I’m back again to marble capital of the Philippines! Hehe.

Last week I arrived here in Odiongan, Romblon from a two month vacation. Schools are expected to open especially the state college near our shop so I left Friday. The next day I arrived and started fixing and preparing things. Including changing the layout of the shop since last May we had constructed a mini-mezzanine to cater our product inventories and other stuffs. This made the shop less cluttered. Sunday, I learned that CHED issued a postponement of all college classes on Monday and instead resume on June 15, 2009 due to A(H1N1) outbreak. The biggest college here is the only one who participated to the suspension. Seriously, it was a unnecessary decision of the school officials.
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First of all I want to express my deepest sympathies to the families and friends who were deeply affected by the previous onslaught of typhoon “Frank” last week. Most of you knew the M/V Princess of the Stars capsized off the shores of Sibuyan Island in Romblon and yet most of the passengers are still missing/unaccounted for. The Panay Island in the Visayas region also suffered a severe blow from the typhoon in which the province of Iloilo where left in a huge flood. Gladly to say that my relatives in Janiuay and Pototan in Iloilo are safe despite the turmoil and the hassle the typhoon brought in the area.

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Very late post, my apologies. I was able to see the Kanidugan Festival parade last April 5, 2008 which passed by in front of our shop here in Odiongan, Romblon. Kanidugan means nidog or niyog (coconut) which the town of Odiongan celebrate every year. The townsfolk also celebrate their fiesta in favor of Saint Vincent Ferrer. I quickly took some shots of the parade.

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I am scheduled to leave for Odiongan, Romblon on the del8th/del 12th of December 2007. I’ll be checking out the new rented place (spacious floor area 4×6 meters) for our business (along with the merchandising and soon-to-include iCafe). The said establishment is located in front of the Romblon State University. Complete with a comfy bed, bathroom and a kitchen, this will be my second home to stay for a few days. I may travel from one place to another like to Looc, Romblon (another branch) and to the capital of Romblon (where my uncle priest resides there) for example. It may be one of the not-so remote provinces in the country but data connections like Internet and mobile networks are readily available.
I had to spend some dime on renting a PC on Internet cafe’s there. The last time I did was back in the summer of 2005 and the connection speed was like worse than dialup. If that’s the case even the day I arrived there, I’ll have to rely on my mom’s N92 to check out email and reply to comments. Besides, even without 3G connection in that area, GPRS (Smart) still dominates the data connections for mobile devices. A little bit slower though than 3G.

UPDATE: It should be “Gone for 2 days” not “Gone for a Week”. Wahehe. I need to go back gain after I went to Romblon last Wednesday. Imagine you left for Romblon at 5 pm last Wednesday and arrived 4:00 am Thursday. Then the same day, you left Romblon at 5 pm to Batangas. It was tiring, really. Long story. I’ll be back there again on the 20th.