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San Isidro: Patron Boronganon!

By • Apr 4th, 2008 • Category: Events, Features

Pag-aabot hit summer, damo la nga iba iba nga mga aktibidades iton sinusodlan ngan ginhihimo hiton mga Boronganon. Sugad hit iba nga mga lugar ha Pilipinas, ginhihimo iton mga family reunions, mga alumni homecomings, mayda mga paurugyas para hiton kabataan, mayda Virgenes ha Singbahan, mayda Santacruzan, damu it nasingabot panmisita ngan pamasyada ngadto hin mga [...]



Growing up with Christmas

By • Dec 15th, 2007 • Category: Features

It now all seem too long ago. Christmas just isnt what it was to me before. Maybe I’ve outgrown the thrill of staying up till late at night trying to get a glimpse of Santa once he drops by. Maybe I’ve lost the feel that candy-filled Christmas stockings bring. Maybe the value of Ninong’s Christmas [...]



Losing Dad I (Missing Dad 2)

By • Dec 2nd, 2007 • Category: Arts

The dinner had a different feel. Tatay, who just moments earlier seemed playful, was in an unusually silent mode as we ate. That is not to say he wasn’t talking. But people who knew my Dad would know how an animated conversationalist he was. He was not his usual self, or his earlier-moments-ago self. The [...]



In Memory of a Lost Love

By • Nov 30th, 2007 • Category: Arts

Lost love. It’s the one thing that almost anybody can relate to. It seems too common a phenomenon. But yet everybody who had been through it knows how so lonely it can feel losing love. It seems everybody knows it but nobody seems to understand. “I-know-how-you-feel” and “you’ll-get-over-it” seems too cliche to just even temporarily [...]



Missing Dad

By • Nov 23rd, 2007 • Category: Arts

Dad is of course my father. My late father I mean. I called him Tatay. He called me Jun. He passed away some 4 years ago. And 4 years ago… he may not have known it, others may never know it… but he defined my life in the most unique way a person can ever [...]