This is getting a little better. I have been in Cagayan de Oro City for over a year and I must say that a lot has changed since the first time I came back here. No, Cagayan de Oro City still has the pesky Badjaos who pester you with open palms as if all you do in this world is give them money. I had a bit of fun doing the SAMMAKA website and quite a few members have made it a stop. The city fiesta was just celebrated and Xavier University, Ateneo de Cagayan Alumni Association (XU-AAA) also had their annual homecoming although I did not have the chance to attend. The new Miss Cagayan de Oro City was also crowned. Miss CDO is a pretty lass and should have a blast promoting Cagayan de Oro.

It seems to me that the time I spent here in CDO just went like a breeze. I no longer visit my lakatan bananas which have begun to bear fruit. It was a very fruitful year trying to make a go of farming in Cagayan de Oro. Did I learn about natural farming? You bet I did and the knowledge I gained from my little stint as farm manager has done wonders in making me realize the fragility of the earth's biosphere. Corporate farming has really harmed the environment and nothing is being done about it.

Jai did this!!! He got his grapes to bear these little beauties. I bought the cuttings in Cagayan de Oro last year and this has been transplanted once. It never bore any fruit until now.

Great isn't it?

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Planting Lakatan bananas in Cagayan de Oro City is something that I never dreamed I would be doing. Well, not really in Cagayan de Oro City itself but close enough, in Maasin, Baungon which belongs to Bukidnon province. Maasin is close enough to Cagayan de Oro City that it might as well be a part of this golden city itself. The way to Maasin is through the highway past the Lumbia Airport on the way to Talakag where you take a left turn going towards Cabula Bridge. Crossing the bridge brings you to Bukidnon territory.

Maasin is blessed with tall mountains which allows a lot of water to flow towards the lowlands and on to the Cagayan River itself. My brother has a piece of land there which where I am planting the Lakatan seedlings. From where I live it takes me thirty minutes to get to the farm which is pretty close to the city and I go there everyday. I had no idea how bananas where cultivated but there is no dearth of experts when it comes to bananas in Cagayan de Oro City. Del Monte grows bananas and so does Dole which has extensive tracts of land dedicated to bananas.

One can either get seedlings from tissue culture laboratories or you can get suckers from existing plants. While suckers are cheaper, tissue culture seedlings might be more robust and healthy, assuming of course that the laboratory takes its source for explants from healthy, virus-free plants.

What is going on with the Philippines? I go to the Cogon Market in Cagayan de Oro City and I see Filipinos herded inside a rope enclosure docile as lambs waiting to buy NFA rice. Are Filipinos no better than animals? The brilliant Arroyo administration which has claimed success for the exchange rate of the peso against the dollar is finally laying siege on the dignity of the Filipino. Does no one see the irony? People are now buying pilit or malagkit, gelatinous rice used for puto maya and suman and mixing this with rice because it is cheaper. Rice at 54 pesos!!

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I have seen that there has been some changes in the way NFA rice is being distributed. No longer do I see any rope enclosures in Cogon Market in Cagayan de Oro City. Thank God somebody has found a better way of distributing rice. It pains me to see Filipinos reduced to such a condition as being roped off as though animals waiting in a paddock or corral. Cagayan de Oro City is very close to my heart and I had all praises for the way traffic has been decongested by opening new bridges that link Nazareth to Carmen and another one that brings Taguanao closer to Lumbia. I think with this new development, I will go back to praising the City Government of Cagayan de Oro for what it is doing for the people of the city.

I have been in Cagayan de Oro City for over a week and I have set up my computer here with an internet connection which should make it supremely easy for me to do things online. I would like to post some pictures here and I will do so as soon as I get some fresh ones taken. The old cogon market has become a revelation of sorts. Gone are the days when the last thing you would want to go in Cagayan de Oro City was the Cogon Market. Not only was the traffic terrible or worse than terrible but the smell was over powering. There seemed to be garbage everywhere and the stalls are all over the place, they are not really stalls but pails with fish where people should be.

All of that has gone and I must say that this is one thing which the government is doing quite nicely.

I have had my fill of sites that promises easy money for doing things. So, I did some of those and never felt that I was doing something which I could be doing for a long time. I mean sure, you could make money but is it something that you want to do the rest of your life? Click on rotating sites? Click on some ads? I did have my doubts about that paid to click thing. It could be click fraud but I never bothered to find out. The bottom line is there are so many of these sites and I am quite frankly quite sick of it. I am not saying that these sites are not legit or are not going to pay out. I just never stayed long enough to find out. Mylot.com is something else. I don't care for the money part which they seem to give just for participating in the discussions. That portion I find refreshing, participating in discussions, I mean. The money part is gravy, if it does get paid out.

Mylot is one way of making money while having fun posting on things you care about.

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Anyway, here's Cagayan de Oro City with another one: Cagayan de Oro City. My Cebu City site has made pr1, surprise, surprise. Dumaguete is still in the boondocks as far as Google goes but Dumaguete has made some headway. Jai Alexander rocks!

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My mind keeps going back to Cagayan de Oro City and maybe I should go there. So many times have I gone to Cagayan de Oro City only to find disappointment, There must be something wrong with this equation. Am I the wrong component? Should I stop thinking of Cagayan de Oro? A person needs to have something that he is passionate about, that is what they all say. Could I claim Cagayan de Oro as my passion? Or, is it an obsession? Only days ago Ching's World could be found on the 20th page of google search. Now, it sits on page 5 for Cagayan de Oro City.

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It was tough but I think a see a glimmer of hope for this thing I call Cagayan de Oro City. It certainly took me a bit of tweaking and experimentation before I could see Cagayan de Oro City on search the pages. Pretty soon Ching's World will mean Cagayan de Oro City.

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Cagayan de Oro, City of Golden Friendship, City of White-water rafting. I keep coming back to you, Cagayan de Oro. There is Cebu and it is always full of life. Dumaguete is sleepy and keeps to herself mostly. There is Bohol and Siquijor close by but somehow, it is Cagayan de Oro that keeps beckoning for one more visit. Well, maybe this time it will be luckier. It is always good to be back in Cagayan de Oro City although no one knows me there anymore.

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Cagayan de Oro City has just celebrated its annual fiesta. Mabuhay Cagayan de Oro City. Maybe they will find some kind of rationality in the chaos that is Cagayan de Oro on weekends.

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Cagayan de Oro as many people know, is a haven for treasure hunters. Many people from other countries like the United States and Japan come to Cagayan de Oro in search of treasures buried by the retreating Japanese Imperial Army. There are also stories of caches left behind by American forces that were intended to be used as currency by the newly-liberated Philippine Government.

Most of these items are not really buried in Cagayan de Oro City although, I would not be surprised if there are a number of sites which might even be in the center of Cagayan de Oro itself. The stories are that these items are located in various areas in Bukidnon, Lanao, Davao, Agusan which can easily be reached from Cagayan de Oro City.

Yamashita was the Japanese general who is credited with bringing these treasures to the country when the Japanese Imperial forces retreated from their strongholds in Southeast Asia. Ching's World is all about the Philippines and its natural treasures of which Cebu City, Dumaguete and Cagayan de Oro City are prime examples.

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Cagayan sure has grown. If one is to equate growth with traffic and congested streets then Cagayan de Oro qualifies as having grown trememendously. If one were to gauge growth on the basis of malls that seem to sprout like mushrooms then Cagayan de Oro City would meet the criterion. There is the famous Limketkai mall, Gaisano mall, SM Mall and Robinsons's to name just the major ones. All in Cagayan de Oro City.

Cagayan has sure grown if one is to consider that new bridges are being built to allow the flow of traffic across the Cagayan River. Finally, something is being done about building bridges. Cagayan de Oro has needed bridges for a long time and this is surely now being addressed. Of course one could not fail to mention schools and hotels which are indicators of growth.

Cagayan de Oro City has grown. Ching's World is Cagayan de oro City, and Dumaguete, and Cebu City. Ching's World is the Philippines.

While in Cagayan de Oro City, I had the opportunity to meet with Roy Baltazar at Jessie Barlisan's place. It became an impromptu meeting when Pabs Calo arrived with Mario Reyes. Romy Gabriel also came. We then agreed, after many glasses of Tanduay to come to the XU-AAA Homecoming the following night.

This is what I miss about Cagayan de Oro, when friends who no longer have the luxury of time suddenly find the time to spend with old friends who talk almost exclusively about old times.

Cagayan de Oro, in our younger days was in fact a very quiet town and very few would venture to stay up late since there was not much to do. There was that jukebox at Marla's which constantly belted out "Those were the days my friend.......".

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