SENDING MY SENDONG ASSISTANCE VIA JRS

Done packing some of our extra stuff to be shared to my blogging friends who were victims of 'Sendong' in Cagayan de Oro and Iligan City. I'll bring this box tomorrow at JRS Express, they'll ship packages to Cagayan de Oro City and Iligan City for free even if it's address to a specific person, some couriers don't, so I find it really a big help, I still can use the money for shipment to buy them underwears, so here, Friendos, I hope it'll reach Cagayan de Oro before Christmas.

To inquire about the nearest JRS counter near you visit their website at www.jrs-express.com or like their Facebook page to inquire and know more details.

COFFEE MOMENTS AT NESTLE COFFEE PLANTLET PLANTATION AND TRAINING CENTER IN TAGUM

HI guys, I’ve been away from my blog dashboard for several days, I’ve been working and planning on this project I long been wanting to do – a coffee farm.

I want to start ours right and I think this place – The Nestle Coffee Plantlet Production and Training Center in Magdum, Tagum, Davao del Norte is the right place to start it with.

Unfortunately, the training for 2011 has ended and the next batch will be come Feb. 2012, but nonetheless we have a great talk with some of the personnel who knew coffee well at the center.

I will be back here to load a thousand of these coffee plantlets for our farm  in Sultan Kudarat.

I'm actually planning to document this farming stint of ours so I will be able to share some of the technical know-how of growing coffee plant.

This is the Nestle Coffee Plantlet Production and Training Center in Magdum, Tagum, Davao del Norte.

These are the coffee plants ready for planting, a seedling costs P12 if you buy it from here. More of these later.

THE LAST WOMAN STANDING IS GONE

When I did my research for one of my master’s paper in the Province of Sultan Kudarat, Ambay Ampang was one of my respondents, she was thought to be the last Manobo woman who had kept a set of this ‘sigkil’, it’s these iron rings Manobo women adorn their body particularly their necks, their wrist and their ankles, the rings served a number of purpose – one, it’s a sign that a woman belongs to a well-off family in their tribe, second, it’s an accessory signifying beauty, third, it’s an element for their security as those rings would produce a tingling sound whenever someone stronger would try to coerce women in their tribe.

At the course of my stay in the mountains of Ezperanza in Sultan Kudarat, I learned more than what I wanted to know, their anguish towards their government, their unattended health conditions, education, etc. – during that time Ambay was repeatedly telling me she can’t see well, she has one of these eye conditions prevalent among aged women and she wanted to see a healer to have the cataract removed – there were actually a lot of them suffering from same eye problems. Had I been a doctor I could have called a line during that time and selflessly offered my services, those were one of the moments that I was blaming myself that I can’t do much for them with what I have at hand. These people actually don’t ask too much, nor Ambay Ampang asked for blepharoplasty, nothing of that grand, they just want unpretentious attention telling these guys in the government – that hey! We’re part of this government, please mind us too.

Lately, I heard this sad news Ambay Ampang succumbed to meet her creator without even seeing what a doctor looks like, just me thinking that indeed this world still exist at an extreme continuum - extremely advanced and dying without even knowing one.