Sarap ng simoy kapag may nagawa

Sasabihin ko na.

Masaya na ako na kahit marahan ay lumaganap at nabubuo ang wikang Filipino sa buong kapuluan ay kaibayohan.

Ang awit ay wika ng diwa, habang ang pagkain ay wika ng ating panlasa at hilig ng ating kalamnan. Itong himig at awitin na isinatinig ni Min Yasmin ay gawa at lahad ng ating mga kapatid na Tausug, Sama, at Malayo sa kanlurang bahagi ng ating kapuluan at karatig tangkay na kalupaan ng Malaysia.

Di na kelangan magpakita pa ng maraming maseselang balat sa katawan upang mapansin ang ganda ng himig. Ang wika ng diwa ay totoong tatagos sa laman, maging sa buto at pusong bato. Tiyak na makikita at maramdaman ang hatid na pawari kahit nakapikit ang mga mata. 

Tayong mga mananaliksik, manunulat, at mahilig sa pagluluto ay huwag mabahala. Tuloy-tuloy lang tayo sa pag-ambag sa adhikaing maging ganap ang ating sariling wikang Filipino. Maging ako ay hindi rin po isangTagalog pero kinikilala ko ang wikang Filipino. Ako po ay isa lamang hamak ay mapagkumbabang BISDAK (Bisayang Dako). Ang wikang Filipino ay hindi Tagalog bagama't sa ngayon karamihang gamit na salita ay sa Katagalogan. Ang Filipino ay tayong lahat. Araw-araw ang kabuuan nito ay magbabago ng bilang at anyo ayon sa maiambag at makasanayan ng lahat.

Sa mga kaganapan ko sa buhay bilang mananaliksik at manunulat ay masasabi ko na di rin nasayang ang buhay ko sa mundong ibabaw nang mabuo ko ang unang limbag ng PFCDD na siyang bumibigkis sa lahat ng WIKAIN (wika + pagkain) sa ating kapuluan. 

Di na ako magtatanong pa kung bakit napakasarap ng simoy kapag ikaw ay may nagawa.

#PFCDD #PhilippineFoodCookingAndDiningDictionary  

Huwag malimot mamahagi. Huwag malimot magpasalamat.

Photo courtesy of Gaban Teddy of FB Group "HAPPY FARMERS Tanim dito, tanim doon"

May nagsasabi dapat ay kinuha na lahat ng mga bunga bago mahinog para di maunahan ng mga ibon. Wag naman po lahat. Magtira din po para sa kalikasan. Share din po natin sa mga ibon at ibang nilalang ng kalikasan ang mga biyaya. 

Ang mga ibon ay isa din po sa dahilan bakit sagana tayo sa pagkain. Sila ang nanghuhuli ng mga uod at peste sa taniman. Kaya pasalamatan din natin sila sa pamagitan ng pagbahagi ng ilang bunga.

Nangyari yan sa kasaysayan ng China sa kapanahonan ni Mao Zedong, dating pinuno ng Tsina, kung kelan pinag-uutos niya na pagpapatayin ang lahat ng ibong maya na kilalang kumakain sa kanilang palayan. Inubos ang mga ibon sa paligid na tinaguriang Great Sparrow Campaign noong 1958.

Matapos nilang lipulin ang lahat ng ibon ay dumating ang sakuna ng peste at inubos ang kanilang palayan. Dumami ang peste kasi wala na ang mga ibon na siyang likas na nanghuhuli at nanginain sa mga ito. Nasalanta ang lahat ng pananim. Milyon milyon ang namatay sa matinding gutom na humantong pa sa karumaldumal na kanibalismo. Sanhi ng matinding gutom ay humantong sa punto na may mga magulang na kinakain na ang kanilang mga anak. At ang mga anak ay natutunan din nilang kainin ang kanilang mga magulang. Karumaldumal. Maituturing na ito ang yugto ng napakarumaldumal na kasaysayan ng sangkatauhan sa kalupaan ng Tsina.

Yan ang mangyayari kung ganid tayo o nagdadamot magbahagi ng kunti sa kalikasan. Sabi ng bibliya pati yong wala ka ay kukunin sayo.

Huwag malimot mamahagi.

Huwag malimot magpasalamat.

Related reading:

• In 1958 Mao Zedong ordered all the sparrows to be killed because they ate too much grain
• The Great Sparrow Campaign was the start of the greatest mass starvation in history

Winning the 39th Gintong Aklat Awards

The winner of the 39th Gintong Aklat Awards for the Food category is the Philippine Food, Cooking, and Dining Dictionary (PFCDD) of Edgie Polistico.

Every year, the Book Development Association of the Philippines (BDAP) accepts nominations for the Gintong Aklat Awards in the following categories: Literature in Filipino, Literature in English, Arts & Humanities, Food, Natural Science, Social Science, Science and Technology, and Inspirational and Self-Help. 

Also for this year, the "Book Design" category is again introduced for the applicant contenders to vie for, which seems to antagonize the famous proverb "don't judge a book by its cover." Lo and behold, the face cover will now win a prestigious award.

For this year's 39th Gintong Aklat Awards, the winners are:

Arts & Humanities

Winner - Bamboo Whispers: Poetry of the Mangyan

Editors - Lolita Delgado Fansler, Quintin Pastrana, Raena Abella, and  Emily Catapang

Publisher - The Bookmark Inc.

Food

Winner - The Philippine Food, Cooking, and Dining Dictionary

Author: Edgie Polistico

Publisher: Anvil Publishing Inc.

Natural and Applied Science

Winner - Fr. Manuel Blanco's Flora de Filipinas (5th edition)

Author - Fr. Manuel Blanco

Editor - Domingo Madulid

Publisher - Vibal Foundation Inc.

Science and Technology

Winner - Science Philippines: Essays on Science by Filipinos, Volume IV

Editor - Gisela P. Padilla-Concepcion

Publisher - University of the Philippines Press

Inspirational and Self-Help

Winner - Lifeline: A Layperson's Guide to Helping People in Crisis

Authors - Queena Lee-Chua, Lourdes Joy Galvez Tan, Melissa R. Garabiles, Ma. Tonirose de Guzman-Mactal, and Mary Jane Bergado-Flores

Publisher - Anvil Publishing Inc.

Social Science

Winner - Imagined Communities

Author - Benedict Anderson

Publisher - Anvil Publishing, Inc.

Winner - The World of the Manila-Acapulco Galleons: The Global and Human Context

Authors - Senator Edgardo J. Angara and Carlos Madrid

Publisher - Vibal Foundation, Inc.

Literature in English

Winner - Aimless Walk, Faithful River / The Poet Learns to Dance (The Dancer Learns to Write a Poem): Poems

Author - Simeon Dumdum Jr.

Publisher - Ateneo De Manila University Press

Winner - All My Lonely Islands

Author - V.J. Campilan

Publisher - Anvil Publishing, Inc.

Literature in Filipino

Winner - Sacada: A Catalog of Commodities From A Period Of Glorious Tumult

Author - Alan Navarra

Publisher - Visprint, Inc.

Winner - May Tiktik sa Bubong, May Sigbin sa Silong

Author - Allan N. Derrain

Publisher - Ateneo De Manila University Press

Book Design

Winner - Sacada: A Catalog of Commodities From A Period Of Glorious Tumult

Author - Alan Navarra

Publisher - Visprint, Inc.

The winning authors/publishers got the coveted prestigious trophy and their moments on stage.

Edgie Polistico with Atty. Andrea Pasion-Flores of Anvil Publishing, and Ms. Ani Almario, BDAP President.

Authors and publishers of selected finalist books were invited by the Book Development Association of the Philippines (BDAP) to the Gintong Aklat Awards ceremony on September 13, 2018 held at the Main Stage Area in Hall 1 of the ongoing 39th Manila International Book Fair (MIBF) held in the SMX Convention Center, Mall of Asia (MOA) Complex, Pasay City. The announcement of winners were done and announced only there on that day in the program.

The Opening Remarks and the overview of Gintong Aklat Awards 2018 is by Ms. Ani Almario, the President of BDAP. The Closing Remarks is by Mr. Toots Policarpio, the Vice President-External of BDAP.

In tandem masters of the ceremony are  Mr. John Jack Wigley and Mr. Segundo Matias, Jr.

From the handout copies of today's Gintong Aklat Awards programme of activities, the following  are written at the back page explaining  briefly why and what Gintong Aklat Awards  is all about:

THE GINTONG AKLAT AWARDS
THE TOTAL BOOK AWARD

The prestigious Ginton g Aklat Awards, established in 1981, is given out regularly to outstanding book publishers based on the quality of the books they produced year after year.  Managed by the Book Development Association of the Philippines (BDAP), the Awards are meant to recognize excellence in bookmaking in the country's book industry.

Book entries are judged for all-around excellence and are subjected to close scrutiny by professional panels in book quality, design, and content. Entries must merit an excellent rating in each aspect of bookmaking in order to qualify for the gold prize. A book winner of the Gintong Aklat, therefore, will have been judged not only on its contents but on its totality as a book. Contest entries are divided over several subject categories - Literature in Filipino, Literature in English, Arts & Humanities, Food, Natural Science, Social Sciences, Science and Technology, and Inspirational and Self-Help.

Meant to recognize and encourage professional book publishing as an industry, the Gintong Aklat qualifies as participants only bonafide publishers engaged in book publishing as their main line of business.

Book Development Association of the Philippines (BDAP)

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Too early to lose a young coffee visual artist

I'm saddened of Napoleon Abueva's death today. A fellow Visayan from Bohol who spent most of his life these past few years in Baguio City.

I'm saddened more upon learning just last night that VINCENT FRANCISCO NAVARRO died already in February 2016 after he underwent bypass operation for his colon and small intestine. 

The ground coffee artist while in the process of painting on the spot a huge mural on the floor of Newport Mall in Resorts World Manila. Margette and I met Vincent in 2014 when we covered the Resorts World Coffee Exhibit then.

He was the coffee art artist I'm talking about whose roots are from eastern Visayas and I thought it was him who made the cover design of F&B Report magazine (February 2018 issue) because the stroke is quite similar. Actually it was one of his parents who was from eastern Visayas (I forgot which one and where exactly in eastern Visayas). 

VINCENT FRANCISCO NAVARRO's ground coffee painting of the Last Supper (above) and of a coffee farmer (below), on exhibit at the Resorts World Manila.

Margette and I met Vincent in 2014 when we covered the Resorts World Coffee Exhibit then. What a loss. He was only 23 and was at the height of his talent and success when he died. He could have been another national artist in the making. 

Like Abueva, Vincent spent most of his life in Baguio City from a humble beginning.

Here's a reprint of Inquirer.net's article about Vincent last shot in Baguio City:

A last shot of Baguio coffee
By: Frank Cimatu- @inquirerdotnet
Inquirer Northern Luzon / 12:30 AM February 24, 2016

VINCENT Navarro sits beside Kalinga tattoo artist Whang-od. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

Vincent Francisco Navarro was the rising star of the Baguio art world. For “Re:View,” the yearend exhibit of Bencab Museum for 2015, the 23-year-old Navarro was the youngest painter selected along with National Artist Arturo Luz, Pandy Aviado, Emmanuel Garibay, Ramon Orlina, Kawayan de Guia, Rodel Tapaya, Leeroy New and Winner Jumalon.

For the exhibition, he painted a large monkey skull with wooden penis earrings, bead necklace and reversed cowries for goggles and titled it, “Where Have All the Monkeys Gone?” To welcome the Year of the Fire Monkey, Navarro said he wanted instead to show the loss of the monkeys in the Cordillera forest and how they became personal adornment.

At the start of the Chinese New Year on Feb. 8, Navarro was supposed to fly to New York to begin his residency as visual artist with the Asian Cultural Council. He wanted to study the art of the American Indians and had arranged a schedule to spend months in Washington, North Dakota and New York to learn about and with them.

Instead, Navarro had been confined since Feb. 2 for a bypass operation for his colon and small intestine. His condition, however, was worsened by lung infection so the operation did not happen. On the night of Feb. 16, he told his mother to kiss him and a few hours later, he moved on.

We call him “Baguio Beans” not only because of his lanky figure but because of his early works which are mosaics of coffee farmers using ground coffee, an offshoot of his thesis for a fine arts degree at the University of the Philippines Baguio. He then expanded to coffee mosaics of famous personalities. His coffee mosaics even earned him a brief grant to New York City.

He then started his series of oil paintings of tattered jeans and bloodied camouflage uniforms. His painting of a tainted barong Tagalog written with revolutionary text was a semifinalist of the Metrobank Art and Design Excellence (Made) in 2015.

Teaching children

He loved teaching children how to create art, working as a volunteer for the Cordillera Green Network (CGN) where he taught mud painting and pottery to children in Mt. Province, Kalinga and Abra provinces.

“I never heard him complain. He was always gleeful,” said Hector Kawig of CGN.

“He was very knowledgeable about the national art scene,” said his friend Rocky Cajigan. “He always had stories of awe about them.”

Sometimes Navarro told stories about himself. He used to accompany his mother, a ticket seller in one of the local theaters in Baguio, by becoming a “lagarista” (cinema reel porter). When the movies faded, he became a “komboy” (porter) at the Baguio market.

The past two years, Navarro was very prolific, coming out with at least five paintings a month. In his last months, he was into his insect stage, creating a huge fly with Marilyn Monroe lips on a crab carapace.

He also recreated the famous photo of the beautiful Sangley girl but with a huge moth covering her face. His last works were of intricate lace and silver plates with pedestrian food on them. He also painted children on silk handkerchief.

He was at the height of his talent and success when he died. But like a shot of strong coffee, his death will leave us sleepless for a long time.

See original print of this article here: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/767849/a-last-shot-of-baguio-coffee#ixzz579UzxXSg