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Name: John
Country: United States
State: California
Metro: Modesto
Gender: Male
Interests: Social justice and human dignity. Oh and chocolate ice cream and adobo friend rice. Ok ok, and kare-kare and dinuguan...
I have some older blog entries over at http://katipunero.blogspot.com
I have some Hay(na)ku's at:
http://johnaku.blogspot.com/
And some reports from the field when I was in the Philippines:
http://philippinefieldnotes.blogspot.com/
Friendster fun: Just search for jbanagan (",)
Expertise: SCUBA, assault weapons, combat medic, public health, chocolate chip cookies, and California rolls.
Occupation: Student
Industry: Education/Research
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Yahoo:  jbanagan
Member Since:
10/4/2004
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| Baby Jonah is only a tiny infant ( DOB August 2,2007) He was diagnosed
with HLH ( Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocystosi s) , a rare condition
where one of the immune cells attacks and eats all other blood cells .
He will need a bone marrow transplant by the end of October 2007 .
Currently he is going through 8 weeks of induction chemotherapy which
will hopefully place him into temporary remission after which he will be
placed into maintenance chemotherapy and proceed to BMT as soon as
possible. BUT if he does not respond to chemotherapy, he will need to
go immediately to BMT and will need to find a match EVEN sooner. ANYBODY
of Chinese or Asian descent is preferred to get themselves screened
ASAP, and join the bone marrow registry, so that when the time comes,
their HLA-types can be compared with Jonah's. PRELIMINARY HLA-TYPING
JUST REQUIRES A QUICK SWAB OF THE MOUTH OR A SMALL BLOOD SAMPLE. If
needed, more info can be found at www.savejonah.com | | |
| Not! Well, it was a festival for sure for Manila Garden who had the ONLY booth for the adobo festival. So granted that this was the first adobo festival in the east bay (most of them are on the peninsula) but still, ONE FRIKKIN BOOTH? Come on? What they did have that was pretty cool was the talent show. Cute kids singing different songs but all in all, it was (hate to say it) but weak! I suppose it's because the expectations were that the priority and them would be lived-up to and by having just one booth serving adobo (which I'm sure Manila Garden didn't mind, that line was hella long) it really didn't make the festival. Now if they had called it a singing festival then it would have been okay since my expectations would have been different. So instead of an adobo festival it was more like a girl's debut or the wedding where all the barangay is invited to. I give it a 2 out of 5 for tricking me and giving us false expectations of having adobo a plenty. On a side not, we went to a lechon place away from the festival since we didn't want to wait in line for a billion hours for adobo. That place was pretty good. The banana lumpia was very good.  | | |
| No, not wedding weekend. Har har! It was a Redding weekend. Well, Redding, Shasta, Lassen, Burney type of weekend as Tes and I took a road trip to Shasta to see what Redding was all about. We had a cool time in the hot country checking out nature. Lassen: Great lakes, highly recommended. Burney Falls: Awesome and freakin' cold. Shasta: Would like to go house boating there again. Redding: Small-town feel but with lots of amenities (Logan's Roadhouse is a great place to eat! Plus Exploration Park is pretty nifty).
Here are some photos: 
The bird's head exploded!  Oh he tricked me! Tricksy bird! 
Here's Tes at the base of the falls (the watter is 47 degrees! burr!!!) 
I may have had gas, but Lassen has it a lot worse! Pee-yu! These sulfur vents stink!!! | | |
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