Yes I had been experiencing that horrible disease of mumps yet I am over with it.The experience was really terrible for four days of suffering the pain; I could not imagine that it’s over now.In those four days of suffering, I could not brush my teeth well, I could not eat solid foods and I could not even dare to do gargle because it causes a very terrible pain.I could not understand the feeling; it’s like soothing from within my neck.In that past days I really wanted to cry but I couldn’t.I want to look for fight just to relieve the pain, but I guess if I would do it, it would cause more trouble.So what I did when it feels painful was to just sit down calm myself, close my eyes until the pain will eventually back to normal.And the shi*** thing was, it takes minutes before the pain fades away my goodness!!!
I researched about the disease and I found out that there is no specific treatment for it.I lose hope, because I was really determined to know the cure since I couldn’t bear the pain anymore.My mama put some traditional remedy on it which they called “anyel”.It is a blue powdered stuff mix with native vinegar.Sounds eeww??? Yes it is.But despite the odor I bear it with me because I want to get well as soon as possible.Eventually with the help of anyel I feel better and better and finally feeling okay.But when I browsed the internet again I found out some herbal remedies of mumps that could help relieve the pain and could even take the virus, since mumps is a contagious viral disease.If you want to know more the remedy of the mumps you better click the link here.
That was last Saturday and last Sunday (October 24 and 25) when I joined the 3rd Mindanao Bloggers Summit (MBS3) held in Pearlmont Inn Cagayan de Oro City. Since it was my first time to join the MBS event I was really fortunate to have the opportunity meeting various bloggers from the different parts of the Philippines. Indeed I am a blogger myself and even one of the members of the organization the “cdobloggers” and very much proud of it despite the fact that I am not that active compared to the other cdobloggers (LOL). But I am very much proud that despite the fact that I am not really that active I contributed some effort for that big event. Yes, I am one of the volunteers of the said event and it is my honor as well as my pleasure to help assist our visitors in order for the event to be well organized. And yes we successfully made it!
Meeting all of our speakers (prominent people) and seeing them personally which I only seen them on TV mostly in the news is like a dreams come true. Though I am not really that avid fan of them but you know they are one of the most important people of the country. Imagine having pictures and even had the opportunity to shake hands with Leslie Basset (Chief Deputy of Mission), Atty. Adel Tamano, Hon. CDO Mayor Tinnex Jaraula and more. I was really grateful that I joined the event, because I learned a lot from the different speakers as well as through the different bloggers; like you know exchanging ideas and techniques on how to make your blog more presentable and of course how to get money from it (LOL).
While during the second day of the event that was last Sunday, is another exciting and interesting day of the bloggers. There are actually two options of activities to choose on the event, whether you would choose the water rafting adventure or the city tour. I chose the city tour and that really amazed me. Why? Because I am living and even born in CDO but I do not really know the city’s historical background (shame on me LOL!). Yes, our tourist guide introduces us to the city’s significant places and remarks particularly the San Agustin Church and the Water Tank (nearby the San Agustin church) which was established since the 1940s. After we toured the city, we head to the Opol Aviary where we’ve seen different species of amazing birds. And I even had the chance to touched one of the birds, which was really cute! But the most incredible thing I did in the aviary is when I got the chanced to touch their albino snake (eeewww feels nasty) yet that was the best thing I did that day.
After in Opol we then went to one of the most holy places in the city “The Divine Mercy”. Though we always planned to visit the place but we always failed, failed to set the exact date and time. I was really happy I chose the city tour since I had the chance to really see the gigantic statue of the Divine Mercy. It was really too hot when we went there but it’s all worthy because what we’ve seen is self fulfilling enough to ease the thirst and the hotness we feel. Divine Mercy was the last of the list of our itineraries that day, and we finally went back to the city center of Cagayan de Oro for our lunch. It was really an amazing experience I had and hopefully by next year, I can join again the MBS4 which would be held in Zamboanga City (sounds exciting )
The Cagayan de Oro Bloggers (CDO Bloggers) group is set to play host to the Mindanao Bloggers Summit 3, which will be held on October 24, 2009. With the theme, “Mindanao: Bag-Uhon Ang Panan-aw,” the MBS 3 aims to uphold the beauty and strength of the island and to expunge the negative notions the world has about it.
(Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao, Philippines – October 21, 2009) – It’s all systems go for the Cagayan de Oro Bloggers (CDO Bloggers) as they play host to the much-awaited Mindanao Bloggers Summit 3, an annual gathering of Mindanao-based bloggers, IT industry experts, community leaders and new media advocates, on October 24, 2009 at Pearlmont Inn, Limketkai Drive, Cagayan de Oro City. Roughly 300 bloggers are expected to attend this year’s summit.
With the theme, “Mindanao: Bag-Uhon Ang Panan-aw,” (Changing The Way People See Mindanao) the event aims to uphold the beauty and strength of Mindanao, to highlight the diverse cultures and fascinating tourist spots that are uniquely Mindanao and to provide a platform where bloggers and other new media practitioners can discuss concerns related to Mindanao – all with the help of new and emerging technologies.
“Mindanao is the home of everything fascinating or in bloggers’ lingo – bloggable. Through the Mindanao Bloggers Summit 3, it is the hope of the CDO Bloggers, along with our partners and generous sponsors, that we listen to knowledgeable resource persons, meet other Mindanaoan bloggers, share and maximize all of our skills and resources and adopt tried and tested practices that can help us to fully promote Mindanao and for us to become better bloggers as well,” emphasized Chiq Montes, president of CDO Bloggers.
“Of course, we also want all of the participants to have a good time and experience the sights and sounds of Cagayan de Oro,” Montes added.
Montes said that apart from Mindanaoan bloggers, the summit will also see the participation of some bloggers from Luzon and Visayas.
Expected to grace the summit is United States Embassy’s new Deputy Chief of Mission Leslie Bassett, Atty. Adel Tamano, Agusan Lone District Rep. Rodolfo “Ompong” Plaza and Cagayan de Oro City Mayor Tinnex Jaraula.
Considered unprecedented in the Philippine blogosphere, a top ranking United States Embassy dignitary is set to deliver the keynote address. Bassett’s trip to CDO will be her first trip to Mindanao since assuming office in June. She previously served as DCM in Mexico.
“We are deeply honored. We’re certain that the summit participants will be delighted to meet her and we can’t wait for her to see our beautiful city,” Montes said.
Other speakers during the whole-day affair include Cagayan de Oro City Mayor Tinnex Jaraula, Agusan Lone District Rep. Rodolfo “Ompong” Plaza and Atty. Adel Tamano.
Google’s Philippine representative Aileen Apolo, whose talk will focus on beginners, Digital Filipino’s Janette Toral, who will discuss blog advertising and Lyle Santos, who will talk about making money online will also be present. Representatives of other blogger groups including those in DavaoCity, GeneralSantosCity and Zamboanga will also give updates.
After the summit proper, participants have the choice of joining either the city tour (XavierUniversityMuseum, Cathedral, Divine Mercy Shrine, Opol Aviary, Limketkai Mall) or the whitewater rafting adventure.
Also happening on October 24, right after the MBS 3, is the Philippine Blog Awards – Mindanao awarding ceremonies.
CDO Bloggers, Inc., a group duly registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission, is the lead organizer of this year’s Mindanao Bloggers Summit 3. Previous summits took place in DavaoCity and GeneralSantosCity.
The Mindanao Bloggers Summit 3 is generously supported by SMART Telecommunications, Nokia, Syntactics, Inc., STI, Rafting Adventure Philippines, MakatiAve.com, Majesty Sales Center, Havaianas Philippines, OLX Philippines Free Classifieds, Clara Shoppe, ASTERISK Events and Communications, RG & K Construction, Paguia’s Cottages, The Pacifica.com Companies, The Site, Spruce, The City Government of Cagayan de Oro, Office of CDO First District Rep. Rolando “Klarex” Uy, SM City Cagayan de Oro, Ultra Craft Advertising Corporation, Magnet Advertising, Provincial Government of Misamis Oriental and the Mindanao Bloggers community. Media partners include Papa Ardie’s Concepz, STI, ABS CBN, MOR 91.9 and HOT FM 106.3.
For more information about the Mindanao Bloggers Summit 3, log on to http://www.mbscdo.com
About CDO Bloggers
CDOBloggers or Cagayan de Oro Bloggers, Inc. is a duly SEC-registered organization that promotes Cagayan de Oro through blogging. Among the group’s goals are to create impact in society through blogging, to help promote Mindanao to the world as a bustling and peaceful land, to promote Cagayan De Oro City and Kagay-anons around the world with a sense of pride and to use blogging as a media platform.
The CDO Bloggers group is the main organizer of the Mindanao Bloggers Summit 3 (MBS 3). For more information about MBS 3, log on to http://www.mbscdo.com
Mindanao Bloggers aims to unify the island through this exciting new medium — the way of the blog — thereby promoting deeper understanding of our different cultures and beliefs. Thus, it is hoped that this community blog will help in presenting to the world at large the true beauty of the Philippine South, as well as the marvelous diversity of the peoples of Mindanao. For more information about Mindanao Bloggers, visit http://www.mindanaobloggers.com
I never updated my blog for days, yet I am thinking what to post here. Until my eyes captured this video taken during the typhoon Ondoy that hit the country (Philippines). Yes I've seen the news about it and I've heard how awful it was that gets hundreds of people to death. The typhoon was really terrible that it left traumas to most of the victims, especially to kids and older people. After seeing this video, my heart bleeds but hope is always in my mind. We are thankful because we have not been affected to the typhoon, but we are praying and hoping that flood victims can soon recuperate from what they had been experienced. Take a look at this video.
I have an 8 month old nephew and yet I feel worried of what I’ve heard about this eccentric disease called “Kawasaki” disease. I have not heard about this kind of disease until I’ve heard about it from my brother. He shared to us that his boss’s son have been infected by the disease and they spent of about Php 500, 000 for their son’s treatment. What I worried much (we worried) because mostly the disease occurred in male babies/male kids.
Kawasaki disease as what I’ve known is one of the most dangerous diseases for male kids. Imagine one of the symptoms it show is the constant fever which takes up to two weeks and could not be responsive to any kind of medicines or normal doses such like ibuprofen and paracetamol. But aside from this, there are still various symptoms of the Kawasaki disease which is no good for the male kid’s condition. However, the most dangerous fact about the disease is when it turns to cardiac complications that could turn to heart attack. It might be too impossible to happen for young male kids, but it could be possible with this kind of disease.
The causes of the disease have been said due to the genetic interaction and at the same time due to the environmental factors that includes infection. However, the precise cause is yet unknown. Until now, the studies about the disease are still going on though there are new discoveries however; still it is not yet clear.
This is really a very shocking and controversial kind of disease. For parents who have male kids with you extra careful for your children are necessary.
As a pure Kagay-anon and one of the members of Cagayan de Oro Bloggers, the team is proud to announce that they will be the one hosting the 3rd Mindanao Bloggers Summit and Philippine Blog Awards. The event will be this coming October 24, 2009. It would be a whole day event which will be held at Pearlmont Inn, Cagayan de Oro City, while the Philippine Blog Awards will be held in the evening.
We are inviting all bloggers not only from Cagayan de Oro City but through the whole Philippines to join with us. Joining this event is the chance for you to know better Cagayan de Oro City’s culture and ways of life as well as the hidden beauty of Mindanao. For more details on how to join click the link below.
Do you know what date today is? Of course you know its September 9, 2009 or (09/09/09). Today, most of the people coming from the different corners of the world are well prepared of this calendrical anomaly. Special events such like weddings, launching of business to movie studio execs have been celebrating it today. Accordingly, the rarity of the date is not only good in business and special occasions but it also symbolizes the last set of repeating, the last single-digits dates that can be seen again for almost the next century.
Though it has been said that there is nothing special about the date however, some were concerned of its historical meaning. In the other parts of the world relating to the cultures some believed that the number nine gives good luck to them, while for others culture it gives bad warning. The number nine is also known of holding special rank since it associates compassion, success and forgiveness on the positive side while on the negative side it associates self righteousness and arrogance.
For me all numbers has significant meanings and value in every individual’s life. Be it their natal day, anniversary, or wedding anniversary—dates is special because it symbolizes a new beginning and new life. For you, what is your point of view about numbers or dates?
