SALUTATION TO SUNRISE

I have watied for the dawn a hundred times, attended by that mournful, colorless spirit which haunts the last hours of darkness; and influenced especially by the great timeless apathy that hangs round the first uncertain promise of incresing light. For there is an hour before daylight when men die, and when there is nothing above the soul or around it, when even the starts fail. And this long and and dreaded expectation i had thought to be worst when one was alone at sea in a small boatwithout wind; drifting beyond one's harbor in the end of the outer channel tide, and sogging back to the first flow on the board, confused movement of the sea without any waves. in such lonely mornings i have watched the Owers light turning, and I have counted up my gulf of time, and wondered that movements could be so strong streched out to the cluelessmind. I have prayed for the morning or for a little draught of wind, and this I have thought, I say, the extreme of absorption into emptiness and longing.

But now, on this ridge, draggingmyself on the main road, I found a deeper abyssof isolation and despairing fatigue than i have ever known, and I came near to turning eastwards and imploring the hastening of light, as men pray continually without reason for things that can become in a due order. I still went forward a little beacuse when I sat down my lonliness oppressed me like a misfortune; a little balance and rhythm to the movement of my body.

I heard no sound of animals or birds.I pissed several fields, deserted in the half-darkness, and in some i felf the hay but always found it ringing west with dew, nor could I discover a good shelter from the wind that blew off the upper snow of the summit. For a litle spaceof time there fell upon me, as I crept along the road, that not compel me to lie down, and I accepted it only as a partial and beneficient oblivion which covered my desolation and suffering as athin, transparent cloud may cover an evil moon.

Then suddenly the sky grew lighter upon every side. That cheating gloom (which I think the cloud in purgatory must reflect) lifted the valley as though to a slow order given by some calm and good influence that was marshalling in the day. Their colors came back to the things; the trees recovered their shape, live and trembling; here and there on the face of the mountain opposite, the mists by their movements took part in the new life, and I thought I heard for the first time the tumbling water far below me in the ravine. That subtle barrier was drawn which marks today from yesterday; all the night and its despondency became the past and entered my memory. The road before me the path on my left, the mass of the great hills, had become mixed into the increasing light., that is, into the familiar and invigorating present which I have always found capable of opening, the doors of the future with a gesture of victory.

My pain either left me, or I ceased to noticed it, and seeing a little way before me a bank above the road, and a fire grove of sparse and dominant chestnuts climbed up thither and turned, standing to the east.

There, without any warning of colors, or the heraldry that we have in the north, the sky was a great field of pure light, and without doubt it was all woven through, as was my mind watching it, with security and gladness. Into this field, as I watched it, rose the sun. The air become warmer alomost suddenly. The splendour and health of the new day left me all in response, and persuaded of compelled me to immediate.

I found, therefore, in the short grass, and on the scented earth beneath on of my tress, a place for lying down; I streched myself out upon it, and lapsed into a profound slumber, which nothing but a vagueand tenous delight separated from complete forgetfullness. If the last confusion of thought, before sleep possessed me, was a kind of prayer and certainly I was in the mood of gratitude and of adoration - this prayer was of course to God, from whom every good proceeds, but partly to the Sun, which, of all the things He has made, seems, of what we at least can discover, the most complete and glorious.

'08 NBA PREDICTIONS by skud

1. Ang Boston Celtics indi maka daug sg 50 games. Ngaa indi? Isa sa big three ma injure some point.
2. Ang ginapakot ko, si Kevin Garnett. Wala ko naka balita nga na na injure sya for quite too long, kag basi machambahan nga subng nga season na matabu kung diin may pinaka dako sya nga chance para mag ka title.
3. Ang Detroit Pistons matapos nga pangatlo sa Central Division, antes sg Chicago kag Cleveland. 4. Ang L.A. Clippers mag kadouble-digit games nubo sa five-hundred antes maka balik si Elton Brand halin sa injury.
5. Ang Philadelphia 76ers ang may pinaka worst nga record sa Eastern Conference.

SA JEEP pt. 1

...5:47 sg hapon. Sa waiting shed upod sa iban nga mga tawo nga, pareho sa akon, nagahulat man sg jeep nga masakyan. Mga 45 minutes na ako nagabantay sg jeep. Kung hindi gutok, ma unahan ka sg iban nga pasahero, nga mas sobra pa sa imo nga na tak-an na sg hulat.

Nagadulom na. Mapilit pa ang panit mo sg bilog nga adlaw nga aktibidad. Tapos naga hana pa nga maulan. Wala gyapon jeep. Gutom nako.

Dugang pa nga diyes minuto, nag umpisa na na manalithi. Bad trip! wala ko dala payong. Wala man aviso nga ma ulan sg timprano. Another 2 minutes, may nag pundo gd man nga jeep. Kinahanglan ko pa makipag dis-uganay sa iban nga pashero para maka una sakay.

Sang nakasakay nako, wala naman ko pungku-an. May gamay nga space, para lang gd maka igu ang 1/4 sg buli mo. Mantiniran, kay sa magab-ihan pa ko di maka puli. Gutom nako.

Nakasakay lang ko kag nag todo ang ulan. Gaginutok. Gaulan pero magin-ot. Aside nga mainit, di pa ko ka pungko mayu. Abi lng nila naga pungko ako, but actually naga squat nalang ako samtang naga kabit sa kalaptan sa babaw. Tani indi lng mag agi sa bastihon nga dalan, kay laban laban gd nga madagdag ko sa gina pungko-an.

Mabaskog na ang ulan. Ang drayber wala lang kabalo nga ang mga pasahero sa likod basa na. Maalay na kamot ko sg kabit. Ang tuhod ko naga kurog sg katin-katin. Gutom gutom na ko.


to be continued...

SA TYANGEE

.... .... pag pana'og pa lang sa boarding house.. makita mo na dayon and tyangee sa tabok.. walastik! ara tanan nga poster kak sinage nka paskil. halin sa e-load, autoload, pasaload, expressload etc. tanan nga klase sg card available: cellcard, fonekard, webcard, credit card, report card, pink card sg lodge.. wahahaha.. xerox, pay phone, accept boaders/bed spacer blah..blah..blah..

pag palapit ko, indi lng gle ni tyangee, one stop-shop gle! asteeg!! may internet cafe na, barber shop pa! pag sulod ko sa grocery, wow! tanan ara halin sa pinakagamay nga bubble gum atsa and teddy bear nga abi ko gina display lng for sale gle. colorfull! na amaze ako.. sa kadamo sg naka kabit kag naka display, indi ko ma kita ang tindera.. hmmm..

dugay na nga libot ko kag nakita ko sya sa pinaka punta. isa lng abi ang kahera putot pa... wahaha okay namakot ko kung may coke.. gn pamankot ya man ko.. "8oz. 12oz, 500, litro, diet, or in can?"... "litro."... "may bote ka?"... "wala." "deposit na lng, 8 pesos"... 25+8, 33 tanan.. gn hatagan ko sya P500.. .. .. "wala kambyo." hambal ya.. "teh, panu na? na buksan ko na?"... "balikan mo nalng kambyo mo karon."... "huh?!".. "huo, pag balik mo ka bote, kambyuhan ta ka dayon."... "huh?!" daw na intu'an ya ko haw? tag 25 ang coke and deposit 475 pesos? hayy, bahala na.. na uhaw na ko.. "cge manang, balikan ko nlng."

pag gwa ko sa tyangee. gin pangita ko kung ano ngalan sg tyangee, and amu ni ang nakita ako: "NAKAMURA MINI-STORE."

PROLOGUE cont'd.

... .... kung wala ko ka inom kape, wala ko ma diparahan nga naga iningles ko ya! wala man may nag hambal nga kinahanglan gid mag ingles. well, what a way to start a story.. hehehe..
Anyway, ngaa ang kape kanamit kung mainit.. but di mo man ma inom kay mainit? hahaha basta namit gyapon kung mainit. Am even thinking to have a coffee plantation at my backyard...but nag budlay pa gid. kinanlan mo pa mag pick sg beans, dikdikon mo pa, tapos i brew mo pa sg dugay.. hayy! patay nako siguro kag makatimpla ko sg manamit nga brewed.. may ara man da sa tyangee instant, tag duwa lng ka piso.. hahaha.. or kung gusto mo mas malasa, 3n1, para may cream pa!
Naubos ko na ang kape ko but wala ko gyapon may na isip nga sulaton. Ang mga neuron sa utok ko wala pa nag gana. kulang sa caffeine. dali lng, bakal ko danay Coke sa dalom..

PROLGUE

sitting painstakenly i front of the monitor... blank sheet.. cursor blinking.. thinking.. waiting.. thinking still.... i got it!!! uhmm.. no, i dont.. *sigh*.. maybe i should rest for a while.. then i remembered i have no bed!! damn it!! im stuck in my seat.. oh well, im still thinking what to type... i have no idea.. ill have coffee first..


to be continued..