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Araling Pinoy: How My Brother Leon Brought Home A Wife
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Dedicated to Mellec Computer Center Clients. Wednesday, May 13, 2009. How My Brother Leon Brought Home A Wife. How My Brother Leon Brought Home A Wife. By Manuel E. Arguilla. She stepped down from the carretela of Ca Celin with a quick, delicate grace. She was lovely. SHe was tall. She looked up to my brother with a smile, and her forehead was on a level with his mouth. I laid a hand on Labang's massive neck and said to her: "You may scratch his forehead now.". My brother Leon put down the two trunks on ...
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Araling Pinoy: Hansel and Gretel
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Dedicated to Mellec Computer Center Clients. Wednesday, May 13, 2009. Hard by a great forest dwelt a poor wood-cutter with his wife and his two children. The boy was called Hansel and the girl Gretel. He had little to bite and to break, and once, when great dearth fell on the land, he could no longer procure even daily bread. Now when he thought over this by night in his bed, and tossed about in his anxiety. He groaned and said to his wife, "What is to become of us? The moon shone brightly, and the white...
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Araling Pinoy: The Twelve Dancing Princesses
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Dedicated to Mellec Computer Center Clients. Wednesday, May 13, 2009. The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The Twelve Dancing Princesses. There was a king who had twelve beautiful daughters. They slept in twelve beds all in one room and when they went to bed, the doors were shut and locked up. However, every morning their shoes were found to be quite worn through as if they had been danced in all night. Nobody could find out how it happened, or where the princesses had been. I hardly know where I am going, or ...
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Araling Pinoy: A Dark Brown Dog
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Dedicated to Mellec Computer Center Clients. Wednesday, May 13, 2009. A Dark Brown Dog. A Dark Brown Dog. A child was standing on a street-corner. He leaned with one shoulder against a high board-fence and swayed the other to and fro, the while kicking carelessly at the gravel. Sunshine beat upon the cobbles, and a lazy summer wind raised yellow dust which trailed in clouds down the avenue. Clattering trucks moved with indistinctness through it. The child stood dreamily gazing. Presently he struggled to ...
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Araling Pinoy: The Mats
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Dedicated to Mellec Computer Center Clients. Wednesday, May 13, 2009. For the Angeles family, Mr. Angeles'; homecoming from his periodic inspection trips was always an occasion for celebration. But his homecoming- from a trip to the South- was fated to be more memorable than, say, of the others. Finally, from Lopez, Mr. Angeles wrote again: "I am taking the Bicol Express tomorrow. I have the mats with me, and they are beautiful. God willing, I shall be home to join you at dinner.". This mat had been give...
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Araling Pinoy: The Adventures of Juan
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Dedicated to Mellec Computer Center Clients. Wednesday, May 13, 2009. The Adventures of Juan. The Adventures of Juan. Juan was always getting into trouble. He was a lazy boy, and more than that, he did not have good sense. When he tried to do things, he made such dreadful mistakes that he might better not have tried. Now it happened that this was a magic tree and it said to Juan:. If you do not cut me I will give you a goat that shakes silver from its whiskers.". Thoroughly angered, Juan sought the tree ...
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Araling Pinoy: Midsummer
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Dedicated to Mellec Computer Center Clients. Wednesday, May 13, 2009. By Manuel E. Arguilla. He pulled down his hat until the wide brim touched his shoulders. He crouched lower under the cover of his cart and peered ahead. The road seemed to writhe under the lash of the noon-day heat; it swum from side to side, humped and bent itself like a feeling serpent, and disappeared behind the spur of a low hill on which grew a scrawny thicket of bamboo. The underpart of her arm is white and smooth," he said to hi...
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Araling Pinoy: The Witch
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Dedicated to Mellec Computer Center Clients. Wednesday, May 13, 2009. By Edilberto K. Tiempo. House It was through these visits that I heard many strange stories about Minggay Awok. Awok is the word for witch in southern. Seeing the three small shrimps hanging at my side she said, “You have a poor catch.”. She looked kind. She was probably as old as my grandmother; smaller, for this old woman was two or three inches below five feet. Her eyes looked surprisingly young, but her mouth, just a thin l...She e...
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Araling Pinoy: Thumbelina
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Dedicated to Mellec Computer Center Clients. Wednesday, May 13, 2009. There was once a woman who wished very much to have a little child, but she could not obtain her wish. At last she went to a fairy, and said, "I should so very much like to have a little child; can you tell me where I can find one? Far out in the stream grew a number of water-lilies, with broad green leaves, which seemed to float on the top of the water. The largest of these leaves appeared farther off than the rest, and the old to...
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Araling Pinoy: May 2009
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Dedicated to Mellec Computer Center Clients. Wednesday, May 13, 2009. Sina Damon at Pythias ay magkaibigang matalik. Sila'y nagmamahalan ng higit pa sa magkapatid. Minsan, may nagawa si Pythias na isang bagay na ikinagalit ng hari. Ang hari ng Roma ng mga panahong iyon ay isang malupit na hari. At wala itong kinikilalang katwiran. Ipinakulong nito so Pythias. Nagmakaawa si Damon sa malupit na hari, alang-alang sa kanyang sa kanyang kaibigan. Noon nagsalita si Damon,. At kung hindi na siya magbalik? Kung ...