unsa man ang no. 4 to 6 .. bag-o na :lol: ?

4. quility inn
6. emperialhotel :lol:
dapayt ie diay. imperialhotel:lol:

kanang "Quility Inn" ... shortcut na sa "tranquility?" LOL!

unya ang LI unsa man??? Linmarr?

naa ko idagdag...
7. CH

^^ naa bay Jade sa davao :lol:

kanang "Quility Inn" ... shortcut na sa "tranquility?" LOL!

unya ang LI unsa man??? Linmarr?

naa ko idagdag...
7. CH

Lispher Inn?

sino dito pwede ko ma sendan ng pic sa YM..nagpicture picture man gud ko sa G-mall pero dili ko ka access sa photobucket.kinsa gusto musalo? :D

This is Costa Marina ...

http://img127.imageshack.us/img127/9794/3424340938902fb8ab0ne3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

ilang roger hotels ang meron sa davao?




1. QL
2. DA
3. PC
4. QI

;11604425']sino dito pwede ko ma sendan ng pic sa YM..nagpicture picture man gud ko sa G-mall pero dili ko ka access sa photobucket.kinsa gusto musalo? :D

ipasa sa ako yet!:)

Victoria Plaza ....

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http://img385.imageshack.us/img385/9402/imgp0479ru6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Mas dinaghan pa gyud diay ang mga restaurants and bars diha sa VP Compound no? Naa pa ba ang Gloria Maris diha?

1. QL
2. DA
3. PC
4. QI
5. LI
6. EH

:lol:

Mas daghan gyud diay nahibaw-an si Nick, so mas expert :lol:
On the list, I only know what nos. 1, 3, & 4 acronyms are, Can you tell us what the others stand for?:lol:

ganina picture picture ko gamay..hehe

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samtang naghulat sa text...hastang limpyoha sa dalan oi..

G-mall, copied from my post sa malls thread :D

OK heres G-mall (still under redevelopment..dili lang ma full blast kasi nag t-take effect yung new guidelines pag renew ng contract, but anyway, here's a preview of the new-look g-mall)

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gerry's grill and chowking (chowking may have to close for renovation soon)

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F&H and wade (first stores that sported the new-look storefronts)

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i guess thsi kenny rogers storefront will have to change din? pero i dunno since wala pa namang resto na nag expire ang contract and nagparenovate ng store design

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new look storefronts..di na ako nakakuha sa baba kasi siksikan dun, pero as of kanina, Plains n prints and sarisari are ok na, yung iba like nike, human, mossimo di pa nakapag renovate (siguro nga matagal to kasi bago lang na implement yung guidelines and may mga stores na nag open a few months before the new guidelines were made)



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Gaisano Mall Foodcourt


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SPAZIO sub-foodcourt

Port Cafe at Fashion Walk, my favorite kan-anan sa g-mall..da best ang breaded pork chop..well actually since college breaded pork chop ra pa jud akong nakaon sa port cafe lolz
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mga kan-anan sa gawas sa cinemas

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Atrium..may entrepreneurship expo and mga BA ng Ateneo

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2nd atrium

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one of the things i hate about g-mall, may mga alleys siya na musulpot lang kalit (parang di part ng original plan) ito isa sa kanila, then may isa pa sa harap, dati open area yung ngayon occupied by KFC, MisterDonut, Mercury Drug and banco filipino.

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o169/waway_cj/Ssc161.jpg
dili na g-mall, the venue compund na, mga 5 minutes walk from G-mall..naay isa ka bar diha nga ma new-look din in 3 months ..mga tiga davao..ano hula niyo? :)

^^

Cool pics!

Btw Boyet, Durian Hotel and VP are not 1 km. away from each other, baka you mean DH and GMall. :)

aw did i say durian and VP, my bad...durian and g-mall :) sige edit ko :D

^^

sa worst thing about your city to na thread yet.:)

Saturday, February 03, 2007
3 coastal areas eyed for marine protection

THREE coastal areas in Davao City will be officially classified as marine protected areas (MPA) under a proposed ordinance, filed by the committee on environment and natural resources at the City Council.

The measure also seeks the establishment and management of the city's marine protected areas.

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These areas include: Lasang-Bunawan, where whale sharks can be found; Centro Agdao, which is ideal as fish sanctuary due to the presence of coral reefs; and Punta Dumalag in Matina Aplaya, which is the nesting place of "pawikan" or turtles.

Councilor Leonardo Avila III said Friday that committee hearings are ongoing and they are set to finish the report within two weeks, which will be submitted for the perusal and deliberation of the council as a whole.

Avila said the ordinance would include the creation of a MPA division under the Office of the City Mayor and a local MPA board in the barangay level to encourage the participation of residents in the protection of their marine resources.

Mechanisms will also be put in place to sustain the projects through public sector partnerships aside from setting up livelihood programs.

Avila said that hopefully the council will approve the creation of centers in those areas where the local board can accept visitors or hold lectures.

The MPAs are also targeted to be local landmarks aimed at attracting local and foreign visitors.

Saturday, February 03, 2007
3 coastal areas eyed for marine protection

THREE coastal areas in Davao City will be officially classified as marine protected areas (MPA) under a proposed ordinance, filed by the committee on environment and natural resources at the City Council.

The measure also seeks the establishment and management of the city's marine protected areas.

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These areas include: Lasang-Bunawan, where whale sharks can be found; Centro Agdao, which is ideal as fish sanctuary due to the presence of coral reefs; and Punta Dumalag in Matina Aplaya, which is the nesting place of "pawikan" or turtles.

Councilor Leonardo Avila III said Friday that committee hearings are ongoing and they are set to finish the report within two weeks, which will be submitted for the perusal and deliberation of the council as a whole.

Avila said the ordinance would include the creation of a MPA division under the Office of the City Mayor and a local MPA board in the barangay level to encourage the participation of residents in the protection of their marine resources.

Mechanisms will also be put in place to sustain the projects through public sector partnerships aside from setting up livelihood programs.

Avila said that hopefully the council will approve the creation of centers in those areas where the local board can accept visitors or hold lectures.

The MPAs are also targeted to be local landmarks aimed at attracting local and foreign visitors.

Saturday, February 03, 2007
Bio-fuels law to trigger aggie revolution: Zubiri
By Antonio M. Ajero

THE newly approved Biofuels Act will trigger a virtual agro-industrial revolution in the countryside, according to Bukidnon Representative Juan Miguel Zubiri.

Zubiri told Davao mediamen that the new law requires fuel companies to mix gasoline with five percent bio-ethanol by 2008.

On the other hand, by April or May this year, gasoline firms should have a one percent bio-diesel blended with the diesel they are selling.

He said ethanol will be made of sugarcane, cassava, corn and sweet sorghum, while bio-diesel will come from coconut, jetropa (tuba-tuba) and palm oil.

"It will be a bonanza to farmers who will now be given a second market for their produce," Zubiri said.

At present, sugar planters only have sugar mills to sell their product to and they are at the mercy of fluctuating prices in the world market.

If the prices are depressed, the farmers are helpless because they do not have an alternative market. Not anymore, the Biofuels Act will provide sugar farmers a second market, Zubiri said.

This early, he said, records of the Board of Investments indicate that a total of 15 big investors have applied for pioneering status for bio-ethanol plants and another group of investors seeking to establish five bio-diesel plants

For instance, he said, two investors are establishing ethanol plants in Bukidnon -- one in Quezon and the other in Kibawe side.

He said one plant is being proposed in Cagayan Valley, and another one in Tarlac, which will save the sugar industry imperiled by the closure of Hacienda Luisita.

In addition, two other plants are planned in Pampanga, two also in Batangas, one in Cagayan de Oro, one in Sarangani, and two in Davao del Sur.

Once operational, the ethanol plans will raise sugar prices, aside from triggering a boom in employment and secondary business activities in the countryside, he said.

He said it is a must that the plants will be established in the rural areas because it is where the bio-fuel feed stocks are planted.

Saturday, February 03, 2007
Bio-fuels law to trigger aggie revolution: Zubiri
By Antonio M. Ajero

THE newly approved Biofuels Act will trigger a virtual agro-industrial revolution in the countryside, according to Bukidnon Representative Juan Miguel Zubiri.

Zubiri told Davao mediamen that the new law requires fuel companies to mix gasoline with five percent bio-ethanol by 2008.

On the other hand, by April or May this year, gasoline firms should have a one percent bio-diesel blended with the diesel they are selling.

He said ethanol will be made of sugarcane, cassava, corn and sweet sorghum, while bio-diesel will come from coconut, jetropa (tuba-tuba) and palm oil.

"It will be a bonanza to farmers who will now be given a second market for their produce," Zubiri said.

At present, sugar planters only have sugar mills to sell their product to and they are at the mercy of fluctuating prices in the world market.

If the prices are depressed, the farmers are helpless because they do not have an alternative market. Not anymore, the Biofuels Act will provide sugar farmers a second market, Zubiri said.

This early, he said, records of the Board of Investments indicate that a total of 15 big investors have applied for pioneering status for bio-ethanol plants and another group of investors seeking to establish five bio-diesel plants

For instance, he said, two investors are establishing ethanol plants in Bukidnon -- one in Quezon and the other in Kibawe side.

He said one plant is being proposed in Cagayan Valley, and another one in Tarlac, which will save the sugar industry imperiled by the closure of Hacienda Luisita.

In addition, two other plants are planned in Pampanga, two also in Batangas, one in Cagayan de Oro, one in Sarangani, and two in Davao del Sur.

Once operational, the ethanol plans will raise sugar prices, aside from triggering a boom in employment and secondary business activities in the countryside, he said.

He said it is a must that the plants will be established in the rural areas because it is where the bio-fuel feed stocks are planted.

^^ ^^ :okay:

asa ni dapit?

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/181/377421283_b95e535571.jpg?v=0

mas mahal diay ang spag sa atoa? more than a dollar ang isa ka pack :ohno:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/183/371750853_8f18c218cf.jpg?v=0

^^ great pix!

saan nga ulit located yung first ever condo unit of Davao???

asa ni dapit?

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/181/377421283_b95e535571.jpg?v=0

Murag sa Bajada man na Jude

saan nga ulit located yung first ever condo unit of Davao???

Sa DM Consunji property adjacent to the SM City Davao vacant lot.

^^^^ thanks.....

mas mahal diay ang spag sa atoa? more than a dollar ang isa ka pack :ohno:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/183/371750853_8f18c218cf.jpg?v=0

Di ba 2kg ang nakalagay sa package? Kung 2kg nga, puwede na yung presyo.:)

JB

Sa DM Consunji property adjacent to the SM City Davao vacant lot.

The first condos built in Davao were sold in the 80s..Sa Insular Village...

JB

^^

noted

there was also one condo building inside juna subd... three story high, if i remember it right parang mga 1978 yoon na construct...
dito banda....(within the red mark)
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199 days to go!!!! Kadayawan Festival na!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yeeeeeeeeeeeeeppppppppppppppppppppppeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

there was also one condo building inside juna subd... three story high, if i remember it right parang mga 1978 yoon na construct...
dito banda....(within the red mark)
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h129/rajah_soliman/9999%20DAVAO%20PIX/junasubd.jpg


There's relots of condos at the Dela Cruz/Luna Streets too and they were there since early 80s.

and less than 11 months na lang, christmas na sad, hihihi.

and southgate sa una bai didto sa aldevinco bldg tupad sa lawaan.

Maayong hapon diha Paul.

Di ba Paul katong dapit sa unahan sa South Gate Promotions office sa Luna going east halos puro man to didto mga condo?

Daming trabaho sa Davao ah! :)


PIA Daily News Reader

PIA Press Release
2007/02/03

Two Davao mining projects operational
by Prix D Banzon

Davao City (3 February) -- Two mining projects are now operational in the Davao Region according to Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB-XI) regional director Engr. Edilberto Arreza as he cited the Apex Mining Corporation under the operation of Crew Gold Philippines and Holcim, Philippines as the two current mining operations in the region.

Apex, of which 70% is owned by Norwegian-British Crew Gold Philippines has produced their first gold volume.

Apex is located in barangay Theresa in Maco, Compostela Valley Province and Crew started to develop the property last year. It now has employed 1,200 workers (800 permanent, 200 casuals, and 200 employed by contractors). Most of the workers are indigenous peoples.

He said as part of their social responsibility, the community has built two schools buildings with four classrooms.

The current capacity of Apex Mining is at 500 tons per day and Crew intends to increase to its maximum capacity after six months to 2,500.

The other operational project is that of Holcim, Philippines that mines limestone in Bunawan, Davao City and silica in Dawan, Mati, Davao Oriental.

Meanwhile Arreza said that one of the major mining projects of the region, Hallmark Nickel Project operated by BHB Biliton in Pujada, Mati, Davao Oriental had shipped out 40 tons of soil containing nickel to Australia for meteorological testing.

He said once the feasibility study will be complete the mining will proceed. The operation was initially projected to start by 2010 but once the study will be finalized earlier they will start with the mining activity.

As far as North Davao Mining Corporation is concerned, the Chinese investor ZTE after determining the area found that it cannot meet the cost of operations and instead came up with a consortium composed of seven Chinese investors.

“But up to this time there has no bidding yet,” he said.

The third major project that is the Kingking Mines of Benguet Mining is still looking for partners. Right now the operator is still in the process of how to divide their property into tenements – one for gold and the other for copper.

Several works are still needed be done at the Diwalwal mining area and up to this time no investor has come in, he said. Service contract miners and small scale miners are still operating in the area, Arreza added. (PIA XI) [top]

yehey!!! im gonna bring my baby to Davao.... excited nako for Kadayawan! yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepppppeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!

and southgate sa una bai didto sa aldevinco bldg tupad sa lawaan.

Sorry, I was talking about Monde Publications which had its office at the ground floor of Mr. Maiquez' residence in that area.

yehey!!! im gonna bring my baby to Davao.... excited nako for Kadayawan! yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepppppeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!

So kapapanganak lang pala ng wifey mo TJ?:lol:

PIA Press Release
2007/02/03

TF Diwalwal brings social gains
By Mai Gevera

Davao City (3 February) -- Different national government agencies working to protect and develop Mt. Diwata, Diwalwal of Monkayo, Compostella Valley Province have brought in social benefits to the area and residents since last year.

In education, more than 200 learners have enrolled in the Accreditation and Equivalency System/Program which enables learners to be accelerated to a higher grade level if they get to pass an examination. Last February, 2006, about ten of the 33 examination takers passed; five from the elementary while the other five are from the secondary level.

To further reach the educational needs of children from far-flung barangay, the Department of Education reproduced 125 Alternative and Equivalency Learning modules.

Besides formal education, the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) conducted an Advance Skills Training on Jewelry Making. The Department of Labor and Employment conducted training on Organizational Management and Basic Entrepreneurship for the leaders of the United Tribal Council Elders as well as to the tribal youth leaders.

Barangay Mt. Diwata, with 40,000 inhabitants, was a priority concern of the Department of Health. DOH has constructed six public toilets and sent in four health personnel; a doctor, two midwives, and a medical technologist. There was also a continuous delivery of basic health services especially for maternal care and women’s health. Services like immunization, pre-natal childcare, malaria and dengue, and health assessment of high-risk individuals are the common services that reach the area.

The Department of Agriculture also participated in the task force activities. It distributed 700 assorted vegetables seeds which were planted by the Diwalwal residents for their daily consumption. Residents also learned about meat processing through the skills development training conducted by the same agency.

Department of Environment and Natural Resources Regional Executive Director Ricardo Calderon bared that the creation of TF Diwalwal is an important step for the national government to also benefit from the mineral resources of the said mining area.

“It is about time that the government should come in so that the whole country can also feel the benefits of this resource,” he said.

Calderon admitted that gearing towards such direction is a Herculean task especially with the various interests of private mining companies operating in the area.

However, with the different government offices working together, the goals of TF Diwalwal are attainable. (PIA XI) [top]

and southgate sa una bai didto sa aldevinco bldg tupad sa lawaan.

that was monde advertising/magazine you were referring to.

Sorry, I was talking about Monde Publications which had its office at the ground floor of Mr. Maiquez' residence in that area.

yup. worked there freelancing doing that magazine before with tata lao. dolly marques is our ninang sa kasal (with elaine valencia and limso).

^^

I contributed an article to the Monde Magazine in '87 I guess that's why I know MR. Marquez.

So kapapanganak lang pala ng wifey mo TJ?:lol:

^^^^ waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...ang bata ko pa para maging dada! :nuts: :nuts: uyab oi....

^^

I know, I was just kidding you!:)

ahihihihi...i know... okie dokie doke!!!!

Good morning Davao! Good afternoon US and Canada. Good early morning Eastern Europe.

DAVAO CITY

wala lang..intro lang ng US CONSULATE :)

http://www.usvirtualconsulatedavao.org.ph/abtdavao.html

Davao City is a sprawling metropolis with almost 1.5 million people located in the southeastern part of Mindanao. It is one of the largest cities in the world in terms of land area, covering 943 square miles (2,443.61 square kilometers). The city is approximately 587 miles (946 kilometers) from Manila.

Davao CityIt is blessed with natural resources and beauty. The soil is fertile and rich in minerals. The city has an abundant source of potable water. Located in a typhoon-free zone, its tropical weather is characterized by temperatures ranging from 59-93 degrees Farenheit (15-34 degrees Celsius).

Strategically located in the Asia-Pacific rim, the city serves as a gateway to the world. It is a key player in the flourishing industrial hub called the Brunei-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area or BIMP-EAGA. Considered by many as the de facto capital of Mindanao, the city's location provides easy access and linkage to the 20 million residents of Mindanao and 51 million residents of the East ASEAN Growth Area.

On the west, the city's boundary line cuts through Mount Apo, the highest peak in the Philippines. This inactive volcano soars 10,308 feet (3,142 meters) above sea level. Views from the peak towards the east include vast plains, unspoiled forests, fertile valleys, navigable rivers, the sprawling metropolis and world-class beaches facing the Davao gulf.

With a predominantly immigrant population, the city is a melting pot of cultures where diversities are appreciated and nurtured in a harmonious and peaceful environment. Major languages and dialects used in the city are Filipino, Chinese, English and Cebuano. The city has an urban density of roughly 5860 persons per square mile (2,262 per square kilometer).


The city has one of the highest literacy rates in Asia at 98.3%. Its labor force is cited as among the best in the region: educated, easily trainable, industrious, and English-speaking.

As Mindanao's center of commerce, trade, and services, the city's modern infrastructures and world-class utilities provide viable support to economic activities.

It's urban center is home to quality residential and commercial units complete with modern facilities and amenities at very reasonable prices. Access is fast and easy to utilities such as power, water, landlines and mobile phones with IDD features, cable TV networks, and Internet service providers.


Davao City is a place of perfect balance. It is fast-paced yet relaxed where luxuries of cosmopolitan living complement the breathtaking beauty of the great outdoors.

As the country's urban gateway to natural wonders and heritage, Davao City is an investment haven where business and leisure blend.

oh, di ba inaayos na nating ang transport/traffic system?

DAVAO CITY, Feb 12 Asia Pulse - To have a strong competitive edge within the Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines-East Asean Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA), Davao needs adequate infrastructure support, particularly in urban transportation system.

"The Davao metropolitan area should have a good mechanism for a continuing program in transport-related policy review and analysis," according to University of the Philippines in Mindanao-School of Management Prof. Manuel Javier said.

Javier said this is imperative because the emerging Davao metropolis is expected to become an international gateway and transhipment hub in the southern island of Mindanao.

The UP-Mindanao professor made a research on the "Transport and Traffic Management in the Davao Metropolitan Area", a study on the metropolitanization of Davao which had been undertaken in the past six years.

Traffic management seems to be the most accepted as a metropolitan problem, according to Javier. "One may advocate that the Davao metropolitan area may be called a de facto capital of BIMP-EAGA," he said.

The area, he added, has the distribution and processing functions that will be conducive to the formation of an industrial logistics center...

http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/summary_0199-2599052_ITM

mangutana lang ko, naa moy population history sa davao? seeing nga ang population sa davao is almost 1.5million, kanus-a man nagsugod ug kadaghan ang population sa davao?

GoodmorningDAVAO

There's relots of condos at the Dela Cruz/Luna Streets too and they were there since early 80s.

i remember, there are also a lot of "condos" inside the chinatown area, owned by the chinese and inhabited by the chinese :sleepy: :runaway:

^^ i thought more than 1.5 million na daw ta

i remember, there are also a lot of "condos" inside the chinatown area, owned by the chinese and inhabited by the chinese :sleepy: :runaway:

speaking of chinese here is a tidbit of their davao history ....



Gems of History by Go Bon Juan

The Chinese who stayed
September 19, 2006

Buying land is foolish?
That?Äôs exactly what early Chinese migrants in Davao believed. And it took a fellow migrant, Lim Juna (pronounced hun-a), to prove them wrong.
Lim Juna?Äôs story is recounted in the book Davao: Reconstructing History from Text and Memory written by Prof. Macario D. Tiu of the Ateneo de Davao University. The book won this year?Äôs National Book Awards for Best in History.
?ÄúThrough the Spanish Jesuit letters, we learn of the presence of Chinese traders in Davao as early as in the 1860s. But we do not know exactly how many Chinese were around. During the American period, at least six Chinese names appeared in a 1904 list of 45 important planters in Davao prepared by District Governor Edward C. Bolton. One of the names was Juna Padda.?Äù (Let me add that based on 1903 census, there were 14 Chinese in Davao in a population of 6,059.)
Juna Padda is Francisco Villa-Abrille Lim Juna of Lim Juna (Lim Chuan Jun ?ûó?Ö®?ä¨). The name Juna must have come from the third character ?ä¨. Although his real Chinese name is Jun, he became more known as Juna as Chinese are fond of addressing people by adding ?Äúa?Äù to the last character of one?Äôs name.
Lim Juna was to become famous in Davao with several places named after him. Juna is the name of a classy subdivision in Matina, Davao City. In addition, his baptismal name, Villa-Abrille, is a street name in downtown Davao.
Excerpts from Tiu?Äôs account on Juna:
Lim Juna (Lim Chuan Jun) was born around 1850 in Tong Sua, Fukien, China. Family tradition says he came to the Philippines at the age of 12 years, but it is not clear as to where he first arrived in the Philippines. One tradition says he went to Manila first before proceeding to Jolo, while another says he went directly to Jolo. Whatever the case may be, it is said that in Jolo, he worked for a Spanish master, and having saved money, started his own pearl diving business.
In 1882, at the age of 32 years, Juna and his wife, Tan Sipo, moved to Davao. By the time, he had earned a name as one of the few moneyed pearl traders in Jolo, and was now prepared to move on to Davao, ?Äúa more progressive town.?Äù His first business venture was a sari-sari store in Piapi, now on Quezon Boulevard. He sold general merchandise, including fishing paraphernalia and beans, corn, rice, tobacco and abaca.
According to family tradition, Juna acquired his vast tracts of land when a Spanish official who was leaving Davao forced him to buy the land that the Spaniard owned.
When Juna purchased land in the downtown area, the other Chinese residents joked about it among themselves. Most of the Chinese migrants thought of their stay in the Philippines as only temporary. After earning some money, they planned to go home to China. They did not think of Davao or any place else as their permanent home and therefore thought it foolish that a Chinaman would be buying land which he would not bring back to China.
Of course, Juna made Davao his permanent home. He died in 1943 during the Japanese Occupation, at around 93 years old.
Juna bequeathed to his children vast tracts of land that did not only benefit his immediate family but also the entire residents of Davao through his generous donations of land for roads, schools, a hospital and other sites for public use. To mention a few, parts of the land of Ateneo de Davao University (at the Matina campus), the Philippine Women?Äôs College, and the Davao Central High School (formerly the Davao Chinese High School) were donated by Juna. The lots occupied by the Davao Chapter of the Philippine Boy Scouts and the Davao General Hospital (now the Mental Hospital) were also donated by Juna.
For his contributions that helped in hastening the development of Davao, Francisco Villa-Abrille Lim Juna was posthumously given the Datu Bago Award in 1969. The Datu Bago Award is the highest honor that the city of Davao can give to a resident of Davao. A Chinese migrant who dared the rigor of pioneer life in Davao and helped make it grow. Lim Juna indeed belongs to Davao.
The significance of the story of Lim Juna of Davao is that it demonstrates how an early migrant Chinese identified himself and eventually rooted in Philippine soil and became part of our land and our country. So whenever Tsinoys buy land in their country, it is a good indication that they treat the land as their home. And no other sojourner Chinese will think it foolish.

http://www.kaisa.ph/tulay/gems.html

trivia: pre-war(world war II) population of Davao is around 78,000 , 18,000 are Japanese.

Gems of History by Go Bon Juan

The Chinese who stayed
September 19, 2006

Buying land is foolish?
That?Äôs exactly what early Chinese migrants in Davao believed. And it took a fellow migrant, Lim Juna (pronounced hun-a), to prove them wrong.
Lim Juna?Äôs story is recounted in the book Davao: Reconstructing History from Text and Memory written by Prof. Macario D. Tiu of the Ateneo de Davao University. The book won this year?Äôs National Book Awards for Best in History.
?ÄúThrough the Spanish Jesuit letters, we learn of the presence of Chinese traders in Davao as early as in the 1860s. But we do not know exactly how many Chinese were around. During the American period, at least six Chinese names appeared in a 1904 list of 45 important planters in Davao prepared by District Governor Edward C. Bolton. One of the names was Juna Padda.?Äù (Let me add that based on 1903 census, there were 14 Chinese in Davao in a population of 6,059.)
Juna Padda is Francisco Villa-Abrille Lim Juna of Lim Juna (Lim Chuan Jun ?ûó?Ö®?ä¨). The name Juna must have come from the third character ?ä¨. Although his real Chinese name is Jun, he became more known as Juna as Chinese are fond of addressing people by adding ?Äúa?Äù to the last character of one?Äôs name.
Lim Juna was to become famous in Davao with several places named after him. Juna is the name of a classy subdivision in Matina, Davao City. In addition, his baptismal name, Villa-Abrille, is a street name in downtown Davao.
Excerpts from Tiu?Äôs account on Juna:
Lim Juna (Lim Chuan Jun) was born around 1850 in Tong Sua, Fukien, China. Family tradition says he came to the Philippines at the age of 12 years, but it is not clear as to where he first arrived in the Philippines. One tradition says he went to Manila first before proceeding to Jolo, while another says he went directly to Jolo. Whatever the case may be, it is said that in Jolo, he worked for a Spanish master, and having saved money, started his own pearl diving business.
In 1882, at the age of 32 years, Juna and his wife, Tan Sipo, moved to Davao. By the time, he had earned a name as one of the few moneyed pearl traders in Jolo, and was now prepared to move on to Davao, ?Äúa more progressive town.?Äù His first business venture was a sari-sari store in Piapi, now on Quezon Boulevard. He sold general merchandise, including fishing paraphernalia and beans, corn, rice, tobacco and abaca.
According to family tradition, Juna acquired his vast tracts of land when a Spanish official who was leaving Davao forced him to buy the land that the Spaniard owned.
When Juna purchased land in the downtown area, the other Chinese residents joked about it among themselves. Most of the Chinese migrants thought of their stay in the Philippines as only temporary. After earning some money, they planned to go home to China. They did not think of Davao or any place else as their permanent home and therefore thought it foolish that a Chinaman would be buying land which he would not bring back to China.
Of course, Juna made Davao his permanent home. He died in 1943 during the Japanese Occupation, at around 93 years old.
Juna bequeathed to his children vast tracts of land that did not only benefit his immediate family but also the entire residents of Davao through his generous donations of land for roads, schools, a hospital and other sites for public use. To mention a few, parts of the land of Ateneo de Davao University (at the Matina campus), the Philippine Women?Äôs College, and the Davao Central High School (formerly the Davao Chinese High School) were donated by Juna. The lots occupied by the Davao Chapter of the Philippine Boy Scouts and the Davao General Hospital (now the Mental Hospital) were also donated by Juna.
For his contributions that helped in hastening the development of Davao, Francisco Villa-Abrille Lim Juna was posthumously given the Datu Bago Award in 1969. The Datu Bago Award is the highest honor that the city of Davao can give to a resident of Davao. A Chinese migrant who dared the rigor of pioneer life in Davao and helped make it grow. Lim Juna indeed belongs to Davao.
The significance of the story of Lim Juna of Davao is that it demonstrates how an early migrant Chinese identified himself and eventually rooted in Philippine soil and became part of our land and our country. So whenever Tsinoys buy land in their country, it is a good indication that they treat the land as their home. And no other sojourner Chinese will think it foolish.

http://www.kaisa.ph/tulay/gems.html

^^ ^^ XieXie!!! :okay: :sleepy:

Diary of the War: WW II Memoirs of Lt. Col. Anastacio Campo
annotated by Maria Virginia Yap Morales

CHAPTER 1 REMEMBERING GRANDFATHER

Memory is the wellspring of our self-worth. As individuals, when we are able to tell our own stories, we begin to wipe clean the dirt and smudges on the mirror we hold up to view ourselves.

This is the story of my Grandfather Tacio’s remembrances of the Second World War in Davao City. Reading his memoir had led me to grow in my own awareness of our personal lives as they intersect with the grand sweep of history.

I begin this story on that hot, scorching day in April–May 2000, when I stood for an hour on the pavement fronting the supermarket in the commercially prosperous Santa Ana District of Davao City. I had joined groups of women dressed in white, silently holding a hurriedly written placard for anyone who cared to see—Give Peace a Chance!

Three hours away by car, war was raging in the neighboring province of Maguindanao. That day, one of forty spent in various populated downtown areas in the heat of the noonday sun, I shared the frustration felt by many an antiwar protester: peace talks between the government and a rebel group scuttled yet again; the Philippine Armed Forces bombing of Camp Abubakar; the hundreds of thousands of suffering Filipino civilians caught in the cross fire, mostly Muslims who had fled their homes for the hot and crowded evacuation centers.

From where I stood I heard the occasional shouts of young boys calling out for passengers and the sound of motor vehicles whooshing by along busy Oyanguren Street. I saw passengers sitting quietly in jeepneysthat would take them home for lunch and give them a break from the heat. A few of them gave the placards a passing glance.

If the passengers had taken the jeepney ride from the Bankerohan Public Market going toward Magallanes Street, they would have passed by the historic downtown streets of Davao City. They would have passed by the back of the City Hall built in the 1930s; the recently built heavy concrete Legislative Hall (that bears little resemblance to the original wooden structure that featured grand staircases and verandas); and as the vehicle turned left toward Claveria Street, they would have seen a monument of the great Katipunero who led the Philippine Revolution against Spain in 1896. They would have briefly felt the comforting shade of a few young trees that remain in the park now too small for a metropolis of more than 1 million. Somewhere in this small park is a stage before which stands the statue of the national hero Jose Rizal.

The first urban plan of Davao was drawn up by the first Catholic settlement established in 1848. It consisted of four parallel pathways and four intersecting roadways. The native inhabitants called the people who lived in that part of the land that is now the Davao City poblacion “taga-Dabaw,” meaning people who live by the river. There were three settlements along the river then: the small Catholic settlement of 100 Mandaya and their Catholic spouses from Luzon and the Visayas led by the Spaniard Oyanguren; the native settlements of the Maguindanao with about four thousand inhabitants who lived along the coast, at the mouth of the river; and the Bagobo who established their homes farther up along the river, and brought down their produce to trade across it.

The native settlements disappeared in the 1900s and new settlers came to inhabit the Davao poblacion. This explains why the town center today is not located along the Davao Gulf, but a little farther away from the coast and from the Davao River.

Farther down Claveria Street, the passengers would have seen the first intersection, San Pedro Street. On this road, in front of the Catholic church and the Legislative Hall, stands an imposing bronze monument of the City’s ancestral figures, a centennial marker built in 2000 to commemorate 100 years of peace building among groups of people who were wary of each other, but who managed to live together along the Davao River. Leaders of the Spanish settlement had chosen the area because there were many edible ferns along the riverbank as well as springs for drinking water. The river itself, a rich source of food, provided easy access to transportation. The Maguindanao, who were Muslims, and the animist Bagobo, who were the original occupants at the mouth of the river, feared they would be subjugated and forced to become Catholics. The Lumad Datus regarded the Spanish settlement as a threat to their leadership and territorial possessions, and possible loss of the tribute they collected from their slaves or constituents.

In December 1898, Spain ceded its Philippine colony to the United States. The leaderless Spanish settlement was in turmoil. The Maguindanao leaders accepted the Spanish priests’ authority over the settlement, and assured the residents of protection in the event of invasion by other native or Bisaya settler groups. After a series of negotiations with fractious groups, weapons were collected and residents returned to their homes. The Davao poblacion was a peaceful town when the Americans came a year later on December 20, 1899.

Except for this centennial monument, there is little architectural landmark to remind the Dabawenyos of their history and heritage. There are, however, art-and-craft centers selling indigenous Filipino handicraft, perhaps the only other reminder that Davao is home to twelve identified culturally diverse communities that uninterruptedly inhabited this land for hundreds of years. Old-timers have even lamented the renaming of Davao City streets.

A twelve-seater brown multicab, a smaller and plainer version of the jeepney, stopped right in front of our line of peace-placard-bearing women on Oyanguren Street. The passengers seemed oblivious to disco music that blared from the public vehicles on that hot day. There were no worried looks on the sun-browned faces even as newspaper headlines peddled by newsboys screamed “War in Mindanao!”

It was on that day when I remembered my grandfather, perhaps on account of the looming reality of war and the apathy I saw on the faces of Dabawenyos. Grandfather suffered from degenerative atrophy of the nerves, and toward the last years of his life he had difficulty breathing and was carried from bed to wheelchair, which he propelled himself by pushing its wheels. His physician, my father, said that the disease had to do with the prolonged torture and incarceration he suffered under the Japanese Kempei-tai during the Second World War.

Grandfather is remembered as the provincial commander Capt. Anastacio Campo (provincial inspector) of Davao, his last assignment before he retired after twenty-four years of military service in December 1939. He was farming when Davao was bombed by the Japanese forces. He promptly joined the United States Army Forces in the Far East (USAFFE) which was organized by Pres. Franklin Delano Roosevelt in July 1941. At the time, the Philippines was in a transition period called the Philippine Commonwealth under U.S. rule. Grandfather was promoted to major during the war. He finally retired thereafter, in July 1948, with an upgraded rank of lieutenant colonel.

Grandfather’s seventy-five years, from 1892 to 1967, spanned significant periods in Philippine history. He graduated from the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) in 1915 at twenty-three. He was a Philippine Constabulary (PC) officer and provincial commander in the major islands of the country. The places where his nine children were born and raised testify to the span of this military service under the American colonial regime, and under the Philippine Army (PA) that was organized by Pres. Manuel Quezon in early 1938. He was promoted to lieutenant in the Philippine Constabulary in 1917; assigned to Iloilo, Capiz (1921); promoted to captain in 1924, then assigned to Palawan, Cotabato (1925); Surigao (1926); Nueva Vizcaya (1928); Abra (1930); Bacolod (1933); Cagayan de Oro (1934); Zamboanga (1937); Antique, and Davao (1939).

I remembered him wearing his favorite off-white loose cotton shirt as he stood in the middle of the sunlit living room. The big windows let in the green lushness of the garden of decorative palm trees, orchids, bougainvillea, and a mango tree out front. He said, “A time will come, Filipinos will realize that Filipinos have been killing Filipinos.”

After the war, Grandfather lost the strength of both of his legs and walked with the aid of a cane. But he always stood tall and lean, with a straight back owing to his military training. He had deep-set and attentive eyes, a tall nose, a calm manner. He was fondly called “Tacio” by my Grandmother Remedios, whom he called “Meding.” All of us grandchildren called him “Lolo Tacio.” Those who knew him in the military service called him “Captain.”

His gentle presence came with practical attitudes toward life. Always busy in his workshop after the war, he produced functional products like cement property markers, flush toilets, and water heaters. He put up a sawmill business, then a kiln to fire his mass-produced clay sculptures. Tita Nena, the second Campo child, told me that even in the days before the war, Grandfather did not like it if you mentioned the word “buy,” preferring to make dresses, coffee, albums, washing machines, or window blinds himself. He even tried to make margarine. He was also fond of writing down quotations for his children, for example, “The early bird catches the worm.”

The first time I left Davao to enroll at the university in Manila in the 1960s Grandmother Meding and Grandfather Tacio, leaning on his cane, met me at the busy Manila airport. He and Grandmother lived in Makati near the airport from 1958 to 1960. While in Manila, he marketed his ceramic products and “Mindanao Coffee” for which he even composed a jingle (“If you drink this special blend, you will be as strong as an elephant”). When the time came to go to the university, which was quite a distance from where they lived, my grandfather prevailed upon my grandmother not to take a taxi, which was expensive. I ended up carrying my heavy suitcase to the corner, and up the bus that the three of us rode to Diliman, Quezon City.

He always thought of ways and means to earn and persuaded fellow veterans to pool meager capital together for cooperative projects after the war. One of the projects he proposed was an improved water transportation system.

Lolo Tacio must have made a deep impression on me. Through the years I find myself buying only necessities, delighting in vintage stuff even before these became the trend, and involving myself in advocacy and community work.

Right after the war, the Campo family, like many others, was broke. Remittance of Grandfather’s back pay was delayed. The family home was mortgaged to a bank so Lolo Tacio persistently followed up on his pension and benefits at Camp Crame. And like many war veterans, he looked forward to equity, pension, and disability benefits from the United States government. He never got them.

Fortunately my Grandmother Meding was an enterprising woman and greatly helped to support the family through buy-and-sell of varied commodities and selling cooked food. The older children helped by working at a young age. The family later sold the farm located in Barrio Talomo, Abaca, Kapalong, Davao Norte, 50 hectares of which were planted to hemp that is locally called abaca. They had lost the work animals and farm implements during the war.

In November 1999, thirty-two years after Grandfather’s death, his children wrote to the Army Record Center in Missouri, U.S.A., asking that the center take a definite step toward the long-delayed recognition and compensation from the USAFFE. According to this letter, Grandfather had become so ill toward the end of his days that he was not able to follow up his claims. This was worsened by his profound disillusionment over the injustice and the disallowed claim and privileges denied him and his family.

I remember Lolo Tacio as an avid audience to family singing, and storytelling, dancing, and although he didn’t play mahjong, it was part of the weekly ritual gathering of the growing Campo clan. All told there are 36 grandchildren, 66 great-grandchildren, and 1 ancestral grandchild, as of this writing. In these gatherings I remember the prewar piano always tinkling a melody in the background, or as accompaniment to singing. His children Fely, Nena, Jose, Fe, Julio, Caridad, Norma, Thelma, and Arturo, had their own favorite pieces. Lolo Tacio would occasionally play the piano but only in black keys. Most of the grandchildren could play one or two musical pieces, recite a poem, sing and/or dance in these weekly family gatherings.

I remember that when I was two and a half years old (after the war), I was once so upset by playmates who told me that I was not a real grandchild of the family. I ran up the backstairs to the second floor of the house to find Grandmother Meding in the kitchen. When she saw me, she started saying that one must cut the vegetables uniformly so that they would cook at the same time. But seeing me in tears, she stopped what she was doing and sat with me. Embracing me she explained that Lolo Tacio had a first wife who died, who was the mother of Fely, my mother; that he had married a second time. I must have been so comforted by my grandmother’s words that I never found any reason to ask any more about my being “not a real grandchild of the family” from my mother or my grandfather.

In the last year of his life, Aunt Thelma, second to the youngest of the Campo children, said Grandfather was mostly reading the Bible, and was regularly visited by friends from the Knights of Columbus (who had ministered the Holy Eucharist to him). Or he would be out in the garden supervising the filling up of a crater at the back of the ancestral home. In the war, at least five incendiary bombs hit the Campo home but these did not explode. The Campo residence was one of the very few buildings that miraculously survived the conflagration.

Three things that Arturo whom I call Uncle Bibo, the youngest Campo child, remembers most about his father were trips to the log pond for his sawmill business, the bank, and the bookstore. Uncle Bibo said that in the log pond, Grandfather allowed him to play but kept an eye on him lest he got into trouble. When he was in the third grade he was instructed on the importance of savings. Lolo Tacio even opened a bank account for him. He remembers seeing many interesting things in the bookstore, like crayons and pencils, but Grandfather chose to give him a book on Jose Rizal, explaining to him why Rizal had died, i.e., that the national hero died fighting for his beliefs, and one should always fight for what one believes, and the Filipino should never bow to any foreign colonizer.

Uncle Bibo remembers that although Grandfather was a homebody, he was never idle. He regularly wrote articles for the Free Press about local government inaction, Davao prospects, politicking, American government inaction on pension for veterans. He wrote everyday. He had a notebook crammed with notes, records of family milestones like birthdays, parties, celebrations. Apparently, even love letters were filed.

All these were kept in Lolo Tacio’s filing cabinet—a secretary desk Grandfather made himself with several shelves, the size of airmail envelopes, and everything that was filed was folded in the size of the envelopes. Unfortunately the family lost most documents through the years. The documents were filed unlabeled. The filing cabinet had two drawers on both sides beneath the writing table. The four desk drawers had labels. This desk was in Grandfather’s room on the second floor of the ancestral home, until it was moved to another house built at the back of the old home when he was incapacitated.

Lolo Tacio did not seem to mind that Uncle Bibo, who was only one and one half years older than I, made his workshop also our play area. Sand, gravel, cement, and clay were a fun playground for us. I constantly peeked into Grandfather’s big, mysterious-looking desk, which had many shelves and compartments that contained letters, pictures, small objects, coins, and documents.

It was Uncle Bibo who discovered Lolo Tacio’s reminiscences of his early childhood in Romblon and journals on the Second World War.

Of that war, Davao historian Rogelio Lizada in his book Sang-awun sa Dabaw [A Century in Davao] recalls his return to Davao City in 1945 after four years of refuge in their family farm. Entering the city from San Pedro corner Tomas Claudio, he saw “charred posts standing, twisted iron bars, scattered burned roofing . . . San Pedro church, the acacia tree and the unhampered view made the sea and its horizon beyond, visible.”

DAVaO WAS A SMALL TOWN before the war. It had three commercial thoroughfares, namely, San Pedro, Claveria, and Oyanguren, which ended at the Liberty Monument of a gigantic ministering angel, and the nearby Santa Ana wharf. The other minor streets were Magallanes, Legazpi, Rizal, Anda, Bolton, Bonifacio (formerly Escario), and Ponciano Reyes. Quezon Boulevard and Governor Carpenter Streets were causeways. Tomas Claudio was the boundary at the other end.

The prewar Davao City poblacion was lined with trees. The nearly one hundred thousand inhabitants were a cosmopolitan mixof Filipinos, Americans, Japanese, Spaniards and Chinese. The city was filled with parks and monuments. The city’s architecture was the physical encryption of Dabawenyo history and heritage, combining the best of native Filipino, Eastern, and Western influences, generously partaking of the cultural blessings of each.

The early Filipino bamboo and nipa house with a veranda and ground-floor storage made abundant use of native materials: wood from the forest that provided whole logs for posts, sawed into lumber for walls and floors, and framed capiz shells for windows. Early buildings featured geometric and abstracted okkil art. Okkil patterns were carved in wood and decorated interior and exterior walls, and roofs. These carvings were both decorative and functional in that they improved ventilation.

The original San Pedro Cathedral had towered over the town. Its twin turrets housed the bells that rang three times a day for prayers.

From San Pedro Street, Davao residents freely promenaded the white sands of the Gulf. My mother describes pockets of second-growth forests (called lati) around the city; wild fruits were for the picking, multicolored birds dotted the landscape, and streams of water were everywhere. With the almost-daily rain that fell in the early evenings, fruit trees, vegetables, flowers, and orchids grew in profusion in gardens and backyards. The sea was thick with fish and other food. In 1941 Davao was a veritable paradise for progeny.

Grandfather’s memoir of the war is a story of how he and his kind strove to preserve this paradise, this country, their home of homes.

http://www.ateneopress.org/vwSocscichap.asp?ID=109

^^kala ko Juna is Spanish name....huna huna lang diay nako....pag pronounce pala Hun.a. :D

^^ probably pronounced: Huy'nah :cheers:

^^ ^^ ^^ Sir Dinabaw, Let's add some pictures to the article :cheers:


If the passengers had taken the jeepney ride from the Bankerohan Public Market going toward Magallanes Street, they would have passed by the historic downtown streets of Davao City. They would have passed by the back of the City Hall built in the 1930s.


http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h129/rajah_soliman/9999%20DAVAO%20PIX/1937DavaoCityHall.jpg


The first urban plan of Davao was drawn up by the first Catholic settlement established in 1848. It consisted of four parallel pathways and four intersecting roadways. The native inhabitants called the people who lived in that part of the land that is now the Davao City poblacion “taga-Dabaw,” meaning people who live by the river. There were three settlements along the river then: the small Catholic settlement of 100 Mandaya and their Catholic spouses from Luzon and the Visayas led by the Spaniard Oyanguren; the native settlements of the Maguindanao with about four thousand inhabitants who lived along the coast, at the mouth of the river; and the Bagobo who established their homes farther up along the river, and brought down their produce to trade across it.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h129/rajah_soliman/9999%20DAVAO%20PIX/olddavaomap1862.jpg



The native settlements disappeared in the 1900s and new settlers came to inhabit the Davao poblacion. This explains why the town center today is not located along the Davao Gulf, but a little farther away from the coast and from the Davao River.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h129/rajah_soliman/9999%20DAVAO%20PIX/1937DavaoInagurationMilitaryParade0.jpg



Farther down Claveria Street, the passengers would have seen the first intersection, San Pedro Street. On this road, in front of the Catholic church and the Legislative Hall, stands an imposing bronze monument of the City’s ancestral figures, a centennial marker built in 2000 to commemorate 100 years of peace building among groups of people who were wary of each other, but who managed to live together along the Davao River. Leaders of the Spanish settlement had chosen the area because there were many edible ferns along the riverbank as well as springs for drinking water. The river itself, a rich source of food, provided easy access to transportation. The Maguindanao, who were Muslims, and the animist Bagobo, who were the original occupants at the mouth of the river, feared they would be subjugated and forced to become Catholics. The Lumad Datus regarded the Spanish settlement as a threat to their leadership and territorial possessions, and possible loss of the tribute they collected from their slaves or constituents.
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http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h129/rajah_soliman/9999%20DAVAO%20PIX/1920DavaoCommonwealthStatue.jpg

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In December 1898, Spain ceded its Philippine colony to the United States. The leaderless Spanish settlement was in turmoil. The Maguindanao leaders accepted the Spanish priests’ authority over the settlement, and assured the residents of protection in the event of invasion by other native or Bisaya settler groups. After a series of negotiations with fractious groups, weapons were collected and residents returned to their homes. The Davao poblacion was a peaceful town when the Americans came a year later on December 20, 1899.


Of that war, Davao historian Rogelio Lizada in his book Sang-awun sa Dabaw [A Century in Davao] recalls his return to Davao City in 1945 after four years of refuge in their family farm. Entering the city from San Pedro corner Tomas Claudio, he saw “charred posts standing, twisted iron bars, scattered burned roofing . . . San Pedro church, the acacia tree and the unhampered view made the sea and its horizon beyond, visible.”



DAVaO WAS A SMALL TOWN before the war. It had three commercial thoroughfares, namely, San Pedro, Claveria, and Oyanguren, which ended at the Liberty Monument of a gigantic ministering angel, and the nearby Santa Ana wharf. The other minor streets were Magallanes, Legazpi, Rizal, Anda, Bolton, Bonifacio (formerly Escario), and Ponciano Reyes. Quezon Boulevard and Governor Carpenter Streets were causeways. Tomas Claudio was the boundary at the other end.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h129/rajah_soliman/9999%20DAVAO%20PIX/1942davaostructures.jpg

The prewar Davao City poblacion was lined with trees. The nearly one hundred thousand inhabitants were a cosmopolitan mixof Filipinos, Americans, Japanese, Spaniards and Chinese. The city was filled with parks and monuments. The city’s architecture was the physical encryption of Dabawenyo history and heritage, combining the best of native Filipino, Eastern, and Western influences, generously partaking of the cultural blessings of each.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h129/rajah_soliman/9999%20DAVAO%20PIX/1942davaostructures.jpg

The early Filipino bamboo and nipa house with a veranda and ground-floor storage made abundant use of native materials: wood from the forest that provided whole logs for posts, sawed into lumber for walls and floors, and framed capiz shells for windows. Early buildings featured geometric and abstracted okkil art. Okkil patterns were carved in wood and decorated interior and exterior walls, and roofs. These carvings were both decorative and functional in that they improved ventilation.

The original San Pedro Cathedral had towered over the town. Its twin turrets housed the bells that rang three times a day for prayers.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h129/rajah_soliman/9999%20DAVAO%20PIX/sanpedrochurcholdcut.jpg
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h129/rajah_soliman/9999%20DAVAO%20PIX/davaocathedralslide01.jpg



From San Pedro Street, Davao residents freely promenaded the white sands of the Gulf. My mother describes pockets of second-growth forests (called lati) around the city; wild fruits were for the picking, multicolored birds dotted the landscape, and streams of water were everywhere. With the almost-daily rain that fell in the early evenings, fruit trees, vegetables, flowers, and orchids grew in profusion in gardens and backyards. The sea was thick with fish and other food. In 1941 Davao was a veritable paradise for progeny.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h129/rajah_soliman/9999%20DAVAO%20PIX/rivervondavao.jpg



The prewar Davao City poblacion was lined with trees. The nearly one hundred thousand inhabitants were a cosmopolitan mixof Filipinos, Americans, Japanese, Spaniards and Chinese. The city was filled with parks and monuments. The city’s architecture was the physical encryption of Dabawenyo history and heritage, combining the best of native Filipino, Eastern, and Western influences, generously partaking of the cultural blessings of each.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h129/rajah_soliman/9999%20DAVAO%20PIX/olddavaoamericansoldiers.jpg

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h129/rajah_soliman/9999%20DAVAO%20PIX/olddavaodigos.jpg

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h129/rajah_soliman/9999%20DAVAO%20PIX/olddavaodaliaohouse.jpg





http://www.ateneopress.org/vwSocscichap.asp?ID=109[/QUOTE]

^^ :applause: :applause: :applause:

anyway just thinking if the city center was closer to the shore of Davao Gulf do you think the Boulevard area will still be filled w/ slum dwellings?

and i never thought Bucana was white sand , ohh this is really good if the urban planners of davao can dig replace the muddy sand ,wow we can have a white sand in our beach front :cheers:

di ba tinanong mo ito kung saan ..so this statue is in Oyanguren fronting Magsaysay Park .
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h129/rajah_soliman/9999%20DAVAO%20PIX/1920DavaoCommonwealthStatue.jpg

nice :)

hi all.

i hate to break the peace in this forum. But somebody has just accused me of being somebody else at the CdO forum. I have read beyond what HE has written there and i have arrived at the fact that i am the one who he is talking about. He said that he has read the previous threads in the CdO forum. He has come to the conclusion that femaleinsider and i am one and and the same.

That CdO forumer is also posting in this thread.

Eto ako, paminsan minsan lang nga ako nagpopost dito, ako pa ang pinagbintangan. i suggest that that CdO forimer and I met face to face.

^^ :applause: :applause: :applause:

anyway just thinking if the city center was closer to the shore of Davao Gulf do you think the Boulevard area will still be filled w/ slum dwellings?


we can only hint... if that was the case, we could have gone the way Cebu, Dumaguete, Zamboanga or Ilo-ilo developed.

accdgs. to corsico's book... it wasn't possible to settle the area of Piapi then because of the wild mangroves, besides it was regularly under water during high tide... the logical choice really was to settle in the area not threaten by the sea water.

sana lang talaga alisin na yang mga informal settlers dyan sa piapi, pagkatapos i-reclaim and gawing marina center (libre ang mangarap :lol: )

:cheers:

di ba tinanong mo ito kung saan ..so this statue is in Oyanguren fronting Magsaysay Park .
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yup... i guess paul was the one who "solved" the mystery of this statue... nasa cotabato na daw ngayon eh.... (nakalipad yata yoong statuang angel :lol: )

morning @xzibit31 what page ?

^^ sino si FrancisXavier.... mukhang mabait naman sya ... :dunno:

can you give us the page link. tks.

Uwat!!! dapat mabalik yang statue na yan :lol:

thinking thinking lang ko Duterte can really relocate those informal settlers. Davao can provide them luna just his convincing power and his charm . i think 1/2 of those slum areas are owned by govenrment not just local but national.

Uwat!!! dapat mabalik yang statue na yan :lol:

thinking thinking lang ko Duterte can really relocate those informal settlers. Davao can provide them luna just his convincing power and his charm . i think 1/2 of those slum areas are owned by govenrment not just local but national.

hmmmm... whoever runs for mayor in Davao secures the vote by not evicting these informal settlers.... imo.... :ohno:

:) :) :) maayong adlaw Davao!!!!:) :) :) :)

Ateneo de Davao University Jacinto - Roxas Campus Pics taken by amaynew kahapon. wala pa siya so ako nalang ang mag post.

7th floor
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Kini, ako na ang nagkuha. pulihanay ra man gud mi sa camera.

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good morning psionic!!!! ang ganda ng mga pictures... class!!!!! :cheers:


:) :) :) maayong adlaw Davao!!!!:) :) :) :)

Ateneo de Davao University Jacinto - Roxas Campus Pics taken by amaynew kahapon. wala pa siya so ako nalang ang mag post.

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gastusan na nila , datu man ang Davao :) yan lang naman from Boulevard to Agdao , ican't find any place na worst kung meron man i think kaya na redevelop even without evicting , ang natitira lang sa nakikita ko are old houses but it can be renovated or heritage house na lang . :cheers:

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may sinehan pala sa Ateneo ...galing no! ano ang palabas ngayon :lol:

Nagapila man na sila sa elevators. :lol: :lol: :lol:

naku po... eh yoong mga japayukis eh pinatayuan na nila ng mga concrete structure ang mga bahay nila, tapos yoong mga moslem nagtayo na ng mosque nila doon... i dont think duterte has plans of developing that place ... as i have said earlier... that area is a source of vote...

maayong hapon davao!

there was also one condo building inside juna subd... three story high, if i remember it right parang mga 1978 yoon na construct...
dito banda....(within the red mark)
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Juna Subd. tong sa may Casa Mercado no?

that's what the mayor said kay expensive daw unya 1 simana siya magguol :D i mean sa security pero intact parin ang mga events compact lang in 2days ayaw kabalaka kay thursday and friday man so total 4 days gihapon apil ang saturday and sunday :D

add: the horse fighting is back.

Where are they going to do it? The Ecoland venue was fun back then when they had carnival rides and the circus before.

^^ hopefully.....the ARF will be held in Davao! keeping my fingers crossed! ehehehehheheheh..but if not, k lang din! maybe it aint our time pa..ehehehehhe

This is one of ASEAN's big events such as ATF, ASEAN Summit, among others...

yeeeeeeeeeehhhhheee!!!
in the news tj it included ministerial meeting and i guss it referred to senior ministerial meet something like that. as in any multicountry meet, i understand this is a pre summit event most often held in summit host country. this is what i thought about.

Juna Subd. tong sa may Casa Mercado no?

that's at the other end, near SM (corner diversion and tulip? drive)

Where are they going to do it? The Ecoland venue was fun back then when they had carnival rides and the circus before.

you mean the horse fight? the last time i heard malapit sa Davao City Golf Club pero it was junked because DENR won't allow them .I think the rides and circus still be in Ecoland or Magsaysay Park .

that's at the other end, near SM (corner diversion and tulip? drive)

Yeah, its facing the left side of SM. I only remember houses at Juan Subd. :D

Everyone here at SSC davao is encouraged to start a Davao thread Amaynew. Kaya mag-isip2x ka na dyan :lol:
yes bro anyone is encouraged to commit a future thread for him to prepare. give yourself time if you cant do any soo. puydi commit imo ang thread 100:D
so long as you dont post it in february 30 that would be fine

suroy suroy tag Davao...

Pearl Farm
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Japanese tunnel

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Jack Ridge
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Roxas Avenue
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Philippine Eagle
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Beach Resort (wa ko kabalo)

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awesome bro!

;11605103']ganina picture picture ko gamay..hehe

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samtang naghulat sa text...hastang limpyoha sa dalan oi..

G-mall, copied from my post sa malls thread :D

OK heres G-mall (still under redevelopment..dili lang ma full blast kasi nag t-take effect yung new guidelines pag renew ng contract, but anyway, here's a preview of the new-look g-mall)

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gerry's grill and chowking (chowking may have to close for renovation soon)

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F&H and wade (first stores that sported the new-look storefronts)

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i guess thsi kenny rogers storefront will have to change din? pero i dunno since wala pa namang resto na nag expire ang contract and nagparenovate ng store design

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new look storefronts..di na ako nakakuha sa baba kasi siksikan dun, pero as of kanina, Plains n prints and sarisari are ok na, yung iba like nike, human, mossimo di pa nakapag renovate (siguro nga matagal to kasi bago lang na implement yung guidelines and may mga stores na nag open a few months before the new guidelines were made)



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Gaisano Mall Foodcourt


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SPAZIO sub-foodcourt

Port Cafe at Fashion Walk, my favorite kan-anan sa g-mall..da best ang breaded pork chop..well actually since college breaded pork chop ra pa jud akong nakaon sa port cafe lolz
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mga kan-anan sa gawas sa cinemas

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Atrium..may entrepreneurship expo and mga BA ng Ateneo

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2nd atrium

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one of the things i hate about g-mall, may mga alleys siya na musulpot lang kalit (parang di part ng original plan) ito isa sa kanila, then may isa pa sa harap, dati open area yung ngayon occupied by KFC, MisterDonut, Mercury Drug and banco filipino.

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dili na g-mall, the venue compund na, mga 5 minutes walk from G-mall..naay isa ka bar diha nga ma new-look din in 3 months ..mga tiga davao..ano hula niyo? :)

guess this mall is the islands largest space utilised mallwide by stores. busiest too

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^^

I contributed an article to the Monde Magazine in '87 I guess that's why I know MR. Marquez.
are you a writer bro? great.
is there a web add of the mag

;11610129']DAVAO CITY

wala lang..intro lang ng US CONSULATE :)

http://www.usvirtualconsulatedavao.org.ph/abtdavao.html

Davao City is a sprawling metropolis with almost 1.5 million people located in the southeastern part of Mindanao. It is one of the largest cities in the world in terms of land area, covering 943 square miles (2,443.61 square kilometers). The city is approximately 587 miles (946 kilometers) from Manila.

Davao CityIt is blessed with natural resources and beauty. The soil is fertile and rich in minerals. The city has an abundant source of potable water. Located in a typhoon-free zone, its tropical weather is characterized by temperatures ranging from 59-93 degrees Farenheit (15-34 degrees Celsius).

Strategically located in the Asia-Pacific rim, the city serves as a gateway to the world. It is a key player in the flourishing industrial hub called the Brunei-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area or BIMP-EAGA. Considered by many as the de facto capital of Mindanao, the city's location provides easy access and linkage to the 20 million residents of Mindanao and 51 million residents of the East ASEAN Growth Area.

On the west, the city's boundary line cuts through Mount Apo, the highest peak in the Philippines. This inactive volcano soars 10,308 feet (3,142 meters) above sea level. Views from the peak towards the east include vast plains, unspoiled forests, fertile valleys, navigable rivers, the sprawling metropolis and world-class beaches facing the Davao gulf.

With a predominantly immigrant population, the city is a melting pot of cultures where diversities are appreciated and nurtured in a harmonious and peaceful environment. Major languages and dialects used in the city are Filipino, Chinese, English and Cebuano. The city has an urban density of roughly 5860 persons per square mile (2,262 per square kilometer).


The city has one of the highest literacy rates in Asia at 98.3%. Its labor force is cited as among the best in the region: educated, easily trainable, industrious, and English-speaking.

As Mindanao's center of commerce, trade, and services, the city's modern infrastructures and world-class utilities provide viable support to economic activities.

It's urban center is home to quality residential and commercial units complete with modern facilities and amenities at very reasonable prices. Access is fast and easy to utilities such as power, water, landlines and mobile phones with IDD features, cable TV networks, and Internet service providers.


Davao City is a place of perfect balance. It is fast-paced yet relaxed where luxuries of cosmopolitan living complement the breathtaking beauty of the great outdoors.

As the country's urban gateway to natural wonders and heritage, Davao City is an investment haven where business and leisure blend.

premier city and only mtropolis based on facts and legit resources:nocrook:

;11610197']oh, di ba inaayos na nating ang transport/traffic system?

DAVAO CITY, Feb 12 Asia Pulse - To have a strong competitive edge within the Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines-East Asean Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA), Davao needs adequate infrastructure support, particularly in urban transportation system.

"The Davao metropolitan area should have a good mechanism for a continuing program in transport-related policy review and analysis," according to University of the Philippines in Mindanao-School of Management Prof. Manuel Javier said.

Javier said this is imperative because the emerging Davao metropolis is expected to become an international gateway and transhipment hub in the southern island of Mindanao.

The UP-Mindanao professor made a research on the "Transport and Traffic Management in the Davao Metropolitan Area", a study on the metropolitanization of Davao which had been undertaken in the past six years.

Traffic management seems to be the most accepted as a metropolitan problem, according to Javier. "One may advocate that the Davao metropolitan area may be called a de facto capital of BIMP-EAGA," he said.

The area, he added, has the distribution and processing functions that will be conducive to the formation of an industrial logistics center...

http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/summary_0199-2599052_ITM
it was in fact concieved and born in davao city. philippines president was fidel ramos.

;11610281']mangutana lang ko, naa moy population history sa davao? seeing nga ang population sa davao is almost 1.5million, kanus-a man nagsugod ug kadaghan ang population sa davao?
rapid popultion growth i understand was due to migration.

:) :) :) maayong adlaw Davao!!!!:) :) :) :)

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js citimall is as tall as 9 st apo view hoetl or is it 10

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wow. great photos kulaskusgan:okay:

maayong hapon!! . . katulgon pa ko. . . hehehehe :bash: :bash: :bash:

Gandang Dabawenya

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My favorite stop on a scenic drive to Mati

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The kind of trees we have in Davao

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^^ i thought more than 1.5 million na daw ta


depende sa research sa writer, i guess :)

Hey guys, is the background familiar to you in Davao?

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I thought this was a hotel lobby...:lol:


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For ADDU old timers (like me of course!) Did you notice that they have changed the railings of the Canisius Hall? Neat!

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Where are they going to do it? The Ecoland venue was fun back then when they had carnival rides and the circus before.


I think that was during Araw ng Dabaw Celebration you're talking about.:)

hi all.

i hate to break the peace in this forum. But somebody has just accused me of being somebody else at the CdO forum. I have read beyond what HE has written there and i have arrived at the fact that i am the one who he is talking about. He said that he has read the previous threads in the CdO forum. He has come to the conclusion that femaleinsider and i am one and and the same.

That CdO forumer is also posting in this thread.

Eto ako, paminsan minsan lang nga ako nagpopost dito, ako pa ang pinagbintangan. i suggest that that CdO forimer and I met face to face.


My intuition tells me it absolutely wasn't you xzibit. You won't go that low to prove your point-very uncharacteristic of you, of a davaoeño!:)

Hey guys, is the background familiar to you in Davao?

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looks like in FBGC.. notice the TENT? plus the palm trees on the side walk..:)

I like the way the roads look now with the new asphalt grade and lane markings. The streets look very neat.

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are they using reflectors as markings?

so long as you dont post it in february 30 that would be fine

:lol: :lol: :lol:

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Images of Davao's strong affinity to its ethnicity...

are you a writer bro? great.
is there a web add of the mag

I only did it once with the said mag, trying to eke out logistics for my schooling :) It's been a long time and I don't know if there is any link to its website.

looks like in FBGC.. notice the TENT? plus the palm trees on the side walk..:)

What's FBGC Lew?

What's FBGC Lew?

Fort Bonifacio Global City...in taguig, metro manila..

maayong hapon ulan2x diri..... haler lew di ka ba tung ingon ni xzibit ;)

Fort Bonifacio Global City...in taguig, metro manila..

Okey, I can now follow your drift.. thanks!

maayong hapon ulan2x diri..... haler lew di ka ba tung ingon ni xzibit ;)

Maayong hapon Don Ambie?

Unsa nay balita sa DDH Heart Centre? (para dili OT :lol: )

Mag-open na diay sa Valentine's Day ang Mindanao Heart Centre noh? WOw, Wow, a whopping 350 million worth of investment for a specialized hospital. Galeng!

Menzi Inn: My favorite accomodation in Mati

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cultural festival like kadayawan enriches your mind , i always go in Dance Mindanao Festival because ilike how they interpreted their history thru dances . ganda talaga , iwas amazed when school children from Nograles Elem. School interpreted Baki(frog) they performed so well you thought they are really frogs . :)

Para maganda sana EAGA have also a Festival ang ganda siguro. I did witnessed once the island of Bali did performed wow galing ! that was the 5th anniversary of EAGA .

Maayong hapon Don Ambie?

Unsa nay balita sa DDH Heart Centre? (para dili OT :lol: )

Mag-open na diay sa Valentine's Day ang Mindanao Heart Centre noh? WOw, Wow, a whopping 350 million worth of investment for a specialized hospital. Galeng!

check ko yung likod parang 90% ..siguro V-day ang inaguration para daw ka puso :lol:

Kaliwat Theatre Collective

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Kaliwat Theatre Collective is one of the Philippines' leading theater institutions. Based in Davao City, Kaliwat was founded in 1988 by five members of the Mindanao Community Theatre Network (MCTN) led by Mindanao theater guru Nestor Horfilla. Since then, Kaliwat has become a training ground for Mindanao theatre artists.
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Kaliwat creates original plays and other performances based on Mindanaoan people's stories and cultural traditions. The heart of its existence, however, lies in its extensive cultural action work in grassroots communities. Its work includes: cultural research, natural resource management, environmental awareness programs, advocacy campaigns, tours and productions, gender in development programs, stress de-briefing for "children of war," and children's creativity and rights programs.

Its most notable productions are: Lemafeu sa Habagatan 1992, Siak sa Duha ka Damgo 1992, Ground Up 1993, Oya Arakan 1994, and Mindasilang 1999.

One the best Cultural Group... Kaliwat :cheers:

cultural festival like kadayawan enriches your mind , i always go in Dance Mindanao Festival because ilike how they interpreted their history thru dances . ganda talaga , iwas amazed when school children from Nograles Elem. School interpreted Baki(frog) they performed so well you thought they are really frogs . :)

Para maganda sana EAGA have also a Festival ang ganda siguro. I did witnessed once the island of Bali did performed wow galing ! that was the 5th anniversary of EAGA .

During my time in ADDU, i also went to a show of Joey Ayala at Ang Bagong Lumad. The show was so popular at that time- it was called "Sinalimba". Dunno know what that word means but I watched the show twice since our class was assigned to do a critique on it. It was marvelous and even my college department (Philosophy at that time) was so proud of him because Joey was a product of that department. Joey was a brilliant stude in said dept. and so the philosophical tones of his works e.g. songs, etc.

Mebuyan Peace Project
http://www.mebuyanpeaceproject.ph

Mebuyan Peace Project (MPP) is perhaps the only all-women storytelling group in the Philippines which utilizes music, theatre and dance for peace and healing work. The storytellers are based in Davao City, in Mindanao where peace is a perennial search. The group is composed of 16 women music, theatre, and dance artists. They can be found doing peaceweaving workshops, conducting rituals for special events, and performing once every six weeks at Taboan, Matina Town Square.
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While still a fledgling group, members of MPP each have had many years in music and theatre work. Members come from Mindanao's leading theatre and music groups: Kaliwat Theatre Collective, Kulturang Atin Foundation, Inc., Kathara Dance Theater Collective, Sining Kambayoka Ensemble, EDCADS, Sining Kabpapagariya Ensemble, Kariala Etniko, and Seventh Heaven.
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check ko yung likod parang 90% ..siguro V-day ang inaguration para daw ka puso :lol:

Baka sabay sila sa Mindanao Heart Centre. Oh, that was my bad, Doc Abskess already said the one in DDH is set to open in March of this year.:)

Mebuyan Peace Project
http://www.mebuyanpeaceproject.ph

Mebuyan Peace Project (MPP) is perhaps the only all-women storytelling group in the Philippines which utilizes music, theatre and dance for peace and healing work. The storytellers are based in Davao City, in Mindanao where peace is a perennial search. The group is composed of 16 women music, theatre, and dance artists. They can be found doing peaceweaving workshops, conducting rituals for special events, and performing once every six weeks at Taboan, Matina Town Square.
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While still a fledgling group, members of MPP each have had many years in music and theatre work. Members come from Mindanao's leading theatre and music groups: Kaliwat Theatre Collective, Kulturang Atin Foundation, Inc., Kathara Dance Theater Collective, Sining Kambayoka Ensemble, EDCADS, Sining Kabpapagariya Ensemble, Kariala Etniko, and Seventh Heaven.
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naabtan ko pa ni sa Taboan. Murag every Wednesday yata ni siya. On-going pa ba ni karon?

^^ i dunno if they still perform in Taboan lain naman mga batch didto , I've seen Kaliwat ,pero Mebuyan wala how good are they bro? Chinchin Guitterez was influenced by artist like Joey Ayala Cynthia Alexander(sis of Joey Ayala) and Bayang Barrios .

i was involved once with mctn/kaliwat with nestor and the rest. we had some activities in kidapawan and matalam. you cannot believe the energy this people have when they are into something. but we parted ways as i was into a full-time job. if i stayed on i could have been a full-time theatre artist.

wow dapat sana Paul Joey Ayala in the making ka :) yes grabe na sila mag perform gawas jud singot ! I onced saw them in Central Bank eerie lang minsan pakinggan ang music pero feel jud sa mga tao.

Menzi Inn: My favorite accomodation in Mati

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ganda diyan! did you know wala pa ko ka adtog mati puhon ingon pa ni Paul . ang laki pala ng lupain mo Vic puede kana mag retire:)

^^ i dunno if they still perform in Taboan lain naman mga batch didto , I've seen Kaliwat ,pero Mebuyan wala how good are they bro? Chinchin Guitterez was influenced by artist like Joey Ayala Cynthia Alexander(sis of Joey Ayala) and Bayang Barrios .

Can't remember the performers anymore. Pretty sure some of them are scions of the Kinaiyahan or Kaliwat Theater Group. They performed those typical ethnic dances and rituals. Very amusing and insightful. I remember lots of foreigners became regular habitues in Taboan there.

i was involved once with mctn/kaliwat with nestor and the rest. we had some activities in kidapawan and matalam. you cannot believe the energy this people have when they are into something. but we parted ways as i was into a full-time job. if i stayed on i could have been a full-time theatre artist.


I was a stude of Nestor Horfilla in his actors' workshop. We had him help us polish our thespian skills (yabang soundin pala ng talent!) for the Annual Skit Fest in ADDU. Skitfest is a big event forming part of the Ateneo Fiesta. Nestor was really good and true enough, my Department (Philo) bagged the championship trophy.

wow dapat sana Paul Joey Ayala in the making ka :) yes grabe na sila mag perform gawas jud singot ! I onced saw them in Central Bank eerie lang minsan pakinggan ang music pero feel jud sa mga tao.


The tom-toms of the drums are cool to me though.:) I like the highlights of the presentations when the cast are like in panic mode. Of course there is a more profound meaning to it.:lol:

^^ wow menzi! we had a project with magbalusta once so we stayed there once or twice. lami moswimming sa gabii kay usually, mingaw man.

ok lang ambi. i still feel those what ifs, pero no regrets. as a song suggested once and have been a favorite of mine, we always have to follow our road.

ganda diyan! did you know wala pa ko ka adtog mati puhon ingon pa ni Paul . ang laki pala ng lupain mo Vic puede kana mag retire:)

I wish I were an heir of Menzi:lol:

^^ wow menzi! we had a project with magbalusta once so we stayed there once or twice. lami moswimming sa gabii kay usually, mingaw man.

ok lang ambi. i still feel those what ifs, pero no regrets. as a song suggested once and have been a favorite of mine, we always have to follow our road.

Yeah we tried dipping in that pool though but it was always cold there at night time.

I remember that song by Pauline Wilson called "Follow That Road". PW is half Filipino by the way.

I was a stude of Nestor Horfilla in his actors' workshop. We had him help us polish our thespian talent for the Annual Skit Fest in ADDU. Skitfest is a big event forming part of the Ateneo Fiesta. Nestor was really good and true enough, my Department (Philo) bagged the championship trophy.

nestor is a dear friend and so with richard, marili, anoy, bagong lumad, and the rest.

i had the privilege of working with all of them and i'll treasure that experience.

Maayong buntag diay Paul! Paingon pa lang ko matulog. (lol)

Asa na diay si Nestor H. karon?

I was searching for kaliwat in youtube but found only Joey Ayala and
Cynthia Alexander, Vic can you embed it ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHFY3OjkmxY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUIO8xCN7WM

Yeah we tried dipping in that pool though but it was always cold there at night time.

I remember that song by Pauline Wilson called "Follow That Road". PW is half Filipino by the way.

oh yes, pauline wilson. but i like the version she had with her group before.

ah memories. ako na hinoon nahinumduman akong participation sa isa ka play didto sa icc auditorium before. anybody performed or watched fiddler on the roof way back in 1983?

nestor is a dear friend and so with richard, marili, anoy, bagong lumad, and the rest.

i had the privilege of working with all of them and i'll treasure that experience.
I only know NH in that line up there. I must have run into those other artists before but I really don't have personal recollection with them. I know Bayang Barrios and Popong Landero were part of Ang Bagong Lumad and I saw them perform a number of times.

Did you know that after the workshop with NH, I almost auditioned for "Fiddler on the Roof" which was staged for several days in Central Bank Conv Hall? I backed out though as I was scared it might affect my already ugly marks in ADDU. :lol:

nestor is a dear friend and so with richard, marili, anoy, bagong lumad, and the rest.

i had the privilege of working with all of them and i'll treasure that experience.

bagong lumad was the group of Popong Landero ? asa na sila ?

I only know NH in that line up there. I must have run into those other artists before but I really don't have personal recollection with them. I know Bayang Barrios and Popong Landero were part of Ang Bagong Lumad and I saw them perform a number of times.

Did you know that after the workshop with NH, I almost auditioned for "Fiddler on the Roof" which was staged for several days in Central Bank Conv Hall? I backed out though as I was scared it might affect my already ugly marks in ADDU. :lol:

wow vic, performing is in your blood, sayang kung wa nimo magamit og ayo. sige lang, basig sa anak diay (kung naa) mapasa.

Maayong buntag diay Paul! Paingon pa lang ko matulog. (lol)

Asa na diay si Nestor H. karon?

last time we talked (2-3 years ago, hahaha) was he was somewhere in zamboanga, ipil i think. nestor is just everywhere. lot's of people and institutions demand for his expertise. nestor is a pillar to mindanao's theatre experience.

oh yes, pauline wilson. but i like the version she had with her group before.

ah memories. ako na hinoon nahinumduman akong participation sa isa ka play didto sa icc auditorium before. anybody performed or watched fiddler on the roof way back in 1983?

The Fiddler on the Roof I was talking about was the one mounted in 1987 or so. So there's another one done in ICC then?

bagong lumad was the group of Popong Landero ? asa na sila ?

Popong still comes out with albums every now and then (nationally of course) and he has regular gigs at MTS. Bayang Barrios is big in Manila and has shows in many parts of the globe.

The Fiddler on the Roof I was talking about was the one mounted in 1987 or so. So there's another one done in ICC then?

the icc version, way back in 1983. with dr cunanan on the lead. oca evangelista (?) directed.

wow vic, performing is in your blood, sayang kung wa nimo magamit og ayo. sige lang, basig sa anak diay (kung naa) mapasa.

I wish!

My good friend Carlos Morre (now an auditor at DCWD in Lanang) who used to be a strong tenor with ADDU Glee has gone a long way in theater arts. He has performed in a lot of musicals in Davao and has shared equal billing with Ogie Alcasid e.g. "Rizal". He is a protege of Nestor Torre (another Nestor) - who is also a stalwart with Daily Inquirer Publication. NEstor always comes to Davao to scout for theater talents.

^^ wow menzi! we had a project with magbalusta once so we stayed there once or twice. lami moswimming sa gabii kay usually, mingaw man.

ok lang ambi. i still feel those what ifs, pero no regrets. as a song suggested once and have been a favorite of mine, we always have to follow our road.

haha don't worry Paul Mati is not far away, dunno why ngano di jud madayon dayon :)

bagong lumad was the group of Popong Landero ? asa na sila ?

bagong lumad was the group of joey ayala. and popong was part of that. currently popong's group is p.l.o.

Popong still comes out with albums every now and then (nationally of course) and he has regular gigs at MTS. Bayang Barrios is big in Manila and has shows in many parts of the globe.

I read he has a project in Sulu as a creative director , well popong was in Folk Rock before pipiw2x time before joining the likes of Joey and the gang ,maybe he knows it Digong time :lol:

btw Stella Estremera and Popong got an award last Kadaywan , forgot the title but sort of Datu Bago for their contribution in the community .Stella for writing and Popong for music.

the icc version, way back in 1983. with dr cunanan on the lead. oca evangelista (?) directed.

Naa pud diay thespian talent ni si Cunanan? I had no clue. Maybe that was before he had a ...ke? Just guessing here.

anybody remembers pauline wilson and her group seawind? they were popular in the late 70s and 80s. pauline is a filipina born in hawaii. they had song theat became a memorable hit - follow your road.

bagong lumad was the group of joey ayala. and popong was part of that. currently popong's group is p.l.o.

haha ok ok coz when i heard bagong lumad... Joey Ayala already left the group ..opps:)

^^

The most I could recall about her is when she guested on a local (Manila) TV show and she belted that ditty. Yes she had her own band then but I don't recall it was called Seawind.

anybody remembers pauline wilson and her group seawind? they were popular in the late 70s and 80s. pauline is a filipina born in hawaii. they had song theat became a memorable hit - follow your road.

Yeah "follow your road " it goes like this follow your road ,follow your road , so she's from Davao?

haha ok ok coz when i heard bagong lumad... Joey Ayala already left the group ..opps:)

Katong nisikat na sila, nag bulag na sila sa minaayo (lol). Lingaw kaayo ko mamati sa ilang mga kanta bisan karon. Kang Popong kay may pagka novelty, kang Joey, melancholic-philosophical-satyrical, Bayang's theme is similar to Popong's.

mao ba ni Paul?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51vicwbmoZw

I read he has a project in Sulu as a creative director , well popong was in Folk Rock before pipiw2x time before joining the likes of Joey and the gang ,maybe he knows it Digong time :lol:

btw Stella Estremera and Popong got an award last Kadaywan , forgot the title but sort of Datu Bago for their contribution in the community .Stella for writing and Popong for music.


I think that was Datu Bago Awards. Sunod matagaan ana nga prestigious award kay si Sir Paul Corpus na. Then that calls for a celebration.:)

I think that was Datu Bago Awards. Sunod matagaan ana nga prestigious award kay si Sir Paul Corpus na. Then that calls for a celebration.:)

bwahaha ka vic. oi, wala ko kumpara nila popong and joey. these guys have put davao literally on the cultural map.

Naa pud diay thespian talent ni si Cunanan? I had no clue. Maybe that was before he had a ...ke? Just guessing here.

he was good. and so with a lot of the people of brokenshire. anybody knows judith oracion? she was a member of the cast. she was studying at ateneo that time.

he was good. and so with a lot of the people of brokenshire. anybody knows judith oracion? she was a member of the cast. she was studying at ateneo that time.

Judith was my classmate , ok refresh me Paul unsa gani dagway niya?

Judith was my classmate , ok refresh me Paul unsa gani dagway niya?

she was cute, kind of a little chubby, pero cute gihapon. i thought she had a beautiful face.

you thought :) anyway di pa nako ma figure out , umm but i know Judith Oracion is my classmate wa lang ko kabalo basig kindergarten :lol: so Paul is that the song i posted ? the follow your road?

you vic, are pulling my leg. bwahaha. pero seriously, i really to just concentrate on doing art. but there are more pressing needs at this point.

he was good. and so with a lot of the people of brokenshire. anybody knows judith oracion? she was a member of the cast. she was studying at ateneo that time.

Di ko kahinumdum ana nga Judith. ANg akong madumduman ka si Judith C. May she RIP.

bwahaha ka vic. oi, wala ko kumpara nila popong and joey. these guys have put davao literally on the cultural map.


Ikaw diay, nga na dyaryo na man pud ka so that makes you an international item na rin. :lol: Seriously Paul, paputol kog kuan kung di na matinuod.

^^ unsang kuan si Nancy Kuan :lol:

asa ni dapit?

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/181/377421283_b95e535571.jpg?v=0

dli ni sa davao. kay isa lng ang dbp sa dvo.. tong atbang sa san pedro cathedral lang. cguro sa tagum ni?

Di ko kahinumdum ana nga Judith. ANg akong madumduman ka si Judith C. May she RIP.

pasta ka vic, imo kong gipakulbaan. anyway, a dear friend aida marie collado also passed away. may she also r.i.p.

you vic, are pulling my leg. bwahaha. pero seriously, i really to just concentrate on doing art. but there are more pressing needs at this point.


I know Paul it's hard when you have to also put something on the table but like your favorite song goes.."Follow Your Road" and so does every Davaoeño.:)

^^ unsang kuan si Nancy Kuan :lol:

kuku (as in nails) :lol:

dli ni sa davao. kay isa lng ang dbp sa dvo.. tong atbang sa san pedro cathedral lang. cguro sa tagum ni?

Good day Nick!


Kung sa Tagum na di di ba Davao lang gihapon?:)

hatod sa nako si misis kay o.t. sila ron.

dli ni sa davao. kay isa lng ang dbp sa dvo.. tong atbang sa san pedro cathedral lang. cguro sa tagum ni?


hi Nick Kuan aww baby diay :lol: ngano dili mana sa Davao kta man kung bldg na wala lang ko kabalo asa dapit .

pasta ka vic, imo kong gipakulbaan. anyway, a dear friend aida marie collado also passed away. may she also r.i.p.

May she RIP too though I don't know her.

so nobody knows judith oracion (naa silay gravel and sand)? kung naa, basig naa moy email address. hoy vic, ayawg pasok anang imong rip kay nalibog kog kadyot. bwahaha.

hatod sa nako si misis kay o.t. sila ron.

Careful when you drive on a snowy road and don't forget..follow your road! :)

Good day Nick!


Kung sa Tagum na di di ba Davao lang gihapon?:)

i just checked the source... that's DBP Mati :lol:

Hi Jude!


Wow, that's in Mati? Madayaw sa gayud kon sa Mati kadi yaan! Awon pay kanmo picture sang Mati idoy?

Di ko kahinumdum ana nga Judith. ANg akong madumduman ka si Judith C. May she RIP.

na solve ba tong iyang case.... pls. pm lang sagot nacurious hinuon ko

Good day Nick!


Kung sa Tagum na di di ba Davao lang gihapon?:)

davao del norte ^_^. same region XI! hehehe

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f226/nick4ubaby/kikoy003.jpg
damosa disney land :lol:

Hi Jude!


Wow, that's in Mati? Madayaw sa gayud kon sa Mati kadi yaan! Awon pay kanmo picture sang Mati idoy?

what!! so you speak low-land davaoeno, ingit ako........ sounds good (naglisod lang kog basa) :lol: :lol:

hi Nick Kuan aww baby diay :lol: ngano dili mana sa Davao kta man kung bldg na wala lang ko kabalo asa dapit .

unsay kuan gud? :lol: dli na sa dvo kay isa lng man ang dbp sa davao :lol:

cguro sa tagum or mati?

davao eagle tag ana asa ni? ateneo ghapon ni. GATE 8 :lol:
d mo katuod ani kay bago lng ni na acquire sa addu. :lol:

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f226/nick4ubaby/kikoy009.jpg

na solve ba tong iyang case.... pls. pm lang sagot nacurious hinuon ko


kilala ko kunig sino siya, diba taga Obrero siya. tagal na nuon ah.

na solve ba tong iyang case.... pls. pm lang sagot nacurious hinuon ko


I did already!

Were you in Ateneo then? I mean during the case?

kilala ko kunig sino siya, diba taga Obrero siya. tagal na nuon ah.

1984. Ngitngit pa kaayo ang Davao adto.:ohno:

unsay kuan gud? :lol: dli na sa dvo kay isa lng man ang dbp sa davao :lol:

cguro sa tagum or mati?

davao eagle tag ana asa ni? ateneo ghapon ni. GATE 8 :lol:

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f226/nick4ubaby/kikoy009.jpg


Gate 8? Basin dapit na sa old college canteen katong paingon sa Barrio Pogi sa mga Dacudao

what!! so you speak low-land davaoeno, ingit ako........ sounds good (naglisod lang kog basa) :lol: :lol:

Katigam sa ako kay bagasay sa gayud an kanak mga silingan na nagatiyab sing dabawenyo. laung nilan madayaw daw kanak bayhu. joke only! :lol:

Translation:

I speak the Davaoeno dialect because I had many neighbors who speak it. They told me I had ......... face. Joke only!

Gate 8? Basin dapit na sa old college canteen katong paingon sa Barrio Pogi sa mga Dacudao

ang old canteen kla2ng naabtan ninyo kay ghimo ng finster bldg karun :lol:
NOPE! :lol:

davao del norte ^_^. same region XI! hehehe

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f226/nick4ubaby/kikoy003.jpg
damosa disney land :lol:

kasali si eagowl diyan? :lol:
http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/8306/img0036qp8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

galing mag sirko nyan! :lol:

ang old canteen kla2ng naabtan ninyo kay ghimo ng finster bldg karun :lol:
NOPE! :lol:


Naa pa lay laing old canteen katong kilid sa Covered Court Brebeuf office. Naay murag exit diha paingon sa likod katong naay apartments sa mga Dacudao.

davao del norte ^_^. same region XI! hehehe

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f226/nick4ubaby/kikoy003.jpg
damosa disney land :lol:

Unsa diay hitsura aning Damosa Carnival, baduy diay kay ingon man ka sa previous pages nga pangit? :)

Naa pa lay laing ols canteed katong kilid sa Covered Court Brebeuf office. Naay murag exit diha paingon sa likod katong naay apartments sa mga Dacudao.

PE room cguro. murag duol ra ka.. abi nako naabot ka sa dacudao st. :lol:

mao ni cya tong naay hunted house ka2ng likud sa loyola house. infront of holychild high school.

gihimo na cya ug parking sa schhol bus karun. in the future tukuran daw ni ug nursing tower. ambot unsa kaha ng nursing tower. :banana:

ang old canteen kla2ng naabtan ninyo kay ghimo ng finster bldg karun :lol:
NOPE! :lol:


asa diay to nga gate Nick?

Nadunggan nako nga napalit na sa ADDU ang area sa likod nga naay Triumph Office? Unsa daw itukod didto? 15 storey business school building? lol

Unsa diay hitsura aning Damosa Carnival, baduy diay kay ingon man ka sa previous pages nga pangit? :)

oops bawion nko. ok diay cya. pam pamilya :) ka2ng time nga nag agi ko pirti man gud ka lapuk kay nag ulan :lol: tapos wala pa nahuman ug set up. ok man cya. naay horror train :lol: pwede kayo si eagowl did2 kay naa daw disney float parade. celebration na cya kay mag open na ang new market basket sa damosa gate way. :)

oops bawion nko. ok diay cya. pam pamilya :) ka2ng time nga nag agi ko pirti man gud ka lapuk kay nag ulan :lol: tapos wala pa nahuman ug set up. ok man cya. naay horror train :lol: pwede kayo si eagowl did2 kay naa daw disney float parade. celebration na cya kay mag open na ang new market basket sa damosa gate way. :)


So, ok man diay noh kay pampamilya na, pang sports pa. Wow, mag open na ang Market Basket? Kalami ba ana.

PE room cguro. murag duol ra ka.. abi nako naabot ka sa dacudao st. :lol:

mao ni cya tong naay hunted house ka2ng likud sa loyola house. infront of holychild high school.

gihimo na cya ug parking sa schhol bus karun. in the future tukuran daw ni ug nursing tower. ambot unsa kaha ng nursing tower. :banana:


So apil tong sa Triumph Office di ba? Kato ganing naa puy restaurant kilid sa Jacinto Street, same side ug sa likod ra sa covered court?

asa diay to nga gate Nick?

Nadunggan nako nga napalit na sa ADDU ang area sa likod nga naay Triumph Office? Unsa daw itukod didto? 15 storey business school building? lol

Jacinto man na atbang sa Pag-ibig sa una , adto sa ko kay wa pay kaon si eagowl :lol:

kasali si eagowl diyan? :lol:
http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/8306/img0036qp8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

galing mag sirko nyan! :lol:


kuyawa na sa get up ni eagowl uy. Groovy!

Jacinto man na atbang sa Pag-ibig sa una , adto sa ko kay wa pay kaon si eagowl :lol:

That's it!

Oi kita ka lang sa get-up karon ana Kuyaw ba.ong wardrobe :lol: gotta go!!! see ya ! in 10 minutes :lol:

So apil tong sa Triumph Office di ba? Kato ganing naa puy restaurant kilid sa Jacinto Street, same side ug sa likod ra sa covered court?


ah mao diay tong triumph ofc. walay labot to nga area. cguro sa future.

:)

Katigam sa ako kay bagasay sa gayud an kanak mga silingan na nagatiyab sing dabawenyo. laung nilan madayaw daw kanak bayhu. joke only! :lol:

Translation:

I speak the Davaoeno dialect because I had many neighbors who speak it. They told me I had ......... face. Joke only!

beautiful dialect... i want to do some research on this....

^^ so joke only same as english joke only :lol:

I did already!

Were you in Ateneo then? I mean during the case?

yup... she used to pass by our classroom every 10 am m-w-f until one day.... hers was really a sad sad sad story :ohno:

^^

Me and my late good buddy Ago R. spoke to each other in that dialect. I also mumble a little of spanish with him as he spoke it with ease. Isn't Mati known as the home to most spaniards who settled in the region after WW2. His grumps were one of the early settlers in Davao Oriental.

^^ so joke only same as english joke only :lol:

got me there! :lol:

yup... she used to passed by our classroom every 10 am m-w-f until one day.... hers was really a sad sad sad story :ohno:

I remember that. Davao was blanketed with grief all over. Celebrated case I suppose.

ah mao diay tong triumph ofc. walay labot to nga area. cguro sa future.

:)


akong nadunggan kay apil daw ug reliable source pud siya. anyways, hulat na lang ta unsay mo usbong diha nga lugara na. :)

akong nadunggan kay apil daw ug reliable source pud siya. anyways, hulat na lang ta unsay mo usbong diha nga lugara na. :)

yep kay kad2ng graduating ko nag visit ang paascu for level 4 accreditation. nakita nko sa ilang presentation ka2ng mga future plans sa addu kay tukuran daw to ug bldg did2, nway heres an old campus map uf ateneo jacionto got this from my sis' college handbook and survival track 1999. nanghalungkat gyud ko ani :lol:

from college handbook
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f226/nick4ubaby/kikoy002.jpg

suvival track 1999 :)

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f226/nick4ubaby/kikoy001.jpg

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f226/nick4ubaby/kikoy000a.jpg

^^
Cool!!

Mao na siya nga area exactly Nick. Tama pud na ang labelled building nga Triumph. Basin lahi na nag office diha karon mao di nimo ko masabtan. Tama na ang diagram nimo. Although puede pud nga gina negotiate pa sa mga Hesuita ang portin sa Triumph. I think the whole block is /was owned by the Dacudao's. Gatambayan man ko diha sauna kay naa ko mga barkada nag board sa mga apartments diha.

^^
Cool!!

Mao na siya nga area exactly Nick. Tama pud na ang labelled building nga Triumph. Basin lahi na nag office diha karon mao di nimo ko masabtan. Tama na ang diagram nimo.

lahi na btaw murag aplliance center naman to. tapos naa pud music school ug coffee shop and bar sa old triumph bldg

So there, lahi na gyud diay ang mga occupants sa building. Pero naa pa diay siguro tong restaurant or carenderia diha. Alemars na man ang atbang di ba kay nibalhin na man ang Pag-ibig sa Pryce Tower?

share ko lang got this from www.gov.ph
top performing school in the phil :lol:

This statistics is a result of the study conducted by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) and the Commission on Higher Education(CHED), based on the average passing in the BOARD EXAMINATIONS OF ALL COURSES of all universities and colleges in the Philippines.

This study is concluded every 10 years. The following is the result of the first study from
1992 to 2001. Eleven schools come from Luzon, two from the Visayas and seven from Mindanao.

1. University of the Philippines (Diliman Campus / Luzon)
2. University of the Philippines (Los Banos Campus / Luzon)
3. University of the Philippines (Manila Campus / Luzon)
4. Silliman University (Dumaguete City / Visayas)
5. Ateneo de Davao University (Davao / Mindanao)
6. Ateneo de Manila University (Manila / Luzon)
7. University of Sto. Tomas (Manila / Luzon)
8. Mindanao State University (Iligan Institute of Tech / Mindanao)
9. Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (Manila / Luzon)
10. Saint Louis University (Baguio City / Luzon)
11. University of San Carlos (Cebu City / Visayas)
12. Xavier University (Cagayan de Oro / Mindanao)
13. Mindanao State University (Main / Mindanao)
14. Urios College (Butuan City / Mindanao)
15. Polytechnic University of the Philippines(Manila / Luzon)
16. De La Salle University (Manila / Luzon)
17. Mapua Institute of Technology (Manila / Luzon)
18. Adamson University (Manila / Luzon)
19. Central Mindanao University (Bukidnon / Mindanao)
20. University of Southern Philippines (Davao / Mindanao)

Eleven schools come from Luzon, two from the Visayas and seven from Mindanao.

:nuts:

^^ ^^

7 Excellent Schools for Mindanao and the best ATENEO (according to the ranking) is ADDU. Makes my ears flapping in joy.


gotogonow!

So there, lahi na gyud diay ang mga occupants sa building. Pero naa pa diay siguro tong restaurant or carenderia diha. Alemars na man ang atbang di ba kay nibalhin na man ang Pag-ibig sa Pryce Tower?

wala nay alemars. boyztrek cafe and boyztrek inter cafe na ang nag occupy sa bldg.

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do you think Mindanaons will vote for Richard Gomez???? :lol:
i hope to see UPMIN in the list in the next ched study...

share ko lang got this from www.gov.ph
top performing school in the phil :lol:

This statistics is a result of the study conducted by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) and the Commission on Higher Education(CHED), based on the average passing in the BOARD EXAMINATIONS OF ALL COURSES of all universities and colleges in the Philippines.

This study is concluded every 10 years. The following is the result of the first study from
1992 to 2001. Eleven schools come from Luzon, two from the Visayas and seven from Mindanao.

1. University of the Philippines (Diliman Campus / Luzon)
2. University of the Philippines (Los Banos Campus / Luzon)
3. University of the Philippines (Manila Campus / Luzon)
4. Silliman University (Dumaguete City / Visayas)
5. Ateneo de Davao University (Davao / Mindanao)
6. Ateneo de Manila University (Manila / Luzon)
7. University of Sto. Tomas (Manila / Luzon)
8. Mindanao State University (Iligan Institute of Tech / Mindanao)
9. Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (Manila / Luzon)
10. Saint Louis University (Baguio City / Luzon)
11. University of San Carlos (Cebu City / Visayas)
12. Xavier University (Cagayan de Oro / Mindanao)
13. Mindanao State University (Main / Mindanao)
14. Urios College (Butuan City / Mindanao)
15. Polytechnic University of the Philippines(Manila / Luzon)
16. De La Salle University (Manila / Luzon)
17. Mapua Institute of Technology (Manila / Luzon)
18. Adamson University (Manila / Luzon)
19. Central Mindanao University (Bukidnon / Mindanao)
20. University of Southern Philippines (Davao / Mindanao)

Eleven schools come from Luzon, two from the Visayas and seven from Mindanao.

:nuts:

mao ba ni Paul?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51vicwbmoZw

i don't think it's pauline wilson, probably some other singer. but yes, that is the song.

Net find ;)

http://us.a2.yahoofs.com/groups/g_30783/755f/__sr_/aa2c.jpg?grVKgxFBM_L4tBml

Cong. Mayo Almario first row (in squat position) 6th from left.

I want to share this interesting Net find ;)

http://us.a2.yahoofs.com/groups/g_30783/755f/__sr_/aa2c.jpg?grVKgxFBM_L4tBml

Cong. Mayo Almario first row (in squat position) 6th from left.

yup... i guess paul was the one who "solved" the mystery of this statue... nasa cotabato na daw ngayon eh.... (nakalipad yata yoong statuang angel :lol: )

i was told about (by corcino himself) that it is in cotabato. i thought of seeing it when i was there for a lecture but never had the chance to check on that monument. sayang, if only, then i would do it to settle once and for all.

maybe you guys there in davao will be the best to do it when you're in cotabato. hope that that whatever relics, or icons we have, stays there.

i grew up in mati. on the way to school (ihma) i would usually see that boy scout statue with a brass or bronze plaque hanging below it. thru time it could have been the target practice of some boys for their "pintik" skills. when i went back to mati for some project, i was happy to see that it still there (probably moved to a safer place, teehee).

wala nay alemars. boyztrek cafe and boyztrek inter cafe na ang nag occupy sa bldg.

http://photos.friendster.com/photos/58/31/9731385/4507647143965l.jpg

http://photos.friendster.com/photos/58/31/9731385/8100743954112l.jpg

http://photos.friendster.com/photos/58/31/9731385/8100725424917l.jpg

http://photos.friendster.com/photos/58/31/9731385/8100691519354l.jpg

http://photos.friendster.com/photos/58/31/9731385/4507981354641l.jpg

hala, asa na ang alemars? nag -close na gyud? Pero nice ni ang nipuli ah.

I want to share this interesting Net find ;)

http://us.a2.yahoofs.com/groups/g_30783/755f/__sr_/aa2c.jpg?grVKgxFBM_L4tBml

Cong. Mayo Almario first row (in squat position) 6th from left.

Cong Almario is one of the proponents if Mati citihood. I believe he is doing fairly well in congress.

I've been to his "Mayo Resort" in Mati- a perfect place for fun with family and friends.

after ateneo, asa diay naadto ang alemars?

Originally posted by Rajah_Soliman in the Davao Cultural and Environmental Forum.


If the passengers had taken the jeepney ride from the Bankerohan Public Market going toward Magallanes Street, they would have passed by the historic downtown streets of Davao City. They would have passed by the back of the City Hall built in the 1930s.


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The first urban plan of Davao was drawn up by the first Catholic settlement established in 1848. It consisted of four parallel pathways and four intersecting roadways. The native inhabitants called the people who lived in that part of the land that is now the Davao City poblacion “taga-Dabaw,” meaning people who live by the river. There were three settlements along the river then: the small Catholic settlement of 100 Mandaya and their Catholic spouses from Luzon and the Visayas led by the Spaniard Oyanguren; the native settlements of the Maguindanao with about four thousand inhabitants who lived along the coast, at the mouth of the river; and the Bagobo who established their homes farther up along the river, and brought down their produce to trade across it.

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The native settlements disappeared in the 1900s and new settlers came to inhabit the Davao poblacion. This explains why the town center today is not located along the Davao Gulf, but a little farther away from the coast and from the Davao River.

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Farther down Claveria Street, the passengers would have seen the first intersection, San Pedro Street. On this road, in front of the Catholic church and the Legislative Hall, stands an imposing bronze monument of the City’s ancestral figures, a centennial marker built in 2000 to commemorate 100 years of peace building among groups of people who were wary of each other, but who managed to live together along the Davao River. Leaders of the Spanish settlement had chosen the area because there were many edible ferns along the riverbank as well as springs for drinking water. The river itself, a rich source of food, provided easy access to transportation. The Maguindanao, who were Muslims, and the animist Bagobo, who were the original occupants at the mouth of the river, feared they would be subjugated and forced to become Catholics. The Lumad Datus regarded the Spanish settlement as a threat to their leadership and territorial possessions, and possible loss of the tribute they collected from their slaves or constituents.
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In December 1898, Spain ceded its Philippine colony to the United States. The leaderless Spanish settlement was in turmoil. The Maguindanao leaders accepted the Spanish priests’ authority over the settlement, and assured the residents of protection in the event of invasion by other native or Bisaya settler groups. After a series of negotiations with fractious groups, weapons were collected and residents returned to their homes. The Davao poblacion was a peaceful town when the Americans came a year later on December 20, 1899.


Of that war, Davao historian Rogelio Lizada in his book Sang-awun sa Dabaw [A Century in Davao] recalls his return to Davao City in 1945 after four years of refuge in their family farm. Entering the city from San Pedro corner Tomas Claudio, he saw “charred posts standing, twisted iron bars, scattered burned roofing . . . San Pedro church, the acacia tree and the unhampered view made the sea and its horizon beyond, visible.”



DAVaO WAS A SMALL TOWN before the war. It had three commercial thoroughfares, namely, San Pedro, Claveria, and Oyanguren, which ended at the Liberty Monument of a gigantic ministering angel, and the nearby Santa Ana wharf. The other minor streets were Magallanes, Legazpi, Rizal, Anda, Bolton, Bonifacio (formerly Escario), and Ponciano Reyes. Quezon Boulevard and Governor Carpenter Streets were causeways. Tomas Claudio was the boundary at the other end.

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The prewar Davao City poblacion was lined with trees. The nearly one hundred thousand inhabitants were a cosmopolitan mixof Filipinos, Americans, Japanese, Spaniards and Chinese. The city was filled with parks and monuments. The city’s architecture was the physical encryption of Dabawenyo history and heritage, combining the best of native Filipino, Eastern, and Western influences, generously partaking of the cultural blessings of each.

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The early Filipino bamboo and nipa house with a veranda and ground-floor storage made abundant use of native materials: wood from the forest that provided whole logs for posts, sawed into lumber for walls and floors, and framed capiz shells for windows. Early buildings featured geometric and abstracted okkil art. Okkil patterns were carved in wood and decorated interior and exterior walls, and roofs. These carvings were both decorative and functional in that they improved ventilation.

The original San Pedro Cathedral had towered over the town. Its twin turrets housed the bells that rang three times a day for prayers.

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From San Pedro Street, Davao residents freely promenaded the white sands of the Gulf. My mother describes pockets of second-growth forests (called lati) around the city; wild fruits were for the picking, multicolored birds dotted the landscape, and streams of water were everywhere. With the almost-daily rain that fell in the early evenings, fruit trees, vegetables, flowers, and orchids grew in profusion in gardens and backyards. The sea was thick with fish and other food. In 1941 Davao was a veritable paradise for progeny.

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The prewar Davao City poblacion was lined with trees. The nearly one hundred thousand inhabitants were a cosmopolitan mixof Filipinos, Americans, Japanese, Spaniards and Chinese. The city was filled with parks and monuments. The city’s architecture was the physical encryption of Dabawenyo history and heritage, combining the best of native Filipino, Eastern, and Western influences, generously partaking of the cultural blessings of each.

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http://www.ateneopress.org/vwSocscichap.asp?ID=109

after ateneo, asa diay naadto ang alemars?

nibalhin sa corner Jacinto and Luna Streets Paul.

and so the Mary Crumbs Street in Digos..

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We could have gone the way of Australia if we had more of those discharged americans settling in Davao. :lol:

do you think Mindanaons will vote for Richard Gomez???? :lol:
i hope to see UPMIN in the list in the next ched study...


Yes, and ADDU supplanting the top 1 on the list.:)

Uwat!!! dapat mabalik yang statue na yan :lol:

thinking thinking lang ko Duterte can really relocate those informal settlers. Davao can provide them luna just his convincing power and his charm . i think 1/2 of those slum areas are owned by govenrment not just local but national.


I think if there's a leader who had the clout to do it, it would be Mayor Duterte. He's the only one not scared to lose his seat without the votes of the ISs there.

Originally posted by Rajah_Soliman in the Davao Cultural and Environmental Forum.


If the passengers had taken the jeepney ride from the Bankerohan Public Market going toward Magallanes Street, they would have passed by the historic downtown streets of Davao City. They would have passed by the back of the City Hall built in the 1930s.


until now i can't really explain why we have a lack of well-taken photos of davao's past. is it maybe a lot of these pioneer families don't want to share them for whatever reason? i hope they will realize that a history not shared is like a history we failed to have. all i have been seeing is, forgive me for saying this, a rehash (except for some) of what i have seen for the past 20 years. i was hoping that with our thread, i'll be seeing stuff that just got lost in our digital world.

to whoever is a member of our davao pioneer families, i am hoping that, you can share whatever you have to our fellow dabawenyos. in this light, we can really understand and appreciate that indeed our city has a rich and colourful past. our children and theirs will appreciate it, and they will be proud of it.

Yes, and ADDU supplanting the top 1 on the list.:)

i hope so!!! :cheers:

Cong Almario is one of the proponents if Mati citihood. I believe he is doing fairly well in congress.

I've been to his "Mayo Resort" in Mati- a perfect place for fun with family and friends.

nakit-an nimo si cong. Riz. Jose Protacio y Alonso sa pic :lol: :lol: 3rd row from the bottom second from the right ...

until now i can't really explain why we have a lack of well-taken photos of davao's past. is it maybe a lot of these pioneer families don't want to share them for whatever reason? i hope they will realize that a history not shared is like a history we failed to have. all i have been seeing is, forgive me for saying this, a rehash (except for some) of what i have seen for the past 20 years. i was hoping that with our thread, i'll be seeing stuff that just got lost in our digital world.

to whoever is a member of our davao pioneer families, i am hoping that, you can share whatever you have to our fellow dabawenyos. in this light, we can really understand and appreciate that indeed our city has a rich and colourful past. our children and theirs will appreciate it, and they will be proud of it.

You're right Paul. Even I was shocked Davao is that well-laid out and so cosmopolitan early on.

I wish those early inhabitants had progenies who could show us some archived pics from their olds so the new generations like most us at SSC Davao would learn more about our checkered past.

the same feeling here, I also appeal to those "pioneer families" to share their vintage photos here ....

sir paul we should talk about this during our davao meet come december and embark on some actions to "save whatever heritage is left to us davaoenos".... :cheers:

until now i can't really explain why we have a lack of well-taken photos of davao's past. is it maybe a lot of these pioneer families don't want to share them for whatever reason? i hope they will realize that a history not shared is like a history we failed to have. all i have been seeing is, forgive me for saying this, a rehash (except for some) of what i have seen for the past 20 years. i was hoping that with our thread, i'll be seeing stuff that just got lost in our digital world.

to whoever is a member of our davao pioneer families, i am hoping that, you can share whatever you have to our fellow dabawenyos. in this light, we can really understand and appreciate that indeed our city has a rich and colourful past. our children and theirs will appreciate it, and they will be proud of it.

nakit-an nimo si cong. Riz. Jose Protacio y Alonso sa pic :lol: :lol: 3rd row from the bottom second from the right ...


Kinsa gani na siya Jude? I know there's a bunch of Protacios in Davao and one of them has a top pediatrian at DDH as a wife.

i hope so!!! :cheers:


Imaging the speed it is going at an age of less than 60. It could be the one of the youngest if not the youngest in that bevy of schools on the list but is now ranking as high as fifth? :) Well, I just hope ADDU won't rest on its laurels and continue to go notches higher than where it is right now.:) :)

Kinsa gani na siya Jude? I know there's a bunch of Protacios in Davao and one of them has a top pediatrian at DDH as a wife.

hindi mo na gettching? familiar ba ang initials? :lol: you're right, there is one protacio in the picture pero nakalimutan ko na kung sino doon

my bad there. Si lolo Jose man diay to. Naa pud isa nasa second row, third from right. :lol: :lol:

I know he has a monument in where you are there.

A Happy Month of February!

Let's go back in time - to a significant event in the lives of five Jesuits. . .

In April 1958, five young and energetic Jesuits challenged themselves to reach the peak of Mt. Apo. These Jesuits were Fr. Rodolfo A. Malasmas S.J. (then the Dean of Men of the Ateneo de Davao College), Fr. Miguel A. Bernad S.J. (then editor of the Philippine Studies ), Fr. Rodolfo Villarica, Fr. James. A. McKeough, S.J. and Fr. Thomas R. Fitzpatrick S.J. Three Filipinos and two Americans from New York.

As Fr. Malasmas narrates:

We were young and handsome then. Mt. Apo, the highest peak in the Philippines at 9,900 feet, sat there in great majesty beckoning to us. Mt. Apo still beckons but the creaking knees will not respond anymore.

It is your turn, you alumni/alumnae to climb. But make sure you condition yourselves at the gym -- for a year.

Fr. Malasmas is now AdDU Assistant University Chaplain and continues his ministry in the Marriage Encounter Movement. Fr. Bernad, as many of our alumni and friends know, is a well-known scholar of History and Literature and continues to do his writings and lectures on many subjects as a member of the Jesuit Community in Xavier University in Cagayan de Oro City. Fr. James McKeough now does pastoral ministry and is also based in Xavier University. Fr. Fitzpatrick passed on to eternal life in August 2005. Rodolfo Villarica left the Society and now lives in Quezon City with a family of his own.

Below are some pictures of the historical Jesuit expedition. These pictures were originally published in a past issue of the Philippine Studies and were reprinted in the ADDU Shield 1959 yearbook. Mr. Rolando L. Yap (BSBA 1972) of Chiaw Photography accommodated Fr. Malasmas' request to reshoot these photos for printing on photo paper. Our thanks to Mr. Yap for sharing his time, equipment and expertise.

We salute these five Jesuits and congratulate them for their historic climb to the top of Mt. Apo at a time, 1958, when climbing was a real feat of stamina and courage. Their celebration of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass must have been one of the few offered on the mountain during those early years of the 50s.

Since then, many other Jesuits, and many other Ateneo alumni and alumnae, have climbed Mt. Apo! We salute them all for their accomplishment.

with my warm regards,


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my bad there. Si lolo Jose man diay to. Naa pud isa nasa second row, third from right. :lol: :lol:

I know he has a monument in where you are there.

:lol: :lol: :lol: ako na pod wa ka getching :lol: :lol: kindly PM me the explanation :lol: :lol:

:lol: :lol: :lol: ako na pod wa ka getching :lol: :lol: kindly PM me the explanation :lol: :lol:

JPRizal has a monument in Berlin. That's what my friend said.:lol:

JPRizal has monument in Berlin. That's what my friend said.:lol:

:lol: :lol: :lol:

^^

isn't it true?


By the way, do you know how to enlarge those ADDU pics up there? Sayang kay those were pics of the Apo climb of some Jesuit priests in Davao.

^^ i think you're linked to the thumb pics. give me the source, i can check.

it's the addu alumni communications. i bet you have that too.

^^ na-erase ko na. :ohno:

^^

di ba pwede i qoute unya copy paste and edit sa adobo :lol: shop? di lang ko kabalo muhimo ba.:ohno:

^^ pwede man, kaya lang magiging "abstract" ang mga picture :lol:

^^

:lol: :lol:

Reposting..

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the same feeling here, I also appeal to those "pioneer families" to share their vintage photos here ....

sir paul we should talk about this during our davao meet come december and embark on some actions to "save whatever heritage is left to us davaoenos".... :cheers:

yes sir! surely we will be talking a lot of what is davao. hehehe. there is one group there in davao that promotes davao history pero i dunno to what their activities are. i hope that it's unlike other clubs/organizations/groups. what discourages about getting into clubs or groupings before was they are just a "social" club and nothing else. oh well. forgive me if i may sound cynical about these clubs.

yes sir! surely we will be talking a lot of what is davao. hehehe. there is one group there in davao that promotes davao history pero i dunno to what their activities are. i hope that it's unlike other clubs/organizations/groups. what discourages about getting into clubs or groupings before was they are just a "social" club and nothing else. oh well. forgive me if i may sound cynical about these clubs.

hmmmm... that's bad.... history in the hands of socialites, this isn't good.... :ohno:

well then we'll set a new trend, or institute a new "culture".... the bankerohan historical club - a down-to-earth historical circle with no "high-society" inclination..... anyone is invited to join, provided he or she eats ginamos and two extra cups of rice during meetings :cheers:

Reposting..

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kuyawag ngisi ni pacman oi.... :lol: :lol:

Ikaw ba daw makadaug sa bakbakan :lol: :lol:

^^ mao, pila to kamilyon.... :lol: :lol: watch out, running for President na :lol: :lol: :lol: