"Aswang"

                 Aswang is a generic generic term applied to all types of witches,vampires,monsters,mananangals,
shapeshifters and monsters.Aswang stories and definition very greatly from region to region and person to person, and no particular set of characterisrics can be described to the term. Today aside from entertainment value, Filipino mother's often tell their children aswang stories to keep them off the streets and
keep them home at night. Capiz,in particular, is singled out by tabloidsas an area of high supernatural activity:
a home to aswangs,manaanngals,giant half-horse(tikbalang) and other mythodological creatures. Many of those who live in capiz are supertitiously inclined, and adored their homes with garlic bulbs,holy water, and other objects believed to repel aswang. In Southern Luzon, the city of antipolo is rumored by locals to be popular sightings of aswang especially during the Holy Week (Easter in the philippines) where legend says that paranormal activities are at their peak during the three days that christ was dead. However, several common themes that differentiate aswangs from other mythological creatures do emerge: Aswang are shapeshifters. Stories recount aswangs living as regular townspeople. As regular townspeople, they are quite,shy and elusive. At night, they transform into creatures from rat, pig, bird, and the most common a dog. They enjoy eating unborn children, favoring livers and hearts. They use to suck the childrenout of their mother's wombs,out their homes. Some are so thin, they are fast and silent. Some also make noises, like the tik-tik (the name was derived from the sound it produces) which are louder the further away is, an aggressive kind of aswang that makes a soundof a laying henon midnight.
                     Folklore dictates that the fainter the sound, the nearer the mananangal is. This is so confuse the victim. Black cats and crowsw often signal a tik-tik's presence, and deformed faces or bodies. In children are allegedly signs of the aftermath of the tik-tik attack. With th4e Spanish conquest colonization of the Philippines in the 16th century, the tiyanak myth was integrated in Christianity. The tiyanak in the christian version were supposedly the souls of infants that died before being baptized.   

                             "A Review on Spiders Thread"

                           "The Spiders Thread", thread symbolize way that we should keep holding on on the different faces of life, and everyone deserves a second chance. Like Kandata he given a chance/opportunity to be with his God Buddha by the thread of the spiders whom who give also a chance to the spiders to live and this was the reason why he saved. Sad to say he became selfish on his own salvation after all when he saw other sinners following him and who tried to climb on the spiders thread in order to be saved, then He said in a loud voice..."Hey you sinners". This Spiders Thread is mine. Who the hell asked you to climb? Get down! Get off of it!where this spiders thread that was kandata's means of escape from hell. But what  he did is not forbidden by his God Buddha so Kandata, too, is doomed. Without even time to cry out he goes flying through the air spinning like a top and in the wink of an plunges headfirst into the dark depths of hell.  

                     "A Preview About Afro-Asian Literature"

                              Afro-Asian Literature is a term for novels or writing such as poems written by people from mixed African-Arab ethnicity, or African-Asian ethnicity. In modern times, a part of world literature, Afro-Asian Literature is a separate segment of writing (in English) of experiences in African and Asia to further cultural understanding and world peace. Afro-Asian Literature is the literature from the whole Africa and Asia. These literature include stories, myths and others.              The study of Literature has one important object htat is to know the human being and Human beings have a dual nature: they are not only doers of actions but also dreamers of dreams. It is said that behind every book is the human being, behind every human being is the race, and behind every human race is the whole world of humankind. In studying Literature, it helps the students to easily relate to situations and experiences new to them. Also it is a simple enjoyment and appreciation; the other, of analysis and description.When we listen to a song that appeals to the heart, for the moment at least, we discover a new world of dreams and fancies. May be this is less joyous but nevertheless, an important skills developed.

                                  "A Man From Kabul"
                                                            by: Rabindranath Tagore


                                         

                    There was a man known as the Kabuliwallah. He was a man from the mountains of Afganistan who made his living as a peddler of fruits and nuts.He had left his family behind to make his way through life, and during this time he began longing to his daughter. Then one day he came across a young girl named Mini whom he felt resembled his daughter and he became attatched. Through the beginning of hteir relationship Kabuliwallah and Mini were the best of friends. They would sing and laugh together for hours on end and some days Kabuliwallah would bring the young girl dried fruits and nuts, but instead of using the usual price from these goods, Kabuliwallah give her not out of personal profit but out of sheer happinessof the thought that Mini would enjoy it. The most touching lines of the story that was so amazing is when Mini said..."I took them, and was gong to him, but he caught my hand and said...You are very kind , sir! Keep me in tour memory. Do not offer me money! You have a little ghirl, I too have one like her in my home. I think of her, and bring this fruit to your child, not to make profit to myself."One of the important pieces of the relationship and the story was when Mini and Kabuliwallah would sing. The special part of the song went as followed; Kabuliwallah would say: "Well, little,one, whwn are you going to your father-in-law's house? Then Mini would say: "are you going to go there?"and shaking his fist at an ihuishe policeman he would reply. " i Shall thrash my father-in-law." At that time Mini did not understand that this term father-in -law meant jail, and Kabuliwallah looked at this expression as a place of free room and board. Later on Kabuliwallah was to return to Mini one afternoon, but that morning Mini's father saw Kabuliwallah in the street covered in blood and being arrested. This is one of the saddest story I have read. I love it.

                                                 "Why Women Wash Dishes"

   The story was about the couple arguing who will wash their dishes and they have an agreement that whoever the first to talk will always wash the plates,their dishes every after meal.The agreement begin and both act like a statue.Then their neighbor went to their home to get something and notice that the couple facing each other without any noise and thought that there are bad spirit inside their body and immediately called a "kwak doctor" then the kwak doctor ordered to get two coffin for the couple thinking that are already dead. Then man lifted Ka Ugong first to his coffin then Ka Maldang will be the next and she does'nt want to to be put at the coffin so she opened her eyes and shouted...dont touch me...! Then Ka Ugong stood up and and shouted Ka Maldang that she talked first. And Ka Ugong win the game. That's why it is titled.."Why Women Wash Dishes".This was a nice story especially if you read the whole story, you will surely laugh. This story we can reflect and relate the spanish time before where in women are not allowed to go to school only men are allowed and who will look a job for his family and women will only be in the house doing the household chores.

                        We are all feminist now.Aside from a few hard-core traditionalists, just about everyone now accepts as a given taht both men and women will have an education,a career,and a public life.each and everyone of us benefits daily from the greater participation  of women in our society : we used medicine developed by women,we use products designed by women,we live by laws written by and voted on by women and so on. By lowering the barriers that presented women from developing to their fullest extent in the past,we have effectively doubled the pool of talent that we have as a society draw on.

                         The idea that a women can't be this or that is falcified by the reality that there is virtually no job category that women have'nt entered and exelled in.Real men encourage those around them,male or female,to realize their fullest potential,regardless of their own or other's preconception.That's feminism.
There is no "men's work",and "women's work",there is only work. 

"The New Yorker in Tondo"

1. Some of our compatriots go abroad, and after having stayed in a foreign country come back to the Philippines already affected by foreign influuences in manner of thinking, dressing and speaking. Do you know of any person who has acquired such foreign traits? what do you think of him/her?
Yes, I notice that she almost forget of being a true Filipino for a year that she stayed in foreign country  in terms of dressing and the way she speaks not considering the level of the person who she is talking with and also she always compare our country to the other country.




2. " The New Yorker in Tondo", a satire that has perennial relevance in the Philippine society, has been hilariously staged and enjoyed inside universities, colleges, and even high school campuses and in professional theaters. what do you mean by adaptation which National Artist Daisy Hontiveros......Avellanahad done with the Marcelino Agana Jr. play?
I think she wants to  uttered that showing from who you are is a simple way of living.Be comfortable of doing something like you almost do it..Be proud of who you are and I am proud of being a Filipino, a simply amazing...responsible and hardworking.If you let yourself pretending you're carrying a heavy burdens in your life.








3. Kikay meets her moment of enlightenment and shows her true color, she discovers her real self again under the Tondo sky which she had hated earlier and from which she was trying to escape. This is true to the nationalistic tone of the play which teaches love for one's own native land and native ways despite the laughter that it provokes. Do you think that kikay is sincere when she decides to forget her acquired ways and accept her old friends once again?
I think she is sincere because of letting herself to forget of who  she is, like what she's trying to insist that her name is not Kikay anymore but Francesca also the moments with her friends in Tondo when they were still young until she meets her moment of realizing of who she really is by the help of Tondo sky which she had hated earlier and from which trying to escape.




4. Read some books and magazine articles about New York, USA. What are some of its features that attract foreigners?
I read magazines HOMES and LAND titled "Franchise Opportunity" most of their features is about business...information about marketing, other strategies in franchising products and to motivate individuals everything they need to know how to become successful in the real estate advertising industry.