The Creme Scene

Ngayong nagmamahal na ako muli,
mabuti't hindi ka pala katangitanging kaguapuhan.
Nakikita ko ang gewang ng iyong lakad sa kalsada
at tinutungo ng ulo ko ang kamusta.
Inaabot sa akin ng iyong magagaspang na kamay
ang aking sukli at nakakapagpasalamat ako.
Salamat.
At alam mo naman ako, kung saan-saan
pa rin tumutingin kapag naglalakad,
nawawala, ngunit kapag nakita ko na
ang malapad mong balikat, alam ko na
kung ako saan papunta. Nasaan ka?
At kung gabi, ang langit ng Los Banos
ang iyong maubang buhok. Narito ka.

Ngayong nagmamahal na ako muli,
naiintindihan ko si Buddha.
Hahahaha, baka hindi, pero minsan-- kapag
napapalibutan ako ng iyong piso sandosenang hitsura
kung may nakasuot ng iyong kamisetang maluwag
sa kuwelyo't kita ang mga buto sa leeg
o di kaya ng pantalon mong maluwag
na matagal nang wala sa uso
kapag kausap ko si Erwin tungkol sa pelikula,
o si Raymund tungkol sa kanta,
o nakikipag-inuman kina Jiro,
makipagpalitan ng libro ka Niel,
makipagtulaan kay Mark,
o di kaya'y sisinghot ng isang malalim
na hiningang umaasang isang atoma man lang
ng atmospera, sa litro-litro at galon-galon
nitong ating nilalanguyan, hangin man lang
magkasalo tayo muli,
naiisip ko: kay daling mahalin ang buong mundo,
magmahal ng walang pinipili't alinlangan
dahil hindi ka naman katangitanging kaguapuhan.
Kaya ko maupo sa ilalim ng puno habang umuulan,
at hindi tukso ang ahas kundi aninong masisilungan.
Ngayong nagmamahal na ako muli,
kaya kong mahalin ang buong mundo,
dahil mahla pa rin kita.

(pasensiya na sa catharsis ng ka-corny-han)

Recovering from the shock of the disappearance of the meteor that would alleviate the ecological effects of the slaad skull, Osiris, Sarek, Mageta and Kitty contemplated their options. Kitty used her tracking skills and determined that as many as five wagons exited the site. A crane was used to haul the stone from its crater and into a wagon. Kitty determined that the heaviest wagon headed north by north east; however another wagon headed south into Jebal’zag. After some consideration, they decided to head back into town first to inquire about leads. However, Kitty and Osiris then both realized that prying eyes were upon them. They then asked the inquisitive to reveal himself. A gnome stepped out from behind a tree and they called out that he should stay where he was until they have approached him. On their way to the gnome, Kitty realized that the gnome was not alone and spotted an elf with a longbow knocked and ready. She turned and asked the gnome to tell his friend to lower his weapon. The discussion started amicably enough but the gnome was caught lying again and again without seeming to show any willingness to cooperate. A fight broke out culminating in the death of the elf and the execution of the gnome after he refused to tell the truth despite having an axe upon his neck. They searched their corpses and it was revealed that the gnome is from House Sivis; the elf is bore a dragonmark but unlike any they have ever seen before. The four headed into Jebal’zag troubled by even more questions.



Upon arriving in town, the four tried to question the locals of the female, as Kitty recalled, that was all too inquisitive of their findings in the forest. They asked about curious traffic leading into town from the forest and possibly heading to New Throne but no one seemed to have noticed. No fruit came from their questioning. They headed to Fordrinn, and collected their reward. They asked him if he sent the gnome and elf which he denied. Mageta implied that if Fordrinn could or have already come upon a portion of the meteorite, installing it into the limestone formation could mean increased traffic into town, and thereby a boost into its economy if it’s healing properties persisted. Sarek remained into town to inquire further, and follow a few arcane leads of his own.



Without resting, the three realized that if they forced a march north by north east they could possibly over take the heavy wagon. After a few miles however, they came upon a clearing and from there the wagon disappeared. Kitty concluded that an airship could have taken the wagon and its contents from the clearing. She also found a set of tracks: the crew that retrieved the meteorite headed north by north east on foot. With no further lead they followed the tracks. They came upon the men but not before something else did. Three guards and almost a dozen or so foul spawn lay on the forest floor dead. What remained of the guards limped off into the forest.



They followed the tracks into an abandoned farming village. There Osiris and Kitty and approached a creaky farmstead stealthily and overheard conversation. The infected guards were down stairs. Thinking that these were companions to the guards, Osiris and Mageta attacked but realized too late that they were simple farmers, armed with farming equipment. The upstairs bedroom was empty. They opened the cellar door and emerged a rural type woman. She asked for the two gentlemen and Mageta admitted that they were wrongly killed and offered to have them resurrected with his own earnings. The woman was hysterical and Osiris had to knock her out to quiet her. Another woman’s voice called out from the cellar and they found out that the guards were on their sickbeds along with other locals. Mageta asked for Kitty’s water flask and asked the woman to administer each of the patients a capful of the water. They threw in the flask into the cellar and no sooner than the flask hit the floor did awful wailing emerged from the forest. The rickety farmstead was surrounded by dozens of foulspawn, running in a spiral that closed in upon them. Two of the foul spawn were unlike any that they have see, they ran on four legs. Mageta lifted two cabinets and barricaded the cellar door. Kitty started shooting at the foulspawn through a window. Osiris and Mageta can only ready themselves to when the attack would fall upon them. Wave after wave of the creatures entered the house and, tired from their long walk through the previous night, they did not have the reserves they had when they fought in the ruined temple. Mageta’s wild swings knocked out down a pillar and the second floor creaked ominously. The quadripedal foulspawn spat slime that drove Mageta into the second floor. Kitty then dealt the killing blow to a quadripedal fouldspawn and it burst into multitudes of smaller version of itself. Just then Osiris’ axe knocked out a second pillar the floor boards collapsed. Mageta and the few foulspawn still in the second floor slid onto the now toppled floor and into the kitchen. Managing to keep his balance after the fall, Mageta could not defend himself from the onslaught of the creature’s attacks. He was knocked out. Fearing that any further skirmishes approximate to Mageta could finish him off, Osiris and Kitty took the battle outside. Foulspawn that followed them fell victim to blade and bolt. Keeping their distance, they finished off the last of the vile creatures. Kitty’s bolt hit the other quadruped as it was scampering out a window and it exploded in a fiery burst, taking with it three of its two legged allies. And aiming low, Kitty killed the last of the swarming creatures by skewering them by the dozens.



They returned inside to find that Mageta was up again, having recovered from hus blows. They hurried into the cellar to check on the patients. They were untouched but they found that the ones they were chasing had escaped. In the far wall, Osiris noticed a dim glow. The scraped off the earth and found a dragonmark on the dirt itself. They shared a grim look and searched their heads to narrow down which house’s symbol was before them now.

Before heading off to their respective beds as provided by Fordrinn, Kitty was approached by townsfolk. This did not strike the goliath, the deva, or the shifter that as members of some of the stranger races, the locals would be disinclined to engage them in small talk. Kitty was asked, with seemingly earnest curiosity of their adventures in the forest and kitty gave them a dismissive account.

Kitty told his friends of the locals’ interest in their actions and they realized that despite trying to veer away from the topic, kitty may have mentioned the crash site on the off hand. This, they think, may not have been the best course of action, and that some level of discretion may have been necessary. The four woke the next day after an uneasy sleep. They did not know what forces may be at work. They realized that Fordrinn was too insistent in that they rest the night when they could have carried on with haste instead. Before they left, Mageta left his water skin of syberis shard water with Fordrinn, advising him to have any person who displays symptoms to drink some of the water.

They headed out, followed the stream that flowed from the mountains into town until they came upon the limestone formation where the waters sprung from the rock. What would have been a beautiful landscape: a ruined temple cut from the cliff face, a distant echo from the distant past of an unknown civilization, reclaimed by nature. But what the four saw before them was a temple defiled by evil. Foulspawn wandered the pools of water and among the mangroves and clambered up the remaining standing pillars like slimy disfigured spiders. Still writhing victims hung from webs on the pillars, like bugs waiting to be sucked dry later. Kitty and Mageta took upon defensive stances, ready for an attack against the foul creatures. Kitty and Sarek started sniping at the creatures with both spell and bolt, felling one after the other. The monsters, realizing that danger is upon them, let out an awful wailing that rang through the forests. The four immediately heard rustling from the forest, and knew they would be surrounded soon.

From the pillars, the foul spawn let loose a tangle of sinew from their arms dragging Osiris into the foul waters. Mageta thrashed into the fray, engaging the creatures that would fall upon his ally. Kitty and Sarek waded into the waters and continued felling creatures before they could do serious harm by engaging Mageta and Osiris. The hot air of the savannah protected Mageta, and a desert mirage floated with Kitty and the creatures in the pillars were discouraged to waste their efforts on them. Unfortunately, this meant that they found easier prey in Osiris and soon he was struggling with the sinews planted on his person. He lets loose his shadow to assist Mageta with the brutes he is against and retreated into the shadows. Angered, Sarek invoked his fury and unleashed bolt after bolt after bolt of force that whittled away at his opponents until they fell one by one. Meanwhile Mageta and Osiris' shadow did short work of the lumbering brutes they were up against. Finally, Kitty made a singular contest of marksmanship against the creatures that protected themselves with higher ground and won with a display skill. However where one creature fell into its death, the human suspended on the webs as if awoken by the dying foul spawn’s death cry, would burst in a death throe, unleashing a fresh monster. Unable to assist in range combat, Mageta retreated with Osiris and tended to their wounds. Sarek and Kitty weaved amongst the fallen pillars and mangrove trees and assaulted the cowardly foul spawn from where they stood until there was only one. Fearing retreat, the lone survivor tried to retreat but fell to Kitty and Sarek’s bolts.

Cleared of the foul creatures, the four investigated the spring. From under a pillar, they found a skull larger than a bull's but shaped like a toad's: a slaad. Mageta's observation that the nature of spawning that were not native to foul spawn were in fact due to the abyssal nature of the slaad. They pried out the skull from the altar, wrapped it in their spare shirts and kept it.

They realized that installing a fragment of the syberis meteor would not only stop the ill effects of the spring's contamination but may reverse it. They head back to the crash site and found that the meteor is gone! A hundred suspicions arise but Kitty and Mageta conclude, their only lead may be their only suspect: the sheriff of Jebal'zag, Fordrinn

After finding that his lead on finding his runaway niece is a dead end, Mageta, the shifter ex- then realizes that he has spent all of his money traveling to Sharn. His hosts, Kitty Killraven and Osiris told him of opportunities for adventurers in Q'Barra's frontier. Having no leads, to find Kitten, he agrees to travel with the two to Q'barra,



They find themselves in the city of Newthrone , penniless and dirty. While walking the streets asking if anyone had seen a shifter that fits his niece's description, Mageta was asked by a gruff voice to empty his purse at the threat of knifepoint. Mageta jokingly replied that only is he broke, and that he was also far away from home and unemployed. He is asked, by his mugger no less, if he would like to get a job. Surprised, he takes a peek around, and his would be mugger was no one other than his neighbor from the Reaches and friend during the days of the Last war, Kavinas. Kavinas had aged the twenty six years that Mageta was petrified but the two friends still recognized each other. Kavinas proposed that they group take on a job in the hamlet town of Jebal'zag in exchange for a tenth of the pay. Mageta was glad to take the job offer to his comrades.



They were advised that they are to go to the town and observe



Kitty Killraven and Osiris agree to travel to Jebal'zag for the job and they do so immediately. They talk about the weather casually, finding the approaching storm a reprieve for their tired muscles. Walking the eastbound dirt road to the Jebal'zag, the three notice the flight of carrion crows to their north. They investigate and find a large mass of flesh that seemed to look similar to a body that has housed a slaad's egg after the slaad had made its grisly escape.



Mageta suggested they take their find to Newthrone, to consult with someone more learned than they are of slaads. Kitty disagreed saying that this find may be the fate of the victims in Jebal'zag, making their arrival there more pressing. Before Osiris could decide the outcome of the argument, the noise of thrashing creatures was heard from behind them. From the south, emerged four trolls like they have ever seen before, their skins were marked by pulsing veins and the flesh underneath bulged and pulsed with malignance. Mageta engaged the monsters; Kitty retreated to the trees to snipe at them while Osiris melded with the shadows where his decisive blows could fell the beats quicker. Then, torrentuous rain started falling, limiting visibility for the combatants.



When all trolls where down, they realize that the rain kept them from lighting torches to burn the trolls and they had no alchemical or magical means to start a fire either. Cursing their own amateur oversight, they flee the bodies and hurry to Jebal'zag before the trolls could regenerate.



They arrive at the city after the rain had let out, and it was still early into the evening. They try locate the Sheriff who Kavinas had advised them to search out and are met with Fordrinn. Fordrinn welcomes the three and tell them that the sick people have been jailed because of the threat they pose not only with infection but with presumed acts of violence. Fordrinn recounts that any healers that have been sent to look after the victims were found dead the following day, brutally murdered, and the sick missing with no traces to be found. Mageta tells Fordrinn that he has learned some healing arts from his time in the Audair Army and asked to look at the sick people. Fordrinn tells ushers them to the dirt dugout jail, warning them to keep their weapons at hand. At the door of the cell they find three people lying feverishly on dirty cots. As Mageta was about to unlock the door to examine the sick, one of the three victims start coughing volumes of blood, at which Fordrinn shrinks away from. The man stands up from his cot and rips the door out of its hinges and out of Mageta's hands. Hoping that no injury would come to the man unnecessarily, Mageta trips him with a slap of his zulaat on the legs. At this opportunity Osiris deals a brutal cut to the man. To their surprise, the wounded man explodes and from it emerges a creature that a man-sized vessel could not have contained. Large and sinuous the creature attacks ferociously but was cut down by the experienced warriors. Mageta having seen similar creatures during the war tells them that the corpse in front of them belonged to a foulspawn, adding that the foulspawn he fought never did not emerge like that from humans nor did they have the wiry, bulging veins that this one did. Osiris pointed out that these same mutations appeared on the trolls they fought off in the forest. Kitty said that the mound of flesh they found was probably a victim, from which a mutant foulspawn had burst from.



Osiris then confronts the sheriff Fordrinn of the hazards that face them if they keep the two other victims alive. He suggested that they be euthanized for their own relief and the safety of the remainder of the population.



They exit the jail and entertain questions from the curious townsfolk. Mageta had questions of his own and they traded answers. Mageta learns that a week previous to the slew of infections, there was a streak of light across the sky followed by a small tremor and a fireball that lit up the north-eastern sky. They were also advised east of the town was a limestone formation where the towns water supply comes from. People had started getting sick a week after the spectacle in the sky; and people have stopped getting sick when they stopped drinking the towns water and started porting in water from Newthrone.



At this point, they are met with a hedge wizard from Jebal'zag, who is curious of the sky spectacle and knowledgeable of abominations: the deva Sarek. He joins the group and one of the townsfolk points out that all four had strange skin: Mageta's cracks from being a statue, Osiris marks of passage, Kitty's pock-marks and burns from the day of mourning and Sarek's deva skin patterns. The four consider it briefly before brushing it off to coincidence.

The four immediately headed into the night forest to locate the source of the fireball that the villagers described. Meanwhile Mageta was inspecting his wounds for telltale signs of the infection he saw on the man who burst into a foulspawn and indeed he found them. He secreted this away from his friends for the meantime.* upon arriving there, they say a great white boll that seemed to glow with its own radiance. Rainwater had accumulated where the rock skidded into the land. In the water there seemed to swim ghostly figures that whispered faintly, "Join us." And when the campaigners set eyes upon the rock they were moved to approach it. As they stepped into the water it seared into their flesh with a holy fire. They immediately saw the danger were in, they fought against the impulse to approach the rock any further. However, there emerged two spirits, a ghostly elf woman of unspeakable beauty and a creature of pure water from the waters. They too whispered join us and pulled at the Osiris and Kitty with their own means: The elf ghost seemed to posses some command of space and blinked Kitty between worlds and back closer to the rock while the gentleman made of water spiraled rush of water and washed Osiris into the glowing waters. The four fought against the creatures and when they were quelled, Osiris was left too wounded to fend for himself, helpless before the glowing rock. Mageta tied a rope about his waste and tried to rescue his friend. But he was drawn into the water just as sure as a moth into flame. Sarek then advised him that he should close his eyes and let Osiris’s voice guide him. This successfully brought Osiris back into safety where his wounds were tended. Mageta noticed though, that the infected wounds from the encounter with the mutated trolls had healed completely. They then decided to get a sample of the water, as this may save any further victims of the infection. Sarek, whose divine nature protected him from the holy fire that swirled and glowed within the water, emptied and tied water skins to his waist and the rope to a tree; when the skins were filled, he also thought it wise to take a sample of the rock itself. He shot at it with arcane bolts. Shards of the rock splintered off but this also revived or awakened the elven ghost and the water creature and they proceeded to attack again. Kitty, Osiris and Sarek made haste to run away. Mageta tried to ask for the guardian spirits help in the pandemic but his pleas fell upon deaf ears. He too was forced to retreat.



They returned to Jebal'zag to report their discoveries to Fordrinn. they concluded that although the rock may not have been the the direct cause of the illness, the rocks impact may have loosened the earth and revealed an unknown evil. however, the rock also held the answer to healing the land that its arrival may have inadvertantly afflicted. Fordrinn convinced them to spend the night in Jebal'zag and head off in the morning, which the four found wise.



*The DM withheld this information from Mageta’s player until after he was healed. Mageta’s player would not have otherwise “withheld” any information had he known about it sooner.

I am a Tashana Tundra Recruit for the reidran army and I was sent to Khorvaire as an escort.
Instead of being trapped under a landslide, Mageta was petrified during a random encounter with a gorgon, only to be left behind by the survivors. A hundred years later, a wandering healer recognized the town's statue as a petrified creature as what it was and freed me.

Mageta incorporates the concept of reincarnation from the Reidran belief system with the altruistic notion of the Sovereign Host of Khorwaire to create his personal belief that by contemplating the name and nature of god, a soul transcends mortal fetters and is freed of the pains of rebirth and suffering. In one's search for freedom, it is also one's task to free others of their mortal fetters, and if they are incapable of doing so, freeing them of their mortal shell so as they can be reborn with better chance at salvation.

I don't know much of geography, I am in the Eldeen Reaches and both of you are in Sharn. LOLz. Ang ashteeg, so you're a gnome and a goliath inside a revenant goliath?

Mageta's revised origin:

During the Last War, Mageta wwas a Reacher farmer that was recruited into the Audair army. His parents were refugees from Sarlona and he grew up with his father's mostly uninformed interpretation of the teachings of the Inspired of Reidra. As laymen in the reaches, their belief systems are also greatly influenced by the druidic traditions.

During an inopportune attack by boths the armies or Droamm and Breland, the defenders of the reach found themselves abandoned by the armies of Aundair. This would eventually lead to The Eldeen Reaches seeking autonomy from Aundair after the war but Mageta would know none of this as he was petrified by a medusa from Droamm during the attack and his body lost to logistical issues and bureaucratic negligence. His little brother, Lynx, was too young to join the Last War but grew up to be druid and found his statue 26 years after. Although, he hasn't aged in the last 26 years, he is missing his tips: the tip of his nose, ears, elbows, fingers-- where weathering and erosion touched his statue his flesh ends in angular planes; and his skin is also marked my striations where water had seeped in and rhythmically froze and thawed during the passage of years.

Now Mageta is a farmer again, as young as he was almost three decades ago but with anachronisms that reveal his missing years. He lives with his now middle aged younger brother and his family.

One day, an Orien Horseless wagon passed by our town. Which thoroughly excited my niece, Kitten. She vowed to one day ride not only a horseless caravan but also the lightning rail and an airship. I laughed at her and told her they don't let shifters on board those things, especially runty girl shifters like her.

The next day, Kitten was missing along with some of her belongings. She has run away. Feeling responsible for my niece, I volunteer to track her down and bring her home. My travels take me to Sharn, where I hear that there a wild looking girl named Kitten is known to have settled. I am hopeful that this Kitten is my niece who has run away.

oh yeah? well kitty's been moochin offa youz for the past coupla weeks
now.
we met at a dive called "Rick's Cafe' Kaarna'thian". its where the
secret agent types, who are down on their luck, drown their woes and
wait for the next lead on their lifequest. the place also attracts a
mixed clientele of Vichy French and Nazi officials, refugees and
thieves - who sometimes employ aforementioned down on their luck
secret agent types to perform simple albeit non-kosher tasks. its also
conveniently located in sharn's welcome - red light district of the
cliffside ward - pretteh pretteh near kitty's shack in the mud caves.
i owes ya buster! *hack*ptui*


Neo Brute Strike X yung military codename nya - kasong nga M.I.A. sha
- so nagtatago sha under pseudonym: Kitty Killraven. lolz.

-anywaiz neo brute strike x was a field sergeant from the crimson tide
commando force of the valenar war host.
classified as missing in action - believed to have been lost on the
day of mourning along with his squad during a small-scale combat
mission at the west cyrian border - vicinity of stonefeather spire.

-the subject is a grizzled and embittered veteran of countless wars
and operations.
-the subject tries to remain incognito - despite military affectations
occasionally surfacing - old habits
-the subject is currently penniless and tries to get by as a soldier-
of-fortune / security consultant.

Phineas "Finn" Whizklack and Ebenezer Coalbender were two of the best
field agents of the Trust – the gnomish police force of Zilargo and
reputed to be the most secretive organization in all Khorvaire. For
months they had been tracking down Doctor Jebediah Spoone, a brilliant
gnomish engineer who had gone down the path of necromancy and had fled
Pylas Pyrial after one of his experiments ran amok and killed a few
bystanders. The duo's search had led them to Sharn, where Spoone was
said to have set up a laboratory near the undercity warrens.

Meaning to confront Spoone and quietly bring him in, Finn and Ebenezer
were instead rushed by his two goliath bodyguards and a barrage of
Spoone’s necromantic spells. The encounter left one goliath torn to
shreds and the other choked to death by Ebenezer's shadow noose.
Spoone had fled, but not before Finn had torn out an eye with a well-
placed wand blast. Ebenezer, though, was fatally wounded.

Desperate to save his partner's life, Finn ransacked Spoone's lab and
found in his research manuscripts a scroll titled Project Osiris, a
transfer ritual that used a technique not unlike the ones gnomes use
for binding elementals to things, but this one bound souls instead.
Quickly, Finn shifted Ebenezer's spirit to the goliath they had slain,
with the authorities arriving, tipped off by Spoone, no doubt, just as
the ritual completed.

Found to have practiced forbidden necromancy, Finn was hanged the next
day, while Ebenezer was thrown back to the streets of Sharn with
merely a warning. Displaced by his new body and, more distrubingly,
with resurfacing memories of its former occupant, Ebenezer allowed
himself to be carried off by the crowd, his shadow flitting faster and
faster from one person to the next. He vowed to continue his hunt for
the now one-eyed Spoone – the strange marks on his goliath body his
only clue to finding the necromancer. This, he felt, he had to do
before he returned to the Trust and his uncertain future there. Until
then, he thought, he would take on another identity – Osiris – after
the spell Finn used to save him. "Yes," whispered another voice inside
him. "Oz. That will be our name."


- by vincent coscolluela

i hate it. amanda won. i hate it. dapat justine.

tapos nakita niyo yung truck driver from season 1 in the audience, may bading na nakaakbay sa kanya. lolz bumaliktad na si kuya.

anyway. i can't believe justine lost. she's so awesome.

Gigising ako sa umaga
upang batiin kang kamusta,
pero hindi ka pala dito natulog.
Magbabasa ng balita upang
may mapag-usapan sa agahan pero
'di ka dito nag-almusal. Kakainin
ko pa ngayon ang niluto ko
para sa'yo. Sayang naman,
kaysa matapon- kaya lang
baka masabi mong tumataba na ako.
Magmamadali sa kanto, baka
makasabay ka pa sa bus pero
nauna ka na. Pagpasok,
magpapalawig ng pananaw
kung sakaling nais mong magkitang
-tangin tayo at magkasunduan
muli ngayon. Mag-aabang sa mensaheng
hindi ihahatid ng mga kawad na
sumasapot sa opisina. Uuwing bitin
-bitin ang balikat, bubuksan
ang pinto't sisigaw na nakauwi na
pero di ka pala dito nakatira. Araw-araw.

Itong kanyang lihim
sa sarili
ang aking aangkinin:
nunal sa likod,
may nakakaalam ba sa
'yo maliban sa akin?
Kung ipamumukha ka,
ay bahid; ngunit
dito sa sinag na dilaw
ng lansangang takot
sa magnanakaw at hosto-
mga liwanag na sinala
ng aking kurtina- mayroon
din akong nais sabihin:
may nunal ako sa dila-
sinungaling; sa tainga-
tsismoso; sa ari- malibog.
Kung aaminin ko man,
wala nang halaga
sa panahon nating
'di na batid
ang mga sawikain
ng mga ninuno. Pero,
ikaw na nunal niya
sa likod ay akin lang,
hindi ng lipunan
o kasaysayan kundi
ng aking mga nahihiyang
hakahaka.

I am bartering a brand new Samsung Ultra Touch http://www.samsung.com/au/ultratouch/ for a CPU (no need for monitor and peripherals but if you can give me an lcd monitor, why not...) with the ff specs:

Core2Duo Processor
4GBDDR2 / 250GB HDD
512++ Video/Sound card

Sana yung casing kapag hinawakan ng bakla, magsasalita: “huwag mo akong galawin, mangmang ka, sinira mo lang yung huli mong CPU sa pakikielam mo.”

The set-up estimates to about 14,600 with an ECS motherboard. Mas mura yan kung Athlon yung shit, definitely. Kung makakadiscarte ka ng mas mura, mas sulit for you.

How amazing
Rocking back and forth,
Those hollow eyes
Could still shout love and all.

As golden rays bring faint color
to faded hair;
As folded skins touch
in silent affair;
As feet interlock
and scarred nails share;
As smiles spark across faces in false teeth
here;
We only realize
How wasted youth
Could end happily
ever after.

Ngayong gabi, umaakyat papalangit
ang usok na akingbinubuga- baka
dahil 'di na ako marunong magdasal
kaya't binebenta ko na ang buhay
sa Marlboro upang mapasalangit
ang aking mga buntong hininga.
Ngunit, mauubusan din ng palusot,
at 'di magbabago ang usad ng oras.
Walang madadaanang eskinita,
na sakanyang pagkahaba-haba,
ay 'di makapagpapapadpad
sa ating pagwawalay. Pero,
kapag mamamaalam na,
masasandaliang mahahawakan
ang iyong kamay, at buhay na
ako hanggang bukas, hangga't batiin
muli ang umaga kung gaano ka kaganda.

May ginhawa sa pagbubuhat: mas madaling tanggapin
ang 'di kaya ng kalamnan kaysa sa 'di mapausad ng loob.
Iiyak ng balat ang 'di mailabas ng mata,
mamumuo sa kamiseta ang halatang hugis ng puso,
basa sa dibdib, ang di makapagsalitang saloobin.
Tiyak, na kung magpupursigi, may mapapala;
may patutunguhang panglabas na kagandahan
ang pagpapahirap sa sarili.

Ngayong gabi, ang kurtina
ang sasala sa pinilakang liwanag,
pero minsan ikaw--
maglalaro ang aninong hardin
sa aking dingding mula
sa hinabing bulaklak sa tela,
di katulad ng kumakailang naglaro
sa iyong mata ang pag-usbong
ng pelikula sa tabing ng sinema.
Isusulid ko ang mga salita;
hindi para magsala ng imahen
kundi upang makabuo ng larawan
na magbibigay ng kasaysayan.
Horror man o drama,
mas katatakutan ko ang wala ka
kaysa ang maging mag-isa.
Iba man ang lamig
nga kuwartong may bentilador
sa sinehang naglalapit ng mga balikat
at nagbibigay-baka-sakali sa kamay
na maghawak, gayun pa man:
minsan ikaw.

When we become fathers
I'll send postcard in remembrance
how rare this understanding
with smiling pictures of children
(although my Eve is yet to be taken
out from pieces of my rib cage)

like trophies,
they will make us proud
and make it easier to forget
   summer nights, beers
   (my cheeks took a light punch from your knuckles
   brimming with attention)
   late afternoons watching sunset
   the waves collapsing beneath our feet
   (your tales of virgins and sordid relationships)
   midday jokes
  morning miseries,
  (I tried a comforting hand over burdened shoulders)
 
In your room
I was Pistons and you were Mavericks
( I lose one against two)

They will fade like scars
though your number is in my phonebook
and we never really live so far apart

When we become fathers
I will never use your name
(In hope that you will also learn to develop
a little dislike in my name's discordance)

It will never be forgotten.

Hindi ko mabigyang kahulugan ang mga sulyap
na dadaplis lamang sa aking paningin at mabilis ibabaling.
Kinailangan kong matutunang mag-ipagbaliwala,
hindi na muli maghahanap ng hakahaka--
Hindi pa umaaraw hanggang sa mabiyak na ang luwad.

Ula'y bumuhos:
sa ilalim ng puno
hindi pa basa.

Hindi ko mapansin ang pagkunot ng noo
na magpapagitgit sa mga kilay at mawawalan ng kusot.
Kinailangan kong matutunang maipagbaliwala,
at magsakaling hindi totoo ang mga hakahaka
Hindi pa umuulan hanggang sa umakyat na ang tubig ilog.

Ula'y tumigil:
sa ilalim ng puno
tuloy pa'ng ulan

Kahapon kahapon kahapon,
nakita ko ang silver lining--
hindi pala pilak kundi puti,
parang bagong pridyider;
sa aking paglalakad pauwi,
maulan, mahangin
at kung kumilos ang abuhing ulap
parang nagbabantang kumulo
at pasilipsilip
ang mga puting ulap:
matingkad sa baunbaong sinag
mula sa ibang araw na lumipas.

Kanina kanina kanina,
nakita ko ang silver lining--
hindi pala pilak kundi puti,
sa itim niyang buhok
inayos upang mukhang bagong-gising
mauban pala nung hinangin
at kung kumilos nagiging abuhin ang ulo
parang may tinatagong kulo
ako'y pasulyap-sulyap,
namumuting labi
matingkad sa baunbaong alaala
mula sa ibang araw na lumipas.