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Mao ba? Basin makatabang niya kon naa siyay therapy of some sort...

Quote from: bugsay on May 23, 2011, 03:58:47 PM
asa na man ko ani mangoykoy
hunas pa sa naithan akong higdaanan
agokoy wa na ko'y makoykoy
unlan nalang akong gi-hapoyhapoy.

Ayaw na diha Bay Bugs paminghoy-minghoy
Kay di jud ka ana katilaw og shomoy.
Adto hinuon sa mall pagsuroy-suroy
Ug pamatud-i ang imong pagka-chickboy.

Quote from: taga tigbao on May 23, 2011, 02:27:41 PM
Mao, basin mahisugamak sa way samang pagmahay intawon tong si Bag Bugsay nga nangitag katre ibaylo sa ijahang unlan ron.

Hinuon, adjustable man tingali nis Bay Bugs...

Quote from: bugsay on May 23, 2011, 02:50:57 PM
luyo sa katumanan sa imong mo'ng pangandoy
naay usa nagping-it ug nag agoroy
kay giwalwag mo man sa wa'y pagkakapoy
ang boho sa iyang pagka-agokoy...

Tuod, nabati ko ang iyang aguroy
Apan sa iyang arte ako napusoy
Kay ang akong hansak igo rang mohanoy--
Gani, hasta ang akong lagay gilamoy.

Quote from: islander on May 23, 2011, 02:38:52 PM
moaso gyod kag mawilikan kag bendita anag kalit.

Hay salamat, burag dreamtime nas ilaha...

Quote from: islander on May 23, 2011, 02:37:53 PM
muang man nyod ni ti humag uy...

nalipat ka ba nga si fr chic na, dili si bugsay ug si buwadsanga?

Sowee! May Mugsay man gud, mastos!

Quote from: taga tigbao on May 23, 2011, 02:05:58 PM
Erasures? Basin ug improvements Bay Hubs. Hahaha. Er, dili diay improvements kon dili installations. Sige, matrace man na ba, di lagi na kaikyas.

Ikaw nay bahala. Kon naa kay gamayng pagduda, reject dayon. Lisod na kon masulod sa taro si Bay Bugs...

Quote from: chicogon on May 23, 2011, 02:04:30 PM
Unsa na molmol?  O lomlom

He he, sakto, naa naghan molmol, unya maho-maho...

Quote from: Lollapalooza on May 23, 2011, 12:06:34 PM
(no offense sa nagwork ug bank dire) hate gyud nako makigtransact sa bangko...dugay na, strikto ug suplado pa gyud ang mga sikyu labaw na ang mga employee... grrr..

Paging, Bay Aqua...

Quote from: islander on May 23, 2011, 01:54:38 PM
maglisod gihapon mog pasar kay sekwet man ang klase sa isda nga hugasan.

Hmm, sekwet ba gud? Di ba kanang klase nga puwa-puwa og hasang, naay usa ka ngipon, unya bungoton?

Quote from: chicogon on May 23, 2011, 01:27:02 PM
Mora man sad nig lawas ug sanga, basin naa nis tunga-tunga (male or female? neither...) 

Basin kon unsa man ni siya ugaling, di na maklaro kay natabonan na sa tambok...

Quote from: taga tigbao on May 23, 2011, 01:22:06 PM
Ajaw pailad Bay Bugs kay ang tindog ani hasta ang tinalikdan mura ug laki. Wa pa ta kasigurado aning katreha. Ato sang iaudit. Haha

Klaroha, Bay Tigs, basin naay erasures...

Quote from: bol-anon nga cebuano on May 23, 2011, 02:05:31 AM
kas mani ug ligid hasta space. dapat ani forklift sakyan.

Bwahaha! Dayon isulod sa container?

Quote from: Lollapalooza on May 23, 2011, 01:04:03 PM
naa.. ang among adopted brother, kada gabie, damanon... usahay mobangon lang ug kalit mananghid nga mouli na daw siya unya naa ra man siya sa balay..usahay kay mubangon pod unya mosiyagit mura ug naa'y nanghadlok niya...nagmata tuod siya pero wala sa panghunahuna mao ng masagpaan or kusion nako para lang gyud maulian siya..kada gabie damanon na siya unya lahi lahi...maghilak, magsiyagit, mokatawa usahay mobangon motan-aw lang namo unya matulog ug balik...

Hmm, pilay edad ani niya, Ms. Lolla? Luoya gud...

Quote from: chicogon on May 23, 2011, 01:47:07 PM
Nakakuha sad kog elective sama niadto sa college   

Aw, bisag 3 units ra, payts na kaayo...

Quote from: islander on May 23, 2011, 01:33:35 PM
siok tong tingali, para sa recycled teenagers specific to tblanders.

He he, dia ra ay, mora na ni rog Coke kon pakalitan...

Quote from: chicogon on May 23, 2011, 01:32:46 PM
Patudlo lang kos pensioner nga retired chemist

Hinuon, simpol ra man tong iyang formula...

Quote from: islander on May 23, 2011, 01:31:51 PM
mora man nig nakatimaho ug refrigerated nga hinugasan ug isda...

He he, correction! Wa hugasi mao nga nanimahong isda...

Quote from: chicogon on May 23, 2011, 01:30:31 PM
Gusto ka atong tawgon tong uyab sa intsik (bride) nga niambak? 

He he, ayaw na lang, total naa may mga Insik diris TB...

Quote from: bugsay on May 23, 2011, 12:49:40 PM
... matag karon ug unya kinahanglan sab natong palanahan atong kaugalingon aron bisan pa sa kahagip-ot sa ganghaan sa pagsuway, makalapos ra gyud ug makalahutay...........ug unya mopabuhagay sa katam-is uban ang pangindahay...

...kay kinsay nasayod, basin sa kapulihay makaplagan ta pag-usab ang boho sa agokoy sa atong pagkabata ug didto ta ipabuhagay ang bul-og sa luha sa katumanan...

Quote from: chicogon on May 23, 2011, 01:20:24 PM
Retire na ka? Kay akong tag-naon 

He he, kon unsay ilimnon? Klase-klase ra ba ni...

Quote from: chicogon on May 23, 2011, 01:19:21 PM
Internet nahimo tawong internment o interment sa kahinay 

Maayo untag intermittent lang aron dili Ave Maria ang resulta. ...

Quote from: chicogon on May 23, 2011, 01:16:58 PM
Mo suicide ra na siya kung kaambakon nas bagon 

Maayo untag naay mohawid sa ikog aron di ta matibugsok...

Quote from: taga tigbao on May 23, 2011, 01:09:33 PM
Inom kanunay Bay Hubs ug pangpiskay sa lawas sa RH, TB ug BR.

Ambot lang kaha ning akong ilimnon kon sakto ba ni...

Quote from: islander on May 23, 2011, 01:02:25 PM
di ra ba gyod ko kaapas sa ilang posts kay hinay as usual ang internet diri...

Apas lang gud, sigi, maghinayhinay mig gamay...

Quote from: islander on May 23, 2011, 01:01:09 PM
ang mga surambaw namakwit man gikan sa suicidal bride-that-never-was...

Bwahaha! Mobalik ra unya mi didto. Kabyon-kabyon una mi sa mga bagon diri...

Quote from: islander on May 23, 2011, 12:59:57 PM
naa na miy 18 nga punoan nga manga somewhere in bohol.  kami ang nagtanom, lain pa kuno ang tigpupo.  sige lang kay wa man mi didto.  way mawa namo kun naay nagpahimos meantime.  pero kalami palandungon... punoan ug manga, orchids, kalamansi, unya naay lapad nga kadagan-daganan ang mga iro ug iring, pakapinan ug manghiwi nga mga tarsiers...

Kon pabisitaon mi nimong taga TB di jud ka mahigawad aning puntoha...

Quote from: chicogon on May 23, 2011, 12:54:35 PM
Ug panudlay sa kilay!!! 

Bwahaha! Di na lang pud tingali apilan og pang-lipstick!

Quote from: chicogon on May 23, 2011, 12:52:45 PM
Bwahahaha ge anam2x diay pog harvest sa mga kapatas  

He he, kini ra bang mani nga di pa guwang pwede na himoong pangbangil sa inom...

Quote from: chicogon on May 23, 2011, 12:48:55 PM
Dia napod mga taga Balingsya nga mangingi-ay 

He he, nindot ning pulong nga "mangingi-ay" da...

(To the tune of Rosas Pandan)

Ania ang mangingi-ay
Gikan pa intawong nagwiniwi-ay...

Quote from: taga tigbao on May 23, 2011, 12:42:37 PM
By the way, one of my plans sa ahong kinabuhi is mag panag ija ug usa ka farm. Dako kaajo ang kita sa farming ilabina kung organic ang imong mga tanum.

Ako unyay manage sa imong farm, Bay Tigs. Dalia samtang medyo lig-on pag gamay ning akong tuhod...

Quote from: bugsay on May 23, 2011, 12:42:28 PM
aw kani hinoon...pwede ni apilan ug ki-ay....

Hmm, kiayan ni Bay Tigs ang undertaker aron mopalit sa iyang orchids?

Quote from: islander on May 23, 2011, 12:35:45 PM
mo-consider ba kaha kag mamitay na lang ug orchids, tigs, unya mangamigog undertaker.

Hmm, kon negosyo ang tuyo, mas maayo nga moderetro na lang sa pagka-undertaker...

Quote from: chicogon on May 23, 2011, 12:29:29 PM
Kung mo kiay pwede na rin... 

Labi nag inubanan sa sulimbad sa mata...

Quote from: islander on May 23, 2011, 12:18:08 PM
mating ni, tigs.  sa akong binasabasa ug ginagmay, morag mahal man diay ning mga kinahanglanon ug hydroponic gardening.  mapareha unya ning proyektoha sa peanut project kunohay sa akong papa sa una sa iyang pag-retire.  tulo ka sakong mani ang gitanom, ang na-harvest lima ra ka caltex nga lata.  naani hinoon niya ang wa niya damha--ang pangatawa sa iyang mga anak.

Hmm, basin gisurambaw sa iyang project manager...

Quote from: islander on May 23, 2011, 12:11:52 PM
ambak-ambak ug layat-layat na, di na kisi-kisi.  (syalan ba ning bisaya kadaghan bang tagurha maughan man sad tag math...)

Inubanan sa synergistic nga kinokakay?

Quote from: bugsay on May 23, 2011, 12:25:40 PM
....na mantsahan na tawon sa pagkuraw-kuraw pagpangita sa tinusbawan...

...apan bisan pa man, mitaop pa gihapon sa alimpatakan ang kalalim sa mihanoy nga mga gutling...

Quote from: chicogon on May 23, 2011, 12:20:17 PM
Eder sa duha: say kulo jess o di ba say kayat tris 

Oops, wa na koy labot ani...

Quote from: islander on May 23, 2011, 09:26:32 AM
di luoy ang laki nga but-an nga mo-relate aning 22-year-old from now on kun mature na siya enough nga makasabot that this fragile girl needs emotional stability after a terrible rejection.  (meow!  just trying to put myself in her shoes...)

Basin ang bag-ong uyab maoy baslan ba, ing-ana ra ba ang uban...

Quote from: islander on May 23, 2011, 09:21:30 AM
nayder op de tow wel dow.  ayaw na lang apil-apila nang mga -ist-ist kay wa pa si lorenz, okay?

Bwahaha! Pwede -oist na lang, as in soloist? Samtang gahuwat ba...

Quote from: chicogon on May 23, 2011, 11:10:51 AM
Good animal psychologist cguro unya daghang kasinatian 

Di kaha animal nga pagka-pyschologist... 

Quote from: chicogon on May 23, 2011, 11:08:07 AM
At least deli Kerstin-iano nga hilomon kaau!!! 

Bogolbogol pud ni da, ajeje...

Quote from: bugsay on May 23, 2011, 11:54:32 AM
unsay makina?...di diay ni apil sa "living things"?.....

Aw, he he, organic man diay tuod ang imong unlan...

Hmm, unsa kahay gikaon ni Ms. Hof ron? Segurado nga nakapagaws siya sa iyang gibati didto...

Quote from: bugsay on May 22, 2011, 08:48:42 AM

Nag-brief na lang si Ondoy, hmm, mora man nig prelude to wild femdom sex...

Quote from: bugsay on May 22, 2011, 12:07:28 PM
Gitambagan ni Carpio ang maong batan-on nga adto lang magpatuli sud sa health center aron kapanalipdan ang privacy niini ug di dumogon sa mga tawo nga manguryuso sa pagtan-aw.

Apan nianang pagkaudto, wa na igkita ang maong batan-on ug wa gyud kini nadayon sa pagpatuli.

Hmm, nangita na lang tingali to siyag chick nga di mo-require nga tinuli siya...

Bwahaha! Maayo diay ning praktisado na tang daan!

Quote from: taga tigbao on May 23, 2011, 11:34:56 AM
Puwede ni hatagan ug scientific name nga Dakuesus elephantisius strippus zebrasus de tubagus boholanus.

Bwahahaus! Sakitius Tianus Botoyus hagikhikius!

Quote from: islander on May 23, 2011, 10:32:14 AM
hydroponics fish pond? 

Hmm, unsa kaha kon frog pond? 

Quote from: chicogon on May 23, 2011, 10:21:23 AM
Kanang mo kisi-kisi panagsa... 

Hmm, sama sa tilapia?

Quote from: bugsay on May 23, 2011, 09:52:51 AM
bitaw...importante gyud nga molihok....

Unya, Bay Bugs, gitaoran na nimog makina ang imong unlan?

Quote from: bugsay on May 23, 2011, 10:52:12 AM
lab-as pa sa panumduman...

Ah, bisan pag ang kagahapon tinaon sa katuigan...

Quote from: chicogon on May 23, 2011, 10:29:49 AM
Haaaaaayz ning gugma lagi ba sugsugan pod...

Sugsogon jud kay unsaon man pud gud ning ubang nahagugma ug ginahagugma, magsigi mag alindasay...

Quote from: chicogon on May 23, 2011, 10:47:03 AM
Di basta2x na si Ms Isle; siya goy major rescuer sa mga ge volunteer ug suicide sa mga tawong maldito

Maayo gani kay di ma-in-despair sa love ang mga iro ug iring...

Quote from: islander on May 23, 2011, 10:46:00 AM
karon, mahadlok nag left and right nga sagpa, hihihi.

Lisod lagi ning Kristyano ta...

Quote from: chicogon on May 23, 2011, 10:41:23 AM
Leftist galing ni sa una ay... 

Karon kay di lang rightist na, sayon pa jud uto-utoon...

Quote from: bugsay on May 23, 2011, 09:29:55 AM
paghinol-sol?.....mura'g maka relate ko ani...

Duda ko nga maka-relate ka pero wa kaabot sa paghinol-sol, kutob ras paghinol...

Quote from: bugsay on May 23, 2011, 09:28:01 AM
tinud-anay gyud seguro nga nagkahigugmaay.....

kay uso pa baya kaayo ang arranged marriage diri......sabagay ang mga bag-ong tubo mura'g magbuot na man pod ug ilaha....labi na ang mga edukado.

Hmm, basin diay arranged marriage to unya nahimong disarranged...

Quote from: bugsay on May 23, 2011, 10:17:45 AM
kanus-a man mahimong di na virgin ang lalaki?

kay kon boho ang hinungdan, murag pito pa'y akong edad gi shot na man sa boho sa agokoy...

Bwahaha! Nadonsilyo na ka adto, Bay Bugs, basig natuli pud at the same time kay gipahit kas agokoy...

Quote from: bugsay on May 23, 2011, 10:17:45 AM
kanus-a man mahimong di na virgin ang lalaki?

Imong buot ipasabot, kanus-a dili na matawag nga donsilyo?

Quote from: bugsay on May 23, 2011, 10:02:32 AM
paleta sa mason...

Hmm, pagkahuman og pusil, sayon ra ang paglubong, di maglisod pagsemento sa nitso...

Quote from: islander on May 22, 2011, 10:13:31 PM
for the tb addict not suffering from diarrhea.

Unsaon man ni, mag-squat ra ang TB addict? Permi na hinuong kalibangon? 

Kining gunitanan sa ubos, unsa kahang armasa ang angay idrowing...

Hmm, hasta ang mata pud niya morag dili balanse...

Quote from: taga tigbao on May 23, 2011, 09:22:08 AM
Bwahaha. Way lami man ang plastik Bay Hubs kay dili man maharvest o dili mamuwak ug kadaghan. Aw ug di gud pud successful ang attempt naho, dokdokon ko man gajud nang tanum nga mamatay.

Bitaw, depende ra kon naa kay green thumb (pares sa green mind).

A hobby that involves living things is always the best...

Quote from: islander on May 23, 2011, 09:19:01 AM
way modus operandi tuod ang mga laki nga hikogero.  once, i was shaken by the story of a young cebuano priest the day after he was ordained.  all the way to the run-up to his ordination, he was gripped by the thought that he was not able to do anything about a guy who jumped off a ship on the cebu-cagayan de oro route in the dead of night. 

ang iyang gisakitan kay tarong pa silang gaistorya.  mora gyod kunog way problema.  unya, nikalit lag huso sa iyang relo ang laki, gihatag niya ang relo, dayon layat sa barko.  bisag unsaon ug search and rescue, wa na gyod. 

that tragedy i guess marked this priest for life.  sa way lipodlipod, wa na gyod hinoon siyay duda nga angay diay siyang mapari.  malooy ko kay mora siyag nag-"survivor's guilt". 

kun di lang unta kalit kaayo o kun nabasa pa niya ang warning signs, ingon siya, makapyotan pa unta kuno niya.  don't blame yourself, please, was all i could say.

He he, para malingaw siya, imo unta tong giingnan nga maayo gani wa siya mosunod og layat...

Hmm, asa kaha diay dapit ang Pinas ani no?

Quote from: bugsay on May 23, 2011, 08:54:22 AM
luoy pod tawon ang baje....biktima sa gugma'ng giatay.

Hmm, di ba kaha pud luoy ang mga lalaki nga mo-relate niya from now on...

Quote from: islander on May 23, 2011, 09:05:01 AM
aw, wa na hinoon koy kasinatian ani kun modus ang hisgotan.  mas lami man god mamunal kay sa bunalan nako ang akong kaugalingon.  masabtan ra ba?

Di klaro. Anyway, ang imo bang buot ipasabot nga you're more of a sadist rather than a masochist? 

Quote from: bugsay on May 23, 2011, 08:54:22 AM
tadaaaaang.....

He he, dali-dali lagig patim-aw ang usual suspect...

Hmm, di ba kaha luoy ang mga lalaki nga mo-relate niya from now on...

Quote from: islander on May 23, 2011, 08:55:35 AM
hehe, ambot ngano.  at 22, i was fighting for a career.  wa gyod tawoy laki sa akong kinabuhi anang edara.  they were strange creatures, one of whom had said, "di ta anang babayhana, makatunok sa kaniwang."  di sad ko nila uy, tsura lang.  good decision.  i did not turn out a jilted bride, tah-tah.

Tuo na lang ta...

Quote from: islander on May 23, 2011, 08:49:10 AM
dili tawon no?  mas daghan man ang mga laking hikogero, for one.

He he, ang modus may atong gihisgotan, dili ang statistical distribution...

Quote from: islander on May 23, 2011, 08:48:15 AM
sayon.  plan ahead.  utangi ug dakodako nga kantidad sa okay pa mo.  unya, in times like this, ingna nga imong bayran.  motungha lagi, mor pa.

He he, salig jud hinuon ko sa imong mga kasinatian, Ms. Isle...

Quote from: islander on May 23, 2011, 08:45:54 AM
mamords gyod tuod.  ganahan diay imong igzu ug pekingese?

Mao bitaw nga tua siya didto manrabaho bisag naay laing opportunities sa ubang nasod...

Quote from: islander on May 23, 2011, 08:18:59 AM
did something in her also wished for her ex-groom-to-be to come running and express regrets for almost losing her forever?  aahhh, to be 22 and to believe that the end of the world is nigh...

He he, ga-sentimental ay...

Quote from: islander on May 23, 2011, 08:15:37 AM
mora tuod ug something in her gustong madiparahan kay nganong in broad daylight man sa?   

Di ba common man ni nga modus ninjong mga baje?  

Quote from: islander on May 23, 2011, 08:06:12 AM
warning to jilted brides:  if you must jump, pull your ex-groom-to-be along.  better still, push him first and then change your mind about jumping after him.  (jawk-jawk)

Kana kon mahagilap pa...

Quote from: islander on May 23, 2011, 07:47:51 AM

Hmm, mamords ra ba. Pwede na unta paliwatan ni Bay Bugs...

Bantog rang panagsa ra si Bay Bugs nga motungha diris TB in the last several months, nahasol diay intawon unsay sakto niyang buhaton...

Bwahaha!

Quote from: islander on May 23, 2011, 08:04:13 AM
calling mistel bugtay, knight in shining almol, del is a lady in distless!

dis-a man tawon ka pakahitabo ani?  usa ka ba anang mga uzisero diha?

Hmm, di kaha si Mistel Bugtay ang groom-to-be, unja na-in-despair ang baje sa dihang ijang nasakpan nga dakong minjo ang karaho?

Irish Ancestry of Barack Obama





http://www.origins.net/html-email/ON-obama-familytree.htm

Obama's distant cousin Henry Healy thinks the President owes his oration skills to his Irish ancestors. In Healy's role as the family spokesman, the local accountant has become the star of an international Irish tourism ad campaign, and still finds it "surreal" that he's related to the President of the United States. Healy will be one of the many distant relatives who will meet Obama during his short low-key visit to the village - entry is restricted to locals and invited guests. Tens of thousands of others will hope to catch a glimpse of the President - who's greatly admired by many in Ireland - at a mass rally in Dublin that evening. Writing in the Irish Independent newspaper a few days ago, Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny captured the high regard in which the President is held: Obama's visit "home" will be "a fulfilment of the American Dream. A dream, which, on his election, regained so much of its allure."

Cousin Healy describes the visit as an "escape hatch" from the perpetual bad-news story of Ireland's devastating financial crisis, which has left many Moneygall locals jobless. The village, which used to be one of the main rest-stops for travelers between the cities of Dublin and Limerick, was dealt another economic blow last December when it was bypassed by a motorway. But local entrepreneurs hope the President's trip can reverse the downward trend. A souvenir shop selling Obama postcards, plaques and mugs has opened beside the site of the former home of his relatives. The local post office has already seen a brisk trade in novelty gifts to curious Irish passersby. Young businessman Billy Hayes has opened a shop selling t-shirts with slogans such as "Obama's Irish Pub" and "What's the Craic Barack?" - "craic", which rhymes with Barack, being Irish slang for gossip. And then there's the multi-million-euro motorway rest area being built on the outskirts of the village - developers are hoping to call it the Obama Plaza.

The recent cosmetic changes to the village in Country Offaly have been dramatic, but Canon Neill believes the real change "is in the spirit of the people." Obama's visit has given them "self belief," and the sense that they have something worthwhile to offer which will "reap rewards into the future," he says. The President is expected to spend less than two hours in Moneygall as part of his one-day Irish stopover - but the brief return of a long-lost son will leave an imprint that could last for generations. -- http://news.yahoo.com/

Time.com
By GENEVIEVE CARBERY / MONEYGALL â€" Sun May 22, 1:25 am ET


As the residents of Moneygall ready themselves to play host to Barack Obama on May 23, many hope the visit will bring the Irish village exactly what the President's great-great-great-grandfather sought when he left there 150 years ago: prosperity.

It takes less than a minute to drive through Obama's ancestral hometown, a sleepy and typical rural village whose main attractions are a single pub, a corner shop, a post office and a football field. But days before the President's arrival, the quiet that usually blankets the village is broken by the stroke of paintbrushes, the flapping of Stars and Stripes, the squeak of practicing fiddlers, and the whirr of the advance security team's sleek cars. At Ollie Hayes' bar, the nerve-center of the visit, local drinkers watch with fascination as international camera crews come and go and men in black suits discuss final details.

There is tension and excitement among villagers aware that the eyes of the world will soon be on their tightknit community of 300. "When Obama announced on St. Patrick's Day that he was coming here, he didn't just say he was coming to Ireland or Europe but that he was coming to Moneygall," says bar owner Hayes proudly. Although the links between the leader of the free world and the blink-and-you'll-miss-it village had come to light years ago, when Obama was a candidate in 2007, residents like Ollie Hayes' nephew Billy Hayes still can't believe that the "most important man in the world" is about to visit.

Back then, local Anglican rector Canon Stephen Neill was central in finding the proof of Obama's ancestry in parish records. "A shiver went down my spine when I saw what was in front of me," he says. A U.S. researcher from genealogy website Ancestry.com had linked Obama's mother to County Offaly and had emailed Canon Neill asking him to search parish records. The rector discovered that the Kearney family were cobblers who helped the poor during the Irish potato famine, which lasted from 1845-1852. In 1850, Falmouth Kearney - aged just 19 - made the difficult journey across the Atlantic to lay claim to land. Looking for a better life in the U.S., he left behind a country devastated by a famine that left a million people dead and forced another million to emigrate. Kearney married and became a farmer in Indiana, raising seven children - including daughter Mary Anne, the great-grandmother of Obama's mother Stanley Dunham. Many former U.S. presidents have laid claim to Irish roots, including John F. Kennedy and Ronald Regan. But Obama's Irish connections make him unique as the "first African-American-Irish president" Canon Neill says.

Writer-director Terrence Malick's (The New World) new movie, The Tree of Life, has been shrouded in mystery since it was first teased way back in August 2005. The project has gone through many changes since then, including several casting changes, with Colin Farrell, Mel Gibson and Heath Ledger all attached at one point or another before Malick settled on Brad Pitt and Sean Penn.

The first trailer for the movie premiered last night with the debut of Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan, but it has yet to be released online. However, a detailed synopsis of the movie was released at the 2010 American Film Market, the annual production and distribution convention that screens upwards of 800 movies over an eight-day period, and you can get a look at the stars of the movie in a pair of still images recently published online by the L.A. Times, featuring Pitt as Mr. O'Brien, the strict father of the main character, Jack (played by Hunter McCracken) and Penn as adult Jack.

    From the Desk of Terrence Malick.....

    We trace the evolution of an eleven-year-old boy in the Midwest, JACK, one of three brothers. At first all seems marvelous to the child. He sees as his mother does with the eyes of his soul. She represents the way of love and mercy, where the father tries to teach his son the world’s way of putting oneself first. Each parent contends for his allegiance, and Jack must reconcile their claims. The picture darkens as he has his first glimpses of sickness, suffering and death. The world, once a thing of glory, becomes a labyrinth.

    From this story is that of adult Jack, a lost soul in a modern world, seeking to discover amid the changing scenes of time that which does not change: the eternal scheme of which we are a part. When he sees all that has gone into our world’s preparation, each thing appears a miracleâ€"precious, incomparable. Jack, with his new understanding, is able to forgive his father and take his first steps on the path of life.

    The story ends in hope, acknowledging the beauty and joy in all things, in the everyday and above all in the familyâ€"our first schoolâ€"the only place that most of us learn the truth about the world and ourselves, or discover life’s single most important lesson, of unselfish love.

Jessica Chastain also stars as Jack's mother, Mrs. O'Brien, with Joanna Going playing Jack's wife. -- http://www.reelzchannel.com

The Israeli writer and director Joseph Cedar deservedly won the screenwriting prize for “Footnote,” a story about warring father-and-son Talmudic scholars. Mr. Cedar wasn’t there to accept in person, having not yet returned to Cannes from Tel Aviv. In absentia, he dedicated his award to Donald Krim, the president of the American distribution company Kino International, who died on May 20, a year after receiving a diagnosis of cancer. Kino released Mr. Cedar’s last feature, “Beaufort.”

For several strange days, Cannes had been hijacked by upsetting news, including two scandals: l’affaire DSK and l’affaire LVT. The news that Dominique Strauss-Kahn of the International Monetary Fund had been arrested in New York on sexual assault charges briefly knocked festival news off the monitors scattered throughout the event’s headquarters. A few days later attention returned to the festival â€" the halls lighting up with chatter about “The Tree of Life” and a critical favorite that was shut out, Aki Kaurismaki’s film “Le Havre” â€" at least until Mr. von Trier opened his big mouth.

News about Mr. von Trier dominated the festival for days and overshadowed his competition entry, “Melancholia,” which divided critics and will continue to do so when the movie opens in the United States. A brisk, revived sales market means that American moviegoers can also look forward to seeing a number of the other competition highlights in the coming year, including “Le Havre,” “The Kid With a Bike,” “Footnote,” “The Artist” and the latest from Pedro Almodóvar, the oddly underrated “The Skin I Live In.” These were good films from familiar names in a competition that could use a shot of new energy from the likes of Na Hong-jin, from South Korea (here with the great and lavishly gory “The Yellow Sea”), and Joachim Trier, from Norway (with “Oslo, 31. August”), festival highlights passed over at awards time.

Both movies were in competition in Un Certain Regard, a sidebar of the official selection usually reserved for more ostensibly unusual work. Its top award was shared by the very different “Arirang,” a self-portrait from the South Korean director Kim Ki-duk, and “Stopped on Track,” a fictional look at a dying man from the German filmmaker Andreas Dresen. “Arirang,” a naked, unexpectedly engrossing work made in the wake of a near-fatal accident on one of the director’s films, was widely dismissed as narcissistic, which of course it is given that Mr. Kim is the only star in this one-man show. He’s also a surprisingly entertaining presence who keeps you watching with his tears, anecdotes, foibles, jokes and odd talents: a skilled machinist, he makes espresso machines.

A special jury prize for Un Certain Regard was awarded to its closing-night selection, Andrey Zvyagintsev’s “Elena,” a meticulously shot, overly studied and familiar look at the rabid-dog-eat-rabid-dog world of contemporary Russia that is a letdown after the director’s last Cannes entry, “The Banishment.” The Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof won the directing award for “Au Revoir,” a drama with a thriller undertow about a female human rights lawyer’s struggles to leave Iran. (Mr. Rasoulof himself is banned from leaving the country.) “Au Revoir” and “This Is Not a Film,” a self-portrait from another banned Iranian filmmaker, Jafar Panahi (directing with Mojtaba Mirtahmasb), that was shown out of competition, were late additions to the lineup. The programmers said that both were selected “because they are beautiful,” though Mr. Panahi’s is far more so.

The Palme d’Or for the short film competition went to “Cross Country,” from the Ukrainian director Maryna Vroda; the Jury Prize was given to “Badpakje 46” from the Belgian director Wannes Destoop. The Camera d’Or, for a first-time director, went to “Los Acacias” from Pablo Giorgelli, which was in Critics’ Week, a separate competitive parallel section. The grand prize at Critics’ Week was won by “Take Shelter,” from the American director Jeff Nichols, which had first played at Sundance. -- http://www.nytimes.com/

Taking the stage to generous applause from both the awards audience and the press seated in a separate theater, a visibly moved Ms. Dunst looked out at the crowd and blurted with great understatement, “Wow, what a week it’s been!” She thanked the festival for keeping “Melancholia” in competition and Mr. von Trier for letting her be brave. The best actor prize went to Jean Dujardin, a star of “The Artist,” a silent-cinema tribute â€" in black and white and with almost no dialogue â€" from the French director Michel Hazanavicius. Mr. Dujardin smiled, cursed and apologized as he received a loud standing ovation.

The Grand Prix, effectively the award for the Palme runner-up, was shared by “Once Upon a Time in Anatolia,” a 157-minute metaphysical road movie from the Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, and “The Kid With a Bike,” a story about a child dumped by a parent, from the Belgian filmmaking brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. (The Dardennes have won the Palme twice before, for “Rosetta” and “L’Enfant.”) Mr. Ceylan thanked the programmers for accepting his “long and difficult movie” and gave a nod to the jury, too: “On the last day of the festival I thought it would be too tiring for you.”

The directing prize went, somewhat surprisingly, to another Dane, Nicolas Winding Refn, for “Drive,” starring Ryan Gosling as a stunt wheelman for the movies who also works as a getaway driver. The movie had its fans, especially perhaps those who were happy for a jolt of action (and English dialogue) amid all the art films. The inclusion of “Drive,” a striking-looking pastiche of action movies from the late 1960s and early ’70s (in interviews, Mr. Refn invoked “Bullitt” and “Point Blank” as models), was seen as further evidence that the festival’s chief programmer, Thierry Frémaux, wants to shake up the competition.

The jury prize was given to “Polisse,” from the actress-turned-director Maïwenn, who also appears in this rather frenetic if engaging drama about cops working in a child protection unit. More than one American critic called it a French “Law & Order,” but the film had its fans, particularly among French critics. (This year’s competition included four female directors; last year there were none.)

By MANOHLA DARGIS
Published: May 22, 2011


CANNES, France â€" In a strong year that was nearly eclipsed by off-screen scandals, the top prize for the 64th Cannes Film Festival was given to “’The Tree of Life,” the long-awaited film from the American director and writer Terrence Malick. A story about transcendence that divided critics, who were alternately transported and turned off by its religious themes and elliptical storytelling, it is the first film from Mr. Malick since “The New World” (2005). The famously shy Mr. Malick did not appear to accept his award, which was introduced by Jane Fonda, who spoke in emphatic French before saying, “And maintenant, now, let’s cut to the chase.” The competition jury president, Robert De Niro, hurriedly announced the winner.

In addition to Mr. De Niro â€" who received a standing ovation on taking the stage â€" the jury included the actors Uma Thurman, Jude Law and Martina Gusman; the writer Linn Ullmann (the daughter of Liv Ullmann and Ingmar Bergman); and the directors Olivier Assayas, Johnnie To and Mahamat Saleh Haroun. In his opening remarks, Mr. De Niro, speaking in fractured French, called the voting a “très belle expérience” and said that the jury did the best it could, adding: “Très, très intéressante. It’s O.K. Merci.”

No kidding! It had been a strange, even surreal festival marked by ecstatic visions and doomsday fantasies and nearly hijacked when the Danish director Lars von Trier, in competition with “Melancholia,” announced at the press conference for his movie â€" perhaps jokingly and certainly stupidly â€" that he was a Nazi. He later apologized, but was thereafter declared persona non grata by the Cannes board of directors. “Melancholia” remained in competition for the Palme d’Or in name only, and many thought that Mr. von Trier’s remarks would cost one of his stars, the widely praised Kirsten Dunst, the female acting prize. But she won.

                      Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)

Jane Stith Stanard (d. 1824), the inspiration of the original version of "To Helen"

Sarah Helen Whitman (1803-1878), the Helen for whom Poe wrote the above version of "To Helen"

                 Helen, thy beauty is to me
               Like those Nicean barks of yore,
               That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
               The weary, wayworn wanderer bore
               To his own native shore.

               On desperate seas long wont to roam,
               Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,
               Thy Naiad airs have brought me home
               To the glory that was Greece,
               And the grandeur that was Rome.

               Lo! in yon brilliant window niche
               How statue-like I see thee stand,
               The agate lamp within thy hand!
               Ah, Psyche, from the regions which
               Are Holy Land!

Quote from: hubag bohol on May 22, 2011, 11:23:33 AM
He he, di kaha siya ang godfather of them all? Tan-awa lang, wanted gud...

Quote from: chicogon on May 22, 2011, 11:49:39 AM
Sekwet!!! 

Sorry, Fr. Chic, nakit-an nako ang usa sa imong pictures as a baby...

Quote from: islander on May 22, 2011, 09:13:12 PM
gikan sa used and useless ligid, nahimong type ni bugsay:

Hayahay jud tuod anhi dinhi magtuwangtuwang samtang naggakos sa unlan...