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FOR THE first time, bloggers based in South Cotabato (BrVince, Aethen), Sarangani Province (that’s me), and General Santos (Avel, Hecky, and Job with his wife, Leizel) held a meetup to get to know each other and to start something new.

In this pic: Job and his wife, Liezl, Sir Avel, Sir, Hecky,
BrVince, Me, and Aethen.
Sir Avel, [...]

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YOU ARE not mistaken. Yeah, it’s from Don Jaime Zobel de Ayala.
Of course, since Globe is one of the Zobel’s companies, his number is not revealed, only his name. Here is the message:
Dear AYLs, it’s been 10 years since the 1st AYLC and I’m treating you to a 2-day Grand Reunion with my sons, JAZA [...]

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FOR MY part in the Blogging Seminar in Marbel, I will be talking on the Basics of Blogging.
One of the questions I will be presenting is “Why Blog?”
To stress my point that anyone blog for any reason, I would like to gather replies from active bloggers like you. Please leave a comment on this post [...]

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THE THIRD day was a busy day. We woke up early to get things done smoothly. By eight o’clock, the kids and their parents will already be at the school grounds.

The tasks were divided among us. Some were assigned at the kitchen. Others took charge of the program. I accompanied Sir Leo, Sir Jef, and [...]

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WE WOKE up to a beautiful morning in Sofan. Beautiful because it was the kind of morning we wished to have that day. The sun was clothed with gray clouds so that it would not scorch our skin as we follow the trek to Kiangkos.
We had one worry, though the horses set to fetch the [...]

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I HAVE heard of Kiangkos so many times, especially during elections, but I have never been there. So, packed with excitement to discover a new place, I carried by backpack and headed to the DepEd District Office of East Alabel, Sarangani Province where the journey would officially start.
A truck they call Weapon would pick us [...]

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I WAS gone for three days because?our trekking to Sitio Kiangkos, Brgy. Pag-asa, Alabel, Sarangani Province. I have not taken enough rest yet so I will be telling you about it soon. There’s a lot of work for me to do here as the official documentor of the event. The Alabel East District officials expects [...]

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IT SEEMS like everyone these days is so into earning from blogging. I, for one, is beginning to appreciate that you can actually learn from blogging.
When I first started blogging more than three years ago, my only reason was to express myself and to be different from the flock. Now, with the ubiquity of?opportunities for [...]

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Tuloy ang Pasko ng mga Bata postponed
LOOK AT how stupid that headline reads. Yes, but it speaks of the truth. The Filipino kids would never experience real Christmas so long as nobody truly cares about them.
Our trip to Kiangkos had just been potponed because the DepEd officials of the Division have not yet prepared their [...]

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