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English Tagalog = Solemn

Solemn

adj.
1. Deeply earnest, serious, and sober.
2. Somberly or gravely impressive. See Synonyms at serious.
3. Performed with full ceremony: a solemn High Mass.
4. Invoking the force of religion; sacred: a solemn vow.
5. Gloomy; somber.

Tagalog = Solemno


Solemno

"Ang kalagayan dito sa Manila Memorial ay napakatahimik at solemno."
(Cez Drilon - TV Patrol World, ABS-CBN)

1. Isang pandikit na nakaka-adik amuyin.
2. Gamot sa ubo

NOTE: Wala nang gumagamit ng salitang matahimik.
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Cory Aquino: Eulogy for a Fly

Today is a sad day for many as the former president, Cory Aquino, is finally laid to rest. Though serious in its occasion, I can't help but wonder at the overrated reaction of my fellow Filipinos.

Anwyay, why so serious? God knows it just might be an eulogy for a fly.


And what do I mean about this? Let's look back to history, shall we?

Vergil's Housefly

"Publius Vergilius Maro or Vergil, the Roman poet known for The Aeneid, one of the great epic poems in history, sponsored a lavish funeral for a fly, a common housefly he claimed was a favorite pet. The funeral ceremony was held in Vergil's splendid mansion on Esquiline Hill in Rome. An orchestra was on hand to soothe the paid mourners. Many celebrities attended, among them Vergil's patron, Maecenas, who gave a long and moving eulogy to the fly. To cap it off, Vergil himself wrote several poems for the occasion and read them. The fly was buried in a special mausoleum. The entire extravaganza cost Vergil 800,000 sesterces - about $100,000.

"What motivated this funeral to a fly? Vergil may have known in advance that the government - the second triumvirate of Octavius, Lepidus and Mark Antony - planned to confiscate the property of the rich and parcel it out to war veterans. One exception was that no grounds containing burial plots were to be touched. When this law came to pass, Vergil sought exemption because there was a mausoleum on his land. Exemption was granted, and Vergil's housefly had saved his master's property."

Vergil [or Virgil], [born Publius Vergilius Maro] (70-19 BC) Roman poet [noted for his epic poem Aeneid, which tells of the wanderings of Aeneas after the sack of Troy]

[Sources: Book of Lists, p. 466]

Now, given this anecdote, a lot of ideas may spring to mind.

Cory Aquino, is she truly a hero of the people? In some ways, we can say yes. But to say she is the one who established Democracy is being a bit exaggerated. It wasn't her alone who fought the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos. It wasn't her alone who faced the Herculean challenge of revamping the constitution. Heck, I am not even entirely sure where she was during the first two days of EDSA ONE. Did anyone see her walk the street?

Tch..

Poor Enrile and Ramos. Their efforts not noted.

I do believe that Mrs. Aquino has been an inspiration to us all for she has endured such pain of raising her family while her husband has suffered and died for his belief. To call her a hero of the nation is also not so bad. However, to over emphasize her contribution to the cause is, to me, an eulogy for a fly.

For one, a lot of doubts may rise in the mind of a social critic. Is this national mourning really what it must be, or is it just a way for people -politicians, prominent people, candidates, and all - to use her funeral as means of having the people to sympathize with them? That to sympathize for what Mrs. Aquino had believed in equals the favor of the masses?

Second. What does Mrs. Aquino care now for such extravagant funeral? She's dead, and dead people won't care for the living. Goes to show that sometimes it can be the other way around.

Her time as president has passed. Her heroism, to me, is no longer valid. For the democracy that we assume she has brought us only brought equal misery. How I wonder what the farmers that direly needed a portion of her estate think of her now? How I wonder, too, of the victims of the Mendiola Bridge massacre must be thinking?

And, to think of it... What democracy?

The children of her enemies now congressmen and senators.

Those who vied to overthrow her by use of Coup De Etat are now famed politicians.

And because of Mrs. Cory Aquino, we got Gloria Arroyo.

What Democracy?

But to give the dead her due, I salute her for her conviction.
Humans may make mistakes.

But sadly, we don't need dead heroes in times like these. The examples she has done was for that part of history alone. I hope another Aquino comes very soon.

And hopefully real soon.
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English Tagalog = Exaggerate

Exaggerate
v. ex·ag·ger·at·ed, ex·ag·ger·at·ing, ex·ag·ger·ates

v.tr.
1. To represent as greater than is actually the case; overstate: exaggerate the size of the enemy force; exaggerated his own role in the episode.
2. To enlarge or increase to an abnormal degree: thick lenses that exaggerated the size of her eyes.

v.intr.
To make overstatements.

Tagalog = Exaherado



Eksaherado
(from: TV PATROL WORLD)

1. Dating superhero pero ngayon ay laos na.
2. Noon sarado, ngayon bukas.
3. Retired judge.

NOTE: Wala nang gumagamit ng salitang "pinalalaki lang ang balita"

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