Cagayán de Oro City and Misamis Oriental Province [Archive] - Page 77

JavierP

May 15th, 2008, 05:21 PM

Good education is key to improve human resources
By Danilo V. Adorador III

QUALITY education, which translates to skilled and highly literate pool of labor force, remains the linchpin of a competitive and productive economy, local academe and business officials stressed.

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"Education - good education - is the key the development of the country's human resources," said Fr. Jose Ramon Villarin, president of Xavier University. "Even if you have capital and infrastructure in place and the quality of labor or the productivity per capita is low, then all is lost."

Villarin underscored this point during the pre-launching press conference of the Asian Institute of Management's (AIM) 3rd Leadership Forum, where he spoke on the role of academe in strengthening the local economy's competitiveness.

While labor cost is relatively cheap in the Philippines, Villarin said the country can corner more foreign investments by "adding value to labor output."

"It's not enough that we have cheap labor; we must cut down on low-value jobs so that it's not only labor that we are competing, but value," he said.

Not only will it spur the local economy, but having a highly literate human resource would also make the Philippines more competitive in the world labor market, he added, noting that the country being is one of the largest labor exporters in the world.

For his part, Cagayan de Oro Chamber of Commerce (Oro Chamber) President Rodolfo Meñes said the steady stream of highly-skilled workers is one of the region's major economic drivers.

Meñes however said that with the influx of labor-intensive investments in Northern Mindanao lately, local governments in the region have a lot of catching to do in boosting its labor component.

"We have people, but they need more training; their skills and literacy urgently need upgrade to fill the disparity between the available jobs and talents the labor market requires," he said.

To do its part in addressing the problem, Meñes said Oro Chamber is partnering with government and non-government organizations to help provide training for workers.

Labor force and other economic drivers are some of the issues that will be tackled during the AIM forum this Friday, to be held at the Pryce Plaza Hotel.

The forum, spearheaded by the AIM Alumni Association-Cagayan de Oro chapter (AAAIM-CdeO), is set to tackle the City Competitive Report for Cagayan de Oro, and the unveiling of the city's creative brand story - a video and audio ad highlighting Cagayan de Oro's market identity.

JavierP

May 15th, 2008, 05:24 PM

Wage hike snagged in MM; P12 hike OK’d in M’danao
By Mayen Jaymalin
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Workers in Northern Mindanao will get an increase of P12 in the daily minimum wage.

But in Metro Manila, labor epresentatives walked out of deliberations of the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) yesterday, according to sources.

“(They) were reluctant to go back. That is why the board was forced to reset the deliberation,” a source said.

Officials of the National Wage and Productivity Commission (NWPC) expressed confidence that RTWPB members would reconvene today and approve higher wages.

The wage board in CALABARZON is also expected to issue a wage order today, while the rest of the RTWPBs might act next week.

In Northern Mindanao, NWPC deputy executive director Esther Guirao said the wage order mandates private companies in the region to integrate the existing P16 COLA into the prevailing minimum wage.

“With the integration of the P16 COLA and the granting of additional P12 COLA, the prevailing take-home pay of minimum wage earners in Northern Mindanao is now pegged at P234,” she said.

Guirao said workers in Northern Mindanao will receive the additional P12 COLA starting June or 15 days after the publication of the new wage order.

The wage board also ordered the integration of another P10 COLA to the basic pay starting Nov. 16, she added.

Northern Mindanao comprises the provinces of Bukidnon, Camiguin, Lanao del Norte, Misamis Occidental and Misamis Oriental, Cagayan de Oro and the city of Iligan.

Guirao said the wage board in Northern Mindanao was the first to issue a new wage order, while two others boards, including the one in Metro Manila, are expected to come out with a wage order anytime.

“There are certain provisions on the draft wage order that both employers and workers’ representatives are yet to agree on,” she said.

NWPC insiders said the workers and employers could not agree on the provision concerning exemption on the granting of salary increases.

However, the board already agreed to grant a P12 increase in the take-home pay of workers in Metro Manila, NWPC added.

If approved, the proposed wage order would peg the minimum wage rate in Metro Manila at P382.

The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines, the country’s largest labor union, has sought an P80 across-the-board increase in the daily basic pay of workers in Metro Manila.

Last year, the Metro Manila wage board ordered a P12 increase and the integration of the P50 emergency cost of living allowance (COLA) into the basic pay.

dark_knight_detectve

May 15th, 2008, 05:37 PM

sinjin, ph and xlt are right. lets just follow the golden rule, that is, no matter what our neighbors say about us, lets just ignore them. we should only focus on CdeO and normin's progress and development. unless they come here and question us on the grounds that we have claimed, that will only be the time for us to defend ourselves. for now, let us act like professionals and think forward. let us avoid unnecessary comments so that our neighbors wont react the same way that we do. i believe sinjin has been here for quite sometime. lets respect the man and think about normin's future. :) :) :)

JavierP

May 15th, 2008, 05:40 PM

Most people who go to Park Café usually "tambay" with friends, use their laptops and surf the net (wifi), coffee and some drinks...dining is just a second priority. Besides, most of its customers range from teenagers to yuppies...^^

This is is the best "tambayan" in Divisoria vicinity. Kinuha ang trono ng Dunkin Donuts. Though, me ibang tawag na ka mi sa DD before, best "waiting area" :banana:

dark_knight_detectve

May 15th, 2008, 05:44 PM

updates on polymedic medical plaza

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dark_knight_detectve

May 15th, 2008, 05:47 PM

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A father and his two sons enjoy a ride aboard a jet ski in Opol, Misamis Oriental. Thrill seekers may use a jet ski here for P1,000 an hour. MindaNews photo by H. Marcos C. Mordeno

i havent heard about this until now. youve done a very good job alingatong. horay to Normin! :banana: :banana::)^^:lol::nuts::cheers:

dark_knight_detectve

May 15th, 2008, 05:48 PM

XE third gate

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dark_knight_detectve

May 15th, 2008, 05:51 PM

XE is currently expandin in their phase 1

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dark_knight_detectve

May 15th, 2008, 05:53 PM

XE main road going to the club house

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dark_knight_detectve

May 15th, 2008, 05:54 PM

main gate

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dark_knight_detectve

May 15th, 2008, 05:57 PM

LKK hotel updates

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agaton

May 15th, 2008, 05:59 PM

Economy

Cagayan de Oro is the base to both local and multi-national companies such as Del Monte Philippines, Nestle, Coca-Cola, Pepsi Cola, and others. The city's economy is largely based on industry, trade, service and tourism. Link2Support and Arriba are among the few call centers that have recently opened their doors to the city. Cagayan de Oro is a young city compared to other highly urbanized cities in the Philippines. The city's annual income has reached a local record of 1.345 Billion Pesos as of the fiscal year, 2006. With the ongoing construction of the Laguindingan International Airport, business analysts predict the entry of more foreign and local investments and an increase in tourism activity in the region will make Cagayan de Oro as one of the chief cities in the southern part of the Philippines.[4]

Education

Cagayan de Oro has 3 major universities namely: Capitol University, Liceo de Cagayan University, and Xavier University. These universities specialize in various disciplines such as medicine, nursing, commerce, engineering, law, masteral and doctorate degrees. While AMA Computer University and Philippine Womens University are campus branches offering fewer courses.

JavierP

May 15th, 2008, 06:03 PM

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agaton

May 15th, 2008, 06:04 PM

Transportation

Lumbia Airport caters to domestic flights to and from Manila and Cebu. From Manila, it is an hour and fifteen minutes away by plane and from Cebu it is forty-five minutes away. There is ongoing construction on the Laguindingan International Airport. When finished, the international airport will serve Northern Mindanao including its major cities; Iligan and Cagayan de Oro.
Cagayan de Oro Seaport in 2005 with two quay cranes
Cagayan de Oro Seaport in 2005 with two quay cranes

The Macabalan seaport serves regular trips to Manila, Cebu, Tagbilaran, Bacolod, Dumaguete, Iloilo, Iligan, Jagna and Nasipit/Butuan. It is the busiest seaport in the region.

Cagayan de Oro Seaport is a modern international seaport situated near the estuary of Cagayan de Oro River, it has an anchorage depth of 18 meters and is around 400 meters from the shoreline. Cagayan de Oro Seaport has two authorized cargo handling operators.[8] With the recent completion of the 250 Million Peso Rehabilitation Project, the Cagayan de Oro seaport is now the largest international and domestic seaport in Mindanao.[9] General Milling and Del Monte Philippines also operates their own port facilities within Cagayan de Oro. The US $85 Million Mindanao Container Terminal located in Tagoloan, 17 kilometers from Cagayan de Oro serves the PHIVIDEC Industrial Estate.

There are three bus and jeepney terminals in the city which offer regular land trips. The Agora Bus Terminal caters trips to and from Balingoan (port going to Camiguin), Gingoog, Davao, Butuan and Surigao in the Caraga Region, Valencia and Malaybalay in Bukidnon. While the Bulua-Westbound Bus Terminal caters trips to and from Iligan, Ozamiz, and western parts of Mindanao.

rau

May 15th, 2008, 06:07 PM

maski SBarro lang unta ba naa diha sa CDO (pati dire sa davao na rin)

wala diay Sbarro sa CDO ug DVO? i thought naa..

donnex

May 15th, 2008, 07:08 PM

NBI launches automated clearance machine renewal

THE NATIONAL Bureau of Investigation (NBI) recently launched the Clearance Renewal Card in Robinsons Mall, Cebu City and in Victoria Plaza, Davao City in preparation for the installation of Automated Clearance Machines in all NBI facilities and renewal kiosks nationwide on July 1, 2008.

The NBI first introduced the Clearance Renewal Card on February 1, 2008 in SM Mega Mall in Pasig City, Metro Manila, one of NBI’s satellite offices.

The Automated Clearance Machine and the Clearance Renewal Card are part of the NBI’s continuing effort to make its clearance processing service faster, more secure and more convenient for the public.

Attending the event were NBI regional directors Luigi de Lemos (Cebu) and Romulo Manapsal (Davao); NBI deputy director for Regional Operations Reynaldo Esmeralda; Mega Data President Rafael Garcia IV; Mega Data chief marketing officer Jose Avedillo; and; Mega Data vice president for IT projects Gene Catuncan.

The Automated Clearance Machines (ACMs) operate like Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) used by banks. The public will need a Clearance Renewal Card to operate an ACM, which is like an ATM that requires the use of an ATM card,

With ACMs installed at NBI District, Regional and Satellite Offices nationwide, the public can choose to line up and be served by a human teller or use the Clearance Renewal Card on an Automated Clearance Machine to renew their clearances instantly without the inconvenience of long lines.

New Fast Lanes are also being installed for Clearance Renewal Card holders at all NBI offices so the public will no longer have to line up when they apply for renewal of their NBI Clearances.

All NBI Clearance Kiosks in malls will be converted to unmanned Automated Clearance Machines starting July 1, 2008. This will save the NBI considerable manpower cost and facilitate the public’s experience in dealing with the NBI.

Unlike the present Clearance Renewal Kiosks which are only open Monday to Friday, 10 A.M. to 5 P.M., the Automated Clearance Machines will be open Sunday to Saturday, 10 A.M. to 10 P.M., or for as long as the mall is open.

Through Mega Data Corporation, the systems integration company of the Mega Group of Computer Companies, the NBI pioneered the concept of bringing government services closer to the public through decentralized computerization. It was also the first government agency to open renewal kiosks in air-conditioned malls in metropolitan areas all over the country like Manila (Tutuban Mall), Makati City (Park Square), Caloocan (Gotesco Grand Central), Cebu City (Robinson Mall), Baguio City, Davao City (Victoria Plaza), San Fernando-Pampanga, Iloilo City, Cagayan de Oro City (Limketkai Mall). It has also opened satellite offices in the city halls of Muntinlupa City, Pasig City, Quezon City and Imus (Cuevas Mall), as well as clearance centers in Carriedo and at the Riverside Mall in Marikina City.
Mega Data is also behind the highly successful license renewal system of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) and the ID Card project of the Professional Regulation Commission.

ph_matrix

May 15th, 2008, 07:25 PM

thanks for the update at @dark_knight_detectve , ang daming "poles" ano ?, when kaya completion date nimo ?

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michael_ray

May 15th, 2008, 07:35 PM

;20706804']davao forumers are envious of cdo? kuyawa ba! lololol
eto sa totoo lang ha.wag lang sna magagalit.di po inggit tawag dun.minsan lang natatawa kami kasi parang "social climber" ang dating ng iba po.sorry po for the blunt statement per yun lang po yun.no envy involved po.

social climber? yeah, they have been flooding all over davao especially sa isang university jan... ahahaha. siaw2x lang ni waway...:banana:

JavierP

May 15th, 2008, 10:13 PM

Mindanao port to get new freight station

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Aboitiz Transport System Corporation (ATSC), operator of SuperFerry and 2Go, is investing some US$24 million to expand operations in Northern Mindanao to accommodate increasing demand for containerised shipping.

The money will be used to build and develop its own container freight station (CFS) adjacent to the Cagayan de Oro port.

ATS acquired the four-hectare land from Capicor, a rice trader.

The new CFS would complement operations of the port and reduce congestion, resulting in better efficiency and faster turnaround for cargo.

The operator of one of the country's shipping firms is slowly shifting operations from passenger to freight by converting its unused passage capacity to make room for its containerized and roll-of/roll-on (RORO) services.

The RORO service has lately been gaining ground, currently contributing over 23 percent to ATSC's freight business. The company's RORO capacity has swelled more than 20 percent.

JavierP

May 15th, 2008, 10:14 PM

Mindanao port to get new freight station

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Aboitiz Transport System Corporation (ATSC), operator of SuperFerry and 2Go, is investing some US$24 million to expand operations in Northern Mindanao to accommodate increasing demand for containerised shipping.

The money will be used to build and develop its own container freight station (CFS) adjacent to the Cagayan de Oro port.
ATS acquired the four-hectare land from Capicor, a rice trader.

The new CFS would complement operations of the port and reduce congestion, resulting in better efficiency and faster turnaround for cargo.

The operator of one of the country's shipping firms is slowly shifting operations from passenger to freight by converting its unused passage capacity to make room for its containerized and roll-of/roll-on (RORO) services.

The RORO service has lately been gaining ground, currently contributing over 23 percent to ATSC's freight business. The company's RORO capacity has swelled more than 20 percent.

JavierP

May 15th, 2008, 10:23 PM

social climber? yeah, they have been flooding all over davao especially sa isang university jan... ahahaha. siaw2x lang ni waway...:banana:

Let there be peace on earth..:banana:

JavierP

May 15th, 2008, 10:26 PM

Sunday, April 20, 2008

Making the most out of a volatile
market, MBA student shows how

A 31-YEAR-OLD Korean expatriate topped a virtual stock market showdown for students from the master in business administration programs of local universities and colleges all over the country.

Hyung Suk Lee of the Ateneo School of Business posted a 21-percent gain for his P1-million “virtual invest*ments” to emerge on top of the Second PSE-CitisecOnline MBA Stock Market Investment Challenge.

The tilt is being sponsored jointly by the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) and CitisecOnline.com, Inc. (COL), as part of their respective programs to encourage stock market investments. The MBA showdown is a more advanced level of the PSE’s Stock Trading Tournament (STT), which caters to undergraduate students.

Lee’s gains contrasted with the 13-percent average loss suffered by the market during the staging of the tournament from November 19, 2007 to February 15, 2008.

Another Atenean, Ethel Sanchez, earned second-place honors with an 11-percent increase in her virtual investments; while Oliver Dwight Layug of De La Salle University Graduate School of Business, placed third with a 4-percent gain.

Aside from Lee and Sanchez, one more Ateneo graduate student made it to the top 10: Maria Francesca Mandap who placed fourth in the tournament.

De La Salle University Graduate School of Business had another winner, Aris de Leon who emerged fifth in the standings. The other Metro Manila top placer was Ulysses Aguilos of the University of the Philippines.

From the provinces, four graduate students made it to the top 10: Mel Brian Nugeza of the University of San Jose-Recoletos in Cebu (sixth place); Joel Lim of Xavier University in Cagayan (seventh); Vergil Dematera of Ateneo de Naga (eighth); and Emmanuel Floriann Magto also of Xavier University (10th).

For the achievement, Lee pocketed a trading account from COL worth P25,000 plus the bragging right for beating 220 other MBA students from 12 schools all over the country. Raul Ruiz, an Ateneo professor who acted as Hyung’s mentor for the tournament, got a P10,000 trading account also from COL.

Lee works as an accountant in a manufacturing facility in Mariveles, Bataan. A client of COL, he had at least one year of actual trading experience in Seoul and Manila before he joined the Second PSE-CitisecOnline MBA Investment Challenge.

The South Korean expat, who is a confessed beach bum, has been in the Philippines for three years now. With a full-time job from Monday to Saturday, Lee spent 30 minutes early in the morning almost daily to trade stocks. He often browsed Bloomberg links and the charts of each company whose stocks he intended to trade. He intends to continue trading in our stock market.

Sanchez is a strategic planner at McCann World Group.

The award ceremony was held at the PSE in Makati with Francis Ed Lim, PSE president and chief executive officer, as guest speaker.

“We in the PSE have pledged to work side by side with other groups like CitisecOnline that share with the Exchange a common desire to build a bigger capital base for the Philippine capital market by conducting an intensified investor education program,” Lim explained. As the tournament winners have shown, we can still make the stock market work for you even when challenges confront it,” he added.

COL president Dino Bate observed: “This tournament has highlighted the fact that anyone can take advantage of the opportunities in the stock market through the use of research and analysis, and other online tools readily available to all CitisecOnline customers.”

COL vice president Juanis Barredo observed that this year’s batch of challengers had a more difficult financial environment to deal with because the 60-trading-day period covered by the MBA challenge occurred in the midst of global market uncertainties triggered by worries about the US economy. “The winners gave exem*plary performances conside*ring the relatively volatile perfor*mance of the local stock market,” Barredo said.

CitisecOnline encourages all students nationwide to learn about stock market investing and are holding free basic stock market investing seminars every Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the COL Training Center in Pasig. (For more information on the seminar schedules, you can log on to www.citiseconline.com or call 6-333-777.)

ph_matrix

May 15th, 2008, 10:27 PM

Di na ko Tide sa Surf na ko ug Perla !

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JavierP

May 15th, 2008, 10:30 PM

SLERS Chicharon: A New Twist for an Auld Favourite
Mike Banos

March 22, 2007
Ofelia "Fely" Cosin Pelaez started making her famous "SLERS" Ham in 1969 at their backyard in Camp Phillips of the Del Monte Plantation, Bukidnon where hubby Raul Pelaez, Sr. was a department head with Del Monte, then known as Phil. Packing Corp.

The brand name SLERS is an acronym of the names of Fely's children (Shirley, Litlit, Earl, Ray and Sharon). "We had a family meeting to decide what to call the ham Mom was starting to sell," recalls her daughter Mercedes "Litlit" Mejia, who with hubby Ardi has been managing SLERS Industries, Inc. since 1987. "Like a typical Filipino family, we chose an acronym of our names."

However, although it was SLERS Ham which established it as a distinctly Cagayan de Oro marquee, these days more people, especially visitors from outside the city, know SLERS for its crunchy Chicharon, or pork rind crackers.

The shift to chicharon from hams was a gradual transition which started when Litlit and Ardi took charge of what had by then become a famous pasalubong item synonymous with Cagayan de Oro, and decided to diversify SLERS product lines to include processed meat foods to better meet increasing competition.

Over the years, giant food processing companies based in Manila, Davao and Cebu had flooded the market with cheaper, commercialized versions of ham but the famous ham maker of Cagayan de Oro remain had stuck with its traditional home-cooked high quality hams produced by the family business.

Litlit admits they have had to make changes in their ham's formulation over the years in response to their customers' tastes. Many of these changes have been undertaken in consultation with experts from the Canadian Executive Service Overseas-Business Advsisory Program (CESO-BAP).

Four years ago I was introduced to CESO-BAP assistance at the office of then DTI-10 Director Ninfa Along-Albania," Ms. Mejia said. "I did not have to think twice about the offer made by (Sr. Business Development Officer) Arlene Oxales. I saw the opportunity to benchmark the industry practices of world class producers of produced meats. Imagine having an expert adviser who will come to our plant to study and evaluate our business and then give us free advice!"

So far, SLERS has availed of the expertise of three experts: EA Soren Sondergard for product development and production improvement; Chuck Gouett, a Canadian expert for sales and marketing strategies (distribution channels) and Filipino expert Oliver Tiu, for sales organization and strategies.

Mr. Tiu is an expert advisor from the Philippine Business for Social Progress which has established a program called Corporate Volunteers for Enterprise Development (CVED) to take over for CESO-BAP when it ends next year and assure the program's sustainability.

Our two latter experts agreed on universal concepts on marketing and yet considered the cultural uniqueness of the local market. After which a general marketing plan was formulated. What a blessing indeed!" Ms Mejia said.

Since then, SLERS has opened four kiosks in Limketkai Center and Robinsons' (in Cagayan de Oro) and the Mall of Asia in Manila. When the new SLERS Express Meals opened last 29 August 2006 at the Gaisano City Mall, no less than Canadian Ambassador Peter Sutherland and City Mayor Vicente Emano were the guests of honor.

What started out as a hobby became a cottage industry, and later a family corporation, selling in Cagayan de Oro, and now in Manila, Davao and Cebu . From PhP1.8 million in 2005, sales zoomed 83% to PhP3.3 million in 2006.

The shift from SLERS Ham to SLERS Chicharon as its sales leader is typical of the changes the company has made with assistance from its CESO-BAP experts.

We had an idle 600 sq.m. space we formerly used to make nata de coco for Del Monte," said Mrs. Pelaez. "We converted it to a chicharon production facility and it has since become our leading item."

SLERS Chicharon is made from pork rinds imported from Belgium and Brazil, because local sources could not meet the product quality standards which make the product unique and tasty. The new venture employs 10 female packers and 3 male "cooks" who dip the pork rinds in ultra hot animal fat oil for that special crunch.

Our assistance to projects like CESO-BAP, especially in Mindanao, aims at poverty alleviation through jobs creation," said Tom Carroll, counselor and head of aid for the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) during a visit last week to the new chicharon-making facility. "SLERS is an exemplary showcase of how we are attaining this objective through our assistance to the private sector. I'm very impressed at the very concrete impacts that have taken place in the short period that we've been here."

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Sorry, post ko lang ulit. This is my & my officemates' favorite pasalubong from CdO. I wish to have a franchise on this (in the future).. hehe

ph_matrix

May 15th, 2008, 10:32 PM

Di na ko sa Tide sa Surf na ko ug Perla !

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JavierP

May 15th, 2008, 10:33 PM

XUCA alumnus gets 'Teacher of the Year' award

Mr. Silvino "Ben" Balaba, Aggie batch ’76 who is now based in Australia received the “National Horticulture Trade Teacher of the Year” award during the National Field Day at Orange, New South Wales. Ben was nominated by the Gold Coast Institute of Technical and Further Education where he has been teaching horticulture for the last 15 years.

“I would like to announce my recent achievement here in Australia, not to boast, but to inform this group of our achievements so that we may know that, yes, dreams can come true and we can be the best we can be and our educational/ training background in XUCA under Fr Masterson and his faculty and stewards have come to fruition,” Ben wrote in the aggiexu e-group. Ben is one of the founders of the Philippine Association of Agriculturist Juniors Xavier University Chapter.

The National Field Day is run by the National Farmers Federation in Australia and the Institute for Trade and Excellence.

JavierP

May 15th, 2008, 10:37 PM

XU History
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BEGINNING...
Founded in 1933 as a high school named Ateneo de Cagayan by Jesuit missionary Fr. James T.G. Hayes S.J., who later became the first bishop/archbishop of Cagayan de Oro, Ateneo de Cagayan has grown steadily through the years. A college department was added in 1938, with course offerings in liberal arts, education and commerce. The Grade School was started in 1940. Ateneo de Cagayan had 614 students when it was forced to close during World War II.

Fr. Edward J. Haggerty S.J., school Rector, who served as a military chaplain during the war years and as Military Vicar for the U.S. Armed Forces from Borneo to Okinawa, wrote in his diary: "in fifteen minutes the American liberator bombers destroyed our labor of 15 years."

POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION...
From the ruins, postwar reconstruction began immediately under the untiring leadership of Fr. Haggerty and Fr. Andrew Cervini S.J., who succeeded him as Rector, and with the assistance of many benefactors from the U.S. and locally.

The College of Agriculture was started by Fr. William Masterson S.J. in 1953 and the College of Law and the Manresa farm in 1955.

UNIVERSITY STATUS...
In March 1958 the Ateneo de Cagayan received university status and its present name, Xavier University - Ateneo de Cagayan, in honor of St. Francis Xavier, Jesuit missionary to the Indies and companion of St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus. Fr. Francisco Araneta S.J., Rector when the Ateneo de Cagayan became a university, explained that the change of name "merely crystallized an old spirit that always had been the soul of all Ateneos, the spirit of learning and service, the spirit of purposeful scholarship."

Today Xavier University is a dynamic academic institution committed to the integral education and formation of the nation's youth, especially in Northern Mindanao. It has a grade school with over 1,500 and a high school with over 1,160 students. There are six undergraduate colleges with a total enrollment close to 9,000 (Arts and Sciences, Education, Commerce, Agriculture, Nursing, and Engineering), a Center for Industrial Technology for professional technician courses, and three professional schools (Law, Medicine and Graduate School), with a total enrollment of about 1219 students. As of SY 2002-03, total university student enrollment stands at about 14,000.
COMMUNITY SERVICE...
The University has been closely involved with the life and growth, concerns and problems of Cagayan de Oro City and Northern Mindanao. The College of Education has provided training to many teachers and administrators of Northern Mindanao schools. The Research Institute of Mindanao Culture (RIMCU) was established in 1957 for research studies on Mindanao culture, especially from the point of view of population and the social sciences.

The Southeast Asia Rural Social Leadership Institute (SEARSOLIN), started in 1963 and, patterned after the Anigoish Movement in Nova Scotia, Canada, trains leaders and organizers from various countires in agriculture extension work and the cooperative.

In 1968 the University inaugurated its Philippine Folklife Museum and Archives. This has since grown into the XU Museum, with a building inaugurated by President Corazon Aquino in July 1986. Fr. Francisco R. Demetrio S.J., himself an alumnus of the Ateneo de Cagayan in its early years, is Museum curator.

The Institute for the Development of Educational Administrators (IDEA), started in 1972 with support from the Ford Foundation and the Fund for Assistance for Private education, is a graduate masteral program for training of school administrators.

Kinaadman, the University journal since 1979, publishes research and scholarly articles, especially centered on Mindanao. Fr. Miguel A. Bernad S.J. is editor.

In support of the growing industrialization of Northern Mindanao, the Center for Industrial Technology was founded in 1983 for technician courses, both short-term and longer-term, in automotive, electrical, electronics, mechanical and refrigeration/ airconditioning technology.

In 1987, the College of Medicine and the Community of German Doctors worked together in answering the medical needs of the poor. In 1989 the hospital building was completed and inaugurated

CAMPUSES...
The University operates on four campuses: the eight-hectare main campus in the heart of Cagayan de Oro City houses all the academic units, except for the Grade School, High School, and the support farms and extension works of the College of Agriculture; the grade school shares another campus with the grade school of Lourdes College; the newly constructed high school campus at Pueblo de Oro; and the 60 hectare Manresa Complex on the way to the airport includes the experimental and demonstration farms and extension works of the College of Agriculture, SEARSOLIN and dormitories donated by the Coconut Producers Federation of the Philippines (COCOFED).

LINKAGES...
The University houses a Regional Science Teaching Center funded by the Department of Science and Technology for the improvement of science and math teaching in elementary and high schools.

Various engineering programs are supported for improvement by the Engineering and Science Education Program of the Department of Science and Technology. It cooperates with the Department of Interior and Local Governments for the training of local government officials.

The undergraduate Colleges of Arts & Sciences, Education, Commerce have Level III accreditation with the Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges, and Universities (PAASCU); the Colleges of Agriculture and Engineering (including Computer Science), the High School and Grade School have PAASCU Level II accreditation.

The Commission for Higher Education has granted XU full autonomy. It also designated XU as Center of Excellence for Teacher Education and for Sociology-Anthropology (honorific), a Center of Development for Chemistry, Business, Medical and Information Technology Education. The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) has named XU-CIT a Center of Excellence in Region X. XU is also authorized to participate in CHED's "Expanded Tertiary Education Equivalency and Accreditation Program" in Engineering and Commerce.

Starting in 1992, XU has allocated some of its land in Upper Balulang on the way to the airport for housing both to provide greater housing opportunities for Cagayan de Oro and for additional funds for its own educational programs.

GOVERNANCE...
The University operates as a non-profit non-stock educational institution governed by its own board of trustees. Mr. Meneleo J. Carlos Jr., President of Resins, Inc., is Chairman and Mr. Gonzalo Go is Vice Chairman. Fr. Antonio S. Samson S.J. became President of Xavier University on 06 June 1993.

One of five Jesuit colleges and universities in the Philippines, XU works in consortium with Ateneo de Davao University and the Ateneo de Zamboanga

ph_matrix

May 15th, 2008, 10:51 PM

^^ another one..

Cagayan de Oro white water Rafting.

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ph_matrix

May 15th, 2008, 11:03 PM

Duka Bay Dive

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FrancisXavier

May 16th, 2008, 02:46 AM

Tinuod. Mao kana ang panglantaw sa uban sad nga mga forumers (nga dili ganahang panganlan) nga nagasunod sa pikas thread. (Not that I am siding with anyone, I'm just sharing to you the views of those uninvolved who follow your threads). Ako sad mismo personally nakabantay nga kusog ang pagpadungug-dungog didto sa pikas. Wala nalang ko nibadlong kay basin ingnon nasad nga "apil-apilon". :)

Anyway, enough of that. Ibalik sa lang nato ang "mind your own business" rule aron wala'y gubot. :cheers:

Ug palihug, wala na'y magpadungog-dungog. Kung naa man gani, diritsoon namo ug papas. Salamat! :)

kaya ayoko na magsalita..

henji

May 16th, 2008, 03:34 AM

pila ka months ang const. sa LKK? metal frames ang foundation ani?

GearX

May 16th, 2008, 03:43 AM

pila ka months ang const. sa LKK? metal frames ang foundation ani?

approximate 18-24 months siguro. Concrete foundation nakabaon na...tinibuan na lang ng damo sa tagal...

GearX

May 16th, 2008, 03:47 AM

from my personal email:

OUR DREAM IS HERE! The first phase of the construction of the Oro Chamber Business Development Centre is finished and it’s time for all of us to celebrate.

We are pleased to invite you to join us on May 19 for a whole-day series of activities:

DEDICATION OF THE ORO CHAMBER BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTRE
and INAUGURATION OF THE PUM TRAINING ROOM
09:00-11:00am
Macapagal Drive, Pueblo de Oro, Cagayan de Oro City

DOING BUSINESS WITH THE NETHERLANDS SEMINAR
WITH THE NETHERLANDS EMBASSY AND PUM NETHERLANDS SENIOR EXPERTS
01:00-05:00pm
Grand Caprice Restaurant, Limketkai Center, Cagayan de Oro City

2ND QUARTER GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING
WITH KEYNOTE GUEST PUM NETHERLANDS CEO THIJS VAN PRAAG
06:00-09:00pm
Grand Caprice Restaurant, Limketkai Center, Cagayan de Oro City

We really look forward to your participation in the historical blessing and inauguration of the building that we can really call our own - a product of the dedication of past Oro Chamber presidents, trustees and members who have envisioned a building fund that was sustained and carefully handled over the years for this project.

Please join us and we hope to have your confirmation soon.

HEIDI GRACE P. MENDOZA
Secretary General
Cagayan de Oro Chamber of Commerce & Industry Foundation, Inc.
2|F Tia Nanang's Building, Corrales Street, Cagayan de Oro City 9000
T|F (088) 856-3764 Mobile 0920-9510998

henji

May 16th, 2008, 03:51 AM

oic, sabay ba na siya gina-construct karon? or building 1 pa?

GearX

May 16th, 2008, 03:58 AM

oic, sabay ba na siya gina-construct karon? or building 1 pa?

can't say... inuuna nila yung Gateway - i-connect kasi yan sa hotel in some way. :cheers:

GearX

May 16th, 2008, 04:24 AM

TESDA-10 warns vs unregistered tech-voc courses, programs (http://www.pia.gov.ph/default.asp?m=12&fi=p080515.htm&no=92)

Cagayan de Oro City (15 May) -- Beware of enrolling in unregistered technical-vocational courses and program offerings. Thus warned the TESDA-10 management to enrollees of tech-voc courses or programs.

TESDA OIC-Regional Director Ofelia M. Del Bando stressed that enrollees should look for the TESDA Certificate of Program Registration (CoPR) of the course or program offering that they wish to enroll in a particular school or training institution.

"The CoPR is an evidence that the program is registered with the TESDA under UTPRAS," Del Bando added. UTPRAS stands for Unified Technical Vocational Education and Training Program Registration and Accreditation System. UTPRAS ensures the quality of TVET programs/courses.

Del Bando said that a major consequence that students face when enrolling in unregistered post-secondary programs is that they will not be issued special orders after graduation, thus will not get red ribbon certification for the said training/education program from DFA if going abroad.

One of TESDA's major functions is the registration of tech-voc courses/ programs offered in public/private post-secondary technical-vocational schools and training centers. TESDA evaluates if these institutions have complied with the existing TESDA training regulations and standards. CoPRs are then issued for courses and programs which have fully complied with the training regulations and standards.

Section 8 of Republic Act 7796, otherwise known as the TESDA Act of 1994, mandates TESDA to establish and maintain a system of accrediting, coordinating, integrating, monitoring and evaluating formal and non-formal technical vocational education.

Covered under UTPRAS are: all institutions, both public and private offering or intending to offer TVET programs, including enterprise-based programs; all TVET programs in industrial trades and crafts, agriculture, fishery, services and home industries.

For a complete listing of registered tech-voc programs or in case of doubt or inquiries, the public is urged to see or call the UTPRAS Regional Focal Mr. Gerry C. Quiblat thru telephone number 856-1665/725519 or visit the TESDA Provincial Office nearest them. (Trell Carrasco-Moya, TESDA-10 / RAGCOM)

GearX

May 16th, 2008, 04:48 AM

The Heart of a Filipino Entrepreneur (http://www.orobpc.org.ph/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=69&Itemid=2)

Following the lineage of business-minded ancestors, Napoleon Contreras is a full-blooded entrepreneur. In his younger years, Napoleon would find his great grandfather, Tiu e Huan, riding on his bicycle going about selling soymilk and tofu at Cogon Market and Divisoria. Mr. Huan is the only soy processor in the city during the time when tofu is a familiar ingredient in most Filipino-Chinese household dish. Relying mostly on his connections with the Filipino-Chinese Community, his usual customers were Chinese Stores that includes Rosita’s, Seven Seven Store and New Life. Not much of a visionary, Mr. Huan never dreamed of a life more than these and so he went on doing the same routine every week without any aspiration to increase his sales and expand his business. This challenged the young Napoleon.

Seeing the opportunity is still vast, he figured more could still be done and untapped markets are yet to be reached. Although his heart is certain on what he wanted, he did not have the capital to get rolling. With boldness he went to avail a loan but only to his dismay.

Reluctantly, he got himself a job and was employed for a while but everything within him is saying he is not meant to be working for someone else. Deliberating on other possibilities, he arrived at the idea of partnering with his uncle, who inherited the business of his great grand father. The agreement was for Napoleon to do the marketing and for his uncle to handle productions. The business went well.

Napoleon would call potential buyers constantly and offer to deliver soymilk at their doorsteps without any regard as to how many they’d order. The convenience he offered earned him lots of customers. He even went beyond his Chinese connections and promoted soymilk and tofu among health-conscious Cagayanons and even sponsored fitness activities. Things were going his way. He was able to purchase two motorcycle bikes to help in the delivery. He was on the prime of his business when fate took a bad turn and his supply of soymilk and tofu was stopped. Fearing to falter his commitments with his valued customers, he defied all odds and decided to take on soy production himself. His dedication to his customers inspired him to pursue the business. With the assistance of his father, he slowly recovered.

With the support of his children and the prayers of his wife Carol, Napoleon intensified his marketing efforts. Now he supplies tofu to popular food chains, restaurants and hotels the likes of: Chowking, Goldilocks, Dynasty, Philtown and Grand Caprice. He even popularized the vending style of taho in Cagayan de Oro, which he started with only 5 vendors and now maintains 33. It was beyond his expectation that he could see it through all the setbacks and figure a way to make everything work for him. He was able to send off his daughter Chin-chin and son Niño to college. Now they have graduated and eager to take over their father’s legacy. He parks his L300 in their cozy home in Macasandig where their soy processing plant is also located.

Farirah

May 16th, 2008, 04:55 AM

For thus forum enthusiasts here who have never understood the upcoming Metro CdeO:

@Mt. Apo, perhaps you don't know that the upcoming Metro CdeO includes CdeO, the municipalities of Tagoloan and Villanueva, Jasaan, portions of Claveria, Opol, El Salvador City, Alubijid, Laguindingan, and portions of Bukidnon province. Yes, the multi-billion investments in CdeO's industrial zones (Tagoloan and Villanueva) will just complement/speed up the economy of CdeO. How? Not by that CdeO will have the share of taxes from this multi-billion Hanjin and other multi-billion investments (which others are still upcoming), but by providing jobs not only to residents of these said municipalities, but to the jobless residents of CdeO and even Northern Mindanao and even other jobless people in this 2nd largest island. Considering that CdeO is not only as a trading hub, but commercial hub as well (where shopping centers, restaus, bars, etc are located) in Northern Mindanao (and even as far as Caraga and Zamboanga Peninsula Regions, Lanao del Sur, and portions of North Cotabao) these new employed people along with the Korean nationals who will manage Hanjin Shipbuilding will shop or do other activities in CdeO. So in the end, CdeO's economy will boom somehow. Better to look at too from the already metros: Cebu and Manila. The vibrant economies of Mandaue and Lapu-Lapu cities and Pasig, Quezon, and Makati are just speeding up/complementing the superb economies of Cebu and Manila.

Just like in your Davao thread which you include Samal City, because I know that Samal City has been part of Metro Davao. The promising economy of Samal in the end will complement the economy of Davao City, just like what we have here for example the Hanjin Shipbuilding of Tagoloan and Villanueva, or the pineapple plantation in Manolo Fortich, Bukidnon are said to complement CdeO's booming economy nowadays. :cheers:

Are we clear now? :eat:

And talking about Ayala Mall in this city, we CdeO forum enthusiasts and you too will love to see another official press release coming from the Ayala themselves. Our vice mayor has been a respected political figure not only in CdeO, but in this Mindanao island and in the whole country as well. Same also to his best friend out there, your honorable Rodrigo Duterte. Well whenever he left his word, he truly meant it, not just a sort of hype. :colgate:

But again, it's better to wait another official press release from Ayala themselves. ^^

And please @Mt. Apo, don't try to mess up this beautiful thread of ours. Agree? :)

Farirah

May 16th, 2008, 05:20 AM

what do you mean redundant?

questions kept coming back because you coulsd not strighten facts how cdo city got multi billion dollar investments. and its only one of the many claims

CdeO's industrial zone in Tagoloan and Villanueva wherethe multi-billion Hanjin Shipbuilding is located. This huge investment is one of the examples how CdeO got multi-billion dollar investments.

Anyway if Cebu, as a metropolitan city, has been proud to say that she got multi-billion dollar/peso investments thru Lapu-Lapu and Mandaue cities, and same also to Manila that has been proud also of having multi-billion dollar too thru Makati and Quezon cities or thru the new booming Taguig, CdeO has been proud to say too that she has this multi-billion dollar investment thru Hanjin in her vicinities: the municipalities of Tagoloan and Villanueva for example.

And to say that Davao has been proud too that she has this huge investment somehow by looking on the upcoming beautiful beach resorts with hotels at Island Garden of Samal. :)

Well enough of this, back to the topic...:cheers:

GearX

May 16th, 2008, 05:37 AM

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x287/GearX_2007/another/subdivisions/aleg0.jpg

Farirah

May 16th, 2008, 05:49 AM

are you anticipating ayal mall construction anytime soon? some discussed about sm mall losing clients to lkk with some shoppes closing down. do you think apopular mall has is no match to less popular shopping centres of robinson etc inside lkk. just curious too if household per capita expenditure of cdo or per capita could sustain another big mall in cdo?

@Mt. Apo, SM is losing the shoppers somehow because the mall's location in the hilltop is too far from the city proper where most of the residents live. That's why SM is planning to expand within the city proper or not too faraway from the city proper. Besides to shop at SM's small area, except the ground floor is not too attractive for shoppers to stay longer or hang out compare to Gaisano City Mall and LKK Shopping Complex. In fact, Divisoria has been more attractive to SM likewise.

Anyway, don't underestimate or worry about the upcoming Ayala mall because Ayala won't build their mall similar to SM's fate. And this giant investor will like to compete with LKK somehow, so they'll build the mall in the CITY PROPER. :cheers:

And talking about that CdeO can sustain another big mall like Ayala? Well, CdeO can. Ayala won't build their upcoming mall in the first place if they find CdeO won't likely to sustain their upcoming business.

WawaY[625]

May 16th, 2008, 05:52 AM

social climber? yeah, they have been flooding all over davao especially sa isang university jan... ahahaha. siaw2x lang ni waway...:banana:
hahaha korek ka dyan! lols tawag namim dyan before kay mga "nakuratan sa ilang pagka atenista" mas prevalent yan nung college kami kasi diba nga marami din from out of town ( oi im not referring to any particular place ha) then feel kaau nila na atenista na sila and mag pa sossy jud kuno maski halata na pinugos ra.hahaha

but di lang naman siguro sa addu meron may mga "nakuratan sa pagka atenista" oi.hehe meron din siguro sa ibang schools.kahit sa xu meron din siguro :yes: :)

GearX

May 16th, 2008, 05:55 AM

MtApoStandard

May 16th, 2008, 06:03 AM

Farirah

May 16th, 2008, 06:04 AM

huwag silang mag-alala, the planned Ayala Mall won't be constructed this year my guess...probably next year pa when things could be finalized the earliest or maybe even 2010 pa nga...the good thing is it's in the drawing board na.

Yes! Why worry too much? But I'm very optimistic that CdeO is one of Ayala's best choices for their upcoming Ayala Center just like Cebu has. The phenomenal progression of CdeO that even spills up in Northern Mindanaon provinces and cities, and the potential of CdeO to become another Cebu, has drawn the Ayalas to acquire hundreds of hectares of land since mid 90's here and in Laguindingan since early 1960's. :cheers:

WawaY[625]

May 16th, 2008, 06:08 AM

ok yan.2 ayala malls sa mindanao tapos less than 6 hours away lang :)

Farirah

May 16th, 2008, 06:11 AM

Farirah

May 16th, 2008, 06:14 AM

;20734673']ok yan.2 ayala malls sa mindanao tapos less than 6 hours away lang :)

Good to know! :cheers:

xzibit31

May 16th, 2008, 06:14 AM

Farirah

May 16th, 2008, 06:18 AM

upcoming? u mean na hindi pa pala?

Perhaps you already forget to translate it to Visayan.

Upcoming-----Umaabot pa. It doesn't mean hindi na pala.

Ask me a question like this again, and I will let you answer it by yourself. :)

xzibit31

May 16th, 2008, 06:24 AM

Perhaps you already forget to translate it to Visayan.

Upcoming-----Umaabot pa. It doesn't mean hindi na pala.

Ask me a question like this again, and I will let you answer it by yourself. :)

why so defensive farirah?

sorry but i really dont understand visayan that well...

WawaY[625]

May 16th, 2008, 06:28 AM

Don't ever talk to me like that as if I don't get your point here. OK! :)

Well if you don't want to include Samal City or Tagum City in your Metro Davao because Davao's land area is already very big, our very own Tagoloan and Villanueva, in accordance to upcoming Metro CdeO's proposal by our local politicians here, are included in CdeO's progression.

Try to understand if you can't understand, or perhaps you hesitate to understand. ^^

kasi po,technically wala namang official na "metro davao" media lang po at yung ibang institution ang gumagawa nyan.according to a study kasi, davao is a metropolitan city dahil sa population nya na lampas 1 million :yes: but if we are talking of the metro setup gaya ng metro manila and cebu (na maraming cities forming one metro) then hindi po ganun :)

sa pagkakaintindi ko,davao is a metropolis (kumbaga bigger than a typical city in terms of population) but isnt a metro davao (gaya ng metro manila and metro cebu)

funny naman if we include tagum sa metro davao eh hindi naman seamless yung urban transition ng dalawang cities since may hindi pa built up areas betwwen them.same goes for panabo and digos.now kung ipipilit po yun,parang katawa tawa kasi nga unlike the mandaue-cebu or pasay-manila transition na seamless urbanity,if i include namin yan areas outside davao city.medyo parang "pinugoss po :yes:

if gusto pa po ninyo further discusion/explanation,id be glad to continue this topic sa davao thread po :)

Farirah

May 16th, 2008, 06:29 AM

why so defensive farirah?

sorry but i really dont understand visayan that well...

Am I? Or you're just afraid to say your innermost thought that the UPCOMING Ayala Mall here is just a sort of hype, and you want to pinpoint that hype on me, or let's say to our Vice Mayor here?

Maybe you don't understand Visayan well because you forget to read your own Visayan statement just below your username. :nuts:

xzibit31

May 16th, 2008, 06:32 AM

Am I? Or you're just afraid to say your innermost thought that the UPCOMING Ayala Mall here is just a sort of hype, and you want to pinpoint that hype on me, or let's say to our Vice Mayor here?

Maybe you don't understand Visayan well because you forget to read your own Visayan statement just below your username. :nuts:

oh come on farirah..i am not rying to instigate any fight here....i said that i dont understand visayan that well. i did not say that i did not understand visayan completely.

regarding the ayala thing, it is you who said that and not me.:nuts:

Farirah

May 16th, 2008, 06:33 AM

;20735033']kasi po,technically wala namang official na "metro davao" media lang po at yung ibang institution ang gumagawa nyan.according to a study kasi, davao is a metropolitan city dahil sa population nya na lampas 1 million :yes: but if we are talking of the metro setup gaya ng metro manila and cebu (na maraming cities forming one metro) then hindi po ganun :)

sa pagkakaintindi ko,davao is a metropolis (kumbaga bigger than a typical city in terms of population) but isnt a metro davao (gaya ng metro manila and metro cebu)

funny naman if we include tagum sa metro davao eh hindi naman seamless yung urban transition ng dalawang cities since may hindi pa built up areas betwwen them.same goes for panabo and digos.now kung ipipilit po yun,parang katawa tawa kasi nga unlike the mandaue-cebu or pasay-manila transition na seamless urbanity,if i include namin yan areas outside davao city.medyo parang "pinugoss po :yes:

if gusto pa po ninyo further discusion/explanation,id be glad to continue this topic sa davao thread po :)

Okey. That's yours! But please @Waway, kindly respect our proposal to be metropolitan in the future because it's our ambition. Just MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS out there if that's your proposal as being "metro" na hindi pinugos. Bakit pinugos ba sab diay ang among proposal regarding upcoming metro, tell me nga, please? ^^

Farirah

May 16th, 2008, 06:35 AM

oh come on farirah..i am not rying to instigate any fight here....i said that i dont understand visayan that well. i did not say that i did not understand visayan completely.

regarding the ayala thing, it is you who said that and not me.:nuts:

But why misleading my word "upcoming" (while I just based that word to Sunstar official press release) as HINDI PALA instead of saying PAPARATING PA? Intention ba talaga yan or nagkunwari ka lang na Bisaya ka rin? :nuts:

xzibit31

May 16th, 2008, 06:37 AM

But why misleading my word "upcoming" (while I just based that word to Sunstar official press release) as HINDI PALA instead of saying PAPARATING PA? :nuts:

did i or did u perceive it to be farirah?

Farirah

May 16th, 2008, 06:40 AM

did i or did u perceive it to be farirah?

I never perceived it, I just based it from your own "intentional" translation as "Hindi Pala" instead of saying the right word as "Paparating Pa Pala?" :lol:

xzibit31

May 16th, 2008, 06:41 AM

I never perceived it, I just based it from your own "intentional" translation as "Hindi Pala" instead of saying the right word as "Paparating Pa Pala?" :lol:

yes u did..because if you did not, you would have not answered that way to me...

GearX

May 16th, 2008, 06:42 AM

there goes the fault finders....ayaw talaga nila ng progress ng Cagayan de Oro...:cheers:

WawaY[625]

May 16th, 2008, 06:44 AM

Okey. That's yours! But please @Waway, kindly respect our proposal to be metropolitan in the future because it's our ambition. Just MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS out there if that's your proposal as being "metro" na hindi pinugos. Bakit pinugos ba sab diay ang among proposal regarding upcoming metro, tell me nga, please? ^^

naunsa man ka? why so harsh nga i was talking about a metro davao scenario nga "pinugoss if i include ang tagum,panabo,digos ug sta cruz.tinood man jud,murag pinugos man nag dating since dako man ang non-built up area between theses cities.

imo.sakto ra tawagon metro kung sama sa metro cebu ug metro manila nga "seamle ang urbanity between the cities nga apil sa metro mao dili ko ganahan na tawagon part sa metro davao ang tagum,panabo etc. kay para sa akoa murag "pinugos" ang dating. imagina tawagon natong tagum city,metro davao pero sa imong pagbyahe naa ta makita rural area in between ug dili seamless ang urban sprawl.diba pinugos man jud ug trying hard ang gawas?

xzibit31

May 16th, 2008, 06:45 AM

hi there mr M. B.:)

Farirah

May 16th, 2008, 06:50 AM

yes u did..because if you did not, you would have not answered that way to me...

Haay naku! I won't bother you anymore. Pass the popcorn please, @GearX.

Please visitors from the premier city of Southern Mindanao, all we ask from you is that don't make our CdeO thread just a mess somehow. Thanks a lot in advance for your cooperation. I am expecting that this thread 22 will have a nice flow of discussion, but what is happening now? Hmmm...^^

Anyway enough of this. We are near for thread 23. @michael ray, please do our honor to be the author of thread 23. Thanks! :cheers:

michael_ray

May 16th, 2008, 06:58 AM

;20734403']hahaha korek ka dyan! lols tawag namim dyan before kay mga "nakuratan sa ilang pagka atenista" mas prevalent yan nung college kami kasi diba nga marami din from out of town ( oi im not referring to any particular place ha) then feel kaau nila na atenista na sila and mag pa sossy jud kuno maski halata na pinugos ra.hahaha

but di lang naman siguro sa addu meron may mga "nakuratan sa pagka atenista" oi.hehe meron din siguro sa ibang schools.kahit sa xu meron din siguro :yes: :)

Talaga nmang nahulaan mo na addu ang tinutukoy ko ha... Ikaw na mismo ang nagsabi... Yep, XU has these kind of people too... Maski saan nman siguro. One time, I was in your food court jan sa addu. I heard certain students speaking in tagalog na medyo baluktot ang accent and medyo pa sossy ang gesture.. Funny to hear but I ignored 'em nalang. Anyway, let them live the life that they want... Who cares? Ei, I miss Davao so much. I am planning to visit my lola and my uncle there before I'll take the licensure exam. Pareho na silang six feet under. I forgot the name sa cemetery, parang Davao Memorial ata yun... Yung nakikita lang ang jacksridge (did i get the spelling right?) from the cemetery?
By the way, guys, I am planning to take pictures sa XU especially sa renovation sa CIT buildling. For those who have taken pics sa XU before, do I still need to ask permission sa school? Guide me...

WawaY[625]

May 16th, 2008, 07:02 AM

there goes the fault finders....ayaw talaga nila ng progress ng Cagayan de Oro...:cheers:

mao lagi ning nakapait dire kay pasanginlan dayon mi na kontra mi sa progress sa cdo or worse,nga envious daw mig insecure.kabalo ko naa ta sa "mind your own business" mode karon but allow me to clear nga we are neither envious/insecure sa cdo nor are we against sa progress sa cdo.

mahal namin ang mindanao at kasali na dyan ang cdo.mu react lang man mi if naay murag "way klaro" nga post.kumbaga a reminder nga "pag sure oi" lang gud :) now if mapakita na sure jud then we will be more than happy to embrace the good news with you guys man ba :)

example ra ha.yung ali mall,murag binuang man gud kay when was the last time nag develop ug bag-ong property ang owner sa ali mall? (gawas sa cubao) mao medyo nakatawa mi kay you guys seem to embrace any "news" as long as nindot paminawon without being skeptical sa sa validity ani(mao we act as tiga "klaro")

yep i know dili namo role nang tga klaro (remember the"a leading" issue sa una) kay kada buhaton namo murag pabalang man mo mutubag so usahay sa among thread namo ni ma discuss( so syempre murag lahi jud ang pgdawat para ninyo)

mao ra man to ba. :) dili man mi kontra sa paglambo sa ubang lugar,gina sure ra namo ang news. ug mga "declarations" para mas klaro ba.now if naay news sa davao thread na tan-aw nyo kinahanglan i clarify,then by all means welcome man mo :)

michael_ray

May 16th, 2008, 07:03 AM

Haay naku! I won't bother you anymore. Pass the popcorn please, @GearX.

Please visitors from the premier city of Southern Mindanao, all we ask from you is that don't make our CdeO thread just a mess somehow. Thanks a lot in advance for your cooperation. I am expecting that this thread 22 will have a nice flow of discussion, but what is happening now? Hmmm...^^

Anyway enough of this. We are near for thread 23. @michael ray, please do our honor to be the author of thread 23. Thanks! :cheers:

What???? I can hear a strong lub dub... Kabado ako. Pressure... Pressure... Sige, I'll try. Just guide me and tell me when to do it. PM me lang. Padayon CDEO! Thread 23... coming very soon...

WawaY[625]

May 16th, 2008, 07:06 AM

Talaga nmang nahulaan mo na addu ang tinutukoy ko ha... Ikaw na mismo ang nagsabi... Yep, XU has these kind of people too... Maski saan nman siguro. One time, I was in your food court jan sa addu. I heard certain students speaking in tagalog na medyo baluktot ang accent and medyo pa sossy ang gesture.. Funny to hear but I ignored 'em nalang.

haha ka relate man gud ko kay naa sab ko classmate na in-ana.kana gud pugson jud mag fit in maski dili.pa sossy pero lago gihapon ang dating.lols

i guess prevalent jud na sya sa mga (perceived) sossy na schools like sa mga ateneo (which shouldnt be the case kay dili dapat ikapasigarbo na but ang tinon-an dapat ang tutokan)

Farirah

May 16th, 2008, 07:15 AM

;20735544']mao lagi ning nakapait dire kay pasanginlan dayon mi na kontra mi sa progress sa cdo or worse,nga envious daw mig insecure.kabalo ko naa ta sa "mind your own business" mode karon but allow me to clear nga we are neither envious/insecure sa cdo nor are we against sa progress sa cdo.

mahal namin ang mindanao at kasali na dyan ang cdo.mu react lang man mi if naay murag "way klaro" nga post.kumbaga a reminder nga "pag sure oi" lang gud :) now if mapakita na sure jud then we will be more than happy to embrace the good news with you guys man ba :)

example ra ha.yung ali mall,murag binuang man gud kay when was the last time nag develop ug bag-ong property ang owner sa ali mall? (gawas sa cubao) mao medyo nakatawa mi kay you guys seem to embrace any "news" as long as nindot paminawon without being skeptical sa sa validity ani(mao we act as tiga "klaro")

yep i know dili namo role nang tga klaro (remember the"a leading" issue sa una) kay kada buhaton namo murag pabalang man mo mutubag so usahay sa among thread namo ni ma discuss( so syempre murag lahi jud ang pgdawat para ninyo)

mao ra man to ba. :) dili man mi kontra sa paglambo sa ubang lugar,gina sure ra namo ang news. ug mga "declarations" para mas klaro ba.now if naay news sa davao thread na tan-aw nyo kinahanglan i clarify,then by all means welcome man mo :)

@Waway when I said about the upcoming ali mall by the Araneta Corp, I just based that claim from our own vice-mayor because whenever our Donkoy said, matutoloy talaga ang project basta wala lang sawsaw that in any means will hinder the upcoming project. And sorry if wala pang official press release about that ali mall.

Anyway sa thread niyo, di ba kayo nagsasalita ng ahead than official press release? And why care so much other news we had said here, which in fact in the first place we have the right to say the news ahead than official press release since this is our very own thread? Bakit ba, nakisawsaw ba kami sa news niyo ahead than official press release? We RESPECT your discussion because it's your thread. We don't know if you're just telling the truth or not, we DON'T CARE or say any bad words at all because we RESPECT your discussions.

So ano bang nakakatawa sa news ahead bago pa lalabas ang official press release? Tsaka di lang naman ang CdeO or Davao threads ang meron niyan, kundi sa other threads rin, meron rin silang NEWS AHEAD. Bakit nagfocus lang ba ang mga mata niyo dito sa NEWS AHEAD ng CdeO thread namin? Why give a damn that in fact we don't give a damn to your NEWS AHEAD? ^^

WawaY[625]

May 16th, 2008, 07:23 AM

@farirah

kalma lang :)

well in my case di lang naman ako sa cdeo tumatambay (at nagiging peste sa mata nf forumers :lol:) but sa ibang threads din (tanong mo pa sa dumaguete and bacolod guys) lol

sa ibang threads naman kasi once di pa sure then they see to it na di pa talaga sure,they accept the post positively but at the same time with skepticism (ganun din sa davao threads lalo na pag di pa sure)

and yes,we respect your thread.kaya nga kami nagka clarify sa validity ng claims eh kasi we respect you thread and we want to make your thread respectable (and credible) kayo kasi pag nagtatanong or clarify kami mag accuse kaagad na nambabara lang kami which isnt the case naman po.kina clarify lang po ang ibang post nyo to keep the forums credible :)

Farirah

May 16th, 2008, 07:32 AM

;20735842']@farirah

kalma lang :)

well in my case di lang naman ako sa cdeo tumatambay (at nagiging peste sa mata nf forumers :lol:) but sa ibang threads din (tanong mo pa sa dumaguete and bacolod guys) lol

sa ibang threads naman kasi once di pa sure then they see to it na di pa talaga sure,they accept the post positively but at the same time with skepticism (ganun din sa davao threads lalo na pag di pa sure)

and yes,we respect your thread.kaya nga kami nagka clarify sa validity ng claims eh kasi we respect you thread and we want to make your thread respectable (and credible) kayo kasi pag nagtatanong or clarify kami mag accuse kaagad na nambabara lang kami which isnt the case naman po.kina clarify lang po ang ibang post nyo to keep the forums credible :)

Oh, Is my blood pressure now 150/100?

Anyway di naman sa agad na nag-accuse kami, ang ayaw lang namin mangyari is that may "paririnig" diyan like one of your forum enthusiasts out there na nagsabi: "Di ba kabangkrapon naman na ang ali mall?" at may hinalo pang smiley na ganito: :lol:. So what does that Visayan statement imply now? Naghype lang ba ako while basing my statement from our very own Donkoy? Hmmmm.

Kung magclarify kayo, wag yung backbiting or magtanong na parang insulto sa credibilidad namin na may kasama again na smiley na :lol:.

Dapat mag-ask lang kayo in a gentle and "unintentional" manner, at sasagutin namin ang tanong niyo. Yun lang naman ang kulang sa inyo eh. :cheers:

WawaY[625]

May 16th, 2008, 07:37 AM

well may point ka dyan :) pero baka naman kasi nadala na sa past incidents na nagtatanong kami eh sabihin na nambabara kami:)

pero sige,i'll see kung ano pwede kong gawin about this:)

boju2

May 16th, 2008, 07:43 AM

;20735544']mao lagi ning nakapait dire kay pasanginlan dayon mi na kontra mi sa progress sa cdo or worse,nga envious daw mig insecure.kabalo ko naa ta sa "mind your own business" mode karon but allow me to clear nga we are neither envious/insecure sa cdo nor are we against sa progress sa cdo.

mahal namin ang mindanao at kasali na dyan ang cdo.mu react lang man mi if naay murag "way klaro" nga post.kumbaga a reminder nga "pag sure oi" lang gud :) now if mapakita na sure jud then we will be more than happy to embrace the good news with you guys man ba :)

example ra ha.yung ali mall,murag binuang man gud kay when was the last time nag develop ug bag-ong property ang owner sa ali mall? (gawas sa cubao) mao medyo nakatawa mi kay you guys seem to embrace any "news" as long as nindot paminawon without being skeptical sa sa validity ani(mao we act as tiga "klaro")

yep i know dili namo role nang tga klaro (remember the"a leading" issue sa una) kay kada buhaton namo murag pabalang man mo mutubag so usahay sa among thread namo ni ma discuss( so syempre murag lahi jud ang pgdawat para ninyo)

mao ra man to ba. :) dili man mi kontra sa paglambo sa ubang lugar,gina sure ra namo ang news. ug mga "declarations" para mas klaro ba.now if naay news sa davao thread na tan-aw nyo kinahanglan i clarify,then by all means welcome man mo :)

There's no rule to prevent airing speculations and or assumptions. Kaya nga forum para mapag usapan ang mga bagay bagay na may kaugnayan sa tema ng pinag-usapan. Kung may pinag usapan man kami dito na hanggang ngayon hindi pa dumating, bakit naman kayo ang naiinip? At anong pakialam nyo, bakit kayo affected? Dapat mga kasamahan namin ang magreklamo kung bakit hindi pa dumating sa ngayon ang pinag usapan. Bakit kayo? Kung wala pa kayong narinig na nagbaranch out ang alimall, diba ngayon na? Kung natatawa kayo o di tumawa kayo pero wag nyo lang kaming pakialaman, hilabtanon kaba gyod?

Ba't naman pupunta kami sa inyo at magtatanong, ayaw naming gulo. Naranasan ko na yan, ako pa ang napasama valid naman ang tanong ko. Wag nyong i-compare ang mga project nyo sa amin dahil nalaman nyo nalang ang mga project nyo nung malapit na magsimula unlike sa amin giharvest pa ang binhi at gibulad pa alam na namin...

WawaY[625]

May 16th, 2008, 07:46 AM

hay boju basaha na lang ang akong reply kang farirah kay same ra man mog pangutana :)

boju2

May 16th, 2008, 08:01 AM

o god farirah its you messing what is right and wrong. i get in to say my point whats youre thread like in the outside. its obvious youre one among those who could not handle raw informations sensibly. messing and twisting logical opinions. i dont know but all that is good now is put informations in right perspective. separate whats with your citys from the province. and by saying that i dont mean synergestic economic benefits. i mean the credits to the place where it should belong. until then, questions on quality and credibility of infos, already in a mess, coming out on this thread will keep coming back. questions that were received indifferently ending up in your defensive pretenses and assumptions rather than straight forward answers. otherwise, it gets me to go on thinking its what you get living around “journalists” who kept telling locales laguindingan is a international airport when all else were already told by a official statement its not.

mtro davao is all of city of davao only
and correct me if wrong to address

tagoloan, cagayan de oro city
philippines

Hi mtapo. Did you remember the last time that you are repugnance to believe that Hanjin will build its project here (the last time Hanjin announced that they build 1B dollar shipyard in misamis Oriental)? I hardly defended my side cox you want a recent article that will state the press release or any news info pertaining of the Hanjin's intention to invest here in this side of the country. Now, heres you again. Welcome mtapo:cheers: Ano na ngayon, diba matutuloy na? Nagiging 2B dollars pa. Diba ang bait ni Lord, dinoble pa. Baka isa ka sa mga nag-intention na sulutin ang Hanjin or scrap the project kaya binulabog ang hanjin just recently?

Now, you questioned the Hanjin's significance in CDO's economy? OMG, basic understanding lang ang kailangan at bahala kana dyan pag intindi dahil ayoko nang bunaba sa level mo. i'm sorry to said that.

Here's, what if If I ask you that a city A connects the name of city B in a thread. we all knows the naming convention of our threads. but I see special on this one thread you belong. hindi kaya kinabit nyo lang ang city B para makisakay sa mga blessings ni city B ngayon? Para naman madagdagn ang tamis ni city A? That's questionable? City A is geographically and politically not related to city B.:):)

>>>City A + City B thread

>>>CDO - MIsamis Oriental thread

boju2

May 16th, 2008, 08:05 AM

;20736197']hay boju basaha na lang ang akong reply kang farirah kay same ra man mog pangutana :)

Welcome naman ang tanong mo. Kung saan nagsimula na umangal kami ay dahil sa inyong thread halos everyday ay may mga paririnig at alam naman namin na kami yun? You always hitting us below the belt. We found out that you are very affected in what we speculate. kung may tanong kayo ei di deretso kayo tanong sa amin? If you are not satisfied ei di lumayas ka at ayawg segeg panglibak. deal?

Farirah

May 16th, 2008, 08:12 AM

Gulf Coast

May 16th, 2008, 09:04 AM

Hello! As far as I know, In Theory, a Metropolis is an area which is composed of cities. Take for example Metro Manila. Within Manila, They have Pasig, Makati, Mandaluyong, Quezon, Municipalities like Navotas, Manila itself and more....
In Davao's case, I guess it does not qualify as such. Tagum is not part of davao city and same is true with samal. the only way that davao can be a metropolis is when toril will be a city itself.

OT:
A Megapolis on the otherhand is an area which is composed of metropolis. Manila I guess is not a Megapolis. the only way this would be true is if Katipunan(part of QC) for example, will reach the city-status thus making QC a metropolis. Making QC a metropolis will transform the METRO status to a MEGA status.

I really dont know why Media refer Davao as Metro because as far as I know, population isnt really the "factor". But I might be wrong....

Same goes i guess for Cagayan de Oro... Calling CDO for the next 10 years is not just the best thing to do...

btw.. My brother's with XU

btw one more time... im from davao... not in the country now... not here to be against cdo... just here for facts! thanks!

GearX

May 16th, 2008, 09:17 AM

:applause::applause::applause:
malapit na T-23....

Il Tenore

May 16th, 2008, 09:21 AM

^^what is T-23?

~JasoN~

May 16th, 2008, 09:25 AM

^^ terminal 23 ng lumbia airport . di biro lng . thread 23 po :lol:

agaton

May 16th, 2008, 09:32 AM

Wow Thread 23.....:rock:

Il Tenore

May 16th, 2008, 09:37 AM

^^ terminal 23 ng lumbia airport . di biro lng . thread 23 po :lol:
last post na!! T-23 na!

thanks jason!! hehe!

michael_ray

May 16th, 2008, 09:44 AM

http://img31.picoodle.com/img/img31/4/5/15/f_T23m_10e1d15.jpg (http://www.picoodle.com/view.php?img=/4/5/15/f_T23m_10e1d15.jpg&srv=img31)

michael_ray

May 16th, 2008, 10:03 AM

Welcome to our new thread. Enjoy your stay! :)

Dreamer's

May 16th, 2008, 10:18 AM

:banana: yahoo thread 23 na :banana:, nise work michael ray :cheers:

Dreamer's

May 16th, 2008, 10:20 AM

Friday, May 16, 2008
Job fair at TS Spirit of MOL a success
By Annabelle L. Ricalde

AROUND 120 hopeful seamen and maritime officers including those for auxiliary personnel such as cooks, stewards, electricians, plumbers, and others successfully filed their application as the biggest Japanese shipping conglomerate in the world conducted a whole day job fair at the Cagayan de Oro Port aboard the Training Ship (T/S) Spirit of MOL.

The open house and job fair activity was conducted last Monday at the berth 12 of the Macabalan wharf this city in which the first ever recruitment venture of MOL aboard the ship.

Arroyo Watch: Sun.Star blog on President Arroyo

Representative Rufus Rodriguez of the 2nd District of Cagayan de Oro said it was the first time that T/S Spirit of MOL has done such kind of undertaking in the Philippines and Kagay-anons should be grateful for chosen Cagayan de Oro for the said activity.

The congressman was the one who facilitated the trip of the T/S Spirit of MOL here in the city during a visit of the ship's crew to his office in Manila.

"I invited them to call on Cagayan de Oro port to conduct a job fair for their manpower needs," Rodriguez said as he personally welcomed the visitors led by Hideki Ikehata, general manager of the training department, T/S Spirit of MOL; Captain Ghonosem Deo, head instructor; Jorge Factuar, chief engineer; Captain Marlon Glarino; Captain Yuji Nishihara, general manager of Mitsui OSK Maritime Training Corporation (MOTR); and Captain Joel Abutal, dean and training director, MOTR.

Rodriguez also welcomed some city officials including heads and staff of various government agencies like the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA), Bureau of Customs (BOC), Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (Owwa), Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda), and several barangay officials.

The MOL Group of companies operates a fleet of 777 ships with a total tonnage of 50,752 deadweight tons including containerships, tankers and specialized carriers for a range of products and commodities, oil, cars and passengers.

It is also engaged in operating several businesses in which they employed 8,621 employees worldwide, including 13,000 Filipino seamen.

Captain Joel Abutal, dean and training director of MOTR, said MOL is the first training ship to be managed by a private shipping firm though it is owned and operated by Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd. (MOL). It has 150 cadets and a crew of 45 but can accommodate up to 180 cadets. The present crop of cadets includes Filipinos, Chinese, Indians, Indonesians, Japanese, Russians and Vietnamese.

"The ship was acquired by MOL for its training needs, since it now owns, leases and operates over 800 ships globally, with plans to expand this to 1,100 by 2010," Abutal added.

(May 16, 2008 issue)
Write letter to the editor. Click here.

For more Philippine news, visit Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro.

Dreamer's

May 16th, 2008, 10:22 AM

Friday, May 16, 2008
Generics Pharmacy now at Ororama

THE cost of expensive medicines adds up to the headaches Filipinos face in the midst of economic crisis.

In recent years, however, there have been attempts to convince the public to buy generic drugs because they cost less than branded medicines. One of those selling affordable medicines is The Generic Pharmacy, which was set up in 2001 but its beginnings can be traced back to 1959.

Arroyo Watch: Sun.Star blog on President Arroyo

The company launched retail pharmacy operations to be more accessible to the consumers. It has become a successful venture hinged largely on the efficacy of generic drugs and their significantly lower prices.

Generic drugs are cheaper because they have been manufactured without the same development costs that new branded drugs entail. The Generics Pharmacy is the only pharmacy that gives the 20 percent discount to senior citizens even without the booklet.

"As long as they have the prescription, we will ask no questions," according to Mr. Benjamin Liuson, one of the entrepreneurs and now the president of the company. At present, The Generics Pharmacy has arrived in Cagayan de Oro City available at the Ororama Megacenter Pharmacy, Lapasan, Cagayan de Oro. For more details consult your Ororama pharmacist at Ororama Megacenter pharmacy. (Press release)

(May 16, 2008 issue)

Dreamer's

May 16th, 2008, 10:28 AM

wow dami good news ah, God bless CdeO :cheers:

boju2

May 16th, 2008, 10:41 AM

Hi mtapo. Did you remember the last time that you are repugnance to believe that Hanjin will build its project here (the last time Hanjin announced that they build 1B dollar shipyard in misamis Oriental)? I hardly defended my side cox you want a recent article that will state the press release or any news info pertaining of the Hanjin's intention to invest here in this side of the country. Now, heres you again. Welcome mtapo:cheers: Ano na ngayon, diba matutuloy na? Nagiging 2B dollars pa. Diba ang bait ni Lord, dinoble pa. Baka isa ka sa mga nag-intention na sulutin ang Hanjin or scrap the project kaya binulabog ang hanjin just recently?

Now, you questioned the Hanjin's significance in CDO's economy? OMG, basic understanding lang ang kailangan at bahala kana dyan pag intindi dahil ayoko nang bunaba sa level mo. i'm sorry to said that.

Here's, what if If I ask you that a city A connects the name of city B in a thread. we all knows the naming convention of our threads. but I see special on this one thread you belong. hindi kaya kinabit nyo lang ang city B para makisakay sa mga blessings ni city B ngayon? Para naman madagdagn ang tamis ni city A? That's questionable? City A is geographically and politically not related to city B.:):)

>>>City A + City B thread

>>>CDO - MIsamis Oriental thread

Pinahanap ang tao na yan ng Oro Chamber before. Oro Chamber was so embittered by the ridiculous comment of this guy why Hanjin should invest here in CdeO? At kung sino man ang tao na yan, yun ang tao na KATKAT ===Antiprogress. :bash:

Ewan ko sa taong yan, balikatad ang pangisip...

Hello! As far as I know, In Theory, a Metropolis is an area which is composed of cities. Take for example Metro Manila. Within Manila, They have Pasig, Makati, Mandaluyong, Quezon, Municipalities like Navotas, Manila itself and more....
In Davao's case, I guess it does not qualify as such. Tagum is not part of davao city and same is true with samal. the only way that davao can be a metropolis is when toril will be a city itself.

OT:
A Megapolis on the otherhand is an area which is composed of metropolis. Manila I guess is not a Megapolis. the only way this would be true is if Katipunan(part of QC) for example, will reach the city-status thus making QC a metropolis. Making QC a metropolis will transform the METRO status to a MEGA status.

I really dont know why Media refer Davao as Metro because as far as I know, population isnt really the "factor". But I might be wrong....

Same goes i guess for Cagayan de Oro... Calling CDO for the next 10 years is not just the best thing to do...

btw.. My brother's with XU

btw one more time... im from davao... not in the country now... not here to be against cdo... just here for facts! thanks!

OT gyod ka...:)

boju2

May 16th, 2008, 10:43 AM

:cheers::cheers:Thanks Michael_ray for opening this thread.

Btw, pwede mong maedit ang fisrt and 2nd posts mo para naman :ok: ang kinalabasan... :cheers::cheers::cheers: Padayon CDO:cheers::cheers:

boju2

May 16th, 2008, 10:49 AM

Cagayan de Oro Audio Visual Presentation

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Cagayan de Oro Pueblo Promotional Video Part 1

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Cagayan de Oro Pueblo Promotional Video Part 2

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Cagayan de Oro Pueblo Promotional Video Part 3

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Gulf Coast

May 16th, 2008, 10:56 AM

[QUOTE=boju2;20739601]Cagayan de Oro Audio Visual Presentation

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this one is nice! :)

Gulf Coast

May 16th, 2008, 11:10 AM

Ewan ko sa taong yan, balikatad ang pangisip...

OT gyod ka...:)

really? just want to enlighten some... just really wondering why some are so inlove with the term metro... :)

Gulf Coast

May 16th, 2008, 11:13 AM

Alingatong

May 16th, 2008, 11:30 AM

henji

May 16th, 2008, 12:36 PM

nice ang banner sa 23thread sa Cagayan de Oro. parallel aiu ang mga structures sa Downtown.

Dreamer's

May 16th, 2008, 12:45 PM

PIA Press Release
2008/05/16

Pres. Arroyo to grace farmers' meet in CdeO May 21
by Rutchie Cabahug-Aguhob

Cagayan de Oro City (16 May) -- Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is expected in Cagayan de Oro City on May 21, 2008 to address this year's participants of the 16th ASEAN Farmers Week (AFW).

The President will also lead the oath-taking of the newly elected national officials of the Rural Based Organizations (RBO), such as the Pambansang Mannalon-Mag-uuma-Magbabaul-Magsasaka ng Pilipinas (P4MP), Rural Improvement Club (RIC) and the 4-H Club at Grand Caprice Restaurant, LKK Complex, Lapasan, this city.

An annual celebration of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), the AFW on May 20-22, 2008, will focus on the theme "Going Beyond: Strengthening ASEAN Farmer Organizations."

It involves the exchange visits of agricultural officials, trainers and farmers of ASEAN member-countries and gives delegates the opportunity to share experiences, agricultural information and updates on new technologies for agri-business ventures.

The AFW also aims to identify pressing problems/constraints and possible solutions in the promotion of demand-driven, competitive agri-business sector in a free market and forge cooperation among ASEAN member countries to aggressively promote the same within the region.

Meanwhile, simultaneous national conventions of these RBO's will be held during the 3-day affair in separate venues of the city to symbolize the farm family concept.

"About 1,500 women, youth and farmers from the rural areas and agricultural workers from ASEAN member countries are expected to attend the affair," Engr. Edwin B. Andot, Chairperson of the Regional Agricultural and Fishery Council (RAFC), region 10, said.

Particularly on May 20, the 4H Club delegates will meet at the Country Village Hotel in Barangay Carmen, where simultaneous contests in dish gardening, catsup making, poster making, extemporaneous speech and Original Pilipino Music (OPM) singing will take place.

The same day, the P4MP and the ASEAN delegates will meet at Grand Caprice Restaurant on the theme "Strengthening Youth Organizations Through Building Partnerships" and for lectures in E-Extension Program and Market Matching.

The RIC, on the other hand, will meet at Pearlmont Inn on the theme "Global Competitiveness of ASEAN Women" and for lectures on Population & Environment, Women's Rights and success stories on the subjects.

On May 21, all delegates of the AFW will meet at the Grand Caprice Rest. for lectures in bio-energy & renewable fuel sources, RBO concerns and to view the agricultural exhibits which will be opened by the Pres. Arroyo, Agriculture Secretary Arthur C. Yap and the RBO national officers & the ASEAN delegates.

Field tours to selected farms in the city and nearby areas, such as the Del Monte Pineapple Plantation, Dahilayan & Sil-ipon Vegetable Farm, Motherland Processing Plant and Kabulakan will be among the activities on May 22, Andot also said. (PIA 10) [top

www.pia.gov.ph

Dreamer's

May 16th, 2008, 12:49 PM

:lol::lol::lol: parang nagiging next home na ni Ate Glo ang CdeO ah. balikbalik po madam :banana:

neyoneyo80

May 16th, 2008, 12:50 PM

wow dami good news ah, God bless CdeO :cheers:

sinjin, why did you delete my "congratulatory wish" !!! :dunno: ;)

Dreamer's

May 16th, 2008, 12:51 PM

onlooker

May 16th, 2008, 01:16 PM

sinjin, why did you delete my "congratulatory wish" !!! :dunno: ;)

he has reasons in doing so...

ph_matrix

May 16th, 2008, 03:27 PM

^^ wow T23 na, asa walang ng masi sa thread natin. :lol::lol::lol:

ph_matrix

May 16th, 2008, 03:29 PM

repost ..

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Alingatong

May 16th, 2008, 03:35 PM

^^A testament of confidence. :cheers:

ph_matrix

May 16th, 2008, 03:44 PM

^^ Saan na "statement" doon pre ? :)

Alingatong

May 16th, 2008, 03:54 PM

^^Alegria Hills is a proof of Ayala's strong confidence in CdeO. :cheers:

ph_matrix

May 16th, 2008, 03:58 PM

:lol::lol::lol: I'm just joking .. hehehe, I'm searching for some good news regarding cdo..

Alingatong

May 16th, 2008, 04:02 PM

:lol::lol::lol: I'm just joking .. hehehe, I'm searching for some good news regarding cdo..

Why search? Cagayan de Oro herself is already more than a good news. :cheers:

ph_matrix

May 16th, 2008, 04:04 PM

^^ something new that no body knows yet. :cheers: or some video or pics never seen before. :nuts:

neyoneyo80

May 16th, 2008, 05:18 PM

anong magazine po ito, anong date or volume po? thanks po in advance. :cheers:

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Dreamer's

May 16th, 2008, 05:24 PM

anong magazine po ito, anong date or volume po? thanks po in advance. :cheers:

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mas maganda kung mag research ka na lang paring neyo' kasi secret nga eh :lol:

agaton

May 16th, 2008, 05:33 PM

anong magazine po ito, anong date or volume po? thanks po in advance. :cheers:

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wow, awesome view....

bariQ

May 16th, 2008, 05:36 PM

WOW.. our young city is doing great :D CONGRATS THREAD 23! :dance:

neyoneyo80

May 16th, 2008, 05:39 PM

mas maganda kung mag research ka na lang paring neyo' kasi secret nga eh :lol:

opo mareresearch na lang po ako :ohno: paano po kung wala po akong makita? :ohno: :cheers:

CGYanon

May 16th, 2008, 07:11 PM

michael_ray

May 16th, 2008, 07:53 PM

michael_ray

May 16th, 2008, 08:48 PM

Guys, I have been craving for seafoods lately. Any place to recommend? I know Panagatan na. But yung place lang sana with in the city proper.

donnex

May 16th, 2008, 10:21 PM

:cheers:Thread 23....naks.....pati ako nawala kasi walang link from the previous thread.....buti nalang pagala-gala ako anyway CONGRATS.......CDO!!!

Alingatong

May 17th, 2008, 12:26 AM

opo mareresearch na lang po ako :ohno: paano po kung wala po akong makita? :ohno: :cheers:

Paano nga ba kung wala kang makita? :ohno:

Ah! Di ba hilig mo ang magtanong-tanong? :) Eto gawin mo, tawagan mo na lang si Ayala at itanong mo lahat ng gusto mong malaman para maka-sigurado ka. :banana: I-relay mo sa amin sagot ni Ayala ha. Salamat po. :cheers:

Alingatong

May 17th, 2008, 12:49 AM

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Midway
Initao, Misamis Oriental

CGYanon

May 17th, 2008, 12:55 AM

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Midway
Initao, Misamis Oriental

thanks for the pic bai Ali. i love this beach, been here twice during the 90's (those were the days) :lol:

Alingatong

May 17th, 2008, 01:04 AM

^^You're welcome @CGYanon. :)

Misamis Oriental has lots of nice beaches to offer. They're just waiting to be rediscovered. :cheers:

CGYanon

May 17th, 2008, 01:31 AM

^^You're welcome @CGYanon. :)

Misamis Oriental has lots of nice beaches to offer. They're just waiting to be rediscovered. :cheers:

iiiiiiiii know! i remember we also went to Talisayan ba yun? east of MisOr, ganda ng white sand beaches dun. is Medina part of MisOr? pagkakaalam ko, meron din sila nice beach dun. sana Shangrila will go to Midway Initao and i-develop nila ang beach duon. kaso maliit lang ang place so di doable, hehe... :lol:

boju2

May 17th, 2008, 03:09 AM

donnex

May 17th, 2008, 04:58 AM

Saturday, May 17, 2008
PLDT to grant full scholarship to MPSC students
By Annabelle L. Ricalde

AS PART of their corporate social responsibilities and commitments, two corporations sponsored a full scholarship grant to deserving students in collaboration with the Mindanao Polytechnic State College and the Provincial Government of Misamis Oriental.

Arroyo Watch: Sun.Star blog on President Arroyo

A Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) was signed Wednesday between the PLDT-Smart Foundation Inc., PLDT Managers Club Inc., Mindanao Polytechnic State College and Misamis Oriental Governor Oscar S. Moreno.

The study known as the Gabay Guro (2G) Scholarship Grant will be awarded to ten scholars.

They will enroll at the Mindanao Polytechnic State College (MPSC) in the following courses; Bachelor of Science in Technology and Livelihood Education with four slots; BSE major in Mathemtics two slots; BSE major in Physical Sciences two slots and Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education (Beed) major in Special Education with two slots.

Rafael Limjoco Jr., president of the PLDT-Smart Foundation Inc., emphasized that the program aims to provide full tuition support, allowances and other school related expenses to the grantees.

"This program is one way of giving back to our ever loyal subscribers," Limjoco in his message said.

On his part, Governor Oscar Moreno said that applicants must all come from Misamis Oriental who belong to families with an annual gross income of not more than P100,000.

The students should pass the entrance examinations of MPSC and should undergo screening procedures administered by the school to be assisted by the provincial government.

To ensure there will be no favoritism in the selection process, the governor appealed to the screening committee to be objective, and it will be granted to truly deserving students.

"There is no politics and favoritism in this program, so dili lang unta mag-igi-igi ang uban," Moreno added.

Applicants should not enjoy any other scholarship benefits and must have obtained a general weighted average of 85 percent during their last year in high school.

The grant is available for each grantee from the start of their freshman year in the state college up to a maximum of four years.

The grantees must have passed the entrance exams of MPSC and should undergo screening procedures administered by the school to be assisted by the provincial government.

PLDT-Smart Foundation Inc. treasurer June Cheryl Cabal said they are encouraging the grantees to teach in secondary schools in the Philippines after they have finished the course.

GearX

May 17th, 2008, 05:15 AM

WOW grabe ang bilis natin, singbilis ng pag-unlad ng city natin. OK lang kahit David-size lang ang city natin, at least kayang tumbahin ang mga Goliath-size city di ba mga bai! yee-hah... :banana:
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nice collage CGYanon, gumawa ka rin ng collage ng mga logo of major industries along Cagayan-Iligan Corridor, to name a few:

1. Asia Brewery, Inc. - El Salvador City
2. Holcim Phils., Inc. - Lugait, Mis. Or.
3. Pilmico Foods Corp. - Iligan City
4. STEAG State Power, Inc. - PHIVIDEC
5. Purefoods Corp. - CDO
6. Universal Robina Corp. - El Salvador City
7. Nestlé Phils., Inc. - CDO
8. Del Monte Phils., Inc. - CDO
9. Lafarge - Iligan Cement Corp. - Iligan City
10. Granexport Mfg. Corp. - Iligan City
11. Philippine Sinter Corp. - PHIVIDEC
12. Pilipinas Kao, Inc. - Jasaan, Mis. Or.
13. Petronas Energy Philippines, Inc. - Iligan City
14. NAPOCOR - Iligan City
15. Limketkai Mfg. Corp. - CDO/PHIVIDEC
16. Global Steelworks Philippines, Inc - Iligan City
17. Treasure Steel Corp. (Formerly National Steel Corporation) - Iligan City
18. Mabuhay Vinyl Corp. - Iligan City
19. Platinum Group Metals Corp. - Iligan City/Manticao, Mis Or.
20. San Miguel Corp. – Iligan Coconut Oil - Iligan City
21. Refractories Corp. of the Philippines - Iligan City
22. Zesto Corp. - El Salvador City
23. Vitarich Corp. - CDO
24. Mindanao Energy Systems, Inc. - CDO
25. Cagayan Corn Products Corp. - CDO
26. Cagayan de Oro Oil Mill Corp. - CDO
27. Liwayway Mfg. Corp. - CDO
28. Union Plywood Corp. - El Salvador City
29. Top Forest Devt. Corp. - PHIVIDEC
30. Techno-Stress Systems, Inc. - CDO
31. Vicmar Devt. Corp. - PHIVIDEC
32. Swift Foods Corp. - PHIVIDEC
33. Phil. Spring Water Resources - CDO
34. Coca-Cola Bottlers Phils., Inc. - CDO
35. Pepsi-Cola Products Corp. - CDO
36. RI Chemical Corp. - Jasaan, Mis. Or.
37. Phil. Iron Construction & Marine Works, Inc. - Jasaan, Mis. Or.
38. Lafarge - Mindanao Portland Cement Corp. - Iligan City
39. Amley Foods Corporation - PHIVIDEC
40. Axent Wood Corporation - PHIVIDEC
41. Boom Marine Corporation - PHIVIDEC
42. Harumesh Company, Inc. - PHIVIDEC
43. HCH Wood Corporation - PHIVIDEC
44. Jetti Supply Distribution, Inc. - PHIVIDEC
45. Mindanao Silicon Metal Corp. - PHIVIDEC
46. Pacific Activated Carbon Corp. - PHIVIDEC
47. Pryce Gases, Inc. - PHIVIDEC
48. Pilipinas Shell, Inc. - PHIVIDEC/CDO/Iligan City
49. Shell Gas (LPG) Philippines, Inc. - PHIVIDEC
50. Southern Industrial Gases Phils., Inc. - PHIVIDEC
51. Steniel Mindanao Packaging Corp. - PHIVIDEC
52. SWL Enterprises Corp. - PHIVIDEC
53. Timber Wood Development Corp. - PHIVIDEC
54. Elegant Chemical Alloy Corp. - PHIVIDEC
55. San Miguel Foods, Inc. - PHIVIDEC
56. Petron Corp. - PHIVIDEC/CDO/Iligan City
57. WL Foods Corporation - El Salvador City
58. Virgin Cola Bottling Corp. - El Salvador City
59. Tanduay Distilleries, Inc. - El Salvador City
60. Timber Industries of the Phils., Inc. - El Salvador City
61. Cagayan Timber Corp. - CDO
62. Alwana Wood Corp. - CDO
63. TLC Beatrice Foods Phils., Inc. - PHIVIDEC
64. NewTech Pulp Inc. - Balo-i, Lanao del Norte
65. Caltex Phils., Inc. - CDO/Iligan City
66. Fil-Eslon Mfg. Corp. - Iligan City
67. Phil. National Oil Co. - Iligan City
68. London Biscuit Corp. - Iligan City
69. Republic Biscuit Corp. - Manolo Fortich, Buk.
70. KS Agro-industrial Ventures, Inc. - Libertad, Mis. Or.
71. Northern Mindanao Agro-Industrial Devt. Corp. - Libertad, Mis. Or.
72. JC Charcoal Processing Co. - Gitagum, Mis. Or.
73. Mindanao Aggregates, Inc. - Alubijid, Mis. Or.
74. Mindanao International Concrete Prod. - Alubijid, Mis. Or.
75. Fabriwood Processing Co., Inc. - El Salvador City
76. Philippine Dairy Corporation - El Salvador City
77. Orient Multifoods Mfg. Corp. - El Salvador City
78. AJ Wood Products, Inc. - CDO
79. De Oro Tropical Fruit Corp. - CDO
80. Phil. Agro-Industries Corp. - Baungon, Buk.
81. Rural Transit of Mindanao, Inc. - CDO
82. SLERS Industries - CDO
83. Star Paper Corporation - CDO
84. First Industrial Plastic Ventures, Inc. - CDO
85. Jacinto Southern Energy Corp. - PHIVIDEC
86. Mindanao Container Corp. - PHIVIDEC
87. Mindanao Oxy-Acetylene Gas Corp. - Laguindingan, Mis. Or.

etc....

GearX

May 17th, 2008, 05:18 AM

anong magazine po ito, anong date or volume po? thanks po in advance. :cheers:

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from CHI...annual report nila:cheers:

GearX

May 17th, 2008, 05:22 AM

Guys, I have been craving for seafoods lately. Any place to recommend? I know Panagatan na. But yung place lang sana with in the city proper.

Café Laguna, Mindy's and Lighthouse ...

GearX

May 17th, 2008, 05:36 AM

Sacred Heart vs Bloomingdale in 17-under finals (http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/cag/2008/05/17/sports/sacred.heart.vs.bloomingdale.in.17.under.finals.html)

SACRED Heart of Jesus Montessori School, made up of bronze-winning dribblers in the Puerto Princesa Palaro, made it to the championship round of the 2008 Jolas Cup here at Xavier University gym.

The fancied wards of coach Boy Dacoco overwhelmed host XU junior Crusaders as Bloomingdale Subdivision edged out Corpus Knights, 70-63 in the other half of the crossover matches.

Powered by the likes of Richard Kwong, Criszam Paniamogan, Ralph Chrysler Salcedo, George Justin Protacio and John Marco Tayongtong, Sacred Heart is set to dispute the Jolas Cup 17-under crown with Bloomingdale on May 25.

The first time they met in the elimination round, Sacred Heart won over Bloomingdale by just one shot.

"With experience plus their recent third-place finish in the Palawan Palaro, medyo dehado gyod `mi. But we're also proud to make it to the finals at the expense of Corpus Christi nga nipilde sab sa amo during the elimination round," said Pinggoy Castro, assistant to Bloomingdale head coach Wiwie Daba.

Going to the final minutes of the ballgame, the Corpus Christi Knights of coach Dodo Bernados were able to tie the score at 63-all. But redhot gunner Dan Danpasan rifled in a booming trey to ignite a decisive finish for Bloomingdale now under team manager Philip Chan.

Then under the wings of Chan's wife Naomi, Bloomingdale placed a respectable fourth in their last year's debut of the prestigious Jolas Cup named after former PBA star Isabelo "Jojo" Lastimosa who is a native of Cagayan de Oro.

Also in the cast of the slightly underdog Bloomingdale are not so familiar names in local cage community such as Mikhail Labuntog, Natty Taboclaon, Charles Bomotano, Jason Caburog, Eljy Berenguer, Loloy Flores, Jonald Gayloa, Noel Pabilona, Lance Turrecha, Vence Chan, Mark Daba, Mike Averia and Dodong Villanueva.

GearX

May 17th, 2008, 06:12 AM

BOC meets April collection target (http://www.portcalls.com/html/news/news20080512.html)

THE Bureau of Customs (BOC) met its April target collection, posting P21.76 billion and a surplus of P30 million.

The amount is P4.56 billion or 26.5% higher than collection for the same month last year.

Eight ports surpassed their individual targets, led by Ninoy Aquino International Airport with a P348-million surplus. Cagayan de Oro posted a P113 million surplus; Cebu, P60 million; and San Fernando, P57 million.

The Manila International Container Port, Legaspi, Davao and Clark ports exceeded their targets by P7.5 million, P0.5 million, P0.4 million and P1.4 million, respectively.

On the other hand, seven district ports fell short of their targets including the Port of Manila, by P1.65 billion, and Batangas by P862 million. Iloilo was also P1.6 million short; Tacloban, P9.7 million; Surigao, P4.3 million; Zamboanga, P2 million; and Subic P91 million.

For the first four months of the year, cumulative collections have reached P70.64 billion, up 23% or P13.22 billion from last year’s January-April performance but down 3.9% or P2.84 billion from the P73.48-billion target for the period.

Meanwhile, the BOC is in the process of reshuffling district collectors.

The revamp will affect all 15 district ports regardless of whether targets were met or not.

Finance Secretary Margarito Teves recently ordered Customs Commissioner Napoleon Morales to submit a list of three candidates per port for the post of district collector.

“I think a reshuffle may do the bureau a lot of good because it will promote transparency,” Morales said.

“This is a revenue-generating agency and we must ensure that everyone is a performer. For those who do not perform, the Lateral Attrition Board will have to decide (on what happens),” he added.

“For performers, they may be moved to bigger ports while for those who failed to perform… we will see,” Morales said.

GearX

May 17th, 2008, 06:13 AM

MCT sees 10% increase in container traffic

THE Mindanao Container Terminal (MCT) expects more direct callers and a 10% increase in containerized traffic once International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) takes over management and operations of the port by the end of June. This was disclosed to PortCalls by MCT port management chief Dante Clarito during the two-day RO-RO Conference reently held in Cagayan de Oro City.

He noted that ICTSI can market MCT to its network of international ports.

ICTSI currently operates ports in Ecuador, China, Syria, Georgia, Colombia, Poland, Brazil and Madagascar, among others. It is eyeing the operation of ports in other countries such as Vietnam.

“We are very upbeat about our prospect for MCT once ICTSI takes over next month,” Clarito said.

“We expect to increase the number of direct callers to the port and increase cargo traffic by 10% starting this year and complement our nearby government port in Cagayan de Oro,” Clarito said.

He added that MCT is now courting Thailand’s RCL and Singapore’s Pacific Eagle Lines Pte to call at the port.

“We are also pump-priming MCT’s infrastructure in line with the Mindanao development program. If the volume warrants, MCT will be expanding the terminal to double its capacity as well as put in more cargo-handling equipment,” Clarito said.

To date, MCT has three direct callers, namely Maersk, National Marine Corp and Lorenzo Shipping Corp. It also handles the shipments of Nestle, Pilipinas Kao, Del Monte’s wood industry, Dole and other general cargo.

MCT, located in Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental, is a flagship project of Mindanao. It is designed to accommodate an annual throughput of 270,000 twenty-foot equivalent units. The berth length is 300 meters (m with a depth of 13m below the mean lower low level. MCT has two gantry cranes and four rubber-tired gantries.

In its first year of full commercial operations in 2007, MCT recorded a 100% jump in cargo volume to more than 80,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) from only about 38,000-40,000 TEUs in 2006.

MCT, one of the most modern terminals in the area, was barred from accepting local and international cargoes in the last five years.

Oro Port, the cargo-handling operator of Cagayan de Oro, a government port located nearby, succeeded in convincing the court on the exclusivity of its contract to handle cargoes in and out of Cagayan de Oro. The court lifted its temporary restraining order in late 2006.

CGYanon

May 17th, 2008, 06:17 AM

nice collage CGYanon, gumawa ka rin ng collage ng mga logo of major industries along Cagayan-Iligan Corridor, to name a few:

dios mio @GearX! pagka damu gid, kakata-cute! around 50% of those ive never heard of. super galing talaga ng Cagayan/Iligan corridor. super twins of Normin! :banana:

CGYanon

May 17th, 2008, 06:27 AM

BOC meets April collection target (http://www.portcalls.com/html/news/news20080512.html)

Eight ports surpassed their individual targets, led by Ninoy Aquino International Airport with a P348-million surplus. Cagayan de Oro posted a P113 million surplus; Cebu, P60 million; and San Fernando, P57 million.

a big WOW! to think di pa kasali ang MCP na mag-operate this June by ICTSI. small but terrible talaga ang CdeO. ayos to mga migo! :applause:

Farirah

May 17th, 2008, 06:36 AM

Farirah

May 17th, 2008, 06:39 AM

dios mio @GearX! pagka damu gid, kakata-cute! around 50% of those ive never heard of. super galing talaga ng Cagayan/Iligan corridor. super twins of Normin! :banana:

OT for a second:

Halaka si CGYanon, marunong pala mag-Ilonggo somehow. Am I right? :colgate:

CGYanon

May 17th, 2008, 07:03 AM

OT for a second:

Halaka si CGYanon, marunong pala mag-Ilonggo somehow. Am I right? :colgate:

hindi ah, pataka lang to. mali pa ata ang spelling, wag sana magalit mga Ilonggo. back to topic, sana pumasok din sa MCP ang APL (http://www.apl.com/) para sulit na sulit ang new port. :cheers:
oops meron na pala APL sa CDO port and Bugo, sorry po...
http://www.apl.com/services/documents/sells_mkt_ia_mdx.pdf

dark_knight_detectve

May 17th, 2008, 01:05 PM

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May 17th, 2008, 01:06 PM

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Alingatong

May 17th, 2008, 01:07 PM

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*U.S. Ambassador Kristie A. Kenney (right) is assisted by Carol Yu (extreme left) and Quette Queja, (2^nd from left) of the Northern Mindanao Vegetable Producers Association (NorMinVeggies), as she purchases vegetables at the NorMinVeggies Consolidation Center in Cagayan de Oro City. Ambassador Kenney was the guest of honor at the 2^nd anniversary of the vegetable consolidation facility, which was established by NorMinVeggies with funding and technical support from USAID’s Growth with Equity in Mindanao (GEM) Program and the Department of Agriculture (DA). NorMinVeggies has introduced “best production practices” among its members and has established lucrative links with institutional buyers in Manila and Cebu. The GEM Program is implemented with the oversight of the Mindanao Economic Development Council. *(GEM)*

mindanao.com/photoblog (http://mindanao.com/photoblog/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/gem-photo_green-mindanao_amb-kenney.jpg)

dark_knight_detectve

May 17th, 2008, 01:09 PM

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May 17th, 2008, 01:11 PM

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May 17th, 2008, 01:12 PM

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May 17th, 2008, 01:12 PM

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May 17th, 2008, 02:13 PM

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May 17th, 2008, 02:14 PM

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May 17th, 2008, 02:16 PM

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xlt

May 17th, 2008, 03:31 PM

Henry R. Canoy, 84 (http://kagay-an.com/articles.php?art_id=1898&sec_id=1&cat_id=1)

By Mike Baños

Broadcast industry pioneer Henry R. Canoy passed away in Wyoming, U.S.A. on May 16, 2008. He was 84 years old.

“I am deeply saddened by the passing of RMN Chairman Henry R. Canoy,” said Cagayan de Oro City Mayor Constantino G. Jaraula in a statement. “He is a great loss to the industry where he belongs. May his family and relatives be assuaged by the thoughts that his soul now rests in the loving hands of the Father!”

Mr. Canoy was born on Nov. 1, 1923 in a Presbyterian missionary hospital to Mariano Ricare Canoy of San Fernando, Cebu and Laureana Valentin Rabe of Opol, Misamis Oriental, both public school teachers.

As a boy, he had an undying curiosity to know how things worked and once dismantled his father’s portable Remington typewriter. But instead of giving him the beating he expected, his father instead told him, “I want you to learn to build things, not destroy them.”

And build them he did. With bosom friends Robin Cui and Vicente Rivera, Canoy set up an experimental radio lab in an abandoned chicken poultry house at the corner of Velez and del Pilar streets where the Fatima chapel now stands. With a home built, two tube radio receivers bought from Fideng Palacio of Puntod, they listened to radio broadcasts from Manila at night when reception was better.

In May 28, 1949 he married Maria Clara Suñiel, daughter of Maximo Suniel, the first City Mayor of Cagayan de Oro appointed by President Elpidio Quirino, and Vicenta “Titing” Chaves of the influential Neri-Chaves clan.

Soon after, he set up a partnership with Cui and Max Suniel, Oscar Neri and Andres Bacal as equity partners with P10, 000 capital. Using the “Radio Amateur’s Handbook” as their guide and with surplus parts from Raon, they built their own transmitter with Far East Broadcasting Co. Engineers Dick Rowland and Byrd Bruneimer, who helped them get the contraption running. Their first “transmitter building” was financed with a P5, 000 “duck farm” loan from the Phil. National Bank through Mdm. Laureana.

Mr Jose Viado of the Radio Control Office (RCO) gave them the broadcast frequency 1560 KHz for which they improvised a horizontal wire antenna strung to a coconut tree with the help of Ongkoy Padero, former vice president for engineering of Cepalco. When they got their 500-watt transmitter, their signal could reach as far as Del Monte plantation 30 kms away and a ham radio in Australia even managed to monitor it!

Every hour, listeners would hear the station ID: “You are tuned to Station DXCC, broadcasting with a power of 500 watts on 1560 kilocycles from Cagayan de Oro – Gateway to Mindanao!”

The infant station’s first “live coverage” was on August 28, 1952 when it aired a 3-hour “Añejo Rum” show from Plaza Divisoria for which Canoy billed La Tondeña executive Hugo Chan Hong the princely sum of P500. (Canoy, 1997)

The RMN archives continue: The goal of DXCC then was not merely to entertain, but to inform and educate the public as well. The main source of information then were Manila based newspapers. Television was in its infancy, and radio still a toddler.

In 1954, Henry R. Canoy visited the United States under an observation grant. Instead of going to the giant networks and other big cities, he asked to be taken to the boondocks.

And in the small backwater town of Greeley, Colorado, he came upon a station that was doing exactly what DXCC was already trying to do in Mindanao. Its broadcast fare was peppered with farm prices, market and road conditions, weather warnings and personal messages. He came back more determined than ever to prove that radio could be a strong social force and agent of change. It is no idle boast to say that DXCC, and later RMN, paved the way for excellence in news, public affairs, and public service broadcasting in the country. (www.rmn.ph/about).

During RMN’s Golden Annivesary in 2002, President Gloria Arroyo acknowledged Canoy and RMN’s contribution to the Philippine broadcast industry and to Mindanao’s progress and development:

“It is an honor to join Radio Mindanao Network in paying tribute to the father of RMN. Fifty years ago, Henry Canoy had a dream of utilizing radio as a vehicle for social change and as a means by which to serve the people of his hometown-Cagayan de Oro.”

“He championed the broadcast media at the level of the grassroots. And, he enriched the lives of people by bringing them the new highs of the day and engaging them in the issues important to their lives.”

“Mindanao, in particular, owes much of its vibrance and progress to Henry Canoy, who pioneered broadcast in the region alongside its march for economic expansion and development.”

“Radio and television have become the medium of the mass audience, and RMN is among our top networks. This is because of the valiant work of Henry Canoy, whose name and vision will always be part of our quest for a peaceful and progressive nation, a united people and a strong Philippine Republic”. (OPS, 2002)

Media, business and industry officials were lavish in their praise for Canoy’s pioneering efforts in the broadcast industry and building his hometown.

“Time and people pass away. Henry Canoy, the lowly provincial entrepreneur who created waves and tremors in the broadcast industry nationwide, is now memory and an institution. He left behind a legacy of hard work and a virtue he is known for: that of being so good, too kind and generous,” said Jerry Orcullo, president, Cagayan de Oro Press Club, Inc.

“During his younger days, wielding vast influence and resources, he could have opted to enter politics and should have easily made it. But Henry, humble as he is and known to many as a man of honesty, integrity and fairness, chose to relegate himself to the sidelines and work silently and anonymously to make RMN one of the biggest radio networks in the country today. His works were dedicated to God, country and people in a manner of being less known-“the Henry way.”

“RMN Chairman Henry Canoy, or plain Tito Henry, is an icon of everything good about Cagayan de Oro; promoting Mindanao and Cagayan de Oro, leading by example by taking the Pan-Philippine Highway with his whole clan from Luzon, keynoting the need to bridge gaps and encouraging us younger ones to follow his lead,” said Rodolfo Meñes, president, Cagayan de Oro Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

“The National Telecommunications Commission Region 10 with the Institute of Electronics Engineers of the Philippines North Mindanao Chapter and the industry players will pay tribute to the late Henry R. Canoy for his wonderful contribution as we celebrate the National Electronics and Telecommunications Week today (May 17) until May 23,” said Engr. Teodoro Buenavista, Jr., regional director, NTC-10.

“Henry R. Canoy is considered the Father of the Electronics and Broadcasting Industry in Cagayan de Oro and in the country. He established the Radio Mindanao Network (RMN) that has become the largest radio network in the country today. He is a pioneer, benefactor and a pillar of the industry.”

“While we are saddened by his death, we are also very thankful that he left a wonderful legacy that we can be truly proud of.”

In the foreword to RMN: The Henry R. Canoy Story written by brother Reuben R. Canoy, his eldest son, Eric S. Canoy, RMN president and chief executive officer has written what could well pass for his eulogy:

“There’s no way you can separate the man and the network. For Henry R. Canoy is RMN. His experience sand insights into broadcasting, advertising, mass media and other aspects of our national life are remarkable. They make the past nearer, the present dearer, and the future clearer.”

“We, his immediate family and members of the extended RMN family, have drawn inspiration from his amazing story. We hope you will, too.” (Canoy,1997)

Upon hearing the news of his demise, Misamis Oriental Gov. Oscar Moreno texted Mr. Canoy’s son Eric, “Our deepest and sincerest condolences. Your father was a legend. Even in death, he continues to inspire us.”

shaKEIRa

May 17th, 2008, 05:21 PM

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Midway
Initao, Misamis Oriental

wala pako kaadto sa midway... gusto ko mo visit dira..

henji

May 18th, 2008, 07:03 AM

nice beach

ph_matrix

May 18th, 2008, 07:33 AM

^^ hindi lang gaanong malawak yong shoreline...

henji

May 18th, 2008, 08:26 AM

^^ hindi lang gaanong malawak yong shoreline...

for me, ok lang basta prestine pa ang waters nya wala masyadong sea-urchins.

dark_knight_detectve

May 18th, 2008, 01:34 PM

Firm sets high standards in buying coffee beans (http://www.mb.com.ph/issues/2008/05/16/AGRI20080516124622.html)

Titus Fernandez of Nestle Philippines Cagayan de Oro factory stabs three sacks of green coffee bean (GCB) with a "buriki." In one swift move, he gets random samples of the morning’s delivery for strict standard evaluation.

"How strict? The GCB will be graded according to the percentage of total triage by weight of a composite sample, its moisture content, and finally, its cup taste which are all based on international standards," reveals Fernandez.

The first screening is designed to filter out deliveries with physical defects. These include green coffee beans with foreign body, admixture, black beans, cherry stinker beans, husk fragments, parchment fragments, broken beans, moldy beans, immature beans, and insect-damaged beans.

"These defects affect the overall quality of coffee," explains Fernandez. "In fact, few of these defects can cause problems in our production as they can damage our equipment."

Nestle Philippines GCB grading system puts prime weight on the presence of foreign body, which bears 7.0 weight coefficient, in evaluating the GCB because this indicates poor harvesting and processing by the coffee farmer or trader. The most common foreign bodies found are corn, rice, soya and stones.

Next is the presence of admixture, which is sound bean of another botanical variety other than Robusta, at 3.0 weight coefficient.

Nescafe Classic, our main product in CDO factory, is made of 100 percent Robusta coffee," explains Fernandez. "Any ingredient other than Robusta can cause undesirable taste and aroma."

The third at 2.0 weight coefficient are black beans, coffee beans of which half or more than one-half of the external appearance is black. Fernandez says black beans produce the most awful taste: dirty, astringent and woody.

Nescafe only buys GCBs with Grade 1 to Grade 3 or coffee beans having eight percent to 16 percent triage.

The GCB are then evaluated for their moisture content. Those with 12 percent moisture content are automatically rejected.

Harvested coffee berries are poured into a flotation tank to separate floaters from the sinkers. Sinkers are good quality ripe berries that are free from insect damage. To ensure high quality GCBs, coffee berries that have been dried and dehulled, sinkers must be dried within 24 to 48 hours after harvest.

"Partially dried coffee can lead to fermented or fruity flavors in the coffee," says Fernandez. "It’s also susceptible to mold which can cause moldy or musty flavors.

The final screening after moisture test, of course, is cupping or cup tasting. Coffee with moldy, fermented, and foreign taste is automatically rejected.

"We have a team of highly-trained cup tasters who can detect slight nuances of coffee taste and aroma," says Fernandez, who is himself an experienced cup taster.

In recent years, Fernandez says, they have been getting good quality coffee from Grade 1 to Grade 2 from coffee farmers.

"I think Nestle has successfully gotten its message across coffee sellers," says Fernandez. "We are serious about making coffee."

The Nestle CDO factory is where the country’s best-selling instant coffee is produced from GCBs brought from Nestle’s 11 satellite buying stations across the country.

michael_ray

May 18th, 2008, 01:41 PM

Café Laguna, Mindy's and Lighthouse ...

Mindy's? Akala ko puro pork and beef jan. Anyway, thanks gearx... Pero galing na ako sa Panagatan last Saturday night. Di ko natiis... And ang galing ng band nila... Nice voice... acoustic love songs, usually oldies... very relaxing. Ang ganda ng mga lights sa Opol and I just knew nay may boardwalk pala sila but it's currently closed kasi under repair...

bariQ

May 18th, 2008, 04:43 PM

this is my last day in CDeO... i will miss it soooooo very much! so many things to do! i will post pics later when i get back to my laptop. :D dabest talaga ang Normin!!!

boju2

May 19th, 2008, 01:03 AM

^^Whooaaaa, promise mo yan. Daya ka talaga para di ka masundan sa lakad mo sa CDO hindi ka talaga nag-update sa mga pictures.:cheers::cheers::cheers:

boju2

May 19th, 2008, 01:23 AM

^^Under repair na? Last year pa ata yan.

Opol Boardwalk

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rapahael of multiply

boju2

May 19th, 2008, 01:26 AM

Monday, May 19, 2008
Francisco Motors to launch new jeepney (http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/cag/2008/05/19/bus/francisco.motors.to.launch.new.jeepney.html)

FRANCISCO Motors Corporation (FMC) in cooperation with Isuzu Philippines Inc. is set to launch the brand new FMC Jeepney here in Cagayan de Oro on Wednesday.

The jeepney can accommodate 20 passengers, excluding the driver.

It has a euro engine, four (4) cycle, direct injection, water-cooled, and in-line ohv diesel with automatic engine stop device.

The body is fully painted and semi-stainless.

The new FMC Jeepney is manufactured by Francisco Motor Corporation, Pamplona, in Las Piñas.

For inquiries, contact the authorized distributor, JAC Automobiles - Cagayan de Oro at JAC Center, Suan Arcade, Masterson Avenue, Ilaya, Carmen at (088) 8584760, 729819 and website: emallph.com. (Press release)

boju2

May 19th, 2008, 01:32 AM

Sunday, May 18, 2008
All set for CdeO-Norfolk sister city relationship (http://themindanaocurrent.blogspot.com/2008/05/all-set-for-cdeo-norfolk-sister-city.html)

City Mayor Constantino G. Jaraula welcomed the invitation of the city government of Norfolk City, Virginia, USA as a step towards further strengthening a friendship that will be mutually beneficial to both communities.

The mayor received the formal invitation from City Mayor Paul D. Fraim of Norfolk, Virginia extending his warm invitation to Norfolk on June 17 to 19, this year.

Mayor Fraim told Mayor Jaraula in his letter received early this week that the Norfolk planning committee is already working on the details surrounding the ceremony that will formalize the sister city relationship between Norfolk and Cagayan de Oro.

In the program prepared by the Norfolk City Government, the signing of the sisterhood agreement will be held on June 18 at the General Douglas MacArthur Memorial Center.

The late afternoon ceremony, according to Mayor Fraim’s letter to Mayor Jaraula, will be followed by a reception and dinner in honor of the partnership between the two cities.

The affair will be graced by Philippine Ambassador to the United States Willy C. Gaa, who was invited by the Norfolk city government as the Keynote Speaker during the historic event.

Mayor Fraim also told Mayor Jaraula that the Norfolk Sister City Association will also sponsor a dinner for the Cagayan de Oro delegation in cooperation with the Filipino-American Community and the World Affairs Council of Greater Hampton Roads.

“We are delighted to be finalizing this partnership with Cagayan de Oro and look forward to a vibrant relationship that will benefit both our communities,” Mayor Fraim expressed in his letter to Mayor Jaraula.

Mayor Jaraula expressed optimism that more than what its sister city can benefit from the diplomatic relationship, Cagayan de Oro and its people will stand to reap the fruits of the friendship between the two cities.

Mayor Jaraula will travel to Norfolk in the third week of June together with key city government officials and members of the MacArthur Memorial Marker Committee. (CIO)

bariQ

May 19th, 2008, 01:33 AM

^^Whooaaaa, promise mo yan. Daya ka talaga para di ka masundan sa lakad mo sa CDO hindi ka talaga nag-update sa mga pictures.:cheers::cheers::cheers:

hehe sorry po! lag manjud ni amo kompyuter pila na katuig, wala pakoi upgrade2 hehe! :cheers: PAdayon CDeO!:cheers:

boju2

May 19th, 2008, 01:34 AM

Sunday, May 18, 2008
Bounce Pass By John Montalvan

The 5th Jojo Lastimosa Cup (http://themindanaocurrent.blogspot.com/2008/05/bounce-pass-by-john-montalvan_18.html)

The 5th Jojo Lastimosa/Alaska Cup is set to end this weekend with a series of championship games and games for 3rd place. The Games will start on Friday, May 23.

As of this writing, Global Chips and Corpus Christi for the 12-under division, Tarah Merchandise and Trinitas for the 21-under and ACSAT and Highland for the 25-under are yet to play their Semi-Final games.

On Friday, the loser of the 12-under game will face BFCSI for the 3rd place game. Global Chips will play Toyota in the 14-under, JBXYR will play Corpus Christi in the 17 under and Macabalan will play the loser of the Tarah-Trinitas tussle.

On Saturday, the Championship games will start while there will still be 1 game for 3rd place.

Sacred Heart will play the winner of the Global Chips-Corpus Christi game for the 12-under championships as Sacred Heart and Corpus Christi get their rematch for the 14-under finals. During the Loyola Cup Finals last February, these two teams met at the same category with Corpus Christi capturing the crown.

The last game for Saturday will be Parrel Construction playing against the loser of the ACSAT-Highland game for the 25-under 3rd placer.

On Sunday, games are expected to be more exciting!

As a curtain raiser, Sacred Heart will face Liberty Land for the 17-under Championship. Fresh from their Palarong Pambansa 4th place finish, Sacred Heart seems to have a slight edge against the wards of Coach Wewe Daba.

Capitol University will gun for the 21-under crown against the winner of the Tarah-Trinitas game while as night capper, the Cong. Bambi Emano backed Xavier University will face the winner of the ACSAT-Highland game.

Expected to be present during the games this weekend is Jojo Lastimosa himself as he will be handing out the trophies, awards and prizes.

The 5th Jojo Lastimosa/Alaska Cup is also presented by Xavier University, Rotary Club of Uptown CDO and sponsored by AND1 and Gatorade.

boju2

May 19th, 2008, 01:40 AM

^^Part na talaga si Don Henry Canoy ng history ng CDO.

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DON Henry Canoy died. (Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro photo)

boju2

May 19th, 2008, 01:41 AM

Some Photos from the Museum of Three Cultures of Capitol University

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boju2

May 19th, 2008, 01:53 AM

Platinum to spend P1.9B on plant rehab (http://www.gmanews.tv/story/96012/Platinum-to-spend-P19B-on-plant-rehab)

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MISAMIS ORIENTAL, Philippines — The Platinum Group Metals Corp. has intensified the rehabilitation of its smelting facilities, including the newly acquired Manticao Ferronickel Smelter Plant located here.

The Filipino-controlled company is targeting to fully operate its Manticao plant within the last quarter of the year. "We have at least three to four months to rehabilitate the operational area, which includes completion of the furnace construction," said Kelly J. Ventanilla, plant manager for the Manticao ferronickel facility.

The P3 billion worth Platinum Group is integrating its three ferronickel mine sites in Surigao del Norte, Isabela and Palawan for its three smelting plants that process raw ores.

The smelting plants, aside from the one operating here, are in Iligan City in Lanao del Norte and Danao in Cebu. All three smelting plants are undergoing rehabilitation. The rehabilitation program is estimated to cost P1.9 billion. Singapore’s Deutsche Bank AG recently gave it a credit facility of $40 million to finance the company’s rehabilitation and expansion, officials said.

The Platinum Group studied the previously dormant ferro-chrome plant here and found it to have a good potential for ferro-nickel production. "There were only few changes and reformation of the operational area. As soon as we have the furnace done, we will be independently producing from the neighboring plant in Iligan," Mr. Ventanilla said. For now, the company sends its nickel ore to the Iligan plant, 22 kilometers away, for final smelting.

Nickel ore is a raw product obtained from the company’s Isabela mine site and undergoes heating below melting point to reduce moisture content. The Manticao plant can accommodate 9, 000 tons of raw nickel ore per month. Mr. Ventanilla said that the rehabilitation stage is at around 40%, which will be finished within the year. — Geefe P. Alba, BusinessWorld

boju2

May 19th, 2008, 02:13 AM

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Titanic?:nuts:

boju2

May 19th, 2008, 02:15 AM

boju2

May 19th, 2008, 03:01 AM

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Xavier Estate Sports and Country Club -

..nothing yet surpasses the grandeur of this country club in this part of the island for a decade ago IMO:cheers::cheers:

GearX

May 19th, 2008, 03:43 AM

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walang ganyan sa states!....^^

GearX

May 19th, 2008, 03:53 AM

TALK ‘N TEXT HOLDS OFF SLR IN CDO (http://www.pba.ph/content/view/2119/1/)
Cardona erupts for 31 on Wilson’s off-night
Saturday, 17 May 2008

CAGAYAN DE ORO – Macmac Cardona played like an import Saturday night against a Sta. Lucia side struggling with the poor showing of reinforcement Wesley Wilson.

Cardona erupted for 31 points, and Talk n Text held off a fiery fourth-quarter uprising of the Sta. Lucia locals, pulling off a 90-80 win in a 2008 Smart PBA Fiesta Conference road showcase at the Xavier University gym here.

The Pals nearly blew away a 22-point margin but steadied themselves up at the finish to notch their fifth win in their last six games.

Upending the Realtors on a nine-to-nothing closing run, the second-running Pals improved their record to 7-3, just half a game behind the front-running Red Bull squad (7-2).

The Barakos seek to keep their hold of the solo lead as they battle the Alaska Milk Aces at the resumption of play at the Araneta Coliseum at 4:30 p.m. Sunday.

Welcoat, tied with Alaska at eighth with identical 3-6 slates, and Barangay Ginebra, the cellar-dweller with an awful 1-7 card, square off in the day’s other game at 6:50 p.m.

With Wilson already riding the bench, the Realtors rallied to within one, at 78-79 and 80-81, only to bungle their comeback bid which could have moved them two rungs up to second at 6-3.

Instead, Sta. Lucia slid to joint fourth with Magnolia and Air21 at 5-4.

Aaron McGhee did a decent job, scoring 19 points, including five free throws in their killer homestretch run in this out-of-town setto sponsored by Hanes.

Talk n Text jumped the gun on Sta. Lucia, 18-6, and led by as many as 22 points, 66-44, with the Pals exploiting Wilson’s lackadaisical performance.

It took Sta. Lucia the valiant efforts of their local warriors as the Realtors waged an uprising, closing in at 72-75 with still five minutes left to play.

A six-to-nil SLR roll courtesy of Ryan Reyes, Bitoy Omolon and Kelly Williams had the Realtors coming within one at 78-79 with time down to 2:38.

However, after Don Allado and Williams traded two points each, the Realtors lost their sting, apparently spending themselves on their rally from the depth of a 22-point deficit.

Sta. Lucia went scoreless in the last 1:48 of play, missing four field-goal attempts and committing an error.

Wilson finished with only nine points in his so-so game. Omolon topscored for the team with 13.

At 78-79, the Realtors had a chance to go ahead but Williams missed a forced shot against three defenders underneath the basket.

The Pals rifled in a hail of three-points in a fiery start that had them taking the opening quarter at 22-16 and the first half at 47-33. (NC)

The scores:

Talk n Text 90 – Cardona 31, McGee 19, Allado 11, Alapag 11, Washington 5, Ritualo 5, Peek 4, De Ocampo 2, Chia 2, Belano 0, Aljamal 0.

Sta. Lucia 80 – Omolon 13, Daa 11, Espino 10, Wilson 9, Williams 9, Yeo 9, Reyes 7, Aquino 6, Miranda 5, Gonzales 2, Coronel 0.

Quarterscores: 22-16, 47-33, 69-55, 90-80

GearX

May 19th, 2008, 04:26 AM

Sportfest to mark National Electronics & Telecoms Week in Region 10 (http://www.kagay-an.com/articles.php?art_id=1911&sec_id=1&cat_id=1)

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The National Telecommunications Commission Region 10 Office is organizing a sportsfest to mark the National Electronics and Telecommunications Week on
May 17-23.

Presidential Proclamation No. 238 declares the period May 17-23 of every year as "National Electronics and Telecommunications Week". To commemorate the occasion, the Telecommunications and Power Development Group in coordination with the Institute of Electronics Engineers of the Philippines (IECEP-NM) shall be holding a mini-tournament for basketball (men) and badminton (mixed) from May 20-23, 2008 at the Xavier University Gymnasium.

"The tournament is intended to network in friendship the different stakeholders of our industry which is considered as an economic driver of our country," said Engr. Teodoro Buenavista, Jr., NTC-10 regional director.

In a memo to all telecoms stakeholders earlier this week, Buenavista advised interested parties to signify their to NTC-10 on or before Monday, May 12, 2008 by sending a letter of intent to tedbjr@gmail.com or through our fax (858-4800 or 723285 local 109). You may coordinate with the other members of our group if you wish to join forces with them.

"It should be noted that this tournament is dedicated to all the stakeholders of the electronics and telecommunications industry," Buenavista said. "Thus, your participation would surely provide a true meaning of the week-long celebration as envisioned by the Presidential Proclamation."

Invited to join the tournament are local members of the telecommunications and power development group including Misortel, Philcom, Smart Broadband, Telof-10, Globe Telecom, Smart Communications, Sotelco, Parasat, Cepalco, Bayantel, DCTech, Cable 21, Magnet, PT&T, Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster sa Pilipinas (CDO-Misor Chapter), and the Institute of Electronics & Communications Engineers of the Philippines-North Mindanao (IECEP-NM).

GearX

May 19th, 2008, 04:33 AM

We Should Be So Lucky (http://www.kagay-an.com/articles.php?art_id=1903&sec_id=3&cat_id=14)
By Mike Baños

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A recent online article entitled "Salt-Free: Amid Water Shortage, Australia Looks to the Sea," by Patrick Barta describes in detail the pioneering work of far-seeing Australian water executives led by Jim Gill to provide the city of Perth in Australia with a viable potable water supply from the sea using environment-friendly technology.

Desalination has always been an expensive way to produce drinking water, and its energy requirement so vast it's enough to run a small city. But Perth's $360 million desalination plant meets 20 percent of its present water demand without needlessly polluting a world already reeling from the effects of global warming and climate change by sourcing its power from a wind farm. Cutting edge reverse osmosis removes salt more efficiently at lower costs.

Now, Perth wants to build a second $875 million desalination plant which would allow the city to lessen its dependence on rain-fed reserves which may vary with the arid climate and increase the share of its water supply sourced from the sea up to a third of the total demand.

We in the Philippines, people from Cagayan de Oro included, still retain a cavalier attitude towards our drinking water. We use it like it's going to last forever and expect the water district to keep it available for us at a cheap price.

But global trends indicate water, and not oil, will be the world's next strategic resource challenge. As water demand rises with booming populations and increasing affluence in China, India and other emerging economies, the 1.2 billion people who now live in areas with inadequate water could easily quintuple in the blink of an eye.

Climate change caused by man-made global warming, could considerably
aggravate this trend, as would skyrocketing demand for more food and biofuels.

Barta says "as many as 75 major desalination projects are in various stages of development world-wide, including a massive $2.5 billion project near Melbourne, the US, Spain, India and London."

Although environmentalists such as the WWF have challenged the desalination boom as "a potentially 'major misdirection of public attention, policy and funds," they acknowledge it could be a viable option provided proponents exhaust other options (e.g. water recycling) and use environment-friendly energy sources like Perth's wind farm.

Before Perth hit upon desalination, it was already restricting water use and considering wild ideas like towing, and melting down, an iceberg from Antarctica. However, a study of the latest available technology and the availability of "clean power" from the $165 million wind farm convinced them to move up the timetable for the long-term desalination option from 2020 to 2006.

Its approval was not exactly a walk in the park. Residents feared it would lead to higher water bills, (projected to rise 12%), environmentalists feared the fallout from the saline discharge into a nearby bay, and media had a field day blasting it in editorials and cartoons.

But Mr. Gill persevered, undertaking a massive PR drive showing charts and diagrams to consumers showing the huge drop in water supply and got the project approved in late 2004 and operating by 2006. That didn't stop opposition to it, however, which continues to this day. When we consider the price tag for the $360 million plant, the $165 wind farm which makes it possible, and the $875 expansion, people of Cagayan de Oro should consider ourselves lucky we haven't reached that limited options that Perth now faces.

For a "mere" PhP 1-billion, we now have a bulk water facility, the first and only one of its kind in the country, which ensures our potable water supply until 2015. Had the planners at our water district lacked the foresight to plan for this facility, Cagayan de Oro would be "up the creek with nary a paddle", as the expanding cities of Metro Manila, Cebu and Davao now find themselves in.

As Mr. Gill concurs in Mr. Barta's story, desalination is not perfect, and the price of water would most probably go up over time. "But it's scarce, I think people realize that," said Mr. Gallop, the former state premier. "We're in a new world now."

Hopefully, the people of Cagayan de Oro and other cities in the Philippines realize that we too, now live in that same new world of $125 per barrel oil, P50 per kilo rice and P25 per cubic meter drinking water. We should learn to live with it and considering the options our less fortunate brothers have, thank God each day for our good fortune.

GearX

May 19th, 2008, 04:37 AM

Martin Nievera XXV: Long Live the King! (http://www.kagay-an.com/articles.php?art_id=1899&sec_id=6&cat_id=14)
By The Night Stalker

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I couldn’t believe my eyes : the Corpus Christi gymnasium was packed to the rafters last Saturday (May 10) with at least 5,000 souls who had parted with their hard earned pay to experience live Concert King Martin Nievera’s 25th anniversary in the entertainment industry. With tickets ranging as high as P2,500 for the first row VIP seats and a still stiff P300 for Balcony (actually, the Bleachers), I figured this ought to be something really special.

In true Pinoy showbiz tradition, the show started an hour late with a wacky video spoof taken from Marty’s Feb.1 anniversary show at the Big Dome showing his great rival Gary V. rehearsing on what Gary thought was his show and Marty coming out in a bathrobe and really fluffy bedroom slippers to shoo him off the set. In a flash, an overture of Martin’s songs with Gerard Salonga handling the baton for the FilHarmoNika 25-piece orchestra and musical director Louie Ocampo at the keyboards filled the gym and soon Martin was rocking the place with his opening number “You’re Gonna Get It (Tonight)”; immediately followed by one of my favorite Martin tunes “Pain” written by Alvina Sy (which won her the grand prix in the 6th Manila Metro Pop Music Festival as interpreted by Marty) in a medley with “Paradise.”

Then Martin asked the SRO crowd if any of them remembered his very first composition “Holiday” which he claimed was a big flop. He didn’t get a reaction and told the crowd which was just as well but I do remember the song, and if I’m right, he wrote it for a girl he left behind in the US named “Holly”. I liked it then, and I still like it now, like I like the following hits “Each Day with You” and the megahit “Be My Lady.” Here’s what he had to say about the song in his double LP “Milestones”:

1983-was my concert year

the beginning of medleys, the beginning of fear

will I sell out, like the one before?

Of achievements and failures, from all of the above

Will fall out of grace, will I in and out of love?

A pivotal milestone, a new life for me

I was living the dream in – 1983

In what must be the grandest way an audience can honor an artist, Marty would often stop to listen the crowd sing the chorus of his next number “No Way To Treat A Heart” and everyone know the lyrics by heart! Pity he and Louie chose to do the short version of “Ikaw lang ang mamahalin,” another of my favorite Marty tunes. Next time I promise to bring some rocks to throw at those two clowns if they decide to truncate this beautiful song again.

Marty ‘s voice is really in the same range as Kenny Loggins, which is probably he likes to do medleys of that singer’s songs in his show, this time doing Heart to Heart and Footloose and easily segueing to Santana’s “Smooth” which didn’t work out too well for me, maybe because I think Marty’s voice and style is too smooth for this rocker.

Which wasn’t the case at all with his next number, a Barry Manilow tribute medley for the man he said set him down the path to his present career, when he sang with a choir which accompanied the Great Barry during one of his concerts in the US. This medley was more up his alley, with his rendition of Weekend in New England, Even Now, Somewhere Down The Road, Looks Like We Made It and I Write The Songs brought the house down and again singing along with him. Here’s what the liner notes on Milestones had to say about “Somewhere Down the Road” one of my wife Gardy and my all-time Barry favorites:

1982- was the chosen year

to live out a dream, and make it a career

my TV debut, had to borrow a song

my wish list and desires, at least a mile long

not yet a recording artist, but I wanted to be

so I sang this song, on Pilita and Jackie

tiny baby steps, to a dream come true

and it all started in – 1982

The upbeat "Sweet Smile," an all-Martin OPM which Gerad’s FilHarmoniKa did justice to with their exciting horn fills, followed by Chicago’s Hard Habit to Break, a hit from

1986 – I found a range

my voice from low, I never could as a kid

then Ingram and McKnight, taught me new ticks

miracles happened in – 1986

Before he went into his mid concert break, Marty did a Toto Medley (Africa/I cant hold you back/Rossana) that again had the house rockin’. I never realized Toto’s songs would have the longevity their fans showed that night, they were an 80s band, you know…

When he came back, Marty again went into another wacky spiel spoofing his forgettable movie career with some “juicy” roles with various stars that just didn’t work out, finally admitting they’d rather let him sing the theme song than act in the movie, just like they did with one of his latest hits “Ikaw ang Pangarap”an original composition of Ogie Alcasid but better known as the love theme from the TV series “Lobo”. In no time at all, Marty had the crowd again eating from his hand as he egged them on to sing along with him in “Say That You Love Me”

Finally, came one of the songs on the playlist I really wanted to hear : Kahit Isang Saglit, which he introduced as for the person that you think I wrote is for, is the same person in your mind,” as montage of his early and later years with Pop Fernandez flashed on the screen. A week earlier, he told media that “Whenever I sing “Kahit Isang Saglit” the only person I think about is her when I sing it, and there are times when I can’t even finish it….Louie knows it’s the song I hate to sing,” he kept repeating before belting it out.

Am not really sure why he and Louie chose to put “On the Right Track” at this point. Sure, it’s a great inspirational song but following “Kahit Isang Saglit?” A thousand things, all most probably wrong, comes to mind….hmmmmm…..

Of Billy Fayne and Clint Holmes’ I Sing he writes in Milestones:

2007- a dream was taken away from me

not by competition, but by some crook can you believe?

He took away my start, of what could have been really big

But the lesson here I think, is that deeper down I must dig

Now more than ever, I want to pursue that dream

I won’t let a bad seed, take this dream from me

So back to the drawing board, to start all over again

I will not quit I will not fail, just a brief glitch in -2007

Then came along a great man, who sang to me this tune

He moves like poetry, sings higher than a B,

And makes the women swoon!

His musicality genius, especially his MD

Billy Fayne you are gifted, and you can sing far better than me.

So with his music came lyrics, from a man I so admire

His passion is his music; he is passionately on fire!

The world out there can be cruel

And sometimes leave you alone

But my dream seem very reachable

Because I have a friend in CLINT HOLMES.

Thank you Bill & Clint for allowing me to have this song

‘our song’ you are the reason I SING….

I Sing, his raison’d’etre, or reason for being, and segues into a Broadway Medley: Seasons of Love from Rent; For Good from Wicked); Something's Coming and Maria from West Side Story); Music of the Night and All I Ask of You from Phantom of the Opera; Memory from Cats; Somewhere, again from West Side Story and This Is The Moment from Jekyll & Hyde.

Of course, the SRO crowd wouldn’t let him go after that, and he did an encore with “You Are My Song” of which he writes about in Milestones:

1997 – I wrote a song

started in the car, only 30 minutes long

a true love story, inspired by

a movie script and the word ‘goodbye’

was going through a lot, at that time

played with a love, that was not mine

I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again

I lived out a love song, in – 1997.

And for his final number, nothing could perhaps be a better end for anyone’s 25th Anniversary Concert than Kenny Loggin’s Forever:

1985-was the start of forever

I knew it the moment, we all got together

Concert to concert, songs to sing

You in my life, meant everything

I had a purpose, I had a dream

You made it possible, when impossible it seemed

So when asked what keeps me going, what keeps me alive

I say it’s the people I sing for, since 1985

..Forever in my heart,

Forever we will be

And even when I’m gone

You’ll be here in me

Forever….

Thank you, Marty and all the great musicians and promoters who brought your XXV anniversary concert to Cagayan de Oro. Someday, we hope to see your 50th anniversary concert too. Even if I’d be a century old by then, I’d still come with Gardy for another round, even if you sang the same songs. Godspeed and come, come again to the City of Golden Friendship….

GearX

May 19th, 2008, 04:54 AM

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2nd Floor, Limketkai Mall

Spruce Designer Network Inc

-- is a young, dynamic retail and distribution company that brings global fashion lifestyle brands and the brands of young Filipino designers to Northern and Western Mindanao.

We own and operate 3 retail stores in Cagayan de Oro: PUMA, All Flip-Flops, and the Spruce flagship store. We have exclusive distributorship of the following brands in Northern and Western Mindanao: Happy Feet, Havaianas, PUMA, Lacoste Footwear, Birkenstock, Happy David, Aranaz, Cole Vintage, Liana Navarro and Coco & Tres.

With our stores and these brands, we have lit the fuse that set off the lifestyle brand craze in the local market, and have forged our reputation as a key player in the retail industry. We have created a following among the young and hip with our aspirational, fashion-forward image.

We have a keen sense for fashion and an instinct for hits. These qualities, combined with our solid business gumption, have driven our company to the heights of market leadership in Southern Philippines.

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boju2

May 19th, 2008, 05:00 AM

^^Sossy ah...:):)

super123

May 19th, 2008, 05:47 AM

GearX

May 19th, 2008, 05:51 AM

GearX

May 19th, 2008, 05:57 AM

Divisoria Night Shots
flicker photos by Shinji Ikari

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GearX

May 19th, 2008, 06:02 AM

Capitol University

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GearX

May 19th, 2008, 06:06 AM

question po, balak ko po kasi dumalaw sa CDO sa katapusan ng May, at namataan ko na pwedeng pagtulugan na hotel ay Wilshire Inn, may balita po ba kayo o comments tungkol sa lugar n un? maraming salamat po :)

here @super123:

Willshire Inn
Aguinaldo corner Yacapin Street
(8822) 72-0762; Fax No. (8822) 72-0531

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This inn was opened last January 2007. It is located just across Vines Pension and Maxandrea Hotel which are near the Cogon Market area.

ROOM RATES (Double Occupancy)
Economy - 450.00
Standard - 595.00
De Luxe (2 to 3 persons) - 695.00
Junior Executive - 795.00
Superior (2 to 4 persons) - 880.00
Family (5 persons) - 1,250.00
Business Suite - 1,250.00
Willshire Suite - 1,850.00
Night Owl Promo (1am to 12noon) - 250.00
Monthly or Weekly rates available

AMENITIES & SERVICES
Airconditioned
Cable TV
Hot/Cold Shower
Telephone
Business Center

GearX

May 19th, 2008, 06:09 AM

Capitol University Medical City
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super123

May 19th, 2008, 06:10 AM

thanks gearX. meron n po ba nakastay dito? ok naman po ung lugar?

GearX

May 19th, 2008, 06:12 AM

thanks gearX. meron n po ba nakastay dito? ok naman po ung lugar?

ok naman daw...good for transient and business travellers...:cheers:

donnex

May 19th, 2008, 06:17 AM

this is my last day in CDeO... i will miss it soooooo very much! so many things to do! i will post pics later when i get back to my laptop. :D dabest talaga ang Normin!!!

Well, happy trip bariQ.......ayaw kalimti ug post apil atong bario ha....:wave:

super123

May 19th, 2008, 06:19 AM

ok naman daw...good for transient and business travellers...:cheers:

Thanks!

donnex

May 19th, 2008, 06:19 AM

Monday, May 19, 2008
Francisco Motors to launch new jeepney

FRANCISCO Motors Corporation (FMC) in cooperation with Isuzu Philippines Inc. is set to launch the brand new FMC Jeepney here in Cagayan de Oro on Wednesday.

The jeepney can accommodate 20 passengers, excluding the driver.

Arroyo Watch: Sun.Star blog on President Arroyo

It has a euro engine, four (4) cycle, direct injection, water-cooled, and in-line ohv diesel with automatic engine stop device.

The body is fully painted and semi-stainless.

The new FMC Jeepney is manufactured by Francisco Motor Corporation, Pamplona, in Las Piñas.

For inquiries, contact the authorized distributor, JAC Automobiles - Cagayan de Oro at JAC Center, Suan Arcade, Masterson Avenue, Ilaya, Carmen at (088) 8584760, 729819 and website: emallph.com. (Press release)

For more Philippine news, visit Sun.Star Pampanga.

(May 19, 2008 issue)
Write letter to the editor. Click here.

GearX

May 19th, 2008, 06:19 AM

so long @bariQ....yung pix na lang pwede na pasalubong....^^

donnex

May 19th, 2008, 06:22 AM

Francisco Motors to launch new jeepney
It has a euro engine, four (4) cycle, direct injection, water-cooled, and in-line ohv diesel with automatic engine stop device.

......wow....for sure another tsada jeep na naman ng CDO....

GearX

May 19th, 2008, 06:30 AM

Farirah

May 19th, 2008, 06:42 AM

I wonder what it looks like...:cheers:

Basin mubo ni na jeepney just like most of the jeepneys in Metro Manila unlike what we have here since ang maker ay galing pa Las Pinas. I hope di moduko akong ulo sa pagsakay in this new upcoming jeepney. :colgate:

Likewise gamay sab tingali ang tumbanan, unlike what we have here na taas ang tumbanan. Manila's and even Cebu's jeepneys have been designed na mubo ang tumbanan since pinaspasa didto.

Hope I'm wrong sa akong perception. :colgate:

jaywalker

May 19th, 2008, 06:51 AM

Farirah

May 19th, 2008, 06:58 AM

Interesting piece of news and by the way,ano ibig sabihin ng tsada?Thanks:cheers:

It's an ancient Higaonon Kagay-anon word, which means "BEAUTIFUL." :)

jaywalker

May 19th, 2008, 07:56 AM

GearX

May 19th, 2008, 08:04 AM

Yup.... Booming economy yet majority of the people have a laid back lifestyle. :cheers:

GearX

May 19th, 2008, 10:17 AM

On a break (http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Business&p=49&type=2&sec=27&aid=2008051817)
BIZLINKS By Rey Gamboa
Monday, May 19, 2008

I will be away for a couple of weeks for my annual sabbatical leave. My commentaries on issues of the day will resume on the 6th of June.

Collegiate champions league update

Over 200 collegiate teams are qualified to participate in this year’s search for the best collegiate basketball team in the country. This was announced by Coach Joe Lipa, National Tournament Director of the Philippine Collegiate Champions League (PCCL), after completing the road show presentation to all the major collegiate leagues in Metro Manila and the provinces.

The first phase of Philippine Collegiate Championship games starts in June when all collegiate teams compete in their respective “mother leagues” to determine the teams that will advance to the second phase – the regional championships.

The existing collegiate leagues in the provinces are grouped into nine regional areas. Each regional area will have a regional champion.

The following are the regional area groupings: Regional area 1 – Ilocos, Pangasinan, Mountain Province; Regional area 2 – Tarlac, Zambales, Pampanga and Bulacan; Regional area 3 – Batangas, Quezon and Bicol provinces; Regional area 4 – Iloilo & Negros provinces; Regional area 5 – Dumaguete and Bohol; Regional area 6 – Leyte, Ormoc and Samar; Regional area 7 – Cagayan de Oro, Iligan, Misamis Oriental and Caraga; Regional 8 – Davao, Socsargen and Maguindanao; and Regional area 9 – Zamboanga (cities and provinces) and Misamis Occidental.

Watch this space for more details as the teams start their journey towards the national collegiate championship.

Should you wish to share any insights, write me at Link Edge, 25th Floor, 139 Corporate Center, Valero Street, Salcedo Village, 1227 Makati City. Or e-mail me at reydgamboa@yahoo.com. For a compilation of previous articles, visit www.BizlinksPhilippines.net.

GearX

May 19th, 2008, 11:14 AM

Arroyo lauds late RMN founder (http://www.gmanews.tv/story/95905/Arroyo-lauds-late-RMN-founder)
05/17/2008 | 10:12 PM

MANILA, Philippines - President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on Saturday lauded the late Don Henry Canoy for his legacy in broadcast journalism, even as she sympathized with his family, friends and associates for their loss.

In a statement on the Office of the Press Secretary Web site (www.news.ops.gov.ph), Mrs Arroyo cited Canoy for elevating local radio as "exponents of rural progress and development."

"Henry Canoy elevated local radio as exponents of rural progress and development. His legacy in the field of broadcast journalism goes beyond the airwaves of Radio Mindanao Network and into the realm of genuine service to the country," she said.

A statement on the Radio Mindanao Network site (www.rmn.ph) said Canoy, born in Cagayan de Oro on Nov. 1, 1923, died Friday, May 16.

He was born to a family of teachers and traders but chose broadcasting, being influenced by brother Reuben.

Canoy set up dxCC, the first radio station in Cagayan de Oro City on Aug. 28, 1952. He thought of harnessing radio for public service, noting that Manila-based newspapers were the main source of news at the time.

He also set up the Jambalaya Fund Drive, the first public service program of dxCC that paved the way for community service via radio.

In 2002, Arroyo lauded Canoy for his responsible broadcast journalism.

"Deka-dekada man ang lumipas ang mga kaalamang naibahagi sa lahat ng itinuturing na Ama ng Radio Mindanao Network na si Henry Canoy ay hindi na lilipas pa, ang kanyang mga pangarap na nabigyang katuparan ay patuloy na bubuhayin sa mga darating pang panahon (Decades have passed but Canoy's hopes and aspirations will live on)," the RMN website said. - GMANews.TV

Alingatong

May 19th, 2008, 12:53 PM

^^Cool!Thanks
I heard from some of my friends who have been there na may similarity daw ang lifestyles and ang surroundings ng CDO sa Bacolod.I've been to some parts of Mindanao but only in Cotabato and Davao.I would be glad to visit CDO someday if time permits.

I may say na magaling at very observant yang mga friends mo. Totoo yong sinabi nila. Kahit nightlife halos pareho, humahataw kahit magdamagan. :) Peaceful din pareho ang Bacolod at CdeO. :cheers:

henji

May 19th, 2008, 02:36 PM

Wet and Wild????? hehhhee nice for CDO

Dreamer's

May 19th, 2008, 03:02 PM

2008-05-19
City Govt. Lauds Oro Chamber For Active Investment Promotion
by Sandra B. Tadeo/ City Information Office
City Mayor Constantino G. Jaraula today lauded the Cagayan de Oro Chamber of Commerce and Industry Foundation, Inc. (ORO CHAMBER) for its active role in transforming Cagayan de Oro into a budding metropolis.

During the dedication of the Oro Chamber Business Development Centre and inauguration of the PUM Training Room held at the Pueblo de Oro Business Park, Mayor Jaraula pointed out that the opening of the business center signifies Oro Chamber’s enthusiasm in promoting Cagayan de Oro’s vast potentials for investments. “Cagayan de Oro has grown by leaps and bounds due to the activism manifested by the local private sector through all these years,” Mayor Jaraula said. The city chief executive admitted that much of the city’s tremendous development can only be attributed to the strong partnership between the city government and the private sector. Meanwhile, Mayor Jaraula welcomed the visiting officials of PUM Netherlands Senior Experts who paid a courtesy visit to the mayor’s office in City Hall this morning. Mayor Jaraula told the visiting guests from The Netherlands that the city is honored to have as its guests the team of business experts who are in Cagayan de Oro for a partnership project with the Oro Chamber along the development of micro, small and medium enterprises here. Mayor Jaraula expressed the city’s appreciation to the group’s commitment to provide free technical assistance in terms of direct advice to small and medium enterprises and institutions. Particularly, the officers of the PUM Netherlands Senior Experts are in the city in time for today’s inauguration of the PUM Training Room, one of the facilities at the Oro Chamber Business Development Centre. Among the officers who paid a courtesy visit at Mayor Jaraula’s office are Thijs van Praag, chief executive officer of PUM Netherlands Senior Experts; Ton Hens, country coordinator; Grisella Indemans, PUM Project Officer; and Paula Schindeller, 2nd Secretary for Economic and Cultural Affairs of the Royal Embassy of The Netherlands in Manila. Together with the Dutch team in meeting with Mayor Jaraula was Ruben Vegafria, past president of the Oro Chamber and PUM local representative

Dreamer's

May 19th, 2008, 03:07 PM

this is my last day in CDeO... i will miss it soooooo very much! so many things to do! i will post pics later when i get back to my laptop. :D dabest talaga ang Normin!!!

cant wait to see this pictures @bariq sana masusurprise ang lahat :lol: good to have you back here pre'. :cheers:

Dreamer's

May 19th, 2008, 03:17 PM

donnex

May 19th, 2008, 03:59 PM

2008-05-19
City Govt. Lauds Oro Chamber For Active Investment Promotion

by Sandra B. Tadeo/ City Information Office
City Mayor Constantino G. Jaraula today lauded the Cagayan de Oro Chamber of Commerce and Industry Foundation, Inc. (ORO CHAMBER) for its active role in transforming Cagayan de Oro into a budding metropolis.

During the dedication of the Oro Chamber Business Development Centre and inauguration of the PUM Training Room held at the Pueblo de Oro Business Park, Mayor Jaraula pointed out that the opening of the business center signifies Oro Chamber’s enthusiasm in promoting Cagayan de Oro’s vast potentials for investments. “Cagayan de Oro has grown by leaps and bounds due to the activism manifested by the local private sector through all these years,” Mayor Jaraula said.The city chief executive admitted that much of the city’s tremendous development can only be attributed to the strong partnership between the city government and the private sector.

Meanwhile, Mayor Jaraula welcomed the visiting officials of PUM Netherlands Senior Experts who paid a courtesy visit to the mayor’s office in City Hall this morning. Mayor Jaraula told the visiting guests from The Netherlands that the city is honored to have as its guests the team of business experts who are in Cagayan de Oro for a partnership project with the Oro Chamber along the development of micro, small and medium enterprises here. Mayor Jaraula expressed the city’s appreciation to the group’s commitment to provide free technical assistance in terms of direct advice to small and medium enterprises and institutions.Particularly, the officers of the PUM Netherlands Senior Experts are in the city in time for today’s inauguration of the PUM Training Room, one of the facilities at the Oro Chamber Business Development Centre. Among the officers who paid a courtesy visit at Mayor Jaraula’s office are Thijs van Praag, chief executive officer of PUM Netherlands Senior Experts; Ton Hens, country coordinator; Grisella Indemans, PUM Project Officer; and Paula Schindeller, 2nd Secretary for Economic and Cultural Affairs of the Royal Embassy of The Netherlands in Manila. Together with the Dutch team in meeting with Mayor Jaraula was Ruben Vegafria, past president of the Oro Chamber and PUM local representative

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Congat's to ORO Chamber for its new Business Center.....:cheers:

michael_ray

May 19th, 2008, 07:04 PM

I love TOWN. I like their food presentation but it's the taste that really satisfied me. And seeing chefs busy doing their stuffs in the kitchen makes the whole experience even more exciting.

donnex

May 19th, 2008, 07:28 PM

Vol. XXI, No. 205
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 | MANILA, PHILIPPINES

Corporate News
Robinsons Land ties up with PHINMA

ROBINSONS LAND Corp. has tied up with PHINMA Property Holdings for its second mid-cost residential subdivision in Cagayan de Oro City in a bid to strengthen its presence in the province. :banana:

In a telephone interview, Robinsons Land President and Chief Operating Officer Frederick D. Go said PHINMA Properties would donate the property, while his company, through its housing and land development division, would be the developer.

The project, named Fresno Parkview, will span a 14.98-hectare property located in the village of Lumbia, Cagayan de Oro.

"The mid-cost residential subdivision sells lots only with an option for housing. The development includes a commercial strip," Robinsons Land said in a disclosure.

PHINMA Properties is a subsidiary of Philippine Investment-Management, Inc., or PHINMA, and has built close to 5,000 condominiums.

Robinsons Land is the real estate unit of Gokongwei-owned JG Summit Holdings. Its housing and land development division has launched more than 30 projects and is present in seven regions nationwide.

Robinsons Land has 20 shopping malls, 25 residential condominiums, six office buildings and three hotels.

It posted a 27% growth in its net income to P776.5 million for the second quarter of the fiscal year ending in March, as revenues jumped by a third to P2.9 billion. — Lovely Nica P. Lee

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donnex

May 19th, 2008, 07:33 PM

dumadami na talaga ang subdivision sa uptown area ng CDO......a true sign of progress.....Padayon Paglambo CDO....:banana2:

neyoneyo80

May 19th, 2008, 07:39 PM

indeed FMC had transformed CdeO's city streets into one of the beautiful and most exciting transportation in the country today. :cheers:

any picture of the jeepney?

donnex

May 19th, 2008, 07:50 PM

DOLE asks firms to put up daycare centers
BY AMITA LEGASPI, GMANews.TV
05/19/2008 | 09:40 PM

Email this | Email the Editor | Print | Digg this | Add to del.icio.us MANILA, Philippines - Labor Secretary Marianito Roque on Monday urged companies and corporations to set up day care or child care center in their workplaces as part the non-wage benefits for their workers.

In a statement posted on DOLE website, Roque said their regional offices, under the family welfare program, is set to intensify their campaign for the establishment of day care centers especially in companies with more women workers.

He said this is to help lessen the workers' expenses for early childhood education and ensure the children's safety and health.

The DOLE suggestion came even as workers criticized the P20 wage hike ordered by the National Capital Region's wage board, saying that it was a mere pittance compared to the price increases on basic commodities which are being borne daily by workers.

But for Roque, the non-wage benefits would help workers cope with pressures brought about by oil price hikes and the consequent rise in prices of goods and services.

For employers, he said that childcare facilities would result in sustained efficiency and productivity of workers who would no longer be saddled by family and economic pressures in looking after the welfare and safety of their young children while they are at work.

He added that employers also gain tax incentives under Republic Act 8980 or "An Act Promulgating a Comprehensive Policy and a National System for Early Child Care and Development, Providing Funds Therefore and For Other Purposes," which provides that the operating costs of employer or corporate-based day care centers can be deducted from taxable income provided the employer or corporation will not charge user fees.

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo earlier instructed the DOLE and Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) to assist companies especially those with many women workers in the setting up of day care facilities following her visit to several firms last month.

Roque said the President had asked the employers of the firms she visited to put up day care facilities for their women workers.

He said at least 20 large firms have expressed readiness to establish day care facilities in their workplaces.

Among these firms are the Texas Instruments in Baguio City; Smart Shirt at Clark Freeport Economic Zone in Pampanga; Philippine Packing Corp. in Bugo, Cagayan de Oro City; Domingo Teng Fishing, Inc. in General Santos City; and the Bataan Export Processing Zone in Bataan.

While the firms which already have an operational day care facilities are the Philex Mining Corp. and Lepanto Mining Corp. in Benguet, Unilever Phils. in Manila, and Central Azucarera Don Pedro in Batangas as well as the Tahanang Walang Hagdan in Rizal. Firms with lactating facilities, on the other hand, include the PAPTI, MNTEC, and Mitsuwa at the Cavite Export Processing Zone in Cavite; JAE Phils. At the Gateway Business Park in Gen. Trias, Cavite; and the Liwayway Marketing in Imus, Cavite.

Roque lauded the firms for their sensitivity to the immediate need of their workers for facilities that look after their young children while they are at work.

He also commended the Casilayan Softwood Corp. in Agusan del Sur, Pacific Cement Phils. in Surigao City, and Cagdianao Mining Corp. in Surigao del Norte for extending their social responsibility not only to their employees but also to the community by adopting a day care center in their communities.

Roque said, according to the report of Director Chona Mantilla of DOLE-Caraga, the three firms provide for the needed supplies and the honoraria of volunteers tending the day care centers.

In setting up childcare facilities, Roque said employers may put up day care facilities at the plant level, link up with community-based day care centers, or establish a common facility for the needed services for their workers. - GMANews.TV

JavierP

May 19th, 2008, 08:16 PM

Cagayan de Oro as heritage showcase

By Dexter R. Matilla
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 00:30:00 05/19/2008

MANILA, Philippines - The large number of Cagayanons who came to the Lim Ket Kai Mall to watch the performance of the “Darangen ni Bantugen” epic by the Kagay-an Performing Arts (KPA) proved to be a relief. While Cagayan de Oro is a come-on for white-water rafting enthusiasts, its people keep their cultural heritage—like the river rapids the city has been known for—raging in their hearts.
Cagayan de Oro’s value for its heritage was witnessed by a media group flown in from Manila and back by Air Philippines during the opening festivities of National Heritage Month. The opening was described as “one of the best openings we’ve ever had” by gallery owner Araceli Salas, finance officer of the Filipino Heritage Festival.

The “Darangen” is the pre-Islamic Mindanao epic declared by the Unesco as among the World’s Masterpieces of Oral Heritage. Written in Maranao, it is actually sung in traditional practice for almost 24 hours for seven days.

KPA showed an improvisational excerpt of one of the best stories ever told, the “Kawing,” or the wedding of Bantugen and Princess Bai Lawanen.

The persistent suitor Sarabosing, with the help of the sorceress Busawon, abducts the princess before the wedding and keeps her in the heart of the forest. But Bai Lawanen is able to free herself with the help of the three Tonongs or the Good Spirits.

KPA executive director Glen Reyes, who chairs the local festivities, said the presentation might not be as traditional as how the Maranaos would do it, but it was as authentic as the original since “authenticity is not the imitation of the form but the reinterpretation of the essence and aesthetic of the form in contemporary context.”

Before the performance, Palihang Hagonoy, a group of teenagers from Bulacan, warmed up the crowd by engaging in a balagtasan. With Crispin de Luna as artistic director, Ricardo Gutierrez, Recher Tamayo and Jocelyn Dagalea elicited laughter from the audience with their witty poetic joust as they argued whether it was best to use the tabo or the toilet paper when nature called.

Friendship city

Over at SM Cagayan, Mayor Constantino Jaraula welcomed guests to the “City of Golden Friendship.” He said CDO had been blessed by the heavens for being spared from typhoons and earthquakes and being chosen as a venue for the opening of National Heritage Month.

A traditional arts-and-crafts demonstration at the mall’s atrium featured Maranao and Higaonon weaving, pottery and beadwork.

“Cagayan has a distinct heritage in that it has been refined by age,” Jaraula said. “It has gone through the process and come out with the best. But the best heritage of the city is not just something physical. It is the heritage in the hearts of our people.”

Cagayan de Oro was razed to the ground by its colonial masters, the Spaniards, the Americans and the Japanese, who invaded the province on May 2, 1942, and pretty much destroyed it. This is why there are very few heritage structures that remain today.

One item that has been preserved is the cross outside the St. Augustine Cathedral. The wooden cross was erected by the Recollect friars in 1888. It is the only relic from the cathedral’s Hispanic past that remains.

The church had been originally constructed of wood and nipa during the time of Fray Pedro de Santa Barbara in 1779. A year later, it was dedicated to St. Augustine. It was reconstructed in 1845, after fire razed it down four years earlier. Fray Simon Loscos de Santa Catalina imported marine stones from China for its reconstruction.

A hundred years later, the church was destroyed by the liberating American planes. Cagayan’s first bishop, Fr. James T.G. Hayes, SJ, rebuilt it in 1946, designing the interiors with late 19th-century stained-glass windows donated by the Sacred Heart Sisters of New York.

Xavier University, formerly Ateneo de Cagayan, is the first Ateneo to receive university status—in 1958. Its museum is a treat for archaeologists as it holds the skeleton of the earliest known human in Mindanao. Found at Huluga Cave, the remains have been dated by the University of California as having existed around
377 AD.

Old Cagayan

A painting of old Cagayan can also be found in the museum. Assistant curator Nonoy Estarte explained the importance of Plaza Divisoria. He said big fires used to be a problem in Cagayan, and to prevent it from spreading, the elongated promenade was made in 1901.

Plaza Divisoria features statues of local and national heroes such as José Rizal, Andres Bonifacio, Ramon Magsaysay, Misamis Gov. Apolinar Velez, and Justiniano Borja, Cagayan’s first elected mayor.

On weekends, at nighttime, Plaza Divisoria closes its streets to traffic and turns into a café and market where locals and tourists dine while enjoying live band performances.

Another museum that opened recently is the one in Capitol University, which was founded by Laureana and Sesenio Rosales in 1971. The Museum of Three Cultures features artifacts and pictures gathered by Laureana from the different places her educational services had taken her.

The museum has an extensive collection of artifacts from the Christian lowlands and Butuan, and Maranao antiques from Tugaya, Lanao del Sur. It also has a gallery of Cagayan ethnohistory as well as showcases of Lumad arts and crafts from the Higaunon and Manobo cultures; archives of Spanish-era documents; and photographs and memorabilia of historic Mindanao personalities.

La Castilla Museum was originally the vacation house of Liceo de Cagayan University founders Rodolfo Neri-Pelaez and Elsa Pelaez. It became a museum in 1997, and showcases antique Chinese jars and wares from different dynasties.
Outside the city, 15 kilometers south, is the Macahambus Cave. In the 1900s, the cave was used as a secret meeting place and hideout for Filipino forces battling the American invaders. It is also the site of the Battle of Macahambus Hill, where the Filipinos first won over the Americans.

It is a favorite destination for tourists, especially the Macahambus Gorge, where a large spring emanates from one of the rock shelters, passing through the cave’s lower portion.

:banana:

JavierP

May 19th, 2008, 08:19 PM

JavierP

May 19th, 2008, 08:21 PM

By CJ KUIZON | Davao Today'

DAVAO CITY — A favorite anecdote of those in the business of selling Havaianas was the story of how a fisherman fell in love with these Brazilian flip-flops when it officially arrived in Mindanao, wearing his first pair while hauling fish at the Cagayan de Oro public market.

Margarita Montemayor-Nograles, Havaiana’s subdistributor for southeastern Mindanao, said the fisherman had heard somewhere that these flip-flops were comfortable and very durable and so decided to buy.

Perfect fit! (davaotoday.com photo by Jonald Mahinay)He wore the flip-flops hauling and selling fish at the Cagayan de Oro public market. Word spread around and other fisherfolk were also lining up for a pair.

What was remarkable about the fisherman’s story was not that Havaianas were imported flip-flops or that these were preferred by fashionistas, but that the cheapest pair of Havaianas cost more than 600 pesos then.

Students strike a pose with their Havaianas buds. (davaotoday.com photo by Jonald Mahinay)Nograles said that the fisherman was among the earliest customer of Havaianas when the Brazilian flip-flops opened its first Mindanao outlet in Cagayan de Oro city.
At the three-day “Make Your Own Havaianas” event in Davao in March, over 6,000 people came to see the displays at the Gaisano Mall on the first day alone, Nograles said. Those who came to buy were not only the fashionistas but also some salesladies from Gaisano department store and other boutiques, clerks, employees and homemakers, as shown in the forms the customers filled up upon buying a pair.

CGYanon

May 20th, 2008, 01:07 AM

repost [posted by Donnex]

Vol. XXI, No. 205
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 | MANILA, PHILIPPINES

Corporate News
Robinsons Land ties up with PHINMA

ROBINSONS LAND Corp. has tied up with PHINMA Property Holdings for its second mid-cost residential subdivision in Cagayan de Oro City in a bid to strengthen its presence in the province.

In a telephone interview, Robinsons Land President and Chief Operating Officer Frederick D. Go said PHINMA Properties would donate the property, while his company, through its housing and land development division, would be the developer.

The project, named Fresno Parkview, will span a 14.98-hectare property located in the village of Lumbia, Cagayan de Oro.

"The mid-cost residential subdivision sells lots only with an option for housing. The development includes a commercial strip," Robinsons Land said in a disclosure.

PHINMA Properties is a subsidiary of Philippine Investment-Management, Inc., or PHINMA, and has built close to 5,000 condominiums.

Robinsons Land is the real estate unit of Gokongwei-owned JG Summit Holdings. Its housing and land development division has launched more than 30 projects and is present in seven regions nationwide.

Robinsons Land has 20 shopping malls, 25 residential condominiums, six office buildings and three hotels.

It posted a 27% growth in its net income to P776.5 million for the second quarter of the fiscal year ending in March, as revenues jumped by a third to P2.9 billion. — Lovely Nica P. Lee

Alingatong

May 20th, 2008, 01:16 AM

^^:lol: Kakatuwa naman. :cheers:

boju2

May 20th, 2008, 01:27 AM

boju2

May 20th, 2008, 01:34 AM

Brazilian Hotties at Limketkai during Havaianas Free Kick Affair

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Ang laki ng tsinelas :lol::lol::lol: Ayoko sa tsinelas na yan, model nalang ang sa akin.... :D

boju2

May 20th, 2008, 01:39 AM

Night Shots of Rosario Arcade, Limketkai Center
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Skypark
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PJoe's Diner
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Robinsons CDO
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Café Macumba
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East Wok
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Bo's Coffee
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Taza Café
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Divisoria Night Shots
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Kakaiba talaga ang night life ng CDO, all in one sa LKK at Divisoria:cheers::cheers:

CGYanon

May 20th, 2008, 01:43 AM

By Pocholo Concepcion
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 01:48:00 03/30/2008

MANILA, Philippines—Versatile musician Toti Fuentes passed away on Thursday in the United States after battling cancer for the last six years. He was 55.

Born in Cagayan de Oro City, Fuentes—named after his father Francisco and the second of eight siblings—received musical training at an early age. At 6, he learned to play the piano. His parents saw the prodigy in him and sent him to the University of Santo Tomas Conservatory of Music for college.

He also entered the seminary, but realized music was his calling.

Determined to pursue a professional career as a musician, Fuentes hooked up with Rico J. Puno, then an aspiring Taglish folk singer beginning to build a reputation at Spindle, a folk club, in 1974. When Puno broke into the pop scene, Fuentes became his regular pianist in concerts and recordings.

Fuentes also did session work with the Apo Hiking Society, Hajji Alejandro, Basil Valdez, Pilita Corrales and other popular artists.

By 1978, Toti was evolving as a jazz musician and wanted to get to “the source,” as he called it. He went to the US, where he spent the next 20 years as a working musician—performing with Natalie Cole, Anita Baker, Julia Fordham, Aretha Franklin, Andy Williams and many others.

Fuentes spent several years as a session musician in Los Angeles, hoping to play with his idol, Sergio Mendes. When they finally met, it didn’t take long for Mendes to ask Fuentes to join him on a concert tour.

He also conducted the North Dakota Symphony Orchestra and the Louisville Pops Symphony Orchestra.

In 1999, Fuentes was diagnosed with a rare tumor in the stomach, which he battled with an experimental treatment administered by a hospital in Chicago where he had been residing.

The cancer had been in remission when he was in Manila in October last year for a series of shows with singer Ana Fegi.

“But even now,” Fuentes told the Inquirer then, “I feel death follows me all around. On the other hand, I have more angels of life around me as well. When I have to be rushed to the hospital, these angels come to my rescue.”

Early this year, Fuentes was back in Manila as bandleader in British singer-songwriter Julia Fordham’s Valentine shows at the Ayala malls. Two weeks ago, he performed with former Sergio Mendes vocalist Kevyn Lettau on the last night of the week-long 3rd Philippine International Jazz Festival.

“He was dedicated to his craft. He always had time to listen and give breaks to singers,” said Richard Merk, one of Fuentes’ many friends in the local music industry.

“He had many dreams,” said Bibsy Carballo, Fuentes’ manager. “He always told me he couldn’t die because he had so many things to do. He wanted to help disadvantaged and sick children through his foundation, Hope for the World.”

Fuentes is survived by his Polish-American wife Jodi and sons Damien and Xavier.

CGYanon

May 20th, 2008, 01:57 AM

^^ ang mahal naman ng tsinelas! sabagay yung NF (http://www.backcountry.com/store/TNF2904/The-North-Face-Base-Camp-Flip-Flop-Mens.html) kung flipflops halos ganun din ang price (range from 25 to 40 US). pero ilang years na, tibay pa rin...

GearX

May 20th, 2008, 03:27 AM

Robinsons Land ties up with PHINMA (http://www.bworldonline.com/BW052008/content.php?id=043)

ROBINSONS LAND Corp. has tied up with PHINMA Property Holdings for its second mid-cost residential subdivision in Cagayan de Oro City in a bid to strengthen its presence in the province.

In a telephone interview, Robinsons Land President and Chief Operating Officer Frederick D. Go said PHINMA Properties would donate the property, while his company, through its housing and land development division, would be the developer.

The project, named Fresno Parkview, will span a 14.98-hectare property located in the village of Lumbia, Cagayan de Oro.

"The mid-cost residential subdivision sells lots only with an option for housing. The development includes a commercial strip," Robinsons Land said in a disclosure.

PHINMA Properties is a subsidiary of Philippine Investment-Management, Inc., or PHINMA, and has built close to 5,000 condominiums.

Robinsons Land is the real estate unit of Gokongwei-owned JG Summit Holdings. Its housing and land development division has launched more than 30 projects and is present in seven regions nationwide.

Robinsons Land has 20 shopping malls, 25 residential condominiums, six office buildings and three hotels.

It posted a 27% growth in its net income to P776.5 million for the second quarter of the fiscal year ending in March, as revenues jumped by a third to P2.9 billion. — Lovely Nica P. Lee

GearX

May 20th, 2008, 03:57 AM

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GearX

May 20th, 2008, 04:09 AM

NEA cites Misamis Oriental power co-op for low systems losses (http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Business&p=49&type=2&sec=27&aid=200805196)
By Donnabelle L. Gatdula
Tuesday, May 20, 2008

The National Electrification Administration (NEA) has cited Misamis Oriental I Electric Cooperative Inc. (MORESCO I) and 14 other electric cooperatives nationwide for maintaining low systems loss levels over the years.

NEA administrator Edith Bueno said MORESCO’s achievement comforms with Pesident Arroyo’s directive to bring down electricity systems losses to single-digit levels by 2010.

“Should this become a reality, electricity consumers would benefit much from the savings that can be converted from system losses of their power provider. That is why the NEA, the state-run agency mandated to realize the single-digit systems loss for the country’s electric cooperatives is determined to bring down their system losses and boost their efficiency towards better service delivery for their member consumers,” Bueno said.

Bueno noted that MORESCO I has been consistently posting single-digit system loss since 1981.

“MORESCO I has an impeccable track record regarding single-digit system loss as compared with other ECs,” she said.

“MORESCO I is a pioneer in many things as regards the implementation of the Rural Electrification Program. But what is worth mentioning is that the EC was able to maintain a single-digit system loss for 27 years already. It earned citations for posting the lowest system loss in the country since 1981,” Bueno added.

“This year it belongs to the elite six-percent level of systems loss roster of ECs. On the other hand, the Cebu I Electric Cooperative, Inc. (CEBECO I) is next for maintaining single-digit figure for 20 years, the Cebu III Electric Cooperative Inc. (CEBECO III) for 13 years, while the Bohol I Electric Cooperative Inc. (BOHECO I) and the Tablas Island Electric Cooperative Inc. (TIELCO) have maintained single-digit levels for 10 years,” she said.

To date, five ECs belong to the elite six-percent system loss club with CEBECO III having the lowest at 6.42 percent, MORESCO I with 6.5 percent, Davao Oriental Electric Cooperative, Inc. (DORECO) with 6.81 percent, BOHECO I with 6.82 percent and Siargao Island Electric Cooperative Inc. (SIARELCO) with 6.87 percent.

“Aside from these five with the lowest systems loss, 10 other ECs have also attained single digit systems loss even prior to the Presidential directive of lowering these systems losses of the country’s electric distribution utilities.

GearX

May 20th, 2008, 04:15 AM

RLC, Phinma to develop Mindanao plot (http://business.inquirer.net/money/breakingnews/view/20080520-137658/RLC-Phinma-to-develop-Mindanao-plot)
By Elizabeth Sanchez-Lacson
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 08:15:00 05/20/2008

MANILA, Philippines—Gokongwei-owned Robinsons Land Corp. (RLC) has joined forces with Phinma Property Holdings, the property arm of the Phinma group, to develop a 14.98-hectare subdivision in Cagayan de Oro City.

RLC said in a disclosure Monday to the Philippine Stock Exchange that the property in Barangay Lumbia owned by Phinma would be developed to look like an American inspired garden community.

To be called Fresno Parkview, it is 250 meters away from the airport and 9.6 kilometers from the City Hall and the cathedral.

Fresno Parkview aims to target the middle-income market and RLC will only sell lots with an option for housing.

The project will also include a commercial strip.

RLC said its latest project was part of its commitment to develop southern Philippines and boost the property firm’s presence in the region.

RLC’s housing and land development division had launched more than 30 projects and is present in seven regions.

To date, RLC has developed 20,902 lots and house and lot packages.

RLC is a major real estate player with a portfolio of 20 shopping malls, 25 residential condominiums, six office buildings, 30 residential subdivisions and three hotels.

Phinma Property, on the other hand, is making inroads into the low-cost housing sector.

GearX

May 20th, 2008, 04:25 AM

Senado at Konrgeso, nagpa-abot na ng pakikiramay sa pagpanaw ni RMN Chairman Henry R. Canoy (http://www.rmn.com.ph/)
May 20, 2008

Naghain na ng resolusyon ang dalawang kapulungan ng Kongreso na nagpapa-abot ng pakikiramay sa pagpanaw ng Chairman of the Board at ama ng Radio Mindanao Network na si Don Henry Rabe Canoy.

Sa resolusyong akda nina Zamboanga Representative Isabel Climaco at Cagayan de Oro Congressman Rufus Rodriguez, kinikilala ng mga ito ang naging kontribusyon ni Don Henry sa larangan ng pamamahayag at sa serbisyo publiko.

Labis na hinangaan ni Climaco ang responsableng pamamahayag na pina-iiral ni Don Henry sa industriya na kanyang pinaglingkuran.

Tinukoy naman sa resolution #408 ni Senate President Manuel Villar ang namayapang si Don Henry bilang Outstanding Public Servant, loving husband at dedicated father.

Kaisa rin si Villar sa pagsasabi na ang RMN na pinagsikapang itayo at itaguyod ni Don Henry ang largest fleet of radio stations dahil sa mahigit 50 AM at FM stations nito sa kapuluan.

Oras na malagdaan ng lahat ng miyembro ng Senado ang nasabing resolusyon ng pakikipag-dalamhati at pakikipag-simpatya sa pagyao ni Don Henry ay ipapadala ito sa kanyang naiwang pamilya.

onlooker

May 20th, 2008, 05:17 AM

Galing talaga ng mga ateneo... Ateneo School of Business, Ateneo de Naga, and Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan.:cheers:

Congrats Joel! He's a good friend of mine...heheh

Farirah

May 20th, 2008, 05:27 AM

dumadami na talaga ang subdivision sa uptown area ng CDO......a true sign of progress.....Padayon Paglambo CDO....:banana2:

Imagine that even CdeO's "bukid" has been now the choice of realty developers. It's because CdeO's sea level is now dense at all. Balikbayans, foreigners who love to settle here, and even the local migrants will love to settle in these mushrooming uptown subdivisions where you can overlook the buildings in the downtown areas.

Anyway, is this an another upcoming Robinsons' realty project aside from Robinsons' Bloomsfield and Richmond Hills? :)

GearX

May 20th, 2008, 05:43 AM

Dutch group to provide training to CdeO entrepreneurs (http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/cag/2008/05/20/bus/dutch.group.to.provide.training.to.cdeo.entrepreneurs.html)
By Mark D. Francisco

EXPECT homegrown businesses in Cagayan de Oro to become more vibrant and innovative in delivering products and services as PUM, the largest business outreach program of the Netherlands, partners with the Cagayan de Oro Chamber of Commerce and Industry Foundation, Inc. (Oro Chamber) in development.

PUM has vowed to provide technical experts and training assistance to Oro Chamber members and other interested parties all year round starting this year.

In fact, PUM has donated a training room at the newly-inaugurated Oro Chamber office located in the confines of Pueblo de Oro.

"We will turn our focus on Northern Mindanao because there are lots of potentials here," PUM country director Ton Hens said at the sidelights of the inauguration Monday.

For his part, Northern Mindanao presidential assistant Jojo Pupos has nothing but praise for the foreign business group.

"Your partnership with the Oro Chamber is very timely indeed," he remarked and went on emphasizing that Northern Mindanao is the only region in the country where the industrial and agricultural sectors are converging in one dynamic economic fusion.

Pupos added that Bukidnon is an agricultural country while the coastal towns of Misamis Oriental are where industrial plants are sprouting up.

PUM Northern Mindanao coordinator Ruben Vegafria also disclosed that as of August last year, there are already numerous beneficiaries of PUM's training programs and more are underway.

Some of the beneficiaries are a startup organic plantation and homegrown food processors SLERS and Oro Ham.

"To be relevant with the times, we need to change certain traditional business practices and this is where PUM comes in," Oro Chamber president Rodolfo Meñes said.

Since 2005, there have already been a total of 137 training modules conducted by PUM in the Philippines. Worldwide, it conducts an average of 2,000 seminars throughout a calendar year.

PUM is Netherlands' largest consultancy agency for senior volunteers.

The primary financiers of PUM are the Dutch government, the Netherlands employers' organization VNO-NCW and the European Union.

Interested parties who wish to avail of the PUM free technical assistance may just contact Vegafria.