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ayayay yuckyyak!  unya maka inom pa jud ta tubig ba sa dagat? nananana wa pa ra ba ko kapanihapon hahaahahah

Hello Kyle!

This is what you should do so you can have your avatar:


Scroll up and you can see at the top the screen the Profile and click it.  To your left, you can see a box - Modify Profile.  Click it and further click on Forum Profile Info.  Choose the "I will upload my own picture" and click browse for the picture you want to share as your avatar.  Then click, Change Profile.  That should do it.

If you want to post pictures, here's the post of Admin Mike for the instruction on how to:


First: pictures are already online or available in the Internet.

Use these great image hosting websites: www.imagevenue.com and www.flickr.com or www.photobucket.com

1. Right click a photo in the Internet.
2. Choose "Copy Image Location".
3. Paste the image location/url in the box where you post messages in Tubag Bohol.
4. Highlight the url/image location.
5. Click "Insert Image" button in Tubag Bohol.
6. Click "Post". There you go.

Welcome to TB too, Brownman!  Dili na kini among grupo but atong grupo kay member naman ka busa apil kana sa pamilyang TB! 

Thanks a lot, Gem!  I am chatting right now with our police sister.  She is trying to fix their computer for her girls to use for school assignment.  My sister call herself after her husband's death, Inatay hahaha Ina at Tatay, all in one!

Ah ok.  I thought Kyle here is your Kyle. hehehe

You are right Kyle; it's Germany.

By the way, what grade are you in now, Kyle?

Or, give them a fish rod to use for fishing instead of fish.  that's just categorical statement but what I am saying is that we need to have livelihood program for these people so they can be sustainable.  Maybe they can use the mini-van for pamasahero? 

hahahah cute pa jud ka Gem!

Hello Gem!  Isn't your boy's name Kyle too? 

You are correct, Kyle! 

Next question:  Famous Scientist Albert Einstien was born in what country?

Source:  Bohol Standard, 11/4/07 issue


By: VEN C. ARIGO

It takes one visionary leader to take cognizance of the Cycle of Life enshrined in the Alpha-Omega (Beginning and End) universal mantra.

In just six hours, first district congressman Rep. Edgar M. Chatto virtually “crossed time barriers” as he met senior citizens already in the twilight of their life, the youth still in their heydays and children at the age of sunrise.

The congressman spoke to elders during the inauguration of the Senior Citizens Hall in Balilihan at 9:00 Wednesday morning before he inspired the graduates of Informatics Computer Institute (ICI) in Tagbilaran City at noon and then graced an activity of Dauis Day Care Center kids at 2 o’clock in the afternoon.

In their provincial federation assembly held earlier, the senior citizens were lauded by Chatto for solidifying their sector so that the present young generation may value the bonding of community members regardless of ages. The group thanked the solon for generously helping the construction of their Provincial Senior Citizens Building.

Unity and cooperation among sectors are a step towards common welfare, Chatto said. The congressman of the First District of Bohol recognized the elders as productive components of the society. He gave value to their continuing contribution to the common good despite their age.

Chatto said the government is simply grateful in providing the senior citizens more social welfare avenues. The solon’s very own mother, Mayor Victoria Chatto is Balilihan’s leading senior citizen.

From the senior citizens’ affair, Chatto sped to Metro Centre Hotel in Tagbilaran City where he addressed the sixth batch of graduates of the Informatics Computer Institute.

The graduation guest speaker was welcomed by institute administrators led by Informatics Center Manager Victoriano Tirol, who inducted the graduates to the school’s alumni association, and vice president for finance Dr. Cristeta Tirol.

Chatto, who sits in Congress’ influential committee on education, expressed pride in young Boholanos who, by their information technology (IT) training, are ready to tame globalization.

IT professionals are now among the best paid workers, not to mention the growing global recognition of Filipino computer graduates.

After the senior and youth citizens, the Day Care children in Dauis had the chance of listening to the congressman, who is fondly regarded in his district as the “honorary classmate” of Day Care tots, during the culmination of the town’s Children’s Month Celebration.

Chatto has been providing Day Care schools, books and instructional materials very relevant start to learning. The occasion was highlighted by the crowning of the kiddy King and Queen of Dauis Day Care Centers 2007.

Chatto was joined by Provincial Social Welfare and Development Officer Constancia Tuñacao and Provincial Early Childhood Development Coordinator John Tabaranza, who are also staunch advocates for children’s rights, sound health and education.

Source:  Bohol Standard, 11/4/07 issue

It would be a disaster if tourists swimming in Bohol’s pristine seas find themselves, alongside with human wastes floating in the sea because many coastal towns and islands have unsanitary or no toilets at all.

The urgency of putting up the right interventions to arrest the sanitation issue in the islets of northern Bohol surfaced Tuesday as concerned residents and non-government organizations shrug why there isn’t much action from government to save the northern seas from fecal coliform contamination and Danajon from an ecological disaster.

And just as the residents of Nocnocan island in Talibon are concerned, Bohol local officials apparently use the bureaucracy as convenient escape to tarry in addressing the stinking issue of water and sanitation in Talibon and Ubay, observers have aired.

Population at Nocnocan is 1981, all cramped in 7 clustered puroks of a total of 309 households. Of them, 262 of the households do not have sanitary toilets or plain toilets at all, reports Ms. Jocelyn Cabanes during the Bohol Press Day at Jjs Seafoods Tuesday.


Cabanes, Nocnocan Elementary School grade II teacher raised the issue of urgency in helping the island people arrest the problem of sanitation as it balloons daily.


“Look at how we pollute our seawater?” she asked.


In the island, you multiply 262 families by 5 people on the average, and that’s the waste (human excreta) that finds its way to the sea every day.


While some 55 families own toilets, these are either unsanitary or water reliant toilets that again impact on the water supply, she added.


The wastes which are not properly disposed can attract flies which also hop on the food, bringing sickness, malnutrition and more poverty, she stressed as she explains the need to immediately address water and sanitation.


“Sanitation refers to the hygienic and proper management and collection, disposal or reuse of human excreta and community liquid wastes to safeguard the health of individuals and communities”, the Philippines Sanitation and Sourcebook Aid defines.


Just as sanitation programs in the island aim to improve health conditions, promote dignity and enhance quality of human life as well as protect the environment, in Nocnocan, the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG)-German Development Foundation (GTZ) piloted the non-water reliant sanitation systems, owing to the fact that water still remains a top problem in the island, said Vicente Delector Jr. of the GTZ.


In this line, a technology called the Urine Diversion Dry Toilet (UDDT) was promoted to conserve on the scarce water supply and control liquid seepage into the sea.

UDDT is an alternative toilet system that uses a double-vault dry toilet which is easily adaptable to diverse cultural needs. A fundamental principle in the system is urine diversion and adequate dessication in an alkaline environment.

The dry toilet consists of two vaults: one in use and the other inactive. The two-receptacle toilet seat facilitates the diversion of urine which passes through a hose and is stored for future fertilizer use while the excrement, which falls into the other chamber is covered with lime or ash and soil after each use.

The ecological dry toilet saves water, is simple and inexpensive to install, requires little space, and can be installed inside or outside of the house. As an additional benefit, the user regularly harvests organic soil conditioner, free of pathogenic organisms, as well as a constant flow of natural fertilizer (urine), Delector emphasizes.

Provincial Planning and Development Administrative Officer and lawyer John Titus Vistal, during the activity’s opening rites said that Bohol has been officially working on ecological sanitation protect for four years.


DILD-GTZ Water and sanitation program has been into technically assisting communities, in this case, Nocnocan as it implemented the pilot project, and in fact non-government organizations who saw the environmental protection component of the project have intended to put up the technology in their assisted communities, reported GTZ authorities here in Bohol.


On the other hand, Capitol, in its fourth year of project involvement has yet to apportion a budget to immediately assist and arrest the sanitation problems of the island communities.


BEMO and the PPDO agree that they have still to lobby for more funds for the procurement of the UDDT and its immediate installation in Ubay and Talibon.


The Poverty Data Monitoring System, a unique data collection and retrieval toll for Bohol planners show that both towns and their island barangays still hug the lines of the towns with barely passable sanitary toilets.


The implications could be rather unnerving with the reality of water contamination spreading in the seas where seaweeds are grown off Danajon, Bohol’s rarest marine environment.


In the school in Nocnocan, Cabanes said only two classrooms have toilets. In her class in Grade 2, some kids have been telling her its their first time to use a sanitary toilet. The idea of bringing eco-sanitation into the schools is one mission she commits, she said.


Dirty, that’s how she capped it, and her efforts may just be bucket in an ocean.


Unless something is done as fast, the lives of the community here may be going foul. (rachiu/PIA)

but i have 3 life lines: peek, copy and what else?

ok, next question:  True or False.  All crocodiles are Herbivores.

That was my guess too!  Can we lock in that answer now? hahahah

Hello again, Kyle, and you are so welcome to TB!  We speak a little English and a lot of bisaya so we can always compensate!  I am also an Ate to you hehehe

By the way, I need to peek your answer in the game we were playing earlier.  ms da binsi is waiting for our answer. lol

Nah, tabang lagi mo figure out because wa man daw apil si GEC.  All the while mao ni ang GEC-Ginger_Sigbin love triangle naa pa diay lain.  hmmm, ingon ni C2 naa daw primyong bobot kon katag-an ta! hahaha

Mike gave us an invaluable/priceless gift - friendship, among other things.

can i peek Kyle's answer?  hhahahahha

wala pa ko kadungog ug tagoto. 

Hahahha! da bins, ikaw na pod next question because Kyle is so fast I don't even have time for the next questions!

Kyle, you are correct!  Would you ever need a lifeline?

Haay, ka gilok imong gi ingon C2 oi!  I was right then that the love triangle involves GEC?  He said dili daw!  He have me another hint 371!

N F L, what's your NFL team?  I go with the team of the coolest coach Tony Dungy heheheh Indianapolis Colts.

Good job! hahahahha

Next question:  True or False.  Is there an adjective in the following sentence? 
                         Kyle boiled water in the black pot.

Kay unsa pa! hahahah

Hey, nice avatar, da bins!  It looks like one of the birds in our yard!

Thanks, NFL!  Looks so easy to make and yummy to eat! 

Yes, that's it, Em!  Good to know you still do that.  Keep that up because that's really a nice tradition. 

Hi Kyle828!  Welcome diay oi!

Theodore Roosevelt was right.  I actually thought it was JFK but he was the youngest elected president. Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest ever to serve as president!  Good job, Kyle!

Next question:  What is the closest US State to Cuba?

Em, do you still do amen or "mano po" to your elders?  That's a nice thing to continue instead of giving hi-5 (not in connection to TB member hi-5 101 hehehe).

How sweet of you, Gem! 

Ms. C2, Thanks a lot for your hope that my dream to have an orphanage will come true! Mao lagi na, when I tell my husband what to do if I win the lotto, he said it won't take another month for me to be poor again! lol

I think I have been to the House of Hope and other facilities in CDO for our less fortunate brothers and sisters but it was just a part of our project as a Jaycee so we did not really get our hands dirty.  We just went there to distribute packages of goodies, have some pictures for our record of projects and that was about it.  Well, we had projects for ear-piercing and tuli - for the tuli I found it necessary but for the ear-piercing, not really.  Mao lagi na, we had to document our projects so we can present to the NatCon committee with the hope of being awarded. I had fun, I guess we touched the lives of people but I just have other idea of real service.
 

Thanks, Haze!  This sounds so easy and yummy! 

Quote from: ms da binsi on November 11, 2007, 12:35:21 AM
I always dream that i was chased by any fearsome creatures... it always  woke me up grasping for breath...i realized later that i have breathing problem when i'm in a deep sleep...a sort of sleep apnea...

da bins, gaka dream pod ko ing-ana arang kapuya oi kay pirte gud dagan.  In most times, if not all the times, wala pod ko na apsi sa gagukod.  Basin ba naa jud diay sleeping problem unya ang atong mind ga create lang ug scenario para ma sumpay sa atong gibati...

Leo, that's an interesting dream but how did know the meaning of the dream?  Naa man tigbasa ug dream ba? 

da bins my dear belle, no personalan oi!  ako pa! heheheh

C2, ka sad ba aning mga panghitabo oi!  I know, lahi2x lang gud ug reaction ang tao sa kalisud oi!  Naay uban putong ug naay uban hopeful ba.  But the kids shouldn't suffer and if it's inevitable, dapat ang values nila nka set na to work harder because someday naa ra jud kalingkawasan. 

I think I read na her autobiography.  Yes indeed, she is a living saint!  And I still wonder if I can even do just a bit of what she has done especially touching those people with leprosy. 

Kabalo ka unsa jud akong gustong masulayan ma serve, kanang sa mental institution.  I heard it's not easy but I still want to have a chance to do that.  I did na work sa Muntinlupa jail.  I bring them food and I also bring some of my friends to interact with people inside and to have an outlet sa ilang mga stories.  It was nice too but not as nice as serving the orphanage.  It's the helplessness of the kids that makes my little service important to them.  When I look at the eyes of the children, I see hope man gud not for them but for myself too.

Quote from: ms da binsi on November 10, 2007, 09:29:24 AM
aguy duha na atong future Docs diri!!!

yehey!!!

Pohon, Belle!

Source:  Bohol Standard, 11/4/07

Local authorities are still puzzled at a report that a “Black Dog” was seen roaming in two cemeteries in the island of Panglao Nov. 1-2. Later in the evening of All Souls Day, the dog went wild attacking a family while eating supper inside their home.

Superstitious and spirit believers said the dog was a “lost soul” still roaming on earth after relatives have forgotten him or her, particularly on All Souls Day.

Souls taking physical forms of another body is known as “transmigration;” the passing of the soul at death into a new body or new form of being.

According to cosmologists, the six “destinies” of mortal existence include three spheres in which those burdened by particularly detrimental karma may be reincarnated: The “destiny” of hell, the “destiny” of the hungry ghosts, and the “destiny” of warring demons.

As in Hinduism, the tortures suffered in these “destinies” serves to purge the soul's evil karma and free it for reincarnation on a higher plane. This doctrine was particularly elaborated in the East Asian tradition of Buddhism, in which the dead are judged by the king (or kings) of hell and condemned to fitting punishments.

In China, this Buddhist belief fused with native religious concepts of the abode of the Chinese deities and Daoist immortals, giving the dead an even greater variety of potential “destines”.

The black dog reportedly walked into the home of Martina Pitaog, 31, married, residing in Tawala, Panglao and bit her, including two other companions identified as Mira Gono, 34, single and 10-year old Jenifer Ampit.

Martina and Mira were bitten in the arms while the child had three bite wounds in the neck. Neighbors say the “black dog” could be the reincarnated form of a dead relative that have died but they (victims) have forgotten to remember on All Souls Day.

pwera bujag!

Quote from: C2H4 on November 10, 2007, 04:24:34 PM
Miss Grazie,

I spent a day (in an outreach program) in Mother Teresa's home for orphaned and abandoned kids in Pasil years ago. It was one of the most difficult experiences of my life, seeing deformed kids abandoned by parents who didn't want freaks for children, kids orphaned and rescued from the streets, kids who were unloved and unwanted by their own blood. But a child's resilience is a true testament of the beauty and strength of the human soul, because while I was crying my heart out, the kids around me were all smiling, all seemingly happy to see us. All I saw was the misery of their condition, but they were just happy to be alive. Still, I couldn't help but feel guilty, feel that it was unfair, unjust...that I had a happy childhood, loved by my family...and those kids didn't have any of that. In a perfect world, every kid should have a happy childhood. But wishful thinking is all it is.

I have great respect and admiration for people who choose to live their lives serving others, who are missionaries, who choose to witness and live amongst misery, poverty, desolation...they have strength of will that I will never have. I cannot see suffering and despair every single day, all year round...it'll be my destruction, I know I'll just fall apart. I'll probably kill myself like the little girl did.

Honestly, Ms Grazie, when I see these things, esp. when it concerns little children...I still ask why. I still don't get it and I never will. I try to reason within myself, ma'g intellectualize, even tell myself about God and redemption and Heaven...but I witness suffering and it still knocks me breathless, and no amount of intellectualizing relieves that first wave of hopelessness I feel.

I still ask why. And I still don't get it. It's so hard to give reason to something so unreasonable.

Hello, Ms. C2,

I knew what you were saying that it was difficult to be in an orphanage.  I also thought it was hard but I still kept coming back.  Everytime I leave the orphanage, I got a big lump on my throat - well, I am anyway iyakin.  Some kids would even clung to my legs and wanted to go home with me.  But one thing I could never forget was that 7-month old kid that was as thin and pale as a paper.  Her mother left her outside of the orphanage.  She was strapped in her crib because she had IV.  I touched her tiny hand with my finger and she clung to it so tightly I was scared and so surprised by the strength, and she looked at me straight in my eyes.  I couldn't help but cry because I felt like I did it to her.  Two weekends after that, the baby passed away.  I was crushed but I also "intellectualized" that she was safe already in heaven and she was not gonna feel the pain anymore.  Nah, gahilaka na pod ko!  Anyway, I learned a lot from my experience of having served in that orphanage.  It pained me see the kids neglected by their own flesh and blood but at the same time it gave me glory to do something for those kids and to please God in my own little ways.  Maayo nlang pamawi sa mga time na gaminaldita ko hehehe. Mao nay ginaingon na, you don't have to have money to be able to help.

Kabalo ka, somebody asked me what would I do if I win the lotto, and I knew already a long time ago what to do.  I will have orphanage and home for the elderly, among other things.  Ambisyosa pod ko noh?

Sure, N F L!  God bless you too!

da bins, it may be the fault of the parents but it's never the fault of the children and the children are the victims here.  Being a compassionate human being, it's but normal to feel pity for the plight of these kids. 

I am a daughter of my parents who could hardly feed themselves let alone have 13 children, but we had faith that one day things would be better. I knew we worked hard but it still amazes me up to now that we made it through.  And it is getting better now.  I wish the girl in this story held on and I wish her parents or the community helped her and encouraged her that things would get better. 

Back in college, during weekends, I helped the children of the Mother Theresa Orphanage in Davao.  I felt so bad for those kids. It wasn't my fault that their parents dumped them in that facility but for whatever reason I felt guilty.  How could I have parents and they didn't have.  We got spanked alright by the littlest mistake but we have them, to make sure we were not hungry when we go to school, we have them when we got sick, etc.  Yes, life is not fair but we can still do a little to make things better for the others who are less fortunate.

Orchids, I am sure mo pauli ka sa ato, naa jud kay maka EB na taga TB so plano na pagpauli!  Kami pod mag plano na sa among May girls night out!  Magsugod nko baklay March pa hahahah.  Lingawa jud siguro na ba, belle, c2, Glen ug kinsa pa ba?  What about willmerit diay ug swakee?

Thanks, GEC, for coaching me!  I will try to do my part to help Mike too.  I really feel it's not all Mike's job to keep up this site as we are all enjoying and are benefiting from this!  Nah, hala mga ka igsoonan!  We learn and live, right?

Ning samot kalibog akong kutaw, Gem!    Ikaw, naa kay guess?

My feeling is he is a man, trying to tickle our imagination by staying mysterious.  He can't go far from Mari's camera next time.  Right, Mari?

Quote from: benelynne on November 10, 2007, 09:17:04 AM
I myself have reacted "vehemently" to one of the comments you have posted in another thread, which I felt characterized the Boholanos wholesale in a negative light.

I guess it's a real challenge to see things from an objective point of view. Sometimes we react to what we perceive as another's bias with another bias.

The best thing we can do is to be aware that we always have a perspective when we look at things. That perspective is influenced by our upbringing, education, environment, cultural values, etc.

So when we exchange views, let us be open to the perspectives of others and try to be sensitive to where he or she is coming from. Let's remind ourselves that we are not diminished by people who take views contrary to ours. I believe that every point of view can either reinforce ours--when it's agreeable--or refine it--when it is contrary. In this sense, every opinion, negative or positive, is always worth something.

Well said, Bene san! Arigato! I am learning a lot from your words of wisdom and I hope that someday when I am confronted again with opinions that doesn't match with mine, I will remember these words. The rule my husband and I have especially when we are discussing about politics, current events, stuff like that that we can not agree on, we agree to disagree!

I am luckier in this aspect.  I have a friend in Cagayan de Oro who does remittances.  He only charge 6 dollars for up to 500 dollar remittance and 8 dollars over 500.  He has a Washington Mutual account so that's where I deposit my payment.  Sometimes, I don't have time to go to Washington Mutual, I would just tell him I would deposit on the weekend.  I had my sisters in Bohol and Davao open a BPI or PCIB accounts and so my friend can just do online transfer. 

Ingon lagi nya wa syay labot! hahahahah

Help guys, kinsa ni pasabot ni GEC!  Is it Ginger, Sigbin and GEC? hahahha 

Balong, asa na ka? 

Ka bright gud ninyo ug tigmo oi!  hahaha gakalingaw kaayo ko basa!

Don't worry about it, hi-5 101!  You are good!

Mao ba Gem? pastilan noh basta-basta lang man tawon magpatay tao oi!

About my brother-in-law's death: He was really, really a very good man! If you read sa link sa news, tinuod jud na gisulat diha.  Nasayangan lang ko for the chance of my nieces and nephew and my sister to be loved like Tata loved them.  Grabeh jud kaayo sila ka palangga oi!  Adtong Nov. 1, my sister woke up hearing the voice of my brother in law.  Naghilaka intawon.

Dili man ko palitan ug PINK laptop sa akong bana cel!  White man iyang gi buy oi Inspiron 6000.  Pero ok ra ni coz I can always have a PINK laptop case hehehe

Sige, sige!  thanks again, Gem!

Lagi Cel, so sad.  Taud2x na bya ni but wala pa ko ka get over.

Thanks, Gem!  naa ra diay ning imong gi agik-ikan ug todo2x ha! hahahaha makalingaw ni dah, pagpawala ug kalaay!  salamat pag share ani Gem!  katawaha bitaw pod ko oi!

that's good!  mistakes are there to learn from.  sayang naman kon dili ta maka learn sa atong sayop ba?

ngek! hahahah

you are cute, Cel!   

But we learn from it man, Cel!  We love our Dad too and we didn't talk about it either with him but we consciously shun gambling jud.  Karon, ga mah jong na lang si father para lingaw2x but at least dili na malabtan among pangpalit ug food. hehehe

Hello, NFL!  Welcome to TB!  I understand you have explored already some of the threads here and that's good!  I just would like to welcome you properly here!  It's nice to have you around and I certainly look forward to your contribution to TB!  We had lots of kukabildo here heheheh

Men are from Mars, women are from Venus! heheheh

Thanks, Happy dear!  All I can say is that gambling has been a downfall to my family.  As I said, ka kompetensya namo ang sugal sa among next meal and in most cases, daug ang sugal kami ang pildi. hehhehehe

Hello N F L!  Thanks for sharing your observation on how we are interacting here.  Sometimes, it helps to set back and see things in a different perspective.

I am kind of new here - less than a month so I don't know who takes over Mike's job when he has emergency like this time when his father died. But my understanding is that we all should help him take care of TB while is not available.  We can post news and certainly you are welcome to post news.  Silly and selfish me, I have been reading the news in boholchronicle.com and i didn't think of posting it here anymore. 

Me either; I still have a lot of readings to do para ma updated sa mga issues. ehhehe

Thanks, Ginger!  I still have a lot to read pa diay jud! hehehe

Yehey, Glen is back!  Welcome back, Glen! 

Welcome, NFL!  It's nice to have you here with us!

I am supposed to be new here too, hi-5, wala pa ko nag 1 month.  I am glad you decided to join TB. 

Wow, thanks for sharing your pictures, babe!  You are a pretty girl and good girl pa jud! lol

Wow, you sound like a very nice Kuya, Dong Enzo!  I know you are a doting Kuya...

Godspeed, Mr. Oblenda!  Condolence to the whole Oblenda family!

Hello, Ms Fil-Am lady, ms da binsi!  Where can I see that stereotype thread, by the way? 

Well said, my dear!  And coming from a girl hardly 18, you make more sense than... ok, than me! heheheh  Thanks for sharing your thoughts. smiffytheninja!

Happy, maybe namasin he could win and buy a gasoline station.  However and whatever, it shouldn't be tolerated.  That money won by a few are somebody else's money for their food or gas too.  Ga compete intawon mi anang sugal sa among food sa una, Haps!  By the way, is swertres the same as masyaw?

Thanks, NFL!  It really means a lot to me that you are blessing my dear brother  in law and my sister and her three kids.  You may want to read the story about him in this link. 

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/dav/2003/02/28/news/dabawenyos.grieve.loss.of.dedicated.cop.html

Hi hi-5!  Welcome again to your cyber family!  Be comfortable and enjoy being here!

Hahahah those line will help me, GEC, I just have to fill that in!  Sige mag study sa ko sa thread na imong gi ingon. 

hello hi-5!  I don't think we met na!  Nice to see you here!

Don't let all these news deter you from coming home.  Don't deny yourself of the happiness and joy of being home.  Bohol, I think, is still a beautiful place.  Relax lang but not too relax na magpa saya2x nlang sa possessions ninyo.  Enjoy your trip to Bohol ug basin naa kay ma EB na taga TB!

Sige, sige, GEC!  I will see if I am smart enough to figure out!  Dili man kaha klaro ha na love triangle?  Not the one involving you? hahahahaha

Hala ka chada ani Ginger oi!!!

...even a fly won't stick hhahahaha

Hala intriga jud GEC! Who are these TB members in the love triangle?

Ms. A, I will leave my ad to your yahoo ym.  Wala man mi ga confe ganina but I got to chat with Ginger and Happy.  Midnight na pod dre so I will log off na pod.  Until later.  God bless you too, Ms. A.  Thanks a lot for your friendship and niceness to me! 

ah ok.  so good thing you remember your password now.

This is so sad.  What a waste of life.  I can't believe a young girl can think of killing herself.  No matter how hard life is, there's still a hope for a better tomorrow.  I am speaking from experience.

My family in Manga is using cruznet.  so bad connection, very slow!  I will check auza.net and see if it's available in Manga already.  thanks Ben.

Hello, Ms. A!  Ambot ba Ms. A unsyalan ba ni na klase na wala may klaro sked! heheheh

reign beau, how are you?  asa ka karon?

Hello reign beau!  Welcome to your new world-wide TB family! 

Hello reign beau!  thanks for joining the TB family! 

Through my dreams, I was able to talk to my dead grandfather again whom I missed so much!

Hello Babe!  Did you keep yourself updated on the goings on here especially the recent "stir" on your Dene?

wala man klaro, mr. jun ang guidelines aning attendance kon 1 time ra ba or everyday.  I think one time lang kon kinsa na ang members danhi but then again naa may list of members pod. 

paging Melrose! hehehe

Oh, hi Babe!  tsk tsk tsk I was wrong then huh? It wasn't PS3?  I thought you always get the newest tech stuff!

What's this luxury pink laptop case?  I saw at Ross a baby blue laptop case but couldn't find a pink one so I junked it. lol

Hello Em!  Thanks for starting this thread.  Nice thoughts here, both of you, young people.   

The best memory I had while visiting my family, aside from the deepest joy of seeing them, was particularly that time when I was already working in Manila and went home to Bohol.  When I got home with two big loads of goodies, all were hovering me while I opened the boxes and everybody were busy fitting their clothes or chewing candies and gums, leafing books and picture albums, etc.  I also got Mom half a dozen of umbrella - her fascination!  She didn't keep them though; she gave them away to our neighbors and relatives!. It was so humbling to see their faces happy and all.  Then my siblings and I went to the baybayon with a basket of food as our lunch and we had some sort of a boating - only we were using that small nipa house sitting on rows or bed of bamboo (I don't know how you call that) which was lent to us by Ate Mana, our Mom's dear cousin.  We also had a little boat we tied in that house.  We went to the deeper part of the sea in Manga and we jumped to the water, we ate, we fished, we slept, we had lots and lots of fun. 

Welcome, White Butterfly!  I like your TB nickname too!  It sounds so light and angelic!

Ok, ladies and gentlemen, let's see if we are smarter than a 5th grader.  No lifeline here and no cheating either.

The first question:  Who is the youngest to become USA President?

Welcome, southpearl!  It's nice having you here to join the happy TB family! 

I have been waiting for a thread like this, Bene san!  I always dream of something that really bewilders me.  I have been researching about my dreams but I couldn't seem to get to understand.  Or is it my business to understand my dreams?

A little introduction.  My younger sister's husband, a young police officer, was killed in a drug buy/bust operation.  It was one of the saddest happening in our family.  He was such a loving man.  Before I left Philippines, I visited them in Davao and I told him, I wouldn't be worrying about my sister and her children because he was such a loving father and husband.  He replied, that he loved Maricar and his children so much.  Then one early evening, when he was supposed to meet my sister for their dinner date at SM-Davao, he cancelled because they had an emergency police operation.  My sister, being a police officer herself understood that.  She went home and a few minutes later, she got a call from their head officer that my brother in law was killed.  Apparently another police tipped off the drug people.  It broke our hearts to pieces.  We loved him as he was our blood brother.  He was one of the greatest man, father and husband I have come to know and he was still so young at that time.  My sister and her children, now after 3 years had accepted the fact but I still hasn't.  I still cry everytime I think of him.

The dreams.  First dream I had with him, we were in a big house like my great grandmother's house.  Maricar and the kids were inside the house and I was standing at the top of the stairs.  He was ascending the stairs and I was so happy to see him.  He was smiling so sweetly too.  I greeted him, his name was Tata, "Ta! Wala lagi ka natigulang Ta!  Pareho ra gihapon imong nawong sa una na buhi pa ka!"  And he was happy and laughing and said to me, "Ate oi, nangatik na pod!"  Then he asked me where's Mikay - that's how he lovingly called my sister.  I said inside the house and I woke up.  Oh, you bet I was crying so hard.

The second time he showed up in my dream, it was just fleeting.  He wasn't his usual self - the happy Tata.  He just told me, "Te, kinahanglan tabang si Mikay."  I woke up and as soon as it was morning in the Philippines, I called my sister.  I asked her how she was.  She said she was having a hard time.  she said the kids were sick and she is so tired.  My sister hardly cry but I know she was so down at that time.  I told her I was gonna help her with the bills.  I tried to encourage her and how she was loved by Tata.  Then she cried when I told her why I called her that early. 

I told my mother of my dreams of Tata and she wished she could see Tata again even in her dreams.  So why do I dream of Tata?  In my second dream, he was actually sending a correct message. Is it possible that the soul can communicate our minds when we are sleeping?  Is there some sense to my dreams? 

Ge delete na, John.  I haven't seen it either.

Welcome, emlegaspo to TB!  I hope you'll stick with us through thick and thin!  Let's have fun here!