Wednesday, December 24, 2008

dream dec2508

was on a jeepney curve going downhill overtake many cars almost caused smash up among 10-wheel trucks and cars bumped a stopped jeepney it feel into a tennis court under shades of talisay trees i was carrying a sack of copra got torn tried to sew with a white cord asked the driver his liability in the accident took another ride on a tricycle a beautiful girl -- a student was with me white chinese looking kissed her in the cheek when she got off her necktie navy blue in color embroidered with initials of her school, i was supposed to be going to university of san carlos walked from where the girl got off men that dont look golf players were playing golf on the street hitting their balls on windows of vans suspecting them their intention was to break the windows to steal the vans they played their golf like they are playing tennis hitting and returning i fear i might get hit in the head by the golf balls as big as tennis balls dimpled and dark in color climbed wall middle of street soldiers were there in their trucks didnt mind i climbed. got inside an old man's walled yard he was playing with a gecko and a baby rat on pool of shallow unclean water, got angry that i was not interested in his animals my purpose getting inside his yard was my fear of getting hit in the head by golf balls, got out of his yard proceeded walking cannot locate anymore where san carlos university is thought of taking a taxi dream changed was among children 2years old, two girls and a boy, one girl her legs parted her big genital cleaved open up the penis threshold, another girl was lying legs together genital bare but no open

Saturday, December 6, 2008

Subano's Fragant Areca Nut

It's one of the fragrant smells in the forest near river banks where they usually grow. No manufactured perfume is similar in fragrance with the Subano betel nut. The scent is far-reaching and sweeter in the early morning and late afternoon when evaporation is almost absent. When the areca bud opens the many flowers inside hundreds in numbers send out scent to attract pollinators. But the areca nuts are never planted in homes

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

For Academic Visitors, Places to Visit in the Zamboanga Peninsula

For academic visitors who need to do researches on the Subano peoples on their language, their culture, their literature, their way of life, these are the mountain communities to visit in the Zamboanga Peninsula where the last of the pure Subano speaking generation are still available for recording and videoing as they chant their epics for days up to a week, GUMAN in their language, dance their dances, sing the songs, recite their garays, sing almost rapping their ginarongs.

Titik - A mountain community some 50 kilometers from the town of Bacungan, Zamboanga del Norte.The community is reachable only by illegal and unregistered passenger motorcycles from the town of Bacungan officially known as Leon Postigo. The old lady who chanted for an Ateneo de Zamboanga University scholar in 1997 for his thesis about Subano gumans hopefuly is still alive. The lady speaks only the Subano language

Pangandao - A mountain community 18 kilometers away from the town of Manukan, Zamboanga del Norte. The community is reachable by illegal and unregistered passenger motorcycles from the town of center of Manukan or by copra trucks. Climbs to the copra trucks to mountain community is unscheduled althou almost daily copra traders in the town dispatch their trucks to carry copra down to the town for scaling. Chanters of Subano epics (gumans) may still be around although no researching scholar were known to have been to the place for the purpose. Singers of the Subano ginarongs, a shorter form of chanted or sang Subano literature are still around. Singing or chanting of one story could last for hours.