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Deng ariya ampong kasebyan ila reng paralan kanita bangkanita reng tawu inyang minunang panawun apatunud de ing karelang yatu ampong bumye lang masalese a ala lang isipan makasabagal keng biye ra.
-Posted: 12:12 PM 8/24/08 |



He was raised in a stately mansion of an elite landlord, made his solemn spiritual vows in the United States of America's first Roman Catholic basilica, and became the parish priest of an obscure village.
-Posted: 3:52 AM 8/21/08 |



Before I lose the echoes of many disjointed voices from the past in many chance encounters, oreni pu ding mangalutung a amanu angga ngeni e mu la akalingwan...
-Posted: 2:47 AM 8/19/08 |



Here life reveals itself without human interference. Life happens here without even involving me.
-Posted: 2:47 AM 8/19/08 |



Masakit sasakit ngeni asna kasakit ing bie at eka makiragdag karing mikakasakit uling tutung masakit nung ing manintunan ing mikasakit lalung tanang magkasakit.
-Posted: 7:29 AM 8/14/08 |



"Hon, wake up, it's past 7:30, the mass will start at 9 a.m., you still need to shower and eat break fast"/"Dyos kung alti ka, eka pa tikdo? Inum-inum ka angga ganingaldo, ngeni emu agyung tikdo? Simba ta pang alas-sais eh!"
-Posted: 7:29 AM 8/14/08 |



Who should we canonize? Is not denial a sin? Denial of the proper perspective of history is no more than telling a lie daily.
-Posted: 10:08 AM 8/7/08 |



Napun,/ing "keka,"/"queca" ya,/ing "kanaku,"/"canacu" ya,/ing "kekatamu,"/"quecatamu" ya,/ing "keni,"/"queni" ya,
-Posted: 10:08 AM 8/7/08 |



The candidacy and election for sainthood happens here on earth.
-Posted: 10:17 AM 8/2/08 |



Ding anggang capaliarian/parati lang atin/a catuquing capaliarian,/anti nung macananu/ing balang "bengi"/atin yang "abac"/a manenayang quebaitan.
-Posted: 10:17 AM 8/2/08 |



A people in crisis will have no time to question, to join street protests, to listen to other views. Everyone will just have to make do: just bring home the bacon, just bring home the sardines, just bring home the lelut.
-Posted: 9:25 AM 7/9/08 |



I am a slave to time---I am subject to wear and tear.
-Posted: 7:42 AM 6/26/08 |



Oyta megulu no naman! Nung miabe-abe tamu masaya tamu...ing keka...kaku ya...ing kaku...keka... ya (pwera mu lupa ne!)
-Posted: 5:26 PM 6/13/08 |



Agaganaka ku anyang atsu ku ospital,/Anyang ing pangane, malapit neng miluwal./Masaya at 'excited', miki ditak a galgal,/Eku panamdaman, ing puyat at pagal.
-Posted: 5:26 PM 6/13/08 |



The task of a historian is to set the records straight and not to distort the facts with unverifiable claims or stories. It would be a gross disservice to our countrymen and a wrong road to our objectives if our writings are mixed with half truths and distorted stories of events. The task of a historian is not to please his patrons, but to tell the truth to the people he writes about.
-Posted: 5:25 PM 3/26/08 |



How could she have felt when they lay her wounded, sacrificed Son in her arms?
-Posted: 4:44 PM 3/24/08 |



Will there be another EDSA installment this year? I am partly happy because, at least, I can attend the street parties and print foul words on my shirt, just for the heck of it. But on second thought, I can probably pass this one up—there's surely going to be another one in a few years or so anyway.
-Posted: 3:01 PM 3/21/08 |



Ngening panaun ning Kadwang Libu, pauli ning mengapalyari Iraq, king Abu Ghraib, king Guantanamo, ing batikan king pamagaral ning diwa at kaladwa Doktor Philip Zimbargo king Pamantasan Stanford kanita, apatunayan ne ing inaus nang Lucifer Effect.
-Posted: 3:01 PM 3/21/08 |



"Gisingan la kaladua ring kapara kung talasulat / Ipabalu ku karela ing tatalanan dang sikan / Gamitan da sang masalese para makapamulat"
-Posted: 2:10 PM 3/19/08 |



I am not built for writing because, if I may admit, I am very lazy and impatient. But that is not the reason why I don't like writing. In all honesty and frankness, I don't like writing because too often it doesn't make me sleep at night.
-Posted: 11:03 AM 3/11/08 |



Insights on the traditional observance of the Holy Week in Sto. Tomas, Pampanga.
-Posted: 4:30 AM 3/5/08 |



Aldo ning Biernis ngeni, tawli nang aldo ning Pebreru, 29 ya ngening Banwang 2008. Matula la ding maki-kebaytan keng Aldo ayni. O wa neng Aldo yang Biernis at Panaun ning Kwaresma, gule mu ampong asan ing malyari rang kanan at papakan.
-Posted: 4:30 AM 3/5/08 |



Here's the magic word: Talk. And when I say talk, I mean talk.
-Posted: 4:30 AM 3/5/08 |



Contributions to humanity and to civilization in terms of saving and helping souls in need and the happiness given to them is priceless and unquantifiable.
-Posted: 11:11 AM 2/27/08 |



Every artwork which a Kapampangan does should be admitted in Kapampangan art because it collectively artistically expresses the diverse life and characteristics of the Kapampangan people.
-Posted: 9:08 AM 2/26/08 |



I just don't understand what is becoming of us. It just makes me feel really bad that Filipinos are turning into a bunch of laughing stocks.
-Posted: 8:22 AM 2/19/08 |



Nanu ya ing pusu, isanung pusu ing buri kung tamakan wari? Ing pusu anting diwa, anting kaladwa, o anting kosensiya?
-Posted: 9:18 AM 2/14/08 |



All those other special days, I would wait for every passing year. With fervor and gusto. Pero ing Valentine's Day eya ginulis kaku. Wa epek.
-Posted: 10:11 AM 2/13/08 |



Inyang tinuldu ya kaku ing boti, ala lang akutang kanakung juicy. Boring ya kasing lálon ing biye ku kasi ala kung kukuentu karing tau.
-Posted: 10:15 AM 2/12/08 |



Inya oyni ing kakung kutang: Patye sasabian da ring taung ami-miss o a-miss da ka, tutu kaya ita, o ngada mu kanita bang kulayan lakuas makule ing kekong pamikaluguran, i.e., bang magpa-cute?
-Posted: 11:01 PM 2/8/08 |



Truly the 21st century women resolve marital problems almost on equal footing with men. This is a far cry from the martyred ways of our womenfolk in the last decades. Even then no matter how much we try to embrace the modern ways of other cultures, some oral traditions and seemingly time-tested beliefs of our forebears cannot be put to oblivion.
-Posted: 6:12 AM 2/5/08 |



Kabang kakabus ing panaun, nanunanu na ing mekalub king kamalayan ku—mekapitung siam (69), sarul (wheelbarrow), titlu (threesome), tiapat (foursome), pamagbulasisi ning babai, "pangasuku ning nyaman" (orgasm), at aliwa pa.
-Posted: 6:12 AM 2/5/08 |



Doris Lessing implies that the solution to all our problems is books. She regrets that the Internet takes away people's love of books.
-Posted: 6:12 AM 2/5/08 |



I knew I was uncool. Screw those who say being yourself is cool. I was myself then. What did I get?
-Posted: 3:11 AM 2/1/08 |



Mipaburen la ding dakal a katutubung amanu. Ali la mirasan king makabayung gamit bangkanita misimpan la, misulat, o milimbag. Ding talasalita ra mitabi la karing lugal da at mengasalbag la't mikakawani. Marakal dang kabyasnan sinira da ding minyakup at ding aliwa mewala karing likas a kapaliaryan.
-Posted: 8:15 AM 1/31/08 |



As we drove out of the center's compound, we saw the fading image of the smiling priest. His smile was full of hope which was perhaps the driving force in his center and a moving inspiration to his volunteers. After a short while the name on the center's signboard faded from our view. But the image of the diocesan priest remained vivid in our memory.
-Posted: 8:16 AM 1/25/08 |



I am still struggling in facing the industrial world unarmed with a college diploma, for which I invented a new riddle in my native tongue: "Papil a saguling mapirat, alulan ing kekang utak"
-Posted: 1:18 AM 1/21/08 |



Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony were the strongest and most powerful muscles and voices in Roman politics, but their masculinity and power of speech were but a candle melting in Cleopatra's bed.
-Posted: 1:18 AM 1/21/08 |



Marakal pa dapat lakbangan bang a-intellectualize ta'ya ing Amanung Sisuan. Lulto na makasalale ya ini e mu karing talasulat, nune pati karing mágnegosyu, karing mánibala, at karing matenakan.
-Posted: 9:30 AM 1/16/08 |



Ngara ding aliwa ninu mo ing mituru kekatamu king racism nung aliwa ding minyakup kekatamu. Neng balu tana ngeni ita pangilagan tana. Nung ali, mitali tana man king victim syndrome.
-Posted: 4:15 AM 1/15/08 |



Let me tell you something about the place where I come from. It is a very beautiful land, but its beauty shrouds perpetual pains.
-Posted: 4:15 AM 1/15/08 |



The country is headed by a garbage collector. The electoral process has been transformed into a contest. Whoever has the stomach to collect human garbage for a week daily gets to run the place.
-Posted: 2:02 AM 12/14/08 |



Pablasang kerakalan tanang Pilipinu mamamunta aliwang labuad, ala na tang pamilyang mitagan na asabi mung atilu ngan makatipun keti mangabyayan king Indung Balayan. Ing siste mu pu neng kayi, ding malalakwan eda balung pakamalan at sinupan ing pipapagalan da ring mibabatang makalaut.
-Posted: 2:02 AM 1/14/08 |



Is Tagalog encroaching on other regions and endangering the other native languages and dialects?
-Posted: 11:25 AM 1/9/08 |



Magbayu ne naman ing banua. Mibabayu mu naman ing kalakaran ning panaun. Manaliwa nala estilu ampo kasangkapan para ipabalu ing miyaliwang epektu king dapat tamung sablang tau keti yatu.
-Posted: 2:22 PM 1/3/08 |



O Apung Ginu, tuknang na sa ing kaguluan kening Pilipinas. Ing ekonomiya e mu balu nung mibabatbat ya o mitatas, inya pángadi kung saplala na ing biye keni. At sana, beit na kung indu kung masanting a lalaki.
-Posted: 2:22 AM 1/3/08 |



Ing belwan magdalang lugud a mamye sikanan. Adwa na kaming pulung banwa atyu kening Bayu ming Lugal. Maragul kung pasalamatan keni ing pangatimawa ming dakal a dakal. Misan kitnan daku FIlipinas nung makananu na kami ding anak ku, Filipinu kame, Kapampangan, o Amerikanu? Pekibat ku: parepareo. Kingwa mila ding mangasanting karing atlu.
-Posted: 2:22 AM 1/3/08 |



I will always remember that trip to Everybody's just as I remember all the other encounters I have had with the man who ironically served in a regime I detested and, in my own little way, helped overthrow.
-Posted: 4:25 AM 12/30/07 |



Marakal na pamagbayu keng makapadurut kekatamu. Dakal a bage akaragulan da reng kerakalan kekatamu a payalbug nang anting bula a datang ing aldo bitasang e ta na akit ampong agawa.
-Posted: 4:25 AM 12/30/07 |



That dark, gloomy, and nostalgic place—Kalye Lakandula, where you dive in your own thoughts, swim in your personal indulgence (say on smoke and brew), and just drown deep from the hustle and bustle of the fleet of jeeps plying Villa-Pampang and C.Point
-Posted: 1:11 AM 12/24/07 |



King pamandurut ning lakaran panLiteratura ampong kalinangan anti neng miras king Kadwang Pangabayit ing Kabyasnan Kapampangan, Kapampangan Renaissance, king pamaltutu na ngeni ning bayung pamamaala. O wa ini po ing kanakung Pamaskung yampang kekayo: Neng mika tanka at haiku tana menibat ketang Banwang 2005, ngeni naman— Lalayag ke keni ing katlung aske Pamamoesya/Pangkawatasan king Amanung Kapampangan— Bungang Pamibule.
-Posted: 1:11 AM 12/24/07 |



"A Camalig Christmas" CD is the Kapampangan's yet another enduring gift and contribution (in the league of the giant lanterns of San Fernando) to the Filipino nation's unrivalled feat of holding the longest and brightest Christmas observance in the world.
-Posted: 1:20 AM 12/12/07 |



What makes makes us distinct as humans is our ability to communicate. But, let me just add one thing more. More than communication, we have the capacity to believe.
-Posted: 1:20 AM 12/12/07 |



It's ancient knowledge. People passing by our house in our subdivision gave us estranged looks when we were executing ásap in the garden of our residence. They must have thought we were doing infernal rituals involving me as the human sacrifice to some Kularyut.
-Posted: 5:22 AM 12/7/07 |



King metung a Indu ala ng migit pa keng akit nalang masaya at matula ding kayang supling. Nu yaman kasakit neng kayi ing adwan ning anak, mekad, gawan at gawan ning Indu milabas ya kaburian o pamitan ing pakamalan a anak (Ing maragul a kutang: Ing kayang anak, makanyan ya pakamal king Indu?)
-Posted: 5:22 AM 12/7/07 |



It is as much a blessing as it is a burden (occasionally) that a trained dermatologist can make at least one diagnosis within seconds of being with someone, patient or not.
-Posted: 2:11 AM 12/4/07 |



Tutu pu masanting ing pamamasyal kareng mall, uling marimla. Marimla—ya pu ita, pero ene agyung ipali at payusbungan ing lugud king indung gabun at ipalto kareng kayanakan ing kekatamung, kasarinlan, kasaysayan, at kultura.
-Posted: 11:16 PM 12/3/07 |



Friendship, like love, never ends when it is true. At times it drifts away, but returns readily with the gentle tug of forgiveness and reconciliation—no matter the distance, regardless of time.
-Posted: 9:25 AM 11/29/07 |



A lot more goes into this undertaking than sheer mixing and matching of sound patterns. One has to be a virtuoso of the soul to transform cacophony into epiphany.
-Posted: 1:20 AM 11/22/07 |



Kabang lalapit ing oras ning kayang pamanerak, ditak-ditak yang sinlag ing larawan na nitang pusang matuling king isip nang Glen. Siguru panaun na para mirian yang lagyu bang malagua yang ganakan...
-Posted: 9:01 PM 11/20/07 |



Bawal kanu ing mamyalung anggang alas sais ning bengi. Maglakad ya kanu i Mama Mary. Kaya oyta, pulayan kaming memanuli—tiknang mi pa ing pamamyalung tambaks, maro, ampong tsaynis garter.
-Posted: 9:40 AM 11/10/07 |


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