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Naga City Deck

January 18th, 2011, 03:30 PM

You are right tanyug.

It was Tanging Ina Mo:ohno:

My mistake. I checked it out at today’s paper entertainment section.

I don't know anyone who is in his right mind to think of a movie title having a very close resemblance to a Tagalog version and slang of SOB “T:ohno:ng Ina Mo”.

If it was meant to be funny- then it was not funny.

Not at all.

I don’t think level headed moviegoers would patronize this kind of trash. How can they poke fun to our Mothers?

It's a sick, sick joke.:ohno:

They just wasted their money in producing a film that no one would be interested to watch.

I’m also glad that there was not much publicity about this film and was almost unheard of among moviegoers.

With that kind of title- the movie was meant to flop.:lol:

And what a flop it was- I didn't see any line on Cinema 2.:lol:

Buti nga.

It's a Star Cinema production Doc :D

and Ai Ai won Best Actress in that movie :lol:

for almost 3 to 4 weeks... all cinemas showed movies from the MMFF.

kung pwede lang mag sabi sa SM, please lang tama ng tagalog movies because it was too long and we will be late again for the foreign movies :D

opops peace to those who are avid fans of tagalog movies. :D i'm not patriotic in terms of liking tagalog movies, very rare lang ang may na aappreciate ako hehe

hakz2007

January 18th, 2011, 03:35 PM

More of Naga Airport
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hakz2007

January 18th, 2011, 03:44 PM

En Route to CWC
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hakz2007

January 18th, 2011, 03:47 PM

CamSur Water Sports Complex
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hakz2007

January 18th, 2011, 03:49 PM

CWC Paraphernalias
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Naga Boy

January 18th, 2011, 03:49 PM

It's a Star Cinema production Doc :D

and Ai Ai won Best Actress in that movie :lol:

for almost 3 to 4 weeks... all cinemas showed movies from the MMFF.

kung pwede lang mag sabi sa SM, please lang tama ng tagalog movies because it was too long and we will be late again for the foreign movies :D

opops peace to those who are avid fans of tagalog movies. :D i'm not patriotic in terms of liking tagalog movies, very rare lang ang may na aappreciate ako hehe

She won Best Actress? That's interesting.

MMFF is one weird festival. It would not be impossible if it wins the Best Picture.:lol:

If it would then Filipino movies have gone to the dogs.:ohno:

hakz2007

January 18th, 2011, 03:53 PM

CWC Accommodation
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hakz2007

January 18th, 2011, 03:55 PM

More of CWC
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Naga Boy

January 18th, 2011, 04:06 PM

Coffee Shops Galore
Magsaysay Avenue

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kevinb

January 19th, 2011, 02:01 AM

Pasensya na yun kasi ang caption sa profile ni Jonna :D

OK lang. It wasn't meant for you anyway. Para duman to sa naggibo.:lol:

***

Happy birthday Garz! :D

Naga Boy

January 19th, 2011, 02:34 AM

SM City Naga Cinemas
Last Tuesday

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Naga City Deck

January 19th, 2011, 02:41 AM

Cake My Day
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Naga City Deck

January 19th, 2011, 02:42 AM

Naga Boy

January 19th, 2011, 02:43 AM

Cold Days and Night Craving

Hot Choco with Marshmallows
by Mocha Blends

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Naga Boy

January 19th, 2011, 02:53 AM

Naga Boy

January 19th, 2011, 04:04 AM

Pizza Perfect in Naga
Popular Pizza Chains in Naga City

Yellow Cab, Magsaysay

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Shakey’s Magsaysay

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Shakey’s SM City

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Pizza Hut, SM City

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Greenwich SM City

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Greenwich, Centro.

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Naga Boy

January 19th, 2011, 04:07 AM

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Naga Boy

January 19th, 2011, 04:14 AM

myonee

January 19th, 2011, 07:08 AM

Sorry. I had to delete the same photos as that below. :D

myonee

January 19th, 2011, 07:10 AM

Magayon asin malipot na hapon people! :D

Some photos to share.
The Iriga City park/playground, beside where the old Bureau of fire was, is now under construction/renovation. Information I got stated that it will be a big beautiful park. Better than the old one.
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sonofignatius

January 19th, 2011, 07:33 AM

happy bday, garz! :cheers::cheers::cheers:

Pasacao
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nice one. from which resort was this taken?

A Great Bicolano Theatrical Event

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events in the arts and theater scene keep coming. nice title - Simon's Way - in honor of Simon Vela, the Spaniard who plays a key role in the Penafrancia story.

sonofignatius

January 19th, 2011, 07:40 AM

CLG Conducts Forum on Local Water Governance

The Ateneo de Naga University - Center for Local Governance (AdNU-CLG) in partnership with the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), the lead government agency partner for the implementation of Joint Programme (JP) MDGF-1919: Enhancing Access to and Provision of Water Services with the Active participation of the Poor in collaboration with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) conducted the Regional Forum on Local Water Governance, an awareness and advocacy program on water sanitation issues in the Bicol Region at the Bro. Richard Michael Fernando, SJ Conference Hall and Arrupe Convention Hall, Ateneo de Naga University on January 6-7, 2011, respectively. The activity aims to provide a mechanism and platform for stakeholders in the water sectors in the Bicol Region to discuss water issues, and be able to come-up with possible solutions on how to implement needed reforms in the field of water governance, that would eventually accelerate the provision of safe and clean drinking water to the poor.

The forum was composed of three (3) Plenary Sessions, one (1) Breakout Session, intended to gather recommendations and commitments, a Plenary Presentation and Discussion of what has transpired during the break out session, and a Writeshop during the first day. The three plenary sessions were presented by three different resource speakers; each tackled a key issue on water governance. The first plenary session was focused on Economic Regulation, it was presented by Dr. Eva Ocfemia of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Environmental Management Bureau.
Dr. Ramona S. Renegado a faculty member of the College Of Arts and Sciences of the university was the resource speaker for the second session focused on Water Supply for the Poor. The last topic which is on Water Resource Management was presented by Hon. Roque L. Carranza, Local Chief Executive of the Local Government Unit of Magallanes, Sorsogon. On the second day, the Plenary Discussion on the Adoption of the Water Governance Declaration and the Signing and Adoption of the Water Governance Declaration by the participants was done.

Dr. Alfredo C. Fabay, Dean of the Ateneo Graduate School, Ms. Elouisa T. Pastor, Assistant Regional Director, DILG – RV representing Dr. Blandino M. Maceda, CESO III Director of DILG-V, Mr. Augusto Rodriguez – United Nations Children`s Fund (UNICEF), were present during the event to deliver opening remarks and short messages while Ms. Kathleen Mangune - MDGF 1919 Programme Officer and Dr. Malu C. Barcillano, Director of the Center for Local Governance presented the overview of the MDGF Program and Overview of the 2-Day Activity, respectively.

Dr. Cristina P. Lim of Ateneo Social Science Research Center of the Ateneo de Naga University and Mr. Vic Rubio of Metro Naga Water District were the Reactors to the presentations of the resource speakers.

The day and a half forum was attended by Local Chief Executives, Vice Mayors and members of the Sangguniang Bayan and Municipal Officials/representatives coming from the six provinces in the Bicol Region. Some members of the Association of Schools of Public Administration in the Philippines, Incorporated (ASPAP) representing the academe and local Water Service Providers (WSP) participated as well in the said forum.
by - Vincent Lorenz C. Guiriba, LM4

www.adnu.edu.ph

sonofignatius

January 19th, 2011, 08:20 AM

30 days to go before the 18th Singles for Christ International Conference
Feb 18-20,2011, CWC, CamSur

the crowds come one after the other in CamSur

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5,000 now registered; with delegations from Singapore, Indonesia, UAE, US, etc

Naga Boy

January 19th, 2011, 08:31 AM

sonofignatius

January 19th, 2011, 09:06 AM

^^ dios marhay na hapon, doc, asin sa gabos!

still in central java but our meeting is finally over. leaving for singapore tonite via jakarta.

we keep eating AYAM here hehehe - that's chicken. and every morning we are served susu (susmaryosep, gatas palan yan!).

many similar words with tagalog. and even bikol: they say duwa polo apat (and that's the suanoy bikol for 34, before it became hispanized as treinta y cuatro) here. also: anak, nangka, ubi (kamote), hukum...

feels like home, esp when we visited the 'warpath' of merapi volcano. stories and scenes similar to our very own mayon!

18th SFC ICon 5k figure is registered pax only; reg ongoing pa. number expected to increase.

all of CWC is reserved, incl all accommodations there- and they still need more.

pls let me know if anyone knows other lodging places aside from the hotels and inns and the more know places.

house right outside the Capitol Complex, i hear, are open to transients. you might know contacts. i will forward the info to SFC.

i'm sure sean is also getting contacts to help SFCs coming from all over!

sonofignatius

January 19th, 2011, 09:19 AM

from Jec Claro's FB page:

Come and Join! - Lakad at TakBOKASYON, walk and run with people who dare to embrace the call to love. January 23, Sunday, 5:30am, AdNU 4 Pillars. [kick off activity of the 16th Vocation Week Celebration]

organized by the Ateneo de Naga for its annual Vocations Week.

Naga Boy

January 19th, 2011, 09:57 AM

Another International Event
in CWC, CamSur

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Naga City Deck

January 19th, 2011, 10:39 AM

Pelikula@Kultura: The 2nd Bicol Conference on Communication and Media Studies
by Vic Nierva (http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=483961604623&id=1024927875&ref=nf)

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Pelikula@Kultura has a comprehensive aspiration of instigating a culture of filmmaking in our region. The conference is a means to stir our spirits to see the various facets—images, artifacts, traditions—of our culture and reflect on the possibilities of translating these riches into information transfer, expressions or advocacies through the art of film. The title-theme connotes the unlimited place of the art of film in our culture, hence, the use of the symbol “@” in Pelikula@Kultura which may mean ‘and’ in the Filipino language, or ‘at’ if seen in the contemporary digital language.

Conference Schedule

DAY 1 • January 31, Monday

09:00
Opening Program

10:30
Keynote Address: Pelikula at Kultura
Miguel Q. Rapatan, Ph.D.
Chair, National Committee on Cinema
National Commission for Culture and the Arts

01:30pm
Lecture 1: Film as Cultural Memory
Prof. Tito Genova Valiente
AdNU Dept. of Social Sciences, Humanities Cluster
Member, Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino

03:30
Screening: Veronica Velasco’s “Last Supper #3” and other short films

DAY 2 • February 1, Tuesday

09:00am
Public Presentation of an Undergraduate Production Research

10:30
Lecture 2: Film Semiotics
Roland B. Tolentino, Ph.D.
Dean, UP College of Mass Communication

01:30pm
Lecture 3: Panitikan at Pamemelikula
Alvin B. Yapan, Ph.D.
AdMU Kagawaran ng Filipino
Filmmaker, Writer

03:00
Screening: Alvin Yapan’s “Gayuma (Pilgrim Lovers)” and other short films

DAY 3 • February 2, Wednesday

09:00am
Public Presentation of an Undergraduate Production Research

10:30
Lecture 4: Mga Tunguhin at Hamon ng Kontemporanyong Screenwriting
Mr. Jerry Gracio
Makata at Manunulat ng Pelikula

01:30
Lecture 5: Guerilla Filmmaking
Mr. Jim Libiran
Filmmaker, Journalist

03:30
Screening: Bicol premiere of Jim Libiran’s “Happyland”

Note: Conference registration fee is Php800.00 inclusive of food, screening fee and kit. Delegates from outside of Naga City may inquire for billeting options.

garycooper

January 19th, 2011, 12:11 PM

NAGA CITY AND LEGAZPI CITY CAN BID TO JOINTLY HOST THIS GRAND EVENT. OR EVEN ALBAY AND CAMSUR CAN JOIN. WE HAVE SO MANY THINGS TO OFFER.

Wanted: Venue for 22nd Ad Congress

By Kenneth del Rosario
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 05:37:00 01/19/2011

Filed Under: Advertising, Media

MANILA, Philippines—The Advertising Congress of the Philippines—the biggest event in the local advertising industry—has opened up the bidding for the venue of the 22nd PAC to be held in November to local government units.

The biennial event, organized by the Advertising Board of the Philippines, brings together the country’s top business, advertising and media companies.

Alexandra Prieto-Romualdez, the president of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, is the chair of this year’s Ad Congress.

“We would like to aspire to have a congress that spurs movement and change, a congress that will move the industry toward introspection and hopefully create the power to break barriers to growth. We can start challenging the current state of affairs, raise some issues, and ask the industry the hard question of why? Or why not?,” said Prieto-Romualdez.

Strict criteria

This year, the organizers are strictly enforcing a set of seven criteria to ensure that the fittest city or locality is chosen to host the event, said Belen Fernando, vice president for marketing for Alaska Milk Corp., who heads the Ad Congress organizing committee.

“We’ll definitely step it up this time around. Launching a truly first-class Ad Congress this year starts with selecting the perfect venue so we’re hoping to get the best bids from cities and localities across the country,” Fernando said.

The last Ad Congress in November 2009 was hastily moved to the Subic Bay Freeport when three weeks before the event landslides and floods destroyed most of the roads leading to Baguio City, the original chosen venue.

The criteria include the following: the city or locality’s accessibility through various transport modes; infrastructure (such as conference center or plenary hall) that can support at least 2,500 to 4,000 delegates; affordability; availability of local suppliers; safety and security systems in place; and local government support.

“Aside from our usual criteria, we’ve also added in the list, for the first time, a city or locality’s value-added attractions to the delegates and guests as many of the participants view the Ad Congress also as a break from their usual hectic schedule,” Fernando said.

Interested LGUs may submit their bids anytime until Jan. 31, 2011.

Logistics to be outsourced

While all localities are welcome to submit bids, cities with huge conference centers and a large number of hotels would have a distinct advantage, said Fernando.

The winning locality will be announced in February, after which another bidding process will ensue. The second bidding will be for the selection of the events company that will handle the logistics, the setting up and the staging of the congress itself.
This is the first time that the logistics demand for the ad congress, such as booking and registration of participants, transportation and the meals of the delegates, will be outsourced.

“In the past, we’ve always had volunteers from the industry. And while we appreciate that, we believe outsourcing the logistics to more experienced people would best serve the interests of everyone,” Fernando said.

Like choosing the venue, the selection of the events company will also follow stringent criteria to ensure that the Ad Congress runs as smoothly and as professionally as possible, she said.

Organizers will be looking at the company’s integrity, competence, track record and completeness of service, Fernando said.

For inquiries, e-mail Adcongress2011@aol.com or call Jennifer Enriquez at 0917-5042716. All bid letters should be sent to: The Admin Committee Chairperson c/o ADBOARD, 5th Floor, Dao Condominium, Legaspi Street, Makati City.

Naga Boy

January 19th, 2011, 12:16 PM

Naga City Deck

January 19th, 2011, 04:49 PM

LUNAR HALO

tonight at 11:30 pm

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Naga City Deck

January 19th, 2011, 04:53 PM

LUNAR HALO
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full moon in Naga tonight

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Naga City Deck

January 19th, 2011, 05:05 PM

Naga City Deck

January 19th, 2011, 05:13 PM

Fil-Danish raring to play for Azkals
by Peter Atencio
Manila Standard Today (http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/insideSports.htm?f=2011/january/18/sports2.isx&d=2011/january/18)

FILIPINO-Danish football pro Jerry Lucena is upbeat of his coming stint in the Philippines as a member of the Azkals, the country’s national football squad, which will face Mongolia at the start of the home-and-away series on Feb. 9 at the Panaad Stadium in Bacolod.

In an overseas telephone interview, the 30-year-old Lucena told Manila Standard that he’s now getting ready to go to Manila and is hoping that all his papers, including his Philippine passport, will be in order in time for the tournament.

“Yes, hopefully all the paper works will be in order before any of this can happen,” said Lucena, whose father Ruben hails from Iriga City in Camarines Sur. His mom, Elise, is a native of Copenhagen in Denmark.

Lucena is one of three professional soccer players directly accepted into the Azkals’ roster, along with another Fil-Danish booter in Dennis Cagara and Fil-German Stephan Markus Schrock.

Lucena has played professional soccer in Denmark for the last 12 years, first for Esbjerg from 1999 to 2007, and for AGF-Aarhus afterwards.

He was also a member of the Denmark’s national under-21 team during his younger years.

Lucena, who stands 5’9,” said he has been training for the last two weeks after the winter break, and added that he’s looking forward to joining the three-day tryouts for new members of the Azkals which started yesterday at the University of Makati.

“I am looking forward to it (joining the Azkals). It is exciting that I will be able to help raise the level of Philippine football after playing for more than 10 years,” added Lucena.

sonofignatius

January 19th, 2011, 06:44 PM

Pelikula@Kultura: The 2nd Bicol Conference on Communication and Media Studies
by Vic Nierva (http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=483961604623&id=1024927875&ref=nf)

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Note: Conference registration fee is Php800.00 inclusive of food, screening fee and kit. Delegates from outside of Naga City may inquire for billeting options.

one of the featured films is by Alvin Yapan, a nagueno and alumnus of the ateneo de naga high school, now with the Filipino Dept of the ateneo de manila.

NAGA CITY AND LEGAZPI CITY CAN BID TO JOINTLY HOST THIS GRAND EVENT. OR EVEN ALBAY AND CAMSUR CAN JOIN. WE HAVE SO MANY THINGS TO OFFER.

Wanted: Venue for 22nd Ad Congress

For inquiries, e-mail Adcongress2011@aol.com or call Jennifer Enriquez at 0917-5042716. All bid letters should be sent to: The Admin Committee Chairperson c/o ADBOARD, 5th Floor, Dao Condominium, Legaspi Street, Makati City.

joining forces is certainly a great idea. hope our leaders can work on a joint bid.

LUNAR HALO

tonight at 11:30 pm

by Ryan Aspe (http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1510029000219&set=a.1304324697740.2036078.1519185239)

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LUNAR HALO
by Bob Mendoza (http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=193525730663774&set=a.193524467330567.53663.100000190447074&pid=733360&id=100000190447074)

full moon in Naga tonight
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magayonon hay!

Fil-Danish raring to play for Azkals
by Peter Atencio
Manila Standard Today (http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/insideSports.htm?f=2011/january/18/sports2.isx&d=2011/january/18)

FILIPINO-Danish football pro Jerry Lucena is upbeat of his coming stint in the Philippines as a member of the Azkals, the country’s national football squad, which will face Mongolia at the start of the home-and-away series on Feb. 9 at the Panaad Stadium in Bacolod.

In an overseas telephone interview, the 30-year-old Lucena told Manila Standard that he’s now getting ready to go to Manila and is hoping that all his papers, including his Philippine passport, will be in order in time for the tournament.

go, jerry!

sonofignatius

January 19th, 2011, 07:15 PM

Natividad, Yapan, and Tuaño named ASPAC outstanding teachers for SY 2010-2011

date posted: 2011-01-19 14:43:30

The Ateneo Schools Parents Council (ASPAC) has named its outstanding teachers for SY 2010-2011. Dr. Ma. Lucia C. Natividad (Associate Professor, Department of Theology) was adjudged Outstanding Senior Teacher, while Dr. Alvin B. Yapan (Assistant Professor, Kagawaran ng Filipino) was named Outstanding Junior Teacher. Mr. Philip Arnold P. Tuaño is this year’s Outstanding Part-Time Teacher.

The ASPAC Search for Outstanding Teachers, which began in 1991, is given to teachers in the Loyola Schools who embody the Ateneo’s tradition of excellence and who from students to be competent persons-for-others. This excellence is manifested through the teacher’s character, teaching competence, research and scholarship, and university and community service. The yearly search is spearheaded by the ASPAC’s Academics Committee.

Natividad, Yapan, and Tuaño will receive their awards during ASPAC’s annual Gabi ng Parangal at Pasasalamat ceremony set on February 11, 2011.

Congratulations to Drs. Natividad and Yapan, and Mr. Tuaño!

More at the Loyola Schools Website.

www.ateneo.edu
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Alvin Yapan,PhD, true blue taga-naga!

Irigueño23

January 20th, 2011, 12:32 AM

Irigueño23

January 20th, 2011, 12:41 AM

sawa sa may Naga City Science High School nahuli kahapon..
from my fb friend page..
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Irigueño23

January 20th, 2011, 12:53 AM

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kevinb

January 20th, 2011, 01:29 AM

sonofignatius

January 20th, 2011, 02:04 AM

ADNU PINTAKASI 2011 (http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=156972357686920&set=a.156972354353587.45775.156763381041151)

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read on fb that there is a daragang pintakasi (?) contest- and it's for the boys!

sawa sa may Naga City Science High School nahuli kahapon..
from my fb friend page..
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naughty thought: is this a sign that indeed Robinsons is coming? :nuts::nuts::nuts: as they say, testing the waters hehehe... and magsaysay (home of the city science high) is a good place to visit first to see how business is doing in the city's most active, most sleepless strip! :lol::lol::lol:

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so what are you guys waiting for? Come South, CamSur!

Oooohhhh. Makakasabay mi sinda sa break night mi sa CWC. I hope to somehow interact with them. :D

that will be great, kevin. all the warmest welcome is surely appreciated- in CWC, and everywhere in the city and province. many of them will be touring albay and sorsogon, too.

a good opportunity to meet people from all over! why not even volunteer to show your new friends around? SFC members i know are already excited to try kinalas, kinunot, pinangat, biggs burgers, magarao massage, etc. am giving them a shortlist (things to do before leaving camsur)

Irigueño23

January 20th, 2011, 03:15 AM

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kiretoce

January 20th, 2011, 07:38 AM

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I love how ominous this photo looks. :okay:

oragon.com

January 20th, 2011, 10:24 AM

Baao, Camarines Sur
Birthplace of Bishop Jorge Barlin

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oragon.com

January 20th, 2011, 10:26 AM

Nabua National High School

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oragon.com

January 20th, 2011, 10:40 AM

hakz2007

January 20th, 2011, 01:20 PM

nice one. from which resort was this taken?

I have no idea :)

hakz2007

January 20th, 2011, 01:50 PM

Kapuso Gift Giving @ Naga City Gym
January 17, 2011
by Isyu Ngonian (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Isyu-Ngonian/172947986064672)

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hakz2007

January 20th, 2011, 01:52 PM

NPC conducts expository hearing on environ charge
PILI, Camarines Sur , Jan.20-- The National Power Corporation (NPC) conducted an expository hearing on “Rules and Procedures governing the utilization and disbursement of Universal Charge-Environmental Charge(UC-EC)” held at the Central Bicol State University of Agriculture (CBSUA), attended by various stakeholders, particularly electric cooperative here.

Pursuant to Republic Act 9136 otherwise known as the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA), the National Power Corporation (NPC) is mandated to manage an environmental charge (UC-UE) equivalent to one-fourth of one centavo per kilowatt hour (P0.0025/ kWh)

Mr. Emmanuel A. Umali, Watershed Management Department Manager of NPC, gave an overview of the project, citing among others, the legal basis why a specific amount should be collected from the stakeholders.

“As our EPIRA law directs, NPC shall manage and continue to be responsible for watershed rehabilitation and management and that fixed amount, amounting to P0.0025, will be solely devoted for the rehabilitation of our existing watersheds.”

The same authority given to NPC was also supported by Republic Act 6395 allowing it “to exercise complete jurisdiction and control over watersheds surrounding the reservoirs of power plants and power projects; and EO 224, which also vested upon NPC “the complete jurisdiction, control and regulation of seven watershed areas around its power plants.”

Umali said that the fund that will be collected will be used for qualified projects under UC-EC which includes; watershed rehabilitation, watershed protection, acquisition and maintenance of tools, equipment, hardware and software relative to watershed database management , for research and development and for technical, legal, administrative and logistical support.

In the provinces of Albay and Camarines Sur , Umali cited that the NPC has already accomplished more than 70 per cent of their approved projects.

“We have already completed the vegetative rehabilitation project, which includes reforestation, agroforestry and vetiver plantation in both Albay and Camarines Sur, the same with the structural rehabilitation in both provinces, which includes riprap and check dam projects.”

The CBSUA discussion is NPC’s second leg of expository presentation. The same sortie will be conducted in Iligan City and Benguet until the final hearing of the petition set on March 21, 2011.http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=1&t=1&id=12488

hakz2007

January 20th, 2011, 01:54 PM

Kapuso Gift Giving @ Naga City Gym
January 17, 2011
by Isyu Ngonian (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Isyu-Ngonian/172947986064672)

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hakz2007

January 20th, 2011, 01:55 PM

DENR bares winners of 2009 eco-friendly search among schools
BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya, January 20 (PIA) –- The Department of Environment and Natural Resources(DENR) recently bared the winners of its 2009 Sustainable Eco-Friendly competition among schools in the country.

A total of 9 schools were declared as national champions for the 2009 National Search for Sustainable and Eco-friendly Schools. These are: (elementary Category) First prize – Peñablanca East Central School, Agguddan-Malibabag, Peñablanca, Cagayan; Second prize – North Central Elementary School, Bonuan Gueset, Dagupan City, Pangasinan; and Third prize – Badas Elementary School, Badas, Placer, Surigao del Norte.

For the High School category, the winners are: First Place – La Castellana National High School, La Castellana, Negros Occidental; Second place – Camarines Sur National High School, Naga City, Camarines Sur; and Third place – Daniel R. Aguinaldo National High School;, Matina, Davao City.

For the college category, the winners are: First Place – Palawan State University, Puerto Princesa City, Palawan; Second place – Visayas State Univesity, Baybay, Leyte; and Third place – Catanduanes State Colleges, Virac Catanduanes.

Open to all elementary, high school and tertiary school levels, the program also aims to encourage the academe to become more actively involved in environmental issues at a practical and local level aside from developing skills and forging understanding among students, faculty and school administrators to initiate active responses and increase community awareness and involvement on environmental concerns.

The national search is a joint program of the DENR through the Environment Management Bureau(EMB), Department of Education(DepEd), Commission on Higher Education(CHED) and Smart Communications.http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=1&t=1&id=12508

hakz2007

January 20th, 2011, 01:57 PM

Kapuso Gift Giving @ Naga City Gym
January 17, 2011
by Isyu Ngonian (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Isyu-Ngonian/172947986064672)

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hakz2007

January 20th, 2011, 01:58 PM

Mga CCTV cameras, ipapalagay sa pampublikong Mercado ng Lungsod ng Naga sa pagsugpo ng kriminalidad.
NAGA CITY,Jan.20 (PIA) -- Mamadaliin ng local na pamahalaan ng Lungsod ng Naga ang paglalagay ng mga CCTV cameras sa palengke upang makatulong sa pagsugpo ng kreminalidad sa naturang lugar.

Ito ang naging pahayag ni Mayor John Bongat ng Lungsod ng Naga sa gitna na nangyayaring pamamaril, patay ang isang meat vendor kahapon ng umaga.

Ayun kay bongat minamadali na ang bidding ng mga CCTV cameras at agad ilalagay sa mercado publiko. Kasama ang naturang lugar na paglalagyan ng ganitong gamit dahilan na rin sa maraming ng naiuulat na mga nangyayaring pamamaril.

Samantala, kinilala ng mga pulis ang namatay na biktima na si Felix Grencio, 23 taong gulang, meat vendor ng nasabing palengke.

Patay agad ito sa tama ng isang bala sa kanyang ulo. Nahuli agad ang salaring na kinilalang si Nelmar Oreta, residente ng barangay Sabang, Naga City na di umanoy nagkaroon ng matagal nang alitan sa negosyo . Naka detine ito sa Naga City Police Office at ngayong araw isasampa na ang kasong murder kay Oreta. http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r05&id=12563

hakz2007

January 20th, 2011, 02:00 PM

The Philippine Pharmacists National Convention 2011

PHILIPPINE PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION

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2011 NATIONAL CONVENTION

APRIL 6 – 8, 2011

CWC, Naga City, Camarines Sur

THEME:
Developing Agenda For Collaborative Pharmacy Practice

http://www.philpharmacists.org/

Another convention in Naga :cheers:

LUNAR HALO
by Bob Mendoza (http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=193525730663774&set=a.193524467330567.53663.100000190447074&pid=733360&id=100000190447074)

full moon in Naga tonight

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Like :okay:

hakz2007

January 20th, 2011, 02:01 PM

Coco fiber industry, itatayo sa San Jose, Cam Sur
Isang investor ang nagpahayag ng kanyang pag nanais na makapagpatayo ng isang Coco Fiber Industry sa bayan ng San Jose, Camarines Sur. Ito ang masayang ibinalita ni San Jose Mayor Antonio Chavez. Ayon kay Chavez, malaki ang maitutulong ng naturang negosyo upang mabigyan ng oportunidad ang mga taga San Jose na makakuha ng trabaho at maging bahagi ng kanilang pag asenso.

Ang planong pagtatayo ng Coco Fiber industry ay ipinahayag ng negosyanteng si Cezar Alfon. Ayon kay Alfon, ang ilalagay na planta sa naturang bayan ang syang gagawa ng mga finished products mula sa coco fiber.. IDinagdag pa nito na in demand sa ibang bansa , lalo na sa China at mga bansa sa Europa ang mga naturang produkto..

Ayon naman kay Chavez, mag do donate ng lupa ang LGU para sa planta sa isang kondisyon na magiging prayoridad nito sa employment ang kanyang mga kababayan… Inaasahan na 70% ng mga empleyado ay kukunin nga mula sa mga barangay ng naturang bayan.http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r05&id=12173

hakz2007

January 20th, 2011, 02:08 PM

Bicol police chief holds visit to PPOs in Bicol
CAMP GEN. SIMEON A. OLA, Legazpi City, Jan. 19 (PIA) — Acknowledging the need to boost the morale of the entire Bicol police and drive it into another year-round of law enforcement activities, Bicol police chief PCSupt Cecilio Calleja, Jr., has slated command visit to Police Provincial Offices (PPOs) of Sorsogon, Camarines Sur, Camarines Norte and Naga City, instead of the traditional New Year’s call.

Calleja said that the command visit intends to know directly the issues and concerns of the provincial, city and town police office chiefs and to disseminate, likewise, the issues and concerns of the directorial staff to ensure efficient and effective public service in the year 2011.

He also distributed sets of 9mm pistols and desktop computer sets to selected municipal/city police station (MPS/CPS) and lead the awarding of PNP medals to deserving police personnel who demonstrated extraordinary performance that contributed to the over-all countless achievements of the PNP.

The police director also discussed issues and concerns affecting the present morale of the police force, including measures to be undertaken in order to correct the negative perception of the public about the police were also discussed.

Calleja has meanwhile directed all police chiefs to exercise full command responsibility on all the behaviors and demeanors of their subordinates.

“The police chiefs should impose disciplinary sanctions immediately to erring policemen for any acts of misbehavior and wrongdoings, otherwise, they are the ones who will be subjected to administrative disciplinary actions under the doctrine of command responsibility,” he said.

Calleja added, citing the Broken-Window Theory, that in order to stop abuses in the ranks, the essence of leadership by example is important.

As leaders, he said, they should lead the corps in bringing back the old glory of the PNP by regaining the trust and confidence of the public through Accountability, Discipline and Performance towards the organization, country and people. http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r05&id=12234

hakz2007

January 20th, 2011, 02:10 PM

Robredo pigsabit sa nag-oorog pang "wordwar' kan gobernador asin kan opisyal sa pulisya sa CamSur
NAGA CITY- Nag oorog pa ngonian an nangyayaring iwalan o "wordwar" sa pag-ultanan ninda Gov. LRay Villafuerte asin PSSupt.Jonathan Ablang,provincial director kan Camarines Sur huli sa isyu kan illegal activity.

Enot na pig-akusaran kan gobernador an nasabing PNP-official ning pangongotong ning kantidad na P300,000.00 sa sarong minahan na illegal an operasyon.

Segun man sa nasabing PNP-official,na anggot an gobernador saiya kan dae niya sunudon an kahagadan kaini na tugutan an operasyon kan nasabing minahan,na kabisto soboot ni Villafuerte an may saderi.

Sa entribista kan Bombo Radyo Naga ki Villafuerte,pigdawit na man kaini si DILGSec. Jesse Robredo sa pagsasabing pigsusurog kaini an nasabing police offcial.

Higot man na pigpahimutikan ni Robredo an akusasyon na ini kan gobernador.

Marurumduman na dagos na man na nag resign sa puwesto si Ablang,alagad dae pa man makahale huli sa mayo pa ning maribay digde.http://bomboradyo.com/index.php/news/regional-news/bicolano-news/37123-robredo-pigsabit-sa-nag-oorog-pang-qwordwar-kan-gobernador-asin-kan-opisyal-sa-pulisya-sa-camsur

hakz2007

January 20th, 2011, 02:13 PM

Police frontline service, capacity building on DILG’s top list in 2011
NAGA CITY — Amidst a string of unpleasant reports regarding poor performance and abusive behavior of some policemen, the present leadership of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) is taking a serious step to reappraise its manner of allocating and using its budget for the Philippine National Police (PNP).

DILG Secretary Jesse Robredo said that the move is in line with the PNP’s modernization plan under the Aquino government. According to the DILG helmsman, this modernization program covers two main areas, namely, capacity-building and facilities procurement and maintenance.

“This plan, however, would focus more on the capacity building for our policemen which would include additional trainings and seminars from which they would learn how to handle new gadgets and different situations,” Robredo said in a phone interview. “We intend to put more stress on the trainings more than the maintenance and procurement of facilities because it is more essential for the development of policemen and even the SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics Team).”

Aside from this, DILG has its eyes also fixed on the modernization of police stations all over the country, which means renovations would be done on PNP buildings and new modern technological provisions would be installed in every police headquarter and substation.

These changes, according to Robredo, are for better tracking of crimes which may ultimately improve the performance rating of the PNP during crisis situations and investigations, thereby preventing recurrence of gruesome incidents like the Luneta Hostage Taking which had dented the integrity of the police force and the country’s reputation in the international community.

Robredo said the modernization plan has been allocated an estimated budget of two billion pesos this year. Fifty percent of the total budget will be spent on the improvement of frontline services in police stations, 25% to be allocated for development programs of support units while the remaining 25% will be set aside for facilities and maintenance, the DILg chief explained.

“We have to teach our police personnel to be kind and courteous to civilians,” Robredo added. “Therefore, the people on the frontline service should know how to treat citizens who personally come to their desks asking for assistance.”

Robredo said further that last year’s budget was not used properly because it was solely allocated to maintenance of old facilities when it could have been used for increasing benefits of policemen. Aside from this, the remaining amount left over by the past fiscal year was reverted to the national budget when it could have been set aside for hiring of more police personnel into the force.http://naga.gov.ph/news/police-frontline-service-capacity-building-on-dilg%E2%80%99s-top-list-in-2011/

hakz2007

January 20th, 2011, 02:14 PM

Re-planning for rice sufficiency held
The Department of Agriculture RFU 5, in tandem with the Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR) started the year 2011 with planning for rice self-sufficiency to strengthen existing mechanisms as well as explore innovative approaches on research, development and extension in the face of climate change threats.

The Phase II Re-Planning for Provincial Rice Self-Sufficiency for Bicol held at the Villa Caceres Hotel Naga City on January 4-7, 2011 aims to formulate an updated rice self-sufficiency action plan highlighting rice production support systems interventions/strategies covering: soil fertility and crop management; seeds system; irrigation and infrastructure development; dryers and postharvest facilities; credit, pricing and marketing; and research, development and extension services.

This rice self-sufficiency action plan will set the direction of the provincial efforts and investment on rice production in the next five years.

The formulation or updating of the Provincial Rice Action Plan (PRAP) in Regions IV-A, IV-B and Bicol, covering 16 provinces, forms part of the Project “Collaborative Research Development and Extension Services for Food Security” under the component on Capacity Building: Partnership with Local Government Units. The project was funded by the Bureau of Agricultural Research.

“Let us not be contented with just achieving self-sufficiency. We should also factor in climate change, the growing population, and increase in demand.” Dr. Jose V. Dayao, Department of Agriculture 5 Regional Executive Director said in his message at the opening of the 4-day workshop.

Dr. Dayao added that the DA is working hard to increase production to help farmers increase their income and encourage them to stay in their farms as well as encourage their children to pursue college courses in agriculture.

Dr. Dayao also underscored the importance of having a good framework and implementing it at the lowest possible level. To empower the extension workers and bring them back to the farmers’ fields.

The activity was attended by provincial agriculturists, provincial planning officials, provincial rice program coordinators, representatives from NIA and partner SUCs – Catanduanes State College, Camarines Norte State Colleges, Central Bicol State University of Agriculture; professors from UPLB headed by Dr. Agnes Rola, Project Leader, CRDES and staff of DA RFU 5.http://naga.gov.ph/news/re-planning-for-rice-sufficiency-held/

hakz2007

January 20th, 2011, 02:15 PM

Price hike on veggies, crops looms in Bicol
NAGA CITY — Jun Tablante, president of the association of vegetables and fruit vendors in this city has sounded off possible increases in the prices of fruits, vegetables and flowers that are sourced from Benguet and Baguio in the Cordillera region in northern Luzon where most of these farm produce come from.

This, after it was reported in the national media that price hikes on these products are inevitable because of the coldest temperature ever recorded in the Cordilleras which had greatly affected the growth and bloom of these farm products.

Tablante, who maintains a stall in the Naga City Public Market, confirmed that such farm products are still available at normal prices in the local market, but may gradually increase in the next few weeks because of the situation in Baguio and Benguet.

Recently, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) in Baguio recorded a shivering 9.8 degrees Celsius temperature at 5:00 a.m. last Tuesday, January 4. This reading is lower than the 10 degrees Celsius recorded Monday, bringing about a forecast of colder temperatures in the following days.

Meanwhile, Director Jose Dayao of Department of Agriculture (DA) Regional Office in Pili, Camarines Sur admitted that he agrees with Tablante’s assumption of a price hike, but disagreed with the lattrer’s interpretation of the situation obtaining in the Cordillera mountains.

“It is true that the worth of veggies and fruits, and even flowers, may suddenly go up starting this month until the next,” Dayao said. “But, it must be blamed on factors affecting the transportation and the availability of the goods, not the cold.”

Dayao further explained that freight cost may be the bigger reason behind the increase as the national government recently approved the implementation of the toll fee hike in both the Southern Luzon and Northern Luzon expressways with the onset of the New Year.

The DA Regional Director added that the lack of locally produced veggies and fruits in the Bicol Region would also cause local consumers to bear with slightly expensive farm produce that are transported from the Cordilleras.

“We can’t control this factor because, traditionally, our farmers here do not produce these products during the months of December until February mainly because of the rainy season which is not good for farming. It is already normal to see a few pesos added to the cost of these products because we always have to buy them from other sources, such as Baguio City, every year during these months,” Dayao added.

Aside from this, Dayao also invoked the law of supply and demand, saying that the supplies from Baguio may not be enough to meet the demands from the lowlands, especially if temperatures in the uplands would become colder and inevitably damage crops.

On the other hand, Dayao stated that consumers should not be too nervous with the looming price hike as it may only mean a few pesos temporary addition to present costs.

“This situation will last, anyway. Things will not look up in the month of March when our local farmers will start harvesting and planting crops.”http://naga.gov.ph/news/price-hike-on-veggies-crops-looms-in-bicol/

hakz2007

January 20th, 2011, 02:23 PM

Isyu Ngonian Episode: Tinta/Tattoo - http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150378751570128&oid=172947986064672&comments

hakz2007

January 20th, 2011, 02:29 PM

Tree Planting @ Mt. Asog
January 6, 2011
by Trihedron Bicol (http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001514172478)

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hakz2007

January 20th, 2011, 02:31 PM

Smile Magazine Latest Issue

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hakz2007

January 20th, 2011, 02:33 PM

Bicol mayors support DILG’s water program for LGUs
Local government units (LGUs) across Bicol have formalized their support to the program of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) aimed at providing potable water to poor communities in the region under the auspices of the Millennium Development Goal Achievement Fund (MDGF 1919).

The MDG program dubbed "Enhancing Access to and Provision of Water Services with the Active Participation of the Poor" intends to contribute to the improvement of efficiency, access, affordability and quality of potable water services.

Interior and Local Government regional director for Bicol Blandino Maceda on Thursday said MDGF 1919, through the DILG, is establishing support mechanism for the program that include the development of a range of incentive options and partnership modalities.

Maceda said 36 municipalities in five regions of the country that include Bicol are considered waterless, making them the primary target of the program.

The other four regions are Cagayan Valley (Region II), Zamboanga Peninsula (Region IX) and Northern Mindanao (Region X) and Caraga (Region XIII).

MDGF 1919 has provided a total funding of US$ 5.375 million for the implementation of the program in the Philippines by the DILG with the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA).

The United Nations Development Fund (UNDF) and the United Nations International Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) are supporting it.

Under the program, the DILG’s Office of the Project Development Services (OPDS) will provide organizational and technological assistance to the recipient-municipalities and help them develop, organize and sustain their Water and Sanitation (WATSAN) Councils composed of key provincial, municipal and barangay officers.

The OPDS, with its Water Supply and Sanitation Unit (WSSU), is responsible for the water and sanitation sector agenda of the department.

The Unit is mandated to develop and strengthen LGU capabilities in planning, financing, implementation and management of water supply and sanitation programs and projects within the framework of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM).

The IWRM Plan Framework is a directional plan. It is intended to guide the different stakeholders involved in water resources management, at different levels, to either prepare their respective, update their existing IWRM related plans or make IWRM an integral part of their development programs.

It provides a clear roadmap and a collaborative platform for all stakeholders and water-related agencies to effectively work together to achieve water for all in a sustainable, equitable and ecologically balanced manner.

This directional plan framework also seeks to enable and encourage a wider adoption and localization of IWRM, across different stakeholders, at different levels.

It will guide water-related government agencies and other stakeholders in ensuring that water and IWRM are mainstreamed and integrated in their respective plans, programs and projects.

The plan will also be the take-off in the preparation of regional and local IWRM Operational and Action Plans.

It also provides for the empowerment of Barangay Water and Sanitation (BAWASA) teams composed of volunteer residents from the barangays.

According to OPDS records, 17 million Filipinos still do not have access to safe water, while there are still 273 waterless municipalities that are yet to be reached by the President’s Priority Program on Water (P3W).

There are 12 provinces in the five regions that cover the 36 waterless municipalities of about 122,000 households identified by the MDGF 1919 for its priority attention.

Maceda said the program will use the services of water experts, engineers, development workers, community organizers and communication specialists to improve the water and sanitation skills of provincial and municipal WATSAN personnel in five of the six Bicol provinces included in it.

Through the DILG mentoring system, LGUs will be capacitated to develop their own customer service guidelines for water services, organizational management and local resource, strategic and communication plans, Maceda said.

With the WATSAN councils and BAWASA teams organized and capacitated, the DILG and its MDGF partners expect significant improvement in accessing clean and potable water by the beneficiary LGUs and empower them to become implementers of the project, he added.

Among the Bicol municipalities included in the program are Monreal and San Pascual in Masbate; Sta. Magdalena, Casiguran, Juban and Castilla in Sorsogon; Milaor, Cabusao, Gainza and Siruma in Camarines Sur; Capalonga in Camarines Norte and Tiwi in Albay.

Mayors of these municipalities were attendees to the two-day Local Governance Water Forum organized by the DILG and held at the Ateneo de Naga Univesity in Naga City last week.

In the forum, the mayors signed a manifesto of support to the program that also called national leaders into action in addressing the problems on potable water affecting various municipalities in the region that belong mostly to the poorest local government classifications.

With regard to the call to action, Maceda said MDGF 1919 is already an answer to it as it is a joint program of the Philippine government and the United Nations (UN) System in the Philippines that brings together relevant agencies working on water and sanitation in the pursuit of the country’s commitment to providing water to all Filipinos.

Specifically, he said, the program aims to enhance provision of and access to water services of poor communities by filling in the “soft” component gap of existing national government programs, particularly the P3W.

It focuses on the limited investments support to enable the poor to have greater access to quality potable water and the lack of local capacities to develop, operate and manage water supply utilities which are two major issues as identified in the Philippine Water Supply Sector Roadmap.

The program has two components --the first takes stock of existing policies and mechanisms that encourage both the public and private sector to invest at the local level and review current financing and programming schemes through stakeholder consultations.

On the other hand, the second component focuses on building the skills, values and knowledge of both LGUs and water user associations in targeted “waterless” municipalities to develop, operate and manage potable water utilities through mentoring, and local skills and knowledge learning and sharing activities, Maceda said.http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=0&nid=2&rid=324731

hakz2007

January 20th, 2011, 02:34 PM

Diarrhea kills 9-month baby, affects 250 in Camarines Sur, DOH monitors cases
Health authorities are closely monitoring the increasing diarrhea cases caused by contaminated water that already killed a nine-month baby and affected 250 villagers, majority of whom are children, in barangay Butawanan in Siruma town in Camarines Sur, the Bicol Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (RDRRMC) said Wednesday.

The Department of Health (DOH) in Bicol reported that baby was the first casualty of the water-borne disease.

While the cases are increasing, the DOH has yet to declare a diarrhea outbreak pending results of an on-going surveillance investigation.

The DOH Epidemiologist surveillance team sent to the village reported that 250 out of the 450 residents examined on site were positive to cholera type of diarrhea. They are all undergoing treatment, the DOH said.

In a news conference, Dr. Rose Rempillo, DOH assistant regional director, said of the 250 diarrhea patients, 25 patients are in serious condition, 150 were in the moderate stage, and 75 have mild diarrhea.

Rempillo said based on the rapid assessment report of the surveillance team, barangay Butawanan, an island village in Siruma town, have a population of 4,000 and half of the total households are affected by diarrhea.

She said 90 percent of the village water source come from spring, deep and shallow wells which were contaminated due to continuous rains since December.

The RDRRMC said the island village is an hour boat ride from Siruma town, which is a six-hour drive from this city.

For his part, Raffy Alejandro, Office of Civil Defense (OCD) regional director told news reporters that with the assistance from the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP, Navy, Army) they flew in and set up a five-man DOH Field Hospital equipped with doctors, nurses, and medicines in the area, where hundreds of the barangay residents sought medical consultation and treatment.

The DOH, as intervention measures to prevent the spread of diarrhea, have recommended a total rehabilitation of the water system, the inspection of household toilets and hold advocacy drive to improve sanitary practice and personal hygiene among residents in the village. http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=0&nid=2&rid=324571

hakz2007

January 20th, 2011, 02:43 PM

Ronald Singson, Antonio del Rosario top House absentee list; Imelda Marcos, Dato Arroyo among best attendees
Ilocos Sur Rep. Ronald Singson had the most absences in the first six months of the 15th Congress, reports ABS-CBNNews.com. Currently out on bail in Hong Kong for drug-related charges, he missed all 45 plenary sessions from July 1 to December 31, 2010.

Davao del Norte Rep. Antonio del Rosario did not attend all 45 sessions as well. He is allegedly being treated for cancer abroad, an ABS-CBNNews.com source said. Singson, del Rosario and Western Samar Rep. Milagrosa Tan—who was absent for 30 sessions—were away on "official business," according to House records.

Laguna Rep. Evita Arago was on sick leave for 22 days due to her delicate pregnancy but she told ABS-CBNNews.com that she continues to "file bills and engage in district work."

Meanwhile, Camarines Sur Rep. Dato Arroyo, son of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, was among the lawmakers with perfect attendance. His mother, who now represents the second district of Pampanga, attended 38 sessions, while his brother, Ang Galing Pinoy partylist Rep. Mikey Arroyo, was present for 28.

Ilocos Norte Rep. Imelda Marcos, a former First Lady, only missed a single session.

Out of the 283 House representatives, only 43 consistently attended plenary sessions in the first six months of the 15th Congress, according to House records cited by ABS-CBNNews.com.http://www.spot.ph/newsfeatures/47380/ronald-singson-tops-house-absentee-list-imelda-marcos-missed-only-one-session

hakz2007

January 20th, 2011, 02:44 PM

Another International Event
in CWC, CamSur

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Wow, this is fun :banana:

hakz2007

January 20th, 2011, 02:46 PM

Ultimate Wake Championship Opening Ceremony
by Cam Sur (http://www.facebook.com/camsur)

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hakz2007

January 20th, 2011, 02:48 PM

Ultimate Wake Championship Opening Ceremony
by Cam Sur (http://www.facebook.com/camsur)

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hakz2007

January 20th, 2011, 02:50 PM

Ultimate Wake Championship Opening Ceremony
by Cam Sur (http://www.facebook.com/camsur)

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hakz2007

January 20th, 2011, 02:53 PM

Ultimate Wake Championship Opening Ceremony
by Cam Sur (http://www.facebook.com/camsur)

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hakz2007

January 20th, 2011, 02:55 PM

Ultimate Wake Championship Opening Ceremony
by Cam Sur (http://www.facebook.com/camsur)

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hakz2007

January 20th, 2011, 02:57 PM

Ultimate Wake Championship Opening Ceremony
by Cam Sur (http://www.facebook.com/camsur)

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hakz2007

January 20th, 2011, 03:00 PM

Ultimate Wake Champ Day 1
by Cam Sur (http://www.facebook.com/camsur)

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hakz2007

January 20th, 2011, 03:01 PM

Ultimate Wake Champ Day 1
by Cam Sur (http://www.facebook.com/camsur)

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hakz2007

January 20th, 2011, 03:03 PM

Ultimate Wake Champ Day 1
by Cam Sur (http://www.facebook.com/camsur)

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hakz2007

January 20th, 2011, 03:06 PM

Casino Royale Party Last Night
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hakz2007

January 20th, 2011, 03:07 PM

Casino Royale Party Last Night
by Cam Sur (http://www.facebook.com/camsur)

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hakz2007

January 20th, 2011, 03:09 PM

Casino Royale Party Last Night
by Cam Sur (http://www.facebook.com/camsur)

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Naga City Deck

January 20th, 2011, 03:56 PM

^^ dangog dangog digdi samo sa housing last night si fireworks..

hakz2007

January 20th, 2011, 05:41 PM

^^dangog lang? dae man lang nahiling diyan saindo?

sonofignatius

January 20th, 2011, 07:02 PM

^^ dangog dangog digdi samo sa housing last night si fireworks..

^^dangog lang? dae man lang nahiling diyan saindo?

while the wakeboarders at CWC were all "a-wake" they kept you all awake, jo! nakaconentrate na marhay siguro si jo sa ssc o fb kaya dai na nahiling si fireworks :-)

sonofignatius

January 20th, 2011, 07:06 PM

Regional Consultation: K+12 Educational Reform

Educators from all around the region attended The Regional Consultation on the K+12 Educational Reform last 19 January 2011 at the Villa Caceres Hotel. Over two hundred participants coming from public and private schools of Region V spent the day listening to talks and sharing their concerns and suggestions regarding the Enhanced K+12 Basic Education Program.

The Coordinating Council for Private Educational Associations (COCOPEA) - Luzon B and the Bicol Foundation for Higher Education (BFHE) organized the event. The goal of the seminar was to provide both administrators and faculty members of educational institutions in Bicol with a solid understanding of the K+12 program, which had been publicly declared as the newest educational reform instituted by the current administration. The regional consultation also served as a venue where comments, concerns, and suggestions were gathered from administrators and faculty members during a workshop.

Main Objectives:
1.) Engage the educators - both administrators and teachers - in a current reality dialogue on the ideals envisioned by Revised Basic Education Curriculum (RBEC) as opposed to the realities surrounding its implementation,
2.) With the help of the expertise of Dr. Isagani Cruz, explain to the administrators and teachers the basic framework of the K+12 educational reform as well as the intricacies that its implementation is expected to entail.
3.) In recognition of the valuable insights and experiences of educators, solicit comments, reactions on the program with the end view of refining it and lessening, if not totally eradicating, negative consequences of implementation on various stakeholders.

The morning sessions focused on two important talks provided by Dr. Isagani Cruz, Chairman of Technical Working Group on the General Education Curriculum, and Dr. Diosdado San Antonio, OIC-Assistant Regioal Director and Naga City Schools Division Superintendent.Dr. Cruz gave the basic details and current progress of the developments of the K+12 Educational Reform while Dr. San Antonio shared to the audience some recommendations regarding the the Revised Basic Education Curriculum (RBEC).

The afternoon session was critical as the participants were divided into small workshop groups where they could point out some of the issues and recommendations with regards to the proposed educational reform. The Ateneo de Naga University, Central Bicol State University of Agriculture, Mariners` Polytechnic Colleges, Naga College Foundation, Universidad de Sta. Isabel, and the University of Nueva Caceres provided facilitators and documentors to drive the small discussions.

After the workshop activity, the participants went back to the main hall to listen to the talk by Fr. Joel Tabora, SJ, President of the Ateneo de Naga University and Chair of the COCOPEA-Luzon B, regarding the proposal of the career academy. After his talk, Ms. Marguerite Michelle Padua-Hornby, President of the Naga College Foundation, gave the summary of outputs. Dr. Faye Lea Patriya Lauraya, President of Bicol University and the BFHE, wrapped up the session with a closing remarks.

www.adnu.edu.ph

sonofignatius

January 20th, 2011, 07:07 PM

$70M waste-to-energy facility to rise in Naga

NAGA CITY --- The city government here is embarking on novel approach to address its garbage disposal concern which stakeholders describe as “the first of its kind in the Philippines.”

The project, costing $70 million, was formally launched January 15, this year, at the Avenue Square Convention Hall under a build-operate-transfer (BOT) scheme.

Groundbreaking rites were held at the Balatas dumpsite earlier in the morning which was led by Naga City Mayor John G. Bongat, with DILG Secretary Jesse M. Robredo, former Naga City mayor, as guest of honor.

Energy Undersecretary George Yorobe, a Nagueño, and other regional and provincial officials from the DENR, EMB, as well as local sectoral representatives were also present to bear witness to the important occasion.

Realization of the project is anchored on three documents: the contract for the establishment and operation of a waste to energy facility which was executed by and between the City Government of Naga and the Korean-based CJ Global Company on May 20, 2010; a supplemental contract and its approval by virtue of Sangguniang Panglungsod Resolution No. 2010-281 which was signed last August 24, 2010 to ratify the two contracts.

Technically dubbed “Waste to Synthesis Gas Project,” the facility will convert the city’s solid waste to electric energy through melting-gasification, the first to be introduced in the Philippines.

Yeon-Joo Choi, chairman of the CJ Global Co., Ltd., said the German technology-based process, which is environment-friendly, will generate low-priced electricity which “our company will be made available to local electric cooperatives and/or other existing power distribution utilities.”

Gasification, not incineration

City Councilor D.C. Nathan A. Sergio, who is also the chair of the SP Committee on Environment and Energy, said the $70 M facility will transform solid waste and biomass into electricity using the process of gasification. “[The product] is green energy, sourced purely from waste.”

“Unlike ordinary incineration, gasification is zero-waste and there will be no toxic-fume emission or effluent that will go to the grounds or run to any body of water,” Sergio said.

Mayor Bongat said apart from electricity, the process can also produce asphalt and methanol as by-products which can be used for road construction and fuel for motor vehicles, respectively.

The facility would generate an estimated output of 18 megawatts of electricity from the approximately 200 tons of solid waste.

Oscar P. Orozco, head of the City Environment and Natural Resources Office, said the city is now studying certain propositions that will facilitate the inclusion of the Metro Naga towns in the project.

Metro Naga towns are the 14 neighboring municipalities of the city which have been collaborating with each other under a “big brother, small brother” development alliance.

Metro Naga mayors who attended the formal launching signified interest in disposing their waste to the facility despite the tipping fees that will be collected from their respective municipalities.

Higher profit remittance

The supplemental contract, which was executed with Mayor Bongat on behalf of LGU Naga, modified the profit sharing provision of the original contract that says: “...the CJ Global shall remit to the city the amount equivalent to 5% of its net profits before income tax, generated from its operation of the facility…” which shall be due and demandable not later than April 30 of each year.”

The provision was changed under the supplemental contract. Instead of the 5% of its net profit, the new provision requires: “…the CJ Global to “remit to the city the amount equivalent to 1.5 percent of its gross profits, if higher than 5% of net profits before income tax, generated from its operation of the facility…”

The provision also stated that the corresponding amount of money to be remitted “shall be due and demandable not later than April 30 of each year” within the 20-year efficacy period. Review of the profit sharing agreement will be made after five years.

Mayor Bongat underscored: “The city government is trying to do the best way it can so that the venture will become mutually beneficial to the interest of both parties, which include the constituents of the city.”

MRF plan dumped

Engr. Joel P. Martin, chief of the City Solid Waste Management Project, said the waste-to-energy facility which will be constructed either in Barangay Balatas or Barangay San Isidro, here, has formally shelved the proposed establishment of Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) in the neighboring Magarao town.

The Naga-Magarao MRF partnership proposal, started in 2007, has drawn protests from the residents of Magarao.

Sergio said that within the next 60 days or 2 months, the city government would have decided as to where the final location of the waste-to-energy facility would be.

Presently, the city is looking for a suitable site with no less than four hectares in size inside the city’s territory.

Sergio, who is also the chairman of SP Committee on Land Use, expressed apprehension in locating a site adjacent to or near the present Balatas dumpsite, considering the mushrooming of residential districts and commercial establishments near the area.

He said problems on land use and zoning might occur in the near future if the facility would be situated in Balatas.

‘More beneficial to the city’

The selection of the CJ Global as partner in the establishment of the facility was made possible thru an endorsement by then Mayor Jesse Robredo to the Sangguniang Panlungsod.

In his June 29, 2010 letter to the Sangguniang Panglungsod, Robredo explained that CJ Global’s proposed agreement was “found by the City Legal Officer to be more beneficial to the city” as it offers higher share in economic gains, preference to local labor and contractors, and commitment to provide cheaper power rate for Naga.

Robredo also mentioned other factors in favor of CJ Global such as: projected creation of secondary industries that will be created from by-products of the gasification process like methanol for LPG supply for Naga and for household, commercial and transportation needs and the provision to ensure full compliance with environmental laws and commitment to ensure the safety of the public. Jason B. Neola

www.bicolmail.com

sonofignatius

January 20th, 2011, 07:08 PM

Mayor Bongat to deliver first state of city report

NAGA CITY --- City Mayor John G. Bongat will deliver his first State of the City Report that covers his first six months in office.

Dubbed “Pag-Paabot sa Banwaan,” the report will take place during the regular session of the Sangguniang Panglunsod at about 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, January 25, with Vice Mayor Gabriel H. Bordado, Jr. presiding.

The session and the mayor’s report will be held this time at the Arrupe Convention Hall of the Ateneo de Naga University because the occasion needs a bigger venue for the city’s stakeholders who want to personally listen to and interact with the chief executive’s maiden report to the city.

An open forum to be hosted by veteran broadcaster Elmer Abad will follow the mayor’s address where Mayor Bongat will answer questions from a panel of the city’s stakeholders representing various sectors, such as business, transport, professionals, urban poor, youth, and the academe, among others.

In his address, the mayor is expected to present to the people the city’s budget for 2011 which seeks to strengthen the city government’s services with utmost impact on the life of the ordinary Nagueño and lay the groundwork for a more efficient bureaucracy.

Bongat, when he assumed office, launched Naga SMILES which focuses on six key areas that he believes will propel the city to its next stage of development after the administration of then City Mayor and now DILG Secretary Jesse Robredo. Acknowledging that Naga under Robredo’s watch has been pretty successful in the area of good governance and urban development, Bongat said “my duty is to make our city an even better place for Nagueños and an even better place for others to (S)ee, and where others can (M)eet, (I)nvest, (L)ive, (E)xperience and (S)tudy in as well.”

As culled from the executive budget earlier submitted to the Sanggunian for endorsement and approval, the 2011 budget, placed at P609 million, foresees a revenue increase of P83.3 million, which makes it 16% higher than last year’s.

Bongat said that under his proposed budget, internal revenue allotment (IRA) will account for only 52% of the total projected income, the rest to be contributed by business taxes at 17%, economic enterprises at 9%, real property taxes at 6%, and the remaining 15% by various fees, charges and transfers. “The increase in real property taxes will be driven both by new property development and by the relaxation of the cap this year from the previous year’s 25%,” Bongat has been quoted as saying, adding that property taxes will further be boosted by regional magnets in the city and the forthcoming commercial developments by local businessmen in partnership with national conglomerates, and new business entrants this year.

The second part of the State of the City report will be the awarding of prizes for the contest for the best conceptual design for revitalizing the Naga River. This will immediately be followed by the awarding of the city’s top taxpayers in two categories: Top 20 national corporations, Top 10 local corporations and Top 10 individuals in the business tax category, and; Top 15 corporations and Top 5 individuals in the real property tax category.

Third part of the program is the formal launching of the 2011 Naga City Mayoral Awards by Mayor Bongat with a brief presentation by J. Antonio Amparado, chair of the 2011 mayoral awards committee.

Launching of the Naga SMILES website will immediately follow before the start of the fourth and final part of the program which is the City Development Council (CDC) meeting to be chaired by the city mayor himself with various sectoral representatives participating.

www.bicolmail.com

sonofignatius

January 20th, 2011, 07:09 PM

World's biggest wake riding event unfurls at CWC today

PILI, Camarines Sur – Over a hundred of the top wake riders from no less than 30 countries across the world invited by Gov. LRay Villafuerte are now on-site at the Camarines Sur Watersports Complex (CWC) peaking up for actual skirmishes starting January 20 in what is conceded the biggest event ever in the history of wake sports.

Dubbed the Ultimate Wake Championship, the competition is the last and final stop of the World Wake Association (WWA) World Series covering three major wake disciplines – boat, cable and System 2.0 winch – in respective venues of the CWC, conceded the best cable park in the world and the only facility that can handle the simultaneous three-in-one competitions.

The World Series reeled off in the USA June last year, moved to Nieuwegein in the Netherlands, Hamburg in Germany, Antalaya in Turkey and finally to CamSur in the Philippines where the Ultimate Wake Champion will be crowned as the most diverse wakeboarder of the world.

The UWC in CamSur will go down into extreme sports annals as the biggest wake event with the biggest prize ever held thus far to be staged in eight categories – Pro Men, Obstacles Only, Junior Men, Pro Wakeskate, Open Women and Open Women Wakeskate, CWC Rain Park Contest and Cam Sur Riders Cup.

The formidable cast of elite riders include the formidable Republic Riders composed of riding prodigy 12-year-old Thailander Daniel Grant, the Asian Wakefest 2010 champion at the CWC last November, Nick Taylor, Andrew Pastura and Kim Yong Il, elite professional wakeboarders Keith Lidberg, Tom Foshee, Lior Sofer, Chad Sharpe and Philip Soven and wakeskaters Ben Horan, Ben Labadens, Bret Little and Reed Hansen.

On top of the wake competitions is a magnificent array of out-of-the-world nightly parties and contests featuring famous bands, disk jockeys and entertainers.

The first of the repertoire of nightly entertainment for the duration of the five-day event is the welcome party dubbed High Roll Casino Royale. In partnership with PAGCOR, the whole venue will be transformed into a casino with poker tables and slot machines where attendees who are enjoined to come in their Al Capone hats may make small bets while being entertained by the Bellestar Dancers, the Street Magicians and Issa Litton.

The second evening is Comedy Strip Night where party-goers will come decked-out in and watch comic strip and anime show presentations while being entertained by tandem hosts Daniel Marsh and the comedian actress Giselle Sanchez.

Third night, January 21 is Black Light Party night, the bikini-clad and body-painted guests glowing in the black-lit night to win handsome prizes with top-rate entertainment courtesy of the All Star Dancers and Brigada Band.

Fourth night is extreme ambience entertainment, where the party-goers may choose to freeze while guzzling martinis at the Ice Bar or sweat with tropical concoctions at the Volcano Bar while enjoying fire-juggling and angle grinding shows in an ambience of living tree human statues adorned with snow and icicles, body painted red hot pole dancers spiced with presentations from the Pussycat Dolls of the Philippines and the Pretty Young Thing (P.Y.T.).

Finale night will be the Ultimate Awards Night that will see the crowning of the world’s most diverse wake riders and awarding of other prizes. GBClaveria/MMEC

www.bicolmail.com

sonofignatius

January 20th, 2011, 07:10 PM

Visayan businessmen sked Naga visit

NAGA CITY --- Some 20 chamber members of at least eight chambers of commerce and industry in the Visayas and the Caraga region are coming to Naga City for a two-day Chamber Exchange, from January 19-20, to learn from the city government here and the Metro Naga Chamber of Commerce and Industry “new approaches in revenue generation and gather options and insights on the possible roles of chambers in the Business Permit and Licensing System (BPLS) in their respective localities.” They also expect to gain first-hand knowledge in the actual operations of both the Naga City Business Registry Databank (NCBRD) and the city hall’s Business One-Stop Shop (BOSS).

The chamber exchange is an activity of “ Working for the Enhancement of the Chamber & Association Network in the Visayas and Caraga” (WE CAN – Visayas & Caraga), a partnership between the Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) and the German AFOS Foundation for Entrepreneurial Development Cooperation, which aims to improve the business and investment climate in the Visayas and Caraga through the promotion of trade and industry by strengthened Business Membership Organizations (BMOs).

Specifically, the visit aims to substantiate the learnings of the chamber partners by exposing them to the actual operations of the Naga City Business Registry Databank (NCBRD), as well as observe the processes involved in the Business One Stop Shop (BOSS).

The MNCCI, a multi-awarded business chamber based in this city, has been a strong partner of the city government in business promotion and linkages with the local business community. This role has been strengthened when MNCCI and city hall worked together to create the Naga City Business Registry Databank (NCBRD), a repository of the city’s relevant business and economic information, created through City Ordinance 2005-008 which was authored five years ago by then City Councilor now Naga Mayor John G. Bongat.

Participants to the visit are representatives from the following chambers: Metro Bacolod Chamber of Commerce & Industry; Bohol Chamber of Commerce & Industry; Cebu Chamber of Commerce & Industry; Negros Oriental Chamber of Commerce & Industry; Ormoc Chamber of Commerce & Industry; Samar Chamber of Commerce & Industry; Bislig City Chamber of Commerce & Industry Foundation Inc., and; Butuan City Chamber of Commerce & Industry Foundation Inc. The delegation will be led by Stephan Kunz, country director of AFOS Foundation.

They will be formally welcomed by Mayor Bongat and MNCCI President Philip Imperial during a brief program on the first day of their visit.

www.bicolmail.com

sonofignatius

January 20th, 2011, 07:12 PM

Bicolano artisan to build life-size Marian statue in Lipa, Batangas
By Shiena M. Barrameda

CALABANGA, Camarines Sur --- One of the most prolific artisans in this town has been commissioned by the Archdiocese of Lipa in Batangas to build a life-size version of its miraculous patroness, the Mary Mediatrix of All Grace.

The statue will be five feet and seven inches tall and to stand at the exact site where the apparition was witnessed by Sister Teresita Castillo, then a young Carmelite novice, at the convent in Lipa in 1948.

Franco Gacer, Sr., a metal artisan in this town who was also responsible for the erection of the Millenium Dome at the Basilica Minore Grounds and the Dome of the 12 Apostles of Christ at Immaculate Conception Parish, both in Naga City, revealed that representatives of Archbishop Ramon C. Arguelles of Lipa searched for him through his old friends and co-workers in a shop in Makati where he used to work in order to relay to him the archbishop’s intention.

Having just returned for a respite from Batangas where he is overseeing the creation of the image, Gacer revealed that he was amazed at how the nuns of Carmelite in Lipa found him to ask for his and his team’s service.

“One of the people who contacted me said that I was chosen by the Virgin to make this project,” Gacer said. “I do not know how it came to be, but I was told that Sister Teresing (Castillo) herself wanted us there.”

Gacer went on to explain that they have created many sample sketches of the icon based on the memory of Sister Teresing who is now already 83 years old, 63 years after she saw the Virgin.

The Bicolano artisan said that the image went through three revisions until they finally arrived at the final image to be erected.

“We have already agreed at a version that Sister Teresing believes to be the exact replica of the Virgin Mary’s face. Even the height of the image was suggested by her according to memory. It was as much she could recall of the apparition,” the artisan said.

The Patroness of Lipa is venerated for the miraculous and still unexplained “showers of rose petals” in September 1948 and various cases of mysterious healings throughout the years after Sister Teresing communicated with the apparition of the Virgin when she was only 19 years old.

Gacer, who specializes in metalworking, is a graduate of the Bicol College of Arts and Trade, now Camarines Sur Polytechnic Colleges in Naga City. He is a native of Calabanga town where he keeps a shop where he, his sons and friends create and mold intricate classical Church icons that are now found all over Bicol and other parts of the country.

One of his biggest projects was the creation of the five replicas of Michael Angelo Buonarotti’s Pieta for the Loyola Plans Consolidated, Inc. after the image found in the Manila Cathedral. His and his team’s other creations are the altars of the Holy Minor Seminary Chapel, Magarao Church, the seal of the Archdiocese of Caceres and the gilded and well-detailed enclosure of the Lying Christ at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Naga.

Gacer said that it all sprang from his hobby and love of art, something that his kids Franco Jr. and Carlo also share with him now.

“I don’t really consider what we do as a business although we earn some from these projects. I’d like people to see this as our way of praising God’s graces and serving him through our art.”

www.bicolmail.com

sonofignatius

January 20th, 2011, 07:16 PM

Winning X’mas tree has message to humanity
By Shiena M. Barrameda

NAGA CITY --- After winning the top prize in this city’s first Christmas tree-making competition last year, Barangay Sabang is still aspiring to get the message embodied by their tree more clearly to humanity, particularly Bicolanos.

In an interview with Bicol Mail, Sabang Punong Barangay Guy dela Cruz admitted that he and his constituents had been eager to win the top prize of P500,000 worth of projects in the recently concluded “Maliwanag Asin Makolor Na Pasko sa Naga 2010” where they constructed a 15 feet tall green Christmas Tree resembling Mt. Isarog.

“It is a manifestation of our message regarding the condition of the Mt. Isarog and the issues and dangers that surround its natural ecology,” dela Cruz said. “We want to show the people who saw our creation that, as Nagueños, we are deeply concerned with the future of our environment for the benefit of our children.”

The Christmas tree, which won the top prize among the 23 entries out of the 27 barangays here, had a running fountain imbedded and flowing on its sides to symbolize the Nabontolan and Malabsay Falls aside from another water feature on its foot which, the barangay chairman said is the representation of the Bicol River.

The overall concept is that of nature, pure and clean, as any environment-loving Bicolano wanted out of his natural surroundings.

“Sad to say that some people just don’t care about our environment nowadays,” dela Cruz added.

Having said that, dela Cruz expressed happiness over the prize to be released by the Naga City government in event that the winning barangays are ready to launch their respective projects.

The winning barangay chairman, however, expressed apprehension that the money may not be enough to finance their priority projects which involve the beautification of their side of the Naga River.

“We want to turn this into a tourist spot where floating cottages may accommodate people so those living around would be discouraged from throwing trash into the water.”

Meanwhile, Rolly Busquillos of city hall’s Lingkod Barangay Office which sponsored the project said that such prizes were only meant for major projects as the concerned barangay may decide.

Barangay Lerma placed second with a prize of P300,000 while Barangay Abella took home the P200,000 cash for 3rd prize. The 4th prize of P100,000 went to Barangay Triangulo while the 5th prize of P50,000 was awarded to Barangay Pacol.

Consolation prizes of P25,000 worth of projects were given to the other non-winning entries which amount will be released once a project proposal is submitted to and approved by the City Hall.

Busquillos said that no cash shall be given to the barangays outright because it would all be allotted to their projects.

When asked on a negative comment on the Christmas tree making contest forwarded to Bicol Mail by one of its readers, Busquillos said that such remark was already answered by the excitement and happiness that the bright Christmas trees generated during the course of the contest along Panganiban Drive.

“It wasn’t a waste of money at all. As you had seen, many tourists and even locals were happy about it and rest assured that the prize money will all be used well and accounted for.”

www.bicolmail.com

sonofignatius

January 20th, 2011, 07:26 PM

Estudiante kan UNC kabale sa delegacion sa World Junior Boys Tennis Tournament

Sarong joven na Bicolano an may dakulang potencial na makabale sa mga sikat asin bantog na mga Filipino ngonian sa linea nin karawat. Siya si Daniel Villaseñor, premir año sa high school na estudiante kan University of Nueva Caceres sa Ciudad nin Naga. Siya katorce años, kabale sa delegacion kan Filipinas sa nakatalaan na World Junior Boys Tennis Tournament na gigibohon sa Pebrero 22-27, 2011 sa Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Si Villaseñor saro sa pambato kan Filipinas sa 14 and Under World Junior Players Category. Siya iyo an champion sa “Andrada Cup” Tennis Tournament na ginibo sa Rizal Memorial Tennis Court, sa Manila kan Enero 12, 2011. Napatos niya pa an “Champion” sa President’s Cup National Tournament kan 2010. Afuera kaini nagbale sa mga minasunod na torneo sa Metro Manila:

Kan Abril 2010 - Champion sa Alabang 1018 Tennis Tournament, kan Diciembre 13, 2010 – Runner Up sa Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) Tournament asin kan Diciembre 26, 2010 – champion sa Milo Tennis Tournament.

Si Villaseñor an premirong Bicolano na taga Ciudad nin Naga na nakabale sa prestijosong karawat na ini. Apesar kan saiyang helig sa kawat na tennis, mantenido niya an saiyang haralangkaw na grado sa pag-escuela sa UNC High School Department.

(J.A. CRESCINI).
www.bicolmail.com

sonofignatius

January 20th, 2011, 07:37 PM

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express sale
PhP498 only, one-way

including MNL WNP

Selling: January 20-22,2011
Travel: Feb 11-March 31,2011

www.airphilexpress.com

also ongoing PAL sale
www.philippineairlines.com

matt&abby

January 20th, 2011, 07:41 PM

Hi people! Got my UAE residence visa na... back to Dubai tomorrow from Iran...

Pwede pa mag SSC, FB ulit...

Naga City Deck

January 20th, 2011, 10:35 PM

^^dangog lang? dae man lang nahiling diyan saindo?

while the wakeboarders at CWC were all "a-wake" they kept you all awake, jo! nakaconentrate na marhay siguro si jo sa ssc o fb kaya dai na nahiling si fireworks :-)

actually nagsakat ako sa atop mi :D kaso natatahuban dikit kang mga niyog diyan sa may Almeda Highway

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8smy5vL9F34/THJHh_NhC9I/AAAAAAAAA3w/ivguSIOFZh4/s1600/airphilexpress.JPG

express sale
PhP498 only, one-way

including MNL WNP

Selling: January 20-22,2011
Travel: Feb 11-March 31,2011

i was having a crazy idea kasubago before going to sleep, sa April 1 kaya ang concert ni Bruno Mars sa Manila. tamang tama kuta iyang March 31 na flight.. kaso si April 3 na pabalik mayo na. may event ba kita kayan digdi?

i tried CebuPac sa April 3 pero x2 kang si sa airphil na rate. :lol: habo talaga garo ako padalanun :nuts:

Naga Boy

January 21st, 2011, 02:32 AM

update

Dismantling of the Macromedia Ad fronting Advent Cinema to give way for the proposed Elias Angeles and General Luna monument (not sure if it is exact site)

7-Eleven (formerly Luck 9) Pili branch the green stripes signage can now be seen.

This gives credence to the person I talked to in the past (from the family of the owner of Cereza and Kopi Roti when I asked them if indeed 7 Eleven will be opening at the present Kopi Roti site.

He denied that Kopi Roti is closing, and Seven Eleven will apprently open in Magsaysay but not in Cereza.

He is the one who mentioned that some of the Lucky 9 stores will be converted to 7- Eleven like Pili (which would be the first 7 Eleven in Bicol to open), Ligao, Tabaco and Legazpi in Albay.

oragon.com

January 21st, 2011, 03:58 AM

http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/1601/88755407.jpg (http://img404.imageshack.us/i/88755407.jpg/)

www.wix.com

Naga City Deck

January 21st, 2011, 05:46 AM

yan baga kuya pao si na laugan ta kang pag outreach ta na dead end .. sabi kaya ni Domeng duman ang agi :lol:

rhyzrockerz

January 21st, 2011, 06:32 AM

yan baga kuya pao si na laugan ta kang pag outreach ta na dead end .. sabi kaya ni Domeng duman ang agi :lol:

Maray na hapon:)

Igwa man talaga jan agihan pa cararayan.kya kang nalingaw ako:nuts:
kaya lang sala lang gayud si tig agihan ta.igwa kaya jan resort manay jo. nalingaw lang ako kang name.

oragon.com

January 21st, 2011, 07:21 AM

This gives credence to the person I talked to in the past (from the family of the owner of Cereza and Kopi Roti when I asked them if indeed 7 Eleven will be opening at the present Kopi Roti site.

He denied that Kopi Roti is closing, and Seven Eleven will apprently open in Magsaysay but not in Cereza.

He is the one who mentioned that some of the Lucky 9 stores will be converted to 7- Eleven like Pili (which would be the first 7 Eleven in Bicol to open), Ligao, Tabaco and Legazpi in Albay.

Had a chance to talk to the owner of a new commercial building just beside the UNC main gate and said that there's still no inquiries from 7-Eleven management for another branch near centro however, ukay-ukay stores near the school premise are mostly on SALE and most likely will close their stores which may be an indication for another enterprise to open, hope its 7-Eleven.

@ Mam Jo, yup..ung may tree house. Nice looking place for retirees as it offer a splendid view of Mt. Isarog.

Goodluck to Team Cam Sur for the Regional PRISAA at Sorsogon City this January 22-24.

Go Team cam Sur!

kevinb

January 21st, 2011, 12:23 PM

Nabua National High School

http://i1239.photobucket.com/albums/ff507/Nagacity/Picture124.jpg

Looks like the admin building in Cam High.:)

update

Dismantling of the Macromedia Ad fronting Advent Cinema to give way for the proposed Elias Angeles and General Luna monument (not sure if it is exact site)

I hope it's gonna be as beautiful as Quince Martires or the Oragon Monument. :okay:

Visayan businessmen sked Naga visit

NAGA CITY --- Some 20 chamber members of at least eight chambers of commerce and industry in the Visayas and the Caraga region are coming to Naga City for a two-day Chamber Exchange, from January 19-20, to learn from the city government here and the Metro Naga Chamber of Commerce and Industry “new approaches in revenue generation and gather options and insights on the possible roles of chambers in the Business Permit and Licensing System (BPLS) in their respective localities.” They also expect to gain first-hand knowledge in the actual operations of both the Naga City Business Registry Databank (NCBRD) and the city hall’s Business One-Stop Shop (BOSS).

www.bicolmail.com

This is a proof that MNCCI is one of the country's leading commercial chamber. Kudos! Proud!:D

Estudiante kan UNC kabale sa delegacion sa World Junior Boys Tennis Tournament

Sarong joven na Bicolano an may dakulang potencial na makabale sa mga sikat asin bantog na mga Filipino ngonian sa linea nin karawat. Siya si Daniel Villaseñor, premir año sa high school na estudiante kan University of Nueva Caceres sa Ciudad nin Naga. Siya katorce años, kabale sa delegacion kan Filipinas sa nakatalaan na World Junior Boys Tennis Tournament na gigibohon sa Pebrero 22-27, 2011 sa Colombo, Sri Lanka.

(J.A. CRESCINI).
www.bicolmail.com

Saro pa ini! Proud! Kudos!:okay:

kevinb

January 21st, 2011, 12:24 PM

DENR bares winners of 2009 eco-friendly search among schools (http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=1&t=1&id=12508)
by Ben Moses Ebreo

BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya, January 20 (PIA) –- The Department of Environment and Natural Resources(DENR) recently bared the winners of its 2009 Sustainable Eco-Friendly competition among schools in the country.

A total of 9 schools were declared as national champions for the 2009 National Search for Sustainable and Eco-friendly Schools. These are: (elementary Category) First prize – Peñablanca East Central School, Agguddan-Malibabag, Peñablanca, Cagayan; Second prize – North Central Elementary School, Bonuan Gueset, Dagupan City, Pangasinan; and Third prize – Badas Elementary School, Badas, Placer, Surigao del Norte.

For the High School category, the winners are: First Place – La Castellana National High School, La Castellana, Negros Occidental; Second place – Camarines Sur National High School, Naga City, Camarines Sur; and Third place – Daniel R. Aguinaldo National High School;, Matina, Davao City.

For the college category, the winners are: First Place – Palawan State University, Puerto Princesa City, Palawan; Second place – Visayas State Univesity, Baybay, Leyte; and Third place – Catanduanes State Colleges, Virac Catanduanes.

Open to all elementary, high school and tertiary school levels, the program also aims to encourage the academe to become more actively involved in environmental issues at a practical and local level aside from developing skills and forging understanding among students, faculty and school administrators to initiate active responses and increase community awareness and involvement on environmental concerns.

The national search is a joint program of the DENR through the Environment Management Bureau(EMB), Department of Education(DepEd), Commission on Higher Education(CHED) and Smart Communications.

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Alma mater! ^_^

wohiwohi

January 21st, 2011, 01:13 PM

Marilou's loving tribute to Ina
FUNFARE By Ricardo F. Lo The Philippine Star Updated January 21, 2011

Have you ever taken care of a loved one suffering from a terminal illness — yes, the Big C? It’s a heart-breaking and at the same time eye-opening experience, isn’t it? You die with the patient little by little, helpless because medicine can only do so much and you have no recourse but to surrender everything to Him. As a line from the Basil Valdez song Lift Up Your Hands (composed by Cecile Azarcon) says, Cast your burden upon Me those who are heavily-laden…Come to Me and I will give you rest…

That’s what you feel when you watch Ikaw Ang Pagibig, the spiritually-enriching movie written, produced and directed by Marilou Diaz-Abaya as some kind of a tribute to Our Lady of Peñafrancia who is lovingly called Ina not only by the Bicolanos who venerate her with the same deep affection as the devotees of the Black Nazarene of Quiapo, the Sto. Niño of Tondo and the Sto. Niño of Cebu. Every Sept. 14, devotees take all the risks (being trampled upon by the crowd, etc.) to pay homage to Ina during the fluvial procession and believers, especially those who are sick, claim that they are healed by the experience.

Just watching the movie at the recent preview had a healing on me as it had, I’m sure, on the others present. Ikaw Ang Pagibig is a story of, besides love, unwavering faith. It’s the story of a wounded family made up of an estranged couple (played by real-life couple Nonie Buencamino and Shamaine Centenera) whose daughter (Ina Feleo) is so career-driven that she doesn’t have time for God, not even for sorting out her relationship with the father (Jomari Yllana) of her love son (Yogo Singh). The irony of it all is that the couple’s son (Marvin Agustin), who is a priest, is the one afflicted with cancer (a fast-progressing type of leukemia). The movie chronicles the family’s painful journey, never mind if in the process they lose their material possessions but with their spirit enriched.

“The two-and-a-half journey of Ikaw Ang Pagibig has been long and arduous,” said Marilou in her welcome address to a well-heeled audience that included Naga Archbishop Leonardo Legaspi, National Artists Dr. Bien Lumbera (for Literature) and Eddie Romero (for Film), ABS-CBN boss Charo Santos-Concio and Malou N. Santos, managing director of Star Cinema which is marketing the movie (showing first week of February). “But perhaps because the story of Ina has been unraveling for much longer than that, 300 years to be exact, the experience has also been so deeply healing for all of us who worked on the movie. Ina has been leading us by the hand in this very intense pilgrimage — navigating us, protecting us from harm, teaching us to remain steadfast in faith, hope and love. Above all, our Ina has been teaching us how to find The Lord’s joys and consolations in all things, especially in the midst of worldly trials and uncertainties,” thanking many others including Rev. Fr. Ramon Bautista, S.J., and Dr. Joven Cuanang, M.D. (SVP For Medical Affairs and Chief Medical Officer of St. Luke’s Medical Center Quezon City and of Global City) “whose spiritual direction and medical management, respectively, have fortified me, body and soul, and kept me on cancer remission throughout the production.”
At the preview: Marilou and Naga Archbishop Leonardo Legaspi with (from left) Marvin, Ina, Star Cinema managing director Malou N. Santos and Jomari

Himself a cancer survivor, Archbishop Legaspi said that the devil was active in thwarting the production, to no avail. The good triumphed over evil. The archbishop is the movie’s executive producer and, more than that according to Marilou, “my co-pilgrim, my co-cancer survivor and my friend.”

What I like about the movie is that it doesn’t bluntly say that it’s Ina who is responsible for the remission of Marvin’s cancer (since he’s undergoing chemotherapy and intensive treatment), but Ina is definitely the healer of the family wounds — the couple gets back together again (the husband quits his job abroad and comes home for good), the daughter finds God and marries her boyfriend, the whole family starts to lead a new, happy life together even if they have sold everything (the house, the appliances, etc.).

It’s Ina’s biggest break as an actress and she really fleshes out her role obviously straight from the heart. I’m sure it helps that Marvin’s character is named Johnny, after Ina’s dad Johnny Delgado who was waging a battle with cancer when the movie was being filmed. “It’s deliberate,” said Marilou who with Ina’s mom Laurice Guillen are the industry’s only two influential female directors.

How do the other actors fare? Watch the movie and find out for yourself. It’s a must-see.

One scene that made me cry shows Shamaine alone in the chapel, angrily asking God why, of all people, He is punishing her son. “Galit ako. Bakit si Johnny? Mabait siyang anak.” I could identify with Shamaine’s character because my family and I were asking the same question 15 years ago when my brother Netoy was waging the same battle as that of Marvin’s character.

Up to now, I haven’t found the answer.

And I have stopped asking.

(P.S. We’re observing my brother Netoy’s 15th death anniversary on Tuesday, Jan. 25, and we are confident that he is in Good Hands together with our brother Rudy who went just a week ahead of Netoy. I’m sure they know the answer.)

http://www.philstar.com/funfare/Article.aspx?articleId=649993&publicationSubCategoryId=70

hakz2007

January 21st, 2011, 05:48 PM

2 UST professors win top prize in prestigious international competition
TWO Filipino professors have won the top prize in an international competition on research on development held in Bogotá, Colombia.

This is the first time the Philippines won the top prize in the Awards and Medals Competition of the Global Development Network (GDN).

Alvin P. Ang and Jeremaiah M. Opiniano, professors of economics and journalism, respectively, of the University of Sto.Tomas were chosen from hundreds of research proposals from more than 100 countries.

“Thanks for your prayers! The Philippines won!” Opiniano said in Tagalog in a message sent from Bogotá. He and Ang are expected to arrive today after a 27-hour flight.

Ang and Opiniano also entered the 2009 competition in Prague. Their entry that year was also on overseas Filipinos titled “Crisis-Generated Socio-Economic Coping Mechanisms of Overseas Filipinos from Taiwan and the United Arab Emirates.”

Launched in 2000 and with the support of the Japan government, the “competition seeks to unearth new talent and support innovative ideas on development,” the GDN web site said.

“Nearly 4,300 researchers representing more than 100 countries throughout the developing and transition world have participated in this competition to date. Nearly $2 million has been distributed in prizes and travel to finalists and winners. In 2007 alone, the competition attracted more than 600 applications.”

According to Opiniano’s e-mail, the competition is comprised of the Japanese Award for Outstanding Research in Development and the Japanese Award for Most Innovative Development Project.

The Medals Competition is a contest for finished papers covering three sub-themes of an annual GDN conference.

The only Filipino winner was in the Medals Competition, won by economist Lorelei Mendoza of UP Baguio (second place) during the first competition held a decade ago.

The two professors won this year’s contest with their research proposal titled “Remittance Investment Climate Analysis for Rural Hometowns (Ricart): Piloting a Tool to Determine where Overseas Filipinos from Two Rural Hometowns can Best Invest their Money.”

The teachers said they wanted to test the tool, Ricart, on how remittances by overseas Filipinos to two fourth-class rural municipalities can be best directed for investment and development finance.

The municipalities eyed are Magarao in Camarines Sur, south of Manila, and Maribojoc in Bohol.

Based on their estimates on remittances per region using official government finance data, Ang said the total remittances of migrant households in 60 of 77 provinces increased in 2006 to P348.53 billion after three years.

Total income of provincial local governments in these provinces that year amounted to P50.48 billion.

In 2003, migrant households in 55 of 77 provinces had remittances of P245.86 billion.

Total income of provincial local governments in these provinces that year amounted to P40.61 billion.

Using the Family Income and Expenditures Survey, Ang and Opiniano said remittances remained an under-tapped resource in rural areas.

The two noted that in 2003, there was a P110.7-billion gap in remittances versus loans to agriculture and fishing. This gap rose to P255.3 billion after three years.

Loans made to agriculture and fishing was at P135.16 billion and P93.23 billion in 2003 and 2006, respectively.

“Remittances are a type of development financing rooted on people and institutions. Sent in by an estimated 8.5 million Filipinos abroad, remittances directly link remitters with their origin communities.”

But Ang said while remittances remain the country’s major source of dollars, “these private incomes—mostly spent for private purposes—have yet to provide any development impact on the rural Filipino communities, where two-thirds of overseas Filipinos come from.”

“Rural hometowns may be bereft of development, but these areas have remittance incomes flowing.”

Ang and Opiniano said they are banking on Ricart as a tool to identify investment needs for development and poverty alleviation in the two rural towns. Likewise, they said they see the tool as enabling Filipinos to identify the hometown-development agenda of stakeholders as well as the level of empathy of overseas Filipinos.

“Once these three disconnected links are bridged, Ricart will provide guidelines on how overseas Filipinos may invest in their rural birthplaces.”

The GDN is a group led by representatives of seven countries who signed an agreement, as well as of the 11 regional research networks who sit as directors of the board.

The New Delhi-based group was founded in 1999 with support from the World Bank, until its current autonomy.

The 12th annual Global Development Conference held from January 11 to 15 carried the theme “Financing Development in a Post-Crisis World: The Need for a Fresh Look.”

The Japanese Award for Outstanding Research in Development research proposal contest first prize winner was awarded $30,000 from the Japan Ministry of Finance.

The Philippines was the finalist for the subcategory “Innovative Sources of Development Finance.”

Tied for 2nd place and receiving $7,500 each were Petar Stankov of the University of National and World Economy representing Bulgaria and Bibek Roy Chowdhury, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade of India.
In Photo: UST Journalism Prof. Jeremaiah M. Opiniano (left) presents part of the research proposal on remittances that won for him and Dr. Alvin P. Ang (middle) the Global Development Network (GDN) competition, the first for an entry from the Philippines. Session moderator Dr. Patrick Guillaumont (professor, Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Developpement International, Universite d’Auvergne, France, (seated at right) listens.http://businessmirror.com.ph/home/economy/6287-2-ust-professors-win-top-prize-in-prestigious-international-competition-

hakz2007

January 21st, 2011, 05:49 PM

SA BICOL MEDICAL CENTER
80% kan piglalaog paciente malala na
219 binawian nin buhay kan Noviembre, Deciembre 2010
Maabot sa 80 por ciente kan mga pigdadarang paciente sa Bicol Medical Center (BMC) sa Ciudad nin Naga malala na an kamugtakan kan salud na pig-aaragapan na an saindang buhay kan mga doctor asin maabot sa 4 por ciento kaini dai pa ngani na 48 oras binabawian na nin buhay mientras na si lampas sa 48 oras nasa .5 por ciento. Afuera pa kaini, suroksokan an paciente sa cuarto huli ta naglangkaw nin 200 por ciento an admission cada bulan.

Kan Noviembre 2010 sa 2,092 na pig-confined na mga paciente sa hospital 74 an binawian nin buhay ini nasa 3.31 por cientong net death rate asin kan Diciembre 2010, sa 2,201 mga paciente nagsakat sa 145 an binawian nin buhay asin ini nasa 3.91 por cientong net death rate. Sa duwang magkasunodan na bulan kan nagtalikod na taon igwang kagabsan na 219 paciente mga binawian nin buhay.

Sa bilog na taon an gross death rate nasa 9.93 por ciento asin dai man ini nakaka-alarma huli ta yaon ini sa national average, sabi sa Bicol Mail ni Dra. Mary Jane B. Guazon-Uy, OIC Medical Director kan BMC.

Si Dra. Uy dai palang nahahaloy sa puesto bilang OIC matapos magretiro sa servicio si Dr. Ruben Peñafiel kan Diciembre 29, 2010. Siya kabali sa apat na mga asperante bilang Medical Director kan hospital asin an saindang pangaran kabali sa pigpipilian kan central office kan DOH.

An campania ngonian kan OIC Medical Director iyo an primary health care o kaipuhan amay pa kun igwa nang namamati magpaconsulta tulos sa doctor kan hospital nganing maaraman tulos an helang nganing maibitaran an mga remalaso.

Mas bentaji kun diagnostic an tawan nin prioridad bako kun yaon na sa catastrophic na naghahabol na an paciente huli ta malala na, sabi pa ni Uy.

Mga pobreng paciente an piglalaog sa hospital, nangapodan an jefe kan BMC sa residentes kan barangay na mag-aprovetsar kan universal Phil-health kan gobierno nganing matabangan sinda na dai pa madidificilan sa pagdisponer nin cuarta nin pambayad sa hospital.

Cada paciente cantidad P650.00 an ginagastos cada aldaw mala ngani igwang iba ta libre an estaran asin pagkakan habo nang maghali, sabi pa.

Suroksokan na an mga paciente huli ta dapat igwa sana nin 350 bed capacity, alagad ngonian nagsakat na sa 750 kabali na an Cadlan Mental Hospital sa Pili, Camarines Sur na sakop pa kan manijamiento kan BMC. An mga paciente gikan pa sa anom na provincias kan kabikolan asin igwa pang nakakaabot hali sa Tagkawayan, Quezon.

Kan mga nakaaging taon kulang na marhay an destinong doctor kan hospital asin sa ngonian igwa na nin 145, alagad kaipuhan pa an 15 residence doctors. http://www.bicolmail.com/issue/2011/jan20/bb-story.html

hakz2007

January 21st, 2011, 05:50 PM

DILG: pagpahali ki Ablang paagihon sa tamang proceso
Daing cuestion ki DILG Secretary Jess Robredo kun pinapahali na sa puesto kan Capitolio Provincial kan Camarines Sur si Sr. Supt. Jonathan Ablang bilang OIC Provincial Director, alagad dapat paagihon sa tamang proceso.

“Tapos na an panahon ni PGMA an gusto ninda iyo an masusunod, sa bagong administracion ngonian an tamang proceso iyo an dapat masunod,” sabi ni Robredo sa atubangan kan miembros kan media sa Ciudad nin Naga bilang kasimbagan sa acusacion ni Gobernador LRay Villafuerte na nakikiaram an DILG Secretary sa pagpahali ki PD Ablang.

Sinabi kan Secretario na may poder siyang makiaram bilang sinda mga comisionado kan National Police Commission igwa sindang poder ki Ablang na ipatama an proceso kun mawot nang halion asin bilang mga professional an pulis sinda kinakaipuhan man irespeto.

Ipinahayag man kan gobernador sa media na sinda elihidong mga oficial asin si Robredo nombrado asin acting sana mientras na an namamahala sa PNP iyo si Undersecretary Rico Puno. An mga local na gobierno igwang autonomia sa pagpili nin pamayo kan pulicia.

An League of Municipalities of the Philippines Camarines Sur Chapter naghaman na nin resolucion na naghahagad na dapat paribayan na kan gobernador an OIC Provincial Director nganing makapili pa nin mas calificado. An resolucion kan LMP pigsurog na kan Sanggunian Panlalawigan sa pamamayo ni Bise Gobernador Fortunato Peña.

Alagad sinabi kan Secretario na sa saiyang paghapot sa nagkaperang grupo siring kan sa sarong pade, negociante, media asin iba pang sector nagtitiwala pa sa kakayahan ni Ablang bilang jefe kan PNP Camarines Sur.

Igwang mga surat na napupugolan si Robredo gikan sa Napolcom na si Gob. Villafuerte pigtawan nin listahan na pagpipilian kun siisay an matukaw na masunod na PD kan Camarines Sur asta kan Noviembre 2010 dai nagsimbag, dai nagpili kaya an ginibo ni Regional Director Chief Supt. Cecilio Calleja, Jr., nagrecomendar na mas marhay na idesignar na si Sr. Supt. Ablang.

An lakdang pigdara sa Napolcom Region V, naggibo nin resolucion dahil dai nagpili an gobernador pigdesignar na si Ablang sa puesto.

Pigbuyagyag pa na nagsurat si Napolcom Director Rodolfo Santos, Jr kan Bicol ki Villafuerte na pigsabihan na idesignar na si Ablang ta dai man nagpili nin masunod na PD, an sunod na pueding gibohon kan jefe ejecutivo kun dai contento magduman sa Napolcom en banc alagad dai nagsunod sa proceso.

Naaraman pa kan DILG Secretary na si Villafuerte nagsurat ki PNP Chief Bacalzo “dai niya na-iintindihan an proceso ta si Chief PNP sakop pa yan kan Napolcom, paghali ki Chief PNP mabalik sa Napolcom kun pigsunod an proceso tapos na an isyu.”

Bilang nasa DILG dapat itrato nin toltol an mga pulis alagad kun sala, sala pag an pulis tama, tama tawan ta sindang pag-respeto ta ini mga professional.

Pigpahimotikan kan gobernador na dai siya nagsusunod sa proceso huli ta nagsimbag pa ngani siya sa surat kan Napolcom. http://www.bicolmail.com/issue/2011/jan20/xdilg.html

hakz2007

January 21st, 2011, 05:51 PM

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GREEN ENERGY. Monsignor Zosimo Sañado blesses the time capsule during the launching of the proposed ‘Waste to Energy’ plant at the Balatas dumpsite in Naga City, the first of its kind in waste disposal. Witnessing the ceremony are DILG Secretary Jesse Robredo, Naga Mayor John Bongat, Vice Mayor Gabby Bordado, city officials and top managers of CJ Global Company, a Korean firm undertaking the project.

Source (http://www.bicolmail.com/issue/2011/jan20/peps&events.html)

hakz2007

January 21st, 2011, 05:52 PM

Ablang dai mahali sa CSur, Robredo nakikiaram-LRay
Nagdemiter na sa puesto si Sr. Supt. Jonathan Ablang bilang OIC Provincial Director kan Camarines Sur PNP Provincial Office, alagad padagos na magtetenir sa puesto sagcod na dai pa narerecibe an relief order gikan sa Camp Crame asin Bicol PNP dawa acusaran pang “kapit tuko”.

Dawa pig-aacusar kan League of Municipalities of the Philippines Camarines Sur Chapter asin kan Capitolio Provincial na mayo na nin confiansa kan Camarines Sur iyo si Sr. Supt. Eric Serafin Reyes.

Sa press statement kan OIC Provincial Director, sinabi kaini na igwa nang resolucion an Regional Director asin Napolcom petsado Enero 3, 2011 na nagdedesignar sa saiya bilang full-fledged na PD matapos magpalyar an gobernador magpili sa tulong oficial na pigsumiter kan Bicol PNP envez nagpadara nin surat si Villafuerte sa Chief PNP asin sa Napolcom na naghuhurot na halion siya sa Camarines Sur.

An Camarines Sur na may pinakadakulang populacion sa Kabikolan consideradong naging matuninong kan 2010 huli ta kan hababang numero nin incidente nin kariribokan dahil sa insurgencia.

Nagtutubod an oficial kan PNP na an motivo kan LMP asin ni Villafuerte iyo an estrictong pag-implementar kan PNP CamSur kan Presidential Decree 449 na naligis an pinsan kan gobernador na nagpapabulang nin tulong veces cada semana asin malinaw na pagbalga kan proviciones kan PD 449. An higot na implementacion kan ley sa cockfighting enterong na-afectaran man si mga alcalde na padagos nagtataong permit sa ilegal na pabulang.

Naghihinanakit an OIC PD na dai lamang nagtao nin financial assistance an gobierno provincial nganing makatabang sa campania sa paz y orden.

An Sanggunian Panlalawigan kan Camarines Sur sa ginibong regular session kan Lunes, Enero 17 nagpasar nin resolucion na nagsusuporta sa resolucion kan LMP na ribayan na sa puesto si Ablang.

Sa lado kan OIC PD mayoria kan miembros kan Liga ng mga Barangay sa Camarines Sur an nagsusuporta sa saiya mala ngani pinaheling pa kaini sa media an lista kan 23 sa 35 mga Liga President na nagfirma na dapat magpadagos siya sa puesto.

Alagad si Liga President Domingo Briones nagtuyaw sa sinambit na manifesto pabor sa OIC PD huli ta dai siya nag-aaram. http://www.bicolmail.com/issue/2011/jan20/xmahali.html

hakz2007

January 21st, 2011, 05:52 PM

Estudiante kan UNC kabale sa delegacion sa World Junior Boys Tennis Tournament
Sarong joven na Bicolano an may dakulang potencial na makabale sa mga sikat asin bantog na mga Filipino ngonian sa linea nin karawat. Siya si Daniel Villaseñor, premir año sa high school na estudiante kan University of Nueva Caceres sa Ciudad nin Naga. Siya katorce años, kabale sa delegacion kan Filipinas sa nakatalaan na World Junior Boys Tennis Tournament na gigibohon sa Pebrero 22-27, 2011 sa Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Si Villaseñor saro sa pambato kan Filipinas sa 14 and Under World Junior Players Category. Siya iyo an champion sa “Andrada Cup” Tennis Tournament na ginibo sa Rizal Memorial Tennis Court, sa Manila kan Enero 12, 2011. Napatos niya pa an “Champion” sa President’s Cup National Tournament kan 2010. Afuera kaini nagbale sa mga minasunod na torneo sa Metro Manila:

Kan Abril 2010 - Champion sa Alabang 1018 Tennis Tournament, kan Diciembre 13, 2010 – Runner Up sa Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) Tournament asin kan Diciembre 26, 2010 – champion sa Milo Tennis Tournament.

Si Villaseñor an premirong Bicolano na taga Ciudad nin Naga na nakabale sa prestijosong karawat na ini. Apesar kan saiyang helig sa kawat na tennis, mantenido niya an saiyang haralangkaw na grado sa pag-escuela sa UNC High School Department.
http://www.bicolmail.com/issue/2011/jan20/xunc.html

hakz2007

January 21st, 2011, 05:53 PM

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FAMILY PLANNING. Naga City Health Officer Dr. Vito Borja imparts vital points during an orientation seminar on non-scalpel vasectomy at the City Health Office.

Source (http://www.bicolmail.com/issue/2011/jan20/peps&events.html)

hakz2007

January 21st, 2011, 05:56 PM

Day 3 of Ultimate Wake Championship
by Cam Sur (http://www.facebook.com/camsur)

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hakz2007

January 21st, 2011, 06:01 PM

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FIRST OF THE CHAMPIONS. Various title holders from world-class wakeboarding competitions all over the globe flock to the CamSur Watersports Complex for early registration in the world’s biggest sporting event. CamSur is once more at the limelight in the world of extreme sports as Gov. LRay Villafuerte unravels the Ultimate Wake Championship with top international riders to take a shot at the Ultimate Wake Championship held January 19 to 24 at the CWC.

Source (http://www.bicolmail.com/issue/2011/jan20/peps&events.html)

hakz2007

January 21st, 2011, 06:04 PM

CamSur ups health campaign in municipalities
PILI, Camarines Sur---With the energetic Vice Gov. Fortunato “Ato” Peña at the helm of the CamSur Task Force on Health in his capacity as its chairman under the strength of Executive Order 003, s. 2010 of Gov. LRay Villafuerte, the Provincial Health Office (PHO) intensifies its health program this year, kickstarted by a series of medical missions and health education to various municipalities and jumpstarted by the municipalities of Buhi and Tinambac as the first to benefit from the drive.

Nearly a thousand residents from nearby barangays of Tinambac converged at the Tinambac Town Plaza last January 19 as the dentists, doctors and nurses, together with the group of health workers from the Provincial Health Office conducted free medical consultation, fasting blood sugar testing, blood pressure examination, tooth extraction along with lectures on smoking education, cough manners, hand washing techniques and other health instruction.

A similar activity was also conducted at the Buhi Centennial Covered Court earlier this month to extend health services to far-flung municipalities of the province. Plans are also in the offing to launch a massive campaign on strategic locations in the province to build up on the health strategy that Gov. LRay Villafuerte has continually initiated in Camarines Sur.

This far-reaching health program forms part of the multi-sectoral tasks that the dynamic vice governor is taking on to strengthen the health campaign of the provincial government in pursuit of progress and development that Gov. LRay Villafuerte has spearheaded for the whole province. http://www.bicolmail.com/issue/2011/jan20/xups.html

hakz2007

January 21st, 2011, 06:06 PM

Day 3 of Ultimate Wake Championship
by Cam Sur (http://www.facebook.com/camsur)

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hakz2007

January 21st, 2011, 06:11 PM

PICE Naga forges links with the city government
In keeping with its advocacy of heightened social and community awareness, the Philippine Institute of Civil Engineers (PICE), Naga City chapter, is launching an intensified program to initiate collaborative ventures with local government units, agencies and other socio-civic entities.

PICE Naga’s new set of 2011 officers led by president Engr. Emily F. Delfin-Kalaw who will formally assume office after their induction set February 5 at the Villa Caceres Hotel, called on City Mayor John Bongat not only for a courtesy call but also to offer their expertise and services for joint ventures with the city government and local government units.

Composing this year’s 14th batch of officers aside from Engr. Delfin-Kalaw are vice president Rodolfo S. de la Cruz, secretary Francisco Cueto, treasurer Ermina Ma. P. Robredo, auditor Angel T. Pormalejo, P.R.O. Jordan R Chavez III, board of directors Jordan Pierre Y. Fulgentes, Danilo Z. Garcia, Alex Genio, Andre B. Opeña, Herminio A. Magpantay, William P. Menes, Dominador A. Ragas, Ralph Angelo P. Real, and Tito L. Simando, and immediate past president Paulino S. Cunanan.http://www.bicolmail.com/issue/2011/jan20/xpice.html

hakz2007

January 21st, 2011, 06:12 PM

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FORGING STRONG PARTNERSHIPS. The new set of officers of the Philippine Institute of Civil Engineers – Naga City Chapter strike a pose with Naga City Mayor John Bongat as the group embarks on their mission to build close ties with local government units to lay the groundwork for a stronger and more civic-oriented course of action for the community.

Source (http://www.bicolmail.com/issue/2011/jan20/peps&events.html)

hakz2007

January 21st, 2011, 06:14 PM

Day 3 of Ultimate Wake Championship
by Cam Sur (http://www.facebook.com/camsur)

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hakz2007

January 21st, 2011, 06:14 PM

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hakz2007

January 21st, 2011, 06:16 PM

Comic Strip Party Last Night
by Cam Sur (http://www.facebook.com/camsur)

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hakz2007

January 21st, 2011, 06:17 PM

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STRONGER HEALTH CAMPAIGN. A huge crowd from nearby barangays of Tinambac gathers at the Tinambac Town Plaza last January 19 as CamSur Task Force on Health Chairman Vice Gov. Fortunato “Ato” Peña (rightmost) launches free medical consultation, fasting blood sugar testing, blood pressure examination, tooth extraction along with lectures on smoking education, cough manners, hand washing techniques and other lectures on health as part of a massive health campaign of the province. The program forms part of the continued health program of Gov. LRay Villafuerte in his drive to build a healthier and more productive community in CamSur.

Source (http://www.bicolmail.com/issue/2011/jan20/peps&events.html)

hakz2007

January 21st, 2011, 06:18 PM

Comic Strip Party Last Night
by Cam Sur (http://www.facebook.com/camsur)

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hakz2007

January 21st, 2011, 06:19 PM

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hakz2007

January 21st, 2011, 06:20 PM

Comic Strip Party Last Night
by Cam Sur (http://www.facebook.com/camsur)

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hakz2007

January 21st, 2011, 06:30 PM

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Ini na tabi so HAGIS... isay tabi ang igwa pa kaini sa natad?

by Maki-Goa... (http://www.facebook.com/makigoa)

hakz2007

January 22nd, 2011, 01:07 AM

CAMSUR EVENT: Teen star leads ‘wake’ tourney

PILI, CAMARINES SUR—Top international riders put their versatility to test in the 2011 Ultimate Wake Championship this weekend at the Camsur Watersports Complex here.

Former world champion Tom Foshee of the United States and 13-year-old sensation Daniel Grant, of British and Thai roots, lead the favorites in the tournament pitting riders in all three major disciplines of the extreme water sport.

“There are still tricks that I want to do,” said Grant, the Asian Wakefest 2010 champion listed as the youngest competitor in the pro division.

“It’s kind of scary in some ways to compete with the older guys, but it’s also fun.”

The Philippines is the last stop of the World Wakeboard Association (WWA) World Series 2010, the only international event where riders switch it up among the boat, cable and System 2.0 winch disciplines.

Nieuwegein, Netherlands kicked off the series last June, before heading to Hamburg, Germany and Antalaya, Turkey.

Riders earn points based on technical versatility and trick difficulty, with the highest scorer bagging the overall wake championship.

“This is the most prestigious event in the sport and we are proud to be hosting it for three consecutive years now,” said Camsur Gov. Lray Villafuerte of the tournament dangling a total prize money of $82,000.

Foshee, the 2008 and 2009 champion from Texas, remains a standout among riders from 30 countries together with Israel’s Lior Sofer, Canada’s Chad Sharpe and France’s Leo Labadens.

The event’s eight categories feature the pro men, junior men, pro wakeskate, open women, obstacles, open women wakeskate, CWC rail park contest and the CamSur Rider’s Cup.http://www.inquirer.net/sports/articles/CAMSUR-EVENT-Teen-star-leads-wake-tourney.html

Naga Boy

January 22nd, 2011, 02:19 AM

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Run for the Greater Glory of God 12.30.10 ADENU by Eddie Felix Alteza

Hi fil.

I was at Yellow Cab,yesterday and saw those little Bicol Poem Book that you published.

I was very impressed by the beauty of Bicol Poetry and Palanca Awardee Ms. Mary Ann Moll's poem about a lovely maiden who sacrificed her life to serve her husband to be a full time house wife, left me sleepless last night.

This is not the exact verse as I could not remember the exact wording but her poem started something at this point...

Madya,
Hilinga an sakong mapuputing kamot
Na may mahimpis na kublit
Na kung nagsisghid...
...nakataas ang giris.

It struck me right on my solar plexus and left me staring at my pretty wife all night.

I also love the poem titled Namo.

If they are still available, please tell me where to buy them.

Or please deliver all volumes at the Endolab SM either on Tuesday and Saturday. Please just send the bill.

Thanks.

sonofignatius

January 22nd, 2011, 05:01 AM

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another new place :-)

actually nagsakat ako sa atop mi :D kaso natatahuban dikit kang mga niyog diyan sa may Almeda Highway

i was having a crazy idea kasubago before going to sleep, sa April 1 kaya ang concert ni Bruno Mars sa Manila. tamang tama kuta iyang March 31 na flight.. kaso si April 3 na pabalik mayo na. may event ba kita kayan digdi?

i tried CebuPac sa April 3 pero x2 kang si sa airphil na rate. :lol: habo talaga garo ako padalanun :nuts:

abang-abang ka lang, jo, baka makakua ka pang promo. airphil promo every friday 4-8pm, and sunday whole day- kaya lang pala, revert to PAL na ang naga flights by april 1 (are they serious- but this is april fools day haha) :lol::lol:

Maray na hapon:)

Igwa man talaga jan agihan pa cararayan.kya kang nalingaw ako:nuts:
kaya lang sala lang gayud si tig agihan ta.igwa kaya jan resort manay jo. nalingaw lang ako kang name.

are you referring to the shortcut road from del rosario that goes to cararayan? there is a resort along the way, on the right of the road as one comes from del rosario.

DENR bares winners of 2009 eco-friendly search among schools (http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=1&t=1&id=12508)
by Ben Moses Ebreo

BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya, January 20 (PIA) –- The Department of Environment and Natural Resources(DENR) recently bared the winners of its 2009 Sustainable Eco-Friendly competition among schools in the country.

A total of 9 schools were declared as national champions for the 2009 National Search for Sustainable and Eco-friendly Schools. These are: (elementary Category) First prize – Peñablanca East Central School, Agguddan-Malibabag, Peñablanca, Cagayan; Second prize – North Central Elementary School, Bonuan Gueset, Dagupan City, Pangasinan; and Third prize – Badas Elementary School, Badas, Placer, Surigao del Norte.

For the High School category, the winners are: First Place – La Castellana National High School, La Castellana, Negros Occidental; Second place – Camarines Sur National High School, Naga City, Camarines Sur; and Third place – Daniel R. Aguinaldo National High School;, Matina, Davao City.

For the college category, the winners are: First Place – Palawan State University, Puerto Princesa City, Palawan; Second place – Visayas State Univesity, Baybay, Leyte; and Third place – Catanduanes State Colleges, Virac Catanduanes.
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Alma mater! ^_^

congratulations, cam high! bikol's biggest high school. :cheers:

sonofignatius

January 22nd, 2011, 05:04 AM

"Santo Subito"

ARTICLE | JANUARY 20, 2011 - 5:55PM | BY CHE CARPIO
Rome has recognized a miracle attributed to the late Pope John Paul II’s intercession: the healing of a French nun, Marie Simon-Pierre, from Parkinson’s disease—the same illness that the late Pope endured in his last years. Pope Benedict XVI has set JP II’s beatification on May 1.

It’s quite a coincidence that with all the natural calamities we face now, especially in Albay, JP-II actually visited the province way back on February 21, 1981. He is also the first and only Pope to have ever set foot in Bikol. And JP II’s homily then was on this “twin message: the land as God's gift for all men, and the beautiful mystery of work.”

We read, in part:

“[I]t is not only the beauty of creation that Mayon reminds us of. Its shape resembles hands in an attitude both of thanksgiving and acceptance: thanksgiving for the gift of the land for all people, and acceptance to put into it the human effort of work. I have been eagerly waiting to meet you, in order to give you this twin message: the land as God's gift for all men, and the beautiful mystery of work.

“2.Why to you, my dear farm-workers? Because you are important and have a special place in God's plan for the world: you provide food for your fellowman. It is a task that deserves the appreciation and grateful esteem of all; it is a task which deserves the recognition of the dignity of those engaged in it. You have every right therefore to expect from the Pope, who is your father and brother and servant in Christ, a word of encouragement and hope, of guidance and support.

“But I wanted so very much to meet yοu not only for this reason, but also to proclaim the important values to which your lives bear witness. The rural world truly possesses enviable human and religious riches: a deep-rooted love of the family and of peace, a religious sense, an appreciation of friendship, trust and openness to God, and devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, particularly in your case under the title of Our Lady of Peñafrancia.

“Do you not extol these values when you sing:

Kung ang hanap mo ay ligaya sa buhay
(If your quest is happiness in life)
Sa libis ng nayon doon manirahan:
(In the farm you reside)
Taga-bukid man ay may gintong kalooban,
(Although farm people, they have a golden heart)
Kayamanan at dangal ng kabukiran.
(Which is the treasure and pride of the farm)?

“It is a well-deserved tribute of recognition that the Pope wishes to express to you, for society is indeed indebted to you. Thank yοu, my dear farm-workers, for your precious contribution to the social well-being of mankind; society owes yοu a great deal.”

Indeed, let JP-II’s words and heavenly intercession strengthen our suffering people, especially our farm-workers, and also sustain our communities in giving them all their due.

www.voxbikol.com

rhyzrockerz

January 22nd, 2011, 05:36 AM

another new place :-)

abang-abang ka lang, jo, baka makakua ka pang promo. airphil promo every friday 4-8pm, and sunday whole day- kaya lang pala, revert to PAL na ang naga flights by april 1 (are they serious- but this is april fools day haha) :lol::lol:

are you referring to the shortcut road from del rosario that goes to cararayan? there is a resort along the way, on the right of the road as one comes from del rosario.

congratulations, cam high! bikol's biggest high school. :cheers:

iyo po father,yan ang tigsasabi kung shorcut.. kaya lang napasala po si agi mi.and lingaw naman ako.

sonofignatius

January 22nd, 2011, 07:15 AM

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by Maki-Goa... (http://www.facebook.com/makigoa)

first time to hear about this fruit. what does it taste like?

Hi fil.
I was at Yellow Cab,yesterday and saw those little Bicol Poem Book that you published.

I was very impressed by the beauty of Bicol Poetry and Palanca Awardee Ms. Mary Ann Moll's poem about a lovely maiden who sacrificed her life to serve her husband to be a full time house wife, left me sleepless last night.

This is not the exact verse as I could not remember the exact wording but her poem started something at this point...

Madya,
Hilinga an sakong mapuputing kamot
Na may mahimpis na kublit
Na kung nagsisghid...
...nakataas ang giris.

It struck me right on my solar plexus and left me staring at my pretty wife all night.

I also love the poem titled Namo.

If they are still available, please tell me where to buy them.

Or please deliver all volumes at the Endolab SM either on Tuesday and Saturday. Please just send the bill.
Thanks.

good to know you're into poetry, too, doc. contemporary bikol poetry is bearing much fruit, good fruits at that, esp from many young poets who are publishing their works.

support such as yours surely encourages them to produce and publish even more.

for non-bikol poetry, i highly recommend another contemorary poet, Pablo Neruda whose works have been translated into English. the movie Il Postino features several of his workds, among them "Ode to the Sea".

iyo po father,yan ang tigsasabi kung shorcut.. kaya lang napasala po si agi mi.and lingaw naman ako.

spring valley si ngaran kaidto?

sonofignatius

January 22nd, 2011, 07:24 AM

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cebupacific april and may flights
as low as PhP799, one-way

round trip PhP1,800+

MNL WNP

3 daily flights for summer
early Am, noon, and late afternoon.
with the last flight out
of WNP at 5PM.

www.cebupacificair.com

garzland

January 22nd, 2011, 08:29 AM

OK lang. It wasn't meant for you anyway. Para duman to sa naggibo.:lol:

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Happy birthday Garz! :D

happy bday, garz! :cheers::cheers::cheers:

nice one. from which resort was this taken?

events in the arts and theater scene keep coming. nice title - Simon's Way - in honor of Simon Vela, the Spaniard who plays a key role in the Penafrancia story.

another big event for CamSur..

more Caucasians to be seen around

:cheers: for CWC

oh btw..
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIR GARZLAND!!

maray nalang may reminders sa facebook :D

yup and it will start tomorrow

btw, happy birthday garz :cheers:

Happy Birthday Garz.

Thanks for the greetings, guys and gals! :okay:

Thank God I have friends in SSC.. This is better than facebook :D if not for the cityville game :D

Naga City Deck

January 22nd, 2011, 08:46 AM

Thanks for the greetings, guys and gals! :okay:

Thank God I have friends in SSC.. This is better than facebook :D if not for the cityville game :D

you're welcome sir garz..
haha cityville! nagang naga ang ciudad ni sir garz sa cityville :D

top players in cityville :D
Aidz
ms myonee
sir garz

ako kulelat pa. :lol:

i have neighbors using Naga City as the name of the city in that game.
one of them is sir garz :D

oh btw, i got an info from my mom, ang BFAR daa itutugdok duman sa may TESDA aka manpower dati harani duman sa may airport

garzland

January 22nd, 2011, 09:18 AM

^^Yep, my city's name is Naga :D.. I have to make them my city's neighbors... What's ms. myonee's first name? :D

Any rendering of that BFAR Building?

fil07

January 22nd, 2011, 11:16 AM

Hi fil.

I was at Yellow Cab,yesterday and saw those little Bicol Poem Book that you published.

I was very impressed by the beauty of Bicol Poetry and Palanca Awardee Ms. Mary Ann Moll's poem about a lovely maiden who sacrificed her life to serve her husband to be a full time house wife, left me sleepless last night.

This is not the exact verse as I could not remember the exact wording but her poem started something at this point...

Madya,
Hilinga an sakong mapuputing kamot
Na may mahimpis na kublit
Na kung nagsisghid...
...nakataas ang giris.

It struck me right on my solar plexus and left me staring at my pretty wife all night.

I also love the poem titled Namo.

If they are still available, please tell me where to buy them.

Or please deliver all volumes at the Endolab SM either on Tuesday and Saturday. Please just send the bill.

Thanks.

good to know you're into poetry, too, doc. contemporary bikol poetry is bearing much fruit, good fruits at that, esp from many young poets who are publishing their works.

support such as yours surely encourages them to produce and publish even more.

for non-bikol poetry, i highly recommend another contemorary poet, Pablo Neruda whose works have been translated into English. the movie Il Postino features several of his workds, among them "Ode to the Sea".

i left some copies at yellowcab. just ask maam ophelia about it. she's my batchmate in elementray. we only managed to publish 2 out of 4 issues. but we have the manuscript for the 3rd issue. we are looking for a new co-publisher actually. haha

kevinb

January 22nd, 2011, 12:17 PM

^^Yep, my city's name is Naga :D.. I have to make them my city's neighbors... What's ms. myonee's first name? :D

Myonee man po.:D

hakz2007

January 22nd, 2011, 03:52 PM

first time to hear about this fruit. what does it taste like?

first time ko man na madangog yan, Xave.

hakz2007

January 22nd, 2011, 04:06 PM

Military helps DoH stop spread of diarrhea in CamSur
The Department of Health (DoH) regional office in Legazpi City mobilized this weekend its health emergency response team with the help of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to prevent the further spread diarrhea in Siruma town, Camarines Sur.

Speaking at Saturday’s Office of Civil Defense (OCD) and Regional Disaster Risk Reduction Management
Council (RDRRMC) press conference, Dr. Rose Rempillo of the DoH Regional Office said among the 251 people downed by diarrhea, already one had died.

Rempillo said the patients were diagnosed at the DoH field hospital set up in Barangay Butawan, an island
barangay of Siruma.

She said that out of the 250 currently fighting the disease, 25 were severely affected, 150 moderately affected while 75 were mildly affected.

It is apparent that the village’s water supply had been contaminated, Rempillo said.

Army soldiers with two of their M35 trucks assisted in conveying the medical equipment, medicines and other supplies to Barangay Butawan, which can only reach through a long stretch of bad roads which took them 12 hours from Pili town.

She said the doctors and other health personnel were ferried the other week by Air Force helicopters from the Tactical Operations Group 5 of the Philippine Air Force based in this city.

Barangay Butawan has 450 households or more than 4,000 persons.http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/300053/military-helps-doh-stop-spread-diarrhea-camsur

hakz2007

January 22nd, 2011, 04:18 PM

Tinambac
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hakz2007

January 22nd, 2011, 04:19 PM

GMA wants harsher penalties vs dumping of wastes into sea
MANILA, Philippines — Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has filed a bill that will impose harsher penalties on dumping of wastes into the sea, streams and rivers.

Mrs. Arroyo and her son, Camarines Sur Rep. Dato Arroyo, filed House Bill 1579 to be known as the “Anti-Sea Dumping Act of 2010.”

“Despite growing environmental awareness and global efforts to curb and adapt to the effects of climate change, much is yet to be done, as mankind has destroyed in just a few centuries what it took mother nature millions of years to create,” Mrs. Arroyo said.

She said the wanton destruction of Earth’s natural environment has led to the extinction of much of the planet’s flora and fauna, and has brought about imbalance in the food chain.

“Our seas and oceans, which is one of the main sources of food, are slowly losing their once flourishing biodiversity, slowly causing scarcity, which affects not only consumers, but also fishermen and fisher folks who largely depend on their daily catch to make a living,” she said.

She said one specific threat to the open waters is garbage, a plethora of garbage that has created island-like patches, such as the Great Pacific Ocean Gyre, which causes death to sea creatures through countless ways like ingestions, entanglement and poisoning.

“Dumping of sewage sludge and industrial wastes, either directly to the sea or through drainages, streams and rivers, slowly finding its way to the seas and oceans, also causes the slow poisoning of the marine life,” Mrs. Arroyo said.

She said with the imposition of heavier penalties, “the measure is seen as an effective deterrent to the widespread pollution of the country’s internal waters.”

“The Philippines is widely recognized as possessing one of the richest marine sanctuaries in the world. With its bountiful resources, it becomes imperative therefore for each Filipino to take a proactive role in protecting and preserving its natural wealth,” Mrs. Arroyo said.http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/300045/gma-wants-harsher-penalties-vs-dumping-wastes-sea

hakz2007

January 22nd, 2011, 04:23 PM

Tinambac
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hakz2007

January 22nd, 2011, 04:28 PM

Camarines Sur
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hakz2007

January 22nd, 2011, 04:31 PM

Tinambac
by Jun Valeros (http://www.flickr.com/photos/sbvalerosjr/)

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hakz2007

January 22nd, 2011, 04:37 PM

Tinambac
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hakz2007

January 22nd, 2011, 04:40 PM

Tinambac
by Jun Valeros (http://www.flickr.com/photos/sbvalerosjr/)

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hakz2007

January 22nd, 2011, 04:46 PM

Tinambac
by Jun Valeros (http://www.flickr.com/photos/sbvalerosjr/)

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hakz2007

January 22nd, 2011, 04:50 PM

Villa del Rey
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hakz2007

January 22nd, 2011, 04:52 PM

CWC Wakwboard Park
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hakz2007

January 22nd, 2011, 04:54 PM

CWC Skate Park
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hakz2007

January 22nd, 2011, 04:55 PM

CBD Hotel
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hakz2007

January 22nd, 2011, 05:00 PM

4th day - Semifinals of Ultimate Wake Championship
by Cam Sur (http://www.facebook.com/camsur)

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hakz2007

January 22nd, 2011, 05:03 PM

4th day - Semifinals of Ultimate Wake Championship
by Cam Sur (http://www.facebook.com/camsur)

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hakz2007

January 22nd, 2011, 05:05 PM

4th day - Semifinals of Ultimate Wake Championship
by Cam Sur (http://www.facebook.com/camsur)

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gedasay

January 23rd, 2011, 12:30 AM

Retrato sa Merkado Photo Contest

A photo contest featuring the sights, faces, colors, and activities in the Naga City People’s Mall

1. What it is all About
This photo contest aims to create awareness among stallholders that the City is serious in promoting the market as tourist destination and to highlight the Market as microcosm of a vibrant society and as a valuable community resource which reflects Naga’s heritage and serves as a source of civic pride for the past, present and future generations.

The theme for this photo contest are Merkado Publiko: Lalawgon nin higos asin disiplina kan Nagueño (PEOPLE). Will feature faces and activities of vendors (act of selling and maintaining cleanliness in their vicinity) and market employees (act of maintaining order, cleanliness in the public market) and Merkado: Orgulyo kan Nagueño, sa Kinaban Bistado (PLACES, STALLS, WARES AND GOODS). Will feature places, stalls, goods and wares in the Market (eg. photo dried fish arranged artistically)

2. Who Will Qualify
This photo contest is open to all professional and amateur photographers. Relatives of up to third degree of consanguinity and affinity of organizers and its judges are disqualified to participate in this contest.

3. Rules on Submission of Entries
a. All entries must be submitted in printed photo paper with 8” x 12” size or in CD Format. Selected finalists will be asked later to submit e-files or film negatives for printing during the photo exhibit.
b. There shall be no limit on the number of entries which shall be submitted by the participants but participants can only win once.
c. Deadline for the submission of entries is March 28, 2011
d. Photographer participants should submit their photo entries together with the completed entry form and the description of the photographs. The entry forms can be downloaded at www.naga.gov.ph or ask a copy of the entry form through email from allen.reondanga@naga.gov.ph
e. All images in the photo entries should not contain any markings such as watermark, etc.
f. Photographs must be exclusive to this contest, unpublished, and must not have been submitted as an entry in any previous photo contest.
g. All photos must either be in color or black and white format. Images may have minor alterations for color, contrast, etc. but may not be significantly altered, appear unnatural, or have elements added or removed.
h. Images that do not meet these format and criteria will not be considered.
i. By entering this photo contest, a participant represents, acknowledges and warrants that the submitted photograph is an original work created solely by the participant and that no other party has any right, title, claim or interest in the photograph.

4. How to Send Entries
All entries (printed photographs in 8” x 12” size or in CD Format) should be mailed or hand carried inside a sealed envelope to:

City Mayor’s Office
2nd Floor, City Hall, Naga City
(054) 473 2240 | 811-1286 | 698-38-71

5. Deadline for the Submission of Entries
Deadline for the submission of entries will be on March 28, 2011. The organizers of this contest are not responsible for any postal or technical delay.

6. Criteria for Judging
a. Entries will be judged on originality, technical excellence, composition, overall impact, and artistic merit.
b. All entries must be respectful of the rights, sensitivities, and culture of persons depicted.
c. All entries must portray an accurate reflection of the subject matter and scene as it appeared, without alteration (other than standard optimization, including removal of dust, cropping, adjustments to color and contrast, etc.)

7. Mechanics for Judging
a. There shall be finalists which shall be selected for the top three prizes awards. All finalists, and top three winners shall be notified by email or phone.
b. A steering committee composed of organizers of this contest will oversee the selection of the finalists, the top three winning entries.
c. Competent judges of this contest will be selected by the steering committee.
d. A mechanism will be developed by the steering committee to ensure that the judging process is fair and objective. The steering committee shall ensure that the name of the photographer of the photo entries shall remain anonymous until the announcement of the winners to prevent undue influence in the judging process.
e. Decisions made by the judges are final.

8. Prizes

a. Prizes for this contest are as follows:
First Prize – P10,000.00
Second Prize - P 8,000.00
Third Prize – P 5,000.00
Special Gift of limited edition City-commissioned quality t-shirts (design of shirt will be published in the Naga City website) for all finalists
b. Winners will be announced and prizes awarded on April 4, 2011. This will coincide with the opening of the photo exhibit of the three winners, and finalists.
c. Prizes not claimed within 60 days after the awarding ceremonies shall be forfeited in favor the organizers.
d. In the event that the selected winner/s of any prize are/is ineligible or refuses the prize, the prize will be forfeited and the organizers, in its sole discretion, may choose whether to award the prize to another winner.

9. Rights Over the Submitted Photographs
The photographers of the submitted entries are the original owners of these photographs and shall allow the organizers of this contest the right to use these photographs without prior notice to and approval by the photographer who took the photos. However, photo credit shall be given to the photographer who took the photograph which shall read “(c) photographer.” Moreover, the organizers of this contest shall not be allowed to sell these photographs for monetary consideration.

Source: http://naga.gov.ph/news/retrato-sa-merkado-photo-contest/

Pitik na kamo! Maray na aga saindo gabos!

hakz2007

January 23rd, 2011, 12:46 AM

Black Light Party
January 22, 2011
by Cam Sur (http://www.facebook.com/camsur)

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hakz2007

January 23rd, 2011, 12:48 AM

Black Light Party
January 22, 2011
by Cam Sur (http://www.facebook.com/camsur)

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hakz2007

January 23rd, 2011, 12:49 AM

Bermudez reaches wakeboard final
MANILA, Philippines - Top RP bet Samantha Bermudez stole some of the thunder from the world’s best and brightest as she came through with a near impeccable effort to qualify for the finals in the women’s side of the 2011 Ultimate Wake Championship at the Camsur Watersports Complex in Pili, Camarines Sur.

Bermudez, 24, drew strength from her poise and grace to draw a 100-point score in her semifinal performance, edging a fancied Elizabeth Fuchs in making the final cut of this prestigious tournament staking a total cash purse worth $82,000.

Fuchs was slowed down a bit by one fall but recovered in time to amass 90 points, enough to land her a berth in the finale. Another RP representative, Andres Tanjangco, failed to make the cut.

“I think I did well. I didn’t fall while my opponent fell. I just try my best. Eli (Fuchs) is really good also. She rides often here,” said a gushing Bermudez. “Wakeboarding is difficult. You can’t determine who’s going to win. It really depends on the run, like there are some who choke.”

Former world champion Tom Foshee of the United States and 13-year-old sensation Daniel Grant, a Great Britain native with Thai roots, lived up to their top billing by coming up with a pair of strong efforts to top their respective heats.

Foshee, the 2008 and 2009 champion from Texas, registered a men’s division best 100-point score to reign supreme in Heat 4 while Grant, listed as the youngest competitor in the pro circuit, emerged the best in Heat 2 with a score of 97.50 to establish their dominance early in the tournament matching riders in all three major disciplines in extreme water sports.

“I’m satisfied with my performance but there are still tricks that I want to do,” said Grant. “It’s a little bit scary competing against older and more experienced guys but it’s kind of fun also for me.”

The Philippines is the last stop of the World Wakeboard Association (WWA) World Series 2010, the only international event where riders switch it up among the boat, cable and System 2.0 winch disciplines.

Nieuwegein, The Netherlands kicked off the series last June, before heading to Hamburg, Germany and Antalaya, Turkey.

Riders earn points based on technical versatility and trick difficulty, with the highest scorer bagging the overall wake championship.

“We’re proud of hosting this world-class event for the third straight year now, it’s really a prestigious tournament,” said gracious host CamSur Gov. LRay Villafuerte.

The event’s eight categories feature the pro men, junior men, pro wakeskate, open women, obstacles, open women wakeskate, CWC rail park contest and the CamSur Rider’s Cup.http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=650626&publicationSubCategoryId=69

hakz2007

January 23rd, 2011, 12:53 AM

Black Light Party
January 22, 2011
by Cam Sur (http://www.facebook.com/camsur)

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hakz2007

January 23rd, 2011, 12:55 AM

Black Light Party
January 22, 2011
by Cam Sur (http://www.facebook.com/camsur)

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hakz2007

January 23rd, 2011, 01:58 AM

Here's Vitiok video of Costa Rica's National Anthem with subtitles by Naga Boy :cheers:

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Here; this is the best that I can do.

Noble homeland, your beautiful flag

Dakilang bayan, ang iyong magandang watawat

Expression of your life it gives us:

Sagisag ng buhay na alay mo sa amin.

Under the limpid blue of your sky,

Sa ilalim ng malinaw at bughaw mong langit

Peace reigns, white and pure.

Kapayapaang naghahari, malinis at dalisay.

In the tenacious battle of fruitful toil,

Sa madugong digmaan tagumpay na nakamit

That brings a glow to men's faces,

Nagdala ng tuwa sa mga kababayan

Your sons, simple farm hands,

Ang iyong mga anak na magasasaka

Gained eternal renown, esteem and honour.

Nagdulot ng paghanga, pagpapahalaga at dangal.

Hail, oh gentle country!

Mabuhay,O bayang magiliw!

Hail, oh loving mother!

Mabuhay,O Inang mapagmahal

If anyone should attempt to besmirch your glory,

Kung may yuyurak sa iyong dangal

You will see your people, valiant and virile,

Bayan ay lalaban ng buong tapang,

Exchange their rustic tools for weapons.

Ipagpapalit ang pagsasaka sa digmaan.

Hail, Oh homeland! Your prodigal soil

Mabuhay, O aming bayan! Lupang hinirang

Gives us sweet sustenance and shelter.

Sa ami'y nagbibigay buhay at nagkukupkop

Under the limpid blue of your sky,

Sa ilalim ng malinaw at bughaw mong langit

May peace and labour ever live!

Kapayapaan at kasaganahan sana'y maghari.

hakz2007

January 23rd, 2011, 02:34 AM

Avenue Square (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Avenue-Square/123445284390256)

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kevinb

January 23rd, 2011, 09:20 AM

CBD Hotel
by marbleplaty (http://www.flickr.com/photos/marbleplaty/)

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5286/5302290898_3a829a3d9f_b.jpg

Cute concept! :okay:

hakz2007

January 23rd, 2011, 10:29 AM

4th day - Semifinals of Ultimate Wake Championship
by Cam Sur (http://www.facebook.com/camsur)

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hakz2007

January 23rd, 2011, 10:37 AM

4th day - Semifinals of Ultimate Wake Championship
by Cam Sur (http://www.facebook.com/camsur)

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hakz2007

January 23rd, 2011, 10:42 AM

4th day - Semifinals of Ultimate Wake Championship
by Cam Sur (http://www.facebook.com/camsur)

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hakz2007

January 23rd, 2011, 10:43 AM

4th day - Semifinals of Ultimate Wake Championship
by Cam Sur (http://www.facebook.com/camsur)

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hakz2007

January 23rd, 2011, 11:20 AM

UNEP @ Regional PRISAA
by Arnel Labrador (http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000119472765)

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Naga City Deck

January 23rd, 2011, 11:21 AM

--- oops na post na palan ni ged hehe :D

sonofignatius

January 23rd, 2011, 01:38 PM

Position Paper: AdNU Supports Urgent Alternative Mining Legislation

A University Stand

After thorough discussion of the issues involved, the students, faculty, staff and administrators of the Ateneo de Naga University support the Alternative Mining Bill (HB0026). This Bill provides for the protection of people and ecosystems from mining activities, ensures sustainability of livelihood and domestic needs, and defines clearly the terms used, preventing misinterpretation, intentional or otherwise. It also prescribes recycling and reuse of metals and other materials now considered wastes, when such can still be remolded for other uses, thereby reducing the need for mining. It further recognizes the persistent danger of acid mine drainage to the ecosystems, to croplands and fishing areas, and to human livelihood, health and survival, as well as the survival of other living organisms. With the no-go zones such as forests, vital watersheds, coral reefs, and seagrass/seaweed beds, the Bill guarantees the sustained replenishment of natural resources for the future generations of humans and other living organisms.

www.adnu.edu.ph

Naga Boy

January 23rd, 2011, 01:50 PM

4th day - Semifinals of Ultimate Wake Championship
by Cam Sur (http://www.facebook.com/camsur)

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This photo speaks a thousand words for the millions of tourists that visited CamSur making it a top tourist destination in Bicol and one of the top three in the Philippines.

Being on the top two last year and top three for the last three years and top five for the last six years- the record debunks the initial perception that CamSur's miraculous success in the field of tourism was a "flash in the pan".

dandyqb

January 23rd, 2011, 04:02 PM

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dandyqb

January 23rd, 2011, 04:13 PM

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jcruze057

January 23rd, 2011, 04:35 PM

matanong ko lang...bakit sa province nyo wala man lang ni isang skyscraper sa downtown nyo?

rhyzrockerz

January 23rd, 2011, 04:50 PM

matanong ko lang...bakit sa province nyo wala man lang ni isang skyscraper sa downtown nyo?

Welcome,Magandang gabi.

sa dahilan malambot daw po ang mga Lupa sa Province namin kaya po wala ka talaga makikitang matataas na building.:):)

Mabalos:):hug::hug::grouphug::grouphug:

Naga City Deck

January 23rd, 2011, 04:58 PM

great pics sir dandy! :banana:

@jcruze057
welcome to our thread! :)

hugodiekonig

January 23rd, 2011, 05:00 PM

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Oh Canada! Terre des nos aieux! Oh yeah!

hakz2007

January 24th, 2011, 02:09 AM

Camarines Sur Polytechnic Colleges-Naga Mech. Eng. Plant Tour
@ Rockford Manufacturing Corp., Laguna
January 11, 2011

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Naga Boy

January 24th, 2011, 02:23 AM

matanong ko lang...bakit sa province nyo wala man lang ni isang skyscraper sa downtown nyo?

I think the main reason why we do not have high rises in Naga City yet because we are a very small city-. the smallest in Bicol according to land area.

We have a population less than 300 thousand.

The highest building in Naga is the PNB building (8 storeys) and is not even filled up with tenants.

We are not ready, I believe for high rises yet.

Who would want to build a white elephant?

But for a small sized city with a little over 200,000 population- we are doing very well economically and infrastructure-wise.

We have already attracted top notch land developers and invested in horizontal developments (subdivisions) like Ayala(Avida), with four subdivisions, Fil- Estate with 5 subdivisions, DMCI Urban 6 subdivisions, Vista-Land (Camella) 3 subdivisions to name a few.

We have already attracted top Mall developers and we have existing SM City, Robinson's Supermarket with Puregold coming in a few months.

For a high rise buildings? I believe it would still take years and years before we see one in Naga City.

Maybe not in my lifetime.

But I could be wrong.

hakz2007

January 24th, 2011, 02:32 AM

CSPC-Naga Mech. Eng. Plant Visit
@ San Roque Dam, Pangasinan
January 12, 2011

Briefing and Orientation by Operations Manager Engr. Medel De Jesus (a former prof. of BUCENG).

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sonofignatius

January 24th, 2011, 02:35 AM

Bermudez reaches wakeboard final
http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=650626&publicationSubCategoryId=69

go, go, pilipinas!

Avenue Square (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Avenue-Square/123445284390256)

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keeping magsaysay awake, alive, enthusiastic :-)

This photo speaks a thousand words for the millions of tourists that visited CamSur making it a top tourist destination in Bicol and one of the top three in the Philippines.

Being on the top two last year and top three for the last three years and top five for the last six years- the record debunks the initial perception that CamSur's miraculous success in the field of tourism was a "flash in the pan".

the crowds speak for camsur. :cheers:
have a wonderful, filling week, everyone!

Naga Boy

January 24th, 2011, 02:38 AM

Sutherland Service Bus
Early this morning

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hakz2007

January 24th, 2011, 02:40 AM

Arroyo seeks stiffer penalties for sea polluters
PAMPANGA Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is pushing for the criminalization of dumping of wastes into the sea, streams and rivers.

Joined by her son Camarines Sur Representative Diosdado Macapagal-Arroyo, House Bill 1579 or the proposed “Anti Sea-Dumping Act of 2010” was seen as an answer to the worsening water pollution in the country.

"Our seas and oceans, which is one of the main sources of food, are slowly losing their once flourishing biodiversity, slowly causing scarcity, which affects not only consumers, but also fishermen and fisher folks who largely depend on their daily catch to make a living," Arroyo said.

The former President cited the case of Great Pacific Ocean Gyre in Northern Pacific, which reportedly caused death to sea creatures through countless ways like ingestion, entanglement and poisoning.

"The Philippines is widely recognized as possessing one of the richest marine sanctuaries in the world. With its bountiful resources, it becomes imperative therefore for each Filipino to take a proactive role in protecting and preserving its natural wealth," Arroyo said, whose bill is still pending at the House committee on ecology.

A waste audit made by EcoWaste Coalition and Greenpeace last year showed that most of the waste recovered from Manila Bay is made up of plastic.

“Of the 728 liters of collected debris, 75.55 percent was composed of plastic discards, mostly plastic bags and polystyrene products. Biodegradables made up a far second at 10.99 percent ; glass, 5.77 percent; metals, 2.2percent; hazardous waste, 1.38 percent; and rubber, .55 percent,” the group said.http://www.sunstar.com.ph/manila/local-news/arroyo-seeks-stiffer-penalties-sea-polluters

hakz2007

January 24th, 2011, 02:42 AM

CSPC-Naga Mech. Eng. Plant Tour
@ San Roque Dam, Pangasinan
January 12, 2011

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hakz2007

January 24th, 2011, 02:43 AM

DOH Rushes to Stop Spread of Diarrhea at Siruma
The Department of Health (DOH) regional office here mobilized its health emergency response team to prevent the further spread of the number of persons who were downed by diarrhea which already claimed one death in a remote village of Siruma town in Camarines Sur.

During a Press conference held at the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) regional office here this morning called by the Regional Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (RDRRMC), Dr. Rose Rempillo of the DOH regional office emergency response team disclosed that a total of 250 persons were initially diagnosed as having been afflicted by diarrhea.

The patients were diagnosed at the DOH field hospital set up in barangay Butawanan an island barangay of Siruma town last Saturday.

Rempillo said that an infant was the first casualty of the water-borne disease while some 450 families or six percent of the 4,000 residents were already affected.

She said that out of the 250 positively diagnosed, 25 were severely affected, 150 moderately affected while 75 were mildly affected.

Rempilo reported that Army soldiers with two of their M35 trucks assisted them in bringing the equipment, medicines and other supplies to Bgy. Butawanan which can only be reached through a long stretch of 12 hours of bad roads from Pili town.

She said the doctors and other health personnel were ferried last Saturday by Air Force helicopters from the Tactical Operations Group 5 of the Philippine Air Force based in this city last Saturday.

Barangay Butawanan has 450 household or more than 4,000 persons.

She pointed out that the barangay water supply was the source of contaminated water which came from an open spring.

She added that the situation is now under control and refused to say that there is already an outbreak. http://voxbikol.com/article/doh-rushes-stop-spread-diarrhea-siruma

Naga Boy

January 24th, 2011, 02:54 AM

For the past 3 years
McVan on the Go @ Magsaysay Ave
will finally be finding a new home
in this part of Naga City.

http://i1009.photobucket.com/albums/af218/rrntcaceres/lastout017.jpg?t=1295833446

It is open from 9 am to 1 am Daily.

With a new permanent building coming
will it finally join the other
24/7 McDonald's in Bichara Centro

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and the 24/7 McDonalds Plaza?

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McDonald's at SM City and E-Mall
are open during mall hours only.

hakz2007

January 24th, 2011, 02:55 AM

Controversy mars Bicol RPOC meet
CAMP Elias Angeles, Pili, Camarines Sur—The monthly conference of the Regional Peace and Order Council held here Friday turned controversial when local newsmen were prevented from covering it for “confidential” reasons.

Naga “Bombo Radyo Philippines” reporter Myra Revilla said they were able to get only some portions of the meeting, including Camarines Sur Gov. Luis Raymund Villafuerte’s plea to include in the agenda the relief of provincial police director Senior Supt. Jonathan V. Ablang.

Villafuerte reportedly supported Resolution No. 14 passed by the League of Municipalities of Camarines Sur urging the relief of Ablang for “incompetence.”

PRO5 director Chief Supt. Cecilio Calleja, Jr. told Villafuerte that Ablang’s relief will undergo due process and that his replacement will be chosen by the governor.

Villafuerte questioned the discrepancy in the Index crime statistics of the province with that of the Police Regional Office 5 report.

Calleja said the regional statistics report include barangay crime incidents in 2009 and 2010.

Ablang, however, said in a radio interview Saturday that the provincial police report covers only the first three quarters of 2009 but these were included in the 2010 report.

The PRO5 report showed Albay led in index crimes for 2010 with 2,308 cases, followed by Masbate (1,495 cases) and Camarines Norte (1,436 cases) and Camarines Sur (1,204 cases).

The PRO5 report showed that the number of index crimes in 2010 was lower by 27.79 percent vis-a-vis 2009. http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php/provincial/26841-controversy-mars-bicol-rpoc-meet.html

hakz2007

January 24th, 2011, 02:55 AM

by IrigaCity CamSur (http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000693295470)

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hakz2007

January 24th, 2011, 02:58 AM

hakz2007

January 24th, 2011, 03:05 AM

Long, winding road ends up a healing pilgrimage
As filmmaker Marilou Diaz-Abaya succinctly puts it, the making of her latest movie “Ikaw ang Pag-Ibig” was a “long and arduous journey.”

It was akin to a pilgrimage—quite fitting, since the film is earmarked for the tri-centennial of the devotion to the Virgin of Peñafrancia (from September 2010 to 2011, in the Archdiocese of Caceres, Naga, Camarines Sur).

“There were many twists and turns in the two-and-a-half years it took to finish the film,” Abaya told Inquirer.

For starters, she had to change her principal cast when lead star Judy Ann Santos got pregnant last year. “I refused to compromise Judy Ann’s health or her baby’s,” Abaya said. “No film is worth risking that. I told Judy Ann that Mama Mary obviously wanted for her to become a real mother, not just onscreen.” The filmmaker also said she was in touch with Judy Ann, and that she was “very happy for her.”

As if that was not enough, Abaya’s investors pulled out and she found herself “writing, directing and producing the movie.” Which wasn’t easy, since she had just emerged from chemotherapy treatments.

Yet she remained upbeat, and “many blessings came, one after another.”

Actors Ina Feleo and Jomari Yllana, who both had personal connections to the story, came on board.

Feleo’s father, actor Johnny Delgado, died of cancer in 2009. (Abaya named Marvin Agustin’s cancer-stricken priest character in the film in honor of Delgado). The Yllanas, on the other hand, are devotees of the Virgin of Peñafrancia, also called “Ina” by the faithful.

Moreover, ABS-CBN and Star Cinema took charge of “the promotions, marketing and distribution of the movie.”

“More and more volunteers, sponsors, benefactors contributed in kind and with funds,” Abaya recounted. “Best of all, our army of prayer warriors increased by the day.”

Cancer survivor, too

The film’s executive producer and champion, Archbishop Leonardo Legaspi, is a cancer survivor himself, said Abaya. “When I started doing research on the script in Naga, I learned that he was undergoing chemotherapy. “He wanted to bring ‘Ina’ to people outside Bicol. I accepted the challenge without hesitation. I volunteered myself and the resources of the Marilou Diaz-Abaya Film Institute and Arts Center.”

When she screened the finished movie with Legaspi and several other guests at ABS-CBN’s Dolphy Theater in Quezon City recently, she ended up watching the audience more than the film.

“It warmed my heart and dissolved all the difficulties of production, just seeing that the audience was attentive and, in face, very much moved,” said Abaya.

She added: “It was a healing pilgrimage for everyone. Greater miracles occur inside us whenever we love selflessly and/or make sacrifices for others.”

Graded “A” by the Cinema Evaluation Board, the movie is endorsed by the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines for viewing in all Catholic schools and universities. It will open in schools and universities on Feb. 9 and in theaters on Feb. 23.http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/entertainment/entertainment/view/20110123-316133/Long-winding-road-ends-up-a-healing-pilgrimage

Naga Boy

January 24th, 2011, 03:08 AM

While Jollibee is lording it all over the Philippines,
it is a wonder why its magic
seem not to be working in Naga City

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Jollibee has only four branches in the City,
compared to five Outlets of McDonald's

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and only one 24/7 Jollibee Store against
the two 24/7 McDonald's.

Does this make the Naguenos less patriotic?

hakz2007

January 24th, 2011, 03:12 AM

@ CWC
January 24, 2011
by Cam Sur (http://www.facebook.com/camsur)

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hakz2007

January 24th, 2011, 03:13 AM

saing munisipyo daw ini na binabanggit na lapa na ang building kan municipal trial court?

Lyrics to amuse
There’s one dinner or lunch that I do not want to miss. Its pull is not the food but the company. The dining cast is made up of Mon, the street-smart executive of the leading telecom company, Noel, the erudite economics professor, Sol, the genius and the most honorable in the group for being a judge, myself, and our attractive, intelligent wives.

We rarely meet as a group, but we make it a point to get together yearly to catch up with one another. Neither can we be compared to ladies who lunch nor to men who enjoy power lunches. We content ourselves with gossip, trivia, and facetious remarks even as a discussion of controversies close to home cannot be avoided.

In our recent dinner, the talk was about our friends in the P-Noy government, our friends in the Left, the sorry state of infrastructure of a municipal circuit trial court in Camarines Sur, honor and excellence in the university, the difference in the corporate culture of Smart and Globe, Mario Miclat’s Secrets of the Eighteen Mansions, R. Kwan Laurel’s Philippine Cultural Disasters, etc.

The topics looked serious and heavy, but mind you, the conversation was animated and humorous. The trick to transform heavy stuff into light matter was to be self-deprecating and to make fun of ourselves as well as our friends.

The long and winding conversation would unsurprisingly return to matters related to writing. This is perhaps unavoidable because one thing that binds us is that for most of our life, we have been writing. The men in the dining group were at one time propagandistas. We were products of the student activism of the early 1970s, which Jose Maria Sison described as the "Second Propaganda Movement."

And so, how can we talk about Miclat’s explosive Secret Mansions without being profound and stiff? Well, treat the work as a novel; anyhow the author claims it’s but a novel. Anyhow, Miclat’s title is catchy in different senses. We thought that if anyone of us would write a novel, we should get inspiration from Miclat’s title. Sol, in fact, has suggested a title for the anticipated publication of the memoirs of a friend outside our dining circle -- another propagandista and known by comrades for being a Casanova. The alluring title: Secrets of the Eighteen Virgins.

Sol is a witty writer. He injects humor into the heavy stuff that he writes. He wants each work he writes to have the beauty of prose. As a judge in a municipal circuit trial court, he has on his desk 200 cases that he must decide upon. It’s not easy to engage in creative writing for judicial decisions. For example, one decision he penned-about a vehicular accident -- stretched to 20 pages, using legal paper with single spacing and a size of 14 points.

Noel remarked that judges and lawyers should be trained to write short, straightforward, and uncomplicated documents. That will help clear the decks, and help prevent justice being delayed. Noel’s suggestion will make judges and lawyers less prone to committing plagiarism, for they no longer have to pretend to be scholarly and learned.

But Sol is not the average writer. As I said, he is a genius; excelling in writing is in his blood.

To assure Noel that doing creative writing does not eat up time that could have been used to pen more decisions, Sol said he has a kodigo or a list of attractive quotations, especially from famous singers, that he oftentimes uses to write his cases.

Take this line from Elton John’s "Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word":

It’s sad, so sad
It’s a sad, sad situation
And it’s getting more and more absurd
It’s sad, so sad
Why can’t we talk it over
Oh it seems to me
That sorry seems to be the hardest word

Or from the Beatles:

Life is very short
And there’s no time --
For fussing and fighting, my friend.
x x x
We can work it out,
We can work it out.

That Sol, the lawyer, has become adept at using popular lyrics to embellish his writings led Noel, the economist, to think whether he could pull off an essay using Lady Gaga’s "Poker Face."

One economist who is good at quoting the Beatles for scholarly papers is Butch Montes. A paper on taxation? Butch quotes "Taxman." Noel also recalls how Butch introduced econometrics to students by using the Beatles’ lyrics:

I say high, you say low
You say why and I say I don’t know

Being a fan of the Beatles, I’m familiar with the their lyrics. I have found a Fab Four passage that I can use to comment about a current event. It also comes from "Hello Goodbye," from which Butch picked a line to describe econometrics.

For this opinion piece, the original topic that I would have written about concerns the decision of the Commission on Elections to open a new investigation on the 2004 election fraud, also known as "Hello Garci."

What more can I say about it, apart from saying yes to the investigation? But thanks to the suggestion of friends that cropped up over dinner, I opt to sing and quote the Beatles:

You say stop and I say go, go, go
Oh, no
You say goodbye and I say hello

Hello, Garci (and GMA). Hello goodbye. Bilibid will welcome you soon. http://www.bworldonline.com/content.php?id=24976

hakz2007

January 24th, 2011, 03:15 AM

@ CWC
January 24, 2011
by Cam Sur (http://www.facebook.com/camsur)

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hakz2007

January 24th, 2011, 03:16 AM

British kid keeps lead in wakeboarding

MANILA, Philippines - Teen sensation Daniel Grant of Great Britain held off former world champion Tom Foshee of the US to keep the lead in the men’s professional wakeboarding event in the 2011 Ultimate Wake Championnship at the Camsur Watersports Complex in Pili, Camarines Sur.

The 13-year-old Grant, a Briton with Thai roots, scored 97.50 points and stayed one point ahead of the more experienced Foshee, the 2008 and 2009 champion from Texas, after the semifinals.

German Dominic Guehrs joined Foshee in second by coming up with 96.50 points.

American Cody Johnson came in third with 94.50 going into the final phase of the event organized by Camarines Sur Gov. LRay Villafuerte.

Israeli Lior Sofer registered a 92.50 while South Korean Kim Yong-Il, American Julian Cohen and Australian Matty Hasler posted scores of 91, 87 and 86, respectively.

Foshee, however, stamped his class in the pro obstacles category, posting 100 for a six-point lead over Grant, who had 94. Cohen and Kim shared third with 92 points apiece.

In women’s wakeskate event, American Jennifer Gilanfarr towed the field with an impressive 76.67, way ahead of RP bet Tynna Rosero, who had a 60. Other RP entries Jenette Beltran and Dianna de Castro ran into some trouble and managed only 43.33 and 26.67, respectively, going into the finals.

Rosero though was satisfied with her effort and looked forward to a better stint in the finals.

“Right now there are only few of us doing this professionally in this sport but I think wakeskating for women is starting to develop,” she said.

The Philippines is the last stop of the World Wakeboard Association (WWA) World Series 2010, the only international event where riders compete in the boat, cable and System 2.0 winch disciplines.

Nieuwegein, The Netherlands kicked off the series last June, before heading to Hamburg, Germany and Antalaya, Turkey.

Riders earn points based on technical versatility and trick difficulty, with the highest scorer bagging the overall wake championship.

The event’s eight categories feature the pro men, junior men, pro wakeskate, open women, obstacles, open women wakeskate, CWC rail park contest and the CamSur Rider’s Cup.http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=650913&publicationSubCategoryId=69

hakz2007

January 24th, 2011, 03:21 AM

@ Camarines Sur Water Sports Complex
January 24, 2011
by Cam Sur (http://www.facebook.com/camsur)

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Naga Boy

January 24th, 2011, 03:22 AM

Breakfast, anyone?

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with the Starbucks Naga always fully booked
...our only consolation is
we can order coffee to go:)

hakz2007

January 24th, 2011, 03:26 AM

@ Camarines Sur Water Sports Complex
January 24, 2011
by Cam Sur (http://www.facebook.com/camsur)

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Naga Boy

January 24th, 2011, 03:32 AM

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Is he from UP?:lol:

hakz2007

January 24th, 2011, 03:34 AM

^^The oblation monument in flesh :lol:

sonofignatius

January 24th, 2011, 03:43 AM

British kid keeps lead in wakeboarding
http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=650913&publicationSubCategoryId=69

this kid, daniel grant, must have been born on a wakeboard!

@ Camarines Sur Water Sports Complex
January 24, 2011
by Cam Sur (http://www.facebook.com/camsur)

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even this good nun left the confines of her convent to enjoy cwc! bistado ko ini si sister. hale pa ining manila :-) many priests and religious (vocations directors) are in naga now for the annual Vocations Week in Caceres and the Ateneo de Naga.

many of them will come back feb 18-20 for the singles for xt intl conf.

For the past 3 years
McVan on the Go @ Magsaysay Ave
will finally be finding a new home
in this part of Naga City.

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It is open from 9 am to 1 pm Daily.

With a new permanent building coming
will it finally join the other
24/7 McDonald's in Bichara Centro

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and the 24/7 McDonalds Plaza?

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McDonald's at SM City and E-Mall
are open during mall hours only.

you mean, until 1AM, doc :-) in my last naga visit, i and my minions :-) went to magsaysay at midnite looking for spaghetti and mcdo saved us! :banana::banana:

While Jollibee is lording it all over the Philippines,
it is a wonder why its magic
seem not to be working in Naga City

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Jollibee has only four branches in the City,
compared to five Outlets of McDonald's

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and only one 24/7 Jollibee Store against
the two 24/7 McDonald's.

Does this make the Naguenos less patriotic?

certainly not less patriotic. perhaps Naguenos simply say in their heart of hearts: LOve ko 'to! :cheers:

mas masiram man nanggad talaga ang mcdo hehehe :-) fries, cheeseburger, spaghetti.

Naga Boy

January 24th, 2011, 03:48 AM

you mean, until 1AM, doc :-) in my last naga visit, i and my minions :-) went to magsaysay at midnite looking for spaghetti and mcdo saved us! :banana::banana:

Yes 9 am to 1 am.

Thanks for the correction Father Xave.:)

dandyqb

January 24th, 2011, 04:00 AM

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hakz2007

January 24th, 2011, 04:16 AM

^^biristado palan ni Xave an mga madre na nagdadaralan sa CWC :okay:

you mean, until 1AM, doc :-) in my last naga visit, i and my minions :-) went to magsaysay at midnite looking for spaghetti and mcdo saved us! :banana::banana:

certainly not less patriotic. perhaps Naguenos simply say in their heart of hearts: LOve ko 'to! :cheers:

mas masiram man nanggad talaga ang mcdo hehehe :-) fries, cheeseburger, spaghetti.

I think McDonald's here in the Philippines is 100% Filipino owned. It was featured back then in Rated K hosted by Ms. Korina Sanchez-Roxas.

hakz2007

January 24th, 2011, 04:25 AM

Conference on language and education in Bicol
MANILA, Philippines—Long before 2009, Department of Education and local government officials in Kabikolan (Region 5) were already preparing the ground for a shift to mother tongue based-multilingual education (MTBMLE).

They had no choice. Bicol children were just not learning enough of the required competencies under the old bilingual setup. According to a functional literacy survey in the area, two out of 10 persons didn’t know how to count. Four in 10 did not understand what they were reading. Children were dropping out of schools at an alarming rate and were faring poorly in the national tests.

In 2008, Dr. Orfelina Tuy and her team gathered teachers, supervisors and illustrators from all the 13 divisions to a “write-shop” in Guinobatan, Albay. They were directed to create as many stories in the mother tongue for pre-school and Grade 1 children and to prepare lesson plans to accompany the stories.

The original intention was to develop materials only in the Bicol-Naga/Legazpi dialect. But many of the representatives insisted that they write in their own languages, like in Bicol-Ligao and Bicol-Sorsogon. Fortunately, they were allowed to do so.

To improve the teachers’ skills in beginning reading, the DepEd sought the help of Dr. Fely Pado and Dr. Nemah Hermosa of the University of the Philippines who are from Naga City and Masbate, respectively.

For the printing and reproduction of their “Big Books,” DepEd Bicol got a P3.2 million grant from the government of Spain. The Naga City government under pro-MTBMLE Mayor Jesse Robredo also provided support. To date, DepEd Region 5 has 335 ready-to-use titles in Camarines Sur, Albay and Sorsogon provinces.

The launching of these books will be one of the highlights of the 2011 Kabikolan Conference on Language and Education at the La Piazza Hotel and Convention Center, Legazpi City on Feb. 24 to 26. With the theme “Edukasyon pauswagon, sadiring tataramon an gamiton” (Use the mother tongue to improve education), the event is Bicol’s way of celebrating Unesco’s International Mother Language Day.

There is a call for papers on teaching demonstrations and workshops on early childhood care and development; beginning reading and writing in the mother tongue; developing instructional materials for MTBMLE; arts, music and literature in basic education; teaching science, mathematics and social studies in the first language; mobilizing the LGUs for education reform; community based education and alternative learning systems; and language, culture and environmental stability.

The deadline for submission of abstracts or proposals is on Feb. 4, 2011. The notification of acceptance is on Feb. 9, and the submission of full papers is on Feb. 16.

Poster presentations of original and unpublished Bicol folklore—stories, legends, riddles, proverbs, songs, rhymes and popular beliefs—will also be accepted. There will also be a food festival and an international mother language day concert by young local artists.

You may register in advance until Feb. 22 either online (www.mlephilippines.org) or in person at the DepEd Region 5, Rawis, Legazpi through Dr. Regi Vibar or at the Bicol University Language Center through Dr. Angela Lorenzana. There will be no onsite registration. The conference fee is P2,500 for regular participants and P1,800 for students. The fee does not cover accommodation.

The conference organizers are DepEd Region 5, 170+Talaytayan MLE Incorporated, the Bicol University Language Center, Naga City Governance Institute and the An Banwa: Kultura boda Artes kan Tabaco. The conference chair is DepEd Region 5 OIC Director Dr. Orfelina Tuy. The co-chair is Dr. Angela Lorenzana of Bicol University.

According to Doctor Vibar, MTBMLE regional coordinator, DepEd Region 5 is organizing this summer a full-scale training program for some 100 teachers in the pioneer MTBMLE schools. These schools will implement MTBMLE beginning June 2011. Regional achievement tests in the local languages will be conducted in these pioneer schools at the end of the year. In 2013, the third graders will be taking the national tests in their language.

Vibar also said that seven representatives from their region have been attending the ongoing 4-phase national workshop for MTBMLE trainers. The first two phases, on MTBMLE orientation, pedagogy and enhancement of teaching strategies, were conducted in Tagaytay City and Iloilo City. The third phase will be conducted in Zamboanga City from Jan. 26 to Feb. 4 and will concentrate on materials development. A “demo-fest” of the crafted stories and primers made by each of the regions will cap the event. The fourth phase will be held in Legazpi City.

Coinciding with training in Zamboanga City is an education stakeholders’ forum on Feb. 4 at the Campion Hall of the Ateneo de Zamboanga University. Organized by Dean Aireen Barrios-Arnuco and Prof. Claribel Concepcion, the forum seeks to heighten awareness on the initiatives on mother language promotion, instruction and research in Western Mindanao. Representative and Deputy Majority Leader Maria Isabelle Climaco-Salazar will be keynoting the affair. Save the Children, which has been championing the cause for

MTBMLE with the DepEd in South Central Mindanao, has been invited to share its experiences. A film on language endangerment will also be shown.

Ricardo Ma. Duran Nolasco, PhD (rnolasco_upmin@yahoo.com) is an associate professor in linguistics in UP Diliman and is the president of the 170+ Talaytayan MLE Incorporated.
http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view/20110121-315828/Conference-on-language-and-education-in-Bicol

hakz2007

January 24th, 2011, 04:38 AM

Huling yugto ng international ultimate wake championships ginanap ngayon sa water sports complex ng Camsur
PILI, Camarines Sur, (PIA) – Simula kahapon inumpisahan na ang International Ultimate Wake championships sa tinagurian the best park in the world, ang Camarines Sur Water Sports Complex o CWC.

Ang Ultimate Wake championships nah ling pagtatapos ng World Asian o world series 2010 na sumaklaw ng tatlong bahagi ng wake sports: Boat, Cable at System 20 winch ha wala sa ibang bahagi ng mundo kundi ditto lang sa CWC ng Lalawigan ng Camarines Sur.

Maraming mga International Riders ang sumali ayun sa naging inbitasyon na ipinarating ni Gobernador LRay Villafuerte bilang bahagi sa Eco Tourism ng pamahalaan panglalawigan ng Camarines Sur.

Matatandaan na ang ultimate wake championships nagsimula noong nakaraang Hunyo 201 sa Netherlands, sumunod sa Hamburg, Germany hanggang sa Antalaya, Turkey at ang huling yugto ditto sa probinsya ng Camarines Sur.

Ang lumahok na manlalaro ay mula pa sa 11 bansa kasali na ditto ang Pilipinas ang sumali sa kompetisyon na magtatagisan sa ibat-ibang category na tatanggap ng pinakamalaking premyo sa nasabing laro. http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r05&id=13027

hakz2007

January 24th, 2011, 04:39 AM

DOLE Bicol nakapagtala ng 16,544 bagong trabaho sa rehiyon noong 2010
Umabot sa 16, 544 ang naitalang nagkaroon ng trabaho noong nakaraang taon at itinuring itong isa sa pinakamalaking nagawa ng Department of Labor and Employment sa Bicol noong nakaraang taon.

Ayon kay Atty. Alvin Villamor, DOLE Bicol regional director, mas paiigtingin pa ng opisina ang mga programa at stratehiya ng opisina para makapagbigay pa ng mas maraming trabaho sa mga Bicolano, kaugnay an rin ng hangarin ni Pangulong Aquino ng magkaroon ng trabaho ang mamamayang Filipino.

Inihayag ni Villamor na karamihan sa mga bagong 16,544 nagkaroon ng trabaho at nasa loob lamang ng rehiyon, sa anim na lalawigan nito.

Kabilang dito ang 962 sa Albay; 2,250 sa Camarines Norte; 4,505 sa Camarines Sur: 5,611 sa Catanduanes; 3,173 sa Sorsogon; at 43 sa Masbate.

Sa tala ng DOLE Bicol ay mas maraming mga nagtrabaho sa loob lamang ng rehiyon kumpara sa mga nagtrabaho sa ibayong dagat.

Ang mga bakanteng trabaho na naitala ng DOLE Bicol ay umabot sa 16,717, samantalang umabot lamang sa 15,466 ang mga nag-apply. Mas mataas ang bilang ng mga bakanteng trabaho, subalit dahil sa skills mismatch at cultural attributes na malapit sa kanilang mga pamilya ang nais ng mga Bicolano, kaya hindi napunan ang iba pang mga bakanteng trabaho.

“Sa kasalukuyang taon ay inumpisahan na rin ng DOLE Bicol ang pakikipag-ugnayan sa mga kumpanya mula sa Laguna, Metro Cebu and Metro Manila para sa mga Jobs Fair at specialized recruitment kung saan mas malapit ang kanilang mga mapagtatrabahuhan.,” ayon kay Villamor.

“Tinatayang mas marami pang mga Bicolano ang nais mabigyan ng trabaho ng DOLE Bicol ngayong taon at bilang umpisa ay target nito ang 20,000. Kung sakaling kailangan pang dagdagan ay marapat munang pag-aralan ng opisina,” ayon pa sa hepe ng haensiya. http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r05&id=13028

hakz2007

January 24th, 2011, 04:50 AM

http://www.cwcwake.com/images/espw-promo/espw_promo.jpg

http://www.cwcwake.com/images/espw-promo/espw_details.jpg

Source - www.cwcwake.com

hakz2007

January 24th, 2011, 04:54 AM

@ CWC
January 21, 2011
by Camsur Events (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Camsur-Events/125329360837645)

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hakz2007

January 24th, 2011, 05:00 AM

lOzzYmRBd14

Naga Boy

January 24th, 2011, 05:55 AM

Last Customer Out

Yesterday(Sunday), at 6:30 PM, I was the last customer out
At the Citi Hardware Naga
(that closes at exactly the same time I arrived)
To return a defective product we bought earlier.

http://i1009.photobucket.com/albums/af218/rrntcaceres/lastout023.jpg?t=1295844002

No picture could describe the massiveness
of this Home Depot that gave the Naguenos
and the rest of Bicol
a one Stop to Shop for home improvement needs.

http://i1009.photobucket.com/albums/af218/rrntcaceres/lastout024.jpg?t=1295844059

Last Costumer In

Last night (Sunday), at 8:55 I was the last costumer in
at SM City Naga (the mall closes at 9 PM)
I came to check our employees before closing the Endolab.

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The 4 level parking was still full up to the topmost floor...

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...and just few munites before closing on a Sunday evening...

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...I still found it difficult to find a parking space.

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There was still a lot of people inside.

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But after 9 PM- the exodus out began...

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hakz2007

January 24th, 2011, 06:51 AM

Awarding of Ultimate Wake Championship 2011
by Cam Sur (http://www.facebook.com/camsur)

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hakz2007

January 24th, 2011, 06:52 AM

DILG Sec. Robredo, kapit tuko sa pwesto, pagdimitir hinurot
NAGA CITY - Ipinagpangapodan ngonyan can gobernador kan provenciang si El Rey Villafuerte an dagos ng pagpapatalsik sa pwesto ki DILG Sec. Jesse Robredo.

Segun sa gobernador, an padagos na paglangkaw sa mga insidente nin carnapping asin kriminalidad sa nasyon malinaw na pagpapahiling na mayo ining liderato sa laog mismo kan DILG.

Dugang pa soboot kaini, iyu an dai mapoho poho na operasyon can iligal na sugal na hueteng siring pa an makasupog na Manila hostage crisis kan nagtalikod na taon.

Dagdag pa can gobernador, kapit-tuko soboot si Robredo ta an designasyon kani acting capacity alagad habu na maghilig dawa risado an kaluyahan sa pagmanihar sa ahencia.

An pagbanat ni Villafuerte kontra kay Robredo, giraray naglataw kasunod kan isyung pagpapasikad sa pwesto sa Provincial Director na si Police Senior Supt. Jonathan Ablang ni Gobernador Villafuerte sa Cam Sur Provincial Director na pig oolang ni DILG Sec. Robredo.http://bomboradyo.com/index.php/news/regional-news/bicolano-news/37514-dilg-sec-robredo-kapit-tuko-sa-pwesto-pagdimitir-hinurot

hakz2007

January 24th, 2011, 06:53 AM

Awarding of Ultimate Wake Championship 2011
by Cam Sur (http://www.facebook.com/camsur)

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hakz2007

January 24th, 2011, 06:54 AM

Mga residente sa 6 brgy. sa Iriga, nangangamba sa pagbagsak ng malaking bato mula Mt. Asog
NAGA CITY - Natatakot ang mga residente sa anim na mga barangay sa lungsod ng Iriga dahil sa posibleng pagbagsak ng napakalaking bato kung magpapatuloy pa ang malakas na pag-ulan.

Ang naturang bato ay nasa tuktok umano ng Mt. Asog na pinangangambahang gugulong sa mga barangay ng San Nicolas, Perpetual Help, Santiago, Santa Elena., Sto. domingo, Antipolo at iba pa.

Kinumpirma naman ang sitwasyong ito ng Mines and Geosciences Bureau.

Samantala, napag-alaman ng Bombo Radyo Naga na mayroon ng isang napakalaking hukay na ginawa ang city goverment na siyang babagsakan ng naturang napakalaking bato sakaling tuluyan ng bumigay ang lupang kinalalagyan nito.

Ayon kay City Mayor Madelyn Alfelor Gazmen, ang kanilang lugar ay landslide prone area dahil malapit ang kanilang lokasyon sa bundok at mga ilog.http://bomboradyo.com/index.php/news/more-news/37541-mga-residente-sa-6-brgy-sa-iriga-nangangamba-sa-pagbagsak-ng-malaking-bato-mula-mt-asog

hakz2007

January 24th, 2011, 06:56 AM

^^gastronomic galore :cheers:

Naga Boy

January 24th, 2011, 07:04 AM

http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/7411/magsaysay001.jpg

Yellow Cab Naga now offers Solo Size meals
(half the size from their original really huge servings)

hakz2007

January 24th, 2011, 07:24 AM

Naga Boy

January 24th, 2011, 07:47 AM

We can also discuss and post news updates and photos regarding projects and constructions in Naga and Camarines Sur in the international thread for Camarines Sur - CAMARINES SUR | Projects & Construction (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1307657) :cheers:

Please support this thread :okay:

^^
Pancake House and Seattle's Best Coffee- soon in Magsaysay.

Central Bank and Convention Center, now rising, Roxas Ave.

Puregold, Roxas Ave (formerly Robertson Mall- to be vacated before May)

Medical Center Naga (NICC Doctor's Hospital) Roxas Ave

Bicol Access Health Centrum General Hospital and Medical Center) CBD2

Seven 7-Eleven stores all over Naga City and one Ministop in Magsaysay.

And coming from reliable sources:

Ayala's Pueblo (announced by Mr. Obiedo, owner of Robertson Mall during a radio interview and I was also able to talk to him personally- they are under negotiation and advised to just wait for the official press statement)

Robinson's Naga (according to Mr. Edwin Magno of RLC, Manila) they are negotiating two properties in Naga: with the developer of CBD 2 and another in Roxas Ave., from a broker.

For the last two projects let us just wait for their official press release and maybe from Mayor John Bongat's State of the City Address.

And lastly, according the SM Prime Management in Naga- Savemore Market Naga.

hakz2007

January 24th, 2011, 07:53 AM

^^Doc, paki-post na lang po yan duman...thanks po :cheers:

oragon.com

January 24th, 2011, 09:22 AM

unfamiliar sight
Naga City trash bins @ Plaza Rizal

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NOVO ECIJANO

January 24th, 2011, 09:37 AM

Pwede ba si LRay na lang ang presidente natin instead of Noynoy.

oragon.com

January 24th, 2011, 09:46 AM

SM City Naga
Free Movie Showing

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oragon.com

January 24th, 2011, 09:53 AM

Congratulations!!!

Team Cam Sur

Team Events - CHAMPIONS

Basketball Men

Volleyball Women

Tennis Men

Table Tennis Men

Table Tennis Women

Chess Men

Chess Women

Held last January 21 - 23 at Sorsogon City

GO CAM SUR!!!

hakz2007

January 24th, 2011, 10:05 AM

UWC Awarding Night
by Republ1c Wake (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Republ1c-Wake/104158622950675)

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hakz2007

January 24th, 2011, 10:06 AM

Pwede ba si LRay na lang ang presidente natin instead of Noynoy.

tatakbo siyang Senador sa 2013 :okay:

Congratulations!!!

Team Cam Sur

Team Events - CHAMPIONS

Basketball Men

Volleyball Women

Tennis Men

Table Tennis Men

Table Tennis Women

Chess Men

Chess Women

Held last January 21 - 23 at Sorsogon City

GO CAM SUR!!!

yung sa PRISAA ito, Pao?

hakz2007

January 24th, 2011, 10:11 AM

UWC Awarding Night
by Republ1c Wake (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Republ1c-Wake/104158622950675)

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hakz2007

January 24th, 2011, 10:13 AM

hakz2007

January 24th, 2011, 10:15 AM

UWC Awarding Night
by Republ1c Wake (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Republ1c-Wake/104158622950675)

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oragon.com

January 24th, 2011, 10:20 AM

tatakbo siyang Senador sa 2013 :okay:
yung sa PRISAA ito, Pao?

yes sir! regional PRISAA, the nationals will be in Manila this February, last year Zamboanga and 2009 here in Naga City. Team Cam Sur also won in swimming, athletics.

hakz2007

January 24th, 2011, 10:21 AM

Ultimate Wake Rider Event Pics
by Republ1c Wake (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Republ1c-Wake/104158622950675)

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hakz2007

January 24th, 2011, 10:22 AM

yes sir! regional PRISAA, the nationals will be in Manila this February, last year Zamboanga and 2009 here in Naga City. Team Cam Sur also won in swimming, athletics.

Congrats to our team. Hope they win in the Nationals :cheers:

hakz2007

January 24th, 2011, 10:25 AM

Ultimate Wake Rider Event Pics
by Republ1c Wake (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Republ1c-Wake/104158622950675)

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rhyzrockerz

January 24th, 2011, 10:27 AM

this kid, daniel grant, must have been born on a wakeboard!

even this good nun left the confines of her convent to enjoy cwc! bistado ko ini si sister. hale pa ining manila :-) many priests and religious (vocations directors) are in naga now for the annual Vocations Week in Caceres and the Ateneo de Naga.

many of them will come back feb 18-20 for the singles for xt intl conf.

you mean, until 1AM, doc :-) in my last naga visit, i and my minions :-) went to magsaysay at midnite looking for spaghetti and mcdo saved us! :banana::banana:

certainly not less patriotic. perhaps Naguenos simply say in their heart of hearts: LOve ko 'to! :cheers:

mas masiram man nanggad talaga ang mcdo hehehe :-) fries, cheeseburger, spaghetti.

Yes 9 am to 1 am.

Thanks for the correction Father Xave.:)

mas barato pa kaya sa mcdo.:):)
pangmasa ang presyo ninda.

hakz2007

January 24th, 2011, 10:27 AM

Ultimate Wake Rider Event Pics
by Republ1c Wake (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Republ1c-Wake/104158622950675)

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hakz2007

January 24th, 2011, 10:29 AM

Ultimate Wake Rider Event Pics
by Republ1c Wake (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Republ1c-Wake/104158622950675)

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hakz2007

January 24th, 2011, 10:30 AM

mas barato pa kaya sa mcdo.:):)
pangmasa ang presyo ninda.

mas masiram pa man nanggad an burger sa Jollibee :okay:

hakz2007

January 24th, 2011, 10:32 AM

Ultimate Wake Rider Event Pics
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hakz2007

January 24th, 2011, 10:37 AM

CamSur offers scholarship to IT students and professionals
PILI, Camarines Sur, Jan 24 (PIA)--- The local government of Camarines Sur, after its pioneering effort to establish an information hub in the province and employing its constituents, now opens its door to qualified IT students and professionals for a five-month intensive training in Makati.

The good news was announced by the Camarines Sur Employment Center (CSEC) after successfully getting the nod of the Advance World Systems (AWS) for a scholarship grant to qualified partakers. Fortunate trainees will be selected thru a recruitment activity which will be conducted on January 26 at the Camarines Sur Trade and Investment Center , BMC Road , Panganiban Drive , Naga City .

The said opportunity is open to all graduating IT students or graduates of a 4 or 5 –year related courses such as CS, CoE, MIS, IT and ECE. Engineering graduates and those who were able to complete their science courses like Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and related courses are also encouraged to try their luck.

Applicants who have a basic know how on C/C++ or Java Programming, Open Source Technologies, Web Programming, MS Net, Visual Basic, Assembly or TCP/IP programming will have better edge to pass the screening.

All qualified scholars will have their intensive training at AWS Center for Technology Incubation (ACTION) where general IT Concepts will be discussed by experienced IT instructors, including the latest technologies and innovations in information technology, business basic , including Japanese language.

This opportunity was designed by the provincial government of Camarines Sur to enhance the skills of IT students and Professionals and groom them to become AWS engineers. The training will also balance the IT enthusiast’s learning and help them adapt to the current trend in the information industry.

Interested participants may call the CSEC at telephone numbers (054) 477-5858 or (054) 477-7468. They may personally visit the CSEC office located at the 2nd floor of the Capitol Main Building , Capitol Complex, at Cadlan, Pili, Camarines Sur.http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=1&t=1&id=13152

hakz2007

January 24th, 2011, 10:39 AM

Eco-Merge to Invest in Four Solar Power Facilities
Eco-Merge Philippines, a Filipino-Japanese venture group, plans to invest P 7.4 billion for solar power facilities in the country during the next three year period. According to Edgar Morada, President of Eco-Merge, the company was planning to set up solar facilities at four areas, Zamboanga, Agusan del Norte, Negros Occidental and Camarines Sur.

These projects would generate a total of 41 MW of power. He further noted that a company would have to invest $3 to $4 million to generate 1 MW of electricity from solar resources and hence for generating 41 MW the company would be investing P 7.4 billion or $164 million. He also mentioned that solar investment was only a start as the company’s goal was renewable energy and had plans of diversifying their Renewable Energy (RE) portfolio.

The first project was to be the installation at Camarines Sur as Camsur’s Governor was offering a lot of cooperation for the RE venture and was also hoping that Camsur would be the first green province in the country. The 11 MW Camsur Solar Project would also involve the Provincial Government. The electricity generated would be purchased by the Camsur Watersports Complex (CWC). Morada disclosed that feasibility studies were to be conducted by Snowy Mountain Engineering (SMEC), and they would also provide engineering consultancy services. SMEC, which is an Australian-based company has been providing its services for giants such as Aboitiz Power and First Gen for a long time and was also one of the pioneering engineering and development consultancy firms especially in the field of new and renewable energy.

Eco-Merge plans on conducting a ground-breaking ceremony on the 11th of November, 2011, for the Camsur Project and estimates that commercial operations would begin six months after i.e. in 2012. Currently, the country’s biggest solar facility was a 1 MW plant operated by the Cagayan Electric Power & Light Company.http://www.azocleantech.com/Details.asp?newsID=13838

oragon.com

January 24th, 2011, 10:48 AM

CAMSUR EVENT: Teen star leads ‘wake’ tourney
Jasmine W. Payo
First Posted 01:56:48 22/01/2011

PILI, CAMARINES SUR—Top international riders put their versatility to test in the 2011 Ultimate Wake Championship this weekend at the Camsur Watersports Complex here.

Former world champion Tom Foshee of the United States and 13-year-old sensation Daniel Grant, of British and Thai roots, lead the favorites in the tournament pitting riders in all three major disciplines of the extreme water sport.

“There are still tricks that I want to do,” said Grant, the Asian Wakefest 2010 champion listed as the youngest competitor in the pro division.

“It’s kind of scary in some ways to compete with the older guys, but it’s also fun.”

The Philippines is the last stop of the World Wakeboard Association (WWA) World Series 2010, the only international event where riders switch it up among the boat, cable and System 2.0 winch disciplines.

Nieuwegein, Netherlands kicked off the series last June, before heading to Hamburg, Germany and Antalaya, Turkey.

Riders earn points based on technical versatility and trick difficulty, with the highest scorer bagging the overall wake championship.

“This is the most prestigious event in the sport and we are proud to be hosting it for three consecutive years now,” said Camsur Gov. Lray Villafuerte of the tournament dangling a total prize money of $82,000.

Foshee, the 2008 and 2009 champion from Texas, remains a standout among riders from 30 countries together with Israel’s Lior Sofer, Canada’s Chad Sharpe and France’s Leo Labadens.

The event’s eight categories feature the pro men, junior men, pro wakeskate, open women, obstacles, open women wakeskate, CWC rail park contest and the CamSur Rider’s Cup.

http://inquirer.net/sports/articles/CAMSUR-EVENT

oragon.com

January 24th, 2011, 10:50 AM

Wakeskating: 3 more PH ladies reach Camsur finals
Jasmine W. Payo
First Posted 12:52:22 24/01/2011

PILI, CAMARINES SUR—Flaunting a repertoire of tricks, teen star Daniel Grant and former world champion Tom Fooshee stayed in the hunt for the wakeboarding crown while three Philippine bets advanced to the women’s wakeskate finals yesterday in the 2011 Ultimate Wake Championship at the Camsur Watersports Complex here.

Grant, the 13-year-old Asian Wakefest 2010 winner, garnered the highest score of 97.50 percent in the semifinal heats to join the United States’ Fooshee (96.50) and six others in the cable division championship of the men’s professional wakeboarding.

Filipinas Tynna Rosero, Jenette Beltran and Dianna De Castro came behind top semifinal performer Jennifer Gilanfarr of the United States (76.67 percent) to clinch title slots in women’s wakeskate.

“I’m just glad that I qualified,” said Grant, a Year 8 student who has British and Thai roots. “I look up to everybody here.”

Rosero, a hometown bet from Camaligan, led the Filipino contenders with a score of 60 percent, followed by Beltran (43.33) and De Castro (26.67) in the event organized by the World Wakeboard Association (WWA).

“Right now there are only few of us Filipinos competing professionally in this sport,” said the 28-year-old Rosero. “But I think wakeskating for women is starting to develop.”

The trio advanced a day after national team member Samantha Bermudez reached the women’s professional wakeboarding championship by scoring a perfect 100 in the semifinals.

Bermudez, a comely 24-year-old, is set to represent the Philippines in the inaugural wakeboarding event of the Southeast Asian Games this November in Jakarta.

Other riders who joined Grant and Fooshee in the finals were Israel’s Lior Sofer (92.50), the United Stattes’ Cody Johsnon (94.50) and Julian Cohen (87.0), Australia’s Matty Hasler (86.0), Germany’s Dominic Guehrs (96.50) and South Korea’s Kim Yong-Il (91.0).

Edwin Tipones, the last Filipino wakeboarder standing, failed to advance after garnering the lowest score of 70 in the semifinal heats.

Grant and Fooshee also reached the title round along with two others in the pro obstacles category of the extreme water sport tournament that gathered over 80 of the best professional riders in the world.

The 26-year-old Fooshee, the 2008 and 2009 champion from Austin, Texas, earned a perfect 100 in the obstacle semifinals, followed by Grant (94.0), Cohen (92.0) and Yong-Il (92.0).

In the junior men division, Germany’s Nick Lewis also picked up a 100 in his semifinal run to lead championship qualifiers Jason Colborne of South Africa (95.50), Israel’s Idan Mizrahi (90.50) and Denmark’s Oliver Breumland (90.0).

http://inquirer.net/sports/articles/Wakeskating

oragon.com

January 24th, 2011, 11:00 AM

Long, winding road ends up a healing pilgrimage

By Bayani San Diego Jr.
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 15:48:00 01/23/2011

As filmmaker Marilou Diaz-Abaya succinctly puts it, the making of her latest movie “Ikaw ang Pag-Ibig” was a “long and arduous journey.”

It was akin to a pilgrimage—quite fitting, since the film is earmarked for the tri-centennial of the devotion to the Virgin of Peñafrancia (from September 2010 to 2011, in the Archdiocese of Caceres, Naga, Camarines Sur).

“There were many twists and turns in the two-and-a-half years it took to finish the film,” Abaya told Inquirer.

For starters, she had to change her principal cast when lead star Judy Ann Santos got pregnant last year. “I refused to compromise Judy Ann’s health or her baby’s,” Abaya said. “No film is worth risking that. I told Judy Ann that Mama Mary obviously wanted for her to become a real mother, not just onscreen.” The filmmaker also said she was in touch with Judy Ann, and that she was “very happy for her.”

As if that was not enough, Abaya’s investors pulled out and she found herself “writing, directing and producing the movie.” Which wasn’t easy, since she had just emerged from chemotherapy treatments.

Yet she remained upbeat, and “many blessings came, one after another.”

Actors Ina Feleo and Jomari Yllana, who both had personal connections to the story, came on board.

Feleo’s father, actor Johnny Delgado, died of cancer in 2009. (Abaya named Marvin Agustin’s cancer-stricken priest character in the film in honor of Delgado). The Yllanas, on the other hand, are devotees of the Virgin of Peñafrancia, also called “Ina” by the faithful.

Moreover, ABS-CBN and Star Cinema took charge of “the promotions, marketing and distribution of the movie.”

“More and more volunteers, sponsors, benefactors contributed in kind and with funds,” Abaya recounted. “Best of all, our army of prayer warriors increased by the day.”

Cancer survivor, too

The film’s executive producer and champion, Archbishop Leonardo Legaspi, is a cancer survivor himself, said Abaya. “When I started doing research on the script in Naga, I learned that he was undergoing chemotherapy. “He wanted to bring ‘Ina’ to people outside Bicol. I accepted the challenge without hesitation. I volunteered myself and the resources of the Marilou Diaz-Abaya Film Institute and Arts Center.”

When she screened the finished movie with Legaspi and several other guests at ABS-CBN’s Dolphy Theater in Quezon City recently, she ended up watching the audience more than the film.

“It warmed my heart and dissolved all the difficulties of production, just seeing that the audience was attentive and, in face, very much moved,” said Abaya.

She added: “It was a healing pilgrimage for everyone. Greater miracles occur inside us whenever we love selflessly and/or make sacrifices for others.”

Graded “A” by the Cinema Evaluation Board, the movie is endorsed by the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines for viewing in all Catholic schools and universities. It will open in schools and universities on Feb. 9 and in theaters on Feb. 23.

http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/entertainment

Naga Boy

January 24th, 2011, 11:29 AM

Plaza Medica

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gedasay

January 24th, 2011, 11:42 AM

7-Eleven Pili is official! I saw the name already put up when I passed by today. Will take a photo tomorrow.

rhyzrockerz

January 24th, 2011, 01:29 PM

Hi people! Got my UAE residence visa na... back to Dubai tomorrow from Iran...

Pwede pa mag SSC, FB ulit...

Hi Ma'am Ina! Advance happy Valentines..:hug::hug::hug::hug::D:grouphug::lovethem::lovethem::lovethem:

sonofignatius

January 24th, 2011, 01:31 PM

^^
Pancake House and Seattle's Best Coffee- soon in Magsaysay.

Central Bank and Convention Center, now rising, Roxas Ave.

Puregold, Roxas Ave (formerly Robertson Mall- to be vacated before May)

Medical Center Naga (NICC Doctor's Hospital) Roxas Ave

Bicol Access Health Centrum General Hospital and Medical Center) CBD2

Seven 7-Eleven stores all over Naga City and one Ministop in Magsaysay.

And coming from reliable sources:

Ayala's Pueblo (announced by Mr. Obiedo, owner of Robertson Mall during a radio interview and I was also able to talk to him personally- they are under negotiation and advised to just wait for the official press statement)

Robinson's Naga (according to Mr. Edwin Magno of RLC, Manila) they are negotiating two properties in Naga: with the developer of CBD 2 and another in Roxas Ave., from a broker.

For the last two projects let us just wait for their official press release and maybe from Mayor John Bongat's State of the City Address.

And lastly, according the SM Prime Management in Naga- Savemore Market Naga.

thanks for sharing with us these exciting updates, doc.

unfamiliar sight
Naga City trash bins @ Plaza Rizal

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i hope little things like this will yield significant effects; hope this helps us keep our public places clean.

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^^biristado palan ni Xave an mga madre na nagdadaralan sa CWC :okay:

I think McDonald's here in the Philippines is 100% Filipino owned. It was featured back then in Rated K hosted by Ms. Korina Sanchez-Roxas.

:-) have met these familiar faces in past gatherings. garo erenjoyon man na marhay sa sister magtanaw kang mga nagkakarawat!

mcdo! i remember when Bikol's first McDo opened in Naga in 1994 i was able to enjoy the taste test a day before the opening, thanks to a contact in the store :-)