Tribu and Me with Lean

 

We love you Rudie.

 

NEW ALPHABET?

A for Abalos, B for Broadband, Z-T-E for the Zhong Xing Telecommunications Equipment Company and F-G for the First Gentleman.

That’s the New Alphabet, according to the Freedom from Debt Coalition. And it’s the Alphabet of “unnecessary debt, fraudulent deals and shady characters.”

Today, members of the debt watchdog sang out their disgust over the controversial $329-million national broadband network (NBN) project and zeroed in on the scam’s suspected culprits — “the alleged broker, the debt-creating deal, the overpricing Chinese company and the already named mystery man.”

Care to join? Reeaady…Sssing! A-B-Z-T-E-F-G…..

 

Rudie the Roadie’s Binky Moment

Caught Binky Lampano and the Lampano Alley’s Repeat Show in 70s Bistro last week. I was in Mindoro Oriental when they had their first show in August and since Binky is already based in the US and is just here for a few months, I was hell-bent on catching this twice-in-a-bluemoon performance.

I love the Blues and I love Buesman Binky. I didn’t want to miss this Repeat. Earlier told my officemate all out of town trips must be scheduled after September 12. (Haha! Kala mo naman pwede ang ganitong klaseng brasuhan. Pero buti na lang, Sept 13 nga ang naging alis namin papuntang Nueva Viscaya).

So I joined other Binky fans and friends last Wednesday for some serious sound tripping. For much of the night we were simply silent, all senses focused on the band’s marvelous performance and Binky’s quips on Erap’s conviction (“Erap, Ganyan lang”) and some Eddie Garcia impersonations (Baka magalit daw si Mama Mary..Mary..Walter!)

 

overwhelmed

i could say overjoyed but that would be cheesy. but really, am happy about many things, like:

1) binky lampano at bistro tonight, hehehehe

2) mother bringing me a lafftaff.

3) the healing dance meditation last night (!)

4) reconnections and reconnections

no time and drive to write, so yan na muna.

 

Lipay

Nalipay ko.

Ina balang lipay

nga makahilibi.

Kanami.

Sa adlaw.

Kag gal-um.

Sa tun-og.

Kag hapon.

S’lamat.

Gid.

 

For the weary

Manang entreats some saint

for her basket of fish to be sold

fish that’s fresh no more, rancid nearly

dead red-eyed scaly, a week-old almost

 

Go buy her galunggong

so tomorrow on doorsteps

she can vend again, a different fish

dead red-eyed scaly, all the way

from Nasugbu, have coffee if there’s any

the world’s a bit dreary

 

 

MINIMITHI

Here’s Pete Lacaba’s translation of Desiderata, one of my fave inspirational poems.

MINIMITHI (DESIDERATA)
Salin: Pete Lacaba

Lumakad nang mahinahon
Sa gitna ng ingay at pagkukumahog, at alalahanin
Ang kapayapaang maaaring makuha sa katahimikan.

Walang isinusuko hanggat maaari,
Pakitunguhan nang mabuti ang lahat ng tao.

Sabihin ang iyong katotohanan nang tahimik at malinaw;
At makinig sa iba, kahit sa nakayayamot at mangmang;
Sila man ay may kasaysayan.

Iwasan ang mga taong mabunganga at palaaway,
Sila’y ikinaiinis ng kalooban.

Kung ihahambing mo ang sarili sa iba,
Baka yumabang ka o maghinanakit; sapagkat laging
May lilitaw na mas mahusay o mas mahina sa iyo.

 

Mama and her brood

Sent by my sister, Nancy, this made my day yesterday….

That’s her, Mernalot, in the center. Hahahaha! Tambok ibok ibok, ka cute! Couldn’t quite believe how maunod she’s become. She’s put on a lot of weight since she left for a vacation in the US last February. My sisters must be feeding her real well!

In the pic: Benjie the family dog, Yaya Ason, Manong Glen and Manang Cookie, Adrian, Christine, Manong Rudy and Manang Nancy. (Adrian and Christine are Rudy and Nancy’s kids.)

 

Hazing eyed in death of graduating UP student

by Jeannette Andrade
Inquirer
Last updated 05:49pm (Mla time) 08/28/2007

MANILA, Philippines — Mystery shrouds the death of a 20-year-old graduating University of the Philippines (UP) student who was rushed to a hospital in Quezon City, where he was declared dead on arrival.

All the mother of graduating UP Bachelor of Science major in Public Administration student Chris Anthony Mendez received in Tiaong, Quezon was a phone call at around 6:30 p.m. Monday that her first born was at a morgue.

Cristina Garcia Mendez initially thought that the landlady of the apartment where her son Chris was a boarder had been telling her a bad joke. The landlady had said that Chris was brought to the Veteran’s Memorial Hospital and had died there. He was subsequently brought to the St. Peter’s Memorial Chapels in Quezon Avenue, Quezon City.

But when she saw his body at the St. Peter’s Memorial Chapels in Quezon Avenue, Tuesday morning, the truth of it all dawned upon her.