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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=484553" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Letter From A Friend</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">kombanwa! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tommorow is my day off. <br> It's not a busy time now at the office. <br>So I take one day off a week. <br>Our busy times are in May, August, and year end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You know, we used to be superbusy a couple of years ago. <br>My boss is a workaholic. <br> He has no other life but his company. <br> My officemates frequently worked overtime. <br>I could get away from it because of my children. <br>Then, maybe, because of overwork, he almost dropped dead! <br>Since then, medyo nagaan ang among load.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>I hope she is feeling better now. <br>Medicine/Science has progressed a lot these days, <br> and age is really no longer a big obstacle now to childbearing. <br>I have a cousin in Australia. <br> Late pod sila nakaanak. <br>The problem was with the husband. <br>Blocked ang tube for sperm cells. <br>He had laser surgery, after which, nagkababy sila. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So, don't give up hope (nozomi) .</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>I've been reading your poems.<br>Whether you call them your lies, empathies, whatever, they all boil down to life's truths.<br> Life is poetry for you, that's why, <br>you'll never run out of ideas to write about as long as you live. <br>I don't understand all of them though - maybe due to lack of empathy on my part or my brain is simply dulled! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You also write beautiful visayan poems! <br>They made me miss my father - he can be very poetic.<br> He used to criticize me and my mother that we couldn't speak good Cebuano. <br> My mother was Chavacana, and <br>I actually spoke that language first before Cebuano.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You lately write about war, <br>young men dying in conflicts these days.<br> Is peace and order getting worse there? <br> Are there more of summary killings these days? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You wrote about Silliman/ Dumaguete. <br> A beautiful place. I studied there one year and I loved it there. <br>You know, I had a bit of colonial mentality, <br>and to me at that time it felt like<br> I had a taste of a bit of American life - <br>rodeos, <br>square dancing..<br>.I enjoyed watching stage plays and <br>cultural shows there. <br>So I had a school culture shock when<br> I transferred to UP Los Banos. <br>There were lots of school demos <br>and there wasn't much art in their stage plays. <br>They were more concerned about getting the message across: </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> 'Down with Marcos! ', <br>'Down with imperialism! ' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Goodness, I didn't even truly understand 'imperialism' then. <br>After some time, I learned to appreciate <br>the liberal atmosphere there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I liked 'The songs of the geisha'. <br>Made me think of the Japayukis here, <br> rather than the Japanese geisha.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">After seeing the cherry blossoms here, <br>I don't think I can ever associate it <br>with autumn anymore, <br>even in the poetic sense</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> ('Cherry blossoms fading and falling') . </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It blooms in spring and<br> the peak of its beauty is only <br>a couple of days or so. <br>The petals don't fade<br> and fall. <br>They fall while still at the peak of their beauty. <br>They look beautiful even when they've fallen on the ground, <br> looking like snow from a distance. <br>They symbolize glorious death at the peak <br>of their beauty<br>youth. <br>That's why the sakura also<br> symbolizes the kamikaze pilots - <br>most of them were so young! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>I backed track to some of your old poems <br>and I found that of Kazu! <br>Thank you, that was nice! <br> I'll show it to him. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Can't say much about my love being stronger than his. I<br>'m very far from being an ideal wife. <br>And no, his origins are not samurai. <br>He traced it some lowly Korean blacksmiths.<br> Centuries ago, Korea was more advanced <br>than Japan, and <br>Japan invited Korean craftsmen<br> to learn from them. <br>Funny thing is that his father is a fierce nationalist <br>(he was trained to be a kamikaze pilot) , <br>and he looks down on Koreans! <br>He won't even try and eat any Korean food! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>So long for now. Please give my regards to her.<br> Again, I'm not expecting your response. <br> I'll just be reading your poems.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ric+S.+Bastasa">Ric S. Bastasa</a><div class=q>
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Tommorow is my day off. 
 It's not a busy time now at the office. 
So I take one day off a week. 
Our busy times are in May, August, and year end.

You know, we used to be superbusy a couple of years ago. 
My boss is a workaholic. 
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