If You Could Have a Memento of a Famous Person, What Would it Be?

[buenavista]

Having the chance to meet a famous personality is an experience we can never forget. What more if we could have a memento that we could touch and  take home with us? If you had the opportunity to have something from someone famous, what would it be?

[C2H4]

A picture of me with Brad Pitt, autographed.

[buenavista]

idol gyud kaau nimo si Brat Pitt

[C2H4]

Lagi!

Ako jud nang gidumtan si Brad...

[Lorenzo]

A book owned by Jose P. Rizal. Maybe one of the original prints of El Filibusterismo with his signature in it.

[C2H4]

A book owned by Jose P. Rizal. Maybe one of the original prints of El Filibusterismo with his signature in it.

Inig uli nimo sa Pinas dong, go to USP (Univ of Southern Phils) in Cebu...the owners ana nga school are descendants of Jose Rizal. They have a small Rizal museum, their collection is quite remarkable. You'll see some of the most intimate personal things ni Rizal didto...

[Lorenzo]

Inig uli nimo sa Pinas dong, go to USP (Univ of Southern Phils) in Cebu...the owners ana nga school are descendants of Jose Rizal. They have a small Rizal museum, their collection is quite remarkable. You'll see some of the most intimate personal things ni Rizal didto...

Relatives of Senor Dr. Jose P. Rizal?? Naa diay siya relatives??

[C2H4]

Yes, naa.

[Lorenzo]

I'll make USP one of my top destination lists this summer then, 'te. Maybe I can take a picture with Sr. Rizal's family and plaque it in my wall, hahahaha. Now are they his direct decendents? Like children or distant relatives? Because I thought the great man that was Sr. Dr. Jose P. Rizal lost his child in childbirth?

Thanks a bunch

[C2H4]

Descendants of one of his sisters.

You'll see a lot of Rizal's letters, some mga love letters niya sa iyang mga chicks...

You'll also see his clothes. Mubo ra man diay si Rizal. Looking at his clothes, he can't be more than 5 feet tall.

But what he lacked in height, he compensated for with his extraordinary intellect. They say he spoke 22 languages fluently, that's just so amazing to me.

[Sigbin II]

I think he was 5'1" or 5'2".  Basta representative ra pud sa height of the average Filipino at that time.

[ms da binsi]

C2!!!! thank you for the info... ill go there inig maka uli ko.. have you seen it???



potot and skinny bitaw si Rizal pareha ni Nora Aunor...

[C2H4]

Yes, I've seen it, ms belle. It's a small place, it's more like the family's private collection kang Rizal. I think you'd need to call ahead of time kay murag dili jud na siya open to the public at all times.

I used to love going to museums, ms belle. Kung naa kas Cebu, do check out the museum of the Osmena family, naa duol sa CAP bldg. Also, the museum at Southwestern University is remarkable. It's a showcase of very rare Cebuano artifacts, unya makita jud nimo didto ang history of Cebu. One of SWU's owners, Dra. Alfonso, is an avid collector of Cebuano artifacts, and is quite the historian herself. Everything sa museum, nakuha niya from her archeological digs.

[ms da binsi]

i love to go to museums C2. I have been to so many here pero sa atoa wa pa gyud...ining uli nako pohon, bahala di ko kakita sa bojol aw este sunod diay sa bojol adto ko museum... hahaha



gusto ko makakita anang imong gipang ingon, na intriga kaau ko...

[Lorenzo]

Descendants of one of his sisters.

You'll see a lot of Rizal's letters, some mga love letters niya sa iyang mga chicks...

You'll also see his clothes. Mubo ra man diay si Rizal. Looking at his clothes, he can't be more than 5 feet tall.

But what he lacked in height, he compensated for with his extraordinary intellect. They say he spoke 22 languages fluently, that's just so amazing to me.

....ah it is so very romantic! I've written so many papers on Rizal and reading about him from western academians praising him and reading the interpreted version of El Filibusterismo and Noli Mi Tangere...it really makes my spine tingle. Its almost crazy because the image I have of the man is like...almost a divine one. To me, i cant help but see him as a christ-like figure, he died for his people--and faithful to God to the very end!! Dios Mio!!

I sometimes get side tracked and forget that he was also but a man...with the same ailments as you and I, the same sins, vices and human needs as well. When you talked about his clothes and letters----my immediate reaction was "Dr. Rizal wore clothes? " hahaha, but you know what i mean, 'te.

Seriously tho---i plan on visiting this museum---it will probably the closest way of me ever getting close to the Great Rizal. The man that I've obsessed and passionately read about through these years....

One of the greatest quotes I adore of his was his from his last work, "Mi Ultima Adios"

¡Adiós, Patria adorada, región del sol querida,
Perla del mar de oriente, nuestro perdido Edén!
A darte voy alegre la triste mustia vida,
Y fuera más brillante, más fresca, más florida,
También por ti la diera, la diera por tu bien.
En campos de batalla, luchando con delirio,
Otros te dan sus vidas sin dudas, sin pesar;
El sitio nada importa, ciprés, laurel o lirio,
Cadalso o campo abierto, combate o cruel martirio,
Lo mismo es si lo piden la patria y el hogar.


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The english translation is:

Farewell, beloved Country, treasured region of the sun,
Pearl of the sea of the Orient, our vanquished Eden!
To you I gladly surrender this melancholy life;
And were it brighter, fresher, gaudier,
Even then I’d give it to you, to you alone would then I give.
In fields of battle, deliriously fighting,
Others give you their lives, without doubt, without regret;
Where there’s cypress, laurel or lily,
On a plank or open field, in combat or cruel martyrdom,
If the home or country asks, it's all the same--it matters not.

[C2H4]

Di ba naa ma'y Carlos P. Garcia museum sa Tagbi?

Yeah, there are a lot of really amazing places sa Cebu. I am bol-anon in my heart, but I really love Cebu.

[ms da binsi]

naka memorized ka ani sa una C2? naka agi ba mo ug Spanish ng subject??? kay ug wa na mga bata pa gyud diay mo...


required na sa college sa una... nagmahay ko nga nag bolakbol ko kay gamit kaajo na diri sa merica...

diri sa Merica ug kamao ka mo spanish dagdag sweldo (sa nursing) and some companies in Cali, tanan nga states duol sa Mex...

[ms da binsi]

Di ba naa ma'y Carlos P. Garcia museum sa Tagbi?

Yeah, there are a lot of really amazing places sa Cebu. I am bol-anon in my heart, but I really love Cebu.

I love Cebu too...there is something sa Cebu that made me wanting to go back there... siguro ang tartanilya??? the smell??? food??? i dont know...

[C2H4]

Dodong, yes...when you see his things, you'll get a feel of Rizal the man, and not Rizal the hero. I know Mi Ultimo Adios by heart, dong. My great grandmother, during the last years of her life, spoke most often only Spanish, the language of her childhood, unya kanunay ni niya i-recite ang My Last Farewell.  

Ms belle, nope, wala na mi Spanish. Latin hinuon, pero nakalimot nako. My mom, when she was in college, naa daw sila Spanish. Gamit bitaw kaayo na dire, nag plano bitaw ko mag enroll sa Spanish class. Just today, naay pasyente nga mexicana nga dili jud intawon makasabot ug english. So I had to tell her how to take her meds in my very limited Spanish, "tomar medisina uno cucharita cuatro veses cada dia para cinco dias"...wahahaha! carabao Spanish jud kaayo!

True jud na Ms belle, if you work in healthcare, and you're bilingual (english & spanish), dako jud kaayo imong advantage.

[ms da binsi]

bwahahahhahhaahhaha todos los santos??? ah ah.... ma over dose pasyente ana, maghulat nalang mi naay headline sa inyung news paper... Filipina Jailed for misusing spanish language-patient is now  dead...

[C2H4]

Bwahahaha!

Mao lagi!

Ka paet ani oi!

Bisitaha lang ko's prisohan ha? Dad-i lang ko'g bam-i ug lechon.

[ms da binsi]

hahhahhahhha lafang gihapon lagi... hahhahaha

[Sigbin II]

..."tomar medisina uno cucharita cuatro veses cada dia para cinco dias"...wahahaha! carabao Spanish jud kaayo!

Bintaha na nang imong Spanish kay sa aho, Ma'am C2H4.  Kung ang imo carabao ang aho calf pa.  I once had an encounter with some members and a staff of a visiting children's choir from Mexico who were performing for a children's music  festival in Loboc.  The restaurant we were having our dinner in had run out of Coke and, like me, they were apparently "Coke fiends" too.  Mas barato man kuno ang Coke diri.  They wanted the bottles of Coke I had in hand and kept asking for "una botella de Coke."  I could only rudely answer, "No puede!" hehe

[ms da binsi]

hahaahhahhahhahahhahhah

[C2H4]

Hehehehe!

Mr Sigbin, at least emphatic kaayo imong pagka ingon ug, "no puede!"

[Lorenzo]

¡Sigbin, el C2, el belle, y mis amigos, la lengua del español no es duros en todos! Algo, el español es una lengua muy fácil que es muy similar al filipino (Bisaya) -- el sistema del discurso es algo similar. Prefiero hablar español ese inglés ocasionalmente porque el español es más fácil para que mecanografíe adentro. ¡Su no tan duro como adentro ingle's-con tan muchos presentes últimos, etc! ¡Oh mi señor dios!!!! ¡pozo del hahaha que es bastante de mí!

[C2H4]

dong, paki translate daw...wala ko'y nasabtan. Hahaha.

[ms da binsi]

mas sayun kuno ang espanggol kay sa english kay ang espanggol pare pareha man sa bisaya... di ba Dong Insoy???

[Lorenzo]

¿Por qué tía? ¿por qué? ¿usted no puede entender español? Hablé simplemente de cómo el español es mismo la lengua de de..fácil..a que es muy similar al bisaya.



Ning ingoon lang ko...almost similar ang espangol ug bisaya.

[Lorenzo]

mas sayun kuno ang espanggol kay sa english kay ang espanggol pare pareha man sa bisaya... di ba Dong Insoy???

¡sí! ¡usted está correcto, ate'

[ms da binsi]

halaka pwerte nimo Dong??? did you study spanish language??? that's real spanish dili mexican...

[C2H4]

aaaaYyyy, nag study na'g Spanish si dodong kay para magka sinabtanay sila inig estorya nilang Maria Mercedes

[Lorenzo]

halaka pwerte nimo Dong??? did you study spanish language??? that's real spanish dili mexican...

Silicio, tía, estudié el español por más de ocho años. Cuatro años en High School secundaria y cuatro años aquí en universidad. También noto que en bisaya, las palabras son muy similares al español -- como el término "semana del casa", "dios", "opisina", etc. Hay muchas palabras del préstamo en bisaya que están de origen español. Se ligan las dos idiomas, yo piensan.

[ms da binsi]

morag nag duda naman pod ko ani nga nag balimbing ning atong sunoy!!!!! promiscuous???

[Lorenzo]

aaaaYyyy, nag study na'g Spanish si dodong kay para magka sinabtanay sila inig estorya nilang Maria Mercedes

¡hahahahha, tía! También enseñé Mercedes para hablar algún bisaya. España necesita ser notificas con Filipinas;)

[ms da binsi]

Spanish in College??? so you are my age??? they abolish spanish when i graduated in  when??? i forgot...

[C2H4]

wahehehehe!

ok ra na ms belle nga daghan na sya'g chicks kay bata pa man na...para kung mapul-an na na siya ug chicks, aw good boy na dayon na kung ma hingkod na siya....

Dong, como si dice, your insurance coverage has expired, en espanol?

[Lorenzo]

Spanish in College??? so you are my age??? they abolish spanish when i graduated in  when??? i forgot...

hahaha ate belle! I took 4 years of spanish in high school and four years in college (currently taking spanish IV). Ate, you're good in translating!! Are you fluent in chavacano?

[Lorenzo]

Dong, como si dice, your insurance coverage has expired, en espanol?

Su cobertura de seguro ha expirado.

[C2H4]

Su cobertura de seguro ha expirado.

thanks, dong! ako ning timan-an hahahaha

[ms da binsi]

hahaha ate belle! I took 4 years of spanish in high school and four years in college (currently taking spanish IV). Ate, you're good in translating!! Are you fluent in chavacano?

Bisaya gyud kong dako perp exposed ko sa akong lola nga ug masuko mag kinatsila...

[Lorenzo]

hahaha really? Was your lola spanish?

[ms da binsi]

aha...magputak2x lagi ug masuko na...

[kiamoy]

Brad Pitt's fisherman hat. nga perme nia sulot

or ang kang R.Gutierez wrist band nga brown