Tanging Pamana by Hilario L. Coronel

"Karunungan … tanging pamana ng magulang na sasandatahin ng anak sa pagtugpa sa dako pa roon ng buhay."

Kung may mga amang matatala sa kasaysayan dahil sa kahigpitan ng anak, si Tatang ay makakabilang marahil. Hindi naman malupit si Tatang. Sa kanya, basta tama ka’y tama ka, bagamat hindi ka niya pupurihin nang harapan. Ngunit kapag gumawa ka ng kaaliwaswasan ay humanda ka’t madudurog sa iyo ang lanubo ng bayabas.

Hindi mawawalan si Tatang ng lanubo ng bayabas na nakasuksok sa dingding. Lagi ring nakasabit sa isang pako sa dingding ang kanyang lumang sinturon. Bihirang mamalo si Tatang, ngunit pangingilagan mo naman ang kabihiraang iyon.

Kaipala’y dahil sa ako ang bunsong anak na lalaki kung kaya malimit na ako ang kasama ni Tatang kung umaahon siya sa bayan. Madalas ituro sa akin ni Tatang ang paaralang elementarya sa kabayanan.

Diyan ka mag-aaral anak, pagkatapos mo ng apat na grado sa ‘tin, — laging sinasabi ni Tatang.

Ngunit hindi ang sinasabi noon ni Tatang ang laman ng aking isipan. Ang ibig ko’y makahiwalay sa kanya at makasama sa maraming batang nagtakbu-takbo sa daan. Ang nasa gunita ko’y ang holen at buwal-preso na iniwan ko sa amin.

Wala akong hilig sa pag-aaral noon. Nakaiinip sa akin ang pag-upo sa desk sa loob ng iskuwelahan. Inaantok akong lagi sa pakikinig sa pagkukuwento ng aming maestra. Subalit hindi ko masasabi iyon kay Tatang. Tiyak na makakagalitan lamang niya ako.

Minsan ay napalaban ako ng babag sa iskuwelahan. Nang umuwi ako’y punit-punit ang aking damit. Nalaman pala agad iyon ni Tatang. Hindi pa ako nakakapanhik ay nakita ko na sa pinto si Tatang — naghihintay sa akin. Halos mangatog ako sa takot.

Nang mailapag ko ang aking mga libro sa papag ay narinig kong nagsalita si Tatang. Hindi natuloy ang tangka kong pagpanaog. Patag na patag ang boses ni Tatang.

–Dumapa ka!

Wala akong nagawa kundi umunat sa sahig. Ngunit nakataas ang aking ulo. T-tatang.. — parang pagtutul ko.

–Baba’ng ulo!

Pumikit na lamang ako matapos kong idikit ang aking mukha sa sahig.

–Di ba kabilin-bilinan ko’y huwag kang makikipagbabag?

–Opo!–

Di ba kabilin-bilinan ko’y ang pag-aaral ang asikasuhin mo?

Opo!

Uli-uli’y magtatanda ka!

Hindi na ako nakasagot sapagkat lumagapak na sa aking pigi ang sinturon ni Tatang. Kung mamalo si Tatang ay minsan lamang, hindi na inuulit sapagkat talagang hindi na kailangang ulitin. Halos mamilipit ako sa sakit. Subalit hindi man lamang ako nakaingit.

Ayaw na ayaw ni Tatang na kami’y iiyak dahil lamang sa pagkakapalo. Ang pag-iyak daw ay tanda ng kahinaan ng pusong-babae.

Ang ano mang pagkagalit ni Tatang ay madali niyang malilimot. Nang hapong iyong mapalo ako ay sa tabi ko siya nahiga sa pagtulog.

–Mag-aral kang mabuti, anak. Ayokong ang pinagdaanan ko’y manahin pa. Ikaw man lang e maiba sa mga kapatid mo. Ikaw man lang e me marating…

Ngunit hindi ko kayang unawain noon ang sinasabi ni Tatang. Ang nararamdaman ko’y hapdi ng aking pigi. Ang nasa dibdib ko’y ang pagtatampo at marahil ay sama ng loob kay Tatang dahil sa pagkakapalo sa akin.

–’yan lang ang tanging pamanang maiiwan ko sa ‘yo.

Lalong hindi ko nauunawaan ang pangungusap na iyon ni Tatang. Pumikit ako nang mariin, ngunit nanatili akong gising. Nagtulug-tulugan ako, at makaraan ang ilang sandali’y bumangon si Tatang at umalis sa aking tabi.

Kung ano ang higpit ni Tatang ay siya namang luwag ni Inang, bagamat kapag sinabi ni Tatang na ayaw niya ay walang masabi ang aking ina. Lahat kaming magkakapatid ay di makasuway kay Tatang. At kapag nagsasalita siya’y tahimik kaming lahat. Sa munting pagkakamali nami’y "sinasabon" kami at kapag kaaliwaswasan na nga ay lanubo ng bayabas o lumang sinturon ang sasayad sa aming pigi.

Subalit nagagawa rin ni Tatang na maging masaya kami. At matapos siyang "magsermon", ang pangangaral niya’y nauuwi sa pagpapatawa. Ako ang laging nakikita ni Tatang sa gayong pagkakataon.

–Suminga ka nga muna,– sasabihin ni Tatang sa akin, — tila me bara’ng ilong mo.

Hindi ako sasagot; ni hindi matatawa. Kung mangiti man ako’y pilit lamang. Sa loob-loob ko, lagi na lamang ako ang nakakagalitan. Sapagkat sa aming magkakapatid ay madalas na ako ang nakakatikim ng sinturon ni Tatang. At kahit nagpapatawa si Tatang, ang nagugunita ko’y ang matitinding palong tinanggap ko at kaipala’y tatanggapin pa. 

Nang nasa haiskul na ako’y hindi na nagagamit sa akin ni Tatang ang lanubo ng bayabas at ang lumang sinturon. Subalit mahigpit pa rin siya, nakikita pa rin nyang lagi ang munting pagkakamali at pagkukulang ko, hindi ko pa rin masunod ang balang maibigan ko.

Isang kamag-aral na tagabayan a ng madalas kong ihatid sa pag-uwi. Yaon ang aking unang pag-ibig. Ngunit sa di ko malamang pangyayari, nabalitaan iyon ni Tatang.

–Huwag mo munang isipin ang pag-aasawa. Madaling humanap ng mapapangasawa…kapag tapos ka’y babae na ang hahabol sa’yo…

–Anong gagawin mo kung magkakaasawa ka?Labingwalong taon ka lang. Gusto mo bang matulad sa ibang kapatid mong nagsipag-asawa agad…na nakatayo pang tanim na palay e wala nang uhay?

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Work Done! n_n, Pinoy Cute Friendster Male Version

wew! at last, natapos ko din yung ginagawa ko at nagawan ko din ng male version yung contest. So sa ngayon hintay2 pa ng mga submissions and registrations para masimulan agad. Nako sana naman di magkaproblema sa plan. Mabuti na lang at marami ang sumusuporta at nag paparticipate. n_n And now?? Im going to bed! hahaha

Search for Ms. Pinay Cute on Friendster

QUALIFICATIONS OF THE CONTESTANTS

• The candidates for the contest could either be a selection or a submission. There will be a confirmation email/message to approve the submission in order to authenticate the participation.
• They should be 16 to 22 years of age.
• Either a pure or half Filipina with friendster.com account.

MECHANICS

• The contest is consists of three (3) editions. On this case, we don’t have January-March edition because we started just this April year 2008).
• Each edition consists of three (3) months; the last three remaining months will be use for the Grand Finals.
• Each edition is composed of thirty (30) participants only. Out of the thirty participants, the first five with the highest number of votes will be declared as the Magic 5 and will be automatically joining the Grand Finals.

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Ways to Download MP3 for free!

Good day to all, today im going to discuss some methods of downloading mp3s here on the net. First is through P2P Sharing (Peer-to-Peer) using Gnutella Network, one of the biggest sharing network on the net. There are so many p2p softwares available on the net. The Limewire, gIFT, Azureus, Shareaza, Kazaa, and so on (google for more). Next is through social networks and blog site that provide mp3 uploads and downloads, and http://i.ph is on of those. The other is through Google searching. Because google is powerful, we use the google bot to crawl the pages where the mp3s are located. You may also try other search engines like Yahoo, MSN, Ask, and AOL. To do this on google for example, we should consider using its search syntaxes. These are the list of google search syntaxes that would be helpful for use to find our mp3s:

1. intitle: If you include [intitle:] in your query, Google will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the title. For instance, [intitle:google search] will return documents that mention the word "google" in their title, and mention the word "search" anywhere in the document (title or no). Note there can be no space between the "intitle:" and the following word. Putting [intitle:] in front of every word in your query is equivalent to putting [allintitle:] at the front of your query: [intitle:google intitle:search] is the same as [allintitle: google search].

2. inurl: If you include [inurl:] in your query, Google will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the url. For instance, [inurl:google search] will return documents that mention the word "google" in their url, and mention the word "search" anywhere in the document (url or no). Note there can be no space between the "inurl:" and the following word. Putting "inurl:" in front of every word in your query is equivalent to putting "allinurl:" at the front of your query: [inurl:google inurl:search] is the same as [allinurl: google search].

3. + (plus sign) - this sign operator indicates that we are adding something on our queries.

4. "" (quotation mark) - to specify what is the exact and/or related keyword for our query.

So let’s have an example…

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19 things to do after installing Ubuntu Linux

Step 1 : - Enabling Additional Repositories

Now many applications need additional repositories to be installed or some to be enabled in Synaptic package manager so before trying out steps given below ensure that repositories in order.

Launch Synaptic Package Manager (System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager ) , then in Synaptic package manager go to (Settings -> Repositories ) you will find window like this . Ensure that all the check boxes are marked leaving source code(if you want to you can enable this also but you are not going to need this unless you are software developer) the dialog box should look like this .

After completing above step you will find a dialog box like this

Besides these you may also like to add medibuntu repositories if you want to install applications like ——- , to add mediubuntu repositories follow the following steps

echo "deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ gutsy free non-free" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list

and

wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update

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How to Register IRC on Undernet Service

This tutorial i’m gonna share to you will talk about on how to run an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) Channel on Undernet Server. First, we might consider downloading IRC Chat Clients such as mIRC, Pidgin, Xchat and many more. By running an irc channel, we need to have a registered account on undernet. To do this, we should go on their registration site at http://cservice.undernet.org/live/ and click the Create One link on the login form. Follow the steps provided. You also have to provide an email address provided by your Internet Service Provider (ISP) because Undernet won’t accept emails like yahoomail, gmail, and hotmail.

Let us suppose that you have now your registered username. Fire off your irc chat client and set your server to Undernet on random server. You might consider doing it manually by typing on the input bar /server us.undernet.org. Upon connecting to the server, you may get a couple of lines similar to this one:

Connecting to us.undernet.org (6667)
*** Looking up your hostname
*** Checking Ident
*** Couldn’t look up your hostname

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Here some of Operating System Wallpapers i like…just sharing it :)

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Setup Apache, Mysql, And Php On Windows Xp

This article is a user-friendly-guide for you guys to setup Apache, MySQL, and PHP on Windows XP. But before we proceed, i’ll just
give you some overviews about these stuffs.

Things to tackle with this article:
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1. What is Apache?
2. Installing Apache
3. What is PHP?
4. Installing PHP
5. What about MySQL?
6. Installing MySQL

1. What is Apache?
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Apache is an open-source (source code is freely available and can be shared) HTTP Web server software. It is currently the most
popular web server on the Net. It is usually run on Unix operating system versions like Linux or BSD, but it can also be run on
Windows. It is a full-featured server with many powerful add-ons freely available. Apache’s major competitor is Microsoft’s IIS.

2. Installing Apache
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After you already know some sort of informations about Apache. We will decided to install it on your Windows XP (If your not using
Windows XP, please wait for any upcomming tuts).

2.1 Ok so first of all we need the Apache installation files. Ive used Apache v2.2 on this tutorial, but its up to you what
version you will use. You could visit their official site http://www.apache.org/ and check for the latest one. But dont worry
about the changes, im sure you’ll gonna fixed it later on.

2.2 After downloading the Apache Installation files. Open it to begin the installation process. On the Server Information page,
you could follow what ive set like what is on the image showned.

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Once i’ve tried to conceive…. Artists Guild (Expressionists)

Art, in its broadest meaning, is the expression of creativity or imagination, or both. The arts is a broad subdivision of culture, composed of many expressive disciplines. In modern usage, it is a term broader than "art", which usually means the visual arts (comprising both fine art and crafts).

A precise definition of the arts can be contentious, but the following areas of activity usually are included:

* Architecture * Art & Visual arts * Crafts * Dance * Design * Drawing * Film
* Language * Literature * Music * Opera * Painting * Photography * Poetry
* Sculpture * Theatre & Performing arts 

Hello again, gusto ko lang ikwento etong na eksperience ko about forming a BIG organization. This is an online organization ive formed. At first di ko talaga iniexpect na magiging successful tong organization na to kasi nag invite lng ako ng mga less than 30 members. The name of the group is Artists Guild and now hitting 1000 members na (and growing…). Syempre na shock ako kasi naalala ko kung pano ko finorm etong organization na to na once ay group lang, which was for me consists of 10-20 members. So medyo success sa part ko at sa part na rin ng mga artistahing members. Naalala ko pa yung slogan quotation na nilagay ko:

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Graphic Design: Another Lomo Image

Kasama pala to sa mga na post ko about sa bulubituon beach. This lil guy named Viven, younger brother siya ng girlfriend ko. Actually tinawag ko lang siya sa pose na yan and then timing nga at medyo napatagal titig nya sa akin. So eto, para mas maging dramatic ginawan ko ng lomofied version. Sana magustuhan nyo