Bacolod City and Negros Occidental Province - Compiled Threads

[boynegro$]

^^ yeah we saw it. Any body can notice the uprising subdivitions in the east area starting from Villa Angela up to Alangilan. Damo gid ya.:):)

[ngprofflorida]

Wow!!!! Sta Fe resort is really a big change with their landscaping, due to a strong competition with other resort hotel, like palmas delmar, and soon resortel , plus the pavillion resort. thats a good sign, more tourist will stay in Sta Fe. resort.

Good to know my brother still alive..... and they still entertain kids......

Regarding providence I already posted in previous thread its really nice subdivision....

http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa247/ngprofflorida/providenciaclubhouse.jpg

[kyle@1008]

anyways if you guys like good cars,..

during the 60's there was a joke that there were more mercedes benzs in negros than there were in manila....

and benzs were a negrense favorite, heres a solid echo of that era, mercedes limousine....

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b198/kyle_Lark/DSC_0056.jpg

[sugarboy]

Regarding providence I already posted in previous thread its really nice subdivision....

Bakal ka dira. Nami na da.

[boynegro$]

Wow!!!! Sta Fe resort is really a big change with their landscaping, due to a strong competition with other resort hotel, like palmas delmar, and soon resortel , plus the pavillion resort. thats a good sign, more tourist will stay in Sta Fe. resort.

All it takes my friend is a good-word-of-mouth from the visitors and tourists itself. We already know how nice this resorts are, nobody can deny that. More renovations, good promotions, amazing travel pakages, and w/ the help of our local gov't, we can prove that bacolod is more than just sugar and callcenters. It is an all-rolled-into one experience.:):):cheers1::cheers1:

[sugarboy]

anyways if you guys like good cars,..

during the 60's there was a joke that there were more mercedes benzs in negros than there were in manila....

and benzs were a negrense favorite, heres a solid echo of that era, mercedes limousine....

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b198/kyle_Lark/DSC_0056.jpg

@kyle, at the time the Mercedes 123 body came out, naga-tinga-tinga na mga hacendero (hacenderos were having a hard time).

the Mercedes favorites during the sugar boom were more of those with the vertical headlights ;)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Mercedes_Benz_250_at_Versailles_.jpg/250px-Mercedes_Benz_250_at_Versailles_.jpg

[ngprofflorida]

Bakal ka dira. Nami na da.

I agree with you, its really nice subdivision, but I already got one.....

[boynegro$]

^^ kyle, yeah i remember that, together with the saying "gina piko kag gina pala..." but that was a long time ago though. things were a little different now.

[ngprofflorida]

^^ kyle, yeah i remember that, together with the saying "gina piko kag gina pala..." but that was a long time ago though. things were a little different now.

I remember those days but now we need to work hard......

[boynegro$]

http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd4/elms10/a6.jpg

[sugarboy]

I remember those days but now we need to work hard......
every one needs to work hard. i thank my dad for teaching me the dignity of labor. i used to resent my dad for the summers i could not simply play because he wanted me to work various farm related jobs.

now, i value every minute of it. at least i did not turn out to be a typical "batugan" negrense :lol: UUK

[kyle@1008]

@kyle, at the time the Mercedes 123 body came out, naga-tinga-tinga na mga hacendero (hacenderos were having a hard time).

the Mercedes favorites during the sugar boom were more of those with the vertical headlights ;)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Mercedes_Benz_250_at_Versailles_.jpg/250px-Mercedes_Benz_250_at_Versailles_.jpg

you know I still see some of those around, do you know who owns that antique chevrolet??

[sugarboy]

there is a blue chevrolet impala which belongs to the Alunans of Burgos Street.

[postergirl]

http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd4/elms10/a6.jpg

this is such a pretty picture :) the sea looks so calm..ka soothing sang effect :)

[kyle@1008]

@sugarboy

an Impala , what year is it a convertible?, I saw an older chevrolet at the chevrolet dealership that looks more 1930's..the oldest impala is 1950's

[boynegro$]

this is such a pretty picture :) the sea looks so calm..ka soothing sang effect :)

Welcome back postergirl happy new year, though youre busy you still manage to post huh...Holidays are over so back to work now.:):)

[postergirl]

Welcome back postergirl happy new year, though youre busy you still manage to post huh...Holidays are over so back to work now.:):)

hehe happy new year! :) its good to be back. sometimes I'm just lurking hehe.. yes, its back to work..but its ok 'cause all I need is less than 60 hours and I'm done with my practicum :nuts:

[boynegro$]

hehe happy new year! :) its good to be back. sometimes I'm just lurking hehe.. yes, its back to work..but its ok 'cause all I need is less than 60 hours and I'm done with my practicum :nuts:

That's good. Well for me, they gave me a week of night duty.:cry::cry:
But I have only 2 months left though before:cheers1::cheers1:hehehe.

[JEFFjr_25]

http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd4/elms10/a6.jpg

I will name this, "Peace in Solitude".:)

[sugarboy]

@sugarboy

an Impala , what year is it a convertible?, I saw an older chevrolet at the chevrolet dealership that looks more 1930's..the oldest impala is 1950's

oh i didn't see the convertible.

[ngprofflorida]

HANDUMANAN SLAUGHTERHOUSE
SP finalizing agreement
between city, contractor
Bacolod Councilor Jude Thaddeus Sayson yesterday said the Sangguniang Panlungsod is finalizing the contract between the city and AVM Bernardo Engineering for the operation of the Bacolod slaughterhouse in Brgy. Handumnan, Bacolod City.

Sayson, together with Secretary to the Mayor Roger Balo, Councilors Ana Marie Palermo, Napoleon Cordova, Catalino Alisbo, Reynold Iledan and Marx Louie de la Rosa conducted an ocular inspection at the slaughterhouse being operated by AVM Bernardo in Cagayan de Oro last Sept. 9.

Sayson who is vice chairman of the Committee on Markets and Slaughterhouses, said they are waiting for engineer Bombit Bernardo to send them a copy of the contract of the company with Cagayan de Oro City.

Palermo, chairman of the Committee on Laws, said they will incorporate some inputs into the memorandum of agreement between the city and AVM Bernardo and take up the matter in the session next week.

Sayson said they observed that the Cagayan de Oro slaughterhouse is efficiently managed by AVM Bernardo Engineering. Balo said AVM Bernardo Engineering will operate the Cagayan de Oro slaughterhouse for 25 years and this year is their second year of operation. Most of the SP members have agreed to the proposal of Bernardo to operate the Bacolod slaughterhouse for 20 years instead of 15 as proposed by the city.

Balo said AVM Bernardo spent P48 million for the CDO slaughterhouse and started earning during its first year of operation. It will invest P54 million to operate the Bacolod slaughterhouse, he said. "We estimate that the repair of the project will cost about P2 million due to the depreciation of the facilities," he said.

Balo said that after the documents have been finalized, the management contract will be signed within one or two weeks. He said that, by the time the Mayor returns from a seminar in Sweden, he may already have been given an authority by the SP to sign the contract with AVM Bernardo.*CGS

[JEFFjr_25]

^^ I guess this project was already approved by Bacolod's city council and soon construction works will commence. So the budget to this slaughterhouse is Php54M? Whoa!!! Maybe it'll feature more modern equipments and facilities. And i hope the bldg structure is of modern design as well. Modern but functional. Calling on @Smile, pls take pic of the renderings of this project.:)

[ngprofflorida]

http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa247/ngprofflorida/1813754479_2973fb43f1.jpg http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa247/ngprofflorida/1814599424_fb1ca844b9.jpg
Thanks dirtyPierre's for sharing

[SUV111]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2127/2157551257_2c2972b711.jpg?v=0
Building along Sta. fe

[boynegro$]

^^ Tanduay, Cocacola, La Tondeña, San Miguel, and PepsiCo have all operations here in Bacolod City and Negros Occidental. I hope Asia Brewery would consider putting a plant here as well.

[JEFFjr_25]

http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa247/ngprofflorida/1813754479_2973fb43f1.jpg http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa247/ngprofflorida/1814599424_fb1ca844b9.jpg
Thanks dirtyPierre's for sharing

One can pass by Tanduay's plant on your way to Mambukal, right?:)

[SUV111]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2134/2153403409_ce56d1b463.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2287/2154195304_34ebb476b3.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2351/2154190036_b196d4443f.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2226/2154191808_532f5bd8fb.jpg?v=0
road leading to our hacienda :) :banana::banana::banana:

[TJ]

im not concerned about the sugar... what im concern is the use of corn and cassava to make bio-fuel.

[JEFFjr_25]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2134/2153403409_ce56d1b463.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2287/2154195304_34ebb476b3.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2351/2154190036_b196d4443f.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2226/2154191808_532f5bd8fb.jpg?v=0
road leading to our hacienda :) :banana::banana::banana:

These are postcard perfect views. Great pics @Smile.

[SUV111]

^^ Tanduay, Cocacola, La Tondeña, San Miguel, and PepsiCo have all operations here in Bacolod City and Negros Occidental. I hope Asia Brewery would consider putting a plant here as well.

dont ignore COSMOS...hehehe along circumferential :)

[ngprofflorida]

One can pass by Tanduay's plant on your way to Mambukal, right?:)

this is before murcia town its really huge bottling plant :banana::banana:

[ngprofflorida]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2134/2153403409_ce56d1b463.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2287/2154195304_34ebb476b3.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2351/2154190036_b196d4443f.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2226/2154191808_532f5bd8fb.jpg?v=0
road leading to our hacienda :) :banana::banana::banana:

wow!!! perfect pictures, Mig I didnt know richy rich ka gali, I want to go there can you invite me, friend ta man ka ya.....:banana::banana:

[boynegro$]

dont ignore COSMOS...hehehe along circumferential :)

Oh yeah, I forgot it pala. Nice. Is Cosmos Cocacola owned?

[SUV111]

im not concerned about the sugar... what im concern is the use of corn and cassava to make bio-fuel.

why?...whats your concern about the corn and cassava for biofuels?
actually negros is more of Kasla and sugarcane only...corn and cassava will be used by other provinces :)

[SUV111]

Oh yeah, I forgot it pala. Nice. Is Cosmos Cocacola owned?

i think its a different entity

[boynegro$]

wow!!! perfect pictures, Mig I didnt know richy rich ka gali, I want to go there can you invite me, friend ta man ka ya.....:banana::banana:

Hahaha... I know where that place is.

[TJ]

if the plants do indeed use corn or cassava or rice to make fuel... im sure there would be serious draws backs like very intense protests among the common people.

I hope just they don't use it and not only in our provinces but to other provinces as well.

[SUV111]

if the plants do indeed use corn or cassava or rice to make fuel... im sure there would be serious draws backs like very intense protests among the common people.

i cant see anything wrong with it for as long its does not interfere with the crops intended for the market...thats why they have their own land to use for these sources to produce biofuels. if protests will occur, it shouldve happened long before pa. right now biofuel industry will start this year na.

and yes, they will also put up biofuels in mindanano and luzon

[boynegro$]

^^ I agree, because people knows that it would be beneficial to all. Not just for the economy of Negros Occidental but the whole Philippines as well.

[TJ]

yeah it's ok for you and your kind and my kind, we can afford to buy high soaring prices of corn, rice and other local food products.
But the common people the mob as i refer to them will protest against it.
And when they protest, who knows what will happen you know what they are like when they go mad.

I can only suggest they use sugar and other products but the stuff like rice and corn jsut leave them be.
If they do so they there would be serious consequences.. ;)

[SUV111]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2313/2151768634_5f872e254d.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2207/2151768792_a1ffdf59b9.jpg?v=0

this was used to be a Mansion of one of the buena familias in Bacolod, but now its being used as an office.

[SUV111]

yeah it's ok for you and your kind and my kind, we can afford to buy high soaring prices of corn, rice and other local food products.
But the common people the mob as i refer to them will protest against it.
And when they protest, who knows what will happen you know what they are like when they go mad.

we have the regulatory board...just like SRA..for sugar...i bet they also have for crops like corn and et al. they are regulated so as not to put so much burden to the consumer and to the common people or the less fortunate ones :)

[boynegro$]

^^ your just pertaining to the negative side TJ, please look at the bright side. Look at the middle east, that land doesnt have crops, but they're economy is great because of fuel, I bet you know how important energy is.

[ngprofflorida]

lets forget about the ethanol and the impact to a common people well wait and see the aftermath effect, we cant speculate at this time..... we have so many things to discuss about the development of negros. lets move on... to another topic!!!!!

[SUV111]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2226/2153395835_feebd65c2b.jpg?v=0

can this also be a source of biofuel?...bernie can you confirm...? i think you mentioned this in the previous page....:)

[boynegro$]

lets forget about the ethanol and the impact to a common people well wait and see the aftermath effect, we cant speculate at this time..... we have so many things to discuss about the development of negros. lets move on... to another topic

I agree my friend. Lets discuss the development of Bacolod. Anyway Ethanol Plant is still under construction. But I can see bright future ahead. :):):banana::banana:

[Fraulein]

Wow Marami pa pala akong hindi naountahan dyan.... :)

Sigure this year, isa yan sa pupuntahan ko, when I reach Bacolod by October. :)

[SUV111]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2393/2151768480_63b0092e5f.jpg?v=0
flowers for everyone

[Fraulein]

Wow Marami pa pala akong hindi napuntahan dyan.... :)

Sigure this year, isa yan sa pupuntahan ko, when I reach Bacolod by October. :)

[boynegro$]

Wow Marami pa pala akong hindi naountahan dyan.... :)

Sigure this year, isa yan sa pupuntahan ko, when I reach Bacolod by October. :)

Like Palmas Del Mar and Santa Fe resort?

[SUV111]

Wow Marami pa pala akong hindi napuntahan dyan.... :)

Sigure this year, isa yan sa pupuntahan ko, when I reach Bacolod by October. :)

we'll be with you when you tour around :) basta sa Sylvia Manor ka stay ha :)

[TJ]

^^ your just pertaining to the negative side TJ, please look at the bright side. Look at the middle east, that land doesnt have crops, but they're economy is great because of fuel, I bet you know how important energy is.

negative, well u might see it negative... Coz you don't care about the side of the common people or even understand situation in our country.
All u see is situations in other which is totaly far fetched from ours.
To tell u middle east doesn't really need crops to make fuel they had it their in that land since before humans existed.

What about us? We don't have that luxury, and we are damn poor and overpopulated. And if prices of corn and rice will increase because of the plants guess who will comman people turn their frustations onto?

There would be protest and rioting, arsoning some will even go far such as bombing these plants and who knows what else.

So just a simple reminder, just stick to sugar.. ;)

[Fraulein]

@Boynegros - siguro yun ang mga pupuntahan ko this year. Malay mo:)

@SUV - sure basta ba may discount. :) btw, doon ang pit stop ko. Then punta ako ng Iloilo and back. Tapos the next day Dumaguete - Kabankalan and Back. Yun ang mga itineraries ko so far. :)

[ngprofflorida]

So far lets concentrate on sugar forget about the corn , cassava, kasla and cocunut... lets move on please this proposals still drifting in the air.

[SUV111]

^^ thats no longer our problem...we have the government to look beyond the situation and make solutions...thats why as what ive said...prices are regulated here and we have the regulatory board to discuss the changes in prices if theres any. Prices will only increase if theres a decrease in the amount to sustain the demands of the public...but in this case...people get the chance to work as farmers of bioethanol industry and the industry itself will plant crops for their production needs...some farmers will also have the chance to sell their crops as an added income, they'll be paid for it and have a decent lives...just be optimistic, people who do that thing.... (rioting and arsoning) are those who doesnt know how to work hard for themselves...mainly relying everythnig to the government...

[boynegro$]

^^ I dont care tj? before the Plant was built there were already a feasibility study how will it affect the economy or what will be the general outcome of this project for the common people. Crops will be planted, jobs will be generated, energy will be less expensive, investors would come in. Hope you see my side..

[SUV111]

@Boynegros - siguro yun ang mga pupuntahan ko this year. Malay mo:)

@SUV - sure basta ba may discount. :) btw, doon ang pit stop ko. Then punta ako ng Iloilo and back. Tapos the next day Dumaguete - Kabankalan and Back. Yun ang mga itineraries ko so far. :)

no worries fraulein...we can always negotiate on that...just let us know and we will set a schedule for your tour :)

[TJ]

lets forget about the ethanol and the impact to a common people well wait and see the aftermath effect, we cant speculate at this time..... we have so many things to discuss about the development of negros. lets move on... to another topic!!!!!

maybe when ur among those living in make shift houses and living in utter poverty u will u begin to care about the causes for the common people and about these plants using rice which your main source of diet as fuel.
But since u don't then lets move on right:):cheers:
Since when did the affuluent or those prentending to be affluent here in this forum care about for the good of the common people.. :lol:

[ninja kid]

@Fraulein ... don't foget to meet SUV, Boynegro$ and the rest of the SSC Bacolod Gang ...
baka samahan ka pa nila at ilibot kung saan mo gusto ... :lol:

mayong gab-i Bacolod! banana ta anay diutay ... :banana:

[boynegro$]

@Boynegros - siguro yun ang mga pupuntahan ko this year. Malay mo:)

@SUV - sure basta ba may discount. :) btw, doon ang pit stop ko. Then punta ako ng Iloilo and back. Tapos the next day Dumaguete - Kabankalan and Back. Yun ang mga itineraries ko so far. :)

Ok, basta you wont regret it. We'll tour you around. :):)

[TJ]

^^ I dont care tj? before the Plant was built there were already a feasibility study how will it affect the economy or what will be the general outcome of this project for the common people. Crops will be planted, jobs will be generated, energy will be less expensive, investors would come in. Hope you see my side..

yep, its good i can see it... just stick to sugar and other products just leave rice, corn alone and if they are smart well im sure their own feasibility study will say that to them. :)
If not well too bad for them, i believe the people will have to use force for them to do so and follow.

[SUV111]

@ninja...thanks, you too, dont miss meeting us here when you get back :)

[boynegro$]

yep, its good i can see it... just stick to sugar and other products just leave rice, corn alone and if they are smart well im sure their own feasibility study will say that to them. :)
If not well too bad for them, i believe the people will have to use force for them to do so and follow.

Lets just wait after the project becomes fully operational and we might conclude then. :)

[SUV111]

maybe when ur among those living in make shift houses and living in utter poverty u will u begin to care about the causes for the common people and about these plants using rice which your main source of diet as fuel.
But since u don't then lets move on right:):cheers:
Since when did the affuluent or those prentending to be affluent here in this forum care about for the good of the common people.. :lol:

what do you think is best for these people?...

is arsoning, rioting and anything that can destabilize the government is the answer to their cause?..

just share your opinion on how to make everything better for these people..

[jaywalker]

maybe when ur among those living in make shift houses and living in utter poverty u will u begin to care about the causes for the common people and about these plants using rice which your main source of diet as fuel.
But since u don't then lets move on right:):cheers:
Since when did the affuluent or those prentending to be affluent here in this forum care about for the good of the common people.. :lol:

May i ask what have you contributed to the people of Bacolod that makes you say this.Please always look on the brightside or else you might end up carrying protest banners in front of government offices.

[Fraulein]

Thanks guys! :)

Can't wait to be there! :)

[TJ]

what do you think is best for these people?...

is arsoning, rioting and anything that can destabilize the government is the answer to their cause?..

just share your opinion on how to make everything better for these people..

you know what these people are like and capable when they go berserk not to mention the opposition will ride with them now we don't want that to happen don't we?.. so may i advice is to avoid it.
Just stick to sugar leave rice and corn be and all will be fine.
U get your visions of investors, the people will get salary jobs and just what u dreamed what all of us dreamed.
Do otherwise make the people mad all your fancy dreams will shatter.

[SUV111]

you what these people are like they go berserk.. so may i advice is to avoid it.
Just stick to sugar leave rice and corn be and all will be fine.
U get your visions of investors, the people will get salary jobs and just what u dreamed what all of us dreamed.
Do otherwise make the people mad all your fancy dreams will shatter.

i think you should address this to the government and not on this thread...as I've said...here in Negros...the source will be sugar and kasla...corn and other crops will be used by other provinces...and Biofuel industries will plant their OWN crops for their production...and its up to the farmers if they want to sell their own crops to the ethanol plant or not. These establishments are here to help and not to ruin lives

the problem with us is that we are too much enclosed by our own ideas/beliefs and we are not trying to widen our thoughts...try to look at both sides of the coin...

[TJ]

May i ask what have you contributed to the people of Bacolod that makes you say this.Please always look on the brightside or else you might end up carrying protest banners in front of government offices.

i assure i will not but the common people specially the poor will protest against it if they start using rice and corn.

U don't really need to contribute in order for to say such things it is just a simple matter of analyzing and thinking.

If u really do care for the republic and it's common people and not just the affluent ones or middle class.. im sure you will begin to understand and think.

No, need to be a mayor or some high in office or someone or famous actor in order to realize matters like this a simple common citizen like myself is enough.

[jaywalker]

^^Well, @migs Suv you have repeatedly told him about the Sugarcane and kasla production for Ethanol production will be in Negros while corn and others will be other provinces.All he need to do is read your post carefully and make a reflection to it.:)It's getting funny already.

[SUV111]

Thanks guys! :)

Can't wait to be there! :)

your welcome fraulein...by the way...when do you plan to go here?

[ngprofflorida]

Tj if you have any concerned and issues about the ethanol production you can address this problem to:Kalayaan Hall, Malacanang Cmpd, J.P. Laurel St., San Miguel, Manila Website: www.ops.gov.ph
Contact nos.: Tel. 5641451, 7333624, 7338658, fax 7356167

Contact the Palace
Mailing Address:
Malacañang Palace
JP Laurel Street, San Miguel, Manila NCR 1005

Your concerned will not address on this thread, we cant help you here. please direct to the above address.

[TJ]

i think you should address this to the government and not on this thread...as I've said...here in Negros...the source will be sugar and kasla...corn and other crops will be used by other provinces...and Biofuel industries will plant their OWN crops for their production...and its up to the farmers if they want to sell their own crops to the ethanol plant or not. These establishments are here to help and not to ruin lives

the problem with us is that we are too much enclosed by our own ideas/beliefs and we are not trying to widen our thoughts...try to look at both sides of the coin...

but sometimes the coin has only side, Even if the make their own crops a private farmer will sell the crops to the highest bidder... which is most likely the bio-fuel plants.

And when they start using corn and rice the whole damn prices will sky rocket.

they common people gets mad and start protesting and rioting and then the oppostion party will ride with them on the streets... then it becomes a whole damn carnival. Disrupting traffic and commerce and your daily life.

I do not wish that to haapen and im sure u don't want that to happen to?
Right?:)

[jaywalker]

i assure i will not but the common people specially the poor will protest against it if they start using rice and corn.

U don't really need to contribute in order for to say such things it is just a simple matter of analyzing and thinking.

If u really do care for the republic and it's common people and not just the affluent ones or middle class.. im sure you will begin to understand and think.

No, need to be a mayor or some high in office or someone or famous actor in order to realize matters like this a simple common citizen like myself is enough.
I do understand the situation TJ because i'm here at the moment and i'm being surrounded by them.The government are helplless if our brothers and sisters who less fortunate are not doing something to make thier life improve.There are people who are poor and have succeeded in life and being optimistic in life has something to do with it.Life is not all about money.It has to be Full of Happiness.

[TJ]

Well im sure they get a lot of advice like this, specially from concerned citizens like myself... ;)

[jaywalker]

Tj if you have any concern and issues about the ethanol production you can address this problem to:Kalayaan Hall, Malacanang Cmpd, J.P. Laurel St., San Miguel, Manila Website: www.ops.gov.ph
Contact nos.: Tel. 5641451, 7333624, 7338658, fax 7356167

Contact the Palace
Mailing Address:
Malacañang Palace
JP Laurel Street, San Miguel, Manila NCR 1005

Good Job Migs Ng:banana::banana:

I have given him an advice that he has a brilliant mind and he should run for a position in the Government and if he wins he can implement evrything he wants and we will give him support.:)

[jaywalker]

Well im sure they get a lot of advice like this, specially from concerned citizens like myself... ;)

Just be reminded that there are a lot of concerned citizen who have done more than those who are very vocal.:)

[SUV111]

but sometimes the coin has only side, Even if the make their own crops a private farmer will sell the crops to the highest bidder... which is most likely the bio-fuel plants.

And when they start using corn and rice the whole damn prices will sky rocket.

they common people gets mad and start protesting and rioting and then the oppostion party will ride with them on the streets... then it becomes a whole damn carnival. Disrupting traffic and commerce and your daily life.

I do not wish that to haapen and im sure u don't want that to happen to?
Right?:)

I've witnessed marshal law and EDSA 1,2 and 3....I've been to the worst case scenarios...you cant stop it...even in other countries...what will happen is they will just end up loosing. They cant always be like that...i know the opposition wants it to be like that for them to have a joyride with the MASA, but they just cant succeed. :) the best thing to do is not to point fingers to one another but instead work hand in hand...unity is the best key to progress.

[TJ]

I do understand the situation TJ because i'm here at the moment and i'm being surrounded by them.The government are helplless if our brothers and sisters who less fortunate are not doing something to make thier life improve.There are people who are poor and have succeeded in life and being optimistic in life has something to do with it.Life is not all about money.It has to be Full of Happiness.

oh, common man don't give that talk.. lols lets look at reality.

Lets get straight to the point.
U can tell them and let them read this they just to stick with sugar.
Go with rice or corn and they will regret it.

Isn't sugar freaking enough to generate income and fill their damn pockets.
Or will their greed rule them and they grinding products like rice and corn?

If bad things happen it will be on their hands. If someone start bombing their plants it's their fault well they were warned.

[TJ]

Good Job Migs Ng:banana::banana:

I have given him an advice that he has a brilliant mind and he should run for a position in the Government and if he wins he can implement evrything he wants and we will give him support.:)

The common people are not your average people like u and myself... I don't wish to even intend to join our rotten government coz most likely the people they will vote for some stupid actors, blabbering news anchors, religous nuts or just someone anyone who can give them a good spectacle. like that useless fool monico :lol:

[jaywalker]

^^Life in Negros is not all about Sugar there are so many ways to uplift your life here if you hardworking enough.Take it from the stories of other poor people and have become successful in thier career.:)

[jaywalker]

The common people are not your average people like u and myself... I don't wish to even intend to join our rotten government coz most likely the people they will vote for some stupid actors, blabbering news anchors, religous nuts or just someone anyone who can give them a good spectacle. like that useless fool monico :lol:


If that's the case i won't be surprised if i see you making protest in some government offices.It getting clearer where you are leading to.:)

[TJ]

^^Life in Negros is not all about Sugar there are so many ways to uplift your life here if you hardworking enough.Take it from the stories of other poor people and have become successful in thier career.:)

yep your words and optimistic spirit adovacates inspirisation to our less fortunate citizens, but sadly thats not what im talking about here... what i was saying is that just stick with sugar, use rice and corn then disaster will happen.

And i already explained in my previous posts. ;)

[TJ]

If that's the case i won't be surprised if i see you making protest in some government offices.It getting clearer where you are leading to.:)

Well i assure u im not that less fortunate to start being frustrated and upset about prices of rice going up, surely i myself and my family can still afford it but surely the common people will not be so happy about it. :)
Protest will begin blocking traffic, rioting, new headlines and the disruption of daily life. Specially me im a student this protest and rally makes me late on going to school.

Im sure any of us don't what that to happen don't we? So just stick with the damn sugar and other products that will not severly affect and upset the people. :) So everyone will be happy... :)

[SUV111]

yep your words and optimistic spirit adovacates inspirisation to our less fortunate citizens, but sadly thats not what im talking about here... what i was saying is that just stick with sugar, use rice and corn then disaster will happen.

And i already explained in my previous posts. ;)

why?...are you capable of doing it?..are you intoxicated or something?...i dont see why your posting such threats on this thread...i cant see any reason why...

you really know that we are just discussing about progress and we dont have any power or whatsoever to dictate the government and tell them about your cause, try send a letter to some news papers and let the public know about your grievances

[sweetgirl]

^^ unfortunately we are not the right person that you should've discuss that kind of problem with. were just discussing here the developments and future plans of bacolod city. tj please dont discuss the pros and cons any further, the project is not completed yet.

[sweetgirl]

Guys please lets moved on, we had enough of ethanol plant already, there's more topic that we need to discuss.

[SUV111]

Well i assure u im not that less fortunate to start being frustrated and upset about prices of rice going up, surely i myself and my family can still afford it but surely the common people will not be so happy about it. :)
Protest will begin blocking traffic, rioting, new headlines and the disruption of daily life. Specially me im a student this protest and rally makes me a late on going to school.

Im sure any of us don't what that to happen don't we? So just stick with the damn sugar and other products that severly affect and upset the people. :) So everyone will be happy... :)

jaywalker is right....dont waste your time with it...your just a student...have more time for school and be more productive...

[ngprofflorida]

TJ I really admire your imputs and concerned your brilliant ideas, and your futuristic vision but am sorry to say please address this to malacanang, they might listen to you, were only an ordinary forumers here and we dont have a power to change the project of govt.

[TJ]

Im not forcing you to take particular course of actions, im just sharing with you things about regarding these plants and about what will happen if they start using rice or corn but well you don't seem to mind about it or even care about it.

Well, then lets move to your topics of fancy restuarants, fancy resorts and sugar coated stories... ;) never mind the dark side of things im sure outsiders will not notice them.
If they do, we'll divert them on other issues and flooding the thread with 100's of huge pictures im sure some here are good at that. ;)

[boynegro$]

Well i assure u im not that less fortunate to start being frustrated and upset about prices of rice going up, surely i myself and my family can still afford it but surely the common people will not be so happy about it. :)
Protest will begin blocking traffic, rioting, new headlines and the disruption of daily life. Specially me im a student this protest and rally makes me late on going to school.

Im sure any of us don't what that to happen don't we? So just stick with the damn sugar and other products that will not severly affect and upset the people. :) So everyone will be happy... :)

So your a student TJ, focus on your study first, ethanol, arsons, riots, and rallies, are the leasts of your concerns as of now. :):) Midterm exams are already underway, I suggest you open your books or go to the llibrary. :banana::banana:

[JEFFjr_25]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2226/2153395835_feebd65c2b.jpg?v=0

can this also be a source of biofuel?...bernie can you confirm...? i think you mentioned this in the previous page....:)

Mig @SUV, i really like this pic. It seems the place is so cool in a hot day.:)

[kiretoce]

Thread open! :cheer:

Now play nice children, and behave! Otherwise, there will be some brigging and banning to be handed out.

Have a nice day! :colgate:

[^TumandoK]

Thread open! :cheer:

Now play nice children, and behave! Otherwise, there will be some brigging and banning to be handed out.

Have a nice day! :colgate:



Ooppsss!!! Thanks mod na u temporarily closed the thread para cool down parang umiinit na kasi...

[kiretoce]

^^ You're welcome. :okay:

[blueguy]

So hot in here... what happened guys? Musta na gali ang expansion sang Rob?

[ngprofflorida]

So hot in here... what happened guys? Musta na gali ang expansion sang Rob?

Hi van morning, they will start this coming march.... dont worry everything are all set for construction :banana::banana::banana:

[Farirah]

It seems the wet and cold weather of January still never kicks the sun's heatwave of December or still never quenches the thirst of the desert flower. hehehe ^^


Anyway Good Morning Bacolod---I LOVE IT! :cheers:

[SUV111]

It seems the wet and cold weather of January still never kicks the sun's heatwave of December or still never quenches the thirst of the desert flower. hehehe ^^


Anyway Good Morning Bacolod---I LOVE IT! :cheers:

hi farirah...good morning...nice to hear from you again :) hehehe

@mod, thanks for closing the thread temporarily... now we can start a nicer and better discussion out here :)

[kiretoce]

^^ Hope that a night's sleep has refreshed and cooled down everyone's tempers. :colgate:

[wildmusic!]

^^ Hope that a night's sleep has refreshed and cooled down everyone's tempers. :colgate:

hi mod, thanks! actually i'm tempted to respond since i've just read the thread now. pero calma lang ko ah. :lol: disiplina ang kelangan. :okay:

Happy New Year! :cheers::cheers::cheers:

[SUV111]

oh i was cool... lesson I've learned....IGNORE :) hehehehe

[Farirah]

oh i was cool... lesson I've learned....IGNORE :) hehehehe

Lesson learned @SUV. It's better to run than to deal with a very radical or super idealistic guy. :cheers:

[SUV111]

Lesson learned @SUV. It's better to run than to deal with a very radical or super idealistic guy. :cheers:

hahahaha!!! thanks farirah :) I'd rather flood the thread with HUGE pics here and be sweet like sugar to everyone :)

[boynegro$]

Thread open! :cheer:

Now play nice children, and behave! Otherwise, there will be some brigging and banning to be handed out.

Have a nice day! :colgate:

Thank you mod, yes we will behave.:):):banana::banana:

[kiretoce]

hi mod, thanks! actually i'm tempted to respond since i've just read the thread now. pero calma lang ko ah. :lol: disiplina ang kelangan. :okay:

Happy New Year! :cheers::cheers::cheers:

"He who is silent and knows better is far greater than he who is noisy but clueless."

-- kiretoce :okay:

[SUV111]

"He who is silent and knows better is far greater than he who is noisy but clueless."

-- kiretoce :okay:

way to go MOD!!!! this is really nice :)
:banana::banana::banana:

[boynegro$]

hi mod, thanks! actually i'm tempted to respond since i've just read the thread now. pero calma lang ko ah. :lol: disiplina ang kelangan. :okay:

Happy New Year! :cheers::cheers::cheers:

Hehehe, si Ng kagabe tumaas na naman ang blood pressure. Okay kana brother NG?:lol::lol:

Lesson learned @SUV. It's better to run than to deal with a very radical or super idealistic guy. :cheers:

Hello farirah.

[wildmusic!]

"He who is silent and knows better is far greater than he who is noisy but clueless."

-- kiretoce :okay:

exactly my point boss. cheers! :cheers:

[JEFFjr_25]

"He who is silent and knows better is far greater than he who is noisy but clueless."

-- kiretoce :okay:

^^Its ALWAYS true.:) Thanks Mod. Now guys, its time... time to Play and Display, cautiously.:)

[ngprofflorida]

More than 100
hired at new airport


Newly hired security personnel of the Air Transportation Office are now reporting to the New Bacolod-Silay Airport in preparation for its opening on the third week of this month, ATO Bacolod manager Antonio Alfonso said yesterday.
He said more than 100 job order workers were recruited by ATO for security and janitorial services at the new airport and most of them are now in Silay.

Technical requirements, such as the publication of the new aeronautical information that will inform the world about the new airport in Negros Occidental, have already been started, Alfonso said, adding that everything is ready for the commercial operation of the facility.

He said commercial airline companies that will transfer to the new airport are expected to make their own announcements, although nothing much will change aside, from the new location of the airport.

But while ATO will transfer its office to Silay City , Alfonso said some security personnel will remain at the Bacolod facility to guard the government property.

Equipment turned over by the Department of Transportation and Communication to the ATO such as x-ray machines for passengers and baggage, firetrucks, runway sweeper, dumptruck, and tractor mower will also be transferred to the airport in Silay on the last flight out of the Bacolod airport, he said.

Meanwhile, Silay airport project director Edgar Mangalili of DOTC yesterday said instructions from the office of Secretary Leandro Mendoza said the airport will open on Jan. 19 with President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo attending the event.

He said everything is ready at the new airport with the access road at least 64 percent complete.

Possible power supply problem earlier raised with the Central Negros Electric Cooperative has been addressed with the unloading of the CENECO sub-station in Silay to the Talisay substation, Mangalili said.

“What is critical at the moment is the power fluctuation in the area which CENECO hopes to eliminate with the construction of another sub-station in Silay in the first quarter of the year,” he said.*NAB

[boynegro$]

^^ so tuloy na tuloy na sa january 19. very nice.:banana::banana:

[jmok]

tt

here's a another news:



More than 100
hired at new airport

Newly hired security personnel of the Air Transportation Office are now reporting to the New Bacolod-Silay Airport in preparation for its opening on the third week of this month, ATO Bacolod manager Antonio Alfonso said yesterday.

He said more than 100 job order workers were recruited by ATO for security and janitorial services at the new airport and most of them are now in Silay.

Technical requirements, such as the publication of the new aeronautical information that will inform the world about the new airport in Negros Occidental, have already been started, Alfonso said, adding that everything is ready for the commercial operation of the facility.

He said commercial airline companies that will transfer to the new airport are expected to make their own announcements, although nothing much will change aside, from the new location of the airport.

But while ATO will transfer its office to Silay City , Alfonso said some security personnel will remain at the Bacolod facility to guard the government property.

Equipment turned over by the Department of Transportation and Communication to the ATO such as x-ray machines for passengers and baggage, firetrucks, runway sweeper, dumptruck, and tractor mower will also be transferred to the airport in Silay on the last flight out of the Bacolod airport, he said.

Meanwhile, Silay airport project director Edgar Mangalili of DOTC yesterday said instructions from the office of Secretary Leandro Mendoza said the airport will open on Jan. 19 with President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo attending the event.

He said everything is ready at the new airport with the access road at least 64 percent complete.

Possible power supply problem earlier raised with the Central Negros Electric Cooperative has been addressed with the unloading of the CENECO sub-station in Silay to the Talisay substation, Mangalili said.

“What is critical at the moment is the power fluctuation in the area which CENECO hopes to eliminate with the construction of another sub-station in Silay in the first quarter of the year,” he said.*

:):)


source:visayandailystar.com

[jmok]

good morning bacolod....................

[jmok]

sorry naunahan ko ni ngprofflorida mag post sang news reagarding sa new airport,,,

sorry,,,,

btw,,,good afternoon na gle......

[JEFFjr_25]

NBSA, its all systems GO. Great! and good news to the "flying" public.:)

[ngprofflorida]

Bacolod City, Philippines Friday, January 4, 2008


Malaysian Tourism Board to join 3rd
TravelXchange in Bacolod City

The Malaysian Tourism Board will join the 3rd TravelXchange in Bacolod City on February 1 to 3 to feature Malaysia 's multi- tourism attractions, organizers said in a press release.
It will provide information on holiday packages of the Philippines ' neighbor – from accommodation to transportation; from shopping to golfing; from spa to arts; from culture to night life and from meetings to retirement programs.

Malaysia 's word-class resort, A' Famosa, will also take part in the three-day travel event. The 520-hectare integrated resort includes an animal safari, water world, golf course, cowboy town theme park, and a resort hotel complex with villas and condominiums.

The participation of Malaysia , which leads in tourist arrivals and infrastructures in Southeast Asia, is expcted to stimulate travel between Western Visayas and Malaysia , organizers said in the press release.

Event manage Selrahco Management Services said they will also raffle off three weekend holidays to Cebu , inclusive of airfares and accommodations in deluxe hotel properties.

Other participants will be the Greater Subic Bay Tourism Bureau; Bohol Divers Resort and Convention Center; Microtel Inns and Suites; DOT Region 10; Grand Regal Hotels; Plantation Bay Resort and Spa, Mactan; White Rock Beach Resort, Zambales; Mountain Woods Resort, Subic; Amadeus; Travel Club; Baron Travel, Sunbee Travel and Tours, Cagayan de Oro; Mallberry Suites, Cagayan de Oro; Royal Caribbean Cruises, Casino Hotel Bacolod and Cebu Parklane International Hotel.

The 3rd TravelXchange 2008 is supported by the Department of Tourism, PAGCOR, the Provincial Tourism Office, City of Bacolod, Skal International, Cebu Pacific, Panay News, Sikat TV and Robinson's Place.*

[boynegro$]

^^ jeff Mr. Lamela told me that PAL will be transfering their equiptments on January 17.

[SUV111]

wow!!!!!! Bacolod I Love IT!!!!!!

[ngprofflorida]

Bacolod City, Philippines Friday, January 4, 2008


Comprehensive plan
eyed for city markets

Bacolod Councilor Alex Paglumotan yesterday said the city government is preparing a comprehensive plan for the development of the public markets, including the Vendors Plaza , in Bacolod City .
He said the Burgos Public Market will be transformed into the new Central Market of Bacolod City because of its proximity to the Bacolod City Government Center , which is due to open within the first half of 2008. This is based on the concept of the City Planning and Development Office, he said.
Paglumotan also said the development of the Burgos Market will be a joint venture of big market vendors in Manila and they are expecting a new economic boom in the area.

The CPDO has also plans for the Libertad and Central Public Markets, he said.

The Vendors Plaza , which has outgrown its purpose because of the opening of SM City at the reclamation, will either remain as is or be transformed into a multi-business market through a Build-Operate-Transfer scheme, according to the proposal of the CPDO, Paglumotan said.
This can be availed of by small scale and medium entrepreneurs in the city like the market traders in Manila , he said.

Paglumotan said the public markets are supposed to be self-gaining, self-regulating and self-sustaining. However, the public markets in the city are practically losing, he said, and the city has collectibles of about P30 million.

He said the Mayor has allocated P1.5 million for the rehabilitation and lighting of the Manokan Country. The Mayor has also requested the stall owners to restore the Manokan Country to its original concept of a “fiesta-like” ambiance, he added.
Meanwhile, Paglumotan said the new slaughterhouse in Brgy. Handumanan will become operational by March. He was told by the architect of AVM Bernardo last month that they would conduct mechanical test run of the facility in December, he said.
Despite the fact that the memorandum of agreement between the city and AVM Bernardo is a done deal, Paglumotan said the committee is trying to look for other options to help those from Brgy. 35 who will be displaced by the operation of the new slaughterhouse. He said they can not cancel the MOA since this will entail many legal battles.

Mayor Evelio Leonardia said the slaughterhouse was constructed in 1999 yet during the term of former Bacolod Rep. John Orola. The two previous administrations before him failed to have it operate, he said, so in the 2004-2007 administration the MOA was finally completed.

“It was a marathon to have the operation of the slaughterhouse start,” Leonardia said. Now that the MOA is done, they will have to start all over again if they give in to the demands of those opposing the transfer of the slaughterhouse to Handumanan, he said.*CGS

[SUV111]

^^that nice...now its going to be different na gid for Bacolod....everything will change once the government center will open...

I love IT!!!!...

[jmok]

more business opportunities will spur with the opening of new airport.....

manami na man ni ang economy sang Neg. Occ. as well as the cities of Silay and Bacolod.....

keep it up Negros occidental.......

peace sa tanan,,,,

[boynegro$]

^^ for me Burgos is much more cleaner compare to Central and Libertad markets. so if they make Burgos the center market, okay lng.

[ngprofflorida]

Mig this is the biggest slaughterhouse in the region 54 million pesos. well so far so good, more jobs are created from the airport, market and slaughter house... this is the beginning of 2008. first wave of developement and construction.

[JEFFjr_25]

^^ I agree that all businesses surrounding SM City must compliment its clean and modern ambience. The proposal in revitalizing the manokan country to its former fiesta feel is one fine example. Kudos to that. I'm sure, in the next five years, that area will be densed with new structures and other businesses.:)

[SUV111]

^^ it should be the new central market....:) for everything will just follow...i hope they will close the central market and develop it...i also hope they will encourage the building owners to start repainting their buildings and also make some renovation sa structure para nami ang aton na downtown :)

[boynegro$]

Mig this is the biggest slaughterhouse in the region 54 million pesos. well so far so good, more jobs are created from the airport and to the market and slaughter house... this is the beginning of 2008.

Kamahal naman ng slaughterhouse na yan, basi elipante kag giraffe puedi ma ihaw da...:lol::lol::lol:

[ngprofflorida]

Kamahal naman ng slaughterhouse na yan, basi elipante kag giraffe puedi ma ihaw da...:lol::lol::lol:

mig this is so far the biggest and AAA class more jobs will be create here.:banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:

More information about this news, page 18 post #350

[SUV111]

^^ this is one Big project that will surely help Bacolod's economy. :)

[JEFFjr_25]

^^ it should be the new central market....:) for everything will just follow...i hope they will close the central market and develop it...i also hope they will encourage the building owners to start repainting their buildings and also make some renovation sa structure para nami ang aton na downtown :)

As far as I can remember migo @Smile, Bacolod's downtown area looks good already. But if you meant making it better than today, then i agree to that. :) I Love our downtown actually.

[wildmusic!]

i agree. i hope the central market will be transferred soon. the downtown area will be much better off without the public market in the center. i'm not sure but this was the plan before of then bacolod congressman John Orola right? that's why they built the food terminal ni brgy.10? but now i think closed na yung food terminal dun...

[boynegro$]

As far as I can remember migo @Smile, Bacolod's downtown area looks good already. But if you meant making it better than today, then i agree to that. :) I Love our downtown actually.

There are street sweepers on every corners. They start cleaning their respective area so early in the morning. Kudos to them. Hope their salary would increase. :):)

[SUV111]

As far as I can remember migo @Smile, Bacolod's downtown area looks good already. But if you meant making it better than today, then i agree to that. :) I Love our downtown actually.

thats what i meant..:)

[JEFFjr_25]

@Wildmusic: I also heard from the grapevine before that the Central market was also considered by SM to be their mall site. But i guess, SM just made a perfect decision in putting up their SM City at the bay area(BREDCO).

[wildmusic!]

@Wildmusic: I also heard from the grapevine before that the Central market was also considered by SM to be their mall site. But i guess, SM just made a perfect decision in putting up their SM City at the bay area(BREDCO).

really? well i'm glad it didn't push through. they will have a hard time there IMO. i mean the area, the traffic situation and their surroundings..

[SUV111]

precisely!!!! but SM is really of Big help...look at our downtown area now...damo damo tawo :)

[SUV111]

I will visit the airport later to take some pics. :) i will post it later guys :)

[JEFFjr_25]

@Smile: Its crowded , but orderly. With that, i can be happy and proud of our downtown area.:)

[wildmusic!]

precisely!!!! but SM is really of Big help...look at our downtown area now...damo damo tawo :)

yups and to think crowded na talaga yung downtown, i think it's time to transfer the central market. perhaps they can expand the burgos and libertad markets if possible to accomodate the cent. market vendors. :)

[boynegro$]

yups and to think crowded na talaga yung downtown, i think it's time to transfer the central market. perhaps they can expand the burgos and libertad markets if possible to accomodate the cent. market vendors. :)

Yup they should find a way to accomodate those vendors or else rallies will occur.:)

[JEFFjr_25]

yups and to think crowded na talaga yung downtown, i think it's time to transfer the central market. perhaps they can expand the burgos and libertad markets if possible to accomodate the cent. market vendors. :)


The city govt can make use of the Vendor's market near Manokan or the old provincial jail site, if its serious in closing the central market. I guess those are better alternatives.:)

[wildmusic!]

The city govt can make use of the Vendor's market near Manokan or the old provincial jail site, if its serious in closing the central market. I guess those are better alternatives.:)

speaking of provincial jail, it's good that the provincial gov't is planning to transfer it to Bago City..:cheers:

[wildmusic!]

Yup they should find a way to accomodate those vendors or else rallies will occur.:)

we don't want that to happen. careful planning is the key. :)

[boynegro$]

^^ soil filling beside Provicial jail is already underway.

[habagatcentral1]

What just happened here earlier? Anyway, good news for you all! :)

[FLARNEX_XENRALF]

speaking of provincial jail, it's good that the provincial gov't is planning to transfer it to Bago City..:cheers:

siguro nga dapat na i-transfer ang provincial jail sa bago city...
in the opening of "888" chinese people dont like doing buisness with a jail nearby...
as well as foriegners dont like the "aura" of a jail in the center of a city...

[jmok]

yups and to think crowded na talaga yung downtown, . :)



yup i agree also,,bacolod nowadays,is really crowded....damu na man gani mga jeep nga ga byahe sa downtown,,,,,,:):)

i hope ang downtown,baskin crowded na with people and jeepneys, tani tinlo man sia gyapon para ndi eyesore sa mga bisita especially those foreigners who flocked in our city.....::):):)

[TJ]

actually, damu gd bakante nga area para sa market.. ang tupad sang manokan market mana da tani.. pero wala na puslan kay laway ang location wala gina agyan ka tawo.

Tapos ang libertad may building nada ga dira dapat mga vendor pero sa dalan man gaypon cla ga baligya. Wala man nila gina saway gina pabay-an lang ti wala pulos ang building eh.

dapat tani ang vendor sa sulod na sila ya kag indi sa dalan k ka higo, baho, kag traffic.
Gina himo gani sa central market sbng ang gamay nga dalan gina close kun hapon kag dira tanan nga vendor na butang.. daw parehos sa hong kong nga style para di na sila mag vend sa main nga mga dalan k traffic. Pde mana nila himoun sa iban nga market galing k wala man nila gin implement ang tawo ta daan di mga pasaway dapat bantayan mo gd na cla ya. Di muna pde pabayan k ma dinungol gd na ya.

[SUV111]

Now...another Big event this year...

Bacolod..getting ready for the Chinese New Year!!!

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2191/2166265894_ee85866efb.jpg?v=0

[SUV111]

Pacific Hores Light house tower

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2279/2165472301_b6264d1730.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2269/2165472437_ebb0c4507e.jpg?v=0

[boynegro$]

^^ will there be another fireworks display?

[SUV111]

The House featured in the movie Ora Plata Mata

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2178/2165481549_9130892c03.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2234/2165481171_6506f61052.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2014/2166277474_912d92656e.jpg?v=0

[SUV111]

The Beautiful Silay

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2194/2166274750_1e9b36616b.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2096/2165478515_7de3ca8b97.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2132/2165479075_79f5638912.jpg?v=0

[boynegro$]

City to Renovate Burgos Market

The City Government of Bacolod will initiate some renovations to the existing Burgos Public Market in preparation for its new status as the next Cental Market once the new Government Center becomes operational.

Councilor Alex Paglomu-tan, Chairman of the Sangguniang Panlungsod Committee on Markets said the Burgos market will be the center of trade and commerce with promixity of a kilometer from the Government Center site.

This is a priority project and the City Planning and Development Office has come out with a Comprehensive Market Development plan.
The Vendor’s Plaza has also outlived its purpose with the presence of Shoe Mart.

There will be a major improvement of the Vendor’s Plaza under a Build-Operate-Transfer scheme. This will be developed through a joint venture with the private sector, said Paglomutan.

“We will make it a Multi-Purpose Business Center, making it bigger and booming,” he added.

The Manokan Country that brought name to the city will also be renovated.

This was once a by word for Bacolod which is synonymous to Chicken Inasal that came from the Manokan Country.

The Libertad Annex building will also be developed. But there was a request from Brgy. 40 to use it as an Extension School.* (CNC)

[SUV111]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2170/2166275308_66e25cf694.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2292/2166276424_7ee6fe2185.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2047/2165480409_7801d5dcc2.jpg?v=0

[SUV111]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2288/2165481713_44fabe1eb1.jpg?v=0
JOMABO building in Silay City

[SUV111]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2200/2165474451_eff09ff410.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2199/2165474235_c1bfcf0b7d.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2188/2166270350_022ef43517.jpg?v=0

[ninja kid]

^^ will there be another fireworks display?

it's possible .. it has been a Chinese tradition to have fireworks and firecrackers to shoo away the bad spirits ... :)

trivia .. when I was in S'pore ... they found a safer way ...
they had their firecrackers made out of compressed gas ...
so that when it explodes, it will just evaporate into the air ...
and not create any sparks, fire or heat ... no debris too ...
the containers which looks like a real lebentador were even reusable ...
same intensity ... but much, much safer than the powdered one ... :banana:

mayong gab-i Bacolod! :cheers1:

[ninja kid]

The House featured in the movie Oro, Mara, Plata



my Alma Mater NOHS was also feature in that movie ...
ginhimo garrison sing Kano nga ginsunog sing Hapon ...
ti, diin na pix sing NOHS migs? hehe ...:lol:

thank you gid ah!:banana:

[boynegro$]

it's possible .. it has been a Chinese tradition to have fireworks and firecrackers to shoo away the bad spirits ... :)

trivia .. when I was in S'pore ... they found a safer way ...
they had their firecrackers made out of compressed gas ...
so that when it explodes, it will just evaporate into the air ...
and not create any sparks, fire or heat ... no debris too ...
the containers which looks like a real lebentador were even reusable ...
same intensity ... but much, much safer than the powdered one ... :banana:

mayong gab-i Bacolod! :cheers1:

Cool!

Its for you BTW

http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd4/elms10/b16.jpg

http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd4/elms10/b15.jpg

[boynegro$]

^^ Its been so long that pictures of Silay City was posted here.

[sweetgirl]

The House featured in the movie Oro, Mara, Plata

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2178/2165481549_9130892c03.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2234/2165481171_6506f61052.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2014/2166277474_912d92656e.jpg?v=0

Wow, anyway, Peque Gallaga always shoots his film in Negros Occidental.

[SUV111]

@ninja, we need to go to NOHS during weekends so we can take more shots of the campus...but seems like we cant find the right time to go there...maybe next week migs...kami ni boynegros...

Wildmusic will go back to manila na tomorrow...and then jaywalker next week...haaaaay!!! wala na drinking session :)

[ninja kid]

Wow, anyway, Peque Gallaga always shoots his film in Negros Occidental.

i can never forget the Ilonggo conversations in Scorpio Nights 1 & 2 ...
siguro trademark na talaga ni Direk Peque yan ...
to insert some Ilonggo scenes in his movies ...

to quote: sa SN 2, a girl can be heard saying ...

"b****ibay ya, sin-o di nag-kwa sang tsinelas ko man?" :lol:

unquote

Negrense artists and actors/actresses made it big in the industry ...
i guess it's been our passion to excel in every industry we're in ... :banana:

:cheers1:

[SUV111]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2035/2166286248_5b3338f92c.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2176/2166285894_8b0529f503.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2304/2166266652_4cc145406b.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2393/2166265438_1e41097178.jpg?v=0

[ninja kid]

@ninja, we need to go to NOHS during weekends so we can take more shots of the campus...but seems like we cant find the right time to go there...maybe next week migs...kami ni boynegros...

Wildmusic will go back to manila na tomorrow...and then jaywalker next week...haaaaay!!! wala na drinking session :)

thanks a lot in advance migs ...

have a safe trip migo @wild kag migo @jay ...

hope u had a wonderful time and unforgettable vacation ... :banana:

i hope i can go home soon too ... :ohno:

[SUV111]

i can never forget the Ilonggo conversations in Scorpio Nights 1 & 2 ...
siguro trademark na talaga ni Direk Peque yan ...
to insert some Ilonggo scenes in his movies ...

to quote: sa SN 2, a girl can be heard saying ...

"bi***tibay ya, sin-o di nag-kwa sang tsinelas ko man?" :lol:

unquote

Negrense artists and actors/actresses made it big in the industry ...
i guess it's been our passion to excel in every industry we're in ... :banana:

:cheers1:

hahahaha!!! you can still remember vividly the words they utter...havent watched that film but i know he often inserts ilonggo in his dialogue...so as erik matti :) and one good thing about his movies...he gets local talents from Bacolod to play some small parts in his movies. :) i think eric matti is also doing that :)

these are the people that we should be proud of :)

:banana::banana::banana:

[SUV111]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2276/2166286040_fa619f8ee9.jpg?v=0
New Japanese resto...sorry, forgot the name :) hehehehe
:banana::banana::banana:

[JEFFjr_25]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2288/2165481713_44fabe1eb1.jpg?v=0
JOMABO building in Silay City
Jomabo building trademark: Bright and colorful structure.:) So they also have office bldg in Silay. Thats pretty cool.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2276/2166286040_fa619f8ee9.jpg?v=0
New Japanese resto...sorry, forgot the name :) hehehehe
:banana::banana::banana:
Mig @Smile: Where's this Japs resto?

[boynegro$]

hahahaha!!! you can still remember vividly the words they utter...havent watched that film but i know he often inserts ilonggo in his dialogue...so as erik matti :) and one good thing about his movies...he gets local talents from Bacolod to play some small parts in his movies. :) i think eric matti is also doing that :)

these are the people that we should be proud of :)

:banana::banana::banana:

I think Eric Matti is from Bago City.

[SUV111]

Jomabo building trademark: Bright and colorful structure.:) So they also have office bldg in Silay. Thats pretty cool.


Mig @Smile: Where's this Japs resto?

its located in front of Lfisher migo jeff :)

[SUV111]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2116/2166285026_0b1cba7fcc.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2172/2166284770_2891373f6d.jpg?v=0

@wildmusic...see you next time :) have a safe trip...

[JEFFjr_25]

^^ Pass the mic , beer and yosi please... :lol: Wow! The yuletide season is almost over yet the fun never ends for most SSC-BCD gangsta.:)

[boynegro$]

^^ until next time my friend @Wildmusic. Have a safe trip tomorrow.

[sweetgirl]

^^ may videoke pala in front of Casino Filipino Hotel. Nice.:):)

[JEFFjr_25]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2116/2166285026_0b1cba7fcc.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2172/2166284770_2891373f6d.jpg?v=0

@wildmusic...see you next time :) have a safe trip...

Who scored well and the highest sa videoke session?:lol:

[boynegro$]

^^ si Jaywalker.:lol::lol:

[SUV111]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2160/2166282976_724863207d.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2164/2166282602_88a60c57f4.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2094/2166282472_0a144dafba.jpg?v=0

[SUV111]

NBSA

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2365/2166271088_052b509158.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2336/2166271236_ed32c93866.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2286/2165475275_ba921c778f.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2010/2166271918_6be9afd6c9.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2216/2166273290_ed547d1385.jpg?v=0

[SUV111]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2169/2165475753_cabdd489d3.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2056/2165475441_2dcd22c2ee.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2416/2165475929_5cc5c6109a.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2342/2166272616_436fd71124.jpg?v=0

[JEFFjr_25]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2160/2166282976_724863207d.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2164/2166282602_88a60c57f4.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2094/2166282472_0a144dafba.jpg?v=0

Isa lang masasabi ko... I Love It.:banana:

[boynegro$]

^^ Can't wait for January 18. Guy's is it final that the President will be here when the NBSA open?:):)

[boynegro$]

Isa lang masasabi ko... I Love It.:banana:

Feeling mo daw ara ka sa Spain?:lol::lol::nuts::nuts:

[SUV111]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2117/2165476335_234e942c27.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2092/2166272958_fc8e8e6f26.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2013/2166273098_1ff4c143b4.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2253/2165477823_a3e6db9316.jpg?v=0

[SUV111]

Isa lang masasabi ko... I Love It.:banana:

thank you jeff......:) :banana::banana::banana:

[sweetgirl]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2160/2166282976_724863207d.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2164/2166282602_88a60c57f4.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2094/2166282472_0a144dafba.jpg?v=0

Nice shots there SUV, very solemn, it seems that your photo shoot sessions is improving everyday. Photographer ka na gid ya..:):): lol::lol:

[JEFFjr_25]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2117/2165476335_234e942c27.jpg?v=0



Mga migs, i just dont know why i love this shot so much among the NBSA pic flood...:)

[SUV111]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2308/2165483197_71aeb68465.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2346/2166281032_640b4b7e8e.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2046/2165483339_7081f3881f.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2308/2165483197_71aeb68465.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2046/2165483603_0b40abf6bc.jpg?v=0

[sweetgirl]

^^ another wow there. Fantastic shots. I love it.:banana::banana:

[JEFFjr_25]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2046/2165483339_7081f3881f.jpg?v=0

This is my favorite among the pack.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2046/2165483603_0b40abf6bc.jpg?v=0

I love this one also. It could've been my fave also if only the corner ceiling were taken in full.:)
Mig @Smile, noticed the common thingy among my faves?:lol:

[SUV111]

Nice shots there SUV, very solemn, it seems that your photo shoot sessions is improving everyday. Photographer ka na gid ya..:):): lol::lol:

hahahaha!!!! thanks sweetgirl...your so sweet, all i need is to buy a much advance camera and attend some workshops on how to improve my skills in photography :)

Mga migs, i just dont know why i love this shot so much among the NBSA pic flood...:)

same here migo jeff...i also love it :) i love the mountain :)

[SUV111]

This is my favorite among the pack.



I love this one also. It could've been my fave also if only the corner ceiling were taken in full.:)
Mig @Smile, noticed the common thingy among my faves?:lol:

yah...i missed the corner part...grrrr!!! . :) here are some pics of silay buildings except the first one :)...:)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2223/2165484899_9aebf4f89c.jpg?v=0


http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2309/2166279182_a86c8249da.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2414/2165485341_b935f752cc.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2150/2166281214_e1578463d8.jpg?v=0

[derfbcd]

no comment na lang ako sa nangyari yesterday grrrrrrrrrr...hehehehehe..........ganda ng kuha ng mga pics, especially the bibingka yummy.....

[menina]

theres also a black one...and dont forget to mention about the hummer....black, white and grey :) soooooo cool!!!!

Wow, I wonder who drives these. The 3 series bimmers and c class benz I'm not surprised, but PORSCHE? wow:banana: I hear that there are really a lot more exotic cars in the Phils these days.. Ferraris, Lambos.. complete with number 8 license plate syempre. :nuts:

Lapit nalang ang Silay airport gali? That's exciting news! maybe pag puli ko i can fly straight to negros and not pass by manila :)

[menina]

yah...i missed the corner part...grrrr!!! . :) here are some pics of silay buildings except the first one :)...:)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2223/2165484899_9aebf4f89c.jpg?v=0


http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2309/2166279182_a86c8249da.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2414/2165485341_b935f752cc.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2150/2166281214_e1578463d8.jpg?v=0

SUV, once again very nice pics!!! I love the b/w Silay pics. Every Christmas day we would always go to Silay for Christmas lunch + bday of my lola. :)

Dutay lang nga tipid, you can buy a Canon or a Nikon DSLR (maybe less than 20k used?). even the old models will do, indi kinanlan ang top of the line talaga it's really the photographer that matters! :yes:

[menina]

why should he have a problem with the gasoline? sarang gani magbakal hummer, gasolina pa? :lol: (trans : he can even afford to buy a hummer so buying gasoline shouldn't be a setback :lol: )

hahaha. if he worked hard for his money, it is his to spend as he pleases. (i do hope he worked for his money, even if indi that hard :D) but it is true, i don't understand people who buy pick up trucks, v8 engines, etc and then complain about gas prices. :nuts:

[derfbcd]

baw nami lng ni lagaw ni SUV kag ni boynegros la gd cla gapanghagad hehehe

[wildmusic!]

ei guys, thanks a lot!! it was really a fun vacation. i hope to see you all soon again next december. :okay: God bless you!!!

Rock on! :cheers::cheers::cheers:

and before i leave hehehe.... :banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:

[wildmusic!]

City to Renovate Burgos Market

The City Government of Bacolod will initiate some renovations to the existing Burgos Public Market in preparation for its new status as the next Cental Market once the new Government Center becomes operational.

Councilor Alex Paglomu-tan, Chairman of the Sangguniang Panlungsod Committee on Markets said the Burgos market will be the center of trade and commerce with promixity of a kilometer from the Government Center site.

This is a priority project and the City Planning and Development Office has come out with a Comprehensive Market Development plan.
The Vendor’s Plaza has also outlived its purpose with the presence of Shoe Mart.

There will be a major improvement of the Vendor’s Plaza under a Build-Operate-Transfer scheme. This will be developed through a joint venture with the private sector, said Paglomutan.

“We will make it a Multi-Purpose Business Center, making it bigger and booming,” he added.

The Manokan Country that brought name to the city will also be renovated.

This was once a by word for Bacolod which is synonymous to Chicken Inasal that came from the Manokan Country.

The Libertad Annex building will also be developed. But there was a request from Brgy. 40 to use it as an Extension School.* (CNC)

post pala muna ako..hehe tamang-tama ang news na to about dun sa cent.market na topic. :lol: i hope all plans will materialize soon. :cheers:

[habagatcentral1]

by the way, silay city is now being featured in Cebu
Pacific"s onflight magazine Smile for this Dec2007 to Jan 2008 edition. :)

[FLARNEX_XENRALF]

:omg::cheer::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause:http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2169/2165475753_cabdd489d3.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2056/2165475441_2dcd22c2ee.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2416/2165475929_5cc5c6109a.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2342/2166272616_436fd71124.jpg?v=0
:applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause:

nice pics!!!!
Parang EveryDay nagiging professional Photographer na si SUV111 hahahahahah

[postergirl]

hey guys! just dropping by! hehe love the pics of Silay, suv. Especially the black and white ones. :) Let's get together soon, lapit na lang matapos ang practicum ko! :banana::banana::banana:

[ngprofflorida]

Wow nice pictures of NBSA, simple and elegant landscapping, green grass, nice Palm , and Pine trees, wala damo kuskos balongus...... tropical ambiance..... no artistic plants..... kudos to NBSA airport:banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:

[ngprofflorida]

NEGRENSES' NOTEWORTHY FINISHES IN INT'L TOURNEYS

The flashes of brilliance exuded by Bacoleño muay thai specialist Vince Soberano, Negrense golfers Juvic Pagunsan and Mia Piccio, tennis sensation Martina Guba and Gun Club of Negros Occidental standouts Stephen Hinojales, Janette Gonzaga and Tootsie Anglo were also given prominence by the DAILY STAR sports page.

Soberano, 43, captured the World Professional Muay Thai Federation lightweight and welterweight titles in Thailand , while Pagunsan scored his breakthrough victory in the Asian Tour in Indonesia in October and placed second in the Volvo Masters of Asia to raise his earnings to $187,000 for 2007.

Guba carried the country's colors in the Asia-Oceania leg of Tennis World Cup and won the Agra Cup in Manila in October, posted a semifinal finish in the Riffa Views Cup in Bahrain and made the finals in another Asian tournament in Bahrain .

Piccio of Bacolod ruled the World Woods Rolling Oaks Open in Florida in June and settled for a runner-up finish in the Malaysian Amateurs.

In the AustralAsia Shootfest in Thailand , Gonzaga ruled the standard (.40 caliber) ladies division of the Dec. 4-9 event, while Anglo brought home three trophies in the production division (.9mm) --- the senior shoot-off title, second overall and second overall in the senior contest. Hinojales took third in the open division and helped the country secure the men's team title.

[ngprofflorida]

WEBSITE FOR BACOLOD-SILAY NEW AIRPORT LAUNCHED
BACOLOD CITY, Jan. 4
A website for the P4.1 billion New Bacolod-Silay Airport of International Standard in Bagtic, Silay City, Negros occidental, has been created to cater to thousands of Negrenses and tourists once the new airport becomes operational by first quarter of 2008.

The site, www.bacolod-silayairport.com, is a private initiative and was developed by young professionals whose vision is to help promote Bacolod and Negros Occidental on the global IT directory through the internet, said Marlin Pellejo-Sanogal, provincial information officer.

The site which is still on its testing phase will provide general information about the airport, flight schedules, airport access information, travel support and airport guide, Sanogal said.

Also general information about Bacolod City and Negros Occidental will be posted on the site as well as famous beaches, resorts and other tourist destinations in Negros Island for the benefit of foreigners and balikbayans.

Places to stay at while in Bacolod will also be published as well as airport advisory and weather update, she added.

The administrator hopes that the site will soon hit as number 1 site in google.com, yahoo.com and other search engines as an informative website to Bacolod passengers.

Sanogal said the site will be officially launched on the inaugural day of the new airport, some 18 kilometers north of Bacolod. (PNA)

[GearX]

ilang tulog na lang...open na NBSA...

congrats !

:applause::applause::applause:

[SUV111]

no comment na lang ako sa nangyari yesterday grrrrrrrrrr...hehehehehe..........ganda ng kuha ng mga pics, especially the bibingka yummy.....

hahahaha!!! just stick to the quote posted by Kiretoce and you'll feel better. :)

Wow, I wonder who drives these. The 3 series bimmers and c class benz I'm not surprised, but PORSCHE? wow:banana: I hear that there are really a lot more exotic cars in the Phils these days.. Ferraris, Lambos.. complete with number 8 license plate syempre. :nuts:

Lapit nalang ang Silay airport gali? That's exciting news! maybe pag puli ko i can fly straight to negros and not pass by manila :)

Theres one Ferari here in Bacolod...white color and i heard theres also a Lambo...dont know if its really true...:) just ask jeff about it :) hehehe

SUV, once again very nice pics!!! I love the b/w Silay pics. Every Christmas day we would always go to Silay for Christmas lunch + bday of my lola. :)

Dutay lang nga tipid, you can buy a Canon or a Nikon DSLR (maybe less than 20k used?). even the old models will do, indi kinanlan ang top of the line talaga it's really the photographer that matters! :yes:

thank you menina :) I need to ask my bro to buy me one...i will also look for some good deals in the internet :) Right now I'll just stick to my cybershot...:lol::lol:

baw nami lng ni lagaw ni SUV kag ni boynegros la gd cla gapanghagad hehehe

hehehehe youre quite busy eh. maybe you can PM me your number and then tell me when youre free :)

ei guys, thanks a lot!! it was really a fun vacation. i hope to see you all soon again next december. :okay: God bless you!!!

Rock on! :cheers::cheers::cheers:

and before i leave hehehe.... :banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:

were going to see each other mid this year :)

by the way, silay city is now being featured in Cebu
Pacific"s onflight magazine Smile for this Dec2007 to Jan 2008 edition. :)

thats great news :)

:omg::cheer::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause:
:applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause::applause:

nice pics!!!!
Parang EveryDay nagiging professional Photographer na si SUV111 hahahahahah

abaw si toto flar, thank you gid :) but it couldve been better if you can join us next time in taking pics :) basi pwede ka na sa summer a :)


Wow nice pictures of NBSA, simple and elegant landscapping, green grass, nice Palm , and Pine trees, wala damo kuskos balongus...... tropical ambiance..... no artistic color..... kudos to NBSA airport:banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:

actually i like the palm trees more...it looks more fresh and simple

hey guys! just dropping by! hehe love the pics of Silay, suv. Especially the black and white ones. :) Let's get together soon, lapit na lang matapos ang practicum ko! :banana::banana::banana:

sure postergirl...before jay leaves.. maybe we can have dinner at the Hotel :)

ilang tulog na lang...open na NBSA...

congrats !

:applause::applause::applause:

hi gearX...thanks and Congratulations!!!! your City is really Improving. I cant wait to see CDO to soar high in Mindanao :)

[habagatcentral1]

SPANISH SCENTS (http://www.cebusmile.com/2007/12/01/spanish-scents/)

Housing our rich past

http://www.cebusmile.com/images/2007/dec/098%20spanish-scents01-00.jpgDANIEL BETANCOURT EXPLORES THE ANCESTRAL HOMES OF NEGROS’ CULTURAL CAPITAL

The criss-cross streets of Silay, a small town north of Bacolod in Negros Occidental, are lined by scores of bahay na bato (stone houses), built by sugar barons and the landed farmers who tilled the cane fields during the Spanish period. Today they stand testament to the city’s former glory as the center of the sugar industry.
You can find similar structures, some even older and more historic than those in Silay, in towns such as Taal in Batangas, Malolos in Bulacan and several places in Pampanga and Nueva Ecija. Vigan in Ilocos has the most old buildings in the country and has earned the distinction of becoming a UNESCO World Heritage site. Yet despite coming second to Vigan in number, Silay’s stone houses are special as they paint a detailed picture of the life of the wealthy in the early 20th century. According to Dr Fernando Zialcita, co-author of Philippine Ancestral Houses, the dwellings were reserved for the country’s principalia and the ilustrados. These included rich farmers, traders and successful professionals.
http://www.cebusmile.com/images/2007/dec/099%20spanish-scents01-09.jpgToday, 31 of the ancestral homes are preserved, having been designated heritage homes by the National Historical Institute. They are densely concentrated and you can easily walk from one to the other. Some remain in private hands with the people living there quite literally living in the past. These may be closed to the public, but there are many that are open and a stroll around the city will bring you face to face with history.
An offshoot of the bahay kubo (single-room dwelling), the bahay na bato was designed to address the stresses of the Philippine environment. Its sturdy stone-based first floor and a lightweight, wooden second withstand the country’s frequent typhoons and earthquakes. They vary in size, lavishness, degree of preservation and current function.
http://www.cebusmile.com/images/2007/dec/099%20spanish-scents01-10.jpgIf you are coming from Bacolod, the first ancestral building you will encounter is the El Ideal Bakery, a Silay institution. Occupying the ground floor of the Cesar Lacson Locsin Ancestral House, this café-boulangerie has been running for nearly a century. Passers-by go to great lengths to buy its freshly baked native confections such as pastillas de leche (carabao milk candy), white frosted bañadas (soft cookies), sugarcane and paciencia biscuits and lady fingers.
http://www.cebusmile.com/images/2007/dec/099%20spanish-scents01-13.jpgWest of El Ideal on Cinco de Noviembre Street is the former home of Victor Gaston, son of a French sugar baron who settled in the Philippines. Built in 1897, this balayong wood structure housed eight of the owners’ 12 children. In the later part of the century, it fell into disuse until a group of Silaynons decided to restore the house and turn it into its present incarnation, the Balay Negrense Museum.
Near the city market is the Bernardino Jalandoni Ancestral House which was built in 1908. Now managed by the Silay Heritage Foundation, the house is also a museum with period pieces as well as a venue for artistic performances. One of its galleries contains photographs of all 31 of the houses designated treasures by the National Historical Institute.
http://www.cebusmile.com/images/2007/dec/100%20spanish-scents01-00.jpgAnother heritage home with public access is the Vicente Conlu Montelibano House with its collection of antique furnishings. Meanwhile, the regal Maria Ledesma Golez House has been converted to the Silay branch of RCBC bank, while the Angel Araneta Ledesma house, aka the “Green House”, is currently used as the Silay culture and tourism offices.
Fronting the Cathedral of San Diego is the Kapitan Mariano Montelibano Lacson House whose first floors have been converted into an eatery and two cafés. New Café is a long-time favorite for the older men of Silay. It is where they meet and catch up with the latest town gossip and cockfight results over coffee.
http://www.cebusmile.com/images/2007/dec/100%20spanish-scents01-03.jpgOne man who knows a lot about Silay and everyone in it is Ramon Hofileña. In fact the city owes a great deal to him, a statement he would probably never allow to cross his lips.
The very building where I had my puto (steamed rice cake) and coffee was saved because of his efforts.
In 1977, there was a plan to widen Rizal Street as part of one of the many road projects under a World Bank program to help farmers who were made impoverished by the sugar crisis at that time. This would have meant the highway encroaching on treasured properties including El Ideal and the Golez building.
Hofileña submitted a petition to the national government to have the decision reversed, much to the ire of the incumbent mayor. He, then with the city tourism board, organized the homeowners to rally behind his cause and the debate was brought to the governor who heard and mediated over the matter. Some owners even offered to donate land to create a diversion road. In the end, the houses were spared and the national highway between Bacolod and Victorias now narrows when it crosses through Silay. Other gems of Silay, however, couldn’t be saved. Its main plaza, for example, became a casualty of a misplaced affinity for the new.
http://www.cebusmile.com/images/2007/dec/100%20spanish-scents01-04.jpgHofileña is a welcoming host, ushering me into the dim dining room of his family home with its Art Deco furniture. After offering me guapple pie, he recounts the history of the lost plaza: “Before the Second World War, that sunken plaza won the award as the best in the country,” he recalls. “The prize was PHP10, which was a lot of money back then.
It complemented the style of the Church of San Diego, which was Romanesque. It had two great fountains and statues of women and fawn-like figures amid a green landscaping, But under martial law, they filled it up,” he says.
“I was not around. I was in Manila. When I came back, there was only one tree left. I tried to save it.” The tree still stands in plaza today and many still call it the Ramon tree.
http://www.cebusmile.com/images/2007/dec/100%20spanish-scents01-01.jpgHofileña spent most of his childhood in that house, which his father built in 1934, on Cinco de Noviembre Street. Studies brought him to Manila, where he took up journalism, while work brought him to New York. He came back because of his parents’ old age, returning to a town that was in stark contrast to the cultural buzz of Manhattan. So began his attempt to turn Silay into a cultural center. He organized art workshops and exhibitions, inviting artists and high society from the nation’s capital to a possible cultural rival in the heart of the Visayas.
Hofileña also began his annual cultural tour (see above left), which includes a guided tour of his own father’s house. In 1962, the Hofileña house was opened to the public for the first time, the first ancestral home in Silay to do so. The living and dining rooms are decorated with pictures of his parents and eight siblings - all of whom were involved in the arts: piano teachers, ballet and flamenco dancers, theater artists. Hofileña describes their achievements with pride. The comedor (dining room) is filled with treasures – cupboards containing antiques and archeological finds from the area and China, some an incredible 3,000-years-old.
http://www.cebusmile.com/images/2007/dec/102%20spanish-scents01-00.jpgSpanish chairs and a 200 year-old piano from Germany adorn the living room; and the library contains countless volumes of Filipiniana (some written by Hofileña himself), indigenous toys and wooden images of the Saint Vincent Ferrer, saved from the island’s old churches. At the center is a table with piles of books made sepia-colored by time. I picked one up, Portrait of Jennie by Robert Nathan, a story about an impoverished artist in New York who searched for a woman who inspired him. “I don’t care for novels anymore, but I read that three times,” Hofileña says.
Perhaps the most impressive part of his art collection is on the second floor. It includes works by national artists such as Juan Luna, Felix Resurrecion Hidalgo, Fernando Amorsolo, Ang Kiukok and BenCab among others. A cross-section of the most important talents in Philippine art from the 19th century on, it is probably the most comprehensive personal collection on public display. However, the works that stir the most emotion are those by Conrado Judith, whose canvases Hofileña discovered in the thatch hut Judith was living in. Many were already damaged by the sun and rain.
A poor high school graduate, Judith painted billboards and posters for the movie houses for a living, while at home he painted abstract expressionist pieces. He died of tuberculosis at 34, long before any of his pieces could be mounted in an exhibition.
http://www.cebusmile.com/images/2007/dec/102%20spanish-scents01-01.jpgOn the terrace on the second floor, I noticed the neighboring ancestral house across the yard, well on the slow road towards decay. Weather and termites are natural enemies of these houses, but far worse is neglect by the owners. Most of the real owners left these homes a long time ago, settling in bigger cities or emigrating abroad. Meanwhile, those who stay do not have the technical abilities to preserve or the means to do so.
Silay’s heyday may have passed a long time ago, but what is left are the stories of its sons and daughters – revolutionaries, statesmen, economic leaders, prominent artists – and the houses they lived in. This is what keeps it alive in our consciousness.
http://www.cebusmile.com/images/2007/dec/102%20spanish-scents01-11.jpgThe Manuel Severino Hofileña Heritage House is a place that keeps this rich heritage alive. On the walls, are a story of our country, echoes of the past and an inheritance it is our challenge to protect. From the humble sugar farmer who built this house for his wife and nine children, to the Japanese commanders who met under its roof, to the siblings who sought shelter in its warmth after they were widowed, to the many children who played in its garden, to the countless national artists who have been its guests right up to its faithful caretaker and storyteller.
The houses in Silay are an umbilical cord that connects us to the past and the pastoral, and the best way for us to prevent it from being cut off is to support the tours and to visit our history.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY LESTER V LEDESMA AND IRWIN CRUZ
http://www.cebusmile.com/images/2007/dec/100%20spanish-scents01-02.jpg
ANNUAL CULTURAL TOUR OF NEGROS OCCIDENTAL BY RAMON HOFILEÑA
Tour dates All Saturdays of December except holidays, 9am to 5.30pm.
Itinerary includes Bacolod, Silay (Jalandoni and Hofileña heritage homes), Victorias (Church of St Joseph the Worker); Manapla (Chapel of the Carwheels); Talisay.
Fee PHP600 (USD13.75), limited to 55 people
Tel Jara Laboratory (034) 434 6398.
USEFUL DETAILS
Where to stay: Fortuna Pension House, tel (034) 495 3981, email elleng@bacolod.worldtelphil.com, from PHP400 (USD9.15)
Where to eat: El Ideal, New Café, Sir – all on Rizal Street
How to get there: From Bacolod central market: a Bacolod – Escalante bus, or a Bacolod – Silay jeepney; PHP10 (USD0.23)
Silay Tourism Office, tel (034) 495 5145

Source: Cebu Pacific Smiles (http://www.cebusmile.com/2007/12/01/spanish-scents/)

[boynegro$]

baw nami lng ni lagaw ni SUV kag ni boynegros la gd cla gapanghagad hehehe

No probs just txt us if you want to join. :):)

ilang tulog na lang...open na NBSA...

congrats !

:applause::applause::applause:

Thanks for dropping by GearX. :):)

hey guys! just dropping by! hehe love the pics of Silay, suv. Especially the black and white ones. :) Let's get together soon, lapit na lang matapos ang practicum ko! :banana::banana::banana:

Nice idea.:cheers::cheers:

[boynegro$]

Where are the people? Im all alone here though...hehehe.

Anyway guys, Last night my patient was a high ranking employee of Teletech, she told me that they will be increasing their salary this year to retain their employees, because aside from Convergys that will open this year and their main compitetor, PEOPLESUPPORT seriously wants to enter Bacolod City this year. She told me that she get her info from a high ranking official of PS which happend to her friend.
So guys lets hope it will push through.:):)

NG are you happy about it? I'm sure you do....:lol::lol: :nuts::nuts: :banana::banana:

[ngprofflorida]

Hahaha boynegros, am very much impressed with the pictures, cars, church the Silay City, of course the NBSA and their new improved web-site soon to be launched a day of the opening.... wow naks naks my eyes.... this site has so many guest since last night. trying to check the latest update here in Bacolod!!!! wala gid nagsala ang gin hambal nyo....... MABUHAY:banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:

And I would like to thanks bernie for posting the Cebu Pacific Inflight magazines featured Silay City....

[boynegro$]

La Salle

http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd4/elms10/s17.jpg

http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd4/elms10/s16.jpg

http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd4/elms10/s18.jpg

[ngprofflorida]

Again University of ST Lassalle. school of famous personality here in Negros....Sino naman ina nga talikodgenic, lots of trees, friendly . green and clean environment.

[boynegro$]

^^ thats true my friend ka bugnaw gd ya sang La Salle. Damu kahoy. The environment is suitable for learning.:):)

[boynegro$]

http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd4/elms10/s22.jpg

http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd4/elms10/s25.jpg

[boynegro$]

http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd4/elms10/s24.jpg

http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd4/elms10/s26.jpg

http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd4/elms10/s20.jpg

[ngprofflorida]

Wow nice SUV's Mitsubishi, Toyota, Isuzo, toyota RAV 4 naks naks naks.........wide road trees on the street,,, KUDOS....

[habagatcentral1]

Where are the people? Im all alone here though...hehehe.

Anyway guys, Last night my patient was a high ranking employee of Teletech, she told me that they will be increasing their salary this year to retain their employees, because aside from Convergys that will open this year and their main compitetor, PEOPLESUPPORT seriously wants to enter Bacolod City this year. She told me that she get her info from a high ranking official of PS which happend to her friend.
So guys lets hope it will push through.:):)

NG are you happy about it? I'm sure you do....:lol::lol: :nuts::nuts: :banana::banana:

So, if ara ka pa da sa Riverside gihapon, expect sick calls from call center agents who are not in the mood of getting into work and use the insurance, wahehehe!!! Sakit ulo ko doc, paadmit ko. "Sakit sang tyan ko, paadmit ako"....the crime of malingering, wahehehehehe!!!! :lol: :lol:

Anyway, its still a rumor though but hopefuly they can push through. After all, they got a bulk of their Ilonggo-speaking agents from Negros in PS Cebu alone. ;)



And I would like to thanks bernie for posting the Cebu Pacific Inflight magazines featured Silay City....

Your welcome. :)

[FLARNEX_XENRALF]

abaw si toto flar, thank you gid :) but it couldve been better if you can join us next time in taking pics :) basi pwede ka na sa summer a :)


la man nyo ko gina txt!!!:lol::lol::lol:
Summer would be perfect....

[boynegro$]

So, if ara ka pa da sa Riverside gihapon, expect sick calls from call center agents who are not in the mood of getting into work and use the insurance, wahehehe!!! Sakit ulo ko doc, paadmit ko. "Sakit sang tyan ko, paadmit ako"....the crime of malingering, wahehehehehe!!!! :lol: :lol:

Anyway, its still a rumor though but hopefuly they can push through. After all, they got a bulk of their Ilonggo-speaking agents from Negros in PS Cebu alone. ;)



Your welcome. :)

Correct Berns, i,ve known a few co-workers of mine that usually do that.
Just imagine, a very simple headache, pa hospital gid!!!!
:nuts::nuts: :lol::lol:
Anyway libre naman yun, and pain is subjective though. :):)

Hope PeopleSupport would push through.:):)

[boynegro$]

la man nyo ko gina txt!!!:lol::lol::lol:
Summer would be perfect....

Gina txt ka, la kaman ga upod.
Baw!!! indi kana Jiammpong!!! PUSH MY LUCK kana. :nuts::nuts: :lol::lol:

[habagatcentral1]

Correct Berns, i,ve known a few co-workers of mine that usually do that.
Just imagine, a very simple headache, pa hospital gid!!!!
:nuts::nuts: :lol::lol:
Anyway libre naman yun, and pain is subjective though. :):)

Hope PeopleSupport would push through.:):)

Hahaha!!! I'm partially guilty of that crime. hehehe!!! I hope that in their insurance policies, they would include psychiatrists. Being in a call center environment may be stressful for those who are not well to adapt. :)

[FLARNEX_XENRALF]

Gina txt ka, la kaman ga upod.
Baw!!! indi kana Jiammpong!!! PUSH MY LUCK kana. :nuts::nuts: :lol::lol:

la mo ko bala gina txt!!!
ni number mo gani la ko!!!:lol::lol::lol:

Sum-ud sng Jjamppong....
PUSH MY LUCK naman....hahahahahaha

[boynegro$]

^^ @Berns/habagat, I agree to that. Since Call Center is mushrooming everywhere, they need to check their employees well, both physically and mentally. As I've notice only Doctors and nurses are available, no resident Psychiatrist though.
I think they need to include a psychiatrist/psychologist in their company since callcenter is a high pressure job.:):)

[boynegro$]

la mo ko bala gina txt!!!
ni number mo gani la ko!!!:lol::lol::lol:

Sum-ud sng Jjamppong....
PUSH MY LUCK naman....hahahahahaha

I'm just relying on SUV to txt you. Anyway I'll get your number to him.
For two nights straight I've been eating jjiampong while on duty. KAHANG pero namit!!!:nuts::nuts::lol::lol:

[blight]

http://i15.tinypic.com/7y82oih.jpg
Mang Inasal at SM City Bacolod

http://i16.tinypic.com/8ay82gj.jpg
Libertad Town Center

[Bo B]

Wow, I wonder who drives these. The 3 series bimmers and c class benz I'm not surprised, but PORSCHE? wow:banana: I hear that there are really a lot more exotic cars in the Phils these days.. Ferraris, Lambos.. complete with number 8 license plate syempre. :nuts:

Lapit nalang ang Silay airport gali? That's exciting news! maybe pag puli ko i can fly straight to negros and not pass by manila :)

I'm sure you can do that if you're flying home in a Gulfstream...

[boynegro$]

^^ @blight, cool!!, may opod na kami pang post diri pictures ni SUV. Thanks Blight.:):)

[blight]

http://i1.tinypic.com/7wejg9h.jpg
OCEAN JET BACOLOD DOCKING AT THE PIER FROM ILOILO CITY

http://i19.tinypic.com/6jyxv0m.jpg
OCEAN JET BACOLOD DOCKING AT THE PIER FROM ILOILO CITY

http://i10.tinypic.com/6srb3o2.jpg
OCEAN JET BACOLOD DOCKING AT THE PIER FROM ILOILO CITY

http://i16.tinypic.com/6okz1c6.jpg
WEESAM EXPRESS AT BREDCO PORT

[blight]

@boynegros...
no problem! :)

[blight]

http://i2.tinypic.com/6z92pon.jpg
RAFFY'S REXLE SIZZLERS
one of the most affordable sizzling restos in the city,
mostly students was there customers...
mura kasi... at okie na din...

[jmok]

Cool!

Its for you BTW

http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd4/elms10/b16.jpg

http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd4/elms10/b15.jpg



goood evening,,,,

oh my beloved alma mater..........

its been 2 years now that i have never visited my school,,

i have so much fun in N.O.H.S back then

class 2006 ko gle ah,,,lol

:):):):)

[blight]

http://i6.tinypic.com/86y95zl.jpg
CHECK INN PENSION

http://i15.tinypic.com/82kvuow.jpg
hotel rates

[kyle@1008]

SPANISH SCENTS (http://www.cebusmile.com/2007/12/01/spanish-scents/)

Housing our rich past

http://www.cebusmile.com/images/2007/dec/098%20spanish-scents01-00.jpgDANIEL BETANCOURT EXPLORES THE ANCESTRAL HOMES OF NEGROS’ CULTURAL CAPITAL

The criss-cross streets of Silay, a small town north of Bacolod in Negros Occidental, are lined by scores of bahay na bato (stone houses), built by sugar barons and the landed farmers who tilled the cane fields during the Spanish period. Today they stand testament to the city’s former glory as the center of the sugar industry.
You can find similar structures, some even older and more historic than those in Silay, in towns such as Taal in Batangas, Malolos in Bulacan and several places in Pampanga and Nueva Ecija. Vigan in Ilocos has the most old buildings in the country and has earned the distinction of becoming a UNESCO World Heritage site. Yet despite coming second to Vigan in number, Silay’s stone houses are special as they paint a detailed picture of the life of the wealthy in the early 20th century. According to Dr Fernando Zialcita, co-author of Philippine Ancestral Houses, the dwellings were reserved for the country’s principalia and the ilustrados. These included rich farmers, traders and successful professionals.
http://www.cebusmile.com/images/2007/dec/099%20spanish-scents01-09.jpgToday, 31 of the ancestral homes are preserved, having been designated heritage homes by the National Historical Institute. They are densely concentrated and you can easily walk from one to the other. Some remain in private hands with the people living there quite literally living in the past. These may be closed to the public, but there are many that are open and a stroll around the city will bring you face to face with history.
An offshoot of the bahay kubo (single-room dwelling), the bahay na bato was designed to address the stresses of the Philippine environment. Its sturdy stone-based first floor and a lightweight, wooden second withstand the country’s frequent typhoons and earthquakes. They vary in size, lavishness, degree of preservation and current function.
http://www.cebusmile.com/images/2007/dec/099%20spanish-scents01-10.jpgIf you are coming from Bacolod, the first ancestral building you will encounter is the El Ideal Bakery, a Silay institution. Occupying the ground floor of the Cesar Lacson Locsin Ancestral House, this café-boulangerie has been running for nearly a century. Passers-by go to great lengths to buy its freshly baked native confections such as pastillas de leche (carabao milk candy), white frosted bañadas (soft cookies), sugarcane and paciencia biscuits and lady fingers.
http://www.cebusmile.com/images/2007/dec/099%20spanish-scents01-13.jpgWest of El Ideal on Cinco de Noviembre Street is the former home of Victor Gaston, son of a French sugar baron who settled in the Philippines. Built in 1897, this balayong wood structure housed eight of the owners’ 12 children. In the later part of the century, it fell into disuse until a group of Silaynons decided to restore the house and turn it into its present incarnation, the Balay Negrense Museum.
Near the city market is the Bernardino Jalandoni Ancestral House which was built in 1908. Now managed by the Silay Heritage Foundation, the house is also a museum with period pieces as well as a venue for artistic performances. One of its galleries contains photographs of all 31 of the houses designated treasures by the National Historical Institute.
http://www.cebusmile.com/images/2007/dec/100%20spanish-scents01-00.jpgAnother heritage home with public access is the Vicente Conlu Montelibano House with its collection of antique furnishings. Meanwhile, the regal Maria Ledesma Golez House has been converted to the Silay branch of RCBC bank, while the Angel Araneta Ledesma house, aka the “Green House”, is currently used as the Silay culture and tourism offices.
Fronting the Cathedral of San Diego is the Kapitan Mariano Montelibano Lacson House whose first floors have been converted into an eatery and two cafés. New Café is a long-time favorite for the older men of Silay. It is where they meet and catch up with the latest town gossip and cockfight results over coffee.
http://www.cebusmile.com/images/2007/dec/100%20spanish-scents01-03.jpgOne man who knows a lot about Silay and everyone in it is Ramon Hofileña. In fact the city owes a great deal to him, a statement he would probably never allow to cross his lips.
The very building where I had my puto (steamed rice cake) and coffee was saved because of his efforts.
In 1977, there was a plan to widen Rizal Street as part of one of the many road projects under a World Bank program to help farmers who were made impoverished by the sugar crisis at that time. This would have meant the highway encroaching on treasured properties including El Ideal and the Golez building.
Hofileña submitted a petition to the national government to have the decision reversed, much to the ire of the incumbent mayor. He, then with the city tourism board, organized the homeowners to rally behind his cause and the debate was brought to the governor who heard and mediated over the matter. Some owners even offered to donate land to create a diversion road. In the end, the houses were spared and the national highway between Bacolod and Victorias now narrows when it crosses through Silay. Other gems of Silay, however, couldn’t be saved. Its main plaza, for example, became a casualty of a misplaced affinity for the new.
http://www.cebusmile.com/images/2007/dec/100%20spanish-scents01-04.jpgHofileña is a welcoming host, ushering me into the dim dining room of his family home with its Art Deco furniture. After offering me guapple pie, he recounts the history of the lost plaza: “Before the Second World War, that sunken plaza won the award as the best in the country,” he recalls. “The prize was PHP10, which was a lot of money back then.
It complemented the style of the Church of San Diego, which was Romanesque. It had two great fountains and statues of women and fawn-like figures amid a green landscaping, But under martial law, they filled it up,” he says.
“I was not around. I was in Manila. When I came back, there was only one tree left. I tried to save it.” The tree still stands in plaza today and many still call it the Ramon tree.
http://www.cebusmile.com/images/2007/dec/100%20spanish-scents01-01.jpgHofileña spent most of his childhood in that house, which his father built in 1934, on Cinco de Noviembre Street. Studies brought him to Manila, where he took up journalism, while work brought him to New York. He came back because of his parents’ old age, returning to a town that was in stark contrast to the cultural buzz of Manhattan. So began his attempt to turn Silay into a cultural center. He organized art workshops and exhibitions, inviting artists and high society from the nation’s capital to a possible cultural rival in the heart of the Visayas.
Hofileña also began his annual cultural tour (see above left), which includes a guided tour of his own father’s house. In 1962, the Hofileña house was opened to the public for the first time, the first ancestral home in Silay to do so. The living and dining rooms are decorated with pictures of his parents and eight siblings - all of whom were involved in the arts: piano teachers, ballet and flamenco dancers, theater artists. Hofileña describes their achievements with pride. The comedor (dining room) is filled with treasures – cupboards containing antiques and archeological finds from the area and China, some an incredible 3,000-years-old.
http://www.cebusmile.com/images/2007/dec/102%20spanish-scents01-00.jpgSpanish chairs and a 200 year-old piano from Germany adorn the living room; and the library contains countless volumes of Filipiniana (some written by Hofileña himself), indigenous toys and wooden images of the Saint Vincent Ferrer, saved from the island’s old churches. At the center is a table with piles of books made sepia-colored by time. I picked one up, Portrait of Jennie by Robert Nathan, a story about an impoverished artist in New York who searched for a woman who inspired him. “I don’t care for novels anymore, but I read that three times,” Hofileña says.
Perhaps the most impressive part of his art collection is on the second floor. It includes works by national artists such as Juan Luna, Felix Resurrecion Hidalgo, Fernando Amorsolo, Ang Kiukok and BenCab among others. A cross-section of the most important talents in Philippine art from the 19th century on, it is probably the most comprehensive personal collection on public display. However, the works that stir the most emotion are those by Conrado Judith, whose canvases Hofileña discovered in the thatch hut Judith was living in. Many were already damaged by the sun and rain.
A poor high school graduate, Judith painted billboards and posters for the movie houses for a living, while at home he painted abstract expressionist pieces. He died of tuberculosis at 34, long before any of his pieces could be mounted in an exhibition.
http://www.cebusmile.com/images/2007/dec/102%20spanish-scents01-01.jpgOn the terrace on the second floor, I noticed the neighboring ancestral house across the yard, well on the slow road towards decay. Weather and termites are natural enemies of these houses, but far worse is neglect by the owners. Most of the real owners left these homes a long time ago, settling in bigger cities or emigrating abroad. Meanwhile, those who stay do not have the technical abilities to preserve or the means to do so.
Silay’s heyday may have passed a long time ago, but what is left are the stories of its sons and daughters – revolutionaries, statesmen, economic leaders, prominent artists – and the houses they lived in. This is what keeps it alive in our consciousness.
http://www.cebusmile.com/images/2007/dec/102%20spanish-scents01-11.jpgThe Manuel Severino Hofileña Heritage House is a place that keeps this rich heritage alive. On the walls, are a story of our country, echoes of the past and an inheritance it is our challenge to protect. From the humble sugar farmer who built this house for his wife and nine children, to the Japanese commanders who met under its roof, to the siblings who sought shelter in its warmth after they were widowed, to the many children who played in its garden, to the countless national artists who have been its guests right up to its faithful caretaker and storyteller.
The houses in Silay are an umbilical cord that connects us to the past and the pastoral, and the best way for us to prevent it from being cut off is to support the tours and to visit our history.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY LESTER V LEDESMA AND IRWIN CRUZ
http://www.cebusmile.com/images/2007/dec/100%20spanish-scents01-02.jpg
ANNUAL CULTURAL TOUR OF NEGROS OCCIDENTAL BY RAMON HOFILEÑA
Tour dates All Saturdays of December except holidays, 9am to 5.30pm.
Itinerary includes Bacolod, Silay (Jalandoni and Hofileña heritage homes), Victorias (Church of St Joseph the Worker); Manapla (Chapel of the Carwheels); Talisay.
Fee PHP600 (USD13.75), limited to 55 people
Tel Jara Laboratory (034) 434 6398.
USEFUL DETAILS
Where to stay: Fortuna Pension House, tel (034) 495 3981, email elleng@bacolod.worldtelphil.com, from PHP400 (USD9.15)
Where to eat: El Ideal, New Café, Sir – all on Rizal Street
How to get there: From Bacolod central market: a Bacolod – Escalante bus, or a Bacolod – Silay jeepney; PHP10 (USD0.23)
Silay Tourism Office, tel (034) 495 5145

Source: Cebu Pacific Smiles (http://www.cebusmile.com/2007/12/01/spanish-scents/)

great find bernie, we have so few gems in the philippines, I'm sort of glad that some of our media outlets are at the very least try to put the spotlight on this....

and I'm reposting this in the negros heritage thread,...and I encourage others to share in that thread, negros has a rich history and culture, it's good to be excited about the future, but don't forget the past either...

[SUV111]

Blight!!!!!! thanks for sharing your pics :)

:banana::banana::banana:

[SUV111]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2064/2165486833_62c8790fa7.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2223/2166283650_d4eabd3b03.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2123/2166280830_42e94fd225.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2147/2165483781_d7a107fdf4.jpg?v=0

[SUV111]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2353/2166278606_a2de870f90.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2339/2165482615_173677c45a.jpg?v=0

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2355/2166278288_60eacdc13a.jpg?v=0

[habagatcentral1]

great find bernie, we have so few gems in the philippines, I'm sort of glad that some of our media outlets are at the very least try to put the spotlight on this....

and I'm reposting this in the negros heritage thread,...and I encourage others to share in that thread, negros has a rich history and culture, it's good to be excited about the future, but don't forget the past either...

Thats right Kyle. :okay:

"In order to define the future, one must study the past" - Kung Fu Tzu. :D


Anyway, I might be going to BCD tomorrow for a daytrip or an overnight trip. But I'm not that sure pa though. Basi weekday ko kakadto da.

[SUV111]

great find bernie, we have so few gems in the philippines, I'm sort of glad that some of our media outlets are at the very least try to put the spotlight on this....

and I'm reposting this in the negros heritage thread,...and I encourage others to share in that thread, negros has a rich history and culture, it's good to be excited about the future, but don't forget the past either...

kindly post the link kyle...lets try to make that thread alive again

[SUV111]

OOOOOHHHH bigla yatang dumami ang tao :)

[SUV111]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2097/2166283182_1fdd94ab01.jpg?v=0

[SUV111]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2142/2165482061_894605248c.jpg?v=0

[SUV111]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2093/2166269182_4431ab20c0.jpg?v=0
Talisay Road

[SUV111]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2213/2166278822_b51fab6484.jpg?v=0
Silay Market

[kyle@1008]

Thats right Kyle. :okay:

"In order to define the future, one must study the past" - Kung Fu Tzu. :D


Anyway, I might be going to BCD tomorrow for a daytrip or an overnight trip. But I'm not that sure pa though. Basi weekday ko kakadto da.

er..I'm in laguna since december pa..

kindly post the link kyle...lets try to make that thread alive again

here you go...

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=17500148#post17500148

[habagatcentral1]

^^ I know, you told me last time, hehehe!!! :lol: I was there last X'mas and New Year and had a talk with Sugarboy, hehe!! :D

Anyway, whats the exact date of the opening of NBSA?

[SUV111]

er..I'm in laguna since december pa..



here you go...

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=17500148#post17500148

thanks kyle...we will post some pics there:)

[SUV111]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2203/2168089873_f84dd9d142.jpg?v=0

[SUV111]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2335/2168090193_59198fc896.jpg?v=0
Near Sta. Fe...BUENA PARK SUBD.

[putnam_48]

hello bacolod. i am so surprised to see the thread going so fast.

suv, i agree with the rest. your pictures have improved so much. you should really purse studying photography. who knows where it could lead you.

i don't have any comment on bio-fuel. i don't know a lot anything about it anyway. All i could say is...kasla is sooo good with burns. hahahhaa....(layo layo na punto) but it's true. when i was in grade school, i burned myself after new year playing firecrackers. it was one very painful experience that's why i am a strong advocate of not using these things during new year's celebration.

Nways, twice a day my lola would apply the tar of the kasla to my burns. She said it will help me not to have scars. and hooala! i don't have any scars from that burn.

Amo lang na mastorya ko parte sa kasla:-)