MikeLigalig.com

mangamungi ang mangamungi.  lisod gyod kun mo-buckle down ani ang pilipinas kay kun i-surrender ni nga area, which is within the 200-nautical mile radius of the exclusive economic zone---of which both the philippines and china are signatories---unsa pa may magpugong sa tsina pag-angkon sa tibuok pilipinas ugma damlag?  ila kintahay ning territory nga shoal, and what lies within the shoal's 200-nautical mile radius?  the philippine archipelago! 

Quote from: balong on April 18, 2012, 11:25:47 AM
taym pa, kay ga lami ang duwa sa LAKERS vs. SPURS.

ayayay... commercial break na pod.  wa pa man kahay nangayog bawi sa bayad sa ilang entrance ticket ning imong salida, long.  di pod ko mobawi bisag wa ko mopalit.  timan-i lang nga posibleng naay laing motiwas aning imong estorya kun daghan na kaayog commercial breaks...

super hero galing ang tag-iya ani...

char!  a safer alternative...



alayn! 

the politics (an example; expect much lobbying behind the scenes):

2009 National Artist of the Philippines controversy

In August 2009, the conferment of the Order of National Artists to seven individuals by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo became controversial when it was revealed that musician Ramon Santos had been dropped from the list of nominees short-listed in May that year by the selection committee, and that four other individuals had been nominated to the title via "President’s prerogative": Cecilla Guidote-Alvarez (Theater), Magno Jose "Carlo” Caparas (Visual Arts and Film), Francisco Manosa (Architecture), and Jose “Pitoy” Moreno (Fashion Design).

Members of the Philippine art community, including a number of living National Artists of the Philippines, protested that the proclamation politicized the title of National artist, and made it "a way for President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to accommodate her allies."

Specific protests were raised regarding the nomination of NCCA executive director Guidote-Alvarez, because it was purportedly a breach of protocol and delicadeza (propriety), and of Carlo Caparas, because he was allegedly not qualified to be nominated under the categories of either Visual Arts or Film.


/wiki

the national artists, so far, in the categories of theater and film, and cinema (i can't tell the difference between film and cinema here):

theater and film
    Daisy Avellana
    Honorata "Atang" de la Rama
    Rolando S. Tinio
    Salvador F. Bernal
    Lamberto V. Avellana
    Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero
    Severino Montano
    Lino Brocka
    Fernando Poe Jr.

cinema
    Lino Brocka
    Ishmael Bernal
    Gerardo de León
    Fernando Poe, Jr.
    Eddie S. Romero
    Manuel Conde

note fernando poe jr. appearing in both categories.


/wiki

meanwhile, i'll keep my fingers crossed because legislators aren't that idiotic.  her awards anyway can back the claim up.  still i'm awed.  there's nora there, in the pantheons of nick joaquin, fernando amorsolo, botong francisco, lucresia kasilag, napoleon abueva, etc.

what will they think of next?  resolve that the late iggy arroyo be canonized?

after nora, are vilma and sharon not far behind?  and what about presidential sis kris?  they're all in the same area of pop art, a.k.a. entertainment industry.  ambot uy.  mora man ug mabarato ang 'national artist' halo ani.  personal opinion lang ba...

sure, it was nora who had changed the concept of 'artista'--- not pretty enough, not mestiza, a water peddler at a train station in bicol who rose from poverty to the heights of national pop culture consciousness.  and she has the voice.  she inspired in that she set an example that anyone can have the chance and make it big.  but did that make her an artist?  i don't know.  besides, her 'trend' has somewhat stopped.  the actresses are back to "good looks", obviously, even with the help of plastic surgery.

what if this may open the floodgates to heaven knows what?  i now wonder if this is just an intro to something more sinister.  sorry, but the selection of a national artist has its own politics.  besides, a legislator has better things to do than give vent to his being a noranian because, heavens, what will the vilmanians say? 

payt, bisaya!  (hahay.)

dimpled lagi ning bakia...

(hadlok ko atong previous pic.  gikaon ba nang mouse, hubs?)

Quote from: hubag bohol on April 17, 2012, 09:41:44 PM
Correction! Nagpari tuod but he was around; siya maoy photographer...

aw, syalan ba... limtanon na gyod diay ko.  di ba mao niy posing sa photographer nga daghang shots sa new orleans mardis gras?

Quote from: chicogon on April 18, 2012, 07:49:10 AM
Gapahiluna una... 

Quote from: hubag bohol on April 18, 2012, 09:15:33 AM
He he, giunag kodak ang kibot?

klaroha sad tawon bai hubs kun asa ang lens sa camera uy.  giuna intawon ug kodak ang kaugalingong nawong.  ikaw bay mag-marlon brando, lalim bah.

ballet dancers akong tinan-awan nila.  sunoy man tingali ang badibildirs.

aw, suheta man gani ko bahig tornado, aw, tornada.  tigbasa god ta, hehehe.  hadlok tingali maapil sa masakpan nako ay, hahaha!

Quote from: hubag bohol on April 15, 2012, 08:23:43 PM

Quote from: chicogon on April 16, 2012, 02:15:03 AM
The TB Quartet!!!

Quote from: hubag bohol on April 17, 2012, 05:26:15 PM
Namely...

left to right: lorenz, hubag [holding] bugsay, islander

quintet man unta ni; nagpari man ang usa mao nga absent during picture-taking...

sirit na, long, kay morag daghan nag gilikoan ning imong one and only story da... daghang commercial breaks, hehe.

POLITICO’s Matt Wuerker has won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.

some of his prizewinning cartoons:


Bankers Illustrated
(Cartoon by: Matt Wuerker | Date: Apr. 13, 2011)


Don't even think about it!
(Cartoon by: Matt Wuerker | Date: Jun. 22, 2011)


The great economic Super Bowl
(Cartoon by: Matt Wuerker | Date: Jan. 20, 2011)

more at: http://www.politico.com/wuerker/2012/04/matt-wuerkers-pulitzer-prize-winning-cartoons/

the pulitzer prize winner in investigative reporting---

Michael J. Berens and Ken Armstrong of The Seattle Times.  their 3-part report:

Methadone and the politics of pain

State pushes prescription painkiller methadone, saving millions but costing lives

To cut costs, Washington steers Medicaid patients to a narcotic that costs less than a dollar a dose. The state insists methadone is safe. But hundreds die from it each year â€" and more than anyone else, it's the poor who pay the price.

for the whole 3-part series: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/flatpages/specialreports/methadone/methadoneandthepoliticsofpain.html

more:


A misplaced dog lies among debris in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Dusty Compton, The Tuscaloosa News


People walk through debris around the Cedar Crest neighborhood, located just east of the University of Alabama's Coleman Coliseum. Dusty Compton, The Tuscaloosa News

samples of the tuscaloosa news pulitzer prize winning coverage of a tornado:

Deadly tornado rips through Tuscaloosa, Ala.


A tornado - estimated to be a mile wide - moves through Tuscaloosa, Ala., Wednesday. A wave of severe storms laced with tornadoes strafed the South on Wednesday, killing at least 16 people around the region and splintering buildings across swaths of the Alabama university town. Dusty Compton, The Tuscaloosa News


Lorna McCarter, left, and daughter Susan Hutchins regroup with their dog Shadow after their home was destroyed in the Cedar Crest neighborhood in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Wednesday. Dusty Compton, The Tuscaloosa News

curious, i tried to search for what can be viewed of the prize winners.  the feature writing prize winner is riveting (rape and murder).  an excerpt:

The horror of what happened next made the court reporter's eyes well up, made the bailiff cry, had the whole room in tears. The jury handed around a box of tissues. The prosecutor took long pauses to collect himself. The family and friends in the courtroom cried (though, truth be told, they had been crying throughout). The Seattle Times reporter seated next to me cried. I cried. The camerawoman who was shooting video for all the television stations in town criedâ€"and later on hugged Butz's partner as she left the courtroom for the midmorning break. - The Bravest Woman in Seattle by Eli Sanders

for mature readers only.  rated 'D' for disturbing; not for minors and curious women.  (and because of this, 99.99% of women readers will read this, hehehe.)

the link: http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-bravest-woman-in-seattle/Content?oid=8640991

i know he's a local actor, but i'm honestly unfamiliar with local movies, so which one is john lloyd, ang nigakos o ang gigakos?

china flexing its muscles, eh?  fast becoming a neighborhood bully, is it?  as in people, kini ra bang gamay ug way kusog, makapildi baya usahay, kun di sa sinumbagay, sa kinusiay o sa tinuthoay.

nakakita ko sa ngan ni statesville karon.  she's on!  i hope she's back for good.

gimingaw ka na ni bugsay?  tawga na tong imong igzu...

btw, why didn't these students attack the chinese embassy for the chinese illegal incursion into our 200-nautical mile (370 km) UNCLOS exclusive economic zone where there recently was an eyeball-to-eyeball between philippine and chinese ships?  moreklamo kun naay military exercises, di moreklamo kun naay mamintaha?  oh-oh...

we may not share their ideologies, but at least jose maria sison and fidel castro are consistent.  will these kids attacking the u.s. embassy (as pictured) be consistent?  only time will tell.  i can tell this early though that they won't end up as sexy japayukis.

remember heherson alvarez?  he was one of the leading first quarter stormers of old.  so anti-american kunohay.  he ends up an exile in the u.s. as part of the "steak commandos", comes back after marcos's downfall, gets a cabinet post, and runs for senator. 

he was still a cabinet secretary while he campaigned for a senate seat.  in a press conference where attendees wanted to know about his department's solutions to existing problems, he kept trying to divert the discussion to his potential as senator.  well, he was moving around, campaigning, with a retinue of his department's employees, obviously using government time, money and people for his personal campaign.  and he's supposed to be an idealistic activist?  boy, was he arrogant. 

corny ra ning mga bataa.  pila kaha ani ang inig human ug graduate, mangadlawon ug pila ug visa application for the u.s.  come on... there are better ways to spend youthful energies on.  less destructive ways, that is.

naa baya pod kunoy humok ilong...

so is this tubu woman colombian...

namatay iyang bana atong 1997, mao nga nakalugar siya ug modelling ug balik.

Daphne’s husband, Jim, who worked in television, suffered a series of strokes. ‘He was cantankerous. He got frustrated. He was all right with others, but at home he was not good!’ says Daphne.

She cared for him full-time until he died in 1997, aged 72. But Daphne doesn’t dwell on the negatives. ‘I couldn’t have done [modelling], could I? Looking after him, it would never have happened. I’ve been lucky.’ (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/)

Embassies under attack in Kabul
Taliban strikes worst since 2001

April 16, 2012


Simultaneous attacks ... Taliban militants launched their biggest
offensive of the year. Photo: Reuters


Under attack ... an Afghan National
Army (ANA) soldier keeps watch near the
scene of an attack in Kabul. Photo: AFP


TALIBAN militants launched a series of simultaneous attacks on government buildings and international agencies and embassies in Afghanistan yesterday in their biggest offensive this year.

The parliament, US, British, German and Russian embassies as well as NATO heaquarters and a hotel in Kabul were among the targets, the BBC reported. Militants said they had also targeted sites in Logar and Paktia provinces. There were also reports of suicide attacks in Jalalabad.

Armed militants seized a multi-storey building under construction in Kabul's diplomatic quarter, about a kilometre from the palace of President Hamid Karzai and the US embassy, Bloomberg reported. They exchanged gunfire with Afghan police and explosions were heard as the battle continued in the mid-afternoon. The attackers fired a rocket towards the headquarters of the US-led International Security Assistance Force, Tolo TV reported.

Read more: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/embassies-under-attack-in-kabul-20120415-1x1uu.html#ixzz1sFtPG365

another u.s. congressman, david wu of oregon.  (no he wasn't flirting; he just emailed this to his staff at a time when there were doubts about his sanity.  naturally, if his staff were tigers, this could fall in the realm of online flirting.)

sa tb, wa tay congressman nga masakpan o mayor nga kaihion...

remember u.s. congressman anthony weiner's online flirtations?  resign siya.  hinoon, sa ato, milagro na lang ang mo-resign nga masakpan.

ngano kahang wa pa man mosumpay si balong sa iyang one and only story?  tungod ba kaha kay napalpak ang missile/rocket launch sa north korea?  atangi.   

examples sa kaliwat ug himbison.

on sekand tots, manganak baya pod ang mga himbison, hehehe.

Natural: Daphne has never had Botox or a facelift


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2130239/Daphne-Selfe-The-worlds-oldest-supermodel.html#ixzz1sFRTgpxu

Long-lasting beauty: The model in her youth

 
Like a virgin: Daphne models a replica of the conical bra
Jean Paul Gaultier designed for Madonna, right

At 83, Daphne Selfe appears in Vogue and struts along the Paris catwalks. Her secret? Long hair, no Botox and a dollop of Boots facecream

wa pa ko kita ani sa pinas.  salamat.

way pasaylo...


matag tiki

Quote from: chicogon on April 16, 2012, 11:38:37 AM


Eyes of Isles

hihihi, tunonga.  20 years ago, sa wa pa mahunlak.

shrimp eye

Quote from: chicogon on April 16, 2012, 11:09:16 AM


Hehehe 

kalimutaw ni ni balong atong diha pay buslot ang bungbong sa iyang boarding house sa manila (ref. The One and Only Story of Balong thread, this forum)

green tree python eye

seal eyes

hadlok lagi ang alien eyes bisag drawing ra...

catty eyes

doggie eyes

doggie eyes

puppy love eyes

chimpanzee

kabuotan ni doggie.  nahimo intawong guardian angel of a dog sa iyang bangog nga tag-iya, wa siya moliwat.

what are these nine things then, please?

Shock: Livorno's Pasquale Schiattarella, centre, and Pescara's Marco Verratti, right, comfort
each other as medics treat Morosini at the Adriatico Stadium last night.


Tragedy: Medics assist Morosini as he lies on the turf (centre). However, he could not be
saved and was later pronounced dead.


Respect: AC Milan's match against Genoa at the San Siro in Milan was called off last night
after the death of Morosini. The Italian soccer federation has called off all league games this weekend.

pictures from http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/

The Italian press on Sunday paid tribute to Morosini.

Turin-based Tuttosport's headline read, "We have lost a son", while La Repubblica's editorial was headlined, "Incredulous and helpless".

The Gazzetta dello Sport focused on the controversy over the medical assistance.

An inquiry has been launched into why a traffic police car had to be broken into and removed as it was blocking the ambulance's entrance.

The Corriere dello Sport focused on the tragic elements of Morosini's life, which left him alone with his disabled elder sister. "A life marked by pain," was its headline.

Morosini was an Italy under-21 international and played for a number of clubs, including Atalanta, Reggina, Padova, Bologna and Vicenza.

"He was golden, always trying to help his family," Atalanta youth team director Mino Favini told Associated Press.

Fifa president Sepp Blatter tweeted: "Only tears. There are no words to express what I tried to when I found out about Piermario Morosini's death."

The tragedy follows a similar incident involving Bolton's Fabrice Muamba last month.

He was technically "dead" for 78 minutes after collapsing in an FA Cup tie against Tottenham but is now making "strong and steady improvements".

Following Muamba's collapse, attention had been drawn to the situation for athletes in Italy, which has mandatory cardiac screening for all young people engaged in organised sport.

The charity Cardiac Risk in the Young says that the Italian measures have reduced the incidence of young sudden cardiac death in Italy by 90% in the 30 years since the screening was introduced.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/



Football star: Piermario Morosini, right, battles for the ball during an Italian league match
last month. He died last night after collapsing on the pitch.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/

'Only tears'

Morosini, 25, had been on loan from Serie A side Udinese when he collapsed on the pitch in the 31st minute while playing in Livorno's Serie B game at Pescara.

He tried to get up a number of times before receiving heart massage on the pitch. A defibrillator was also used before an ambulance took him to Pescara's Santo Spirito hospital.

Doctors there tried unsuccessfully to revive him for 30 minutes.

Hospital consultant Leonardo Paloscia said: "Morosini never had a single heartbeat again. From when I arrived he never gave a sign of revival, not in his respiration nor his heartbeat."

Dr Paloscia said it was unlikely any cause could be determined until after the autopsy.

Pescara goalkeeper Luca Anania said players did not immediately understand the seriousness of the incident.

"There was great confusion and I seemed to understand that there was also a bit of delay in help arriving. Some of my teammates helped carry the stretcher by hand to the ambulance."

Many players left the field in tears.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/



Collapse: Piermario Morosini, 26, is treated by medics on the pitch last night after collapsing
as players and officials watch on in horror
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/

Italy mourns footballer Piermario Morosini
Piermario Morosini Morosini lost both his parents before he was 18


Tragedy: Livorno midfielder Piermario Morosini
in action minutes before he fell to the ground
and died in Prescara
(http://www.dailymail.co.uk/)


Italians have expressed shock and sadness at the death of Livorno footballer Piermario Morosini, who collapsed during a game on Saturday.

The grief was reflected in front-page headlines in most of Italy's Sunday newspapers.

Some focused on his tragic past. Morosini lost both his parents before he was 18, and shortly after that his disabled brother killed himself.

All Italian matches were cancelled and an autopsy will be held on Monday.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/

Quote from: chicogon on April 03, 2012, 05:39:53 AM
ISLANDER

There are 8 letters in your name.
Those 8 letters total to 37
There are 3 vowels and 5 consonants in your name.

Your number is: 1

karon pa gyod ko makapasalamat ani kay wa na ko katuod sa thread human nakog basa ani sa april 3, fr chic. 

tunong pa gyod nga favorite numbers nako; 1 because it's perfect and whole (as in the one true god) and 8 because it's the chinese lucky number (8 as in infinity).  maayo gyod diay nakong pagkapili akong tb name.  kining atong legal name, wa baya tuod tay labot pagpili ani kay wa pa man tay buot nga gibunyagan.  

Quote from: chicogon on April 09, 2012, 12:16:34 PM

sureness ko sign ni sa st. genevieve church sa louisiana...

hey, nabalik ang usa.  puwede diay.  i'll try some more with my photobucket.

so sorry.  i reorganized my photobucket albums and inadvertently ended deleting the pictures in this thread.  too bad.  i can't put them back because i'm way past the 24-hour modifying limit. sigh.  this thread is almost nothing without those pictures.

kakyut gyod uy.  kun ing-ani lang unta tanang iro ug iring... my 'fault' in our case because we really have to separate our cats and dogs, thus robbing them of the chance to befriend each other.  di ing-ana ka housebroken (sa mga bff series ni fr chic) tungod sa ilang kadaghan. 

yes, prickly heat it is; it's the more commonly used term (although purists would not encourage this phrase to be used as a noun).

others: heat rash, miliaria, skin rash

tagalog:  bungang araw.  singot sa atoa, adlaw sa ilaha.  at least, puro bunga.

hahaha!  5-6 gyod tuod.  kanyahay ra dali kang namilyonaryo.  sige, pabayloon ta kag $600, bayre kog $5000.  kondisyon, akong i-fax nimo ang akong ipabaylo, ang imong ibayad i-bank-to-bank.

ajaw palabig reserba sa imong riches to play the stock market.  ginagmayng bayad sa barber, molayo sad intawon ug dako ang imong hitsura sa unabomber.

The word "Jurassic" is directly linked to the Jura Mountains (which run along the border of France and Switzerland).

Alexander von Humboldt recognized the mainly limestone dominated mountain range of the Jura Mountains as a separate formation that was not at the time included in the established stratigraphic system defined by Abraham Gottlob Werner and named it “Jurakalk” in 1795.  The name “Jura” is derived from the Celtic root “jor”, which was Latinised into “juria”, meaning forest (i.e. “Jura” is forest mountains).


from http://www.answers.com/

as an adjective, the word jurassic means "Of or belonging to the geologic time, rock series, or sedimentary deposits of the second period of the Mesozoic Era, in which dinosaurs continued to be the dominant land fauna and the earliest birds appeared."

as a noun, it means "The Jurassic Period or its system of deposits."


from http://www.answers.com/

The Jurassic Coast is a World Heritage Site on the English Channel coast of southern England. The site stretches from Orcombe Point near Exmouth in East Devon to Old Harry Rocks near Swanage in East Dorset, a distance of 153 kilometres (95 mi).  Chartered in 2001, the Jurassic coast was the second wholly natural World Heritage Site to be designated in the United Kingdom.  Its entire length can be walked on the South West Coast Path. (wikipedia)

porbidang luoya.  ambulansya pa gyod ang nabanggaan.  unsa man gyod nang klaseha sa driver?  kun wa lang pod untay corruptible nga police wa pod untay abusado nga driver.  ambot lang kahag madala ba ning mga klaseha ug seminar, apil police.  (puwera tawon sa maayo.) 

Quote from: TUBAGBOHOL.com on April 14, 2012, 06:44:30 PM
balong, naa ba kay plano nga bag-ong avatar for the year 2012?

i suggest, bai longs, nga butangan lang nimog bungot ning imong existing avatar.  kinsa man galing ning artistaha o rock star nga imong gi-avatar, maru jamog nawong.  angay kang magpasalamat ani niya.

Quote from: balong on April 14, 2012, 06:41:22 PM
1. tinood ning ahong mga ka uyaban. they are real people
2.---------
3. x-rated na lang gyud ni. lisod kong himoon natong triple x. i am a devotee of divine mercy
4. namatay na intawon tong ahong silingang intsik teacher. she died of cancer years ago. may her soul reside in one of the rooms our creator has prepared for us

1.  no doubt.  but this leads to more questions.  are they men or women?  do they or don't they know nga uyab mo?  will they admit under pain of perjury that they were your uyabs? the world is that complicated.  but you may keep your secrets to yourself, bai longs.  i'm just thinking like a plotter of storylines worthy of a james ban-dong movie.

2.  i understand.  scientists in north korea are supposed to keep their identities secret.

3.  when man ni ma-R-rated, kun devotee ka ni st. joseph?  PG na kun kang immaculate conception?  cartoon animation ang gawas ani kun sa holy trinity na.  

4.  babaye diay tong intsik teacher?  abi nakog ang tig-anha niya nga inyong lilion babaye, di lalaki.  syalan ba ni.  wa diay ko ka-getz.

p.s. thanks for being a komedyante.

tourist nga klaro.  hinoon, daghan bayang tourists ang magpa-photo op sa NYPD ug LAPD tungod heroic kintahay ni sila sa mga sine ug tv shows.  sa ato, ambot kaha ngano.  nag-j-walking tingali ni si inday.

and he is a congressman! 

the bloody background of the trial:

THE trial of Ruben Ecleo Jr., congressman and cult leader, for the death of his wife Alona Bacolod-Ecleo, has taken many a twist and turn.

Running more than eight years now, since Jan. 8, 2002 when Alona's body stuffed in a trash bag was recovered, the murder case has produced side stories enough to fill a full-blown telenovela.

The charge in court is parricide, the murder of one's spouse. Still, it is a murder like no other because of the other episodes it has spawned.

No other whodunit had these bloody and riveting sidelights:

...Ecleo was arrested only after a police raid in which 23 cultists were killed.

...Alona's brother, a murder witness, and three other family members were massacred by a lone gunman, a cultist, whom police shot dead.

...A criminal case was filed in a Cebu town with another cultist owning up the same crime of which Ecleo is accused.

...A group of cultists were arrested with a cache of firearms.

...A woman private prosecutor was gunned down in her home.

Common elements

Ecleo's link to the incidents wasn’t proved despite the common elements: Ecleo, Alona's death, the Bacolods, and cult members.

Now a bizarre note as the defense presented its star witness Wednesday: Ecleo himself. Ecleo said the murdered woman wasn't Alona and he didn't kill her.

-excerpts from Seares: Not Alona? Then whom did Ecleo allegedly murder?, by Atty. Pachico A. Seares, http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/, Thursday, September 2, 2010

Peras was the seventh judge to handle the high-profile case. Other judges inhibited themselves for various reasons, a sign of the kind of pressure brought in a criminal trial where Alona’s parents, a brother,a sister, neighbor and private prosecutor were killed by gunmen traced to the PBMA. http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/

it took 10 years and 7 judges for the courts.  the wheels of justice do grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small.  may the dead rest in peace.

Quote from: chicogon on April 14, 2012, 11:59:47 AM
Di sad ko suheto aning mga butanga... I keep on spending what I save. I save again and spend it more. Save and spend... ambot asa ni taman hehehe 

which, i believe, is how to live best.  spend only what is there (a little savings on the side is already an expense, on yourself), try one's best not to be in the red.  scrooge is of the past, when hunger was very real in england. 

kun wa lang miy batang gamay pa, di sad ko mag-invest-invest unta.  mahadlok man god kog mahilangit na ko unya di na makaeskuwela among little girl kay way pang-tuition.  tan-awa, gitutyo pa gyod, hahay hinoon.

unsay bearing sa akong estorya sa thread?  well, land as an investment in this case is a sentimental investment on my part.  it is priceless, purer than the purest gold.  i won't sell, i won't gain anything, and it's fine by me. 

but i believe it would be great to retire there, pohon malooy si lord god.  and it has fruit-bearing trees, mostly mangoes.  anybody here willing to make a go of those mangoes (spray, cover, harvest all the fruits), please pm me and educate me on how to go about making business out of mangoes.  so far, maayo ra ko mokaon ani, hahaha. 

i made it clear to her that i didn't care about her dollars, i'm not selling even a square foot of my land because of its sentimental value, but i will open my lot for everyone, thus forcing her to open her lot as well aron di ma-dead end.  di gyod siya.  naa na kuno silay mga manok.  eh?  unsay akog naa na silay mga tigre.  di siya kaagi sa akong yuta kun di siya magpaagi sa iyaha, period.   

maguwang ra ba kaayo ni siya nako, ambot na lang gipangirogan kong magpalandong kay college na ni siya ako elementary pa niadto.  but i wouldn't budge.  fair is fair lang ang type ko.  you are unreasonable, she said on the phone.  are you?  tubag ko. 

suwat sa ig-agaw namong pari nga u.s.-based pod ang nagpakalma nako.  problema lang, nahimo ming estorya kadiyot kay nag-atbang kuno ang puro maldita.  buotan tawon ko, huhuhu.

di na nako i-estorya ang ending sa among sugilanon kay mabisto na ko.  makabasa pa lang nang paryenteha ani, maoy gidangat.  revival of hostilities unya, kapoy na.  all i can say is that the ending was a deus ex machina, in my favor. 

i'm willing to part with a few dollars, matod pa niya.  opkors naman, who am i to get impressed by such statements?  i have my own few dollars though i'm not willing to part with them... hehe.  (truth be told, who likes the arrogance of money?  i miss da binsi here, mao-mao gyod mig kalidad.) 

anyways, the problem was they fenced their lot and their gate opens to my lot.  wisely, gipasirhan nako ang akong lote kay di man sila paagi sa ilaha (the whole stretch on the side of our two adjoining lots was once a passageway for everyone until iyang gisirhan ang ilaha kay di na siya paagi).  unsa god nang batasana god; di paagi, unya moagi sa uban?  eeekkk!

ang land pod, daghang away.  funny, in one town in bohol, naa koy gamay, hatag sa among papa. wa pa gani ko katunob, gisurangsurang na kog ig-agaw nga u.s.-based.  di ra ba gyod ko ka-tolerate ug bintahosa kay maningkamot god ta nga fair kunohay ta.  tawgon pa kog kapila di pa gyod magbantay sa time zone kay mapukaw kog alas 3 sa kaadlawon.  purya.  binabayeng estorya, tiwason na lang nako, in keeping with the state of human affairs.

Quote from: TUBAGBOHOL.com on April 14, 2012, 09:42:52 AM
you are not alone, ms islander. mas grabe tong mga biktima sa pyramiding scam sa bohol sauna. and there was the legacy group of rural banks scandal, and of course, the infamous debacle of CAP.

you better buy gold or land. my sister bought a gold ring sauna P4K lang. karon pagprenda gidawat ug prenda nga P8K.

trusted insurance companies: Pro Life UK, Sun Life Canada, Axa...

thanks for the advice, tb.com.  true nang land and gold, pabor ko.  our ever-loyal household help gipalitan nako last 2010 christmas ug gold ring.  bilib ko.  by christmas 2011, gipa-assess niya, 15k na man.  prenda na nga assessment, meaning 30% ra sa total worth.  and i bought it for 5k+ a year before, during a sale.  whew!  hasta ako nahibung.  of course, jewelry has a downside.  it's a dead investment.  if push comes to shove, way makadalidali ug palit during emergencies unless ipabarato pag-ayo nato.  also, it is so kawatable. 

atangi.  nibalik na man gyod intawon si balong.  at last.  medyo nag-recess pa si bugsay nga atong paboritong higala, pero si balong nitungha.  mahuman na untag snacks si bugsay aron makaatbang siya ug si hubag ni balong.  na, hala, kini ang atong atangan:

pangutana: tinuod ba kaha ning mga estoryang kauyaban ni balong?
tubag: naa ra sa mobasa.

pangutana:  kining iyang uyab nga koreana, pag-umangkon ba kaha ni ni kim jong il?
tubag:  dili. ang scientist ni sa napalpak nga missile/rocket launch sa north korea.

pangutana:  unsa kahay sangpotan aning iyang xxx-rated nga sugilanon?
tubag:  x-rated na lang, kay nibalik man siya nga medyo naluya na human maghinulsol (tingali ba lang), mao nga financial adviser na pod siya karon kay nagrasyahan. 

pangutana:  unsa man tawon ang ending atong naputol niya nga sugilanon bahin sa estudyante ug intsik teacher nga iyang silingan sa una?
tubag:  nahimong financial adviser ang estudyante kay maayong pagka-tutor about money matters.  kamo gyod... ngano god tawong nobena may naa sa inyong hunahuna...

Quote from: ms da binsi on July 29, 2009, 01:20:25 AM
Maayo pa ana noh? undanongon na nila ilang TBTK kay basa (as in wet)  na kaayo ilang gibuhat.

Kana gud mga organization ing ana pasikat raman na sa mga miembro, honest! (take it from me, if you guys want to scorn me i dont care, basta tinuod jud ni).  Mao nga wa jud kuy giapilan nga mga organizations. If i want to help i do it myself and i dont care if no one would acknowledge it.

Darn it daghan na noon tag mabaw-an aning mga grupo2x!

true sister gyod ka, ms da binsi.  this post of yours was almost 3 years ago, but still it's as relevant today as it was then.  pareha tag sakit; di joiners unya hingok nga motabang.  mas fulfilling, di ba?  no organization to cling to and 'legitimize' what we are, no press releases needed. 

(sorry folks, if this sounds hambog, but this is one more reason why i chose to be anonymous here.  i assure you though that i am a human being.)

will try.  real british taste (tea with a spot of milk) and acquired by colonized india.   maayo pa si banana republic kay ganahan siyag tea.  akong ganahang tea kanang green tea ice cream ra.  so far, anyway.  it could be an acquired taste then, and i'll try my best to acquire it.

based on the receipts of my quarterly payments, i guess i would lose some 200k+ in prudentialife with my purchase of two plans, akong pension ug ang educational plan for our youngest.  the last news i read about this is that pension plan holders may end up getting 46k+ while educational plan holders may have 25k+.  daog-daog man gyod intawon ni uy.  way mga palabra de honor. 

my bigger fear is that i lack 3 more quarterly payments (i would have completed all 5-year payments by september of this year but decided against paying more because that would be throwing good money after bad, right?).  you know how insurance and pre-need companies are, any minor kink is magnified.  prudentialife just might disqualify me for these minuscule returns by pointing out my incomplete payments.  i can fight my way hoarse and still end up a spent force judging from what happened to that other failed pre-need company here. 

yet all i want is my money back (bisan di na lang ang tibuok nakong nabayad intawon) and i'm willing to wait until june for the final decision.  frankly, i'm not very positive.  mas sure pa tingali kun magpadala na lang kog paktol nila.   

luckily, unlike other mothers here, wa ko makahilak.  di ko mohilak kun kuwarta na man lang.  mangaway lang ko.  pahilakon nako ang akong awayon, grrrrrr. 

hahaha!  di ko angay diay anang imong high-finance nga style kay kabuhion ko.  gawas pa nga naa ka sa states, di gyod ko kasabot anang unsaon pagpalit ug pagbaligya ug stocks.  sure lang ko nga wa na sa 7-eleven stores.

pero why man gyod intawon nga di man gyod ko lamian ug tea?  makalagot baya.  i still prefer my morning, noontime, and evening coffee. 

it is strange that you haven't visited this site for 2 days(?)  real busy with your papers?  i'll help you in proofreading.  note that i said proofreading, not editing, but usually when i proofread i tend to copy edit too, but not really edit in the real sense of the word (as in asking the writer to change the whole format because something is askew somewhere, hehe). 

i read somewhere here in tb that you needed one, but i thought then that you may have better help there.  anyways, in case you haven't found one, just give me 2 days for each paper (inclusive of my household chores and tb sorties).  that is, if you trust me and if there's no one else there to do it for you. 

my brief biodata (budats, in case of doubt ba lang, hehe): 13 years as writer and editor of some agency or paper or other, 4 years part time teaching college humanities, literature, english composition and grammar, technical writing, and sociology, until the banana republic told me to stop and stay put, which turned out to be a much harder job.  i hold a master's degree in never mind.       

mosundog unya ko ani nga presentation, hehe.

backpacker, na-pocketan intawon sa iyang pocket money.  unya nasaag pa gyod sa usa ka warehouse diin naka-witness siya ug drug deal. 

addendum:

Quote from: chicogon on April 14, 2012, 06:52:59 AM

this is very real.  pila na kaha intawon ka kilometro nga toilet paper ang nausik sa amo.  no retreat, no surrender gyod ning mingkay basta duwa ug toilet paper. 

KJ me found this in good ol' wiki:

Health benefits

Nutritionally, the fruit is high in carbohydrates, particularly fructose. The fruit also contains significant amounts of vitamin C, vitamin B1, and vitamin B2.  The fruit, seeds, and leaves have a number of herbal medicinal uses among indigenous peoples of regions where the plant is common.

There is evidence indicating that the fruit's extracts selectively inhibit the growth of human breast cancer cells by downregulating expression of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) in vitro and in a mouse model, but the effect has not been studied in humans.

Health risks

Research carried out in the Caribbean has suggested a connection between consumption of soursop and atypical forms of Parkinson's disease due to the very high concentration of annonacin.

According to Cancer Research UK, Annona muricata is an active principle in an unlicensed herbal remedy marketed under the brand name Triamazon.  Triamazon is not licensed for medicinal use and the sale of the product resulted in a conviction on four counts of selling unlicensed medical products, and other charges, for a vendor in the United Kingdom.


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pahiyom ug pinangga nga gi-birtdeyhan.