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EVERY NOW AND THEN, I would hear murmurs of queries on when train services to Bicol will resume. Most of these queries morph into desires and nostalgia to see the classic iron horse back clanging and honking along the tracks of our region. For now, as said in one of my poems, “the train station is quiet,” literally quiet—no personnel, no passengers, no vendors, no trains, only remnants of the rich past, memories of trains chugging to a complete halt at the station where throngs of passengers were caught in the noisy, liminal stupor of waiting and saying goodbyes.

SA HILÍNG KO, dikit-dikit nang narurugbâ an Libmanan-Cabusao Dam Project. Marurugba ini na dai man lamang nahiling kan mga tawo an pagtindog kaini. Kadakol nang mga nangyari, kadakol nang mga promesa, kadakol nang mga pinanaóng pautang. Mamomroblema na sa siringilan. Kadakol nang mga patubód na mangyayari, siring man na kadakol nang mga karibongan na dinara.

Babaye, ipinagboot

kan karpinterong aki mo

an samong pagkakan saiya.

Sa saiyang mga ngimot man

nagluwas an kahurutan

na inomon siya kan gabos.

Aram niyamong ini makulog

asin matarom sa saimong daghan.

Alagad, ika man nagpahunod.

Babaye, tadaw ta pirmi

ika na sana an minapahunod?

Tadaw ta ika na sana

an minasapo kan kulog?

Tadaw ta ika an sa daghan

may nakatadok na punyal?

Ay, abaa nang kasakitan!

PAGPOON. 1976 sagkod 1981, tinugdok an modernistang hitsura asin disenyo kan sarong istruktura nin pagtubod-an Basilica Minore para ki Ina. Sa sarong mahiwas na lote nakatandayag ini, asin sa haloy na panahon iyo an natatadang mahihiling sa kahiwasan kan siyudad nin Naga kun tatanawon ini hali sa karayuan.

HERE IN BICOL, typhoons were more frequent around the early days of November, just after everyone had gone home from the cemeteries for the All Souls' Day. The storms came with winds rough enough to tear into useless strips fans of banana leaves, which Mother would use to wrap latik or inun'on na dilis. The storms would bring rains that came in torrents of sharp needles so that children and even adults could not go out of the houses.

Like scents, tastes bring us to places, remind us of events and affairs, and conjure within us old feelings. More often, these feelings are heightened because some are of our deepest intimacies while some are of our greatest melancholies and fears. This simple psychology of flavor was, is, and will always be a big part of how we are formed as individual persons.

SA REHIYON NA INI nin mga rito asin simbahan, an Semana Santa sarong panahon nin pagtuninong. Orog na sa mga banwaan na daing gayo nariribaraw kan maribok na parakpaták nin mga traysikel asin ruab nin nag-iirinotan na mga sasakyan, an semanang ini panahon nin pagtenir sa mga harong-harong, signos nin nakatùdan na pag-ontok na may kaibahan pamibi asin paghorop-hórop.

The power of the media is immense and vast, that is has also the capacity to take away from us proper sensibilities. This is the danger of public perception. When Joseph Estrada was ousted by the so-called second EDSA People Power, Joseph Spaeth of Time magazine predicted that ousting a leader would be a vice in the Philippines. Now it is indeed a vice, and the media is greatly involved in its success.

Part 1 of 5. This is a five-part lecture delivered on 28 January 2010 on the occasion of the Ateneo de Naga University's Philosophy Week: Philosophy and Philippine Politics.

MY FATHER is a constant cynic when it comes to personnel. It hurts me, because primarily, I work with and for media-although indirectly. I teach Media Studies in a university.

SA GABOS NA PANAHON, nagtutubod ako na sa pagsurat nin sarong rawitdawit, kaipuhan na rawitdawit ini enot sa gabos asin bakong ano pa man. Minsan ini igwa nin laen na katuyuhan arog baga kan magpamatè nin emosyon, maghorop-horop, magranga sa banwaan na ginikanan, o magtaong boses sa sarong komunidad.