COMING from a place where you may not have heard anything about Mindanao except about war and strife, were you not worried that you were going on a tour at a time when Mindanao is supposed to be at war?" I asked a first-time visitor who arrived with his big group right ...
The repertoire of choral music of J.S. Bach is vast and contains many consummate masterpieces that rise far above the level of all other choral music, even exceeding Handel at times. There are many enormous works, such as the B minor mass, the St Mathew Passion, and the Christmas Oratorio. There are ...
KADAYAWAN week is always hectic, and it's not even a happy hectic. It's hair-pulling hectic, and has been like that since Kadayawan came to be... a lifetime ago.Thus, as the week crescendos to a close, I always harbor that wish to be the visitor and not the visited, if only to watch ...
I HATE Kadayawan. Hehehe! Not that kind of hate. I hate it because there's just too many visitors and too many activities, I don't get to do what I really want to. Like it was only until the 10th year when I finally got to watch a floral float ...
“Iitsa, tamoka, yataki, tumbi!” ”Iitsa, tamoka,
yataki, tumbi!”
Iitsa, tamoka, yataki, tumbi! (That’s throw, catch, step and stamp!)
I thought for a while it was a line in a Kenyan song I learned from
someplace else, but the words sounded familiar even if it was belted
out in a universal beat.
Waway Saway’s song lingered in my hearing ...
written by Morofilm
on Saturday, 30 of August , 2008 at 12:50 am
The 2008 International Writing Program kicked off its regular afternoon readings today at the Shambaugh House with a packed audience.IWP fellow Ruby Rahman, a poet, fiction writer, and essayist from Bangladesh, read her poems. Here's a sampling:The Flute I Would Leave Behind for ...
yup. it's a haven for macros and a heaven for macro bugs. never mind if i haven't had a decent sleep for days. it was worth it, worth yet another sleepless dive. dumdidumdum... and yes, if the critters look familiar, you can also find them in carlos' site. he brought me there ...