if you’re on the main highway

If you were  on EDSA, the fabled highway,

 going south or north…


Here it goes:

“bawal ang tao dito. doon ka sa bangketa”.

“bawal” means prohibited, not allowed.

“tao” means human being.

the exact translation: “Humans not allowed here. You go to the sidewalk.”

         …If you’re not human —  you are allowed.

…but…. if you could read the sign, presumably — you are human…

     well…you could be a software or an operating system of a machine that could read…but….

     you wouldn’t be ambulating this way if you were a software…

    (Filipinos understand what this sign means. “pedestrians not allowed here. use the sidewalk” — “Bawal mag-abang ng sasakyan dito. Sa bangketa ang abangan”.)

Other road signs on EDSA, already featured on TV: “Bawal tumawid, may namatay na dito” (“do not cross the road here, somebody has died here”) variation: “Bawal tumawid, nakamamatay” (“crossing here is prohibited, it causes death/ you could get killed”) 

 

Message to the people of Japan & to all who had to battle tremors in all parts of the world

“At the centre of the Earth I’ll split apart

(En medio de la tierra apartaré)

“the emeralds to catch a glimpse of you

(las esmeraldas para divisarte)

“and there you will be like a stalk of flower

(y tú estarás copiando las espigas)

“with messages like water overflowing from pen”

(con una pluma de agua mensajera.)

– Pablo Neruda (translation tweaked by blog admin)

xxx

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Disaster message boards

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Rizal Day today

“Farewell my  beloved homeland, land of the dear rising sun

Adios patria adorada, region del sol querida

Pearl of the Orient sea, an Eden in ruins!

Perla del Mar de Oriente, nuestro perdido Eden!

Gladly do i give you my small and forsaken life;

A darte voy alegre la triste, mustia vida;

And were it more brilliant, more fresh,  more full in bloom,

Y fuera mas brillante, mas fresca, mas florida,

Gladly would i still give it for you to flourish.”

Tambien por ti la diera, la diera por tu bien.”

excerpt of 14 verses, Mi Ultimo Adios (My Last Farewell)

by Dr. Jose Rizal,

(written a few hours before he was                                                           executed)

(blog admin tweaked a bit the  literal                                                     translation of some textbook                                                    writers, with apologies.)