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Quotations by Jeanne Calmert

Calment was as alert as a hummingbird and showed no signs of senile dementia.  She was well known and liked for her tart wit.  Some of her famous quotations:

I've waited 110 years to be famous, I count on taking advantage of it. - Jeanne Calmert during her 120th birthday party

A very short one. - also on her 120th  birthday, when asked what kind of  future did she expect

Quote from: islander on May 31, 2013, 04:35:30 AM
Internationally, researchers are fascinated with Calment for both her longevity and her vitality.  "She never did anything special to stay in good health," said French researcher Jean-Marie Robine. They attribute her longevity to her immunity to stress.   She once said “ If  you can’t do anything about it, don’t worry about it.”

right on!  (i wish i could do that.  as it is, even a neighbor's videoke seems like a killer for me.)

Calment’s Secret of Longevity

Jeanne Calment came from a bourgeois family and never had to work.  Her husband, a cousin, was a prosperous storeowner who offered her a life of ease revolving around tennis, bicycling, swimming, roller skating, piano and opera. 

In later years, Calment lived mostly off the income from her apartment, which she sold cheaply to a lawyer when she was 90.  Andre-Francois Raffray, who apparently relied on the actuarial table, signed a contingency contract  with Calment and agreed to pay a life annuity of 2,500 francs ($500) a month under a deal to make him the owner of Calment's flat when she dies.  Yet, he died at 77 and his family was still paying for more than a year until she died.  Altogether, they paid more than 900,000 francs ($180,000), three times the value of the house.

Internationally, researchers are fascinated with Calment for both her longevity and her vitality.  "She never did anything special to stay in good health," said French researcher Jean-Marie Robine. They attribute her longevity to her immunity to stress.   She once said “ If  you can’t do anything about it, don’t worry about it.”

Calment herself credited an occasional glass of Port wine and a diet rich in olive oil for her longevity. She also recommended laughter as a recipe for longevity and jokes that "God must have forgotten me." ( L'Oubliee de Dieu?).   For skin care, she recommends olive oil and a dab of make-up.  "All my life I've put olive oil on my skin and then just a puff of powder.  I could never wear mascara, I cried too often when I laughed."

She took up fencing lessons at 85 and rode bicycle until 100.   However, she used to ate two lbs. of chocolate per week until her doctor persuaded her to give up sweets at the age of 119. 

She quit smoking only at 119, but her doctor said her abstinence was due to pride rather than health â€" she was too blind to light up herself, and hated asking someone to do it for her.

http://anson.ucdavis.edu/

bilib ko sa kaliwat sa iyang genes.  wa lang siyay napasahan directly.  on the other hand, faet ra pod ning naa pa ka ang all your loved ones are gone.  mora man ug ikaw ang gipili to mourn the passing of everyone...

Quote from: hubag bohol on May 12, 2013, 05:27:38 PM

you call this amazing?  hohum.

Palestinian refugee Khamis Redwan, 75, displays his birth certificate, which he has kept since he fled home, at Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip.

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A U.S. Navy diver cuts himself free after getting entangled with his safety device as he jumps from a USS Navy helicopter to perform a mine-sweeping exercise during the International Mine Countermeasures Exercise (IMCMEX) in the Persian Gulf.

http://www.voanews.com/

14 May 2013


The Popocatepetl Volcano, Mexico's second highest peak just 55 km southeast of Mexico City, is seen from Santiago Xalitxintla, in Puebla - spewing a cloud of ash and smoke.

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Living Goddess Kumari Samita Bajracharya is seen through a window of her house before she was taken to observe the Chariot Festival of Rato Machhindranath in Lalitpur, Nepal.

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A storm lights up the sky above the Yangon river, Burma. Authorities began moving people into emergency shelters in Rakhaine state as a cyclone threatened to batter a violence-wracked region home to tens of thousands of internal refugees.

http://www.voanews.com/

13 May 2013


View of the Yueyaquan Crescent Lake in Dunhuang, in China's northwestern Gansu province, May 12, 2013. Formerly a silk route hub and center for trade between China and the West, Dunhuang relies heavily on tourism and a number of historic sites dating back to the Han Dynasty.

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Stars are seen in the sky with a destroyed building on a street littered with debris from one of the explosion sites in Reyhanli, near Turkey's border with Syria.

http://www.voanews.com/

People line up to collect water at Yazarthingyan lake in Dala township, near Rangoon, Burma, since the inland lakes have all dried up in hot summer.

http://www.voanews.com/

12 May 2013


Competitors in the World Table Tennis Championships train at the Bercy stadium, Paris.

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The spire for the top of One World Trade Center is hoisted into place at the top of the building in New York, bringing the iconic structure to its full, symbolic height of 1,776 feet (541.32 metres) Picture: EPA

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

A huge Tyrannosaurus bataar's skull was on display at a repatriation ceremony near the United Nations in New York, where officials of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan and the U.S. Immigration and Customers Enforcement (ICE) formally turned over the nearly complete skeleton to Mongolian officials. Picture: REUTERS/Eric Thayer

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

11 May 2013


South Korean school children hold their bags over their heads during an earthquake drill at an elementary school in Seoul Picture: JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

side view.  still the smiling turtlewhale.

turtle gyod tuod.  basin nahadlok ang artist nga pareha niya ang molupad kun himoon gyod nga whale ang hitsura.

kinsa man sad tawon ang di mahadlok ana uy.  kadako.  ako pa ang kitty, nakalupad na tingali ko sa kakuyaw.

from the article:

Madava takes out another sheet of paper and draws a circle. Then he traces three lines through it, creating six pie-like sections, which he fills with the words, "air," "water," "fruit," "vegetables," "rice/bananas," "fish/meat." He says this is all the body needs. Just a bit of each -- and no more.

shows once more that we are indeed what we eat.  thanks, hof, for a very interesting article.

wat dat?

curious.  unsay labot sa loboc river sa nangka?

gross.  i wonder how he'd feel if the sick joke was on him.  (gang rape of vice ganda?  ewwww!)

Alternative Cancer Treatments and Protocols

There are many definitions to alternative cancer treatments, but let's just define them, for the sake of logical orientation, as non-traditional treatments for cancer. Richard Walters has organized them this way in his book Options: The Alternative Cancer Therapy Book.  It's a good place to start. We spend a good deal of our time evaluating the most promising components of many of the following historical programs, as well as talking with consultants possessing years of experience. Alternative cancer treatments include, but are not limited, to the following (Please note: No endorsement by Alternative Cancer Treatments is implied by being listed here):

Biological and Pharmcologic Therapies
Antineoplastons
Gaston Naessens Therapy (714X)
Revici Therapy
Hydrazine Sulfate

Immune Therapies
Immuno-Augmentative Therapy (IAT)
Issels whole-body immune therapy

Herbal Therapies
Harry Hoxsey formulas
Essiac tea
Mistletoe (Iscador)...as used by Suzanne Somers
Pau D'Arco
Chaparral

Nutritional Therapies
Wheatgrass Therapy
Macrobiotics
Moerman's Anti-Cancer diet

Metabolic Therapies
Gerson
Kelley's Nutritional-Metabolic Therapy (as modified by Nicholas Gonzalez, MD)
Hans Nieper, M.D.

Adjunctive Therapies
Oxygen Therapies (including Ozone)
Hyperthermia
DMSO therapy
Chelation
Live Cell therapy
Energy Medicine
   
Bioelectric Therapies
Homeopathy
Ayurveda
Chinese Medicine

Mind-Body Approaches

The most successful practitioners seem to be those who integrate various components of the alternative cancer treatments listed above, without painting themselves into a corner by being committed to a particular model.


http://www.alternative-cancer-treatments.com/index.htm

not yet, and thanks for the tip, i will.  anything worth reading and considering, i'll study.  and ask.  if someone told us to go to siquijor, i'd go.  whatever it takes.  but we will decide only with a doctor's imprimatur.  and we have to decide in the next two weeks as we may run out of time.

Hormone Therapy:  Think Tamoxifen (Nolvadex).  Right now, this is the hormone therapy most often employed.  Physicians run tests on the cancer cells to see if they are stimulated by estrogen.  If they are, the cancer is referred to as estrogen receptor positive.  Tamoxifen works by blocking estrogen. Tamoxifen is also often employed when the cancer is estrogen receptor negative, especially in women over 50. It is not fully understood why Tamoxifen helps in some cases of estrogen receptor negative cancers.

This article is a very brief overview of traditional treatment options.  The actual decision on which therapies are right for you involve many complex factors that should be discussed with a competent health care professional. 


Article by Michael Guthrie, R.Ph.
http://www.alternative-cancer-treatments.com/ 

Chemotherapy:  The most dreaded of all.  Thoughts of uncontrolled nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea come to mind for most when they think of chemotherapy.  Actually it isn’t as bad as it used to be. 

Unlike radiation, chemotherapy traverses the whole body, killing rapidly dividing cells.  Besides cancer cells, other rapidly dividing cells include the lining of the gastrointestinal tract, blood cells, and hair.  Damage to these cells results in the troublesome side effects associated with chemotherapy.

The most common chemotherapeutic agents used in breast cancer are cyclophosphamide or  Cytoxan (C), methotrexate (M) 5 fluorouracil or 5FU (F), Adriamycin or doxorubicin  (A), Oncovin or vincristine (O) and Taxol (T).  Various combinations are utilized and given intials like CMF, CAF, etc. in keeping with the abbreviations mentioned previously.

Chemotherapy is usually given in cycles.  Two common cycles are the 3-week and the 4-week cycle.  In the 3-week cycle, there is a 3-week break between chemotherapy treatments.  The 4-week cycle has two weeks on and two weeks off.  These cycles can run from 12 weeks to over a year depending on many factors. 

Radiation: Often the physician will recommend radiation as an adjunct after surgery.  Simply put, radiation damages cells that are rapidly dividing (like cancer).  The hope is that any local area into which cancer cells have invaded will be irradiated sufficiently to kill any malignancies.

Radiation is normally administered every weekday for about six weeks.  The procedure is almost always performed on an outpatient basis.  The actual “zapping” only lasts a few minutes.

Often, the radiation oncologist will prescribe a “booster dose” at the end of the cycle.  Sometimes this is administered by implanting radioactive beads that stay in place for about 36 hours. 

Surgery:  The oldest of approaches (actually thousands of years old), surgery is often the most effective option.  There are currently three major types of surgery for breast cancer.

Lumpectomy:  Just the tumor and some surrounding tissue is removed

Total Mastectomy:  The entire breast is removed but chest muscles and axillary lymph nodes are left intact.

Modified Radical Mastectomy:  First, the breast is removed, then a portion of the axillary lymph nodes (the ones under the arm) are removed.

The type of surgery performed is usually determined by the stage of the disease.

Traditional Treatment Options for Breast Cancer

by Michael Guthrie, R.Ph.

Below is some cursory information on the traditional treatments of breast cancer.  For an extensive review of all currently available modalities in the U.S. and abroad, including non-traditional therapies, please visit my section on the Moss Reports. 

After recovering as best as one can from the staggering news that one has breast cancer, it’s time to make some decisions about treatment options.  Treatment options are often determined by the staging of the cancer (in situ, invasive, lymph node involvement, metastases etc.).  But before we get too far into this, let’s emphasize an important point.  Consider getting a second opinion on both the diagnosis and the treatment.  Misdiagnosis occurs more frequently that the establishment would like to admit, and it cuts (no pun intended) both ways.  I have spoken to quite a few women who were told they had a benign growth who later developed raging cancers.

In general, you will have four major areas of options: surgery, radiation, chemotherapy and hormonal therapy.  Most often, combinations are used, and the choices are driven by the stage of the disease. 

so we went to this address in makati, had a session with their inhouse doctor, and were impressed.

but first, the other options...

goodness gracious! parang ang kaibigan nating si taga tigbao ang pinapatamaan nito, a.

Quote from: hubag bohol on May 29, 2013, 04:24:10 PMShe will definitely improve the genetic pool...

Quote from: chicogon on May 30, 2013, 01:26:49 AM

Quote from: balong on May 30, 2013, 04:35:59 AMpa liwatan ni hubag

maybe, what this means is that without her in the reproductive line, donkeys will become rarer?

there are options for treatment and it goes without saying that the final decision rests with my sister.  but we confer.  a lot.  and we both lean towards alternative treatment.  but we had to have a solid basis for such a decision.  fortunately, our niece who happens to be an ob-gyne is also open to alternatives.  she made an appointment for my sister with the

Boai Medical Group 
Address: Unit A-1102
6780 Jaka Building
Ayala Avenue, Makati City
Metro Manila
Hotline: 02-8221222(Landline), 0915-4642818(Globe), 0922-8083333(Sun)
Website: http://www.asiancancer.com/
E-mail: ph@asiancancer.com

as there's a time for every purpose under heaven, we had to hold on to our wits and look around for all possible options as we try our best to dry our eyes.  prayers are priority, but so is fast medical intervention.

i am posting my personal odyssey here as i cope with my sister's malady, she for whom i'd give all i have--savings, jewelry, time, whatever, just so she'd get well. 

if this thread could be of help to anyone now or in the future, then my grief shall have held one more meaning too.

first, the patient herself cries.

then an ob-gyne niece cries upon seeing the results of a series of medical tests on her aunt.  that was it; tears as a second opinion when i asked for a second diagnosis to either debunk or confirm the first findings.

my sister has been diagnosed with breast cancer and the doctor placed it at category 5.  i didn't know that there's a difference between a category and a stage.  it's a 5, and the worst that i've heard was stage 4 cancer.  i bawled.

ignorance is bliss?  anyone?

amazing.  it looks like medicine is entering a new phase.   

Quote from: balong on May 29, 2013, 05:46:41 AM


right side

beautiful house.  great new spelling of a name. 

this reminds me of a guy years ago who was asked by his brod to go to the u.s. like the brod did and earn more.  the guy didn't like the idea.  (different strokes for different folks, as we know it.)  so he posed in front of the rural bank of baclayon, sent the picture to his brod, and declared that he's all right in his own country, he now owned a bank.  blast it, he had nothing to do with the rural bank of baclayon nor of baclayon town.  he's a cebuano whose family name just happens to be baclayon. 

kun mga ngilngig nga tawo imong kaila diha sa u.s., why bother about hubag who you do not even know personally?  nasuya man kaha nimo si hubie doggie, aw, ngano man diay kun pasigehon lang nimo ug suya?

you shall not na lang god.  wad-a ang kalagot aron di mataktak ang buhok, sir bals.

made in valencia, bohol kana.

newly installed made-to-order kitchen cabinet, by bugsay.

what a trajectory, from cover girl to a life of prayer.

WOW!  salud!  whew!

hehe, i wonder about the rest room...

it's beautiful, really.  i'd be looking at greens all the time.  the downside is that i'd go eyeball-to-eyeball with ghosts.

hello, lolla.  are you busy with the school year opening?  i can't read your name here of late.  hey, don't tell me you're coordinating this brigada eskwela thing, though i won't be surprised if you are...

see you here soon!

(great prayer and encouragement you have there in another thread.  thank you from the bottom of my heart.)

too bad na-kaput akong ambisyon to surprise you with a visit in digos.  my trip was limited to butuan for reasons that you already know.

thank you very much, lorenz, lolla, tigs and chongks.  thank you very much, dear friends.  thank you very much, tb.  going through this whole thread made me stronger.  i never knew that virtual friends are real friends.  there are real people behind these words that i read... it goes without saying... but now you are all very real for me.  thank you for the strength you've given me.  thank you for the new faith you've showed me.  i cannot thank you enough, but thank you just the same.

i'm about to search for the healing prayers you've posted, lorenz.  where i am, the connection's not much.  and i don't know where to find a printer.  but i need that prayer truly.

couldn't post much in the coming days.  but i will come back.  promise.

missing you and tb, folks.  in mindanao now.  thought i could drop by digos.  things have changed.

lorenz, we could be relatives by a hair's breadth.  salvo-tan side.  am still trying to find out these long-ago connections.  great!

am actually grieving.  please pray for my kid sister.  please include us in your prayers.  she's about to go through surgery ala angelina jolie.  been crying myself to sleep, if sleep comes at all, causing sleeplessness to the banana republic as well.  what i would give to see my sister through this.  lord, please have mercy.

i'm familiar only with their "i'm a believer" song.  i learned lately that this was composed by neil diamond.  so i searched for neil diamond's version as well.   

Quote from: balong on May 19, 2013, 03:32:27 PM
na unsa naman tawon ni. nag post ko ug model nga ga swimsuit, tangtangon sa board of censors. are you playing favorites mr. mike ligalig

duda ko nga di tingali kataw-anan ang imong gi-post.  kung mas kuyaw kay sa usual nga balong's girls, aw, there are other websites where it will be more at home.  playing favorites is out of the question here.   

suffering from sinusitis attack and terrible backaches.  kagiron ko karon ug buot.

hala, hahaha!  biliba uy.  great!

bitaw, trying hard na lang kog lipay-lipay karon.  i'm actually stressed.  ana man gyod nang magbiyahe tingali.  i get insecure about the place, about my routine, and most of all about the cats.

maayo man sa una kay next-door neighbor namo ang akong niece.  siya ug iyang bana ang catsitters, so they have access to our place.  di man gyod mosugot si banana republic nga laing tawo tagaan ug access karon.  di na unta ma-cage ang mga iring kun okay pa.  luoy baya ning usa kay ma-depressed, mag-ubo ug dugay, tagoan iyahang ulo ug di mokaon sa first day.

maayo kaayo ka mohatag ug names uy, dawat gyod na sa new zealand.  ako tawon, maayo lang sa sinugdanan.  sa nidaghan na, nahutdan ra gyod.  pero nganlan man gihapon kay tungod sa ilang veterinary records.  simple na ang mga bag-ong iring, sama sa carla, leo, etc.  opkors naman, amo ang ilang apelyido.

Quote from: Lollapalooza on May 17, 2013, 11:44:53 AM
kung duol pa lang lagi ta Madam CJ, I'd be willing to be your catsitter for free ^__^

loll, you're hired!  sayang the distance.  sayang pod di ko ka-afford nimo.

swerte pa gyod ko nga pakiiring pod si banana republic.  kun di pa, dugay na tingali kong nabunalan.  abused wife unta ko, bawo lang.  we're such cat people that there was once, in the past, when we had one big fight ug nanghipos na ko sa akong personal effects.  ingon pa ko niyag "see you in court". 

wa madayon akong paglayas kay nag-ilog mi sa iring.  di ko molakaw kun di dala ang iring, lunod-patay sad siya kay di mosugot kay iyaha kuno ang iring, bahala kuno ug dad-on nako ang triple-A nga 10 sacks of rice basta ang iring iya.  aruy, on hindsight islander version man diay to ug custody battle.  kuyaw pod ug utok si banana republic baya.  unsaon god tawon nako pag-alsa ug 10 sacks of rice... mas sayon ang iring dad-on, hands down.

sorry, wa ko kahibawo, though i never tried asking the department of agriculture.  wa tingali kay nganong mahal man ang charges sa private practitioners. 

mao gyod tawon na, bai tigs, ang ratio sa mga iring.  kada panganak, 3 to 4 times a year, 3 females to 1 male on the average pa gyod.  in the lifespan of a healthy cat, she can actually reproduce 27,000 kittens!  (apil na ang apo, apo sa tuhod, siko, ug unsa pa dinha from generation to generation). 

you have just encouraged me to search for some free or minimal fees for spaying... i'll keep you posted in case i get lucky.

Quote from: taga tigbao on May 17, 2013, 11:12:03 AM
Hala! Presohon diay nimo Te? Mao na lamang pud ni ahong buhaton sa ahong tulo ka iring kay aron dila mamabdosan.

only when they're taken care of by catsitters.  normally, free ra silang maglakaw-lakaw inside the place.  they are not allowed to go out.  100% indoor cats sila, otherwise, they're spayed.

rh bill gyod sila so i'll have room for other unwanted kittens simbako lang kay daghan na tawon kaayo kog iring, 31 ka buok, lain-lain ug batasan.  di na nako kaya ang pagpa-spay kay around 3k per female cat dinhi sa ato (mas barato ang male cat; ana man gyod nang mga laki baratohon, hihihi) unya 10 days pa gyod nakong patomar ug daily antiobiotics magkinamrasay pa mi. 

maayo gani kay kamao si banana republic manghinguko nila.  mao na ni ron.  ako ang tigpakaon ug tiglimpyo, siya ang beautician.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/

Eva Armstrong is one of the directors of Badass Brooklyn Animal Rescue. It is a completely volunteer-run rescue group that has saved more than 800 dogs from the kill list of high-volume pounds in the rural South.

During the group's last trip to Alabama, volunteers rescued a dachshund they named Captain Morgan because he had only one eye -- like a pirate. The night he was rescued, Captain Morgan slept at the foot of Armstrong's hotel bed. She took care of him until he was adopted by a family several months ago.

Well on May 5, Badass Brooklyn Animal Rescue had a block party reunion where Captain Morgan and Armstrong were reunited. The picture of the two of them in a warm embrace, taken by photographer Hilary Benas, went viral after it was displayed on Buzzfeed. It shows Captain Morgan, who is now called Cappy by his adopted family, resting his head on Armstrong's shoulder. He has clearly not forgotten the woman who helped save him.


-excerpt from Photo of Dog in Warm Embrace with Woman Who Saved Him Goes Viral By Melissa Knowles
-more at http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/trending-now/photo-dog-warm-embrace-woman-saved-him-goes-172217504.html

packing up for a trip.  stomach's bum over the thought that our 3 cats (all females, thrown out to the elements as kittens and i was at the proper place and time) who would need catsitting are all on heat.  huhuhu, bad timing.  got to warn the catsitters (puro ra ba laki) to bestow on them all their patience and to never let them out of their cages, no matter what.   

hehe, pang-lover boy nga lyrics.

obrigado eu prefiro vodka.

nakamatikod sad bitaw kog iring nga ingon ana.  gikapoy na tingali to siya sa ilang overpopulation ug gutom.  mao nga wa gyod koy iring nga manganak kay neutered sila unya indoor pa gyod.  napuhok na gyod hinoon ko sa neutering expense nila. 

naa na hinoon koy beberon diri para kitten intawon nga mapugos kog punit kay wa nay kapaing-nan unya klaro nga gakinahanglan pag inahan kay di pa kahibawo mokaon.  aw, kadaghanan sa among iring mao man gyod intawon nay history mao bitaw nga dia sila namo.  orphanage baya diay mig mga iring.  nursery pa gyod.  kuwang na lang nila college education.

what do they expect to get out of this?  intimidate the philippines?

Taiwan's premier Jiang Yi-huah rejected the apology of President Benigno Aquino because it referred to the shooting as "unfortunate" and "unintentional." Taiwan also rejected an earlier statement of regret by a lower-ranking official.

Taiwan has imposed sanctions on the Philippines, including recalling its envoy to Manila and freezing job permits for Philippines workers.

A State Department spokesman says the U.S. is concerned by increased tensions between two neighboring democracies and close American allies. It urges both to clarify disagreements and ensure maritime safety.

The Philippines Coast Guard said it was acting in self-defense in last Thursday's incident, because it said the fisherman's boat was about to ram the coast guard vessel. Taiwan has rejected those charges.

Taiwan and the Philippines, along with Brunei, China, Malaysia, and Vietnam all have competing claims to parts of the sea, which may be rich in oil and natural gas.

http://www.voanews.com/

Taiwan Begins Military Drills Near Philippines


Taiwan's navy load Standard Type II surface-to-air missiles on the rear of a Kidd-class destroyer during exercises off of the southern city of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, May 16, 2013.

VOA News
May 16, 2013

A diplomatic dispute between Taiwan and the Philippines intensified Thursday, as Taipei began a military exercise in the disputed waters between both countries.

The air and naval drills in the Bashi Channel come a week after the Philippines Coast Guard shot dead a 65-year-old Taiwanese fisherman, prompting outrage in Taiwan.

The family of the fisherman and Taiwanese officials have refused to meet the Philippine president's personal representative who was sent to Taiwan to apologize for the death.

super gyod hinoon ning mga nganla kun ang apelyido sa pamilya chiquicha.

unya ang iyang sister maoy nanganlan ug ace?

nagbinuotan na man tingali ni siya gamay... unta ba lang.  he changed the letter 'm' to 'd'.

di uy.  dakop-dakopon pa god nako ang german language aron ko makasabot.  kini lang nga phrase, ang 'man' ani di tawo.  morag 'one' tingali ni as in someone kay mensch ang german word for tawo.  kun german pa si bananenrepublik maayo na unta ko mo-german pareha ni hof.

"Der Mensch ist, was er ißt." klaro gyod ning "Man is what he eats."

btw, kining letter nga ß (called eszett and serves as double s), naa pa ba ni ron?  hi, hof.   

a look-see at filipino names (free-for-all, no state interference):

The names of children in some families may follow a certain pattern, such as beginning with a certain letter of the alphabet, e.g. Diego Arnel, Diamond Amelia, Danford Arman, Dolores Allison, such that all their initials will be the same, i.e., DAZL if the middle name is Zulueta and the surname is Lim.

One group of siblings was named after countries (Arabia, Australia, Aruba, Albania) while another was named after car trademarks (Ford, Mercedes, Bentley, Maserati). Other names seemed to have been taken from popular brand names, food, fruits, and flowers: Ramcar, Cherry Pie, Apple, Peachy, Pepsi, Brandy. World Champion boxer Manny Pacquiao named his two daughters Queen Elizabeth and Princess while his wife is named Jinky. Philippine Senator Joker Arroyo (his real given name) has a brother named Jack.

wikipedia/

i heard too nga ang mga pinoy couples didto who choose to combine some syllables of their names in naming their babies end up securing a certificate attesting that such a name is really a boy's name (or a girl's) in our culture, for the baby to be properly registered.

it looks like di gihapon madawat ang ngan nga lucifer kay wa man tingaliy embassy or consulate nato nga mo-certify that this is a combination of lucia and fernando in our culture.

Quote from: jorgeanna on May 15, 2013, 07:35:11 PM
bwahahaha labihay napud nga apil names i-ban man gyud

duda ko nga naay considerable number nga nagproblema as adults tungod sa ilang mga ngan.  protektahan na lang sa state tingali kay di man tawon kabuot ang mga babies sa ilang ginikanan. 

germany is very clear about this.  the name should be identifiable at once by gender, i.e., sandra, bettina, phillip, jurgen, etc.  (right, hof?)  the shorter the name, the better.  i heard that in some instances, it is the baptizing priest himself who's ready with a name.  neat ug way hasol.

alternative rock, punk rock and the likes?  wow.  and to think that the name struck as conservative and dated, like polka dot bikinis.

or more familiarly, "you are what you eat".

"man is what man eats."

wa na ko ka-gets ani.  mao nga nawad-an kog hero.  unsa man kunohay ni nga mug, bai hubs?  mora man nig nasagolan ug german words...

ay, kagwing.  german man gyod diay tanan.

aguy.  ang donation box na man pod kahay kawkawon sunod?

i'm waiting for vice-mayor edgardo labella to be proclaimed.  hinaot.  btw, his father is a boholano from tubigon. 

this labella guy was featured in reader's digest years ago for surviving the sunken mv cebu city, after a week of being adrift at sea when he was almost blinded.  said all he did was pray and that was what saved him.  a decent family, the labellas.   

well, new blood is needed, and rama is as good as they come.

wa pod nako damha.  mora man god ug way kataposan ang stranglehold ni tomas osmeña sa cebu city ug ni gullas sa unang distrito nga lakip ang talisay city. 

ang nakaayo aning mga tawhana kay wa ni sila maghimog dynasty pareha sa uban nga mga asawa ug mga anak nagtipun-og.  that osmeña's wife is a councilor does not a dynasty make.  usa pa man.  kang gullas wa gyoy lain.

10.  there are ten cats.

ready, sing!

one, little two, little three, little kittens
four little five, little six, little kittens
seven little eight, little nine, little kittens
ten little kittens cats.

ngiiihhh.  di na ko moukab ani nga thread uy.  curiosity can kill me here...

Quote from: hubag bohol on May 16, 2013, 04:12:59 PM
No guts no glory. Mao ni ang ilimnong pangpaisog...

ang tinuod nga isog wa magkinahanglan ug pangpadanlog.  bahalag uhaw, yaaaaahhh! gihapon.

grabeh!  ngilngiga aning abilidara uy.  opkors, i love the orange cat.

daghan gyod hinoon ning nuances.  the political leaders there may just be playing to their constituents.  wa ta kahibawo ug si taiwan president nanawag na sa iyang phone pal nga si pnoy pagpahibawo nga sabton lang una siya nga mopaghot kay ubos pa siyag ratings karon. 

ikaduha na man god ninyo ning gibuhat namo, 'pre, matod pa niya.  nahiubos baya mi nga sa 2011 ang mga taiwanese nga inyong gidakop didto ninyo gi-deport sa mainland china.  duha na tang bahag ug ikog basta mainland china nay mo-bully nato...

sige lang, 'pre wakang, tubag si pnoy.  pahinayhinaya lang pod mig apologize kay aron di sad mi tantong mauwawan.  gaatang baya ang imong tatay nga bully of a mainland china kay nagtoo nga once we agree to your terms aning hitaboa, tabla ra sa mo-admit mi nga di diay amo nang mga dapita sa dagat.  remember, 'pre, nga hasta kamo giangkon baya pod ni tatay bully...   

this here is much better and more fun than that forum i got to read by chance.  their mutual threats were worse and they were quarreling over something they obviously were not very knowledgeable about.  one post went something like: "you idiot, you ignorant, [name] is not a christian because he is a catholic."  hello?  top that.

Quote from: jorgeanna on May 16, 2013, 03:27:29 PM
good points Miss Isles but sometimes we have to put an end to something that is enough already. there is always a limit as to what one can do or say, right? so as not to create nuisance for everyone. just my thoughts

you got the word, ann.

Art 694 NCC. Nuisance is any act, omission, establishment, business, condition of property, or anything else which:

1) injures or endangers the health or safety of others
2) annoys or offends the senses
3) shocks, defies or disregards decency or morality
4) obstructs or interferes with the free passage of any public highway or street, or any body of water
5) hinders or impairs the use of property

of course, i'd like to believe that it's not that bad.  we're all friends here who can scratch each other now and then, some on the face, mostly on the back.

you may be wondering why i know these things.  sheer desire for emotional and psychological survival compelled me to do some research four years ago.  someone threatened to harm my banana republic with those tandem riding motorcyclists.  the sad part was i had to keep it from him while i put on a brave face for the bitch who made the threat, intent on robbing her of the chance to gloat.  but the what-ifs were sheer torture.  despite the incredulity and assurances of  friends who i shared the info with, i still suffered terrible sleepless nights.  prayers helped me heal, but my parallel moves were just as helpful.  i warned some relatives and two current generals (yes, it's not only balong who has generals for friends) that if anything happened to my banana republic, they know who to pick up.  better to be safe than sorry, you know.

so, yes, balong is only joking.  we'll have to take him as he is, a possible eccentric, probable aberration, bizarre yet funny, and never a bore.

yours truly,

islander

i digress too much... yes, as to the current threats here---they may be regarded as humor even if no one is laughing now.  some of those posts have built-in disclaimers (lingaw lang, pawa sa laay, etc.).  balong knows enough that he doesn't stand a chance because he is revealed as himself, full name, addresses and all.  so he can't be serious.  all his threatening posts can be used against him.  (article 282 of the revised penal code and article 694 of the civil code may be applicable.)

two things, if he's not a filipino citizen---he can be declared an undesirable alien and deported immediately (goodbye, maribojoc), and we have an existing extradition treaty with the US.  if he happens to have a dual citizenship, then all our laws apply to him.  meanwhile, his phantom adversary, the recipient of his “threats” who seems to be enjoying his own jokes, would continue to laugh like the joker of batman because nobody was ever dragged to court for libel for calling someone “unggoy” in whatever language. 

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i remember the time here when there was that someone who asked for help in looking for a father she said she never knew.  like the rest, i did my best to try to help, and failed grossly.  then it dawned on me, through that seeker's answers, that she may just have been enjoying the merry goose chase she was leading.  her search may not have been real after all.  so her game died a natural death.  but  what if it were real?  then i can say that i did my best to help.  on the other hand, if that was nothing more than a sick joke, it was no longer my concern.  i lost nothing.

this reminds me of an article on online suicide and what to do if one happens to be at the other end, unwittingly taking in some stranger's lonely drama.  do all you can to divert the potential suicide's attention, get his address, his details, all the works, while you seek help from the police or wherever.  if he turned out to be merely joking, all the better for everyone then.  we might wish to wring his neck for making fools of us, but who can blame us for going on with our lives with less guilt because we erred on the side of caution? 

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Quote from: Lollapalooza on May 16, 2013, 09:06:39 AM
sa kadugay nakong na miyembro dire sa TB, mas dangerous na man hinuon magpost dire kay hadlaon man dayon ka ug bala, patyon sa mga hired killers called "dirty dozens" especially kung WALA MAKAUYON ang miyembro sa imong gipost.. ASA MAN ANG FREEDOM OF SPEECH diari? Gi-implement na diay dire E-MARTIAL LAW kay limitahan na lang ang pagpost? aw kung ingon ani man diay ang dagan dire sa TB, I better tell my friend who happens to be in NBI Manila about this nga in case mahitabo ni sa ako.a at least she knows kinsa na ang suspect...


sorry folks, wa nako kapugong sa akong gibati... pangit na TB karon.. I don't want to leave here either kay mao ra ni akong past time (well aside from FB)

Quote from: jorgeanna on May 16, 2013, 10:41:50 AM
well said. mao bitaw kapoyan nako usahay magpost or magcomment diri

hi, loll and ann--

like you, i have this strange feeling, too.  it swings from humor to incredulity, to irritation and disappointment.  and even fear.  i remember votives's what-ifs.  i share those, too.  i can't say my reaction is better, though.  it's just that i'd rather go on and enjoy what i've been enjoying here, regardless.

we can say that strange posts make for less boring forums.  here anything can happen, ideas and opinions can sprout faster than mushrooms after a thunderstorm, for our taking or refusing as a matter of course.

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