Yes I really live on an Island with a tribe of Natives

[MJBadger]

It`s such a shame that other countries around the world do not work together when a big natrual event like this occurs. Remember all the crime in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina ?
In a way masa i envy you because you have something a lot of us can only dream about , the ability to trust fellow man when the **** hits the fan . I hope everything works out for yourself the family & all the islanders .

 

[Iffy]

Old Salt

Old Salt

I just read all of this, wow. You're a cool guy.

I was in the Navy too by the way, just four years enlisted though.

Hello shipmate.
I was in RN - 12 yrs

 

[Bababooey]

How was that eye? You know they made you eat some, otherwise they would be 'offended'. Half the stuff they make you do is probably just to f!@# with you... "Haha, pick on the white man again..."

 

[stasis]

It`s such a shame that other countries around the world do not work together when a big natrual event like this occurs. Remember all the crime in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina ?

I understand what you say, Badger, but during the massive eq in SF in 89, people were quite helpful., Directing traffic at the intersections where lights were out. Being patient waiting for a line 50 deep for a newspaper as it was the only way to know what happened across town. Bizzare.

Having said that, I was shot that night by a 14 year old kid who was carjacking someone on my street.

Little good, little bad.

By and large, US cities are cesspools. Masa certainly gave up some things for this Lifestyle, but gained immeasurably in other ways.,

Peace.

 

[masamaaso]

Masaamaso, Thank you for this thread. Just read the whole thing. Love it. Next January, I am retiring to Bohol, Philippines with my own brown woman. She is the best. Her family has welcomed me and I look forward to living in the "Greenest place in the greenest place on earth" (that's what the locals say about Bohol).

We have a little plantation, with mahogany trees and cocoa interspersed.

Your posts give me hope of growing my favorite herb there.

Best to you and your family!!

Now thats a nice place,,,Bohol,,,But dont be surprised if your girl tries talking you into living in Cebu city, Have you been there before ??

How was that eye? You know they made you eat some, otherwise they would be 'offended'. Half the stuff they make you do is probably just to f!@# with you... "Haha, pick on the white man again..."

Shit like that happens all the time,, these people are a fun loving race and joke and prank on each other endlessly and me at the drop of a hat, first time I went on a cashew harvest they got me good,, we were all sitting round the fire some were drinking I was a usual well baked by this time in the evening, when the topic of me not having been given the make of the "Acaju"(cashew).
It was semi explained to me as one of the wifes uncles started splitting open a fresh picked nut, that i needed to show the spirits that I could carry the mark of the "acuja" as I started asking "what mark" the uncle pressed the now opened skin of the nut onto the inner bicep of my left arm and held it there with his skinny steel band of an arm, about 5 seconds and it hit me,,, stinging,, like a burn that went to burning ,,like a mutha f*ker,, he asked me a few times "u ok,,,u ok " and of course I'm all like "yea im ok whats all the fuss" aint no way im flinching on um,,,after a few minutes of intense chemical burn they all started rolling and laffin cause they knew I was hurtin,,, ha ha ha very funny mutha f*kers.
On the eye balls those are usually given to the older ones,, a well cooked eye ball turns jelly like and is easy to eat if ya got no teeth, pop it open and spread it on some bread,,unlike fish eyes that stay sorta liquidy and squirt eye ink all through yer mouth when ya bite into one.

And thank you everyone for your thoughts and kind words for us here on the Island.
gonna go find me a snack.

 

[SeaMaiden]

Cashews burn your skin? Do you still have the mark of the Acaju? And if so, does it resemble the number 6?

 

[honeyoil]

Now thats a nice place,,,Bohol,,,But dont be surprised if your girl tries talking you into living in Cebu city, Have you been there before ??

Haha, yes, 2 of her brothers live in Cebu. When I first met her, it was in Cebu. Nice place, except for the air quality and constant noise. That is why I prefer Bohol. A SuperCat boat ride takes ~2.5 hrs to/from Cebu to Bohol. Then another 2 hour drive up to our place next to the Chocolate Hills. An appropriate place for our cacao plantation, I think.

Merry Christmas!!

 

[MJBadger]

No matter where in the world you are i wish you all a good & safe holiday . & for those that don`t celebrate it still stay safe .

 

[Bababooey]

That's a good story, Masa. So basically your body is covered in all sort of marks and scars by now. Just part of living in the jungle, i guess...
Hmm, eyeball tapenade... it's the caviar of the islands.

 

[guineapig]

This is one of the best introduction threads ever....

Has there been any information about cannabis culture on these islands?

Thanks for the great stories and great pics too!!!

kind regards from guineapig

 

[masamaaso]

Cashews burn your skin? Do you still have the mark of the Acaju? And if so, does it resemble the number 6?

Ello Luv,, yup raw cashews are actually dangerous,,highly toxic, even the smoke from roasting um is toxic,,like a real bad poison Ivy,, if ya breath it it'll lead to a host of bronchial issues all the way to the big dirt nap.. The inside of the shell hull has a toxin in it that is acid like and makes the "mark" but its heart shaped not a 6. that was a few years ago, theres a bit of a trace of it left but not much. The harvest season starts in march/april as it does I'll get into it some more,,and you'll see why a 1 oz bag at 7-11 cost $2.99

Haha, yes, 2 of her brothers live in Cebu. When I first met her, it was in Cebu. Nice place, except for the air quality and constant noise. That is why I prefer Bohol. A SuperCat boat ride takes ~2.5 hrs to/from Cebu to Bohol. Then another 2 hour drive up to our place next to the Chocolate Hills. An appropriate place for our cacao plantation, I think.

Merry Christmas!!

Cool glad to hear you've done some ground work and are not going over there blind. When ya get settled see about looking me up here and i'll tell ya the heart aches and victories of growing sativas cause theres gonna be some....Right now I've got 5 unknown Indica seedling that are doing ok for now but man Are these really as fragile as they seem ??? I bend over one of my sativa seedlings and stake it back up its good to go in a day or 2,bend one of these Indies over and thats that,,dead by the next day, touchy lil buggas.

That's a good story, Masa. So basically your body is covered in all sort of marks and scars by now. Just part of living in the jungle, i guess...
Hmm, eyeball tapenade... it's the caviar of the islands.

Yea its safe to say I got a few marks from here, but not to bad,my next mark should be a tattoo,,Ive been here a good long time now and talk has been going around about giving me a"Tatooy"(ta-toy) if it happens I wont have any say so on what the mark will be or which spirit will be represented,all marks are spirit related. My wifes dad mentioned it to her a few months ago asking if she thought I would be accepting of it,,,her answer was something close to "he'd be pissed if he didnt get a tatooy"..

And the caviar of the Islands is a worm,,, a wood worm,,lives in the underside of rotted logs,,long translucent looking with the texture and taste of oysters,, if ya like raw oysters dipped in hot sauce,,,,you'll love wood worms..Ummmm gud cracker....

This is one of the best introduction threads ever....

Has there been any information about cannabis culture on these islands?

Thanks for the great stories and great pics too!!! kind regards from guineapig

Not much here really to speak of,,there is a culture north of here and tribes north west of here in the PI that have a culture.
There is a plant here that look like cannibis and is used as a med plant for animals but not people,,My wifes mom gathers it in the middle of the year when the buds,,,that look like weed buds ,,but are not,,, are ripe and she drys and grinds it into a powder,,she uses it for pain relief on the roosters and other animals that get a cut or wound,, somewhere ive got a foto of the plant and its some type of sativa ,,just not cannabis sativa...

things are getting back to normal laughing for the most part so someone decided it was time to have a little party,, and whats a party without food ???
On the menu is fresh goat meat and blue-fin tuna.
Check out the prep work on the goat, and nothing get wasted the "guts" will be prepared into 4-5 different spicy hot dishes with a lot of ginger added,, my personal fav,,,the liver,, my wife cuts it into small cubes flours it up and deep fries it till crispy then she mixes the liver with spicy hot diced vegies,, over a pile of rice and man it is kickin, the roasted meat itself is tasty as it gets,fired roasted and smoky..
The tuna is steamed in a banana tree log,,now heres something a lot of you guys can try, if ya can get a hunk of banana tree log.
The fish is cleaned and the gills removed, the guts are then removed through the gill openings leaving the fish intact with no stomach cuts,,now stuff some lemon grass garlic a few onions,,what ever ya like it up to you,,stuff it all into the fish but dont blout the fish just fill the void where the guts were.
now get a fresh cut banana log and split it. hollow out enough to lay the fish inside, then sew it closed with strips of peeled banana log, place it on a fire and turn a few times over a 30-40 min period. The fish is moist smokey lemony..

 

[noyd666]

sounds good to me, whats for desert? did the people of tribe get rebuilt ok, loose any livestock? nice peacefull sea shot there mas.

 

[diggdugg]

Awsome fish cooking method Massa! Damn that looks good. Do you guys smoke meats as a preservative like jerky, dried sausage etc.? Or does everything get consumed immediatly? I'd imagine refrigeration is scarce.

 

[SeaMaiden]

I've cooked in banana leaves before and they don't look like that, you can fold and tie them. Those things look like the lower parts of the banana, or part of a palm? The innards of the goat look incredibly clean. That was a very healthy animal!

Thanks for updating us, masama.

 

[Mrs.Babba]

Best thread on icmag.....

 

[canna woop!]

Hi Masamaaso, I have read your thread and like the others I wish the best to you and yours! It must be a huge load of work to get the ville all back up and running. Glad the baby indie's survived that. I was wondering if you are still using styrofoam in the garden? just wondering whether you tried using sand instead. for that purpose? Also curious about your char, you mentioned using charred rice hulls, charred coral, and I'm wondering what else is good char in your view? and how much would you add to a 5 gallon bucket? Just curious thx, woop!

 

[huligun]

I've cooked in banana leaves before and they don't look like that, you can fold and tie them. Those things look like the lower parts of the banana, or part of a palm? The innards of the goat look incredibly clean. That was a very healthy animal!

Thanks for updating us, masama.

Every culture in Central and South America cooks a lot of the same dishes, but they are seasoned and made just a little bit differently. Mother always cooked in Banana leaves, but they were different than what my friend does in Costa Rica. They all fry plantains, but they are all different. Rice and Beans are all over the world, but rice come to Americas after the discovery of the new world and beans went abroad from the new world (as well as corn and peas). Sharing food is the number one reason for the population explosion in the last 200 years.

My favorite foods come from Mexico. It is like India of the new world. Mexicans seem to use 10-30 spices in an entry. Colombian and Costa Rican food pales in comparison. Sorry I am hungry and rambling. I miss my nacatamals in bandana leaf.

 

[SeaMaiden]

Every culture in Central and South America cooks a lot of the same dishes, but they are seasoned and made just a little bit differently. Mother always cooked in Banana leaves, but they were different than what my friend does in Costa Rica. They all fry plantains, but they are all different. Rice and Beans are all over the world, but rice come to Americas after the discovery of the new world and beans went abroad from the new world (as well as corn and peas). Sharing food is the number one reason for the population explosion in the last 200 years.

My favorite foods come from Mexico. It is like India of the new world. Mexicans seem to use 10-30 spices in an entry. Colombian and Costa Rican food pales in comparison. Sorry I am hungry and rambling. I miss my nacatamals in bandana leaf.

Tostones. Platanos maduros. Pasteles, which are damn near exactly like enchiladas. Queso relleno made with a HOLLAND Dutch cheese (Gouda). Empanadas o empanadillas. These are all trade route recipes. I was AMAZED to see the stuffed cheese recipe, almost exactly as my grandmother's (she wrote a cookbook, Cocinando en San German) being prepared in the Yucatan, Mexico. Astonished, actually.

And I missed Fernando (Allende) and Mari's visit AGAIN! They sang for my grandmother, I'm waiting for the video my dad's working on.

I love going through the list of New World foods that are now staples, an inherent, intrinsic part of a culture's food. For example, peppers. Or corn/maize. Or my favorite, beans. GOD I love beans! But I've gotta have 'em con arroz.

 

[Relentless]

awesome, just awesome.

 

[Bababooey]

Those arent banana leaves, they're banana tree logs, Seamaiden. And they're tied together with strips of the same log.

As far as your indica seedlings, you said everything is always wet (that's why youve gone through a dozen cameras) so maybe there's some types of fungus or molds in the air, and when the seedling got bent over that broke the skin making it vulnerable to the fungus? Could be airborne or surface born, maybe when you touched the bend it got into the cut.
And these are jungle fungus/molds and so unknown to the indica. A good way to breed resistance would be to breed it to one of your sativas. And then finding and perfecting a pheno with an indica effect, short flowering time, good mold resistance and high potency would be your goal. You may find such seeds in your first generation, or it might take some further inbreeding to find what you want...

I think a 'Bad Dog' tattoo is in your future. Isnt that what your wife calls you?

Hmmm, worm tapenade...