phil Lit

1. Compare and contrast the female characters in “Tanabata’s Wife,” “The Virgin,” and “Sounds of Sunday,” according to their motivations, their personalities, and the manners in which they confronted and resolved their “predicaments.” What do you think were the intentions of the writers in portraying the feminine persona in each of their stories this way?

A very striking similarity relevant to all three stories is that they can be categorized according to their theme: love. The three love stories portray women in their very own circumstances. All of which were showed perspectives that emphasized the realistic situations in real life.

World’s Realities

World’s realities…I’ve been thinking about what to put in my blog lately. I first thought of posting my research proposals and class submitted papers so that I won’t think much about these stuff.

Again we have our own realities. I mean, I’m the kind of person who had been told “Nothing poetic about it…”, “bad prose”, “Scrap the whole poem,retain the title”… It’s painful to get those remarks from our Poetry class but hey! My revising reality slaps me in the face. Honestly, I haven’t done any except for the principle of sticking with the requirement date. Friends, I tell you doing what I DO IS SUCH A MISERABLE THING. If you really want top impress your teacher, please do otherwise or suffer his/her/the professor’s slips of the tongue(lucky, if they’re just slips…ahahaha painful ones worst embarassing ones). Well, lucky me I don’t take them as destructive criticisms(I’m a hopeless roma…um optimist). If ever you get them.welcome them.they’re inspiration coming right out of the teacher’s blues. Anyway, if there’s a class I’d like to get them(criticisms), it’ll be poetry. I just love my classmates there(maybe except___) because in poetry each of us knows when to meditate or bluff(LOL) when we can’t find the right words. Actually I was suppossed to talk about the movie Slumdog Millionaire and now I end up sentimentalizing.

Let’s go to what sir Timothy told us about: that “The Philippines is actually the only country who/which/that has a literary man as a national hero” these aren’t actually the exact words.

I always think of it now, and I ask myself How?(uy, rhyming)/ Why? What if it was Andres Bonifacio who made it as a national hero? I don’t know really. But there was always something about a statue in most parks that made me ask who is he?” when I was young. Just this morning I reported about Amado V. Hernandes and his poem “Aklasan.” I was bothered byu what E. San Juan Jr quoted that the artist had said something about “Bakit sukdulang napababayaan ang mga manunulat sa wikang bernakular?”

Whew…my brain neurons popped(eww, what a morbid image so final-destination-thingy).It made me think about my being a BA English student(why not medicine?nursing?). I don’t know if I could even make something such as a real work of art or rather what they call “masterpiece.” (forgive my lapses, again this is an unrevised post).

Well, if ever your mind boggles over many things remember this: Chill. It’s worth wasting time when you’re about to have a nervous breakdown right?

I’m always the smiling type when I love what I’m up to… So hang on April. It’s a tough ride but I know you’ll get through(with so amny wonderful people surrounding you)

World’s realities….uhuh…tsk..tsk…slips of the tongue.

Totally outrageous

Well, there are really stuff that make us say “That was outrageous!” I can’t imagine myself saying that especially when I’m so awe-stuck by a lot of happenings in the world. Forgive me for my blog doesn’t contain certain entertainment news. My schedules are cluttered with so many things pending. I’m in a wait list on the other tasks that I still have to do. I don’t even read newspapers nowadays. I hope I could still comment on other peoples’ lives especially the Hollywood stars or local celebrities of the Philippines.

I wish I had more time to sit and do somethings better than dozing in class. Boring life that’s surely it.

UPMindanao Football Festival

Yesterday the football festival of the varsity did go well, I think. It was such an honor to wear an armband as a sign of being the captain of the team. It was then that I’ve remembered the famous line in Spiderman “With great power comes great responsibility.”
But hey! I felt so burdened wearing that thing. I thought that I’ve been asked to wear a chain. I felt the need of proving myself. I needed to stand up high and mighty. These didn’t happen though.
Actually, I was the most unlikely captain that a team could have because I remained so silent that one couldn’t hear me squeak. I was saddened by the thought of our teams losing.

Thank God I have my team with me. There were those who helped me realize that I don’t have to pursue feigning courage, rather thye made me realize how I should play with fun.
Self-evaluation:
I’m not a thinking player or maybe I’m just too slow to think while playing
I’m easily discouraged… well all of us are sometimes
I’m a very destructive person ( I always end up tearing all my shoes)
I easily bruise

once I get these things straight I’ll be indestructible!!! hehe

I have many wishes for the team that I dream of being its major sponsor someday…yehey!

Go UP Gooooo!!!!!

Dine in or out?

Food is nourishment for the souls. Even when each person has his/her own preferences, there exists a wide variety of food in the market. Now that I’m away from home, how I wish that I am eating in our very own house. I miss the kitchen where I used to help mother cook and bake. I see her beating eggs, and still doing fine even when the tough tasks come. I’ve seen many kitchen in television and books. There are those inspired architecturally by different cultures. Each time I see those pictures or illustrations, how I wish I could have them to be my own.

There are many stuff to decorate one’s kitchen with, so that you’d get the mood of cooking. And if you’ve got a knack for nibbling delicious food, you’d surely seek out efficient kitchen tools and appliances that’ll make you create dishes that enchant noses and appetites. Every time I help my aunt bake brownies, I feel stressed over raking flour manually by a beater. I felt drained of my energies that sooner I gave up. When I’ve been in appliance stores, I see that technology has been farther from the old practice. Life has been made easier for people by the invention of these tools and appliances.

Some people have skills in cooking and because of these they’ve made many people happy by partaking good food. We must always remember that each time we share with our loved ones is as precious as the answers we give to food attendants: Dine in or out?

As was said we are the food we eat. Food is describes cultures,traditions and individuals. If you have concerns and desires to have good and quality time choose things that make our life more enjoyable and memorable. We can get kitchen help from everyone and it’s as easy as clinking wine glasses for a toast.

“Beauty and the Beast”

“Mom please read me this book that daddy brought,”

The mother smiled sweetly to the dear child,

“Her father was lost in the thick forest,

She found herself in a magical place,

And she was dared by a bargain to stay.

Beast was not as cold-hearted as he seemed.

And through love they lived happy together.”

There was a loud knocking on the front door,

It was the drunken father who came home.

“Daddy please don’t hurt mommy. Stop it.”

“Get back to bed you little brat,stay there!”

The child was still shaken and trembling then,

Her father becoming that night a beast.

She could not help crying for what happened.

“Locked Up”

Cheeks blushed,

Giggles hushed,

Don’t be in such rush,

Resist his thrust,

This you must:

While I lock things in a box,

Even if he throws at you rocks!

Be unmoved knob,

Don’t let yourself be robbed.

“A Study of Speculative Fiction in Philippine Contemporary Literature as Exemplified in the Novel Salamanca and Nine Supernatural Stories Anthology”

1. Title: Speculative Fiction in Philippine Contemporary Literature as Exemplified in the Novel Salamanca and Story Anthology Nine Supernatural Stories

1. Nature and Significance of the Study:

Speculative fiction is a term used as an inclusive descriptor covering a group of fiction genres that speculate about worlds that are unlike the real world in various important ways. It is attributed to Robert Anson Heinlein, an American novelist and science fiction writer. The term first appeared in his 1984 essay and he used it as a synonym for “science fiction.”

In the context of Philippine contemporary literature, although there are many works and authors classified as speculative fiction, the term speculative fiction has been attributed to the writer Dean Francis Alfar. His novel Salamanca, which gained the local prestige by winning the Palanca Grand Prize Award for Novel, is considered as the icon for speculative fiction in the Philippines while Nine Supernatural Stories is an anthology that tells a different sort of supernatural story to show a wider spectrum of the generally known genre.

Rainy Days

well, it was last Wednesday when me and my friends namely Khareen, Dimples,Mau,Kring and Joanie went to bathe in the rain. It was very cold but we were having fun. Imagine taking pictures with a misty background! It was really fun. We played soccer and touchball. It was amazing how we had thought the same thing after our classes ended. It had been a boring day for us. The exam in our fiil 1 subject felt so depressing and we had to succumb ourselves to that cold after-feel.

But hey! We jerked aside, laughed and gone wet. I hope many people would learn from us. It’s a good feeling to bathe in the rain with one’s friends.

It’s a far better feeling getting wet than staying dry.

New Upcoming Movies 2009

Fri, January 9	The Unborn, 5 more releases
Fri, January 16	My Bloody Valentine 3-D, 4 more releases
Wed, January 21	Of Time and the City
Fri, January 23	Possession, 5 more releases
Fri, January 30	Taken, 4 more releases