Laong nila an taga Tago kuno para-away pero hanugay. Mamingawuni naman ganahani mandahap-dahap nan notisya. Naman ini na pabyon inhimo para kita na mga Tagon-on magkasinusihay, magka-binayluay nan mga gilaong, nan notisya, nan kaayuhan.
There’s little in Tandag that says it’s now a city. Unless the yellow tricycles that bear the mandatory “Tandag City†imprint on their header and some red-plated, spanking sports utility vehicles count for urban indicators.
But this is expected. After all it was only in June 2007 that Republic Act 9392 converted Tandag from a first class town to a fifth class component city, making it Surigao del Sur’s second city after Bislig. And now that the annual internal revenue allotment has leapt from 60M to 218M, Tandaganons expect their officials to implement projects that will boost Tandag’s new status.
Actually things are looking up. From January to August this year, Mayor Alexander Pimentel had issued 820 business permits, up by 16% over the same period last year. The Department of Trade and Industry had also registered 163 firms that generated 50.43M investments and 539 jobs, noting positive growths in the manufacturing (300%), processing (36%), production (1,173%) and service (88%) sectors. Only the trading sector shrank by 42%.
That the service sector accounted for 60% of investments and 40% of jobs explains the mushrooming of restaurants, hotels, resorts, coffee and specialty shops, enterprise and cooperative banks, financial transfer entities, lending investors, pawnshops, couriers, internet and gaming cafes, and other information technology facilities. Construction will continue to boom as most vacant lots carry an “on-this-site-will-soon-rise†sign.
Mayor Pimentel bared that a dual-structure, two-storey city hall will be erected three kilometers north of Tandag, near the airport in Barangay Awasian, on a 1.6-hectare lot acquired for P8.1M. Construction starts on November this year and ends in 150 calendar days, with Land Bank of the Philippines financing two-thirds of the P62M project cost.
(As tourism centerpiece, THE ESPLANADE is part of Tandag City’s shore protection project that stretches to about 2.6 kilometers. So far, only 150 lineal meters had been completed costing P25.7M.)
Tandag is rich in history. One of the three former Spanish military outposts in Mindanao, it was once the capital of the Spanish region known as Caraga which was comprised mainly of territories extending to the east of Gingoog City and some parts of Davao Oriental. Although early records show that a few Recollect friars settled in Tandag in 1622, there’s evidence that the Spanish cotta called the Real Fuerza de San Jose de Tandag or the Royal Fort of Tandag was established much earlier, in 1609, by a certain Juan dela Vega.
The fort stood where the present commercial complex sits, near the town plaza. Made of piled anapog rocks about five fathoms high, it faced the twin Linungaw Islands, the better to provide the Spanish soldiers with a vantage view of the sea that Moro pirates took as route to attack Tandag. Within this stone wall, a settlement was established from where the town of Tandag rose.
Moro pirates were said to raid Tandag frequently to snatch their brothers held captive inside the cotta. This prompted the Spanish soldiers to fit it with more cannons and reinforce its stone walls. But still the Moro pirates overran it in September 1757. Subsequent raids---in 1758, 1761, and 1767--- however failed because the natives and the Spanish fort defenders fought off indefatigably the Moro pirates. And it was only in the Second World War that the ancient Real Fuerza de San Jose de Tandag was completely destroyed, leaving not a stone in place as developments encroached on its resting place and buried most of its remnants.
Tandag became the designated provincial capital and seat of government of Surigao del Sur in 19 June 1960 when then Congressman Reynaldo P. Honrado authored House Bill 3058, also known as Republic Act 2786, which divided the province of Surigao into Norte and Sur.
As emerging ciudad, Tandag is fast changing its landscape. But traces of Spanish and antebellum architecture can still be seen particularly in the residences near the town hall and the San Nicolas de Tolentino Cathedral.
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"Most claims of originality are testimony to ignorance and most claims of magic are testimony to hubris." -James March-
Tandag is rich in history. One of the three former Spanish military outposts in Mindanao, it was once the capital of the Spanish region known as Caraga.
As emerging ciudad, Tandag is fast changing its landscape. But traces of Spanish and antebellum architecture can still be seen particularly in the residences near the town hall and the San Nicolas de Tolentino Cathedral.[/color]
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all rights reserved 2008/kampanaryo_spy
K-Spy,
You inspire me.
Gracias.
Esto es emocionante y excitante. Preguntas: ?El aeropuerto esta abierto y funcionando otra vez? ?Cuál es la frecuencia de vuelos?
No veo la hora de regresar y verlos a todos de nuevo. Cuidate mucho
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those that matter... don't mind and those that mind... don't matter." Dr. Suess
Esto es emocionante y excitante. Preguntas: ?El aeropuerto esta abierto y funcionando otra vez? ?Cuál es la frecuencia de vuelos?
No veo la hora de regresar y verlos a todos de nuevo. Cuidate mucho
abb,
Gracias tanto para encontrarlo emocionando y para estimular.
El vuelo quizás regrese antes de los fines de año. tres veces una semana, por lo menos. Será agradable a usted y a alexa otra vez. con carlo y lu, por supuesto.
"Most claims of originality are testimony to ignorance and most claims of magic are testimony to hubris." -James March-
Ako sab dili kaapas. My Spanish is long gone and forgotten.
Kamps,
I am so thrilled with your statistics showing Tandag’s economic activities. They are sure-fire signs that Tandag’s performance as a city is in ascension. Hopefully over the course of time that category will be alleviated to a much higher one.
I am more enthusiastic to know if airline companies would soon be in operation. Kinon-o kaha ini mahitabo?
It’s good to hear we still have traces of the Spanish and antebellum architecture, it would be good if government will initiate some measures of like, listing them as heritage properties/buildings and preserve them.
Esto es emocionante y excitante. Preguntas: ?El aeropuerto esta abierto y funcionando otra vez? ?Cuál es la frecuencia de vuelos?
No veo la hora de regresar y verlos a todos de nuevo. Cuidate mucho
abb,
Gracias tanto para encontrarlo emocionando y para estimular.
El vuelo quizás regrese antes de los fines de año. tres veces una semana, por lo menos. Será agradable a usted y a alexa otra vez. con carlo y lu, por supuesto.
ningar mo kon yakasabot ako niton pagapaniyab niyo.......
yang,
bisan pa bugsayon, gamitan nan google, di gayud mada, kay onhon bopolopok sa lagi sa spanish labon pa sa ma 3.5 an grado kon maayong laki (*,)
unhon ko ini pag delete na patik na yanumpay na sa sila?
wahahaha. on "sikantot" abay dakan. kay mabibu sa isab. like mana toyang nosebleed ako as in "profious bleeding" kay warai gayud ako alamag tun SPANISH dili makasumpay as in " di puede makatabok, porque malapok"
Esto es emocionante y excitante. Preguntas: ?El aeropuerto esta abierto y funcionando otra vez? ?Cuál es la frecuencia de vuelos?
No veo la hora de regresar y verlos a todos de nuevo. Cuidate mucho
abb,
Gracias tanto para encontrarlo emocionando y para estimular.
El vuelo quizás regrese antes de los fines de año. tres veces una semana, por lo menos. Será agradable a usted y a alexa otra vez. con carlo y lu, por supuesto.
K-Spy,
Toyang es comica (Yang, kasabot kaw gayod nan ini Palang-ga)
True. This is not fair to all of you so I apologize. Wara ko ma resist an temptation ni K-Spy. Last na ini and truth be told I didn't learn any of these from Purisima or San Jose and not from my current job either but from the one before. We dealt heavily with Latin and South America. Most don’t speak English or their English was as bad as my Spanish. Lots of stuff were "lost in translation" so I was forced to learn "a little" conversational Spanish (at my company’s expense).
And when PMS'ing, what the heck, I watch Spanish channels on cable kay an ila soap opera unsay Maria Flor deluna. Ag ako katayhan nan luha. Another secret out of the bag
Insom,
Up there I wrote to K-Spy:
"This is thrilling and exciting. Questions: Is the airport open and back in business? What's the flight frequency?
Can't wait to go back and see you all again. Take care".
He answered and I'm translating literally:
"Thank you for finding you excited and for motivating you. The flight might be back before the end of the year. Three times a week at least. It will be nice if you and Alexa (can come) again, with Carlo and Lu of course. "
What would I do without all of you? You're heaven to my otherwise hellish day.
Last edited by Alibangbang on Wed Oct 22, 2008 10:59 am, edited 2 times in total.
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those that matter... don't mind and those that mind... don't matter." Dr. Suess
Esto es emocionante y excitante. Preguntas: ?El aeropuerto esta abierto y funcionando otra vez? ?Cuál es la frecuencia de vuelos?
No veo la hora de regresar y verlos a todos de nuevo. Cuidate mucho
abb,
Gracias tanto para encontrarlo emocionando y para estimular.
El vuelo quizás regrese antes de los fines de año. tres veces una semana, por lo menos. Será agradable a usted y a alexa otra vez. con carlo y lu, por supuesto.
K-Spy,
Toyang es comica (Yang, kasabot kaw gayod nan ini Palang-ga)
True. This is not fair to all of you so I apologize. Wara ko ma resist an temptation ni K-Spy. Last na ini and truth be told I didn't learn any of these from Purisima or San Jose and not from my current job either but from the one before. We dealt heavily with Latin and South America. Most don’t speak English or their English was as bad as my Spanish. Lots of stuff were "lost in translation" so I was forced to learn "a little" conversational Spanish (at my company’s expense).
And when PMS'ing, what the heck, I watch Spanish channels on cable kay an ila soap opera unsay Maria Flor deluna. Ag ako katayhan nan luha. Another secret out of the bag
Insom,
Up there I wrote to K-Spy:
"This is thrilling and exciting. Questions: Is the airport open and back in business? What's the flight frequency?
Can't wait to go back and see you all again. Take care".
He answered and I'm translating literally:
"Thank you for finding you excited and for motivating you. The flight might be back before the end of the year. Three times a week at least. It will be nice if you and Alexa (can come) again, with Carlo and Lu of course. "
What would I do without all of you? You're heaven to my otherwise hellish day.
mana abb,
bagan mas malami pamation ini kay bagan paga imagine ko KARABITI an imo baba nan ini. malisud basahon mana kay pilipit na an ako LENGUA.
Thank you for translating. Kadayaw na balita ad-un if ever may flight na diretso na sa Tandag. Hallelujah!
" In Life, God doesn't give you the people you want; instead, He gives you the people you need; to teach you, to hurt you, and to love you, and to make you exactly the way you should be... SMILE! For, Life will always be, B-E-A-Utiful. "
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(Nga sa Kibs?)
Last na ini and truth be told I didn't learn any of these from Purisima or San Jose and not from my current job either but from the one before. We dealt heavily with Latin and South America. Most don’t speak English or their English was as bad as my Spanish. Lots of stuff were "lost in translation" so I was forced to learn "a little" conversational Spanish (at my company’s expense). 
Kadayaw na balita ad-un if ever may flight na diretso na sa Tandag. Hallelujah!