2009 February | Mindanao Writers' Blogs - Part 3
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Peace talks is everybody’s concern

Two weeks after a peace forum we have held at Bukidnon State University, the group that organized it is now reported to be under surveillance as tagged by the military to be an “MILF recruitment committee”. This has been the most stupid and the narrowest split of sense I have heard of for ...

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GOIN’ PLACES: A gatecrashing discovery

REWIND three months ago. There was this new structure near SM City that caught the collective eyes of your neighbohood food snooper.It looked like a nice house, except that it's not. The metal sign with a cursive font says it's an inn and restaurant.And ...

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Hindsight is 20/20

IT'S a humbling experience you have to go through everyday of your life when you're running a motley crew of writers and staff and publishing a daily newspaper. Seeing your mistakes right out there, printed, distributed, and sold, on your day's papers.It's frustrating sometimes, most of the time enraging. But that's how ...

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Play in the making makes it

article by Josefina Pedrozaphoto by Marili Fernandez-Ilagan“WE did not expect it to be a huge production,” said Nikki Torrres of the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Performing Arts Department who spoke in the forum ...

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GOIN’ PLACES: In the heart of Chinatown

"MEDYO hindi maganda yung place, ha," Imee said as we headed to this place she has been telling me about.She described the place as a noodle house where they make their own noodles and thus "medyo chewy".It's now becoming known ...

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In the unseen side of the city

IT was my day off and we had arranged to go to buddy Kublai's project site in a farm in Tugbok. Since he had been telling me about the gumamela farm and has been saying it is in Tugbok, then I assumed it is in barangay Tugbok.Thursday, while waiting for the last ...

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GOIN’ PLACES: Hic-bulaga!

I CHANCED on a blog link to its website and was intrigued. It's a coffeeshop in Davao that specializes in layered coffee. Must try... must try... I thought.I described the general vicinity to Trish and Deng even before we scheduled a trip. It's right beside the duo's ...