can anyone post this too? Im having a problem sa station ko..i cant post it.

http://mindanews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=519&Itemid=50

how about the virtual US consulate? its still a consulate :D

It's the first virtual Consulate in Asia and the only in the Philippines! :)

OT: Totoo ba yung fountain na naka syncronize sa music? whoa! cool cool cool! sana, when the project is done na...ilang paandaron ang fountain pirme...dili palongon! ehehehehehhe.....

It's the first virtual Consulate in Asia and the only in the Philippines! :)

OT: Totoo ba yung fountain na naka syncronize sa music? whoa! cool cool cool! sana, when the project is done na...ilang paandaron ang fountain pirme...dili palongon! ehehehehehhe.....


I believe it's true. The guy who told me that is very active in Davao construction scene.

China eyes ‘multibillion’ investments in Mindanao
Written by Walter I. Balane /MindaNews
Wednesday, 26 July 2006 00 00 00

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/25 July) -- China is looking at potential "multibillion" investments in Mindanao, including $3 billion in mining in the next five years once cooperation is formalized in the region, Chinese ambassador Li Jinjun told reporters Tuesday.

Li identified "huge business opportunities" for Mindanao in tourism, agriculture, fisheries, mining and infrastructure after Sec. Jesus Dureza, of the Mindanao Economic Development Council (MEDCo), and other trade and investment officials briefed him on Mindanao's peace process, the BIMP-East Asia Growth Area, and investment opportunities in Davao City and Mindanao.

Li said many Chinese investors have eyed investments here but are just waiting for developments because they were worried about the "little and incorrect information" they know about Mindanao. He said China is concerned about the peace processes in Mindanao and said they are happy to see progress in the peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).

He said his trip has given him a complete understanding of Mindanao, and will thus start encouraging the investors to consider Mindanao once he returns to Manila. For a start, they will post a section on Mindanao in the website of the Chinese embassy.

Li, however, noted the need to prioritize which of the many opportunities China will embark on.

He said joint efforts have to be done to bring more Chinese tourists to Mindanao. He invited Mindanao's tourism industry to promote in China. He said they are looking at the Chinese tourists who will escape winter in China during the months of November to March every year.

Roberto Teo, head of Davao City's investment office, said that even if only one percent of China's 32 million tourists would come to Mindanao is already be enough. Teo gave a Powerpoint presentation on Davao City dubbed in Chinese.

From 4,503 Chinese visitors to Mindanao in 2001, the number went down to 2,952 in 2005, according to data from the Mindanao Economic Development Council.

Li stressed the need to improve tourism infrastructure to further Mindanao's tourism capacity. He encouraged a meeting between local air transportation officials and their Chinese counterparts to discuss the opening of direct flights between Chinese cities and Davao.

He also cited the possibility of Mindanao providing English language training for Chinese personnel in preparation for the Beijing Olympics in 2008.

"Agriculture is also an area where there is so much to improve in cooperation," Li said.

He said that with the increasing demand for coconut products in China, he is looking at encouraging Chinese businessmen to invest in planting, growing, and processing of coconuts in Mindanao. Coconut products, one of Mindanao's top exports according to MEDCo in 2005, are not among the Philippines’ top exports to China.

Li also cited the cooperation between China and the Philippines in the development of hybrid rice and corn. He said they are also looking at cooperation in deep water or marine agriculture and processing.

Li said five to eight Chinese mining firms are pouring a total of $3 billion in Mindanao in the next five years. The estimate, he said, included the $1 billion nickel mining in Nonoc, Surigao del Norte, expected to get the go signal by the end of the year. Mindanao reportedly has $215 billion worth of potential mineral reserves.

Li, however, told reporters he will not encourage mining firms to invest in Mindanao at the expense of the environment.

Li also said there is a huge potential for cooperation in infrastructure investment in Mindanao. He said many Chinese investors would be interested about the proposed light rail project in Davao and the 300-megawatt coal-fired power plant in Sultan Kudarat.

Romeo Serra, Mindanao Business Council (MinBC) chair, briefed Li that there are still no serious takers on the power plant project. Serra cited a report that Mindanao would experience power shortage starting in 2008 because of the increasing energy demand, that is why the plant is an important investment need for Mindanao.

Serra also asked Li to encourage investment in the poor provinces of Sulu and Tawi-tawi, which largely produce carageenan seaweeds. China is reportedly the biggest buyer of Philippine carageenan.

Li said that they could see the closer ties between China and Mindanao. It is only a matter of time, he said, that they can put up a consulate in Mindanao. Li also pledged attendance of Chinese delegations to business conferences in Mindanao this year.

According to data from MEDCo, Mindanao has a trade surplus with China. It exported at least $140 million and imported $25 million worth of commodities based on the top 10 commodities traded as of 2005. As of March this year , China is Mindanao's fourth largest export market.
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rajah hi, nice to see you in here !:) Thanks for all your good and friendly advices I do apreciate them alot.
:goodbye:

inday lena, way problema...i still have to answer your last letter....
:)

nice to "see" you in here too... :)

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Progress so far...

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wala tayong site for kadayawan fair this year....

nice nice. unsa ng sulod sa rainbow? greenhouse? mura ani:

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This is what my friend in Davao said about PTA.

"If you can still remember the PTA ground karon himuon na nila ug Park..

Full of Trees kanang naay Fountain syncronize sa music ang movement."

High-tech diay ni na park!


cool. like the fountain in las vegas na synchronized with the music through a computer. that would be hard to maintain.

During her visit to Compostela Valley two weeks ago, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo brought representatives from two companies whom she said would invest in the mining industry of Compostela Valley Province. Li also said that apart from mining, Chinese entrepreneurs could also be interested in investing in the proposed coal plant in Sultan Kudarat.


Who are they kidding??? China has a very bad reputation in mining , sorry guys i still prefer Australian or Canadian companies to do the mining.

Yeah Art and Architecture always goes hand and hand .But Architecture can also be destructive if not properly use .What do i mean? It means Architecture has a reponsibilty on its environment, when designing, Architecture have to consider first of all the natural sorrounding.

I'll try posting some Davao-based research such as histories of Davao, and the Japanese-Davao connection, which is kind of blurred in today.

kung magvideoke kanang wholesome?

1. Zed - Bonifacio
2. Studio Onnie - Torres (atbang sa K1)
3. Cats & Dogs?? - Rizal

kung magkape-kape...

1. Bluegre - MTS & Landco
2. Karlos - SM
3. Bo's - Torres
4. Figaro - Chimes

eat-all-you-can

1. Iron Horse - Rizal
2. Chippens - Roxas Ave
3. Buffet Palace - Victoria Plaza compound

or magmeet lang ta somewhere, nya bahala na asa pagkahuman.

suggested date: Aug 12 para sabay sa grand Manila meet.

Unsaon man ni oi.,.. wala man koy kwarta... don't worry, please report what happened.

During her visit to Compostela Valley two weeks ago, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo brought representatives from two companies whom she said would invest in the mining industry of Compostela Valley Province. Li also said that apart from mining, Chinese entrepreneurs could also be interested in investing in the proposed coal plant in Sultan Kudarat.


Who are they kidding??? China has a very bad reputation in mining , sorry guys i still prefer Australian or Canadian companies to do the mining.

could you please expand further why Chinese companies have this bad reputation? just curious :cheers:

cool. like the fountain in las vegas na synchronized with the music through a computer. that would be hard to maintain.

Extremely hard jud. I think it would be better if they'd just did that to Magsaysay. But since they made it, they should recuperate in many ways.

agree with you don. once we're done with the disciplanarian stage, we need now a mayor who's a visionary and have excellent management skills. otherwise dabawenyos would just think that it's rody again. i respect rody's skills, but it it's time to move and leap forward, i still believe that davao has lot's of talents. of course, less on the politics of the spoils of war, othwise this will again be a government of patronage.

Who're your bets pala? I think the new mayor should be "visible"

i can just imagine. i think some people have been equating visayas and mindanao as a good source of household help. i am even pissed at my wife's friend calling her inday. while i am still trying to keep my cool, i am just counting days nya magkaleche-leche na. sorry kung o.t. na ni.

let them eat their notions of visayas and mindanao. or even include the all the other provinces outside m.m.'s universe. let them see what all these provinces have to offer then they'll say, boring ang m.m. sure, they have nightlife, so do we. sure they amenities, so do we. sooner or later, with all these developments, the migration will be reversed (actually it has already started).

I just remembered GMA's SONA here. We really need to bring back the power to the LGUs.

^^ why dont we come up with something so that the media will eahr our sentiments? lets get the help of the forumers from CDO too..hand in hand we can get heard..

Correct gravy! We in mindanao get quashed by this pessimistic view of Manilans, the cause of their "greed" (sorry for those manilenos, but there are some people there who are really like that. Manila is a critical area for the expats and the foreigners because this is where they view the whole philippines) and their downgrading.

im just pissed off with some non-mindanaoans see mindanao..i hear stuff like when a policeman in MM is bulay-ig "ipapatapon cya sa mindanao" stuff like that.or how they would equate mindanao to backwardness and poverty..not that im attacking Metro Manila people, but many of them are ignorant in Phil geography..someone even asked me if davao was near bacolod..duh

I think its time for a new lesson for that guy! I'm still wondering why we're still watching news reports about them!

OOOOOOHHHH those victoria plaza pics..definetely the mall closest to my heart dami memories jan lalo na nung high school days ko..i hope one day i renovate to and bring it back to its old glory...wag naman sana itong tuluyan imag deteriorate

(SM...Robinsons..Ayala..anyone... saklolohan nyo naman ang Victoria..bahala na i rename nyo..buhayin nyo lang)

@ berniemack

the amphitheatre was re-done around 1998..

^^ Victoria plaza definitely needs a renovation. It still has a potential, and a lot of it! Maybe it could hook many malls from there. Or become a MAGLEV station :D :D :D

This would add elegance to Victoria Plaza or any other infrastructure and it will be good.

Just a thought Problemsolver. For example, MAGLEV will be installed, will products that are destroyed by magnet be off-limits from the maglev station?

Extremely hard jud. I think it would be better if they'd just did that to Magsaysay. But since they made it, they should recuperate in many ways.

Why Magsaysay?

Hello!

These figures were validated somehow in another way. During the much publicized Tourism Jobs Fair early this year held in Davao, Cebu, Manila, with GMA herself showing up at the PICC, the best performer in terms of actual hiring was Davao.

If I got the figures right, actual on-site hiring I was told was circa 70 in Davao, circa 20 in Cebu and only 2 in Manila!

In the AIM study on competitive cities where Davao was number 1 along with Makati, we fared poorly on HR development. I really do not know the reasons behind.

Anyway, here is good news. Yesterday, the Philippine-Australia HR Development Facility (PAHRDF), Ausaid funded, approved the application of the city for assistance. We hope to strengthen the HR program of the local government, and then work for a strategy to develop our city into a "learning city" with the synergy of academe-industry-community-government. :)

I think Konsehal we need to develop many training facilities here in Davao. I've noticed that in order to learn a lot, we need to do it in practice. We need to have firm training facilities in order to strengthen the HM. In the cities of Cebu and Manila, they have firm training facilities.

Why Magsaysay?

I think Magsaysay kasi is established na. Plus, people just go there for the perya, or going to the Tourism office. I think Magsaysay needs a good renovation. When i went last there, what i remembered fondly was the skating rink and the nice delicious meals. Now, it looked like most of the malls grabbed these things.

Sorry if i had a lot of posts. I don't net that much anymore. Sorry guys :D :D

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It seems that our dream giant bagobo man statue holding a durian is nowhere to be found. Sayang, that would serve as a trademark sana!

I think Magsaysay kasi is established na. Plus, people just go there for the perya, or going to the Tourism office. I think Magsaysay needs a good renovation. When i went last there, what i remembered fondly was the skating rink and the nice delicious meals. Now, it looked like most of the malls grabbed these things.

the Magsaysay Park is under PTA or Philippine Tourism Authority! Unfortunately, the local government cannot and will never touch Magsaysay. Renovation? I think maintenance is needed.

Kuya TJ, please start the next thread na pod. I think this thread is all filled up, not thanks to me. heheh

okie dokie! :) how old are u by the way? :)

I'm just 20. Studying in the University of the Philippines in Mindanao.

BTW, one of the INB's was hired to work there in Cebu for peopleSupport. His name is Ian.

I think Konsehal we need to develop many training facilities here in Davao. I've noticed that in order to learn a lot, we need to do it in practice. We need to have firm training facilities in order to strengthen the HM. In the cities of Cebu and Manila, they have firm training facilities.

What sort of training facilities are you talking about Ady?

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Experience Davao City and Its Gulf Cities - from Islands to Highlands

Davao Region is consist of four provinces, namely: Compostela Valley, Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and Davao Oriental. The region encloses the Davao Gulf and its regional center is Davao City. Other Davao Gulf cities include Tagum City, Panabo City, Island Garden City of Samal, and Digos City.

Ei sir! Let's start the next thread! we're in the 500th mark :D :D :D

@dvoeagle we need kasi some exposure to new technologies. Don't get me wrong, but we need to be exposed to many technologies. We need to exchange ideas to other people.

new thread >> http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=9399582#post9399582

INB's ano yun? I have a lot of friends na ian na from davao...ehehehe may taga UP Min din....

Ngek, nakauna kaw heheh.

Just a question TJ, do you think Davao's location can well influence the managing and making of a call center? I've noticed that Cebu and other areas have good areas e.g. ports and many nearby cities in them.

I'm just 20. Studying in the University of the Philippines in Mindanao.

BTW, one of the INB's was hired to work there in Cebu for peopleSupport. His name is Ian.


What's INB?

Congratulations on the 17th thread. :cheers:

Please disregard my thread. This is the real one who got first :bash:

What's INB?

Iskolar ng Bayan.

I'm using it in Discretion.

Ei sir! Let's start the next thread! we're in the 500th mark :D :D :D

@dvoeagle we need kasi some exposure to new technologies. Don't get me wrong, but we need to be exposed to many technologies. We need to exchange ideas to other people.

I'm just asking what sort of training facilities you asked about Ady...this is not to show I'm irked, LOL. What crossed my mind with your question was if we had an HR training facility just like Manila and Cebu. If you were talking about HR training facility, I don't know if we host one either and this can be a good heads up here.

Now, what training facility is it you had a question about?

Iskolar ng Bayan.

I'm using it in Discretion.


Thanks!

I'm just asking what sort of training facilities you asked about Ady...this is not to show I'm irked, LOL. What crossed my mind with your question was if we had an HR training facility just like Manila and Cebu. If you were talking about HR training facility, I don't know if we host one either and this can be a good heads up here.

Now, what training facility is it you had a question about?

^^ Sorry D-eagle, didn't made my point here.

I was just relating my situation (UP Mindanao) where we had very limited training facilities and our location was too far-fetched. Sorry for that.

Sorry d-eagle, i didn't clarify it. I was relating the situation of my school UP mindanao, because of the lack of some facilities and its outrageous location in Davao.

you know Ian Igdanes kuya TJ? Kakurso nako na dati, but he shifted to Applied Mathematics. Then there's another, Richmond ang pangalan. Both are undergrads.

Just a thought Problemsolver. For example, MAGLEV will be installed, will products that are destroyed by magnet be off-limits from the maglev station?

MagLev won't destroy products so there won't be any limits to MagLev station. People and products need to be off from the guideway though otherwise they would get run over just like any transportation system out there.

Let's go to the next thread!

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=9399582#post9399582

Nope..I'll search for him then Ady001...:)

Regarding your first question, about the city's location and its effect to the call center industry..Our city got the best location. We may not be located at the center of the archipelago but we are strategically located at the center of Brunei Indonesia Malaysia and Philippines East Asian Growth Area.

Location is not a major issue. Look at Baguio! They cannot be found at the heart of the country, however they are home to few of the major players in the call center industry. As a matter of fact, the company im working with will be opening its third call center facility there!

Regarding your second issue about your school's location - UP Mindanao is not the only UP Campus located in the outskirts. Diba most of your school's campuses are located malayo sa downtown area? Los Baños, Diliman, to name a few....

Sorry d-eagle, i didn't clarify it. I was relating the situation of my school UP mindanao, because of the lack of some facilities and its outrageous location in Davao.


Thanks for clarifying Ady. UP Mindanao is still in its infant stage and has to slug out with other, more established UP Units all over the country in budget allocation. Although very young, I've heard there's a lot of new structures now in place in its spacious campus e.g. UP Min Cultural Centre to cite one. Give it a little more time and it will metamorphose into a vibrant and sought-after state university.

Nope..I'll search for him then Ady001...:)

Regarding your first question, about the city's location and its effect to the call center industry..Our city got the best location. We may not be located at the center of the archipelago but we are strategically located at the center of Brunei Indonesia Malaysia and Philippines East Asian Growth Area.

Location is not a major issue. Look at Baguio! They cannot be found at the heart of the country, however they are home to few of the major players in the call center industry. As a matter of fact, the company im working with will be opening its third call center facility there!

pero bakit wala dito... :tiasd:

Thanks for clarifying Ady. UP Mindanao is still in its infant stage and has to slug out with other, more established UP Units all over the country in budget allocation. Although very young, I've heard there's a lot of new structures now in place in its spacious campus e.g. UP Min Cultural Centre to cite one. Give it a little more time and it will metamorphose into a vibrant and sought-after state university.

BTW, the cultural center has evolved into a library! gosh...

It would've been better kung naa siya sa Buhangin!

have u been to other UP Campuses? you would be thankful na you're there sa UP Mindanao! (not that i am undermining some)

BTW, the cultural center has evolved into a library! gosh...

It would've been better kung naa siya sa Buhangin!

Ang Cultural Center, libe na gali?!

Thanks for clarifying Ady. UP Mindanao is still in its infant stage and has to slug out with other, more established UP Units all over the country in budget allocation. Although very young, I've heard there's a lot of new structures now in place in its spacious campus e.g. UP Min Cultural Centre to cite one. Give it a little more time and it will metamorphose into a vibrant and sought-after state university.

not only that...remember the multimillion Davao Sports Complex that would be built in your backyard?

Ang Cultural Center, libe na gali?!

I go there almost everyday. Wala na siya. It's dead actually. It had became a library.

Regarding your second issue about your school's location - UP Mindanao is not the only UP Campus located in the outskirts. Diba most of your school's campuses are located malayo sa downtown area? Los Baños, Diliman, to name a few....

Yes, but only in UP Min na ang only mode of public transportation is habal-habal hehe. Naa pa ba na karon? The last time I went there, ga-HH pa man ang mga estudyante. :D

not only that...remember the multimillion Davao Sports Complex that would be built in your backyard?

Maayo man siya TJ, but it would be feasible kung naa ang DSC sa Buhangin, which IMHO is the premiere area for development.

Layo ang Mintal. I travel about 25 kilometers a day to go to school, imagine that...

I don't sound pessimistic and all, but as what Og Mandino said: "What is wrong is what is not made, but what is made late."

Yes, but only in UP Min na ang only mode of public transportation is habal-habal hehe. Naa pa ba na karon? The last time I went there, ga-HH pa man ang mga estudyante. :D

HH gihapon. Layo ang Diliman, ang UP Los Banos, but they are slowly blending with the city.

Mintal is super layo from the City's heart. And with the added fact na maliit lang kami.

It would be good if we hook to other universities and discuss many things. Stoop to where they are IMHO.

have u been to other UP Campuses? you would be thankful na you're there sa UP Mindanao! (not that i am undermining some)

Why 'ya? What's with Diliman pala?

I've heard na mas dali daw makapasa sa Diliman kaysa sa Mindanao. Maong daghang shiftees diri hehehe.

Guys, gotta log-out na. thanks for the time!

In the meantime, please read my simple explanations

Why I SSC:
http://skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=377840

I don't sound pessimistic and all, but as what Og Mandino said: "What is wrong is what is not made, but what is made late."

ei bro! I don't get your point here! d ko maconnect! ahihihihihihihihi

Anyway, Mintal may be far from the city (for now). I do acknowledge that. I'm pretty sure that our local government considered a lot of factors before they decided to build the Sports Complex in Mintal.

Though Buhangin is a perfect location, but here are few things that need to be considered:

1. Price of the property.
2. Availability of a property.
3. Location

Well, i guess Ady, we just have to appreciate what's happening. Davao Sports Complex will be built in Mintal soon!

I traveled to Calinan from downtown (to and fro) everyday when I was still a teenager. I dont find that a total inconvenience. How bout Mintal? Which is half way to Calinan.

Also, we do not need to concentrate the development in the downtown area alone. We still have 90% of 244,000 hectares which gotta be developed! And that includes Mintal!

I used to work in Bago Oshiro before and together with my higher ups from Manila, I was housed at the PCA (Phil Coconut Auth) training centre now converted into a dormitory for UP studes. It was the first time I set foot in the area and I was awed by the training facilities there - huge convention hall, huge dining hall, separate big dormitories for both males and females lots of break out houses with very unique designs, admin office buildings, sports area- all in a garden- like setting. When news broke out it was turned over to UP, all I could say was, lucky UP.

I used to work in Bago Oshiro before and together with my higher ups from Manila, we were housed at the PCA (Phil Coconut Auth) training centre now converted into a dormitory for UP studes. It was the first time I set foot in the area and I was awed by the training facilities there - huge convention hall, huge dining hall, separate big dormitories for both males and females lots of break out houses with very unique designs, admin office buildings, sports area- all in a garden- like setting. When news broke out it was turned over to UP, all I could say was, lucky UP.

UP Min indeed is not only lucky with the Bago Oshiro Campus (carved out from Bureau of Plant Industry); it has a downtown facility - the former Victorio property at Anda-Rizal.

Relative yong distances. It may be far from one person but near to another. I travel regularly to Sta. Maria in Davao del Sur - 2 hours ride. I find it very near. I am not sure what area in Buhangin Ady001 wrote for a sports complex site. The city has no property there the size that can host a big sports facility. In fact, the city has no large property outside of the 7-Ha. PTA grounds, the 20-Ha. Times Beach which is partly covered by the sea, and the 100-Ha. reservation at the foot of Mt. Apo.

During the mid-1970s then mayor Luis T. Santos worked for the expropriation of the old Cuison property at Catalunan Pequeno/Mintal area for two main reasons - build a resettlement site and new civic center. The court granted only 50 Ha. instead of 100. This is now the site of Barangay Sto Nino or the more popular Relocation. Had the court granted the whole area, a new city hall would have been built in this place, just right next door to PhilSci and a stone's throw away from UP Min. :)

Madayaw Dabaw!
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Favorite pic ko so far sa camphone ko. Something enigmatic about Davao. If only I could bring the smell of Durian here in Cebu through mobile phone, nakakamiss.

This Thread is closed. :redx: :deadthrea

Aaron or Renell, please make the next Davao thread sticky, TY.

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davao is mutating fast. hahaha. midaghan ug nasaag ko kadyot:D
thanks bai tj for the new thread

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Favorite pic ko so far sa camphone ko. Something enigmatic about Davao. If only I could bring the smell of Durian here in Cebu through mobile phone, nakakamiss.
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neat hue bro :okay: very nice landmark






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neat hue bro :okay: very nice landmark






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Sepia gyud. Sa camphone lang...I mean, di pa na labot 1megapixel na camphone. Simple lang. Kay sunset na then nalisuran ko pangita nindut na angle.

HI Aaron, Renell, Grey (any other mod),
Please don't forget to make this thread sticky. Ty.


btw I didn't realize the new sports complex will be in Mintal, so the movement northwest towards Calinan is starting to really roll. This has been in the plans for so long, now we develop the interior. On the same note, wala na pala talaga iyang sa maa na sports center, sayang naman talaga.

Actually before they begin more developments in that area, I hope the city has already expropriated enough land on both sides of the highway to expand it , plus some more for a train system that will eventually come. (may even be sooner than later, hehe)

just repost:

projects that excites me...

GREEN BELT PARK
CHINA TOWN
ULAS FLYOVER
INTERNATIONAL ROUTES

Thanks Ady need those Japanese connection its part of Davao history.

Really sad bro, did he work as an artist or other kind of job diri sa Davao?

probably some jobs here and there. he painted some portraits, but i can't remember if these are comissioned works. he had some business years prior and till his death (his house was very near victoria plaza so ideal for some kind of business).

HI Aaron, Renell, Grey (any other mod),
Please don't forget to make this thread sticky. Ty.


btw I didn't realize the new sports complex will be in Mintal, so the movement northwest towards Calinan is starting to really roll. This has been in the plans for so long, now we develop the interior. On the same note, wala na pala talaga iyang sa maa na sports center, sayang naman talaga.

Actually before they begin more developments in that area, I hope the city has already expropriated enough land on both sides of the highway to expand it , plus some more for a train system that will eventually come. (may even be sooner than later, hehe)
hopefully the ongoing study on light rail transport system for davao will come up positve recommendation for its viability. and i surely believe davao needs it considering the expanse of metro area and the volume of daytime commuting public. daytime population of the city reached 2million from 1.5m
the sooner they finish the study the better so they can sell the project to chinese investors. china offeres its willingness to invest in infrastructure in davao. davao should grab this opportunity while they are still in the spending mood:D and not to rely on national government to get the act. politicsin bureaucracy is a misfortune and disgrace.





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can someone post here pics of the park? tnx

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davao is mutating fast. hahaha. midaghan ug nawala ko kadyot:D
thanks bai tj for the new thread

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http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h73/davao_world/66a9scd.jpg
net find (victoria plaza)

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re: victoria plaza: i remember these open spaces were used for fairs and community oriented events. karon, ginamaximize na nila ang rent/tenant areas.

yeah , i remember ,his house is in Obrero i think in Burgos street ..... usahay mag uban mi magsakay ug jeep padulong sa UM

I'll try posting some Davao-based research such as histories of Davao, and the Japanese-Davao connection, which is kind of blurred in today.
how bout posting photos too of japanese landmarks somewhere in calinan district. very much appreciated if there is bai.






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yehey!

thread 17 na! again, shock na pud!

hapit na august... musta na ang mga plano sa meet? kinsay interesado mo-join?

Unsaon man ni oi.,.. wala man koy kwarta... don't worry, please report what happened.

asus! prepare ka lang ng 30 pesos for 1 bottle beer. ang importante ang attendance. the more the merrier.

I think these belong here.

Institute for Indigenous People's Education inside Davao City Natl High School

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a157/kulaskusgan/dc/IMG_0309.jpg

Mindanao Folk Arts Center inside Phil Women's College

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a157/kulaskusgan/dc/IMG_0321.jpg

Museo Dabawenyo update

months ago...
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/sleepie_uno/canon/IMG_0241.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/sleepie_uno/canon/IMG_0242.jpg

last week...
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a157/kulaskusgan/dc/IMG_0318.jpg
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a157/kulaskusgan/dc/IMG_0319.jpg
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a157/kulaskusgan/dc/IMG_0320.jpg

Originally Posted by scandinavian girl
But what about when the natural surroundings have become alien to our human nature? I mean that even starving artist have become endangred species. Oh, for the days of Frank Lloyd Wright. His work always meleted into the landscape by using natural materials at the sight, he created a harmony with nature and beauty.
If you want to fly you have to take a risk. If you want to save nature and I agree, the new green architecture will have to be red politicly.....because were are the masses allowed to live? The tendency with the green architecture is that it is easily elitist in conseption and acutality. Why? Because a modern tree house is usually built for doctors and lawyers. It cost money to live there, a tent in the jungel could suffice but aren´t we forgetting someting ..-the free choice-. The real problem in the future will be the resistance from the market powers against innovative housing projects that could empower, inspire the poor against repressive authoritarian scheems. On a positive note green architecture in the eara of postmodernism can selectivly choose from a variety from ancient and modern styles which together contribute to a natural comunity of man. On the topic of continuity, Wrights architecture mírrors the consept of postimpressionim and cubism as an artform and idéa aplied and assimulated into his architecture.

more to come next week :)
Nice Day Lena :)

Ok i will try to " split the atom " min askling, Frank Llyod Wright teaches "form and function is one" and Nature is the model. green architecture is not an elitist or for rich individual, it teaches humans to be aware and a have a better understanding of their sorrounding. It tries to integrate nature with architecture not architecture imposes itself to nature .I know the powerful will always be forceful in having their way on how edifices must be build and can influence politics .But humans must now understand that destruction of nature have grave circumstances and . as your pappa said "If we do not take care of nature , natuer wont take care of us".

Thanks Dave !!! naaka photos of Davao in American and Japanese time ? Tagal ko nang hindi naka punta sa downtown ,totally destroyed pala yang Museo Davao tsk tsk I thougth it was just a renovation sayang sana it was part of Davao's history and The Mindanao Folk Arts is completed ? but it is very different from its perspective.

Thanks Dave !!! naaka photos of Davao in American and Japanese time ? Tagal ko nang hindi naka punta sa downtown ,totally destroyed pala yang Museo Davao tsk tsk I thougth it was just a renovation sayang sana it was part of Davao's history and The Mindanao Folk Arts is completed ? but it is very different from its perspective.

mas gasto man gud kung i-renovate. i think mas cheaper pag i rebuild na lang kay murag fire-hazard man ang karaan nga bldg. mindanao folk arts center is actually small but the area sa likod ng bldg malaki pa.

btw, heres davao history:

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a157/kulaskusgan/dc/davaojapanedited1gh.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a157/kulaskusgan/dc/davaojapan8em.jpg

marco polo
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a157/kulaskusgan/dc/IMG_0340.jpg

bsp complex
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a157/kulaskusgan/dc/IMG_0338.jpg

call center academy
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a157/kulaskusgan/dc/IMG_0312.jpg

palma gil elem school
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a157/kulaskusgan/dc/IMG_0315.jpg

^^ Oi. I remember those photos clearly , i was asking somebody for help to make the photo bigger , and you did the rescue , salamat usab bai!

^^ haha. murag imageshack man siguro to imo gigamit.

Yip! hantud karon imageshack gihapon , unsa naman daghan na mag attend sa miting? wala pay date ug venue? BTW unsaon nimo ng mag pa invisibol ? :)

secret ni ha.
naay 'quick links' sa taas, click 'edit options' nya check ang invisible mode.

Thanks ! Lena was asking it too !! murag dili na na secret bai!

MtApo hi! How are you doing? We are melting away in Europe so hot here everywhere. I am coping ok, considering.

Nice night MtApo:)

Dave I saw your photoes in dinabaws thread. So sad I think, that this beautyful house got torn down, I am not informed about what this house once was, but I liked the beauty of it compared to many of Davos new buildings.

Does not the state, the responsible leaders of Davao have a responsible person in office that can prevent this from happening? Later in a generation or so or even now people will be uspet about it.....


KONSEHAL if I have understood it right you are an important person of Davao City. :)Does the state have selected cultural representatives that work with questions like save important cultural buildings of Davao City??? I am not a davaoenya and maybe it is none of my buisness, but still I care about it because we did this misstake back in history like 1950-1960 in my country and many old buildings went to waist for new parkinglots, supermarkets, malls and businessbuildings. I just feel it is sad for the generations to come, they will not be able to see the original buildings of Davao and will just see American style, rectangular business buildings all kinds. Why Sweden is often recognised as a modern state, it shares a great loss with other northern European countires because it has lost an original era of architecture which can not be fully restored. It is ironic that the the puls fo the new city halls in every city here are lined with photoes of their old city.

:)

rajah:)

No Importa! Ich weiss das du ganz viel zu tun hast!! :)

The heat in Europe is overwhelming :dizzy:, no rain, no rain.....

good morning davao!
I've been following davao's threads for the pass 2 weeks... INTERESTING!!! :hi:

^^ welcome aponicardo! post away pud ka k?

Friday, July 28, 2006
Mindanao foreign trade hits double-digit growth

BUOYED by the favorable business climate and emergence of new markets for the island's export products, Mindanao pulled off a remarkable 10.97 percent growth in foreign trade during the first quarter of the year.

Data processed by the Mindanao Economic Development Council (Medco) secretariat show that total foreign trade in Mindanao reached $626 million, higher than the $564 million recorded during the same period last year.

The figures indicated that Mindanao's trade performance for the first three months is notably good as it enjoys a 10.06 percent or $219 million growth in its trade surplus, up from $199 million in the same period last year.

From January to March 2006, Mindanao's total exports posted a double-digit year-on-year growth with shipments surging 10.73 percent at $423 million from $382 million a year earlier.

Meanwhile, total imports were valued at $203 million, 11.47 percent higher than the $182 million in the same quarter last year.

Fresh banana, the traditional export winner of Mindanao, maintained its lead in the top ten export product ranking as it accounts for 21.7 percent of the total export earnings valued at $91.8 million during the quarter.

The biggest shipment of fresh bananas came from Region 11. The banana-producing region was able to ship out 515,272 metric tons or 99 percent of the total fresh banana exports of Mindanao.

Fresh banana exports from Mindanao pass through the Ports of Davao City, Cagayan de Oro, General Santos City, Dole Pier in Calumpang, General Santos City and Tadeco Wharf in Panabo City.

Crude and refined coconut oil exports made the second highest contribution at 18.35%, followed by sintered iron ore agglomerates with 8.79%; preserved and fresh pineapples with 7.89%; and tuna with 4.45% share.

Other top Mindanao exports include fuel oil, flat-rolled iron, desiccated coconut, pineapple juice, mixtures of fruits and other parts of edible plants.

Japan remains the top export destination of Mindanao exports, with a total of $93 million worth of exports received during the first quarter, about 22% of the total export value.

Fresh bananas comprise the large bulk of these export commodities that went to Japan.

Next to Japan is United States, which accounts for 15% share in the total Mindanao export earnings, mainly coming from coconut oil exports.

A new entrant to Mindanao's top ten list of export market is Turkey, which recently ranked 10th by importing a total of $9.45 million exports such as flat-rolled products of iron, fresh bananas and coconut from Mindanao.

For the past two years, Turkey is one of Mindanao's export destinations for commodities such as fresh bananas, desiccated coconut, flour and fresh coconut (buko).

In 2004, Mindanao's export to Turkey valued at $354,803 and went 83% higher at $650,135 in 2005.

In terms of regional performance, Region XI posted the highest export earnings at $188.59 million, followed by Region X at $151.07 million, Region XII at $52.57 million, Caraga at $14.25 million and Armm at $92,400 dollars.

Meanwhile, Mindanao imports increased by 11.47%, up from $182 million to $203 million during the period.

Rice tops as the main import commodity, as it accounts for $34.86 million worth of imports or 17.16% of the total value of imports to Mindanao.

"The good showing of foreign trade in Mindanao at the beginning of the year strongly indicates a bullish economy ready to compete in a wider global trading arena. It is encouraging that we have achieved such growth needed to spur business and create jobs for Mindanaoans," said Undersecretary Virgilio Leyretana, Medco's OIC-chair.

He added that strong trade up-trend will likely remain intact, with export industry leading the growth for the rest of the year.

^^ welcome aponicardo! post away pud ka k?


I'd sure would!
basta para davao... :D

This might somehow answer our concern for the environment with the influx of mining activities in Davao and Mindanao.

Friday, July 28, 2006

PGD: Responsible mining to boost Mindano economy

PAUL G. Dominguez, president and CEO of South Cotabato-based Sagittarius Mines Inc. (SMI), said in a conference that minerals development, when done responsibly and conscientiously, will revitalize the Mindanao economy and ultimately benefit the island's poor communities.

"With the projected investments that mining will generate, local residents' quality of life will generally improve in terms of jobs and livelihood opportunities," said Dominguez before the 7th Mindanao Area Conference of the Provincial Board Members League of the Philippines.

Infusing new capital

The island economy had suffered severe blows in the past. Indicators from the Mindanao Economic Development Council reveal that Mindanao's economic performance took a nose dive to -6.38 percent and -5.31 percent during the droughts of 1984 and 1997.

But this heavy dependence on agriculture can be corrected with a determined focus on responsible mining, Dominguez said.

Potential mining investments for the country can reach $4 billion, a financial outlay that dwarfs the total assets of the agribusiness industry estimated at $1 billion over the last two decades, he continued.

Business and community leaders must "come forth and appreciate responsible mining's strategic importance to Mindanao's growth," he pointed out.

Mineral wealth in the Philippines is believed to be worth between $800 billion to $1 trillion, according to government estimates.

The untapped resources of SMI alone are valued at $23 billion, and are believed to be among the largest undeveloped copper-gold deposits in the world.

Strengthening social capital

Over and above improved economic performance, Dominguez said that responsible minerals development will address Mindanao's perennial poverty decisively.

According to the National Statistics Office, Mindanao's per capita income falls below P20,000 -- way below the national average of P32,141.

Also, half its school children do not get to finish elementary studies.

Against this backdrop of underdevelopment, a major industry intervention such as mining will certainly make a positive contribution, said Dominguez, who served as the first Presidential Assistant for Mindanao under the Ramos Administration.

The Mines and Geosciences Bureau estimates that at least 240,000 jobs can be generated by mineral development projects over the next six years.

Corporate citizenship

SMI holds a Financial and Technical Assistance Agreement with the government for 2,87.9 sq. km. in South Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, and Davao del Sur.

Its copper and gold venture straddles the towns of Tampakan in South Cotabato, Columbio in Sultan Kudarat and Kiblawan in Davao del Sur.

Although still in its pre-feasibility stage, SMI has been pursuing an active community development program, focusing on health, education, and the environment, says Butch Sebua, SMI Senior Environmental Officer.

As part of its corporate citizenship program, nearly 7,000 local residents have benefited from the company's scholarship and other educational support projects.

In addition, some 3,360 people have been assisted by SMI's health initiatives, according to Sebua.

A major SMI environment program has also planted 28,178 tree seedlings and bamboo cuttings around the project's mineral development area.

Canada-based mining firm pursues expansion


http://www.mb.com.ph/BSNS2006072870271.html


Undaunted by its problems with informal settlers, TVI Resource Development Phils. Inc. pursues expansion and acquisition plans even as it expects to generate P3.4 billion in revenues this year doubling last year’s P1.7-billion revenues due to good metal prices for its gold and silver mining operation in the Zamboanga, Peninsula.


Yulo Perez, TVIRDP general plant manager, said the company is already in its advanced stage of negotiations with the Privatization Management Office for its interest in the North Davao mining project.

The 26,000-hectare copper and gold mining project in Compostela Valley requires $ 200 million for its rehabilitation. North Davao has also annual potential revenue of $ 300 million.

The company is confident it can offer expertise, capability and track record to run a large scalemining operation.

The company is also pursuing its expansion for the gold and copper exploration in Canatuan with an investment of $ 23 million that would prolong its operation for six more years. The existing god and silver mine is expected to last until 2008, Perez said.

Perez said the company is sticking to its schedule for the expansion project to start commercial operation early next year.

Perez, however, admitted that the problem with the informal settlers in its 508-hectare lot in Canatuan where they have a Mineral Production Sharing Agreement (MPSA) is delaying some of its operations by three months.

But the delays are not enough to affect its progress, he said.

The company is producing 170 ounces per day gold equivalent from its existing gold and silver mining operation.

TVIRD president Eugene Mateo said its problem with the informal settlers in its mining site was already blown out of proportion when the shanties of the remaining non-indigenous people in the area were dismantled.


"The demolition of the shanties was not done by TVI but by the legitimate IP people," Mateo said.

Mateo said the company has already paid a total of P13 million in royalty fees since the company started operations in 2004 including the P7 million in the first half of the year to 1,147 IP beneficiaries.

There are already 30 families remaining in the mining area engaged in small scale mining but most of these have already agreed to settle with TVI and be relocated to a community site prepared by the company except for the sensationalized situation of a particular couple.

The local government unit in Zamboanga has assessed the couple’s shanty at P13,000 only as against the demand of the couple for P1.5 million settlement fee.

Pablo Bernardo, counsel for the Siocon Subano Association Inc. (SSAI) and an IP, said the IP association is already preparing to sue DIOPIM Committee on Mining Issues (DCMI), a non-governmental organization, and the people behind a move to stunt the development of their ancestral domains.

SSAI claims to be the legitimate IP association in the area and composed of genuine IPs.

"Illegal small scale miners have occupied a large portion of ancestral domain," he said.

Bernardo said that DCMI has been undermining their right to choose its leaders by supporting a small group whom the IP Subanons had voted out.

TVIRD has also formally requested the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples and the Commission on Human Rights to conduct an inquiry into these recent events.

TVI’s mining project is employing 650 workers including 300 indigenous people.

TVIRD is 40 percent owned by TVI Pacific and 60 percent by Filipino firms.(BCM)

OT: EB tayo lahat sa October!!! :)
pwede ba?

you will be in davao by that time tigs?

OT: EB tayo lahat sa October!!! :)
pwede ba?


saan?

Education and employment in Davao Call Center

http://www.mb.com.ph/search.php

In recent job fairs, the queues of applicants for call center agents are usually longer. This shows that more Filipino students and even young professionals have realized the potential of earning good income as call center agents, by optimizing their competitive edge in proficiency of the English language and customer relations.


In the previous years, those who want to become call center agents had to go to Manila for training. This is expensive for those coming from the provinces, considering the cost of going to and staying in Manila for a couple of months.

With this in mind, the JIB e-Academy opens in Davao, to offer a comprehensive training module for those who want to pursue a career in call center operations and administration.

"This will substantially reduce the cost of completing a call center operations course who are from Davao and other cities and provinces in Mindanao," said, Joji Hagan Bian, President of the JIB e-Academy and Solutions. Furthermore, this will encourage BPO-Contact Center Investments in Davao and in Mindanao because of the assurance of availability of competent manpower requirements.

"We have partnered with the best in the field of call center and language training so as to produce skilled manpower required by the industry" said Mikee Bian, VP¬Operations.

The JIB e-Academy partners with the John F. Kennedy Center Foundation Legacy Program for the Call Center training courses. JFK is a non profit social services and community development organization located in Erin, Pennsylvania and was founded nearly 40 years ago in 1968 as a living memorial to the legacy of President Kennedy. In July2001,JFK created "The Young Shall Grow Program" which focuses on the self and professional training for college students and young professionals.

The Manila Times Language Institute will provide the inter-active English’ Language Training; and Five 9 Inc., the provider for the hosted call center. The hosted call center will enable students to have an on-the-job training and gain experience in "actual call center operations.

Six-Eleven Global Tele-Services, a sister company of the JIB e-Academy will operate the call center side-by-side with the e-Academy and will immediately hire and employ the call center graduates.

" This is again a re- affirmation of our track record in the field of innovative education geared to develop a person’s self and professional confidence leading to employment or ‘entrepreneurship", adds Mrs. Bian

JIB Foundation pioneered the tourism and hotel management courses in Davao and Mindanao and last year they introduced the international UK based Tumble Tots PreSchool and now the e-Academy. All of these are bound to make Davao the center of education and IT hub of Southern Mindanao.

I hope this one has a place here.

Davao elims for Milo Marathon


The last two Milo Marathon queens came from Davao City. Will there be a third this year?

Estela Mamac-Diaz topped the Davao City leg in 2004 and Jhoan Banayag followed suit last year. They both went on to top the women’s 42K races in the Milo Marathon Finals in Metro Manila.
Being the defending champion, Banayag is already seeded to this year’s grand finale on Dec. 10. Diaz, on the other hand, is already a qualifier having ruled the Kidapawan City leg last January.

Likewise, perennial contender and former Davao City leg winner Monaliza Ambasa already ran in the Gen. Santos City leg last July 2 and won.

This leaves a wide open race for other Dabawenyas to step up and hog the limelight.

Among the runners to watch on Sunday when the 30th National Milo Marathon holds its 12th elimination leg of the year at the Rizal Park in Davao City are the promising Cherry Ann Javellana and the veteran Hazel Madamba of Butuan City who is said to be arriving here on Friday to join the race.

In the men’s side, defending champion Angelito Sibayan is expected to retain his crown. He is expected to get tough challenge from Rey Villarma of University of Mindanao, Rodel Bustamante of Tagum City, and Jimmy Barselote of Davao del Sur.

According to local race organizer Vic Sai, a record field of 9,000 runners will participate in the Davao leg of the country’s biggest and longest-running foot race held in partnership with Cebu Pacific, Bayview Park Hotel-Manila, Adidas, Department of Tourism and Powerbar. It is also supported here by the Fil-Chinese Firefighters Foundation, Inc., Davao Traffic Management Group, PATAFA-XI and the Davao City Sports Council.

Vice Mayor Luis C. Bonguyan, City councilor Peter Lavina, City sports coordinator Christopher Bong Go, PATAFA regional chief Helen Kempia Taala are among the VIP’s expected to grace the race.

A total cash pot of P159,000 are at stake to the winners in all the race categories including incentives for the biggest school participation, best running team and the cheer-dance winners.

The race will start at Rizal Park exactly 6 a.m. passing Elpidio Quirino Avenue, Hospital Avenue, Bajada, Lanang and Sasa and back for the premier 21-K regional race.

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Dave I saw your photoes in dinabaws thread. So sad I think, that this beautyful house got torn down, I am not informed about what this house once was, but I liked the beauty of it compared to many of Davos new buildings.

Does not the state, the responsible leaders of Davao have a responsible person in office that can prevent this from happening? Later in a generation or so or even now people will be uspet about it.....


KONSEHAL if I have understood it right you are an important person of Davao City. :)Does the state have selected cultural representatives that work with questions like save important cultural buildings of Davao City??? I am not a davaoenya and maybe it is none of my buisness, but still I care about it because we did this misstake back in history like 1950-1960 in my country and many old buildings went to waist for new parkinglots, supermarkets, malls and businessbuildings. I just feel it is sad for the generations to come, they will not be able to see the original buildings of Davao and will just see American style, rectangular business buildings all kinds. Why Sweden is often recognised as a modern state, it shares a great loss with other northern European countires because it has lost an original era of architecture which can not be fully restored. It is ironic that the the puls fo the new city halls in every city here are lined with photoes of their old city.


What was that saying???....

Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you got 'til it's gone. They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

saan?
Hindi ko alam san sa Davao, hehehe, bibisita lang ako sa October ala tourist para makita ang Davao. Saka pala, makikitanong na rin kung san may murang hotel o motel. You guys can plan for the date within October just tell me when

good morning davao!
I've been following davao's threads for the pass 2 weeks... INTERESTING!!! :hi:

aha! tagnaon nako ha... ikaw si carding? haha. welcome bai.

Dave I saw your photoes in dinabaws thread. So sad I think, that this beautyful house got torn down, I am not informed about what this house once was, but I liked the beauty of it compared to many of Davos new buildings.

Does not the state, the responsible leaders of Davao have a responsible person in office that can prevent this from happening? Later in a generation or so or even now people will be uspet about it.....


its sad but thats what happening. old builldings are torn down to give way for new structure. i hope one day, the govt will realize the importance of preserving historical buildings.

regarding the photo, they demolish the old structure coz its fire-hazard and they will rebuild it. almost the same design as the old one. once finish, it will house 'Museo Dabawenyo'.

Hindi ko alam san sa Davao, hehehe, bibisita lang ako sa October ala tourist para makita ang Davao. Saka pala, makikitanong na rin kung san may murang hotel o motel. You guys can plan for the date within October just tell me when

daming murang hotel dito tigs. sige tigs sabihin mo lang kung kelan para mapaghandaan namin.

marco polo
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a157/kulaskusgan/dc/IMG_0340.jpg

wow dave, i like this pic... saang city ka pa ba makakakita ng isang highrise sa loob ng forest hehehe... hmmm saang banda nga ba to? i know sa quirino side but where particularly?

Good Morning!

mumog muna tayo! :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

Ano na news?

Si gravy, wala pa dinhi!
wala kaya to katuod?
pangita mo be! hehe!

wow dave, i like this pic... saang city ka pa ba makakakita ng isang highrise sa loob ng forest hehehe... hmmm saang banda nga ba to? i know sa quirino side but where particularly?

good morning folks
this photo was taken just outside the tionko gate of the central bank... facing the corner ng tionko and quirino...

the blue tarp roofing is the "used" car display of coroma car center... :)

Dave I saw your photoes in dinabaws thread. So sad I think, that this beautyful house got torn down, I am not informed about what this house once was, but I liked the beauty of it compared to many of Davos new buildings.

Does not the state, the responsible leaders of Davao have a responsible person in office that can prevent this from happening? Later in a generation or so or even now people will be uspet about it.....


KONSEHAL if I have understood it right you are an important person of Davao City. :)Does the state have selected cultural representatives that work with questions like save important cultural buildings of Davao City??? I am not a davaoenya and maybe it is none of my buisness, but still I care about it because we did this misstake back in history like 1950-1960 in my country and many old buildings went to waist for new parkinglots, supermarkets, malls and businessbuildings. I just feel it is sad for the generations to come, they will not be able to see the original buildings of Davao and will just see American style, rectangular business buildings all kinds. Why Sweden is often recognised as a modern state, it shares a great loss with other northern European countires because it has lost an original era of architecture which can not be fully restored. It is ironic that the the puls fo the new city halls in every city here are lined with photoes of their old city.

I really believed you were to spend the summer in Davao Lena. We have perfect weather - full sunshine in the mornings and drizzles in late afternoons and early evenings.

I am not an important person in Davao; I'm just a public servant. Besöka var god min weblog. (http://funchain.com/~peterlavina)

Re old buildings, Davao is a very young city - founded in 1936. There is really no old buildings to speak of compared to say Europe. When the Spaniards colonized the Philippines, the friars built many churches. So you can find different style of churches in Cebu, Iloilo, Luzon as old as 400 years. There is none in Davao because the Spaniards came to Davao very late - a few decades before the Americans bougth the Philippines after the American-Spanish War in 1898.

Of the pre and post war edifices in the city, very few remained. There is consciousness to preserve the notable old buildings like the Court of First Instance which is now being renovated as the Davao Museum.

It is important to take history seriously to chart our future. But in the case of old buildings where we have very few and far between, we can do very little. So, better adopt modernity. :)

Originally Posted scandinavian girls
Dave I saw your photoes in dinabaws thread. So sad I think, that this beautyful house got torn down, I am not informed about what this house once was, but I liked the beauty of it compared to many of Davos new buildings.

Does not the state, the responsible leaders of Davao have a responsible person in office that can prevent this from happening? Later in a generation or so or even now people will be uspet about it.....


KONSEHAL if I have understood it right you are an important person of Davao City. Does the state have selected cultural representatives that work with questions like save important cultural buildings of Davao City??? I am not a davaoenya and maybe it is none of my buisness, but still I care about it because we did this misstake back in history like 1950-1960 in my country and many old buildings went to waist for new parkinglots, supermarkets, malls and businessbuildings. I just feel it is sad for the generations to come, they will not be able to see the original buildings of Davao and will just see American style, rectangular business buildings all kinds. Why Sweden is often recognised as a modern state, it shares a great loss with other northern European countires because it has lost an original era of architecture which can not be fully restored. It is ironic that the the puls fo the new city halls in every city here are lined with photoes of their old city.

Your very right Lena , I rather see Paris or Rome than Los Angeles , because of its richness in arts and culture . City is not a "city" if they don't recognize its arts and culture , heritage sites and history .Its painful to us that sometime in our history that the Japanese occupied Davao, nothing we can do about it its part of history. Some people wants to be nostalgic, i want to see some buildings built in 1900's( i felt nostalgic before when i see our old house but now when it has been destroyed some part of me is lost) , some people loves to talk Davao's history ,i want the fututer sons and daughters of Davao to feel and see Davao's rich history not some people decide its faith. I hope government can recognize this and enact law to preserved heritage sites.

^^ What shall we do about humans never recognized the environment , destroying the nature? Maybe drop a million megatons of "splitting atom" and start in " ground zero" :D , seriously, well maybe humans is really destine to be instinct just like the dinosaur but sad part of it its his own doing not a meteor blast. Were are the only specie that alters the world tremendously.
Anyway i am sorry never got the idea of "tree house" your so deep words got me libog min askling :wink2: cebuano one ,never thought that "eco houses" exist ,anyway i think we have a eco houses (community) for the poor people built by a European organization, maybe a kind of experiment , they used solar panels, solid waste are being use for compost for their organic plants water from deep well or river.Maybe you can adopt this style , imean have community eco houses so it can be cheaper than building individual houses .
BTW i read or watched a documentary about eco house maybe in the 80's a man built one but his was like a hexagonal design and have underground rooms( maybe also protection for a nuclear fallout) ummm never thougth one day it will be feasible.
Good day Lena ! :hi:hope you have rain today ! i'll make my "rain dance" :dance2:

Hindi ko alam san sa Davao, hehehe, bibisita lang ako sa October ala tourist para makita ang Davao. Saka pala, makikitanong na rin kung san may murang hotel o motel. You guys can plan for the date within October just tell me when


kala ko sa Chicago kasi pupunta ako dyan sa October, lol.

Originally Posted by tigs
OT: EB tayo lahat sa October!!!
pwede ba?
Ano EB ,eat bulaga??? :jk: anyways, no problem Boss Dave is here and he will tour you in the biggest city in the world :okay:

Originally Posted by Skyblue_Navyblue
Si gravy, wala pa dinhi!
wala kaya to katuod?
pangita mo be! hehe!
Ai hubog pa to ug .............. gravy :)

Welcome Aponicardo

3-day travel expo at SM in August

A Three-day travel exposition dubbed “Mindanao Travel and Tour Expo” (MTTE) will be staged at the SM City Davao Entertainment Plaza on August 11-13.

The travel expo highlights not only the tourist attraction and tour packages around the Mindanao Islands but also provides a venue for establishing market linkages with Palau, Brunie, Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia, among others.

Organized by the Travel and Tours Promotions (TTP), in cooperation with the Department of Tourism in Davao, it sees a gathering of local and foreign travel agents and tour operators, airline, hotels, restaurant and resort operators and local government units (LGUs) all showcasing their respective tourism product during the three-day exposition.

“Following the big success that Davao’s hosting of the ASEAN Tourism Forum (ATF) early this year has generated, the coming MTTE promises to enhance our promotional initiatives in marketing Davao Region in particular and Mindanao in general to both domestic and foreign markets,” Region Director Sonia Garcia said.

Travel agents and tour operators particularly are looking for new destinations and the MTTE provides this venue for people in the travel industry to market new tourism products, including “plan vacation packages,” among others. Expo organizer Marissa Te Eng Fo said the MTTE serves as a perfect occasion to showcase also the best of the region’s culture via ethnic-inspired presentations, capped by a distinct culinary delight called “kaimunan” which features bamboo-cooking, an interesting culinary practice by highland tribes of southern Mindanao.

“The overall theme revolves around our “island to Highland” promotional thrust which underscores the rich ecotourism potentials that the Davao Region here is proud to offfer given the vast tourism resources that the area enjoys,” Garcia said.

She added that a Region Tourism Council Assembly (RTCA) of tourism leaders and stakeholders will also be held during the opening day of the MTEE. Particulars on the MTTE may be addressed to DOT-XI Region Office, 5th Flr. LANDCO Corporate Center, J.P. Laurel Ave., Davao City thru telefax nos. (082) 2210070 or (082) 2251940.

IT AIN’T ENOUGH

By: Joji Ilagan-Bian

http://www.mindanaotimes.com.ph/story.php?id=13441

While the wind and rain were raging, I was at the Inno’s Restaurant in Quezon City upon the invitation of my friends from various media groups. Personalities from government, politicians, and private sector leaders from business, youth, and women were busy going in and out after they were interviewed. Because of the weather, I decided to stay in the restaurant and wait for the State of the Nation Address (Sona) there, instead of traversing the flooded streets going to the Batasan.

There I was in the table full of sushi and more sushi with Sec. Saludo and my USEC friends from Malacañang - exchanging stories on how they prepared for the Sona. Finally the time that everybody was waiting for came – all of our eyes were glued to the TV listening intently to Pres. GMA delivering her Sona.

We would all clap our hands everytime she makes a reference to the importance of Charter change- and when she talked about the mega region of Mindanao.

After the Sona – I received dozens of text messages in all my three (3) cell phones; all expressing their discontentment and grave disappointment on the President’s future plans for mega Mindanao. It seems that we did not get enough as the other mega regions did .

It seems that Mindanao “paled” (to borrow my media friend’s words) in comparison with other regions in Luzon and the Visayas My response would be “YES” and “NO.”

Yes, we seemed not to be getting our equitable share of the gifts from Imperial Manila; if we make a countdown one-on-one with the development plans of the other mega areas- from infrastructure, roads, bridges, housing, tourism sites, etc.

The answer is a logical “NO” if we understand and know where we are coming from. First, our distance from Manila has always worked to our disadvantage. We always have to fight to get our share in the development agenda. So it is really very important that our political and business leaders ensure that their voices are heard in the halls of power and jointly advocate harder that are translated a part of the national agenda.

Just like any head of a business corporation, the CEO is dependent on the information from the people down below – this information is processed and used as reference tool in crafting the company’s path and future plans. Most of the time, it is the unit heads or area managers that is asked to do their own unit plans and submit these to the CEO.

The CEO will closely assess and evaluate these; do revisions and modifications; adds some new ideas, etc. I believe that this is exactly the process by which the President does her Sona. The think tank of the government which is the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) must have been tasked to do the economic draft or framework in which the Sona was anchored. Various government agencies and perhaps local government units (LGU) too were asked to contribute to the blue print.

Come to think of it – perhaps our Mindanao wide offices failed to give the President substantial information on what we in Mindanao want and more importantly what we need so that we can truly become the agribusiness hub of Southern Philippines. One area which was not given priority is tourism which is Davao’s competitive edge. Well, the good news is we are part of the cyber corridor- from Baguio, Cebu and then Davao.

With that pronouncement, we should see more call centers looking at our city as a viable site for business process outsourcing. We have never depended on Imperial Manila for our development – we have learned to do things the way we wanted to – we have always charted our own destiny – so let us just move on with or without the gifts from the gods!

(Joji Ilagan Bian is a strong advocate for Mindanao ; Chair, Mindanaworld Foundation Inc; ConCom and Charter Change Advocacy Commission Member ; Chair of the Mindanao TVET ; Mindanao Rep , Export Development Council ; Chair , Joji Ilagan Foundation ; Former Chair of the Mindanao Business Council. Email comments to jojibian2@yahoo.com)

Bright future for coco industry

Coconut farmers in the province Davao Oriental Province have found hope after hearing President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s State of the Nation Address recognizing coconut as Mindanao’s number one export.

Local chief executives in the said province have waited long for the national government to pump in full support to the coco industry. In her Sona, the President cited the coconut industry’s continuous growth during the last three years at the rate of 10 per cent a year. China, too, has expressed plans to invest on Mindanao’s coconut as bared by the new Chinese envoy to the Philippines Li Jinjun during his 4-day visit to Davao city.

“There is an increasing demand for coconut products from the China market,” he said. Department of Trade and Industry Region XI director Merly Cruz confirmed that China is the biggest buyer of geo-textile made out of coconut which is produced in some towns of Davao Oriental . Local producers claimed that the demand is too high which has pushed industry players to double and even triple their production just to keep the Chinese market.

“We have plenty of coconut, however, we hope to improve our technology so we could produce efficiently, and reach the target volume,” said the plant manager of the coco coir plant in San Isidro Davao Oriental. The Chinese envoy assured that Mindanao will get the technical support from China’s end. “We would be helping this industry right from the growing of coco, to planting, to processing,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Chinese ambassador is still carefully studying China’s possible contribution to improve Mindanao’s infrastructure services which Chinese investors consider as the biggest factor in doing business. “ Definitely, China would become Mindanao’s partner in building more highways, seaports and airports as the avenue for better trading,” he said.

A Tribute to the Built Environment in Davao
By Josie San Pedro

THE Davao Museum of History and Ethnography will host the ninth traveling exhibition of Foundation Santiago, Lines Across Time: 19th Century Fil-Hispanic Architecture this coming August 2006. The multimedia showcase presents Fil-Hispanic architecture in the 19th century.

The three-module presentation was part of three exhibitions held in May for the International Conference on Heritage Houses and Vernacular Architecture in Tagbilaran City, Bohol. Replete with architectural plans and photographs from the Archivo Historico Militar, the Archivo General de Indias, the Servicio Historico Militar and other Spanish archival institutions, Lines Across Time made use of primary resource materials collated by Madrid-based Fundacion Mapfre.

Interactive kiosks and a learning kit created by Fundacion Santiago and the University of the Philippines’ College of Architecture are among the didactic activities guaranteed to engage teachers, students, architects, urban planners, and heritage enthusiasts.

This abundant graphic documentation of the legacy left by Spain’s military and civil engineers is the product of a rich ensemble of talents headed by the founding chair of the Heritage Conservation Society, Augusto Villalon.

Celebrate the Kadayawan Festival this August with a visit to the Davao Museum. Located at the Zonta Building in Lanang, the Museum is open from 9 am to 5pm. Call 233-1734 to book your visit, and contact Foundation Santiago at (02) 6310715 or (02) 8921801 for inquiries and reservations on the Line Across Time Learning Kit.

call center academy
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a157/kulaskusgan/dc/IMG_0312.jpg

palma gil elem school
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a157/kulaskusgan/dc/IMG_0315.jpg

^^sad kaayo ang Palma Gil ba. I must say. I last entered it during my elementary years.

By the way, asa ba dapit ang tumbletots ug kanang Call Center Academy na na? Apil siguro sa mga call center ang "personal draining" ano?

ei bro! I don't get your point here! d ko maconnect! ahihihihihihihihi

Anyway, Mintal may be far from the city (for now). I do acknowledge that. I'm pretty sure that our local government considered a lot of factors before they decided to build the Sports Complex in Mintal.

Though Buhangin is a perfect location, but here are few things that need to be considered:

1. Price of the property.
2. Availability of a property.
3. Location

Well, i guess Ady, we just have to appreciate what's happening. Davao Sports Complex will be built in Mintal soon!

I traveled to Calinan from downtown (to and fro) everyday when I was still a teenager. I dont find that a total inconvenience. How bout Mintal? Which is half way to Calinan.

Also, we do not need to concentrate the development in the downtown area alone. We still have 90% of 244,000 hectares which gotta be developed! And that includes Mintal!

This is my explanation to my quote:
UP was initially planned to be in Mindanao mga 1970s pa.
For so many delays, it got built in 1996 (we're a decade finally!)
In 1970, the lot around Buhangin might've be cheaper than it is today realizing it as a prime lot area.
Kaya "What is wrong is not what is made but what is made late."
"Maayo pa na wala nahimo kaysa nahimo nga dugay na."

But it would've also been good kung kapareha sa UM; they sliced their university to many packets in the city. They have satellite campuses in Calinan, Panabo, in Matina and ETC.

That would've been a good idea... methinks

Madayaw Dabaw!
http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h291/berniemacksouthcentral/General%20Nostalgia/PaxUnidas_Davao.jpg

Favorite pic ko so far sa camphone ko. Something enigmatic about Davao. If only I could bring the smell of Durian here in Cebu through mobile phone, nakakamiss.

Berns, I was wondering about this statue ba. Why didn't they include the Japanese? I think Davao would not have had been Davao were it not for the Japanese. I've done extensive research about the Japanese and their influence in the city, and boy, making a city from 1903 (when they first came) to 1937 (when the municipality) is some feat!

Davao by the early 20th century was still handling one cash crop- Abaca.

IT AIN’T ENOUGH

By: Joji Ilagan-Bian

http://www.mindanaotimes.com.ph/story.php?id=13441

While the wind and rain were raging, I was at the Inno’s Restaurant in Quezon City upon the invitation of my friends from various media groups. Personalities from government, politicians, and private sector leaders from business, youth, and women were busy going in and out after they were interviewed. Because of the weather, I decided to stay in the restaurant and wait for the State of the Nation Address (Sona) there, instead of traversing the flooded streets going to the Batasan.

There I was in the table full of sushi and more sushi with Sec. Saludo and my USEC friends from Malacañang - exchanging stories on how they prepared for the Sona. Finally the time that everybody was waiting for came – all of our eyes were glued to the TV listening intently to Pres. GMA delivering her Sona.

We would all clap our hands everytime she makes a reference to the importance of Charter change- and when she talked about the mega region of Mindanao.

After the Sona – I received dozens of text messages in all my three (3) cell phones; all expressing their discontentment and grave disappointment on the President’s future plans for mega Mindanao. It seems that we did not get enough as the other mega regions did .

It seems that Mindanao “paled” (to borrow my media friend’s words) in comparison with other regions in Luzon and the Visayas My response would be “YES” and “NO.”

Yes, we seemed not to be getting our equitable share of the gifts from Imperial Manila; if we make a countdown one-on-one with the development plans of the other mega areas- from infrastructure, roads, bridges, housing, tourism sites, etc.

The answer is a logical “NO” if we understand and know where we are coming from. First, our distance from Manila has always worked to our disadvantage. We always have to fight to get our share in the development agenda. So it is really very important that our political and business leaders ensure that their voices are heard in the halls of power and jointly advocate harder that are translated a part of the national agenda.

Just like any head of a business corporation, the CEO is dependent on the information from the people down below – this information is processed and used as reference tool in crafting the company’s path and future plans. Most of the time, it is the unit heads or area managers that is asked to do their own unit plans and submit these to the CEO.

The CEO will closely assess and evaluate these; do revisions and modifications; adds some new ideas, etc. I believe that this is exactly the process by which the President does her Sona. The think tank of the government which is the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) must have been tasked to do the economic draft or framework in which the Sona was anchored. Various government agencies and perhaps local government units (LGU) too were asked to contribute to the blue print.

Come to think of it – perhaps our Mindanao wide offices failed to give the President substantial information on what we in Mindanao want and more importantly what we need so that we can truly become the agribusiness hub of Southern Philippines. One area which was not given priority is tourism which is Davao’s competitive edge. Well, the good news is we are part of the cyber corridor- from Baguio, Cebu and then Davao.

With that pronouncement, we should see more call centers looking at our city as a viable site for business process outsourcing. We have never depended on Imperial Manila for our development – we have learned to do things the way we wanted to – we have always charted our own destiny – so let us just move on with or without the gifts from the gods! (Joji Ilagan Bian is a strong advocate for Mindanao ; Chair, Mindanaworld Foundation Inc; ConCom and Charter Change Advocacy Commission Member ; Chair of the Mindanao TVET ; Mindanao Rep , Export Development Council ; Chair , Joji Ilagan Foundation ; Former Chair of the Mindanao Business Council. Email comments to jojibian2@yahoo.com)


I always see these ads by OneVoice denouncing cha-cha and everytime they do, I always feel disappointed by these people and by our leaders who really don't mind the welfare of Mindanao and other provinces. I've been an avid pro-federalism and pro-parliamentary gov't and now they're brainwashing the people against it. Labad sa ulo. :rant:

^^ Mel, there are about 3 ads in TV about that. Two are against the idea, one is pro.

The first one was about a cake, and it discussed about corruption in the LGUs.
The second one was a bunch of people talking and pessimistic about charter change.
The third one is a barkada bickering about going to their place either LRT or Van or Jeep. They didn't go to their destination.

The third one was very simple, but it packed a real punch in me! :D

I really believed you were to spend the summer in Davao Lena. We have perfect weather - full sunshine in the mornings and drizzles in late afternoons and early evenings.

I am not an important person in Davao; I'm just a public servant. Besöka var god min weblog. (http://funchain.com/~peterlavina)

Re old buildings, Davao is a very young city - founded in 1936. There is really no old buildings to speak of compared to say Europe. When the Spaniards colonized the Philippines, the friars built many churches. So you can find different style of churches in Cebu, Iloilo, Luzon as old as 400 years. There is none in Davao because the Spaniards came to Davao very late - a few decades before the Americans bougth the Philippines after the American-Spanish War in 1898.

Of the pre and post war edifices in the city, very few remained. There is consciousness to preserve the notable old buildings like the Court of First Instance which is now being renovated as the Davao Museum.

It is important to take history seriously to chart our future. But in the case of old buildings where we have very few and far between, we can do very little. So, better adopt modernity. :)

Konsehal
Thank you for your information about history very interesting and good to read.:) Still I think it is needed for future generations to come, to preserve older buildings with a genuine cultural design! It is a pitty to think so modern it all get´s destroyed. If I am correctly informed this house -Court of First Instance- is totally destroyed now. I can see it on the photoes made by dave that is posted in dinabaws culture thread, a very interesting thread to visit if interested in culture and nature of your city , I can highly recommend it!!!!? I can not see any renovation of this building you refer to in your post to me??
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/195/img0319da3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Yes I was to be in Davao tomorrow, but my father recently passed away so I stay with my mother, we are mourning , it is not the right time to travel at the moment and mamma needs me right now. We talked about going together to Davao later on when she has recovered and feels strong to travel.

I wish you a nice Friday evening :)

Berns, I was wondering about this statue ba. Why didn't they include the Japanese? I think Davao would not have had been Davao were it not for the Japanese. I've done extensive research about the Japanese and their influence in the city, and boy, making a city from 1903 (when they first came) to 1937 (when the municipality) is some feat!

Davao by the early 20th century was still handling one cash crop- Abaca.

In my opinion lang bai: The people that are included in that statue are the people who are affected mostly by years of conflict not just in Davao but the rest of Mindanao.

I recognize the Japanese effort in developing Davao but the statue might relay to the "Malayan" race in Mindanao that is composed of the Kristyanos, Muslims and Lumads.

Opinion lang po.
For further questions, research lang bai..How I wish naa pa me diha to find out more. :)

What was that saying???....

Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you got 'til it's gone. They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.


Yes you are so right Archipino.:)..we do not feel or know until it is to late, this is the the sad part about tearing down cultural buildings.

dave our gentleman of Davao City :) thanks for your information I apreciate that...firehazard...hummm ???Can it not be renovated even if a hazard of fire??? I am not a building expert, but think alot can be done with a "fire hazard"?

Wishing you both a very nice Friday evening:)

:goodbye: Davao

^^ hi lena, hope everything's ok at this point. have a nice weekend. GOD bless!

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That's sad , i mean govenrment should be initiating ways to construct an eco-house , or come up w/ cheaper way to buid one . Europe has all the sources money , innovative construction material's and technology , but as i see its more important to build humongous "state of the art" football stadiums than environmental houses , I hope one day we can have a generic eco-housing.

Good day too Lena did the rain comes maybe need another rain dance? :)

Arroyo asked: Where's your environmental agenda?

ENVIRONMENTALISTS are frustrated over President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's disregard for the environment and its protection as evidenced by the absence of any government agenda for environmental protection in her State of the Nation Address (Sona).

But, environmental fighters said, not only did Arroyo ignore environmental protection she also spelled some measures, which are both environmentally threatening and impossible to attain given the current trends in agricultural developments.

Arroyo Watch: Sun.Star blog on President Arroyo


"We are saddened, frustrated and outraged by her disregard of a very serious matter that is just too important to be ignored in the first place. Now it is clear that the agenda of this president is not the agenda of the people but her own agenda, which are all geared at keeping her position and power," said Lia Jasmin Esquillo, executive director of the environmental non-government organization Interface Development Interventions, Inc. (Idis).

"If we look at her address, there was nothing in it but plans of billions-worth of road and airport constructions and her continued call for constitutional amendments. These are the things that we can expect from her for the next years. Things that are do not actually answer the basic need of the people like education, health, and agrarian reform. Things that do not address issues that are so pressing right now like environment," Esquillo said.

As she delivered her Sona, the longest so far since she was put to office in 2001, Arroyo said she will not talk about politics but rather talk about what the people want stressing on how to develop the major economic regions of the country.

Arroyo said the government will "enhance the competitive advantage of the natural 'super-regions' of the Philippines: North Luzon Agribusiness Quadrangle, Metro Luzon Urban Beltway, Central Philippines, Mindanao and the Cyber Corridor."

Arroyo added that, as part of the government medium term public investment program, the government will now focus on how to utilize the natural resources of the super-regions as the investment programs third phase.

"Finally, (the) third phase to invest in the natural advantages and natural resources of each section of our nation so that when harnessed together, the major economic regions of the nation are larger than the sum of its parts," Arroyo said.

For Mindanao, she said, the government will prioritize agribusiness investments noting the coconut production of the region. She said coconut, being Mindanao's
number one export "has been growing continuously for the last three years, at the rate of 10 percent a year."

For Esquillo, the president just showed that she did not know what was she was actually saying.

"Some areas of Davao have, for instance, been cleared to give way to banana and pineapple plantations and these areas were usually coconut farms if not highly-vegetated areas. And she could not be aware that coconut farmers have been clamoring about the loss of their income because of insects linked to banana and pineapple plantations and their use of synthetic chemicals which are harmful to both human and the environment," Esquillo said.

"If indeed the president and this government is serious backing up the coconut industry considering its potentials, coconut farmers have to be protected and by that we mean the monoculture form of agriculture has to be controlled, if not stopped," she added.

She said if the government continues to give up rich lands, particularly the lands of Mindanao, to monoculture high-value crops, the people and the environment are surely going to suffer.

"We waited for the President to speak about biodiversity and some policies about the protection of the environment but unfortunately here more than one hour of speech did not have anything about it," Esquillo said.

"For someone who have seen and experienced the wrath of nature, it's really a shame not to include environment in your agenda."

Esquillo also noted how Arroyo repeatedly bragged about the availability of fund to change the constitution. If the constitution is changed, she said, there is a danger that the same fertile land, which according to the President will be utilized, will be abused.

"It is feared that they will mess up with our national patrimony and if that happens, we could only imagine how transnational corporations will exploit our lands and other natural resources," she added.

This is my explanation to my quote:
UP was initially planned to be in Mindanao mga 1970s pa.
For so many delays, it got built in 1996 (we're a decade finally!)
In 1970, the lot around Buhangin might've be cheaper than it is today realizing it as a prime lot area.
Kaya "What is wrong is not what is made but what is made late."
"Maayo pa na wala nahimo kaysa nahimo nga dugay na."

But it would've also been good kung kapareha sa UM; they sliced their university to many packets in the city. They have satellite campuses in Calinan, Panabo, in Matina and ETC.

That would've been a good idea... methinks

So you're saying they should've shelved the UP Mindanao plan? If we are to enumerate all the missed targets and things done wrong, then we will flood this thread with dissapointments and anger. Why not be thankful that the plan finally materialised? (albeit after a few decades) And besides, isn't it better late than never?

I was an INB too, UP Los Baños, and we did have loads to complain about. You're lucky you get to use NEW facilities, not to mention LB profs since a lot of them moved to UPMin. I lived in one of the residence hall in LB, and everytime there it rained quite a bit, the electricity would go out... and out with it the water supply as well... I've been to the new residence halls in UPMin, and they have bloody PCs!!

Give it time, mate. The university is still quite young, a freshman. When it comes to budget allocation, of course it can't compete with the upperclass campuses. The bigger ones will continue to receive a better slice of the pie, until UPMin is strong enough to square it oof with the rest of the gang. I totally agree with the Habal-habal though, an ex, who teaches in UPMin, used to say na matagtag iyang matris everytime musakay siya ug habalhabal. I must admit i find it a bit adventurous riding HH, in a purely innocent kind of way...

^^ hi lena, hope everything's ok at this point. have a nice weekend. GOD bless!

Hi Paul, thank you! I am coping most of the time, there are moments when harder but we are doing well mamma, my sister ,my borther and I that is good.

Hope you are doing well Paul and your art too :)

dave our gentleman of Davao City :) thanks for your information I apreciate that...firehazard...hummm ???Can it not be renovated even if a hazard of fire??? I am not a building expert, but think alot can be done with a "fire hazard"?

Wishing you both a very nice Friday evening:)

:goodbye: Davao

Hi Lena! they will rebuild that building with almost the same design. and it will house a museum, a project of Davao Historical Society andthe City Govt.

Have a great weekend Lena. I hope you, your mom and the rest of your family will be fine and recover after your dad passed away.

^^sad kaayo ang Palma Gil ba. I must say. I last entered it during my elementary years.

By the way, asa ba dapit ang tumbletots ug kanang Call Center Academy na na? Apil siguro sa mga call center ang "personal draining" ano?

sa may city high and bangko sentral banda. mabini i think.

wow dave, i like this pic... saang city ka pa ba makakakita ng isang highrise sa loob ng forest hehehe... hmmm saang banda nga ba to? i know sa quirino side but where particularly?

taken from tionko st, sa may bangko sentral.

sa kanto arellano-tionko fronting ranchero, naay diay balay nga sulod sa jungle.

Berns, I was wondering about this statue ba. Why didn't they include the Japanese? I think Davao would not have had been Davao were it not for the Japanese. I've done extensive research about the Japanese and their influence in the city, and boy, making a city from 1903 (when they first came) to 1937 (when the municipality) is some feat!

Davao by the early 20th century was still handling one cash crop- Abaca.

huistenmark, any comments?

JAPAN YOKOSO!!!

We're sorry about your dad's passsing Lena. We offer our prayers to you and your family in this trying time.

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MtApo hi! How are you doing? We are melting away in Europe so hot here everywhere. I am coping ok, considering.

Nice night MtApo:)
hello lena, i'm alright thank you. how are you? i'm pleased to know you're coping with grief. i really hope you can recover soon. you will.
gd morning now from here, maayong gabii kanimo dinha!:)








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Berns, I was wondering about this statue ba. Why didn't they include the Japanese? I think Davao would not have had been Davao were it not for the Japanese. I've done extensive research about the Japanese and their influence in the city, and boy, making a city from 1903 (when they first came) to 1937 (when the municipality) is some feat!

Davao by the early 20th century was still handling one cash crop- Abaca.
and that would not only include the japanese to be fair to americans and spanish who also made there strong presence in the history and fair share of influence in shaping davao what it is today. i guess




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waaaah di umabot ang thread sa kadayawan

LAT POST AKO HA!

Si gravy, wala pa dinhi!
wala kaya to katuod?
pangita mo be! hehe!

touch man pud ko ana bai..:D

wala 2 days na ko wasted.hehe karon ra ko gabii sober so wala ko nakapost last night.haha

^^ Mel, there are about 3 ads in TV about that. Two are against the idea, one is pro.

The first one was about a cake, and it discussed about corruption in the LGUs.
The second one was a bunch of people talking and pessimistic about charter change.
The third one is a barkada bickering about going to their place either LRT or Van or Jeep. They didn't go to their destination.

The third one was very simple, but it packed a real punch in me! :D


they will never tell the public of the benefits of a federal or parliamentary form of gov't...
nearly 90% of the world's governments are either federal or parliamentary type... pity talaga ang mga pinoy :ohno: ... always kept in the dark! :mad:

good evening.. gravy
nag-archi ka sa UM?... grad? what year?

Ateneo po..first batch..graduated 2003.why?

What do you think are the oldest surviving structures in our fair city? Could it be the century acacia trees? old building? old house? old lamp post? old pujon? Kung may alam kayo - post away!! Would also be good if you took a picture of it.

Ateneo po..first batch..graduated 2003.why?


oh.. just read you worked for chiew...
am UM-arch 87 :)

What do you think are the oldest surviving structures in our fair city? Could it be the century acacia trees? old building? old house? old lamp post? old pujon? Kung may alam kayo - post away!! Would also be good if you took a picture of it.

Here's my list: :)
1. Old quarters inside the barracks (more than 100 years old)
2. Old houses along rizal st. (one picture was posted in the prev. thread)
3. Old buildings inside the mental hosp.
4. davao city hall
5. oshiro monument in mintal (?)
6. PNB building
7. Veteransbank building
8 the Philbank building (now defunct)
9. the davao light building
10. monument inside the osmena park near legislative building
8. bonifacio monument
9. Carmelite church (?)

there should be more.... :)

(old = ca. 50 and above)

i see.. marami ako officemates from UM pero dunno i doubt if may batch 87 dun.hehe

were a young group now..oldest is around 35

hi jon, musta na bai? i think those buildings in monverde (vault-shaped, pretty interested in it's history), some commercial buildings that area, uyanguren and the wharf. sayang tong balay ni monteverde diha sa may carpenter. those old houses in toril. asa pa ba? naa pa ba ng mga acacia? that one near the cathedral? city hall too is quite old (some parts of it). some houses in tiongko. probably the oldest was built during the american colonial period. problema lang with these houses and buildings is that they were made of wood, so through time, nagabok. one thing that interest me is that old tall one (the tallest then in mindanao) that was replaced by pnb recto. the name escapes me at the moment. hey, that old firestation near dcts (we should take steps in preserving that (it has even a lookout at the top).

oh.. just read you worked for chiew...
am UM-arch 87 :)

who's your batchmates? was into architecture then shifted to fine arts. batchmates nako sila seguido and alvarado (who transferred to cebu in their 3rd year), sandoval, etc.

....problema lang with these houses and buildings is that they were made of wood, so through time, nagabok.

that's really a problem...do you still remember that "haunted house" facing merco before? I think it was demolished early 90's to give way to a bar-b-cue-han bla bla bla with satellite tv....

and that barbeque blahblah with a satellite TV (plaza ata name nun?) downst exist anymore..TAPS na cya karon

I think what happened to harana compound is kinda sad din..

that's really a problem...do you still remember that "haunted house" facing merco before? I think it was demolished early 90's to give way to a bar-b-cue-han bla bla bla with satellite tv....


that became a hangout for students later? unsa gani ngalan ato? it's at the back of alan's commercial. i think that was owned by the panlilios (or their relatives).

and that barbeque blahblah with a satellite TV (plaza ata name nun?) downst exist anymore..TAPS na cya karon

I think what happened to harana compound is kinda sad din..


what happened to harana comp? demolished?

natunga..wala nang mongolian grill..the playgrond is much smaller tapos (looking frm torres st) from mongolian grill to the left, TAPS ug kasagingan cafe na, the right side is what remains of harana Compound

Davao del Sur OKs plan for hydroelectric plants



By BEN D. ARCHE

DIGOS CITY – The Davao del Sur provincial government is cutting a deal with an electric company for the installation of two mini-hydroelectric plants in Sta. Cruz town.


The committee on ways and means of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) chaired by Board Member Simplicio Latasa has approved the proposal of Hydroelectric Development Corp. (HEDCOR) for the construction of the plants in barangays Darong and Sibulan.

After extensive discussions, HEDCOR was able to negotiate a memorandum of agreement (MoA) with local government officials and indigenous peoples (IPs), a requirement of the provincial board.

HEDCOR officials also showed permits and clearances from other government agencies indispensable for the establishment of those plants. However, the power firm has no permit to cut trees from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and permission from the Davao Sur Electric Cooperative (Dasureco) for setting up transmission lines.

The provincial board members endorsed the construction of the power plants provided that HEDCOR will comply all the conditions required under existing laws, that it will not bring damage to the ancestral domain of the indigenous peoples and that it follow the time frame from exploration stage to operation and to observe responsible operation of the hydroelectric power plants.

A former mayor of Sta. Cruz, Joel Ray Lopez, who now sits as a board member, said he has advocated the construction of those plants in order for the province to have stable power supply and generate more revenues for the town and the province of Davao del Sur.

The municipal tourism office of Sta. Cruz has also asked HEDCOR to develop the Todaya Falls into another tourist destination.

The waterfalls would serve as an attraction during the day and supply water to the power plants at night.

With the approval of the project, the seven members of the SP Committee on Ways and Means authorized Governor Benjamin Bautista, Jr. to cut an agreement with Davao del Sur and HEDCOR Sibulan, Inc. for the construction of the two mini-hydroelectric plants.

Educational TV gains ground in Davao, CdO

A series of major undertakings and public fora will be staged in Cagayan de Oro and Davao in the coming days as part of Anak TV’s thrust to advance its advocacy for prudent television viewing.

Anak TV is the public service arm of the Southeast Asian Foundation for Children and Television, the advocacy organization created and operated by all the television networks in the country. A consultative meeting with parents of Ateneo de Davao students was held yesterday afternoon.

Meanwhile, the Department of Education (DepEd), together with Soka Gakkai and Anak TV, will launch a values education program in Davao. Dr. Daisaku Ikeda’s anime series, dubbed "Happy Tales," now in DVD format, has been donated to selected public schools during a roadshow conducted yesterday at the Monteverde Elementary School.

Along with Mom’s Radio and the Southern Broadcasting Corp., a forum on television literacy for mothers is scheduled at Davao’s Rizal Memorial College today at 10 a.m., after which an "Anak TV" jury screening will be held.

On August 3, the regional office of the DepEd will stage the launching of its own values education program using video at the City Central School, Cagayan de Oro. The launch is organized with the Soka Gakkai and Anak TV and will be attended by Mayor Vicente Emano and Rep. Constantino Jaraula.

This is my explanation to my quote:
UP was initially planned to be in Mindanao mga 1970s pa.
For so many delays, it got built in 1996 (we're a decade finally!)
In 1970, the lot around Buhangin might've be cheaper than it is today realizing it as a prime lot area.
Kaya "What is wrong is not what is made but what is made late."
"Maayo pa na wala nahimo kaysa nahimo nga dugay na."



It's better late than NEVER! ehehheheheheh

^^ lagi akong late sa chool nung college..sana yan sinagot ko sa mga teacher ko..haha

ako mao jud na akong ginasagot sa teachers nako! ahahahahha makit-an ra man pud sa akong performance! lolz....musta kuya gravy? any new constructions jan sa davao?

natunga..wala nang mongolian grill..the playgrond is much smaller tapos (looking frm torres st) from mongolian grill to the left, TAPS ug kasagingan cafe na, the right side is what remains of harana Compound


Ah ok, as for me the place is better with the new developments. The street can now truly claim as the Food Avenue in Davao with all the added watering holes and classy restaurants.

I wish they could do something about the proliferation of car burglary in the area. I was a victim before (roughly around early '03) when my car got forcibly opened by breaking my quarter window while in a business meeting at Kibuwi Resto. I was partly to be blamed though for carelessly leaving my cellphone exposed and my wallet inside the consul box. Behind these cozy restos is a place known to harbor persons of shadowy characters/bad elements.

@ TJ ok ra man..new projects? naa ko gina conceptualize nga expansion sa hotel..gamay ra hinuon nga expansion..3 storeys, 8 rooms..will post perspective when i finish.

sa office naman, i heard nga naa magtukod ug murag MARKET! MARKET! dira duol sa Gmall, pero murag wala pa nag hatag ug go signal ang owner

BTW Liquid is closed di ba? well it will reopen on aug12 pero bago na ang name..nakita ko kanina..new name ENTREE'..weird kasi pagkain naman yung entree di ba?

MTS gears up for Kadayawan

WATCH for "Kadayawan 2006 at MTS" as Matina Town Square celebrates this weeklong celebration by bringing back the basic festivities of food, fruits, flowers, fashion with funfare.

The Davao Musicians Association kicks off the merriment by showcasing their members' musical ingenuity through various harmonic presentations at Taboan on August 13.

Be at MTS on Monday for a shopping frenzy as we open "Kanato Bazaar", a weeklong flea market at the Park.

A neo-ethnic experience unfolds via a one-of-a-kind fashion show entitled "Sul-Ob" by resident artist, Edick Galacio.

Gastronomical delights share the Kadayawan spotlight as MTS brings you a taste of heaven with the very first Food Fair at Taboan.

Witness a unique showcase of Mindanaoan indigenous songs and dances on Thursday, also at Taboan.

More on arts and culture, Rhonson Ng Photography Studio will be showcasing exhibits by the Bubays (female photographers group) and Extreme Photographers Club.

Professional Photographer Rhonson Ng will also be conducting regular basic photography workshops for amateurs, while artist Jojie Alcantara will hold her art and cartooning workshop for kids starting August.

Join the party at Wh'stletop as they celebrate their 5th anniversary with live entertainment at Park C.

And to cap the week's merriment, be captivated by cultural performers at the Courtyard and feast your senses all night long in "Tostar: Drink-All-You-Can" at Park C hosted by Tau Mu and various cool party bands at Taboan, Kanto, and Courtyard.

For inquiry and details of each event, please call the Matina Town Square office and look for Neil or Sharon (297-1780).

Matina Town Square invites everyone as we showcase Davao's homegrown treasures with a lot of pizzazz and zing! Be merry. Be there, be at the square!

@ TJ ok ra man..new projects? naa ko gina conceptualize nga expansion sa hotel..gamay ra hinuon nga expansion..3 storeys, 8 rooms..will post perspective when i finish.

sa office naman, i heard nga naa magtukod ug murag MARKET! MARKET! dira duol sa Gmall, pero murag wala pa nag hatag ug go signal ang owner

BTW Liquid is closed di ba? well it will reopen on aug12 pero bago na ang name..nakita ko kanina..new name ENTREE'..weird kasi pagkain naman yung entree di ba?

davaoeagle bro!!! musta!!!!

@gravy - whoa Entree'? why did they change the name? Sana they retained the name...ang dami na rin nilang followers kc.....would it be like LIQUID pa rin? or resto na lang?

Re MarketMarket....its concept is like Market Market? or is structure is like MarketMarket? so dako jud diay ni! :)

i dont have any details re:entree..will check tomorow if may makuha ako nfo..or better yet, ad2 na lang sa aug2!
haha

re:market Market, concept ra niya market market, pero dako sad..initial drawings have basement parking and 3 levels for shopping

@ TJ_Brewed

k lang TJ. Nice weather here. A bit nippy which I like better than the usual balmy summer.

i dont have any details re:entree..will check tomorow if may makuha ako nfo..or better yet, ad2 na lang sa aug2!
haha


This bar has a habit of changing it's name every so often which is good for me as they always keep it more attuned to current trends.


re:market Market, concept ra niya market market, pero dako sad..initial drawings have basement parking and 3 levels for shopping

Another mall in Davao? cool!

About Tagum City

The newest City in the southern part of the Philippines raring to join the bandwagon of developing global communities beckons to you. It offers a rustic ambiance of unspoiled ecology but provides the amenities of a fully responsive state for business and trade. It also offers plenty of wholesome surprises for the ever-inquisitive and adventurous visitors who are willing to spend time for wholesome relaxation and enjoyment and places to stay.

Tagum City has vast choices of business, commercial and industrial sites ready for occupation in an atmosphere of a well planned zoning scheme which will assure would-be investors of peaceful, investor-friendly community served by a body of local government administrators w/ balanced developmental goals.

Tagum City, Davao Del Norte - A new tourism phenomenon

Tourism in Davao del Norte is bound to take a leap as major industry players have agreed to promote the province using a catch phrase “Naturally Davao del Norte.”

In an interview, Provincial Tourism Council president Alma Uy noted the potential of Davao de Norte to excel as an eco-tourism destination because “its endowed with beauty of nature.”

Coming out from a planning workshop with members of Hugpong Dabaw Hanas sa Torismo (HUDAHATO), Uy positioned municipalities of the province with their respective potential as a tourist destination.

The Island Garden City of Samal a known tourist destination with its pristine white beaches among its come-on; Panabo City for its wide banana plantations; Carmen as a Second World War historical site where Dabawenyo guerillas together with American soldiers held in barangay Ising the last frontier of defense against Japanese forces; Tagum City as a Musikahan destination; Asuncion as a Kayaking destination; Kapalong as Cavers’ capital; San Isidro as a chocolate hub and cavers’ paradise; Sto. Tomas for its ecological park; Braulio E. Dujali— New Corella for its Panas watershed; and Talaingod for its cultural village.

Davao del Norte will be making use of big brother-small brother concept of developing tourism industry, whereby each local government units will be complementing each other.

Citing as an instance, Uy said Tagum City will be spreading out tourist visits to nearby municipalities of Asuncion, Kapalong and Talaingod during annual celebration of Musikahan Festival in March.

“Because Tagum doesn’t have the beauty of nature that these municipalities can offer to our visitors,” she said.

As president of the Regional Tourism Council of Davao Region, Uy said Davao del Norte would serve as a role model for other provinces in the Region in terms of advancing local tourism.

“We will encourage other provinces to do the same,” she said.

Meanwhile, HUDAHATO president Edna Parcon said tourism officers in the Davao del Norte sought to strengthen their organization.

Among their thrusts is to seek strong backing from their local chief executives of their tourism initiatives.

They are also appealing to LGU executives to officially designate a tourism officer and set up a separate tourism office to take on tourism related concerns, Parcon said.

Among their planned projects and activities are to come up with a cultural festival through the assistance of the National Commission on Culture and Arts (NCCA) and to have an inventory of tourism facilities and tourism-related establishments.
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Tagum - Most Competitive City for 2005 (Small Cities Category)

This city was adjudged as among the top ten most competitive small cities in the Philippines by the Asian Institute of Management (AIM).

The award was given to Tagum for its laudable infrastructure, local governance, peace and order situation, as well as its business climate.

In Mindanao, it is the only small city recognized along with Kidapawan City out of the total 65 small cities in the country for its promising performance in the areas given much importance by the AIM.

Tagum City Vice Mayor Allan Rellon who accepted the award in Manila, said that the title given to the people of Tagum is one big accomplishment of the city.

"This is a signal that Tagum is moving towards full development.", he said.

Rellon also cited that the city must take advantage of the various opportunities present and offered by its neighboring city, Davao, and make it an edge for more development.

Davao city was among the top ten big or major cities nationwide. Considerably, the Tagum local government has seen that the growth in Davao is increasingly influenced the growth of Tagum.

He stressed that the city could use the title in luring more investors and continually create Tagum as a business haven.

Rellon also bared that the local executives in the city headed by Mayor Rey Uy is molding Tagum to focus and grow with an excellent service industry.

"The mayor wants his city to be known as a livable and business investor-friendly city.", he said.

About Island Garden City of Samal

The Island Garden City of Samal is located at the heart of Davao Gulf. In 1948, Samal Island was created as a municipality of Davao Province and later divided into three districts. The reunification of the three districts in Samal through the passage of Republic Act 8471 in 1998 led to the creation of the Island Garden City of Samal, a component city of Davao del Norte.

Island Garden City of Samal is proximate to the large economic base, which is Davao City. It is also adjacent to the agri-industrial zones of the fast growing Panabo and Tagum Cities. As an island, it is endowed with bountiful natural features potential for economic leverage towards a competitive eco-adventure tourism city. The City had once hosted the successful extreme challenge in year 2000, an adventure that opened the door of Samal to international links. The city always figures prominently in any tourism development plans prepared for the region due to this potential.

Agriculture is the city’s most important economic activity, although most of the agricultural production is just enough for local consumption, except for copra and mango. Being surrounded by water with a coastline of more than 118 kilometers, fishing is also major source of livelihood, not to mention tourism. The city was the first recipient of the LCP Best Practices Award in 2002 for their innovative mari-culture park.

Being a very young city, and an island at that, the Samal City is faced with problems related to the lack of physical and social infrastructure, particularly roads, schools and health care facilities. The city is also concerned with high unemployment rates due to the lack of economic and employment opportunities outside tourism, agriculture, and fisheries.

Samal's Vision

Samal 2011: the Island, the Garden, the City
“The Urban Center within a Rural Setting”

The vision is founded on the principles of safeguarding and highlighting the city’s unique advantage as a resort island and as an eco-tourism hub; to continually protect, revitalize, and sustain its rich flora and fauna; and to develop as an urban center with rural ambience where the infrastructure harmonizes with nature.

Development Strategies

The following are some of the city’s development strategies.

- Sustainable tourism industry development

- Modern agriculture and fisheries development

- Trade and investment promotion

- Information and communication technology advancement

- Development of globally-competitive human resources through capability building and organizational development programs

- Putting in place appropriate infrastructure facilities that spur economic activities to create more jobs and enhance productivity

- Continuous improvement in the practice of good, transparent, accountable, and participative governance

- Maintenance and enhancement of ecological balance

- Improvement of communication and access to public information

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About Panabo City

Panabo - Agri-Industrial Gateway to the World

Panabo City is an important trading post, a thriving industrial center sandwiched by two urbanized cities (Tagum and Davao) in Davao Region. As flourishing export dollar earner, banana plantations and other industrial firms such as STANFILCO, MACONDRAY PLASTICS, ARCMEN Food Industries, evidences of a progressive City in the South. This is further strengthened by the Department of Trade and Industry, thus making the city's vision as an "AGRI-INDUSTRIAL GATEWAY TO THE WORLD."

From being a humble barangay of Mag-ugpo (now Tagum City), Panabo metamorphosed into a municipality in 1949 through Presidential Proclamation No. 236 signed by the President Elpidio Quirino.

As the years passed, vast lands were planted with rice and corn while other areas were planted with coconuts. The logging and lumber industry also began to flourish. Expectedly, business began to boom with the Chinese-Filipinos leading in the commercial ventures.

In the ensuing twenty (20) years, the wheels of progress in Panabo rolled and spread in all directions. Agri-business soared when national and multi-national company growers came in and planted hundreds of hectares with banana for exports. One move towards the vision of a greater and more progressive Panabo was the initial construction of a government-owned wharf between the mangrove area and the golden-sanded beach of Bayawa, then the town's major resort.

In 1999, the vision of Citihood started gaining ground. Resolutions were passed favoring the Citihood of Panabo, including Sangguniang Bayan Resolution No. 10. A subsequent resolution requested the Sangguniang Panlalawigan for a favarable endorsement of Panabo Citihood to Congress.

Complying with the basic procedural requirements for citihood, Mayor Rey P. Gavina facilitated the conduct of the public hearing on October 14, 2000 by then Marikina Congressman Romeo Candazo and his party of senatorial and congressional dignitaries from all-over the country. The hearing team was literally amazed by the overflowing attendance of those who witnessed the grand, historical affair.

With nothing but favorable recommendations, House Bill No. 8680 passed the Senate readings and was approved in the Senate as Republic Act No. 9015. It was later signed into law by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.

The last leg of the legislative and procedural journey was the plebiscite scheduled March 31, 2001. 99% of the voters had willingly cast the favorable "YES" vote and before the clock struck midnight, Panabo was declared a component City!

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About Digos City

In the early days, Digos was a watercourse, a meeting place of inhabitants belonging to the Indonesian-Malay settled along the southern foothills of Mt. Apo. The Digos River meets the Davao Gulf and it is ideal for fishing and bathing.

During the Spanish Era, a group of natives carrying bows and arrows were approached by some Spaniards traversing the very fertile tracks of land in Davao. One Lopez Jaena Pacheco, a conquistador during the administration of Governor Claveria serving as the head of the group, inquired about the name of the place from the barefooted natives. Believing that the Spaniards were asking where they were bound to, the natives answered "Padigos", which means "to take a bathe". Since then the place was identified as Digos.

As a portion of the "food bowl" of the province of Davao del Sur, otherwise known as the Padada Valley, Digos lured many migrants, majority of whom came from the Visayas and Ilocos regions to settle permanently in the area. Before World War II, an enterprising American by the name of N.E. Crumb leased 1,024 hectares and transformed the place into an Abaca Plantation. This became the hub of economic activity in the locality during those days.

Through the initiation of then Congressman Apolinario Cabigon, Digos, became a regular municipality in 1949 by virtue of Presidential Executive Order No. 236, dated July 19, 1949 issued by President Quirino. Its Coverage included the barrios of Tres de Mayo, Goma Bansalan, Matanao, Darapuay and the Poblacion where the seat of government was located. Before its creation into a municipality, Digos was a barrio of Sta. cruz, a town 16 kilometers away. On 19 July 1949, the town was formally inaugurated with Benito Rabor appointed as Mayor.

Digos in later years, before its conversion into a city, was regarded as the capital town of the Province of Davao del Sur, long before it gained the status of a First Class Municipality in 1993, being center for trade, commerce and education, accruing to its strategic location at the cross point of two principal thoroughfares in the south.

In July 1998, the bid to convert into a city was moved and initiated by Hon. Mayor Arsenio A. Latasa, considering its very satisfactory qualificationas required for in R.A. 7160

House Bill No. 5672 dated November 24, 1998 of Congress authored by Hon. Congressman Douglas Ra. Cagas, led to the drafting of Republic Act 8798, converting the Municipality of Digos into a component City of Davao del Sur, which was signed by President Joseph E. Estrada on July 14, 2000 and ratified by the Digoseños on September 8, 2000.

Apparently, Digos will enter in the new era of development in the new millenium.

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Konsehal
Thank you for your information about history very interesting and good to read.:) Still I think it is needed for future generations to come, to preserve older buildings with a genuine cultural design! It is a pitty to think so modern it all get´s destroyed. If I am correctly informed this house -Court of First Instance- is totally destroyed now. I can see it on the photoes made by dave that is posted in dinabaws culture thread, a very interesting thread to visit if interested in culture and nature of your city , I can highly recommend it!!!!? I can not see any renovation of this building you refer to in your post to me??
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/195/img0319da3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Yes I was to be in Davao tomorrow, but my father recently passed away so I stay with my mother, we are mourning , it is not the right time to travel at the moment and mamma needs me right now. We talked about going together to Davao later on when she has recovered and feels strong to travel.

I wish you a nice Friday evening :)

Our deepest condolence Lena.
I believe you had the photo mixed up. The old CFI building is still intact but needs to be renovated and designed as a museum. I can't recall but someone posted its picture here already showing the nearby statue of our hero Andres Bonifacio.
I hope to visit Sweden when I travel to Germany in October.

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and About Davao!

Orchid Capital of the Philippines

There are beautifully vivid reasons why Davao is called a “City in Bloom”. Aside from the presence of vast plantations and garden resorts that grow rare and exotic orchids and ornamentals, the City is specifically known among florists all over the world for its famous waling-waling, considered as one of the most beautiful orchids.

The Waling-waling or vanda sanderana grows in natural abundance in its territory, at the foot of Mt. Apo. Orchids just love to grow majestically in the City because of its typhoon-free weather. Add to that the fact that the city has more than 1,000 square kilometers of lush tropical forest (or about 47% of its total land area) that provided an environment conducive for rare plants to thrive and flourish. Another factor is the rich fertile soil of the city that can virtually make every wind-blown seed grow and bear fruit even without the benefit of human intervention. Virtually, all ingredients are present for Davao City to blossom and bloom magically like the waling-waling.

All these factors contributed to the eventual declaration of Davao City as the official “Orchid Capital of the Philippines” as declared by then President Corazon Aquino.



Fruit Basket of the Philippines- the City of Durian burg

The freshest tropical fruits are always ripe for the picking in a City called Fruit Basket of the Philippines. Whether you’ll go for the juiciest watermelon, the sweetest mango, the more succulent pomelo, rambutan, or go subtly fruit ferocious with banana, mangosteen, lanzones, strawberry, pineapple, avocado, langka, buko, or simply settle with a bowl of fresh fruit salad to end the long list, whatever fibrous or juicy fruits you have in mind, you’ll definitely have your fill in Davao City.

Orchards and fruit plantations continually make the city livable if only for its produce of the freshest fruits giving visitors a glimpse of what it would be like in the Garden of Eden with the exotic Durian (the King of the Fruits or the Fruit of the Gods) serving as the fruit of good and evil with its strong aroma (or pungent odor) overpowered by its heavenly taste which you would not want to exchange for anything. Come to the City of Durianburg and partake of the glorious delights of fruits made in the heavenly realms.



Home of the Great Bird of Asia –Soaring high in the new millennium


No one in the early 80’s would have thought that Davao, like its symbol and icon- the Philippine eagle, would soar to new heights in the new millennium.

No one ever thought too that the mighty Philippine Eagle (pithecophaga jefferyi) considered as the 2nd largest eagle in the world and threaten for extinction as early as the 70’s, would have survived the onslaught of denudation and other factors that continually threaten its natural habitat – the forest.

Thanks mainly to joint efforts of concern government and non-government organizations, captive breeding of this great bird of Asia has resulted to the birth of more than a dozen eagles (hatched in captivity) and we have welcomed the new millennium with them still lording the skies over the forest and vegetation around Mt. Apo.

The Philippine Eagle is a faithful mate. It has been observed that this bird usually prefers a monogamous lifestyle. It usually builds its nest on towering tropical trees about 80 feet above the ground (sufficient enough for it to have a good view over its territory).

Philippine Eagles breed between August and January, do aerial courtships and mate in or near their nest. The female lays one egg every two years and both parents alternately incubate the egg for about 60 days until it hatches. The eaglet fledges within 150 days and becomes independent at 18 months at which time the parents drive it out of their 60 to 100 kilometer radius territories.

With its habitat dwindling due to illegal logging, the Philippine Eagle Foundation, Inc. was organized in 1987 to implement programs such as captive breeding management, field research, community-based enterprise development, and conservation education.



Convention Center of the Philippine South

With more convention and exhibition centers being established that have complemented other excellent tourism facilities, Davao City has steadily positioned itself as the Convention Center of the Philippine South in the 21st century.

Since 1990, it has steadily become the preferred destination for conventions and conferences. This could be attributed to the ever changing and ever improving economic and tourism landscape of the city, which attracted organizers to conduct major conventions here instead of proverbial setting like Manila.

Modern, sophisticated, and state-of-the-art facilities and equipment for conventions and conferences are now readily available. This is equally complemented by the establishment of new first class hotels and mountain resorts bringing the number of hotel rooms from around 500 in 1980 to over 2,500 in 1999. Yet, the demand for more hotel rooms is projected to increase now that the City has more tourism products, services, and facilities to offer.


Gateway to the East ASEAN

Davao City, the birthplace of the East ASEAN Growth Area (or EAGA), is also your gateway to this emerging polygon of power. The EAGA was formed mainly because the areas that comprised it (Mindanao and Palawan for the Philippines, Brunei, Manado and North Sulawesi of Indonesia, and Sabah for Malaysia) used to be a trading bloc during the 12th century up to the 15th century where people enjoyed borderless economies with barter trading as the most common economic practice. Centuries of colonialism, imperialism and the establishment of governments within the chain of islands halted the exchanges.

In 1994, government representatives and businessmen from these areas have gathered together in Davao City for the biggest convention ever held in the region to formally signal the birth of the newest trading bloc in Asia, the BIMP-EAGA. In the heart of this formation is Davao City, which paved the way for the re-establishment of cooperation between the Philippines, Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia to advance the free movement of people, goods, services, and improve cultural and economic ties within the said sub-regional trade bloc.

Through these developments, direct air and sea linkages to the islands have been established making Davao City your gateway to the East ASEAN growth area.

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Madayaw Davao!

Experience the wonders of Davao that begin with a warm and gracious welcome the moment you arrive in the City in Bloom. It continues with a splendor found from the highlands of Mt. Apo to the islands of Samal, packed with awesome natural wonders and stunning geography all in one destination.

Cradled in a setting amidst the natural wonders of the islands and the highlands, Davao's diverse sights and sounds are highly credited to the vibrant mosaic of rich immigrant and indigenous cultures dominantly evident in its arts, festivities, literature and culinary works showcasing the rustic, urban and urbane charm this side of the archipelago.

Cosmopolitan life has never been this better in this premier city of the south. With world-class facilities and services which the city offers, Davao is now the favored convention destination in the country for its proximity to leisure destinations and ready availability of recreational facilities that can facilitate in mixing business with pleasure.

Leisure activities runs from both sides of the spectrum: from snorkeling in the coral gardens of the islands to conquering the majestic Mt. Apo, breakfast by the gulf at sunrise to bar-hopping and disco-dancing 'til dawn, to sipping local coffee in a downtown pub to a feast of grilled delights. These are but a strand in the city's kaleidoscopic weave in its boundless choices of lifestyles and activities. Tranquility amid urban bustles, the metropolitan's flurry balanced with nature's serenity.

With an aggressive private sector assisting the government in the development of the city, Davao was able to nab prestigious awards and recognition for their efforts, such as being constantly acclaimed as one of Asia's most livable cities by the Asiaweek Magazine; bagging the best city police office in the country, a testimony of the city's effort in ensuring peace and order; consistently on the top of the list of the annual search for the cleanest and greenest city in the Philippines; and the prestigious Destination of the Year honor given by the Kalakbay Awards (National Tourism Awards). Davao is also proud to have the second best source of potable water in the world according to the World Health Organization, assuring guests of good health while staying in the city.

Davao City, the undisputed center of trade, convention and tourism in Mindanao, is indeed booming and blooming as it continues its aim in becoming the prime destination for tourism and investments in the Philippines, the BIMP-EAGA (Brunei Darussalam-Indonesia-Philippines-Malaysia East ASEAN Growth Area) and the Asia-Pacific region.

With its unique and inviting cultures, Davao is not only about the beautiful sights and exciting natural wonders, its about the people you'll meet and the friends you'll make. So, what are you waiting for?

Prepare yourself for an unforgettable stay in the country's southern gateway to Asia and the rest of the world: Davao City, the City in Bloom!

goodmorning konsehal! how does blogathon works? i mean..do we have to post credit card infos or something? im confused.

anyway...musta konsehal? any updates?

touch man pud ko ana bai..:D

wala 2 days na ko wasted.hehe karon ra ko gabii sober so wala ko nakapost last night.haha
ana jud ang life! more power! hehe! layoa ra uy!

@ TJ ok ra man..new projects? naa ko gina conceptualize nga expansion sa hotel..gamay ra hinuon nga expansion..3 storeys, 8 rooms..will post perspective when i finish.

sa office naman, i heard nga naa magtukod ug murag MARKET! MARKET! dira duol sa Gmall, pero murag wala pa nag hatag ug go signal ang owner

BTW Liquid is closed di ba? well it will reopen on aug12 pero bago na ang name..nakita ko kanina..new name ENTREE'..weird kasi pagkain naman yung entree di ba?
Market Matket ang concept? cool!!!!

I can't wait to see the construction!
go go go na dapat ang owner!

Market Matket ang concept? cool!!!!

I can't wait to see the construction!
go go go na dapat ang owner!

with the developments and good news that we have in Davao, an investor would be crazy enough if he opt not to invest! ehehehehhehe

Mindanao Daily Mirror July 29, 2006

SEARCH AND RESCUE CENTERS PLANNED IN 8 AIRPORTS

Airport authorities are planning to create local Searc and Rescue (SAR) centers in 8 airports in the country including the Davao International Airport (DIA).

In a statement, former Philippine Search and Rescue Cheif Joey Reyes Jr. said although the Rescue and Coordination Center (RCC) serves the country's airspace, the creation of SAR center is necessary to facilitate immediate SAR services in times of aircraft emergencies.

For his part, DIA manager, Engr. Frederick San Felix said it is time to have a local RCC in light of the airports increasing traffic volume due to additional flight operations.

He said DIA will have new airlines with new flight routes like Hong Kong, Macau, Darwin-Australia and Seoul in addition to existing routes such as Palau, Singapore, and Manado.

San Felix also said the SRC would attract more travellers to the country.

He said the BIMP-EAGA group could create a joint rescue center to ensure the safety of airspace users specifically in portions of high seas areas.

The plan would likely push through with the recently concluded two-week Search and Rescue Specialization Training held on July 17 to 28 at the DIA conference room.

Davao Air Traffic Controllers and Airways Communication participated in the training where they were taught advanced skills on SAR coordination, search planning, map plottingof possible search areas during aircraft-related accidents rescue operations. Judy Quiros


***Hmmmm.. ano kaya ang airports na ito? Davao, Cebu, Puerto Princessa, Clark, Subic, Naia, Laoag, Zamboanga, General Santos, Cagayan de Oro, Bacolod, Iloilo...???

Mindanao Daily Mirror July 29, 2006


He said DIA will have new airlines with new flight routes like Hong Kong, Macau, Darwin-Australia and Seoul in addition to existing routes such as Palau, Singapore, and Manado.



Add to that....MOSCOW and NARITA, if negotiations would be pursued (soon)! :)

Reposting......

Davao GreenBelt Park
Status - U/C
Budget - 70M
Deadline - December 2006

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g261/waway625/Image1028.jpg


http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g261/waway625/Image1032.jpg
on going development

pix by gravy_addict

JOGGERS at the PTA Grounds will have to find some other place to do their daily exercise as the area will be closed soon to speed up its transformation into a greenbelt park.

City Administrator Wendel E. Avisado said "in due time" they will no longer allow entry of people at the PTA Grounds as people can slow down the work in the area.

Avisado said the city has already started working in transforming the PTA Grounds into a park, similar to the Central Park in New York City. Over a hundred balled full-grown trees are in fact already waiting to be replanted there soon.

"Without people jogging and running around the oval, their work can continue unhampered," Avisado said Monday.

Avisado said, Ed Viacrucis, chief architect of the project wants that work in the entire project be done simultaneously.

"So by December the mayor's wish will be granted, which is that hopefully there will be a place people could go to by December," he said.

(mini forest plus ameniities)
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f142/kododoy/green2-1.jpg

on site...
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f142/kododoy/green1-1.jpg

pix and tags by Junax

who's your batchmates? was into architecture then shifted to fine arts. batchmates nako sila seguido and alvarado (who transferred to cebu in their 3rd year), sandoval, etc.

sandoval? poldo?... that batch was 2 yrs ahead.

sila paul tionko, david, sedayao, ... yan batch...

that's really a problem...do you still remember that "haunted house" facing merco before? I think it was demolished early 90's to give way to a bar-b-cue-han bla bla bla with satellite tv....

that bar-b-cue-han bla bla bla with satellite tv... is now replace Mandarin Dimsum restaurant and TAPS rastaurant... the building itself hosts an internet cafe & a billiard hall.

as for the Havana compound... its now a food strip area... around 4 or 5 restaurants uses the compound... some of the old structures are still there but renovated inside & out.

there are two remaining old houses on the corner of ponciano & reyes... untouch by commercialism... owned by the Oboza & Borgaily family.. i think.

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hehe


habol ko post hehe
:bash: :bash: :bash: :bash:

Apolinardo so ang batch nimo sina Longakit and Beatle David??

Anyway the old chinese consulate buildining still exist, its along Sta. Avenue and Chaves st. I think the the Chinese Ambassador viisted it.
Tionko House in front of Central Bank.
Lat house in Rizal st.

@tj_brewed: Wonderful update! :)

This thread is unofficially locked, please proceed to the next thread. :lock:

Originally Posted by davaoeagle
A Tribute to the Built Environment in Davao
By Josie San Pedro

THE Davao Museum of History and Ethnography will host the ninth traveling exhibition of Foundation Santiago, Lines Across Time: 19th Century Fil-Hispanic Architecture this coming August 2006. The multimedia showcase presents Fil-Hispanic architecture in the 19th century.

The three-module presentation was part of three exhibitions held in May for the International Conference on Heritage Houses and Vernacular Architecture in Tagbilaran City, Bohol. Replete with architectural plans and photographs from the Archivo Historico Militar, the Archivo General de Indias, the Servicio Historico Militar and other Spanish archival institutions, Lines Across Time made use of primary resource materials collated by Madrid-based Fundacion Mapfre.

Interactive kiosks and a learning kit created by Fundacion Santiago and the University of the Philippines’ College of Architecture are among the didactic activities guaranteed to engage teachers, students, architects, urban planners, and heritage enthusiasts.

This abundant graphic documentation of the legacy left by Spain’s military and civil engineers is the product of a rich ensemble of talents headed by the founding chair of the Heritage Conservation Society, Augusto Villalon.

Celebrate the Kadayawan Festival this August with a visit to the Davao Museum. Located at the Zonta Building in Lanang, the Museum is open from 9 am to 5pm. Call 233-1734 to book your visit, and contact Foundation Santiago at (02) 6310715 or (02) 8921801 for inquiries and reservations on the Line Across Time Learning Kit.

Wow ,i have now a reason to visit Davao musuem ...hehehe dugay naman ko waka adto , thanks bai , anyway we can discuss some environmental and cultural issue in this thread ..if you not busy .Good day!!

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a landmark project! can't wait to see this baby. she will become a beauty.
davao is great! thanks to the mayor!


Reposting......

Davao GreenBelt Park
Status - U/C
Budget - 70M
Deadline - December 2006

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g261/waway625/Image1028.jpg


http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g261/waway625/Image1032.jpg
on going development

pix by gravy_addict

JOGGERS at the PTA Grounds will have to find some other place to do their daily exercise as the area will be closed soon to speed up its transformation into a greenbelt park.

City Administrator Wendel E. Avisado said "in due time" they will no longer allow entry of people at the PTA Grounds as people can slow down the work in the area.

Avisado said the city has already started working in transforming the PTA Grounds into a park, similar to the Central Park in New York City. Over a hundred balled full-grown trees are in fact already waiting to be replanted there soon.

"Without people jogging and running around the oval, their work can continue unhampered," Avisado said Monday.

Avisado said, Ed Viacrucis, chief architect of the project wants that work in the entire project be done simultaneously.

"So by December the mayor's wish will be granted, which is that hopefully there will be a place people could go to by December," he said.

(mini forest plus ameniities)
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f142/kododoy/green2-1.jpg

on site...
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f142/kododoy/green1-1.jpg

pix and tags by Junax

Apolinardo so ang batch nimo sina Longakit and Beatle David??



Bingo ka dyan! :applause:

howd you know them?

ga-wonder ko kung asa na sila karon... any news?

hello lena, i'm alright thank you. how are you? i'm pleased to know you're coping with grief. i really hope you can recover soon. you will.
gd morning now from here, maayong gabii kanimo dinha!:)








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Maayong Hapon MtApo, thank you. I am ok, have alot to do and help my mamma. How long the wintertime in Australia, is it soon over? We had a long, long very hot summer over here, but today it seems to be the last day of the heatwave. Wishing you a nice day my friend! :)

Our deepest condolence Lena.
I believe you had the photo mixed up. The old CFI building is still intact but needs to be renovated and designed as a museum. I can't recall but someone posted its picture here already showing the nearby statue of our hero Andres Bonifacio.
I hope to visit Sweden when I travel to Germany in October.

Dear forumers ... Im joining the Blogathon 2006 starting at 9 pm (RP time, 6 am US Pacific time). We will blog for 24 hours with post every 30 minutes to raise funds for charity. Please sponsor me if you want to help needy children in 70 countries. Please visit my blog during the blogathon and make comments to keep me awake. Click here (http://funchain.com/~peterlavina). :)

Konsehal Thanks for your post. I am so sorry if I mixed the buildings up and apologise for this misstake. Dave also told me that this building I posted the picture of is being restored "almost" to it´s original architecture. At least it will be in a way preserved to future generations to see. Konsehal if possible and you have prower in this matter, help older buildings to survive and not be torn down, you will all regret it some day if.

I hope you get to visit my country Konsehal, it has its own beauty and is also an interesting state in many ways. Were are you going to Stockholm? The city of islands, so beautiful you will see. We do not have the beauty of Davao but our cities here have another type of attraction, maybe you get to visit my home city to, the 3d biggest in this country, Malmö in the very south of Sweden and just a bridge away from beautiful Copenhagen. Anyway I wish you a very, very nice trip to Germany and Sweden. :)



Dave Thanks again for your information:) Also a big thank you for your nice wishes for me and my family. My mamma apreciated with me! She often reads skyp together with me now, she is coming with me to Davao later and therefor enjoy all your beautiful photoes of Davao from previous threads too and all other photographers like junax and some other photographers to. She says you have a very beautiful country and she is especially fond of Davao now after I showed her your pic´s, she like me fell in love with Samal Island and that disolated island, forgot its name now but you know what I mean the one MtApo recommended once.. My mother is a nice lady and a talented "boss", I admire my mamma for alot of things. Dave have a nice afternoon!!!:)

Maybe I'll do the last post

Maayong Hapon MtApo, thank you. I am ok, have alot to do and help my mamma. How long the wintertime in Australia, is it soon over? We had a long, long very hot summer over here, but today it seems to be the last day of the heatwave. Wishing you a nice day my friend! :)
hi lena good day! good to know you're spending more time with your mamma this time. so who's drawing strength from whom? must be very difficult i could imagine friend. but go easy you'll be alright.

winter here is until aug and guess that ends your summer up there. so the heatwave will soon be over. rejoice friend:D heatwave is hostile i know how unforgiving it is...

have a nice day!




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Maybe I'll do the last post
this will be the last post, loi:D, mebe...







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LAST POST AKO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ok let'skeep this going until countdown 0. hahaha


this is my lass push:D






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This Thread is closed. :redx: :deadthrea

Aaron or Renell, please make the next Davao thread sticky, TY.

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it seems our mods are busy these days.

Dave Thanks again for your information:) Also a big thank you for your nice wishes for me and my family. My mamma apreciated with me! She often reads skyp together with me now, she is coiming with me to Davao later and therefor enjoy all your beautiful phtoes of Davao from previous threads too and all other photographers like junax and some other. She says you have a very beautyful country and she is especially fond of Davao now after I showed her your pic´s she like me fell in love with Samal Island and that disolate island forgot its name now but you know what I mean the one MtApo recommended once.. A nice lady and a talented "boss":) I admire my mamma for alot of things. Dave have a nice afternoon!!!

Hi Lena!

perhaps you mean Talikud Island...
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/sleepie_uno/davao%20gulf/IMAG0158.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/sleepie_uno/davao%20gulf/IMAG0072.jpg

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http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/sleepie_uno/davao%20gulf/IMAG0137.jpg

Also, extend my "hi" to your mom. Have a nice day!

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Hi Lena!

perhaps you mean Talikud Island...
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/sleepie_uno/davao%20gulf/IMAG0158.jpg

Also, extend my "hi" to your mom. Have a nice day!

Yes, Dave Talikud Island...wow wow wow ..so sothing and so nice to look at, your pictures, will show my mamma this later today in the evening. THANKS! Yes, will greet her from you! As I said she looks into this thread with me now and I tell her alittle about everyone of you that I know alittle about. She knows you are my favorite photographer and the gentleman of Davao in my mind:) :) :)...........

Yes, Dave Talikud Island...wow wow wow ..so sothing and so nice to look at, your pictures, will show my mamma this later today in the evening. THANKS! Yes, will greet her from you! As I said she looks into this thread with me now and I tell her alittle about everyone of you that I know alittle about. She knows you are my favorite photographer and the gentleman of Davao in my mind:) :) :)...........

Ey, is Talikud Island still has no electricity? Because when I last went there (1997) wala pa. I like the virgin beaches! Very clean kaayo ang tubig! clear kaayo! You can walk right through the corals during low tide! I like it there and looking forward to go back.

hi lena good day! good to know you're spending more time with your mamma this time. so who's drawing strength from whom? must be very difficult i could imagine friend. but go easy you'll be alright.

winter here is until aug and guess that ends your summer up there. so the heatwave will soon be over. rejoice friend:D heatwave is hostile i know how unforgiving it is...

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MtApo my friend apreciate you nice caring thoughts!I live more or less with mamma at the moment. Who is supporting who? I do not know I think we support each other the best we can. The tmeperature is going down and that is nice today a+25C is comfortable for us living in the north of this globe....-35-+38 is way to much for us "pale and snowblizzard tribe". I like it now...it is warm but not so much you want to live in the colder sea water anymore:)

I hope you have it nice and work is a challange and a joy??

About Malaysia I read about it earlier and looked into this istorya.net forum is it you my dear friend in Australia or maybe dinabaw or could it be junax or rajah???:) I do not understand much I read :) but recognised the word Malmö in one post...It is a challange and fun to guess but maybe this is all by now cleard only I am behind in just guessing....I have been gone from the Davao forum for a while...

Nice evening to you my friend MtApo!

^^ yeah sino si MALAYSIA?????? witch hunt tayo hehe

Yes, Dave Talikud Island...wow wow wow ..so sothing and so nice to look at, your pictures, will show my mamma this later today in the evening. THANKS! Yes, will greet her from you! As I said she looks into this thread with me now and I tell her alittle about everyone of you that I know alittle about. She knows you are my favorite photographer and the gentleman of Davao in my mind:) :) :)...........

Nice to know that.

Talikud is about 1 hour from Davao City via boat like this:

http://www.ndsu.edu/instruct/grier/camera7.jpg

excited na kaayo ko sa kadayawan!!!

kamo, excited na ba mo?

HOY!

ako na last post dinhi.

MtApo my friend apreciate you nice caring thoughts!I live more or less with mamma at the moment. Who is supporting who? I do not know I think we support each other the best we can. The tmeperature is going down and that is nice today a+25C is comfortable for us living in the north of this globe....-35-+38 is way to much for us "pale and snowblizzard tribe". I like it now...it is warm but not so much you want to live in the colder sea water anymore:)

I hope you have it nice and work is a challange and a joy??

About Malaysia I read about it earlier and looked into this istorya.net forum is it you my dear friend in Australia or maybe dinabaw or could it be junax or rajah???:) I do not understand much I read :) but recognised the word Malmö in one post...It is a challange and fun to guess but maybe this is all by now cleard only I am behind in just guessing....I have been gone from the Davao forum for a while...

Nice evening to you my friend MtApo!
here we go again. hahaha. why am i pointed at? this started some weeks back when an scc forumer asked me bout this. i don't know about why it's me. malaysia is too far from me. hahaha.at least another 3 or ?4 forumers asked me too. let me say this again ok. it's not me. yep i visited the site when he told me there were couple of davao forumers engaging against ***group at that moment, ok. none of those in there was me. no. lena, if you have software installed in your laptop to track down IP adds, you would know if anyone originated in adelaide australia. i have mine so i kind of know who has multiple identities. hahaha! i had this installed for some reason you probably know why. so hope witch hunters will eliminate me at this time. it' not me. and that's true.

yeah friend it's a challenge and joy all together. stressful but ok. i'm taking my time. nothing to hurry me:D and you?




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Hi Lena ! Good day! hope its a a nice day in Malmo ,the no. 1 city ..... see ya :hi:

Originally Posted by gravy_addictt
yeah sino si MALAYSIA?????? witch hunt tayo hehe
Oi bitaw tug.an namo kinsa si malaysia ug apocursp kay peace naman didto :D


aponicardo
Bingo ka dyan!

howd you know them?

ga-wonder ko kung asa na sila karon... any news?

Yeah batch mi first year, pero bugoy2x mn . ummmm kinsa ka ha ka ??? :doh:
BTW ikaw ba si apocursp??? :)

that became a hangout for students later? unsa gani ngalan ato? it's at the back of alan's commercial. i think that was owned by the panlilios (or their relatives).

i really don't have any idea who owned that lot. what I can remember is that we used to park in front of that old house. close to that house were the Artajo and Valmores tailoring shops... I've heard about the Alan's Commercial too
according to an old Davaoena I know personally, there were two beautiful mestizas living in there before - baka sila yoong naging multo :runaway: .

here we go again. hahaha. why am i pointed at? this started some weeks back when an scc forumer asked me bout this. i don't know about why it's me. malaysia is too far from me. hahaha.at least another 3 or ?4 forumers asked me too. let me say this again ok. it's not me. yep i visited the site when he told me there were couple of davao forumers engaging against ***group at that moment, ok. none of those in there was me. no. lena, if you have software installed in your laptop to track down IP adds, you would know if anyone originated in adelaide australia. i have mine so i kind of know who has multiple identities. hahaha! i had this installed for some reason you probably know why. so hope witch hunting will eliminate me at this time. it' not me. and that's true.

yeah friend it's a challenge and joy all together. stressful but ok. i'm taking my time. nothing to hurry me:D and you?




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I am taking it easy am mostly home and with mamma ..I do spend time with the computer but I do not work yet..still schools off here till mid August. Sorry MtApo did not mean to point at you, just thought the way of writing was simular even if I do not understand a word hardly...is not important.
yeap I think I know why you like to know who is who in the forums. My guess is that is has to do with what you told me earlier??? So no offens my friend I ment no harm by asking as you see I have been out of here to long ...and did not follow the process.

Enjoy !:)

This is more clearer shot Konsehal
http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/7886/img0320am2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)


They really demolished it , i just went there today ,just sad that maybe they can preserve that building not totally demolished it . good day Konsehal.

I am taking it easy am mostly home and with mamma ..I do spend time with the computer but I do not work yet..still schools off here till mid August. Sorry MtApo did not mean to point at you, just thought the way of writing was simular even if I do not understand a word hardly...is not important.
yeap I think I know why you like to know who is who in the forums. My guess is that is has to do with what you told me earlier??? So no offens my friend I ment no harm by asking as you see I have been out of here to long ...and did not follow the process.

Enjoy !:)
don't be sorry lena, i was not offended. not at all. you did right. no reason for me to be offended. hahaha. it flatters me if he did the right moves. with right reasons. hehe. but now intrigued to find out if malaysia is also a sccforumer, a babe, or dude. he can be invited to join us here so we will find out. wotcha think my friend? please pm/mail me why you think we have similarities. will you?:D

have a good nite lena, or is it? it's past 9.00pm here and am starving.hahaha







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^^ pm me too if you know bro , good day myt !!! :D

Yeah i know thats why they call scandinavia a "nanny" countries , but i hope they can come up an innovative and cheaper way to build eco-housing and share to the 3rd world country just like ours :D Filipino's too are good in innovation maybe will find a solution and share it with you.

i really don't have any idea who owned that lot. what I can remember is that we used to park in front of that old house. close to that house were the Artajo and Valmores tailoring shops... I've heard about the Alan's Commercial too
according to an old Davaoena I know personally, there were two beautiful mestizas living in there before - baka sila yoong naging multo :runaway: .

it was an elegant house. i think there was even a fountain in front of the house and nice lawn. i could imagine that part was a lovely strip with grand houses and big trees.

^^ pm me too if you know bro , good day myt !!! :D

maayong gabi dinabaw.....I think you are Malaysia cause you mentioned Malmö in one post..so just admit it now dinabaw I caught you!!!:D

I hope you have a nice evening in Davao tonight and maybe you watch a movie I know you are a movie buff älskling!:)

hahaha .... me??? ummm your a bad detective Lena :wink2: to support your "splitting atom" we still have Rajah , the Jun twins Junax and Junex ,davaoeagle the newbies why not the sisters :D .... i got a theory when someone " pointing fingers " alot thats the usual suspect ...aha its YOU!

Hi Lena ! Good day! hope its a a nice day in Malmo ,the no. 1 city ..... see ya :hi:
Oi bitaw tug.an namo kinsa si malaysia ug apocursp kay peace naman didto :D
Yeah batch mi first year, pero bugoy2x mn . ummmm kinsa ka ha ka ??? :doh:
BTW ikaw ba si apocursp??? :)

Wild guess: Malaysia is either Junax or Don. lol

This is more clearer shot Konsehal
http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/7886/img0320am2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
They really demolished it , i just went there today ,just sad that maybe they can preserve that building not totally demolished it . good day Konsehal.


This is really a big problem anywhere in the world. Conservation VS. Construction. On the positive side, it is a sign of progress.

HOY!

ako na last post dinhi.


Mods are working guys too. THey have to earn a living kaya busy.

hahaha .... me??? ummm your a bad detective Lena :wink2: to support your "splitting atom" we still have Rajah , the Jun twins Junax and Junex ,davaoeagle the newbies why not the sisters :D .... i got a theory when someone " pointing fingers " alot thats the usual suspect ...aha its YOU!

dinabaw...I am not a bad detective! How dare you say that :wink2:.?.Yeap sure, it is me..I took a super speed ceubano class :ohno:.I know who it is but wont tell anyone :ohno: only that it is a woman and "he" often post photographs in here...that is my detective conclusion...:)BTW I never point fingers dinabaw, I ask questions?? Why? Because I like to "split atoms or set molecules in motion":) A behaviour often found among teachers, sorry if it disturbes you....;)

To all a very nice tomorrow Sunday! :)

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davao pic appearing on the frontpage of Manila Standard
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hehe kabalo ko kinsa si apocusp..pero dili ko mag tug-an LOls..si malaysia na lang juds ang wa ko kabalo.haha

it was an elegant house. i think there was even a fountain in front of the house and nice lawn. i could imagine that part was a lovely strip with grand houses and big trees.

i could imagine that as well...here's a picture posted by one davao forumer (previous thread)....this is one of the old few remaining old houses along that strip

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/sleepie_uno/canon/IMG_0794.jpg

hehe nagkagulo sa POPs kanina..maaga ako napauwi..

hehe nagkagulo sa POPs kanina..maaga ako napauwi..

ilan ang patay???

This is more clearer shot Konsehal
http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/7886/img0320am2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)


They really demolished it , i just went there today ,just sad that maybe they can preserve that building not totally demolished it . good day Konsehal.

Sorry about that Lena and all forumers ...
I am shocked! :bash:

Sorry about that Lena and all forumers ...
I am shocked! :bash:

yoong concrete structure intact pa po... :)

ilan ang patay???

grabe man pud nang patay..wala oi..may sunog daw per minor lang..basta nagsilabasan ang mga tao tapos patay ang sounds so lumabas na rin kami..tapos pag on uli ng music hiyawan mga tao..pero medyo tipsy na rin ako so umuwi na lang kami..2 days na ako lasin umuwi eh..so for a change tipsy lang ako now.hehe

grabe man pud nang patay..wala oi..may sunog daw per minor lang..basta nagsilabasan ang mga tao tapos patay ang sounds so lumabas na rin kami..tapos pag on uli ng music hiyawan mga tao..pero medyo tipsy na rin ako so umuwi na lang kami..2 days na ako lasin umuwi eh..so for a change tipsy lang ako now.hehe

ah ok...akala ko kung ano ng nangyari...3:30 na a...tulog na ako :)

Wild guess: Malaysia is either Junax or Don. lol

my guess..DINABAW! ohh the witchhunt goes on!

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g261/waway625/beer-bottles-330ml.gif

red horse sa maka tagna!

ha ha, pero murag si Don gyud.

hehe nagkagulo sa POPs kanina..maaga ako napauwi..

Oh, I thought those weekenders from Central Min were at it again.

haha..notorious bitaw na sila no?

notorious mo lang. abusado. murag mga si kinsa. makalagot!

Drag racing in durian country

http://www.mb.com.ph/issues/2006/07/30/SPRT2006073070474.html

By Jesus Erle B. Sebastian
Manila Bullettin, July 30

IF YOU find the smell of high octane fuel, burning rubber and durian as aphrodisiacs, then you’d better head down to Davao this August 19 and 20 for the Davao Kadayawan Festival.


The Davao Classic Sports Car Club (DCSCC) and Philippine Drag Racing Familysport will be holding a joint legal drag race event as part of the celebration of the Davao Kadayawan, a festival for fruits and flowers.

The event, dubbed the 2006 Hot August Races, will be held at the Speed City Race Track in Davao City’s Riverfront Business Park.

DCSCC president Willie Torres expects that with PDRF participating in the event, the Hot August Races will be the biggest motor sport activity in the south.

DCSCC and PRDF share the goal of eradicating if not minimizing illegal street racing activities and are undertaking what they call "Race the Strip, not the Streets" campaign nationwide.

Both clubs expect top drag racers and teams from Davao, Manila, Cebu, Cagayan de Oro to show up for the quarter-mile drag racing competition.

After all, there are championships to be defended and national quarter mile records to be broken.

For those who are preparing for the drag racing in Davao, these are the PDRF national records to break and the record holders:

* 9.957 seconds @ 140.40 mph--"Fastest Car in the Philippines" (by Ken Kepner of Clark AHRA, Chevy Camaro V8)

* 142.41 miles per hour-Fastest Speed Mark (by David Lim of DGL-Cebu)

* 10.65 @ 130.60 mph-Fastest Ford (Frank Wilson, Subic, Mustang V8)

* 10.672 @ 136.36 mph-Fastest 4-cylinder and Fastest Honda (by Raymond Go of Autoplus Sportzentrium)

* 10.74 @ 134.90 mph—Fastest Nissan (Dondi Montecillo, Racing Zone Skyline R33-GTR)

* 10.94-second--Fastest Mitsubishi (Raymond Go, Autoplus Evo)

* 11.027 @ 122 mph--- Fastest All-Motor Honda (Pepi Santos, H3 Autoworks EK)

* 11.970-second-Fastest Volkswagen (Robert Abanto, WunderBugs)

* 12.676-second—Fastest Toyota (Herbert Hollero, Gulfspeed Starlet)

* 12.915 @ 102 mph—Fastest Girl Drag Racer and Fastest SOHC Honda (When-when Dagondon, VanniTec and Staging Lanes)

* 13.482 @ 103 mph—Fastest all-motor SOHC Honda posted by PJ Sy of Honglysport.

The 2006 Hot August Races will be debuting the prestigious Top 16 "Winner-Take-All" bracket, the first time it will be held in the south. Only the quickest 16 cars can qualify for this event.

DCSCC and PDRF organizers say the 2006 HAR will be holding several Quick 8 heads-up classes aside from the regular elapsed time (ET) bracket racing, namely the Pro class for cars running 13.99 seconds and quicker, Hot Street for cars in the 14.00 to 15.99-second frame and Stock class for 16.00 seconds and slower cars.

A bit of a departure here from the usual course of things....Showbiz news with a davaoeno..

Chuck Allie’s corner

http://www.mb.com.ph/issues/2006/07/30/ENTR2006073070434.html

Antonette V Valdez
Manila Bulletin, July 30

Like a true model, Chuck Allie from the Starstruck 3 fame of GMA–7 has every corner and crevice of his bedroom in Quezon City teeming with objects associated with modeling.

Upon stepping foot in Chuck’s area, one would think sleeping is his favorite pastime since his bed, which comes in mustard shade to match the walls of his room, appears to be the focal subject. Big and inviting to sleep on especially if you’ve got a very strenuous schedule in show business like that of Chuck’s.

Aside from his regular shows on QTV 11 namely "Family Zoo" and "Fans Kita," Chuck displays his moves on the dance floor on GMA’s "SOP Gigsters" every Sunday. He then joins Joey de Leon, Lolit Solis and Lorna Tolentino in dishing out the hottest showbiz stories every Saturday in GMA–7’s "Startalk" by answering phone–in questions from televiewers.

If his schedule seems full enough already, well not quite. Chuck always finds time for his first love which is modeling. Ever since he was tapped by Le Froge early this year to be its newest endorser, Chuck has been very active doing mall tours to promote the newest line of the mentioned apparel brand.

As a matter of fact, during this visit at his place he showed off his new set of jackets in limited edition from Le Froge. He made it clear though that he is not a brand conscious person.

"I have jackets that I bought from Greenhills. I would consider myself a practical spender because when I buy things, I think of the many ways and occasions I could use it in. I would go for clothes that are comfortable and stylish kahit mura lang kesa dun sa branded because if you weigh their purpose, pareho lang naman," reasoned Chuck.

He, however, also has designer jackets from Ross Sevilla, his haute couture in Davao.

"I started modeling in Davao when I was still in high school at si Ross Sevilla na ang nagdadamit sa akin at that time. Through modeling, I learned the importance of other things that come in men’s fashion aside from the clothes that we wear."

Apart from his inclination to nice shirts, elegant suits and casual jackets, Chuck is also an avid collector of belt buckles. He has as of this writing a total of 16 pieces but he plans to add more to it.

"Every time I go out and see one that’s really striking, binibili ko agad. I started collecting these buckles when I was 16 because I was so active in modeling at that time. Noon damit lang talaga ang hilig ko but when I learned about real fashion, I realized the importance of buckles aside from its primary purpose of securing one’s pants. Men don’t have much accessories kaya dapat maayos ka sa pananamit mo, from your shirt down to the tiniest detail," he shared.

According to Chuck, the prices of buckles vary depending on their concept. Among his collection which comes in interesting designs like Batman, lion’s head, wings, cross, Chuck points to the Superman logo as his favorite.

From buckles, suits and jackets, Chuck opens his closet to reveal shirts that are neatly tucked in place and arranged according to color and design.

"Back in school, my friends would say maarte ako kasi I wear long sleeves kahit regular days lang at wala naman occasion. I’m fond of polo and long sleeves because I feel neat and presentable," he expressed.

Chuck confessed, however, that he is not responsible for keeping his closet in order. Although he described himself as a person who likes everything squeaky clean and organized, he also admitted that he can’t manage to do it alone.

"Ako yung may gusto na naka–color coding ang mga damit ko at ayos lagi pero kailangan ko i–utos yun. Tapos kung nakaayos na, I pull clothes from underneath the pile kaya madalas nagiging makalat ulit," he said.

If he has nowhere to go or work commitments to attend to, Chuck said he just stays in his favorite seat positioned by the window of his room, and tinkers with his Apple laptop for hours. Upon looking closely at the seat, we realized he got it off his car!

"Yes, that seat is from my car. Wala kasi ako maupuan dito so I thought of putting it there. Bumagay naman dahil sa color ng seat cover. It’s in this corner that I update my blogs and memorize my scripts," he ended.

eat muna lunch. tomgu na ako.

lunch mo? parang fastbreak na ata! good morning!

davao forumers.....

kanus-a ta tapok ba??

lagot na ko! hmp!

kay kung palaguton ko ninyo, kani akong buhaton!

:bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash:

bitaw uy! kanus-a ba?

davao forumers.....

kanus-a ta tapok ba??

lagot na ko! hmp!

kay kung palaguton ko ninyo, kani akong buhaton!

:bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash:

bitaw uy! kanus-a ba?

Skyblue woke up at the wrong side of the bed...lol. peace!

davao forumers.....

kanus-a ta tapok ba??

lagot na ko! hmp!

kay kung palaguton ko ninyo, kani akong buhaton!

:bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash: :bash:

bitaw uy! kanus-a ba?

kanus-a imong gusto mag-meet? ako anytime pwede basta after work. lets have a kadayawan meet. ok lang sa inyo? basi manlibre diay si tj kay mouli man siya. haha.

They really demolished it , i just went there today ,just sad that maybe they can preserve that building not totally demolished it . good day Konsehal.


yesterday:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/sleepie_uno/canon/IMG_0242.jpg

today:
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a157/kulaskusgan/dc/IMG_0320.jpg

tomorrow:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/sleepie_uno/canon/IMG_0241.jpg[/QUOTE]

Mods are working guys too. THey have to earn a living kaya busy.

wrong. they are still in school.