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?