tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10272974878801947702024-03-13T05:15:09.465-07:00Carabao Eating GrassJust a place to leave my carabao clutter.Bagmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13128600323868487437noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1027297487880194770.post-352322165484387552012-09-26T02:08:00.002-07:002012-09-26T02:08:40.102-07:00The Aftermath<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona brought about the reconciliation of the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Basas and the Coronas. Out of the 23 senators, twenty voted guilty, convicting and removing the Chief Justice out of office. One might conclude that all's well that end well. But neither the Supreme Court nor the former Chief Justice are over the hump.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Replacing Corona as Chief Justice is Maria Lourdes Sereno. Her appointment by President Noynoy Aquino has raised some controversy. She has been criticized in her first speech at the Supreme Court for invoking that it was God's will that made her Chief Justice. There are also concerns that she will not get the cooperation of the other Associate Justices as well as questions obout her psychological tests.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The former Chief Justice, on the other hand, is in more beating. The BIR and the Department of Justice are filing tax evasion charges against Renato Corona, his daughter Carla and son-in-law Constantino. </span><br />
Bagmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13128600323868487437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1027297487880194770.post-79909467508160935602012-03-10T11:24:00.000-08:002012-03-10T11:24:56.533-08:00Out of the WoodworkComing out of the woodwork, <b>Ana Basa</b> and <b>Sister Flory </b>add to the woes of <b>Chief Justice Renato Corona</b>. What has been a family squabble for three decades is turning into a sensational story that adds to serious misgivings on the character of the Chief Justice. <br />
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Out of the woodwork, Ana Basa talks about the family corporation <b>Basa-Guidote Enerprises Inc. (BGEI)</b> and how the Coronas deprived them of their participation in the company. A follow thru by her Aunt, Sister Flory a ninety year old nun of the Franciscan order and now the darling of the press, roused staunch Corona sympathizer Mon Tulfo to withdraw his support of the beleaguered chief justice.<br />
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Questions have been asked by the Corona camp: Why only now? <br />
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<b>Out of the woodwork</b> is meant to criticize people who suddenly appear in public revealing their opinions when previously they did not make themselves known. Does this hold with the family of Mrs. Corona coming out this late? Perhaps the better idiom is “<b>the cat is out of the bag</b>.”<br />
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Or “<b>throw in the towel?</b>”Bagmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13128600323868487437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1027297487880194770.post-54965419008605497752012-02-18T22:58:00.000-08:002012-02-18T22:58:12.621-08:00The Bankers and Corona<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The Corona Impeachment Trial fever creeps on the population as bankers are summoned to testify to the court, much to the objections of the defense panel. Opinions are divided. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The prosecution has Conrado de Quiros rooting for the prosecution although he shows displeasure everytime his favored team commits a blunder. Randy David takes on the impeachment court and the court of public opinion and lately, young Patricia Evangelista's discourse on "the hero who waves from balconies and pumps his fist with the balloon-carrying crowds in the manner of a television evangelist."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A client wearing a "Corona SALN" shirt does business with this branch of the Bank of the Philippine Island.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">On the side of Corona, Bel Cunanan tackles the prosecution with her blog Political Tidbits while Ninez Cacho Olivares seconds the motion of the Chief Justice for the president "to bare his psychological report for the public to be informed on his mental health."</div>Bagmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13128600323868487437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1027297487880194770.post-1464915400556003992011-12-14T23:01:00.000-08:002011-12-14T23:01:07.154-08:00In This Corner"P'reng Mar, baka hindi natin kaya iyan. Malaking mama pala at bata pa. Akala ko mga justice ay matatanda na."<br />
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"Kaya mo iyan. Apakan mo kaya sa paa gaya ng ginawa ni Marquez"<br />
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"Hindi ba bading iyun?"<br />
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"Hindi si Jose Midas, si Juan Manuel, yung kalaban ni Pacquiao."<br />
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"P'reng Mar, Batangueno iyan, delicado. Baka maglabas ng balisong."<br />
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"Pambihira ka naman Noy. E di gamitin mo rin yung brass knuckles na binigay ko sa iyo. Gusto mo payari na lang natin sa mga bata natin."<br />
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"Baka hindi makisama ang mga iyun, lalo na yung Batangueno. Maasahan kaya natin?"<br />
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"Kung ayaw niyang upakan, e di pasensyahan tayo. Marami pa namang maaasahan sa mga bata natin."Bagmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13128600323868487437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1027297487880194770.post-76101074745373400552011-12-05T22:37:00.000-08:002011-12-05T23:04:44.135-08:00Showdown<div class="MsoNormal">Perhaps we have not seen the last of this conflict; better than the Pacquiao-Mayweather Showdown, if that ever happens. </div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
This is a 10 round fight. Each round is three minutes, when the bell rings, the round is over and both of you go to your corner for a one minute rest. My job is to keep this fight fair - or as fair as we can. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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So, No hitting below the belt, no gouging, no head butting, no hair pulling, no biting. When I say break, break clean and step back. Now, shake hands and go back to your corners. When the bell rings, come out of your corners and start fighting. May the better man win.Bagmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13128600323868487437noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1027297487880194770.post-15307190733459475402011-07-31T19:50:00.000-07:002011-08-02T02:33:07.351-07:00Pen Pen De SarapenBecause little has been written regarding the etymology of Filipino nursery rhymes, let us, hypothesize about their origin. Well known to Filipino children, “Pen pen de Sarapen” makes a good case study and many writers comment that the verses do not make much sense. Perhaps so, for the present generation, but isn’t it possible the message it was trying to articulate has been lost in time?<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Pen pen de sarapen<br />
De cuchillo de almacen<br />
Haw, haw de carabao batuten.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
Ang saya kong pula tatlong pera<br />
Ang saya kong puti tatlong salapi.</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">Sipit namimilipit<br />
Ginto't pilak namumulaklak <br />
Sa tabi ng dagat.</div><br />
As a point of comparison, the English Nursery Rhyme “Mary Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow? With silver bells and cockle shells, and pretty maids all in a row” is said to be an implication to Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon’s only daughter, Mary Tudor nicknamed Bloody Mary, because in her desire to restore Catholic faith in England, some 275 martyrs who refused to denounce their protestant faith were burned at the stake. <br />
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Silver bells and cockle shells were metaphors for instruments of torture. The growing garden referred to is an allusion to graveyards for those who suffered during her reign as Mary I, Queen of England. <br />
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“Pen pen” like “Mary, Mary” does not make much sense to the present generation. But unlike its English counterpart, there has been no speculations about its beginnings. Isn’t it possible that the relevance of “Pen pen” has been lost in time?<br />
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Could the “cuchillo de almacen” be a referral to the “Almacen De Polvora” at San Juan del Monte? On August 30, 1896, Andres Bonifacio captured San Juan’s powder magazine and water reservoir (which supplied Manila) while simultaneous attacks occurred in different places in Manila. The next line could be some sort of ridicule to the American fascination with the carabao.<br />
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After revolting against Spain, the Filipino patriots were not happy to find “friend” America taking the place of their former colonizers. It just might be that “Pen pen de sarapen” is really a call to arms, an ode to continue the struggle that began with the attack on the “Almacen de Polvora” at San Juan del Monte. Bagmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13128600323868487437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1027297487880194770.post-52467602053629799132011-04-06T23:26:00.000-07:002011-04-06T23:26:07.345-07:00The Old Swiss InnThe President visited the Swiss Inn early this year. "My parents used to bring me here," he said. That must have been before martial law before Ninoy was arrested. The owner of the place then was Emil Landert, a Swiss national who made good in the Philippines.<br />
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An interesting occurrence during St. Joseph’s is the “miracle of the swallows” at San Juan Capistrano, Southern California, where a whole flock of cliff swallows return from their winter vacation at Goya, Corrientes in Argentina. They return to rebuild their mud nests months at the walls of the old stone church. This event is celebrated each year. The Mission Bells ring as the little birds wing their way back to the most famous Mission in California, the village of San Juan Capistrano takes on a fiesta air.<br />
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<blockquote>“People from all around the world come to the town of San Juan Capistrano to share in the rich tradition that defines St. Joseph’s Day at Mission San Juan Capistrano,” said Mechelle Lawrence-Adams, Executive Director of the Mission.<br />
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“We are grateful for our swallows history as a means of welcoming the public and sharing this incredible historic resource with them and invite the public to take part in all that we have to offer – dances, entertainment, bell ringing, exhibits, and the opportunity to connect with family and friends.”</blockquote><br />
The swallows remain for the duration of spring and winter, feeding on insects, spiders, flies and worms in order to breed and to prepare for their journey back to Argentina come October 23, feast day of San Juan Capistrano. <br />
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Leon Rene wrote the song “When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano” which was recorded by The Ink Spots, Guy Lombardo, Glenn Miller and Pat Boone.Bagmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13128600323868487437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1027297487880194770.post-42849758707822233222011-03-14T16:58:00.000-07:002011-04-06T23:13:34.983-07:00UE Art Students<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I chanced to pass by Philam Life at UN Avenue and saw this exhibit by UE Art Students and took images of some using my cell phone.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPZgs9yRYSN6ICQTZbS8CM-JQvTpN8ll8eopEQllYmKkL7yWSrQBJybjngYBuuyYdFbIarLGu8ms7EjP3SvR00yWESiGOyT6-j0N42w7t0Ufj8HpuWW0lFsdqpR267lJhqn2TnSJo08r9C/s400/Jazmine+Mei+Diaz+GoldenYears.jpg" width="338" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</style> <![endif]--> <div class="MsoNormal">It was the Ellen Degeneres show that reminded me that the next day would be Ash Wednesday. Ellen had those Mardi Gras beads and a lady guest from New Orleans.. And so, I downed two beers while watching the show. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Most people associate Mardi Gras with merry making and carnivals, as in Rio, Brazil and in New Orleans.<span> </span>Its roots are Christian, marking the day before Ash Wednesday when Christendom starts the practice of fasting and mortification.<span> </span>Mardi Gras is leterally “Fat Tuesday” in French, also known as Shrove Tuesday or Pancake day in UK.</div><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">It is an error to refer to Philippine festivals such as the Ati-Atihan, Sinulog, Masskara, Dinagyang, Buling Buling, etc. as the local Mardi Gras.<span> </span>It might be more appropriate to associate these to what was known in many Catholic cultures as Carnival, the liturgical period between Christmas and Lent.<span> </span><br />
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Mardi Gras is French for Fat Tuesday, a pagan custom which Christianity has tried to relate to the coming of Lent, a season of doing penance. The event is also known as Shrove Tuesday, perhaps a more Christian label and associated with pancake dinners.</div></m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac>Bagmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13128600323868487437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1027297487880194770.post-81517007071825876512011-03-01T03:51:00.000-08:002011-03-01T03:58:57.904-08:00The Carabao Band of ThailandThe Carabao Band was organized in 1976 by Thai students <b>Yuanyong Opaku</b> (Aed) and<b> Kirati Promsaka Na Sakon Nakhon</b> (Khiao), both of whom were studying in the Philippines at Mapua Institute of Technology. Their music take on social and political issues and was either banned or ignored by the government radio and TV stations during the 1980s and early '90s. Their most popular album was released in 1984. Called<b> Made in Thailand</b>, it sold more than three million copies.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Saul of Tarsus was on the road to Damascus with marching orders to persecute Christians. The graphic story of his falling from his horse is so well known that it does not do much to tell it again. Conversion is just an event. Sanctity is a lifetime activity.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">He assumed the name Paul after his conversion, and spent the rest of his life as an apostle of Christ. His first mission was with Barnabas, going on board to Cyprus, crossing the island from east to west following the southern coast. The second mission was to Antioch, where his companion was Silas, another Roman citizen like himself. A third mission was to Ephesus where Aquila and Priscilla were waiting.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
St. Paul’s many references to the life and teachings of Christ suggests that he knew so much even if he was not present during the public life of Jesus. Truly, the road to Damascus is much more than St. Paul falling from his horse.<br />
</div>Bagmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13128600323868487437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1027297487880194770.post-21081994808087776502011-01-16T01:52:00.000-08:002011-01-25T18:23:01.899-08:00The Santo Niño in the PhilippinesWhile the rest of the world commemorates today the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, the Philippines differs a bit. The Pearl of the Orient was given by the Holy See some special treatment to celebrate this day as the Feast of the Sto. Niño instead. This is all thanks to the centuries-old devotion of us Filipinos to the Child Jesus.<br />
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The Sto. Niño preserves the influence of the spanish era in the Philippines. The Sto. Niño is otherwise called the "Holy Child" by the American religious orders that followed the colonization by the United States. here are some American pieces that the Christian Brothers taught together with the Catechism of Christian Doctrine.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b>CHILD S MORNING HYMN</b><br />
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Jesus, teach me how to pray,<br />
Send distractions far away,<br />
Suffer not my thoughts to stray,<br />
Sweet Holy Child.<br />
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Let me not be rude or wild,<br />
Make me humble, meek, and mild,<br />
Pure as angels undefiled,<br />
Sweet Holy Child.<br />
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When I work or when I play,<br />
Be Thou with me through the day,<br />
Teach me what to do and say,<br />
Sweet Holy Child.<br />
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Make me love Thy Mother blest,<br />
Safe beneath her care to rest,<br />
As a bird within its nest,<br />
Sweet Holy Child.<br />
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When the hour of death is nigh,<br />
May Mary, Joseph, standing by,<br />
Take me in their arms to die,<br />
Sweet Holy Child.<br />
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So through all eternity<br />
Will I bless their charity<br />
Who first led my steps to Thee,<br />
Sweet Holv Child<br />
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<b>HEART OF THE HOLY CHILD</b><br />
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Heart of the Holy Child<br />
Hide me in Thee ;<br />
Purest and undefiled,<br />
Purify me ;<br />
Joy of my infant life,<br />
Far from evil passions rife,<br />
Troubling this world of strife,<br />
Keep me with Thee!<br />
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Sweet Child of Bethlehem,<br />
Open Thine heart;<br />
Lessons from Nazareth<br />
Deign to impart.<br />
Mary and Joseph dear,<br />
Let us be to Jesus near,<br />
With you, we shall not fear<br />
From Him to part.<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">PHOTO</span>: <b>Sto. Niño Jesus de Praga</b></span></div></div>Bagmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13128600323868487437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1027297487880194770.post-55752754726762663932011-01-12T00:03:00.000-08:002011-01-12T00:04:08.086-08:00If carabaos can fly<m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent> </m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4L5w2FYWpUlRRbq4yRZ6QfPi2vo61fX1mV4idiE8VKxmvpL7L4T_gYCAHIal65B28zHxj9qXqRbaKF_rCe-on04Qxx8JVSKbWgpAEOL74oIE9sAbIcezYTKdZUnis2o0eEGxJ3IoVjhmP/s1600/BusStranded.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4L5w2FYWpUlRRbq4yRZ6QfPi2vo61fX1mV4idiE8VKxmvpL7L4T_gYCAHIal65B28zHxj9qXqRbaKF_rCe-on04Qxx8JVSKbWgpAEOL74oIE9sAbIcezYTKdZUnis2o0eEGxJ3IoVjhmP/s320/BusStranded.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I read an entry from the poet <b>Marjorie Evasco</b> at the <b>University of Iowa</b>. I am inspired by the intimacy between father and daughter, stranded along a dusty road in a bus load of people and farm products. Noticing the </span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">10 year old's</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> agitation of having to wait for a much needed tire repair from who knows how far the nearest tire shop was, the father brings the to a knoll. </span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“From this lookout point, the rice in the paddies were ready for harvesting. ‘Watch,’ my father instructed, pointing to a pond where two carabaos were cooling off. Suddenly, my father clapped his hands, and as if by magic, a flock of white birds flew out of the water behind the clump of cogon grass. The birds circled and took my heart with them as they flew away. ‘Herons,’ my father named them. They were perfect in flight, and as the child I was, I must have associated beauty with motion.” </span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">As I see it, the two carabaos stayed in the wallow, undisturbed by the spectacular show that dominated the sky. There were more important things for these beasts. They wallow in the mud, stuffing as much sludge that will insulate them from the sun. And when the master calls, back to work they go. They are akin to laborers making the most of a fifteen minute coffee break. Perhaps carabaos did not appeal to a ten year old then.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“I believe that once a poem is written, the poet can become invisible again until the next urging to sing the rattlesnake, grasshopper, centipede, cow dung or Buddha.” Dr. Evasco concludes “For the making of a poem is an eccentric act of faith that both the conjured up thing and the living presence of the world will someday awaken in another person</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">'</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">s body of memories and dreams.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal">When January comes, I get to recall this rather simple incident. There was this poem called “The Gentleman of Ten” espousing certain values to young boys in grade three. At dismissal time came, just before the prayers at the end of the class, the students were rather unruly so the teacher, Mr. Maximo Ronquillo sarcastically says “Where are the Gentlemen of ten?” </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">A clever “In Quiapo,” retorts a rolly polly boy stuffing his school books in his bag.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">“Okay gentleman in Quiapo, stay after class” asserts Mr. Ronquillo, a disciplinarian and a Philippine Scout veteran of World War II.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The gentleman in Quiapo was the late Jose Leonardo Inoturan, later a Dean at the College of St. Benilde and affectionately called “Sir Pepe” by his students. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">This anecdote has created such an impression on me, not because Pepe is a likeable fellow nor because Mr. Ronquillo is a teacher one does not forget, but because Quiapo is a personification of Manileños. January to Manileños, brings that celebrated event where thousands of devotees to the Black Nazarene endure to carry the image in procession, perhaps to fulfill a solemn promise. Many attribute cures, favors and miracles to the Black Nazarene even if the church hierarcy has not bothered to evaluate and verify any of these claims.<br />
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The devotees have a term for joining the procession: "Isasalang" a tagalog term ananalogous to "Ordeal by fire." Devotees equate this tribulation as a process of one's own purification. Is this a superstitious practice or is this akin to various practices of corporal mortification practiced by saints? The devotees represent a diaspora of the population, from civil society, movie stars to drivers, workers and yes, criminals. Many are awed by this public display of devotion, yet there are those who censure it as a tumultuous worthless event. <br />
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In the last analysis, there are probably nosaints in the Black Nazarene procession. After all, it was Jesus of Nazareth who said "I came not to call the just, but sinners to penance." (Lk:5:32) <br />
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Sir Pepe, you are right. The gentlemen are in Quiapo.<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal">Irving Berlin llived to be a hundred. One hundred and one, to be precise, and all those years he wrote more than 800 songs; <i>Alexander’s Rag Time Band, God Bless America, </i>and<i> White Christmas,</i> to name a few. Less noticed in Berlin's portfolio is a beautiful song of love and marriage from the musicale <i>Annie Get your Gun. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG5UQXG_pT0yTw_FtJConR3GUPyCSKm8O_EZaKE-9UxFDJdKvACbJ2YTAjki1zt3WDNt_30K-n_yIgg0J3EIE14Qu1R3UKsHwiyhsPMcd0hcZiJ2n1HlPzww6MZuyUAzlYdrBfIMpPuoEv/s400/Annie+get+your+gun.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">The girl that I marry will have to be</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">As soft and as pink as a nursery</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">The girl I call my own</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">Will wear satin and laces and smell of cologne</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">Her nails will be polished</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">And in her hair she'll wear a gardenia</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">And I'll be there</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">Instead of flittin', I'll be sittin'</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">Next to her I'm cheerful like a kitten</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">A doll I can carry,</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">The girl that I marry must be.</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">Instead of flittin', I'll be sittin'</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">Next to her I'm cheerful like a kitten</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">A doll I can carry,</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">The girl that I marry must be</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent> </m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>PHOTO by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/8348059@N02/with/3710512615/">Andy961</a></b></span>: WSHS Theatre Presents <u>Annie Get Your Gun</u> "An Old Fashioned Wedding" Act II Scene 2</span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div>Bagmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13128600323868487437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1027297487880194770.post-45601460335574092052011-01-04T14:30:00.000-08:002011-01-04T15:24:42.797-08:00Marciano de Jesus Noble<b>Marciano de Jesus Noble</b> was born on May 24, 1876. His parents, <b>Petronilo Noble</b> and <b>Barbara de Jesus</b> had two other daughters: one died while she was still young. The surviving sister was <b>Isidra</b> who lived to see his brother raise a family of four girls. One of these girls was my mother She taught me to hail my grandfather as <b>Lelong Ciano </b>whose faintest recollection I have not retained as he died when I was only one year old.<br />
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I became fond of the grandfather that I never really had, thanks to the little stories my mother taught me, She tells me that Lelong Ciano was concerned about the atrocities that would ensue when the Americans try to win back Manila from the Japanese. His anxieties<m:smallfrac m:val="off"><m:dispdef><m:lmargin m:val="0"><m:rmargin m:val="0"><m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"><m:wrapindent m:val="1440"><m:intlim m:val="subSup"><m:narylim m:val="undOvr"></m:narylim></m:intlim></m:wrapindent></m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac> caused his untimely death on <b>January 4, 1945,</b> just one month before the American liberation forces and the Japanese defenders launched the <b>Battle for Manila.</b><br />
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Five days after Lelong's death, Gen. Kruegger landing at Red Beach in Lingayen, rushed the Sixth Army towards Manila. From the south, the 11th Airborne Division landed at Nasugbu followed by paratroopers of the 511th Regimental Combat Team jumping over Tagaytay Ridge, advanced northward. The Japanese were trapped in Manila.<br />
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It was the worst urban warfare in the Pacific Theater of the war. The family of the late Marciano Noble, her widow and four daughters, a son-in-law and a one year old grandson, had to fend for themselves amidst the atrocities of war. Manila one of the most devastated city of World War II, second only to Warsaw.<br />
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A marker at Anda Street near General Luna Street in Intramuros reads: <i>“This monument is erected in memory of the more than 100,000 defenseless civilians who were killed during the Battle for the Liberation of Manila between February 3 and March 3,1945. They were mainly victims of heinous acts perpetrated by the Japanese Imperial Forces and the casualties of the heavy artillery barrage by the American Forces. The Battle for Manila at the end of World War II was one of the most brutal episode in the history of Asia and the Pacific. The non-combatant victims of that tragic battle will remain forever in the hearts and minds of the Filipino people.”</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">PHOTO: Memorare-Manila, 1945, Courtesy of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. </span>Bagmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13128600323868487437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1027297487880194770.post-15258126964872352572011-01-02T23:53:00.000-08:002011-01-03T00:04:26.690-08:00Do Carabaos Eat Grass?To prove that carabaos eat grass, we have to realize that we cannot prove this with certainty unless we make an inventory of all the carabaos. Then and only then can we arrive at the conclusion that carabaos do eat grass. That is deductive reasoning.<br />
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On the other hand, there is inductive reasoning, wherein we resort to a contrary proposition that "carabaos do not eat grass". This we can easily disprove once we find enough carabaos who eat grass. We do so with the hope that failing to prove the contrary proposition, we can then accept the original proposition that yes, indeed carabaos do eat grass. <br />
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I owe this experiment to Fr.Conor Donnelly, an Irish priest who has doctorates in medicine, sacred theology and who knows, he may have earned another degree at Strathmore University. Anyhow, he says that in Batangas, he observes a carabao and with that observation, he concludes that the Batangas carabao eats grass. Moving north to Alabang, he observes another carabao and with that, he is convinced that the Alabang carabao also eats grass. Finally, he goes to Bulacan to observe another Carabao.<br />
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Now, I don't know how the good priest got to Bulacan, since his sphere of operation was north of Manila. Perhaps he was on his way to preach a retreat in Baguio. Or perhaps he was using a stratified random sampling approach to the experiment. Incidentally, statisticians are more likely to call this exercise as "test of hypothesis" and the original proposition of "carabaos eat grass" is referred to as the alternate hypothesis. <br />
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Why we call it alternate when it is the original hypothesis is just a distraction, so don't try to understand it. After getting immersed in hypothesis testing, you will one day understand it clearly. It's not a matter of divine revelation; educators call it experiential learning and there you are, we have drifted too far from the purpose of this post.<br />
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And so, lo and behold, the Bulacan carabao does eat grass. Never mind if he chews the grass longer than his southern compatriots. The important thing now is that we can reject the null hypothesis (oh yes, that's what it's called) that "carabaos do no eat grass." If we reject "carabaos do not eat grass", then any fool can plainly see that we have to accept the alternate hypothesis (it's the original proposition, remember?) that "carabaos eat grass".Bagmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13128600323868487437noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1027297487880194770.post-43164569899908134252010-10-24T06:56:00.001-07:002010-10-24T06:59:27.632-07:00Heart of the Holy Child<m:smallfrac m:val="off"> <m:dispdef> <m:lmargin m:val="0"> <m:rmargin m:val="0"> <m:defjc m:val="centerGroup"> <m:wrapindent m:val="1440"> <m:intlim m:val="subSup"> <m:narylim m:val="undOvr"> </m:narylim></m:intlim> </m:wrapindent></m:defjc></m:rmargin></m:lmargin></m:dispdef></m:smallfrac><br />
<span style="color: black;">Heart of the Holy Child, <br />
Hide me in Thee; <br />
Purest and undefiled, <br />
Purify me; <br />
Joy of my infant life, <br />
Far from evil passions rife, <br />
Troubling this world of strife, <br />
Keep me with Thee!! <br />
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Sweet Child of Bethlehem, <br />
Open Thine heart; <br />
Lessons from Nazareth <br />
Deign to impart. <br />
Mary and Joseph dear, <br />
Let us be to Jesus near, <br />
With you, we shall not fear <br />
From Him to part. </span>Bagmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13128600323868487437noreply@blogger.com0