Vol. 11, No. 11, Sept. 3, 2007

Iligan City and Bukidnon are ideal sites for giant freshwater prawn culture, said Dr. Henry Dejarme of the Mindanao State University at Naawan (MSU-Naawan) Insititute of Fisheries Research and Development.  Dr. Dejarme is an environmental and aquaculture expert in Northern Mindanao.

Iligan and Bukidnon have adequate freshwater resources that could be harnessed for aquaculture development, Dejarme said during a technology forum hosted by the Department of Science and Technology in Cagayan de Oro.  MSU-Naawan has an ongoing project on giant freshwater prawn hatchery in Naawan, Misamis Oriental.  Dr. Dejarme said 16 local government units in Bukidnon have a standing order for 50,000 giant freshwater prawn larvae from MSU-Naawan.  From the university's hatchery project on giant freshwater prawn, 17,000 post larvae were distributed in Sinakaban, Misamis Occidental, and another 17,000 post larvae were distributed in Valencia, Bukidnon.  Dr. Dejarme said that the growth characteristics of freshwater prawn in Misamis Occidental and Bukidnon were similar.

For the first quarter, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) reported that fishpond production of prawns reached 17.4 metric tons valued at P4.2 million.  Prawn production is supplied the region's consumers and a small portion shipped to nearby regions with highly urbanized centers such as Cebu in Central Visayas and Davao in Southern Mindanao.

Work on CdO airport may start next year

The construction of the long delayed Laguindingan International Airport project may start early next year. Misamis Oriental Governor Oscar Moreno said this even as he reiterated anew that bidding for the airport project would start late this year following completion of the four kilometer access road to the airport site in Barangay Tubay, Laguindingan town in Misamis Oriental.

The Provincial Government is pushing to complete its share of work in the airport project components. The P30-million access road, which started last July, is about 60 to 70 percent complete. It comprises six lanes starting from the national highway to the airport site. Another P42 million had been set aside for the site development component of the project where 100 affected families are to be relocated. The site development component is said to be headed by the National Housing Authority (NHA) while actual airport construction is spearheaded by the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC).

Proposed alumni officers
Sat, 18 Aug 2007 01:19:50 EDT

The new LCHS-AA officers being proposed are young and indeed energetic. Their appointments should not be delayed. I believe the younger-generation alumni are the connecting bridges that will ensure the continuance of our alumni association. May God give them wisdom of unending ideas for the benefit of our LCHS Alumni Association.
--Laureto Lao (Batch '68), Riverside, California, U.S.A.; email: elsierito5788@sbcglobal.net

Re LCHS Batch '75
Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:27:26 -0700

Good day, Mr. Roger Suminguit! This is Melanie Soy Lanquino, daughter of Melly Flores Soy (maiden name). My mom graduated high school in Lanao Chung Hua School (LCHS) both in English and Chinese. I was also in LCHS during my early grade school before we transferred to Malaysia. We are residing now in Metro Manila and I'm taking Industrial Engineering at the University of the Philippines. I've read the LCHS Spectrum and I really admire the effort of the organization. I would like to ask for a list of Batch '75 (my mother's batch, I believe) and other soft copies of LCHS articles linking the year, if it's fine with you, sir.  This is in line with the forthcoming 50th birthday celebration of my mother on August 26, 2007.  We are currently preparing for the big event. I hope you could help me with this matter. Thank you very much.
--Melanie S. Lanquino, UP-Diliman, Quezon, Philippines; email: mslanquino@yahoo.com

[You can find the list of members of Batch '75 on our Spectrum website at: www.oocities.org/lchsspectrum, under the heading "Batch Directory."  Likewise, all past issues of the Spectrum are available on our website, under "Past Issues." --Editor]

To love a woman
Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:07:59

Some guys feel the need to love a thousand different women.  But a real man knows how to love one woman ... a thousand different ways.
--Susan Lim-De la Cruz, Iloilo, Philippines; email: iko1031@hotmail.com

NEW NURSES.  More and more alumni are entering the nursing professional.  The latest additions to the profession are Enjoy Faith Ang (Cebu Doctors Univesity), Agnes June Opiniano, Jian Leih Racines, and Jean Rose Babatido (Mindanao Sanitarium and Hospital College), all belonging to Batch 2003.  They were among the new nursing graduates who passed the Nursing Licensure Examination given last June.  Of the 64,909 who took the exams, only 31,275 passed; 248 of the 336 re-takers also passed.  Congrats to our new alumni nurses!

JOHNDORF'S NEW PROJECT.  Johndorf Ventures Corp. launched its latest housing project, named Simplex-1 Mactan, in Suba Basbas, Mactan, Cebu, near Plantation Bay Resort Hotel on Aug. 25.  Johndorf's Cebu office is located at the 2nd floor of the FGU Bldg., Cebu Business Park, Ayala, Cebu City. The company is an HLURB awardee as leading developer in socialized and economic housing in Region XIII.  Johndorf Ventures Corporation is owned by brothers Wilson Lim (Batch '66), Richard Lim (Batch '68), Johnson Lim  (Batch '70) and Wilford Lim (Batch '75) and sisters Jane Lim (Batch '71) and Fanny Lim (Batch '80).

Henry L. Yu, M.D., Batch '69

As midlifers of this dot.com generation, we sometimes consider the songs of our kids as noise, which otherwise are beautiful music to their ears as far as they go. But didn't we all pass that adolescence stage, of being teenagers, when our songs were also noises as far as our parents and grandparents were concerned? Well, life is a cycle. It comes by stages. We were yesterday's kids and today's parents or grandparents.

A great listener of standard and classical music that I am, I usually would keep myself atune to the old familiar songs of our times (those of the '50s, '60s, '70s) especially on Sundays, after a leisure lunch at home, or early dawn when I am in my best elements having had rested the night prior. Yup, I am an early bird, following the "early to bed, early to rise" scheme. Oh well, part of being a Golden Boy. That I would like to believe.

A very flexible and adjustable person that I've always been, I do appreciate the songs of our kids' generation. At my age now, I still buy songhits (priced at P30.00 to P40.00 a copy, which used to be pegged at P1.25 only in the '60s, or have you forgotten?) Yes, in this lifetime, there are just things that don't change. And buying songhits is one of them. For me, it's one way to get updated with what's IN as far as the songs of our kids' generation are concerned. We are living in their world, so let's cope up with their kind of things, adapt and adjust to their world, much as our parents did during the '50s and '60s when we ourselves were the reigning teenagers of the Jam Session era, dancing non-stop to the tunes of Black is Black or Bus Stop or what have we.

Among the newer hits of this Y2K era, I single out one particular song which I find very meaningful, inspiring and reassuring. The very first time I heard of it, I immediately liked it so much. The lyrics, the tune, the tempo are all but soothing to my senses and sensibilities. And I'm referring to none other than the song entitled "I Will Be Here", which goes like this:

"Tomorrow morning if you wake up and the sun does not appear, I ... I will be here. If in the dark we lose sight of love, hold my hand and have no fear cause I ... I will be here. I will be here when you feel like being quiet, when you need to speak your mind, I will listen and I will be here. When the laughter turns to crying through the winning and losing and trying we'll be together cause I will be here. Tomorrow morning if you wake up and the future is unclear, I ... I'll be here. Just as sure as seasons are made for change our lifetimes are made for years, I ... I will be here. I will be here you can cry on my shoulder when the mirror tells us we're older, I will hold you and I will be here to watch you grow in beauty and tell you all the things you are to me. I will be here, I will be true to the promise I have made to you and to the One who gave you to me. Oh ... I ... I will be here, cause I ... I will be here. We'll be together forever. I will be here. I will be here ..."

Igdono U. Caracho, Batch '66