For Sale: Asus Netbook for 14K

-9-month old

-Windows XP

-with 60GB Hard disk

-with built-in camera

-with built-in memory card reader

-with built-in speaker and microphone

-with three USB ports

-WiFi ready

-battery can last for 4.5 hours

***

but here is the problem, the LCD is broken, it was hit by my phone. So technically, you will only pay for the LCD replacement and the service charge, which is around P13K.

overall, the netbook is still in a very good condition.

*** Kindly email @ jonabering@gmail.com or leave a message here.

Poetry: On Hearing Of A Death

On Hearing Of A Death
by Rainer Maria Rilke



We lack all knowledge of this parting. Death
does not deal with us. We have no reason
to show death admiration, love or hate;
his mask of feigned tragic lament gives us

a false impression. The world's stage is still
filled with roles which we play. While we worry
that our performances may not please,
death also performs, although to no applause.

But as you left us, there broke upon this stage
a glimpse of reality, shown through the slight
opening through which you disappeared: green,
evergreen, bathed in sunlight, actual woods.

We keep on playing, still anxious, our difficult roles
declaiming, accompanied by matching gestures
as required. But your presence so suddenly
removed from our midst and from our play, at times

overcomes us like a sense of that other
reality: yours, that we are so overwhelmed
and play our actual lives instead of the performance,
forgetting altogether the applause.

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photo credits: mr-twingo

Tsinelas: Books as Christmas Gifts for Kids

Kampingganon Elementary School has 286 students, 10 classrooms and 11 teachers including the principal. This is also the site of Tsinelas Association's proposed reading center. You can help build the reading center in the small barangay of Kampingganon in Bantayan Island by donating children's books to Tsinelas. You can leave the books at Sun.Star Daily P. del Rosario Street, Cebu City (please label TSINELAS or Insoy Ninal) or contact 09228243800. If you're from Manila, please contact Yowee @ 0916-7970140. Thank you very much!

Delivery of books to Kampingganon Elementary School in Bantayan Island: Dec. 12, 2009. Drop off points for donations: Sun.Star, P Del Rosario (address package to Insoy Ni�al) and STC gates (address package to Annie Tenebro, Tsinelas board member), or reach us at 0922 8243800. Their Books also invites volunteers to do story telling for the kids. You might be interested. It's also Christmas there.

Balak: Sa Imong Pagbiya

Sa Imong Pagbiya
ni Jona Branzuela Bering


*draft



ayaw kalimti'g tan-aw
ang sulod sa imong payag

hinumdomi'ng kini ang nag-inusarang
saksi sa imong kaugalingon

dinhi

ang bungbong nanglili
sa love letter nga imong gisuwat

dinhi

ang katri nakadungog
sa imong gipangyawyaw
samtang gadamgo'g ugdo,
hamis, dughan, sampot

dinhi

ang sawg nga kawayan
nakakita sa tanan
nimong tinaguan:
bisag unsaon pa
nimog kipi,
way maka-ipsot sa
mata sa sawg.

dinhi

ang mga abog nahimong
bahin sa tanan
nimong butang

susama

ang imong kaugalingon
nahimong bahin sa imong payag.


maong unyag biya nimo
palihug
ayaw kalimtig sud-on ang
sulod sa imong payag.


Kay

Dinhi

Dinhi

nagpuyo
nahiluna

ang imong kaugalingon.