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The top of Mt. Asog was on fire last week. It was reported that the fire on the Santiago-Sta. Elena side of Asog in Iriga City was caused by slash and burn method (kaingin). On the other hand, the Santiago-Sta. Elena portion of the Buhi-Iriga road still has a lot of potholes. Grabe alpog sa biyahe. Maray... 

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During our Katon years, we were akin to cherubs in many ways.  Our very young lives were fairytale-like then, I would say, not because of our Maestra’s magic wand but because of our innate childhood innocence. When I was a Grade-2 pupil at the Buhi Elementary School, the Riprap behind the school campus... 

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The chorus of little voices reciting in unison the vowel letters, AH! – EH! – IY! OH! – UH! and sounding off the letter-combination Ba! – Be! – Beh! Bo! – Boh! to the melodic beat of Maestrang Osta’s bamboo-stick pointer rings still crisply in my ear. Maestrang Osta wielded... 

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Jacqueline Bermejo’s now infamous Facebook entry on Typhoon Ondoy’s devastation and human catastrophe in the Philippines: [SIC]“buti n lng am hir in dubai! maybe so many sinners bak der! so yeah deserving wat hapend!” [SIC]“ Whoever authored such calloused statement quickly went down in... 

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      Lake Buhi in Mt. Asog’s Shadow by Carolyn Caliskan This is the discussion trail in Trini B. Watkins’  Facebook Buhi Online Discussion      How can all Boienen living abroad help clean up the dying Lake Buhi?     Trini B. Watkins  (Philippines) wrote on  September 7,... 

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Below is my interpretation of Jose Rizal’s poem ‘To the Philippine Youth’ .  I do not read and understand Spanish so I relied only on several authors’ English translations of his poem in writing mine. I titled it with a concocted Boie’nen-English title as follows: AYKO! (OUCH!) HAIKU Oh... 

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Tagasi’rip posted a comment on Buhi-Golden Pond.  This comment has brought to our attention another possible wanton exploitation of one of Buhi’s natural resource – the quarrying of flagstones in Burocbusoc. I look at written comments such as this as little voices of our collective... 

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