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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I have just been to Dumaguete for a week and I had thought that I would have the occasion to drop by Cebu. As it turned out, there was very little time to do that so I just took the ferry directly to Cagayan de Oro. I had the chance to be with my family whom I have not seen in over five months. It is a sad thing to be away from the family for so long. But, it cannot be helped. I have no work in Dumaguete and I am forced to seek work where I can.

I had brought some lactobacillus for the family to use. I brought two bottles of mango concentrate to be used for flavoring. There is very little chance for this to be adopted by people. I do not have any marketing plan that will popularize this wonderful invention. Lactobacillus kills the bad microorganisms that cause digestion problems, among other things.

I also had the chance to try out my vinegar formula. It seems to me that it is very effective against respiratory infections. It could even be a cure for asthma. I should explore this some more because it seems so promising.

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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!!

Cagayan de Oro City Revisited

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.

So now we are on page four. That is an improvement on page 5 where we last found ourselves. There is nothing important about this except to show our face on the top pages. Cagayan de Oro is not really going to miss having us on the top pages of the serps still, it is kind of gratifying to improve on our rankings on the serps.

It has been a while since I visited Cagayan de Oro and there are lots of unfinished things that need to be tied up and removed from my todo list. It may be some kind of omen or sign not to be able to sign in to update this blog and maybe it is saying that I should pay a little more attention to this considering that it has risen somewhat from where it used the which was nowhere.

Knowing that we have improved somewhat I should begin to update this blog more often.

I was in Cagayan de Oro City for the XU-AAA Alumni Homecoming which was about ten days before the city fiesta and already the streets were festooned with buntings and streamers. The air was truly festive even before the fiesta. I would have liked to feature the candidates of the Miss Cagayan de Oro on the pages of Ching's World, the idea being to feature each year's candidates starting 2007.

I had no such luck. Photos were scarce or were proprietary materials. Oh well, I thought it was a good idea, to help promote Cagayan de Oro. I did manage to catch a short preview of the Cascades on their farewell tour at the Barbecue Night of the XU-AAA Homecoming. I saw Jun Tagud and Roland de Lara which was a welcome surprise as I had not seen them in a long time. I miss Cagayan de Oro City. I also miss having Miss Cagayan de Oro on Ching's World.