#Dili food

[jontycrane]

First impressions of Timor-Leste

In February 2024 I moved from New Zealand to Dili, the capital of Timor-Leste. I was there with my partner volunteering at local NGOs through Volunteer Service Abroad, a New Zealand organisation that does amazing work in the Pacific and Timor-Leste. Moving from the 32nd richest country in the world, to the 35th poorest, with a completely different climate and culture was quite an…

[morethansalad]

Vegan Filipono Dilis (“Dry Anchovies")

Dilis is a popular street food in the Philippines that takes readily to vegan adaptations. This Filipinx favorite, with its sweet and spicy coating, is often used as a rice topping or simply to snack on with your favorite sawsawan (Filipinx dipping sauce).

[makingmemoriestolast]

Filipino style simple ulam pero masarap!!

[lilithism1848]

Atrocities US committed against ASIA

Between 1996-2006, The US has given money and weapons to royalist forces against the nepalese communists in the Nepalese civil war. ~18,000 people have died in the conflict. In 2002, after another civil war erupted, President George W. Bush pushed a bill through Congress authorizing $20 million in military aid to the Nepalese government.

In 1996, after receiving incredibly low approval ratings, the US helped elect Boris Yeltsin, an incompetent pro-capitalist independent, by giving him a $10 Billion dollar loan to finance a winning election. Rather than creating new enterprises, Yeltsin’s democratization led to international monopolies hijacking the former Soviet markets, arbitraging the huge difference between old domestic prices for Russian commodities and the prices prevailing on the world market. Much of the Yeltsin era was marked by widespread corruption, and as a result of persistent low oil and commodity prices during the 1990s, Russia suffered inflation, economic collapse and enormous political and social problems that affected Russia and the other former states of the USSR. Under Yeltsin, Between 1990 and 1994, life expectancy for Russian men and women fell from 64 and 74 years respectively to 58 and 71 years. The surge in mortality was “beyond the peacetime experience of industrialised countries”. While it was boom time for the new oligarchs, poverty and unemployment surged; prices were hiked dramatically; communities were devastated by deindustrialisation; and social protections were stripped away.

In the 1970s-80s, wikileaks cables revealed that the US covertly supported the Khmer Rouge in their fight against the Vietnamese communists. Annual support included an end total of ~$215M USD, food aid to 20-40k Khmer Rouge fighters, CIA advisors in several camps, and ammunition.

In December 1975, The US supplied the weaponry for the Indonesian invasion of East Timor. This incursion was launched the day after U.S. President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had left Indonesia where they had given President Suharto permission to use American arms, which under U.S. law, could not be used for aggression. Daniel Moynihan, U.S. ambassador to the UN. said that the U.S. wanted “things to turn out as they did.” The result was an estimated 200,000 dead out of a population of 700,000. Sixteen years later, on November 12, 1991, two hundred and seventeen East Timorese protesters in Dili, many of them children, marching from a memorial service, were gunned down by Indonesian Kopassus shock troops who were headed by U.S.- trained commanders Prabowo Subianto (son in law of General Suharto) and Kiki Syahnakri. Trucks were seen dumping bodies into the sea.

In 1975 Australian Constitutional Crisis, the CIA helped topple the democratically elected, left-leaning government of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, by telling Governor-General, John Kerr, a longtime CIA collaborator, to dissolve the Whitlam government.

In 2018 after the release of a suppressed ISC (International Scientific Commission) report, and the release of declassified CIA communications daily reports in 2020, it was revealed that the US used germ warfare in the Korean war, 2. Many of these attacks involved the dropping of insects or small mammals infected with viruses such as anthrax, plague, cholera, and encephalitis. After discovering evidence of germ warfare, China invited the ISC headed by famed British scientist Joseph Needham, to investigate, but the report was suppressed for over 70 years.

Between 1963 and 1973, The US dropped ~388,000 tons of napalm bombs in vietnam, compared to 32,357 tons used over three years in the Korean War, and 16,500 tons dropped on Japan in 1945. US also sprayed over 5 million acres with herbicide, in Operation Ranch Hand, in a 10 year campaign to deprive the vietnamese of food and vegetation cover.

In 1971 in Pakistan, an authoritarian state supported by the U.S., brutally invaded East Pakistan in the Indo-Pakistani war of 1971. The war ended after India, whose economy was staggering after admitting about 10 million refugees, invaded East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) and defeated the West Pakistani forces. The US gave W. pakistan 411 million provided to establish its armed forces which spent 80% of its budget on its military. 15 million in arms flowed into W. Pakistan during the war. Between 300,000 to 3 million civilians were killed, with 8-10 million refugees fleeing to India.

In 1970, In Cambodia, The CIA overthrows Prince Sihanouk, who is highly popular among Cambodians for keeping them out of the Vietnam War. He is replaced by CIA puppet Lon Nol, whose forces suppressed the large-scale popular demonstrations in favour of Sihanouk, resulting in several hundred deaths. This unpopular move strengthens once minor opposition parties like the Khmer Rouge (another CIA supported group), who achieve power in 1975 and massacres ~2.5 million people. The Khmer Rouge, under Pol Pot, carried out the Cambodian Genocide, which killed 1.5-2M people from 1975-1979.

In 1969, The US initiated a secret carpet bombing campaign in eastern Cambodia, called, Operation Menu, and Operation Freedom Deal in 1970. An estimated 40,000 - 150,000 civilians were killed. Nixon lied about this campaign, but was later exposed, and one of the things that lead to his impeachment.

US dropped large amounts of Agent Orange, an herbicide developed by monsanto and dow chemical for the department of defense, in vietnam. Its use, in particular the contaminant dioxin, causes multiple health problems, including cleft palate, mental disabilities, hernias, still births, poisoned breast milk, and extra fingers and toes, as well as destroying local species of plants and animals. The Red Cross of Vietnam estimates that up to 1 million people are disabled or have health problems due to Agent Orange.

US Troops killed between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians, including women, children, and infants, in South Vietnam on March, 1968, in the My Lai Massacre. Some of the women were gang-raped and their bodies mutilated. Soldiers set fire to huts, waiting for civilians to come out so they could shoot them. For 30 years, the three US servicemen who tried to halt the massacre and rescue the hiding civilians were shunned and denounced as traitors, even by congressmen.

In 1967, the CIA helped South Vietnamese agents identify and then murder alleged Viet Cong leaders operating in villages, in the Phoenix Program. By 1972, Phoenix operatives had executed between 26,000 and 41,000 suspected NLF operatives, informants and supporters.

In 1965, The CIA overthrew the democratically elected Indonesian leader Sukarno with a military coup. The CIA had been trying to eliminate Sukarno since 1957, using everything from attempted assassination to sexual intrigue, for nothing more than his declaring neutrality in the Cold War. His successor, General Suharto, aided by the CIA, massacred between 500,000 to 1 million civilians accused of being communist, in the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-66. The US continued to support Suharto throughout the 70s, supplying weapons and planes.

Between 1964 and 1973, American pilots flew 580,000 attack sorties over Laos, an average of one planeload of bombs every eight minutes for almost a decade. By the time the last US bombs fell in April 1973, a total of 2,093,100 tonnes of ordnance had rained down on this neutral country. To this day, Laos, a country of just 7 million people, retains the dubious accolade of being the most heavily bombed country in the world per capita.

From the 1960s onward, the US supported Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos. The US provided hundreds of millions of dollars in aid, which was crucial in buttressing Marcos’s rule over the years. The estimated number of persons that were executed and disappeared under President Fernando Marcos was over 100,000. After fleeing to hawaii, marco was suceeded by the widow of an opponent he assasinated, Corazon aquino.

Starting in 1957, in the wake of the US-backed First Indochina War, The CIA carries out approximately one coup per year trying to nullify Laos’ democratic elections, specifically targeting the Pathet Lao, a leftist group with enough popular support to be a member of any coalition government, and perpetuating the 20 year Laotian civil war. In the late 50s, the CIA even creates an “Armee Clandestine” of Asian mercenaries to attack the Pathet Lao. After the CIA’s army suffers numerous defeats, the U.S. drops more bombs on Laos than all the U.S. bombs dropped in World War II. A quarter of all Laotians will eventually become refugees, many living in caves. This was later called a “secret war,” since it occurred at the same time as the Vietnam War, but got little press. Hundreds of thousands were killed.

In 1955, the CIA provided explosives, and aided KMT agents in an assassination attempt against the Chinese Premier, Zhou Enlai. KMT agents placed a time-bomb on the Air India aircraft, Kashmir Princess, which Zhou was supposed to take on his way to the Bandung Conference, an anti-imperialist meeting of Asian and African states, but he changed his travel plans at the last minute. Henry Kissinger denied US involvement, even though remains of a US detonator were found. 16 people were killed.

From 1955-1975, the US supported French colonialist interests in Vietnam, set up a puppet regime in Saigon to serve US interests, and later took part as a belligerent against North Vietnam in the Vietnam War. U.S. involvement escalated further following the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, which was later found to be staged by Lyndon Johnson. The war exacted a huge human cost in terms of fatalities (see Vietnam War casualties). Estimates of the number of Vietnamese soldiers and civilians killed vary from 966,000 source to 3.8 million.source Some 240,000–300,000 Cambodians,source23 20,000–62,000 Laotians,4 and 58,220 U.S. service members also died in the conflict, with a further 1,626 missing in action. Unexploded bomb continue to kill civilians for years afterward.

In the summer of 1950 in South Korea, anticommunists aided by the US executed at least 100,000 people suspected of supporting communism, in the Bodo League Massacre. For four decades the South Korean government concealed this massacre. Survivors were forbidden by the government from revealing it, under suspicion of being communist sympathizers. Public revelation carried with it the threat of torture and death. During the 1990s and onwards, several corpses were excavated from mass graves, resulting in public awareness of the massacre.

In 1984, documents were released showing that Eisenhower authorized the use of atomic weapons on North Korea, should the communists renew the war in 1953. The 2,000 pages released show the high level of planning and the detail of discussion on possible use of these weapons, and Mr. Eisenhower’s interest in overcoming reluctance to use them.

In the beginning of the Korean war, US Troops killed ~300 South Korean civilians in the No Gun Ri massacre, revealing a theater-wide policy of firing on approaching refugee groups. Trapped refugees began piling up bodies as barricades and tried to dig into the ground to hide. Some managed to escape the first night, while U.S. troops turned searchlights on the tunnels and continued firing, said Chung Koo-ho, whose mother died shielding him and his sister. No apology has yet been issued.

The US intervened in the 1950-53 Korean Civil War, on the side of the south Koreans, in a proxy war between the US and china for supremacy in East Asia. South Korea reported some 373,599 civilian and 137,899 military deaths, the US with 34,000 killed, and China with 114,000 killed. Overall, the U.S. dropped 635,000 tons of bombs—including 32,557 tons of napalm—on Korea, more than they did during the whole Pacific campaign of World War II. The US killed an estimated 1/3rd of the north Korean people during the war. The Joint Chiefs of staff issued orders for the retaliatory bombing of the People’s republic of China, should south Korea be attacked. Deadly clashes have continued up to the present day.

From 1948-1949, the Jeju uprising was an insurgency taking place in the Korean province of Jeju island, followed by severe anticommunist suppression of the South Korean Labor Party in which 14-30,000 people were killed, or ~10% of the island’s population. Though atrocities were committed by both sides, the methods used by the South Korean government to suppress the rebels were especially cruel. On one occasion, American soldiers discovered the bodies of 97 people including children, killed by government forces. On another, American soldiers caught government police forces carrying out an execution of 76 villagers, including women and children. The US later entered the Korean civil war on the side of the South Koreans.

In 1949 during the resumed Chinese Civil War, the US supported the corrupt Kuomintang dictatorship of Chiang Kaishek to fight against the Chinese Communists, who had won the support of the vast majority of peasant-farmers and helped defeat the Japanese invasion. The US strongly supported the Kuomintang forces. Over 50,000 US Marines were sent to guard strategic sites, and 100,000 US troops were sent to Shandong. The US equipped and trained over 500,000 KMT troops, and transported KMT forces to occupy newly liberated zones as well as to contain Communist-controlled areas. American aid included substantial amounts of both new and surplus military supplies; additionally, loans worth hundreds of millions of dollars were made to the KMT. Within less than two years after the Sino-Japanese War, the KMT had received $4.43 billion from the US—most of which was military aid.

The U.S. installed Syngman Rhee,a conservative Korean exile, as President of South Korea in 1948. Rhee became a dictator on an anti-communist crusade, arresting and torturing suspected communists, brutally putting down rebellions, killing 100,000 people and vowing to take over North Korea. Rhee precipitated the outbreak of the Korean War and for the allied decision to invade North Korea once South Korea had been recaptured. He was finally forced to resign by mass student protests in 1960.

Between 1946 and 1958, the US tested 23 nuclear devices at Bikini Atoll, using the native islanders and their land as guinea pigs for the effects of nuclear fallout. Significant fallout caused widespread radiological contamination in the area, and killed many islanders. A survivor stated, “What the Americans did was no accident. They came here and destroyed our land. They came to test the effects of a nuclear bomb on us. It was no accident.” Many of the islanders exposed were brought to the US Argonne National laboratory, to study the effects. Afterwards the islands proved unsuitable to sustaining life, resulting in starvation and requiring the residents to receive ongoing aid. Virtually all of the inhabitants showed acute symptoms of radiation syndrome, many developing thyroid cancers, Leukimia, miscarriages, stillborn and “jellyfish babies” (highly deformed) along with symptoms like hair falling out, and diahrrea. A handful were brought to the US for medical research and later returned, while others were evacuated to neighboring Islands. The US under LBJ prematurely returned the majority returned 3 years later, to further test how human beings absorb radiation from their food and environment. The islanders pleaded with the US to move them away from the islands, as it became clear that their children were developing deformities and radiation sickness. Radion levels were still unacceptable. The United States later paid the islanders and their descendants 25 million in compensation for damage caused by the nuclear testing program. A 2016 investigation found radiation levels on Bikini Atoll as high as 639 mrem yr−1, well above the established safety standard threshold for habitation of 100 mrem yr−1. Similar tests occurred elsewhere in the Marshall Islands during this time period. Due to the destruction of natural wealth, Kwajalein Atoll’s military installation and dislocation, the majority of natives currently live in extreme poverty, making less than 1$ a day. Those that have jobs, mostly work at the US military installation and resorts. Much of this is detailed in the documentary, The Coming War on China (2016). 

After the Japanese surrender in 1945, Douglas MacArthur pardoned Unit 731, a Japanese biological experimentation center which performed human testing of biological agents against Chinese citizens. While a series of war tribunals and trials was organized, many of the high-ranking officials and doctors who devised and respectively performed the experiments were pardoned and never brought to justice. As many as 12,000 people, most of them Chinese, died in Unit 731 alone and many more died in other facilities, such as Unit 100 and in field experiments throughout Manchuria. One of the experimenters who killed many, microbiologist Shiro Ishii, later traveled to the US to advise on its bioweapons programs. In the final days of the Pacific War and in the face of imminent defeat, Japanese troops blew up the headquarters of Unit 731 in order to destroy evidence of the research done there. As part of the cover-up, Ishii ordered 150 remaining subjects killed.

In 1945 during the month-long Battle of Manila, the US in deciding whether to attack Manila (then under Japanese occupation) with ground troops, decided instead to use indiscriminate carpet-bombing, howitzers, and naval bombardment, killing an estimated 100,000 people. The casualty figures show the US’s regard for filipino civilian life: 1,010 Americans, 16,665 Japanese and 100,000 to 240,000 civilians were killed. Manila became, alongside Berlin, and Warsaw, one of the most devastated cities of WW2.

US Troops committed a number of rapes during the battle of Okinawa, and the subsequent occupation of Japan. There were 1,336 reported rapes during the first 10 days of the occupation of Kanagawa prefecture alone.1 American Occupation authorities imposed wide-ranging censorship on the Japanese media, including bans on covering many sensitive social issues and serious crimes such as rape committed by members of the Occupation forces.

From 1942 to 1945, the US military carried out a fire-bombing campaign of Japanese cities, killing between 200,000 and 900,000 civilians. One nighttime fire-bombing of Tokyo took 80,000 lives. During early August 1945, the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing ~130,000 civilians, and causing radiation damage which included birth defects and a variety of genetic diseases for decades to come. The justification for the civilian bombings has largely been debunked, as the entrance of Russia into the war had already started the surrender negotiations earlier in 1945. The US was aware of this, since it had broken the Japanese code and had been intercepting messages during for most of the year. The US ended up accepting a conditional surrender from Hirohito, against which was one of the stated aims of the civilian bombings. The dropping of the atomic bomb is therefore seen as a demonstration of US military supremacy, and the first major operation of the Cold War with Russia.

In 1918, the US took part in the allied intervention in the Russian civil war, sending 11,000 troops to the in the Arkhangelsk and Vladivostok regions to support the anti-bolshevik, monarchist, and largely anti-semitic White Forces. 

In 1900 in China, the US was part of an Eight-Nation Alliance that brought 20,000 armed troops to China, to defeat the Imperial Chinese Army, in the the Boxer Rebellion, an anti-imperialist uprising. 

In 1899, after a popular revolution in the Philippines to oust the Spanish imperialists, the US invaded and began the Phillipine-American war. The US military committed countless atrocities, leaving 200,000 Filipinos dead. Jacob H Smith killed between 2,500 to 50,000 civilians, His orders included, “kill everyone over the age of ten” and make the island “a howling wilderness.”

Throughout the 1800s, US settlers engaged in a genocide of native Hawaiians. The native population decreased from ~ 400k in 1789, to 40k by 1900, due to colonization and disease. In 1883, the US engineered the overthrow of Hawaii’s native monarch, Queen Lili’uokalani, by landing two companies of US marines in Honolulu. Due to the Queen’s desire “to avoid any collision of armed forces, and perhaps the loss of life” for her subjects and after some deliberation, at the urging of advisers and friends, the Queen ordered her forces to surrender. Hawaii was initially reconstituted as an independent republic, but the ultimate goal of the US was the annexation of the islands to the United States, which was finally accomplished in 1898. After this, the Hawaiian language was banned, English replaced it as the official language in all institutions and schools. The US finally apologized in 1993, but no land has been returned.

[justalileepguy]

Mantine mail!

There's a tightly sealed plastic container with a few hotdogs and a slice of a cake. A note is also inside.

"hey whats up did you know pelipper mail delivers underwater. i think thats pretty cool.

anyway ive been cooking up some bomb hotdogs tonight and i thought id send some for you and the dilys (can i call them the dilys). hopefully its still warm. hopefully it tastes okay soggy too. i just realized im sending a hotdog underwater.

anyway thats about it

shiloh"

Food......

Lily will be excited.

Maybe I will have some. Must recover strength. You may call us Dilys. Our true names are unpronounceable to most creatures.

One of those Eebydeebys. Strange word. She talks about all of you a lot.

[tabatamori]

Willing home

Father I’m hungry

There’s no joy, no plazer

There’s no food able to feed me

Father, I’m thirsty

There’s no hope, no satisfaction

There’s no water able to quench me

Father, I’m in lack

I search inside, I look outside

Nothing can fill the void

Father, I’m so blind

Everything I have, you overflowed to me

It’s so much, but I’m still wanting

[Pause]

If I know you I’d ask

For sure you’d give me

Bread and water, the real life

No more hungry, no more thirsty

There’s is no cure to me in this world

I’m waiting for the one to come

To listen your voice tell me so kind:

Come in, my daughter, come home!

But my days here are not over

So I want to fill them with who

You’re making and I’ll become

Equal the One sitting on the throne

Father, be with me!

I want no more willing

I want no more receiving

Bless me to give and also filling

Father, be in me!

So I can be for others

Overflowing as my God did to me

Loving you and also my brothers

I’m hungry and thirsty

Alone I can do not

Do the most, so I can do the rest

Then at home, I can enjoy the feast.

“Come in, come home!

Come to the big supper”

The words I'm hungry for

The company I’m really thirsty

Tábata Mori, 09/01/2023, Dili, Timor-Leste

[radiatorchains]

quinton? for the name meme (told you :)

             I don't care if it ain't PC or not that dili gadjo would be better off euthanized like a deformed calf. Fuck purpose does he serve? Guinea pig? Save money just testing on a beagle like other chemical companies do. Piece of shit. Fucking r[REDACTED]. Goddamn f[REDACTED]. Should skin him and send his handler the hide. Might be servicable as food and not much else...

[cullenakingirog]

Would it be ok to ask for more clan Magsumakit lore? :"O

It's more than okay!

I love getting asks about stuff like these iudfvgisxgf

Founded by Datu Magsumakit who had watched his son and wife die by the hands of invaders. He fled with his daughter and their people and had ended up near a lake which they claimed as their land.

Clan Magsumakit is known for being an all-rounder with their resources from livestock, fish farming and agriculture, mainly their humble but successful rice fields.

It was customary for the ruling family to train their heirs in intensive training like teaching them to hold their breath underwater for long periods, combat training, camouflage, etc. The final tests involve the heirs being left in the forest for one night, if the heir handles the night without breaking down, they move onto the next test which would be a fight against their mentor. (oftentimes, their parents) The goal is simple, to get a draw or to win against their mentor. It is often rare to win in the last test due to the mentors knowing the heirs too well.

Due to a lack of trust in Himagsikan’s father’s ability, they were trained and went up against their grandfather instead. They won at the last minute when they pulled a blade on their grandfather instead of using their magic.

The previous two generations of Datus were different in disposition. Himagsikan’s great-grandfather was known to have a relaxed approach to things. His spells used to ward off any adventurous humans tend to confuse them and lead them out of the forest without encountering Clan Magsumakit. Himagsikan’s grandfather was more active with him leading hunting groups nearer to the border to warn off and drive away any outsiders from their lands by any means necessary. Another difference is how Himagsikan’s great-grandfather gave the rank of datu to Himagsikan’s grandfather when their grandfather turned twenty-five while their grandfather did not even contemplate abdicating for Himagsikan’s father at all.

Himagsikan was among those who was assigned to drive away hunters and because of all their encounters, that means they’ve been part of countless battles which led to Himagsikan earning tattoos that reached their back and their face. Due to Himagsikan’s achievements, their grandfather contemplated encouraging them to try and make a match with the current Lakan’s eldest son.

Popular dishes in Magsumakit are grilled fishes, tupig, palitaw, biko, lechong baboy. Salted fish like dilis and some dried squid are popular travel food. (The squid tho is just favoured because of Clan Magsumakit’s ties to Clan Kapangyarihan, the Lakan’s clan who had been allies to Himagsikan’s great-grandfather.)

[ralhshsstuff]

01.08.23 10:10 pm

twh:

i've heard my mother called me and asking gi kuha ba daw nako ang fifty (50) pesos sa selopane na gibutang niya. and, i answered yes kay gi sukli nako sa nipalit na customer kagaina. i was blind kay kadtong gi lahi mao to ang first halin sa new year's eve. and it's their tradition i guess to keep the halin. idk para aha(?) or maybe, for business stuff since we have a small sari-sari store and internitan. at first, wala ra nako gi pansin ang yaw-yaw ni mama kay huna-huna nako basin mo stop ra siya. but no, si papa nag start nag butt's in and i can sense na nag strong na siya for that fucking fifty (50) pesos. ga duet sila ni mama to the point wala nako nakaya nga gi ignan nasab ko'g "ambot aha ang utok ana" and bubbling "kung mangiskwela gani mo, manarbaho... so on and so forth." mura mag in that scenario murag bulok na jud ko bitaw? naka feel pa jud ko'g kaulaw kay naa si ate (which is my half sister) na naka dungog. nawala nako sa poise. I stand up and nisulod ko sa kwarto dala akoang foods then, ni ingkod ko sa bed and start scrolling through my phone to avoid crying kay nasakitan jud ko. minutes after nisulod si mama and starting nasab mag ingon ug "ngano nisulod manka? kabalo baya ka na ang halin to sa first day unya gi sukli pa jud nimo kadaghan blah blah blah..." " dili ka mugawas? ni uli imuhang ate kay once a week rana maka uli (since she's working sa other city.) unya, bya-an nimo." "unya, gidala pa nimo ng mga makaon unsa may pasabot nimo ana? utruha ng batasan nimo ngil-ad." and then i burst out to cry. grabe, gipa feel na gani sa akoa na bulok ko, worthless and na ignan pa gyud ug ngil-ad ug batasan sa part nga gidala ra nako akoang food sa room kay i was upset. you think ma in that scenario/actions ngil-ad na jud diay ko'g batasan? what do you mean? na i-pareha ko nimo sa other relatives namo na hilig ga keep ug food and selfish shit actions just by doing that shit? yawa. dili ba pwedi mag walk out ma kay nasakitan ko? dili ba pwedi mag walk out kay naka feel kog kaulaw? not just si ate maka dungog but the people who surrounds us. as always, nothing's new man ma/pa never ninyo gi na validate amoang feelings, emotions, mental health. murag gusto ninyo kami permi mag adjust kay kumo kamo always rights just because older mo? usba ninyo na mindset please lang. dili healthy, dili maayo. toxic kaayo mo. kamo raman gahimo ug butang na mag ampo mi na unta maka agto mi ug place kung aha ma-feel namo ang freedom nga deserve ug para namo.

[haphazardlychronicled]

Closed Starter for: Dilys @delvedinto

Where: Dilys’ Place 

Enzo hadn’t been able to check up on his sister in a bit, and that just didn’t fly with him. While the end of the season was always insane, he still needed to try and be there for the woman who was honesty his best friend. So, he arrived at her place with her favorite takeout and knocked on the door. When it opened, he offered her a wide smile. “I come bearing food and a court side ticket for my upcoming home playoff game. I miss you. Do you have some time to hang?” 

[g-rasyaana]

🥢 Wrong Yakiniku

Very wrong hahahaha eme. Pwede na, pero doon sa branch na pinuntahan namin marami kulang eh. Isa sa malapit na kbbq sa amin e so kaya na pag tiyagaan hehe.

🥢 Samgyeopmasarap

Not really masarap 😣 manipis din ang mga meat, tapos weird meron dilis na side dish lol. When you get a table, you still have to wait for at least 10 - 15 minutes for them to prepare your food.

🍤 Zensho

Gusto ko naman ang mga food pero ang pinaka na-enjoy ko lang talaga is the oyster & tempura. Siguro a little pricey lang para sa food na inooffer.

🥟 Din Tai Fung

30 to 60 minutes waiting time. Hindi lang talaga siguro ako mahilig sa XLB, tapos di namin na-order ang mga must-try talaga. Pero masarap na experience pa rin because of the chocolate lava XLB!

🍜 Ramen Nagi

Yummy naman talaga, pero nung natikman ko kasi sa Mendokoro mas nagustuhan ko doon, hindi ko lang napicture-an kaya di ko muna isasama! 😂

Chose random pictures from my gallery to post, I wasn't able to capture a lot. I'll take more food pictures next time to remember the experience!

[halo-dili]

HINLIM TRITON SOFA SET 1+2+3+ COFFE TABLE 109 COCOA530 ESPRESSO # 230015

$550.00

Halo Dili was developed to give consumers in Timor-Leste an effective way to shop online, which can be challenging given the country's lack of infrastructure and slow internet access. They also provide a method for residents of other cities to order cuisine from Dili establishments. The finest app in Timor-Leste for placing food orders and making purchases from your preferred retailers is Halo Dili.

[b505]

silent treatment si ate

kasi nung Sunday, wala kami ulam so nagbili kami Yannies. tapos mag Kopikuys sana pero wala change so naglipat kami Don Mac. mahiya ako kay baka andiyan si shan so sabi ko

"ikaw bili bi." ta's sabi niya "maulaw ko."

medyo na annoy ko habang ga bili kay wala pala si Shan tapos nagbulong siya

"bakit ka mahiya?" "maulaw ko kay Shan." "wala man siya" "mm *nagtango*"

na annoy ako kay siya nalang rin sana nagbili, libre ko bitaw. pero nagbayad siya pagkauwi, gitanggap ko nalang para wala nay sturya tsaka di na dapat ako mainis pero di ko mapigilan :((( tapos ang gikainisan ko kay pagbalik namin bahay, natanong si Melva ano dala namin. sabi ko manok, tsaka Don Mac, sabi ko kay tita, sa kaniya nalang. tapos nagpalag si Miles, ta's nanikal ako na ayaw ko, bigay ko nalang kay Melva, tapos sabi ni Miles

"maulaw ra na siya Mang." ta's nagdili na si melva, gisamaan ko tingin si Miles ta's kato na naghilom na ko, wala na nako kaayo siya ginapansin pero gatry ko na pansinon if maginteract siya sa akua tapos from time to time magtanong siya may kasalanan ba raw siya, wala ba raw ako sa mood, ano lang ba daw. sige lang ako iling, "wala ah." hangtod gicorner ko niya, "suko ka? cold ka lagi?" ta's wala siya nag alis sa tabi ko biskan nag iling na ko.

ta's gisabi ko bakit ako nagalit.

pero wala diay ko kabalo na ang dala ni miles na butterscotch from Davao na gipasalubungan niya rin si melva kay wala pa nakain ni Melva, nahigdaan nalang so siya nalang end up nagkain.. hindi ko 'to alam pero for me gusto lang nako siya (tita) iinclude pero siguro gid dili maenjoy ni Melva ang foods na ginakaon namo kay.. wala, ana gid siya. i felt so bad wala nako ginapansin si miles. nagtalk mi tapos kato, we said sorry's.

sad na nabuntagan nalang wala parin nakain ni melva ang butterscotch, na end up si miles nalang nagkain kahit lata na kay nahigdaan lang. he also said nalain siya ato. lain gid, nageffort baya pud siya.

grabe the patience he has sa akin, happy ako he stuck with me that night biskan kasamok talaga ng silent treatment and magiwas-iwas. nagsabi pa ako kaulion na ako. thankful lang kay Miles kay ik dili gid ko perfect gf and lots of room to improve pa pud. i'm happy and sorry he had to put up with my annoying ass.

[soybanjat]

Ang saya kanina! Wala kaming calls for 2 hours! 🫣🤭 Nagloko yung Citrix naming lahat! Hahahaha So ayun, chika dito, chika doon. Nag-huddle rin for errors ng karamihan. Tapos may free food kami today. Dapat may activity pa, pero waley na e. E pakalat-kalat kami ni Rhodz. Si Wynoena, naka-leave e. Maiinis na naman 'yon at dili naka-join sa party. Hahahaha

Tapos napadpad kami ni Rhodz sa lounge. Jumebs ako akshelly, tapos nando'n lang siya. Tapos sakto, pinapapunta na agents sa lounge para kumuha ng snack. Tapos mag-picture daw. Kakatuwa, sabi ni Sup Judiel, "Ito si TJ, magaling kumuha 'yan." Ayiih. Hahahaha Tapos syempre nag-picture tuloy si accla. Hahahaha

Ito sila Sup Judiel, Chella and Espie

Ito naman the colleagues na dili ko rin alam names. Hahahaha (From left: newbie and tenured from Sup Chella, Ate Jona from Sup Judiel, Junive teammate and katabi ko now, RJ from Sup Chella rin)

[sht-thoughts31]

Hi. Niadto ko sa citimall ganiha after nag libot2 sa traffic. Ordered at jollibee my usual C3 spicy with extra sauce spag, regular fries and mini chocolate sundae my first meal of the day. Wala lang, mura kog patay. I mean daghan kaayo tao, nafeel nko sila na paspas kaayo sila pero ako murag naka slowmo niya ang hangin it feels weird and kanang sakit na gilok ang dughan nko. While eating lahi gud kaayo sa pakiramdam gahuna huna ko na things will be really different if dili na kita. and wtf kahilakon ko sa tunga sa food court kay didto ko nilingkod sa circle :( Lisod mag move on sa place kung sa kada sulok or lihok madumduman ka. Funny gale kay lahi gud kaayo sa feeling katong sa akua ex na 3 years pod baya mi but dali nahawa sa akua sistema. Tama gud sila na ang mga bestfriend as much as possible ayaw gud uyaba kay kung it will not work dako kaayo sa kinabuhi ang mawala. Paadto nko sa parking and saw the place where i said “yes” to you na gina hambog nimo na wala man ka nanligaw hahaha nakasmile ko naka huna huna sa memory na to very vivid pa kaayo siya pero katong nisulod nko sa sasakyan bigla na lang nitulo akua luha and ni sink in na hanggang memory na lang. Sakit kaayo but kayanon nko for you. For your happiness. While driving pauli, nisulod sa akua mind na ikaw akua kauban when i got in sa med school and ako sa imo sa law school and sakit huna hunaon na lain na imo uban if atty na gud ka. Hals. This writing on my tumblr sa mga unsaid thoughts nko for you coz i dont want na mag pa bug at sa imo. Gahapon diay sa fort pilar, grabe pag beg nko kay mama mary na unta kita na lang ayaw ka ihawa sa akua. Very desperate. But syempre if makalipay sa imo na dili kita i’ll accept it but ihawa na akuang gugma sa imo. Hals. Pero ang tanong mawala ba gud? “Mag stop rko ug love nimo kung mawala na ang moon” …

#unsaidthoughts.

[macelbacs]

Hi! It's me again. Last week, we were tasked to perform market validation for our customers and future business partners. 1. Hypothesis Definition The customers will be happy with the ease of the delivery service because they will receive their groceries in the comfort of their own homes. As for the business partners, the proposed business conditions are favorable to them because of the following reasons: 1. For the establishment/s who will be our main supplier for the groceries, it means more income for them since they are sure that we will purchase goods from them. 2. For the delivery manpower (CMU Students who wish to work), it is favorable for them since it will mean additional allowance for their expenses here at Central Mindanao University. 2. Hypothesis Testing For the last week, I asked two customers, one student who wants to be a delivery rider, and one supplier from outside CMU (refer to the attached picture). Customer 1: "Ganahan ko sa concept kay dili na bitaw hassle na magpalit pa ug ginagmay sa market tas magbalik balik pa. Ma plan napud nako ahead of time akong lutuon sa akong meals since makapalit man ko ug pang one week na budget kay ideliver na man siya." Customer 2: "Convenient siya for me as someone na hectic kaayo ang schedule kay dili nako mabalaka na mahutdan ko ug groceries sa boarding house. Unta apilan sad ug food and medicine if ever para isahan rasad nag palit tanan hehe." Delivery Rider: "Actually nice siya na concept kay makatabang siya sa students na gusto mag part time while ga skwela. I suggest lang na makahimo namo ug guidelines sa kung unsa ang requirement para ma hire ninyo, ang share per delivery, ug lain na mga butang na need ninyo sad iconsider para sa safety sa rider pero overall nice jud ang concept unta mahimo ninyo ni kay dako ni nga tabang sa uban." Supplier: "Okay lang ginahatod man ka namo sa CMU kada monday dalahon nalang nato ang stocks. Sa presyo, lower than SRP nako ihatag since direct man ta sa distributors mas gamay lang akong patong since in bulk man sad ninyo paliton. Pagsaba lang daan unsa na stocks imong kuhaon para mapalit sad sa distributors inig schedule nila. Okay rasad kay sure na nga naay mahalin sa stocks haha strictly cash sa imoha hahaha. Mayra sad nga nakahuna huna ka ana. Ayaw lang kalimot mag inventory para dili ka malugi haha." In summary, our hypothesis was accepted and it was deemed favorable for all parties involved.

3. Team Decision 1. Craft a partnership contract with the suppliers as a form of agreement to purchase goods in bulk lower than SRP. 2. Craft guidelines on how delivery riders will be paid and their benefits as business partners. 3. Look for more suppliers outside CMU for lower prices. 4. Take advantage of close connections in purchasing goods at supplier prices (family businesses). 5. Take into account buyers' suggestions like including pasabuy on food deliveries and other necessities aside from groceries. 4. Team's Options 1. Purchase groceries in bulk from CMU Market Pros: Accessible, Close to Campus Cons: Higher prices since they already bought it from somewhere else 2. Purchase groceries in bulk from close connections Pros: Lower than SRP since we will be given a special price, easy negotiations and agreements Con: A bit far from CMU 5. Lessons During our market validation, I have learned that starting a business is more than just thinking about the money that we will be using for the startup. There are a lot of things to consider aside from the capital fund for the business. Market Validation is very important in creating an insight on how people will react to your business. It will also give you an idea on how your business will impact other people's lives, it's impact to the current market, and the ways that you can do to sustain the business. I have also learned that being in the business world is more than just finding customers. As a businesswoman, I also need to form partnerships with suppliers and gain their trust that I can also help their business thrive while taking care of mine. What a long blog entry for this week haha. That's all guys! I hope you also learned something form reading my blog. See you in my next blog! Byeee!