What is Kadayawan?

Kadayawan is a yearly festival in Davao City. They call it the festival of all festivals in the entire Philippines. It is a celebration of the bountiful harvest from fruits to flowers. For this year, 2007, there were a lot more Mangosteen and Durian on the streets selling at a very low price. Mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana) is often heralded as the “Queen of Fruits” is a tropical evergreen tree. Durian is the “King of Fruits”, duri is thorn with Malay suffix that is –an (for building a noun in Malay) meaning “thorny fruit”

Hope to see you during the Kadayawan 2008!

Spanish:

Kadayawan es un festival anual en la ciudad de Davao. Lo llaman el festival de todos los festivales en las Filipinas enteras. Es una celebración de la cosecha generosa de las frutas a las flores. Por este año, 2007, había mucho más mangosteen y durian en las calles que vendían en un precio bajo muy. El mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana) se anuncia a menudo pues la "reina de frutas" es un árbol imperecedero tropical. El durian es el "rey de frutas", duri es espina con el sufijo malay que es - (para construir un sustantivo en malay) un significado "fruta espinosa"


French:

Kadayawan est un festival annuel dans la ville de Davao. Ils l'appellent le festival de tous les festivals aux Philippines entières. C'est une célébration de la moisson bienfaisante des fruits aux fleurs. Pendant cette année, 2007, il y avait beaucoup plus mangoustan et durian sur les rues se vendant à un prix très bas. Le mangoustan (Garcinia mangostana) est souvent annoncé car la "reine des fruits" est un arbre à feuilles persistantes tropical. Le durian est le "roi des fruits", duri est épine avec le suffixe malais qui est - (pour établir un nom dans le Malais) une signification "fruit épineux"


German:

Kadayawan ist ein jährliches Festival in der Davao Stadt. Sie nennen es das Festival aller Festivals in den gesamten Philippinen. Es ist eine Feier der freigebigen Ernte von Früchte zu Blumen. Für dieses Jahr 2007, gab es viel mehr Mangosteen und Durian auf den Straßen, die zu einem sehr niedrigen Preis verkaufen. Mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana) wird häufig angekündigt, da die "Königin der Früchte" ein tropischer immergrüner Baum ist. Durian ist der "König der Früchte", duri ist Dorn mit malaysischem Suffix, das ist - eine (für das Errichten eines Gegenstandswortes im Malaiianer) Bedeutung "dornige Frucht"


Italian:

Kadayawan è un festival annuale nella città di Davao. Lo denominano il festival di tutti i festival nelle intere Filippine. È una celebrazione della raccolta bountiful dalle frutte ai fiori. Per questo anno, 2007, ci era molto più mangostano e durian sulle vie che vendono ad un prezzo molto basso. Il mangostano (Garcinia mangostana) è annunziato spesso poichè "la regina delle frutte" è un albero evergreen tropicale. Il durian è "il re delle frutte", duri è spina con il suffisso malay che è - (per lo sviluppo del nome nel malay) un significato "frutta spinosa"


Japanese:

Kadayawan はDavao 都市の年次祝祭である。彼らはそれを全体のフィリピンのすべての祝祭の祝祭と呼ぶ。それはフルーツからの花へ豊富な収穫の祭典である。今年の、2007 年、非常に低価格で販売する通りにMangosteen そしてDurian がもっとたくさんあった。"フルーツの女王が" 熱帯常緑の木であるのでMangosteen (Garcinia のmangostana) は頻繁に予告される。Durian は"フルーツの王" 、duri であるあるMalay の接尾辞のとげ- (Malay で名詞を造る為に) 意味"とげがあるフルーツ" である


Chinese:

Kadayawan 是一個逐年節日在Davao 市。他們稱它所有節日節日在整個菲律賓。這是豐富多樣的收穫的慶祝從果子到花。為今年, 2007 年, 有更大量山竹果樹和榴連果在街道賣以非常低價。山竹果樹(Garcinia mangostana) 經常被宣佈因為果子的"女王/王后" 是一棵熱帶常青樹。榴連果是果子的"國王", duri 是刺以是的Malay 詞尾- (為建立名詞用Malay) 意思"棘手的果子"


Korean:

Kadayawan은Davao도시안에 해마다 축제 이다. 그들은 그것을 전체 필리핀안에 모든 축제의 축제이라고 부른다. 과일에서 꽃에 풍부한 추수의 축하 이다. 올해를 위해,2007년, 아주 많게 아주 저가에 매출하는 거리에 망고스틴 그리고 두리언 있었다. "과일의 여왕이" 열대 상록 나무 이기 때문에 망고스틴 (Garciniamangostana)은 수시로 예고된다. 두리언은 "과일의 임금",duri이다 이는 말레이지아인 접미어에 가시 - (말레이지아어안에 명사를 건설하기를 위해) 의미 "가시가 많은 과일" 이다

My Kadayawan 2007

My first time to join Kadayawan. I thought it'll be a waste of time when you join. I am born in Davao and yet I never had the chance to join the a parade nor join a city's competition. Now I am glad that I did.

Friday when we went out to get some flowers. Saturday night when we started to decorate the float. To our dismay, it rained hard that night so we have to wait till the rain stopped. Sunday, 5am, when it was 80% done and we don't have a choice but to stop what we are doing because we need to prepare for the parade. Imagine that, no sleep for 24 hours and counting.

Competing floats should be its designated area by 6 am. Judges are here, there and everywhere. Wow! This is so nice. Of course, we didn't get to finish our float but we are happy the way it is. There were bigger floats with lots of flowers and there were floats with no other flowers except orchids.

Thanks to Christian Te for the pictures.

A University of the Southeastern Philippines Experience

August 18, 2007, Kadayawan sa Dabaw. It was also the day that University of Southeastern Philippines Society of Information Technology Students celebrated their SITS Day.

It rained the night before, and I didn't expect that at 7:30am they were not yet prepared. I was quite hesitant to offer help because there are a lot of things in my mind and I might cram if I think of a lot of things. The usual things happened, Digital Projector is not set to the laptop we were using. One thing also, you could not see what is being projected on the white screen. The white screen is a white clothe. Oh well, I would still would like to say a shout out to Charmaine, the president, because she's so small and she made it happened. I know she can do better next time.

I would like to give a shout out to Carlo too, he's a good master of ceremony. Also to Mam Dean Mamilic who gave a Spongebob inspiration.

The event turned out very well, as what we wanted it to be. Everyone is listening and I know that for a fact because they were actually asking us questions. I would love to go back there and teach them how to do blogging and what is Google Adsense.

My Own Guerrilla Marketing

Businesses nowadays would spend not more than thousands of money just to let others or prospects that they exist. Let us take me as an example.

Hi! I am Hunee Royo, I dream to have my own company 5 years from now. After 5 years I wish it'll reach from south to north of my country. After 5 years, I wish to conquer the rest of the world too engaging in export. After 5 years again, I dream and wish that my employees for 10-15 years would have a share at the company I have started.

In reality, I only have a hundred thousand. How do I start a business with only a hundred thousand and I have to compete with the existing companies. These companies market madly that I get to be intimidated sometimes. Also, in reality, I am just a marketing assistant at MTC Academy Davao. It is a medical transcription school.

My own guerrilla marketing starts from me everyday. My work would start around 8am but I am in the office at 6:30am. Asking me why? I am in the office at 6:30am because I wanted to do 15 things daily and not just 8-10 hours. Normal working hours is 8 hours, and to really maximize your 8 hour you do 10 things do to everyday. For me I would spend 12 hours in the office to do at least 15 things to do. That's a guerrilla marketing for me. Before I can make my dream a reality I have to start with the little things I do today.

My everyday counts, hours, minutes, and seconds counts. I need to do things religiously so that I can achieve my goal as an employee, as a person, and someday I will bring this attitude as a businesswoman. I believe guerrilla marketing starts with how I do my daily task. Do I let a day just pass me by with nothing to do? Do I have "I'm tired today, I'll do that tomorrow" attitude? Do I make everything on my own without asking help from a third party? And so on and so forth.

In guerrilla marketing, irregardless of how little you spend, you will spend anyway. In guerrilla marketing, irregardless of you don't like to talk to people everyday, you will talk anyway. You don't want to do this but you do that anyway. In guerrilla marketing, it simply describe the way effective marketing should be done without incurring too much expenses in execution of a plan. This effective marketing is the daily routine that we do whether social, or it is because we are paid to do so which is our job.

Everyone has a dream and the execution of that dream will begin in our own daily guerrilla marketing. My own guerrilla marketing starts from the very beginning my mother has taught me to walk, to speak and sends me out to school. If you try to look back you are actually doing marketing, the guerrilla way, without spending a lot. Guerrilla marketing is not about a company, it is more about you as a person. When you do it right, you do your job in a company right, you do your job as a family member right, and you do your job as a person right.

Be a guerrilla marketer. Be true.

NOKIA Battery BL-5C; At Risk to Explode??

Nokia issued a product advisory on its BL-5C battery. The problem is: the battery could explode.

On the advisory given by Nokia, the battery was manufactured in Japan by Matsushita Battery Industrial Co. between December 2005 and November 2006. The BL-5C is one of the batteries used by Nokia.


Nokia said:

Nokia has identified that in very rare cases the Nokia-branded BL-5C batteries subject to the product advisory could potentially experience overheating initiated by a short circuit while charging, causing the battery to dislodge. Nokia is working closely with Matsushita and will be cooperating with relevant authorities to investigate this situation.

Nokia has several suppliers for BL-5C batteries who have collectively produced more than 300 million BL-5C batteries. This advisory applies only to the 46 million batteries manufactured by Matsushita between December 2005 and November 2006, from which there have been approximately 100 incidents of overheating reported globally. No serious injuries or property damage have been reported.

Consumers with a BL-5C battery subject to this advisory should note that all of the approximately 100 incidents have occurred while charging the battery. According to Nokia's knowledge this issue does not affect any other use of the mobile device.

While the occurrences in the BL-5C batteries produced by Matsushita in the time-period specified are very rare, concerned consumers can request a replacement for any BL-5C battery subject to this product advisory.

Nevertheless, a bevy of Nokia devices are affected. Here’s the list.

Nokia 1100, Nokia 1100c, Nokia 1101, Nokia 1108, Nokia 1110, Nokia 1112, Nokia 1255, Nokia 1315, Nokia 1600, Nokia 2112, Nokia 2118, Nokia 2255, Nokia 2272, Nokia 2275, Nokia 2300, Nokia 2300c, Nokia 2310, Nokia 2355, Nokia 2600, Nokia 2610, Nokia 2610b, Nokia 2626, Nokia 3100, Nokia 3105, Nokia 3120, Nokia 3125, Nokia 6030, Nokia 6085, Nokia 6086, Nokia 6108, Nokia 6175i, Nokia 6178i, Nokia 6230, Nokia 6230i, Nokia 6270, Nokia 6600, Nokia 6620, Nokia 6630, Nokia 6631, Nokia 6670, Nokia 6680, Nokia 6681, Nokia 6682, Nokia 6820, Nokia 6822, Nokia 7610, Nokia N70, Nokia N71, Nokia N72, Nokia N91, Nokia E50, Nokia E60

How to identify if your battery is among the batteries produced by Matsushita, Nokia said:

In order to determine if a battery is subject to this advisory, it is necessary to remove the battery from the device. A Nokia battery will have "Nokia" and "BL-5C" printed on the front of the battery. On the reverse, the Nokia mark appears at the top and the battery identification number (consisting of 26 characters) is found at the bottom. Consumers should refer to this identification number to determine if their battery is among the batteries manufactured by Matsushita between December 2005 and November 2006. A comparison of that number with those subject to this advisory will determine a consumer's ability to obtain a replacement free of charge.

My Tigatto Adventure

Monday morning, not that cold though. I like Mondays, it is the "bring it to me" time. I love going out especially to places that I'm not familiar with. It is this day that will decide whether I can do something better for the whole week.

I went out to meet someone in her office in Tigatto, Buhangin. It is a place in Davao that I am not used to. The first time I got there with Michelle was in 2006. We took a taxi ride in going there so there's not too much a problem. This time, I am confident that I will be able to find the office of Ms. Sol because she said, "We are just in Tigatto, along the right side. If you see a container van that is ours." Oh, well, I can do this. I know there is a jeepney ride going to Tigatto, so I took that ride. The driver told me, "This is my last stop Miss. You can ride a motorcycle to go to the place you want to." Then I said, "WTF!" I waited for 30-40 minutes for that motorcycle, and it is completely a waste of time so I asked around where is the nearest school because Ms. Sol said just look for a public school we are just in front of that school. This old lady said, "It is just way up ahead. It is just near here." Alright, there you go it is just near here. I decided to walk.

Oh , dear, where is that near thing that this old lady says when I am actually walking for 45minutes now and I still don't see the container van nor the public school. Damn! It is so hot, it is 11am in my watch now where the heck is that office.

There you go I see the container van, and since I am meeting up a person who owns this company I'm visiting I have to check how I look in the mirror. Good Lord! It look like I was robbed. Oh, dear, I don't have the choice since I am already here I have to let that person see me sweating and smelly. I smell like the heat of the sun. Good thing I worn a very light shirt. I just feel sticky especially when I got inside the office because there was an AC.

Going back to the city is another thing. Don't tell me I should walk again? Oh no I'm not going to walk, I will wait for a jeepney. Standing for 30 minutes again waiting for that jeepney ride? Today is Monday, it shouldn't be this way. Now it's 12:30pm, lunch time. One motorcycle ride. Alright, I'll go for the motorcycle ride as long as it will take me to the city. Another long ride under the heat of the sun.

Lesson learned: Ask your boss for a taxi ride.

This is my job, and good thing about all this is that I was able to experience it, a little funny when I try to remember what happened. I was able to go there on my own. I should say this was a great experience, and makes me appreciate and thank people that I was able to do my job because of them.

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Morceaux

J'ai essayé de devenir le meilleur que je peux être dans mon domaine. Je devine qu'il n'est pas assez.

Est-ce que c'est pour moi ou pas ? Je pose la question.

Morceaux cassés et sur le plancher.
Est-ce que je suis prêt à le prendre ?
Aucun pas encore.

Quand ?
Je ne sais pas encore.
Je suis effrayé.

_ je devoir demander pour aider.
_ Devoir Je ?
_ morceau

Stressed Out

I think it has been a very hectic day. First, things did not go so well with my personal life. Second, things are getting cranky at work. Third, it is AUGUST!!!!! Damn! Why is it that most of these people around me are expecting too much from me? Or was it me that was too obvious that I can do something for them? Or was I just tired? Do I need a break or what?

I hate to do things in a hurry. I hate it when people are asking me too many things. I hate it when they know I am doing something and there they go.

She's Gone Now

Judy's gone. Around 6:25am, Detroit, Michigan, Judy passed away. All that was left were memories of what Judy is to her family. Friends and family were there all the time so talk to her and tell her it is okey to let go now. I believe Judy will always be here in the hearts of those who loved her. I believe Judy never left. She's just somewhere and was given by God another special task.

I've cried even if she's not related to me. I can still remember how my mom died. It was a sad weekend for me but I have to be strong.

This week was all about reflections to me. I went back to the past looking for what I have done wrong and said sorry for the things I have done. Thanked people who had helped me get through. Now I understand life better. I linger to my understanding for the moment.

Thanks! Judy.

Please leave your comments and prayers for Judy. Thank you so much.