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Kapampangan centers, museums, libraries, scholars, organizations, artists, and performers have been springing forth in the past few years, all acting for the same goal: to stop the deterioration of Kapampangan culture, heritage, and language and, hence, make the Kapampangan people love their Indung Balayan and Amanung Sisuan.
-Posted: 1:43 AM 3/2/07 |



On this holiday, it is worth noting that many women have made their marks in their families, their environs, their countries, and the world for various reasons.
-Posted: 8:11 PM 3/1/07 |



Kanita, asnang ka simple ing bie at balu mu ing pandatang ning masayang piyaguman uling, susuyu at dumulong la ring king baryo para sumaup, mibuklat la ring awang pasbul at milage la ring pakasinup a kasangkapan, mangasanting a kurtina at milutu ing pamangan neng mung ating okasyun talagang pagsaryan...
-Posted: 8:11 PM 3/1/07 |



Think you can tell us what means Kapampangan in six short words? Short of haiku, this "silly" time-wasting exercise might just prove useful and end up providing us more than just a hint at who we really are and what we really are as a nation.
-Posted: 9:10 AM 2/25/07 |



For the freewheeling public high-schoolers that we were in the late 70s up to the early 80s, Franda Mall in San Fernando was already a big hangout. The gang of us eagerly trooped there after school, at lunch hour sometimes, when we cut class, or when PAGASA raised Signal No. 3 on an otherwise sunny school day.
-Posted: 9:10 AM 2/25/07 |



Cook it the way you want it-- deep-fry, stir-fry, bake, and boil. Cheapen it by staging sequel after sequel-- make that prequel after prequel. Dismiss it on the premise that it betrayed the promise and failed to deliver the dream--
-Posted: 9:10 AM 2/25/07 |



Nobody in his right mind would whack a smiling boy eager to show how his little fingers can create a dream, a world. Many Michaelangelos, van Goghs, Rembrandts and da Vincis might have been unwittingly destroyed by the famous rod, which is why the world is still in such a sorry condition.
-Posted: 9:10 AM 2/25/07 |



English in the Philippines today is described as bad or worse than it was a few decades ago. A few reasons justify it, they say. One, as far as usage is concerned, is the use of Taglish, a uniquely Filipino invention. Then, recently, there is technology, which means the use of cell phones and the language of texting.
-Posted: 9:10 AM 2/25/07 |



In case you haven't noticed, eK! just turned one month old last February 6. Time flies, adapen. So: where has this little experiment taken us, so far? Let us see...
-Posted: 9:10 AM 2/25/07 |



Anyang kekapampanganan neng José Cunanan Dayrit ing "Noli Me Tangere" ng José Rizal ginamit ne ing "k," bagkus mas biyasa ya king "Pampango en Romance." Sinabi ning bapa kong meangubie na ing "k" mas mayan yang basan kesa keng "c." Ing pake na ning pamaglikas yapin ing basan da ing "E Mu Ku Tagkilan."
-Posted: 2:12 PM 1/12/07 |



Unlike you, Mang Ben, I have someplace specific to get to, some occasion I must be on time for. The opposite lane is just as impossible to steer onto to get past you. It is the same country of motorheads like you and me engaged in the torpid politics of tails and snails.
-Posted: 2:12 PM 1/12/07 |



Indeed, since the days of the Tower of Babel the human tongue has evolved thousands of languages, never mind that a number are either dead or dying, and of these thousands of languages, it is English that holds the distinction of being at present the world's de facto international language.
-Posted: 2:12 PM 1/12/07 |



Memory is a wily keeper of the past, so they say—often true and faithful, but at times elusive or even deceptive. Mine, however, is still sharp and bright, especially when it comes to Angeles City, a special place that I have always associated with a joyful time of youthful discoveries, when everyone's idea of risky adventure was a quick trip to Pampanga's playground—the 'City of Angels.'
-Posted: 1:26 AM 1/6/07 |



The invitation came with a deadline I knew I could not meet. I have never been good with deadlines. Worse, I have not written anything of late that Kapampangan readers may find worth their while reading. It has been almost eight years since I left journalism to embark on a new career in the Foreign Service and I must confess that the words no longer flow out of me like they used to.
-Posted: 1:26 AM 1/6/07 |



Today we decide to put off the tricycle ride, walk all the way out of the subdivision, cross the highway, and hail a jeepney bound for the city proper to get to the public market. Earlier, it was a bit gusty and rainy outside; the evidence of a supposedly super typhoon turned out to be negligible and short-lived, hereabouts at least.
-Posted: 1:26 AM 1/6/07 |



The interview took place in Macau, South of China, in a room that rather stinks of beer, old books and rotten boiled peanuts. The interviewee doesn't smoke, but there is an ashtray lying next to an almost dilapidated computer that still works perhaps through miracle or some divine intervention. The ashtray is too big for cigarette butts and ash, but just big enough to hold pistachios and peanuts to accompany beer.
-Posted: 1:26 AM 1/6/07 |



I was ten years old when my mother was widowed. She brought us up (6 children) through mere dressmaking. Despite our poverty, my mother taught us to be grateful for what we had. Due to the absence of our father, we developed a very strong bond in the family by supporting each other...
-Posted: 1:26 AM 1/6/07 |



Working in a foreign country, or even just plain touring, entails responsibilities, responsibilities mostly self-imposed... In my experience, the most important law to impose on oneself is the law to be the best of one's nationality. Thus, while working in Eastern Siberia, Russia, or touring abroad, I always made it a point to be the best of the Filipino...
-Posted: 1:26 AM 1/6/07 |



And so, here's to forever. And here's to eK! And here's to that long and lonely crusade to gather round the best Kapampangan minds of our generation...
-Posted: 1:26 AM 1/6/07 |


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