Bagotao Abangon, 33, segregates the rice hulls from the rice grains at their village in Barangay Ugalingan, Carmen North Cotabato. Carmen is one of the rice-producing towns in North Cotabato.

About a year ago, fear gripped this sleepy town due to heavy militarization. Several cases of human rights violations have been reported that includes the arrest of several Lumad farmers accused by the military of either members or supporters of the communist movement.

But many believed that the militarization in the area was part of the security of the mining operation of SMI in neighboring town of Tampakan, South Cotabato.

After almost two years of being hounded by the fear and terror, the villagers — Lumads, Muslims and Christian settlers — are now enjoying the relative peace in the locality.

Junk computer monitors cost P5 a kilo at Market Waste Fair at SM Davao Carpark. The waste fair is held every last Saturday of the month, according to a news article posted at the Philippine Information Agency website.

But the recent waste fair was held on the first Saturday of the Month, just this April 5. The organizers should clarify which is which to avoid confusion.

It’s very rares these days to see “Mamang Sorbetero” roaming in the streets.  Maybe they have been replaced by those biking guys selling Selecta products. It was happiness for a little kid in the past to have a cone of homemade ice cream from Mamang Sorbetero. A happiness that only costs one peso. But today, kids would ask their parents: “Can I have a  drumstick from Selecta?” A happiness that costs around fifteen pesos or even more!

Maybe, Mamang Sorbetero is already a dying industry.

A zebra-designed dog joins its masters at the beach near Sta. Ana wharf on Easter Sunday. It’s been a tradition of Filipinos to celebrate the Easter Sunday at the beach, which is also the end of the Holy Week.

At P3 each, you might be satisfied with this pork barbecue sold along the streets in Uyanguren area in Davao City. This vendor is just one of the several vendors in the area selling vegetables and fish. It’s like a flea market in the evening.

Davao Auxiliary Bishop George Rimando tells the churchgoers: “O, wala nay tubig, sige na, sige na.”

That’s the story of the photo above. Bishop Rimando ran out of Holy Water and some of the palm fronds of the  churchgoers were not yet blessed. So the people just walked away and failed to have their palm fronds blessed. Why he didn’t tell the  people to wait then get another bottle of Holy Water? Is it really like that? No more refill once they ran out of Holy Water? Weird.