Journal of Nov. 10, 2011

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FEELING BETTER TODAY, NOV. 9

Feeling better, phlegm which has been bothering me for almost a month, is almost gone. Woke up at past 4 in the morning and did the morning ritual. Facebook comments and uploading Laoag city pictures, which elicited a native who must be now a resident in a foreign country.

Instant coffee packs (2) and a pack beer brand milk all worth P20, from Divina's store. I am going to Santiago today, drop some mails (Timpuyog Journal copies) for prospective subscribers.

Thank you, Lord of hosts,, for the beautiful, sunny day and the opportunity to make myself productive. Bless my family and the people of the Philippines. Bless Jimmy and Nelson Ang that they may win the case against Prudencio Bartolome who, it appears, grabbed their residential lots. His son, the municipal engineer, was overheard to have said that they can bend the law. Days earlier, the municipal judge decided in favor of the land grabber. But the aggrieved parties
have appealed the case to the regional trial court.

Other expenses for today: P60.00, internet; P20 pack of coffee; P10 Swak powdered milk; P20
tukmem or dukiang, river shells, Sisig, P120.00. Overall expenses, P250.00

lost LETTER FROM THE GARBAGE OF MEMORY

diakon sinungbatan ti teksmo. is there another gender view of what is bad or good?

if i keep money--ket dayta ti inaramid ti presidente ti gunglo iti $600 nga inted ni Dr. Pete Alupay para iti gunglo--that is not mine and I will not return it to the rightful owner, do you find it acceptable?

thoughts are things and words cut like a million razor blades. 


this realization that we have nothing in common with what matters most in life as writers is painful. 


Caption, bw photo, circa late 60s: seated, far left, Severino Pablo; and Virginia Alejandro and Peter La. Julian, far right. Standing, Joe Gonzales, second from left, and the late Pelagio Alcantara, beside Gonzales. 2nd photo, a photo copy of my facebook account reliving the writers' house accompanied by a photo with the late apo s, godo reyes, presidente ti gunglo iti 13 a tawen.

DANIW

siak ti angin a mangay-ayam iti buokmo
siak ti sinamar ti init kadagita matam
siak ti dungngo ti apros dagita imam
siak ti ayat a nanglapunos iti pusom
siak ti saibbekmo
siak ti agarimayang a luam


Photo captions: my jogging path and sunflowers along my route in Winchester, CA; my laptop and New Yorker magazines in my hideaway at the third floor of the ancestral home in Laoag

Journal of November 7, 2011

Sent the whole Errol Liquicia Abrew manuscript, "Dibersion, Politika ken Dagiti Sakit ti Pagilian," to SV Pablo for the Nov. 15-30 issue of Timpuyog Journal, which is being prepared in Laoag because they will be responsible for the editorial content and the printing cost. It will be a Bacarra Fiesta issue with all or most of the articles dealing with the town, which won the title Balikbayan Town, when the Balikbayan Program was launched by the President Marcos in 1970s.

The first chapter of REDEMPTION, a nobela by Dr. Aurelio Solver Agcaoili of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, will come out in the Dec. 2011 issue of Timpuyog Journal.

Journal of November 6, 2011

The sun came out, albeit briefly, and rain clouds are gone, and it is bright day. Have edited the 49-page article on the country's diversions, politics and problems written by Errol Abrew for the Timpuyog Journal. Took a hot bath, then put on my red sweater given by Elinor, wife of Dr. Pete Alupay, a medical doctor in CA, where we spent the 2007 New Year in their house in Riverside.

The production of phlegm is almost nil and far between, reducing the rattling in my chest; less discomfort. Walked to the restaurant near the irrigation canal and had lunch of pinapaitan and rice, costing P50.00. The place with red plastic Coca cola tables is along the road, where I could see green rice-fields and the concrete palay/rice bodega of Tottie. Game of Tong-it in the early afternoon at Ang's place.

Journal of November 5, 2011

A gray, rainy day. Late breakfast of noodles mixed with camote tops and pallang, a bundle of which I purchase two days ago and stored in the ref. No lunch. At the laptop editing Errol Abrew more than 32-page article, with the edited title, DIBERSION, POLITIKA KEN DAGITI SAKIT TI PAGILIAN, for the next issues of Timpuyog Journal. In the evening, I ate dinner at the eatery nearby. It was rice with chopped chicken breast costing P30.00. Edited poem on the tower of bacarra by Dr. Vicente Bonoan, and a short article of Rodolfo Guittap for the Nov- 15-30, 2011 issue of Timpuyog Journal. My cough persists, plenty of expelled phlegm. No single capsule of medicine today.


Photo: Raul-Emmanuel Julian's garden path in his more than a million peso home in San Mateo, Isabela.