PALAWAN Says: 10 Random Things I Thought of in Palawan

This is a throwback post for the Palawan Trip I had last year with my brother and his family (his wife and their two children, whose names are inspired by Game of Thrones characters but I won't tell their name. Hehe. :D )

So, anyway, here are the 10 Things Palawan Told me during that trip.

Counting Love

Months ago, I had the courage to submit to Boiling Waters one of the random poems I wrote. 

But just to document the piece here in my blog, I decided to also post the poem here. This was inspired by an old Bible, which I bought eleven (11) years ago. It was a Bible I bought using my monthly stipend during college. That was the time that I started reading the Bible and got to know Jesus Christ a bit. Three years later, I was a graduating student and I joined a Catholic Youth community, where my relationship with the Lord grew a bit more. That year, I had this silly idea of counting the word "love" in the Bible. Yeah! If there are 365 "Do not be afraid" in the bible, then maybe, love can be counted as well. When I left my hometown and moved to Cebu, I left the Bible at home and even forgot about the "counting" I did back then.

Fast forward, 7 years later, I went home and found the old Bible. It brought so much memories except for the numbers written on the pages. It actually took me days before I realize that the numbers written are the number of "love" I counted.

So, read on...

KAPE: A Bisaya Spoken Poetry

Ganahan ko ug kape...
Siguro nakadungog na ka ani...
Pero ganahan jud ko ug kape...

kanang maKAPEling siya...
or sa kinabuhi, maKAPEkas siya...
haha... bitaw... atik ra...
pero ganahan jud ko ug Kape
kanang sakto lang sa timpla
dili tantong isog
to the point di na ka kabarog...
pero kanang sakto lang jud
kanang ig sigop nimu,
 kaingon ka'g "very good".