28 Nov 2011
by angkuletin Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur, Photography Tags: Bicol, churches, culture, history, pre-war, religion, Spanish
I saw this post on Facebook from Planet Naga about four months ago. I had been too busy though to post it on my blog (or post anything actually). Today I am taking the time to share these beautiful photos. Much thanks for all these.
Pre-war Bicol. Bicol Region is known as one of the strongest bulwarks of the Catholic Faith since Hispanic times. In fact, during its inception, the prelate of Manila was under the Diocese of the Nueva Caceres. in This album, we shall explore the different Catholic churches all over the region, their different architectures and physical structure before war invaded Bicol in 1942.
BUHI, CAMARINES SUR - 1941
LABO, CAMARINES NORTE - 1941
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02 Dec 2010
by angkuletin Music, Photography, Travel Tags: Batanes, Coron, El Nido, Empty, family, Lia, Mama, music, Palawan, photography, Ray LaMontagne, travel
I never learned to count my blessings,
I choose instead to dwell in my disasters. More
30 Nov 2010
by angkuletin Photography, Poetry Tags: Pablo Neruda, photography, poetry, sonata
Sunset over Mui Wo, Lantau Island, HK
From dust-laden glances, fallen to earth
or noiseless leaves, self-buried.
From tarnished metals, with the void incarnate,
with the absence of day, dead of a stroke.
In hand-heights, the dazzle of butterflies,
butterflies setting sail in their unbound light.
You were guardian to the light’s stelae, fragmented beings
the late and tardy sun flung at the churches.
Glance-tinted, with the aim of the bees,
your embodiment of unlooked-for flame in flight
preceded and follows day, his golden kin.
Days cruise in secret and lie in ambush
but fall into the trap: your voice of light.
Oh lady of the house of love – in your repose
I ground my dreams, my hushed expectancy.
With your body shyly numbered, extended suddenly
out to the quantities which have defined the earth,
beyond the broils of the white days in space,
cold with the slow deaths and withering incentives,
I feel your lap burning and your kisses passing
like early summer swallows in my dreams.
Times are when what your tears may wish to be
like age reaches my forehead-
there waves are battering, tripping themselves to death:
their motion humid, fallen, final.
(Translated by N.T.)
- The River Silver, Mui Wo, Lantau Island, HK
Links:
Poetry by Pablo Neruda
A Study Guide to Pablo Neruda’s Poems
18 Nov 2010
by angkuletin Photography, Poetry Tags: Pablo Neruda, photography, poetry, Raffy Parcon
Still Water by Raffy Parcon
I Like You Calm, As if You Were Absent
I like you calm, as if you were absent,
and you hear me far-off, and my voice does not touch you.
It seems that your eyelids have taken to flying:
it seems that a kiss has sealed up your mouth.
Since all these things are filled with my spirit,
you come from things, filled with my spirit.
You appear as my soul, as the butterfly’s dreaming,
and you appear as Sadness’s word.
I like you calm, as if you were distant,
you are a moaning, a butterfly’s cooing.
You hear me far-off, my voice does not reach you.
Let me be calmed, then, calmed by your silence.
Let me commune, then, commune with your silence,
clear as a light, and pure as a ring.
You are like night, calmed, constellated.
Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true.
I like you calm, as if you were absent:
distant and saddened, as if you were dead.
One word at that moment, a smile, is sufficient.
And I thrill, then, I thrill: that it cannot be so.
PABLO NERUDA, written in 1950
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This little bit of inspiration I got off Raffy Parcon’s Facebook account. Thanks Raffy. Cheers to photography and poetry.
27 Sep 2010
by angkuletin Photography Tags: Kikayism, photography, Supladita
The Supladita store in #79 West Avenue, Quezon City is now open. On its wall, behind the cash register counter hangs a photo I took.
Kerin Brice wearing a Supladita dress and a Palamuti necklace
The Supladita store had its formal opening last September 18 and PJ Valenciano, of Kikayism, was able to attend and represent the entire team!
Jen Montano, owner of Supladita
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