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not all “calls of nature” come from the lavatory – this one comes from my heart. you will find in this site my musings both profane and sacred.
ME…
Full Name: Scott Magkachi Saboy
E-mail: primary - smsaboy@gmail.com, secondary – magkachisaboy@yahoo.com
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Scott,
Thanks for putting me onto you blog. I have enjoyed what I have read.
Keep it faithfully, and I will check it faithfully.
Dr. John
It’s an honor for me to put your inspiring e-site in my blogroll. Ann, the kids and I excitedly look forward to meeting you again this January!
hello bro.
how’s your spiritual quest?
I hope you continue reading Wright’s articles and books. Try to open Andrew Perriman’s website, Andrewperriman.com. I found these two scholars both enlightening and inspiring.
God bless you and your family.
jhun ma
halu bro, my quest continues and am excited about what lies ahead! breaking free from a grimy sectarian prison has been one of the most satisfying decisions i’ve made. now, more doors of learning have opened and i hope to be a more productive contributor to community development. i continue to profit from the writings of nt wright and others. thanks for the link to perriman’s site. went over your great photos in the Singaporean synagogue and in tuao. qián jìn, tóngzhì (march on comrade)!
Hello again,
First time doing my own blog. Hope you can visit. Need your comment and suggestion on how I can make it better.
http://jhunma2000.wordpress.com/
jhun
welcome to blogosphere my friend!
will email you later. jiayou!
Mr. Scott,
Cheers! I’ve just redesigned my blog, and created a blog roll. I’ve put a link to your site from my blog. Do visit every now and then, and let me know of your visit by leaving some feedback. Thanks.
SaGaDa-iGoRoT.com
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ay salasalamat etad! your new blog design makes visiting your site more enjoyable… agkaramayat!
Hello po. It was nice visiting you blog sir. I learned lots about our hometown.
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My roommate Mylene Bersamira (your student in English 1 section JA) let me read the poem “Because You Kissed Me Good Night.” It was an excellent poem… tickles my funny bones.
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Cheerio.
Hi Precious, you should also read Max Schulman’s “Love is a Fallacy” (one of our readings in Comm1).
visited your blog; feels good to know you’re keeping the tradition. keep writing!
hi! i read your site often. i am located here in baguio so most of the topics you explore here in your blog is something that’s close to my heart. i also started a blog a few months ago but i changed the title and the format so many times. i’m trying again though. hope you can visit. its at http://myobra.wordpress.com
Windows Live Writer, Picasa… You’re way ahead of me in computer technology. Keep blogging! and thanks for visiting… ganbei!
Hi! I think you’re also teaching in UP right? I’m also a UPian.
I’m currently on LOA, taking up my master’s degree in UP, hahaha… small world.
yUP!
great to know we belong to the same “human kind” hehe. am currently enrolled in the MALL prog.
i’m taking my MADS. I’m supposed to graduate this year – if I pass the comps and my thesis is signed.
I’m going back to school 2nd sem.
yakang-yaka yan kapatid! me? i might start my thesis writing 2 years from now mwehehe… that is because hebigat lessons in grad school often cross my mind so slowly that they need to dock at a space station for refuelling hekhek
hehehehe… i know what you mean. but i miss school a lot. i think i needed the challenge.
i’m a bit sad whenever i think about graduating, so i want to take another ma after this, still thinking about it though.
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salamat… nakita ko na ang post mo. talaga, naappreciate ko po.
hi sir, this blog of yours has been my inspiration in designing my own blog (it is a requirement of my MA class though). i love the topics and the ideas displayed here… if you have time, do visit my blog – flbbilanian.wordpress.com…
hope to be connected with you through my blog…
sir, do you know mam donna bito? i think you visited our office once.
hi florence, thanks for your comments. and welcome to this exciting nook in our boundless e-universe!
yes, donna and i were classmates in a grad school course. gawis ay agew mo!
Gawis ay labim Sir…
Sir, unfortunately, your message po in my blog was accidentally deleted. Can you send again one? Thank you very much…
hey scott!!!
gosh!!! and you have the time in the world to maintain a website and a blog!!!!
good for you!!! anyway, i was searching for a website for my research for cordilleran literature (for my masters,yeah, still working on it) and walah! its your website — so thrilled!! let’s keep in touch. i’ll be needing loads and loads of your wisdom with my upcoming papers. email me. met with celeste i think 2 weeks ago, thank goodness she looks fine.
rowe
surprise, surprise!!! boy, it’s been 11 years since college! after recently exchanging high fives with Berns, Ged, Celeste, Dhang, Jas, Michelle and Dennis, it seemed to me like “D Woods” is starting to be abuzz anew and I am starting to feel like an Ent heheh. now here you are. we should start planning for a reunion bigger than that huddle we had over at Chairman’s.
I haven’t tried getting in touch with Celeste for some time now after the wake. Ain’t articulate enough to give her words of encouragement, anyway, but I do continue to wish her all the best in life after the tragedy. A get-together for her sake would be great, don’t you think? Thesis? Good for you! I guess I still have a year more before I get to that part. I hardly have much time for blogging nowadays. You know how it is in the academe. I’m now going bananas over the paperwork especially that the deadline of submission of grades is around the bend huhu… But it’s all part of the fun. At least, am now back in the real academic world and I do enjoy teaching literature once again. Spent a couple of years or so doing ESL — not much challenge there. Taught at a Bible school for some time — again, not much fulfillment in an indoctrination corral where questionable dogmas are not supposed to be questioned, and imported theology is not allowed to be truly indigenized or contextualized. thanks weng for saying haler… carpe diem!
Hi there, i was wondering if you could include my blogsite to your blogroll. Check it out at http://www.kaiwcrafts.blogspot.com. It’s a blogsite about my business that promotes works by Igorot artisans. Thanks.
inpey ko et etad.
gawis ay agew mo!
i’m from kalinga, and saw your link through Sagada-Igorot. good to be here and looking forward to read more.
and thanks for visiting kabsat. i intend to upload some more AUS articles on Kalinga after my summer classes. napiya un al/ygaw no.
I really appreaciate you for your tireless effort of posting the charm of our cultural heritage in your blog. I just wish to contribute more on poetical interlude of my own native dialect ” emajukayong” for I have written some poems using our own dialect. i posted these on http://www.poemhunter.com whose readers are foreigners.
Thanks and more power,
melvin banggollay
DTI-Tabuk, Kalinga
uy mayat kabsat! agyamanak!
I read some of your works on culture and arts and it inspired me a lot. Your documentation of some of the native songs and histories of the cordillera indigenous peoples will surely become a blueprints for future writers and readers to understand the imperative of preserving our own culture as a people. I as a native of Maducayan, Natonin Moutain province by birth with a mixture of gaddang and Kalinga tribe salute those who never hesitate to share their culture and be proud of their own roots.
More power and may your tribe increase to share the culural jewels of the cordillera.
Thanks I found this interesting site! [...] Your father´s name made a great image in the Igorotlandia echoing overseas. In my several years of practice in the broadcast industry, one thing I would never trade for was meeting your father in person. He´s indeed a remarkable man with great humor! I´m glad his work continues to live within you. He´s a person to emulate and he´s an icon to the media industry.
hi there again, etad. thanks for your kind comment on Gus. may you continue to be blessed!
kinanayon ko nga basbasaen toy blog mo, been following your site. sayang lang ta saan ko nga narugian nga dagus. this year lang ak nga mjo agbasbasa ti blogs.
kumusta ngay ni auntie saboy(AMS)? Music teacher ko isuna jay TNHS from 1981-1985. Biglak manen nga malagip ta ag-choir member ak manen after almost a quarter of a century(24 yrs). We will be compteting on December for the National level during the Phil Assoc of Water Dist (PAWD) natinal convention..
Timmawagak kenni papa(ricardo olidan) idi kalman ijay Tabuk, ket kunana nga keniam kanon nga aggigian dita baguio. kumusta laengen keniana and your family too….
halu bro, kongratz!!! nagawiden bro kalpasan ti dua nga bulan iti panagyan na ditoy. talaga nga saan nga maigawid. medyo frustrating ngarud met kaniak ta kayat ko koma met nga taraknen ta ditay ammo no kaano nga mapan ta talaga nga nakapsuten. kunak ngarud kenyana impakatko met amin nga kabaelak tapno agbalin nga comfortable ditoy ayanko ngem awan latta. husto jay imbaga ni Pastor Ao-as nga ijay Tabuk ti talaga kayat ni mama pagyanan kadua na dagiti sabsabong na. kimmaro metten ti panagkabaw na, kasla adda Alzheimer’s na metten. imbag lang a ta adda ni manang ko Faith mangasasikaso kenyana sadiay. kayat ko koma nga adda isuna idi book launching mi ijay National Bookstore (SM Baguio) ngem di met nakaurayen. ipaw-it kon to laengen jay kopya na ti The Baguio We Know. Sayang ngarud ta saanmi met nga napreserbar jay kankanta na. kunak ngarud ket no makapanak ijay Diliman padasek man nga damagen no adda pay audio files da idi ageseskwela pay lang mama ijay Conservatory of Music da. anyways, idanonko ti pakumustam kabsat no tumawagak manen kenkuana. Thanks for visiting this site.
ok ngarud a. kasta met da mama n papa. nagsubli da met latta ijay tabuk. Ijay nga talaga ti biagda. saan pay siguro nga nagkita da mama ken manang faith isu nga madida pay ammo nga adda ijayen ni auntie.
cge ngarud, congratulations gayam for the launching of your book.
keep up the good work.
hope to see you. madita pay nagkitkita e. hehehe. ngm amamokan idid pay lang.
Interesting blog you have. I will have to return for more reads. And congratulations on your book!
Jim
salamat kapatid!
Hi Sir!
i am wondering if you could help me with this one. I posted this new blog about people being copycats. and i am a little confused, i just wanted to have a clear understanding about it. contradiction clouded my mind, i can’t even think straight. what are your views about it. thanks!
Here is my post link:
http://justcoolnweirdstuff.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/something-to-start-your-day-with/
hi ading KC,
we are all copycats in many ways and to some extent. mimicking is part of our natural strategy for survival, for it helps us adapt to changes in our environment. being copycats enables us to develop our skills and exercise our creativity. notice: we copied the structure and flight patterns of birds and produced airplanes, learned from the echo-location capability of bats and developed our radar systems, studied spiders and invented velcro…; we learn to write by initially copying the styles of others, develop oratory skills by partially or wholly appropriating the abilities of seasoned speakers, become fashionable by aping the style started by trend setters…
in a postmodern world where we are bombarded with a zillion of contradictory ideas and images, we become what Kenneth Gergen would call “multiphrenic” and one way we deal with this psychological disturbance is by copying from many models and developing our own style/personality/identity.
another way is to simply aimlessly drift from one pattern of behavior/personality/lifestyle to the other and thus lose our sense of rootedness, stability, and self – indicative not of flexibility, but of immaturity. an aspiring writer, for instance, who copies the styles or techniques of other writers remains a novice if s/he keeps on doing so; a seasoned writer initially borrows ideas from many other authors but later develops his unique way of expressing his ideas. in the same way, a person who keeps on aping the behavior of others makes a monkey out of him/herself: it simply shows s/he hasn’t grown.
so what do we do? just as others would advise, we must first establish our self-worth based on whatever core values we have found to be good for us especially as we relate with our fellows. at the same time, we must be able to separate the grain from the chaff; we must also be informed and discerning enough to be able to identify and critique the ideologies (network of ideas that influences our worldview) embedded in movies, television advertisements, books, and other channels of information. above all, we must be aware that whatever beliefs or worldviews we hold are, to some extent, determined by our culture, that we must hold on to something without rejecting everything else, and that the true quest for meaning and enlightenment starts from a state of confusion.
ok, I’m getting long-winded so i’d better stop. i wish you well in everything you do ading. take care always!
Sir, I got 10 words for you. Here goes:
“THANK YOU SO SO SO SO SO SO SO MUCH!”
welcome ading, and thanks too for listening to a bore like me hehehe
Cultural Ingenuity
Melvin Banggollay
Gone are the days when we display
Shyness when we are part of minority
When we are called with ingenuity
as the the peacocks of the north
wearing head gears in open court
with feathers swaying back and forth.
Today, our culture is our pride
We must show so proud with all stride
for its the essence of our own blood
never been touched by tyrant’s mud
but with our nature to learn so fast
We can be at par with anyone at last.
let us be proud that we are born igorots
When we are reared with Kalinga’s roots
When we speak the tongue of ibalois
when we have the tenure of ifugaos
When we sing the songs of cordilleran
When we lived in the mountain’s grand.
Be proud of whatever your culture’s birth
for its the reason you are upon this earth
to speak and take pride of what you are
and not to take pride of what you are not
for you can never become somebody’s race
if you’re born in Cordilleran’s breast.
Scott,
Thank you for featuring Sukimat. I am grateful.
Aurelio
Very honored to do so, sir. We look forward to reading more Nakem papers in the years to come!
HI Scott! I am now a follower your blog! I enjoy reading your inputs. Thanks so much Ü
P.S. I got to listen to Nan Layad nen Likatan and I’m proud to say that I already know how to sing the song now and my boyfriend and I can sing it together! he translated it for me too! I love it!
cool! nice to know you’re into “Igoy” music.
thanks, and happy reading Caree… 
You’re welcome Scott. Keep posting interesting topics about “Igoy” music (I didn’t know there’s a term for that til now, happy to discover a lot!) and Igorot culture. If I could, I’d love to be an Igorot too! ( I am a Batangueña ) More power to you!
PULITIKONG IBUTO KO
Melvin Banggollay
P-rinsipyo’y makatao, makadiyos, makakalikasan at makabayan
U-lo’y di lulubo kung siya ay manalo sa puwestong tinakbuhan
L-ahat ay pagsisilbihan na walang kinikilingan na sinu paman
I-sinasantabi ang sariling kapakanan para sa nangangailangan
T-ama at hustong pagsisilbi sa kapwa ay tanging kagustuhan
I-nilalaan ang serbisyo sa tao bilang panata ng kanyang kalooban
K-urapsiyon ay laban sa kanyang puso’t buong katauhan
O-ras ng kagipitan ay handa pa ring maglingkud sa bayan.
N-aniniwala na hustisiya ng katutuhanan ay dapat ipaglaban
G-aling at talino sa panunungkulan ay dapat pinagyayaman
I-niiwasan ang anu mang bisyo o gawain na nakakababang puri
B-oto’y di binibili kundi pinaghihirapan sa totoong pagsisilbi
O-ras ng panunungkulan ay di alintana kahit araw man o gabi
T-atag ng paninindigan ay ipinaglalaban kung baya’y inaapi
O-bra maestra ang pagsisilbi sa bayan bilang pamana sa lahi
K-apakanan ng nakararami ay kanyang pinangangahalagahan
O-ras na manalo ay di magpapapayaman at di sakim sa kapangyarihan.