Took a few months off of work and decided to bicycle through the Philippines. One day was a very hard mountain stage, driving from Bacolod to San Carlos, on Negros island. Arrived at the top completely exhausted, layed on the roadside in an attempt to recover. Suddenly a car stopped and a young couple of locals handed me a sandwich and wished me luck. I'll never forget them

If a hill climb has you lying down at the top, that’s got to be a good hill.

When it all started, I had no training whatsoever, and, I carried a backpack with my stuff. But along the way, this all improved

Indeed, looks more like a falling snowflake

Personally I found Krepkaya the best I have ever tasted. Unfortunately very hard to find in my country these days

Merry Christmas

Nearest Common Ancestor

Wikipedia says that's not true:

> The German "von" is a linguistic cognate of the Dutch "van", however, unlike the German "von", the Dutch "van" is not indicative of the person's nobility or royalty. Van has a history of being used by commoners and nobility alike to simply signify ancestral relation to a particular place, (e.g. Willem van Oranje "William of [the] Orange [family]"; Jan van Ghent "John [who hails] from Ghent").