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LinkWaray Lit: Beauty in AntiquityJan 21, '08 10:07 PM
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Link: http://e-waray.blogspot.com/

Being born and raised in the Waray shores of Leyte, we reveled in the wealth of Waray literature in songs and poems (siday). We were lulled with such poetry by our forebears. Now that we have grown and finding our destinies in shores away from Leyte, with fondness do we recall these forms of expressing artistry through the written and spoken word.

Waray, as a language, is spoken in the provinces of Leyte, Biliran and the three provinces in Samar island: Western Samar, Eastern Samar & Northern Samar. Incidentally, parts of Masbate facing Samar also speak Waray. However, it is not known whether their forms of literature are also rooted from the Waray masters of Samar & Leyte.

Here then is a site devoted to preserving the rich history of Waray literature from such luminaries as Iluminado Lucente and many other brilliant swordsmiths. I am ever thankful that with the advent of the internet, these legacies from our "Iroy nga Tuna" will once again be shared and relished by Waray souls worldwide thirsty for such antiquity through:

The Online Museum of Everything Waray


Sample:

San-u Ka Bumaya
ni Espiridios Brillo

Kun umabut an adlaw,
ha akun nim’ pagbaya,
bilini aku anay,
hin puraw nga himaya;
panasa an kasamdung,
ha akun hunahuna,
ihalad lugud anay,
an unub nga himaya.


Thanks to Raissa Villasin for linking this site. And much gratitude is accorded to the blog owners for putting this up. Truly, our Waray legacy will forever live on!

Mabuhay an nga Waray!


Blog EntryA bad habit that could only be goodSep 30, '07 2:23 AM
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I bought Julie King's "Everyday Photoshop for photographers" yesterday at Cagnaan Bookstore, at the 3rd Level of SM City Cebu. I really want to learn how to tweak some of my photos using photoshop wonders. (My new pals Teddy and Val are sooo good at it, I wanna be like them when I grow up, haha, except that I'm older than them. Or is it photoshop you're using, guys?)

So I saw this book, I got one, and with only a few minutes' indecision, paid for it. Even my best buddy Janjan who put the book back to the shelf so I could think hard and come back for it if I really need the book, couldn't keep me from paying the exorbitant price right there and then.

I still haven't opened the book from its plastic cos I was so tired when I got home last night, I just boinked to bed after a quick shower. But I'd read it in the airport and on the plane tomorrow.

When I looked at the book earlier, I realized that there are still a lot of other books I bought that I haven't read yet. Some are still in their plastics, some already graying. Some of them I don't even know where anymore. So I scanned the bookshelves in our room and gathered some of those I still haven't read and took a picture using my N93. Too bad the lighting wasn't that good. Anyway, these books remind me of the impulsive nature I have.

The books I buy are of varied fields. I have not stuck to a particular theme as of late, as I guess characterizes the suspended state I have about my career and future. In the early 90's, my bookshelf was filled with unread Classics, Filipiniana and Grishams, that took me the next six years to finish them all. By the start of the year 2000, my choice of books shifted to General Knowledge and Lists. Then shifted again towards my first loved genre on History and some on the Mystics. Lately, I've had books on socio-anthropology and entrepreneurship - a rather rare mix of interest. In between there were new founds from Asian writers with the likes of Arundhati Roy and Kazuo Ishiguro and of course from my Russian-American "philosopher" Ayn Rand who celebrates the same birthday as mine - February 2. What the hey, I even buy General Reference books, hehe. And of course, I don't let easy-reads and swashbuckling bestsellers go by from the likes of Follett, Chrichton, Archer and John Irving.

And oh yes, this bad habit is costing me good money. But at the end of a good read, the money spent never matters.


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