Olympics::: of 0.01 second difference

Michael Phelps took an alligator-arm stroke and touched the wall and made a difference of 0.01second from his close opponent Milorad Cavic endagering his oath to break the record of 1972 Munich Olympic legend, Mark Spitz. One more gold and he will live with his words.

When he was asked by a NYTimes reporter whether he want to be the second Mark Spitz. He answered, "No. I want to be the first Michael Phelps." And he is just 23 years old... And definitely, a hottie...

Is Spain Basketball Team Ad Racist?

The company which sponsored the team, Li-Ning, is owned by Li Ning, the Chinese Olympic hero from the 1984 Games. If they intend it to be racist, aren't they stabbing their own sponsor?

pic lifted from nytimes.com

The Spanish basketball team posing for an advertisement.

silly, ignorant, silly, silly: guapo si john edward:D

fine, i'm not a fan of oprah but i watched her show:D (nate is there. hehehe)

saw the episode where john edward the senator and his family were the guests., gwapo siya, and then nakapangutana ko, unsay iyang gibuhat sa oprah? lol, i know its a political motive but i dunno that us presidential election is approaching not until i accidentally clicked on something sa yahoo homepage which redirected me at abc news. lol. langsar day siya? how about hucklebee? sounded like bumblebee...maksim ba yon? hehehe... hillary clinton too.

ambot...just browsing the net.:D and im hungry!

Kukabildo sa mga Estudyante mahitungod sa dakong tae’ng ginganlag Ginoo

Kukabildo sa mga Estudyante mahitungod sa dakong tae’ng ginganlag Ginoo

Ni Jona Branzuela Bering

“Guys, nanimba mo kagahapon?” Pangutana ni Hazel sa pagsod niya sa opis sa Ang Suga.

“Ang-ang, Te Hazel.” Tubag pa sa uban nga gipangulohan ni Daeserie samtang ang uban, (apil nako ana) morag na-ungot ang pangutana ni Hazel sa ganghaan sa ilang mga dunggan.

Si Karina nagpadayon og basa sa nobela ni Cervantes nga Don Quixote samtang si Vinot gibutiti og maayo ang computer. Research diri, research didto. Si Ariel nagbagulbol sa gi-edit nga hulagway kay di niya makuha ang saktong epeks. Og ako, nagpadayon og hinayg kuskos sa gitara (nagpraktis).

Ang tingog ni Noel Gallagher sa bandang Oasis (Basta si Vinot ang mag-atubang sa kompyuter, kung di Oasis, Beatles gayod ng klaro.) maoy ning kuyanap sa opis.

“Hey you! Up in the sky
Learning to fly
Tell me how high
Do you think you'll go
Before you start falling”

“Obligasyon mana isip osa ka Kristyano,” ingon pa ni Ericka. Ningtando si Hazel og ningpahiyom.

“Gitawag nag-Canon Law. The faithful are obliged to participate in the Mass.” Wali pa ni Hazel. Kulang nalay suntana.

“Niya, ako di man ko faithful!” Nagngisi si Ariel nga nigsagbat.

“Kinahanglan gihapon, Ariel kay kristyano man ka, katoliko pa gyod.” Depensa ni Daeserie.

Si Karina ninghunong sa pagbasa, murag nakasod na gyod sa iyang dunggan ang gitabian sa mga miyembro sa publikasyon.

Ingon pa niya “Tony Perez said, it is impossible then that there is compassion greater than Christian compassion. It is when you suspend being a Christian and have compassion anyway.”

Si Tony Perez kung sakto ko, usa ka dakong tae sa Katitikang Filipino. Siya ang bag-ohay lang nahuman og basa ni Karina.

Si Hazel nga disipulo gyod sa simbahan ningrebuttal. Wa nako kasubay sa iyang gipangyamar kay akong gibantayan ang iyang mga ugat sa liog nga naggawas tungod sa kombiksyon.

Si Vinot ning-atubang ni Karina og nakig-apir. Dili man sad siya tigsimba kay ang nawng ni Vinot kada-Dominggo mura mag botelya sa RedHorse.

“Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first — rock and roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.” Ingon pa ni John Lennon. Si Vinot ning-ingon nga kontrebersyal kuno ni nga pamahayag sa iyang Lolo John.

“Kinsa man na siya bi? Diba tawo raman na siya? Sa Corinthians 1:18-2:5, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.” Lalis ni Ericka.

“So what happened? Gitiklo si John Lennon sa psychotic fan nga nagbasag Catcher in the Rye ni J.D. Sallinger.” Padayon ni Madz sa buot isulti ni Ericka.

“Ang gilalisan Madz kay ang Sunday Obligation. Ayaw god titi gyod. Basta ingon si Nietzsche, God is dead!” Nangatawa ang tanan kay nawagtang kalit ang photoshop window sa kompyuter, niya ang nakaparat, wa pa gayod na-save ni Ariel ang iyang gibuhat. Nakasulti gayod siyag, atay.

“Da! Gigabaan!Niya kaila day ka ni Nietzsche, Riel? ” Balos ni Madz.

“Ambot kinsa nang tae-ha na! Si Ate Jo, nag-ingon ana nako ay.” Tubag ni Ariel.

Atot, akoy gi-atubang sa tanan.

“Guys, pagkamatay ni Nietzsche nakapatik sa iyang lapida:

Nietzsche is dead.

---God”

Ang akong hirit kinopya sa pare nga spokeperson sa seminar nga akong natambongan. Ang kato gyong pare-a nahikurat pagsagbat nakog ingon nga God is Dead nga kinopya ra sad nako sa akong Ethics professor. (Pero kaila kog gamay bahin ni Nietzsche ha.)

“Naa raman diay na te.” Ingon ni Des. Nangatawa ang tanan.

“But you have to question yourselves guys, are you faithful?” Pangutana nako.

“We are all sinner Jo. You know that. That’s why there is redemption. Hebrews 13: 5, I will never leave you, nor forsake you.” Ingon pa ni Hazel.

“Makit-an ang redemption sa simbahan te?” Pamingwit pa ni Vinot.

“Shrug Avery in Walker’s The Color Purple said: Have you ever found God in Church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for It to show.” Akong gi-ambit kanila ang kombiksyon ni Shrug. Ingon pa niya nga ang Ginoo dili lalaki o babae. Maong sayop nga gamiton nato ang He or She. Ang sakto, ingon pa niya, IT.

“Basta, ako guys, uyon ko sa gi-ingon sa negra nga God is everything. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you’ve found it.” Natakdan ko ni Hazel da! Nagwali sad kog ako!

“Maypag manganta nalang ta ninyo!” ingon pa ni Kevin pagkahuman sa pila kagutlo sa kahilom

Ang bag-ong paborito sa tanan. Ang Wonder Wall sa Oasis. Nagkayabag-yabag ang agi sa tanan:

Today is gonna be the day
That they're gonna throw it back to you
By now you should've somehow
Realized what you gotta do.

___end___

Ps. Big Tae is slang for great people, well, at least for us. Hinaot, nobody will be offended.

Lubong

Ni Jona Branzuela Bering

Pina-agi sa nangunot nga mga kamot,

Gikuykoy ang nagtigang yuta

Sa Carreta. Bisan ang mga talidsik

Gikan sa mga mata nga kani-adto

Nagdahom nga imong lingi-on,

Inanay nga gilukipan sa salbahis

Nga katarata wa nakapahumok

Sa nagpagtok nga yuta nga

Gitunub-tunoban sa mga niaging

Panahon.

Nabangag, inig kadakoa sa kumo.

Ang talidsik, nahimong dagkong

Lugas sa pagdawat nga ikaw

Dili gayod ma-ankon.

Kulitigon nako ang imong ngalan

(Gamit ang kutsilyo nga gibaid

Sa mga panghupaw og pangagho)

Nga natagik sa kasing-kasing

Og ma-ampingong isod sa bangag

Sama sa paglaylay? sa duyan aron

Makatog sa hingpit kining pagbati.

Dayon tabunan sa nakuykoy nga tipaka

Sa kalibotan.

Tudsokan og kandila, mangaliya,

Nga ang imong ngalan dili

Mo-gawas sa lubnganan

Og kagon ang malinawon

Nakong dughan.

Way Pu’s Ang Suga

OPINION: Way Pu’s Ang Suga

by Jona Branzuela Bering

There is a world aside from yours.

My ears were bleeding for the negative yet helpful criticism I heard from students regarding the dead meat named Ang Suga.

The dead meat had been long dead and buried with the molds of irresponsibility and laziness. Yet, on his final bed, he summoned his offspring to stand from the sickening, depressing reputation. And they do. And that they are US.

We, the Ang Suga board of editors and staff have been doing our job to rescue the reputation of Ang Suga as a student publication.

Step by achingly yet familiar step, we make ourselves visible to the eyes of institutional and non-institutional activities and to all the big taes involved.

We merge to the society of students.

And now, if you still can’t see us, the problem is not us. Maybe, you got an idea, where the problems lie.

JUAN TAMAD

Yet, it is true that some staff got their fair share in staining the already torn-out reputation of Ang Suga. They let laziness eat them alive. And even how hard I verbally assaulted their laziness, still, they willingly dwell on its home.

Letting Juan changed his Tamad clothes into Masipag clothes is not easy.

From the time I wrote this, the names of the staff who forgot that they have respective assignments are posted outside the office with a memo boldly exclaiming: students, in case the magazine will not be published on time, kindly blame these following staff.

KAMI CORRUPT?!?

Laughed loudly, Jona, since they didn’t know what their ignorant mouth had uttered.

Corruption is here but it is not at Ang Suga.

Student publication should be autonomous. Not in our case. We are not handling the thirty pesos paid by each student, so if you got questions regarding your thirty pesos, then by all means, throw them to the accounting office. They had the answers. (I am not practicing crab mentality here; I just stand on the small ground of Ang Suga.)

We should have been paid off in everything that we sacrificed for Ang Suga yet; we (un)willingly budgeted our weekly allowance for meetings, outreach programs which should have been included on our annual budget.

We are not wearing corruption in our sleeves much more on our inner shirt.

DUGAY ANG MAGAZINE

There is also a world aside from ours.

The Ang Suga is not the end; rather it is just the starting point of a relatively confusing bidding process which personally I tried to comprehend only to realize there are matters that I shouldn’t involve with. (Especially I am looking forward on wearing my toga. Call me coward, if it suits you.)

In publishing the magazine, it takes a lot of time before the so-called bidding process accomplished a winning bidder. And there, our dilemma deepened since based on my four-year stay at Ang Suga, more often than not, the winning publishing company failed to lend a hand when required service is due.

The main task of the supply office (located at Ground floor, Admin Building) is to get a so-called lowest bidder since it is the requirement in a governmental institution like CNU---to get the cheapest, never mind the quality.

Again, there is a world aside from ours. And we can’t touch, much more penetrate them. But you can appeal to them. Ask doubtful questions just like you did to us and they will answer you.

Answer you right through your eyes.

(and they will surely lie like an eyewitness)
---julian barnes