Monday, December 31, 2007

Happy New year mga Padi!!!!



Monday, December 24, 2007

Merry Christmas from Hael Family

MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR !
from Hael Family

Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Baptism of Nono's son

Mga padi we're all invited on the christening of Nono's second child this coming saturday December 8, 2007 at the Irosin church.

Do text him for details. and pics pls ha. kay mabudlayon na an blog ta

Thursday, November 22, 2007

Happy Birthday Tivo!


padi sorry ha. nakalimutan ko magpost. anyways belated happy birthday!!!

Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Prayers for Dave's newborn baby

mga padi, let's offer prayers for Dave's newborn baby, who was born premature and has been in a critical condition the past days.

Friday, October 19, 2007

prayers for yayes's dad

let us jumpstart the maelstrom prayer brigade again and offer prayers for yayes's dad's triumph against his difficult medical condition

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

2007 OLPS Homecoming

nano na mga padi? me balak ba kita na magkirita niyan na OLPS homecoming? mas ok siguro after 20 years ulit hehehehe :p

sa october 17 palan an homecoming daw. medyo alanganin ngani kay wednsday pa. dili ako makauli kay 3days na absent ina

heniways, sa mga taga- sorsogon, text text na lang kamo san plano. we'll just see kun ano

here's the invite

Sunday, September 23, 2007

prayers for dante

mga padi let's all pray for dante's success in his bar exams. he's on the second exams today.

Friday, September 14, 2007

we can go coco

I just came from Romblon last 9/11 where I was invited by DTI to talk about dairy as part of their One Town, One Product (OTOP) activities. It happened that Dr. Justino Arboleda (or simply dr. Bo) was the other speaker on the coconut coir business. Though the surname may tell you that he comes from way up north he is actually a bicolano from guinobatan, a retired dean of the bicol university college of agriculture. He is an agricultural engineer by profession and studied at Tokyo University where he earned all his degrees, from his bachelor's up to his doctorate. In 1994 he set up JUBOKEN in guinobatan and specialized in exporting coconut coir.

He eventually realized that there is a huge world demand for coco coir that he then set up coco technologies corporation that uses coco net to stabilize slopes, prevent erosion and other soil projects. Another factor of his present success is memorandum circular #25 that instructs dpwh to use coco nets to stabilize soil in its projects. Among the countries that require an abundant supply of coco coir are china, japan, europe and usa. I consulted the statistics on coco coir exports at dti and everything checked out fine.

His company have already won all sorts of awards, from the BBC World Challenge 2005 to the Golden Shell.

He is so desperate about the supply of coir that he went as far as mindanao to secure supply agreements. He is even willing to partner with anyone who is willing and offers help for the needed equipment.

He estimates that in order to produce 1kg of coir and the accompanying 2kg of dust, a coir plant only needs to spend P6 in operating cost. If delivered to his plant in quezon city he is willing to pay P9/kg coir and we could sell the dust at P3/kg. That's a per unit sale of P15. He is willing to talk to us if we can provide some 18T/month. You can check out his site http://cocogreen.net/homepage.htm

Remember: coconut husks are farm wastes that are either burned or just thrown away. Tell, email me at glagamayo@yahoo.com or text (get my number from jet, dont post numbers here).

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Happy Birthday Fr. Peewee!

ano pasalubong mo sa amon hali sa japan?

Monday, September 10, 2007

Kumusta mga padi

kabudlay didi ha. harain na tabi kamo. any updates and pix and stories?

ito mga diyot na news:

Junie has left his previous job at the Gubat LGU and is currently working part-time in an HR Consultancy founded by the current HR Director of Aquinas. he says it may become a long term gig for him.

Dante is deep in review mode for the forthcoming bar exams. do pray for his success in the exams. pangadyi ta na top 10 sya.

Jet is busy with work and book design gigs, CCNA course and bugski

Sanni is doing well in florida, you can see pix of his family at the batch87 blog. do wait for his promised postings here.

Rino is ultra busy with his GK work and cellphones

Gabby is still with the dairy board and drops by here every now and then. i would just liek to remind the other ninongs na damo-damo na an utang ta na regalo sa batit niya. hehehe

Mervs, still drops by here from time to time and might send some more pixs this week

Gojie, is now a nurse and wants to get married next year

Kit's problem is now resolved.

Yayes is still drafting his wonderful reflections, which he will post here. SOON!!! also apart from being a devoted family man, he's currently a newspaper editor, teacher and law student. hanep sa hataw. sya an pan-tolo na lawyer ta

Peewee will celebrate his birthday this coming wednesday. but japayuki anay siya ngunyan. invited na magkasal didto. ingat sa mga ninja dyan Padi ha, basi ma-shuriken ka

Collins is still in iloilo and too shy to post his amazing pictures

Cando is still saving up gas slips for our road trip hehehe

Dave was supposed to become the new municipal agricultural officer of sorsogon

Franz was online a minute ago

Erwin has set-up his ice plant

Tyrone is in cebu

Tivo is still in naga, waiting for my dvds hehe

Nono is in sorsogon

And so is rene

and henri who seldom visits this site (sabi ni junie) and yayes says he might go back to teaching soon

Jason is somewhere

and also moonvale

and wiron too

and maybe sherman and victor and BJ

Dino and Lorbes meanwhile are still out there, waiting to be found

Lastly, mga padi, let's give our full support to dante, magbar exams na siya beginning this sunday (four sundays daw iyon). kitakits kita this coming sunday sa lasalle taft

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Happy Birthday BJ!

padi kun hain ka man down under--- happy bday!!!

ingat sa mga kangaroo hehehehe! san-o ka mauli?

Eric Gojar, RN

silensyohon lamang an nurse. pungal warang tingog! hehehe. ano mapainom ka ha :p

congrats nurse eric!

Sunday, August 26, 2007

Thank God i'm now a nurse!!!!

pasado na ako mga pards!!! Thanks to your prayers!!!!

Saturday, August 18, 2007

25$ Flickr gift needed!

mga padi, our flickr account expired last august 15. because of this some of the pictures may not be viewable anymore and we can't upload pictures the way we used to.

so anybody care to donate 25$ for a one year subscription to flickr?

the first year ako sumagot. then the second year si mervs.

just let me know ha?

siya reunion daw kita didi sa manila sometime next week. adi daw si junie that time

Friday, August 10, 2007

Happy Birthday Nono and Rino!



















































sabi ni tivo wara man kuno handa . hehehe

Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Happy Birthday Sanni!

kumusta ka na padi!

Thursday, July 26, 2007

August meet-up

Mga padi, oks saindo na magkiritaan kita niyan na august? iristoryahan nan plano plano lang.

just to start-up again our plans and projects na medyo nasa "pause" mode niyan. hehehe

pakibutang na lang san names niyo sa comments kung join kayo. oks?

Monday, July 23, 2007

Friday, July 20, 2007

posting youtube videos


goja, to post youtube videos, icopy mo an code na nakabutang didto sa rightside--idto na may "embed" .

note the part i encircled sa picture.

thanks sa pag-post padi ha :-)

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

an pag agum bow!


mga pards maagum na ako next year. ihanda na niyo an pang ambag niyo, hahahahaha!!

Friday, July 06, 2007

Merv's family Vacation




pictures from merv's family vacation in florida

Thursday, July 05, 2007

Happy Birthday Collins!


nano na padi, wara ka na tingog-tingog a

Wednesday, July 04, 2007

Happy Birthday Dave!


balita ko ikaw na daw an provincial agriculturist? double celebration ha

Monday, July 02, 2007

Happy Birthday Erwin!


karaon gihapon sa ingko!

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Happy Birthday Henri!

diin an karaon ta padi?

Saturday, June 23, 2007

Happy Birthday Eric!


irinuman na baya!!!!

Monday, June 18, 2007

Happy Birthday Dante!


anong handa mo padi?

Sunday, June 17, 2007

Happy Father's Day

have fun today mga tatay!!!!

Sunday, June 10, 2007

Goodluck Gojie!

mga padi, let's pray that gojie will successfully pass the nursing board exams today.

Padi, pasiguruha na kaupod ka sa top ten ha --olps batch86 baga :D

Friday, June 08, 2007

Happy Birthday Tyrone!


when's the party daw kuyang? hehehe

Monday, June 04, 2007

Happy Birthday Kit!


ano padi. irinuman kita ulit?

Friday, June 01, 2007

Happy Birthday Jet!


long hair me. walang handa hehe. work muna :P

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Happy Birthday Yayes!


belated greets padi. sori medyo superbusy lang hindi ko na-update itong blog

Thursday, May 17, 2007

new proposition

medyo mabudlayon an blog ta.

anyway, any news with our investment? I have a new one for you, why not invest it in dairy? Before any reaction, here's a background.

Land O' Lakes is a cooperative based in Minnesota. Their main business is in dairy and accounts for majority of milk produced in that state. Some 5 years ago LOL created a foundation in the Philippines to facilitate grants through a commodity monetization scheme. A large surplus of powdered milk will be given to the Philippines in which the latter can sell and proceeds to fund local nutrition projects. As part of the bargain, my agency, NDA, required LOL to set up a modest production unit in Camarines Sur. Goa became that area and right now outgoing Mayor Marcel Pan is producing so much milk that he is marketing his produce in Naga. There are now three dairy plants in Goa although only two are operating steadily.

A fourth milk plant was constructed two years ago in Pili was visited by US Ambassador Kenny with DA Secretary Yap early this year. This new plant is rated to process 2,000 liters of milk a day with facilities for cheese making. However, due to the limited number of animals, Camarines Sur can only produce so much. This is very disheartening as Gov. LRay, during the Kenny visit asked that the plant supply 900 liters of milk for its hunger mitigation measures.
In Goa, Mayor Pan is doing the groundwork for commercial marketing of his flavored yoghurt and other products.

By june this year, 200 animals will arrive from New Zealand to beef up production in Camarines Sur targeting recipients from four municipalities around Naga.

Would this mean that milk supply will be enough to answer the demand in Naga. Not quite. Since recipients are newbies there might be fallouts.

Medyo bitin pero lets leave some of the details for later. Tama na siguro an diyot na detalye for you to ruminate and let your imaginations fly. If you have questions please do text me, Jet has my new number, by the way, for security reasons I cant post my number here.

AMDG

Sunday, May 13, 2007

Happy Mother's Day

greetings sa atong mga mama nan sa mga asawa

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Happy Birthday Victor!

padi hain ka na ngunyan?

Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Happy Birthday Wiron!


























padi, isabay mo na celebration sa victory party mo ha.

Thursday, April 12, 2007

BAMS again

mabudlayon na an blog ta ka wara nagpopost. harain na kamo?????

sina wiron, kit and tyrone ini

Friday, March 23, 2007

latest smart globe print ad


a new print ad campaign was launched by smarterglobe featuring the these maelstrom guys --hehehe

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Prayers for Yayes' Dad

Kindly include in your prayers Yayes' Dad who is in critical condition from heart and kidney complications.

Happy Birthday Rene!


patadihi man kami sin masiram na pulutan padi :-)

Happy Birthday Moonvale!


kumusta na padi?

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Happy Birthday Jason!


san-o an irinuman ta padi. damo kamo na feb celebrants kaya bagan fiesta na handaan ada ano? :-)

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Happy Birthday Gabby!

isarabay na lang niyo an handaan nindo na mga february bday celebrants ha para fiesta hehe.

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Happy Birthday Mervs!

ano su handa mo padi?

padara ka palan ki pix ha? ta inrecycle ko na lang mga pix mo

Friday, February 09, 2007

Happy Birthday Junie!

san-o ka makadi kay mapainom ka kuno didi hehehe

Saturday, January 27, 2007

Wounded Warrior

by Yayes Basares

Radiological findings:

A large soft tissue mass density with prominent vasculature, is seen off the left occipito-temporal scalp area. Note the intense but relatively inhomogenous contrast enhancement of the mass.
There is associated lytic erosion of the underlying left occipital bone.
No definite abnormal density change is seen in the brain parenchyma, cerebellum and occipital lobes appear intact.

The gray-white matter interfaces are maintained.

The eventricles and other CSF spaces are within normal.

Midline structures are not displaced.

The sellar, parasellar structures are not remarkable.

Evaluation:
Large intensely enhancing soft tissue mass, left occipito-temporal scalp area. A large soft tissue hemangioma is entertained.

K. Nee-Estuye, M.D. FPCR
Sorsogon Medical Mission Group
Hospital and Health Services Cooprative

There is a big hole in her skull. When you see the picture there is a soft tissue formed like a supot hanging from the back side of her skull and is filled with blood. Both the soft tissue forming like a supot and all its content Ć¢€“ come through that hole. This is an inborn physical defect and was already there when I met her in 1994. At that time it was still small in size that was covered and hidden by the length of her hair. To date, its length surpasses her hair length, its size aside from what you can see covers her entire right ear and part of her right face, its weight approximately 5 kilos.

I am not a doctor and neither do I understand medical terms. But I have lived the past 12 years of my life with this woman. She is my wife.

And how I love this woman, whom I am proud to say, tamed me. The past twelve years of our marriage has always been an extreme joy for me to go home to her warm embrace knowing she prepared me a home where I can rest my tired spirit. It is my pride to have three very loving and wonderful kids grown up under the guidance of her maternal love and sacrifices. My wife is a simple woman whose little world revolves around rearing her kids and dutifully attending to her husband. It is her simple and quiet ways that endear her most to me as, best of all, she never competes with me.

How is she? She is, by God's grace, asymptomatic. No seizures, no loss of balance, no incoherent speeches, no nothing. In fact, she was a Technology and Home Economics teacher when I met her and only stopped working after our eldest suffered from bronchial asthma ever since year one. She was also a Lay Minister of the Word in our faith. She does household chores like all other "normal" housewives. It is only her physical defect that separates her from all of us, limiting her exposure as many are shocked to see her condition.

It was upon the prodding of Nono to have her medically checked a day after a pocket reunion we had together with Erwin, Junie, Collins, Henri, Dante, and Peewee last December 30, 2006.
It is this physical condition that we are hoping we could find an answer in the medical world. Mr. and Mrs. Nono Dorotan, by their kindness, indorsed us to their friend Dr. Laly Macindo who had been kind to us in extending assistance and many times going out of her way to do so. A plastic surgeon from UST together with other surgeons from Bicol Regional Training and Teaching Hospital has seen her and hoped that a plastic surgery could resolve the problem. Unfortunately, as my limited medical knowledge understands it, some more tests need to be conducted to determine any complication in her brain. The test is not available in the Bicol Region and, worse, could lead to a major medical operation. (Nono, with his big heart, has the CT Scan film and is coordinating with other radiologists to seek second opinion.)

On a personal note, this is my daily cross to carry. I have tried not to involve you. Yet I could not ignore the kindness of Nono and his wife, your concerted concern, through your text messages, and flood of sympathy all of which could be summed up by this SMS message from Rino: Yayes, I hope you will accept the idea and spirit behind this movement. Bro, with sincere gratitude, I do accept and I am deeply touched and honored to be part of Maelstrom.

My apologies that among our group I am left behind. Much has been said, but for me it is this simple:

I don't dream. Better yet, I have stopped dreaming.
I no longer recall when I lost the will to dream. What I recall is the feeling of emptiness. I cannot recollect the reason why I lost the will to dream, what I remember is the feeling of surrender.
I have stopped dreaming because at night I fear to go to bed and dream never to wake up again.

Pray tell me, how does one fly with broken wings?

Thursday, January 25, 2007

Happy Birthday Cando!

padi sorry sa late greetings, mapagalon mag login sa blogger the past days hehe

ano sano an karaon ta?

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

A Beautiful December

My office held our annual assessment/Execom Meeting/leadership development training/team building (dami ano--hehe para tipid) in lovely Bohol.

We stayed at the super beautiful Bohol Bee Farm. Grabe ang sarap ng pagkain (organic) dun tsaka ang ganda talaga ng grounds and cottages.

if you are looking for a sulit sarap vacation do go to Bohol and stay at the Bee Farm. Bohol is really nice, with great beaches, historical places and natural wonders. For the history buffs, bohol would be a great place to explore for its strong castillian roots and its many, many ancient catholic churches --as in the huge kastila churches that can be found in every block ata.















waking up early (4:00 am) to go dolphin watching in pamilacan island. the area is kinda like the part of the dolphin highway and feeding ground. we were unlucky though as there were just 10 spinner dolphins. some days before our friends said they saw hundreds of dolphins swimming and jumping. the dolphin tour guides said that sometimes the dolphins number in the thousands. it must be an awesome experience to be in the midst of that.















the creepy, ugly pinoy tarsier. it looks like a big-eyed rat but its the smallest primate daw















we also tried the loboc river cruise. its like a floating restaurant. ours had local musicians playing so it was cool even though it rained















this is my breakfast nook at the bee farm. they have tasty "corn coffee" parang kape arroz kaya lang mais instead of burnt rice

i still have lots of pix but blogger is acting weird again. go visit the bohol bee farm gallery for more pics.

hayy, ang ganda ganda talaga ng 'pinas!

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Best Wishes from Mervs & Family

happy new year!!

testing lang po if blogger works ok na