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Farewell, yet not farewell

by Christine de Pizan
(1365-1434 / France)


Farewell, my lady dear and dread,
Farewell, of all sovereign and queen,
Farewell, perfect and sacred head,
Farewell, who dost all honour mean,
Farewell, true heart, loyal and clean,
Farewell, best flower the world doth bear,
Farewell, yet not farewell, O white and fair !

Farewell, O wise, that no ill said,
Farewell, river that made life green,
Farewell, in whom fame harboured,
Farewell, voice that all ears could win,
Farewell, solace of all my teen,
Farewell, whose grace is wide as air,
Farewell, yet not farewell, O white and fair !

Farewell, soft look that through me sped,
Farewell, more fair than Helen queen,
Farewell, body and sweet soul wed,
Farewell, thou most gracious demesne,
Farewell, pole-star, joyous and keen,
Farewell, fountain of valour rare,
Farewell, yet not farewell, O white and fair !

Farewell, Princess of noblest mien,
Farewell, thou aweing smile serene,
Farewell, without fault, sin's despair,
Farewell, yet not farewell, O white and fair !


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Arouse my heart! arouse!
This is the sea: I strike these wooden walls:
The sailors come and go at my command:
I lift this cable with my hand:
I loose it and it falls:
Arouse! she is not lost,
Thou art not plighted to a moonlight ghost,
But to a living spouse.
Arouse! we only part to meet again!
Oh thou moody main,
Are thy mermaid cells a-ringing?
Are thy mermaid sisters singing?
The saddest shell of every cell
Ringing still, and ringing
Farewell, farewell!
To the sinking sighing singing,
To the floating flying singing,
To the deepening dying singing,
In the swell,
Farewell, farewell!
And the failing wailing ringing,
The reaming dreaming ringing
Of fainter shell in deeper cell,
To the sunken sunken singing,
Farewell, farewell!
Farewell, farewell!
Farewell, farewell, farewell?


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Oh, Love! what fatal spell
Is winding, winding round me to this singing?
What hands unseen are flinging
The tightening mesh that I can feel too well?
What viewless wings are winging
The siren music of this passing bell?
Farewell, farewell!
Farewell, farewell, farewell!

Away, you omens vain!
Away, away!
What! will you not be driven?
My heart is trembling to your augury.
Hence! Like a flight of seabirds at a gun,
A thousand ways they scatter back to Heaven,
Wheel lessening out of sight, and swoop again as one!
Farewell, farewell!
Farewell, farewell, farewell!

Aye, when I felt thee falling
On this heaving breast-
Aye, when I felt thee prest
Nearer, nearer, nearer,
Dearer, dearer, dearer-
Aye, while I saw thy face,
In that long last embrace,
The first, the last, the best-
Aye, while I held thee heart to heart,
My soul had pushed off from the shore,
And we were far apart;
I heard her calling, calling,
From the sea of nevermore
Farewell, farewell!
Fainter, fainter, like a bell
Rung from some receding ship,
Farewell, farewell!
The far and further knell
Did hardly reach my lip,
Farewell, farewell!
Farewell, farewell, farewell!

Oh, Love! what strange dumb Fate
Hath broken into voice to see us hope?
Surely we part to meet again?
Like one struck blind, I grope
In vain, in vain;
I cannot hold a single sense to tell
The meaning of this melancholy bell,
Farewell, farewell!
I touch them with my thought, and small and great
They join the swaying swell,
Farewell, farewell!
Farewell, farewell, farewell!

Are there voices in the sky,
Farewell, farewell?
Am I mocked by the bright air,
Farewell, farewell?
The empty air that everywhere
Silvers back the sung reply,
Farewell, farewell!
While to and fro the tremulous accents fly,
Farewell, farewell!
Now shown, now shy,
Farewell, farewell!
Now song, now sigh,
Farewell, farewell!
Toy with the grasping heart that deems them nigh,
Come like blown bells in sudden wind and high,
Or far on furthest verge in lingering echoes die,
Farewell, farewell!
Farewell, farewell, farewell!

Yon boat upon the sea,
It floats 'twixt thee and me,
I see the boatman listless lie;
He cannot hear the cry
That in mine ears doth ring
Farewell, farewell!
Doth it pass him o'er and o'er,
Heard upon the shore behind,
Farewell, farewell!
Heard upon the ship before,
Farewell, farewell!
Like an arrow that can dart
Viewless thro' the viewless wind,
Plain on the quivering string,
And plain in the victim's heart?

FAREWELL


by Sydney Thompson Dobell



Can I see thee stand
On the looming land?
Dost thou wave with thy white hand
Farewell, farewell?
I could think that thou art near,
Thy sweet voice is in mine ear,
Farewell, farewell!
While I listen, all things seem
Singing in a singing dream,
Farewell, farewell!
Echoing in an echoing dream,
Farewell, farewell!

Wow, that's what I call a poster project announcing the successful implementation of the government's Public-Private Partnership Program!

huyot
hutoy
tuhoy
yuhot

Quote from: islander on October 28, 2012, 09:25:13 PM
maybe they expect the dead to vote.

The dead do vote. Whether by deceit or intimidation, I can't say...

Quote from: islander on October 28, 2012, 11:29:06 PM
turning scatological, your excellency? 

Merely linguistically inspired, Madam. As a dyed-in-the-wool know-it-all, you must be aware that Ilonggo is a highly scatological language...

Quote from: islander on October 29, 2012, 01:49:34 AM
ang palasyo ni bolbs. 

Si Count Dracubol diay siya?

Quote from: wardiflex on October 27, 2012, 05:10:31 PM
basin ma himulbolan ja ko ug moadto ko sa imong palasyo Bol..arang ka lajo ba diay adto.

Mahimulbolan ka Bay Wards kon moadto ka sa iyang palasyo sa Capiz...

Quote from: BolBuhol on October 25, 2012, 04:34:22 PM
kong magpatoglo mo gid hao ungsaong pag dola lingaolingao magkadto lang gid kamo sang akon na palasyong gamay sang antique kag iloilo adto ta mag doladola sang akon na ginahambal sa unahan ya.

toto bibo....

Magkadto ako to basta magasaotsaot ka habang manughulat sang mob ko gid...

Quote from: BolBuhol on October 25, 2012, 04:34:22 PM
sos kung may ara lang nga dama mag apil gid ko, ako gid hang bangtogam na magdadama sang amon gid na logar, damo gid na istilo sang dola dola sang amon na damahan daw tagtaran sang karne: may ara na pildi gana, gana normal, way gana, gana gana, dama de noche, dama de corneho, escabeche dama, poto bombom dama, kalderada dama,  dama mayor kag dama mayordoma.

Indi mo gid nahingsama hang dama tikalon kag dama pisot haw...

Quote from: Pikoy on October 24, 2012, 08:11:45 PM
wala gid hang DAMA open tournament haw sang pilding ganang??

Hang may naa lang kay hang kuntis nga pilding ganang...

Ayaw na lang pangambisyon ani. Total, naa kay parehas ani nga ariyos--sa ilong lang galing, unya morag duha ka sundalo nga magbalikbalik sa kampo...

Historic sunken cemetery cum fascinating diving site...

Ang lami nga pares ani kay Chinese wine...

Quote from: johndevim on October 25, 2012, 05:53:58 PM
wow its real natural beauty good one

Hmm, this picture actually looks like augmented reality to me.

Now Hawaiians are ready for Halloween...

TB members both... 

Quote from: islander on October 28, 2012, 10:24:39 PM
nothing is impossible.  naa man ganiy bohol nga hubag.

Hmm, while "vegetarian fox" is an oxymoron, "bohol nga hubag" is a redundancy.

Other cops involved

Based on the report, other bits of information point to the complicity of policemen in the gang’s robbery operations.

Following one of the mall robberies, a police colonel received information that another policeman was among those responsible for the heist. The report stated that based on the information revealed by the informant, “a number of police officers are in connivance with the group’s illegal activities.” The informant also named another police officer.

The report also stated that before each robbery, members of the gang would engage in a “pot session.”

Police officers who gathered these pieces of information recommended that a “deeper investigation and validation” be conducted to determine their veracity. They also recommended that the gang member, whose brother became an informant, be put into custody so he could provide more information on the robbery group. - By Reinir Padua (Philstar News Service, www.philstar.com)

Philstar â€" 5 hours ago


MANILA, Philippines - A police official is being investigated after he was identified as the alleged leader of a robbery gang that has had numerous hits in different establishments in Metro Manila and in the provinces.

A report obtained by The STAR named the police official, with investigators recommending that a deeper probe be conducted to determine his actual involvement in the gang.

The report stated that investigators deemed as “reliable” the information that they had gathered so far, noting that the data that came from different persons â€" including arrested suspects â€" matched each other and the actual circumstances of the robberies.

The police official’s name surfaced when his uniform was found at the house of a robbery suspect who was arrested following a violent heist earlier this year. The suspect told investigators that the police official used to be his boss as he was once the latter’s assistant on his property.

In September, an informant provided a breakthrough in the investigation. The informant is a brother of one of the gang’s members, who is in hiding after two other gang members were assassinated.

The informant said he went to the investigators after their mother prodded him to protect his brother, who is the subject of an arrest warrant in connection with one of the robberies, from the police official’s “rage.”

Katzenjammer!

Quote from: TUBAGBOHOL.com on October 25, 2012, 01:19:22 PM
kini si balong, galingaw-lingaw lang na. nothing serious.

Otro pud nga galingawlingaw ra ni sila ni Pikoy ug Bolbuhol. Nothing serious--hmm, ambot lang kaha ang ubang pasakalye ni Pikoy...

Eksena nga daghang posibilidad ang matanyag nga katin-awan

Quote from: Pikoy on October 24, 2012, 09:02:54 PM
hang unsa nga mini man diay gid kani haw?..kauban sang naay diyo gid bala hang $99.99.99 % kulang sang isang pakog para magwala hang borit hang iya na kibot ya ?..

He he, pode man pakog sang Bugsay o witik sang ikog sang bagjo ni Tigbao. Pode pud kawras sang koko ni Pikoy da Borit Kilir...

TBI = Tubol Batok Igit

Quote from: chicogon on October 25, 2012, 10:03:47 AM
Dapat ang e criminalized kining mga tabian ug tsimoso/mosa hehehe

Pwede fine lang, no imprisonment, kay mas daghan unya ang naa sa sulod sa prisohan kaysa naa sa gawas!

Welcome back, Bay Glace! Banagbanag na pud!

Oi, nganong kini nga thread nahimo na mang "MILYONARYO MINI"? Kinsa man ni siya? Milyonaryong mini o mini ra, period?

Quote from: islander on October 24, 2012, 04:08:55 PM
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.

School rankings don't matter. As a matter of fact, schools don't matter. Daghang milyonaryo nga dili schooled.

P.S. Naa pa gani puy unschoolable...

Three cheers for wan sak sapal!

Quote from: islander on October 24, 2012, 01:36:33 PM
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...

Sakto. Kahoy imbis metal ang iduso.  换句话说, Ñ,щеславие не секс.

No comment. After all, I never bother about ethnicity...

Kinsa kahay mopalit og iningkitan...

Dream is one thing; borit is another. --Pikolitog Jr.

Quote from: islander on October 24, 2012, 03:29:00 PM
di gyod na mahitabo kay vegetarian man si foxy. 

Vegetarian fox? Bwahaha! It's like saying there is such a thing as a celibate Bugsay...

Kahinumdom ko nga ingon sa akong barkada kaniadto, PSK means Paklay Sa Kanding...

All her lips are pink. Pangutan-a lang si Bay Bugsay...

Quote from: Pikoy on October 24, 2012, 04:35:44 PM
PILA KA PULONG LAMANG ug Padayon sa Damgo fyutyor Don Balongski Senor

Sukad pa sa sinugdan sa kalibutan ang damgo giila, sa mga karaan nga maoy tilimad-on nga kapanaminan sa mga hitabo sa umaabut. Saksi sa hugot nila nga pagtuo sa gahum sa damgo,.anaa atong mabasa sa Balaan nga Kasulatan ug sa uban pa nga mga basahong karaan, ang pagmnatuod sa kahulugan sa daghang mga damgo niingon sa gipasabot nga mga hitabo nga ilang gipangsumbingayan.  Gawas pa nga ang damgo magputos kanato sa paglantaw sa unahan sa mga hitabo,' gituhoan usab sa mga makinaadmanon nga, ang damgo, kini hubaron pinasubay sa' mga lihok ug batasan sa tawo nga magadamgo, maoy dili malalis nga hulagway sa matuod nga kinabuhi nianang tawhana.. Kini maoy gituhoan ni Dr. Lorenz', ang bantugang "psychologist" nga gi ayodahan, sa bang giitang huna huna ni madam islander nga kono masayon pa nga tagnaon ang kinaiya sa usa ka tawo ang pag tuon sa iyang mga damgo kay sa, pag tuon sa iyang mga pulong ug lihok. Bisan paman niini ang matuod, gituhoan ko nga ang pagtugkad sa kahulugan sa mga damgo maoy usa ka buhat nga makalingaw ug mapuslanon Uyamut,. Hayan nga ang atong mga bag-ong tubo dili mouyon ug mahikatawa niining atong hunahuna tungud kay sila, lahi sa mga karaan, talagsaon na kaayo motuo ug dili na magtagad sa mga damgo karon. Sa ubos ko nga hunahuna ang dili pagtagad sa atong mga damgo maoy usa ka sayop, kay ang pagtugkad sa  kinahiladman sa hunahuna' maoy kinaadman nga mapuslanon uyamot, ug kay ang damgo nahisama man sa usa ka dalan nga takus natong agiun ngadto sa gingharian sa hunahuna sa tawo, kini nga sanga sa kinaadman angayan atimanoni sa tanan.. el mundo

Nihiyos ang salbabida sa akong kahimatngon niining gumalaysay ni Inhenyero Pikoyski, hinungdan nga nagyapayapa ako karon samtang ang parat nga tubig sa tanlag midumdom ug mituhop sa lampingasan nga kalimutaw sa akong utok. Sa pagkatinuod, dulot sa nipis nga ginit sa akong kahimungawong mitidlom ang duhay suwab nga espada sa pagkaamgo nga diay angay ituboy sa kahitas-an ang panginahanglan sa uban nga sila ituboy sa kahitas-an aron ang ilang ngalan ituboy sa kahitas-an diin ituboy sa kahitas-an ang kahitas-an sa angay ituboy sa kahitas-an nga ilang pangalan nga sa gikaingon ko na angay ituboy sa kahitas-an nga aduna pay kahitas-an nga pwede tuboyan sa ngalan nga angay ituboy sa kahitas-an sa tanang kahitas-an. Amen.

Somewhere in her moo she knows
That I don't need no udder mooer...

Bovine attraction


Bwahaha! 

Quote from: bugsay on October 24, 2012, 11:40:25 AM
wa'y kaso'g dili ka dokdok sa uban...ajaw lang jud absent sa weather update..

He he, naa ra bay nagbyahean ron. Basin sa kabalaka di na ka-nap...

Quote from: taga tigbao on October 24, 2012, 11:41:12 AM
Toink! Hehehehe. Wa bitaw ta kahibawo pud!

Hmm, di ba maypagkamartir pud ka, Bay Tigs?

Judas kiss, este, Judas kadol...

Quote from: bugsay on October 24, 2012, 11:31:43 AM
makatabang ko ani niya sa tanang panahon

He he, matinabangon ang matinaopon og tinan-awan...

He he, mora mag TB members ning duha ka karaho...

Oi, nganong sa The Freeman ra man ning balitaa mamantala?

Hurot akong bilib. Hawod jud ang UV ba...

Apan matud pa ni Piquero nga sa dihang ang Foerster Female Chamber Choir   gikan sa Prague, Czech Republic maoy gi-anunsyo nga    mananaug sa Grand Prix, giboohan kini sa audience ug nagpanlingo, nga nagpasabot nga wala sila makauyon sa maong desisyon sa mga maghuhukom.

Unya sila ang gitudlo nga maoy angay nga mananaug ug niadtong higayona ang ubang grupo sa mga mang-aawit uban ang ilang mga conductor nagsugod na sa paghalog kanila. Tungod kay lain man ang gi-anunsyo nga mananaug bisan ang driver sa   bus   nga maoy tighatud     sa UV Chorale sa ilang mga opisyal nga mga biyahe, mipasabot sa kahiubos niini kay wala makauyon sa gipakanaug nga desisyon sa mga maghuhukom, sumala ni Piquero.

Matud pa ni Piquero nga dihang mibalik na sila sa hotel nga ilang gisak-an , nagpaabot na kanila didto ang Serbian Choir ug gisugat  sila og pakpak   sa mga kamot   niini.

Unya mikanta ang maong grupo    og Gaudeamus Igitur samtang nanghalug ang matag usa niini kanila ug didto nasuta sa grupo nga bisan kun wala nila makuha ang   unang ganti sa Grand Prix apan ang gipakita nga pagdayeg kanila sa audience ug sa ubang grupo sa mang-aawit nga kaatbang nila sa maong kompetisyon igo na kaayong nakapadasig kanila ug wala sila batia og kaluya “tungod kay ang ang labing maayong ganti alang kanamo mao ang ilang pagtuo nga kami gayud ang angay nga mananaug”, matud pa ni Piquero.

Ang multi-awarded UV Chorale misalmot usab sa laing kompetisyon didto sa Cantaal Mar Choir Competition in Barcelona, Spain kaniadtong   miaging October 17 - 21 ug gitakda usab kining mosalmot sa laing bangga atol sa ika- 44 nga Tolosa Choir Competition karong October 31 ngadto   sa November 4.

“Usa ka dakong dungog alang sa UV , alang sa Cebu , ug alang sa nasud nga may grupo sa mang-aawit nga Sugboanon   nga matawag nga international multi-awarded choir. Mapasigarbuhon kaayo ako ug nalipay kaayo sa kalampusan sa UV Chorale” matud pa ni Gullas.

“It is an honor for UV, for Cebu and the country to have an internationally-acclaimed and multi-awarded choir. I am really proud and happy with the achievements of the UV Chorale,” Gullas said. (BANAT NEWS)

Matud niya nga duha ka maghuhukom nga Italyano mihatag kanila og dili katumbasan nga ranggo   gumikan kay gipangandaman nila pag-ayo ang maong bangga gikan sa ilang mga kanta, lihok ug bisan sa ilang gipanul-ob nga biste   nga hitupngan man apan dili usab hilabwan”, matud pa ni Piquero.

Sa Folk and Gospel Choirs Category,   ang UV chorale milampos sa unang dapit uban sa score nga 88.60 samtang sa Sacred Music Category, nahimo kining ika-duha sa score   92.8.

Matud pa ni Piquero nga nakapatandog kaayo sa mga mitambong ang pagkanta nila sa Confutatis Maledictis sa Sacred Music Category.

Gani ang uban kanila miingon nga segurado na nga   modaug ang UV Chorale sa nahisgutang kategoriya .

Apan ang grupo   nga nahimong mananaug mao ang Gruppo Vocale Famiglia Sala gikan sa Italya kinsa mipakita usab og maayong performance , dugang pa ni Piquero.

Ang mga mananaug ug mga runners up sa nagkadaiyang kategoriya   nga nakakuha og score nga 80. 01 diha-diha nahimong kalipikado sa Grand Prix competition.

Matud pa ni Piquero nga dihang mikanta ang ilang grupo nanindog ang tanang nanambong ug gani sa paggawas nila sa entablado, ang ubang mga membro sa nanambong o audience   ug bisan kadtong sakop sa ubang grupo sa mang-aawit milamano kanila ug  gikuhaan pa sila og mga hulagway ug miingon nga klaro na kaayo sila (UV Chorale ) nga modaug. Midugang si Piquero nga kadtong dili kaantigo mosulti og Inenglis, mipakita lang og sinyas sa ilang mga kamot nga nagpasabot   sa dako nilang pagdayeg sa grupo sa UV Chorale.

“We got a standing ovation after our performance. After exiting the stage, some members of the audience and even those from other choirs shook our hands and took pictures of us. They were saying we are definitely the winners. Those who could not speak English were giving us the thumbs-up sign,” Piquero said.

Ni Quennie S. Bronce ug Wen Celen (Banat) Updated October 24, 2012 12:00 AM   


CEBU, Philippines - Ang University of the Visayas (UV) Chorale nakadawat og ganti nga tulo ka gold ug usa ka special prize atol sa Grand Prix tungod kay sila ang nakakupot sa labing taas nga score sa nagkalainlaing kategoriya sa gipahigayong Rimini International Chorale Competitions.

Ang UV Chorale, gipangunahan    ni choirmaster Anna Tabita Abelada-Piquero, maoy kauban sa 37 ka grupo sa mang-aawit nga gikan sa nagkadaiyang nasud sa kalibotan kinsa misalmot sa upat ka adlaw nga international chorale competition   nga gipasiugdahan   sa City of Rimini sa Italy

Ang nahisgutang bangga gilangkoban sa unom ka kategoriya nga   mao kining mosunod- Class A o Equal Voices, Class B o Mixed Voice, Class C o Children and Young Choirs, Class D o Folk or Gospel/Spiritual Choirs, Class E o Sacred Music, and Class X o the City of Rimini International Choral Prize Grand Prix.

Ang UV Chorale misalmot sa Mixed Voice, Folk or Gospel/Spiritual Choirs, Sacred Music ug sa Grand Prix.

Ang UV Chorale, nga natukod niadtong 1999 ni UV Executive Vice President ug The Freeman Chairman Jose “Dodong” Gullas ug gidumala sa iyang minahal nga kapikas Nena Gullas, nakadaog og medalyang bulawan sa Mixed Voice category   uban sa score   nga 95.20, labaw sa laing 18 ka grupo sa mga choir. Ang Capella Silentium,   usa ka choir   gikan sa Hungary, maoy nakakuha sa ikaduhang dapit uban sa score   nga 88.40.

Si Piquero mitug-an sa dihang gi-interview sa The Freeman   nga sa ilang kalipay gitandog nila ang mga maghuhukom sa ilang kanta nga Nox Aurumque.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWL5y0fUmyw#

Ingredients:

• 1 small pineapple (half-pipe), slice into cubes
• 1 kilo tripe (goto or callos), sliced into 2-inch strips, boiled in vinegar, salt and water stock form the boiled goto
• 6 pcs. starfruit (balimbing), thinly sliced
• 5 small tomatoes, chopped
• 3 onions, sliced
• 1 thumb-size giner, sliced
• 1 head garlic, minced
• bay leaves
• whole peppercorns
• achuete water (1/2 cup achuete mixed in 1 cup water)
• 1 small bamboo shoot (labong), sliced, boiled then drained
• cooking oil


Cooking Instructions:

1. In a pan, sauté garlic, tomatoes, onions and tripe. Keep stirring until the mixture dries up a little.
2. Add the bamboo shoots and pineapple. Mix thoroughly.
3. Add the stock followed by the achuete water.
4. Cover until the bamboo shoots and pineapple are cooked.
5. Add the starfruit, bay leaves and whole peppercorns. Allow to simmer until cooked.


source: Overseas Pinoy Cooking; Lutong Pinoy Recipe (lutongpinoy.info)

Quote from: Lorenzo on October 21, 2012, 11:53:00 PM
puti zamo ang panit and jet black hair. hehehe.

Apil pud ang jet black secret agent hair...

Quote from: Lollapalooza on October 23, 2012, 02:20:36 PM

true, basta baby mga cute mana... pero kung baby damolag na... depende... hahaha

He he, si Engr kay sa iyang picture naa pa may baby fat...

Quote from: Pikoy on October 22, 2012, 06:29:41 PM
murag nangusmo nga nakatimaho ug deli ingun nato..

He he, nahanggap ang alimyon sa Araba?

Dicasalarin Cove in Baler, Aurora province (Luzon, northern Philippines) is a secluded white sand beach where the verdant Sierra Madre foothills meet the Pacific Ocean (Source:  Waypoint). Dark, thickly forested hills contrast with the striking white shoreline.

There are no resorts and visitor facilities on this fine stretch of sand. A freshwater river, flowing from the mountains beyond, trickles out to the sea. Dicasalarin Cove’s stunning, rugged beauty and relative isolation certainly make it one of Baler’s best-kept secrets.

Aside from a boat trip, adventurous visitors to this cove say that hiking to Dicasalarin is one of the best ways to go. The adventure will bring the visitor through most of Baler’s villages, a climb to a hilltop weather station where the vistas are breathtaking, through lush forests, along rocky shores and finally to the desolate beach where the beauty is as rough as the crashing waves of the Pacific.

Visitors can charter a motorised boat from Sabang to Dicasalarin Cove. The trip takes about 45 minutes and offers a view of the Baler coastline. -- http://365greatpinoystuff.wordpress.com/

I am patient with boritity but not with those who are proud of it.

â€"Pikolitog Jr.

Quote from: bugsay on October 23, 2012, 11:32:13 AM
nganong niangkon ...

Kini ang bulawanong obserbasyon sa usa ka beterano sa tagay...

By Matt Nesto | Breakout â€" 17 hours ago


If you scan the news about Chinese trade policy, you'll be hard pressed to find anything being said that's positive or complimentary. Instead, descriptive phrases like "trust deficit" or "ball and chain" or "abusing trade laws" are more likely to appear - and that's just from the past week!

While some might think this terse talk is bilaterally limited to relations between Beijing and Washington, the reality is, China's trade turbulence has taken on global proportions.

"China is pushing out on its periphery," says Gordon Chang, author of The Coming Collapse of China and a contributor to Forbes Magazine. "This is a problem for China because they can't take on everybody at the same time and they're doing that. China has sort of lost its strategic focus and is just lashing out."

Whether it's the U.S., the EU, or its neighbors in Asia, experts say the spats are not only growing in number, but also in importance, as China's economy has grown to be the world's second largest. In fact, the Chinese have become so rich and economically powerful that some (including me) have questioned how the U.S. can maintain its leverage while being indebted to the Chinese for more than a trillion dollars.

As much as Chang agrees that ''it's nice" to have strong Chinese demand for our debt, he says if they disappeared from the market somebody else would take their place. "I don't think we're really beholden to them," he says, adding that "our problem isn't that there are too few people willing to lend us money , but rather that there are too many."

And then there's the debate of who needs whom more, which cuts to the true interconnectedness and co-dependence of industrialized nations. But Chang disputes this, and uses the ongoing Sino-Japanese rift (that's led to demonstrations and destroyed Toyotas) as an example that maybe China doesn't have the upper hand.

"The Japanese were already starting to shift production out of China to southeast Asia," Chang explains, adding that foreign direct investment into the country is turning down too. "This will accelerate the process at a time when China really does need even more foreign technology and the money it brings in."

As you might guess from the title of his book, Chang does not buy into the hoopla that typically surrounds the fastest growing large economy in the world. In short, he says when it comes to Chinese trade relations, the times have changed and talk of their economy eclipsing ours is a century or two ahead of reality.

"The conditions that really made China pop during the reform era no longer exist," he says. "They're no longer reforming, the international environment is no longer benign and its demographic dividend -- the extraordinary bulge in its workforce -- has become a demographic bust." He says until recently, countries wanted to integrate China and were therefore indulgent of china's mercantilist policies. That's no longer true.

As for the near term, particularly as it applies to our upcoming election, Chang does not see the trend of trade tensions reversing. "Whoever is elected, we're going to see new China policies. I think it's because Beijing is really pushing other countries, including the U.S., and that's going to cause a reaction. I think there will be real policy change in the next administration." -- http://finance.yahoo.com/

''The criticism is about how the distortions are not just benefiting those vested interests but also that they reduce the efficiency of the economy," said Yang. "The pressures in the economy paradoxically provide them with more of a mandate for doing things because they have to do things."

The World Bank and a Cabinet think tank, the Development Research Center, offered an ambitious roadmap for reform with a report in March that called for scaling back state industry and opening markets to private and foreign competitors. It warned that without change, China might be trapped at its current middle-income levels.

"The difference that reforms can make is the difference between a 6 to 7 percent growth pace and no growth at all," said Societe General economist Wei Yao in a report.

Supporters of reform were encouraged by the fact that both current Premier Wen Jiabao and Li, his likely successor, supported the research that went into the World Bank report. They were disappointed when Li failed to endorse its recommendations, though he might have remained silent to avoid stirring up opposition ahead of the leadership transition.

Changes to state industry will be politically sensitive. Companies that oppose giving up monopolies and other favors can argue that they provide tax revenue, provide money to develop poor ethnic minority areas and pay for ambitious but unprofitable initiatives such as developing homegrown mobile phone technology.

Bosses of the biggest companies are appointed by the party and are politically influential. Some will take part in the November party congress to install the next leadership. Their companies also create a cadre of well-paid executives and other professionals who form a base of support for continued one-party rule.

"State-owned enterprise bosses are very powerful. They outrank the people who are supposed to regulate them," said James McGregor, an American businessman in Beijing and author of the new book "No Ancient Wisdom, No Followers: The Challenges of Chinese Authoritarian Capitalism."

"That's going to be a very hard thing to break. But the countervailing pressure is that growth can't keep going unless they loosen up," McGregor said. "The party's only credibility is making life better, and if that doesn't happen, how do you maintain stability?"

The government defends the privileges given to its oil, telecoms and other major companies as necessary for building up Chinese global competitors. But entrepreneurs complain those companies abuse their control over essential resources such as energy, phone service and bank loans to gouge customers and pay their managers inflated salaries while stifling job-creating private businesses.

In a report last year, Mao's institute calculated the biggest state companies consumed trillions of yuan (hundreds of billions of dollars) in subsidies over the previous decade. It said they are so inefficient that their return on equity â€" a broad measure of profitability â€" was an average loss of 6 percent a year.

Wen Jia, a manager for the privately owned Traveling Bestone travel agency in the western province of Chengdu, said her company struggles to compete in an industry that is hemmed in by state companies.

"The attractions belong to the state. So do some of the good hotels. The insurance, airlines and train tickets are the same," said Wen. "State-owned travel agencies get prices 10 percent lower than we do on attractions and state-owned hotels."

The abrupt economic slowdown that began last year has heightened frustration among entrepreneurs and the public. Growth fell to 7.4 percent in the latest quarter, its lowest level since early 2009 and barely half of 2007's explosive 14.2 percent.

In the 1990s, he served as party secretary of Zhejiang province, a thriving center for private business south of Shanghai, and won praise from observers including former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, who dealt with him as an investment banker. They lauded him not for spearheading change but for not tampering with Zhejiang's free-market success.

The next leadership will inherit one of the world's strongest economies but one in which advocates say reform is stalled.

Many observers trace the past decade of double-digit growth to changes forced through by former Premier Zhu Rongji, who overcame resistance from companies and party factions to slash the size of state industry in the late 1990s. He led Beijing into the free-trading World Trade Organization, driving a jump in trade growth that propelled China past Germany in 2009 as the world's biggest exporter.

After Zhu retired in 2002, leaders reaped the financial benefits but focused on other areas: reforms of the legal system and trying to close a yawning gap between rich and poor with more spending on health and other social services.

They built up state-owned "national champions" in industries from oil and telecoms to steel and banking with monopolies, low-cost bank loans and other favors. Beijing's huge stimulus after the 2008 global crisis flowed through state companies, increasing their dominance while entrepreneurs who generate China's new jobs and wealth struggled.

Li Keqiang is the man in line to lead reforms as the next premier, China's top economic official. Now a vice premier, Li is seen as a political insider with an easygoing style, not a hard-driving reformer. Along with the rest of the party's Standing Committee, the ruling inner circle due to be installed in November, Li will govern by consensus, which could blunt their force.

"They are under pressure to change the economy, but they will not demolish party control," said Mao Yushi, an 83-year-old economist who is one of China's most prominent reform advocates. He co-founded the Unirule Institute of Economics, an independent think tank in Beijing.

Li showed his political skills but little zeal for reform as governor and later party secretary of populous Henan province in 1998-2004.

His time there coincided with several fatal fires â€" including a Christmas Day blaze at a nightclub in 2000 that killed 309 people â€" and efforts by local officials to suppress information about the spread of AIDS by a blood-buying industry. Other officials were punished for the fires but Li emerged unscathed and rose to national office.

"Li was known for not acting very aggressively in Henan, to put it charitably," said Dali Yang, a University of Chicago political scientist.

The man in line to become Communist Party leader and China's president, Xi Jinping, has a similar reputation for successful inaction.

China's new leaders face tough economic choices
China's new leaders face tough choices, political battles to keep slowing economy growing

By Joe Mcdonald, AP Business Writer | Associated Press â€" Sun, Oct 21, 2012 8:50 PM EDT


BEIJING (AP) -- China's economic model that delivered three decades of double-digit growth is running out of steam and the country's next leaders face tough choices to keep incomes rising. But they don't seem to have ambitious solutions. Even if they do, they will need to tackle entrenched interests with backing high in the Communist Party.

The cost of inaction could be high. The World Bank says without change, annual growth could sink to 5 percent by 2015 â€" dangerously low by Chinese standards. Some private sector analysts give even gloomier warnings.

The government's own advisers say it needs to promote service industries and consumer spending, shifting away from reliance on exports and investment. That will require opening more industries to entrepreneurs and forcing cosseted state companies to compete. State banks would have to lend more to private business that is starved for credit.

The ruling party's latest five-year development plan promises reforms in broad terms. Premier Wen Jiabao apologized at a news conference in March for not moving fast enough and vowed quicker action. But many changes could face opposition from China's most influential factions â€" state companies, their allies in the party, bureaucrats and local leaders.

"If the challenge is, can they do radical reform all at once, we know that won't happen because these leaders aren't powerful enough," said Scott Kennedy, director of Indiana University's Research Center for Chinese Politics & Business in Beijing. "They are facing interests which wouldn't possibly allow that to occur."

Also at issue is how much Communist Party leaders are willing to cut back state industry that provides jobs and money to underpin the party's monopoly on power.

Quote from: hubag bohol on October 23, 2012, 11:28:15 AM
Apan kagahapon adlawng Lunes daw dili na buot pa nga ipadayon ni Jeny ang pagpasaka og kaso ngadto sa iyang bana tungod kay nangayo man kini og pasaylo ug iyang nakita nga tinud-anay kini nga gibasolan ang nahimo.

Sakto bitaw nga angay pasayloon. Masayop man gani ang kabaw nga upat ang tiil, tawo pa ba kaha. Gawas pa, ang panghitabo naggumikan ra gud sa kahubog, nabuwasot lang tawon...

Monday, October 22, 2012


NAGTINGKAGOL sa Maharlika Detention Cell (MDC) ang usa ka lalaki human gipapriso sa asawa dihang nasakpan nga nakig-sex sa silingan niini sa Brgy. 23, ning siyudad sa Cagayan de Oro.

Niadtong Domingo nahitabo ang insidente nga mismong nasapon sa asawa nga tagoan na lamang sa ngalan nga Jeny, hingkod ang edad, ang iyang bana nga mao si Roy, (bansagon gipugnan) 40, residente sa susamang dapit nga wala nay sapot ug giingong nakig-sex sa silingan.

Si Roy nisaysay nga unang higayon kini nahitabo tungod kay dili niya uyab ang babaye nga silingan ug giimbitar lamang siya nga mangaligo niadtong tungora. Pagpanguli sagol ang nainom sa biktima hinungdan sa iyang kahubog.

Daw wala niya nahibaloan ang sunod nga mga panghitabo nga miabot sa punto nga nakighilawas na sa iyang silingan.

Laing silingan usab ang mipahibalo sa iyang asawa hinugdan nga nagdali dali si Jeny nga gisusi kini sa balay sa laing babaye ug didto nasapon iyang bana nga wala nay sapot ug giingong anaa taliwala sa pagtagay og kalipay.

Gipapriso sa asawa si Roy sa Police Station 5 (PS5) sa Macabalan nga daling gibalhin sa MDC.

Apan kagahapon adlawng Lunes daw dili na buot pa nga ipadayon ni Jeny ang pagpasaka og kaso ngadto sa iyang bana tungod kay nangayo man kini og pasaylo ug iyang nakita nga tinud-anay kini nga gibasolan ang nahimo. (SVB)

This one was bred in captivity... 

Engr. Pikoy, ay...

Oops hala, nilikoy na man ning estoryaha...

Quote from: TUBAGBOHOL.com on October 23, 2012, 10:27:49 AM
unsa man kahay ikasulti ni chicogon ani?

Hmm, for all we know, siya ang coach...

Quote from: bugsay on October 23, 2012, 10:58:40 AM
mahimo pod nga human nakasungkab, namingwit pa gyud..

Hmm, Pinikoy na nang paagiha...

Quote from: bugsay on October 23, 2012, 10:51:11 AM
ayaw...kay duna'y maynors diri...

He he, basta, ang gibati ipahungaw na lang pinaagi sa balikas...

Quote from: bugsay on October 23, 2012, 10:54:16 AM
.... biningwit?

Pwede pud sinungkab...

Quote from: bugsay on October 23, 2012, 10:44:48 AM
sa pagkakaron...si senyor inting....kay wa nay buhok sa hubon..

Hmm, di ba daghan mang santos nga opaw, Bay Bugs?

Quote from: bugsay on October 23, 2012, 10:44:48 AM
dud ko nga mura kag iro ni san oking , bay hubs..

He he, katag-an ka. Pero di pan ang akong gitangag...

Quote from: bugsay on October 23, 2012, 10:36:33 AM
kana'ng bahina lami ipamalikas..

Sampol bi, kana kon dili anprintabol...

Quote from: bugsay on October 23, 2012, 10:43:10 AM
kon asa nga direksyon, wa ta masayod...

Bwahaha! Bitaw tuod, basig mosiaw hinuon, morag ihoy nga nakatimahog dugo...

O kaha di na lang ang-angon...