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…

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…

Continue reading

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…

The fifth station

Raymund Fernandez 03/25/2015

Quite as if by a strange twist of fate, the Roman soldiers pointed to me, Simon of Cyrene, innocent passerby, disaffected by all these. They pointed to me to help the condemned man carry his cross when…

Russia, 4 March 2015

Raymund Fernandez 03/04/2015

6A.M., He wakes up. Turns on the television. Switches to CNN. Boris Nemtsov, Russian opposition icon has been executed on a bridge near the Kremlin. He has been shot by an unknown assailant or assailants. As soon…

Perfect four-letter word

Raymund Fernandez 02/22/2015

The Vladimir Putin narrative grows ever more interesting. What with the war in the Ukraine, the recent spate of incursions of Russian bombers into foreign air space, his mule-headedness in the face of worldwide condemnation and sanctions?…

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