#instead of bringing back palamutes

[the-nerd-beast]

Reiki and Scowler rolling out with the boys

[konakoro]

We got Monster Hunter ninja/samurai edition, next game I want Monster Hunter yeehaw edition. I want it wild west themed with cowboy-looking armor and weapons. Make a variant of Barroth that has him looking more like a train, maybe fire elemental to correlate with coal/steam engines. Instead of a canteen, it's a saloon where you get your perks from eating massive barbecue meats and moonshine. BRING BACK SIEGES and have one take place on a train and getting chased by a large pursuing monster a la the boat sieges in MH4. Orca variant of Zamtrios. Bigfoot monster. Bring back mounting as a mechanic instead of wyvern riding because not only is it a harder mechanic, but it fits the rodeo idea more. More snake wyverns because we still only just have Najarala. Keep palamutes tho because it works with the lone rider aesthetic of westerns but mainly because dogjy 🐕

I want this more than anything...

[phoenix-manga]

Assuming that Fraena can get a portal back to her world.... Casual Geographic x Monster Hunter with Fraena with Carter or Rook as the camera men. I'm talking about those hardcore Wildlife Cameramen that camp out in nature for months just to get a shot of some animal. Actually the more I think about it, this could be more like Crocodile Hunter? Maybe?

If Casual Geographic is more video showing pictures while explaining everything in a dead tone that adds to the hilarity.

We could say that Fraena is more hands on like Steve Irwin, she's got more emotion in her tone as she is doing the wrangling while explaining.

Also a portal to the world of Monster Hunter would be the worst yet the most thrilling idea because this reminds me of Prehistoric Park if anyone remembers that show.

A guy bringing back dinosaurs from the past into a sanctuary and all that except Fraena has two students and a staff member follow her to her world to document creatures beyond their understanding.

But this can also be like a mix with Ragegamingvideos explanation to each monster. I watch that guy and he is hilarious.

Of course their normal phones won't cut it, Ignihyde offers their services and made a new model of camera not found anywhere, small enough to fit in the pocket but has several functions and built-in lenses to get that 4K quality.

Plus it will not break easily.

The video man is Cater and Rook and they do most of the filming while they ask Fraena some questions regarding said monster. Vargas is the back up in case it gets dangerous for the boys but he's like a kid at a candy store as Fraena gets hands on in confronting a dangerous creature.

Cater/Rook: What is that weird creature? What does it do? How do you kill it?

Let's say we start with something relatively rookie level like a Great Jagras.

Fraena: *Fixing weapons and traps* That large lizard is a Jagras, a relatively easy target for rookie hunters but don't think you're safe. Let your guard down and that thing will swallow you whole.

Jagras: *Eats an Aptonoth whole*

Cater: ugh! *Vomiting*

Rook: Amazing!

Fraena: Stay here and don't leave the bushes, I'm tasked to help out hunt this thing that's bothering the locals so if you wanna tape it then do so at a distance. *Goes to confront the Jagras*

Vargas: *looking all amazed* I wanna fight it too... but I gotta watch these kids.

Bringing back that video to NRC would require a projector because many would forget to go to class just to witness Fraena take down the big iguana monster.

This reminds me of the time the teacher just let us watch a documentary instead of a lecture

This becomes a new thing among the staff, if they don't feel like teaching, they just pop in the documentary video and sip some coffee.

The videos won't escalate to handling the more dangerous monsters like the high rank ones or G rank. But if they really want to, Ignihyde has to come up with a body cam or a drone that would follow Fraena and avoid any incoming danger.

I can see it becoming like some sort of anime scene though. The NRC students watching from the safety of the school with their breaths in their throats as Fraena and her Palamute tag team to take down the monster.

I guess we can put in that that view from the Monster hunter games would be the drone that Ignihyde sent over and they were watching the whole thing unfold.

Overall, compared to @draftingteacups Casual Geographic with Pokemon with plenty of sarcasm yet a tone of seriousness. Soni would be fine in getting near the Pokemon and ocassionally show the "What would happen if you mess with this" though it was all in good fun.

Like, Pokemon can be safe if you treat them right.

That's not the case for Monster Hunter.

Fraena's Monster Hunter Documenatries would be mostly first part is to prepare and talking about what kind of monster she's facing leaving the audience to anticipate what they are facing.

Second halg of the documentary is her facing the monster and they are blown away by the appearance because the descriptions do it no justice.

Or unless she has to fight a Gypceros then they won't be amazed, more like "WTF"

Maybe I'll make a short drabble out of this with different monsters.

[veiledfox]

A Kitsune Among Monsters

One venture through the Tori landed Kyuushi in a small forested area on a cliff of some kind. Being one of her earlier times venturing through the Gate on her own, she wasn’t as efficient with her landings as she is now, and after some brief stumbling, she hit a ledge, and fell a short distance onto ground below. When she landed, however, she could hear some sort of noise. Screeching of some kind, from rather close by to her.

Getting up so she could look around at her surroundings to find out what was making the noise, she found herself facing a small, two legged creature. One with short clawed arms, orange fur, and a tail that ends in a long, curved, natural blade-like shape. It screeched at her again with the eye-contact, but then she heard another screech, but didn’t see it’s fanged mouth move. Looking to her side, there was a second. The pair of them both backing up a short distance from her while continuing to make their odd sounds at her.

Before too much longer, however, the two were joined by a third, one that was much larger, much more intimidating, and seemed to command the smaller two. Earning both their gazes immediately, it looked to the two of them before all three looked at her again. All screeching in unison as they backed up a little further, and she could tell they were readying for something.

Her attempts to back up, to get away to safety, were immediately stopped as her back hit the wall of the small ledge she fell from. Trying to use it to prop herself up onto her feet instead, her foot slipped from under her during a step. Looking where she had planted it, and finding fresh mud, she figured it had just been raining in the area not too long before she arrived. When she looked back, however, she could see the creatures reared back and ready to pounce at her. 

The smaller two launching themselves first, a twist to their bodies to use their tails as their weapons, and the larger third following a brief second after. Eyes closing and arms rising in a vein attempt to protect herself, the Kitsune doesn’t feel anything hit her. Though she hears some sort of dull thud like something hitting against thick metal twice over, and hears the creatures landing and screeching. Right before a groan, one that sounded human, something slamming down into the ground, and a subsequent explosion.

Opening her eyes, a Woman stood before her, clad in a silver scaled, black haired armor set holding a large shield, and some form of spear. The Woman had blocked the attack from the strange creatures, and retaliated with their weapon. Still shield-forward, they look back to her and ask if she’s unharmed first and foremost, then what she’s doing in “The Shrine Ruins” if she’s not a Hunter, or a Researcher. The name and terminology clearly confusing Kyuushi, though she answers the first question with only brief pause.

Right after, however, she could hear the familiar screeching beyond the shield the Woman held, and she was taking a breath to warn the individual. Only for her to be cut off before she could even speak, hearing a metal ping of some sort. Looking around, her eyes quickly find a large arrow embedded in the wall of a mountain beyond the Woman in front of her. One with a bag attached to it’s end, which opens partially and starts raining large, spiked orbs of metal on the creatures that had attacked her. 

Her vision of the arrow and the bag would be briefly obscured just seconds after, however. Another person launching up, over herself and the shield-wielding Woman in front with the aid of some oddly glowing bug. A large club of some sort on their back, though as they fly over, the person retrieves it, brings it in front and over their head, and four large spikes unfold from the center. With a mighty roar, the person falls beyond the shield’s cover, but Kyuushi can hear the heavy impact against the ground, and feels the earth shake beneath her.

It’s just seconds after that she sees a third person come into her view beside her, a massive bow of metal in one hand, while the other is reaching out to her. The figure looked masculine, clad in gladiator-like armor, but the face was a little more feminine, and two feather ear rings hung from their ears. They asked her if she was able to move, receiving a nod in confirmation, and tell her to take their hand and stick close. With zero hesitation, she takes a firm grip, feeling them help her rise to her feet, and quickly setting to guiding her along a pathway. 

Looking back, the Kitsune could see the Woman with the shield turn around, holding the shield still in place, but setting the lance behind her. A large fire setting ablaze at it’s end, and building bigger and bigger. In front of them, that odd spiked weapon was swung into the side of the larger creature, knocking it over onto it’s side. A bug flying up from the Man wielding the odd weapon, before some form of tether connects the man to the bug, pulling him up out of the way of his companion, who surges forward with an explosion of force, slamming the creature into the mountain wall with their shield.

It’s the last that Kyuushi could see of the fight that was happening before she was pulled around a curve, and down a slope with some strewn about, broken stone steps. At the foot of it, a tone archway which reminded her of the Tori Gate back home, and a short ledge down to an open space with a river cutting through it. A rock wall across the river with vines running up toward the edge and over to the top. Swiftly guided to the vine wall, she’s instructed to climb, and follow the path at the top until she reaches a campsite.

Following the person’s instructions, she does pause to look behind herself. Seeing the person had somehow folded their large bow, stored it on their back, and was now swinging away on tethers like the Man earlier, on a path to return to the other two and join them again. She focuses back to her task, climbs the wall with little issue, and finds herself looking at a gently curved path, with a small stream of water next to it, and stones with candles on the opposite side of the stream. 

Figuring it was the path mentioned, she sets along it, only walking for maybe a half minute before she spots what looks to be a tent, with some sort of chest beside it. She didn’t wish to damage or disturb anything, so she found herself a seat on a small wooden step that was set before the tent, and acted as part of a flooring beneath it too. Waiting a few minutes before she heard the sounds of the three from before reaching the top of the vine wall, and approaching her.

The Woman, her shield now on her back with the odd lance folded and tucked beneath, raised a hand and called out to her. Commenting she was glad to see that Kyuushi was unharmed, after having encountered a “Great Izuchi”, without any armor or weapons. When Kyuushi responded, connecting the name to the creatures from before, the three looked a little surprised she had no such knowledge. None of them acted rudely, however, the one with the feather ear rings stepping forward with a nod, and approaching her to take a seat at her side.

For the rest of the day in this strange new realm, Kyuushi sat with these three people at their camp, eventually around a campfire as the night crept in. Learning their names were Leon, who’s odd spiked weapon was apparently a Hammer, Asuka, the Woman with the shield and what she called a Gunlance, and Avery, the bow wielder. Then about the location they were in, about a village they came from called Kamura, about all sorts of animals and monsters that inhabit their world and how they hunt those that disturb the peace. 

This fire-side chatting lasted well into the night, and for the first time ever, Kyuushi slept through a night and into the next day in a realm not of her own. The next day returning with the trio to their village, and being introduced to it’s inhabitants. Most importantly of all, their Village Chief, whom she expressed her interest in what these “Hunters”, as they called themselves, do to him. The Chief, without hesitation, suggested that she become a Hunter herself. 

It was an idea that got caught in Kyuushi’s head, though she wasn’t entirely sure about. Thus she asked if she could think it over through the next night, which the Chief and the Hunters all agreed was a fine idea. Afterwards, she was shown around the village for a few more hours, taken to the hot springs, and taken across a bridge to a small island separate from the village that was populated with many different dogs and cats, and a young boy who almost seemed to be a dog himself with how much he and the animals acted like family.

After a few hours more, Kyuushi finally found a moment she was alone, one where she could get away from everyone and return home. Both exhausted from the influx of excitement that was getting to see the village and meet it’s people and all their animal companions, and excited at the thought of going back. Thankfully, she had been gifted a scarf by the young boy with all the animals after commenting how much she loved how all the “Palamutes”, he called them, had a scarf and how cute they looked. An item she could use as an anchor to this other realm, and return the next day after she’d gotten a good night of rest at home.

The next day, with the scarf tied around her arm, Kyuushi returned through the Tori Gate to Kamura. Finding the Village Chief swiftly, and telling him she would take up the title of Hunter, joining the guild and the protectors of not only Kamura, but the world as a whole. Immediately setting to trying the different weapons, with aid from the Hunters who she had met the days prior, in order to discover which one she could find she could best handle. 

Though they quickly found that, for the heavier weapons, Kyuushi was quite far from being strong enough to handle them. Thus, for a while, they limited Kyuushi to the lighter weapons. A Sword and Shield, Dual Blades that worked in tandem with one another, and something she was told was called a “Kinsect Glaive”, a long polearm with a bladed end, and a blunt end with some form of propulsion system. In order to use the Kinsect to it’s fullest, however, she quickly was told she would need to befriend and nurture a large insect, one which would hang onto her arm at all times when out on hunts and not actively in use. The idea put Kyuushi off quite hard, so she would default to the other two weapons while training.

Over the next handful of visits to Kamura’s realm, the Kitsune found herself improving greatly with the Sword and Shield, managing the offensive and defensive opportunities granted from the weapon far better than the full on aggression that was the Dual Blades. She was informed of the agility that the Dual Blades allowed, and shown just how well one could weave in between and around attacks from monsters, but could never quite get the hang of it. Which was odd to her considering how much she was used to being an agile little Fox half the time at home and in realms where she could fit in as such. Still, she would practice with them, but for her first hunt she would wield the Sword and Shield.

Over the many days she would return to the realm of Kamura, and the days she would spend camping with the Hunters that she was now a rather solid team with, Kyuushi became quite a capable Hunter herself. Having managed to take on many of the lower ranked Monsters on her own with little to no assistance from her teammates, At the same time, she would notice more and more how light the Armor she was wearing, and the weapon she wielded were starting to feel.

After two weeks of time within the realm of Kamura, Kyuushi decided to tackle some of the heavier weapons again. Finding herself capable of finally handling the Hammer, Lance, Gunlance like Asuka, a weapon they called a “Charge Blade”, and something that they called a “Hunting Horn’. The Charge Blade being a larger Sword and Shield, which can combine together to become a large Axe-like weapon. Hunting Horn, meanwhile, a blunt weapon that doubled as an instrument, playing different notes due to the air rushing through the weapon when swung with different hand positions. If specific notes were played in the right order, they would cause a song to play from the Horn itself, somehow providing beneficial effects to herself and her allies.

She would still find massive weapon known as the Greatsword, and an odd contraption called a “Switch Axe” both still a little too heavy for herself to wield it effectively. Thus, over the next couple weeks, she would try each of the five weapons she could now manage to wield. Quickly adapting to the Charge blade, what with it’s base features being similar to those of the Sword and Shield, simply with more weight and less mobility. But after a time, she found herself accustomed to the Hunting Horn.

Taking up the Horn for a full week worth of hunting Monsters that distrubed the peace and balance, Kyuushi found herself loving her experiences with the weapon. The wild flare she could give in her movements, the way different Horns sounded, the combination of notes before music would play, adding so much to not only her Hunts with her friends, but even to her daily life in Kamura. Figuring ways to play many of the wide variety of Hunting Horns, both in combat, and when simply trying to take some time to relax. Often providing music when the group is winding down after a Hunt that dragged on late into the night, or for small parties that were thrown for the achievements that members of the Village made.

Even when returning home to her realm, Kyuushi would keep her best armor and her favorite Hunting Horn with her, using them as anchors for any return trips to Kamura. Plus, she would find herself stronger not just from the supernatural influence of the realm of Kamura, but in general as well. Able to wield the Hunting Horn with almost as much ease as she could in Kamura’s realm, while in her home. Able to play the notes and make music sing from the large Instrument even, but unable to give any sort of boost to herself like she found she could while in Kamura’s realm. 

Just one of the many ways she could tell there was some form of magic or another within the realms she could travel to through use of her Tori Gate. Another thing that she could rest assured would be restored to her capabilities any time she were to return to Kamura. A venture which she takes at least once a week or two now, explaining her absence in the times between as her adventuring the world to aid others. Something that, while not entirely true, is also far from being a lie.

[ronacastro]

An Analysis On Ongoco’s Ambon sa Tagtuyot(Summer Drizzle): Environmental, Historical Poetries, etc. by Rona Santos-Castro

Source:

Ongoco, T. Ambon sa Tagtuyot: (Summer Drizzle) Environmental, Historical Poetries, etc. AEC Publishing.

       Our Mother Nature has been crying and asking us for help, not only yesterday or last week, it has been almost a year or so, that our country has been experiencing so many tragedies such as heavy downpour, storms, hurricane, typhoon, and many tragedies and unexplained happenings that in the end gave us heartaches, separated us from our loved ones and gave us so much pain.

       Ambon sa Tagtuyot or Summer Drizzle by Tomas C. Ongoco is a compilation of many literary works that addressed and gave enlightenment to the issue that we and Mother Nature have been facing since then. It may not give the readers the direct solution for the problems nor it may not stop or end all the tragedies that will soon happen to our country and to our countrymen yet reading, internalizing, and applying its concepts and lessons can help the readers be prepared and soon will teach us to love and protect our Mother Nature, through his literary works.

       Tomas C. Ongoco (1928-2014) is well-known for having written so many literary works and text books such as Ibong Adarna, Florante at Laura, Noli Me Tangere, and El Filibusterismo. He believes that literature should be written in a book, and should not be ripped like in any other literature written in workbooks because he believes that these works should be kept for good for other generations so they can still read and understand it.

       A teacher, educator,  disciplinarian, leader, and the head of Quezon City Academy Foundation Inc. (QCAFI),that is how Tomas Ongoco was known, this personality and traits were the reason why he successfully created a structure of Supreme Student Government (SSG) wherein he patterned it to the Philippine Government, it started in a small barangay wherein the leader in a classroom which was being led by the mayor, and its senators also had its power to budget and also its limitation to budget because they must have a budget hearing in which the House of Representative (Congress) still needs to approve the budget, and with this structure of government inside the campus, students became disciplined.

       Professor Tomas C. Ongoco is also a journalist in Radyo Balintataw and also an active environment protection/conservation advocate and a war veteran.  All his traits became his inspiration and these can be read on his work Ambon sa Tagtuyot or Summer Drizzle, “it links Mother Earth to love for our Country and pride in our indigenous culture.”                                                                                                                                    

-Roses and Thorns

by:Alejandro R. Roces

The Philippine Star,

www.philsar.com

Ambon sa Tagtuyot or Summer Drizzle is one of the many books written by Tomas C. Ongoco which he dedicated for his loved one, Carmelita Sanchez Ongoco. I had the privileged of meeting her last March 10, 2017 in QCA where she was still serving and teaching on the said academy.

Ito’y isinulat kong may pagpapahalaga Una’y kay Nene Sanchez na tangi kong parola Na nagsasabing ako ay hindi matanda na Kundi isang teen-ager na niresaykel niya.

-Pag-aalay

Ambon sa Tagtuyot

TCO

       Ambon sa Tagtuyot is a collection of poems created during the midst of Tomas C. Ongoco’s life.

ako’y tagtuyot na’t              ng bukang liwayway nasa takipsilim                   panitik-tulang saka nagpatakan                laon nahimbing ang butil ng ambon             sa kapabayaan?

-Paunang-Salita

Ambon sa Tagtuyot

TCO

This book is divided into 5 parts. The first part is composed of literary works for the environment which has 27 works such as poems, essays, and translated stories. One of the unique features of this works are the quality of its poetries which has a good meter and rhythm, which only legitimates and good poets can create.

       One of his works that I truly love is his poem entitled “Sampung Utos para sa Likas-Kayang Pag-Unlad” or Earth Savers’ Ten Commandments for Sustainable Development by Heherson T. Alvarez, which has 5 versions and the 2 of them are written and was included on this book. Same with the Ten Commandments of the Catholics, Kartilya ng Katipunan or guidebook of Katipunan, this literary gave us a guide for us to take good care the environment.

4. Thou shalt stop polluting the soil and and waterways

with garbage and toxic waste instead

recycle and compost. There is cash in trash!

 4. Pagbabasura sa ilog at sa estero’y iwasan,

nang manatiling malinis ang ating mga tubigan

 Marami ang namamatay sa pagkaing lamang dagat

Dahil sa lason ng red tide at basurang nakakalat;

Mga organikong dumi’y bulukin at gawing kompos

Ating lupa ay tataba at halaman ay lulusog

Ang basura’y gawing gatong, palamuting pampaganda…

Sa konstruksiyon at iba pa, may pera sa basura!

 -Sampung Utos para sa Likas-Kayang Pag-unlad (II)

Ika-apat na utos, p.8

TCO

 His advocacy for saving the natural resources is not only limited to his poems because he was also the one who initiated to use the word “Garbology”. Twenty years ago, he initiated the use of the word “Garbology” to mean the study of garbage which is one of our major problems today from Roses and Thorns by Roces.

The second part of the book is all about Nationalism, just like the first part, this is composed of poems which concern the Nation, poems that bring back the history and all the chapters that Philippines have experienced through his poetry Sa Asya’y Unang Republika which has 103 stanzas and has 12 meter. This poetry is about the history of the Philippines before the occupation of the Spanish era, Cordillera wherein those aliens can’t occupy because of the fear that they might be beheaded, as evident in these lines:

Gayundin ang tribu ng mga Ipugaw,

Na sa Cordillera’y hindi ginalaw

Ng mga kastilang may taglay ding takot

Baka ulo nila’y matagpas, mapugot.

-Saknong 11, p.60

Pilipinas: Sa Asya’y Unang Republika

TCO

The retelling of the occupation of the Americans to the Philippines was continued through his poetry.

Labanang Dewey’t Admiral Montojo

Ay isang palabras, isang moro-moro;

Tagumpay ang Kano, Kastila’y panalo

At walang naaba kundi Pilipino.

-Saknong 35, p.63

Pilipinas: Sa Asya’y Unang Republika

TCO

 He continued his discussion up to the administration of the late President Ferdinand Marcos and Cory Aquino.

 Sa lansangang EDSA, siga ay “Alis d’yan!”

Laban sa diktador na kinapootan;

Ating demokrasya’y muling naitindig

Sa tulong ni Cory kay Marcos pumalit.

-Saknong 75, p.69

Pilipinas: Sa Asya’y Unang Republika

TCO

 The exposition continued until the era of the administration of former President of the Philippines Fidel V. Ramos, Joseph Ejercito Estrada, and Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.  

Hiningi ni Gloria mandato ng bayan

Sa pagkapangulo sa bansang halalan,

At siya’y nanalo, halal na ng tao

May atas ng bayan, totoong pangulo.

-Saknong 96, p.71

Pilipinas: Sa Asya’y Unang Republika

TCO

 In summary, all of this works are interrelated to all the things that had happened to the Philippines before and to the freedom that was being used by all of us up until today, can be seen on his book.

 Itong Pilipinas ay bata pang bansa

Hanap ang landas sa pagkadakila

Landas demokrasya’y may tatak ng laya

Malayang magtalo, may laya ng diwa.

-Saknong 100, p.72

Pilipinas: Sa Asya’y Unang Republika

TCO

Discussing history has already been part of the nationalistic acts that many Filipinos had made, and nationalism is also one of the many topics that Tomas Ongoco have tackled on his book, some of his works are poems introducing the nationalism of the heroes during the era of EDSA and the new heroes of the Philippines, the Overseas Filipino Workers.

 The third part of his book tackles about the society, literary works through poetries which was also used as a legend, choral recitation, and as a script for drama. Literary works that talk about self-love, love for your family, respect for your parents, teachers and academe, love for the nature, being open to the real situation of the society, human rights, acknowledgements award for people who have given so much contribution to the society, and also to the Wikang Pambansa or Philippine National Language in the stage of Globalization.

 It is true that Tomas Ongoco is really a great, talented, and intelligent writer, through his works relating to his love for the country, I can still remember Mrs. Carmelita S. Ongoco’s story which was created by her husband, which talks about the structure of the Supreme Student Government (SSG) that can only be seen on their academy, QCA. Their council was patterned to the Philippine Government, which is composed of Captain (Leader inside the classroom), Mayor (President of the class), Cabinet Members, Senators, and President (elective leaders and members of SSG), and these leaders have their roles and responsibilities, just like in our Philippine Government, they also create their budget and held budget hearings. This unique structure became one of the reasons why students of QCA became disciplined. The voice and opinions of the students was also taken well even though the disciplinary actions are being taken seriously.

Respeto sa batas, at nakatatanda.

Diwang pang mag-anak, diwang makakapwa,

Diwang maka-Diyos, diwang makabansa,

Pawang mabubuting mithi at adhika.

-Saknong 4-5-6, p.93

Tahanan at Paaralan: dapat Magtuungan

TCO

 This literary and all his works can be used as a tool and an inspiration not only for Filipino subject but also to Araling Panlipunan.

Tatlong sakit mayroon ang amahalaan;

Ang katiwalian, saka kabulukan,

At kawalang-kaya sa panunungkulan.

 Pagsikapang ito’y atin nang mabago

Upang lumigaya mga Pilipino.

At ang pagbabago’y magmula sa AKO

-Saknong 8 at 9, p.111

Kaltiwalian, Kabulukan, at Kawalang-kaya

TCO

 The fourth part of the book is composed of groups of poetries and operas which discusses the indigenous people and tackles love for our culture and language.

 Ang dalawang kultura,

Dalawang kalinangan

Dalawang pamumuhay

Sa dalawang paraan:

Ang isa ay sa noon

Isa nama’y sa ngayon

Sa pag-unlad, tuwangan-

Likas-sulong ng bayan

-Saknong 6, p.155

Dalawang Kultura

TCO

    The Philippine culture and language, even though it became different in its form and structure compared before, its intention is still the same, and that is to enrich and nurture it.

 “Bata pa ang wikang pambansa at hindi pa ito ganap na

intelektwulisado o nagagamit sa iba’t ibang larangan”

 -David Micheal San Juan

Tanggol Wika, Prop.DLSU

June 2014 @4:24 pm

www.gmanetwork.com

These works are very accurate not only because the Department of Education dictated us to use it, but also because his works are really good and very timely. DepEd assigned what topics should be tackled, in Grade 7 is Filipino ethnic cultural literary appreciation, while Grade 8 is about Filipino literary appreciation, in Grade 9 talks about Asian literary appreciation, and in Grade 10 it discusses world literary appreciation, his works also argues some topics regarding Philippine language in the generation of Globalization.  

 The fifth and last part of the book contains translated works, for when the Department of Education announced the approval of K-12 and the introduction of the new curriculum, which includes literatures that was being thought in Grade 9-10 and literary works from Asia and to different country which was translated in Philippine language. Only a few Filipino writers can translate their works to an accurate and correct one, and in the Philippines there is still no legitimate organization which can help translate Filipino literary works into English that is why I was really grateful when I saw literary works that has an English translation of Tomas C. Ongoco’s works. This part of the book which talks about Salin is composed of poems, songs, and hulimpati. This work was translated accurately and beautifully because it was not translated by word, but it was translated by its spirit or intent.

XLIII. “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways…”

by: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)

 How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height

My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight

For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.

  Paano bang ikaw’y aking iniibig, minahal?

Paraa’y ating bilangin:

 Minamahal kitang higit pa sa lalim,

sa lawak at tayog na kaya at abot

nitong Kaluluwa tuwing akong ito’y

mauhaw sa tayog ng diwa at grasyang

lubusan at ganap.

 -Saknong 1 at 2, p.205

Paano kita Minamahal?

TCO

In summary, Ambon sa Tagtuyot is an anthology of literary works of a real and passionate writer who was given a very unique and extraordinary talent which he used as a tool to help his readers and many people.

  “Hindi lahat ng tao ay may kakayahang

sumulat ng kuwento o tula, ako sinubukan ko

pero hindi talaga para sa akin ang linyang iyan”

-Dr. Jennie V. Jocson

Enhancing English Language Skills

May 24, 2017

 The translation of words to its precise sense and/or intent is a good way that Tomas Ongoco has made through his works.

               The fourth part of the book which relates to Nationalism and the fifth part which tackles about Translation (Salin) which consists of 30 extraordinary literary that can also be applied in to a real drama, because only a  legitimate and true poet did it.

Aside from the fact that almost all his works on this book are poems that have rhythm and meter, that only people with a good talent can do, and for me, this can never be leveled up to any other literary works of other people.  

Your talents, money, and fame, all the blessings that God have given you, it is all meant to be shared to other people. “Ambon sa Tagtuyot” is a literary work that Tomas Ongoco has made not only for him to gain fame, to earn money and/or for his any other self-interest, but he made this book to help the readers learn how to love ourselves, our family, our society, our environment, and most especially our God.

I highly recommend this book, not only to Filipino teachers but also to Araling Panlipunan teachers. This has a very good tool that can be used as an instrument for learning, works related to the environment is very accurate to the 21st Century Learning Skills, which reminds us how to love our Mother Earth. The chapters that cover the topics about Nationalism and Society, which consists of 33 literary works, are brilliant examples of how nationalistic Filipinos are, and how Filipinos protect and love its society and its country, literary that is very accurate to what the Philippines has been experiencing today, active participation of youth is a good indication and proof that everything is about to change and gone are the days that youth chose to be passive in issues relating to the society, and all the poems, songs, and other literary works can be used as a vehicle to regain the patriotism of the Filipinos.