Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Treasure Hunters
Last year I came to collaborate with a couple of guys who I found very dynamic as well as interesting. After getting to know them a little bit, I learned that they too had their own taste of running after buried treasure which was a surprise. I had thought that I would be the only one I knew who went crazy about gold and treasure. Well here they were, young guys who were as crazy as I was.
The stories they told were much more involved and filled with the adventure but also the drudgery and frustration of having to dig holes, pits even on the say-so of someone who claims to be a living witness but who in the end would turn out to be a scam artist whose only contact with gold was his golden tongue that knew how to play on the gold lust of people like me and these two guys. Another friend of mine, a Japanese electronics engineer who was also bitten by the treasure bug has forsaken his old life in Japan to live in the Philippines.
Anyway, here's Cagayan de Oro City with another one: Cagayan de Oro City. My Cebu City site has made pr1, surprise, surprise. Dumaguete is still in the boondocks as far as Google goes but Dumaguete has made some headway.
The stories they told were much more involved and filled with the adventure but also the drudgery and frustration of having to dig holes, pits even on the say-so of someone who claims to be a living witness but who in the end would turn out to be a scam artist whose only contact with gold was his golden tongue that knew how to play on the gold lust of people like me and these two guys. Another friend of mine, a Japanese electronics engineer who was also bitten by the treasure bug has forsaken his old life in Japan to live in the Philippines.
Anyway, here's Cagayan de Oro City with another one: Cagayan de Oro City. My Cebu City site has made pr1, surprise, surprise. Dumaguete is still in the boondocks as far as Google goes but Dumaguete has made some headway.
Labels: cagayan de oro city, cebu city, dumaguete, treasure
Monday, September 03, 2007
Living in Cagayan de Oro
If you live in Cagayn de Oro City long enough you inevitably brush shoulders with treasure hunters or people who knew people who are treasure hunters. Almost everyone has a story to tell about some treasure or other. There is the old army Colonel who used to be the terror of Mindanao who has gone through everything that he has and more. He has stories. His eyes tell you what many like him take for Gospel Truth, that Yamashita's Gold is still waiting out there.
I went back to Cagayan de Oro City again and the stories are nothing more than echoes in my memmory that no longer hold any magic for me. I no longer enjoy thinking back on those nights when I would drive alone to some rendezvous with shadowy people with stories of treasures, Wells Fargo strong boxes and Liberty Bonds.
Yamashita and his fabled gold was part of my world. but that world does not matter anymore. What matters now is Ching's World and what it stands for. Ching's World is a brave new world and may yet come true.
I went back to Cagayan de Oro City again and the stories are nothing more than echoes in my memmory that no longer hold any magic for me. I no longer enjoy thinking back on those nights when I would drive alone to some rendezvous with shadowy people with stories of treasures, Wells Fargo strong boxes and Liberty Bonds.
Yamashita and his fabled gold was part of my world. but that world does not matter anymore. What matters now is Ching's World and what it stands for. Ching's World is a brave new world and may yet come true.
Labels: Ching's world, gold, treasure
