Beyond Forgetting

This is one of my favorite poems back in high school and it was one of the pieces we memorized in our speech class for our final practical exam. Too bad, this was not assigned to me. I did Mark Anthony's Speech for the funeral of Julius Caesar though. I could still remember some lines:"Friends, Romans, lend me your ears! I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them"It was funny that I did well during the practical exam. But when I did a demo in another class, I forgot one line to the consternation of my speech class teacher.Beyond Forgettingby: Rolando A. CarbonellFor a moment I thought I could forget you.For...

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I am a "B" Traveler!

I found this really cool site which was part of an email to me by a friend. You can rate yourself bly clicking teh areas where you have visited. And I found out that I have a "B" rating. Not bad!And this is the map that shows my travels around the Philippines:You can access this at http://forge.codedgraphic.com/lakbayan/ or at the main website of Joji Alcantara at http://www.witerary.c...

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Walang Hanggang Paalam

IN THE YAHOOGROUP of my SD (Social Development Workers Formation Program) batch, Datu Ferdie Uko asked about the theme song of our batch. If my memory serves me right, I suggested that our batch song (which we actually sang during our completion ceremonies), should be Walang Hanggang Paalam by Joey Ayala.I rummaged though my music collection and took out two Joey Ayala albums in tape records (yes, hindi pa uso ang CD that time, ca1992-93). I knew...

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Population Education 101

LAST MONDAY, I caught "The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human" on Star Movies. The movie appeared like a Discovery or National Geographic documentary on the mating practices of some species of animals. This time, the focus is on how an alien observes how human beings would measure up in this human behavior. The story narrates in a funny, anthropological and sociological jargon (or even alien lingo), the process of sexual attraction, love, single...

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Bob Ong, foccacia bread, and an eyeball

AFTER CARRYING my heavy 17 inches monitor to the shop where I had it repaired, my arms trembled and I felt so weak and tired. I realized I haven't had my breakfast at 11:30 AM. I was starved. So I looked I for a restaurant inside SM Fairview where I will not wait in a long queue. I was lucky enough to find this fancy small restaurant which specializes in spaghetti -- called the Spaghetti factory. I am a spaghetti lover so I gave in to this craving....

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In the eyes of the child

YESTERDAY, I WAS invited to be the resource person of a seminar on Strengthening Parent-Child Relationship. This is part of of the community organizing process of the Alay Buhay Foundation, Inc. in Barangay Pintung Bukawe in San Mateo Rizal. Despite its short distance from Metro Manila, the place is still typically poor barangay, with very few economic activities, and it is apparent that the community has been neglected. As part of the organizing...

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