VENICE

I was there in December 2000 with Gillian Macintyre from Trinidad and Tobago. What I can remember from that short side trip was that I tasted the best-tasting pizza in Venice, Italy jud. Anyway, chat n pud mi ganiha ni Maria Venice Tablada among IS student sa CDU. Sayang lagi daw ang among istorya ni Nicolas nga way continuation since sobra 3 yrs n mn lagi ko niya wa tagdas Messenger. Sige lang, time will tell ra jud lagi. Mao ra jud n atong mabuhat. Salamat kaju Venice, God bless you always!

AAS

Last Saturday 1/15/22 I saw the responses of Dr Tongzon to my questions for him for my AAS paper pohon. On the same day Air 21 called me coz nadeliver n ako new passport. Si Mam Nona Pepito never replied to my email. As well as Dr Caballero-Anthony sa NTU lagi. And I emailed Dr Patricia Sloane-White man to clarify about the Provencher travel grant. Your paper has to be accepted daw oi para k iconsider sa travel grant. Ahh, so laju ra kos tinuod diay ato. Maybe I can aim to join the next one, 2023 n phn. Jia you Doki! Si Vanessa of LDE told me man that there is an upcoming conference daw in April and she hopes we could share something daw. So adto n lng ko mofocus. Kalimtan n lng naho tong Hawaii oi. Heheh. Jia you Doki!

JANUARY 2022

Today 1/17/22 I was able to submit my grades. 4 klases ra mn pud nuon ko last sem so medyo dali ra ko nahuman. But it was announced that extend daw among grades submission sa 22 phn. Jia you to us all! Giubo pud lagi ko on 1/19/22. Natakdan ko ni Susan lagi nga nagtika2. Omicron n mn kaha siguro to. Anyway, nangaayo ra mn pud lagi mi. God bless!

POLISHED

Chat n pud mi ni Maria Venice Tablada ganihang buntag. I like her wisdom jud. She said like a diamond daw nga gipolish morag mao daw pud nahitabo nako. Buyag buyag lang pud. Coz I told her man nga grabe mopolish ug mofinish ang Singapore lagi. She will help me pray daw nga madayon kos Hawaii phn. Basta ang akong prayer lang Lord is that if madayon ko didto lagi, naay something for me there. If wala it means lahi ang gusto ni Lord for me. Si Ate Bebeth said iclaim mo n yan n pupunta kang Hawaii. Amen po. Sila jud n ni Madon, Glenda, Helen, Leikha, Chic2, Stone, Salvador, Jovic, Joy, Agnes, Mam Girly, Mam Vi, Reymar, Mam Cora, Aunty Marci lagi ang akong mga constant supporters this time. Amen. Di mn gud active sa social media sila Athena, Nelia ug Weng lagi. God bless us all always!

ODETTE

Kusog mn diay nis Odette amaw kay 185 kph daw iyang hangin nya gustiness morag 200 kph. Wahh! Chat2 p lagi mi ato ni Ate Ica when I learned from my usual program of watching Pinky Webb's Balitaan that twas another supertyphoon. Dali2 lagi ko ato palit ug de lata ug noodles ug store pud tubig. But wa jud nako masirad-i windows lagi maong pusgay ang isa k glass window sa hagdan ug warak pud ang kisame sa master's bedroom. Ipaayo n lng gud to phn. Basta kay gikumusta n mis ahong manghod about sa bagjo last 1/14/22. Tua n mn silas Strait of Malacca so nakasignal n siya. Gikumusta pud mi ni Paul last 12/22/21 ug ni Marije last 12/20/21. Thanks dear friends and relatives! On the day lagi nga nisiga mi last 1/7/22 nimsg p jud si Wayne that he's glad daw that me and my family are safe. Tulo n jud sila nga niingon aron - first si Paul then si Mr Aloha then si Gretchen Abuso. It will take time nga amo tong makalimtan but hinay2 lng jud. Jia you to us all and happy new year!

BUSY IS GOOD

Andrew once told me that busy is good. Kay daghan n lagi ko kaju ug mga activity ron bujag. Wala mn koy response from Thought For Food, wa cguro ko madawat. And morag wala p lagi kuryente and/or wifi signal ang uban diris Cebu or Visayas so naputol ang among visayas Dutch Scholars group. Sakto ra pud to oi. Group of experts n lng gud to. Di n lng cguro mi mag-affiliate with PDFNI Manila. Jia you Doki, go go go! ;)

Yokosuka Council on Asia-Pacific Studies (YCAPS), www.ycaps.org

I got to know them tungod lang jud sa Getting to Know Japan series last November 30, 2021. I think ang webinar then was called The Modern Japanese Economy. I distinctly remembered that the speaker, who was not an economist but a trade negotiator for the US said that he's not going to present graphs that will show something was going up or going down. After that I joined another webinar on Japanese Media. Sila Paul and family man gud are in Yokosuka, Japan as of the moment. He just retired from the US Navy last December 2020. Actually this is an organization around the US Navy in Japan, a nonprofit organization, and operating lang jud at the pleasure of the base commander kuno. Coz one complaint lang daw to the base commander and their activity would be scrapped. Testament daw sa ilang strength as an organization nga there is somebody like me who is from the Philippines nga willing moaffiliate nila. As a nonprofit organization, syempre if I join them, it will be on a volunteer basis. They operate gud through funding. Diha mn xay gimention nga ICAS (Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies, https://icas.tuj.ac.jp/), part of Temple University Japan campus during the online info session. I asked jud like is there a timeframe if I ask to join them. Wala mn daw. Basta kay be responsible lang daw sa mga activities. Ang akong gusto lng ani is a possible tieup lang jud and exposure lagi for our IS students, particularly those majoring in Asian and American studies. Kay 2 in 1 n gud with this di b, the Japanese and American economies? Or makahibaw n mi about the ties between USA and Japan pud. Go go go Doki!

ALAN

Since our chair mentioned a need for teachers in GE 102 Entrepreneurial Mind and STS, I thought of who to tap. Then si Alan came to my mind. Interested siya, I think dawaton niya ang teaching load next sem phn sa GE 102. I also told him that pwede ra jud lagi sya ma-absorb sa next semesters phn kay daghan mn mi ug load lagis SocSci. Basta kay hangyo lng pud nako niya nga di sya maglate ug submit sa grado. Jia you Lan, kita ta phn. Told him I'll buy him lunch or dinner phn ig abot sa akong CHED. Lunch n lng diay pohon kay dali ra mangitngit. Heheh. Mag-offer diay ko phn or give money sa SVD and I'll also send P500 or P300 daw to Ruthie for their Christmas tapok2 phn. Jia you to us always! :)

SUGOD N PASKO

Today 12/15/21 we had our dept Christmas lunch at Puso Bar and Restaurant in Quest Hotel near Ayala Center Cebu. Then after that we went to CDU to claim our giveaway of 25 kilos rice, 1 sack. Nisweldo n pud mi today for December; sa 20th phn ang other half sa among 13th month pay. Thanks po for all the blessings Lord and Merry Christmas to us all! ;)

VERTICAL FARMS

Mao n ni ang in n pud ron, ang vertical farms (hydroponics). I was in a webinar gud last August on Dutch Digital Farming. Bisan unsa n tong innovation ilang gipangpresent. I was impressed by Philips Lighting Technologies. Anyway, today I was very lucky to have found the paper by Sace and Nuñez mn cguro to on the cost-benefit as well as profitability of vertically-grown lettuce. Tua mn jud figures gipanghatag. 2.1 years daw ang payback period. Si Merlo nay bahala sa iyang negosyo. Heheh. Nibawos ra mn pud si Sir Gerry Avila. He can come in daw for technical assistance. I am looking for data on strawberries p in the Philippines kay wa p lagi koy nakit-an. Tuay sa Amerika ug India nga data mn to. Side story: he mentioned that basin molarga lagi daw ko soon. I said wala p may abiso ang Holland kay problematic p ilang covid situation. Jia you to us always! ;)

LISTEN

My sister Bantil once told me that mao daw nga ingon ani ko because I don't listen. But actually siya mn pud ang wa maminaw. Wa gud siya naminaw ni Mama nga di sija moadto as factory worker sa Taiwan. Mao mn jud to ang primary reason lagi nganong wa sija maapprove sa US tourist visa kay na'na mn xay record as OFW and single p jud so klaro n kaju nga taas ang probability nga mag-TNT sa USA. Hawaii pay imo nga tua didto ang highest number of Pinoy TNTs in America. So with my NUS experience diay to when she said 'maong na ingon ana ka kay di mn k maminaw'. Anyway, hope springs eternal lagi. Amen. Happy Tuesday! ;)

SIMBANG GABI IS A NOVENA

Twas sometime in 2019 b to when I said to Bantil that sige ra sijang ganovena bisan di n sija kabasa. Sorry po Lord. Saun, she was in Baguio gud in January 2019 when she asked me for a copy of the novena to Sto. Niño during Sinulog time. Nakasabot n ko ron Lord nga parayeg or cariño diay tawn nas ahong maguwang ng magpada sija ug bisan unsa lagi. Last Sunday she asked me man to send her copies of Didache or anything daw of spiritual reflection kay ihatag kuno nijas ijang HR head nga ijang manita. I went to SM Consolacion last Sunday 12/5/21 afternoon and sent them via LBC. Fortunately last Friday 12/10/21 nadawat n niya ang books. I was on my way to SM Seaside then for my passport appointment when LBC contacted me. Akong number n mn lng gigamit kay nakalimot mn ko'g kopyas numero sa ahong maguwang. Anyway, si Ate Ica did the Misa de Gallo novena jud in December 2004. And I remember that as an offshoot of it nadawat xas Adidas Cambodia. Siya ra gud daw niisa atos iyang kamot kung kinsay interesado moadtos Cambodia. She would later on spend 10 long years in the Sportex factory of Adidas in Phnom Penh. She went home for good in Sept 2016 coz tua ra mn lagis Buacao, Clarin, Bohol ijang bana. Di mn tos Teody ang tipo nga moabroad lagi kay sija may nag-atiman sa ijang late dad. Iyang siblings from abroad mn maoy tighatagan nija ug kwarta. Anyway, si Fr Louie said we become more sincere daw when we do the novena. Salamat po, Father and merry Christmas to you and everyone in the SVD congregation!

ROMANTIC

Kae said romantic daw on his part to say that he wants to retire here in Asia. It means daw that he wants to spend time with me. Kachar oi, ana diay n?! Kaingon n lng gud si Kae nga cute daw ming duha. Heheh. Ang entire convo was he thinks of Philippines as second home lagi daw. And I said mine is Cambodia. Cambodians are very charming when they smile. I hope they get to keep their smile. Intawn. Take advantage daw of the opportunity offered by AAS. Yes, of course. Tua n mn koy paper lagi nasuwat, tiwasonon n lng jud to lagi. Si Mam Kath pud said maka sanaol daw ko. Amen. Ana jud n, you can do great things cguro when you're in love. Cge.