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aboy

Good Day!mayong adlaw sa akong mga kahigalaan balag bulog.muoli ko puhon diha sa ato karon fiesta.dugay na wa ko makauli..

pinky

hai its been ten years after na d ko nakauli boljoon"mingaw na jud labi sa mga friends ko ug mga silingan namo''

yeng

proud 2 B boljoanons!!!!

hotsexyass

hi!everybody .........wat's up....

ching ann perkins

shut up bitch!just mine all ur stinky ass be4 u mine other ass.....fuck u all........bitch...fuck ur ass...haaaa...

bLiss

Hi to aLL the people of Uptown Village especially Vallejos Family..

Luke Sesante Nordmann

Maayong Adlaw tanang Boljoanun. KUmusta?
mingaw nako sa a2ng lungsud ug sa akong familia, sa baybayun ug baba-suba, kalamputi ug tuba :) ...hayyy, i do really miss all those things and people.
God bless...

Marino N. Niere

With my due respect Sir, Mayor DEOGENES R. DERAMA I am very pleased your Battle Cry " Uswag Boljoon" and the progressive result then. Keep up the good work.

Marissa

It was heartbreaking to see termite-damaged statue frames/cases in Boljoon church. How could people let that happen?

Marz

Boljoon was a very great province at south of Cebu i Love there bibingka nga pagka lamia i miss all of Boljooanon..

Nila

komusta sa tanan taga Boljoon labi na sa taga uptown

vodka

maayong adlaw kaninyo mga tagi-lungsod ko....kumusta na ang tanan? Akong kinasing kasing pagbati sa tanan nga mutongtong sa intablado aron pagdawat sa ilang hinaguang kalampusan...CONGRATULATIONS mga graduating students of Boljoon Central School ug sa Boljoon National High School my beloved Alma Mater....Padayon mga kaigsuonan ko alang sa kalambuan sa atong mapa sigarbuhon nga lungsod...

val

hi to all Boljoanon, ask lang ta ko if what recreational activities naa dha?arts and handicrafts? manpower and skill supply?thanks

boljoanon

Watch/Bell/Prison Tower
Tue 13 Jan 2009



When we had completed a brief tour of the Church of Patrocinio de Maria in Boljoon, previous post, we stepped out into a sun-drenched front lawn and I noticed a rather solid looking 2-3 storey high structure at one corner of the church yard. After a quick stop at the nicely set up “CR’s” (only Pinoys would understand that), I started to walk across the yard to get a closer look at the building and as serendipity would have it, a local crossed my path, and graciously offered to show me and my companions around the bell tower. Turns out the gentleman was a brother of the head of the restoration and conservation effort, so after a a few minutes, we established a connection in this world that indeed has such few degrees of separation…


But the genuine small town provincial welcome and hospitality was extended to me, a total stranger, before we even figured out a common link. Ronald Villanueva is the municipal budget officer and ICT Officer (this will be relevant later in the post) and he was checking in on one of his children in a class playing in the shadows of the bell tower. He showed us into the bell tower which also served as a prison on the first floor, complete with wall etchings/drawings counting the days someone had been incarcerated. Marred by recent graffiti, it was still a very impressive reminder of your fate if you did something wrong a hundred or more years ago. A light airy cell, it was, nevertheless a cell.



Speaking of graffiti, if I were ever supreme leader for a day, my punishment for those caught defacing private and public property with useless grafitti would be for the owners of the defaced property or in the case of national treasures, an appointed person, to be allowed to tatoo graffiti all over the faces of the perpetrators… so that the rest of their life they would have someone else’s name, expletive, wacky drawing or strange cursive writing all over the face. So there.


We climbed the vertigo inspiring wooden steps (I have a fear of heights) up to the second floor landing where wide planks of hardwood had survived some 200 years of use. Several huge bells dating back a century and a half plus continue to hang and can still be rung. Ronald explained that all along the coast of Cebu there were watchtowers to warn of invading pirates, etc. and this was just one of the watchtowers in the Boljoon town, another being much further up on the hill. The bells were stunning, though again marred by graffiti, but what really caught my eye was the roof…



A frame of beams and trusses in hardwood held up hundreds of large clay tiles made from materials in the area. This roof, if I understood it correctly, had survived the test of time, the vagaries of storms and typhoons coming full force from the sea, for some 150+ years! It was fascinating to spy the interlocking tiles which appear to have been just laid on top of each other without cement or mortar holding them together. I was so fascinated I spent several minutes looking up, wondering if I could have a small hut or lanai made the same way… it was cool, literally, and very cool, figuratively.



The bells (there were three or four, I think) were the main attraction in this building and we were actually allowed to ring them on this visit. Some were dated and go back 130+ years.



The view from this vantage point, albeit just 5-7 meters up, was spectacular and you can see the entire cove in front of Boljoon. It is here that the story has a wonderful modern twist. Ronald and other more progressive and technologically inclined citizens of Boljoon fought for, and finally installed a wifi system just in front of the church. I know, it sounds utterly bizarre, and when I saw the sign, I whipped out my ipod touch to see if I could check into marketmanila.com, but it seems there was a brown-out at that precise hour! Why wifi? It seems that the children of many OFW’s from the area were now becoming computer literate, and as their arents have visited over the past couple of years, they requested laptops (now more closely priced to fancy cellphones) instead of other doodads, and now, on a late afternoon, several citizens from the town are seen linking up to say hello to their parents and surf the net while sitting in the plaza or looking out at the ocean. Amazing. This is 150 kilometers or so south of Cebu, and there aren’t even internet cafes around here, and the nearest Jollibee is an hour North in Carcar and instead there is a free-for-all town sponsored wifi system. I was pleasantly shocked and smiling from ear to ear. Good on you, guys from Boljoon. That is just wonderful. Just wonderful. :) Now if only the folks in National government were as caring and intelligent and service oriented as the folks from this little town in Southern Cebu.

jan of argao

i really love to learn a see more of boljoon.

boljoanon

Desyembre 2, 2008




Akong Mga Katagilungsod,


Gikalipay ko ang pagpahibalo nga ang pamaagi sa pagbuhis sa yuta ug paglukat sa business permit dinhi sa Boljoon kompleto na nga “computerized”.

Isip inyong Mayor sa lungsod, akong ipatuman ang uban pang mga kausaban ug ato nang gikatakda ang pag “computerized” usab sa Boljoon Waterworks ug uban pang transaksiyon.

Ang akong panumpa alang sa pag-alagad sa lungsod dili mohunong diha sa pagpadayon sa naandang mga buluhaton kon dili ang pagdugang ug ang pagpalambo sa mga pamaagi nunot sa modernong sibilisasyon. Kining maong tumong makab-ot lamang uban sa inyong bug-os ug lig-ong suporta.


Isip katagilungsod, ang inyong ubos nga sulugoon kinasing-kasing nga nagahangyo ug naga-awhag kaninyo sa pagbayad ug sayo sa inyong buluhisan aron paglikay sa multa ug pagpahimulos sa diskuwento nga 10 per cent hangtud sa 20 per cent. Akong ipasalig nga matag sentimo nga madawat sa panudlanan sa lungsod mobalik ngadto sa katawhan pinaagi sa dugang nga mga proyekto ug maayong serbisyo.



“USWAG BOLJOON”!


Daghang Salamat,





DEOGENES R. DERAMA
Municipal Mayor

paul z. estella

nothing much to say but this.....
Basta Pista sa Boljoon walay limit ang KAON!!!! gutom na ko.....

:-)

Happy Fiesta to all Bojoanons!!!

ronald

happy fiesta boljoon!!

Daghan kaayong salamat Nuestra Senyora Patrocinio de Maria among pinalangang patrona, hinaut nga imong buligan ang pagpadayon sa kauswagan sa among pinanga nga lungsod.

venil lovely estella bolambao

Wow! Fiesta napud? Lingawa! Ei, ig-agaw Lindzey...naa jud imong nawng sa Cebu Daily News hap... gadla jud kag Laptop ai... kuyawa ah.. Wi.fi zone naman diay ta dira... yey! makatrabaho japun diay ko bisan mu.uli ko there. Hapi Kalag.kalag everybody... ;D

C-sun-T

hallo...musta????.....
kinsa ang mga candidates sa BB.Boljoon? pwede ninyo i.post...f possible wd pix..thanx

ximeone

hello boljoon..
i miss this place soo much..
ill be home soon..
enshaaallaaa..
wahehehe

happy fiesta BOLJOON!!!

add_m

BOLHO Festival launching will be on Thursday Nov. 6, 2008.....Festival Queen will be on Nov. 7, 2008 and Bb. Boljoon Grand Coronation Night will be on nov. 8, 2008...Thank you!

luke nordmann

hallo..musta na ang Boljoon? when mn ning "bolho festival" ipasiundayag?!?!?!....
Pls post some activities sa upcoming fiesta beh...iyawat nalang makabalo sad mi nga nahilayu :(
thanx.....

add_m

Good Day everyone...and Advance Happy BOLHO FESTIVAL