Sa sakuyang inaagihan ngonyan digdi sa harong mi sa Iriga, parati kong nahihiling an mga nagkahurulog na kamagong. Dakul na mga bunga na dai ko maibitaran na dai hilingon. Asin harayo pa ako, napaparong ko na sinda. Parong na nagpapagiromdom sakuya nin mga magkapirang pangyayari. Siring kan sarong kakanon sa nobela ni Marcel Proust, an sarong namit, o an sarong parong pwedeng magdara satuya sa sarong kaisipan o panahon o pagkabuhay na iba sa kun ano an buhay na inaatubang niyato ngonyan. Igwa sanang kaipuhan na magkulibat kan kublit asin madadara na kita sa panahon na ini.

Wangwang imbis na sirena, na malamang ay halaw sa mitikal na nakakapanghalinang tinig ng kalahating-isda, kalahating-tao na nilalang. Sa panahon ng Griyego, inaakalang nakakapagpatulog ito ng mga manlalakbay-dagat na kalalakihan para iligaw sila at hindi na makauwi sa kanilang kinalakihang bayan. Sa epikong Illiad ni Homer, naglalagay ang mga lalake ng wax ng kandila para takpan ang kanilang teinga at hindi makatulog.

MANILA - Johnny, not his real name, has been working as a cameraman for ABS-CBN's current affairs program for 22 years. On June 18, he was told by security guards that he is among those who have been banned from entering the company premises.

Time and again, even beyond the Spanish era, one intermittently sees the importance of a correct family name.  Tsinoy families, despite their economic gains, dealt with the derisive Intsik tag once and for all by filipinizing their family names or by appropriating Filipino last names, rechristening with the illustrious last name of the ninong sa bunyag or padrino sa kasal, the baptismal godfather or wedding sponsor. Limaco, a landed gentry of Biñan, Laguna, is the filipinized version of Lim Aco.

On April 27, 1977, urban poor leader Trinidad Herrera-Ripuno was arrested in Katipunan, Quezon City by virtue of an arrest and search and seizure order (ASSO) of then President Ferdinand Marcos. She was made to suffer brutal torture, which was meant to break her determination and spirit.

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MANILA -Will your vote count? Can a new president and a new set of officials be credibly elected on May 10? With less than two months before the election, doubts persist as to whether the Commission on Elections (Comelec) is adequately prepared to make the first ever automated elections system (AES) in the Philippines reliable, accurate and trustworthy.