(It was our encounter that brought me this feeling. A feeling that I cannot fully express due to the constraints imposed to me by the norms of society – ethics…) dearest 26van, i don’t go with stationeries to add some juice to this letter. no greetings that would make your heart scream. no formalities to please [...]
Lot of things happened to me when I spent two weeks in Samar. The main reason for me to be there was a sad one. But nonetheless it really felt good to be back home. After mom’s nine days of wake, I was stuck at our sala spending an evening of quality time as we were planning with [...]
life is indeed full of surprises one of them is death, it comes like a thief in the night. what is ask of us to do is not be vigilant but to make sure that we have loved and have shared that love…
I was stranded in Cebu due to the cat and dog weather that was affecting the seas. The whole city at the instance gave me an air of festive mood. It was because of the Sinulog Festival that was brewing on its street. I can still feel the city’s jumping atmosphere until now even it [...]
(this is my first time to write a waray-waray poem or siday. So pls I would appreciate some comments to improve the way I deliver it. I just would like to acknowledge Mr.John Docena Simborios, your poetry triggered me to explore my own dialect. Thanks! Here it goes…)
Let me call it “D-Day” – November 05 2008 for this day will never be forgotten. The reason is simple it is because it was the day wherein an African-American was elected as the “world’s most powerful man” or simply put as THE President of the United States of America. This victory of a person [...]
Being divorced from my favorite pastime which is news eaves-dropping brings such nostalgia to my searching mind. Hence, I thought of scanning the archives of our bookshelves in our boarding house. It was the 23rd August 2008 issue of the Inquirer that I saw a man in white face down in a tarmac. It was [...]