Latest Noose (Pinakahuling Balita)

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Hindi ko alam kung matatawa, maiinis o maghuhurumentado ako. Muntik na akong kumuha ng malaking "gulok" at maghamon ng away. Tulo sipon kase habang nagbabasa ng dyaryo.

Hindi ko sinasadya pero habang kinakalikot ko ang ilong ko kasama si Gugol natisod ko ito. Makabasa ka ba naman ng balitang gaya nito:



Old news na pero plakda pa rin ako ng aking mabasa. Take note of the date na lang po. September 11, 2011. Hindi ko ito nabalitaan kase malamang busy ako sa World Trade pero kung wala yun, ito na siguro ang pinakamalaking balita sa TV nung araw na yun. Aba eh kahit ang mga terorista nung mga araw na iyon hindi gagawin ang ginawa ni Boy Salisi eh.

So dahil napunta na lang rin ako sa dyaryong nakasulat sa itaas, nagbasa na ako ng balita. Eto ang sa akin ay bumulaga:




Sabi nga sa amin sa Batangas, "Nagpa-uyuhan pa eh!". Eh pare-pareho naman sila. Matindi rin tong si Pareng JV, nakalimutan na nung panahon ni tatay niya ay naging OTSENTA PETOT ang halaga ng kada ISANG DOLLAR. Grrrrrrr!

Isa pa. Wala na yatang magandang balita dito sa Pilipinas. Sa laki-laki ng country side eh ito lang ang balita:



Kung hindi may napisak eh may bulagta. Jung walang bulagta ay may dedo. Pag hindi dedo, ayan at sugatan. At saan pa ba matatapos e di sa dun sa nasuwag ng kalabaw.

Sobrang positive na mga balita, hano!

Ang masama nito ay yung balitang nakakalito. Di ko tuloy malaman kung "factual" pa ba na news ang binabasa ko. Tingnan nyo ang sunod na tatlong imahe.

Nagtaka ako kase parang de javu ang nangyaring aksidente.




So binasa ko yung sa Batangas. Aba naman at may bayan pala ng Limay sa aking probinsyang sinilangan? Ano ito?




Naisip ko may pagakakamali lang sa artikulo sa itaas, at naisip ko na ang nasa baba ay ang corrected version. Kaya nga at pinalitan na ang title.





Nyay, kinorek na mali pa rin? Panawagan kay Vilma, Gob pakihanap po ng Limay sa Batangas. Pandagdag din sa botante.

Mag-apply kaya ako na proof reader sa dyaryo. Baka kahit papano ay hindi malilito ang mga tao.

Ito ang problema sa mundong ating ginagalawan sa kasalukuyan. Isang mundong kontrolado at pinapatakbo ng media. Walang paraan kung paano maihihiwalay ang katotohanan sa gawa-gawa lamang.

Minsan pa naman mas maraming stupid.

Na-curious tuloy ako. Hindi kaya at ang mga balitang ito ay patibong lang ng Tsina. Para pag nagkagera dahil sa Spratlys, malilito ang mga Pilipino kung saan ba talaga ang Batangas at ang Bataan?

Gusto nyo ng ebidensya?



SINGWAHHHH!!!!?!?!??!


Kung bakit ba naman local news, kailangan pang import? Yan tuloy pirated! Tsk tsk tsk!


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A Taste of the Batangueño Dialect

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Most non-Batangueños think that the Batangueño slang is a separate dialect in itself. I do not agree to that notion. Although I am not a linguistic scholar, I tend to normally explain that the words we tend to use is still Tagalog, albeit much (for lack of better word that I can think of) "deeper" hehe (trans: malalim, tunge!) as most of them are words from the olden days that the people in Manila is not using anymore. Almost all of the other words we Ala-eh citizens use are still Tagalog and should be understood easily by other Filipinos. If not for the way we Ala-ehs speak and the way our intonation is blurted out, every one should not find it hard to communicate with us. Aside from that, there is no difference at all.

A fine example is my wife's experience. When I first brought her to batanggas she was quite inconvenienced by the fact that she can not seem to understand what were talking about. Everything was new to her and she can not comprehend even the simplest of terms. This is because we in Batanggas tend to talk at a much faster phase and weith that distinct diction and intonation. However, when she got used to it, she realized that there was really not much of a difference like I said earlier.


Here is a piece that I wrote. Most of the words you wouldn't understand are either pronounced by Batangueños differently or merely from the olden days of the Katagalugan.


"Ala! Ay ngali-ngali ko nang hinagad ang akala mo'y lungkuying kawatan kung hindi ko laang naisip na sanaw ang parteng pulta ng kalihon at mababasa ang aking bagong ribok. Di ang aking ginawa na laang e pumalahaw para ang manghagad e yung mga ahit sa kadais na tanghuran. Matagal tagal ding nagpagatan, ay di kaya pat na-korner din. ALa ay nung masumbi at matangkab ng ninakawan e nagwasang na parang pagirpir ang luko. Palakat na eh! Piro nakuha pang kumana! Kainaman na! Nung magdikit e nagpasirok sirok sa hagdan pariho. Dagasa na sa may banling. Magaling na laang at naawat ng mamay na galing pa sa balinghuyan paano'y tatamaan ang kanilang banggerahan. Mababasag ang mga tapayan. Kung hindi ay baka lalung naliyo iyon. Ay sa kaulaga naman noong pulis na dumating din. Sa halip na pusasan eh, ang ginaway nakipaghuntahan pa. Ay di ayun, napagdali pa uli ung suspek. Magaling nga at hindi nataga ng gulok. Nung matapos e hapong hapo ang partido ng ninakawan eh. Pandagisdis ga naman sa sulok nung mapitserahan sabay na-kumpu pa ni Piyet. Nayapaw pa nga iyong bilot ni Ka Maring. May nawal-an pa ng gura. Kagagaling din, pagkayayama naman e nung makaraos. Ika eh, ipapalamon raw sana nila sa guyam, wala laang nakitang hantikan. A-ah ay kauntik na!"

What do you think. Can you translate this?

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Calamias Childhood Memories

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I happen to see from FB some relatives whom I have not seen in a while. It so happened that these guys used to live two houses away from our own house in our hometown. Now they are far off living Down Under. After browsing some of their pictures, nostalgia started to creep.

The place where we grew up in is a little barrio in a small town of Ibaan, Batangas. Everybody knows everyone as almost all are of blood relatives. It is almost as if the whole barrio was owned by our "mamay sa tuhod" who I think the name is Guillermo Rabino. I used to hear stories of him like when he is at odds with someone, he would tell him not to set foot on his land or else something might happen. The threathened will then have to go around the whole barangay just to go to what is beyond our great grandfathers domain.

As young kids, we had nothing to do as there used to be no internet, phone lines were only connected during the latter part of the '90s. The main source of income for most people are farming and the usual "paglalako". And so as kids we got used to playing in the fields, swimming in a very very small river and playing backyard games. The closest guys I grew up with are my cousins. These guys are mostly my second cousins. The bunch of us used to call ourselves the Paltik Gang. The oldest among us I think was about 11 years old only when we started to call ourselves such. Paltik is how we in our area of Batangas calls a slingshot. I had fond memories of those days when we would go from fields to fields playing like soldiers armed with slingshots. We will always target our grandfathers fruitbearing trees most especially the mangoes during summer. It is also during summer when we always get to setup a mini-beach in our area locally called "layon". Since the only flowing river that we have in our place is narrow and not deep at all, what we used to do was to create some sort of a dam that will allow the water to overflow into the banks. We would then pile more and more rocks along the waters path to make it deeper. I remember how these mini-dams were given names like Julian Beach, Arong Beach, Haba-Kipot etc. But there was always danger in putting such dams everytime. This is from our palu-palo wielding kakang's, tita's, tiya's, ate's and lola's. This is because the same narrow river is also the place where our older women relatives are washing clothes. And by us doing the dams this creates tension as the water normally gets muddy whenever we youngsters are doing our little picnics. We are not allowed to dive into the water as long as they are not finished. Oh I cannot count anymore how many times Kakang Soledad and Ate Nita (not my mother) would come after us wielding their "pambugbog" because we used to constantly disregard this unwritten rule. Now that I am thinking about it, "hehhehe sorry po".

Ohhh there are lots of stories, beautiful and exciting, and all these I miss so much. Not that I again will run after jeepneys at night naked like what we used to do when we were young. It is just that these memories should be kept and should be told to our grandkids also. I miss being young and living the life that our lolo's taught us. One day though, I promise, I will write a book about all those experiences. And that will be complete with all the characters involve especially the the members of the Paltik Gang.

Taal Volcano

Phivolcs, which is the main body monitoring seismic and volcanic events in the Philippines, announced recently that they have heigthened its Volcano Alert Level to Alert Level 2 for Taal Volcano.

According to the Phivolcs website:

In view of the above observations and the interpretation that a fresh batch of magma has been intruding towards the surface, as manifested in the seismic swarms in 1992, 1994, 2000 and 2004 to present, Taal Volcano’s status is now raised to Alert Level 2, meaning that the volcano is undergoing magmatic intrusion which could eventually lead to an eruption. PHIVOLCS reminds the general public that the Main Crater remains off-limits because hazardous steam-driven explosions may occur, along with the possible build-up of toxic gases. Areas with hot grounds and steam emission such as portions of the Daang Kastila Trail are considered hazardous. PHIVOLCSreiterates that the whole Volcano Island is a Permanent Danger Zone (PDZ) and permanent settlement within this area is strictly prohibited.

I have always thought that the whole lake and not just the little real volcano used to explode thousands of years back. I believe that the little island at the center of the lake is just a remnant of a much older volcano from long ago. I basically derived this theory from the same kind of volcanic eruption that occured in Indonesia before which was studied by Scientists. Scientists claim that a whole lake in Indonesia which is much bigger than that of Taal used to be the crater of a volcano which probably caused super cooliong of the earths athmosphere thousands of years ago when it erupted. In fact when they collected soil samples from mountains in the different borders of that Indonesian volcanic lake, they found out that they are of the same type and quality. This is the same theory that I am applying now for Taal Volcano and the entire Taal Lake.

I do not think that Taal Volcano is the smallest in the world. I think that in fact, it could be one of the biggest. This is if it could be proven that the whole Taal Lake and its sorrounding mountainous edges are part of one big crater.

This belief basically made my wife mad. You see, we were scheduled to go to Tagaytay this weekend for our 6 months celebration of being husband and wife. But after I heard the news about the Alert level in Taal being heightened, and Tagaytay being part of my so called Taal crater, I told my wife to cancel the booking. In effect this means lost money as the terms of Agreement that we have for the hotel we are going to stay at claims no refund for bank deposits. I sure am gonna be whipped when I come home tonight. Wish me luck. But let us all wish the whole Taal area more goodluck. Be safe mga kabayan!