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sir balong, let me share one more important thing about this...

your commitment to mike ortega ligalig and those countless chess players in need of a venue is way over and above anybody's contrarian opinion, if ever such exists.  i daresay mine was not contrarian at all.  it was just a careless one.  nahibung lang ko nganong samokan ka.

Quote from: balong on October 26, 2012, 02:47:29 AM
this idea did not come from me. it came from the webmaster. ask him

di na unta ko mag pakita dinhi , HONESTLY, but then i got hooked up w/ this. i saw this as a chance for redemption. kay wa na ko mo angay nga sayon sayonon lang ko sa ubang member dinhi. naka menos ug maajo nato ba. i am not a milyoner but i have a heart of gold. i want to do something worthwhile and when mike suggested this tournament, i told him to go ahead.

Quote from: Mike Ortega Ligalig on October 26, 2012, 08:41:32 AM
Balong is right. I am the one who suggested the Rene Balong Econg Open Chess Tournament. I was thinking of offering the idea to a politician but I was avoiding of political indebtedness. Since Balong is not a politician, and has been known in Maribojoc to have sponsored several basketball tournaments, I suggested to him whether he is agreeable to sponsor a chess tournament in Bohol. This idea came to me upon learning that there is now a Boholano (first ever) who is a candidate for a Grandmaster Title. His name is Oliver Dimakiling. Bohol also has a Woman National Master. Her name is Jedara Docena. Observers predict she would also get a Grandmaster Title five years from now.

The title of the tournament is solely my preference. This is the practice done in most chess tournaments when there is only one person who is the source/sponsor for all prizes, thus the Rene Balong Econg Open Chess Tournament.

Again, the reason I approached Balong to sponsor this kind of tournament because, according to many who know him personally in bolanon.com and in tubagbohol.com, he has been an active supporter/sponsor of many sports activities in his hometown in Maribojoc.

i am humbled thus.  please accept my apologies for my comments the basis of which i didn't fully understand, considering the gaps in what can be read openly.  i hope balong comes back to go on with a worthwhile project.  everything is clear now.  besides, why be affected with a comment from someone like me, who am a failed chess player?  please give yourself this break, sir balong, and in so doing, you give everyone else this same break. 

come back soon.  i believe the tournament and your support of it is way above anybody's opinion, most specially mine.

i'm very sorry. 

Tsunami warning sirens began blaring across the islands at about 8 p.m. as state officials ordered a coastal evacuation, prompting a mass exodus that clogged roadways as motorists fled low-lying areas.

As the forecast arrival time of the tsunami neared, Honolulu Mayor Peter Carlisle announced that all police and emergency personnel were being pulled out from potential flood zones, leaving anyone defying evacuation orders to fend for themselves.  He also urged motorists who remained caught in harm's way due to gridlocked roads to abandon their vehicles and proceed on foot.

"If you are stuck in traffic, you might consider getting out of your car and consider walking to higher ground.  You will have to assess your own situation, depending on where you are right now.  Right now it is critical," he said.

more at h.news.yahoo.com/tsunami-warning-issued-hawaii-british-columbia-quake-074311456.html

 "The threat may continue for several hours," the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said in its alert.

While scientists had warned early on that waves as tall 6 feet (1.8 metres) could occur in places, tsunami wave activity was reported to have peaked at just 2.5 feet (0.8 metres) at the island of Maui shortly after 10:30 p.m.

"The tsunami arrived about when we expected it should," Senior Geophysicist Gerard Fryer told reporters at a news conference, saying: "I was expecting it to be a little bigger."

Hawaii tsunami warning lifted after 100,000 flee to higher ground

By Jorene Barut and Suzanne Roig
Reuters
28 October 2012

HONOLULU (Reuters) - A tsunami warning prompted by a powerful earthquake off the Canadian coast sent at least 100,000 people fleeing from shore to higher ground in Hawaii late on Saturday, but an evacuation order was canceled after a series of weaker-than-expected waves rolled through the islands.

The warning was downgraded to an advisory - a lower-level alert - shortly after 1 a.m. Sunday (1100 GMT), though state civil defense authorities said beaches and harbors would remain closed for the time being, and residents were urged to stay away from the water.

There were no immediate reports of injuries, serious flooding or damage, but officials warned that abrupt changes in sea level and strong currents could still pose a hazard to swimmers and boaters.

turning scatological, your excellency? 

"Typically, the first wave is not the largest," he said, adding that subsequent waves could be much larger, resulting in flooding in low-lying areas.

"If the waves are big, the all-clear may take six or seven hours," the scientist said.

Initially, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there was no "destructive widespread tsunami threat" after the 7.7 magnitude quake shook the Queen Charlotte Islands off the west coast of Canada.

But later it issued a warning, saying a tsunami had been generated by the earthquake and that it was headed toward Hawaii.

more at http://ph.news.yahoo.com/major-earthquake-hits-islands-off-west-canada-060304986.html

Tsunami hits Hawaii after Canada quake

By Walter Wright
AFP News
28 October 2012

A potentially destructive Pacific tsunami hit Hawaii Sunday after a powerful earthquake struck off the west coast of Canada, triggering calls for urgent action to protect lives as sirens wailed across the archipelago.

"The tsunami is arriving right now," Gerard Fryer, a senior geophysicist with the center, told reporters. "It is coming in as we speak."

Countless Halloween parties were interrupted, restaurants and bars emptied, and highways quickly filled with cars heading away from beach areas.

Television images from the island of Oahu showed relatively small waves peacefully rolling toward shore.

But Fryer urged Hawaii residents not to be deceived by appearances.

Quote from: hubag bohol on October 24, 2012, 04:57:22 PM
Vegetarian fox? Bwahaha! It's like saying there is such a thing as a celibate Bugsay...

nothing is impossible.  naa man ganiy bohol nga hubag.

glad to read this here.  congratulations!

hi, lolla.  nawala ko kadiyot tungod sa terribly slow internet connection diri in the last few days.  how about you?  how are you this last couple of days?  hope to hear from you again very soon. 

maybe they expect the dead to vote.

p.s. some public minibuses in cebu have the faces of three osmeñas, including mayoral candidate tomas and his wife councilor margot.  shame.  they're supposed to be educated.

a sandbox is a box normally full of sand.  mine happens to be full of cat litter sand.  my favorite cat litter brand is catsan, which is japanese made.  if unavailable, i go for the jonny cat brand.

i can only hope that the municipality is a stockholder of tanduay. 

“As I was attempting to master a beginner’s level ‘balancing table’ position, I fell over into the fireplace.  Surely if God had meant us to do yoga, he would have put our heads behind our knees.”

               - Rod Stewart, on yoga

Quote from: balong on October 24, 2012, 05:43:08 PM
mao ni ahong gusto. para way gubot, bow na lang ba

diha diay gubot?  where man?

Quote from: Pikoy on October 24, 2012, 09:11:17 PM
sorte jud hang matamaan hang ritbo ni ondoy gid bala..

mas sorte gid blah ang makamrasan sa koko ni pikoy to.

Quote from: balong on October 25, 2012, 06:20:39 PM
mr. bolbol

tinood ning atong chess tournament. suggestion ni sa atong webmaster nga akoy mo pioneer ug sponsor ug chess tournament. mao nga ahong angkonon ang 5 ka tuig. pagka human basin pa ug naa na poy laing TB member mo sponsor

sir balong

wait, wait, wait... gimata-mata lang tingali ko, pero akong sabot ikaw ang nakahunahuna ani unya gi-pick up ni mr webmaster as a worthwhile venture.  not that whoever had this germ of an idea would make a difference, pero maayo ning klaro ang estorya aron di ta maghibat.

at the very least, tungod kay ikaw ang nag-una ani, pwes, di na ka magluod-luod ha if ever there are comments that are not to your liking from some sectors, okay?  di na ka magbinata ug i-shall-disappear-forgive-me or change the rules halfway, okay?  do not stake your bannered name in this tournament.  forthwith, protect your name henceforth, comments notwithstanding in as much as...  

seriously, you've got to wake up to the fact that those who hold the money do not always control the pin of a hand grenade.

Quote from: balong on October 25, 2012, 11:54:54 PM
how are you my secret love

i'm very fine without you.

Quote from: balong on October 19, 2012, 05:43:13 PM
nag huna huna ko nga mag organize ug TUBAGBOHOL chess tournament pero dili man mo donate ug premyo si islander, likay ring man ni sija kanunay ug pangajoan ug donation, aho na lang solohon tanang prizes ug himoon nahong BALONG OPEN CHESS TOURNAMENT. 

Rene BALONG Econg OPEN CHESS TOURNAMENT

1st prize....P5000
2nd prize...P3000
3rd prize....P2000
4th prize...P1000

sponsored by TUBAGBOHOL.com

date and venue to be determined

those aspiring grandmasters out there, if you are interested contact MIKE LIGALIG

korek ka diyan.  di gyod ko mo-donate, but i wish success to the tournament.  angay solohon ang premyo sa gabansiwag nga ngan.

Quote from: Pikoy on October 24, 2012, 09:15:03 PM
basta naalagi bahal react dayon si Lolla..haskang..

hahaha!  dakog puruhan nga ibaylo diay ka ni lolla ug bahal.

Quote from: BolBuhol on October 24, 2012, 06:46:02 PM
DILIMAN ako alongnay sang UP, nag tingda tingda lang gid ako sang gawas sang iskol sigariks stan hang mga tingda ko sigarilyo istork kag babolgang.

imon mga igzuon, alongnay upod sa ateneo ug la salle ug sto. tomas, way lang sila babolgang?

hehe, mounsa kaha ang laki kun ang baye ang mag-ingon ani?  motutok ug dugay sa gwapo makalimot nga naay kauban nga boyfriend o bana?

mini skirt aron way samok.

Quote from: Lorenzo on October 24, 2012, 06:50:54 PM
oy , kahibalo man diay ka mag inilonggo, isles. da!

thanks to bolbuhol, trying hard kog pangurap-kurap ug tira-pasagad.

Quote from: Lorenzo on October 24, 2012, 06:49:41 PM
Bwahahahaha! isles, tinuod ba ning saying nga ang mga bombay sa pilipinas ..money lenders ni sila? tinuod ba na?

they may, but i doubt if it's limited to them.  considering our number in relation to these specific expats, more filipinos are into the loan shark business than the bombay.  in fact, i saw only one bombay collecting from market vendors (which i presume is the day's payments of loans) in my whole life in our country.  my best friend in high school was a bombay.  they owned one of the biggest department stores in cebu at the time.  (they've moved to hong kong later.)  i didn't notice them getting involved with the loan shark business.

Quote from: BolBuhol on October 24, 2012, 06:43:56 PM
aw way pagid ba? daw di mo makita hang siknal kag ginatabonang pirmingti hang imong dagway dao naowao ka kid sang Tb mingbirs hao. may ara ba tingkoling hang imon na simod hao daw naka songkab kag piniritong bowad sang karahay, may ara ba na ibidinsya sang simog mo hao?

ebidensiya hang akon simod nakaingkib hang imon tikod, to.  akon simod nagtangag sang imon tikod apil imon tsinelas, haw, hahahahaw de karabaw.

Over-leveraging.  Borrowing from too many sources can leave you bewildered, stressed-out, and owing much more on interest than you would have, simply because you forgot you owed someone money.  As much as possible, borrow from a single source with low-interest.

And lastly, the Filipino favorite…

Borrowing from family and/or friends.  The terms may seem good.  You may not even have to pay interest.  But failing to live up to your agreements can damage a relationship, sometimes for good.  And while you can always make more money, you can’t always win back the trust of a friend or a sibling.  The more that relationship matters, the more wary you should be of asking for a loan.

Ultimately, how “smart” you are at borrowing is determined by how well you handle the money once you get it.  Borrow in order to buy additional investments, shift outstanding debts with high rates to those with low rates, or to pay for important and immediate expenses.  Anything beyond these is courting trouble.

http://ph.news.yahoo.com/

But for every smart way to get a loan, there’s a dumb way as well.  Here are some credit no-nos you should avoid:

Borrowing from loan sharks.  Even if desperate, you ought to think twice before getting into the water with these folks.  At usurious rates of 20%-30% and just days to pay up, you’ll be opening yourself up to a great deal of stress and sometimes even risk to your own life.  Do yourself a favor and stay away.

Borrowing from pawnshops.  Pawnshops offer loans in exchange for something you own. A common sight in our country, they’re generally a bad idea.  Pawnshops charge exorbitant rates while only giving a fraction of your collateral’s worth.

Cash advance on your credit card.  By slipping your credit card into an ATM you can tap a portion of your credit for some much-needed cash.  However, you can get slapped with flat fees right from the start, and the high interest rates start ticking the moment you get that money in your hands until you pay it all.

unya ra katawa ha?  luya kaayo akong internet connection.  maybe it's because of typhoon signal no. 2.

Quote from: BolBuhol on October 24, 2012, 06:27:32 PM
whahahahaahaha...........

wa pa ko mahuman, to.

Use a credit line.  Got a cash investment like stocks, bonds, mutual funds, or a similarly liquid asset?  Use it as collateral for a credit line at a bankâ€"that way you get a loan without having to touch your asset.  This comes in handy in case of emergencies or to buy additional investments.

Borrow from SSS, GSIS, or Pag-ibig.  If you’re an employee, these are mandatory benefits.  You might even have been paying their dues for years without knowing you can take advantage of their low interest rates.

Borrow from your company retirement program.  If your company has one set up, this is another way of getting easy credit.  Just watch the late fees, and know that the loan may become due and demandable should you decide to leave your job.

The smartest (and dumbest) ways to borrow money

BDO Money Matters
Oct 23, 2012

By Mark B. Aragona for Yahoo! Southeast Asia




Sometimes when things are tight and you find yourself needing a loan, it’s tempting to grab the closest source of credit you can find.  Your credit card, for example, is an easy way to borrow, but can be a double-edged sword if you end up defaulting on payments and getting bad credit history.  Thankfully, you do have alternativesâ€"some you probably haven’t even considered before:

Borrow from your mortgage.  This works if you’ve been paying for your home for some years and your home’s accumulated some value.  You can unlock that value by borrowing back what you paid, essentially another loan secured by your house.  Just be sure you can pay it all back, or you may end up without a roof on your head.

Use your life insurance policy.  Under the impression that life insurance is only useful when you die?  The cash value of your policy can be a quick source of funds.  How much depends on the type of policy you have and how long you’ve been paying for it.  Traditional types of policies allow you to obtain loan that’s secured by the cash value, but variable types don’t require you to return the cash since it’s considered an investment.

maybe one hint that there's something wrong with the list is no. 20.  there is a university of southern philippines foundation (USP-F) in cebu city.  what is in davao is university of southeastern philippines (USeP).

Quote from: Lorenzo on October 24, 2012, 04:54:11 PM
There was one time I heard an anecdote from a surgeon at work , who is a graduate of University of the East's Medical College, and it went like this:

One time there were 12 medical students from La Salle College of Medicine attending to patients, however, upon hearing that another 12 medical students were coming, they immediately made way especially after hearing that they were from University of the East, which is known for excellence in Surgical Medicine. The students from University of the East, who were busy performing thoracocentesis on patients with the students from La Salle College of Medicine observing, immediately found out that there was yet another batch of students. From the sound of their voice, the posture of their gait, they realized these were UP Medical Students. Immediately, the UE Medical students moved out of the way for the UP Students.

The one who was telling me this anecdote is a Cardiothoracic Surgeon , and a graduate of University of the East's College of Medicine. Apparently, according to him, there is a clear sense of hierarchy in the medical echelons in Philippine teaching hospitals with UP students being regarded as 'Cream of the Crop'.

I wonder if this is indeed true.

such hierarchies are more imagined than real, i believe.  it's the stance of students.  when they become professionals, the schools where they came from doesn't matter anymore.  (think pma-er; a philippine military academy cadet has imagined "class".  let this same guy graduate and be a 2nd lieutenant in basilan... or a coup leader like trillanes.)  anyways, as for medical schools, the reputation of the university of the east is perceived to be better than that of u.p.  and there's silent cebu institute of medicine, which does not only produce board placers but almost always end up with a 100% passing mark, a feat hardly equaled by other medical schools.

Last June, international education network Quacquarelli Symonds ranked five Philippine universities among the top 300 universities in Asia in its 2012 list.

State-run University of the Philippines in Diliman ranked 68th on the list, while Ateneo de Manila University ranked 86th and De La Salle University ranked 142nd.

The University of Santo Tomas, which marked its 400th anniversary last year, is 148th.
On the other hand, the University of Southeastern Philippines in Davao City was among those ranked 251st to 300th.

However, QS rankings are not based on students' performance.  QS provides an annual list of world university rankings according to six measures: academic reputation; employer reputation; faculty/student ratio; citations per faculty; international faculty ratio; and international student ratio. â€" RSJ, GMA News

http://ph.news.yahoo.com/

Centers of Excellence and Centers of Development

And while there is no official list that ranks schools in the Philippines, CHED identifies Centers of Excellence (COEs) and Centers of Development (CODs) as "either public or private higher education institutions (HEIs) which have demonstrated the highest degree or level of standard along the areas of instruction, research and extension."  As of October 2010, CHED identified 100 HEIs with COEs/CODs. 

From the fake list of top 20 schools, 16 were listed among CHED's COEs/CODs: UP Diliman, UP Los Baños, UP Manila, Silliman University, Ateneo de Davao University, Ateneo de Manila University, University of Santo Tomas, Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology, Saint Louis University, University of San Carlos, Xavier University, Mindanao State University-Naawan, De La Salle University, Mapua
Institute of Technology, Adamson University, and Central Mindanao University.

Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, Urios College, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, and University of Southern Philippines were not on CHED's list of COEs and COD's.

CHED also collated data from the PRC-Education Statistics Task Force to show the overall performance of HEIs in the 2009 PRC licensure examinations by discipline and category.

The list, which went viral on Facebook this week, claims its statistics are "a result of the study conducted every 10 years by the PRC and the CHED, based on the average passing in the board examinations of all courses of all universities and colleges in the Philippines."

The fake list is very misleading, as statistical data is taken into account annually, not every 10 years, according to CHED.

The list, which also claims to be based on rankings as of October 2012, has the University of the Philippines Diliman as the top school in the Philippines, followed by UP Los Baños, UP Manila, Silliman University, and Ateneo de Davao University.

The list is not posted on the official websites of either the PRC
or CHED. [http://www.ched.gov.ph/chedwww/index.php]

CHED: No such thing as top 20 PHL schools list

GMA News Online
24 October 2012

A list of the top 20 schools in the Philippines that has been circulating online is fake, according to the Commission on Higher Education.

According to the Office of the Chairperson of the Commission on Higher Education, there is no such survey.

While CHED and the Professional Regulation Commission conduct an annual evaluation of board exam results, this is done to look into the statistics, and not to rank schools, according to CHED.

in honor of sir balong, secret millionaire par excellence.

di gyod na mahitabo kay vegetarian man si foxy. 

p.s. di lagi ko mamista sa inyo, hehe.  i'll try not to, anyway.  big eat ra ba koh.

hehe, trapped pod kag cebu, fr chic?  unsa lagi ang address nimo sa bohol?  when kaha nimo masakpan ang uban nakong mga pangutana ani?  nalanay na ang mga candles para nimo, huhuhu.

the little that i know of her, which i came across by accident...

she's a young lass from leyte, the family had moved to cebu, she studied at the cebu christian gospel school, she won in the pinoy big brother contest or some tv contest i think.  and she's half-filipino, half-chinese.  lucy liu can't hold a candle to her.

something in the way she moos me

i don't want to leave her cow

you know i believe and mow...

good for business!

Quote from: Lollapalooza on October 24, 2012, 09:41:17 AM
someone texted me and gave me a warning that i should be careful posting some comments here kay naa daw gapanabi ug gapangdaut bahin sa ako. naglibog ko...

hinaot unta nga di nimo tagdon.  kun palakwon ang dagan sa akong hunahuna nga kaspahon, duda na hinoon kog naay mga sectors nga naghinayhinay ug signit sa mga members dinhi...  hohum, just another conspiracy theory not worth anybody's blink.  enjoy your time here at tb, loll.  and just be yourself.

goodness me, at this very moment mora man ug nagsugod nag hinayhinay ug entrada si ofel diri...  naa nay uwan gamay, ang hangin maoy morag lain, ang kolor sa atmosphere (skies, the environment) maoy katingalahan.  makasabot kog ngitngit lang unta, pero ambot kun unsa ning kolora.

ssshhh, saba mo. 

it won't happen again, bai tigs.  ayaw na lang pangoyab aron sigurado nga di na. 

di ko taga-candijay, pero pareha baya kog nawong ni santa...


claus.

feeling nako mora na man kog storm chaser.  kun asa ang bagyo, maatol nga tua ko.  luckily, it's not at all times... siyaro na man gyod pod if it were otherwise.

dia tawon ko sa cebu nag-atang sa landfall around this time.  there's something in the air, like the calm before a storm.  i was told not to go out na lang for some errand kay ma-trap kuno unya ko sa baha ug traffic.

bisita nakong amiga sakay airplane at 5 a.m., cebu-butuan, wa sila ka-landing.  dia tawon, nahibalik.  kaingon kuno niyag mao na to, goodbye world na kuno niya.

wa sad madayon akong nephew and his friend sa ilang pag-uli sa bohol; diri na lang tawon sila namo nag-overnight.  no sea craft was allowed to leave yesterday, no such permit is given today as well.

hahay.  unproductive ni nga tinguha.  wa moy makuha.  maayo pay mo-enrol mo sa RENE BALONG ECONG open chess tournament.  tan-awa, di ba bansiwag...

sineswerte siya.  she's a very ordinary looking chinese girl.  had she a tinge of filipino blood, she may have looked like kim chiu.

 

da, katilaw lagi si ms socialite.  duol-duol man sad ni sa moingon tag kalami sa website nga tubagbohol; gwapo gyod ug computer si mr webmaster...

babycakes:  lorenz is a tajada y broa de tagbilaran.

stephanie:  lorenz is a burrito.

the best spice of life is for these girls to test lorenz.

sa akong pag-praning sa biyahe (kini laging feeling nato kuwang ang preparation, gamay ra ang bag wa maarang tanan nakong gustong dad-on, gustong moadto sa airport 3 hours ahead, etc.), wa sa hunahuna nga pag-body frisk, imbis modupa ra (arms raised to the sides) i raised both arms above my head.  paskang katawa sa lady security officer dayon pakapin ug "aba, si ma'am, hindi ko akalain na darna pala."  hahay, wa na lang gyod siya moingon nga si wonder woman koh.   

Quote from: Lollapalooza on October 19, 2012, 06:31:18 PM
Have a safe trip Ma'am Isles... Finally, it's weekend, whew nahuman ra gyud akong seminar-workshop... kapoy man diay magfacilitate ani... ngisi to the max gyud permi sa mga School Planning Officers especially kung magpa assist.. But at the end of the day, happy ko kay tanan sila nagpasalamat sa ako kay daghan sila nakat-unan.. yeyyy...

thanks, loll.  congrats sa imong facilitating job.  i miss such similar activities, really.   pero kun pabalikon ko karon after years of hiatus, i believe awkward na ko, hehe.

kinsa man god poy di masuko ug stalker...

obama:  hahaha!  tan-awa iyang hinapay, morag tinilaan ug baka.

romney:  oops, oops.  mas gusto ko ang imong naughty finger.

Quote from: Lorenzo on October 21, 2012, 11:59:44 PM
hehehe, libra diay ka brod mike. pariho sa ahoang parents. their birthday is on september 28. si mommy 1960, pero si daddy 1958. hehehe!

kun sa valencia pa mo nagsigeg puyo, wa mag-nurse ug mag-engineer imong mom and dad, nice unta nga paminawon ang conversation nga ingon ani: 

pangutana:  lorenz, asa man imong mommy? 
lorenz:  tua, nanginhas.
pangutana:  asa man imong daddy?
lorenz:  tua, nananggot.
pangutana:  ikaw, nag-unsa man ka?
lorenz:  dia, nagpaaway ug mga kaka.

   

Quote from: Mike Ortega Ligalig on October 21, 2012, 08:45:53 AM
murag kanang 3rd from left ang adunay hayag nga kaugmaon nga masakop sa Black Eyed Peas.

ang rightmost nga green stripes ang t-shirt maoy future beauty queen.  si lorenz ug pikoy maoy present coco locos hijos de pating.

It was a swift operation.  What the participants remember most is the strong smell of death and decay.  That night, these soldiers burned their clothes which had absorbed the stench.  At the crack of dawn the next day, they loaded the ponchos in the helicopter and flew over Manila Bay.  They tied heavy stones to the ponchos before dumping them all into the sea.  The remains sank, weighted down by the stones.  The soldiers made sure nothing floated to the surface.

At that time, under the iron hand and expansionist tendencies of President Ferdinand Marcos, the killings on Corregidor were never explained.  If Marcos and his men were to be believed, they never happened.  The expose on Jabidah, they said, was part of a grand plot by the opposition to discredit the Marcos regime; furthermore, Jibin Arula, a survivor of the massacre, was an agent planted by Malaysia after it had uncovered Jabidah's purpose.

The Armed Forces top brass never ordered a search for missing persons, living and dead.  No real investigation took place, except for a few Senate and Congressional hearings which yielded inconclusive findings.  The young and intensely energetic opposition Senator Benigno Aquino Jr., using his deft journalistic skills, put some of the pieces of the Jabidah puzzle together, but the picture remained incomplete.  Nevertheless, given the period's secrecy and silence, Aquino's was the most thorough investigation.

Eight officers and 16 enlisted men were court-martialed in 1968.  All of them, however, were cleared in 1971.  No one was held accountable for the gruesome killings on Corregidor that forgotten day in March 1968.

much, much more at http://mnlfnet.com/Articles/Merdeka-Jabidah.htm

from the website of the MNLF:

OPLAN MERDEKA & THE JABIDAH MASSACRE

Excerpts from
UNDER THE CRESCENT MOON: REBELLION IN MINDANAO
by Marites Danguilan Vitug and Glenda M. Gloria

IN THE NAME OF HONOR?

The Jabidah massacre

ONE day in March 1968, a presidential helicopter swooped down on Corregidor shortly after the killing of young Muslim men being trained to infiltrate and destabilize Sabah.  Officers and men belonging to the Army Special Forces leaped out of the aircraft and engaged in a clandestine cover-up mission to erase traces of a key historical event that has come to be known as the Jabidah massacre.

It was the spark that lit the Muslim rebellion, the Plaza Miranda of Mindanao. (Plaza Miranda, in the heart of Manila, was where the Liberal Party senatorial candidates opposed to then President Ferdinand Marcos were bombed in August 1971 while holding a political rally. Nearly a hundred, including the candidates, were wounded and nine were killed.)  From then on, Muslim Mindanao was never the same again.

Corregidor was a forlorn, tadpole-shaped island guarding the mouth of Manila Bay. Its tail tapered off toward Cavite, and on the island stood ancient artillery, battle scarred fortifications and ruins, and a tunnel bombed during World War II.  A small community lived in a pocket of the island, removed from the comings and goings.

When they landed, the teams of soldiers found burned bodies tied to trees, near the airstrip, on the island's bottom side.  The order from Army Chief Gen. Romeo Espino was to clean up the place and clear it of all debris.  From afternoon till sunset, they collected charred flesh and bones and wrapped them in dark colored ponchos.  They could not keep track of how many bodies there were. They also picked up bullet shells lying on the airstrip.  The trainees had been shot dead before they were tied and burned.

it's actually kiamoy's memory:

TUBAGBOHOL.com » Tubag Bohol Appetizer » Breaking News | You Are An Eyewitness » better late than NEVER cliche

http://tubagbohol.mikeligalig.com/index.php?topic=55536.0

thanks to her, i got to know that mr webmaster was september born.

kuyawag baba ni bitoy...

tug-ani ra god ko, pleeeeease, kay clueless gyod ko aning inyong gihisgotan nga hulog-hulog ug piso nga internet.  naa ba diay internet nga tag-piso?  naa ba diay mahulogan ug piso nga internet cafe?  huhuhu.  tell me the trowth.  joke lang ba ni?  mas makasabot pa kong magdayon mo bisag imposible kay sa ani...

hehe, nakalugar na human ug sapot sa biyahe.

porbida.  kakuyaw diay kun nagtubok pa ko sa una nga gibuwagan ug wa gani nako mauyab... di unta ko mo-enjoy ug tb dokdoking karon.   

hehe, i got the tip from some other thread here by kiamoy.  merry christmas pinaskohan daan.  kini nga date di gyod matago, mr webmaster.

Quote from: Pikoy on October 20, 2012, 05:44:22 PM
people of the TB,,--->>don't judge Him / Her, he's  not a book cover...

anyway... congrats ms MARYhazel kw jud ang nakajackpot sa pinaskuhan pakontet sa atong tecret milyoner nga si kuya DON balongski,, nindot man imong pangalan gud...pangan ni MAMA MARY nya kay hapit naman pasko aw  MARY -- Merry early - christmas 2 you...

salamat sa imong insight, piks.  hasta man gani ubang libro napaksit na ang cover.

Soong May-ling

Born:  March 5, 1898
Shanghai, Qing Empire

Died:  October 23, 2003 (aged 105)
New York City, United States


Chiang-Soong wedding photo


On February 18, 1943, she addressed
both houses of the U.S. Congress.

/wikipedia

Soong Ching-ling

Born:  27 January 1890
Huangpu, Qing Dynasty

Died:  29 May 1981 (aged 91)
Beijing, People's Republic of China


Soong Ching-ling accompanied
Sun Yat-sen in 1924 on his final trip to Beijing

/wikipedia

Nancy Soong Ai-ling

Born:  14 June 1888
Shanghai, Qing China

Died:  18 October 1973 (aged 85)
New York City, New York, United States


with husband H. H. Kung

/wikipedia

Their father was American-educated Methodist minister Charlie Soong, who made a fortune in banking and printing.  Their mother was Ni Kwei-tseng, whose mother Lady Xu was a descendant of Ming Dynasty mathematician and Jesuit Xu Guangqi.  All three sisters attended Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia.  Their three brothers were all high-ranking officials in the Republic of China government, one of whom was T. V. Soong. (wikipedia)

The Three Soong Sisters

Soong Ai-ling (Song Ailing): The eldest.  Was married to the richest man and finance minister of China, H. H. Kung.

Soong Ching-ling (Song Qingling): The second in order of seniority.  Was married to Father of Modern China and first President of the Republic of China, Sun Yat-sen in Japan on 25 October 1915.  She became joint President of the People's Republic of China with Dong Biwu from 1968 to 1972 and Honorary President in 1981, just before the passing of the Constitution of 1982.

Soong May-ling (Song Meiling): The youngest.  Was a prominent political leader in her own right, the wife and partner in power of the leader of the Kuomintang (KMT) , Generalissimo of the Chinese armies, and later President, Chiang Kai-shek.

http://history.cultural-china.com/

The Three Soong sisters - Three Women Who Changed the Course of Chinese History



The Soong Sisters were three Hakka women who were, along with their husbands, amongst China's most significant political figures of the early 20th century.  They each played a major role in influencing their husbands, which, along with their own positions of power, ultimately changed the course of Chinese history.

Throughout their lifetimes, each one of the sisters followed their own belief in terms of supporting the Kuomintang (KMT) or the Communist Party of China.  In the 1930s, Soong Ai-ling and her sister Mei-ling were the two richest women in China at the time. Both of them supported the Nationalists, while Soong Ching-ling later sided with the CPC.

http://history.cultural-china.com/

Quote from: bugsay on October 19, 2012, 02:58:57 PM
pag tiniil...basin gisul-ob nimo ang sapatos sa insik nga puthaw...

uy, stainless steel kini.

duda ko aning sir attorney nga nakatilaw pod ug pagawas sa iyang panahon da...

in which case, write to ched and ibp.  pero wait usa ug pila ka adlaw.  tan-awa usa if you would still feel the same way...

Quote from: bugsay on October 19, 2012, 02:13:27 PM
maayong pag byahe....

salamat.  bug-at man akong tiil aning biyahea uy...

rubber bond.

sean connery


badibildir pa gyod sa una.  nanundog ni bugsay.




ang kanahan, sean connery gyod gihapon...

oh my.  that's terrible.  unsolicited advice... utong na lang usa, mol.  no matter how we seek justice, siya gihapon ang naggunit sa imong grado.  malangan lang unya ka.  utong usa.  adto na lang mo magfencing sa korte one day soon, kun tabla na mo nga puro abogado.

kaso, padag-on man god pod nato ang uban, sama pananglit aning medyo naay dako nga role nganong mora nag si hannibal lecter ang akong avatar.

packing up for a trip.  nagpraning.  too many things on my mind...

hello, fr chic!  mobalik ka pa bag tagbilaran?  unsay address nimo didto, huhuhu.  wa ka maybe makabasa sa akong pangutana sa una...

Quote from: bugsay on October 19, 2012, 01:58:38 PM
mahilig galing ug bai li...

kaliwat galing ug taga-canduao.

a du fu poem:

Reply to a Friend's Advice    

Leaving the Audience by the quiet corridors,
Stately and beautiful, we pass through the Palace gates,

Turning in different directions: you go to the West
With the Ministers of State.  I, otherwise.

On my side, the willow-twigs are fragile, greening.
You are struck by scarlet flowers over there.

Our separate ways!  You write so well, so kindly,
To caution, in vain, a garrulous old man.

                                                     -Du Fu
                                                     (translated by Carolyn Kizer


Although he wrote in all poetic forms, Du Fu is best known for his lÇœshi, a type of poem with strict constraints on form and content [as shown by this example]. (wikipedia)

my favorite li bai (or li po) poem:

The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter

While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead
I played about the front gate, pulling flowers.
You came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse,
You walked about my seat, playing with blue plums.
And we went on living in the village of Chokan:
Two small people, without dislike or suspicion.

At fourteen I married My Lord you.
I never laughed, being bashful.
Lowering my head, I looked at the wall.
Called to, a thousand times, I never looked back.

At fifteen I stopped scowling,
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours
Forever and forever and forever.
Why should I climb the look out?

At sixteen you departed,
You went into far Ku-to-en, by the river of swirling eddies,
And you have been gone five months.
The monkeys make sorrowful noise overhead.

You dragged your feet when you went out.
By the gate now, the moss is grown, the different mosses,
Too deep to clear them away!
The leaves fall early this autumn, in wind.
The paired butterflies are already yellow with August
Over the grass in the West garden;
They hurt me. I grow older.

If you are coming down through the narrows of the river Kiang,
Please let me know beforehand,
And I will come out to meet you
As far as Cho-fu-Sa.
         
                                    -Li Po
                                    (translated by Ezra Pound)

Drunkenness didn't have negative connotations for an 8th Century poet - it was the route to divine inspiration.  Li Bai and Du Fu were both heavy drinkers, even though in other ways their lives were very different.

Li Bai was a huge celebrity, showered with honours because of his genius.  Du Fu, on the other hand, aspired to a career as a civil servant, but he failed the exam and was too prickly to network his way into a good post.

Then came a rebellion led by a general, An Lushan, and eight years of civil war.  Du Fu fled the Tang capital, Xian, only to be captured and then to wander as a refugee and exile until the rebel general was assassinated by his own son, and everyone could go home.

more at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19884020

As a Chinese person living in America, far from home, Yuan particularly likes one poem by Li Bai, about the moon:

Moonlight in front of my bed

I took it for frost on the ground

I lift my head, gaze at the mountain moon

Lower it, and think of home.

"The moon in China has a special meaning. And when it's full, that represents the fullness and reunification of the family," says Yuan. "So that poem struck the deep core of my heart whenever I miss my family."

The moon also symbolises poetry and dreams, so it's fitting that it plays a role in Li Bai's death - the story is that he drowned in a river when he tried to embrace the moon's reflection.

"He was drunk, presumably," says translator Burton Watson.  "He was drunk a good deal of the time."

Every Chinese person learns poems by Li Bai, and the country's other favourite poet, Du Fu, from childhood.


Li Bai raises glass to the moon Li Bai looks to the moon -
and the bottom of a wine glass - for inspiration

"They are as important in Chinese literary history as Shakespeare is to people in Britain," says historian Yuan Haiwang, author of This Is China: The First 5,000 Years.

"I remember when my son was only a baby held in my arms, I began to teach him some of the poems, like every other parent does, even though of course he couldn't remember all of them.  But that's what the Chinese do."

Li Bai and Du Fu: China's drunken superstar poets

By Carrie Gracie BBC News, Beijing

China's two favourite poets were born 1,300 years ago, at the beginning of the 8th Century. The language has changed so little that they remain easy for modern Chinese people to read, and their themes are still relevant today - from friendship, love and landscape to the stench of political corruption.



Kaiser Kuo, a founder of China's first heavy-metal band, is probably one of the very few rock musicians, in any country, who draws inspiration from a poet born in 701AD.

"He was quite a drunkard... and writing some of his best poetry apparently, while completely inebriated. You know, he's wild and associated with a kind of unbridled revelry, and yeah that's part of why I love him," says Kuo.

He is talking about Li Bai, a poet born in Central Asia, who became a wandering superstar poet in China, known as "the fallen immortal" or "the immortal of wine".

uy, ka-nice god diay.  this is real good news.

one more easy boy:

hehe.  design man diay ning easy boy ni bugsay.  kaso, the boy who sat there disappeared.  nahimong girl.

wa kaabot sa deadline pag-file ug candidacy.  samot unta nga malingaw si comelec chairman brillantes.  pasagdi, 2016, here i come... 

nakaporke, sa nikalit lang kog kaminyo, nahibung na pod nganong maminyo.  ni-give up na diay sila, hahaha!

Quote from: islander on October 19, 2012, 12:30:35 PM
how true, loll.  well, we women all pass this (wa na lay labot tong nag-teenage marriage or pregnancy).  kining seeming pressure nga sugsugon ka ug bogalbogalan nganong dalaga pa; asows, bun-og ko ana.  mora uroy ug naa ra sa kaminyoon ang kalipay.  charooottt!

how true, loll.  well, we women all pass this (wa na lay labot tong nag-teenage marriage or pregnancy).  kining seeming pressure nga sugsugon ka ug bogalbogalan nganong dalaga pa.  mora uroy ug naa ra sa kaminyoon ang kalipay.  charooot!