A few weeks back I received a text message from a schoolmate informing me that my highschool barkada was down with dengue, checked in the hospital and in dire need of a blood transfusion because his blood platelet was way below normal. I called him up immediately to check how he was, after which I scolded him for not informing us, his highschool barkada, of his predicament.

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 Tags: Dengue

My wife’s cellphone has been acting up lately so I lent her my phone… that has been about 3 weeks ago already… we’ve been going back and forth to the cellphone repair shop to have it fixed…

My apologies to those who have been trying to contact me through my cell… last time it was just delayed messaging because of my provider… now I’m totally off the cellphone grid… *snicker*

 Tags: Incommunicado

When I came to Davao one of the first thing I did was to make use of some idle space in my backyard by planting it with lakatan bananas. This had the effect of filling up the open spaces next to our house. Little did I know that it also had the more positive effect of attracting some “feathered” friends . With the additional foliage we started attracting more birds, such as the garden variety sparrows, the odd Shrike and a King Fisher couple.

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 Tags: Birds

One of the great things about my neck of the woods is waking up to the site of this landscape (aside from waking up beside the beach). On the left most side is Mt. Apo, the tallest volcano in the Philippines while the second and third peaks are the Catigan and Eden area. Mt. Apo is actually behind the two peaks.

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 Tags: The Majestic