Our 2 younger children aged 6 and 5 are all cured now from their colds and coughs. They were sick for more than 2 weeks. We decided to put them on raw paleo diet for a week and that cured them. Now they are back to eating normal Filipino food of cooked meats, rice, fruit and some cooked vegetables.

It’s a dumb cycle. Eyes roll. My wife and I know they will be sick again and we’d have to do raw paleo diet again temporarily to cure them, then go back to cooked Filipino diet again.

Will need to change some things. Maybe alternate cooked days and raw days. Maybe incorporate more raw or rare things in their diet that is socially acceptable. Have to avoid this yoyo dieting.

Have to keep them well all the time.

Vander Gaditano took a look at our 8 year old boy and said the last thing he needs now is to shout to the top of his lungs and do the ocho ocho breathing exercises. He needs more air pumped into him. Got to be invigorated, be “bad” to be strong. Vander’s right. I see it in our 6 year old stronger boy who is fast catching up in heft and height.

Add on video: The Ocho Ocho Dance exercises the spine and the lungs.

See kids imitating the ocho ocho dance. Click Here.

Me, my cousin and my 8 year old son were in Taysan, Batangas to visit a new customer who is into gamecock farming. After the visit it was getting late and I thought we were near enough to Laiya and decided it would be nice to sleep over. Since last year I had been dreaming to sleep over in Sitio Balakbakan, a tiny fishing village to buy fresh fish and rent a boat and do some ocean fishing the boat man calls trawling. It is when you drop your fishing line and keep the boat running so the fish will run after the bait.

So it finally happened. We got a room for rent for P 1,500. Rustic accommodations. Good enough for me. Fresh air, good bed, nice villagers, fresh fish. The boat cost P 2,500 and the fishing rod rental is 200 pesos. We spent 100 pesos on bait. Some squid and some tamban fish. We only had one rod. The fisherman brought his line with no rod.

We had a tiny motorboat. We had life vests. But there was only one monoblock chair. The boat man had his cell phone with him, just in case we encountered trouble.

On the the fishing. At 5:30 we walked to the wet market and bought our bait. By 6am we were off. We went to markers on the ocean. And then systematically lowered our lines. The waves were larger than normal. My son and my cousin were getting sea sick. But we needed to catch fish. First we got 2 fish one after the other. They were small. We wanted bigger fish. We moved on. Later we got 2 again. And finally before going back at 10 we got 2 more.

I wanted to stay longer if not for the complaints of my cousin and my son who were sea sick. But I guess 6 is good enough for a bad day. Another boat man last night told us of a good day he had with a customer last week where they got some 22 fish!

Oh, by the way, all the fish to be caught this way are DORADO fish. The fish we caught were 1 to 2 feet long. We got a total of 6 fish. Noticed these dorado fish were green colored when just caught and turn yellow – black after some time in the boat.

We got back on the beach and the boat man grilled the fish lightly. My 8 year old boy was really hungry and ate the whole fish by himself! Ha ha ha. We found out that the gills can be eaten when fish is freshly caught.

Packing the fish back home I bought a styrofoam container and some ice. Put the 5 remaining fish in and added sea water in the container. Sea water keeps the fish fresher longer. Remember that.

At home dinner time the whole family had some dorado fish. The most expensive dorado I ever got. It’s cheaper in Farmer’s market at 130 pesos per kilo. My in laws found the dorado fish deliciously fresh. It was worth it.

Next time I found out that me and the boatman can leave at 3am with the real fishermen who are in a separate fishing boat with nets. We will just be playing escort and probably have some fish jump into our own boat when they start dragging the net.

By the way, this is the Philippines, so any fish we catch is our own. We do not “buy” the fish we catch… okay? This is bounty from the ocean, free for the taking.

Here are a couple of pictures and a video.

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We were on a long trip and going home from Anvaya cove. We had eaten all the food we brought with us. We were on zero food. The kids were very hungry. We passed by a Shell station just after the Dau exit and tried to find something the kids could snack on.

My 8 year old boy suggested spicy dilis. Whole little fish, that seemed a good “healthy” snack albeit cooked. But there was none in the Select store. The other thing they had was spicy salmon skin. I’m thinking probably it has good fat in it. Paid 155 pesos for it.

Kids wanted to have a go at it but I said that just like any new food, parents must taste the food first before giving it to the children. I tasted it. Immediately had an MSG rush in my tongue. Then toxic cooked fat… whatever fat that was… it was immensely toxic I reviled this junk food. My 2 boys wanted to taste it for themselves. They did have a bite each and thumbed down at it just like I did. Down it went to the trash can. It was a unanimous decision.

No wonder Spicy Salmon Skin Thailand brand is left on the store shelves at Select… it sucks! I suggest Select to get a clue and not sell this item any more. Just sell more spicy dilis!

We went on a family trip towards Morong Bataan in Morong Bataan past Subic and of course used the new SCTEX highway: Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway (SCTEx). Very nice, very smooth. One can run 140 kph or more on that highway but of course I don’t suggest you do.

I did notice on our way back as the sun was soon to set that there are no lights on the SCTEX highway! Aka, it is not safe to use the SCTEX highway at night? Personally, I would just use the long old way if I got caught driving at night. I have driven back and forth using the old lighted and populated way before.

What happened here in SCTEX? No more budget for lights? Is this some kind of big blooper? When will the SCTEX have lights and be safe to drive on during the dark?