At The Beginning

We were strangersStarting out on a journey
Never dreamingWhat we'd have to go through
Now here we areAnd I'm suddenly standing
At the beginning with you

No one told meI was going to find you
UnexpectedWhat you did to my heart
When I lost hope You were there to remind me
This is the start

And Life is a road And I want to keep going
Love is a riverI wanna keep flowing
Life is a roadNow and foreverWonderful journey
I'll be there When the world stops turning
I'll be there When the storm is through
In the end I wanna be standing
At the beginning with you

We were strangers On a crazy adventure
Never dreaming How our dreams would come true
Now here we stand Unafraid of the future
At the beginning with you

And Life is a road And I want to keep going
Love is a river I wanna keep flowing
Life is a road Now and forever Wonderful journey
I'll be there When the world stops turning
I'll be thereWhen the storm is through
In the end I wanna be standing At the beginning with you

I knew there was somebody somewhere
Like me alone in the dark
Now I know my dream will live on
I've been waiting so long
Nothing's gonna tear us apart

Life is a road And I want to keep going
Love is a riverI wanna keep flowing
Life is a road Now and forever Wonderful journey
I'll be thereWhen the world stops turning
I'll be thereWhen the storm is through
In the end I wanna be standing At the beginning with you

Life is a road and I wanna keep going
Love is a river I wanna keep going on....
Starting out on a journey
Life is a road and I wanna keep going
Love is a river I wanna keep flowing
In the end I wanna be standing At the beginning with you.



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KON by: Gardeopatra Quijano

kon duna pa koy mga pako,

molupad ako sa kahanginan,

nanawon ko ang nanagbakho,

akong lipayon,akong awitan;

pangitaon ko kinsay nagsubo,

iuli kanila ang naingnan

sama pa unta ako sa isda

salumon ko ang dagat maitum

pangitaon ko ang mga mutya

kuhaon ko ang tanang matahum

dad-on ko sila dinhi sa yuta

aron ang tanan magpahiyum

kon ako mao pa ang tubig

tumpagon ko kanang mga pangpang

ang kabugnaw ko akong iduhig

ug dugkaton ko ang mga batang

patagon ko ang bungtod dahilig

aron mobanos ang bag-ong kahimtang

kon ako pa kahay adlaw

dili ako patabon sa dag-um

ipabaha ko akong silaw

ihatag ko ang tanang katahum

aron kamong tanan matagbaw

mag awit, maglipay, magpahiyum

ug kon ako mao pa ang hangin

oh, hadlaon ko ang mga bulak

isabulak ko sa tanang daplin

ang mga gihay nga mangapulak

basin ang kahumot magpabilin

sudlon ang baho sa magbabalak

Biography Nick Joaquin

Nick Joaquin

“National Artist for Literature”

“Philippine Novelist, poet, playwright, and essayist in English”

Name: Nicomedes Marquez Joaquin

Aka: “Quijano de Manila”

Born: May 4, 1917 (Paco Manila on Calle Herran)

Died: April 29, 2004 (San Juan Metro Manila)

Parents: Atty. Leocadio Y. Joaquin (colonel of the Philippine Revolution)

Salome Marquez (school teacher)

Educational Background:

Elementary: Mapa High School in Intramuros

Secondary: Mapa High School in Intramuros (up to 3rd year)

College: St. Albert College in Hong Kong

Literary Career:

@17 – published his first poem I the Tribune the “WWII Manila Times”

1950 – Philippine Free Press: Proof Reader then later Literary Editor

1971 – Asia Philippine Leader: editor-in-chief

1990 – Philippine Graphic: Editor

Travels:

1957- under a fellowship from the Harper Publishing Company in United States

and later in Mexico.

During Martial Law:

Keep himself busy compiling his Philippine Free Press Article for a series of

books, writing new plays and stories, publishing feature articles from time to

time, accepting commissions for biographies, and running a column “small beer”,

in one newspaper.

Literary Works:

* Authored more than 2 dozen books

1935 – Tribune, the WWII Manila Times

1945 – Three Generations

1952 – Prose and Poems

1962 – Selected Stories

1964 – La Naval de Manila and other Essays

1966 – A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino

1976 – Complete Poems and Plays of Joe Rizal (Translation of Rizal’s works in

english)

1977 – Pocket Book Series:

Nora Aunor and other Profiles

Ronnie Poe and other Silhouettes

Reportage on Lovers

Reportage on Crime

Amalia Fuentes and other Etchings

Gloria Diaz and other Delineations

Dove lion and other Cameos

- Question of Heroes

1979 – Tropical Baroque

Tatarin

Father and Sons

The Beateas

1980 – Manila: Sin City and other Chronicles

- Language of the Street and other Essays

1983 – Cave and Shadows

1987 – Collected Verse

1988 – Culture and History

1991 – Manila, My Manila

Awards / Winnings:

1945 – best short story, “Three Generations”

1949 – won literary contest held by Dominicans

1960 – first Stone Hill Fellowship Award for “The Woman who had two Navels”

1961 – Republic Cultural Heritage Awards for literature

1964 – Patnubay ng Sining at Lakinangan Award

1976 – Conferred the title “National Artist in Literature”

Don Carlos Panca Memorial Award:

1958 – La Vidal

1965 – Dona Jeronima

1976 – The Beateas

Manila Critics Circles National Book Awards:

1983 – The Aquinos of Tarlac

1986 – The Quartet of the Tiger Moon: Scenes from the People Power

Apocalypse

1988 – Culture and History: Occasional Notes on the Process of Philippine

Becoming

1990 – The World of Damian Domingo: 19th Century Manila, co-written with

Luciano P.R. Santiago and James Ongpin

- The Enigma: The Profile of a Filipino as Manager

Received the ESSO Journalism Award Several Times

MAY DAY EVE REFLECTION

Reflection:

In the short story, I have reflected that even though men and women were different both must be treated fairly and equally. For God made us equal.

Like men, women must have the capacity to decide and fulfill their own

desires. Women must like men be the masters of them selves and not be the slave of anyone else. Women too have a brave side in them.

Another is that, we must not take revenge. For in taking vengeance we are also destroying our self. The Lord forgives those who have sinned against him, so why can’t we human forgive. The Lord said “You must forgive 70 x 7”.

Lastly, we must not be selfish in giving and sharing our love. The purpose why we live is of love. If each of us has love in our hearts then everybody would be peaceful and the world we are living will be at peace.

MAY DAY EVE THEME

Theme:

The short story shows the status of the women during the past. That woman is weak and men are superior over women. Before, women are deprived of her necessary rights that man had always enjoyed. During the past women were forced by their parents who are they going to marry and in some instance women are used as payments for debts.

In the story Agueda died miserably because her life was molded in to something she did not like. She was forced to marry Badoy Monitiya a very rich man who is madly in love with her. Her whole life was spent grieving, in fact he describe his husband as a devil, while she was being describe by her husband as a witch who ate Don Badoy Monitiya’s heart and drank his blood, meaning Agueda broke her heart despite of the love he gave.

MAY DAY EVE Synopsis

Synopsis:

The ball had ended, the girls were sent upstairs to sleep, while the guest from Europe who were feeling bad for they want to party some more went out to finish their drink and have some more fun in that tropical country.

At the girls room Anastasia was telling the girls that witches were abroad for it was a night of divination, night of lovers, and those who cared might peer in a mirror and would there behold the face of whoever it was they were fated to marry. One girl told Anastasia to stop and get out of the room and told her that she is a witch, but another girl said that Anastasia is a maga and was born on Christmas Eve.

One girl is very eager and much interested on Anastasia’s story and want Anastasia to tell her everything, so Anastasia for tell to the girls what to do. That she must go to a mirror close her eyes and say, “mirror mirror show to me him whose woman I will be”, then Anastasia continued that if all goes right then her lover will appear above her left shoulder and if it does not go right she will see the devil.

Agueda walked to the hall down to the sala bravely. The girls have not able to stop her and in their facing the mirror, she whispered the incantation. Agueda felt different and after a while, she has a company.

Then she heared her little child talk that she almost forgets was in her lap. The child asks if what did she saw, if she saw the devil. Then she told her child that yes she saw the devil, it was smiling at her. The devil has a scar in its face like what his father has but the difference is that of the devil is a mark of sin while that of his father is a sign of honor. Agueda continued that the devil has mustache too but unlike to that of his husband that smells of tobacco and is gray, that of the devil is so black and elegant. Agueda told her child that if she does not want to see a devil, she must stop her habbit of always looking at the mirror.

“Charms Like Yours have no need for a candle, faire one” Badoy Monitiya told Agueda then mockingly told her how vain she is that even in the middle of the night she is looking at her face. Agueda got mad and was about to walk away, but Badoy stop her and told her that she cannot go upstairs until she will dance with him. For during the ball Agueda has not dance the polka with him. Forcefully Agueda refuses and then the two got into a talk fight. After a while Agueda piteously cried and Badoy felt sorry for it and ask forgiveness. He told Agueda that he would let her go upstairs if she will forgive him, but instead of forgiving Badoy, she bit his knucklesand fled upstairs.

Filled with pain, Badoy did not know what to do, If he will call his mother to let know what happened or he himself will go upstairs to the girls room and drag Agueda out of the house. Then it came to him how Agueda looks, those curves and that pretty face. Feeling the pain consciousness came that he must take revenge. Later he realize, he want to see, touch and hear her harsh voice. Then it came to his mind that he is madly deeply in love with her, yet he must let her pay.

One May Night Don Badoy Monitiya walks home not even caring to remember what happened years ago. He walks to the hall and as he glanced at the mirror, he suddenly felt something. A familiar sense, then he called the ghostly figure in front the mirror then saw that it was his grandson. Voltaire told his grandpa what the boys in school told him of how he could see his future wife. Don Badoy led his grandson into a seat, and then they talked. He told him about the witch he saw when he was about his age and was so vain that he wants to see himself dieing because of drunkenness. Voltaire ask how awful the witch look like, then he told his grandson that the witch he saw was a hell so very beautiful lad and how that witch ate his heart and drank his blood.

Voltaire told his grandpa what his mother told him, about the story of his grandma who as well is eager to see her lover but then saw the devil. At the very moment Don Badoy realized, that was so long ago. Now she was dead, perished, that she were at last at peace and that her body was free from the brutal pranks of the earth from the trap of a May Night, from a snare of summer.

Don Badoy went up to the window and with tears, reminisce that old love.

"MAY DAY EVE" Characters

Characters:

Boys – good looking, drunk, arrogant, proud of themselves, elegant and

Aggressive

Girls – excited, struck and amused by the guests, weak, a little mean and are

afraid of witches

Anastasia – old woman, who is so obedient to her mistress, accused for being a

witch and believes in superstitious beliefs

Agueda – pretty, young woman who is so curious, hardheaded, brave and very

much willing to know her future husband

Badoy Monitiya – a vain good looking man who will do everything to get what he

wants and revengeful

Dona Agueda – old lady who has gray hair, full of sentiments, emotional and

Resentful

Dona Agueda’s daughter – a vain curious girl, who is persistent to know about the

past of her mother

Don Badoy Monitiya – a great lover, emotional and full of sentiment old man,

who repents for what he has done to Agueda

Voltaire – Believe in superstitious belief and was like his grandma who at an early

age want to know who will he marry