The Online Ilokano Dictionary Project
Dandani dua a tawenen ti napalabas nanipud panangibati ni Daniel-Jay Pascual iti sumaganad:
Hello fellow Ilocano. I’ve been working on an online Ilokano English dictionary for the past few years and would like to share it with you and your visitors. If you could kindly mention or add a link to your page to my site, http://www.toidp.com, I would greatly appreciate it. Just doing my part in trying to keep the language and our culture persisting through future generations.
Daytoy man ti Introduction ti “The Online Ilokano Dictionary Project”: The Online Ilokano Dictionary Project (TOIDP) is a free Ilokano dictionary application. The primary objective of TOIDP is to provide an online Ilokano resource for people to utilize so that they may overcome the language barriers existing between the English and Ilokano languages. Feel free to browse around and make full use of the tools available on this site. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Nariing ti interes co iti TOIDP ni Daniel-Jay Pascual gapu iti panangsarangna iti carit a mangputar iti free Ilokano dictionary application. LIBRE. Agsaludoac kencuana ken no siasino man a mangsaranget iti castoy a carit.
Nalagipco ti dumaw-as iti TOIDP agsipud ta cayatco a makita no adun ti nainayon nanipud naudi a panangmiringco. Bassit laeng ti nagbaliwanna. Cabayatanna, natacuatac nga adda met Ilocano-English/English-Ilocano Dictionary ($1.99) manipud iti Apple Apps nga innac incabil ditoy iPhone ken iPad2. Adda pay ti Ilocano-English Dictionary ti Bansa.org, theFilipino.com. Ngem cas iti TOIDP, no mayarig iti bunga ket caribusel pay laeng dagitoy. Naganus unay ket masapul nga urayen a dumackel.
Ti impablaac ni Dr. Aurelio Solver Agcaoili, professor iti University of Hawaii at Manoa, a “CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH-ILOKANO DICTIONARY” iti daytay napalabas a tawen ti maysa cadagiti cangrunaan a dictionario uray no cagudua laeng agsipud ta saan a nairaman ditoy ti Ilocano to English dictionary. Nacalista daytoy iti Barnes & Noble (for $100.00) ngem “CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE”. [The book is published by TMI Global Hawaii with offices at 94-390 Hoaeae St., Waipahu, HI 96797. For orders in the US and Canada, write to agcaoili.dictionary@gmail.com. For other orders including those in the Philippines, write to caspublishing@gmail.com or cas812@gmail.com.]
Mabalin a dagiti gapuanan ni Carl R. Galvez Rubino — Ilocano Dictionary and Grammar: Ilocano-English, English-Ilocano ken Ilocano-English/English-Ilocano Dictionary and Phrasebook (both available at Amazon.com) — ti maibilang a cangrunaan a dictionario ti Ilocano-English/English-Ilocano nupay iti panirigco, adu ti masapul nga aturen a linaon dagitoy a libro. Umuna ti ambivalence ni Mr. Rubino maipapan iti no ania ti umno a sequence ti letra ‘o’ ken ‘u’ iti Ilocano. Maibatay ti panangicalintegan ni Mr. Rubino iti ethnic alphabet a naaramat sacbay nga intay nasursuro ti Roman alphabet, more specifically, ti Spanish alphabet nga isu coma ti rumbeng a suroten ni Mr. Rubino tapno marisut ti pannacaulaw no ti letra ‘o’ ket umun-una ngem ti letra ‘u’.
Uray no maysaac cadagiti di kumanunong iti “jejemon” craze, bigbigec nga adun ti nagbaliwan ti pagsasao tayo nga Ilocano. Sapay coma ta dagiti addaan saririt ken resources a mangibaclay iti panang-compile iti dictionario Ilocano addaanda iti sirmata a mangiraman cadagiti baro a balicas a nainayon wenno dagiti nagbaliw ken/wenno nanayonan ti caipapananda.
Ania ti tradisional a sarita? Ti saan a tradisional?
(Papel iti literary session iti Ababa a Sarita kabayatan ti Dap-ayan 2011, Maika-43 a Nailian a Kombension ti GUMIL Filipinas iti Ponce del Mar Beach Resort, Pug-os, Cabugao, Ilocos Sur idi 15-17 Abril 2011)
ADDA kadi met, aya, masasao a tradisional ken saan a tradisional nga ababa a sarita, wenno, fiksion, iti Literatura nga Ilokano?
Ket adda, a, ania pay. Ngem iti no kua ket agduduma a panangkita, pannakabigbig, wenno panangipapan.
Naynay nga iti biangtayo nga Ilokano writers ken readers, masansan a kunatayo a “tradisional” ti maysa a sarita nga Ilokano a mabasatayo iti Bannawag man wenno libro, no ‘tay gagangay laeng daytoy a sarita, saan a nauneg, saan a palpalikaw, saan nga agpilpilosopia (wenno agpilpilosopo). Iti ababa a pannao, ‘tay makuna a light, ‘tay entertaining. ‘Tay ngay makaliwliwa, makalinglingay iti panagbasa, iti reading pleasure, kadagiti oras ti panagpalpaldag wenno panagpalpalpa iti nalamiis a sirok ti algarruba iti paraangan no kasta a leppas-pangngaldaw.
Ket kunaentayo met saan-a-tradisional wenno non-traditional ti maysa a sarita no daytay ditayo maaw-awatan wenno pagkuretretennat’ mugingtayo nga agingga a ditay’ payen kayat nga ituloy a basaen ta saantay’ metten a ma-entertain wenno malinglingay no di ket maulaw metten ket maawan ti ganastayon nga agbasa.
English-Ilokano Dictionary by Agcaoili Now Available
Dr. Aurelio S. Agcaoili of the University of Hawaii at Manoa posted the following in his FaceBook on Tuesday, January 4, 2011:
For the first time, an English-Ilokano Dictionary, one of the more comprehensive dictionaries on the Ilokano language, is out of the press.
The limited American hardbound edition is published by TMI Global Hawaii. To order, email aurelioagcaoili@gmail.com.
The Philippine edtion is published by Cornerstone of Arts & Sciences, Quezon City. To order, contact the publisher, Cecilia Suarez, president and ceo: caspublishing010@gmail.com or checheasuarez@yahoo.com, 0922-824-3227.
The Philippine edition is due for soft launch in March 2011; another launch at the 6th Nakem International in Ifugao State University, May 23-25; and another launch at the 3rd TMI Global Writers Conference, May 27-29.
The dictionary brings out the repertoire of the Ilokano language as spoken in the Philippines and in the diaspora; likewise, it follows a pre-category approach. Total number of entries in this volume is 18,000 plus.
A companion volume, the Ilokano-English, is being prepared.
Ibainmo ti ag-Ilocano?
“Ang hindi marunong magmahal ng sariling wika ay mas masahol pa sa malansang isda.”–Jose Rizal
Agsipud ta naangotmi ti nabangbangsit pay ngem nalaes a lames a cayarigan dagiti dadduma a pada nga Ilocano gapu iti panangibainda nga agsao iti nacayanacanda a pagsasao segun ti pammaliiw ni Firth McEachern [maysa a Canadian a nagturpos sadiay Harvard University ken agdama nga empleado ti ciudad ti San Fernando, La Union, cas representative ti Sustainable Cities (Canada)] a naipablaac iti Sun Star (Baguio), napanunotmi nga uliten nga imaldit ida ditoy:
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McEachern: Diversity shock
WHEN I first arrived in the Philippines and journeyed north to my new home, La Union, the first thing I noticed was how many people inhabited this country. The road north from Manila exhibited a near continuous line of sari-sari stores, food stalls, local government halls, churches, and many other buildings, all overlooking a road teeming with children, animals, trucks, buses, farmers, and people sitting wayside to observe the activity. In Canada, journeys between cities are much more desolate, and the transition between wilderness and settlement is abrupt. Here, the activity and people lent a sensation of being perpetually on the outskirts of Manila, and just as I thought to be leaving civilization, another town plaza would appear. Given that my country has a third the population of the Philippines in 30 times the area, the difference in density is expected. But there was something even more shocking that I was not prepared for. In just 6 hours, my new office friends had noted passing four realms of languages. As we crossed into Pampanga from Bulacan, my escort and soon-to-be officemate mentioned, “Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is from here. They speak Kapampangan.”
“Kampan…Kampandunkin?” I repeated woefully inaccurately, the word having gone by too fast. “Do they actually use it or do you mean historically?”
“No, they actually use it,” he said.
How cool! My eyes drifted to the window, amazed by the fact that the endless line of seemingly identical sari-sari stores and general humanity did in fact harbor great variety. It soon became a game in which, whenever we crossed into a new province, I would ask, “What language do they speak here?” To which my officemates would reply something new. In Pampanga, it was Kapampangan; in Tarlac, mostly Tagalog; in Pangasinan, the Pangasinan language, and finally in La Union, Ilokano. My initial judgement of everything being the same was based—rather naively—on appearance. The Philippines has in fact much greater diversity than the cosmetic differences I was looking for, a fact I have gradually come to appreciate more and more. In Canada, one can travel 1000 km and not even detect a difference in accent. While the scenery is many-hued, people are for the most part talking the same way, eating the same things, and interacting with each other in similarly predictable ways. Of course there are immigrant communities, class differences, and some regional variations, but the country’s young age ensures these differences are small, and further dulled by the overriding imprint of American culture from the south. Continue reading
Connie Benemerito
Happy Birthday, Connie!
Wishing you many, many, many more to come!
DWTS: And the 2010 Season 10 winners are…
The 2010 Dancing With The Stars (Season 10) winners are Nicole Scherzinger and Derek Hough!
And the winning Perfect 10 jive:
Perfect “10”: Moments To Be Proud Of
Last night’s Argentine tango by Nichole Scherzinger and partner Derek Hough garnered the pair another Perfect “10” on Dancing With The Stars. Their cha-cha dance just before that got them two perfect “10’s” and a “9”.
Oh well, here they are dancing the Argentine tango and the cha-cha; enjoy:
The other Perfect “10” Nicole and Derek earned last week (May 10, 2010) dancing the paso doble:
A Filipina on “Dancing With The Stars”
I am not going to speculate that Alfonso Valiente, a Filipino, is an Ilocano or a descendant of Ilocanos, however, the Valientes sure abound in my hometown. I shall, however, recognize the fact that he was part of the equation that produced Nicole Scherzinger, the talented and beautiful lead singer of the Pussycat Dolls and now competing in this year’s 10th season of Dancing With The Stars.
Here’s the text of a fact sheet on the singer/dancer circulating on the Internet:
Nicole Prescovia Elikolani Valiente Scherzinger (born June 29, 1978) is an American pop/R&B singer, songwriter, dancer and occasional actress who is best known as the lead singer of the Pussycat Dolls.
Previously, Scherzinger was part of reality TV girlgroup Eden’s Crush and despite minor chart successes she was discontented with the group and quit. She then joined the Pussycat Dolls when they were a burlesque troupe. She took the role of lead singer when the group became a recording group. So far, the Pussycat Dolls have released two successful albums, PCD and Doll Domination, with two supporting tours.
Scherzinger was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her biological father, Alfonso Valiente is Filipino, and her mother, Rosemary, is of Hawaiian and Russian descent. In an interview Scherzinger said “I’m Filipino-Russian-Hawaiian, but people think I’m from Pakistan.”
Her mother Rosemary was eighteen at the time of Scherzinger’s birth and lived in an inner city neighborhood. Nicole’s parents separated when she was still a baby. Her maternal family moved to Louisville, Kentucky when she was six years old, with her sister Ke’ala and her German-American stepfather Gary Scherzinger.
In an interview with The Daily Mail Scherzinger explained that she had been brought up with a strict religious (Catholic) upbringing in Hawaii. She first attended Meyzeek Middle School as an adolescent. Growing up, Scherzinger states that she didn’t have a lot of money and the singer thanks her mom for all the support she gave her to become what she is today. Scherzinger began performing in Louisville, attending the Youth Performing Arts School at duPont Manual High School and performing with Actors Theatre of Louisville.
As a teenager, Scherzinger was the first runner-up at the 1996 Kentucky State Fair’s Coca-Cola Talent Classic contest. She also was the Queen for the Louisville Barrio Fiesta, a celebration of all Filpinos in the area. Scherzinger majored in acting and musical theatre at Wright State University, where she played Velma Kelly in Chicago and Julie La Verne in Show Boat, but put her studies on hold in 1999 to sing backing vocals for the rock band Days of the New.
Nicole was supposed to be cast in one of the lead roles in the upcoming movie with the Filipino Boxing Champion Manny Pacquiao together with professional wrestler Dave Batista. She was about to play the leading lady of the Filipino Champ but it was canceled and her role went to the Filipina actress Ruffa Mae Quinto.
The Filipino star is a big fan of Pacquiao and intends to support him by singing his country”s national anthem at one of the sport star”s future fights.
“It would be an honor to sing the national anthem. So, let’s make that happen! I’m so proud of him. I’ve been following him,” she said.
In 2006, she made a “Bench Body” brand underwear commercial in the Philippines and in October 2008, she promoted Clear Shampoo and Conditioner. Both commercials were reportedly aired throughout Southeast Asia.
In late 2009, it was reported that Scherzinger was working closely with Andrew Lloyd Webber on the Phantom of the Opera sequel, Love Never Dies.
On March 1, 2010, it was announced that Scherzinger would be a celebrity contestant on Dancing with the Stars for the tenth season and would be partnered with Season 7 Champion Derek Hough. The season premiered on Monday, March 22, 2010. Family and friends of Nicole gathered in Makaha Valley, at the home of her parents that she gave as a gift to cheer her on during the premiere of DWTS.
Asked whether she keeps in touch with her biological father, Nicole replied: “Yes, I do. He grew up in Hawaii and still lives there with a family of his own. It’s a beautiful family, very warm people who follow their hearts. My father works for the Hawaii government. But it was my mother who raised me. She’s my everything and she’s the reason why I got to where I am today.”
Of course, my favorite video is:
ilocano-online.com
Ladingitenmi ti pannacapucaw ti dati nga Ilocano Online (ilocano-online.com). Dati a libre a hosting nga impaay ti Google. Ngem gapu iti di napacpacadaan a panangisardeng ti Google iti libre a hosting, capilitan a naisardeng ti panangtarabay iti Ilocano Online.
Calicagumanmi nga ituloy daytoy iti sabali a hosting babaen ti sabali nga url, ilocanoonline.com. Padaanan.
Cabayatanna, panggepenmi nga iragpin ditoy a blog dagiti dati a nabiag a pinanid ti Ilocano Online. Suroten babaen ti ilocano-online.com.
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Jimmy M. Agpalo, Jr.
Naimaldit iti baba ti chatmi ken Jimmy (editor ti Tawid News Magasin) ita nga aldaw, November 21, 2009:
Me: Comusta? ‘Niat napasamac iti daydiay DepEd Order 74 s.2009 wenno Multilingual Education Order? No ditay darasen nga ipatungpal, amangan no lipatenda…
Jimmy Agpalo, Jr: awan pay damagko, manong…
Me: Gundaway coma daytoy a mangidur-as iti nacayanacan a pagsasao iti elementaria ken haiskul…
Jimmy Agpalo, Jr: maisuro iti elem grade 1-3, laeng ti nakaprograma
Me: Inusarco dagidiay pammaliiwmo maipapan iti in-inut nga ipupusay ti Ilocano idi maar-aramid ti draft ti DepEd 74… Pre-school to Grade 3 ngem ipalubos ti Deped 74 ti panangusar iti nacayanacan a pagsasao cas pangsuporta iti Ingles wenno Filipino MOI agingga iti haiskul segun ti enclosures…
Jimmy Agpalo, Jr: kasta siguro, manong… nabayag ngamin a jak nagkompiuter gapu iti salun-atko… nasayaat met a…
Me: ‘niat kinnuamon, atanud? sapay ta napiaca ngaruden…
Jimmy Agpalo, Jr: naatakeak idi, dec 28, ket makatawenton… idi jak makapagna, itan, makapagnaakon… ngem maysa nga ima ti agenkod ta kagudua pay la a bagi ti paralisado… ngem dandanin umimbag, hehe!
Me: whoa, atanud, gangani-ac met nacasdiay about 10 years ago. ‘Imbag lat ketdin ta na-quadruple bypass a sigud ta di coma ket tumangtangad datao iti barsangan…
Jimmy Agpalo, Jr: bypass? heart? hmmn… siak ngamin ket highblood… isu met laeng… idi nagdikar ket awan kaduak ta sisiak…
Me: uray siac ket high blood isu nga agtumar datao iti innem a pills iti inaldaw. sa agbisekletaac iti about 12-15 miles inaldaw tapno mawatwat bassit agsipud ta diac met unay tangtanggaden ti bagoong ken lechon…
Jimmy Agpalo, Jr: napintas ti ehersisiom, mabalin a kastanto ti gamdek apaman a makarekoberak… saanak pay a makaadayo a magna… idi kalman ket umasibayak ken baket a magna, ta di dataon makaaddang, hehe!
Me: hope you have an excellent rehab program to return you to normal asap…
Jimmy Agpalo, Jr: thanks… nalpas ti 3mo a pt, ket ilut met ita.. plus di mamingga nga agas
Me: Pagyamanan unay iti adu ti ayat ken anus ni baketmo agsipud ta cas nasagrapco, dacdackel nga amang ti maited a pagimbagan dayta nga ayat ken anus ngem ti agas. Please take good care of yourself and I will stop here so you could rest–I know you need a lot of rest and baket-therapy…
Jimmy Agpalo, Jr: ok, manong… mapanak metten…
Pssst! LIBRE a Textbooks Ditoy!
Wen–saan a balbalatong–pudno a LIBRE a libro a mabalin nga aramaten a textbook wenno reperensia dagiti agad-adal, mangisursuro, ken dadduma pay para kindergarten, elementaria ken haiskul nga idiaya dagitoy sumaganad:
CK-12 Foundation [http://www.ck12.org/] – Iti agdama, adda 16 a textbook nga idiaya ti CK-12 Foundation iti benneg ti matematika ken siensia para haiskul. Sidadaan nga usaren dagitoy no adda Internet connection. No saan, mabalin a saggaysaen a kopiaen ti tunggal libro iti USB (Universal Serial Bus) flash drive, compact flash drive, PC hard drive, portable wenno external hard drive, CD/DVD wenno ania man a digital media a mabalin a pangidulinan wenno pangilebbenan tapno aramaten no awan Internet connection. Ken mabalin met nga iprenta no kayat a papel ti kopia a basaen.
Pagimbagan dagitoy a liblibro ket no adda man agbaliw a linaon dagitoy, kas pagarigan ti saanen a panangibilang iti Pluto a planeta daytoy, mabaliwanda a dagus, saan a kas iti imprenta a libro a mabaliwan maminsan iti uneg ti lima wenno innem a tawen.
[Babaen dagiti pagannurotan ti bukod tayo a DepEd, maminsan a mabaliwan dagiti imprenta a textbooks iti uneg ti lima a tawen segun ti DepEd Memorandum No. 289, s. 2004. Maysa pay, mabalin a sukatan ti format wenno ti linaonda segun ti keddeng a bunga ti “Conduct of Content Evaluation Workshops” nga angayen ti Instructional Materials Council Secretariat (IMCS) ti DepEd.]
Kangrunaanna, libre ti panangusar kadagitoy libro ti CK-12 Foundation, libre ti panangkopia, libre ti panangbalbaliw iti urnos dagiti linaonda, saan a pakasikuran ti panang-update iti linaonda, ken libre ti panangiwaras kadagitoy no la ket suroten dagiti pagannurotan ti Creative Commons “attribution” license wenno CCSA [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/].
Mabalin nga urnosen a para sekundaria (primeranyo agingga iti kuarto-anyo) iti Filipnas dagitoy sumaganad a textbooks ti CK-12 Foundation:
Chemistry Engineering: An Introduction for High School Geometry NanoSense Student Materials NanoSense Teacher Materials People’s Physics Book Version 2 Single Variable Calculus Trigonometry 21st Century Physics Earth Science Algebra I Life Science Biology People’s Physics Book Basic Physics An Introduction to Solving Engineering Problems with Matlab
Padaanan dagiti libro a para iti kindergarten, elementaria ken dadduma pay a mainayon iti CK-12 Foundation website.
Connexions [http://cnx.org] – Libre a libro para ubbing, estudiantes ti kolehiyo, ken profesionales babaen dagitoy sumaganad a benneg: Arts, Business, Humanities, Mathematics and Statistics, Science and Statistics, Social Sciences.
SOFIA [http://www.sofia.usra.edu/] – (Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy) – para kadagiti interesado iti siensia: mangisursuro, agtrabaho iti museo, planetario, agsursurat maipapan iti panagadal iti siensia, astronomia, let-ang kdpy.
Open CourseWare Consortium [http://www.ocwconsoritum.org/] – Pagtitinnulongan ti nasurok dua gasut a pagadalan ken dadduma pay a mainaig a gunglo iti entero a lubong iti panangidiaya iti libre a naipablaak (digital) nga adalen.
Open Educational Resources [http://www.oercommons.org/] – libre nga adalen wenno aramaten a pangisuro iti uneg ti Internet.
Community College Consortium for Open Education Resources (CCCOER) [http://oerconsortium.org] – libre a libro (open textbooks) para kadagiti estudiante ken mangisursuro iti community colleges ken unibersidad.
iTunes U [http://www.apple.com/education/mobile-learning] – benneg ti iTunes Store ti Apple Computer [http://www.apple.com/]. Naurnong ditoy ti nasurok a 200,000 a libre nga educational media para estudiante, mangisursuro ken dagiti agtarigagay nga agsursuro a di tumapog iti uneg ti eskuwela. Nupay saan a libro dagitoy no di ket audio (mp3) wenno video, mabalin nga usaren iti Internet wenno i-download iti PC, iPod, Ipod Touch, wenno iPhone tapno denggen wenno buyaen iti sango ti PC wenno uray sadino ti ayan.
Ti Salip Da Kalgaw Ken Burarog
Sarita ni Joel B. Manuel, Umuna a Gunggona, Salip iti Sarita a Para Ubbing, naipablaak iti Bannawag, Agosto 24, 2009.
NO APAY a naaddaan iti dua a paniempo ti Kailokuan.
Awan ti makuna a paniempo idi ta inaldaw nga agtudo, inaldaw met nga aginit. Maysa a paraiso ti Amianan. Iturayan ni Apo Lung-aw ken addaan iti dua nga annak, da Apo Kalgaw ken Apo Burarog. Ay-ayatenna unay dagiti annakna, ket isudanto ti sumukat nga agturay inton mauma.
Napanunot ni Apo Lung-aw a tapno saan a tumanor nga awan ti ammoda dagiti annakna, nasken nga isaganana ti akem tunggal maysa. Narigaten a masuruanna dagiti tao ngem saan dagiti annakna. Saan ngamin a nakibibiang dagiti annakna, ket daydiay laeng nagpaspasiar, nagpininnalastog ken nagay-ayam ti ammoda.
Pinaayaban ni Apo Lung-aw dagiti baliodong nga annakna ken ni Pitopit tapno mabadangan daytoy a mangituray iti Bantay Kilang ta adu kanon ti panawen a panangiwanwanna kadagiti tao. Ngem saan nga agkinnaawatan dagiti annak iti pagturayan, no makannigid wenno makannawan. Nasken ngarud suboken ni Apo Lung-aw dagiti dua.
Inturongna dagiti dua iti leleggakan ta sadiay a nakapakleb dagiti tallo a sinublan ni higante nga Aran. Dayta ti bagkaten tunggal maysa nga ipan iti tengnga ti Kailokuan.
Gapu ta di nairuam iti rigat ni Apo Kalgaw, pinatudonna ni Palayupoy a mangbagkat. Ngem saan a makuti ti naud-udi ti sinublan.Nakiinnuman ni Apo Kalgaw ken ni Bagiw a mabaybayadan ket linaklaka laeng daytoy nga impullasit ti sinublan. Dayta ti impakita ni Kalgaw iti amana. Ngem kuna ti ama a nalaing a mangusar iti gayyem toy anakna ket insaldana ti masakbayan. Dayta ti gapuna no apay nga ay-ayamen ti Bagiw ti Kailokuan.
Saan a nagpaudi ni Apo Burarog. Inayabanna ni Karayan a gayyemna, ngem saan a kinabaelan daytoy ti sinublan. Isu nga inayabanna ni Layus a mabaybayadan ket dagus met daytoy nga induron ti sinublan iti amianan ti Bantay Simminublan. Ngem di naayatan ti ama ta insalda ni Burarog ti masakbayan. Dayta ti rason no apay malayus ti Kailokuan.
Indeklara ni Apo Lung-aw a tabla ti laban. Iti sumaruno a rikus, saanda a pabadangan. Agkinnaadu dagiti dua nga annak iti maanges nga angin. Ngem naamiris ni Apo Lung-aw a maustel la ketdi amin a nagbiag no awanen ti angsenda isu a pinasardengna dagiti dua.
Simmaruno ti innaduan iti masusop a danum. Tunggal maysa adda abuyna a mangabak. Naparkagan dagiti waig ken karayan, dagiti laeng dadakkel ti di naabbatan. Kaslan nagpuoran ti Kailokuan. Karandikang amin a karandikang. Nakayaman ni Apo Lung-aw idi sumangpet ni Pitopit a senial ti gibus ti salip.
Rinukod ni Apo Lung-aw ti danum a nainum tunggal maysa. Ngem agpadada a dua, awan surok ken kurangna. Inkeddeng ni Apo Lung-aw a maguddua ti Bantay Kilang. Mapan ken ni Kalgaw ti tangatang, ken ni Burarog met ti daga ken kadandanuman.
Nagdir-i da Apo Burarog ken Apo Kalgaw. Ket nagtulagda pay a rambakan a tinawen ti salisalda. Isu nga adda dua a paniempo ti Kailokoan.
Chinese lanterns aglow in a summer garden
To a GI (genuine Ilocano), the warm, colorlful Chinese lantern-like green and ripe mix of paria hanging from the arbor of green paria vines in the middle of summer and those million tiny yellow flowers individually sitting on tendril-like filaments, each swinging playfully when the flowers are buzzed by honeybees from dawn to dusk–well, the view is absolutely a mesmerizing feast for the eyes. You could almost see the ripe fruits glow or hear their laughter when they burst open with their teeth-like red-coated seeds which eventually fall to the earth and sleep there through the sometimes harsh winter and, in late spring as if by clockwork, reawaken and begin the process of rebirth.
Pinacbet, anyone? Or ginisa with mungo beans teased by a sprinkling of shrimps or succulent lechon, bagnet you say? Chicken tinola with tender paria leaves–ah, that soup is all the therapy you need to feel reborn and energized!
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