Breaking for govt officials & employees: SALN filing extended to June 30, 2020

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Posted at 10am from coverage of IATF presser by ABS-CBN and GMA 7 news Breaking for govt officials & employees: SALN filing extended to June 30, 2020

A Vibrant Viral Virus-free Victorious Happy Bday Alex! Math Wiz, Top Winningest Chess Varsity Player (& district basketball player, gym fitness buff, rapper-poet, hip-hop dancer, dota player) Alex Lambino Alexander Lambino

For Alex Lambino

Alexander Lambino :

Math Wiz

Top Varsity Chess Player of the University high school (K12), District basketball player,

gym fitness buff,

rapper-poet, hip-hop dancer,

dota player:

A  Vibrant, Viral and Virus-free, Virtual and Victorious

HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! (embedded below your birthday  poster is an impromptu hint of the record-breaking chart-topping song you grew up on…

       (recorded by android

in the fuchsia-pink room

of the apartment

on the 18th day of our quarantine:

    IYAN  ANG NAGAGAWA 

NG  QUARANTINE (rough translation: a bizarre byproduct  of  18 days of  quarantine!)

    Aargh! Di ko na kaya,

ang susunod na dito

Morissette at Mariah :

       ….  and here’s

the Alex childhood song

…   do you remember this ?

      …Written collaboratively by a then 16-year-old

for his then debut album

      (i learned this song from you)

       … First video: An impromptu rendition by the songwriter-artist himself several months ago.

    Second video: the massacred snippet of the song rendered in the pink room 

        HAPPY ,  HAPPY  BIRTHDAY FROM  ALL  OF  US !!!

   Have fun in our collective quarantine!!!

 


Perimeter

               

Circling the perimeter
to catch a glimpse
       of
Cotton and Chess
i hear they’re fine
just fine
eating from pails of kernels
we’ve left behind.
 our brave frontliners
Rey, Jaymer, and Aries
holding fort
holding the line
taking care of the creatures
we hope

 

          we did not leave behind.

Circling the perimeter
to catch a glimpse
         of
Cotton and Chess
all i have to do is
take a step
stand on the curb, holler
he’d rush galloping here
and break the barrier.

  But that’d be breaching
the quarantine
weakening
the illusory
clasp and chain

 

Circling the perimeter
to catch a glimpse
        of
Cotton and Chess
not to break a promise
to family and friends
that stepping out

would be contact-free.
PROTECT THE VULNERABLE
Never  inconvenience the community.

 

Circling the perimeter
to catch a glimpse
         of
Cotton and Chess
a prison for many
but for us
it should be easy

                                      right?

lose sight,
           lose touch

                        lose hope

 

lose the life we knew

 

   lose the light
     

         faint thread

 

                        memory

  Circling the perimeter
  to catch a glimpse
           of
  Cotton and Chess.

               

     -March 31, 2020