SANTANINA Tillah Rasul, before she became Senator Santanina Rasul and then former Senator Santanina Rasul, was, to me, simply Nina. I can’t remember how we met, but knew our common bond. She was then writing a reader for Tausug children, and I liked writing children’s stories in English.
Have you ever seen a ghost or apparition? I am sure I have. At least twice. Once about 10 years ago, of all places, at the Henry Lee Irwin Theater of the Ateneo de Manila University in Loyola Heights.
I used to know English and I used to know Tagalog. Or so I thought. Now I’m lost when English is treated as Tagalog. Carry mo bang ano? Carry mong isuot—ano pa? Dare to wear mo ba, go against the world, your conscience, others’ opinions? In other words, carry mo ma-judge as either avant garde or lukaret?
I THOUGHT these songs from the ’70s and the ’80s that mix Tagalog and English lyrics are worth reproducing, even in an inglisera column. The first, by Gary Granada is, I think, pure poetry.
In the audience of a long program I was watching recently, National Artist Frankie Sionil José heaved himself on the seat beside me.
Ageing folks become the unintentional repository of old customs, mind-sets, food and folk lore, of architecture of houses, kinds of furniture, pastimes, clothes and trivia. Being in drama, Gino Gonzalez
MY FAVORITE candy store on the cinema floor of the mall had run out of sugar-free Russell Stover and Whitman Chocolates.
If you are an old person, conservative and easily disturbed, please skip this column. It is about today’s unpalatable language of the young which is contrary to good manners
It always stumped me how the first man and woman could fit in separate nodes of a bamboo. For a time, feminists even argued that the female was on the
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