Thanks to Tina for setting up our blog. We finally have our own domain. Iyaman, Tina 🙂
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Contact me for details when you have the time! I’m going to hire you as my campaign manager for the North when I run for presidential elections. hehehehe!
This calls for a grand canao! Do I hear the gongs from a distance or smell the smoke from the wood fires? Waah! It’s been a long time since I’ve had itag.
Yesterday, since I came down from the boondocks, I’ve been trying to write a thank you post to express my gratitude to all of you for making us win Tina’s contest but I found it hard to find the right words to say. Sounds like the lyrics of an 80s song but it’s true. Hehe. Maybe it was a blogger’s block of some kind. Or maybe my brain is just trying to adjust again to Manila’s oxygen-deprived air. But writing this is a bit challenging than I thought it would be.
Anyway, I first thought of writing a thank you speech. Kind of like the speeches that award winners deliver when they receive their trophies. My first attempt went like this:
Continue reading Dakkel Ay Iyaman. Much Thanks!
So as we mentioned here, we will continue talking about key words that brought some visitors to this blog. This time however, instead of just two-three words, we have complete questions typed in by search engine users. We hope to answer these questions particularly those which we haven’t touched on in previous posts. Except for capitalizing the first letters and putting question marks at the end, we’re leaving the questions unedited.
1. “What does iddem dem malida mean?” Honestly, we also don’t know. We speculated here that maybe it is like “ay ay salidummay” which does not have a translation. Hopefully our Tingguian readers can help us if the words do have a meaning and can be translated to other languages. For those who missed our post about this, Iddemdem Malida is a Tingguian victory song. You can read the post and a video of the UP chorale group singing the song here.
We told you earlier that we will be coming up with some tidbits about this blog. Here’s a start. In this post we will share with you the interesting keywords typed in search engines (Google, Yahoo, AOL, etc) which led some visitors to this blog. Here it goes:
1. “Where to find Mompo wine.” Trublue’s comment about sipping Mompo wine made us the number one site to go to for those typing said keywords in Google. Trublue’s comment is here.
â–ºTwo state-owned corporations, the National Power Corporation (NAPOCOR) and the ridiculously named PSALM (for Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corporation), have not been paying their taxes to the province of Benguet. Sue them now. [Nordis]
â–ºTyphoon kills three people, destroys one house, partially wrecks 13 other houses, and causes the evacuation of 3,000 Cordillerans. [Manila Times]
â–ºThe fact finding team formed to investigate alleged infra project anomalies finishes its probe. It will soon issue its report. [Manila Bulletin]