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Adobe has just released its much awaited "Free" version of their most popular image editing software, Photoshop. The new product is called Photoshop Express and yes, it’s absolutely free.
I’ll take you to an in-depth view on what this new product has to offer. Here are some facts that can greatly summarize what to expect in […]
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Today, we have reached 300 blogs in the Mindanao Blog Directory! Thanks to Migs of WISIWIB (What I See Is What I Blog) for submitting the 300th listing!
As you might know by now, the Directory is organized by region, and the sub-categories are the provinces and chartered cities. Here’s the current breakdown of the blog […]
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MAITUM, Sarangani (March 31, 2008) – Dr. Samuel Evans of Reach International Healthcare and Training Program, Inc. performs a tophead cyst surgical operation during a medical mission Sunday, March 30, at barangay Kiambing, in collaboration with the Vice Governor’s Office and volunteers.
(Photo by Cocoy Sexcion/SARANGANI INFORMATION OFFICE)
Preceding the now-global initiative Earth Hour was a relatively small issue regarding a wager on climate change, which I found in the Foreign Policy blog. Albeit small in a plethora of issues in the sphere international politics (perhaps because of its…
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Brunei Darussalam is ready to host the 6th Brunei-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines Friendship Games on November 28 to 30, according to Brunei Darussalam Director for Youth and Sports Development Haji Matassim Bin Haji Jibah.
On Tuesday’s BIMP-EAGA Friendship Games Road Show at the Apo View Hotel, he said that the games are important because this will improve relations in […]
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Brunei Darussalam is ready to host the 6th Brunei-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines Friendship Games on November 28 to 30, according to Brunei Darussalam Director for Youth and Sports Development Haji Matassim Bin Haji Jibah.
On Tuesday’s BIMP-EAGA Friendship Games Road Show at the Apo View Hotel, he said that the games are important because this will improve relations in […]
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MAITUM, Sarangani (March 31, 2008) - Five year-old Gerlie Naniong, with her father, receives free medicines from a barangay health volunteer during a medical mission Sunday, March 30, at barangay Kiambing. This event is a collaboration of Vice Governor Steve Solon with Smart Communications, Inc., Dadiangas Maharlika Eagles Club, General Santos Twinstar Jaycees, Dr. R. […]
MAITUM, Sarangani (March 31, 2008) - Five year-old Gerlie Naniong, with her father, receives free medicines from a barangay health volunteer during a medical mission Sunday, March 30, at barangay Kiambing. This event is a collaboration of Vice Governor Steve Solon with Smart Communications, Inc., Dadiangas Maharlika Eagles Club, General Santos Twinstar Jaycees, Dr. R. […]
MAITUM, Sarangani (March 31, 2008) - Five year-old Gerlie Naniong, with her father, receives free medicines from a barangay health volunteer during a medical mission Sunday, March 30, at barangay Kiambing. This event is a collaboration of Vice Governor Steve Solon with Smart Communications, Inc., Dadiangas Maharlika Eagles Club, General Santos Twinstar Jaycees, Dr. R. […]
It’s very rares these days to see “Mamang Sorbetero” roaming in the streets. Maybe they have been replaced by those biking guys selling Selecta products. It was happiness for a little kid in the past to have a cone of homemade ice cream from Mamang Sorbetero. A happiness that only costs one peso. But today, […]
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Today I downloaded and installed Windows Live Writer, and I have a feeling from now on (if I do get the hang of this), I’m going to use this neat program for posting to my blogs. Thanks to my friends in the Microsoft community here in Davao for telling me about this piece of software.
The […]
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Last weekend, Davao’s finest — the PNP Regional Office 11 — and the Task Force Davao military unit were able to apprehend an Al Qaeda poseur here in the city. Identified as Romie John C. Rosalia (according to this report), the authorities alleged that he was extorting money from corporations and individuals via email. He […]
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Footbridge
MAITUM, Sarangani (March 31, 2008) – Vice Governor Steve Solon walks thru a footbridge Sunday, March 30, on his way to join residents and officials in planting mangrove seedlings at barangay Kiambing to help protect and preserve the coastal environment near the mouth of Pangi River. The activity is part of the vice governor’s partnership […]
by Ben Serrano - March 31, 2008
BUTUAN CITY- He may have that devastating punching power to sent his opponent into canvass but can Pacquaio’s 1-2-3 punch capable in toppling down decades of political and bribing influence of the more experienced, moneyed illegal logging barons of Caraga Region?
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There is a place in Polomolok, South Cotabato called the “Durian Garden, atbp,” which is a place that serves Durian in all kinds of varieties. They even have Durian Juice and shakes there, and an area where people can enjoy the outdoor gardens and such. It is quite a well known attraction in […]
This is one tag from beejing. I got it a month ago, I think. (I’m so old, I can’t remember!) Haha.
Here’s how the game goes.
Tagging: Everyone who enjoys South Park. 
Updates:
Have a nice weekend ahead!
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USAID, Asia Foundation, DSWDand other gov’t agencies spearheading the drive
by Ben Serrano - March 30, 2008
BUTUAN CITY- Some 1,500 participants from government and non-government organizations, local government units and departments including barangays, people’s organizations, church and women groups and students from Butuan City including five provinces of the Caraga Region will march from Rizal Park […]
by Ben Serrano - March 30, 2008
BUTUAN CITY- With more intensified scientific evidence to prove first-ever Catholic Easter Mass in Philippine soil did happened here in Butuan City 487 years ago and not somewhere else, Butuan historians, other private sectors in cooperation with the Butuan City Government will celebrate tomorrow (March 31) its 487th anniversary […]
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(I wrote this article while savoring the brutality of starting a practice and endless whining of a slow start.)
My struggle has always been between filling up my empty stomach or satisfying my impoverished brain. To the millions of hungry Filipinos like me, this our “class struggle”-an unarmed, non-violent but similarly aggressive perspective of seeing past our choices of everyday life.
To a proletarian who have gone to the bottom lowest of the pits, the best assurance one can get whenever you start a career or something is an old adage that says “you can go nowhere but up” or something to that effect. Like a messianic prophecy, I fanatically held on to this belief since high school days . The capitalist notion of incentive-driven success vis a vis hard work is as ironic as it is baffling to everyone in this “stomach” struggle. Yet, I survived half of my lifetime living in such altruistic ironies that neither my myopic deconstruction of choices nor the risky jumps I made could explain the extraordinary luck I had ending up being a physician.
The dream of donning a white blazer and treating a patient is as fascinating as it is exciting. I am so entwined with that dream I forgot I have neither the financial capabilities nor the intellectual giftedness needed to attain such lofty dreams. I went into this profession simply because I wanted to prove to myself (and to my less encouraging social caste) what everyone in my bunghole has failed to do before me- don the white blazer with the least expense I can- financially and intellectually that is. Everyone think it was suicide in the making. I thought I have nothing to loose. I don’t have anything to loose anyway.
That dream however grew into a vision, thanks to my alma mater. I practically crawled and bled to finish top of the line education for a career not everyone in my caste will experience- not even in their dreams. Fifteen years of Hippocratic studying did wizen my outlook about this noble profession. But it also shattered some idyllic notions I once have about doctors’ blissful life. More importantly, it brought my bourgeois upbringing to its knees and gave me the awakening of my comfortable life. My mission is never confined to the personal and financial self gratification kind of success. Because if it is that myopic, I could have never gotten this far.
Starting an upstream professional career is never an easy thing for the not so typical surgeon wannabe like me. I neither possess the inherited practice most other surgeons nor the coffers to buy a new one. Most people believe though, that having trained in one of the best medical schools in the country prepared me for one of the most formidable foe of the real life physician practice- an empty stomach.
Of course being out of the academe and starting your own practice has its exciting advantages. The thought of having to take control of one’s time and spend it according to what you want is exhilarating. I can spend more time with what I want most, or with my loved ones I neglected when I was still studying. Gone are the Sundays where you have to read and prepare for pre-ops instead of having to eat dinner with family. I see non emergency patients on a scheduled time I myself created. Most of all, I have time to take care of my body while taking care of patients as well. I can eat full meals in a day and exercise regularly to maintain a sound and fit body. It is ironic that while we take care of patients 24/7 in a hospital, I lost tract of my own health in the process.
I am into the practice of my profession for just barely two months, and it’s neither the blissful stride I once dreamed nor the catastrophic frustration I’m so afraid of before. Somewhere in between these extremes is the horrible spectrum of uncertainty where my minute practice existence resides. I wish my practice was as dramatic as the scenes in ER and Grey’s Anatomy or as wacky as unnerving as House’s one liner ass kicking. Nonetheless, the uncertainty gave me ample excuse to whine and be cynical about everything I get my hands on. Blame it on inexperience surgeon wannabe that is me. Everyone says that staring a career is shitty enough to make or break your soul. My soul has undergone so many breaks it neither can feel any shattering this practice has to offer nor enough time to recover form constant battery of changing lucks past choices.
I bet it’s easier to just look at it as the paradigms of opposites. The definitions of success (and failure) in ones’ professional practice defined by simplistic phrases like-great clinic practice, successful surgeries, acknowledged researches, magnanimous services to patients and yes, professional fees enough to buy what we need. In essence, the very opposite of such adjectives and superlatives defines failure . Of course almost everyone believes that such simple dichotomous definitions don’t exist in reality. The theory of relativity seems to apply even in the psychology of success.
So it seems. But that, I have yet to uncover.
(Photo credits: All photos were taken from Deviant ART, my favorite repository of artistic shots.)
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Luke 1: 26-38
Is 7: 10-14; 8:10/ Ps 40: 7-11 / Heb 10: 4-10
‘I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word.’
Her virtues that we emulate
Will shield us from all tribulation;
Today let’s pause to meditate
Her ‘Yes’ that led to our redemption
In the sixth month of her cousin Elizabeth’s […]
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I was delighted when I found out that this blog was given the #1 spot by Ratified.org in its daily assessment of blogs in the Philippine blogosphere. This top position means that IT talks! garnered the highest positive change in rank.
Yesterday, my blog stood at the 387th place among all Ratified blogs in the Philippines. […]
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After braving a journey from Bukidnon to Malacañang to reclaim their land, the Sumilao farmers have finally reached a settlement with San Miguel Corporation. 50 hectares will be given to the farmers, while San Miguel will acquire 94 hectares else where.
In the joint statement of the farmers and San Miguel asserted that […]
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Good news from our trip to Manila for the 7th Congress of the Philippine Councilors League. Our colleague Danny Dayanghirang won as National Treasurer. He was unopposed.
The two contesting slates carried him as a common candidate. To appease both camps, we campaigned for the National Chair of one group (Fernandez) and National President (Ferrer) of […]
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Well, it’s finally here! WordPress version 2.5 has been released today. That prompt that has been familiar since WP2.3 is now patiently waiting on the dashboard: “A new version of Wordpress is available! Please update now.”
Not that I’m going to upgrade right away. Although I did beta-test it, and had gotten to see a lot […]
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Inquiries about the AND 1 and Primovit Futures 3-on-3
Baller Battle can now be channeled through the
BAP-Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas XI which is under
the Davao Sports Council Inc.
BAP-SBP XI regional director Regino “Boy” Cua, upon
the approval of Sports Council president and Davao
City councilor Peter Laviña, has designated Rico
Biliran as tournament director of the Baller Battle on
May […]
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Multi-titled Ateneo de Davao High School and now-Chicago based high school coach Ronel Leuterio will be back in Davao City for a free two-day BAP Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas seminar for coaches that will focus on his nearly-perfected brand of play called the “Spread Offense”.
The “Spread Offense” is a result of a three-year work of […]
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by Ben Serrano - March 30, 2008
BUTUAN CITY- Military personnel who provided security to President Arroyo and entourage in Friday’s presidential visit to Malimono, Surigao del Norte figured in a freak road accident after their armored V-150 military vehicle swerved and bumped into the concrete fence of a house in Barangay San Isidro, Placer, Surigao […]
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Yeah they won it alright. To be specific, Macbook AIR was the first laptop to be compromised in a hacking competition this week. It was hacked at a whoopingly time of two minutes. I guess they’ll have to change their Mac Ads…
BTW, Linux was the last one to get hacked…
http://security.itworld.com/5013/mac-hacked-first-in-contest-080327/page_1.html
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I will be conducting a Film Documentary Workshop starting April 12 at the Institute for Indigenous People’s Education (IIPE), Mabini Street (fronting Nanay Bebeng’s Restaurant) in Davao City. The Workshop will hold classes and lectures during the weeke…
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As part of the Davao Food Appreciation Tour, fourteen very lucky bloggers ate a five-course meal at the Polo Bistro Pool Lounge of the Marco Polo Hotel.
First off, we tried the very peppery (but not spicy) Pepper-Crusted Seared Tuna served with Cucumber and Kani Relish. It was very successful in […]
My apologies once again to all of my dear subscribers and visitors for a 2-hour downtime that happened 5 hours ago. The VPS where my blog was hosted was down due to a very large amount of traffic that a VPS server cannot accommodate anymore. I was forced to transfer to a Dedicated Server, thanks […]
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A total of 1,289 have passed out of the 5,626 law graduates that took the 2007 bar examinations, the Supreme Court announced on Saturday.
1. Mercedita Ona (Ateneo de Manila University)
2. Juanita Ong (University of the Philippines)
3. Ivanah Maanak (Ateneo de Manila University)
4. Jenny Aclan (University of San Carlos)
5. John Anthony Calaruan (University of Nueva Caceres)
6. […]
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Day 2 of the Davao Food Appreciation Tour 2008 continued with a trip to Kasagingan.
Want an exciting new coffee and desserts experience? Troop over to Kasagingan along Torres Street in Davao City.
A tip to bloggers, they have Wifi and it’s free to use electricity over there.
Tags: food, davao, desserts, banana, […]
Say hello to the new look and feel of the Davao Blogs Directory! I created this directory of blogs in February 2007, so it’s now a year old and then some. Happily, the Directory has achieved its goal: to become the definitive repository of blogs about Davao and/or by Dabawenyos.
This Directory lists blogs from all […]
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1. ABALUS, Karen Anne M.
2. ABARDO-ESTRADA, Imee M.
3. ABARQUEZ, Carlo E.
4. ABDULLAH, Princess Shanihar A.
5. ABELLA, Johanna R.
6. ABISO, Meriame Joy D.
7. ABLOLA, Maricez J.
8. ABUNDABAR, Rhys Michael S.
9. ACEDILLO, Noelle T.
10. ACENA, Anna Cecilia D..
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601. GODINEZ, Christopher Lyndon N.
602. GOLLABA, JR., Gabriel L.
603. GOMEZ, Armeen Alain B.
604. GONZAGA, Johans S.
605. GONZAGA, Rosanne Juliana R.
606. GONZALES, Gerald S.
607. GONZALES, Sheryl V.
608. GONZALES, II, Marcelino R.
609. GRAGASIN, Manny V.
610. GRAN, Adriel B.
611. GRANDE, Alexander Francis C.
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Claims Arroyo’s promise to Bishops to safeguard environment superficial?
by Ben Serrano - March 29, 2008
BUTUAN CITY- Environmental watch group Ugnayan Sa Kalikasan have urged investigation on some politicians in Caraga Region dipping its dirty finger by allegedly influencing, coddling, bribing sometimes threatening government entities boasting political influence to monopolize mining and logging today’s top money […]
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Well, my driving lesson this afternoon was doing well but what my instructor has been trying to tell me was that, I just have to get things on sequence.
Yeah! I know what to do on Stop and Give Way signs and try to look for necessary clearances but I’m just pissed off with trying to make things on specifics, Stop, count 3 seconds, and look for clearance and off to go.
I have done those on
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by Ben Serrano - March 28, 2008
Malimono, SURIGAO DEL NORTE- Despite of its huge tract of agricultural lands possessing fertile soil, Caraga Region has a rice supply deficit of about 1.2-M sacks of rice yearly to feed its growing population now almost reaching three million marked from two million in 1995 where it became the […]
Chief Executive’s trip was her seventh since she assumed Presidency
by Ben Serrano - March 28, 2008
Malimono, SURIGAO DEL NORTE- After her successful visit in Butuan City yesterday, President Arroyo distributed “Buntis Kits”, universal Phil Health cards courtesy of First District Surigao del Norte Rep. Guillermo Romarate, Jr. and other goodies to local residents here as […]
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It’s Summer..
But its a rainy one here in Davao.. and brader blogie doesn’t like it.. Here’s why:
One: Some streets in Davao become waterways after only an hour’s downpour.
Two: Taxis suddenly become scarce the moment it starts to rain.
Here in ComVal, its also raining.. ALMOST EVERYDAY!
On normal days, the temperature its not that hot compared to […]
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by Ben Serrano - March 28. 2008
BUTUAN CITY – DENR Secretary Joselito Atienza , Jr. has sought the help of the people to save the rivers and other waterways from deterioration caused by waste pollution.
Atienza made the call in brief meeting with the local newsmen shortly after he arrived from Manila ahead of the entourage […]
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This is one tag from beejing. I got it a month ago, I think. (I’m so old, I can’t remember!) Haha.
Here’s how the game goes.
Tagging: Everyone who enjoys South Park.
Updates:
Have a nice weekend ahead!
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‘Me’ timeSun.Star Davao, March 29, 2008Becoming a busy parent does not mean that you have to forget your own needs and interests. Once in a while, we greatly deserve our precious personal or ‘me’ time to either just relax or be given opportunit…
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At the threshold of summer… and it’s raining. I hear from my friends in Manila that it’s getting really hot over there, but here in Davao it’s been raining too much. Not that I’d rather it was hot here. But, the rain’s dampening my spirits. I’ve never really liked the rain — it’s always caused […]
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I’ve become a StumbleUpon addict of late, and this is one of those beautiful gems that really make the clicking worthwhile.By the way, Angel Oak is the tree’s proper name. It is not an angel oak; it is Angel Oak. On Wikipedia:The Angel Oak is a Southern live oak tree located in Angel Oak Park, in Charleston, South Carolina on Johns Island, one of South Carolina’s Sea Islands. It is estimated to
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The Dalai Lama is weird. He wanted autonomy but recognized China in handling Tibet’s affairs. I think the Dalai Lama should stop his people from getting into violence. China is just doing it as the recognized entity to rule over its country, as Tibet is part of it.
Though I like the idea of being free, I think the Dalai Lama is being a smart ass as China will be hosting the Olympics. Why just
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