panagladingit. panagbiag. panagyaman.

Ma. Asuncion Damasco Abaya 15 August 1938 – 06 July 2010 Nagsamneng. Daytoy ti sungbat ni mamang idi damagen diay doctor no ania ti marikrikna na.  Nagsamneng met ti balikas a kanayun a mangeg ko kaniana tunggal agalenna ti sakit a marikriknana.  Ti ammok, maysa a kadaanan a termino nga us-usaren laeng dagiti naun-una nga [...]

“samneng” (painful)

Samneng is apparently an Iloco word meaning painful or hurtful.  This was my mother’s reply to quote “nagsamngeng dc” when her doctor asked her how she feels  six months ago when she was confined in a hospital for the first time in her life. I always hear the word from her as an expression of [...]

Typhoon Ondoy

A foreigner asked me some years back , days after a tsunami killed hundreds of thousands of people in  Asia specifically in Thailand, Sri Lanka, India and Indonesia of which one is better to die : war or disaster. I replied disaster. It was a stupid choice.  I was in Manila on the 26th of [...]

Thank you President Cory.

I am grateful I was born a Filipino. I am more grateful I am living in a generation that lived a great woman named Corazon C. Aquino. I take pride to have recollection of live footages about a bloodless revolution in my country,  in my lifetime.  A  story rooted from an eleven year old girl’s first encounter with  political issues (though [...]

“barack “

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              My stepfather Lolo said, “Men take advantage of weakness in other men. They’re just like countries in that way. The strong man takes the weak man’s land. He makes the weak man work in his fields. If the weak man’s woman is pretty, the strong man will take her. Which would you rather [...]

there were . . .

  “scream bloody murder” as i was sleeping those quiet nights while souls were trembling in the other sides of the world. http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2008/scream.bloody.murder/ a two hour documentary on genocide in three different continents bares it all. i glued a Sunday afternoon over the show on television. a so informative work to ponder about an overwhelming reality that [...]

wind chimes

    One of the few films i watched more than five (5) times, based on a 1991 best sellling authobiography of the same title, “I Dreamed of Africa (2002)”, (Kuki Gallman)  always brings me back to where my heart longs to rest…..to the beats, the chimes and the wilderness and perhaps to where a not so fascinating life [...]

Mamang

She’s more sad than me each time i fall yet more strong than anyone else each lift i needed. Thank you always mamang. Mother’s day is everyday as i see you live your life.

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