Best of times

Raymund Fernandez 07/26/2015

He was going through his photo albums looking for a particular picture, a faded black-and-white photograph of him and his kindergarten class. He remembers his kindergarten teacher would have been to the right of the class, a…

A return to light

Raymund Fernandez 07/22/2015

Janine Barrera-Castillo’s “Elemental Light” is ongoing at the Qube Gallery in Crossroads. She invites interested readers to her “artist’s reception” at 6 p.m. this Thursday, 23 July 2015 at the same venue. Janine was one of the…

The wall

Raymund Fernandez 07/15/2015

“We don’t need no education We don’t need no thought control No dark sarcasm in the classroom Teacher, leave them kids alone Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone All in all, you’re just bricks in the wall…

The Bisaya bus

Raymund Fernandez 07/08/2015

As he remembers it in the fading echoes of memory: the word “Bisaya” and the meanings he ascribes to it has more to do with a bus line than to the designated name of these parts of…

Dionisio Jakosalem

Raymund Fernandez 07/01/2015

He was invited by his friend Ron Tan to deliver a speech in Dumanjug. He has to deliver it, of course, in Binisaya, his native tongue. Though he has not ever written in Binisaya anything longer than…

Bold

Raymund Fernandez 06/28/2015

Prepare to have your time wasted. Today, he resolved to write this the way he read it should be written from a book on drawing. This recommendation coming as it does from Dr. Elizabeth Edwards, writer of…

Pacman and roots of post-pop culture Bisaya

Raymund Fernandez 05/06/2015

Words are powerful. The Gospel of John begins thus: “In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God.” It is because we have the word God that we can…

Chastity and the invisible night

Raymund Fernandez 04/22/2015

There are subtle intricacies in the design of old Philippine colonial houses. Whatever it was called, balay nga bato, balay nga tisa, or dakung balay, it was always a house of shadows and secret doorways. The posts…

Chastity and the invisible night

Raymund Fernandez 04/22/2015

There are subtle intricacies in the design of old Philippine colonial houses. Whatever it was called, balay nga bato, balay nga tisa, or dakung balay, it was always a house of shadows and secret doorways. The posts…

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Raymund Fernandez 04/19/2015

There is an enigma about the short message, the Facebook message, comprised of  just a few words, or just a few letters, even. A picture, a selfie perhaps. This always gets the person’s attention. And most likely…

Joya and Malignant Flux

Raymund Fernandez 04/11/2015

There is a new imagery abirthing in the world of Cebuano art. Two exhibits currently ongoing give us a good window. Ongoing at the SM Cebu Art Center is the 39th Joya Awards and 40th Annual Exhibit…

Carosa and faith

Raymund Fernandez 04/05/2015

How even to spell it? Carosa or carroza? The proper Spanish lost to us, we in Dumanjug always just call it “carro”, that ubiquitous carrier, carriage, or chariot, of a variety of religious icons once or twice…

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