"Who opened this?" "Me!" "Why did you open it?" "There's a lot there, just get a new one." "I didn't eat it all." "If you don't want to use a can opener, get another new can." "Open it in the way you want!" "Idiot!" "You're already 30 and you shouldn't act that way." "Is it enough for one whole day to search what I want to find?" "If you will use your heart." "Ploning." "That's what you keep saying since you were a child." "25 years have passed." "You are of the right age to start your own life." "So you must know where it is going... know where it had came from." "Search for your Ploning." "That's just it?" "This is what to look for?" "Let's go." "It's easy." "So that I can earn more before I can start to drink." "I want to celebrate." "Let's go." "You..." "You know that I am here illegally." "Today there's a town fiesta celebration that's why the coast guard is also celebrating." "Now, he will search the town." "So, bring him anywhere he wants." "But at 6 P.M. you should both return here 6 P.M. and the boat will blow it's horn 5 times  five times." "Remember it." " Remember it." " Yes." "Thanks." "I'll just gas up." "See that store over there?" "That's where you'll find the Ploning you're searching." "Just be quick." "They'll be closing the road." "What are you buying?" "Uduy!" "He might forget to pay." "That's 140 pesos, are you buying it?" "Thank you." "Manong Siloy, he is not from here." "Anyone who comes to celebrate must be marked." "All should be mischievous!" "Happy Fiesta!" "Happy Fiesta to all!" "Good afternoon, Ploning." "Good afternoon too." "Were you really sent home by 'Nay Intang early?" "Half of the day would be a waste." "Just leave it be." "You are both fortunate for making salt." "For the couple of months without rain... just think at the others without any harvest." "Besides that, the old lady will get mad." "So that you can go to the dance later." "Go on!" "Go on!" "Don't forget my Esposada." "I'll be there." "You too Iloy." "Sir, is everything fine?" "Do you know his name?" "Why sir?" "You want to beat him up?" "Sir, I apologize, but  that's our tradition here." "When there's a Fiesta you can smear anyone's face on the street, even a stranger." "And sir, that one?" "He's our Mayor here." "Do you know where he lives?" "I know sir, but could you just leave him for me." "It's really not that hard to remove." "Let's go to the town of Sulay." "Sir, mind if I ask..." "What are you searching?" "Are you from here?" "Your features are similar to a native of Cuyon." "Are you familiar with this town?" "I have a couple of friends." "I think I belong here." "It seem that it took a while to buy what you're going to wear." "Ploning took a while." "There was a lot of brittle that melted." "Greetings." "Digo!" "Do you have new clothes?" "New clothes?" "For the Esposada." "Are all of you already batchelors?" "You might get married way ahead of Ploning." "Ouch!" "That's my wound." "Why did you pinch me?" "You're picking on Ploning again." "I hope before it's all ruined from borrowing we can use all the pans here." "'Tay Susing, we'll be going now." "I am also been longing to have an Esposada here." "You're being silly again Mang Toting." "I apologize for my husband." "He's been always like that even when I was still young." "But he shouldn't be like that in front of the kids." "You all take charge on counting of those when you return." "Take good care of those." "Good afternoon, Miss Ploning." "A good afternoon too." "We'll be going now." "Take care." "Miss Nieves, why have you cooked rice?" "When did your father ever went to an Esposada?" "Do talk to him soon." "So that you won't just hear from me all the things you want to know." "I'll take charge here." "When I am done, we'll be going home." "Take a rest now." "Even our business, have also been affected by drought." "'Nay Ploning, let's open one can." "Isn't it that It's only on special occasions we can have lychee?" "When?" "On your birthday." "Why did you buy so many?" "So we can have more for important occasions." "Oh, God..." "When will it rain?" "Grandfather, if it wont rain can we drink the sea water?" "Why the sea water?" "There's a lot of coconuts here." "God will always take care of us." "Why is everybody busy with the Esposada?" "Esposada is a special occasion." "A time for relatives to know each other of the ones about to be married." "Does it mean there will be lychee?" "You are also like Ploning when she was young." "Buying lychee every-time" "Esposada is not just a feast." "It's giving up of a woman from being single." "Esposada is a sad moment." "Esposada is the happiest moment... fortheparentstosee... that there is someone will love and take care of their child." "It seems the owner is not at home." " Rodrigo is my name." " What?" "Rodrigo is my name." "Mine is Badocdoc." "What does your name mean?" "Nothing." "Diomedes is my real name." "My father's favorite is "Diomedes Maturan" (Singer)" "But in this island no one will call you by your real name." "All are just alias." "So, Badocdoc was what they called me." "It's just fine with me." "Though it's the same length as my real name." "Both sounds awful." "But if it's hard to remember, Just call me Doc." "Maybe we could eat what you're holding." " Sure, come here." " Really?" "Happy is my alias." "Digo, come here." "Your mother is waiting." "Won't you bring me along to the Esposada?" "Just look after your mother so that your brother Veling can go." "Maybe he can find a lover there." "There is where one finds a lover?" "It's good that you arrived." "Go ahead and cook rice." "Veling, is that Digo?" "Digo, help your brother." "It's almost dark and he has a lot to do." "He'll be helping at the wedding later." "Cook rice now so that we could eat." "Mother, Ploning is here!" "Good afternoon, Juaning." "He bothered you again." "You should have just sent him home on his own." "Nieves said that Veling finished fetching water." "That's why I just accompanied the child because he's a bit sad and he wants to go to the Esposada." "I insisted that Veling immediately finish all of the chores." "If I could just only stand I'll be the first at the dance." "You still can if you want." "You'll just be carried." "The visitors would all flee when they see a dancing living corpse?" "I can hear the noise." "All the people there are so happy." "I can still remember then." "Nieves was the most beautiful." "I just do understand her." "Of all the suitors, she choose Toting." "Even before," "Toting was not even handsome." "But her decision was right." "Look at them now, Toting is really taking care of her." "Your father, he's handsome, where is he now?" "Now let's have a dance by the new couple, Arturo and Ines." "I heard that Arturo knows how to dance." "Let's see if he knows the 'Suring' dance." "Let's drink up." " Good evening, Ploning." " Good evening, Ploning." "What can I do to help?" "Your about to be mother-in-law... is boasting that you are the only one who can blend... what she is cooking." "Why have you accompanied my girlfriend?" "The one accompanying Ploning is her boyfriend." "Isn't it?" "You're all full of hot air." "A new letter has arrived." "Just drop by at home." "It's good that you are here now." "Come here." "Of all the time that Tomas was away, how could Ploning remember the blend?" "Maybe when he returns, he doesn't like "Laoya" anymore." "May lightning strike me if I invite you to their wedding." "You're over reacting" "You're just jealous because your daughter-in-law... only knows how to talk to a radio." "She has no friends." "Like a mute!" "Don't be shy on adding salt." "We have a lot of that!" "Your drink, Siloy." "Look at you son." "He's been staring at Ines." "Who's been staring?" "It's Siloy." "He's broken hearted over Ines." "Why are you sad?" "Is it because of Ines?" "I was her lover before Arturo." "What happened?" "We broke-up." "She said I was still too young." "Are you really still too young?" "Compared to Arturo..." "Yes." "Why is it so?" "Why did Ines rejected me?" "Isn't it that I am at the same age as Tomas when he left?" "He was also young too." "Why haven't you given him up?" "Hey, it seem you have nothing to drink!" "Here!" "Here's one more!" "Why do you still love him?" "What does Tomas have that I haven't got?" "I looks like Siloy is really hitting at Ploning." "He said: "What does Tomas have that I haven't got?"" "You're a liar!" "Listen to them." "It hurts." "It hurts because you have loved." "And it ended when you weren't prepared." "On the love that ended, there is someone who suffers." "Isn't it much better to think that's why you have suffered more because you had loved more?" "Anger is a sickness of the heart." "Time easily passes." "The time learned on loving are the things you shouldn't forget." "That will be the reason why you will always remember the love that ended with a smile in your heart." "There's a reason for everything." "Tomas is the reason why you will be going to Manila?" "Are you going to Manila?" "I'll just be taking care of some things." "You'll be leaving me?" "Didn't I tell you, not to leave mother alone?" "You're really hard headed." "Why did you leave me?" "I remembered that we have sodas at the back of our ride." "I was thinking..." "Ouch!" "You might be getting thirsty." "but it's a bit warm and we don't have anything to open it." "It's really a festive mood in Manila because of the Manila International Film Festival of First Lady Imelda Marcos" "Visiting the country are the Hollywood stars like" "George Hamilton and Brooke Sheilds." "It's better in Manila, they are celebrating." "How about here?" "Life is hard, rice crops are not growing." "I will go to Manila when the naval boat arrives." "I will just work there." "Me too." "Manila is dangerous for young women like you." "Digo, let's go." "Siloy! "What does Tomas have that I haven't got?"" "You're just envy at Siloy." "Because he'll be with Ploning when she travels to Manila." "Here!" "Here!" "Basit is teasing you again." "If it's me, I'll beat him up!" "Leave him be." "He'll get tired of it." "We're just mischievous, not trouble makers." "When will you be going to Manila?" "Should be before the Fiesta." "I might not find a good school to attend." "Or we can wait for the naval boat." "'Nay Intang will come along with us." "He already went ahead, I've got to follow him." "Alright." "Even before I leave, you can borrow my motorcycle." "Because when you go to town your income will just end up for the fares." "Alma, have you been there long?" "Come, get up here." "I am wet because I was at the water well." "It's alright, come in." "Digo, get up here too." "Accompany Alma." "Show her the way under the kitchen." "Brother, why are you fixing the boat?" "To make it run fast?" "The speed depends on the person rowing and the wave." "If the wave is huge," "Our boat will be faster than the naval boat going to Manila?" "Why are you suddenly interested about the sea?" "You wont even want to take a dip on the sea before." "You're planning on going to Manila?" "Theres a lot of Cuyonon people that are fishermen, because they all know how to swim." "If you don't know how to swim, you're not a Cuyonon." "I won't drown you, you're my sibling." "I'll just change." "There's no need, we'll be just a while." "We'll just use the motorcycle?" "Yes, sure." "Just wait for your brother." "Hey, you." "Nevermind, I wont tell anyone." "I'm Celeste, What's your name?" "Introduce us to the beautiful lady." "You want these?" "What are you looking at?" "that I'll need a consultation paper to give away aspirins." "Or you want the already sick of malaria before giving them medicines." "There's no malaria here in Cuyo, only at main land Palawan." "You should have researched first before you went here." "There should just be malaria here... so that you would be noticed by the authorities." "Because you only have cottons and aspirins at health center." "Digo, what is that?" "A nurse gave it." "What is it?" "Medicine?" "These are vitamins." "What's her name?" "She is beautiful and kind too." "While Ploning is away at Manila," "Celeste will be your temporary walking mother." "You can have it." "What will I do with these?" "I am not sick." "I already told you that those are vitamins." "It's all yours, so that you can speak." "Open your gifts now." "I bought those yesterday from town, that's why I didn't bring you along." "Wear those at the fiesta." "Here's another, open it." "A schools uniform?" "But I am not studying yet." "Just join in their activities at school while I am away in Manila." "After the fiesta." "you will enroll at the school." "I wont study!" " Ouch!" "What's that?" " Here." "It gets hot when rubbed at a hard surface." "It came from this." "Beautiful, isn't she?" "Unfortunately she already have a child." "Why are you quite all of a sudden?" "Does she look like your girlfriend?" "I can't get married in Taiwan, I don't have any legal papers." "So you just rather have no girlfriend." "Here, look at this." " Your girlfriend?" " Idiot!" "That's my sister." "Do you know where that brittle was made that we ate?" "You want to go there?" "Go to the room of your grandfather." "Why is she here this early in the morning?" "She ran out of batteries for her radio?" "Have you ever been to Manila?" "Many times." "I envy you." "Manila is only a place for people who are searching for something... for me, I found what I've been searching for here at our place." "Why do you ask?" " You want to see Manila?" " Yes." "Here." "Get me down." "I'm tired." "Alright." "For us who are used to slow and quite life..." "Manila is confusing..." "It's tiring, uncomfortable." "Sometime because of it's noise you can't even hear yourself." "When you go to Manila, or to anywhere out of Cuyo..." "You'll understand what I am saying." "They say that woman is naughty." "Toting can't force Father to have a check-up." "Maybe he just wanted his own child to bring him there." "Anyway, when you got to Manila Susing will be here with me." "I wont be going to Manila until father's condition is not improving." "Good evening Miss Celeste." "Good evening too." "It's so happy here at your place." "It's like this when the moon is full." "Come with me." " Grandfather, this is Miss Celeste." " Good evening." "Alright, let us hear your verses." "There at our mud, a soul is sqished, can't go up in heaven, owes debt to a chinese." " I'll be going." " Alright." "Why won't you join us downstairs?" "I have to prepare snacks first." "Ploning!" "It's 'Tay Susing!" "Celeste will be staying here now?" "She volunteered." "Has 'Tay Susing condition got worse?" "It was just a mild stroke." "He doesn't want to stay in the hospital long... that's why the hospital went to him." "It's for the best, so that someone will be taking care of him." "Or because she want to stay here is because... she can't get along with the others at the nurse's quarters at town." "Just like you, having no other friends here besides your radio." "That's why you are here." "Before I came here, does Ploning always leave you here when visiting Intang?" " Yes." " Why?" "I'll just be a trouble at the salt factory." "But there's a lot of kids at the salt factory." "They are there to work and not to play." "Who is Intang?" "The mother of Tomas." "Who is Tomas?" "I don't know." "You shouldnt't doubt the goodness of God." "For many years I have been asking." "I think it's time." "Just only for Tomas." "God loves him." "You should have additional leaves for the shade of these?" "No!" "It's a waste of money." "We need the extra money for our trip to Manila." "It's better that we can be sure." "It wont rain here until Tomas arrives." "I requested that to God." "And He will grant it." "Alright kids!" "Work faster!" "Faster!" "Why wont you bring us along when you visit Intang?" "Know what?" "I met someone at the community service in Navotas... who is from Cuyonon." "His name was Tomas." "But he was re-assigned even before we got to know each other." "But I liked him." "It's very nice here where I can do field work." "I got excited." "Introduce me to Intang, I heard that she has a son named Tomas." "It wasn't Tomas of Intang that you have met." "Show me that you already learned how to swim." "He still doesn't breath on his mouth." "I still need to squeeze his nose." "Hurry up on being a teenager." "Your brother might get married soon, after attending the fiesta." "What does going to the fiesta have to do with getting married?" "You can't tell." "I met your father during the fiesta celebration." "He's not even your husband." "But he did gave me two good children." "That's why I choose to live here in Cuyo." "And Peping as my husband." "I don't want to be like you Alma, I want a husband with me everyday." "For richer or poorer." "Alma, why did you let your husband bring you to a place where... you don't know anyone." "I love my husband, if he says that I should stay here, I'll stay here." "Even if you don't understand the people?" " The radio is your only friend?" " Yes." "My husband will return here for me." "Do you believe that?" "Because I love him." "If you love someone and not being with that person everyday... and not sure if that person will return to you." "What do you call it?" "Loving." "Because someone who loves have faith." "Even when you're suffering?" "I believe that one who loves get hurt." "If you're not getting hurt, be afraid." "Because you don't know how to love anymore." "For me, I wont allow to get hurt again because I have loved." "It's just like you saying..." "You wont allow yourself to love again." "There at our place in Manambok, there's a woman who is fat, exploding on urinating," "That's enough, I'll die from laughing." "Why?" "He's afraid that you'll have a stroke again." "No one should be afraid of death." "Mostly if you know that you are going to heaven." "No matter how I lift you, I can't show you heaven." "Because heaven can only be seen by people who believes in Jesus." "Just remember this, it's very happy in heaven." " Calm and peaceful." " With yourself." "Also with God." "Why do they cry if the dead people are happy when they are visited?" "Someimes mourners are not prepared that's why they cry." "Maybe the dead doesn't belive in Jesus?" "You missed your grandfather?" "You shouldn't be sad." "Your grandfather Susing taught me to trust and believe in God." "That's why you shouldn't be sad because he is on his way to heaven." "He can now hear God?" "He will see and talk to Him." "Mother, when will you die?" "Untie him." "Have pity on the child." "He was just asking." "Have pity on the child." "He was just asking." " Were you waiting for me?" " We were about to leave." "We don't have patience to wait." "I'll bring him to the health center and attend to his wounds." "Why?" "What happened?" "Because of showing him about not being concern of death" "He asked his mother when she'll die so that he'll come with you to Manila" "Let's go." "Is it why you're far apart from your father?" "So that he would die and you can follow Tomas in Manila." "You don't know that you're wasting the true love... around you for waiting on nothing." "So, stand there till you're dried up." "Wait for that unsure love of yours lets hope that when he arrives that you're still alive and of use!" "Digo, it's Miss Celeste!" "Is she going to Manila?" "Mom will arrive soon, I'll just be the one to entertain you." "What do you want to buy?" "My boss here wants to ask something about Ploning." " Are you a reporter?" " No, just curious." "Is that so?" "You should just talk to my mother." "She really loves to talk all about her business." "She'll arriving in a little while." " Do you want something to drink?" " It's ok, I'm fine." "For me, water will be fine." "I am not asking you." "Just look at her, she's so friendly to people who are not from Cuyonon." "It's not a surprise, since she isn't a Cuyonon." "I am not friendly only with you." "I am a Cuyonon." "With that white skin?" "!" "I was born here, so I am a Cuyonon." "The color of a Cuyonon are the same as the two of us." "You need not include him, he isn't a Cuyonon." "I'm a Cuyonon." "Is your younger brother a Cuyonon already?" "Just a little while longer, he'll be able to join me on the boat." "Heard that my youngest?" "I said you're very good." "Where is Digo?" "He's here watching over the rice he's cooking." "Who's motorcycle is that?" "Siloy lend it to me." "So that someone can take care of it while he's away." "He'll be going to Manila with Miss Ploning during the fiesta." "The fiesta is tomorrow and you still haven't taken the clothes  you're going to wear." "I won't be going to the fiesta." "Brother will be going to the fiesta." "No one will watch over mother." "I don't want that!" "I wont be going to Manila." "Digo, your cooking of rice might still be undone." "Miss Ploning is here." "I know." "That's why I am reminding you." "She's only good in cooking brittle." "I'll be going home now." "Tomorrow I'll just be going to church, then I'll visit you here." "I'll bring lychee and an indigo dye." "We'll just celebrate fiesta here." "I'll be going now." "Take care." "You take care too." "Mother, Miss Ploning is going home." "Take care!" "There at our home in Cuyo, There's my one brother with no bones," "Doesn't know how to court, That's why he's wearing mask." " Mother, I'll be going now." " Take care!" "Do your best!" "Brother, just one round." "It slipped because it's new." "Brother, take care." "Don't be shy." "Whoa!" "The Alakayo is extravagant." "Good morning, Miss Ploning." "Happy fiesta." "I can't wait for the parade." "Just smear me on the face, Alakayo." "Happy Fiesta." "If I could only stand." "Happy fiesta." "(Respect Greeting)" "My youngest, cook rice now." "You don't have anyone to tease." "My youngest, let's eat lunch now." " How long have you been gone?" " 25 years to be exact." "I wasn't even born yet." " How old are you?" " I'm turning 25." "You were just born when I left." "So, you're just turning 24?" "I'm already 24, turning 25." "You should pay more attention." "Hey you, Taiwanese" "I was patient with you the whole day." "I didn't complain." "Now that you came here and met Divina you didn't just made fun of me but insulted me." " Forgive me sir." " I'll try." "If you were in Taiwan for 25 years, how come you can still speak Tagalog?" "A cook of ours taught me, and Tsuy knows how to speak Tagalog." "But stuttering." "There, we're even now." "Tsuy was the Taiwanese that adopted me." "Do you know how to speak Cuyonon?" "I've been trying to remember." "Hey, your mother just arrived." "Happy fiesta!" "It seems that you're the only oung man who isn't drunk." "And him?" "Miss Celing, he's my friend." "His name is Mou Sei." "Mou Sei?" "So, he's a visitor?" "Vinang, get this." "That was tiring." "What can I do for you young man?" "That's a long story, happy and sad." " Where do you want to start?" " From the beginning." "I like you, if you're a bachelor I'll let you court my daughter." "A Cuyonon woman is special." "My real name is Celeste." "It was 1982 when I was assigned here in Cuyonon as a nurse." "A new chapter in my life began." "It started with 4 unique women." "And how to cook cashews." " It's a fuss cooking cashews." " Too much heat, it becomes bitter." "There shouldn't be any acid taste on the seeds." "Mostly, you should scatter them before they get cold." "Among the 4 of us, Ploning was the most mysterious." "She's the one that binds us, but... it seems that we don't really know her." "First time I saw her, she was having a picnic at the cemetery." "I thought she was lonely and needed company." "I'm Ploning." "Celeste." "I was wrong, I needed her... more than she needed me." "What about this?" "You're not being careful." "Being careful wont prevent it." "Anyone who cracks open cashews gets burned." "Just like love." "Someone has to burn so that someone will taste it's goodness." "Miss Nieves is being metaphorical again." "It's just a simple burn and you never let it pass." "Ok, let's just play." "Imagine we're the seeds of cashews." "If this seed of cashew could talk, it would say..." ""If my skin doesn't burn, my meat wont be tasty."" "I liked that!" "Without a doubt!" "But since I first thought of it, I'll start." " I already have one." " Go on." ""If I wasn't weak in love, I wouldn't be strong in life."" "My turn, my turn." "Okay?" ""If I wasn't beautiful and loved a man who not handsome  I wont understand that outer beauty isn't important."" "Isn't it?" "Miss Nieves, your husband is handsome." "Alma, it's your turn." ""If I was a genius, I would never be this content and happy."" "That was so beautiful!" "That was deep!" "She beats me, I thought mine was great." " It's your turn Ploning." " Give it your best!" "You must beat what Alma said." "Let's just say that..." "If I wont stand here and cook rice, we will have nothing to eat." "You're selfish!" "Maybe Ploning was really selfish?" "Selfish on letting anyone know her." "Her heart." "She was always silent." "Always thinking." "But..." "It seems she's never sad." "She has her own world." "A world where no one else can enter." "But how did she became a true friend of Alma... and to help her on her loneliness." "Ging-Ging is growing up." "Growing up quite." "I'm so lonely." "I don't want her to experience what I have gone through." "Luckily the signal from a radio station from Ilo-Ilo can reach here." "That's the only thing that reminds me of who I am." "Tito, how could you know what I feel if  Ploning wasn't here." "I can't say to him that I love him." "Is that all?" "Let's write it down." "It's humiliating." "Siloy, is hardworking." "Though he's so quite." "That's why I can't wait for him to become a lawyer." "How could we afford it?" "On the way how you managed to have a good life through the years." "We'll all help out on Siloy's studies." "You've always been helping us." "It's enough that Siloy can just be a radio operator." "A few years from now ships will be computerized." "They wont be needing radio operators anymore." "Isn't it a good feeling to know that your child knows what he wants to be." "So what ever Siloy's ambition should also be our ambition for him." "Get Tomas to return... so that we can do for your future children what you did for our child." "What are you waiting for?" "Let's get in the water." "I really envy you." "We've been together so long and I still don't know your real name." "But I am fine knowing you as Ploning." "When I was a child I thought..." "What should I do so that people would remember me?" "That's why I liked my name..." "Celeste Razon, so that it's hard to forget." "That's why I've matched my behavior with my name." "When I arrived here in Cuyon I realized that..." "I never had an alias." "My life in Manila was impersonal." "Just look at whom I'm with in Manila." "Mister Guard, Mister Driver, Miss Saleslady, Miss Laundry Lady." "What's funny about it is that Mister Guard had been 10 years... guard at the apartment where I live." "Mister Driver was a taxi driver that I took a ride only once." "But I call them all the same." "Does it mean that... they're all have the same value in my life?" "That's why I want to have an alias..." "The people that I will love and will love me will call me by my alias." "And the people will know me by my alias until death." "You're very precious... to Alma, to Siloy, to Nieves, to Toting, to Juaning, to Digo," "and to 'Tay Susing." "Maybe that's why people around you never noticed the absence of rain." "Because you're as precious as the rain for them." "Why is Plonging wearing white?" "She's not crying, while other people are all wearing black." "Balugo is the alias of Tomas." "Eversince Tomas was gone..." "I always saw Ploning holding a balugo wrapped inside a hanky." "Maybe it was her way of remembering... or to forget." "But on how tight she held it, that's how tight her lips are." "She tells no one about what she feels." "Did you ever ask her?" "I am just a noisy person, but I respect people who wants privacy." "Ploning is a child who doesn't cry." "On the day Tomas left, she didn't cry." "Even when her mother died she didn't cry too." "So I wasn't wondering why she didn't cry a while ago." "What could be the reason?" "Once I already asked her that." "She said everyone has a reason for crying." "I pitty her." "Why would you pitty her?" "It isn't how loud a child cries on a parent's burial means they are good." "It's really an irritating and deafening silence." "Ploning's silence is deafening, she's the type of woman I don't want to be." "Why didn't you say anything?" "I don't want my happiness to be another ones sadness." "You are not defending yourself, there were a chance that you... you could have explained yourself." "I don't believe in chances." "The best defense is to have time judge the heart." "Maybe that's why I am mad at you." "Maybe it's because I'm pregnant." "All my life I have damned women like you." "I don't want to look weak." "Even if I got pregnant without a husband just to prove  that I can manage." "I thought I can manage." "Who is the father?" "Don't worry, it not you." "It's getting crumpled." "Digo made this?" "Maybe that's why I was driven to come here in Cuyon... so that I'll learn to be a mother from you." "Can I have this?" "So that I can remember this night." "In why sometimes, there is more truth said in silence." "I'll just close everything I left open, and will return with my whole life in this bags." "When you return we'll have an alias for you." "Are you really sure about what you're going to do?" "It's a jump from a cliff." "Remember that you're not a simple woman." "Only 2 things can happen to people who jumps cliffs that believes God." "He catches them, or teaches them to fly." "That's why I returned, brought the whole me." "Ready for a more beautiful start." "I returned on the night before the fiesta." "With just one bag and a simple prayer... that I could learn to a real mother that is faithful and have no doubts." "On that moment I returned, I was ready to love." "I was ready to trust." "I'll try hard to be like Ploning... in thoughts, in words and in ways." "Help me!" "The salt!" "Happy fiesta!" "Happy fiesta!" "Celing!" "That's what Ploning told me, Celing is now your alias." "A happy return, Celing." "Hurry!" "Hurry!" "The salt!" "The salt are ruined!" "It's a waste!" "Hurry Ploning!" "A tricycle!" "Help!" "Help!" "Help me!" "Help!" "Help me!" "The salt!" "Have pitty on me!" "Help me!" "My salt!" "Why is it?" "Why is it when you give me something," "You take it away without me knowing it." "Why are You selfish to me?" "What sin did I do to you?" "Why are You punishing me?" "Even before my child became a young man..." "I sent him away so that... no one will pitty him in this island  of the weakening body of my child." "I always reminded Tomas... that he would always pray to You because of what I feel." "If would be the one to ask, You never listen!" "I never saw my child alive again!" "I was never wrong." "I was never wrong." "Now..." "I asked again from you for my son, that you would bless me to have enough... with this salt." "So that I could go and get the bones of Tomas!" "So he could be buried properly." "If that had happen... it would be easy for me to accept his fate." "You're a liar!" "You're a liar!" "You God!" "Watch the return to nothing of your false blessings!" "If it's true that You understand..." "Try to understand this!" "I can't accept that Tomas is dead!" "And for sure that I cannot accept that You are the true living God!" "The first time I saw her at the cemetery I thought I saw... a woman who is all alone." "Someone who is sad." "The person who was there at that time  is a woman who is praying hard  and thanking God  for the sad and happy moments that happened to her life." "Digo was born on the day Tomas died?" "Maybe that was God's way so it can be easily accepted and forget." "Have you already forgot him?" "That love ended a long time ago." "It's a shame to God if until now I haven't forgotten about it." "And Digo?" "Loving." "That's the only thing that binds me and Digo." "Why didn't you say something?" "I don't want others' sadness to be others' happiness." "After the fiesta, we've been together at the cemetery for many days  and just stayed there, feeling the help that God gives." "Silent." "Days of sadnes, days of happiness." "Days of being thankful." "Those days are special, do you still prepare lychee?" "I've search for the bamboo boat... then a Taiwanese boat found me." "But they could not return me because they were being chased." "You are Digo?" "Forgive me, I never meant to say those to Ploning." "I just wanted her to cry that's why I've hurt her." "It's not me that can make her cry." "Grandfather, why are you washing?" "This is the dress of your Ploning." "I sent her this as a gift on her 16th birthday." "But a few days after her birtday there was a night that she never went home." "This was what she was wearing." "Since then so distant" "her feelings towards me." "And I've never heard again the laughter of my child again." "That is why you are washing it, so that Miss Ploning would laugh again?" "I hope on doing this." "her feelings will again come back towards me." "So taht she'll feel that it's up to her to forgive me" "no matter what had happen." "Father." "Even if you are scolded by the elders, wear this on my burial." " She's not laughing." " I'll go and comfort her." "If I've taken care of that boat for a long time what more towards my child." "Thank you." "Sir!" "That's the sound of your boat!" "You might get left behind!" "I'll just go over to our boat." "I'll return immediately." "Your photograph!" "I'm just going to say farewell to my colleagues and return immediately." "We'll visit Miss Ploning!" "Thank you." "By the way, that night after me and grandfather finished washing... we buried at the base of the stairs the seed of the Balugo plant." "Here, that came from the old house." "Digo is the name of your passenger." "What is your Ploning?" "It's a woman, a very wonderful woman." "God gave you what you've been looking for because... your heart is ready." "We will meet again." "I promise." "Not like this again, Tsuy is... going to be legal and a lot of papers." "Because I'm tired" "Always hiding, always searching, always chasing at the sea." "Nature." "Nature... will forgive Tsuy, because... will now return... will now return the most beautiful catch from the sea." "Eat this." "Every-time you miss me, eat that." "Tomorrow it's all gone, I'll eat it all." "Little by little only, when it's all gone we will be together again." "Alright." "Go on, go on." "So that I can eat this." "Just little by little." "Your money are inside your bag." "So that you can't spend it." "You were not treated as a slave." "The reason I kept you money from the start..." "I didn't want to give it all to you because... because you'll spend all your money." "You'll be buying and buying and buying and buying  canned lychee." "I love you Tsuy." "Thank you very much!" "There's probably many things changed in Cuyo since you've been gone." "A place never change, it's people." "People change." "People also decides if it's for the good or bad the changes will be." "Did he got hurt?" "No, he's fine." "He's just too mischievous, I apologize." "Didn't I remind you to never smear indigo dye on your face." "If father sees this, he'll tie you to the cashew tree." "It's alright, it's fiesta time." "Father doesn't want to have a fiesta." "Because during fiesta time when his brother died at the sea." "Our father blamed himself for his brother's death." "Since then, father never celebrates the day of fiesta." "That's why we just stayed here." "Brother." "I just had a visitor." "You've probably been searching there to where you are at." "He's not there, he's still here." "He is still the same sensitive Digo of yours." "Digo and my daughter seems to like each other." "It looks like we will be in-laws." "Please help me." "I don't know how to finish your story." 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