fact that it's uncontaminated by parasites, unlike stream water, making it a safer drink. All in all, the ability to drink milk gave some early Europeans a big survival advantage."

source: sciencedaily.com

On what started as a normal Saturday night one week ago, residents of a small, remote Peruvian town saw a bright light streak across the sky, heard a resounding bang and suddenly found themselves at the center of a media frenzy.

Initial suspicions of an airplane crash quickly spiraled into widespread reports that a meteorite had plummeted to Earth and left a smoking, boiling crater whose supposedly noxious fumes were reported to have sickened curious locals who went to peer at the hole.

Despite doubts expressed by geologists that the crater was actually caused by a meteorite and firm explanations that a meteorite would not even emit fumes and that the "sickness" was likely a case of mass hysteria, numerous onlookers far and wide were fascinated by the idea that this event could be some real-life "Andromeda Strain" (the 1969 novel by Michael Crichton), where a mysterious rock falling to Earth from outerspace made anyone who went near it ill.

So what is it about things falling from the sky that fills us with such fear that we can make ourselves sick with panic?

source: space.com

Quote from: C2H4 on October 01, 2007, 11:55:40 AM
If the person's face in the avatar is ugly...

will that count as offensive, Mike?

Thyl,

Nudities.
One was skull with bones in an x form.

A man who agreed to plead guilty to trying to extort more than $1m (£490,000) from Tom Cruise has been found dead at his Arizona home.

David Hans Schmidt, of Phoenix, committed suicide, investigators said.

The 47-year-old faced up to two years in jail for attempted extortion in a case involving stolen photos of the actor's wedding to Katie Holmes.

Mr Schmidt had been under house arrest and was due to plead guilty in court on 11 October, his lawyer said.

"I was greatly saddened by his loss and I found him to be a very kind man," Nancy Kardon added.

Mr Schmidt also faced a $250,000 (£122,000) fine under the plea agreement, filed in a Los Angeles court in August. Ms Kardon said she had planned to ask for probation.

Police said they had noticed that an electronic tag placed on him had not moved, and that he had not checked into a police station. Mr Schmidt was found dead on Friday afternoon, they added.

source: BBC News

Break forth in song, rejoice, and sing praises. â€"Psalm 98:4

Singing comes naturally to the four von Trapp children. They are the great-grandchildren of Captain Georg von Trapp, whose romance with his second wife Maria inspired the 1965 film The Sound of Music.

After their grandfather Werner von Trapp had a stroke, the Montana siblings recorded their first CD in order to cheer him up. Soon the children were performing around the world. Stefan, the children’s father, says, “The music is inside them.”

The writer of Psalm 98 also had a song in his heart. He called on others to join him in singing “to the Lord a new song! For He has done marvelous things” (v.1). He praised God for His salvation, His righteousness, His mercy, and His faithfulness (vv.2-3). The psalmist’s heart was so overflowing with praise that he called on the earth to break forth in song, the rivers to clap their hands, and the hills to be joyful (vv.4,8).

We have much to be thankful for as wellâ€"God’s good gifts of family, friends, and His daily supply for our needs. He faithfully cares for us, His children.

We may not be able to sing well. But when we recall all that God is to us and all that He has done for us, we can’t help but “break forth in song” (v.4). â€"Anne Cetas

Praise, my soul, the King of heaven,
To His feet thy tribute bring;
Ransomed, healed, restored, forgiven,
Evermore His praises sing. â€"Lyte

Praise is the overflow of a joyful heart.


source: www.rbc.org

Quote from: C2H4 on September 30, 2007, 10:14:42 AM
Your book puhon is the most highly anticipated literary work by Bisayans, Mike.

I can't wait to get my hands on an autographed copy.

I am thinking of publishing this Bisayan book as collaborative efforts of those who love the Bisayan language. Honestly, I don't have enough resources to have our language preserved and promoted. My friend in Germany has tentatively pledged to help the publication.

The plan is Volume 1 - compilation of 177 poems - about 250 pages. Quite thick.

The rich in our country are the oppressors of the poor.
Most employers are selfish and greedy.

Yes, the Internet is a powerful tool to spread the gospel of Christ.

David,

How did you find Tubag Bohol?

This site is best viewed in Mozilla Firefox browser.

Quote from: willmerit on October 01, 2007, 09:13:35 AM
yup, kindly explain pls, i wanna know too!

willmerit, ayaw nalang. but you may ask from hajji. 

Below is my comment to the Living Bible entry of multiply.com

QuoteThis is very emotional. I know that in many churches I've visited, some won't care about your presence. But there are also many churches that warmly and joyfully welcome a new comer.

Quote from: ms da binsi on October 01, 2007, 09:04:24 AM
ill see ya tomorrow Bams, matulog na pod ko.


gikapoy gyud ko sa mga gagmatitoy...

karon, crystal clear na ang mga faces.
actually da binsi pwede paman increase ang size
but the bigger the avatar size, mo-slow down ang website.
do you think the size is enough?

Quote from: ms da binsi on October 01, 2007, 08:56:55 AM
pareho ra na...
ayaw nag palag diha hahahha

ikaw ha, kanang palag nga term is very bugay. we used that during high school days.

Quote from: ms da binsi on October 01, 2007, 08:43:15 AM
hala kadaghan sa numero hahahhha


ingon ana ka die hard ang TB people???


good job Mike!!!

Da Binsi, not my job, but passion and efforts from all guests and family members.
Tig-lang ko diri oi. 

There were avatars that I personally asked the uploaders to be removed.

If I request a removal, that won't count as warning - but a reminder only. 

Don't hesitate to send a PM to the admin whenever someone is harassing you, or sending you lewd messages,
or trying to insinuate any sexual favors, or whatever is personally offensive. I learn that these incidents are happening in other websites. Tubag Bohol will never tolerate such events. Both sides will be heard in a virtual cross-examination. 

Tubag Bohol wishes to maintain clean friendships and sincere relationships among its family members.

First offense: personal warning sent through PM.

Second offense: removal of Tubag Bohol account

Third offense: ban from Tubag Bohol for life.

Tubag Bohol is free and independent.
Our website is a gift to the Boholanos, to the Filipinos, and to our foreign visitors.
So, let's maintain decency, sincerity, nobility, and godliness.

Flashback: In the early days of Tubag Bohol birth, several inappropriate jokes were deleted without notice and explanation because Tubag Bohol is NOT a porno site. Same thing can happen today and in the future.

Never call me Sir, Alex. I'm your brother in Christ.

Your voice is heard loud and clear. Thank you... 

Don't hesitate to send a PM to the admin whenever someone is harassing you, or sending you lewd messages,
or trying to insinuate any sexual favors. I learn that these incidents are happening in other websites. Tubag Bohol will never tolerate such events.

Tubag Bohol wishes to maintain clean friendships and sincere relationships among its family members.

First offense: personal warning sent through PM.

Second offense: removal of Tubag Bohol account

Third offense: ban from Tubag Bohol for life.

Thank you Alex for the link.

Hello Dennis,

The welcome is done manually.

Yes, Bohol is judged as the most beautiful province among the more than 7,000 Philippine Islands.

We are friendly and warm people, so don't hesitate to ask us if you have some concerns.

God bless,
Mike

A warm welcome from all of us in Tubag Bohol.

David, welcome to Bohol's most dynamic website.

Tubag Bohol: A New Sensation. Five months hence. We are growing and loved faster than ever. 
Link to our stats:
http://tubagbohol.mikeligalig.com/index.php?action=stats

Written By June Blanco

The STARS program, or Skills Training Advocating Reliance, has been launched in this province to provide capability enhancement and training opportunities for 10 individuals per barangay.

Bohol has 1,109 barangays, and this means that at least 11,118 Boholanos will be trained for future self-employment.

Training for the following skills will be available: Hairstyling, manicure, pedicure, basic hairstyling, electricity, plumbing, therapeutic massage, reflexology, cell phone repair, driving, and possibly welding and tour guiding.

STARS intends to train 10 residents of each of the province’s 1,109 barangays in two years in courses of their choice from among those to be offered: manicure/pedicure, hairstyling, basic electricity, plumbing, therapeutic massage/reflexology, cellphone repair, driving, radio/TV servicing, small engine repair, household service worker.

The project will former rebels to facilitate their re-entry into the mainstream of society.

The Bohol Local Peace Forum (BLPF) chaired by Bishop Leonardo Medroso of the Diocese of Tagbilaran, with Gov. Erico Aumentado as co-chairman, passed a resolution recently, seeking counterpart funding of R12,848,605 from President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.

The provincial government has a lump sum amount in its budget specifically allotted for counterpart funding for certain projects.

For STARS, the governor said the provincial government and Bohol’s three congressmen will provide funds for half of the project cost, according to the convergence strategy that Aumentado pushes.

Convergence, he explained, is the pooling together of resources so that no matter how meager they may be, when combined, they can already fund impact projects, or at least widen its scope or finish the same.

That's what <a href="http://www.youtube.com">YouTube</a> says that this video clip is a scandal (tarsier version). Just visit the link below and decide for yourself whether this is a scandal in Bohol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jvcpc9PlfvE

Why should women know about fibroids?

Uterine fibroids are the most common, benign tumors in women of childbearing age, but no one knows exactly what causes them. They can be frustrating to live with when they cause symptoms. Not all women with fibroids have symptoms, but some have pain and heavy menstrual bleeding. Fibroids also can put pressure on the bladder, causing frequent urination.
Who gets fibroids?

More research is being done to figure out who is at risk for fibroids. But it is known that:

    * Most of the time, fibroids grow in women of childbearing age.
    * African American women are more likely to get them than women of other racial groups.
    * African American women tend to get fibroids at a younger age than do other women.
    * Women who are overweight or obese also are at a slightly higher risk for fibroids than women who are not overweight.
    * Women who have given birth appear to be at a lower risk for fibroids.

Where can fibroids grow?

Doctors put fibroids into three groups based on where they grow, such as just underneath the lining of the uterus, in between the muscles of the uterus, or on the outside of the uterus. Most fibroids grow within the wall of the uterus. Some fibroids grow on stalks (called peduncles) that grow out from the surface of the uterus, or into the cavity of the uterus.
What are the symptoms of fibroids?

Most fibroids do not cause any symptoms, but some women with fibroids can have:

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      heavy bleeding or painful periods
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      bleeding between periods
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      feeling of fullness in the pelvic area (lower abdomen)
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      urinating often
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      pain during sex
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      lower back pain
    * reproductive problems, such as infertility, having more than one miscarriage, or having early onset of labor during pregnancy

What causes fibroids?

No one knows for sure what causes fibroids. Researchers have some theories, but most likely, fibroids are the result of many factors interacting with each other. These factors could be hormonal (affected by estrogen levels), genetic (running in families), environmental, or a combination of all three. Because no one knows for sure what causes fibroids, we also don't know what causes them to grow or shrink. For the most part, fibroids stop growing or shrink after menopause. But, this is not true for all women with fibroids.
Can fibroids turn into cancer?

Fibroids are almost always benign, or not cancerous, and they rarely turn into cancer (less than 0.1 percent of cases). Having fibroids does not increase a woman's chances of getting cancer of the uterus.
How do I know for sure that I have fibroids?

Your doctor may find that you have fibroids when you see her or him for a regular pelvic exam to check your uterus, ovaries, and vagina. Often, a doctor will describe how small or how large the fibroids are by comparing their size to the size your uterus would be if you were pregnant. For example, you may be told that your fibroids have made your uterus the size it would be if you were 8 weeks pregnant.

source: <a href="http://www.4women.gov/faq/fibroids.htm">WomenHealth.gov</a>

By Kit Bagaipo
The Bohol Chronicle

Four members of the PNP’s Traffic Management Group (TMG) are facing charges for carnapping.

The complaints, now at the City Prosecutors Office were lodged by Handel Sarabosing and Isidoro Manalo, both residents of Dauis town, against P/Insp. Doroteo Tolentino, PO3 Jason Calimba, PO2 Edwin Santos and PO2 Eddie Maruhom.

The four policemen are all elements of the TMG regional office.
Sarabosing and Manalo are suing the TMG operatives for carnapping for seizing their vehicles as these were allegedly stolen from its original owners.

The complainants, who are represented by lawyer Salvador Diputado, will likewise file administrative charges against the policemen.

In his complaint-affidavit, Sarabosing bared that last September 19, while driving his Mitsubishi Adventure with plate number AHB 423, he was flagged down by PO2 Santos along CPG Avenue corner B. Inting Street.