MH 370 still missing

Raymund Fernandez 03/19/2014

Is it possible for a plane to accidentally disappear from the world’s radar screens without a trace? The answer apparently is, No! And so the possibility under study by people looking for the plane is that a…

The Bisaya

Raymund Fernandez 03/12/2014

The University of the Philippines (UP) Cebu Creative Writing Workshop was held late last week, March 7 and 8, 2014, with fellows presenting and reviewing their works in a round table conversation which raised issues relevant to…

Vision through the telescope

Raymund Fernandez 03/05/2014

Call this a vision of Galileo gazing into the heavens with his telescope, first to find out for sure how Copernicus was right about the Sun holding the planets together. He must have wondered why the Catholic…

Bohemia

Raymund Fernandez 02/26/2014

Bohemia is here. This computer’s dictionary points to it as “a region that forms the western part of the Czech Republic. Formerly a Slavic kingdom, it became a province in the newly formed Czechoslovakia by the Treaty…

Civil society

Raymund Fernandez 02/12/2014

Civil society seems like a quaint phrase to refer to the Filipino middle class. One might hasten to guess that the name stems from a disinclination to use the word “class” to describe a strata of society.…

A surrealist dream

Raymund Fernandez 02/05/2014

We see only a few examples here of contemporary surrealist literature. We have seen surrealist paintings. Most of us know what surrealism is as an art movement.   We know some practitioners of the movement, people like…

Charity

Raymund Fernandez 01/29/2014

At the street corner she waits for the red light. The cars stop. She knocks on car windows. For some cars, the window comes down and then the hand holds out a coin. It’s the way she…

New cardinal, new hope

Raymund Fernandez 01/22/2014

Pope Francis’ announcement to appoint Archbishop Orlando Beltran Quevedo of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate as cardinal, the first ever from Mindanao, speaks well of his seriousness in addressing the issue of poverty. Archbishop Quevedo like Pope…

Rain

Raymund Fernandez 01/15/2014

It is around this time of year when things fall into place for the rest of the year. The minutes, the hours, the days fall like rain. The world becomes shades of blue and grey. Who said…

Breakfast

Raymund Fernandez 01/08/2014

Kinutil Two fried eggs in an immaculate white plate. This was the first thing she saw as she entered her friend’s house. How so well-cooked they were, their edges obviously pushed inwards into a thickness as they…

Tacloban

Raymund Fernandez 01/02/2014

Kinutil It was a rainy morning in Tacloban when he woke up to find they had brought no sugar-free coffee with their rations. And so he resolved to walk as far as he might to find himself…

Puto maya

Raymund Fernandez 12/27/2013

Kinutil My late friend, Edilberto “Ed” Alegre, would have been happy to be here. And surely he would have reminded us of the theory that to learn the true texture of a particular culture you first need…

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