Cordillera Around the World

Dread

2005-08-10T18:33:00.000+08:00

There is now voting for government officials in Mindanao for their Autonomous Region. It is taking theme two days because people comes from far flung areas, like in Cordillera, harvest time, like in Cordillera.

Meat dogs in Baguio is being monitor for its rampant distribution. People patronize dog meat because, they say, it is part of the culture of Cordillera. For myself, I fear eating dogs. My brothers love it, though, and every drunkard in town. Tough there are reports regarding dogs giving rabies even when dead. Experts say that rabies run through the blood. But I never heard anyone dying from eating dogs at restaurants.

I just remembered, why do our drivers, when we went to Batangas, don't eat sisig. I wonder what they fear with it. It was the only viand left in the table. Then they point at as ordering that food! It had been eaten in the Philippines for a long time to feared of ... any disease or virus or germs.

This year, La Trinidad is not safe. Killings and looting is happening big time. Aside from the then yearly disposal of bodies at a bridge along Pico road, dreaded things happen in the valley. There was this parents killed because the mother went out to the CR when the robbers went in demanding money. The robers were aiming at the next house whom they had been following because they knew one came from London. When there knock weren't heard, they turn at the next house. The parents were killed, its good the children and the maid was spared. Nobody, of I know, was killed then when they were robbed.

Then there was a lady dumped at a barangay, concluded by mother to be a dumping ground now a days of people, with loose and lost tooth. Autopsy revealed rape, fuss say that the girl new her rapist that's why she was smashed in the face and left at a lot. Dreadful. Scary. Heartbreaking.

Then at broad day light, looters roam around to see scape routes and house prospects.

Cellphone is sometimes the only one lost because it is small, expensive, and easy to dispose. Dogs unusually don't bark when people are around your house or even inside. No matter how dangerous your dog is. Believe it or not.

The Rains

2005-08-06T18:22:00.000+08:00

It had started to rain hard last Wednesday, August 3, and classes werent cancelled. It went on to this day with sudden rush of rain. You really can't leave the house without an umbrella inside your bag. Clothes are getting smelly, roads becoming rivers, and still there is traffic. The rains are rather late. We used to have storm weekly or at least monthly.

Sinking Movement

2005-07-06T22:27:00.000+08:00

In Palina Kibungan, residents affected by the movement of the earth which is sinking their houses move closer to the school. They are relocating near the school. There were presumptions that it could be a move by the mountain they are in. I t is believed to be a volcano because of steams arising from the soil. But these could be another form of energy they could adapt that will benifit the whole municipality and its neighbors or generate an income. There were also landslides happening right now.

On another municipality, there were several livelihood projects done to suppress tilling of marijuana. The projects are now heed way, most are generating from it. There was also a move by other farmers from every municipality to divert to other livelihood because of loss from vegetable productions when there is storm or, the recent issue, illigal importation.

Livelihood projects implemented in CAR, as i know it, are silkworm production, bee keeping, and anthurium farming. Vegetables are not coming alone in CAR nowadays so people are becoming jobless and desperate.

Chayote Price

2005-07-01T17:34:00.000+08:00

Chayote are now down to two pesos per kilo. It was then pegged at 15 pesos per kilo. That's really to high, the reason most of the farmers in the barrios are shifting to chayote planting.

It's rainy season, chayote plantation should be destroyed from strong winds and rains but it seems more are coming it. They say, this is its fruit bearing time. Is it a fruit?

Frost

2005-06-29T10:24:00.000+08:00

It was frezzing last night, we thought that windows were open. The summer is really out. I was chilling that afternoon, its good i didn't caught colds.

The winds were strong this morning, an indication that an incoming storm is heading this way. At the rate of the wind, i'd say, the storm comes in two to three days.

The day is rather hot, but windy.

La Trinidad Foundation Day

2005-06-28T03:19:00.000+08:00

At the celebration of La Trinidad Foundation, last June 19, the new building was inagurated. They have their guess Sen. Magsaysay, one of the donors in putting up the building. At that same day, at 5am, store shanties at the side of the building was burned down.

Removal of the old public market is still to be seen when.