Thank you Food Pacific Manufacturing Journal for the feature…then a simple breakfast thanksgiving with Pangs.

Early January of current year, got an e-mail from Cristina Douthwaite
of Food Pacific Manufacturing Journal re an interview to share on JOAX Ingredients’,
my family’s food manufacturing firm, methodologies for its  frozen-processed-meat products.
No “hullabaloo”, I instantaneously agreed.
We were never, yet, interviewed nor featured nor video-shot by a foreign mag or station.
This magazine caters to Southeast Asia and enlightens readers with new and/or
upcoming technologies about food production, raw materials, lab analyses,
consumer preferences, equipment & machines, packaging and link up users to suppliers.
Being a food manufacturer receiving complimentary monthly copy,
we are very familiar with this journal for it serves as reference point
whenever we are in need of new ingredients, packaging & design, equipment and all those “latest”.
Never did it occur to me that even my pic would land in the front page. WOW!
And feature lands in the 1st & 2nd pages. WOW AGAIN!
Click here or this link: http://www.magzter.com/Preview/FoodPacific-Manufacturing-Journal/11/42488/1
for clearer reading.
…and early Sunday morning, upon learning of the coming out issue,
Pangs and I needed to celebrate.
And we shared on this:
Ripe mango balls-slices, “suman” (Filipino elongated rice cake)
dripped with inverted brown sugar & pushed down to belly by
hot “kopiko” (our favorite 3-in-1 instant coffee).
Solved. A relaxing happy weekend.

(Family Sports) I miss my #1 passion.

One year and 1 month today I have not competed in my #1 passion: IPSC shooting.
The agencies tasked to issue licenses, transport & carry permits, for reasons beneficial
to I don’t know who else, aside from the government coffers, made it ultra difficult
to secure any of the above. And this is to the painstakingly laborious hardships of
licensed and responsible gun-owners.
Competitions and field matches waned barest to nil.
Every shooter scampered for whosoever could aid him/her secure the needed permits.
And since there were no matches here, said issuances will be to compete abroad.
The firearms industry suffered. Gunsmiths had nothing to build and/or repair and/or modify.
Gun stores existed like funeral parlors, so silent, gloomy, no clients at all until lay-offs ensued.
The main “battlecry” of the “promotors” (the sponsors of the “action” taken)
is: TO CONTROL CRIMINALITY.
Was it curved?
Read the papers. The truth shouts eloquently.
Suppressed was the LEGAL possession-ownership-carrying.
CRIMINALS all-over + the now famous riding in tandem operated, and still are,
as if cops are ALL in deep slumber.
The bad guys are so brave knowing the LEGAL GUN-owners are NOW un-armed
and cannot, will not, could not even protect their lives, limbs, families & properties.
I strongly urge readers…read the Philippine news dailies.
I’m not an old guy in tantrums.
I am a semi bald, thinking man, using my head.
I hope you guys do.
I MISS YOU…I mean I miss to fire you out.
…meantime, back to golf & biking…until the hard headed “tops” are out of power.
I miss firing my 38 super Open Division pistol (“Diana”) as it was stolen, along with other valuables,
by “akyat bahay gang” (hard-core syndicated forced entry house robbers).
Built above (“Maja”) which is my Classic Division Single Stack 9mm match ready darling.
QUESTION TO HEADS OF AGENCIES: (whosoever you may be)
WHY DON’T YOU HELP US
SO WE CAN HELP YOU?