Quoting:::James Baldwin

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
—James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

Film:::The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Benjamin Button: It's a funny thing about comin' home. Looks the same, smells the same, feels the same. You'll realize what's changed is you.

Benjamin Button: Some nights, I'd have to sleep alone. I didn't mind, I would listen to the house breathin'. All those people sleepin'. I felt... safe.

Daisy: And in the spring, 2003, he looked at me. And I knew, that he knew, who I was. And then he closed his eyes, as if to go to sleep.

Mrs. Maple: Benjamin, we're meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?

Benjamin Button: Along the way you bump into people who make a dent on your life. Some people get struck by lightning. Some are born to sit by a river. Some have an ear for music. Some are artists. Some swim the English Channel. Some know buttons. Some know Shakespeare. Some are mothers. And some people can dance

Benjamin Button: I was thinking how nothing lasts, and what a shame that is.
Daisy: Some things last.

Balak:::Pahimangno sa Suhitong Labandera sa Bag-ong Nagtubo

ni Jona Branzuela Bering

Kuskosa ang kwelyohan

sa imong gibati. Kon di

madag kuskos, gamitig Xonrox,

aron makuha ang lama niini.

Unya dayon, gamitig netbag

kon di madag kinamot, pwede

sad nimo pataud-taoran,

ihumol og gamay, aron mahumok.

Unya tan-awa gyod nang pinakadakong

lama sa may dughanan. Sa tan-aw

nimo, makuha pa na? Aysus,

ayawg lingu-lingo diha. Makuha na.

Gamitig lemonsito, unya iladlad

sa init, ipa-atbang ang lama

sa nagbudlat nga kalimutaw

sa adlaw. Ayawg kauwaw,

bahalag bugal-bugalan ka nila,

iladlad na, ayaw itago kay

mogahi hinuon nag samot,

mas mogamay ang tsansa

nga makuha ang mantsa.

New Year:::Tiger in the Ox

My hair—it is sometimes a flirt, a witch, an innocent, yet once my person is reduced to its length, i have to wear a different one. Perhaps, the scissors cut it accidentally, or perhaps, my five-year-old hair is flirting or bitching once more—whatever it is—it is done now. With no preliminaries—it is now kissing my nape, not my derriere.

Happy New Year!

ni Jona Branzuela Bering


Sa mga Chinese
kinahanglang daghang lingin
aron daghang grasya
ang musod sa bag-ong tuig.
Payts na tingali ni ako:
lingin ang mga kalimutaw
sa akong walo ka mga anak,
nagsiga kay wap-ay panihapon
karong usa nalang ka oras
ang nagbitay una maputol
ang gininhawa niining tuiga.
lingin ang bola nga napunitan
ni Dado didto sa basurahan
kilid sa banko nga daghag tawng
isig withdraw. Lingin akong
handuraw nga nagsigeg tuyok
sa palibot bisag naay putos
nga Jollibee o Mcdo. Lingin sad
ang mga tiyan sa akong
mga anak nga klarong gibitok.
Lingin sad ang tiles dire
sa skywalk sa Robinsons.
Ako sad, lingin ang tiyan,
sa pagpaabot sad sa ikasiyam.