Betting or Giving?

Sunday is a quiet day in Cagayan de Oro City. Stores are closed. Families are spending more time at home. Couples spending more time on their beds. Worshipers starting to fill the churches. Homeless kids are still asleep on their concrete abodes -- either hungry or full (if the Night Cafe became a blessing for them). And a Lotto window just opened up for one early bettor unmindful of the homeless kid lying near his feet like a bearskin rug.

Both are in need. The man needs luck. The boy needs everything he should have. Did this boy intentionally sleep near the Lotto window? Should we be betting or giving? Mother Theresa said, "If you have time to think whether to give or not, then you have no time to love."

Rugby Boys

At first you thought they have sniffles or flu. But they were not wiping their noses but sniffing addictive rugby substance from bottles behind those shirts. These boys also inhale gasoline from motorcycle tanks or even glue. The effects are fatal and I don't have to put the details since anybody can search and surf more info about it.

These boys are hanging out in the open at the Bonifacio Park in Divisoria Cagayan de Oro City and people don't seem to bother. But if they or we do, it will be useless. They'll just run and make faces at you. Not even the policemen and traffic aides can deter these kids.

Solution? This is not for the long run but it can help. Each time you see boys sniffing and inhaling these substance, buy those bottles with food if not with money. The bad thing about doing this tho is they might do this more often to get money or food .. but I guess that's better than letting them damage themselves. Anyway, they never started sniffing those stuff only if they are full.

Idle minds and empty stomach are two of the causes of anything evil doing.

Bread Matters

After a good jogging to and around SMCDO, it's good to have Pan de Pugon nearby. My wife is not a bread person but after a few jogging and a few morning sunlight exposure, hot pan de sal from Pan de Pugon is just irresistible.



Soon more commercial buildings will rise nearby. They are paving the zones now to put some parking spaces for future buildings. If I am to choose, bars and cafe fit best the location.

CDO Dog Show Finalists

The Cagayan de Oro Kennel Club Inc. held a back to back championship dog show at SM CDO on August. I didn't see anything special tricks but just a ramp show -- perhaps, it was a show of who is the more behaved and disciplined dog.

Personally, I think they have done it over and over with the same dogs joining the show and almost getting the same results. The winner tho was a Siberian husky (second from left). The second was the Chihuahua (farthest right). If I remembered it right, a beagle won third.

Plus: the Siberian Husky stayed inside its crib the whole day except when it was its turn to ramp. Dang, grrrr!

Victims' Footprints

Flood came. Food gone. Help came. Footprints tell the hungry victims. This girl is patiently waiting for her share of "lugaw / aruscaldo"

Divisioria Tenant

Divisoria is true to its name. It is the place in Cagayan de Oro where people meet but with different and divided purposes. This poor boy here made the one of the parks there his place of rest. His place to go to dreamland is a concrete bed with the colors and symbols of our National Flag. Pilipinas kong mahal!

The Beginning

I know there are lots of blogs about Cagayan de Oro. But I guess, the idea of posting anything (under the sun; trivial or big) in Cagayan de Oro along with photos I personally took would mean something big someday.

More pictures should help. Stay tuned. Maybe videos too.