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(From left: me, Hecky, Avel, Ayel) Last Sunday, bloggers from SOCCSarGen area held a meetup to get to know each other and to celebrate our ideas for Mindanao. Bloggers, Ariel Lalisan based from Saranggani Province, Avel Manansala , Hector Miñoza , and Job Oberio and his wife Leizel who were from general santos, and Bro. Vince Celeste, FMS and me from South Cotabato were present to enjoy a free treat from one of GenSan’s classy places – The Coffee Club 101 at Grab-a-Crab Resto is the newest Coffee Café to hang out which serves affordable coffees and cakes. Coffee Club 101 is situated at Grab-a-Crab Restaurant, Laurel St., General Santos City. The place is cool and commodious, making it a suitable place for whooping experience treat, relaxing break, and mainly coffee treat gatherings and at night, yet, it’s big enough to hold business meetings and even romantic date. The coffee trip's arrangement was an afternoon treat, Mr. Mike Wee, owner of Coffee Club 101, did not hesitate to ...

Last week the Honors Society distributed the official tee design for this school year. The tee print is designed by Jehzeel Laurente . The tee design is available for white and black t-shirt for only 45.00 pesos. *** TYG volunteers posing for 1GB USB On that day, The Anaheim Village Rotary Club granted the T’nalak Youth Group (TYG) twenty one (21) 1 GB USB through Rotary Club of Koronadal. Chosen TYG Core group members and volunteers received the USB for personal use. ( including me :P ) This project of Rotary aims to extend the awareness on computer and technology. Each Grant-in-Aid (GIA) working students in the University also received the same device.

Date: Feb.2.2008 Time: 8:30am-3:30pm Venue: SMC Hall, NDMU, City of Koronadal Registration Fee: Php70.00 (inclusive of two snacks and certificate) ( open to all with limited slots) Organized by: CSIT Department Student Council headed by Mark Aethen G. Agana. The Computer Science and Information Department Student Council of Notre Dame of Marbel University is conducting a seminar on blogging on February 2, 2003. It will be like a re-echo of the Mindanao Bloggers Summit . It is called Blog, dubbed with theme "Understanding, Culture and Identity" and has the following objectives: To introduce blogging as new media To explore blogging as a means for monetizing, Internet marketing, and advocacy. To enable the participants to recognize the need to continually communicate with one another to know and understand Mindanao and its people through the available technology. To utilize blogging to appreciate the beauty of Mindanao 's people, culture, places, creativity as their contr...

I dreamed last night about the day after my graduation. I was not excited about it but scared of answering the question, What's next? But after that dream, I have mixed emotions and been anxious about it. Whatever I feel though, I know He will guide me. I pray that I will be ready and confident to face whatever coming in the next stage of my life.

2007 has barely started and it's now an end. Too many things have happened to me--both bad and good--and this is perhaps the best time to write about them as find and retrieve my self again this year of the rat. I cannot recall everything with precision; but I can, however, create a clear picture of the events that have transpired. What is clear is that I will only write about the most important and significant ones. If I have, for the record, forgotten some very monumental events, then blame it to my being stolen. Received a Domain as a birthday gift from Jehzeel Laurente . Thanks to him, now I have aethen.com :p Celebrated the 3rd year of Pathways in Mindanao and organized a Concert . Was tagged by Mrs. Magallanes [my instructor in Differential Calculus] as “ Little Leithold " I was granted a scholarship from DOST-SEI (RA 8637 Junior Level Assistance Program). Participated the 4th National Pathways Youth Congress , " Forging ties at five " in Ateneo de Manila Uni...

I met my high school classmates before the year ends. We played ate, talked, reminisced the good ol' high school days in KN (our alma mater), and we laughed like crazy. What surpised me was that either they were now involved in romantic relationships, or that they had just broken up. And some shared that they were happily involved in productive and worthwhile activities. We talked about our plans after graduation and dreams in life which were sweet and real. I was so happy to see them grow better persons and more mature. As early this year, we planned our next get-to-gether party so that the attendance next year will be hundred percent complete. Charlene whose parents have a vacation house at Lake Sebu promised to host the venue for our next party. Along with the planning of it, Ronnel and I suggested to adapt a community in the said place for an extension (outreach program) since some of us will be professional soon. This program will serve as a payback to the blessings we ha...

2007 was been my most amazing blogger year! The Mindanao Blog Directory made a list of the Top 100 Mindanao Blogs for 2007. And Guess what? My blog is included in the list. I ranked 69 in their list . I am very proud I made it in the top 100 although I just listed my blog there October 2007. The blogs’ ranking were based on the data taken from technorati and feedburner. ( My blog got poor technorati performance this year ) Congratulations to all of us who made it in the list. See the full list here .

(A repost from Rolly ) Ms Grace, her daughter, and the New Year crashers KORONADAL CITY, SOUTH COTABATO—I never thought being “homeless” could be so cool. Royal, Rolly and I spent New Year ’s Eve loitering along Alunan Avenue, one of the busier streets here. At about 11 pm, we dropped by Matchbox, a fast food stall just several meters away from the roundball. The place was no longer serving food, but Miss Grace, the affable owner, treated us to sumptuous servings of oyster valenciana, beef mushroom, and shrimp salad. Before long, we were having slow rounds of Red Horse (still on the house!) as Bob Marley crooned “No woman, no cry” in the karaoke and splendid fireworks illuminated the night sky. Greeting the New year couldn’t be this languorously fun. I and Royal forcibly took 2/3 of Rolly's three-piece tribal bracelet