"bida bes"

"bida bes"

When you think it doesn’t matter
if you fail or pass the test.
Keep in mind the reason why
you should always be your best.

While the whole world may not notice
if you tried to give your all,
there is a person in you
to whom it matters if you fall.

That little voice inside you -
which directs your thoughts each day -
will make the final judgement
if you won or lost each day.

Never can you fail yourself
if you give it all you’ve got.
The world extends a hand to you
when you give life your best shot.

For all that really matters
when you're finished with your test,
is not the final score at all -
but did you do your best?

"WAK-WAK" (Aswang)

     "Aswang" is a generic generic term applied to all types of witches, vampires, manananggals, shapeshifters, therianthropes and monsters. The original definition is an eater of the dead, also called the bal-bal (maninilong in Catanauan, Quezon), which replaces the cadaver with banana trunks after consumption. Aswang stories and definitions vary greatly from region to region and person to person, and no particular set of characteristics can be ascribed to the term. However, the term is most used interchangeably with manananggal and are said to be female in gender.

           Before modern medicine and science, aswangs served to explain miscarriages and other maladies. Today, aside from entertainment value, Filipino mothers often tell their children aswang stories to keep them off the streets and keep them home at night.

Like UFO stories, aswang stories are one of the favorites of sensationalist tabloids, especially when there are grave robberies, child kidnappings, strange noises, people with eccentric or peculiar habits, and other bizarre incidents that can somehow be attributed to them.

Stories of the aswang are popular in the Visayan region of the Philippines, especially in the western provinces of Capiz (a province on Panay Island), Iloilo and Antique. Capiz, in particular, is singled out by tabloids as an area of high supernatural activity: a home to aswangs, manananggals, giant half-horse men (tikbalang) and other mythological creatures. Many of those who live in Capiz are superstitiously inclined, and adorn their homes with garlic bulbs, holy water and other objects believed to repel aswang. Since the stories recount aswang eating unborn children, pregnancy is a time of great fear for superstitious Filipinos.

 The wide variety of descriptions in the Aswang stories make it difficult to settle upon a fixed definition of Aswang appearances or activities. However, several common themes that differentiate Aswangs from other mythological creatures do emerge: Aswangs are shape shifters. Stories recount Aswangs living as regular townspeople in meat processing professions by day. As regular townspeople, they are quiet, shy and elusive. At night, they transform into creatures that enjoy eating unborn fetuses and small children, favoring livers and hearts. Some have long proboscises, which they use to suck the children out of their mothers' wombs or their homes. Some also make noises, which are louder the further away the Aswang is, done to confuse its potential victim. They may also replace their live victims or stolen cadavers with facsimiles made from tree trunks or other plant materials. This facsimile will return to the victim's home, only to become sick and die. An Aswang will also have bloodshot eyes, the result of staying up all night searching for houses where wakes are held to steal the bodies.

the spider's thread

   The Spider's Thread was written by Ryunosuke Akutagawa. The story is about a great robber who had done many evil things, Kandata.

 “The Spider's Thread” is simple. A criminal sits in hell, either surrounded by the Pond of Blood or atop the Mountain of Needles. Above him, in Paradise, is Buddha, the compassionate being who leads others out of suffering. Because, just once in his life, the criminal himself was compassionate, The Buddha sends down a thin spider thread to save him. The rub? The criminal must again be compassionate if he is to leave hell and join the Buddha in 

paradise.

    When Buddha looked down into Hell, he remembered the small kindness that Kandata performed in life which earns him a chance at redemption.

  

     The Buddha quietly lowers a spider's thread into Hell.Kandata had been rising and sinking with the other sinners in the Pool of Blood on the Floor of Hell. On this day, Kandata lifted his head by chance. He saw a silver spider's thread and thought that this thread may help him enter the Paradise.He uses this to ascend and hold it tightly.

Miraculously, The thin thread supports not only Kandata but hundreds of sinners also attempting to escape. Because of the selfishness Kandata voice out loudly that the thread is for him. At that moment, the thread suddenly broke showing no sign.

afro-asian: afro-asian literature

afro-asian: afro-asian literature: Afro-Asian , or Blasian , means a person of mixed race,Black and East Asian. Afro-Asian Literature is a term for novels or writing such as...

afro-asian literature

Afro-Asian, or Blasian, means a person of mixed race,Black and East Asian.Afro-Asian Literature is a term for novels or writing such as poems written by people from mixed African-Arab ethnicity, or African-Asian ethnicity. In modern times, a a part of world literature, Afro-Asian literature is a separate segment of writing of experiences in African and Asia to further cultural understanding and world peace. 

Afro-Asian literature is the literature from whole Africa and Asia. these literature include stories, myths and 

others. Afro-Asian literature refers to the literary output of the various countries and cultures in Africa and Asia. This includes their oral traditions and from the first to the contemporary written and/or published prose and poetry.Afro Asian describes someone or something from both Africa and Asia.In modern times, a part of world literature, Afro-Asian literature is a separate segment of writing of experiences in African and Asia to further cultural understanding and world peace.