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Hmm, iya mang giingnan tingali ang chicks nga gamiton ilang kaanyag samtang wa pa malawos, apparently insinuating himself...

Quote from: islander on March 09, 2012, 10:07:31 AM
our mother who grew up by the sea in valencia wanted us to be familiar with the sea too.  iya kong gihungitan sa gamay pa ko ug kininhas niya nga ambang (accent on the last syllable), another sea plant.  purya akong giluwa kay wa ko kasabot.  hangtod karon wa na ko makakita ug ambang. 

Hmm, unsa may hitsura aning ambang, Ms. Isle?

Quote from: islander on March 09, 2012, 10:07:31 AM
pansit sa dagat among tawag anang lukot.  mas ganahan ko ani kun isagol ug pochero.

Di ba ang lukot, tae man na sa isda nga dunsol?

Quote from: islander on March 08, 2012, 01:32:34 PM
tiwasan na lang nato ang manorya, hehe.  ako to uy.  bisan ingon ana intawon akong tiil, kusog gihapon ni mo-flying kick.

Hmm, mao diay kinahanglan kang magsakaysakay, as you are in your avatar pic...

Quote from: islander on March 08, 2012, 01:34:47 PM
glad it's over and done with.  it's sadistic.  imagine one's toes being broken, ugh.

Beauty requires pain...

Hmm, pwede pud seduction poem ni...

Quote from: hubag bohol on March 09, 2012, 10:04:57 AM
Unlike the Spratly islands in the West Philippine Sea, no other country claims Benham Rise.

Yes!

Undersea land bigger than Luzon may soon be PH territory
By Ryan Chua, ABS-CBN News
Posted at 08/15/2011 4:05 PM | Updated as of 08/15/2011 4:35 PM


MANILA, Philippines - The Philippines may soon be the owner of an undersea land larger than Luzon and potentially rich in gas and oil, raising the possibility of energy self-sufficiency in the near future.

During the Senate finance committee's hearing on the proposed 2012 budget of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), Secretary Ramon Paje said the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Seas (UNCLOS) may approve the Philippines' claim over Benham Rise by mid-2012.

Located at the country's eastern seaboard beside Aurora and Isabela provinces, Benham Rise is an extinct volcanic ridge with an area of 13 million hectares.

Paje said it is rich in solid methane and probably even oil, based on initial studies of the DENR.

"We've been saying this in the past. This country can provide for its own energy," he told reporters after the hearing. "We believe that with the deposits we can find in Benham Rise, we can substantially provide power in the country."

Paje added Benham Rise has enough deposits to enable the country to export gas.

Once the UNCLOS approves the Philippines' claim, he said the Philippine government may already issue contracts for exploring the area, like what is being done in the Malampaya deepwater gas field off Palawan.

"That will now provide the legal basis for the entry or execution of exploration agreements with private companies," said finance committee chairman Sen. Franklin Drilon.

The Philippines submitted its application for ownership of Benham Rise to the UNCLOS in late 2008.

Unlike the Spratly islands in the West Philippine Sea, no other country claims Benham Rise.

In summary, the baselines, the basis used for delineating the maritime territorial and jurisdictional zones (including the continental shelf), conform with the requirements of the UN Convention of the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). The claim is only a partial claim since the law that allows the Philippines to expand its territorial boundaries also includes islands in the South China Sea. The Philippines may soon be able to provide its own energy needs if it obtains possession of Benham Rise, an underwater ridge to the east of Luzon which is believed to have mineral and gas deposits. The Philippines claim over Benham Rise is "very relevant" because scientific surveys indicate minerals and natural gas in the area. Solidified methane was found during mapping activities and the "probability is very high" there are oil deposits. There may be more natural gas than oil, and is considered better because it is cleaner. Benham Rise, which is bigger than Luzon, Samar, and Leyte combined, is being claimed solely by the Philippines because it is the only country within 200 nautical miles of the plateau.  -- http://benhamrise.com/

Named after the American geologist Andrew Benham who discovered the shelf, the rise was mapped in 1933 but its connection to the Philippine continental shelf was validated only recently to justify the county’s economic claim. Despite its proximity to the archipelago, the plateau was previously not included in the territory of the Philippine Islands. On 8 April 2009, the Republic of the Philippines lodged a partial territorial waters claim with the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in relation to the continental shelf in the region of Benham Rise. It was submitted as part of petition expanding the archipelago's baselines and exclusive economic zone through a law that also included other claims involving disputed territories of the Kalayaan Islands (Spratly Islands) and Scarborough Shoal. Although the landform, in itself, is not disputed, the petition still received some criticism inside and outside the country because of its controversial nature. According to the government's claim, based on a set of guidelines by the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, the area satisfies the 350-mile constraint line since the outer limits of the continental shelf are located landward of the constraint line, which is located 350 miles from the baselines where the measurement of the breadth of the territorial sea begins. Benham Rise is not subject to any maritime boundary disputes and claims. The Congress of the Philippines enacted Republic Act No. 9522, also known as the Archipelagic Baselines Law, which is the basis of the claim. According to the document the region is bounded by the Philippine Basin on the north and east, and by Luzon on the west and south. It asserted that, according to scientific data based on seismic, magnetic, other geological features, the Benham Rise region is an extension of the Philippines’ continental shelf. -- http://benhamrise.com/

Benham Rise (coordinates: 119°30’E to 132°00’E and 12°10’N to 20°30’N latitude), also known as the Benham Plateau, is a 13-million hectare undersea region east of Luzon and is 40 meters underwater at its shallowest point off the provinces of Isabela and Aurora. It is bounded by the West Philippine Basin to the north and east. It is a seismically active undersea region and extinct volcanic ridge east of the Philippines, in the Philippine Sea which lies a number of Basins including the West Philippine Basin (WPB) of which inside the Basin is located the Central Basin Fault (CBF). The Benham Plateau region is located in the CBF and its basement probably represents a micro-continent. Several scientific surveys have been made on the feature to study its nature and its impact on tectonic subduction, including one about its effects on the 1990 Luzon earthquake, which devastated the northern city of Baguio. The area is currently claimed, as part of its continental shelf, by the Republic of the Philippines, which has lodged a claim with the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf on April 8, 2009. Under the UNCLOS, a coastal state’s exclusive economic zone extends 370 kilometers (200 nautical miles) from its continental shelf, while its extended continental shelf extends for another 278 km (150 nautical miles). If the UN recognizes the Philippines’ claim, the country’s territory will increase to 43 million hectares from 30 million hectares. -- http://benhamrise.com/

Quote from: pearl.annika on March 08, 2012, 01:49:48 PM
hehe..bantog ra kay wala na ko kadungog ug mga sturya bahin anang tiaw..nanglangyaw na diay..gimingawan siguro didto...

Naa baya puy mga tiaw nga nilangyaw kay broken-hearted...

He he, mahilig lang magpasiatab, Bay Chris...

He he, mao ba? Ambot kon parehas ba mog pasumangil ni Bugsay...

Ang akong nahibaw-an, lukot ning naas taas.

Kini man tingali maoy lato...

Ikaw, Bay Chris, ganahan kag bajeng isog?

Hmm, for all we know, she's much nearer than we think (virtually near, that is)...

Di kaha troupe physician?

Quote from: islander on March 07, 2012, 10:24:54 PM
kita kog ingon ani, the one and only time i ever did, sa gamay pa ko.  matriarch man tingali to siya sa sen hiap heng store sa magallanes sa cebu city.  di gyod ko makalimot kay katingalahan man gyod.  magsige lang ug lingkod ug morag trono kay di man makalakaw.   

Tug-an sa tinuod. Imo tong lola, no?

Quote from: pearl.annika on March 08, 2012, 11:37:41 AM
hehe...naa gihapon ka karon sa Bohol Botoy?.

Dugay ra kong mibiya sa atoa, unsaon gipadpad man sa kapalaran sa halayong dapit. Pero mag-ulian hinuon usahay...

Bwahaha! What a lengthy defense! Mabungoton baya ka kon magpermi ning daghang sulti...

Quote from: islander on March 08, 2012, 11:22:53 AM
ang editor taga-tb.

Hmm, Taga-Balingsya? Ang grammar Nazi?

Don't sleep in the subway, darlin',...

Unsa man ning virgin coconut oil? Gamiton lang kon virgin ang aplayan sa oil?

Quote from: TUBAGBOHOL.com on February 28, 2012, 10:32:46 AM
It is the mandate of TaRSIER 117, which was created via Executive Order (EO) 7-A, to adopt a holistic, comprehensive, integrated and pro-active approach to emergencies to lessen the socio-economic and environmental impacts of disasters including climate change and promote the involvement and participation of all sectors and all stakeholders concerned, especially the Local Government Units (LGUs).

Makaimpatso man ning mga pulonga...

Hmm, pwede man ni gamiton isip murder weapon...

He he, with a little training, pwede ni siya mahimong porn author...

Quote from: hubag bohol on March 08, 2012, 11:04:58 AM
During the punishment phase of his trial, a former girlfriend testified that Thurmond stalked and raped her after she ended their relationship. She told jurors that he cut her stuffed animal's head off and that she feared he would do the same to her.

A second woman testified that she faced similar abuse and harassment until she obtained a court order against him. Sharon Thurmond also had two court orders against him.

Prosecutors said these incidents proved Thurmond was a threat to society, an element Texas jurors must consider when deciding on the death penalty. John MacDonald, Thurmond's lead trial attorney, said that background on Thurmond's character very much hurt his defense.

Lisod jud diay kon naay history of violent behavior...

By MICHAEL GRACZYK | Associated Press â€" 1 hr 7 mins ago


HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) â€" A Texas man condemned for fatally shooting his estranged wife and the neighbor who became her boyfriend denied killing them Wednesday, moments before he was put to death by lethal injection.

Strapped to the gurney inside the death chamber, Keith Thurmond declared, "I didn't kill my wife. ... I swear to God I didn't kill her."

His execution for the 2001 slayings near Houston came about an hour after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected arguments to halt the capital punishment, the third this year in Texas. The 52-year-old Thurmond was pronounced dead at 6:22 p.m. â€" 11 minutes after lethal drugs began flowing into his arms.

Thurmond's attorneys argued that lawyers representing him in earlier appeals were "grossly deficient" and that his execution should have been postponed until justices decide on a similar case in Arizona.

With his death nearing Wednesday, Thurmond blamed the shooting deaths on another man before telling prison officials, "Go ahead and finish it off."

As the drugs began flowing, he said, "You can taste it." He wheezed and snored before losing consciousness.

The killings occurred after sheriff's deputies showed up at Thurmond's mobile home on Sept. 25, 2001, with a court order removing his 8-year-old son and putting the boy in the care of his mother.

Thurmond became irate and stormed down the road to the mobile home where his 32-year-old wife, Sharon, was living with her new boyfriend, Guy Fernandes, 35, near Magnolia in Montgomery County, about 35 miles north of Houston.

Fernandes' father, brother and sister were among those who witnessed Thurmond's execution. They were joined by Sharon Thurmond's brother and two nieces. All stood stoically a few feet from Thurmond and declined comment after his death.

Thurmond's brother, Tom, was at Thurmond's home the day of the killings, heard gunshots and looked out the door. He saw Thurmond outside standing over his wife with a gun in his hand.

At the 2002 capital murder trial, Keith and Sharon Thurmond's son testified that he saw his father shoot his mother repeatedly in the yard behind Fernandes' mobile home.

Thurmond surrendered to police after a two-hour standoff.

Evidence showed Sharon Thurmond had been shot seven times with a .45-caliber semiautomatic handgun that was later found in Thurmond's home. The same gun was used to shoot Fernandez twice in the head. The gun's firing pin was missing and pieces of it were near the body of Fernandez, who also had been beaten in the head with the weapon.

During the punishment phase of his trial, a former girlfriend testified that Thurmond stalked and raped her after she ended their relationship. She told jurors that he cut her stuffed animal's head off and that she feared he would do the same to her.

A second woman testified that she faced similar abuse and harassment until she obtained a court order against him. Sharon Thurmond also had two court orders against him.

Prosecutors said these incidents proved Thurmond was a threat to society, an element Texas jurors must consider when deciding on the death penalty. John MacDonald, Thurmond's lead trial attorney, said that background on Thurmond's character very much hurt his defense.

In an appeal petition, Thurmond's attorneys said the sentence was too harsh. They said his former appellate lawyers failed to track down any of his relatives who could have testified that he had been abused as a child and that this could have accounted for his behavior.

State lawyers opposed the petition, arguing that unlike the Arizona case, Thurmond's earlier attorneys didn't abandon him and that any information now from the prisoner's relatives likely would not have altered the outcome of the trial.

Quote from: Mike Ortega Ligalig on March 07, 2012, 09:44:11 PM
mga baliwonon.

Mako ra ba jamog mga lawas. Luoy ang matripan, kompromiso ang kaputli...

Quote from: chicogon on March 08, 2012, 06:18:49 AM
May pagka bungotong piña man sad diay ni... libat2x pa jud mataha!!! 

Bwahaha! Binuangon komentaryoha...

Quote from: islander on March 07, 2012, 10:12:10 PM
dagpion bay mata.  mata man kaha sa pinya ang gihisgotan dinhi; kay mata man, bulikaton o ukiton, di dagpion.   

Na hala, kulitogon na lang...

Quote from: pearl.annika on March 08, 2012, 10:48:36 AM
hi hubag bohol...
botoy pa ka sa Dimiao?.katon hubag na?.anus-a man ka moboto?.

He he, Botoy bitaw ahong angga, pero si Lola kaniadto, Hoboy iyang tawag naho...

Quote from: chicogon on March 08, 2012, 06:24:54 AM
Mao nay ilang istorya sa Bohol karon... mao daw daghang b.a.y.o.t! Tungod sa manok... 

Quote from: TUBAGBOHOL.com on March 08, 2012, 06:34:19 AM
chicken is injected with tons of hormones para dali modako ug maihaw. there is truth to this. sauna gamay ra ang b***t. karon gabaha, ang uban DJ pa sa FM station.

Yataps. Manok Bisaya na lang jud diay aron seguradong organic...

Quote from: chicogon on March 08, 2012, 06:34:26 AM
Ikaw uli pod ka?

Pauwahi lang ko, naa pay gikawid-an...

Sakto ang pangtulak...

Aw, kon Bol-anon ang magluto, pwede na tawgon og Bol-anon cuisine...

He he, ang ubang mga tiaw tua nanglalin na sa halayong dapit...

Kining lack of sleep, lain na ang akong tinan-awan ani nga flock...

Welcome to TB, Pearl. I'm Botoy from Dimiao...

Quote from: TUBAGBOHOL.com on March 08, 2012, 10:01:06 AM

Time passes. And then...

Waste of people's money pa jud...

Worthless...

Ay, igo rang ipanuba kay puya man!

Gipahiyak lang ang buwan, tikyaob na...

Quote from: islander on March 08, 2012, 09:42:06 AM
labad gyod tuod kasoha.  wa man diay buhata personally in front of the female deputy, nganong himoon man niyang issue nga nakasuwerte man lang siya nga naniid sa cctv monitor?  kun nalibang diay intawon ang inmate unya iyang na-monitor, would it also constitute indecent exposure?

Hmm, basin nasayod ang female deputy nga siya ang gipahinungdan?

Hmm, human na ba kaha niyag cut iyang pikoy... :

Bwahaha! Yataps jud kang Bay Bugs ining balik ato...

OA na hinuon paminawon si Dinky, insincere and sycophantic...

Quote from: TUBAGBOHOL.com on March 08, 2012, 09:25:49 AM
mao naman kono niy uso karon.

Hmm, tungod kay sikat man gud ang nagpasiugda...

Kini kay kuyaw pas T. rex...

Quote from: islander on March 08, 2012, 08:55:11 AM
as for the rest, reality bites, mangarap na lang kayo ng imposible...

Hindi na nangarap ng imposible, kontento na sa iyang Chinese beauty. Dia ra, ay...

Quote from: islander on March 08, 2012, 09:10:53 AM
hahahahahaha!  aruykointawon!  been there, done that.  hahaha!

Hmm, you mean, you're done with bitching ang snooping around?

Quote from: TUBAGBOHOL.com on March 08, 2012, 08:51:16 AM
dili diay angay nga mabilanggo si botoy ani.

Ang recommending doctor maoy angay prisohon...

Quote from: Mike Ortega Ligalig on August 05, 2007, 09:24:33 PM
Grimm also questions whether the cure is worse than the disease. Prospective jurors were publicly questioned about their own masturbation habits, as noted in an earlier ABAJournal.com post, before Terry Lee Alexanderâ€"who was already facing a 10-year robbery sentenceâ€"was convicted of indecent exposure Tuesday and sentenced to 60 days, as reported by the Herald.

Quote from: junayag on August 06, 2007, 12:26:24 AM

If the act of masturbation was done with malice in front of a person, then I believe it would be illegal ( not a masturbation done discreetly but caught in a cctv camera ); for it is tantamount to sexual harassment?

Hmm, unsa pud kaha kon ang indecent exposure gibuhat sulod sa ayroplano?

Quote from: Melrose on August 13, 2007, 11:54:40 AM
kaluoy pod. he was just practicing a healthy exercise.

He he, recommended by a doctor bitaw ni...

Aaaa, tayming man jud sa end of the present administration...

Maypa tuod being me, real enjoyment pa...

Quote from: islander on March 08, 2012, 08:36:50 AM
tagam? 

Dugay2x man pud ta ani maulian...

...naa puy uban nga di kaya i-beat up kay mako jamog mga lawas...

Oi, collector's item na ni ron. Mahal pa nis puya...

Bugsay, You've Been Warned!!!

Ngyaks! Kaluod!

Quote from: hofelina on March 08, 2012, 07:02:36 AM
Nomophobia is the fear of being out of mobile phone contact. The term, an abbreviation for "no-mobile-phone phobia", was coined during a study by the UK Post Office who commissioned YouGov, a UK-based research organisation to look at anxieties suffered by mobile phone users.

Hmm, ang akong sakit kay notubophobia...

Quote from: chicogon on March 08, 2012, 06:48:59 AM


Duha ka managhigala sa TB 

Naay Tsaynis ansistri ang usa...

Zhou Guizhen, who is 86-years-old, shows one of her bound feet where the bones in the four small toes were broken and forced underneath the foot over a period of time, at her home in Liuyi village in China’s southern Yunnan Province, February 2007. Villages in China where women with bound feet survive are increasingly rare but the millennium-old practice nevertheless took almost four decades to eradicate after it was initially banned in 1911. -- http://www.myseveralworlds.com/

Bwahaha! 

Quote from: chriswise on January 25, 2012, 09:13:35 PM
nagpa init patos ilawom bai hubs,,,,

Otro man pud kang nagpainit, Bay Chris, panagsa na man lang ka mogimaw...

He he, nagpangamay, gustong dagpion...

Maingon tang punga. Not to mention practical job-related difficulties...

Wa na tingali ni ron. Pero mangutana tang Bugsay...

These are Chinese women who have feet that are deformed as a result of the drastic measures that are taken to keep their feet small such as having their toes or arches broken and of course, of wearing shoes that are much too small. In China a sign of femininity for girls is to have small feet. The result is feet that are deformed. -- http://www.worldoddities.com/

So far, after 3 exercises, palpak man ni nga initiative... 

Quote from: islander on November 18, 2011, 08:48:24 PM
unsa kahay gibati ni inday nga gikan mang nakalingkod ug pinya...

OK ang kolor, di klaro kon "it happens"...

Hmm, swerte ka kay naa kay Tsaynis ansistri...

Quote from: islander on March 07, 2012, 08:04:37 PM
lalaki:  tan-awa ra na siya... papostura-postura, morag di ukay-ukay ang sinena.

babaye:  ayg kusga imong tingog... ukay-ukay baya pod ning atong gipanul-ob.

lalaki: ijara! bikog, ajaw kog apila, an! kanang imo maoy klarong ukay-ukay.

babaye: ay lagig kusga imong tingog, bayota ka!

Life is Spartan and expensive. A bottle of Coke that normally costs P15 in the lowLands fetches at P100 or so. Even some commercial sex workers who prowl the area and are cashing in on the isolated lifestyle of miners are reportedly known to settle not only for cash but will accept some equivalent "gold dusts" or something for their services. But I have still to see some of them carry on their backs a bag of ore after a tryst! It's a wild country, indeed. Each tunnel owner must have his own private army: armed goons to protect his own turf-- or in some cases, ready to forcibly take over known "high grade" areas of others who are vulnerable and less armed. Survival of the fittest is never so true anywhere than in fabled Mount Diwata.

However, a few days ago when I revisited, the population estimate was down to 20,000. Only 10 percent stayed. It seemed that the luckier and the sturdier ones -- physically and in spirit - stayed behind. Billions of pesos worth of gold had been taken from those mountains. And untold numbers of lives were also lost, by natural means like Landslides, "bar-downs" or tunnels caving in or just through "rub-outs" or murders or plain terrorism. And of course, the forests of yesterday are no longer "virgins" today. They were ravaged and defiled.

I now wonder whether the enchanted "diwata" still smiles as she continues to hold sway and look down upon her once- lush and pristine domain into what it is today: a wasteLand. No wonder the Diwata shows her wrath and displeasure from time to time in the calamities that we all face today.  -- http://goldstardailynews.com/

A bit of flashback. The "gold rush" was unbridled and unregulated. Those who had the stomach for survival and those who "go for broke" since there's not much to expect down in the lowLands anyway found the area a place of hope and a veritable arena for survival. The steep precipice suddenly sprouted with makeshift shanties. Upon entering a shed, a hole or portal gawks as one enters. That's where the digging begins, deep into the bowels of the mountainside. Everybody has his ears and eyes open and orients the diggings towards the "vein" or the lode where others are reported to make their "hit" with high grade ore..

The wild chase is on. At some point, many tunnels underground crisscross one another. It's at these crossroads that violence and killing take place. There's an Omerta among miners, just like the unwritten "secrecy" pact amongst Italian crime syndicates of yore. Whatever happens underground, whether a "bar-down," cave-in or murder is not reported to the authorities. (They're nowhere to be found anyway.) They are merely told and passed on as gossips in hushed tones above ground. Grieving families do not bother search for missing "abanteros" or miners as they are whisked out of the area by financiers after paying them off some subsistence amounts as "social security" substitutes to lost loved ones. Others are just lost without anyone noticing or knowing. It's when a Landslide takes place, where the open side of the mountain is cut for all to see that attracts media and government attention. The usual modus operandi: mind your own business; hear nothing, say nothing; to each his own, etc. are practiced to the letter. Otherwise, you don't belong there.

There were a few "habal-habals" along the way. Not as many as during the early "gold rush" days when there were no roads and only the two-wheeled motorcycles abloom with paying passengers and cargo plied the dangerous route--dangerous not only for its risky terrain but for the ambuscades and armed attacks that were normal occurrences in what was a "wild, wild west" territory then. At that time, everyone merely observed the "golden rule." No, not the typical "do unto others what you want others do unto you." But the more down-to-earth: "Those who have the gold, rules!"Mount Diwata is the official name of the barangay. Legend has it that "diwata" (or enchanted goddess) continues to rule over the promontory high up in the sky where precious gold teem from its bowels. No wonder new miners go through some tribal customary rituals before they poke their first spade into the ground hoping to "please" and ask permission from the "Diwata."

I gathered a bit of backgrounder from close friend companero Atty. Ruben Abarquez, a frat brod in the law School TAU MU Fraternity who now dawdles in mining. Ben was my student in law School who made it to the Top Ten of the Philippine Bar exams (nope, I'm not that old) and my former law partner during those rough-and- tumble days of law practice in Davao City. According to Ben, local stories pointed to one native, Camine Banad who led a group of lumads (natives) in "discovering" almost 30 years ago in 1983 precious gold spewing from uprooted tree trunks. This triggered a mad rush to this virgin forest. Its population peaked at 200,000. The green lush cover gave way to shanties clinging perilously at cliffs.

Enchanted Mt. Diwata
by Jess Dureza
Thursday, 02 February 2012


MONKAYO, Compostela Valley--A few days ago, I revisited Barangay Mount Diwata, more popularly known as Diwalwal. Many tend to mix up the two names. But Diwalwal was derived from the local dialect's phrase "diwalwal ang dila" which literally means "one's tongue hanging out" after a steep climb. Mount Diwata, on the other handis the political unit within the Monkayo municipality in Compostela Valley. Monkayo town is about two hours' drive in first class road north of Davao City. Diwalwal elevation is about 600 to 700 meters or 2,000 feet more or less above sea level. I had been there several times before, with then DENR Secretary Elisea Gozun, Sen. Sonny Alvarez and others. My last visit was with former President Arroyo about three years ago. On those trips I flew in by helicopter.

For the first time, I travelled by Land starting the ascent from Monkayo town, the fiefdom of the Brillantes family, one of the mining families in the area. Mayor Junjun Brillantes who succeeded his assassinated brother "JB" received us at the town hall. Eldest brother "JB," who was murdered in a cockpit in Davao City in 2003, was one of the original mining stalwarts in the area together with a hand-full of other mining families who up to now control the business through sheer industry, guts and with some amount of luck and audacity. And lots of "muscle," of course. JB mining company's chairman, soft- spoken Lito Brillantes conducted us up to the hive of "small scale" mining in the mountains. The road in the less-than-one hour ascent was manageable except that one needed to take a sturdy four-wheel-drive vehicle to survive the slipper y surface in a slight drizzle, a common treat at this time of the year.

Poverty, and crime, and death...

Nia pay laing contender...

The Château de Chillon (Chillon Castle) is located on the shore of Lake Léman in the commune of Veytaux, at the eastern end of the lake, 3 km from Montreux, Switzerland. The castle consists of 100 independent buildings that were gradually connected to become the building as it stands now.

The oldest parts of the castle have not been definitively dated, but the first written record of the castle is in 1160 or 1005.[1] From the mid 12th century, the castle was home to the Counts of Savoy, and it was greatly expanded in the 13th century by Pietro II. The Castle was never taken in a siege, but did change hands through treaties.

It was made popular by Lord Byron, who wrote the poem The Prisoner Of Chillon (1816) about François de Bonivard, a Genevois monk and politician who was imprisoned there from 1530 to 1536; Byron also carved his name on a pillar of the dungeon. The castle is one of the settings in Henry James's novella Daisy Miller (1878). --Wiki

Susmarisep, wa na may mata nis Ondoy... 

He he, nanglibak ang mga kanahan...

He he, lanlan lonlon kan-on ra diay...

He he, sabagay, sila na man ron ang superpowers...

Hmm, basin too late for some...

Hmm, wa ba kahay gisud-an nga ginamos nga taga sa Balingsya...