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[30 May 2010 | No Comment | ]

The Charitable Trust came about as a result of a person’s desire to help fellow Filipinos here in New Zealand after an encounter with a family who faced challenges and would have fared better with organised assistance.
The KASAGIP Charitable Trust provides the following services:
* Provide short term assistance to cover immediate basic needs (e.g. food, clothing, and other identified needs)
* Act as a “transition provider” until long term or other forms of assistance is established by the appropriate government institution

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[25 Mar 2010 | 2 Comments | ]

This is my unforgettable summer eons ago.
I could not take it anymore. We were wading/walking in a shallow rivulet somewhere in a coastal area in Luzon.
My stomach was rumbling as if Manny Pacquiao was defending his championship against Clottey.
It must be the oyster. I finished a few blanched-with-hot-water-and-squeezed-with lemon-newly-gathered oysters from the farm. Oyster farm, that is according to the karinderia where we had our lunch on our way to the barrio where we would have our immersion in culture of indigenous people and at the same time reforest the …

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[24 Feb 2010 | 5 Comments | ]

Dear mouse,
I am not depressed but I spend a lot of time in the internet. Not on sex sites, ( husme, maghihilamos ako ng holy water niyan); not on online gaming sites ( I only play solitaire, dinadaya ko pa) nor on online communities ( I do not even have a Facebook account because I do not have a Face. Bwahaha).
The study conducted by psychologists from Leeds University came into conclusion that people who spend a lot of time surfing the Internet are more likely to show signs …

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[13 Feb 2010 | 3 Comments | ]
Black Ice

A most unusual event…a snow storm hit central Virginia. Two days ago, it rained and snowed incessantly…everyone got snowed in…well, almost everyone.
I thought you were just kidding. The mere idea of braving very dangerous conditions like this made me think that there’s no way you could be serious about picking me up…not until two hours later…
You could have made it to NC for having traveled four hours back and forth. For a 20-yr old, braving a snow storm is called folly…but for a 39-yr old, you called it …

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[11 Feb 2010 | 10 Comments | ]
A Love Story in the Berks Cafe’

You would never think it would happen in the world wide web of the internet -  finding love and meaningful relationships. But it happens. You hear about it all the time. People who have never met before stumble into each other online and before you know it, they are offline to the altar.
Several years ago, a group bloggers stumbled into each other and formed a group. We called it Blogkadahan or within the forums, we called it the Berks Cafe’. Just like any relationship, it was tentative at first. Even …