Durian and Other Fruits For All Season

For real, fruits are part of everyone’s diet, fruits are served in every meals we take. 

During special occasions, like new years day, fruits are the first to be prepared. 

Countries Where I Landed: CURRENCY

I can conclude that of all the blessings I received, God is always with me, for he gives me great gift I am not wanting and I never dreamed. And because of his greatness he has given me the chance to visit some countries abroad and I am Thankful to Him for giving me such great opportunity.

GOD IS GREAT!!!

The photos of currencies that you can see below are my own collections in the countries were I visited since year 2009 to year 2014.

Sample Currency

The Future Mediums (Ideas Of Romel Cuevas Javinez - Copyrighted and Patented)

The Future Smart TV

Imagine a 32 inches Smart TV...

with an expanding screens, 9 times the original screen size...

What will happen... 32" x 9 is equal to an instant 288 inches Smart TV!!!

Computers And My Life

Ever since , when I was a child I am wanting that someday I can make a system that runs by computer.

That dreams come true when I first operates the first apple computer and makes the program runs into it. That was 1989 when the butterfly flies around the screen of apple computer... I program it myself...

Since 1989 up to this moment still I am sitting with computers. Looking back those days I sat with my desktop making systems to run, doing programs to automate the daily task (from field operations to Finance Department) and administer the whole company network, as System Administrator.

During those days, I do the part time job as computer technician and a free launch programmer.

Today is different I sat with my laptop doing Blog, but sometimes my friends asked favor to have me repair their desktops or laptops for convenience and assurance that no components to be taken.

That is why I let you know of what I am doing for a living with computers. This is me!

A Watch To Remember...

Last night I visit my website for online shopping and looking for some items to be featured in my blog and something got my attention... Oh! what an expensive watch....

And the product details says:

Its a Chaos Automatic Analogue Wristwatch. Hand-made in northern Italy, by skilled artisans, the Chaos timepiece's most striking feature is the case, fashioned from a choice of Gold, with black PVD-coated steel back. It boasts the signature skull-and-serpents motif that continues around the case, including a small, engraved skull on the winding crown. Its highlights have been intensified by subtle shading, while other editions will offer the details in hand-applied, full-color enamels. The case is complemented by a leather strap with contrasting edges and skull motif buckle, while the dial features applied Roman numerals. The black, bi-level, brushed guilloché dial with luminous hands and date aperture at 3 o'clock is protected by a sapphire crystal.

Within the massive 54x43mm-diameter forged sterling silver or 18k solid gold case beats the Swiss ETA 2824 movement. It is secured by four screws and features a screw-down crown, protecting against water ingress to 10ATM.

And you know what is that?

Its the Montegrappa Chaos Gold and Enamel Automatic Watch.

Banana in Paglas, Maguindanao

As Wikipedia Describes:

A banana is an edible fruit, botanically a berry,^[1][2] produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa.^[3](In some countries, bananas used for cooking may be called plantains). The fruit is variable in size, color and firmness, but is usually elongated and curved, with soft flesh rich in starch covered with a rind which may be green, yellow, red, purple, or brown when ripe. The fruits grow in clusters hanging from the top of the plant. Almost all modern edible parthenocarpic (seedless) bananas come from two wild species – Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana. The scientific names of most cultivated bananas are Musa acuminata, Musa balbisiana, and Musa × paradisiaca for the hybrid Musa acuminata × M. balbisiana, depending on their genomic constitution. The old scientific nameMusa sapientum is no longer used.

Last 17 March 2015, Norieta Salendab, a friend of mine shows me a different formation of banana hand which she keeps for two days. 

The first time she saw it, she is wondering because it is like a hand shape that keeps something inside its palm,

Treasure Site # 1 (Potential)

Am not addicted to treasure hunting, but sometimes I wanted to see if those treasure myths are really true.

Because of my eagerness to see a real treasure, I sometimes go with my friends to some sites that are potential burial of Japanese Treasures.

Last 2012, I meet a man somewhere in Calinan, and while we are talking, he sometimes told me about a place where a Japanese General lives before world war 2.

He told me about it because he wanted me to see it and because I wonder why he is talking about it I asked him,

 " Why you told me about it?, he replied, " because I figured you out that you are a Trasure Hunter." Then I laughed and replied, "Hahaha, actually I am not but I wanted to see those things if really true."

To make the story short he shows me the site and one by one we visited the possible markers or signs that can lead us to the treasure burial location.

But due to time constraint and for my busy job we didn't able to explore the site.

And for my future reference and when I meet somebody that is interested about treasures, I mapped the site according to what my friend told me.

Please see it below to let you judge if it is really a possible site for burying treasures.

Day Thirty Nine (2015) - LAKE AGCO (A Secret Eden in the City), Illomavis, Kidapawan

Lake Agko is a steaming blue lake where hot and cold springs converge. It stands at an elevation of 4,200 feet above sea level.

Because of this exciting Blue Lake at the high ground, a group of Mountain Rangers explore the secret Eden of Kidapawan.

Taken at side of Lake AGCO

The Treasure Myth Of Dumlan

Maybe this myth is true but I don’t think so.

This Myth begins when somebody found a square nail nailed at the base of the biggest durian tree along the baranggay road of Dumlan.

The story goes like this.

When the war between the Japanese and the American about to ends during the World War II, a group of Japanese soldier tried to withdraw with some Filipino prisoners. Every four prisoners carried one box made of wood with gold bars inside it.

When they arrived at the heart of Baranggay Dumlan and when they knew that the American soldiers following them, they stop and force the Filipino prisoners to dig a hole somewhere to hide all the boxes with gold bars.

As accounted by the living witness they don’t know of the exact location of the burial of those treasures because it was midnight and they are not familiar of the place.

The Filipino prisoners are not familiar but the Japanese were so much familiar in this baranggay. In fact, the Japanese Officials leading them were the owners of some Abaca Plantations in this baranggay.

This was confirmed by my Grandpa when he is still alive, in fact one of this officer he encountered once, and at the times of the war the Three Officers leading its men to mount five machine guns surrounding my Grandpas house and looking for him but they did not capture him because before the time of the raid they are already informed by their friends that the Japanese Officials will arrest him.

This Japanese Officials are the owners of the 28 hectares of land owned by my Grandpa after the World War II.

Below is a mapping I made of the potential location of the lost treasure at Baranggay Dumlan.

This was base of the unique positioning of the Big durian trees planted at the heart of the Baranggay and most of these trees were located at our lot.

And  It’s up to you to decide whether this Myth is true or Just a Myth.

Coffee Break

A Cup Of Coffee at Tacurong, Sultan Kudarat

A short period of time in which you stop working to 

rest and have coffee, that's coffee break.

A Cup Of Coffee at  Paglas, Maguindanao

To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.

A Cup Of Coffee at  Buluan, Maguindanao

I'm not one of those people who wakes up and thinks, 'Bring on the day!' I have to have about 7 pints of coffee before I'm even remotely awake. But I love the golden hour in the evening, as hokey as that sounds. Just as the sun is about to set and you get those lovely shadows and everything looks gold and yellow.

A Cup Of Coffee at  Edjin Hotel, Tacurong, Sultan Kudarat

Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.

A Cup Of Coffee at  Edjin Hotel, Tacurong, Sultan Kudarat

We want to do a lot of stuff; we're not in great shape. We didn't get a good night's sleep. We're a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.

Day Twenty One (2015) - Invade The Capitol Of Sultan Kudarat - Isulan

At last, here I am, standing in front the Provincial Capitol Of Sultan Kudarat located at Isulan. As souvenir of the invasion here in this part of Mindanao, got photos at Sultan Kudarat monument but sad to say because all photos taken are blurred.

As Wikipedia decribes:

Sultan Kudarat is located on the southwestern part of the island of Mindanao. It is bounded on the north by the provinces of Maguindanao and Cotabato; on the south by South Cotabato and Sarangani; on the east by Davao del Sur; and on the west by the Celebes Sea. The province's total land area is 529,834 hectares (1,309,250 acres).^[1] 

The three coastal towns on the province's western side are lined with mountain ranges that separate the central part of the province from the sea. There are also mountains on the eastern side, leaving flat land in between. 

The climate is characterized by a short dry season lasting from one to three months. Unlike most other provinces in the country, Sultan Kudarat is generally free from typhoons and rainfall is more evenly distributed throughout the year.

Pope Francis - Papal Visit (Philippines 2015 January)

As Wikipedia says about:

Pope Francis (Latin: Franciscus; Italian: Francesco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio,^[b][c] 17 December 1936) is the reigning pope of the Catholic Church, in which capacity he is both Bishop of Rome and absolute sovereign of the Vatican City State.^[2]

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Bergoglio worked briefly as a chemical technician and nightclub bouncer before beginning seminarystudies.^[3] He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1969 and from 1973 to 1979 was Argentina's Provincial Superior of the Society of Jesus.

He became the Archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998 and was created a cardinal in 2001 by Pope John Paul II.Following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI on 28 February 2013, a papal conclave elected Bergoglio as his successor on 13 March. He chose Francis as his papal name in honor of Saint Francis of Assisi.

Francis is the first Jesuit pope, the first from the Americas, the first from the Southern Hemisphere and the first non-European pope since the Syrian Gregory III in 741, 1,272 years earlier.^[4]Throughout his public life, both as an individual and as a religious leader, Pope Francis has been noted for his humility, his concern for the poor and his commitment to dialogue as a way to build bridges between people of all backgrounds, beliefs and faiths.^[5][6][7] 

He is known for having a simpler and less formal approach to the papacy, most notably by choosing to reside in the Domus Sanctae Marthae guesthouse rather than the papal apartments of the Apostolic Palace used by his predecessors. In addition, due to both his Jesuit and Ignatian aesthetic,^[8] he is known for favoring simpler vestments void of ornamentation, including refusing the traditionalpapal mozzetta cape upon his election, choosing silver instead of gold for his piscatory ring, and keeping the same pectoral cross he had when he was cardinal.^[9][10]

In my own, as I am watching in the internet the coverage of Pope Francis meeting with the Filipino Families at Mall Of Asia Arena.

There’s no wonder that this leader of the church is really a real man, a real sidekick of Christ.

Why, because he is not afraid of anything that would happened to him.

Imagine of the great danger awaits him while going out to the venue, riding in a vehicle without any protection.

Meeting and mingling to people he did not even know while on his way.

And when he goes back to his place at the dark night he is still in open.

He is not afraid of anything.

He really entrust God his life. 

VIVA SANTO PAPA FRANCIS!!!!!!!