DAKULANG PARTE DAPAT kan bakasyon na Bikolnon an pagsakay sa tren para masaksihan an kagayonan kan mga lugar sa Camarines Sur asin Albay.

The many times we were with the media in our advocacy works were always tinted and hinted with political malice. There has always been that kind intimation for political leaning-and many times they were not intimations, they were blatant propaganda. One commentator would always make fun of the situation and would tell the reporter interviewing me, pakisabi ngantig ki Dato, buwisit siya ha.

PART 2 of 5. This is a five-part lecture delivered on 28 January 2010 on the occasion of the Ateneo de Naga University's Philosophy Week: Philosophy and Philippine Politics.

In the discussion of media corruption, there are two words necessitating an etymological and contextual scrutinies-first, the term media, and the second, corruption. Such looking up of the origins of these two apellations may give us a deconstructed and definitive clarity of what the fusion of the two, media and corruption, or media corruption, is all about.

BIBIKOLON KO NA SIRING sa nakagawian ko sa kolum na ini bilang pagmidbid kan pagiging unibersal kan satong lenggwahe. Alagad an sakong pag-Bikol ngunyan huli naman sa dakulang kamawotan na masabotan kan mga nanunungdan kan Libmanan-Cabusao Dam Project an mga kahagadan kan mga taga-Lupi huli ta garo dai ninda nasasabotan kun nakasurat sa Ingles.

FACEBOOK HAS BEEN EATING UP many people's schedules lately. Unlike Friendster which had gone boring and stale as an old loaf of bread, Facebook or FB has gotten people's attention including the bosses and the senior citizens in such large scale that I think every computer in the world has in its cache remnants of logging in to and out of FB. In my experience, this didn't spare the Filipino literary writers.

KAN NAKAULAY TAKA PO, MAYOR Raul Matamorosa, makusog an pagsabi mong bilang alkalde kan banwaan, prayoridad mo an kamugtakan kan mga taga-Lupi. Alagad, an sinabi mong ini garo natunaw kan sinabi mo man sako na mayong plano an lokal na gobyerno kan Lupi na kontrahon an proyekto kan mag-inang Gloria asin Dato na dam diyan sa Malaguico, Sipocot, na maglulublob sa banwaan na saimong pinamamayohan.

THE PROPONENTS of the Libmanan -Cabusao Dam Project (now Cabusao-Sipocot-Lupi-Libmanan or Casilli Dam Project) must have learned out of the tragedies plaguing the northern parts of the country today. Pangasinan is still deep in flood waters. Residents of Botolan, Zambales had seen their cemetery demolished by raging waters that disinterred coffins and corpses.

KADAKOL NANG RIMONG-RIMONG an satong nadangog dapit sa pagratak sa National Artist Awards. Nadalan ta na sa telebisyon, nabasa ta na sa diyaryo; padagos tang nasasaksihan an mag-ibong na lado. An narurunot iyo an ngaran kan Arte, an sarong bagay na kuta daing digta asin dayaday sa mga pagmawot kan mga paratolod kaini. Daing pagduwaduwa-o orog pa, daing pag-iisip-na binalubagi ni Carlo Caparas na elitista subuot an saiyang mga kritiko. Tibaad huli ta kadikiton sana man an minaatubang sa kamera asin nadadalan kan bilog na nasyon. Kun kaya minarhay ming magbilog nin sarong paghiro para ipasabot sainda na habo man kan mga artista sa parteng ini kan Pilipinas an pagringgaw sa ngaran kan Arte. Para maisihan ninda na bako gabos-kun baga igwa man-elitista an mga nagkakaribok, nagpoprotesta asin nag-aagrangay sa pagratak sa fiascong ini. Kaipuhan nindang masupog asin akoon na dai nanggad sinda maninigo sa honrang Artista Nacional.

THE CLOUDS ARE GREY for Filipino artists today. The air, dry for us, cannot be breathed for sustenance of life. I refer, of course, to the death of dignity and honor of the Order of the National Artists in our country. Interestingly, at the time of writing, I am in Manila waiting for the road to Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya, to be opened again for traffic. Bayombong is the birth place of one of the greatest influences of Philippine literature, National Artist for Literature Dr. Edith Tiempo, and she will be paid tribute there.