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DANILO BARBA FABE JR.

BIOGRAPHYHI! IM DANILO BARBA FABE JR.18 years old was born on aug.19 1994, I live in brgy.3pongtod tanjay city. I have three

sisters. My father’s name is Mr. Danilo tabio fabe Sr. he is pa fisherman and my mother is Evelyn Barba Fabe and she is a housekeeper.

When I was in elementary student I graduated at Codon San Andres Catanduanes and when I was a high school student I graduated at tanjay high school (legislated) after my graduation in high school I went there in Catanduanes to study but sad to say I stop because of financial that year 2011.

In year 2012 I study at Christian Polytechnic Institute of Catanduanes I am taking up there B.S.Criminology but I didn’t finish my course. Also I am a ROTC officer there I graduated as 2ndl.

Nov.2012 also I join as a Ginoong San Andres 2012 and I representing my barangay Codon San Andres but I lose to win...also I am a blood donor in red cross Catanduanes Chapter I want to donate blood because you can help people who needs a blood.

After the election of senators and mayor I went to manila to stay there for three days to my sister to wait my flight to go here in tanjay city to study. Here in Villaflores College I am taking up BSED Major in Filipino.

I hope that I can finish my study here in Villaflores College so that I can help all those people who needs helps specially my family.

THE THREE PHILIPPINE SHORT STORIES

1) THE SILENT STROKE I was then working in a private firm as an Assistant Manager and was recently transferred to another city. The burden of packing the utilities and a traumatic divorce loaded my

otherwise thin shoulders. 2) The Motherland I had my friend tell me a story about the country he was from. He told me a sad story of a town being bombed by the government. 3) TRUST: LOST AND FOUND As soon as she entered the house she closed the door from inside, made sure that all the windows are locked and turned it into a perfect jail. She wanted to make sure that she is safe.

THE THREE ESSAYS WITH ANALYSIS

1) Sharing Control

The sound of a breakdown may be accompanied by skidding tires and breaking glass or just quiet weeping in the night. In Backwater Betty Black, by Greg Doherty, both sounds are heard. The novel is the story of a jaded psych nurse, Betty Black, who takes a mental patient, Doug Vane, on a road trip that would try anyone’s sanity. Ultimately, the story portrays the relationship between happiness and control. To be happy, Doherty argues, one must be neither too controlling nor too controlled; and sometimes the only way to gain perspective on one’s sense of control is to lose control for a while.

Nurse Betty Black is a control freak. In the opening scene, she reacts to news of her infertility by steering the conversation—about ways she has tried to control her fertility in the past. “‘Are you sure it can’t be the treatments, doctor?’” she wonders. “‘Though Lord knows, I’ve tried all kinds. You know that as well as anyone.’” she is unhappy, and not in control—and she is unhappy about not being in control.

We soon learn that control—like her promiscuity, and probably connected to it—is a habit for her. But it is not one that gives her joy. When Doug first gets in her car, she tells him exactly how to behave and even what to wear. She makes him remove his cowboy hat, saying, “There’s a reason you never see sisters dating cowboys. Fashion sense.” here, she uses intimidation regarding a choice he has made—his look—to keep his behaviour in check. And while effective, this makes her less friendly, a less likable character. Like many who have clawed their way towards a certain status in a job or society, she is not above grinding her (high) heels into a few foreheads to help keep her elevated.

As she speaks to Doug, she “thumbs the cap off the hypodermic needle in her coat pocket, careful to keep it pointing away from her.” she maintains a back-up plan, in case her words do not control him sufficiently. She is careful. But more: perhaps she is afraid. Though her motives are left ambiguous, Doherty makes it clear that she will not lose control here, if she can help it. But because this is a story about losing and gaining control, she can’t help it. In short time, her patient will be running wild, and she will fear for first her life, then her soul, her moral integrity. And in facing her fears, she will recognize that she has already lost both unless she can regain her happiness, which will only come by letting go.

Representing the flip side of Betty Black’s situation is her patient, Doug Vane, who is preparing to move from the secure structure of the mental facility to the looser environment of the real world—just for a visit. Right on the cusp, according to his doctors, of being able to “manage his own medicine cabinet,” (p. 3) Doug is in need of confidence and scaffolding to ease his way into a lifestyle where he is more responsible for himself. Unfortunately for him, after Betty’s car breaks down, he moves almost instantly from being under Betty’s smothering care to running around in the woods, lost and hungry and afraid. Doug needs more control over his mind and body, and is hoping that he will not be the one that has to deliver it to him, because he is way out of practice at self-discipline.

If Betty and Doug are to meet halfway, in their relationship with each other, it would have to be around the issue of control. Indeed, this is the case. When …

Etc… (do you really need to see all the middle paragraphs to know how to do them? Just follow the same pattern, tying more plot evidence and quotes to the thesis. Now here’s the conclusion…)

In a way, reading this novel is like seeing an enactment of the “Serenity Prayer” that, perhaps not coincidentally, is on the tongues of many 12-step program followers, themselves dealing with control issues. While Betty searches for the serenity to accept the things she cannot change, Doug must dig for the courage to change what he can. And only by first getting it all wrong do each of them discover the wisdom to know the difference.

2) For as Long as We Both Shall Live…

Is love purely a feeling – or something more? If each person’s interpretation of love is unique, then how do we know what someone is saying when they say “I love you”? In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, we watch the romantic tragedy of the mysterious Jay Gatsby and beautiful Daisy Buchanan through the eyes of Nick, a common friend and

young businessman. Their story would make anyone reconsider what love really means. Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby to show that in relationships, love or compassion does not necessarily imply a sense of commitment to a person, and vice versa.

Tom Buchanan is a grown up version of your typical high school jock. He’s big and strong, but no too smart. He’s married to Daisy, but is actively having an affair with a woman named Myrtle Wilson. This relationship is filled with irony: Daisy is beautiful and charming, while Myrtle is neither. It is also ironic that Tom still feels some sort of commitment to his wife, even while with Myrtle. At a party in Manhattan, when a drunken Myrtle cries out, “Daisy! Daisy! Daisy... I’ll say it whenever I want to!” Tom actually gets so angry that he strikes her and breaks her nose. Even while choosing to be with Myrtle over his wife, he feels the need to protect his wife. It actually seems that he cares for both women, but does not feel committed to either. 

This theme against commitment is not just connected with the main characters. Fitzgerald portrays it as the common behavior for many married couples during the 1920s, when the book is set. Nick, attending one of Gatsby’s elaborate parties, notices that “most of the remaining women were now having fights with men said to be their husbands.” one such husband “was talking with a curious intensity to a young actress and his wife after attempting to laugh at the situation in a dignified and indifferent way broke down entirely and resorted to flank attacks…” Flirtation and even pursuit of other relationships, even in the presence of one’s spouse, is common in the world Fitzgerald creates. But why would someone cheat on the person they had vowed to love for eternity? It again brings up the point that their love and commitment do not always go hand in hand, so to speak. 

The main affair that takes place in the book is between Daisy and Gatsby. Having been separated for years, their new time together is truly magical for both of them. Both Daisy and Tom attend a party at Gatsby’s home. Nick watches Gatsby and Daisy dance with each other: “I remembered being surprised by his graceful, conservative fox trot – I had never seen him dance before. Then they sauntered over to my house and sat on the steps for a half hour while at her request I remained watchfully in the garden…” Daisy leaves Tom for a long period of the evening to be with Gatsby, a man Tom doesn’t even know really anything about. Neither Gatsby nor Daisy appears to care much about the suspiciousness and bluntness of their behaviour. This attitude intensifies later in the book when Gatsby is at Daisy’s, and as Tom leaves the room, “she got up and went over to Gatsby, and pulled his face down, kissing him on the mouth.” She is not afraid to show public affection toward Gatsby, even so close to her husband. This is because although she has vowed her commitment to her husband, she really seems to love Gatsby, and not Tom. 

Finally, the love triangle has it out. Daisy confesses to Tom that she loves Gatsby, not him. And for a moment, it seems that Gatsby has won. He will keep Daisy. But then Gatsby insists on hearing that she never loved Tom – that, in effect, commitment and love can be entirely separate. She was committed to Tom, but always loved Gatsby. This is where Fitzgerald gets tricky with his theme: he doesn’t let commitment and love get entirely separated. Daisy admits she had once had feelings for Tom; she’d loved them both. “You loved me too?” Gatsby asks, looking as if he’d been punched in the stomach. It turns out, while love and commitment are not necessarily connected, keeping them entirely separated is like going outside and not getting dirty. You can’t count on it. 

Later, Gatsby in the passenger seat, Daisy runs over Tom’s mistress, Myrtle, killing her. Gatsby says he’s willing to take the blame for her – “Of course I’ll say I was [driving],” he tells Nick. Yet despite a night-long vigil outside her window, he never gets so much as a thank you from her. In fact, he gets killed for his troubles, when Mr. Wilson takes his revenge – and she does not even attend his funeral. This was the man who, days earlier, she “loved.” She and Tom leave town, retreating into their “vast carelessness” and

heading to “wherever rich people go to be together,” according to Nick’s bitter observations. 

There is such a thing as commitment. Recently, thousands of people in New Orleans waited out floodings, lootings and other hardships out of a commitment to their sense of home. Similar sacrifices have been made since time began, by parents, soldiers, lovers and “saints.” But commitment needs an object – one is committed to something; to simply “be committed” is actually a euphemism for going crazy and getting sent to a mental institution! Daisy turned out to be committed not to love, in the end, but to her own riches and comfort. If you are to fall in love with someone, Fitzgerald is suggesting with Gatsby, you should make sure your lover is committed to you. Or else you are what Gatsby turned out to be – and what Daisy once said she hoped her daughter would be, in this cruel, noncommittal world: a fool

3) God in the Bucket

“Cast your bucket down where you are!” were the words of Booker T. Washington that resounded in the heads of thousands of black Americans in the years of and following Reconstruction. During this time, many people shared Washington’s philosophy of upward class mobility and the gradual progression of the black race towards the standards of white society. In her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston defies this philosophy of essentially striving to become “white.” She brilliantly portrays a vibrant black society that stands alone; her political message is subtle – it lies in the complete absence of whites throughout most of the book. She does not address the white population, because it is not part of her message. Although including white society for comparative purposes may have strengthened her message, Hurston succeeds without doing so. She stresses group solidarity in the black community and this message is emphasized in every part of the book: in the varying lifestyles and communities, the rich language, the sense of patriotism and being American. Hurston celebrates this vital culture and by not attacking white society, she gains a respect for the everyday life and culture of African-Americans. 

While working for her husband Joe Starks in the general store in Eatonville, an all-black town, Janie admires the humorous and satirical conversations lead mainly by Sam Watson and Lige Moss as they sit on the front porch. They can make a grueling argument out of just about anything: “Whut is it dat keeps a man from gettni’ burnt on uh red-hot stove – caution or nature?” Their heated debates are entertainment for the entire town. This scene of men talking and laughing on the front porch of the town store is All-American – one of patriotism and pride in community – and it illustrates well the rich culture of African-Americans. 

Janies’s days in the Everglades with her third husband and true love, TeaCake, are filled with dancing, singing and red hot gambling. Janie loves her new life that is meager and simple, yet daring, adventurous and so much more real than her comfortable life with Joe Starks in Eatonville. She feels like an equal: she works hard every day alongside her husband, but it is different from what she experienced with Joe. When TeaCake asks Janie if she is happy with the work she tells him, “Clerkin” in dat store wuz hard, but heah we isn’t got not in’ tug do bit do our work and come home and love’.

Hurston emphasizes the thriving culture of the working class: content with their situation, and taking pride and pleasure in their work rather than constantly working to get ahead. By contrasting Janie’s feelings with Joe Starks and Teacake, Hurston accentuates the

theme of solidarity in the black working class and the thriving culture be raft of the influence of oppression and striving towards “white hood.”

Janie feels more a part of the black community out on the muck that she has ever felt before: “Sometimes Janie would think of the old days in the big white house and the store and laugh to herself. What if Eatonville could see her now in her blue denim overalls and heavy shoes? The crowd of people behind her and a dice game on her floor! She was sorry for her friends back there and scornful of the others…” As a child, Janie has felt isolated because of her partial white lineage and then later in life because of her status in Eatonville as the mayor’s wife. Amongst the working class and being with Teacake, however, Janie feels proud in her blackness and togetherness with the other African Americans. Hurston again uses Janie’s feelings of unity with her race and her observations of the flourishing culture in the black working class to emphasize her message.

Mrs. Turner is a mulatto Negro who idolizes the white race. Her husband owns an eating-house in the everglades and during the off season she comes to visit Janie often. In one of their conversations, Mrs. Turner tells Janie her opinion of Booker t. Washington: “All he ever do was cut de monkey for de white folks… ah didn’t do nothing’ but hold us back-talk in’ ‘bout work when de race is never done anything’ else. He was de enemy of us, dat’s with. He was a white man’s nigger.” Mrs. Turner’s stun Janie-to her this is sacrilege. She replies, I was raised in de notion dat he was uh big man.” Hurston uses Mrs. Turner to express her views on the philosophies of Booker T. Washington. She believes that these philosophies of hard work and strife in oppression to become white only hindered African Americans further. 

Although Mrs. Turner voices this essential message, she is hypocritical because she herself hates the black race and strives toward ‘white hood.’ In fact, Mrs. Turner attaches herself to Janie because of her white characteristics, which she worships. “She felt honored by Janie’s acquaintance and she quickly forgave and forgot snubs in order to keep it. Anyone who looks whiter foolish than she was better than she was in her criteria… Mrs. Turner hates Teacake for his blackness as much as she loves Janie for her whiteness. Janie observes “…it was so evident that Mrs. Turner represents what disgusts Hurston. Instead of attacking white society, Hurston includes Mrs. Turner in the novel as a jest towards it. Mrs. Turner lives precariously between two races, hating one and worshiping the other, and as a result she remains isolated from both.

Despite her white lineage, highlighted by fair skin and light hair, Janie develops a sense of black pride and feels part of the black race. Janie had the experience of essentially being ‘white’ when Joe shut her up in a big house with everything material she could ever want and she didn’t enjoy it. Her position as the Mayor’s wife isolated her from the rest of the town: “It sort of made the rest of them feel that they had been taken advantage of. Like things have been kept from them… it was bad enough for white people, but when one of you r own color could be so different it out you on a wonder...Booker T. Washington felt that a distinct class structure within the black race would push a small minority of African Americans closer to the desired ‘white hood’ and lead the way for the rest to follow. Through the isolation and resentment that Janie encountered in Eatonville, Hurston effectively shows that this class structure only cause disunity and dislike amongst fellow African Americans. Hurston illustrates the ideal solidarity in her vital portrayal of the vivacious and lively working class.

THE FIVE PHILIPPINE FOLK SONGS1)

Ili-ili Tulog Anay - Visayan Folk song

(P or piano, meaning "soft")

Ili-ili tulog anay,

Wala diri imong nanay.

Kadto tienda bakal papay.

Ili-ili tulog anay.

—English rough translation—

Sleep for a while.

Your mother is not here.

Went to the market to buy bread.

Sleep for a while

2)

Si Filemon-Cebuano Lyrics

Si Pilemon, Si Pilemon namasol sa kadagatan

Nakakuha, nakakuha ug isda'ng tambasakan

Guibaligya, Guibaligya sa merkado'ng guba

Ang halin puros Kura, ang halin puros Kura igo ra i panuba.

English Translation

Filemon, Filemon went fishing in the sea

He caught, he caught a tambasakan

He sold it, and he sold it in the dilipated market

He earned a little cash, he earned a little cash,

Just enough to buy tuba.

3)

Filipino Folk Song: Rice Planting Lyrics

Rice Planting

Planting rice is never fun

Bent from morn till the set of sun,

Cannot stand and cannot sit,

Cannot rest for a little bit.

Planting rice is no fun

Bent from morn till set of sun,

Cannot stand, cannot sit,

Cannot rest a little bit.

Oh, come friends and let us homeward take our way,

Now we rest until the dawn is gray,

Sleep, welcome sleep, we need to keep us strong

Morn brings another workday long.

Oh, my back is like to break,

Oh, my bones with the damp still ache,

And my legs are numb and set

For their long soaking on the wet.

It is hard to be so poor

And such sorrow and pain endure,

You must move your arms about,

Or you'll find you must go without.

4)

ANG HARDINERO

Oriental Mindoro Folk Song

Di bagamaraming bulaklak saan man!

Makakapili ka Sarisaring kulay

Kung ang mapili mo'y ang bulaklak ng rosal

Di ibig pitasin sa sanga at tangkay Di bagama.

Di mo ba gatanto na ako'y asusena

Ang hardinero ko'y si Ama't si ina?

Bago ka pumitas bulaklak sa sanga

Sa hardinero'y magsabi ka muna.

5)

Filipino: Visayan Folk Song - Tuba (Sheet Music and Lyrics)

Tuba (Pandanggo Visayan)

Tempo: Allegretto

Condansoy, inum tuba Laloy.

Dili co moinom, tuba pait aslom

Condansoy, inum tuba Laloy.

Dili co moinom, tuba pait aslom

Condansoy Ang tuba sa baybay Patente moangay,

Talacsan nga diutay Ponoang malaway

Condansoy Ang tuba sa baybay Patente moangay,

Talacsan nga diutay Ponoang malaway

Tuba

English Translation

Condansoy, drink tuba my good boy!

No 'tis bitter and sour, I will not drink at all!

Condansoy, drink tuba my good boy!

No 'tis bitter and sour, I will not drink at all!

Tuba sold on the beach ought to pay licence high;

Even one little glass will make you crazy drunk.

Tuba sold on the beach ought to pay licence high;

Even one little glass will make you crazy drunk.

THE TEN EXAMPLES OF SUPERTATIOUS BELIEFS

Fridays (including the 13th)

- Never start a journey, a business proposition or a marriage on a Friday.

- Black Friday, also known as Friday the thirteenth (see separate answer in related questions)

good luck charms etc.

- It is lucky to meet a chimney sweep.

- Carrying a rabbit’s foot is lucky (for everyone but the rabbit).

- Find a penny pick it up; all day long you'll have good luck.

- Hang a horseshoe (ends up) over a doorway, or in a room to bring good luck. If the horse shoe is from the rear hoot of a grey horse, all the better.

- Seeing a grey horse is good luck, riding in a cart pulled by one is even better.

- Finding a four-leafed clover is fortunate.

- Seeing a butterfly on the first day of the year will bring the viewer a prosperous year.

- Catch a falling leaf on the first day of autumn and you will not catch cold that winter.

Hygiene

- Sweeping at night will reduce your "blessings."

- Never sweep dirt out of your door; you will sweep your good luck out with it.

- Bathing at night is the equal of a cup of blood lost.

- Do not allow the birds to use your hair as part of their nest, as it will cause you to become confused.

Jewellery

- Allowing anyone else to wear your wedding band is an invitation for your spouse to be unfaithful.

- Buying opals for yourself is unlucky unless they are your birthstone.

- Certain specific gems (frequently diamonds) for example the Hope Diamond are "cursed".

- A bride will shed tears for every pearl she wears to her wedding.

Mirrors

- Breaking a mirror brings seven years bad luck.

- Mirrors should be covered in a household in mourning.

- Covering a mirror during a thunderstorm will keep the thunder from shattering it.

- It is unlucky for a baby to see its reflection in a mirror before its first birthday. Doing so, could cause the child to have crossed eyes or to stutter.

- Looking into a mirror over someone's shoulder will result in a quarrel between the two people.

- If a mirror falls from the wall (unaided) and breaks, it foretells of a death in the household.

Miscellaneous

- Always enter a room/building on your right foot.

- Always enter and leave a building by the same door.

- Always enter and leave a bed on the same side.

- Cover your mouth when you sneeze, your soul is said to take leave of your body in this manner. This is also why people say "Bless you" to someone who sneezes.

- Giving a wallet without money in it will mean the wallet is empty in future.

- Never give a knife as a gift (the recipient should always pay, even a penny) or it will turn on its owner.

- Peacock feathers are unlucky if kept indoors, doubly so if you purchased them for yourself.

- Step on a crack; break your mother's back.

- Sleeping late, will cause a decline in blood (cause illness).

- Sleeping with wet hair, will bring snakes to sleep with you.

- Three people on a match (lighting three cigarettes on one match) is very unlucky.

- Do not turn a loaf of bread upside down after you have sliced it.

Umbrellas

- Opening an umbrella inside the house brings bad luck to the person, and the entire household.

- Opening one under a roof, you will drown the next time you swim.

- Placing an umbrella on a bed or table brings misfortune.

- If you drop an umbrella, you should not pick it up yourself. A woman who picks up her own fallen umbrella will never marry.

- An umbrella (particularly a black one) is unlucky on a ship.

Weather

- Rain on your wedding day is considered good luck.

- Red sky at night, sailors delight. Red sky in the morning, sailor take warning.

- Seeing a rainbow, particularly one that is a complete arch, is good luck.

- Keep an acorn on the window sill will keep the household safe from lightening.

Weddings

- It is unlucky for a groom to see his bride, on the day of the wedding, before the ceremony starts.

- It is unlucky for the groom to see the bride in her wedding dress before the ceremony starts.

- It is unlucky for the bride to wear her wedding dress (other than for fittings) before the day of the wedding. If she does the marriage is said to be at risk of cancellation.

- Purchasing the engagement ring and the wedding band at the same time is considered bad luck.

- Wearing your wedding band before the ceremony is bad luck.

- Dropping the wedding band during the ceremony will doom the marriage to failure.

- A bride should never wear the colour green on her wedding day.

- A bride should throw away all of the pins from her dress and veil to avert bad luck.

- It is good luck to find a spider in your wedding dress

- It will bring prosperity to the marriage for the bride to have a coin in her left shoe.

- Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. A bride should have all these to ensure a happy marriage.

- Before she leaves the house, a bride should feed the family cat (if there is one) and look at herself, just once in a full length mirror.

- It is good luck for a bride to encounter a lamb or a dove on her trip to the church.

- On the way to the wedding, it is unlucky to pass an open grave, cross running water, or encounter a blind or cross-eyed person.

- It is important that both the bride and the groom step into the church on their right foot.

- A groom should give alms to a poor person on the way to the church and the bride give alms to a poor person on the way from the church.

- The bride usually throws her bouquet over her shoulder as she departs the reception. The young woman who catches it is said to be the next to marry.

- Brides are often carried over the threshold of their new homes as it is unlucky to enter on the

left foot, and unluckier still to trip when entering.

- Do not wear green to a wedding, it will bring misfortune to the couple.

- It is bad luck to wear black to a wedding, black being the colour of death & funerals.

- Marrying a man who's surname starts with the same letter as yours is said to be unlucky.

- The spouse that falls asleep first, is believed to be the one who will die first,

Wishes

- Wishes made on the first star seen of an evening are said to come true.

- If you make a wish and blow all of the candles on your birthday cake out in one breath, the wish is said to come true.

- Falling stars are favourite things to make wishes on.

THE TWO PHILIPPINE LEGENDS

1) CATANDUANES LEGEND

The Legend of Catanduanes 

 

There are several legends that explain the origin of the name of “Catanduanes.” One legend states that Catanduanes comes from the word “tandu”, a native click beetle that was once abundant throughout the island. “Katanduan” was the reference made of this island that means a place where tandu abound. When the Spaniards came, it was Hispanized to Catanduanes (notice the phonological similarity, except for the additional es in the Spanish version that was probably added to become a pluralist). Another story says that it comes from the word “” a tree that abounds this paradise island to which the people would call “kasamdongan”, meaning a place of

samdong.

Just like the former legend, the word was Hispanized. The phonological error traces to the Spaniards’ difficulty to pronounce certain words, particularly those ending in ng; hence, from kasamdongan and “katandungan”, it gradually metamorphosed to Catanduanes. Still some historians point that katandungan is a Malay word that means “a place of refuge in time of danger,” for indeed, this island has always been the refuge of mariners during stormy weather.

 

2) Story of a legend “Aswang” in the

Philippines”Maria Labo” Old story: Here is a common version of the Legend of the “Aswang”:

Maria Labo is from the province of Capiz. Maria Labo has a happy family she had a kind and loving husband and one son. Maria Labo was deciding working abroad in England, for the sake of her family.

She had a good employer, who treated her well, but she did not know that here employer was a vampire. In the months she was employed, Maria was a combination maid and care giver to here employer. The employer of Maria would always provide her with half-cooked liver to eat.

After months of working for him, Maria began to feel sick. She did not know that she had ingested some blood of her vampire employer. Due to her unkown illness, Maria decided to return home to the Philippines, to live with her family.

The husband of Maria was a police officer. One day, after the husband returned home from work, Maria told her husband that she had already prepared dinner. Upon which time the husband of Maria sat down to the table and asked Maria, “Where is our son? “. To which Maria replied, “Our son is right there! “. The husband of Maria did not know what she meant. He was unaware that the meat he had eaten that day was in fact their son!

Upon opening the refrigerator box, he was shocked to see the head of their son in the refrigerator. The husband of Maria was so angry; he picked up a big knife and slashed the face of Maria. Maria had big scar on her face, which is why she was called”Maria Labo”.

From that day on, Maria would stalk or hunt in many different locations within the Philippines, but her husband continued to hunt for Maria because he wanted to kill her. Whenever Maria was known to be in any place within the Philippines, all or the people tried to find and kill her, to save their own children. From those days till the present, the Filipino people gave Maria the nickname of the “Aswang”, meaning Queen of the Vampires.

OLD BELIEFS

To this day, when Filipinos attend Fiestas in their province, they will not eat Dinuguan or Bofia or Atay (Liver). Or if they choose to eat, they will first put calamansi juice on the meat because it is believed you can see the true texture of the meat. They believe that the “Aswang” may trick them into eating Aswang or human blood and apply calamansi juice to the meat first so that they cannot be tricked, as Maria Lobo was by her vampire employer did to her. *Another belief is that if you look directly into the eyes of the vampire, and they

will not look directly back into your eyes, that the individual may be an aswang.

Aswang afraid in tail of pagi

aswang is also afraid of, and/or avoids calamansi, the case of a bullet, salt (asin), garlic (bawang), charcoal (uling), coconut stick (buko) or walis ting ting (bamboo broom).

It is also said that the Aswang is afraid of oil from the province. That they have use leaves and some natural woods that scare the aswang. If you use the oil you will see and know that they have Aswang in their place because the oil will boil right in the bottle.

THE TEN EXAMPLES OF PROVERBS AND SAYINGS

1) Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a tear.

2) I would just love once to be called sexy. Just because it would make me something other than cute.

3) Don’t kill the dream – execute it!

4) Sometimes, a cute friend makes an acutely painful enemy.

5) Dolphin-safe tuna, that’s great if you’re a dolphin. What if you’re a tuna? Somewhere there’s a tuna flopping around on a ship going, “What about me? I’m not cute enough for you?”

6) I’m cute in gym shorts! I’m slim and trim, and you’d be impressed – I’ve good calves

7) You laugh at me because I’m different, I laugh at you because you’re all the same.

8) Cute is when a person’s personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up and hug them.

9) You are well-educated and you look cute, but that’s not going to cut it.

10) It’s funny that those things your kids did that got on your nerves seem so cute when your grandchildren do them.