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Quote from: ms da binsi on October 31, 2007, 01:11:16 PM
wahahahaahhahhaha

lalaki gyud ka Dong...

But of course, my dearest 'te Belle!! hahahahaha
Hows your evening btw?

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i believe you... there are things we do nga mawa gyud imong bad day...
just like your cooking and baking, that is your way of recreation...

Hahaha, korek jud ka Tita Belle!! But also, eating is another form of recreation, pood! diba?

Hahaha..mo jog-jog lang afterwards

Quote from: GEC348 on October 31, 2007, 07:08:56 AM
'Honeymoon stage' is over, Mayor Lim says
By: KIT BAGAIPO, The Bohol Chronicle




   

LOL! Tito looks so serious in that pic.

Quote from: ms da binsi on October 31, 2007, 09:14:59 AM
are you guys ready for tomorrows trick or treater kids???

i have just finished packing their goodies...

What did you get???

lol! im going to the bar tomorrow. mo trick or treat lang ko in other things hahaha!

ngek..

Sadly di ko mo balik sa bai for thanksgiving kai i have this deadline for my research
Mo adto lang ko sa restaurant with my igsoon and my parents when they visit me here sa college.
**sigh**

So, who here has begun their Christmas shopping? Lets all talk about thing you're thinking about getting for loved ones, etc. For me, I'm planning to begin my christmas shopping this weekend. We have literally about 8 weeks left till christmas day!!

If something doesn't kill you, it will make you stronger.

Interesting..

Welcome to our discussion, Hazel.

It is easy to see the success of a state welfare system in smaller countries in Europe, which also enjoys a rather high gdp per capita and gnp per annum due to the fact that their population levels are low (never exceeding 15-20 million) and enjoys a fairly high human developmental index. However, when in reference to the Philippines, which is a developing third world nation, our gdp per capita is at $5,000 a year, with a gnp of about $450 Billion. If one looks in the progression of nations, the more advanced and stable a nation is in terms of economics and infrastructure, the higher the likelihood of a state welfare system; where population is a prime factor. So long as the Philippines maintains such a high population, a low gdp per capita and a fairly limited governmental budget system, a state welfare system will remain a idealistic dream for us.

We can only hope that in the future, perhaps 4-5 decades from now, that our country will progress enough to have some form of limited state welfare system.

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(This is outside from the intended thread)

In my personal view, the Philippine Republic is a sleeping giant, which for a long time has been subject to such insidious administrations that have take advantage of the people and the graft and corruption in our country, however, in recent years, this phenomenon has receded. When the Philippines rises from its current economic situation, which I predict will be around 10-15 years from now, if we can somehow maintain our national economic growth trend at current levels of 7.5% gdp growth, and increase our gnp strength at $ 600-650 Billion, and increase our gdp per capita at a reputable $8,000, then the country would be capable of implementing reforms in government that are present in developed nations. I am completely optimistic for the Philippines, a nation that has a massive population of 91 million people and growing at 1.8% a year, with thousands of technocrats graduating year after year, if we are able to concentrate our resources properly, the country could shake the region as a significant regional power in terms of military, economics and politics. The country needs nationalism, in my opinion, and the Philippines needs a proxy war with another country to instigate a nationalistic sentiment. War generates capital for the economy, and a common enemy will unite the entire country.

Well, after reading the posts here about christmas, i cant help but get excited for the christmas season. Ah...i really do love this time of the year.

Happy Birthday Mikey!!!! Hope your day is filled with love and appreciation; and may all your wishes come true.

Go get it, big boy!  hahaha!


Peace out bro.

How long did it take you to paint that, 'te?

^ Beautiful.

see you ate Ging!! Come back to post soon!

MADRID, Oct. 27 â€" Marcos Ana does not remember everything about his 23 years in prison during Franco’s dictatorship.

But the 87-year-old poet remembers the electric shocks and brutal whippings that left his body covered in sores; the hunger that compelled him to eat grass sprouting between the stones of the prison patio; his crumpled mother, clinging to the shins of a prison guard, begging mercy for her bloodied and beaten son.

He remembers reading by moonlight the verses of Pablo Neruda, the left-wing Chilean poet, smuggled on single pages to his solitary cell, and memorizing his own compositions until he could scrounge a scrap of paper on which to write them.

Forty-six years after Mr. Ana was released from prison, he says he believes the time is ripe for Spain to commemorate and offer justice to the thousands who suffered during the country’s cruel 1936-39 civil war and the four decades of right-wing dictatorship that followed.

“We’re not looking to blame anyone, but we want to be recognized,” said Mr. Ana, a sinewy man with a fixed gaze and a papery complexion. Last month he published his memoir, “Tell Me What a Tree Is Like,” which tells the story of how, as an 19-year-old leader of the Socialist Youth, he was arrested, tortured and later condemned to death.

Mr. Ana, who won international renown for the poems he wrote in prison, was spared two death sentences and was released from prison in 1961. “Amnesty is one thing, but amnesia is another,” he said.

Mr. Ana’s wish may be realized, at least partly, on Wednesday when Parliament debates a law aimed at honoring victims of the civil war and of Franco’s repressive rule. The “law of historical memory” would declare illegitimate the military tribunals that condemned people like Mr. Ana and would create state funds to finance the process of exhuming mass graves that contain thousands of victims from both sides.

It would ban public symbols that commemorate Franco and his allies and turn the Valley of the Fallen, a massive mausoleum where the former dictator is buried, into a monument to all the war dead.

The law is a flagship piece of legislation for the Socialist government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, whose grandfather was shot to death by pro-Franco troops. But it has proved fiercely controversial in a country where people remain bitterly divided about whether to stir the bones of the past.

Spain’s remarkably smooth transition to democracy is often attributed to the fact that â€" amid the dread of fresh civil conflict â€" people on both sides of the political spectrum were prepared to close the door on the horrors of the civil war and the dictatorship that followed. There were no truth and reconciliation commissions or war-crimes trials, and many of Franco’s military and political allies remained in positions of power.

“We had the generosity to say, ‘O.K., let’s close that chapter,’” Mr. Ana said. “But 40 years later we’re still walking around cities with streets named after the caudillo,” he said, referring to Franco.

Many conservatives and some liberals who were closely involved in mapping the transition say that the law will open old wounds. Mariano Rajoy, leader of the conservative opposition Popular Party, said the law would bring “problems and divisions without helping anyone.” However, the Popular Party approved in parliamentary commission about one-third of the articles in the law, including those relating to reparations and the Valley of the Fallen.

In an editorial this month, El País, the liberal newspaper whose founders and senior staff members are closely identified with the transition, said many of the law’s objectives could be achieved through other means. The government did not need a law to assume responsibility for exhumations and order new compensation for victims, the newspaper said.

Diego López Garrido, the Socialist Party’s parliamentary spokesman, said the law did not break with the transition.

“This is all part of a slow process,” Mr. Garrido said in an interview. “The transition had a very specific purpose â€" democracy. And democracy is incompatible with the continued existence of symbols that celebrate a dictatorship.”

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Somali pirates have hijacked a Japanese-owned chemical tanker in the latest such seizure in the Horn of Africa nation's notoriously lawless waters, a regional maritime official and a piracy watchdog said on Monday.

Andrew Mwangura, head of the East African Seafarers' Assistance Programme, said shipping sources in both Somalia and Japan had confirmed the vessel was seized eight nautical miles offshore on Sunday morning.

"We are trying to establish what demands they have, and how many people were on board," Mwangura told Reuters by telephone from the Kenyan port city of Mombasa.

"There are five well-organized pirate groups operating in Somali waters. We know the one which took this boat," he said.

An official from the International Maritime Bureau's Piracy Reporting Centre in Kuala Lumpur identified the vessel as the 12,000 deadweight-tonne Golden Nory.

"She has been taken into Somali waters, and we haven't heard anything from her since," the official said.

Quoting an IMB official, Japanese news agency Kyodo said the tanker had 23 non-Japanese crew on board, made up of its South Korean captain and South Korean, Filipino and Myanmar nationals.

A Comoros-registered cargo ship, the Al Marjan, also went missing off Somalia last week, making a total of five boats believed currently held there by pirates.

The other three boats are two Tanzanian fishing vessels, and a ship from Taiwan. The Japanese-owned boat taken at the weekend was carrying a Panamanian flag of convenience, Mwangura said.

The waters off Somalia, which has been in anarchy and without central government since 1991, are considered one of the world's most dangerous due to a proliferation of pirates.

Attackers generally use speedboats to surround and board vessels, often justifying their actions as measures against illegal fishing and toxic dumping.

Mwangura said boats with no business in Somalia should stay away, while those who have to go there -- such as contractors for the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) delivering aid -- should only travel with escorts.

"Things are not good. We advise ships that are not going to Somalia to stay 200 nautical miles off the coast," he said.

Piracy off Somalia dropped briefly last year during the six month period in which most of the south was ruled by a hardline Islamist movement. But incidents have risen again since the sharia courts movement was toppled from Mogadishu at New Year.

SHANGHAI, Oct. 29 â€" The Chinese government said today that it had arrested 774 people over the past two months as part of a nationwide crackdown on the production and sale of tainted food, drugs and agricultural products.

Government regulators hailed the arrests as a major step forward for food and drug safety, and said the “criminal suspects” were detained during nationwide inspections of thousands of restaurants, food and drug production facilities and wholesale food markets.

Determined to counter accusations that it has been producing and even exporting tainted goods, China vowed earlier this year to revamp its food and drug safety regulations and to close down illegal manufacturers and exporters.

Last summer, the government even executed the former head of the nation’s food and drug administration, Zheng Xiaoyu, after he was convicted of accepting bribes and failing to properly supervise food and drug companies, some of which had sold counterfeit drugs.

But the government also acknowledged today that problems remain. As of earlier this month, it said, only 82 percent of the food tested in medium and large cities in China met food safety standards, and nearly 30 percent of the restaurants surveyed by regulators had failed food safety inspections.

The announcement of the arrests, which was made over the weekend but was not posted on a government web site until today, offered few details about the nature and seriousness of the food and drug safety violations involved. The government said only that it had investigated 626 criminal cases.

The arrests came after nearly a year of high-profile recalls involving everything from tainted pet food ingredients to problem toys, and after repeated promises on the part of government regulators to crack down on tainted goods and restore confidence in the Made in China label.

As part of its effort, the government is also trying to counter widespread concerns that the quality and safety of the food and drugs sold to its own citizens is far worse than the products it exports.

In fact, China acknowledged earlier this year that while it believes 99 percent of its food exports meet safety standards, only about 80 percent of the food sold domestically has passed inspections.

Today, the government said that a four-month campaign to root out bad food and drug producers and sellers was paying dividends.

“This action of inspecting food safety demonstrates our determination, and we should make every effort to further consolidate our previous work,” Li Changjiang, the head of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection & Quarantine said, according to a statement published on a government web site. “We will carry out inspections throughout the country to safeguard our people’s living standard.”

In a separate announcement today, China’s Ministry of Agriculture said that it was revoking the registration of 11 highly toxic pesticides because of food safety concerns.

In several cases, the pesticides were banned from use in China, but were nonetheless manufactured in the country for export. Government regulators said they were worried that the banned pesticides were finding their way back into the Chinese market.

The government also said this week that since July, inspectors working at Chinese ports have destroyed or recalled over 1,000 tons of fake products.

China is also working with American and European regulators to cooperate on product safety and to put into place new methods to detect harmful products.

The government has called this a “special battle” to save the Made in China label.

The problems began earlier this year, after American pet food makers recalled millions of tons of pet-food ingredients that were tainted with industrial chemicals imported from China. Later, the United States Food and Drug Administration blocked imports of some Chinese seafood, including shrimp and eel, because of recurring problems with residues of illegal chemicals, including cancer-causing substances.

Then regulators and safety inspectors around the world began turning up toxic toothpaste from China and Chinese-made toys coated in lead paint, which can be harmful if ingested by small children, leading to global recalls.

The crisis led to worldwide calls for stepped-up food security and toy safety regulations, prompted some consumers to begin avoiding Chinese-made goods and led to calls in Congress for a ban on some Chinese imports.

Trade statistics, though, show that with few exceptions, China’s exports to the rest of the world continue to soar, even exports of toys, seafood and agricultural products.

JERUSALEM, Oct. 29 â€" The Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, announced today that he had early stage prostate cancer, but said the cancer was not life-threatening and would not distract him from his work.

Mr. Olmert, who is 62, said the illness had come to light following routine tests several days ago. Speaking at a news conference where he was joined by two of his doctors, Mr. Olmert said he would undergo a short surgical procedure in several months, and would not require chemotherapy or radiation treatment.

“I will be able to function fully before the treatment and a few hours after it,” he said. “I will be fully able to carry out my role.”

Rumors about the state of Mr. Olmert’s health swirled throughout the morning following the unexpected announcement of the news conference, and, according to Israeli radio, the uncertainty had pushed down the Israeli stock market. After the news conference, the market stabilized.

Mr. Olmert took over the duties of prime minister in March 2006 after his predecessor, Ariel Sharon, suffered a crippling stroke. He was sworn in as prime minister in May 2006. Mr. Sharon still lies in a coma in a hospital.

Mr. Olmert underwent tests about 10 days ago after his return from an official visit to Russia, he said at the news conference. He said he had received the results several days ago and had felt pressed to call the news conference to deliver a “personal message” about his health.

Mr. Olmert was joined at the news conference by two doctors â€" Yaacov Ramon, who is working on Mr. Olmert’s case at a Tel Aviv hospital, and the prime minister’s official doctor, Shlomo Segev. Mr. Olmert said the cancer was a microscopic growth in his prostate gland that had not spread.

Mr. Olmert’s time in office has been tumultuous. He survived calls for his resignation following a harshly critical government report about his management of Israel’s war against Hezbollah in 2006.

He has also faced police and judicial investigations, and earlier this month was questioned for five hours by the police at his official residence as part of a criminal investigation into whether he tried, as acting finance minister, to help steer the sale of an Israeli bank to a friend in 2005.

On Friday, he met with the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, for more than two hours and they reaffirmed their commitment to carrying out the first phase of the so-called road map peace plan.

Mr. Olmert has been holding regular talks with Mr. Abbas in the run-up to an American-sponsored peace conference expected to take place in Annapolis, Md., before the end of the year.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The man believed to be responsible for last week's rocket attack on the U.S. Army's Camp Victory was captured in an early morning raid Monday, the U.S. military said.

In addition to the Camp Victory suspect, three other known associates of that man were captured in the Iraq Ministry of Agriculture compound in eastern Baghdad's Rusifiya district.

The four were hiding, which prompted U.S. soldiers to enter the compound to detain them, the military said.

The attack on Wednesday killed two U.S. soldiers and wounded 38 at Camp Victory, which is near Baghdad International Airport. Two third-country nationals were also wounded in the attack, but the military did not clarify their nationalities.

"We have reason to believe that, through two intelligence-driven operations over the last few days, we now have detained all of the leadership and the key operatives of the indirect fire cell that attacked Victory Base last week," said Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks, Multi-National Division Baghdad's deputy commanding general.

On Sunday, two local journalists and a Washington Post reporter were shot dead in an area between Tikrit and Kirkuk in northern Iraq.

Tikrit police said two journalists working for a local newspaper were killed and three security guards were wounded in the ambush.

Salih Saif Aldin, a 32-year-old Iraqi reporter working for the Post, was shot and killed in the southwestern neighborhood of Saidiya, the paper reported in its Monday editions.

"The death of Salih Saif Aldin in the service of our readers is a tragedy for everyone at The Washington Post. He was a brave and valuable reporter who contributed much to our coverage of Iraq," said Leonard Downie Jr., executive editor of The Post, was quoted as saying.

"We are in his debt. We grieve with his family, friends, fellow journalists and everyone in our Baghdad bureau."

The newspaper said he had taken a taxi from the Post's office to the neighborhood "to interview residents about the sectarian violence there between Shiite militiamen and Sunni insurgents."

The paper reported that "two hours later, a man picked up Saif Aldin's cell phone and called a colleague at the Post to say he had been shot." He was shot once in the forehead, the paper said.

The area where the reporter visited had been dominated by the Mehdi Army, the militia of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, and police believe he was killed by Sunnis aligned with the "Awakening Council" -- the anti-insurgent tribal forces working with the United States, the paper reported.

The Committee to Protect Journalists, a group that promotes freedom of the press, said before the Sunday killings that 118 journalists had been killed as a result of hostilities in Iraq.

Other developments

• A car bomb targeting families returning from a post-Ramadan festival ripped through a predominantly Sunni district of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least three civilians and wounding 25, an Interior Ministry official said. The casualties included women and children. On Sunday, insurgents targeted Shiite Muslims in separate attacks in Baghdad and Samarra that left at least 24 dead, Iraqi officials said.

• Five Iraqi youths were killed and 28 Iraqis were wounded on Monday when insurgents fired mortars at two joint Iraqi-coalition military bases in the predominantly Shiite city of Diwaniya in southern Iraq, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said. The bases are about three kilometers (two miles) apart.

• A U.S. soldier was killed and three others wounded by a roadside bomb in southern Baghdad on Sunday, the military said. Also Sunday, a U.S. soldier died in "a non-combat related incident" in Nineveh province, northern Iraq. The latest fatalities bring the U.S. military death toll in Iraq to 3,829. The toll in October stands at 22.

• Coalition forces across Iraq killed three insurgents and detained 20 people during raids on Saturday and Sunday targeting al Qaeda in Iraq, the U.S. military said.

SWAT, Pakistan (AP)  -- Pro-Taliban militants and security forces reached a cease-fire in a troubled district of northwest Pakistan early Monday after the deaths of another 35 rebel fighters and 16 troops, officials said.

The scale of the bloodshed in Swat -- a sign of the spreading conflict between Islamist forces and Pakistan's government -- began emerging as the cease-fire took effect around 8 a.m. following negotiations between associates of radical cleric Maulana Fazlullah and senior officials.

A once-peaceful valley that used to draw tourists because of its mountain scenery, Swat has been wracked by violence since about 2,500 government forces were deployed there last week to tackle Fazlullah, who has challenged the state with a campaign to spread fundamentalist Islam.

An army official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to media, said 16 paramilitary troops were killed Friday when militants blew up their truck in the Nawakili area. The report of that bombing only emerged Monday.

Security forces backed by helicopter gunships on Sunday pounded militant hideouts in the mountains of the district. At least 35 militants died in the fierce fighting, two local police officials said, also on condition of anonymity.

Ali Rahman, a local police official, said the militants were now burying comrades slain since Friday. He said villagers who fled to Swat town because of the fighting had seen militants' bodies scattered in the forest. He said they had also seen the corpses of paramilitary troops.

Arshad Majid, a senior district official, welcomed the cease-fire.

"Because of the fighting, the militants could not collect the bodies of their men, and we also could not count them. We will be in a better position today to say how many people died," he said.

Witnesses said they heard a couple of explosions in the region early Monday, but in the police control room at Swat they had yet to receive reports of a resumption in fighting.

Sirajuddin, a spokesman for Fazlullah who goes by one name, said they had killed 30 troops near the village of Charbagh and would hand over the bodies only after the army releases an unspecified number of prisoners. There was no official confirmation of his claim.

He said the cease-fire was holding. "But, if the security forces attack us, our people would also target them with weapons," he told an Associated Press Television News reporter in Fazlullah's besieged home village of Imam Dehri.

He said their struggle was to enforce Islamic law.

"We will continue this struggle," he said, as supporters used loudspeakers to issue calls for jihad, or holy war.

The violence erupted Thursday, when a suicide attack tore through a military truck, killing 19 paramilitary troops and one civilian.

Security forces then attacked Fazlullah's stronghold, provoking militants to kidnap and kill 13 troops, police and civilians on Friday. Some of the bodies were beheaded by militants and displayed in public.

The fighting intensified on Sunday. Local officials said police and paramilitary troops were being treated at a local hospital. Mohammed Ijaj, a hospital official, said they had also received 11 injured civilians overnight.

Fazlullah is the leader of the banned pro-Taliban group Tehrik Nifaz-e-Sharia Mohammedi, or Movement for the Enforcement of Islamic Law. He has launched a Taliban-style Islamization campaign in the Swat region and has called for holy war against the government.

The growing instability in northwestern Pakistan, which borders Afghanistan has shaken the authority of President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, a key ally in the U.S. war on terror.

In Malakand, a rugged area bordering Swat, authorities dropped pamphlets from airplanes Sunday urging residents to help "the government in purging (Malakand) of terrorists," the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan news agency reported. The government made similar appeals in Swat on Saturday.

LONDON, England (CNN) -- Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has stirred up controversy ahead of a rare visit to Britain which begins Monday, accusing British authorities of ignoring intelligence that could have prevented the 2005 London bombings

In an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation that aired on Monday, the Saudi king said Britain failed to act on information provided by Saudi security services ahead of the suicide bombings on London's transport network in July 2005, that killed 52 people and injured more than 770.

"We sent information to Great Britain before the terrorist atrocities in Britain, but unfortunately no action was taken and it may have been able to avert the tragedy," the monarch told the BBC.

King Abdullah's arrival in London on Monday will mark the first state visit by a Saudi monarch in 20 years.

In the BBC interview, he refused to elaborate on the details of the intelligence, saying that disclosing specific information "may cause sensitivities" between the two countries' security services.

However, he went on to say that Britain was among a number of countries that were not taking the issue of global terrorism seriously.

A British Home Office spokesman strenuously denied that any intelligence from Saudi Arabia had been overlooked in the run-up to the atrocities and that information provided by the Saudis "was materially different from what actually occurred on 7 July and clearly not relevant to those acts."

"We have made it clear that if we had intelligence that could have prevented the attacks we would have acted upon it," the spokesman told CNN.

The spokesman said an investigation by the British Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) published last year found there was no evidence that intelligence passed on by the Saudis could have prevented the bombings.

British Foreign Secretary David Miliband pulled out of a meeting with his Saudi Arabian counterpart in London Monday, but the Foreign Office insisted it was for personal reasons and not a snub.

Miliband has just adopted a baby son and is taking time off to look after him, the British Foreign Office confirmed to CNN.

The Foreign Office insisted Miliband's decision to pull out of the meeting with Saudi's Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal was due to personal reasons and was in no way linked to King Abdullah's comments.

Miliband's duties are being carried out by junior ministers in his absence.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (CNN)  -- Argentine first lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner declared victory Sunday night as election returns showed her leading all rivals in her bid to succeed her husband and become the country's first female president.

housands of supporters lined up outside the Buenos Aires hotel where she delivered her victory speech, banging drums, waving flags and chanting, "Cristina, Cristina."

Fernandez de Kirchner called her victory "a triumph for all Argentines" and thanked supporters for entrusting her with the "major responsibility" of the presidency.

She also thanked her husband, center-left President Nestor Kirchner, who is expected to switch roles and become the leading adviser to his wife once she takes office.

Fernandez de Kirchner has been a top adviser to her husband during his four years in office and serves in the country's Senate. During the campaign, she promised to continue his economic policies, which she credited with reviving the country's economy after the country's 2001-2002 financial meltdown.

With just over two-thirds of polling places reporting, Fernandez had about 43 percent of the vote, compared with 23 percent for former lawmaker Elisa Carrio and 18 percent for former Economy Minister Roberto Lavagna, The Associated Press reported. Eleven others split the rest.

Six independent television networks, a private radio station and an opposition newspaper reported their exit polling indicated Fernandez has easily won a first-round victory.

But no opposition candidates conceded defeat, and Carrio spokesman Matias Mendez said seven parties had filed a complaint alleging that ballots were missing or stolen in Buenos Aires province, the country's most populous.

Electoral officials denied any irregularities, but a judge extended voting by an hour in the capital after many of Argentina's 12,700 polling stations opened late. A representative of the ruling party was arrested on suspicion of trying to vote twice.

The Kirchners have drawn comparisons to former U.S. President Bill Clinton and his wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton, now the Democratic presidential front-runner in the 2008 U.S. elections.

The next president, who begins a four-year term on December 10, faces challenges including high inflation, an energy shortage and rampant crime in a country that a century ago ranked among the world's 10 richest.

Mao jud na gi miss nako. Si Lolo ..

Hahaha, thank you so much for the link. Very beautiful dance troupe--talented kaayo. Ah lagi, im trying to survive the killer beauties in here, hahaha!

Quote from: grazie7y on October 30, 2007, 03:26:17 AM
Kinsa man nang kanta ana dong enzo?  Di, bright sa pag atik sa magic karaoke.  Supak lagi akong brother in law that I got good score when I don't sing good so with smile i told them:  You got the talent, i got the skill! heheheh

I like it when you call me Ate Ging coz that's how my younger siblings and all my cousins call me.

haha i bet you conquered them all with your voice, ha? this song is originally sung by 'Father and Son' back in the 1970s, pero this remake is sung by Angelika de la cruz.

Anytime, Ate.

haha ate ging, so you're a wizz with the magic mic, diay? kuyawa da!!!

Sing "miss na miss kita" for me next time, ha! hahaha

this song ba http://youtube.com/watch?v=kArhHSTVUmI

hahaha!! ma matay man ko dinhi if i keep on looking at these beauties!! Hazel, are these ladies of Waray-Waray blood???

Mr. Ayag,

I am honored to be amongst great individuals such as yourself in this site. Much thanks to Fiel for allowing me to reconnect with such vibrant and intelligent minds, I am in good company.

Kummusta man ka langgam! Welcome to Tubag Bohol, oh you have such a great welcome party here just for you, hahaha. come join us uy!!!

Sige,, warm regards,,
Lorenzo

Quote from: Ginger on October 30, 2007, 03:00:29 AM
these are beauties, dong...

I think my heart skipped a beat when I saw their faces, Hazel.

My god..

Very true, Mr. Ayag. So eloquently said...

mao ba...sige thanks.

Mari, you are very beautiful. Just wanted to tell you that.
haha, average ra ko, but i love to see the wonderful works of God. His perfection: the woman.

Mari, what kind of perfume is 'Allure' from Chanel? There was a woman in church who was wearing it and I couldnt help but getting attracted to her scent.

Soft ra kaayo..pero sharp and direct. I acted like didnt notice her, but i couldnt pay attention to the sermon because of her scent. lol

Beautiful avatar picture, Mari.

Guapa kaayo! Beauty runs in your blood, Hazel

Ma kurat jud ko whenever see Waray-Waray women because their beauty is so...pure.

Samarenas,

hehehe, datu sa puso, 'te Anel. Buutan kaayo na si Lolo Ciano, no? Tell me, when did you meet Lolo diay? Sa piesta sa una? Taga Anas ra ba na si Lolo, hes part of the Salvo-Salise Clan.

A stereotype that I have of women are kind, gentle, fragile, motherly figure, but I know that there are exceptions to every rule. Ive met women here in college who actually refused to enter when I held the door for them. And I respect that.

Waray-Waray women wearing traditional outfits.

Can I say, gorgeous?

The native beauty of my father's people of Samar and Leyte.

Welcome!!!


PS. What does kubotan mean?

Happy Birthday, Lolo Ciano!!!!! Lo, 82 years young naman ka!!! hahaha!! Lolo, I'll send you a birthday card, pero mo release lang ko ani, kai gi mingaw man ko nimo. Lo, I love you, mingaw ko nimo--kalingaw. Take it easy lang, Lo, ayaw lang pa suko suko dinha, enjoy every day, and know that your apos here miss their one and only Lolo.

Imung apo,


PS. 82 more years, ha!   


Uncle Abe, Lolo Ciano and my Dad, Rico.

hahahaha!! oo gud!

Leo you're hilarious man. Great costume, bro. Ride that broom! hahaha

(This comes from my lolo)

"Dako bahbah, dakong lawas. Gamay bahbah, gamay ang utok"
-an old Barangay Anas saying.

Quote from: C2H4 on October 29, 2007, 02:20:23 PM
Early to rise and early to bed, makes a man healthy and wealthy and dead.

(I forgot the name of the person I got this quote from)

hahaha interesting twist, pero the original saying was from Ben Franklin (i think?)

omg, reading that reminded me of the prelude of LOTR.
(i love this movie)

"One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them"

Quote from: C2H4 on October 29, 2007, 12:25:38 PM
Hehehe!

Perfume connoisseur jud ni's dodong oi...

Dong, nakakita ka adtong movie nga kadtong tighimo ug perfume, he killed women and extracted their scents to make perfume? ngehhh, kuyaw kaayo to nga movie oi...

Nakasimhot raba ko anang Allure gahapon, humot bitaw kaayo...ako pud gisimhot ang Mademoiselle ni Ms Belle, humot jud diay...murag na imagine na nko unsa'y baho ni Ms Belle...

Ako ani, kutob ra intawon ko simhot2x ug perfume ani...

haha, yes the movie called 'Perfume'? Oh i loved that movie, 'te. That movie was funny, dark, and romantic at the same time, i couldn't help but have pity for him, yet wanted him caught at the same time. The ending was very interesting, dont you think?

How did you like the movie?

Glen, tell them "Zdraste Widjya"

To sing praise to HIS most holy name.

welcome mawjood!

Dont be afraid. Live and let live. Ben, your ancestors are British, the conquerors of 1/4th of the world, ruled not only the American colonies, Canada, the Caribbean, India, Burma, Malaya, held territories in China, Pacific Islands, Guniea, and parts of Africa. The world's naval route was ruled by the British, your ancestors. Did they fear when they braved the jungles of Africa? Did they have fear as they colonized India and subdued the millions of their people? Did they have fear as they colonized the American colonies and suffered constant attacks from native americans? Of course, but they didnt let that get them. Live and let live.

Life is too precious and too short to let fear take the best of us. Conquor your fears and triumph!

Enjoy your stay in the Philippines!

Men are naturally jealous. They don't want to know that their girl friends were 'touched' before. It emasculates a man to know he's dating someone who isn't a virgin; as well, there is a sense of purity when knowing that your girl friend or fiance' is chaste, manifested by virginity. Of course it differs when it comes from one man to another--people have different tastes and standards.

Today in church, I was lucky to sit next to a woman whose beauty was complimented with the fragrance of her perfume. I had difficulty in my benedictions as I was attracted to her scent and voice. After mass, however, I had the honor in talking to her and one question I asked her was what she was wearing. She wore 'Allure' by Chanel. Exquisite, jud tong bajiha.

Quote from: Happy on October 21, 2007, 09:22:03 PM
abi nako ning Parliament nga ni exist lang sa mga Monarchy countries..

You are absolutely correct. Countries that utilize a parliamentary form of government are those who were under the control of the British Empire, and or one that has a symbolic monarchy as head of state. In accordance:

(these are mere examples)

The United Kingdom: Queen Elizabeth II
The Dominion of Canada: Queen Elizabeth II (commonwealth of nations)
The Republic of India: Ruled by the British
The Federation of Malaysia: Ruled by the British; actually has a King as head of state
Australia: Ruled by the British; Queen Elizabeth as head of state
The Kingdom of Spain: King Juan Carlos I
The Kingdom of Thailand: King Bhumibol Adulyadej the Great
The Japanese Empire: Emperor Akihito, head of the Diet (their form of parliament)
The Kingdom of Cambodia: King Norodom Sihamoni

The purpose of parliament is to redirect absolute power from the King to the elected officials, to the noble houses and to the house of commons, as a way to limit the power of the monarchy. It was developed, as means for a monarchical system to operate in a democratic process in accordance to the European Enlightenment of the 18th century to the Victorian Epoch. The Philippines, since its inception has never utilized a parliamentarian form of government, nor has ever recognized a King of the unified Philippines. It has always been a republic since the foundation of the Malolos Republic in 1898 and declared a republic in its independency from the United States in 1946. Parliamentarianism is a foreign political thought in regards to the Philippines.

I'm a Filipino kid and one thing that I notice different from my American-born friends is the discipline used by our parents.

1. When I did something wrong as a child, retribution was swift and firm. No contest. My father would take his belt, and tell me to stand and face the wall, and apply latus-latus on me. (which I deserved)
My father wouldn't even have to say anything to me, and I would know that I did something wrong. The expression in his eyes was worth a thousand words, and would reduce me to tears as a child, when I or my siblings did something wrong. As the eldest child, my parents were hard on me, as my younger siblings looked up to me and saw me as an idol. Therefore, my parents applied punishment accordingly, and my siblings learned from that. Its a hard burden to bear, being the eldest son and expected to follow in the footsteps of your father.

2. My friends didnt get 'latus' , they were grounded or were told to go to their rooms if they did something wrong. And they tended to break rules in their house, because there was no negative conditioning. No enforcement besides being 'grounded' and not being able to watch television etc. Most of them answer back to their parents.

Quote from: ms da binsi on October 29, 2007, 04:42:03 AM
We went for a walk today and captured this beautiful scenery...

not leafless though...


these are the few of the places that has leaves!!!

Beautiful!! Wonderful pictures, Tita Belle!

Ah, another respectable mind from Tubag Bohol. Greetings, WN, and thank you for addressing my points and  concerns.

It would make sense if the Philippines adopted the parliamentary system had it been under the British Empire, which is so for nations such as Malaysia, India, Australia and Canada (for example), however, the Philippines has always been a republican state, since its conception in the First Republic in Malolos in 1898 and to the current restored republic since the fall of the Marcos regime in 1986. Though like yourself, I admonish the phenomenon of vote buying and force as witnessed in the Comelec system, it is nonetheless the closest form of republican democracy; one that addresses most of the citizens of the Republic. Is it perfect? Of course not, but what government is ever perfect. (You addressed that yourself, in great form, if I say so myself).

In my view, a nation such as the Philippines, where the people have in influential role in politics (as manifested in People Power Protests), which clearly emphasizes the fragility of our government. The passions of the people affect the policies of the executive, legislative and judicial, when in all reality it should not. In the United States, there are reasons why the constitution and bill of rights are addressed, however, there are reasons why congressional members utilize checks and balances to prevent the passions of the people, which changes from age to age, from affecting the true purpose of government, and for the benefit of the people of the United States. The Philippines, as a nation still in its infancy, needs to maintain its republican form of government--which has been the basis of how policy is implemented. In defense of the republican form, in Madison's implementation of this philosophy in the American republic, separation of powers is the means by which liberty is preserved and government's predilection to tyranny inhibited.

From the Federalist Paper No.47

    One of the principal objections inculcated by the more respectable adversaries to the Constitution, is its supposed violation of the political maxim, that the legislative, executive, and judiciary departments ought to be separate and distinct. In the structure of the federal government, no regard, it is said, seems to have been paid to this essential precaution in favour of liberty. The several departments of power are distributed and blended in such a manner as at once to destroy all symmetry and beauty of form, and to expose some of the essential parts of the edifice to the danger of being crushed by the disproportionate weight of other parts. No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty, than that on which the objection is founded.

    The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.

Madison saw that having those department's wholly separate from each other an operating in isolation was just as dangerous to liberty as having their powers collapsed into one person. Madison sought to tap the natural negative passions of humanity in the American implementation of Montesquieu's separation of powers, so that the three arms of government were balanced against each other in a kind of natural harmony. Where each arm would be maintaining a watchdog on each other. Protecting their own arm's influence and power while ensuring that the other arms do not gain more influence and power - especially at their own expense.

    The magistrate in whom the whole executive power resides cannot of himself make a law, though he can put a negative on every law; nor administer justice in person, though he has the appointment of those who do administer it. The judges can exercise no executive prerogative, though they are shoots from the executive stock; nor any legislative function, though they may be advised with by the legislative councils. The entire legislature can perform no judiciary act, though by the joint act of two of its branches the judges may be removed from their offices, and though one of its branches is possessed of the judicial power in the last resort. The entire legislature, again, can exercise no executive prerogative, though one of its branches constitutes the supreme executive magistracy, and another, on the impeachment of a third, can try and condemn all the subordinate officers in the executive department.
In the United States we see this balancing act in the appointment of Judges to the Supreme Court. The Executive nominates judges. The Legislative has to confirm those appointments.

The Philippines' current system adequately fulfills this given need; though it has problems of graft and corruption, what developing third world nation is immune from such a phenomenon? Clearly you cannot argue that countries with parliamentary systems such as Canada Thailand, Malaysia, and India are free of such vices in government, as it they are not. On the contrary, corruption is rather high in both systems. The only difference is that these countries were under the British Empire (with the exception of Thailand, which was allowed to retain its autonomy only on the basis to remain a border between the British Empire and French Indochina), which at the time also utilized a parliamentary system and those countries, upon independence, adopted the system of government of the white colonizer. The Philippines, however, after independence from Spain immediately adopted a Republican form of government and during the interment years of American protectorateship, upon inception of independence in 1946, adopted, by right of the people, a Republican form. There is no historical basis of the Philippines adopting a parliamentary system, and even that example you provided in 1978 is null in void as that was during the epoch of Martial Law, when the congressional body of the Philippines was liquidated by Presidential Decree: a total example of when one governmental body supersedes its bounds, and the weakness of the secondary and tertiary bodies to keep the executive in homeostasis. Despite that ill instance, it was repaired, thanks to the People Power Movement, which saved the Republican form of government to this day.

The Philippines, is a nation that is unstable, you and I know that. Economically, it is  insouciant and is subject to change as the economies of its co-dependent trading partners fluctuates, hence, there needs to be some sort of stable government to implement and address emergencies if such an event arises. This applies to natural and military events as well. A parliamentary system is unstable, by nature of its body. A voting block retains power by the masses and elects a prime minister, not according to the people's choice, but by the vote and choice of the elected parliamentarians. Hence, in all reality, a legitimate way of placing a 'democratically chosen dictator'. Additionally, parliamentary governments are fragile, governments are liquidated if a majority block looses its control in parliament, hence a totally different block with different plans might take power form a previous government, which had a totally different view on trade, economics, military, etc. Its purely unstable, and is foreign to what the Philippines is used to. We need to be optimistic realists, when it comes to Philippine politics, and not idealists.

As you addressed, there are pros to a parliamentary system, however there are cons to every pro. In the parliamentary system faction can also play a positive as well as negative role. As scrymarch noted, factions can be used to tack upstream against the political opinion of the majority. The change from protectionist policies to economic rationalism, and the volatility those policies entailed, is a good example of this.

Ironically it is likely that the factional structure of the majority government is what keeps the Prime Minister position from becoming a permanent dictator. Westminster systems suffer from a slow oscillation in the change of government, but this preferable to a usurper illegally claiming the Executive position.

The negative passions of humans include the desire for more power, and the desire to rule others in an absolute manner. In a liberal democracy the closest thing to this is the Prime Minister or Premier position. For every Prime Minister there is a Parliament full of Representatives who desire that position. A Prime Minister that reaches too far will be challenged by others wanting the throne.

The Prime Minister is not an elected position, those that occupy it do so at the pleasure and patience of the majority party. A President is a singular elected position and more open to being usurped for it. This does not mean that Parliamentary government is superior to a Presidential system. Both have their advantages and disadvantages. However, in concern for the Philippines, switching to a parliamentary form is a calculated risk, that could buckle the bureaucracy and strain the political processes of the local governments under the federal government, which have been molded and currently operates within a republican form, not a parliamentarian form. Also understand that within a parliamentarian form, the majority holds the power, and the minority are essentially ignored. Do we want to risk that? Do we want to risk changing a form of government in which so much blood, toil and sweat has been perspired in achieving? This isn't a game of chance, we are dealing with, as it seems in political theory---we are dealing with the life and progress of our Philippine Fatherland, of whom 90 million citizens rely on a properly functioning government. Weaken government, and I caution you that subvertists and secessionists will rise and take advantage of the fragility of the country in its transitional stage. Enemies within and without will see this as a chance to transgress on our beloved Republic. Would you risk the fragmentation of the republic for an experiment? Nay, good sir, I would not.

-Lorenzo

SIRTE, Libya (AP) -- Sudan's government committed to a cease-fire in Darfur at the start of peace talks Saturday, but mediators and journalists outnumbered the few rebels who did not boycott the U.N.-sponsored negotiations, reducing hopes for an end to fighting.

The large government delegation said its cessation of hostilities was a sign of goodwill for negotiations aimed at ending over four years of fighting in the western Sudanese region. But the pledge was not matched by the rebels, whose main leaders all refused to attend the talks.

"The government of Sudan is proclaiming as of now a unilateral cease-fire in Darfur," said Sudanese chief envoy Nafie Ali Nafie. "We shall not be the first ones to fire arms."

The U.S. special envoy for Sudan, Andrew Natsios, praised the government for its pledge, but cautioned that dozens of previous cease-fire declarations in Darfur have been broken by both government troops and rebel factions.

Some 20 rebels were present in the vast conference hall in the Libyan coastal town of Sirte. Ahmed Diraige, the head of an obscure faction known as the Sudan Federal Democratic Alliance, spoke on behalf of the rebels and said the groups present were also willing to consider a cease-fire.

But with the absence of major rebels, hopes faded for a quick peace agreement. Mediators downplayed the conference's goals, saying the focus would now be to "create conditions" for effective peace talks. Mediation spokesman Ahmed Fawzi warned it would be "a long process."

The host of the talks, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, questioned what could be achieved in Sirte, saying the absence of the main Darfur rebel chiefs, Abdulwahid Elnur and Khalil Ibrahim, proved international mediation efforts were failing.

"As long as they object to this conference, then there is no justification for the international community to intervene," Gadhafi said.

The Libyan leader called on Africans to solve their own problems without international pressure.

"Yes, there is suffering" in Darfur, Gadhafi said. But "to internationalize a tribal problem is an exercise in futility."

Elnur, the founder of the Sudan Liberation Army rebels, said immediately after the talks were announced that he would boycott until the U.N. and African Union have deployed a joint force of 26,000 peacekeepers due in January.

Ibrahim, the leader of the rival Justice and Equality Movement, had initially agreed to the talks, but on Friday announced he was also boycotting because the U.N. was inviting smaller, less representative rebel factions. Mediators insist they invited all factions to make sure the talks were inclusive.

Diraige, the main rebel delegate present, later said he felt Darfurians could still count on Gadhafi, an influential player in the region. "He's against international intervention, but not against solving the problems in Darfur," he said.

Chief U.N. negotiator Jan Eliasson and his African Union counterpart, Salim Ahmed Salim, told reporters that several rebel leaders were expected to "trickle in" during the next few days. While slow to start, the talks aimed to build a dialogue that could lead to a more solid peace deal, they said.

All participants warned that the absence of a broadly accepted peace agreement could greatly weaken the mission of the joint AU-U.N. force.

Although the government's cease-fire announcement raised hopes that a momentum for peace could still be generated, Sudan's military has regularly bombed Darfur rebel zones and sent proxy-militias against villages despite previous pledges and U.N. resolutions.

Natsios warned that the U.S. could impose further sanctions against rebels or the government if they resume hostilities. "We are prepared ... to hold all parties to their cease-fire agreement," he told delegates at the talks.

Darfur's ethnic African rebels took arms in 2003 against the Arab-dominated central Sudanese government, accusing it of decades of discrimination. Khartoum is accused of retaliating with mass violence against civilians that has killed more than 200,000 and displaced over 2.5 million people, largely ethnic Africans.

Also in attendance were several Arab ministers and senior envoys from the Arab League and various nations.

The opening of new negotiations in Libya was viewed as a sign that Sudan's Arab neighbors want an increased role in peace efforts. It was also an attempt by Libya to show it has ended decades of international isolation and can play its part in regional diplomacy.

But many rebels have grown skeptical of the Arab states' involvement in the peace process, stating they are biased toward Khartoum.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- U.S.-led coalition forces killed about 80 Taliban fighters during a six-hour battle outside a Taliban-controlled town in southern Afghanistan Saturday, the latest in a series of increasingly bloody engagements in the region, officials said.

Major General David M. Rodriguez of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division briefed reporters at an International Security Assistance Force press conference in Kabul Sunday.

The battle near Musa Qala in Helmand province -- the world's largest poppy growing region -- is at least the fifth major fight in the area since September 1. The five battles have killed more than 250 Taliban fighters, a possible sign that U.S. or British forces could be trying to wrest the area back from Taliban militants.

The latest fight began when Taliban fighters attacked a combined U.S. coalition and Afghan patrol with rockets and gunfire, prompting the combined force to call in attack aircraft, which resulted in "almost seven dozen Taliban fighters killed," the U.S.-led coalition said in a statement early Sunday.

The coalition said that four bombs were dropped on a trench line filled with Taliban fighters, resulting in most of the deaths.

Taliban militants overran Musa Qala in February, four months after British troops left the town following a contentious peace agreement that handed over security responsibilities to Afghan elders. Musa Qala has been in control of Taliban fighters ever since.

Situated in the north of Helmand, Musa Qala and the region around it have been the front line of the bloodiest fighting this year. It is also the heartland of Afghanistan's illicit opium poppy farms.

Violence in Afghanistan this year has been the deadliest since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion. More than 5,200 people have died this year due to the insurgency, according to an Associated Press count based on figures from Afghan and Western officials.

Also Saturday, a suicide bomber wearing an Afghan security uniform detonated his explosives at the entrance to a combined U.S.-Afghan base in the east of the country, killing four Afghan soldiers and a civilian, officials said.

The suicide bomber walked up to a security gate for Afghan soldiers outside Forward Operating Base Bermel in the eastern province of Paktika, near the border with Pakistan, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said.

Four Afghan soldiers and a civilian were killed and six Afghans were wounded, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said. No Americans were hurt.

It was not immediately clear if the bomber had been trying to gain entry to the base.

Taliban insurgents have set off more than 100 suicide blasts this year, a record pace.

Elsewhere, Taliban militants killed three Afghan police who had been trying to prevent them from carrying out a kidnapping, said Helmand provincial police chief Mohammad Hussein Andiwal. The militants successfully kidnapped an Afghan man during the gunbattle, he said.

Australia's prime minister, meanwhile, said more NATO powers must directly engage the Taliban to help ease the burden on Australia, the United States, Britain, Canada and the Netherlands, which all have troops in the dangerous southern and central parts of Afghanistan.

Germany, Italy, France and Spain have troops in the relatively safer northern sections, a fact that is causing a rift within NATO. Australian Prime Minister John Howard said those countries need to help ease the burden on countries operating in the south.

"Some of the other countries have lots of troops in Afghanistan, but they're not in some of the areas that are experiencing the heaviest fighting," he said.

The governments of the Netherlands and Canada, in particular, are coming under domestic pressure to pull out troops because of heavy casualties.

"I think the Dutch government has been very courageous to date," Howard said. "It's not for me to comment on Dutch politics, but I do observe that the Dutch are making a great contribution and as are of course the Canadians."

Iraqi catholic prays before the image of the Immaculate Virgin Mary.


BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Iraq's prime minister pledged Saturday to protect and support the Christian minority that has been fleeing the chaos and sectarian violence in the country.

After receiving the Chaldean patriarch of Baghdad, Emmanuel III Delly, Nuri al-Maliki affirmed his government's readiness and determination to defend the small community.

He also vowed to stop the outflow of Iraqi Christians, according to a statement released by al-Maliki's office.

Delly, who is the head of Chaldean Church in Iraq and spiritual leader to all Chaldeans, has been outspoken about the need to protect minority Christians from Iraq's spiraling violence.

Earlier this month, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Delly a cardinal, when he named 23 new "princes" of the Roman Catholic Church.

The Christian community here, about 3 percent of the country's 26 million people, is particularly vulnerable, and has little political or military clout to defend itself.

Since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, Iraqi Christians, who are mostly Chaldeans, have been targeted by Islamic extremists who label them "crusaders" loyal to U.S. troops.

Churches, priests and business owned by Christians have been attacked by Islamic militants.

Seeking better and safer life, about 50 percent of Iraq's Christians are thought to have left the country, according to a report issued by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, which advises the White House and Congress.

Quote from: preciousNpolite on October 29, 2007, 01:20:17 AM
As you may know how can they close their door's it is automatic hours and yes i have seen ICM get closed early by the owner Marlito Uy.Especially when it was 50% off day no one was in the store buying. Groceries yes but other household wares not!
The grocery stores is where most of the buying is being done so that is why they do not close their door's are you woman not aware of the malls activities that keep many off the streets in an air conditioned building and some of these events often go on until late.
I see people passing from one end of the mall to the other as if a thorough fare (shortcut).
Even the offices will tell me that they wish the other department stores would pick up better on business.
I wish they would also so that more persons can be hired but maybe your both abroad and not aware of prices that are sky rocketing daily also.
The minimum wage is still being fought here and it is not enough rice is P27.00-P30.00 per kilo most meats are P230 per kilo and you sure can not get enough to barely get a balanced meal 3x daily on the table.
Ms. da binsi please post a photograph of yourself and not some boring leafless tree's that does not show off yourself and your beauty.
thank you!

Who are you to dictate what anyone can do in this forum? Excuse me, but Ate Belle, has worked and passionately contributed to the growth of this forum, her pictures and her art has drawn many attention. She is an artist. She captures the soul of her surroundings and graciously shares it with us here in Tubag Bohol. We are fortunate enough that she is willing to take the time to do that for us, and I personally adore her, she's my Tita.

Dont attack anyone and not expect a response from this community. We are a Family. And Family take care of each other.

Remember that. Its the Bisayan way.

Greetings to you, Fiel. I would like to thank you for introducing me to Tubag Bohol. The only reason I'm a member is because I recieved emails from you, and one email struck me because it was named 'Bohol'. I clicked it. How is your family? Hope all is well for you.

With warm regards,
Bran

I dedicate this to my buddy Paul, for the argument we had last month. I love you bro..miss you.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ePyRrb2-fzs

lol, yes, glen. Di ko kaibao if mo adto ba na sila, pero i think kate would go if i asked her. Haha you like them ?

You nailed it, dot. Couldn't have said it any better.

When there are so many we shall have to mourn,

when grief has been made so public, and exposed

to the critique of a whole epoch

the frailty of our conscience and anguish,



of whom shall we speak? For every day they die

among us, those who were doing us some good,

who knew it was never enough but

hoped to improve a little by living.



Such was this doctor: still at eighty he wished

to think of our life from whose unruliness

so many plausible young futures

with threats or flattery ask obedience,



but his wish was denied him: he closed his eyes

upon that last picture, common to us all,

of problems like relatives gathered

puzzled and jealous about our dying.



For about him till the very end were still

those he had studied, the fauna of the night,

and shades that still waited to enter

the bright circle of his recognition



turned elsewhere with their disappointment as he

was taken away from his life interest

to go back to the earth in London,

an important Jew who died in exile.



Only Hate was happy, hoping to augment

his practice now, and his dingy clientele

who think they can be cured by killing

and covering the garden with ashes.



They are still alive, but in a world he changed

simply by looking back with no false regrets;

all he did was to remember

like the old and be honest like children.



He wasn't clever at all: he merely told

the unhappy Present to recite the Past

like a poetry lesson till sooner

or later it faltered at the line where



long ago the accusations had begun,

and suddenly knew by whom it had been judged,

how rich life had been and how silly,

and was life-forgiven and more humble,



able to approach the Future as a friend

without a wardrobe of excuses, without

a set mask of rectitude or an

embarrassing over-familiar gesture.



No wonder the ancient cultures of conceit

in his technique of unsettlement foresaw

the fall of princes, the collapse of

their lucrative patterns of frustration:



if he succeeded, why, the Generalised Life

would become impossible, the monolith

of State be broken and prevented

the co-operation of avengers.



Of course they called on God, but he went his way

down among the lost people like Dante, down

to the stinking fosse where the injured

lead the ugly life of the rejected,



and showed us what evil is, not, as we thought,

deeds that must be punished, but our lack of faith,

our dishonest mood of denial,

the concupiscence of the oppressor.



If some traces of the autocratic pose,

the paternal strictness he distrusted, still

clung to his utterance and features,

it was a protective coloration



for one who'd lived among enemies so long:

if often he was wrong and, at times, absurd,

to us he is no more a person

now but a whole climate of opinion



under whom we conduct our different lives:

Like weather he can only hinder or help,

the proud can still be proud but find it

a little harder, the tyrant tries to



make do with him but doesn't care for him much:

he quietly surrounds all our habits of growth

and extends, till the tired in even

the remotest miserable duchy



have felt the change in their bones and are cheered

till the child, unlucky in his little State,

some hearth where freedom is excluded,

a hive whose honey is fear and worry,



feels calmer now and somehow assured of escape,

while, as they lie in the grass of our neglect,

so many long-forgotten objects

revealed by his undiscouraged shining



are returned to us and made precious again;

games we had thought we must drop as we grew up,

little noises we dared not laugh at,

faces we made when no one was looking.



But he wishes us more than this. To be free

is often to be lonely. He would unite

the unequal moieties fractured

by our own well-meaning sense of justice,



would restore to the larger the wit and will

the smaller possesses but can only use

for arid disputes, would give back to

the son the mother's richness of feeling:



but he would have us remember most of all

to be enthusiastic over the night,

not only for the sense of wonder

it alone has to offer, but also



because it needs our love. With large sad eyes

its delectable creatures look up and beg

us dumbly to ask them to follow:

they are exiles who long for the future



that lives in our power, they too would rejoice

if allowed to serve enlightenment like him,

even to bear our cry of 'Judas',

as he did and all must bear who serve it.



One rational voice is dumb. Over his grave

the household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved:

sad is Eros, builder of cities,

and weeping anarchic Aphrodite.

i am the phantom of the opera, Glen

Heres a good one:

Pinoy kids will live with their parents (even if they're already nurses, physicians, economists, engineers) for several years--even in the first year of marriage, and when they do move out of the house, they move to an area at least 30minutes to 1 hour away of their parents.

I personally plan to practice medicine close to home; around south jersey and no more than 1-2 hours away from my parents. They are my rock and my foundation. Without them, i would be nothing.

This concludes my statements concerning the comments by precious, as this has resulted in the diversion of the original thread's purpose. Precious, if you have further comments to me, send me a PM. Thank You.

Back to topic.

Quote from: preciousNpolite on October 29, 2007, 12:46:13 AM
You is an Americanized PINYANKEE. I have seen it often happen to Philippine persons who are born here and leave for being raised in greener pastures.
I was born in America citizen and I am also a registered Native American Indian.   If you know your immigration laws it is not allowed for Americans to apply for a dual citizenship same as Philippine persons have been doing as you said we are a country that does not discriminate. (Accepting many persons into our country to allow them a chance at a better life.
I also pay taxes as well to live here and for the salary earned by my seaman Boholano husband it is expensive what foreigners end up paying for residency here.
It is not so easy to live in the states as some may think we are always paying higher taxes on many things and our country is very disciplined as we respect our laws and other's lives back home as well and not so many are toting guns and shooting people dead as they do here and get away with it back home they will find you as the people do talk.
You will be happy to see big positive changes here when you visit if you ever have time.
Maybe you could connect with people and bring something here that the people could use or need back here in you place.
It is Christams after all and the best gift is to be giving after all to those who are definitely more less unfortunate compared to us, as I have been doing volunteering here as well and contributing to Bohol.
Merry Christmas!
P.S> I love my family and friends here but this place has what I am not raised to do as that is to be discriminate and make it hard for those to get work here.
There are so many talented and educated Philippine person who can not find work once they are graduated from college. Count your blessing your one of the many Philippine persons who was able to get out when you did. Now immigration is tightening up.
If a foreigner wants to be here and does not have a permanant residence visa such as I do he is must pay around $60.00 U.S. dollars to keep getting a monthly reentry.
In America once you pay your visa here your allowed to stay 6 months for allot less money considering the U.S. visitors visa is $100.00 for processing for Philippine persons wanting to visit America.

Correction. I am an American, who is of Malay-Chinese ancestry and born in the Philippines. Despite of my ethnic origins, as a citizen of the United States, am subject to the laws and regulations and plebiscites of the United States government and territories within and forthwith, in accordance to my rights and powers as a citizen. As citizen, and one that recognizes the legitimacy of the United States government, the will of the people, am subject to the protection, guidance and defense of the Armed Forces of the United States, as any citizen of the said country. That is why I love the United States, as it recognizes citizenship not on the basis of one's color, but on the character of the individual and his/her contribution to these United States. Laws have already been placed to admonish and ananthemize those who look only on the basis of one's color and judge them on that narrow characteristic. That is why we in the United States have supported the civil rights movement, pan-gender equality, pan-sexual rights etc.
And I particularly find it negative how you portray Filipinos who happen to migrate out of the country to the United States. Why should there be a double standard in how Filipinos should be treated, for migrating out of the Philippines, because they are skilled professionals (physician, nurse, physical therapist, teacher, writer, laywer etc.) and are looking for a better life for themselves and their family? At least Filipinos do it via legal matters and are skilled professionals that contribute exhaustively to the American economy and health industry (10% of the American medical system is composed of Filipino physicians {cardiologists, general internist, nephrologists, emergency medicine, general surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, orthopaedic surgery, neurosurgery, dermatology, podiatry, dentistry, intensive care , obstetrics-gynecology, urology etc), nurses (Intensive care, Critical care, post anasthetic care, telemetry, operating room, nurse anasthesia), physical therapists, and pharmacists. Rather impressive for an ethnic group that composes less than 1% of the American population, yet contributes precipitously to the health care system of the World's Super Power. Think about that. One could even argue that the health and well being of the United States is under the care, truly, of skilled Filipino medical professionals. Its a mutual relationship, if you think about it; sure the United States provides the basis for a comfortable life for Filipino immigrants, however, these Filipino nationals in the end, provide care for the aging American baby-boomer populace that will continue to rise in the next 1-2 decades. To this day, there is a need of over 2 million Nurses in the US health industry, as there is severe deficit of those medical providers in these United States, particularly in the midwest and in the northeast. And do you know where the United States Health Department is turning for that? Thats right: The Philippines. Thousands of Filipino nurses and physicians are given work visas every year to fill in the ranks of the fragile American health industry. You cant put the blame on the Filipinos for migrating to the United States, when the United States clearly FAVORS Filipino medical professionals over say; Indians, Pakistanis, Chinese, Koreans, etc.

Secondly, citizens of Germany, the United Kingdom, Russia, Bulgaria, Mexico, India, Taiwan, etc are immigrating to the United States every year to find a better life, and to fill in the job opportunities that Americans themselves are unwilling to fill in. Its all about supply and demand, and the United States, as the world's largest capitalistic business conglomerate bows to that natural phenomenon: Human economics.

Thats nice. You sing praises of your work about the Philippines, yet you continuously look down on Filipinos, by the character of your posts.  Duality. Not something I am very fond of, to tell you the truth.

kuyawa man imung bana, 'te; pero now you are getting the hand of it, diba? Do you strike hard or lighty ra? Ako...sometimes galing..mo miss ko sa target, hahaha!

Triathlete diay ka, 'te? Wow..

Quote from: preciousNpolite on October 28, 2007, 11:40:27 PM
Yes. I want to help and have helped but some of the people are not willing to get off their butt's and make a better change let alone make a difference in bettering their lives.
some persons think good life should be handed to them on a silver platter you must work to deserve what you earn in life.
It looks as if your in my home sweet home in the states, why did you not stay in your own country as well?
I am an American with a Philippine Permanant residence is there a problem saying America is my home sweet home or country? Oh it's okay for Filipinos to say it about Bohol when they are outside but not me?
I hear Philippine persons always saying when they are abroad that the Philippines is their home and how much they miss not being home....blah blah blah!
I say something positive and you seem as if offended? Walay Klaro!
Why do you need to know my business of what I am doing here?
You said enough insults about how kids grow up in my country in America, did I question you on it?
Have I ever insulted you in this web site I think not.
Where are you and where am I?
If your in my country in the states I am sure your Happy over there.
I am white my ancestry is English/Scottish, and I am born in the States and I am no different then you I also miss home at times at least you have a BOHOL WESITE TO KEEP YOU WA MINGAW AND OBVIOUSLEY BUSY!

Dont complain to me just because of the political and immigrational consensus of the Republic of the Philippines. Thats the way the country works. Im not involved with the government or politics, just a simple down to earth college student who is trying to reconnect with my Boholano roots and my people. Why dont you just apply for Philippine citizenship? Of course I love the United States of America. I'm an AMERICAN. Im a proud Yankee, I love my home state of New Jersey and my alma mater, Allegheny College. Sure I love the United States, am a patriotic American--always have been--as I was practically raised American (since age 5), however, I hold a deep rooted loyalty to my Bohol Island and in the Philippines. As I was born there. The same as it is for my uncle, who is white, has parents who are of Irish and German background--and they too go back to visit Ireland, Germany and other parts of Europe occasionally.

Dont complain about longing for the United States. The media of the world is owned by the United States. The 'google', yahoo, askjeeves, search engines that im sure you use is owned by the United States, the word processor and the media players you use is created in the united states. Additionally, there are thousands of American websites and forums that you can join to reconnect you with other Americans as well. All you have to do is search it and find it, as you did TubagBohol. Thats how I found TB.

Stay safe and stay smiling. Dont be angry. Life is too short for that.

Quote from: preciousNpolite on October 28, 2007, 07:56:37 PM
American and Philippine kids are both doing the best they can from what they are taught in life while growing up.
So if the Philippine kids are better in your eye's then why is it that you all want to go to my homeland country? (America)

Im Filipino-American, and can say whatever I want, because I pay taxes, contribute to the American economy (pay $43,000 for college a year) I grew up in the US, since age 5, and now am aged 22. Do the math. The United States is a multi-ethnic country. The population demographics of my country, the United States, is of African American, European American, Asian American Latin American and of mixed races. By 2060, the United States will be more minority than it is majority (white americans) due to the population growth trends and the immigrational phenomenon.

Secondly, you need to review your history, as it is lacking severely. You are white, and are not indigenous to the United States, your family immigrated from Europe, and settled in the United States for financial, religious and political freedom. So too did the 2.5 MILLION Filipinos that live in the United States. So too do the 3+ MILLION Chinese that live in the United States. So too do the 25+ million Latin Americans that now live in the United States; Im sure you're getting the trend here.

The United States is a salad bowl society; where American citizens are asian, black, white, latin, mixed etc. And when referring to 'Americans' I referred to American school children (assimilated). As an American, I have the right to say whatever I please, given to my by my constitutional right of the first amendment. (Freedom of speech, the very reason why this blessed country was formed from the ashes of British colonialism).



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You dont see me talking about my heritage and family ties back in the Philippines in such a condescending manner, as you do, do you? Do I ever flaunt the fact that my family is of illustrado background? Did I ever tell you that my grand uncle is the Supreme Court Justice of Cebu? Did I ever tell you that my aunt is the Provincial Director of Bohol? Not once, until now. Just a sample of my 'heritage' back in the Philippines. However, you, like to talk about your 'home country' the US. If you love it so much, why did you move to the Philippines? Ironic, dont you think?

Billiards? Wow..you need to teach me, 'te Belle. I suck at pool, lol! haha

Last night's Halloween party 


Kate! you're killin me here..


Kate, Jackie and Alison. Posin for me


Alison pulling Kate. Kate, stop looking at me, look at Alison! hahaha


Drunkards playing..hahahaha

Yo, id like to wrestle those sumo wrestlers, show them the meaning of a 'Bol-anon carabao strength' hahahahaha!! Hey orchid, do sumo wrestlers in Japan get paid big $$ or?

Condolences to the Ligalig family, that the good Lord comfort them in their time of loss, and I pray for the soul of Mr. Reynaldo Ligalig, that he may be given the sanctifying mercy and love of Christ Jesus, the Father and the Holy Spirit. May our friend, Reynaldo Ligalig, be shown the face of God--and may he forever sing praises in thy Kingdom in Heaven. Amen.

God our Father,
Your power brings us to birth,
Your providence guides our lives,
and by Your command we return to dust.

Lord, those who die still live in Your presence,
their lives change but do not end.
I pray in hope for my family,
relatives and friends,
and for all the dead known to You alone.

In company with Christ,
Who died and now lives,
may they rejoice in Your kingdom,
where all our tears are wiped away.
Unite us together again in one family,
to sing Your praise forever and ever.

Amen.

Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Dominus Deus exercituum: Plena es terra gloria tua: Gloria Patri, Gloria Filio, Gloria Spiritui Sancto.

uy! bu aw!

lol. ikaw diay, Leo, are you afraid of the dark?

I recommend "The History of Medicine."

The book analyzes the transformation of medicine as a religious art during the post Pleistocenic epoch, to the dogmatic view we have of medicine (thanks to the art and works of Asclepiads, Hippocrates of Cos, Valen, etc). The book explores the move of medicine from the spiritual understanding---to the scientific world view of disease and its vector-system. Its also a humbling book because it shows that medicine, is, a human socially constructed phenomenon. It is the epitome of our species' need to fight and resist nature's laws--a manifestation of Human transcendentalism of the brutality of nature. As time progresses, so too does medicine.

In 1-2 centuries, historians will read about human medicine in the 20th and 21st century and wonder about our 'archaic' system. 'Today's new is tomorrow's old'.   

welcome emerald.

Interesting..

Lol, i used to be afraid of the dark when I was a kid. But now, not anymore. I'll scare the ghosts away
Wak waks would have difficulty bringing me down; and i dont think  manangals can chew me, too much muscle, ma guba ilang ngipoon. LOL!!

Luuy pood intawon. May angels lead her in....

Work. I find work very relaxing and calming (to an extent, lol). Sometimes whenever Im in my lab cubicle for hours, I get enticed by progress. I love seeing progress in work--and have been known to pull 'two nighters' in the lab.

I pray. Prayer soothes my soul, and brings me to sleep.

Depends. My first love was a bad influence on me; and we always had arguments. I admit that there are times that thoughts about her comes to my mind, but nothing serious. Nothing long-lasting. She and I moved on from that 'puppy-love' syndrome.

I wouldn't have any questions at all. In the presence of God, all questions, worries, loves, wants, yearning, needs, doubts would have been washed away. To be with him for all time, and never separated from him, would be a result.

LOL! I love that, Gec.

Ya. It was about 4 years ago; my gf at the time and I drove to the Pine Barrens in New Jersey--and this was at around 10pm. We got lost in the Pine Barrens and couldn't find the way out until morning. So we slept in her car that night. It was cold but we had each other.

Early to bed early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

@ Agnes! Heyyy...how is Jing?? What else did she say? lol! Ingna siya to join this site uy!

Last night was wierd. Really wierd. My friend Shiao Jie invited me over his place and he decided to dress up as a 'Zhongguoren rockstar' literally 'Chinese rock star' hahaha. (this was for a Halloween party we went to)
Dude...ive never seen Shiao so drunk in my life..hahaha. Heres some pics.


Shiao before he started drinking...calm..patient..very conservative.


When people persuaded him to take 6 Raspberry shots.


Drunk by 12 midnight, lol!

Its medically proven that daily masturbation enhances one's sexual longevity--as well as induces higher sperm count/growth--which means increased fertility when it comes to conception of children. The constant regiment leads to the titillation of the central and peripheral nervous system, increased blood flow in the lower sub abdominopelvic quadrant and increased respiratory activity; as well as an increase in the immune system.

And the old belief that 'too much masturbation and sex leads to idiocy' is also false. I have had no symptoms of the like at all

haha kai gusto man ilang bana for it to be 'tight' again; ngek. i personally wouldnt want my wife to put toxic chemicals in the region that will bear my babies....my entire offspring/line would be at stake if something bad happened. Simbako!!

hahaha ah wa ko comment ana. I await for the response of men such as Jun Ayag, Sigbin, Leo, Mikey, RV, David, Ben, etc.

mmmmmmmm...very nice........

lol!!! bitaw no? cant have snail soup without bread. o got it! we can just eat it with rice

LOLZ!! you'll have to first hit me with your bat, LOL! di pood ko gusto i-goon sa bat kai..ma dugo-dugo ahong face..haahhaah! kaw ha!

***Throws you in corn field ***



LOL!!!

*****RUNS AWAY****