I am still for the construction of Davao-Samal Bridge.

IMHO, whether the bridge will be there or not, either way, industrialization and commercialization will surely come to IGACOS. Absence of the bridge will not even protect IGACOS from the collateral damage that these "developments" bring along. The more we isolate IGACOS from mainland Davao, the more we are giving reason for the island to initiate, develop its own phase of industrialization to sustain it existence. I think the only way the effect could be lessen is through people's vigilance (dito makikita ang importance ng advocacy group, like what we are envisioning of SSC DAVAO) and the leadership's political will and initiatives. No other place in the Philippines which can be an ideal example than DAVAO CITY itself. If Davao has able to retard, at least for the moment, the effect of industrialization to its environs thru the political will of Mayor Digong, then I think we can also duplicate that in the case of IGACOS.

Absence of the bridge on the other hand, impedes the accessability of people to some basic needs. In healthcare for example, some patients who need immediate medical assistance have to wait and endure the rest of the night before they will be brought to Davao by morning due to the abence of necessary infras that will allow them to be brought to Davao anytime. And by the time they are seen by specialists, the patient's condition worsen. Some even die on the way.

I dont outrightly equate industrialization to environmental annihilation. Look at Singapore and its Sentosa Island. :)

all AdDU guys...count yourselves in sa TRUE BLUE thread sa SAMAHAN...

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=9978684#post9978684

magpakilala kayo hehe

we are not singapore..lols

']we are not singapore..lols

Yeah I know bro but we can be better than singapore. ahihihihihih :)

']they wont be marginalized since DC is just a stone's throw away..its not like the Mindanao-MM scnario naman..we have enough areas for industries and commercialization..let samal be samal..virgin and untuched


indeed, ferrying goods and services through a banca and bringing them in the remote barangays via the "modern" habal-habal is not Marginalization... is that what you are trying to emphasize.... btw, read my signature to get a feeling of what i'm trying to say..... :cheers:

LOLS..dili bitaw..am oblivious as to magpatunkod man ug bridge o dili..though am leaning more towards a NO..hehe

besides, i think its the IGACOS residents' voice that matters kay sila baya ang nasa winning/losing end if mapatukod nang bridge na na..hehe

']besides, i think its the IGACOS residents' voice that matters kay sila baya ang nasa winning/losing end if mapatukod nang bridge na na..hehe


hehhehehe..Agree bro :)

GO GO GO for DAVAO-SAMAL Bridge...GO GO GO...hehehehehehe

MAo-o..ako nang gi post ang similar poll sa Davaosale.com aron mas daghan ta makuha nga opinion..hehe ug unta naay taga IGACOS nga muapil..
heres the link

http://www.davaosale.com/main/viewtopic.php?t=28753&lighter=

ok my view
yeah i agree.... having a bridge itself does not pollute the environment but the consequence having it that can fast track industialization and will surely get into destroying the environment fast.
and about marginalizing peolpe of Samal , i think Samal now is home to some foreign nationals like Swiss, Germans, Japanese , Americans etc.majority of them want Samal to be bridge free :) . Filipinos too are putting vacation houses and buying lands to put up plantations. and ihave a lot of friends from abroad and in the Philippines that wants to live in Samal to have their retirement houses and a small plantation to tend but they will change their view if industrialization sets in.
And i think not all island need to have a bridge to be progressive.

So NO NO TO BRIDGE :cheers:

Originally Posted by waway
besides, i think its the IGACOS residents' voice that matters kay sila baya ang nasa winning/losing end if mapatukod nang bridge na na..hehe

oi taga samal pud ko kay naa ko gamy yuta didto bag.o lang ko harvest ug manga :)

waway pildi gihapon ta didto :D:

hey guys. here's the canada mini-meet with davaoeagle, manileño and me.

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we had fun eating at mandarin then had an ice cap at tim hortons. such talk that stretched all the way to half past 11 then to davaoeagle's hotel. we brought very good cameras realizing later both had dead batteries. so we opted with my cellphone's cam. hahaha. dropped off manileño at yorkmills station.

first pic - manileño, davaoeagle and me
second pic, me, davaoeagle and manileño

Great..... first Davao SSC international meet w/ manileno as your guess.. sana may banner ...anywazz after you dropped manileno ... asa sunod :D
post more photos!

Congrats Paul and davaoeagle for the first Davao SSC international meet :okay:

Musta na pla sm dito sa davao? parang wala nang plano ang sm na iextend ah! ang liit!!!!!!! plus yung maliit pa na robinsons, wow! ano ba to! huhuhuhuhuhu. At parang wala pa ring plano ang victo na ifacelift ang mall. Super luma na po!!!

oi taga samal pud ko kay naa ko gamy yuta didto bag.o lang ko harvest ug manga :)

waway pildi gihapon ta didto :D:

oi sir Dinabaw, negosyo tag manga...hehehehe

Davao City's innovation comes in many forms. Beyond the software development outsourcing industry that Silicon Gulf promotes, there are some other technologies that are noteworthy:

1. Ateneo de Davao's Engineering department has created laboratory training modules - the MP-877 microcontroller trainer and the DSP-54XX digital signal processing trainer. These modules are meant to help students learn microcontroller and DSP concepts and applications.

2. Davao Inventors Association has a good number of members who are into alternative energy: waste-to-energy, biomass, pyrolysis, picohydro, green fuels and others.

These are good starting points to promulgate the importance of innovation and technopreneurship to contribute to Davao's development. I hope that the same technopreneurial drive goes to the IT software engineers for Silicon Gulf to be worthy of its name.

Great..... first Davao SSC international meet w/ manileno as your guess.. sana may banner ...anywazz after you dropped manileno ... asa sunod :D
post more photos!

Congrats Paul and davaoeagle for the first Davao SSC international meet :okay:

pipila lang ang nakuha namong pics. kay puro dead batteries among camera. anyway akong ipost tung isa nga nakuha nako with manileño and davaoeagle.

']LOLS..dili bitaw..am oblivious as to magpatunkod man ug bridge o dili..though am leaning more towards a NO..hehe

besides, i think its the IGACOS residents' voice that matters kay sila baya ang nasa winning/losing end if mapatukod nang bridge na na..hehe

what do they have to loose or win with /without the samal-bridge? i'm eager to hear about this.... :)

Sweden calling our man in Berlin Rajah.......be ready with a nice cup of hot coffe for a very tiered group of girls reaching Berlin about 11-12 tonight..we are ready for the first European ssc meeting together with DavaoEogowl...hope he gets there in time...I have seen him fly around Davao being opinionated when he should have been on his way to Berlin.. hahaha :jk:

Ok, see ya' from Berlin guys....

I'd just like to inform everyone that the Davao Cultural and Environmental Thread has been moved to "Heritage and Architecture" where it is more appropriate

Originally Posted by waway
oi sir Dinabaw, negosyo tag manga...hehehehe

2 kapuno.an lang to! anyway sige sugot ma kaha ka tinda ta San Pedro !:laugh:

:) Musta na pla sm dito sa davao? parang wala nang plano ang sm na iextend ah! ang liit!!!!!!! plus yung maliit pa na robinsons, wow! ano ba to! huhuhuhuhuhu. At parang wala pa ring plano ang victo na ifacelift ang mall. Super luma na po!!!

Why are u just into malls? we have already posted these updates in past Davao threads. Let's just leave that to the proprietors now. Doing an expansion is not as easy as snapping a finger or two! :) Since they have already announced it....what we ought to do is WAIT!

^^ Congrats to SSC Davao International Meet! :righton:

Anyway...log, post, and win!!! If u know what i mean........:nocrook:

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Davao's Blu Gre Cafe!


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Is that Royal Mandaya Hotel?


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The mighty and grand Mt. Apo!

a few questions comes into mind regarding the long-term aspects of the proposed bridge:

1. will the people within the areas of davao and samal be ready and responsible enough (environment wise) to handle a significant if not rapid surge in let's say, industrialization? if yes, then great go build a bridge then... but if not, forget about it. it would be better to develop methods of air and sea transportaion instead.

2. can this bridge be properly maintained? if so, then great. if not then we don't want some freak accident like some sorta structural failure to occur just coz of poor maintenance. Imagine the possible economic and environmental damages it could cause.

3. security-wise, can they guarantee us a terrorist-free bridge? We don't want it blowing up anytime soon right?

remember and put into consideration that we are in the philippines so the concerns mentioned above are very real and should be taken into serious account. other than that, a bridge would be a great idea. Connect all the islands if possible! :)

Davao Crocodile Park!

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PeopleSupport Davao!

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PeopleSupport expands operations in Davao!
PIA

September 15- An executive of a business process outsourcing (BPO) provider is optimistic of the bullish industry in the country and is now expanding operation in the provinces to sustain its increasing manpower requirements.

PeopleSupport Philippines president and vice president for Global Operations Bong Borja in a press conference after the launching and opening of its Davao office at Luisa Avenue Square in Jacinto Extension said there is rapid growth in the industry.

The five-year old industry in the Philippines already has employed 179,000 call center agents or about 200,000 workers involved in the entire BPO industry, he said. Borja is also the chairman of Business Processing Association of the Philippines.

The BPO industry, he said has several services and this includes the call center, back office, medical transcription, legal transcription, animation, software development and engineering design.

And by 2010, about half a million will be employed in different services of the industry.

As a leading BPO provider PeopleSupport, Inc. (NASDAQ: PSPT) offers customer management, transcription captioning, accounts receivable management and other related services.

The PeopleSupport, he said, has put in few million US dollars as investments for its recruitment and training center in Davao City.

"Our moving in to the south speaks strongly of our firm intention in Davao City," he said.

He said they decided to set up permanent recruitment center here to also study the flow of applicants.

He said there are a lot of good schools in Davao and the neighboring provinces where there are a lot of potentials.

Out of the weekly processing of application and interviews of 3,000 to 4,000 about 300 are hired with 70 to 80 slots for those recruited in Davao.

The successful applicants from Davao will be assigned to the Company's facilities in either Cebu or Manila with relocation packages made available to help in the smooth transition of the young executives.

Generally Borja said hiring rate of these type of workers range from P10,000 to P16,000 plus other benefits.

He also said that the training center will be for their recruits although he said that they might expand in the future by opening a language school.

' It is also part of our plan to put up a call center here, he said.

Looking at the current absorption rate of those who applied at ten percent, Borja said there has been an improvement saying that it started as low as one percent then move up to five and has regularly been improving.

He said the government support has slowly paying off where the private sector had a continuing partnership with the Commission of High Education in improving on its language curriculum.

One reason that was cited why only a ten percent absorption rate of applicants was the lack of proficiency in the English language even as Borja said that PeopleSupport is willing to help enhance their skills.

G-Com || Cyber City Teleserv Ltd.

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With more than 200 agents, the first-ever call center in Mindanao is still expanding its workforce and operations. G-Com Ltd a subsidiary of Cyber City Teleserv is located along Sobrecarey Street in Chinatown Davao City.

Sweden calling our man in Berlin Rajah.......be ready with a nice cup of hot coffe for a very tiered group of girls reaching Berlin about 11-12 tonight..we are ready for the first European ssc meeting together with DavaoEogowl...hope he gets there in time...I have seen him fly around Davao being opinionated when he should have been on his way to Berlin.. hahaha :jk:

Ok, see ya' from Berlin guys....


Drive carefully....Inday Lena and Sisters.... we will wait for you here.. I'll be home as well at 11:00 text me then... the weather here is nice, spät sommer. :cheers:

paging D'eagowl.... where are you now?

G-Com || Cyber City Teleserv Ltd.

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With more than 200 agents, the first-ever call center in Mindanao is still expanding its workforce and operations. G-Com Ltd a subsidiary of Cyber City Teleserv is located along Sobrecarey Street in Chinatown Davao City.
di ba mag expand din ang G-COm sa Zamboanga?

ka level ba ng G-COm ang PeopleSupport?

']di ba mag expand din ang G-COm sa Zamboanga?

ka level ba ng G-COm ang PeopleSupport?

^^ NO! PeopleSupport is bigger than G-Com (www.peoplesupport.com)

People Support opens center in Davao City
Daily Mirror Online
September 15, 2006

Aside from pouring in a few million dollars in investments in Davao City, People Support Inc., a multinational business process outsourcing provider based in the United States, will provide additional job opportunities for Davaoeños with the opening of its training and recruitment center yesterday in this city.
The 326-square meter facility will support the company’s commitment to tap the Southern Philippine workforce for its call centers in Manila and Cebu.

People Support vice president for global operations Bong Borja said of the company’s estimated 7,500 employees in the Philippines, including call agents, 1,000 came from Davao City.

He said the company has always been impressed with the skills of the young professionals in Davao City and thus decided to have a home here.

“Opening the center is a testimonial of our belief in the Davao workforce,” Borja said.

The company conducted its first recruitment fair in Davao City in 2004.

“We believe in the qualifications of the people in Davao with the presence of good schools but there are less opportunities for white collar jobs and we believe that it is unfor-tunate they got such kind of unfair treatment,” Borja said at a press conference held at the center shortly after the opening rites.

People Support through its recruitment center here is actively hiring customer service representatives (eReps) for its sites in Manila and Cebu. The center also offers trainings on services like customer management, transcription, captioning, accounts receivable management, and other BPO (business process outsourcing) services.

Borja said the opening of the center signals the intention of People Support to open a call center in Davao in the future.

He also said People Support is bullish about the BPO industry in the Philippines and is expecting a steep growth in the coming years.

He said the negative issues confronting BPO providers in India are helping spur the industry in the Philippines. He noted that a lot of people served by BPO providers in India have recently moved to the Philippines.

India BPO providers were recently hit of negative issues like wage inflation and alleged poaching and encroaching on the privacy of clients and their own call agents.

PeopleSupport opens training and recruitment center
By Carmelito Q. Francisco Published : 2006-09-15
Mindanao Times Online

PEOPLESUPPORT Philippines Inc., one of the leading call center companies in the country, is looking at recruiting between to 70-80 personnel a month in the city with the opening up of its recruitment and training center here.

“We are bullish (about the recruitment activities in the city),” said Rainiero Borja, president of the company during the opening of the 326-square meter facility that has two training rooms.

Borja’s optimism may even prompt the company to put up its call center here. “It is not the question of if, it is the question of when (the company will establish its call center in the city,” he said, pointing out that this might materialize in the next five years.

”We have always been impressed with the skills of the young professionals here, and we would like to further open our doors to them. Opening this center is a testimonial of our belief in the Davao workforce,” he said.

The company is recruiting for its call centers in Manila and Cebu and is also opening up another recruitment center in Baguio City. Borja, also the president of the Business Process Association of the Philippines, said the industry will continue to “influence the government” so that it will strengthen the foundation of students in the country, particularly in improving their English proficiency.

His statement was in answer to reports that only a handful of applicants get hired by call center companies because of their low English proficiency because these companies have clients that are based in the English speaking countries.

Based on the Philippine Institute for Development Studies, among the major problem not only of the call center industry, but the entire business process outsourcing business, is the shortage of human resources. The report said another problem is the high cost of power in the country.

But Borja said the company has coordinated with educational institutions so they would develop their curricula to suit the need of the industry. “Sometimes you can manufacture the supply (of human resources,” he said.

At present, the company interviews between 3,000 to 4,000 applicants a week, but only hires about 10 percent of the interviewees, said Julia Bouzan, company director for human resources.

Borja said the company is determined to hire the “untapped” human resources in the Davao Region and in nearby provinces with the opening up of its recruitment and training center in the city.

Several companies have also considered setting up branches here as only one has been operating in the city, the G-Com Limited, a branch of the Cyber City Teleservices Inc. Among those setting up their branches here is the Link2Support, a call center with a branch in Cagayan de Oro City which is setting up a 200-seater call center at the IT Park of the Damosa Land Inc.

hay salamat, ssc is back again. unsay balita davao?

bump again, asa na mong mga taga davao? hala paagmata na, ssc is back again na. updates on davao pleassssseeeee!!!!

<< what happened to my avatar? something got corrupted while the server was upgraded?

wow what happened? di na siguro makaya sa server ang requests and load. whiwwww...

ang mga peeps tu-a siguro sa pikas nga tambayan. :)

Good Morning here.

hehehe na jud siguro anyway naunsa na bitaw ning avatar na2 murag abstract naman !

Anyway welcome back SSC guys .....padayon sa pag uswag!!!

Updates :

12 storey Medical Center in Bajada
Traffic signalization hinay2x nag gina construct .

Updates :

12 storey Medical Center in Bajada
Traffic signalization hinay2x nag gina construct .

It's 19 storeys Medical Center.
The 12 storeys structure (hotel - as per absk) will be built in Damosa Complex.

Migan: anwer to your questions:

1. Davao City highly prioritize environmental protection , Mayor Rody Duterte is firm in protecting human and its nature. Dabawenyos are very aware of its environment from waste segregation to watershed protection .But maybe the problem will come from the people of IGACOS as far as i know they still don't have a concrete plan on which direction the island will progress ,some say they make Samal a "tourist destination" ,some say they are for light industry .

2. thats a " a million question" i mean putting a bridge cost alot of money , they start putting up a bridge and in the middle of the construction politics and corruption sets in ummm another future white elephant ?

3. I hope you don't intend this question because we live in Mindanao ,but anyway our security is so stringent from Task Force Davao to 911 and recently the government installed the new Sotuheastern Command .

I hope i satisfied your questions .good day :)

Environment above money in Davao - Avila
September 21, 2006
Mindanews

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/20 September) -- In Davao City, environmental protection is a higher priority more than economics, City Councilor Leo Avila III said.

Avila said the city has committed to make environmental protection a priority because it is a sustainable option. "It is for the long run," he said.

Avila, who chairs the city council's committee on environment and natural resources, said the city government is sending a "strong message" that the environment is more important than income.

He said Davao has a strong sense of responsibility and accountability that is why the city is ahead in environmental protection.

Avila said Mayor Rodrigo Duterte has expressed a bias for environmental protection. "If you want a law passed on environment protection, pass it now (during Duterte's term)," Avila said.

http://mindanews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=899&Itemid=50

yiiiipppppee! SSC is back... good noon guys.

Makro - Matina area overpass under construction...
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:)

^^ i like your avatar junax ...lol anyway para dili OT as na dapit ang overpass? sugod naba ang flyover sa Ulas?

what do you mean bai dinabaw about my avatar? la ba diay ka kita ana sa una? hehe

overpass is near makro matina, near the LTFRB...

^^ dili abstract ang ma kits nimo ? diri abstract na, na corrupt na! lol

diri pod sa ako abstract ang imo avatar pero ang akoa dili... hehe morag naay side effect ang SSC sa iyang giinom nga tambal for weeks.

how come tj 's avatar is ok? mao ba sa Macro diay na , wala pay flyover sa Ulas? diha dapit sa inyo sa Palma Gil dagh an construction kita nako.

siguro we have to update our avatars too bai. yup, a 4 storey school daw ni, is UC sa may sesame street, kanang pagawas sa bonifacio agi ug taps. no sight of ulas flyover yet, UC in that area is the traffic light.

croc farm in riverfront...
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random davao pics...

metrobank tower, r. magsaysay avenue
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roxas avenue (freedom park)
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tuganay bridge, tagum city, davao del norte
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daang maharlika, davao del norte
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daang maharlika, davao del norte (with a rural tour bus)
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japan-philippine bridge, tagum city, davao del norte
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Today in Davao!

September 22: One Internet Day 2006 Davao

DigitalFilipino.com is now on its 7th year. We are celebrating this by holding a One Internet Day event on September 22, Friday, from 1:10 pm to 6 pm, at Sequioia Inn, 7274 Monteverde Avenue, Davao City. Our theme for this year is "E-Commerce Build-up for SMEs".

This is in partnership with the Department of Trade and Industry ICT Business Development Team. This is also supported by the Association of Solution Integrators in Davao (ASID).

Other One Internet Day celebrations were held on Cebu (September 20) and Manila (September 19)!

kamusta na mga SSC addicts ????

Asi ni dapit sa Matina, after the crossing?

@tJ... nice kaau ang picture sa davao-tagum expressway (?).

yiiiipppppee! SSC is back... good noon guys.

Makro - Matina area overpass under construction...
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:)

dp

Hey Paul..... Mata na ka... sayo ba sad?

here's something "nostalagic" for you...

http://static.flickr.com/86/239019680_c5c89e30c9.jpg?v=0
(picture posted by Arnel Villegas at FlickR.com)

bump again, asa na mong mga taga davao? hala paagmata na, ssc is back again na. updates on davao pleassssseeeee!!!!

<< what happened to my avatar? something got corrupted while the server was upgraded?

pwede mu-boto usab :hahaha: certified flying voter man ko :hahaha:

kamusta na mga SSC addicts ????

Asi ni dapit sa Matina, after the crossing?

@tJ... nice kaau ang picture sa davao-tagum expressway (?).

after crossing matina-pangi sir rajah, near makro and LTFRB... duha na ang overpass sa matina-ulas area.

dep ed building at energy park, the first of 2 locators
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tagum city, hi-ways
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tagum magugpo pilot elementary school
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Hey Paul..... Mata na ka... sayo ba sad?

here's something "nostalagic" for you...

http://static.flickr.com/86/239019680_c5c89e30c9.jpg?v=0
(picture posted by Arnel Villegas at FlickR.com)

sayo permanente bai para mag-andam sa baon sa pamilya. hehhe. thanks for mentioning about arnel villegas. he's a close friend, and he's a great artiste photographer.

peeps of davao, your place is sooo nice, naa ko diri since wednesday pa, 2nd time ko in davao but this was a better trip, in one day nakapunta kami ng eagle farm, malagos, jacks ridge and waterfront insular. na feed kon rin yung ostrich sa malagos. i have tons of pic. pero di ko pa ma upload kasi very busy sa tour and convention. davao is great, wakekeke

Wow, new members... I neve thought that my absence did a lot... I can't get inside my favorite foums site!

hay salamat, ssc is back again. unsay balita davao?

Paul, this is the nth time I tried to enter SSC. At least I suceeded today.

sayo permanente bai para mag-andam sa baon sa pamilya. hehhe. thanks for mentioning about arnel villegas. he's a close friend, and he's a great artiste photographer.

good to know that he's a close friend of yours... daghan sya old pics didto sa FlickR... mauwaw ko mu-post diri, kay basig unya kasab-an nya ko...(pananghid palihug Paul in my name...thanks...) :cheers:

Paul, this is the nth time I tried to enter SSC. At least I suceeded today.

i was like checking everyhour in my waking hours. at least now it's back. kudos to everybody for the patience.

daang maharlika, davao del norte
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^ I love this, parang expressway...

hello SSC forumers, wazzup! I'm getting my life back, goodness!

tagum magugpo pilot elementary school
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Wow! dire ko nag Grade One to Grade Two! sa Sped section. ehehehe :)

tuganay bridge, tagum city, davao del norte
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daang maharlika, davao del norte (with a rural tour bus)
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dili ba wrong lane ang bus???? anyway.... very nice picture Professor Junax

^^ the last time i was in tagum, busy kaayo sila og repair sa mga kalsada after nahuman ang second bridge. thanks junax!

hey guys. here's the canada mini-meet with davaoeagle, manileño and me.

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we had fun eating at mandarin then had an ice cap at tim hortons. such talk that stretched all the way to half past 11 then to davaoeagle's hotel. we brought very good cameras realizing later both had dead batteries. so we opted with my cellphone's cam. hahaha. dropped off manileño at yorkmills station.

first pic - manileño, davaoeagle and me
second pic, me, davaoeagle and manileño

oi, congrats! unta mopauli mo para we'll have a bigger davao meet.

^^ Good morning peeps ...dugay na jud diay ka waka adto sa Tagum Dave?

speaking of Tagum....
Tagum City also sizzles
By Nelson C. Bagaforo

PLAN to go with your friends in Tagum City's tambayan to experience a new kind of entertainment, aside from meeting new friends.

Like what we did one Friday night with Philip Morris's Patricia Joven and friend Paul Garcia. It was work for the three of us -- Pat and Paul to test the market (for Philip Morris, of course) and me -- to explore Tagum City at night.

We dropped by the place, called the Via Ame, the city's coolest and coziest resto-bar. It was jam packed with a mixed crowd of yuppies, some of whom were familiar faces from Davao City, and young college students who were obviously having fun.

The resto-bar, owned by a dentist named Jun Albano, is just fitting to those who just want to have fun not too far from Davao City.

Via Ame, located at the 3rd level of Albano building on Mabini Street, offers fine dining, 5-10 p.m., but transformed into a show bar with gay performers entertaining the crowd.

The place, which also offers a wide array of delectable appetizers, is usually jampacked on Friday and Saturday nights, but also sizzles on other days of the week. It has become the favorite hangout among Tagum's partygoers.

The performers are not impersonators, but they could belt out songs and sway on the platform to the delight of the crowd. And the audience participation was just as great that night.

hello Davao!

haaaaay sa wakas...nabalik na gyud and SSC..kala ko bagal lang internet namin...

hey guys. here's the canada mini-meet with davaoeagle, manileño and me.

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b74/paulkrps/2.jpg

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b74/paulkrps/2-1.jpg

we had fun eating at mandarin then had an ice cap at tim hortons. such talk that stretched all the way to half past 11 then to davaoeagle's hotel. we brought very good cameras realizing later both had dead batteries. so we opted with my cellphone's cam. hahaha. dropped off manileño at yorkmills station.

first pic - manileño, davaoeagle and me
second pic, me, davaoeagle and manileño

It was really fun chilling out with Paul and Juan. It was non-stop PEP talk over dinner and the iced capuccino at Tim Horton's that followed later on.

dili ba wrong lane ang bus???? anyway.... very nice picture Professor Junax

nope sir rajah :), daang maharlika is a four lane hi-way, that bus is on the right track.

posted earlier in previous thread, mga flyover and overpass sa city, i missed some so here's the new list...

vehicular flyovers:
1. agdao-linear
2. buhangin-circular
3. ulas-in the pipeline

vehicular underpass:
1. buhangin
2. bankerohan (oldest and dirtiest :) )

pedestrian overpass:
1. lasang
2. bunawan
3. tibungco-market
4. tibungco-holcim
5. sasa
6. damosa
7. DMC
8. victoria plaza
9. G-Mall
10. san pedro hospital
11. boulevard-san pedro
12. bankerohan
13. matina-UM
14. matina-Jollibee
15. bangkal-makro
16. toril

pedestrian underpass
1. DIA

i hope underpass will be the trend next year kay gubot ang overpass.

It was really fun chilling out with Paul and Juan. It was non-stop PEP talk over dinner and the iced capuccino at Tim Horton's that followed later on.

wow bai davaoeagle, first international meet. galeng talaga ng wadab guys!

guys correction...As per Mindanews, the IT Park in Davao will have a total area of 23 hectares. :)

pila diay to ka hectares sa una nga news bai TJ? sige lang agi ko ron didto i'll take pictures...

pila diay to ka hectares sa una nga news bai TJ? sige lang agi ko ron didto i'll take pictures...

Hmmmm, 23k sq meters or 2 hectares. pero im not sure ha coz im basing my info from the press release of Damosa Land through Mindanews. instead of 23k sq m, its 230k plus sq m or around 23 hectares.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a340/tj_brewed/itparkaerial.jpg

Abskess said that a 12 storey hotel will be built within that complex...I wonder where..Could it be the proposed Microtel? But it should be a mini hotel aight? eheheheh Could it be possible that Damosa changed its mind and now is planning to build a 12 storey hotel instead? ehehehehehhe...

wow bai davaoeagle, first international meet. galeng talaga ng wadab guys!


Ngek, murag zombie akong nawong didto sa pic kay straight 5 days walay tulog. Sige man laag he he. Paul and Juan are amazing guys to tag along with. Paul gave me an accidental tour in the bellys of T.O. when he got strayed in those intertwining overpasses and access ramps. I really had fun in that mini - meet.

Bai Junax and Bro TJ, post naman kayo don sa Atenista thread oh. Mga ateneans kayo ah. Kung ayaw nyo, ako ang mag enlist sa inyo don, he he.

^^ ngek, few years lang me dun..then I transferred...ahihihihihih

Hmmmm, 23k sq meters or 2 hectares. pero im not sure ha coz im basing my info from the press release of Damosa Land through Mindanews. instead of 23k sq m, its 230k plus sq m or around 23 hectares.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a340/tj_brewed/itparkaerial.jpg

Abskess said that a 12 storey hotel will be built within that complex...I wonder where..Could it be the proposed Microtel? But it should be a mini hotel aight? eheheheh Could it be possible that Damosa changed its mind and now is planning to build a 12 storey hotel instead? ehehehehehhe...

Bro, TJ! I know that this area is so huge. Remember the off -road race track at the back of DAMOSA? That one if I'm not mistaken is what is being pointed out. That one is so humongous indeed!

^^ ngek, few years lang me dun..then I transferred...ahihihihihih

still, there's ateneo blood in you.

^^ oo nga...is it ok if im half atenista and carolinian? i'll be studying back here sa USC and will be taking a new course for a new career path...ahihihihihihih

by the way, i needed to change my sig coz of the rules posted sa forum. i guess there are a lot of rules that i missed to read when i first joined this forum last year :(

Anyway, I've never been to Damosa Off Roads? Dako ba sya? That's the area at the back of Anflocor right?

By the way, another update..just across Damosa IT Park is the upcoming Davaosale.com IT Hub!

^^ oo nga...is it ok if im half atenista and carolinian? i'll be studying back here sa USC and will be taking a new course for a new career path...ahihihihihihih

by the way, i needed to change my sig coz of the rules posted sa forum. i guess there are a lot of rules that i missed to read when i first joined this forum last year :(

Anyway, I've never been to Damosa Off Roads? Dako ba sya? That's the area at the back of Anflocor right?

By the way, another update..just across Damosa IT Park is the upcoming Davaosale.com IT Hub!

By all means tj, so then you will be half and half atenean and carolinian.

You're right! The lot behind Damosa used to be an off-road race track like I said.

What is this davaosale IT HUB? Can you expound more on this?

Bro, why do you have to change your sig? Did I miss out on something too that warrants the change of my sig?

Davaosale IT Hub is a venture of Davaosale.com - a popular website in Davao. Their soon to be hub in Damosa will be a place where tech savvies meet up to check or purchase the latest gadgets and IT services in the market. :)

That's a good biz concept..surely something unique to Davao or in Davao. It might be competing with the established ones such as Columbia, etc.

^^ unlike Columbia, Davaosale IT Hub will be a hub for other IT/Technepreneurs in Davao. Literally, it is a hub where u can jump from one area to another checking what's in and out, what's affordable or not......And it's online marketing arm, www.davaosale.com has a strong presence online too.....

Uh, it's akin to the NCIX store here where you can surf on line for stuff you want to buy at better deal. Goodah!

PROVIDING QUALITY MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION TRAINING
By Josie San Pedro Published : 2006-09-21

The MTC Academy, awarded by the Parangal ng Bayan Foundation as the most outstanding medical transcription school in the Philippines in the Annual National Consumers Excellence Awards of 2004, is now in Davao City.

Dabawenyos have proven to be industrious, persevering, and patient as proven in its becoming one of the most livable cities in Asia and one of the most competitive cities in the country. It is no wonder that Davao City has been cited ass the region’s forerunner in the quality of its labor force.

Supporting its thrust to strengthen Davao City’s human resource (HR) competence, the MTC Academy, a medical transcription training specialist that was founded in May of 2003 in Metro Manila has opened its branch here.

Lizabel “Wit” G. Holganza, President of MTC Academy in Davao City and school administrator, says,” the best time to pursue medical transcription career and business prospects is now, The USA has a federal law that requires all health management organizations to convert their records into digitalized format.

This can only lead to increased demand for transcription service with highly competent transcribers producing quality reports. MTC Academy, the premier transcription training provider, is here to provide quality MT education.” MTC Academy is located at E. Quirino Avenue corner General Luna. For more information please call Tel. No. 222-6822 or Cell No. 0906-2143300.

Davao Del Norte to display highland-to-island features in tourism week
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TAGUM CITY (21 September) — Highlighting island to highland attractions, Davao del Norte will show off its tourism potential in observing the National Tourism Week.

Provincial Governor Gelacio P. Gementiza in Memorandum Circular has urged key players in the tourism industry of the province and local chief executives to initiate activities geared towards optimizing tourism “an engine of economic growth.”

Among other objectives, Gementiza has also called for the promotion of the province as a prime tourist destination with its diverse spots for tourists to see.

He also wanted the public to know that its people have developed tourist-friendliness as they are “being moved by the vision to transform the province as a premier province in Mindanao by the year 2010.”

Putting together the best that each of its municipality can offer, the provincial government will launch the 1st Provincial Tourism Congress on September 28 along with the staging of a tourism exhibit which opens on September 27.

Provincial Tourism Officer Felix Abangin designated coordinator of the entire activity said the Congress banners the theme, “Promoting Davao del Norte Province attains her vision: A premiere Province by 2010”

The congress seeks to convene local government unit executives and key tourism industry players in the private and public sectors, to come up with a “common understanding and direction in the development, promotion and marketing of tourism destinations without sacrificing the environmental, social and cultural welfare of the community.”

Abangin also hopes to move local legislators into coming up with a policy that would institutionalize tourism as a major program of LGUs leading to the creation of an office with a plantilla position tourism officer to handle its operation.

Meanwhile, dances and music are expected to set a lively atmosphere in celebrating the tourism week in Davao del Norte.

After the ribbon cutting of the exhibit at the Tagum City Freedom Park, an opening program will be held with dance and musical renditions performed every after speeches of local chief executives.

Among the presentations are the “Bangkakaw” Talaingod Music Ensemble, “Caracoles” of IGACOS Isla Dancers, Musikahan of the RTU Music Makers, and Wara-Wara of Sto. Tomas National High School.

On the other hand, Tourism Secretary Ace Durano is expected to grace the Tourism Congress on September 28 at the CAP Auditorium.

The Congress is set to tackle and discuss the situation of tourism industry of Region 11, environmental conservation through eco-tourism, culture and the arts development program, initiatives of the private sector and various LGUs of the province.

The event has counted the support of the Hugpong Dabawnon Hanas sa Torismo (HUDAHATU), an organization of local tourism officers; and the Regional Tourism Council chaired by Alma Uy. (PIA XI/JMDA)

Ngek, murag zombie akong nawong didto sa pic kay straight 5 days walay tulog. Sige man laag he he. Paul and Juan are amazing guys to tag along with. Paul gave me an accidental tour in the bellys of T.O. when he got strayed in those intertwining overpasses and access ramps. I really had fun in that mini - meet.

sige man gud pg istorya. mao nagkasaag, hahaha. nice to have you davaoeagle. sa sunod when you come over, mas daghan tag maadtuan ug kasaagan. just count those overpasses when you take the 401, di na mabilang.

para di ma-ot. that i.t. thing in damosa is encouraging. i think they are really diversifying. before they were into food and related industries (packaging and trying to use those excess kraft paper they have).

Any updates on Riverfront? Any developments?

n/p

^^ Var tyst!! valium har gatt i idel. :okay:

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Originally Posted by paulkrps
sige man gud pg istorya. mao nagkasaag, hahaha. nice to have you davaoeagle. sa sunod when you come over, mas daghan tag maadtuan ug kasaagan. just count those overpasses when you take the 401, di na mabilang.

para di ma-ot. that i.t. thing in damosa is encouraging. i think they are really diversifying. before they were into food and related industries (packaging and trying to use those excess kraft paper they have).

pasabta ko anang excess kraft paper paul ug kanang T.O. ni davaoeagle :D

anyway yeah Damosa is a changed place , busy place!

pasabta ko anang excess kraft paper paul ug kanang T.O. ni davaoeagle :D

anyway yeah Damosa is a changed place , busy place!

t.o. means toronto, ontario, ang excess kraft paper tungod sa ilang davao packaging corporation maoy ilang source for paper para sa ilang handicraft.

sa damosa, daang client nako si marissa (nakaasawa aning kastilal) for tutorial og mga gamaynang designing jobs para sa damosa.

^^ ohhh i see ....lain pud tung ilang hand made paper from banana fiber ? yeah remember Melissa ....ummm kalimot ko sa apilyido ..Brias ba?

T.O. abi nako Tuna something hehehe ingon man gud niya belly

I am opposed to having a land bridge linking the mainland and Samal. It maybe good for comercialism but as an environmentalist I am not sure if the government can maintain the condition of the island. Free from anything else that resembles downtown, pollution, and settlers that would grab much of the land in this small paradise.

[Excerpted with permission from the last chapter of Nick Joaquin’s book, Culture and History (Solar Publishing, Metro Manila, 1988).]

THE Filipino is the product of a particular history that began in the 16th century and our identity as Filipino was chiefly formed by what I consider the twelve greatest events in Philippine history, greatest because they were the epochal ones, the ones which, by the way we responded to them, determined our response to all subsequent events.

Here are what I consider the twelve greatest events in Philippine history:

1. The Introduction of the Wheel.

2. The Introduction of the Plow.

3. The Introduction of Road and Bridge.

4. The Introduction of New Crops like Corn, Tobacco, Camote, Coffee, Tea, Cocoa, Beans, Achuete, Onion, Potato, Guava, Papaya, Pineapple, Avocado, Squash, Lettuce, Cucumber, Cabbage, Sincamas, Sigadillas and Mani, etc., etc.

5. The Introduction of New Livestock like the Horse, the Cow, the Sheep, the Turkey, the Goose, etc., and of the Carabao as Draft Animal.

6. The Introduction of the Fabrica, or Factory.

7. The Introduction of Paper and Printing.

8. The Introduction of the Roman Alphabet.

9. The Introduction of Calendar and Clock.

10. The Introduction of the Map and the Charting of the Philippine Shape.

11. The Introduction of the Arts of Painting and Architecture.

12. The Introduction of the Guisado.

These twelve events are the greatest in our history because they have been affecting us since the 16th century and will continue to affect this nation as long as there are Filipinos. They affect not only the Christian majority but also the highlanders in the north and the Muslim in the south. They affect the artist in his studio as well as the housewife in her kitchen. In short, their effect is universal and at the same time deeply intimate, for these are the events that first informed the identity called a Filipino.

Take the twelfth event: the Introduction of the Guisado. Very simple is the process of the saute, or guisado, but the French say it’s the foundation of civilized cooking; and when we thus learned to dress food, our whole culture was transformed and became the Philippine culture of the adobo, the menudo, the guinisang repollo, the tinola. And every time we sit down at table, the guisado is still an event for us, a continuing event, and one so vital that the inner man in every Filipino, and especially in every Filipina, would undoubtedly declare that the introduction of the guisado is, for us, a far more important event than, say, the founding of the Katipunan.

Or take the introduction of corn, which rescued the Visayan from age-old hunger and has been his prime staple for the last four centuries. Wouldn’t the Visayan readily agree that the introduction of corn is a greater event than the Kawit proclamation of 1898? Or take the introduction of camote, which now seems to us so typically Philippine and which has been delivering from famine those parts of our country so regularly ravaged by typhoons. Wouldn’t the camote-eaters of Samar and Benguet and the Batanes hail the introduction of camote as an event of more lasting value than the Malolos Congress?

Of lasting value, of lasting importance: that’s the quality which distinguishes these twelve events I consider basic to our history; and they are the reason I consider the 16th and 17th centuries the most crucial in our history. Yet there are historians who declare that what was happening in the Philippines then wasn’t even Philippine history! Corn and camote and the guisado are not Philippine history? Apparently not. What Philippine history book even devotes a line to the advent among us of corn and camote and the guisado? They are vital, to put it mildly, to the life of the Filipino—but, no, they are not Philippine history, though Gunter Grass would undoubtedly rank them as higher in importance than the events to which we devote chapter after chapter in our history books.

By snubbing the truly important to favor the less important, we have been developing in our people a warped view of our culture and history. Before the war we were being told that we made more progress in fifty years under the Americans than in over three hundred years under Spain; and this contention was echoed in an article I read recently in a Manila daily, where the author declares that more important events occurred in the Philippines during the first decades of the 20th century than in all the four previous centuries. And I asked myself: What events happened in the 1900s that could possibly be regarded as more important than the introduction of the wheel or the introduction of the plow? Or the introduction of road and bridge and masonry that revolutionized our ideas of human habitation? Or the introduction of calendar and clock that developed in us a sense of history? Or the introduction of paper and printing and the Roman alphabet that resulted in the birth of the Philippine book? Or the introduction of the factory and the machine that signified our passage into an industrial culture? Or the introduction of all those artifacts that enabled us to move forward into civilization?

Our culture and history may be said to be a process converting a mix of cabbages and kings into something different. And the novelty is this nation-in-the-making called the Philippines, this identity-in-prog*ress called the Filipino.

http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2006/sept/22/yehey/opinion/20060922opi7.html

^^ ohhh i see ....lain pud tung ilang hand made paper from banana fiber ? yeah remember Melissa ....ummm kalimot ko sa apilyido ..Brias ba?

T.O. abi nako Tuna something hehehe ingon man gud niya belly

yups, brias ang family name. are you doing business with them? magkaila mo, send my regards.

Any updates on Riverfront? Any developments?

It has been stagnant for awhile. It might take another 10 years or so to complete. :D

In his new book, award-winning writer and historian Macario Tiu attempts to set straight the myths and inaccuracies of Davao’s history. Why, he asks, should Datu Bago be depicted as a pirate – and not the Basque invader Uyanguren? He remembers the heroic acts of Davaoeños past and present. “The task is to locate more of these heroic men and women who have done a great deed in defense of Davao, of the country and reclaim them from oblivion.”

http://davaotoday.com/main/wp-content/photouploads/09092006/mactiu.jpg

DAVAO CITY — The trophy that Davao writer Macario Tiu won from the National Book Award for his book on Davao history is, of all things, a sculpted camera.

“I’m figuring out why the sculptor designed the trophy this way,” Tiu pondered as he took the award off the shelf in his office in Ateneo de Davao University’s Tambara Office. “Perhaps it suggests that writers want to show the readers a picture of the world.”

That may well describe Tiu’s effort in Davao: Reconstructing History Through Text and Memory, where he presents a vivid narrative of Davao’s growth and identity and its resistance against Spanish and American colonization.

The book provides new insights into Davao’s history gathered from the writer’s research of the oral traditions and histories of Lumad and Moro communities.

Tiu, a professor of literature at the Ateneo de Davao, a detainee during martial law and a two-time Palanca awardee, said the book was about telling history from the view of the Filipino.

“Previous history books started their record of Davao with its conquest by Jose Oyanguren in 1848,” he said in an interview with davaotoday.com. “Not much else was said about Davao before that.” Oyanguren was the Basque conqueror who came and set Spanish rule in the Davao province.

This version of history only reflected the western and elite bias that relied on foreign documents and sources, said Tiu.

For instance, Oyanguren was considered a central figure in Davao’s history, while Datu Bago, a native who fought Oyanguren’s troops, was branded as a pirate.

“Aren’t pirates the invaders of a land? Then, isn’t Oyanguren the pirate in our history?” Tiu quipped.

For that, Tiu sought other sources of information, the oral literature of the elders of the tribes – accounts of events, folklores, even myths. These he called “memory documents” as it preserves the communities’ histories.

These “documents” shaped the book’s vast narratives, from the history of the 15 tribes in Davao, the stories of the Davao settlers, the arrival of the Spanish and American colonizers and expansion of American plantations, and the resistance of the Davao people, the heroes, myths and legends.

The book gives in-depth accounts of Davao heroes. For instance there is the story of Mangunlayon, “the only Lumad who succeeded in killing the highest American official of a local government in the Philippines,” Davao’s district governor Lt. Edward C. Bolton.

There is also Datu Bago, the antithesis of Oyanguren, wherein the book accounts of his life and traces his lineage to the Maguindanaoan royalty, contrary to belief that he is of Bagobo lineage.

Interestingly, Tiu included the stories of anti-martial law martyrs in Davao, the likes of labor leader Alex Orcullo of the Kilusang Mayo Uno, who was murdered on Oct. 19, 1984, and of Socorro Par, a youth activist killed in 1985 in South Cotabato.

Tiu explained: “In the Philippine context, wherein the history of the people’s struggle is to become free or to remain free, anybody who fights for that freedom is a hero.”

In his book, he makes this call to remember the heroic acts of Davaoeños past and present: “The task is to locate more of these heroic men and women who have done a great deed in defense of Davao, of the country and reclaim them from oblivion.”

This task has started with the book, which seeks to restore Davao’s past and identity. It is a laudable effort, as cited by Soledad Reyes, panelist of the National Book Award: “Tiu offers an alternative to ‘official history’ even as he proceeds to demonstrate the wealth of insights such texts from indigenous communities possess as indices to the consciousness of the people of Davao.” (Tyrone A. Velez/davaotoday.com)

DAVAO CITY (MindaNews)––“Davao: Re-constructing History from Text and Memory,” written by Dabawenyo Palanca awardee Dr. Macario Tiu won The National Book Award for History, for books published in 2005.

Tiu’s book, published by the Mindanao Coalition of Development NGOs (Mincode) and the Research and Publication’s Office (RPO) of the Ateneo de Davao University, won along with with Luciano Santiago’s “To love and to suffer: The Development of the Religious Congregations for Women in the Spanish Philippines 1565-1898” (Ateneo de Manila University Press).

The four other finalists for the history category were “The Malacañan Palace,” by Manuel L. Quezon III, Paulo Alcazaren and Jeremy Burns (Studio 5 Publishing); “Patterns of Continuity and Change: Imaging the Japanese in Philippine Editorial Cartoons, 1930-1941 and 1946-1956” by Helen Yu-Rivera; “Tsinoy: The Story of the Chinese in Philippine Life,” edited by Teresita Ang See, Go Bon Juan, Doreen Go Yu and Yvonne Chua (Kaisa para sa Kaunlaran); and “Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination” by Benedict Anderson (Anvil Publishing).

Tiu received the award Thursday night at the World Trade Center in Pasay City.

The citation reads: “In this book, the centrality of Davao to the Philippines and maritime Southeast Asia is presented and ar-gued forcefully and mas-terfully from an interdis-ciplinary perspective. Per-haps the study’s most significant contribution to the increasing number of works constituting Minda-nao studies derives from its angle of vision — Davao, in all its complexity, comes out alive as a site for various encounters that have shaped its history until the present period. Davao is not seen as an inert, dark frontier, but a community in the center of things shaping its own destiny.

“Moreover, by exten-sively utilizing local myths and folklore, Macario Tiu offers an alternative to ‘official history’ even as he proceeds to demonstrate the wealth of insights such texts from the indigenous communities possess as indices to the conscious-ness of the people of Davao. ‘Davao: Recons-tructing History from Text and Memory’ is an incisive, textured and multilayered narrative that is bound to influence the way we view historical studies.”

Tiu has won several Palanca awards for poetry and short stories and has written several books as well on literature and history. His “Davao 1890-1910: Conquest and Resis-tance in the Garden of Gods” published by the University of the Philip-pines-Center for Integra-tive and Development Studies in 2003 was a finalist in the National Book Award for History.

Tiu teaches Literature at the Ateneo de Davao University, edits Tambara, the university journal; is treasurer of the Davao Writers’ Guild and writes “Bisag Unsa,” a column in Binisaya, for MindaNews.

In his preface to Tiu’s book, historian Patricio Abinales wrote that the Tiu’s work is “extremely interesting” in that the author “reconstructed a story of Davao province that is not merely a recitation of events but an evaluation of the land and of the people (indigenes and settlers), and the stories and legends that their interaction spawned from one time period to another.”

Abinales noted that Tiu’s work is a “product of careful critical analysis” of both printed data and oral recollections of his sources “who lived in Davao at various points of its history.”

“What becomes clear as one leafs through the pages of this book is the centrality of Davao to the Philippines and maritime Southeast Asia,” Abinales wrote.

“The final remarkable thing about this book is the importance Mac accords local sources, especially the myths and folklore. In recovering and resurrec-ting them, Mac is telling us not to rely solely on stan-dard (read: Westernized) sources of information. The book shows that there is a goldmine of stories that can be tapped in the songs and tales that one hears from indigenous commu-nities. These tales often complement modern sources, but also contradict the analyses and evalua-tions of studies that rely mainly on Western sources,” Abinales said.

“This book shames similar works written by scholars in Manila who are privileged with having large libraries and research centers at their disposal.

Mac is an inspiration to other provincial scholars who may feel overwhelmed by their relative marginality vis-à-vis their counterparts in the imperial capitals. Mindanawons have some-thing to be proud of in this work by Davao’s leading scholar and multi-awarded poet and short-story writer. For it is a major contri-bution to a Mindanao-wide effort of recovering our story as a people of an island that has, since its incorporation to the Philip-pine body politic, consis-tently shaped the directions and shifts of its national narrative,” he concluded. Carolyn O. Arguillas/MindaNews

Source: CAROLYN O. ARGUILLAS
http://bond.lanesystems.com/sitegen/article.asp?wid=125&cid=450&aid=37842

sige man gud pg istorya. mao nagkasaag, hahaha. nice to have you davaoeagle. sa sunod when you come over, mas daghan tag maadtuan ug kasaagan. just count those overpasses when you take the 401, di na mabilang.

para di ma-ot. that i.t. thing in damosa is encouraging. i think they are really diversifying. before they were into food and related industries (packaging and trying to use those excess kraft paper they have).


that's right Paul, we're such a bubbly lot.

If only I could transport those infras in T.O. to Davao.

^^ ohhh i see ....lain pud tung ilang hand made paper from banana fiber ? yeah remember Melissa ....ummm kalimot ko sa apilyido ..Brias ba?

T.O. abi nako Tuna something hehehe ingon man gud niya belly


Sorry Bro Don, wrong spelling..wrong! bellys is supposed to be spelled bellies. Rusty grammar. I think I have to go back to my English 11! LOL

It has been stagnant for awhile. It might take another 10 years or so to complete. :D

Road networks, lightings and basic infra reqs are already in place. Most of the lots are sold and are awaiting for investors to start construction of projects.

KLCC Mall of Malaysia was rumored to have reserved a big parcel of land within for a mall but Sta. Lucia which is the conduit developer of Riverfront has interest in the mall business so the plan was scrapped altogether to give way to a Festival Mall there.

Another investor from either Thailand or Malaysia is said to have bought a property for a luxury hotel. All these are mere hush, hush like I said. At least we have someting to look forward to.

It has been stagnant for awhile. It might take another 10 years or so to complete. :D

It has not been stagnant for awhile. It's predevelopment and preselling stage took 3 years (completion of the amenities, roads, electricity, drainage sytem, etc., etc). However, it didnt not end there, there were other legal matters that had been discussed between the developer, landowner, and new lot owners. This is not an isolated case with Sta Lucia as their other properties took them several years to complete as well. Take for example, Rizal Technology Park in Taytay, Metropolis Residenzia in Libis few meters from Acropolis, or even Palm Coast Marina located within The Asiaworld City (within the vicinity of SM Mall of Asia).

We have already discussed the on going projects within Riverfront Corporate City on the previous threads. Just an overview:

- St Paul College Campus
- Ranchos Palos Verdes Country Club
- completed Tourism Complex which includes
:: Riverwalk
:: Crocodile Park
:: Butterfly Garden
:: Davao Wild Water Adventure

there are other upcoming projects to be looked up for this 2007

TJ: early riser!

Davao has been one of Sta Lucia's preferred cities. Proof of that is their newest project to date near downtown Davao - Ciudad de Verde Residential Estate.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a340/tj_brewed/Ciudad_Verde_vmap_bg.gif

Few months ago they have also launched Las Palmas Verdes. OMG, in less than a year..Sta Lucia Realty is now developing another property in Davao? coolness!

What I meant was that no such news or "on-going" constructions are happening right now. Of course basic amenities such as road constructions, electrical services, selling of lands, etc. are on going or have been finished. I have known about Riverfront and seen the same photos for the past 2 years. Just as SM Davao was planned during the late 1990's and started construction during 2000-2001. :)

^^
ah ok..

can someone from Davao post new photos of Riverfront Corp City?

The photos ive been posting here were taken on 2003.

TJ: early riser!

Good morning bro..

para d ma OT-

This is

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a340/tj_brewed/front_laspalmas2.gif

another multimillion investment of Sta Lucia in Davao that has just been launched this year in a hush hush and has never been publicized.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a340/tj_brewed/vicinitymap.gif



More than its location, what really sets Las Palmas Verdes apart from the rest are its world class amenities. With an assortment of international-standard features including a first-rate multi-purpose clubhouse with a swimming pool, fully concretized roads, a beautifully landscaped gate, underground drainage systems, complete electrical facilities and a centralized water system. Las Palmas Verdes provides you with a perfect place wherein to start your first home. Meticulously master-planned, Las Palmas Verdes is poised to become a bustling community that you can proudly call your neighborhood. After all you're not just interested in buying a house but in building a happy home. All of these surprisingly at a price that you can afford. After all building one's dreams need not be expensive. At Las Palmas Verdes, everything is prepared to provide you with a home that you deserve.

And just this year, Filinvest also launched their newest multibillion project in Davao for the high-end market.

Experience living in an exclusive residential subdivision that malls like SM City Davao and NCCC are just a stone throw away. Enjoy the topnotch features and amenities that Fuente de Villa-Abrille offers. This is the only residential subdivision in Davao that has a unique features and amenities like fountain, courtyard path walk with trellis and a generous grand entrance gate and guardhouse with themewall.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a340/tj_brewed/fuente_abrille.jpg

another multibillion project this year that has never been publicized and just went hush-hush before it was launched to the public.

I think, Davao's being too secretive with these kind of projects somehow has a negative effect. Other people from outside of Davao (and those who havent been to davao) would think that Davao is sluggish when in fact projects rise here and there but not being publicized unlike other cities in the country.

Looking at the location map of Las Palmas Verdes it looks like it's close by where Alta Monte (another upscale residential project of SL) is. It must be alongside Tigatto road, same road that leads to Rancho Palos Verdes, yet another huge project of SL in Davao. Wow, SL lords it over in Davao.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a340/tj_brewed/fuente_abrille.jpg

another multibillion project this year that has never been publicized and just went hush-hush before it was launched to the public.




This one is Fuente de Villa Abrille - a newly opened upscale residential address just across from SM City Davao. This is the same development touted to have sold all lots in only a day of pre-dev't selling blitz as reported by Hon. Peter Lavina.

Looking at the location map of Las Palmas Verdes it looks like it's close by where Alta Monte (another upscale residential project of SL) is. It must be alongside Tigatto road, same road that leads to Rancho Palos Verdes, yet another huge project of SL in Davao. Wow, SL lords it over in Davao.

Well....I think that area is becoming a high-end residential zone area. Another ongoing multibillion project (which is again, not publicized unlike other cities and again - shhhhhhhh muna ehehehhehehe)

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a340/tj_brewed/clouds_04.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a340/tj_brewed/vicinity.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a340/tj_brewed/minipark1.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a340/tj_brewed/overlookingswimingpool-big.jpg

Residential Estate - U/C

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http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a340/tj_brewed/ncjuly2.jpg

This one is Fuente de Villa Abrille - a newly opened upscale residential address just across from SM City Davao. This is the same development touted to have sold all lots in only a day of pre-dev't selling blitz as reported by Hon. Peter Lavina.

Ang daming mayayaman sa Davao! Yup, there was a press release where FLI executives were quoted that they were surprised with the turn out of this highend project in Davao. It's been sold out in a lesser time range compared to other FLI projects in other cities that took them quite sometime.

Yeah, I've heard some of these buyers are returning residents from abroad who want to invest their hard-earned dollars in real estate. A fraction of these well-oiled buyers hail from neighboring cities and provinces in Mindanao and Luzon, not to mention those that are from within Davao Region.

^^another favorite....Palos Verdes of Sta Lucia Realty Davao

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a340/tj_brewed/pic_rancho.gif

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A world-class community with an 18-hole golf course and top of the line amenities.

Invites you to experience a unique kind of recreational, entrtainment and sports activities.

Residential Features

- 164-hectar Master-Planned estate developed in Spanish-Mediterranean achitectural theme.
- Perimeter wall
- Landscaping
- Mercury and street lamps
- Minimum 12-meter wide concrete subdivision roads
- Concrete curb and gutters
- Paved sidewalks
- Complete electrical facilities
- Underground drainage system
- Centralized interrelated water distribution
- Elevated water tank

Community clubhouse

- multipurpose function room
- open basketball court
- open tennis court

Recreational Amenities

- 12-lane bowling
- Adult and kiddie swiming pool with sun deck
- Covered tennis courts
- Badminton courts
- Basketball courts with locker and shower
- Billiard hall
- Game rooms
- Fitness club with lockers

Golf & Country Club

- 18-hole championship golf course
- Designed by Andy Dye
- Driving Range

Golf Course Clubhouse

- Pro Shop
- Men's locker room with jacuzzi and sauna
- Ladie's locker room with jacuzzi and sauna
- Golfer's lounge
- Golfer's bar
- Fine Dining Restaurant


Project Status? COMPLETE!

Who can interpret this information for me.....will there be a samal-davao bridge in this much talked about Mega-Region-infrastructure? or are we expecting a Roll-on-roll-off (aka Ferry) connection?---- hmmmm ...... :sleepy:



pls refer to this link for further details... (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=371160)
C. Tourism Infrastructure: Access to Major Tourism Destinations
(Roads Component: PhP19,474 million)
(Airports Component: PhP14,650 Million)

Roads, bridges, seaports, airports and other tourism-related infrastructure leading to identified
destinations shall be rehabilitated/improved or upgraded/constructed. These transport infrastructure
shall serve as gateways to tourism complexes.

4. Davao
• Davao-Samal Island Garden City – Lupon, Davao Oriental RORO
• MIAA to manage Davao Airport
• Davao Gulf Development

everyday is sept 30 on my pc...

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/images/headers/30.jpg

OT: ....just got some info from the other thread that RP's (real and not PPP) GDP per capita income is now at US$ 1,400....and is growing... :applause:

OT: ....just got some info from the other thread that RP's (real and not PPP) GDP per capita income is now at US$ 1,400....and is growing... :applause:

is it in trillions or gazillions?

Huh? t was just us$1100 last year.. that's impossible..

Dinabaw I decided .....peace..:)

A very nice Sunday to all of Davao's hard working citizens who give their contribution for a growing and developing Davao City every day and all those who live under very hard circumstances with a great deal of courage and many laughters. You all are the future of Davao.

:goodbye:

Tj,is Northcrest really hush2x? We got a brochure sometime ago about thius development. It was really nice. Gud afternoon sa lahat:)

thank you Animo for sharing your two cents about the bridge and the articles written by Dr. Macario Tiu. i am currently searching the book written by my aunt Mrs. Gloria P. Dabbay which i will share it here .

sad thing thou we have Bolton Street but no statue , street name and even literature about Magunlayon . how about renaming the current Magsaysay (Oyanguren) Ave.to Datu Bago Ave.? :)

Beautiful Malipano Island Pics here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ianong/242937301/

just got home from davao, davao was a nice surprise, enjoy gyud ang nature and nightlife, daghan kaayo kog pic but im just on dial-up so medyo dugay ma upload. watch out. wakekekeke

zugba grill at apo view
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b384/peejay_domek/davao/dvo1.jpg

Huh? t was just us$1100 last year.. that's impossible..


....the increase is attributed to the strong peso and population slowdown (now only a little over 2%, pero mataas pa rin) :cheers:


Davao Sunset:

http://p.vtourist.com/898646-Sunset_from_my_backyard_balcony-Davao.jpg

inside the butterfly sanctuary at the malagos garden. a very nice place.
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b384/peejay_domek/davao/dvo15.jpg

Nice, nice pictures from butterfly Malagos Garden garden wow, nice sunset picture and of a park (?) enjoy seeing it :)

I talked to a girl form Davao the other nigth, that lives in my city (married to a nice swedish man), she recommended something she called... forgot but food that is from this animal that fly at nigth forgot its name...bat...maybe...do you eat bats...really? I migth totally have missunderstood her to? Could be in this world of different languages :)

Good Day :)

gone

ummm bats you said Lena........ yeah bats or owls :wink2: ohhh btw we eat bayawak too...... gravy's version of a small croc :laugh:

have a nice sunday min alskling hope you are fine :hi:

Nice, nice pictures from butterfly Malagos Garden garden wow, nice sunset picture and of a park (?) enjoy seeing it :)

I talked to a girl form Davao the other nigth, that lives in my city (married to a nice swedish man), she recommended something she called... forgot but food that is from this animal that fly at nigth forgot its name...bat...maybe...do you eat bats...really? I migth totally have missunderstood her to? Could be in this world of different languages :)

Good Day :)


butterfly dipped in soy sauce is one of my favorite delicacies.... lecker !!!!

ok.....translate this tong kantang to kay tsang at tsong ... maybe a little cihinese in it :colgate:

nice if you can post the water article .

God Kvall :hug:

nice photos fundraiser keep it coming .....:okay:

so beutiful and surreal photo of Malipano Island courtesy of ianong ( sorry bro for borrowing your photo it is really an amazing shot!!!) ... bridge peeps i hope you will change your mind .... lol
http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/9108/2429344578d84378011ms8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

butterfly dipped in soy sauce is one of my favorite delicacies.... lecker !!!!

poor, poor butterflies, crockodiles and bats....rajah ich nehme lieber sauerkraut als schmetterlingen....sauerkraut ist lecker...hahaha..:) deutsches futter ist in ordnung when es ist grun...yum, yum :)

dinabaw I will never eat a crokodile or a bat...I will eat only fruits and vegetables it use to be my diet and am going back to that.. about owls ....I watch out for them they are so many in here and they are dangerous I know..hahahaha.... :)

d/p

d/p

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SOME DAVAO, SAMAL BEACH RESORTS DECLARED 'UNFIT FOR BATHING'

DAVAO CITY, APRIL 4, 2006 (STAR) By Edith Regalado - Several beach resorts in Davao City and nearby Samal Island have been found to have undesirable bacteria levels with high total fecal coliform counts and thus, are not safe for bathing.

In a letter to Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, Department of Health Southern Mindanao regional director Paulyn Jean Ubial relayed to him a health advisory indicating the results of a study on the quality of waters in the city and Samal Island with 15 beach resorts as sampling areas.

Ubial, who also heads the Regional Inter-Agency on Environmental Health, noted in the said health advisory that of the 15 sampling areas, only six passed the bacteriological standard for safe bathing.

Of the 15, the waters in the following beach resorts were found to be within the standard for safe bathing — Mergrande Ocean Beach Resort, Seagull Beach Resort, Costa Marina Beach Resort, Bago Beach Resort — all in Davao City, as well as Samal Beach Resort and Bago Beach Resort in Samal Island.

Meanwhile, nine beach resorts, mostly public resorts, were found to contain undesirable bacteria above the standard of 1,000 MPN/100 ml. of total coliform count or 200 MPN/100 ml fecal coliform count, including Kalayaan Beach Resort, Bonguyan Beach Resort, Liberty Beach Resort, Marina Azul 1, Coaco Beach Resort, Felis Beach Resort, Agdao Beach Resort and Bunawan Beach Resort.

Duterte made public yesterday the other day the results of the study by the environmental health committee to caution the public on the fact that there are certain beach resorts in the city and in Samal Island that have waters not safe for bathing.

"I am announcing this at the risk of earning the ire not only of the owners of these beach resorts but also may be of those in the tourism industry. But there is nothing I can do. Everyone should know that I could not risk the health of the people and the environment of the city," Duterte said.

The mayor said the announcement may certainly affect the city’s flourishing tourism industry, given that the area’s beaches have been identified as one of its main come-ons.

"But as I have said before if the tourists would want to come, they can come even if we have the bombings before and now this problem on the unsafe beach waters. We have to face this problem squarely and find solutions to it," Duterte said.




http://www.newsflash.org/2004/02/ht/ht006101.htm

Mindanao peace and BIMP-EAGA

(Second of Two Parts)

By Fidel Valdez Ramos

IN my column of 10 September 2006, I summed up the Final Peace Agreement (FPA) between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), thus:


"We must enable Mindanao to march to the beat of progress — so that it can reclaim the glory it had in the 15th and 16th centuries — when it was the center of a vast trading area, whose linkages stretched as far as China, India, the Arab countries, and the Mediterranean states. This was the rationale for the establishment in 1994 of the Brunei-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines (BIMP) East ASEAN Growth Area (EAGA) which put together again the ancient Malay seafaring community that predated the entry of European colonizers.

"That we could not have done a better accord than the FPA of September, 1996 is FOR HISTORY TO JUDGE. No matter how meritorious and comprehensive any peace agreement may be, it is still LEADERS THAT MUST MAKE IT WORK FOR COMMON PEOPLE. The bottom truth is that peace-making, peace-building and peace-keeping require whole-hearted dedication, patient effort, and continuing commitment on the part of all peace-loving and law-abiding citizens, day in and day out. LET US NOT BREAK THE PEACE — because the price common people will have to pay is to experience hell on earth over and over again."


http://www.mb.com.ph/issues/2006/09/24/OPED2006092475335.html

maayong buntag dabaw!

City to start drainage project in January

The city government will implement the urban drainage project in
January next year, Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said yesterday.

Duterte said the city has to complete ongoing projects among others,
the traffic signalization, farm to market roads and solid waste
management disposal, before it could start the urban drainage
project. He assured these projects will be finished this year.

In 1998, then Mayor Benjamin de Guzman implemented the drainage
project through a P300 million bank loan. The project however was not
completed.

Duterte said the city must implement its priority projects one at a
time depending on the availability of resources.

He said he understands the public's sentiment over the perennial
problem of flooding in the wake of recent frequent heavy
downpours. "We have to prioritize our resources. In January next
year, we can start the project (referring to the drainage project),"
Duterte said.

The city government acquired a P990-million loan from the Land Bank
of the Philippines to finance its priority projects.

The national government also has allowed the city to use its withheld
Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) for the establishment of a sanitary
landfill as mandated by law.

i still have about 60 pics of davao to upload, waaaaah.

waterfront insular hotel pool area
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b384/peejay_domek/davao/dvo38.jpg

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b384/peejay_domek/davao/dvo39.jpg

:applause: The way you posting your photos bro and you said you have 60 more..ummm moabot dyud na next month ...lol keep it coming fundraiser :okay:


Na ka kuha kag shot sa waling-waling forests sa Malagos Garden?

Originally Posted by scandinavian girl
dinabaw
You reached your point to make me feel I did not make it, totally discouraged me, this is the most unpedagougic way of theaching anyone anything...to mix so many languages all at once. It is hard for me to first know what is what and second one word can mean more then one thing maybe to just like your -libog- word does in different tounges...give me a fare sentence dinabaw in at the most 2 languages...all at once...not chinese on top of it....you must have known I wont fix this..and that was the purpose wasn't it?? Hehehehe...
I think it migth be something about doing something at a friend...tsong is friend in tagalog slang or?Open for something at a friend...I do not know...I did not fix this test.

God Morgon
Ohh nothing to worry my dear Lena ,its just a tongue twisting sentence just to make your tongue not gettnig lazy :tongue4: ...hahahaha anyway i mean like chinese coz of it sounds like it ..but true interpretation is ..thissong is for my aunt and uncle :)

Have anice monday min alskling :hi:

Tj,is Northcrest really hush2x? We got a brochure sometime ago about thius development. It was really nice. Gud afternoon sa lahat:)

whoa! U like Hed Kandi too? same here.....I'm a fan!

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a340/tj_brewed/hk.jpg

It's a hush-hush to those located outside of Davao. Unlike other cities, small developments lang - u can find it na sa national newspapers, PIA, press release here and there.

I havent heard of this development if i havent been told by someone based in Davao. Although this project is known in the local arena, it is unheard of in Metro Manila, Cebu, or in any locations in the country except Davao.

Give me one nationwide press release re this project? I tried searchin' and found none. We have alot of developments in Davao.........that noone from outside of Davao is aware of.

Some may say that other cities brag their developments for "marketing hype". But based on observation "hype" does work!

i still have about 60 pics of davao to upload, waaaaah.

waterfront insular hotel pool area
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b384/peejay_domek/davao/dvo38.jpg

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b384/peejay_domek/davao/dvo39.jpg


very nice shot fundraiser, real talent i must say... plus a very good cam. more please!

Migan: anwer to your questions:

1. Davao City highly prioritize environmental protection , Mayor Rody Duterte is firm in protecting human and its nature. Dabawenyos are very aware of its environment from waste segregation to watershed protection .But maybe the problem will come from the people of IGACOS as far as i know they still don't have a concrete plan on which direction the island will progress ,some say they make Samal a "tourist destination" ,some say they are for light industry .i see.. perhaps they should come to a compromise as to getting the best of both worlds. who knows maybe tourism could very well benefit from the products of light industries and vice-versa. either way, both have both been known to have generated significant environmental implications... so that would be kinda tricky to execute.


2. thats a " a million question" i mean putting a bridge cost alot of money , they start putting up a bridge and in the middle of the construction politics and corruption sets in ummm another future white elephant ?exactly. this topic kinda reminds me of the bataan nuclear power plant for some reason.


3. I hope you don't intend this question because we live in Mindanao ,but anyway our security is so stringent from Task Force Davao to 911 and recently the government installed the new Sotuheastern Command .let me rephrase that question then. can the government provide adequate security from malicious and destrcutive elements? i just mentioned "terrorist-free" because of its political and economic impact and significance especially now that the issue of terorrism is already at its prime. bombs could go off anywhere at anytime not just in mindanao, but anywhere in the country so i think it would be fair to consider this security aspect. of course kidnappings and car jackings are secondary but should also be considered.


I hope i satisfied your questions .good day :)yep thanks for the reply!

LRT SM Davao north to south line, LOL...

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f368/badith/train1.jpg

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f368/badith/train2.jpg

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f368/badith/train3.jpg

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f368/badith/train4.jpg

bump davao!

silicon diamond, davao city
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f368/badith/silicon.jpg

riverfront corporate city, maa, davao city
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f368/badith/riverfront.jpg

bajada, davao city
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f368/badith/bajadanite.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a340/tj_brewed/DAVAO/marcokad4.jpg

Lumbaanay ta og dagan! ready, set, gooooooo! ahihihihihhiihih :)

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a340/tj_brewed/DAVAO/221510856_72f9aec5e8.jpg
Entrance of Matina Town Square


Does Damosa Gateway look like this? Can anyone post some recent shots? Thanks a bunch!

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a340/tj_brewed/DAVAO/kadayawan/249628044_b6c4d26ee3.jpg
Pag-Asa? ikaw ba yan?

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a340/tj_brewed/DAVAO/kadayawan/249585366_67f0dbe03c.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a340/tj_brewed/DAVAO/kadayawan/249647182_cc41b20e01.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a340/tj_brewed/DAVAO/kadayawan/250302530_14122ff588.jpg

Wala lang......Pearl Farm lang......

^^ wow pearl farm!!!

bai TJ... mao ra gyud ni akong macontribute sa damosa. last year pa gyud ni.
from www.heavenlyvideos.com.
http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f368/badith/damosa.jpg

Good Day Peeps :)

Miss Davao so much...

I like the design.... again, another superlative for Davao :hahaha:

LRT SM Davao north to south line, LOL...

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f368/badith/train1.jpg

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f368/badith/train2.jpg

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f368/badith/train3.jpg

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f368/badith/train4.jpg

i
let me rephrase that question then. can the government provide adequate security from malicious and destrcutive elements? i just mentioned "terrorist-free" because of its political and economic impact and significance especially now that the issue of terorrism is already at its prime. bombs could go off anywhere at anytime not just in mindanao, but anywhere in the country so i think it would be fair to consider this security aspect. of course kidnappings and car jackings are secondary but should also be considered.

!

Thank you Migan. Finally a sound and realistic view on this issue that otherwise stir up so many emotions, sad memories and pain among Davao men that it creates a wish to live in denial. It is not only a danger in Mindanao or The Philippines it is a global problem and can happen anywhere at anytime. To accept that is to take steps in efforts for protection , to denie is to live in real danger.

[QUOTE=dinabaw]God Morgon
Ohh nothing to worry my dear Lena ,its just a tongue twisting sentence just to make your tongue not gettnig lazy :tongue4: ...hahahaha anyway i mean like chinese coz of it sounds like it ..but true interpretation is ..thissong is for my aunt and uncle :)

Have anice monday min alskling :hi:[/QUOTE

City to install urinals
By Romeo R. Braceros Jr.

MAYOR Rodrigo Duterte yesterday said the city government will install
urinals in key areas of the city. Duterte said the plan will help
ensure comfort to the residents and cleanliness of the city. "I will
install the urinals in every five kilometers in the city streets,"
Duterte said in his weekly television program "Gikan sa Masa, Para sa
Masa" over ABS-CBN. The mayor said the urinals be patterned after those
in Metro Manila. "Hopefully with these urinals people will not just
urinate anywhere," he said.

Beautiful Malipano Island Pics here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ianong/242937301/
malipano island: paradise in the east! too Ü

maayong gabii davao!



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butterfly dipped in soy sauce is one of my favorite delicacies.... lecker !!!!
if this is true...
i miss crisp fried roaches:D



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The poll has been commenced: A Bridge to Far: Would you like to have a bridge from Davao City to Samal?

60% - Deal
40% - No Deal

Stay tuned for the next poll

City to install urinals
By Romeo R. Braceros Jr.

MAYOR Rodrigo Duterte yesterday said the city government will install
urinals in key areas of the city. Duterte said the plan will help
ensure comfort to the residents and cleanliness of the city. "I will
install the urinals in every five kilometers in the city streets,"
Duterte said in his weekly television program "Gikan sa Masa, Para sa
Masa" over ABS-CBN. The mayor said the urinals be patterned after those
in Metro Manila. "Hopefully with these urinals people will not just
urinate anywhere," he said.

And hopefully a better and improved version, with an integrated septic vault (in the absence of a sewerage system) and not "free-drop" connected to the drainage system like MMDA's - and a much better maintenance - and not pink.

The new poll has been opened

The aerial spraying issue still lingers. Locals believed it was a "done deal", which means no more aerial spraying in 2007, and that the Davao City council will definitely approve the bill prohibiting aerial spraying. But recently, it has been revealed that the members of the city council are on a "tug of war" or are undecided on the issue.

So what is your take on it, Boon or Bane?

t is not only a danger in Mindanao or The Philippines it is a global problem and can happen anywhere at anytime. To accept that is to take steps in efforts for protection , to denie is to live in real danger.Yup I agree, this security factor has always been seriously considered even in a global scale eversince 911 and any proposed major infrastructure projects anywhere around the world should be able to properly address these things.

so beutiful and surreal photo of Malipano Island courtesy of ianong ( sorry bro for borrowing your photo it is really an amazing shot!!!) ... bridge peeps i hope you will change your mind .... lol
http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/9108/2429344578d84378011ms8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
so serene, so poetic, awesome! but i won't change my mind bro. hahaha

imo, this resort can be kept pristine if it wants to isolate from the rest of the island and shy away road ifrastructures if it wants inaccessibility by land. samal is a city and deserves progress and development at a pace and scale of a city. i guess



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^^ yeah thanks sinjin we lost ..hehehe but anyway let the new poll begin

so serene, so poetic, awesome! but i won't change my mind bro. hahaha

imo, this resort can be kept pristine if it wants to isolate from the rest of the island and shy away road ifrastructures if it wants inaccessibility by land. samal is a city and deserves progress and development at a pace and scale of a city. i guess.

Progress and development - Yes. Pace and scale? Like Davao City? I doubt. The answer, my friend, is Carrying Capacity. Samal's environment is fragile and its existing resources like water could not possibly support the "pace and scale" that you envision for the Island. And by exposing it to
unregulated development by constructing a bridge would not help protect and preserve its environment. Environmental damage caused by development is most likely irreversible. Maybe in 5 years after the bridge has been constructed, there'll be no more "serene, poetic and awesome" sites in Samal. So why push for the bridge? There are a million cost effective ways to make Samal Island prosper.

i still have about 60 pics of davao to upload, waaaaah.

waterfront insular hotel pool area
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b384/peejay_domek/davao/dvo38.jpg

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b384/peejay_domek/davao/dvo39.jpg
nice photos fundraiser. thanks! :okay: :okay:

^ Can someone post article(s) regarding this aerial spraying issue and what it's all about? That'll help the forumers decide. Thanks

Progress and development - Yes. Pace and scale? Like Davao City? I doubt. The answer, my friend, is Carrying Capacity. Samal's environment is fragile and its existing resources like water could not possibly support the "pace and scale" that you envision for the Island. And by exposing it to
unregulated development by constructing a bridge would not help protect and preserve its environment. Environmental damage caused by development is most likely irreversible. Maybe in 5 years after the bridge has been constructed, there'll be no more "serene, poetic and awesome" sites in Samal. So why push for the bridge? There are a million cost effective ways to make Samal Island prosper.
:D imo, if benefits outweighs the risks, then why hold back that could lead to stagnation. i wonder how destructive is destruction. safety netts can be formulated to protect the people and environment. there are national laws and city laws that cover on this area. this may not be comparablr, but the longest bridge in the visayas has been enjoyed economically by benefitted peoples and everybody i guess appreciaeted how it eases transport at any time. if mactan island had succumed to environmenta; destruction from its first bridge, why did they build a new and bigger one. enormous economic development to mactan i understand was the strong reason. so i think, if studies when done would recommend its viability, i guess it passed through thorough deliberations.

Yup I agree, this security factor has always been seriously considered even in a global scale eversince 911 and any proposed major infrastructure projects anywhere around the world should be able to properly address these things.

d/p

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@junax: bro, imo scrmbled avatar, murag walay sanina nga babae. hahaha



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im munching a durian stick now, wakekeke. here are more pics.

the apo view hotel, for members only ang ila slot machines.
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b384/peejay_domek/davao/dvo32.jpg

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b384/peejay_domek/davao/dvo53.jpg

Origianlly Posted by Mt Apo Standard
imo, if benefits outweighs the risks, then why hold back that could lead to stagnation. i wonder how destructive is destruction. safety netts can be formulated to protect the people and environment. there are national laws and city laws that cover on this area. this may not be comparablr, but the longest bridge in the visayas has been enjoyed economically by benefitted peoples and everybody i guess appreciaeted how it eases transport at any time. if mactan island had succumed to environmenta; destruction from its first bridge, why did they build a new and bigger one. enormous economic development to mactan i understand was the strong reason. so i think, if studies when done would recommend its viability, i guess it passed through thorough deliberations.

umm pinoy style ...i'll think it for a thousand times ....hahaha anyway bro you won (for) bridges its 12-8 hehehe wa moabot akong flying voters ok got

to all dabawenyos and outside dabawenyos imade another poll ... its about aerial spraying.... sa Environmental thread kini mas concern ta ani kay wa na ko kasabot na 50/ 50 naman sa council and votes nila .

Monday, September 25, 2006
Duterte to meet with banana growers
By Ben O. Tesiorna and Barbara Carla R. Quiro

MAYOR Rodrigo Duterte is set to meet with banana growers this week to hear their side on the issue on aerial spraying.

In his weekly television program Sunday, Duterte said he is willing to meet with all sectors affected by the issue



He said he is not closing his door to pro-aerial praying advocates but cautioned them to show him "solid proof" that such practice has "harmless" effect on the people's health and on the environment.

"I will wait for the result of the study by the City Council. I will hear every side of the issue. But until such time that the issue is made very clear to me, my stand stays," Duterte said.

Duterte had earlier declared that he wanted a ban on aerial spraying in the city by next year. He said the City Council has until the end of this year to come up with the ordinance or he will do it his way.

Meanwhile, a group of banana growers, employees of banana companies and concerned barangay residents of Calinan District, where banana plantations are located, asked the city council to include their observations and views on the proposal to ban aerial spraying in the city.

In a letter addressed to the ad hoc committee, dated September 18, the group said banana plantations have been operating in their area for 30 years, yet they
have not experienced any kind of illness or sickness, which can be attributed to aerial spraying practice in their area.

The group requested the ad hoc committee, which is tasked to consolidate all reports and position papers of both anti- and pro-aerial spray, to give them time to express their side on health, economic, social and environmental issues regarding aerial spraying operations.

"We are the one living, working, and entrusting our lives on the industry and the first one to be affected if the aerial spray would be banned," the group said.

"Our views and first hand information on the issue would certainly help you weigh things on the matter. This would aid you in coming up with legislation for the good of all."

City Councilor Leo R. Avila III, chair of the city council committee on environment and natural resources, said since the group has not presented any position paper on the matter and the ad hoc committee has already completed its work in consolidating all of the reports, he will just furnish members of the council a copy of the letter, which can also be included in the 17-page consolidated report.

The letter is signed by eight people. It was received by Councilor Nilo G. Abellera last Tuesday.

Requiescat in pace

That’s R.I.P for you. Rest in peace, that is. Or so the proponents of the ‘fictitious” Ad Hoc Committee that purportedly prepared the report of the City Council’s environment and natural resources committee claimed. Last week, in a gesture that would not be earning him ‘pogi’ for his vice-mayoralty bid in 2007, councilor Leo Avila III, in a stage-managed photo-ops that landed in local papers, displayed the committee’s report recommending the banning of aerial spray as an agribusiness practice but-hold it-did not prohibit the use of pesticides propagated via airplanes. In short, the councilor telegraphed his message by informing the public that without airplanes, banana plantations would remain as productive as it is today, be as exportable as they are calibrated today, and as lucrative as to create new job opportunities. But there are dicey concerns that have remained unacted until Monday, Sept. 18, foremost of which is that the so-called ad hoc committee was not yet constituted because a resolution was not passed legalizing that body. And even if there was a legally sponsored committee to act on aerial spray, the appointment of members, if any, was not properly sworn in or installed. The haste with which Avila has been pursuing his agenda is surprisingly lacking in finesse. He wants that good jobs created from his wayward assumptions, but the manner with which he prepares his options and shapes his arguments are amazingly distorted and irrational. How can, in the first place, the Avila group present a report just a day after the City Council convened to approve the committee reporting banning or not banning aerial spray? The move to become callously compliant to the caprices of City Hall is a popular observation that Avila and his wards must carry to their grave. It is a badge of cowardice that is sure to identify the elected officials from those who serve at the instance of certain masters. In the absence of scientific and medical bases that would condemn the use of aerial spray as an agribusiness practice, the committee has driven already the final nail to seal a decision that is largely a political accommodation. Even Avila’s argument that more jobs will be created if aerial spray is banned is entirely flawed. In the first place, he has yet to show to the public, as was the case of the agencies invited to shed light on the truth behind aerial spray contamination, data, studies, and positions papers that would defensively support his hollowed claim. It is a tribute to Avila’s lack of public sense and his ridiculous loyalty to the demigods that make him now the butt of jokes. For all we know, without the city leadership raising the caveat to issue an executive order, he would not have summoned courage to finally push for the public disclosure of a report that was supposedly made by a committee that was non-existent. Of course, we envy Avila for his loyalty to his master even the interest being proposed would surely spell doom for his political career. To that, we join in celebration. Just what happens after the Avila ordinance shall have been approved is something only Avila himself can answer. But certainly, there will be no new jobs that will come of his report because the recommendation to ban aerial spray, first of all, was a magical suggestion. We understand the numerous reasons why Avila, a self-proclaimed environmentalist, has to sacrifice honor and reason in defense of an obscure notion of earning a higher elected office. Who would in his right mind confront the city leadership whose power over the purse is only seconded by the legislative authority to approve it? Call this an insult or what not, but many of the councilors we held high due to their intellectual independence and acquiescence to the rule of law, science, and logic have also joined the disgraced league of cowards. With only few bright minds steering the legislative wheel in the sanggunian in recent years, it’s a pity that another round of dishonorable blunder is silently transforming the City Council into a rubber stamp, if indeed it is not yet one. We do not want to shed tears for Avila’s reprehensible action. But we sure pity him for having sold his integrity for few silver dollars. As a person, Avila is just what he claims to be-a happy man. With the new twist forcing him against the wall it’s hard to comprehend whether the smiling and composed figure we have always seen will not turn sour and beaten. Tomorrow, as the City Council affixes its signature on the Avila Report, expect the sanggunian to lose few notches of whatever credibility that is left in its inner sanctum. Next time you lose your job in a banana plantation, look for Avila and company.

source: Mindanao Times

The burden of proof
The debate between whether or not to push ahead with aerial spraying in banana plantations has reached fever pitch. Multinational companies insist that aerial spraying has been the standard practice for decades, and that no untoward incident has ever occurred. Environmental and public health groups counter that spraying chemical pesticides in the air can have long-term detrimental effects on humans as well as on vegetation.
Who to believe?

From a strictly economic point of view, the companies’ claims make sense. Banana export firms have generated employment by the thousands over the years, somewhat improved the local economies of the communities they are operating in, and raked in enough millions of dollars to stabilize Mindanao’s export performance. As an economic sector, export-led agriculture has been a solid performer over the last three decades.

Big business, however, must be accompanied by social responsibility, say the environmentalists. Groups protesting aerial spraying say that while there may be economic benefits of large-scale plantations, these are negated by the threats to the environment. Of what good are jobs and export receipts if the chemicals used to spray the plants will eventually have dire consequences upon the communities living nearby?

The companies cannot brush such apprehensions away too easily. Such fears are grounded on personal experiences, on the testimonials of others, and on the observation of more learned individuals. The burden of proof clearly lies on the companies, which must be modest enough to regard the environmentalists with professional respect, rather than with veiled animosity. At stake, after all, more than just the dollars they claim they stand to lose, are the people whose lives their industry is supposedly helping.

In the true spirit of transparency and in the interest of the greater good, the companies must do their homework well. If it’s true that the chemicals are completely harmless, they must prove so compellingly. If there had been no victims of such spraying, then they must disabuse all such claims to the contrary with utmost professionalism. And if not a single plant or tree has ever been adversely affected by the chemicals, then they must show positive evidence of this contention.
Failing this, the debate only spiral.

Source : Mindanao Mirror

Ok guys i am putting " two sides of the coin" about this issue .

umm pinoy style ...i'll think it for a thousand times ....hahaha anyway bro you won (for) bridges its 12-8 hehehe wa moabot akong flying voters ok got

to all dabawenyos and outside dabawenyos imade another poll ... its about aerial spraying.... sa Environmental thread kini mas concern ta ani kay wa na ko kasabot na 50/ 50 naman sa council and votes nila .
computer naman ang naglista bro so macapture gihapon mga flying votes. hahaha. the issue is very interesting bro :okay: unta ang outcome sa study tinuod ug walay money politics involve. the decision sa mayor dunay dako nga economic impact sa directly ug indirectly employed sa plantations. wait, for or against spraying ba ang mga employed? hahaha.



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Monday, September 25, 2006
Duterte to meet with banana growers
By Ben O. Tesiorna and Barbara Carla R. Quiro

MAYOR Rodrigo Duterte is set to meet with banana growers this week to hear their side on the issue on aerial spraying.

In his weekly television program Sunday, Duterte said he is willing to meet with all sectors affected by the issue.

He said he is not closing his door to pro-aerial praying advocates but cautioned them to show him "solid proof" that such practice has "harmless" effect on the people's health and on the environment.

"I will wait for the result of the study by the City Council. I will hear every side of the issue. But until such time that the issue is made very clear to me, my stand stays," Duterte said.

Duterte had earlier declared that he wanted a ban on aerial spraying in the city by next year. He said the City Council has until the end of this year to come up with the ordinance or he will do it his way.

Meanwhile, a group of banana growers, employees of banana companies and concerned barangay residents of Calinan District, where banana plantations are located, asked the city council to include their observations and views on the proposal to ban aerial spraying in the city.

In a letter addressed to the ad hoc committee, dated September 18, the group said banana plantations have been operating in their area for 30 years, yet they
have not experienced any kind of illness or sickness, which can be attributed to aerial spraying practice in their area.

The group requested the ad hoc committee, which is tasked to consolidate all reports and position papers of both anti- and pro-aerial spray, to give them time to express their side on health, economic, social and environmental issues regarding aerial spraying operations.

"We are the one living, working, and entrusting our lives on the industry and the first one to be affected if the aerial spray would be banned," the group said.

"Our views and first hand information on the issue would certainly help you weigh things on the matter. This would aid you in coming up with legislation for the good of all."

City Councilor Leo R. Avila III, chair of the city council committee on environment and natural resources, said since the group has not presented any position paper on the matter and the ad hoc committee has already completed its work in consolidating all of the reports, he will just furnish members of the council a copy of the letter, which can also be included in the 17-page consolidated report.

The letter is signed by eight people. It was received by Councilor Nilo G. Abellera last Tuesday.

so when i was in cebu..si fundraiser naa diri sa davao..haha

Originally Posted by Mt. Apo Standardcomputer naman ang naglista bro so macapture gihapon mga flying votes. hahaha. the issue is very interesting bro unta ang outcome sa study tinuod ug walay money politics involve. the decision sa mayor dunay dako nga economic impact sa directly ug indirectly employed sa plantations. wait, for or against spraying ba ang mga employed? hahaha.

wa moabot ang mga wawak ... :laugh: lagi abi nako tapos na ang boksing ..oi karon it's another round na pud anyway naglibog na mi diri kung maayo o dili ..hehehe anyway maybe you can help us there bro if talaga bang unhealthy for human and environs ang aerial spraying ,Australia i know banned aerial spraying.

wa moabot ang mga wawak ... :laugh: lagi abi nako tapos na ang boksing ..oi karon it's another round na pud anyway naglibog na mi diri kung maayo o dili ..hehehe anyway maybe you can help us there bro if talaga bang unhealthy for human and environs ang aerial spraying ,Australia i know banned aerial spraying.
bro, unsa wawak? did you mean waway[625]?:D so you mean wala pa nahuman ang bridge poll? mao kay ingon nimo race to 15:D



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Tuesday, September 26, 2006
City mulls putting urinals on hi-ways

IF PLANS push through, Davao City might just become the second metropolis to have urinals lining the city streets.

Mayor Rodrigo Duterte raised the idea of putting up urinals along the highways just like in Metro Manila where pink urinals are erected along sidewalks.


Duterte said the urinals will however be placed only in the outskirts of the city and not in the downtown area.

"Because in downtown, they (public) could go to hotel or restaurant to urinate," Duterte said.

He said the urinals will be placed five kilometers apart and are intended for travelers who suddenly feel the call of nature.

Duterte said the urinals would also be for both males and females.

In Metro Manila, the urinals are designed for males only.

The idea of putting up urinals came after numerous complaints were received by authorities on the habit of many people urinating on side of the streets and buildings. (BOT)

:cry: dinabaw there will be a bridge if you "poll" ever so hard for a no and the same with areal spraying...as long as there is a big commercial interest they will build a bridge and also areal spray ...as will people all over the place as long as there are no urinals....in the city....that's life on this planet..commercial interesrests have priority no 1. not many people think about the generations that will live in far futures to come and we humans continue living as we are the only and the last inhabitants of this globe..no need to care about the future then..no no....that is how igorant we are and live..it is so tragic... and "polling" day in and day out in this thread wont change much either...is also a fact... like the nine million bikes in Beijing...

:goodbye:

more of davao!

pool area of the apo view
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b384/peejay_domek/davao/dvo71.jpg

metro lifestyle
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b384/peejay_domek/davao/dvo50.jpg

davcon
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b384/peejay_domek/davao/dvo56.jpg

the marco polo davao and ateneo at right
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b384/peejay_domek/davao/dvo67.jpg

Local group preparing city as retirement haven for Japanese
September 25, 2006
Mindanao Times

A group has started designing retirement havens for foreigners, particularly for Japanese nationals, in preparation for the influx of these people.

Councilor Peter Laviña, a member of the loose group, said the designs will be presented to investors who might fund the project because the Philippines, particularly the city, has become so attractive to the Japanese because of sentimental reasons.

“Ideally, it should be a resort hospital, or a hospital setting in a garden,” said Laviña, pointing out that retirees need all the care that they could get. This developed as another councilor has pushed for the setting up of a “Little Tokyo” that will showcase the Japanese heritage in the city.

Councilor Susan Isabel Reta, chair of the committee on tourism, said the idea is to declare an area in the city as “Little Tokyo” so that the Japanese nationals who frequent the city will be able to look into the Japanese heritage.

“Japanese are sentimentalists,” Reta said, pointing out that her committee has started looking into Japanese memorial sites like the cemetery and the bunker in Toril in the northern part of the city.

At present, Laviña said, his group is looking at a five-hectare area for the retirement haven of these foreigners complete with facilities and a hospital. “Our model is a spa in Europe ,” he said.

Aside from infrastructure facilities, the area must also have complete supply of “health foods” considering that these retirees want everything healthy because of the sense of prolonging their existence, he added.

But he said investors should really put up key infrastructure facilities like row houses complete with amenities that are easier to access because the retirees are elderly who will sometimes need assistance.

Another aspect that must be developed, he added, is the need for caregivers who will assist these people. Laviña singled out the Japanese retirees because of their “historical and cultural attachments” to Davao City which used to be known as “Little Tokyo” when some Japanese from Baguio City decided to settle here as abaca plantation workers.

The first arrival of Japanese was about 100 years ago. Laviña hopes that a direct flight between Davao and Japanese cities will be open soon to facilitate the travel of these retirees. “They don’t want long travels,” he said. Arturo Boncato, Davao Tourism Association president, urged investors and the city government to work hand-in-hand in setting up infrastructure facilities that would really lure retirees to the city. “These people have special needs as they are old people.

All facilities must be friendly to them,” said Boncato. Earlier, subdivision developers expressed interest in setting up retirement havens in the city following the influx of foreigners to countries with these amenities like Thailand.

Salvador Valbuena, Subdivision and Housing Developers Association for Southern Mindanao president, said his group will discuss the issue when its members meet next month in a convention here.

As an initial step, Valbuena said he will have his 80-hectare Villa de Mercedes in Catigan, Toril, accredited by the Philippine Retirement Authority to start the retirement industry in Davao Region.

Haay... salamat, the server is working now. At least i am going to post a lot this time! Pronounce my presence!

:D imo, if benefits outweighs the risks, then why hold back that could lead to stagnation. i wonder how destructive is destruction. safety netts can be formulated to protect the people and environment. there are national laws and city laws that cover on this area. this may not be comparablr, but the longest bridge in the visayas has been enjoyed economically by benefitted peoples and everybody i guess appreciaeted how it eases transport at any time. if mactan island had succumed to environmenta; destruction from its first bridge, why did they build a new and bigger one. enormous economic development to mactan i understand was the strong reason. so i think, if studies when done would recommend its viability, i guess it passed through thorough deliberations.

I'll say it again: the decision makers of Samal are a bunch of confused people.

Unsa man dyud gusto nila? Why Island Garden City? They want to be like Singapore? Or they want to be like Subic?

I said it many times in this forum about being ready for development. Are the regulations in place? The tourism development guidelines of DOT has been incorporated into the City Development Plan (formerly Kaputian) since the early 90s. Nasunod ba? I don't think so. Tourism or industrialization? Unsa man dyud? Garden City?

You can't compare Samal with Mactan. Samal is smaller and the terrain is mountainous. Do you expect the government to level mountains to give way to development?

My point being, without the bridge, Samal could still progress more than Davao City in terms of tourism and light industry that supports tourism. It's a fact that the biggest industry in the world is travel and tourism. In the early 90's it was already known that Samal needs the infrastructure and utilities to support tourism. There were plans for submarine cable that will traverse the Strait and extend the power and communication lines from the mainland to the island, including water supply. It's less than a kilometer - piece of cake. A modern jetty port for roll-on roll-off seacrafts will be constructed on both sides and the existing fleet will be modernized. It will become your virtual "land bridge."

IMHO, bridge or no bridge, Samal Island is going to rise because of its agressiveness and enthusiasm, and importantly, because of its proximity to Davao City, a major economic and financial center, and an international gateway. It's inevitable.

^^ You've hit the spot Bagani, but I think Davao will have to do a lot of publicity to bolster Samal's image as a premiere spot for tourists

more of davao!

pool area of the apo view
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b384/peejay_domek/davao/dvo71.jpg

metro lifestyle
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b384/peejay_domek/davao/dvo50.jpg

davcon
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b384/peejay_domek/davao/dvo56.jpg

the marco polo davao and ateneo at right
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b384/peejay_domek/davao/dvo67.jpg

Very nice photos from you fundraiser, tnx a lot :)

for an individual
i pmed you but you have a full in box .... i hope you stop pm or email to this person, telling lies and twisting stories about me .. yeah we are friends here but in personal things (btw we don't know each other personally) i think we should stop from such tirades.

thank you!

^^ Guys, question lang, mag-push through ba tong mga priority projects? i mean ang chinatown arc ug ang park? I haven't heard anything about them in the local news. Sorry for not logging in for some time. Busy sa skul and sa life.

really Bagani kanang Garden City pa pogi lang , mao nang sakit sa Filipino putting exeggerated names for the sake of being "unique" , na pa koy na dunggan another city called Botanical City ...just like our Festivals OA na kaayo ..pero kung mo stick lang jud sila sa tourism , ithink tourism have big income for the people than putting a smoke fllied industries .Nice day my friend.

btw i think Samal Island is bigger than Mactan in terms of land mass :)

di ba it's the official name of IGACOS? Island Garden City of Samal? Its a nice name though shortened to Igacos, hehehe! :D Di ba diha ang Caracoles Festival? What is the "City Proper" of Igacos, is it in Babak, Samal (Peñaplata) or Kaputian.

Its been a decade since I went to IGACOS (Talikud Island pa, technically i've never been to Samal Island) but so frequent in Davao City within these recent years. :D

I guess the city centre is Penaplata.

DOLLYWOOD
GMA 7 soars high in Durian Republic


By Dolly Anne Carvajal
Inquirer
Last updated 00:08am (Mla time) 09/21/2006

Published on Page D3 of the September 21, 2006 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer

I HAD a blast in Davao during GMA-7’S Kapuso Day at the NCCC Mall. The venue was packed during the whole-day affair. A sure sign that, just like the Philippine eagle that’s found in Davao, GMA is soaring high in the Durian Republic.

Celebrities present were Patrick Garcia, Camille Prats, Rhian Ramos, Wendell Ramos, Maureen Larrazabal, Keempee de Leon, Yasmien Kurdi, Rainier Castillo, Jessica Soho, Arnold Clavio, Jiggy Manicad, Jay Taruc, Pia Arcangel, Tonypet Gaba, Bea Binene and Gabby Roxas. They were joined by Davao teen stars Kristine Gonzales, Kristal Gonzales and Niko Ferrer (hosts of the popular show “Kuyaw” which means “Astig”). Shamrock delighted Davaoeños with a free concert.

Bonding with the boss

The highlight of my first Davao trip was bonding with GMA 7’s chairman, president and CEO Felipe Gozon and his charming wife Tessie. They were so genuinely warm and down-to-earth that I almost forgot they’re such bigwigs. I was so touched when Mr. Gozon acknowledged my mom’s priceless contribution to GMA 7.

He is dead-set on making GMA No. 1 in Davao: “We are upgrading our facilities and signal. We are spending P168 million to improve our transmitters nationwide. I really want to conquer Davao so we are putting up a building here by next year. Our local newscast “Testigo” and “24 Oras” are already top raters in Davao. Our other shows are not far behind unlike before na naiiyak ako when I see the ratings.”

He wondered why, when it came to cable ratings there’s a discrepancy. “I’ve hired statistics experts to explain why, in non-cable ratings, GMA leads but sa cable ratings talo kami. It defies logic. Okay lang naman sa akin if patas ang labanan. Wala sanang dayaan.”

But the warm welcome given by the Davaoeños was more than enough to maintain Mr. Gozon’s high spirits. I admire his honesty and dedication. Now I know why the GMA rank and file are unanimous in saying that he’s really the secret of the station’s success.

All in all, it was a wonderful birthday treat for me. Special thanks to my dear colleagues Ambet Nabus (Daily Tribune), Mario Bautista (People’s Journal), Shirley Pizarro (Manila Bulletin), Mario Hernando (Malaya) and GMA’s ever dependable Butch Raquel, Butch Bustamante, Ramir Orteza and Jojo Aquio. The sweetness of your company overpowered the pungent smell of Durian during our fun Kapuso weekend in Davao.

really Bagani kanang Garden City way unod kana mao nang sakit sa Filipino putting exeggerated names for the sake of being "unique" , na pa koy na dunggan another city called Botanical City ...just like our Fiestas OA na kaayo ..pero kung mo stick lang jud sila sa tourism , ithink tourism have big income for the people than putting a smoke fllied industries .Nice day my friend.

btw i think Samal Island is bigger than Mactan in terms of land mass :)

I think you are right. Sorry for that mistake. So that means, 10 Mactan Shangrilas could be accomodated in the Island. But same thing, Samal's topography won't allow extensive development that would require massive earthmoving. Tourism is still the way to go.

Botanical Garden City is San Fernando City in La Union. It's just a monicker or the nickname of the City. It's not an official name like Samal.

City gov’t to prioritize 6 areas for drainage project
By Rizalene P. Acac

SIX areas considered as critical would be prioritized in the phase-one construction of the master drainage plan of the city.

City Administrator Wendel Avisado said these areas are considered critical because they are easily inundated during heavy downpours. The areas include Tulip Drive in Matina, Bajada, Davao Light and Power Company (still along Bajada) Boulevard, Matina Crossing and Lizada Toril.


He said the bidding of the project is undergoing with three bidders submitting their proposals. Avisado said the construction of the project for the critical areas is expected to be on the first week of October.

He added that the completion of the whole drainage project would be in December 2006. The whole project, which costs P 250 million, is part of the P 990 million loan of the city government from the Land Bank of the Philippines.

dp

Banana firms: we won’t leave city if spraying ban continues
By Rizalene P. Acac

AFTER THEIR meeting with Mayor Rodrigo Duterte who earlier pushed that aerial spraying be banned in the city, members of the of the Pilipino Banana Growers and Exporters Association (PBGEA) vowed they would not leave the city even if the plan pushes through.

Stephen Antig, PBGEA president and representative of the AM Soriano Group of Companies, said they have considerable investments on the plantations and a sudden pullout would mean more economic losses.

“Contrary to what came out in the newspapers, we don’t have any intention in leaving the city,” said Antig who led the 10-member delegation in a meeting with the mayor at the 17th floor of the Marco Polo Hotel.

Aside from the losses in income, Antig said they cannot afford to have their employees lose their jobs. He said they would abide by what the city government would finally impose although this would mean more investments on their part. He said if they would resort to the manual method of spraying, they would most likely hire more people.

This would adversely affect the quality of the bananas they export and would mean more input cost. Antig said unlike aerial spraying which is already programmed, manual spraying would be dependent upon the skill and mood of the sprayer aside from the weather factor.

He said all the implication of the ban has been presented to the mayor during their meeting. ‘The meeting between the mayor and PBGEA officials as well as pilots is the first ever since the issue on the (aerial spraying) ban started,” he said. Antig said the mayor told them to wait for the result of the ad hoc committee report and the deliberation of the city council which would take place today.

Whether the result of the discussion is “good or bad for us,” Antig said they would just take action from there. However, Duterte told the media after the closed-door meeting that the position of the banana companies failed to convince him that chemicals used by the plantations are harmless. He said he needs to find out whether there are really persons near the plantations who have been afflicted with the disease caused by spraying.

But unlike his firm statements to phase out aerial spraying by January next year, the mayor said he would further study collated reports from the council, the non-government organizations and from the people. He said the banana industry is, after all, supporting the economy of the city and the country.

Duterte said some proof was shown to him by the pilots conducting aerial spraying in majority of the plantations in the city that they too are concerned in protecting the health of the people. Capt. Samson S. Villaver of Airwolf Aviation Corp. said they strictly follow the program of spray that is based upon the cycle in the control of disease in the plantations.

Villaber said they also follow parameters and guidelines to ensure that the fungicides that they spray would hit targets and reduce drifts. Villaver said they also observe the 50-meter buffer zones from houses, roads and bodies of water. He said the buffer zone would serve as the line of limitation to spraying. “We also follow the guidelines on how low we should fly that is three meters above the canopy,” he said.

He said they also employ the global positioning system alongside the intelliflow, a device that controls the release of the chemical. To minimize drifts, they also use the target flow system.

Villaver said the Fertilizer and Pesticides Authority also conducts random inspection in the plantations to double-check their guidelines they follow. He said the fungicides they utilize are also classified as non-toxic which is considered non-harmful for human beings.

^^ Guys, question lang, mag-push through ba tong mga priority projects? i mean ang chinatown arc ug ang park? I haven't heard anything about them in the local news. Sorry for not logging in for some time. Busy sa skul and sa life.

I think this will push through...ameen

Guys, any photo update on PTA construction? :)

Gerry's Grill is coming to town....

http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n233/davaoeagle/gerrysgrill.jpg

Originally Posted by Bagani
I think you are right. Sorry for that mistake. So that means, 10 Mactan Shangrilas could be accomodated in the Island. But same thing, Samal's topography won't allow extensive development that would require massive earthmoving. Tourism is still the way to go.

Botanical Garden City is San Fernando City in La Union. It's just a monicker or the nickname of the City. It's not an official name like Samal.

Puede na 2 lang na Shang pero sprawling :) ... ok refresh me about tihs monicker and offiical name does it mean Samal should require some sort of restrictions or laws provided for naming them officially IGACOS?

In the true spirit of transparency and in the interest of the greater good, the companies must do their homework well. If it’s true that the chemicals are completely harmless, they must prove so compellingly. If there had been no victims of such spraying, then they must disabuse all such claims to the contrary with utmost professionalism. And if not a single plant or tree has ever been adversely affected by the chemicals, then they must show positive evidence of this contention.
Failing this, the debate only spiral.

Source : Mindanao Mirror

Ok guys i am putting " two sides of the coin" about this issue .

I think proving a "negative" (that no adverse effects are there) is a losing proposition already. People can easily say that the studies weren't exhaustive enough. It can never end. In the meantime, there might be harm coming with the loss of revenues, and, in turn, jobs. It is much easier to prove a "positive", meaning, to show a victim, proving that such things are harmful.

Here, an alternative plan for Samal ...... (call me a turncoat, but I'm now for the "no-bridge" faction) :hahaha:


PIA Press Release
2003/05/07

Plan to send SARS cases to Samal hit

Davao City (7 May) -- Residents of the Island Garden City of Samal (IGACOS) are up in arms over plans to make their place an isolation area for patients infected with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Mayor Rogelio Antalan of the island-city said.

Guesting in yesterday’s Club 888, Antalan was reacting to a newspaper headline captioned “SARS island.” He said the headline was “misleading” and could be “disastrous” to the SARS-free island city.

The report said members of the Davao City Council are eyeing the idle Samal Casino Resort in IGACOS as an isolation area for SARS victims.

It quoted Davao City Councilor Nilo Abella as saying that the Council is planning to ask Antalan for the use of the idle hotel as an isolation building.

Antalan said the issue placed him in a “damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t” situation, particularly if a worst-case scenario hits the Davao region.

“If the worst comes, why Samal?” he asked.

He said he had no authority to say yes to the proposal since the hotel is owned by Malaysian investor Ekran Berhad and not his own. Moreover, he said he still had to consult his constituents about it.

Antalan, who had just come from an early-morning barangay visit, said his constituents “are 100 percent against” the idea of setting up an isolation area in the island although to some it appeared good to seclude a person in an island.

Aside from the opposition, he said Samal has no hospital which can sufficiently handle serious medical cases such as SARS.

The report came at a time when the city government of IGACOS has formed a task force to look into the viability of operating the Samal Casino Resort.

Its owner has been looking for investors to take over its operation and Antalan said that Ekran Berhad is offering the city government the chance to operate the facility with a two-year rent-free incentive.

“We’re told that if we are interested to run the hotel, they will not charge us of rental fee for two years,” he said.

The IGACOS city government is keen on the idea due to its tourism prospects, as the resort’s convention hall can accommodate 2,000 guests.

Meanwhile, Department of Health (DOH) 11 medical specialist Dr. Rene Lopez in the same forum said information released regarding SARS should be uniform and must be accurate to avoid misinformation. (PIA/JMDA)

Puede na 2 lang na Shang pero sprawling :) ... ok refresh me about tihs monicker and offiical name does it mean Samal should require some sort of restrictions or laws provided for naming them officially IGACOS?

Official Names of towns, cities or provinces are acts of congress - they are legislated - balaod. Monickers are like names or pseudonyms. Like Davao City daghan kaayo'g names - Durian City, Flower Capital or Orchid Capital, Home of the Festival of Festivals, Home of the Philippine Eagle (when in reality, Samar, Isabela, Cotabato and Bukidnon can also claim this title), etc. But it could be made official. And in the Philippines only one City could claim of having an official "nickname" and that's Baguio City, The Summer Capital of the Philippines. Naay balaod nga nag-declare and given Baguio that title, and it's undisputed. If I'm not mistaken, time pa sa Amerikano. Pero ang Davao naa pud, and this is Eden, Davao's summer capital. It was declared during the time of Magsaysay.

I think pwede pud i-regulate sa government ang "titles" that you cannot just name your places whatever you like at depende sa kung sino ang nakaupo. Titles should be based on facts. Like Roxas City in Capiz, I think it could not claim that it's the Seafood Capital of the Philippines when in fact, Zamboanga City's yield in terms of volume and variety are far bigger in numbers than Roxas City. We look at DA or BFAR statistics for this. Sorsogon could claim Butanding or Whale Shark Capital kay daghan man dyud didto compare sa ubang lugar. But the rule of the game is, kung kinsa lang mauna. It's branding, it's image, it's a marketing strategy, it's how they wanted to sell their places.

In the case of IGACOS, I think it is the vision of the people of Samal of how they wanted their island to become in the future, hence the name. Now, if they think that industrial development is a true picture of a Garden City and not a place of lush vegetation and clean coastal areas, low density resort complexes, retirement villages, protected environment, wala na ta'y mahimo dinha.

Gerry's Grill is coming to town....

http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n233/davaoeagle/gerrysgrill.jpg

wow! good news :)

DAVAO REGIONS, AGRICULTURAL AREAS FREE ACCESS TO WIRELESS BROADBAND

Because of low cost availability of wireless modems and repeaters with known life expectancies of these components up to 20 years service, I think that wireless broadband should be offered for free to the regions, to the agricultural areas, and to residents. Repeaters can be built locally using simple machining, therefore, costs won't be an issue.

The other issue for wireless access would be the platform itself, such as laptops. Either donated laptops with rundown architecture to only include wireless modem, a linux program, a graphics controller, an access memory with no hardrive or a locally assembled, or re-engineered low cost laptop can be made available.

For agricultural applications, it can used as a responder for any news informations about agriculture that affects agricultural industries, or it can be used to coordinate alignments for crop rotations, etc.

These are one great way of setting up communications in communities and should be free.

o sya, break muna, intermission muna, more pics of your beautiful davao!

waterfront insular hotel lawn
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b384/peejay_domek/davao/dvo34.jpg

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b384/peejay_domek/davao/dvo36.jpg

malagos garden resort
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b384/peejay_domek/davao/dvo18.jpg

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b384/peejay_domek/davao/dvo8.jpg

the road near the entrance of the philippine eagle center, part of the city pa rin!
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b384/peejay_domek/davao/dvo19.jpg

davao's central park
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b384/peejay_domek/davao/dvo25.jpg

special thanks to the trinidad family, dami ko pang mga pics, more to come, animals and urban pics ang susunod na batch.

dinabaw you ask what I am doing and what I want to prove?? I can answer you, all I wanted to prove is..that it is nice if men could treat the female gender with respect and not use them as laughing stock object matter...that is all I wanted to prove...I apologize if I have hurted anyone or you with my "serious joke about male underware". My point is we all need to treat each other with respect ..you can not only ask me to do so dear dinabaw it is for all of us to think about..I am sorry my pedagougic draw was not for this forum...and I seriously apologize..and hope you all take my apology???

I am going away again ...this forum is not for me...my opinions are not for this male dominated forum... I erased that what you took offensive but keept my opinions about the bridge, and sprayings..

Please accept my sincere aplogy... all of you forumers...
:goodbye:

aaawwww, going away again? shucks, c'mon blondie, youve been using that line over and over again, goodbye to this forum, i am going away, etc etc etc. but hey, look, youre still here after so many goodbyes. i dont think anybody's gonna take you seriously now.

valium's alter ego has resurrected...again.

aaawwww, going away again? shucks, c'mon blondie, youve been using that line over and over again, goodbye to this forum, i am going away, etc etc etc. but hey, look, youre still here after so many goodbyes. i dont think anybody's gonna take you seriously now.

It seems like you have read all the postings here .... and you are enjoying what's happening here..... :cheers:


@Scandinavian_girl: sorry for being impertinent... but please allow me to laugh... the above comment is really funny :hahaha: :hahaha: we will miss you (shall i say for a while?).... i got your e-mail and will answer you asap... after assembling the cabinet I bought from IKEA :runaway:

This news is also about you guys, ssc forumers from Cebu, Davao, CDO,Ilo-ilo, etc who supported the other local based portal.

To those ssc peeps who supported the other portal, thanks. we have been featured today in INQ7.net

http://technology.inq7.net/infotech/infotech/view_article.php?article_id=23274

This news is also about you guys, ssc forumers from Cebu, Davao, CDO,Ilo-ilo, etc who supported the other local based portal.

To those ssc peeps who supported the other portal, thanks. we have been featured today in INQ7.net

http://technology.inq7.net/infotech/infotech/view_article.php?article_id=23274

This is great peeps :)

Saludo na naman ako sa inyo bro TJ and Silicon...

Go Davao GO

Council okays P106M supplemental budget on final reading
Sunstar Davao

THE City Council Tuesday approved on third and final reading the P106,515,508 Supplemental Budget 2 which will fund Mayor Rodrigo Duterte's peace and order program among other projects.

A total of P25 million will be allocated for City Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte's peace and order program, P10 million for the Lingap Program, and P15 million for the City Environment and Natural Resources Office (Cenro) hauling services.

For the crisis intervention program, a total of P15 million will also be allocated, P5 million as aid to the Davao Medical Center, P8 million for payment of additional compensation of P1,000 per plantilla personnel from September to December of 2006.

The rest of the budget will be allocated for the office of Vice Mayor Luis C. Bonguyan, office equipment and social services.

City Councilor Bonifacio E. Militar, who chairs the City Council's finance committee, said P100 million of the supplemental budget is sourced from the calamity fund and the rest are savings from the City Health Office, Civil
Registrar's Office and the City Veterinarian's Office. (BRQ)

Bodies mulled to oversee city's parks, new museum
Sunstar Davao

WITH the opening of the Davao Greenbelt Park and the Museo Dabaw next year, the City Government of Davao is mulling the creation of bodies to oversee its upkeep and operations.

According to 2nd District City Councilor Susabel Reta, she has filed a resolution before the City Council, calling for the creation of a park authority that would look after the city's parks and playgrounds.

Reta said the City Environment and Natural Resources Office (Cenro) would spearhead the park authority tasked to maintain and oversee the city's parks, particularly that the city is constructing the sprawling Greenbelt Park in the former four-hectare PTA athletic grounds.

Reta, who chairs the tourism committee, expressed optimism that the council would pass the resolution two weeks from now.

For her part, Patmei Ruivivar, chief-of-staff of the City Mayor's Office, said that Reta and colleague Councilor Mabel Sunga Acosta authored a resolution calling for the Davao Museum system, which would be in place to oversee the set-up, organization, and operations of Museo Dabaw.

Ruivivar said they are eyeing the opening date of the Museo ng Dabaw (Museum of the People of Davao) to coincide with the 70th founding anniversary of the city on March 16, 2007.

"By that time the Davao Museum system would be established," Ruivivar said.

"The museum will be about the people and the culture of Davao, the perspectives of the Lumads, Moslems and Christian settlers of Davao," she added.

The first floor, which will have two galleries, will showcase our Lumad tribes and Moslem inhabitants, while the second floor features our modern and contemporary period that begins from the colonial era until its dynamic present, said Ruivivar.

A section dedicated to the old Dabawenyo families will also be an attraction in the museum, being constructed in the area that used to house the old Court of First Instance on Magallanes Street.

Ruivivar said contrary to some criticisms, they are not demolishing the old Court of First Instance, which was built during the American period, but rather they are restoring it and strengthening the termite-infested structure.

Total restoration work is estimated to be at P8.5 million.

"We are just waiting for a proclamation from the National Historical Institute that the Court of First Instance Building is a historical site," Ruivivar said.

^^nice a new musuem,that's so cool!

Mindanao chefs at par with Manila counterparts
Sunstar Davao

MINDANAO chefs and other food and service providers are at par with those from Manila and this can be gauged in national competitions where participants from the south won over contenders from the national capital.

Davao Tourism Association (Data) president Art Boncato Monday said the holding of the yearly Mindanao Culinary Festival, which is on its 6th edition this year, provided players representing cross section of the food service industry the opportunity to improve their lot.

The festival is capped with friendly competition, product exhibition and valuable lectures on the industry topics of the day.

"Winners during the 6th Mindanao Culinary Festival from October 6 to 8, 2006 at the NCCC convention center will get the chance to represent Mindanao in the national competition that will be held within the next 12 months," he said.

Boncato said participants will also be given certificates that they could use for job placements.

The festival, he said will highlight 15 competitions under the professional category and eleven for the student category.

Alongside these competitions will be free seminars and cooking demos where Chef Gene Gonzales will conduct a 3 to 4 hour workshop on Cooking and Wine Tasting on
October 6, 2006 at 2 p.m. at Marco Polo Hotel.

The Universal Robina Corporation will sponsor a baking demo with Chef Dennis Hipolito. Perk Ching Tan will also conduct baking lessons in line with her book launching.

A Tuna Carving demo will also be featured in the festival by Marina Tuna Restaurant.

Seminars offered are on Organic Food and its Benefits on October 7 and on Food Safety (Your Competitive Advantage) and an Introduction to Servsafe both to be conducted by Ecolab Philippines on October 8.

For the International Hotel, Restaurant and Home Expo, Manila and local exhibitors will showcase products and services that would fit the requirements at home and at work.

Boncato said the visitors will be given the opportunity to access goods and services that are not always available at the local market.

It will also provide avenues for increasing sales, launching new products, getting immediate customer feedback, meeting new business contracts and possibly exploring joint venture partnership.

He said that as an added feature, there will be a Christmas Bazaar for specialty foods, home decor, Christmas and other novelty items.

PALAISDAAN atbp., OPENS AT DAMOSA COMPLEX
By Josie San Pedro

In today's busy world people live their lives in the fast lane. PALISDAAN, a fresh frozen seafood store was conceived to cater to those who need to bring as "pasalubong" to loved ones, the delicious sea food table delicacies of Davao; or those who want ready to cook food for their homes without the messy task of getting them ready for the pan and the stove. To better serve their customers, owners Albert and Marilou Sian opened a new outlet a week ago at the Damosa Complex on Mamay Road (Tel. No. 303-1000). Alex Alcantara of Sarangani Bay and Mrs. Inday del Rosario cut the ribbon that officially opened the store and Fr. Antonio Samson, S. J. blessed it afterwards. The enterprising couple now have two fresh frozen seafood stores; the other one is at J.P. Laurel in Bajada, right beside the Villa Margarita Hotel with Tel. No. 222-7777. The PALAISDAAN Seafood Market began its fresh frozen seafood operations in 2003. Most of Palaisdaan's products are shipped from General Santos City, the Philippines' tuna capital. Both stores sell a variety of tuna products as tuna panga, tuna belly, tuna steak, tuna buntot, tuna sashimi, tuna cubes, tuna chorizo, tuna embotido, tuna chicharon, bihod, bagaybay, ubol-ubol; and other types of seafood, such as gindara steak, blue marlin steak, prawns, tuna belly in cans, spicy sardines and many more. From Sarangani Bay, PALAISDAAN carries boneless bangus, smoked boneless bangus, marinated and spicy baby bangus and bangus belly; pampano, sea bass, rellenong bangus, bangus sardines, bottled bangus sardines, and others. The stores carry also sauces, condiments, and other necessities for seafood recipes. Most of its customers are transients or businessmen and women who travel to Davao City frequently, and carry home as pasalubong, the delectable seafood products that Davao is known for. There are also a number of local customers who purchase the products for their daily consumption. PALAISDAAN atbp. prides itself on repeat customers, the highest quality products, a fast turnover, a clean store and courteous, knowledgeable and friendly staff. Its products are competitively priced. Store hours are from 9 a.m. to 8p.m. Monday to Saturday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sundays. Arrangements can be made in advance for early or late pick-up. A whole tuna is available with two (2) days advance notice.

wowwooweee... damosa complex is slowly overtaking MTS... paging ayala now.
btw, this friday, damosa gateway will host the san miguel octoberfest. see you there!

aaawwww, going away again? shucks, c'mon blondie, youve been using that line over and over again, goodbye to this forum, i am going away, etc etc etc. but hey, look, youre still here after so many goodbyes. i dont think anybody's gonna take you seriously now.

Hi 3stan_yu.:) ..hahahahaha yes I am using that line alot when sad and " down and out"...I just feel like a strange foreing bird in here ... Cause if I protest as a woman against using women as sexual objects and even to laugh about my gender and I find it to be a peculiar behaviour and make a joke in the same manor as men do I am to be punished ? The men in here may joke laugh and act that way...so I am both sad and then angry at it all..because I am European and here women are allowed to say their opinions to about different subjects..and then I did . and of course no one takes me serious I am a woman, who takes the opinions of a woman serious in the Pilippines , well now there will be protests and of course women are taken serious you will all say our president is a woman and then will come a whole list of women you do accept to be opinionated , but then it has to be about subjects that are allowed, restrickted women allowed subjects....and I am a foreing woman on top of it a strange bird so how even dare I say anything .but I will always protest when it comes to issues about my own gender.....understand...hahahaha the truth is also..I am on the edge or even am as unpopular as Valium, welcome to the club of impossible people..hehehe :) Anyway in all this I see cultures apart, and culture clashes..it is as simple as that to.

Thanks for for your support , ...I could sense your smile and also your nice energy :hug: I do apreciate it:)

dinabaw pls forgive me do not treat me like I do not excist cause I do.:) Try to understand a woman from a foreing place I am a swede can only be one to..as well as you are a pinoy and can be only that to..I try my best to understand you...culture clashes are common in encounters with different cultures...min älskling :hug:

Ady :) I am reading your novel. Nice work...I will write you soon :okay:

rajah my best thread friend hahaha you know why I come and go if any pinoy in here you know and understand. Thanks :hug:

Fundraiser awesome pictures really and I am fond of the butterfly gardens...thanks for sharing the pitures in here :)

To all other forumers I wish you form my heart a nice day :)

Hi 3stan_yu.:) ..hahahahaha yes I am using that line alot when sad and " down and out"...I just feel like a strange foreing bird in here ... Cause if I protest as a woman against using women as sexual objects and even to laugh about my gender and I find it to be a peculiar behaviour and make a joke in the same manor as men do I am to be punished ? The men in here may joke laugh and act that way...so I am both sad and then angry at it all..because I am European and here women are allowed to say their opinions to about different subjects..and then I did . and of course no one takes me serious I am a woman, who takes the opinions of a woman serious in the Pilippines , well now there will be protests and of course women are taken serious you will all say our president is a woman and then will come a whole list of women you do accept to be opinionated , but then it has to be about subjects that are allowed, restrickted women allowed subjects....and I am a foreing woman on top of it a strange bird so how even dare I say anything .but I will always protest when it comes to issues about my own gender.....understand...hahahaha the truth is also..I am on the edge or even am as unpopular as you Valium, welcome to the club of impossible people..hehehe :) Anyway in all this I see cultures apart, and culture clashes..it is as simple as that to.

Thanks for for your support , ...I could sense your smile and also your nice energy :hug: I do apreciate it:)

dinabaw pls forgive me do not treat me like I do not excist cause I do.:) Try to understand a woman from a foreing place I am a swede can only be one to..as well as you are a pinoy and can be only that to..I try my best to understand you...culture clashes are common in encounters with different cultures...min älskling :hug:

Ady :) I am reading your novel. Nice work...I will write you soon :okay:

rajah my best thread friend hahaha you know why I come and go if any pinoy in here you know and understand. Thanks :hug:

Fundraiser awesome pictures really and I am fond of the butterfly gardens...thanks for sharing the pitures in here :)

To all other forumers I wish you form my heart a nice day :)

Hi there Lena :)

May you have a very nice day ahead of you too :)

[)

dp

dinabaw pls forgive me do not treat me like I do not excist cause I do.:) Try to understand a woman from a foreing place I am a swede can only be one to..as well as you are a pinoy and can be only that to..I try my best to understand you...culture clashes are common in encounters with different cultures...min älskling



cge na..bati na!!!! :hug: :cheers:

Any pics of those cultural buildings??? Anything with a uniqu archi. twist???

^^ good morning peeps... may away ba? hehehe

ano kaya yung U/C in front of tibungco wharf, laki ng area ah.

davao thread is moving at turtle speed nowadays...

oo nga eh...lets give it premium fuel hehe..bagal kasi ng SSC kaya nakakatamad mag post..

hey bai gravy... oktoberfest sa damosa gateway this friday how bout some horses hehe

th9is friday na ba? oi oi oi !!! haha..

Where have all the people gone? Hellooooooo Davao!

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A diver is framed in an old tire as he swims past (it) in the waters off Limao in the Island Garden City of Samal. Old tires were popular as artificial reef materials from 1970s to 1980s. (Sun.Star Davao/Stella A. Estremera)

Thursday, September 28, 2006
Arroyo, de Castro to grace developers gab here

PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and Vice President Noli de Castro are expected to grace the 2006 SHDA-HUDCC National Developers Convention in Davao City.

The convention, spearheaded by Subdivision and Housing Developers Association, Inc. (SHDA), in coordination with the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC), is slated on October 5 and 6 at the Waterfront Insular Hotel.

Speakers from Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore are also invited to share their success stories and good practices in terms of housing development in their countries.

SHDA president Salvador T. Valbuena said this year's theme is "Housing Beyond Borders, Responding To Global Challenges."

During the Club 888 press conference at the Marco Polo Hotel Wednesday, Valbuena said their target participants include operators of retirement facilities, representatives from health, insurance and caregiving industry, financial institutions and condominium and housing developers.

"The national developers convention is open to all practitioners in the housing industry," Valbuena said.

Valbuena said a dialogue with several housing agencies such as the HUDCC, National Housing Authority, Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board and National Home Mortgage Finance Corporation will be held to discuss issues related to government programs and policies on housing. (BRQ)

Thursday, September 28, 2006
Japan's 'baby boomers' invited to retire here

DAVAO City is targeting the retiring "baby boomers" of Japan to come and visit the city not only as tourists, but also entice them to spend their retirement years here.

Davao City Councilor Pete Laviña, committee chair on trade and commerce during the Kapehan sa Dabaw at SM City on Monday said that for 30 years that the Philippines had been encouraging Japanese nationals to come to our country, the total figure for that span of time only accounted for 12,000 visitors.

"In Thailand, Japanese arrivals numbered about 12,000 monthly," he said.

But he said the figure that they are looking at is about 25,000 tourists and the good thing with Davao is that it already had established strong cultural and historical bonds.

He said however that facilities have to be developed although there are already investors for such projects.

Lavina said that several areas in the city are being looked into as highly potentials from Lanang in the north towards Catigan, Toril.

He said Davao is into it. "It is just a matter of marketing and packaging that is why direct flights from Davao to Japan need to be pushed," he added.

Lavina during his visit in Japan early September talked on the city's investment priorities and the open sky policy.

Davao Tourism Association (Data) president Art Boncato said many of the "baby boomers" will be retiring next year and the Philippines by now has been identifying key destinations.

"It would be Davao's great opportunity because of the strong ties that had already been established with the Japanese nationals," Boncato said.

He said in coordination with the Philippine Retirement Authority there are already areas being developed as retirement villages.

Boncato also stressed that facilities must be developed like "hospitals in a resort setting" or the European type of spa.

"Perhaps these could be areas of garden setting with health improvement facilities or wellness centers where they could check-in or areas where they could build their own home," he said.

"We also need to maintain a friendly setting because these are old people and there must be people who could extend special kind of service to them," said Boncato.

He also said that connections are consideration but with the existing Nagoya-Manila route then down Davao, there is already an access even as he said that connecting flights could also be considered as direct.

"Once the access through connecting flights are available, the next thing is the opening of direct flights," he said.

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The Canadian Rockies In Summer: I just so love these images!

nice picture there davaoeagle...

davao rockies hehe
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I like Canadian Rockies but Mt. Apo has a been forever etched in my heart. Ha ha, I go a bit mushy here. Musta na Junax? Long time no see here at SSC.

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Mayor Rodrigo Duterte visits the squatters along Dacudao Avenue yesterday to tell them that the city has already prepared a relocation area for them in the Tibungco.
(jlpgarcia/CIO)

Mayor Digong: A city mayor with a BIG HEART!
The article below, though not articulated in it displays the mayor's desire for an unhampered work environment both for the investors and the local communities benefiting from these industries.

Banana company to resume operations
By Rizalene P. Acac

The Philippine Fresh Fruits Development decided to resume operations in Paquibato District after Mayor Rodrigo Duterte assured that it would be protected. In a press statement, the company said they would operate again since “they trust and deeply respect the words of the mayor.”

Upon learning that two packaging plants of the company were burned allegedly by members of the New People’s Army, Duterte said he would arrange a dialogue with the rebel group. He said he would urge them to stop the harassment of businessmen in the area because they could not give the revolutionary taxes which they demand.

The company said they made a makeshift packaging plant to cope with the affected operation. The management said they were not able to obtain a fresh loan to start the reconstruction of the plants.

“The initial 20 percent of the operation will be implemented as seven hectares of harvestable bananas greatly affected the boxes quota of bananas,” the statement added.

On Saturday, the world's eyes will once again get a chance to see Davao as Davao is featured as September 30th's SSC banner of the day :okay:

Looking forward to that day!