May 2012
10 posts
Noli Me Tangere Chapter 16 - Sisa →
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Rizal, the Romantic
There were at least nine women linked with Rizal; namely Segunda Katigbak, Leonor Valenzuela, Leonor Rivera, Consuelo Ortiga, O-Sei San, Gertrude Beckette, Nelly Boustead, Suzanne Jacoby and Josephine Bracken. These women might have been beguiled by his intelligence, charm and wit.
Segunda Katigbak Segunda Katigbak was her puppy love. Unfortunately, his first love was engaged to be married to...
The Last Poem of Rizal
His friend Mariano Ponce gave it the title of MI ULTIMO ADIOS, as it originally had none Farewell, my adored Land, region of the sun caressed, Pearl of the Orient Sea, our Eden lost, With gladness I give you my Life, sad and repressed; And were it more brilliant, more fresh and at its best, I would still give it to you for your welfare at most. On the fields of battle, in the fury of fight,...
JOSE RIZAL: A Biographical Sketch by Teofilo H....
JOSE RIZAL, the national hero of the Philippines and pride of the Malayan race, was born on June 19, 1861, in the town of Calamba, Laguna. He was the seventh child in a family of 11 children (2 boys and 9 girls). Both his parents were educated and belonged to distinguished families.
His father, Francisco Mercado Rizal, an industrious farmer whom Rizal called “a model of fathers,” came...
“To doubt God is to doubt one’s own conscience, and in consequence it would...”
– http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Rizal
“It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a...”
– http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/jose_rizal.html#vexj7Mh4t0VSjT2y.99
One Peso Coin
In my younger years, years when I was still so free to play as I wish, to ask something that I want (yet not really granted for everything), to cry whenever I get hurt, I used to ask too many questions to people around me. I had asked every member of my family anything that joggles in my young mind.
In those days I was able to meet the one peso coin. And in those days too, it has of such a great...
