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Quote from: hubag bohol on January 21, 2011, 02:15:34 PM
Mao ni kalaki sa mga kapildihon, he he...

Parehas sa basketball ba, akong ig-agaw putot kaayo, iyang ka-jumpball kay taga-ilok ra siya, pag-serbato imbis molukso siya iya na lang gisumbag ang tiyan, bwahaha! 

mas kuyaw kog ig-agaw kay taga-tuhod ra to siya sa iyang ka-jumpball.  pagserbato, ambak dayon siya ug gidukol iyang ulo sa duha ka bolang gagmay sa bilahan sa kontra.

whew!  o captain, my captain, thanks for making this so much clearer now.  hope justice will prevail sooner than later, before bigger scams outshine this one. 

hello, everyone.  the welcome mat i suppose is set for all of you!

morag bikogan ta anig liningkod para makaabot sa required 10,000 posts, mikey.  bikogan sad ang bulsa aron moadto sa tagbilaran to claim the prize of 1k each for 10 winners.  good luck to the joiners, then.  you're better of if you're tagbilaran-based.    

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 21, 2011, 11:36:09 AM
Na hala, mangutana na lang ta ni Bay Bugsay kon kinsa jud ning naa sa picture...

makig-ilog gyod to nimo, matang pa. gusto pod tong ma-batman oy.

kana ba.  klaro-klaro nga si batman diay na... raise your right hand!

hahaha!  kinahanglan mao pod nay posture ninyo, gentlemen.

morag liwat ni si botoyitot sa tag-iya da.  ang diperensya lang kay ang tag-iya nahibut-an.

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 21, 2011, 09:37:48 AM
Hmm. Kon maohon, madugay ani ang mga taytayan diha mahimo na lang diay nga mga overpass... 

anang panahona, magkinahanglan na ang mga barko ug ligid aron makaagi padung sa cebu city pier.   

Quote from: aquarius on January 20, 2011, 11:19:39 PM
tiwasi.. theory of evolution??... bitaw nganong wa man mo evolve ang mga tarsier, nga mahimong tawo...hehehehe... mao siguro ni sila ang mga unano hahahaha...

mga tawo tingali na sila, mga bol-anon sa una nga ni-evolve into tarsiers. 

goodnight pod, bai hubs.  i will extend my birthday greetings to you on february 29 in some other year.  goodnight, aqs, goodnight tb netizens.  gilamok na ko diri.  arang samoka.  

hehe, makasiguro ka nga kun kwaknit na man lay hisgotan, di ing-ana ka-morag patay akong panit. 

nganong wa may nakahunahuna ug 666? 

Quote from: aquarius on January 20, 2011, 11:03:24 PM
I am one of those... born under the month where we celebrate  LOVE.... the water-bearer... the source of LIFE "Water"... sorry for this question, I beg to DISAGREE..! ...  nagkataon lang siguro na kulang ang petsa paminsan-minsa sa apat (4) na taon but it does not contribute your being idiot... lots of famous people/ individual born under this month... one of which I've known is Charles Darwin...

no wonder charles darwin thought up the missing link.

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 20, 2011, 07:21:40 PM
Ah, that would be The Flash. After all, we all know who Batman is... 

rest assured that if it were up to you, you'd rather be the flasher than batman.

ah, nakakita na ko.  suka ray ako...

di lagi makit-an nang imong saang kun unsa man galing na, bai hubs.  delikado ba diay nang hulagwaya?

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 20, 2011, 10:49:09 PM
He he, naigo diay ni sa kanta nga:

Kon ikaw kalibangon
Dagan lang sa baybayon...

kun wa kay dalang ilo
hidhid lang sa mga bato.

morag naay eksperto ani da... kanang taga-valencia nga naghilomhilom.  asa ra tong imong igzu, bai hubs? 

tungod sa mga makalingaw nga basahon dinhi nga thread, nakahunahuna na hinoon ko nga puro mo born on february 29 sa ilawom sa sapa. 

from frogs to bats to butts? can wombats and wormbutts be far behind?   

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 20, 2011, 01:44:18 PM
Hey, I'm not in the picture. I'm the one who took it! 

with a pre-set camera, which you placed on top of a tree stump, after which you ran to join robin.  you're not batman for nothing.

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 20, 2011, 03:04:22 PM

such an inspired creation!  it's almost like the hairstyle of the franciscans of old (patterned after the hairstyle of st francis of assisi of course) but with a difference--- it can't seem to decide which side is the face.

i hope lorenz will be inspired by this hairstyle.  i'll heal real fast if he were my doctor with this kind of hair.

note:  something tells me this is bai hubag's fashion statement.    

mag-tutor usa ko sa bata kay exam nila ugma.  dia ra, o, gasige rag duwa kun mag-atubang lang ko sa computer... over and out usa ko.  see you later.

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 17, 2011, 07:46:00 AM
Noblest is the wife who gets back in doubly full measure
But does so without deriving any perverse pleasure.

the noblest wife who got back in doubly full measure
may turn out too sapped to feel any perverse pleasure.

Quote from: www.tubagbohol.com on January 20, 2011, 01:19:30 PM
hahaha. exciting exchanges.

i share your excitement, triple w.   (i just hope i never run out of vocabulary, which bai hubag seems to have from an endless source.)

a good day to you then, zeffa.  if it assures you any, i myself am not offended (i cannot speak for the other tb readers though i'm pretty sure they have stronger reasons for not taking offense).  it's just that like you, i have my own ideas about faith and the church that i felt were worth expressing as you've expressed yours.

while religion and politics as topics for discussion tend to be endless (and sometimes divisive), we discuss these not to convince each other to one's side but only to try to clear up some misconceptions, real or otherwise.

meanwhile, religion is not necessarily the cause of today's wars.  politics, maybe.  but religion?  i cannot imagine countries going to war because one has a prophet named christ and the other is named mohammed.  these days, chances are countries go to war over territories or ideological differences or commercial interests.  that's equally sad, indeed.

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 20, 2011, 12:02:21 PM
Hmm. Kinsay Batman nilang duha? 

kinsa pa?  ikaw gyod nga nagtakoban.

Quote from: Lorenzo on January 20, 2011, 02:28:34 AM
now here i was, 25 years old and a medical intern--the one caring for the one who knew me even before i knew how to talk and walk.

it was touching.

some would call this 'tying loose ends' or 'paying back' or 'sense of closure' i guess.  i'd like to believe that both of you were relieved that the memories are alive.  you are lucky.

wow!  kalami.  timing is part of the magic of this dish and the picture shows real timing as to what and when to put them into the cooking vessel, what the cooking temperature was, and how long.  (it looks like this has got to be eaten at once or the kamunggay will lose its luster.)  it was a master who whipped this dish up.

ewwww!  glad the banana republic doesn't have exotic tastes.

Quote from: zeffa on January 20, 2011, 12:21:52 PM
Ha ha!! Now you have me thinking...That I like!!
Ive never really contemplated this subject in great depth but am willing to form an opinion based on this conversation!! (Although I cant stay too long..Lots to do today)

Of course!! How could it survive otherwise?

now i cannot even deign to use my brain or whatever is left of it...

let me repeat, are you really saying that when religion is dying, kleptocracy dies along with it?  "if it could not survive otherwise", are you saying then that it is kleptocracy that makes religion live?  something's askew here somewhere...

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Seems to me,it requires countries with high poverty levels to survive(A bit like the Church) so I was wrong when I said "predominantly Catholic countries",sorry about that!...

the temporal church does not and could not live on poverty.  like any organization, it cannot survive on nothing.  it would do well to distinguish the temporal and the spiritual sides of the church as we see it.  meanwhile, faith makes poverty bearable, whatever one's faith is.

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The R.P has a 70% church attendance right? Now thats a huge mandate of support by the people which no Government could ignore(or ignore at their peril).. How much political power and influence that represents in real terms is anyone's guess..

percentaging in church attendance is at best an educated estimate.  attendance does not a religion make.  now i'm wondering how a church's political influence has gotten into our discussion...

your personal choice is hereby respected.  sorry, i can't watch him.  in fact, i can't watch anything on tv because we have no tv.  i banned this distraction of too many commercial ads from the house.  i'm just wondering, though, what keeps this favorite preacher of yours on air.  is his own money supply endless that he can get by without support?  there's no such thing as a free lunch, you know.  just curious, just as he may be curious about other christians who he's questioning for accepting donations. 

Quote from: Lorenzo on January 20, 2011, 10:42:25 AM
well said, isles. to add to your powerful point(s):

Germany (Europe's economic machine) has a large christian popululation; the majority of German Christians belong to the Roman Catholic Church.

Would it be fair to claim Germany as incredibly corrupt? hmm...

His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI is German.

and i love the way germans celebrate mass.  it's so solemn.

Quote from: zeffa on January 20, 2011, 11:52:23 AM
I think it would be inappropriate and ungodly to divulge that type of info..I hope that you agree.

i don't agree, sorry.  charity is far from inappropriate and ungodly.

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Yes,he is Filipino and is regularly on local channels..Everyday I think.

ahh, another media savvy preacher.  i hope he is telegenic.  i hope too that the tithe that his followers charitably donate to his cause would keep on coming so he could continue to buy airtime.

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I agree 100% !!

thus do i hope that your seeming anti-catholic view is solely your own and your favorite preacher has nothing to do with it.

Quote from: zeffa on January 20, 2011, 11:33:37 AM
They are not on the list because Religion is dying in Europe and the Churches influence on Government is probably non existent these days..
This is bared out by average Euro Church attendances..France for example has an attendance of only 16%!! The UK and Spain only 25% compared to around 70% in the Philippines.

this is now beginning to defy logic... are you saying then that when religion is 'dying' kleptocracy dies along with it?  such seems to be the trend of thought that you are conveying.

as for those percentages, yes, church attendance may be dwindling in europe (and in other western  countries, though how the percentages were arrived at aside from being mere estimates is something else.  i still have to go to a church that checks attendance; i haven't gone to an iglesia ni cristo church that does) but church attendance or lack of it has nothing to do with one's personal relationship with his god and the form of worship that he takes.  neither has it got anything to do with kleptocracy.

now, if we bother to go by your logic, what, by the way, is the percentage of church attendance in muslim indonesia that's on top of the list of kleptocracy?

to continue, after the unexpected stoppage of electric power here...

Quote from: zeffa on January 20, 2011, 09:23:49 AM
I for one really wish I could see far more effort in giving practical help to the poor instead of just receiving their heart felt donations.

i would take it, then, that you have been doing this and you wish others to do the same.

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The only preacher that I tend to listen to and trust these days is Eli Sorriano.

sorry, but i haven't heard the name.  does he come from a country with a predominantly catholic population and a history of kleptocracy?

as for me, i never believed in preachers who spout hatred against other forms of worship, declaring along the way that theirs is the one, true kind.  even the devil can quote the bible.

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 20, 2011, 10:29:12 AM
Ah, before the rains come, maybe I should fix my roof and while I'm at it, I guess I should also repent my sin? 

while you're at it, why not include my roof as well?  i saw a small frog in the kitchen last night despite the absence of a pond on the kitchen floor.

repent your sin and glorify your nipa?  (shades of aquarius in some other thread.)

Quote from: zeffa on January 20, 2011, 09:23:49 AM
Kleptocracy is truly a great word..Put simply a very descriptive word that quickly illustrates the situation in most predominantly Catholic countries IMO..

ahh, here's pairing a rotten apple with a rotten tomato and calling the partnership a santol. 

what the study of the top ten kleptocrats concluded was that most of them are from countries that have undergone colonization.  colonization was blamed, not religion.  note that the number one on the list has the world's biggest muslim population. 

as for predominantly catholic countries, if i go by your claim, note too that france, poland and ireland, among others, are not on the list.  these are countries whose catholics are of a bigger percentage to their population compared to ours. 

greed has nothing to do with religion.  for as long as man is overcome by greed, he will always get what he doesn't deserve.

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 20, 2011, 10:18:18 AM
As in, "the pond remains; its frogs come and go?"

Respite!

maybe no, not in that sense.  the pond may dry up and the frogs can go elsewhere, though they may come back when the rains come.

repent!

Quote from: zeffa on January 20, 2011, 09:23:49 AM
Of course,this was not a "news story" until many years later which of course was strenuously denied by the Vatican!!
How they managed to cover it up for so long is pretty scary when you think about it.
When the evidence and testimonials were heard,the Catholic church`s position after much deliberation and many more years suddenly collapsed and the surviving kids finally received an apology and given $10.000 compensation each.

there's a difference between "strenuously denied" and "keeping quiet".  the former is to be confronted with real evidence and to continue to insist, by officially announcing, that no such things happened.  the latter is not to say anything and to discretely wait as to how such accusations will pan out, with foolproof evidence and all.  even hardened criminals and repeat offenders deserve their day in court, right?

the quiet part is understandable.  even families who have an accused criminal from among them would never shout 'hallelujah' out to the world.  so would organizations.  so why not the church?  what we don't know is that the church may have made its own quiet investigations into those accusations, searching for proofs.  after which, as you say, the church made reparations. 

Quote from: zeffa on January 20, 2011, 09:23:49 AM
Islander..
I have a deep respect for believers in any faith that are genuine and have good hearts..As I said,I believe in God but do have many issues with some of the men and women that preach to us in his name..(certainly not all)

One of my best friends and his sister were left in the temporary care of the Catholic church. He was 7 years old.
They were both abducted along with hundreds of other children and sent to different parts of the world (usually ,Asia,Africa and Australia)and used as cheap labour to build local churches etc....
My friend and his sister were separated and sent to different parts of Australia. He never saw his sister again.
He was systematically abused by the priest and some of the older boys for many years.

zeffa,

and i respect your respect for such believers.  too bad about your issues, especially that they came too close to home for comfort as the tragedy happened to that best friend of yours. 

different issues, as we may all know, are stranger than fiction.  we must not lose sight of the fact though that the church, catholic or not, are peopled by humans with their own frailties.  we cannot blame the church for what its human members do or not do.   

we must not also lose sight of the fact that it is foolhardy to scalp a whole clan just because one cousin has lice teeming on her head, or to throw a whole basket of tomatoes because one tomato is rotten.

the church, our faith, stands; its people come and go. 

respect!

islander

Quote from: bol-anon quo nyur! on January 20, 2011, 04:03:27 AM
I wish, naa unta pod ani si GOYANG!

maybe goyang's was just small time, not enough to make it to the top ten?  or it is still in the process of being uncovered by these researchers? 

salamat kay nigimaw na ug balik sa tb si ms da binsi ug si scarb.  sayang wa pa si aspo, si bugsay mopisik ginagmay, ug ang ubang mga kauban nako sa panaygon--- si vhinz ug bulbohol, absent nag pila ka adlaw.  post na mo bi!  naa na bitaw si hubag...

sleepy na ko.  goodnight for the night.  good morning for tomorrow.  over and out.

Transparency International ranking of alleged kleptocrats:

In early 2004, the anti-corruption Germany-based NGO Transparency International released a list of what it believes to be the ten most self-enriching leaders in recent years.

In order of amount allegedly stolen (in USD), they are:

1. Former Indonesian President Suharto ($15 billion â€" $35 billion)
2. Former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos ($5 billion â€" $10 billion)
3. Former Zairian President Mobutu Sese Seko ($5 billion)
4. Former Nigerian President Sani Abacha ($2 billion â€" $5 billion)
5. Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milošević ($1 billion)
6. Former Haitian President Jean-Claude Duvalier ($300 million â€" $800 million)
7. Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori ($600 million)
8. Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko ($114 million â€" $200 million)
9. Former Nicaraguan President Arnoldo Alemán ($100 million)
10. Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada ($78 million â€" $80 million)

                                                            -also from wiki

cheer up!  we have two entries in this top ten list.

i did a little research for you, zef.

Kleptocracy, alternatively cleptocracy or kleptarchy, from Ancient Greek: κλέπÏ,,ηÏ, (thief) and κράÏ,,οÏ, (rule), is a term applied to a government subject to control fraud that takes advantage of governmental corruption to extend the personal wealth and political power of government officials and the ruling class (collectively, kleptocrats), via the embezzlement of state funds at the expense of the wider population, sometimes without even the pretense of honest service. The term means "rule by thieves". Not an "official" form of government (such as democracy, republic, monarchy, theocracy) the term is a pejorative for governments perceived to have a particularly severe and systemic problem with the selfish misappropriation of public funds by those in power. (from Wiki)

Quote from: zeffa on January 19, 2011, 11:24:37 PM
Im not surprised with a word like that!!  Thats a word that could open a whole can of worms!!...Had to look it up myself!!

you mean, you know the can is full of worms, yet you had to open it to see if they were really worms?

Quote from: zeffa on January 19, 2011, 11:24:37 PM
You mean never? Are you sure?

as sure as i'm sitting here.  we're talking about "news" vis-a-vis "stealing".  i never came across a news item in this regard, much less read or heard about a courtroom case of theft against the catholic church.  or any other church of whatever denomination for that matter.

on the other hand, the bruited plunder of our country by the marcoses blazed as world headlines in 1986.

Quote from: Koddi Prudente on January 18, 2011, 12:42:21 PM
I have a nephew who is a college freshman at VSU. Most of his classmates are enrolled at BISU-Calape. Gisaway ug gikataw-an pa nila ang akong nephew kay nganong tua sa VSU mi eskwela nga "wa-il" kuno, as in wa mailhi nga eskwelahan. Ha ha ha ... my nephew will have the last laugh once these ignoramuses will realize there is no sense comparing BISU to VSU.  

our family was cebu-based, yet a brother of mine chose to study in bilar.  he was given options to study in up-los banos, visca-baybay, or cmu-bukidnon, but he chose bilar, and felt good about himself.

the problem with some people is that they equate a place, a city for that matter, with quality.  we know it isn't always so.  anyone can bloom where he is rooted if he chooses to.  

Quote from: Koddi Prudente on September 21, 2009, 11:36:08 PM

Maintaining the status quo also equitably distributes development opportunities to the countryside. For me this is most important.

this is de rigueur in most well-planned cities and towns in more advanced countries.  concentration in one area of almost everything--- from government administration to commercial and educational opportunities, are seen to cause congestion, shortage of access to utilities and services, and an increase in crime rate, among others.

kanding ra man ang akong hibaw-an nga malibang ug bulawan.

morag tattoo ang gipangita ani da.  map of bohol tingali...

Quote from: zeffa on January 19, 2011, 02:57:39 PM
I guess the same could be said of the Catholic church!

the catholic was never in the news for stealing nor was it ever called kleptocratic.

cute.  the porcupine and the man have the same baldness.

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 19, 2011, 07:09:03 PM
Unsa kaha no? But for sure, this one can't be smashed to smithereens by an irate lawgiver... 

maybe it can be hacked by an irate hacker?

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 19, 2011, 07:05:32 PM
Wa ba dihay Archos Internet Capsule?

tingali ug naay archos internet syrup.

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 19, 2011, 03:16:19 PM

Lady Isle and her lion in the rain, he he...

an optical illusion.  those are actually batman and robin without their disguises.

sayang still, i cannot afford to take a trip to your place ahora mismo so i can spoil with the puto that i'm eating now...

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 19, 2011, 09:53:22 PM
First I use my brain, then I use my penis. Then I use my brain again... 

it looks like you post something at tb, then to the restroom you go to pee, then post something at tb again...

hahay. this girl must have been inspired by legolas.   

Quote from: Lorenzo on January 19, 2011, 02:33:35 AM
from your rather descriptive piece, i hope and pray you were not the chef.

~

two of my favorite ilonggo dishes are: la paz bachoy and molo soup.

hehe, this here chef is somewhat more charitable.  she lets go of her fingers as well.

yes!  molo soup is just as swell.  and real filling.  what i woul give to have a piping hot molo soup right now, ahora mismo...

is it better than the stone tablet of the 10 commandments?

better still, what is that?

blessings of the maids.  that's plural.  gesundheit!  i'd like to believe that you know how to get your own towels now.

bitaw, the rain is a source of joy for children.  i never listened to my mother when she reminded me not to get wet in the rain.  i found excuses to get wet (like pretending to slip in a puddle) just so she would have no more reason to keep me away from playing in the rain and loving its feel on my face. 

these days?  ugh.  not anymore.  it would mean bad colds.  worse, it would make me look like a miscast character in a romantic novella, running in the rain in slo-mo, with a lion running after me.

most welcome!  maayo ning wholesale aron di mosipyat.

Quote from: ms da binsi on January 19, 2011, 01:40:32 PM

Cuj. size 6 akong tudlo...

sayang di mi silingan ni cuj.

hi, ms da binsi!  merry christmas, happy birthday, happy new year, happy valentine!

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 17, 2011, 09:59:57 AM
Ano ba ining lating lating mong itut itut haw, Madam Isles, indi gid ako makaintindi bla. 

why man god nga latin man imong mahunahunaan nga italian man na, as in kaoni spaghetti parisi pani.

with all her family's wealth and how it was sourced, she can still afford to talk about poverty?

wow!  what letter is your beard, lorenz?  as for bai hubs, let me guess... his beard is a chinese character.  

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 19, 2011, 11:35:28 AM
Asa ka way? He he, Mabulol man gid ang bulibol naton haw, Madam Isles... 

hehe, dalia sad nimong gimingaw ni bulibohol oy.

"how beauteous mankind is, o brave new world, that has such felines in it!"

                                                                                    -guillermo kurogbangkaw

klarohon na lang tingali nato, bai hubs.  asc awey, biliboy.

cute pics, lorenz.  just my type.  thanks.

wow!  that's the cutest, most dignified kitten i've ever seen.  he's worthy of his royal father's throne.

ahm comin home...

ah-tie a yellow ribbon round the old toad tree.

the raven, thus, heeds the clarion call of the carrion?  oh, what wisdom!

oops!  ajaw sad ug palabig lili, dong.  mabunalan unya kag itlog nga kalit lang molusot dinha...

then it looks like lightness is nothing.

heaven forbid!  no cat of mine should ever make a fool of himself.

and does the raven outrace (or outfly or outwing?) the vulture for the prize called carrion?

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 18, 2011, 11:43:11 PM
No. Maybe, if I were made of sterner stuff... 

i understand.  you can't stand little green men in UFOs... green frogs, yes; green men, no? 

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 18, 2011, 11:39:32 PM
Hmm. It might be an epiphany for Melchor...

if only melchor painted the walls instead of himself.  besides, i'm inclined to believe he's more of a musician and acrobat than a michelangelo type.  

la paz batchoy is truly slurp.  you know why this is terrific?  aside from the lengthy slow boiling of three kinds of meat (poulty, pork, beef) and bones, the innards that are added are cut with scissors, and very often the fingernails of the chef who cuts these are included in the mix.

suddenly, i need a midnight snack, lorenz.  huhuhu...

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 18, 2011, 11:08:13 PM
Hmm, lust is the lightness part, if I understand it right. The unbearable part is what I don't understand, or understand wrongly... 

it looks like the unbearable part is the being, hahaha!

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 18, 2011, 11:02:06 PM
Oh, had the weather been inclement they would have regaled you with stories of their subterranean friends... 

surely, i can be regaled with such stories by you. 

p.s.  you a moncadista?

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 18, 2011, 10:58:26 PM
Which--especially in the context of some rarefied TB dimension--is nothing to be sneered at. 

ahh, such rarity, such glorious rarity i can almost sneeze.  sneer, no.  sneeze, yes.

something tragicomic happened yesterday.

the efficient house painter who wanted to do something in his vacant time while waiting for the foreman decided to paint the first coating of latex on our cat room walls.  he didn't coordinate with anyone, much less with me, so he didn't know that once the painting work and tiling are done to the cat room, all the cats will have to be transferred to the living room. 

the painter was shaking when he reported that our two orange cats now had painted bodies.  melchor had it worse; his ears had stiffened with latex.  it turned out that he rolled on the paint pan and played with the brush.  my stomach gnarled despite the painter's apologies and assurances that latex is not poisonous.

it took 2 hours to clean melchor and midnight and dawn visits to the cat room to check for any changes in his overall health.  i geared up for an emergency.  he's all right, whew, but my stomach is still tight with pain.       

Quote from: grazie7y on January 18, 2011, 12:53:03 PM
ka cute and clean kaayo tan-awon na miming, ms isle! 

before it started to get so cold here, we trapped Mocha Jr.  He or she is now being "tamed" as she/he is considered a wild cat.  Mocha Jr.  looks exactly like my beloved old Mocha but this one is feisty.  Mocha Jr. doesn't meow at all, just growl.

today, we got another cutie cat with a very striking orange color.  she is so scared right now but she should be okay soon.  i will post pictures of my two cutie cats soon.

congratulations, grazie!  what a great way to start your new year!

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 18, 2011, 10:52:33 PM
Ms. Isle, fauna without flora
Is like coffee without crema.

you don't go for black coffee?  well, i don't, so i'll seriously consider flora.  too bad, i don't have much flora now because i'm eyeing some professional landscaping, if budget permits.

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 18, 2011, 10:31:01 PM
Hmm, you mean, with no financial burden you are wont to suffer the unbearable lightness of being?

si, my huckleberry friend, though i must add that it's devoid of lust.

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 18, 2011, 10:38:50 PM
Hmm, your familiarity with them is apparently just skin-deep. All the same, I'm surprised you didn't become a member. 

hehe, i was never much of a joiner of anything, preferring much to be on the outside looking in.  (joining tb is already a major decision for me.) 

want to know more?  now i'm surprised that moncado had such academic achievements!  let us grant that his various degrees were exotic, but he was educated nevertheless.  it may surprise you to know that the colony's square is peppered with slabs on which are written or carved "excerpts" from various philippine-american agreements, already outdated even at the time of my visit.  funnier still, these contained only the end parts of those agreements, starting with the "wherefore" clause.  they didn't make any sense.  my conclusion:  probably his followers were mostly illiterate at the time.  (sorry.)     

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 18, 2011, 10:36:11 PM
I'm willing to call it, simply, a way of life.

you might add 'an act of faith'.

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 18, 2011, 08:50:08 AM
Whether he was a hero, prophet or charlatan, or all of the above, or none of the above, or any combination thereof, or whatnot, Moncado certainly was one of the most colorful figures in Philippine history.

truly colorful; his followers revere him like he's the messiah.  one cannot be sure if the manner in which his followers worship him and his memory was according to his instructions or to his followers' own interpretation.  his widow, who gave us a tour of their place at the time of our visit, was garbed in a 19th century western dress.  she came on strong and was obviously the current leader then.  

i gathered that one of the widow's primary duties, aside from keeping the community going, is the see to it that moncado's remains continue to be well-preserved through annual re-embalming.  it was placed in a glass casket, on display inside a small 'chapel'.  (i dared not look.)  

the 'chapel' was on a promontory a walking distance away from the colony's main square.  from there one can see cebu's northwestern coast and islets.  it was a beautiful sight, which to my mind was broken only by the words of one of their members (understandably called 'moncadista') who said without batting an eyelash that from that vantage they can see UFOs almost every night.    
       

Quote from: hubag bohol on January 18, 2011, 08:37:19 AM
It can certainly be called that. If I recall correctly, ang ilang kan-on hilaw ra nga vegetables. No meat. No fish (bisan sashimi di pwede, he he). I read somewhere recently, though, nga gitugotan na sila ron pagluto sa ilang pagkaon, although the conservatives in their midst still hold on to the original commandment.

i can believe this.  the seniors among them (they must have been centenarians!) were very pale and strangely smooth-skinned.  i attributed it to their vegetarian diet and the colony's clean cold air.  that was some 20 years ago, when curiosity got the better of me and i went to their place with some friends. 

Quote from: chicogon on January 18, 2011, 02:55:04 AM
Wow!

Is is a cult?

terribly so.

must be a cat pretending to be a dog.

when there's no finance to worry about, i have a problem.

so why are cigarettes, majority of which are american brands, still sold and readily available worldwide?  why aren't these banned as harmful drugs?  is the tobacco lobby that influential?

but of course!  so do i love their version of "fool on the hill".

mosunod ra sad ko kay mibagting na pod ang akong ulo.  katulgon na jamo, after a long sunless day.  goodnight, tb netizens of the eastern hemisphere.  good day, tb netizens of the western hemisphere.  be seeing you in all the old familiar places of tb!