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one mans love to the place i call home

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Rose Cacho (Right), GK Head of Iloilo facilitates a group discussion during a Kalinga Weekend at USWAG SMART PLDT GK Village, Sooc, Mandurriao District, Iloilo City.

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Good morning everyone. You should all know that speaking in front of an audience is...

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DEC 25, 2011

VTC Carrying logs from the mountains of Surigao del Sur

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grieving

I'm back in Surigao but this whole mining thing is just grieving too many hearts and too many souls including mine. The mountains are crying, crying with painful orange tears, dripping down the seas, the rivers and the streams. I believe God has given human beings dominion over His creation, but not the power destroy. Instead we are called for stewardship, stewardship to protect, to pass on the pr...ide of our mountains from one generation to another. What is 15 to 20 years of painful and divisive progress, compared to a lifetime after lifetime of irredeemable glory and suffering? I believe in development, but only in a sustainable one. Generation after generation, culture after culture, are all connected by this string of progress. I believe in prosperity, but only when a city rejoices. Because when God blesses His people, he adds no trouble to it...This temporary lure of riches is blinding. But we gotta wake up. We gotta wake up...

Aiza Tuldanes Yparraguirre

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jmak:

Thanks, Steve.

Posting designs like this one makes me paranoid, because I can’t shake the feeling that it’s not original. I enjoyed the process regardless, but please let me know if somebody else beat me to the idea!

Thoughts?

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Reporters notebook. Pilipinas for Sale

"Reporters Notebook: There was one part in the episode where our mountains looked like it is crying with blood. Blood flowing to our seas. Honestly,right now, I really don't know how to feel to the recent NPA attack. Part of me feel pity, part of me says what they did was wrong, but there is also part in me that condemns those who ravaged our future, our childrens future. "We do not own our land, we merely borrowed it to our childrens' children". just saying..."

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http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150337580234140

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please copy and paste this picture to your computer and repost this this to your facebook wall then use this status: ONE TOWN. ONE TEAM Kada Kantilangnon Solusyon Join Us Now Like our page  https://facebook.com/kadakantilangnonsolusyon and TAG your friends

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Let’s join the worldwide Clean-up!!! Join us on the 17th! Invite your friends and relatives like our page  https://facebook.com/kadakantilangnonsolusyon for updates… or contact our YEGÉ Cantilangnon volunteers Sadik at 09184145554 and Rizza 09396056437 for more infos. see you!!!

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Wrong choice, boy.

by: Bebong Arreza

One catchy tourism poster which can be made about Cantilan is to have one of the first - and famous - European tourists to the Philippines as model - si Magellan . This is historical fact. If you read Pigafetta's journal , when provisions were running low in Limasawa , Magellan was given three choices on where to get food - Leyte, Cebu and Calagan (Cantilan) . Wrong choice, boy. So puyde poster of Magellan, the islands as backgound , Pigafetta's journal and this copy : "His biggest mistake was not coming to our place. Don't make the same." Then sa ubos . "Can Eat. Can Swim. Can Sail. Can Dance. Can Hike . Can Laugh . Cantilan. Yes you can !"

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photo location: Ayoke, Cantilan, Surigao del Sur

Each persons effort can help a community.

GODSPEED NAGMAKA-AYO (Nagkahiusang Mananagat Para sa Kalambuan Nan Ayoke)

http://www.mindanews.com/top-stories/2011/09/02/constant-dialogue-makes-environment-drive-in-surigao-sur-town-successful/#.TmAxETQJa2U.facebook

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photo by: Raymond Quiocho Salas

We are blessed. We have everything.

For that it is also our responsibility,

to also protect everything.

LOVE CANTILAN!

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Cantilan’s mythical creatures,monsters, terms :

BY: Bebong Arreza

Some of Cantilan’s mythical creatures,monsters, terms : Lumajan Binaliw Tagiliyong Abyan Tama Bakunawa Paapong Santelmo Sigben Tawak

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BY: Bebong Arreza Para ra sa waya pa makabasa.  In July 1767, Moros riding in an armada of 200 boats captured Tandag fort . To retake it , Fray Valero assembled a force of 200 talamunos from Palasao-Bajojo-Calagdaan . This reinforcement was led by Francisco Arreza and Santiago Arizobal . They succeeded in driving the pirates away . That epic battle also gave rise to a legend that endures until today. Read the story : “By dusk, the flotilla of 30 sailboats was arrayed on the shores of Bajojo, each containing about 10 warriors from the pueblos of Palasao, Calagdaan and Bajojo. Every member of this all-volunteer force was armed with a pair of bolos, one sheathed , the other not. Long spears were quietly loaded onto the canoes, their tips glistening in the fading light . In funereal silence, soldiers were quietly checking their armory, some running their fingers along the sharpened edges of their bladed ensemble, occasionally knocking them on the ebony surface of their mancono shields to test their strength . By 6 PM , Santiago Arizobal blew his tambuli to give the signal to board the barotos, and not long after, the blackened hulls were heaving above the swell. Then suddenly, the sky turned black, and the muffled sound of wings flapping filled the air. From above, the silhouettes of what looked like large eagles were thrown against the orange sky --- the Calagdaan air cavalry has arrived. Landing softly on the beach, their leader, a Duero, saluted and hugged Francisco Arreza. “Tomorrow is a good day to die, “ Duero told Arreza. The latter replied , “ You can be my wingman. “ The leader of the Calagdaan airborne nodded and sighed , “ We own the night.” So this was how warriors conversed, cryptic , in truncated prose, and letting the eyes do the talking. Then suddenly a huge whooshing sound punctured the eerie silence, and 30 airborne warriors, their bodies shimmering in coconut oil, ricocheted straight into the air . In the next two days, Air Calagdaan , not only provided cover to the Palasao-Bajojo bravehearts, but they reconnoitered the Tandag fort , held bombing runs, dropping their ordnance of shrieking pigs or strafing the Moros with native ham or sniping them with pork longganisa bullets . They also evacuated the wounded , often in the midst of the fiercest hand-to-hand combat never seen before in the Pacific seaboard of Mindanao . By Day 3, the Moros have been vanquished , and Duero was the first to land on the liberated fort. Peace then reigned in this part of Surigao , and no Moro marauder ever dared set foot on Palasao-Bajojo-Calagdaan again as the news of Duero’s exploits travelled fast and wide, that even in the land of the kris , the legend was that a mighty dragon was watching over these barrios. Duero continued with his air patrol. He was given the title, Wing Air Commander (WAC) , that whenever this sentinel flew over his dominion during his nightly patrols , the people would shout the acronym of his rank in salute: “WAC, WAC, WAC WAC.”

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by: Bebong Arreza

 From newly appointed Tourism Secretary Jimenez : “The best marketing communication campaigns anywhere in the world are really hinged on the simplicity of a proposition. It is not all about infrastructure. It is really about a single-mindedness of image. “If it is about infrastructure, then you would imagine that in North America the most visited place next to the United States would be Canada because the infrastructure would be the same, right? That’s not true. Next to the US, the biggest draw is Mexico because the image of Mexico, even now in your minds, is very, very clear. You can see the tacos and the hats and the ponchos, etc., even if all I said was Mexico. That has not happened for our country yet, and that’s what we have to create." Now, how can this marketing tool be applied to Cantilan? What is that "single-mindedness of image" that captures and defines our town that a mere mention of the word "Cantilan" gives someone an instamatic image of the place ?  It’s a question worth pursuing because if you mention Cagwait the image that immediately comes to mind is that long beach; Hinatuan is the Enchanted River ; Bislig is about Tinuy-an Falls, that if you close your eyes you can feel the mist on your face and the roar of cascading water. If you hear “Siargao” ,it's the surf in Cloud 9 that springs to mind. Well there’s a town nearby whose claim to fame is to give you a sandstorm experience without ever setting foot in Dubai What would be Cantilan's tourism icon , the town postcard that will be worth a thousand words ? The image doesn't need to be singular , it can be a collage , in a way that when you mention "El Nido ", it conjures no signature image but a collection of pictures that spell sun , sea , sand. Judging from the photos I have seen here in Barangay FB, I would say it would be the islands . Isla, Ayoke, Casarica, Huyamao are the four aces up our tourism sleeve. ( Quick, himo-i nijo nan acronym, pero pastilan ajaw lam GCAsH – General,Casarica, Ayoke, Huyamao and if ever you’ll come up with travel brochures it won’t hurt to attach an adjective to each of the island’s name : Charming Casarica, Alluring Ayoke and please veto Reno’s suggestion that Isla be labeled Gay General kay basin an Commander nan Cantilan’s 241st Tong-its Blue Diamonds-sa-Bahara Squadron mangisog. Hmmm, Temptation Island ? Puyde pa). My point is to think out of the basanday (box). For example, one can capitalize on the first four letters of Ayoke, to give it a mystical , magical mantle. Timan-i nijo mas dabo na mobisita did-on kun mahanog it sija ( but in a playful manner though) as an enchanted island. And you can latch these islands to something big like a geographical landmark like the Philippine Deep, sa unahan ra balitaw . Picture this : An Ayoke Island poster and this tagline. “ You may never climb the highest mountain, but you can swim on the deepest sea.” Hampan sa ubos an ngayan nan sponsor : “Duero Air will bring you there.” The materials for a tourism literature about Cantilan are already there, from Edward H’s stunning aerial photo of the islands, to Richard Orozco’s captivating Malibod series-in-the-making, and other photos which can be culled from the individual portfolios of the members of the Mangodakay nan Cantilan FB Group . An sunod na pangutana mogikan tingan sa iban na magduda na dili mo-saler na tourism sa ato kay díli kun marajaw na infrastructure . Partly true, but it will not totally deter. No bad road can stop the most intrepid traveler to a place whose beauty makes one powerful draw. (Naga-Caramoan is twice the travel time of Surigao-Cantilan, and the latter about the same distance as Puerto-Underground River) Jaon “luksurious road” sa Nobenta mahuman ra iton. Jaon kuyang na kahuy-an , stoke the demand and demand will create the supply.  And speaking of infra, we may lack the mortar-and-stone type created by man , but the four islands are God-made infra with a price tag of hundreds of billions of pesos, simply unquantifiable. (Palit kaw nan puti na buhangin kuman sa Manila P200 an sako, an gamay na aquarium sa Cartimar P10,000, an swimming pool ni Tantoy P2 million , so you can just imagine the monetary value of , say, Isla and its surrounding seas which are one big infinity pool. ) For all his billions, not even Bill Gates would dare create a man-made Huyamao. How would you put a sticker price on a Baybay sunrise? Tourism will not solve the jobs drought in our place, but it can ease the situation. What was the math on tourism receipts ? Attracting just a half-a-van of visitors a day (napuyo ka tawo) will result in receipts of P34 million a year. Some will say that this amount is chicken feed . 100% chicken feed is captured by this post in another thread , to the effect na “kalooy sab nan Cantilan , ya nija kuhaa an P6 per metric ton na ibajad sa ija nan mina.” Ponder this : 55,600 metric tons of Cantilan soil was sold to China at P2,322 per metric ton ($54 X P43) an kabahinan baja nan Cantilan per metric ton SAIS PESOS or two pieces of menthol candy? Kun an isa ka trak , five metric tons , an lu-on nahalin nan P11,610. An ibajad sa Cantilan TRAINTA PESOS (dili gan makapalit nan isa ka kilo na bugas) . At least Judas sold Christ for 30 pieces of silver, but you for 30 pesos ? Whether you are neutral, pro- or anti-mining in Cantilan , you should rankle at this kind of estafa .  Nosiway naman hanu-on ta. Balik ta sa tourism. Well the liberalization of the airline industry has caused ticket prices to tumble down and has created a generation of frequent fliers that many have run out of domestic places to go. It’s time to ride on this boom, beginning with members of the big Cantilan nation who should be enticed by kith and kin to start making regular pilgrimages to the mother ship . Which is why the “2012 Visit Cantilan Year” is crucial in jumpstarting this.  And I have just talked about the beautiful places of Cantilan, waya pa an beautiful people. Now, that would cause a stampede to our place.Nanubra an tourism poster boys, girls and gays. So what do you think is Cantilan’s selling point ?

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A different perspective on the Edsa Revolution of 1986 entitled “What the Philippine Media isn’t telling us”

Please add to the dialogue.

(Note: someone asked where I found the video. I first came across it here but as it turns out, the original and other similar videos can be found on Pinoy Monkey Pride.)

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Smile anay!

Our strength, our life, our future.

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WHERE WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO VISIT ON YOUR PLANET?

Cantilan

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What’s New in Cantilan: Longboarding