"[Voice-over] Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the Republic of the Philippines" "Our soldiers have confiscated these immoral and subversive books and have burnt them immediately." "Along with those paintings of worthless and irresponsible painters." "We will burn all of these works." "There's also a lot of "evil" and destructive films that has been confiscated and will be dumped in due time." "We urge the Filipino citizens to be more vigilant." "You, ...are the best watchdog." "We cannot allow such lonely elements to destroy the gains of the new Philippines." "[TV Reporter]You can see Coach Administer Adan Calumba, who've started the cleaning and as we can see, is also the one who's tearing up the pages of the books." "After watching this footage, ...the minister commended the Ministry of Culture and the Armed Forces for their good work." "Their vigilance." "He said, "the real heroes are those who have decency of spirit."" "By the way, Minister Calumba told us, ...there will be more burning or dumping of these decadent works." "[Voice-over]Here, our fellow countrymen, is a part of an interview made by the Foreign Correspondent, Kristina Karlov to the dictator." "Ms. Karlov has been missing for three months." "It was an insider from The Malacañang who have given Radyo Aklas this tape." ""The interview took place last October 11, at the Dictator's Office", said the insider." "The day that Kristina Karlov was declared missing." "Now, let's listen to it..." "[Karlov] Are you planning to hold an election soon?" "[President] No, I don't think we need that now." "When will you restore civilian rule, then?" "I have no intention of relinquishing my position." "The Filipinos need me." "I have a covenant with the Filipino people." "That is a commitment." "I will not abandon them." "They need me." "What happens to your country's democratic traditions?" "We have the best democracy now." "The people are very contented." "They trust the institutions, ...they trust my leadership." "When will you re-issue permits for the operations of other television and radio stations?" "[President] Soon [Karlov] When?" "I cannot determine that now." "As I've said the cultural arm of the government is very much. in the process of, uhm evaluating the validity of giving permits to new networks." "But sir, I understand, these are not new networks." "They've been operating for decades before you took-over." "They are undergoing evaluations, Ms. Karlov." "The process is quite delicate." "We have to protect the interest of the masses." "You see, the owners of these networks are the old, decadent, rich sector of the Philippine society." "[President] And the religious sector..." "[Karlov] There have been reports of mass arrest." "Next question please." "Benjamin Tejero; painter, national artist, has been missing" "[President] I did not know that." "[Karlov] He is one of the strongest voices against your leadership." "Last month, the body of novelist, Gregorio Tugon, was found floating..." "I am ending this session Ms. Karlov, thank you." "Get that crazy woman out here." "Yes, sir." "[Screen Text]The Philippines has been under Military Junta headed by General Cyrus Racellos." "The nation is under Martial Law." "The Junta has been in control of the only TV station, radio network, and newspaper publication." "The threats on the Junta's stability by Col. Benjamin Castor's Brown Army has been going strong." "And there is still an on-going revolution by the People's Liberation Army and Muslim sessionists." "[Miguel] How are you?" "[Hesus] I'm fine." "[Miguel] I would like to congratulate you and your cell." "This would be short." "But before I say what I have to say I would ask you to stay calm." "Promise me, you will." "No emotions." "We will just use our brains." "Hesus kill all your cellmates." "[Hesus] What?" "!" "[Miguel] You heard me." "You're not deaf." "[Hesus] Why's that..." "[Miguel] There's a worm among them." "And we're not sure who." "Your cellmates are now too intelligent and good." "[Hesus] But, it would not be rightful if all of them..." "[Miguel] Hesus, that's an order." "But, why me?" "'Cause, you know them better." "They are like my brothers, you know?" "!" "No emotions." "Assemble them in a meeting at our safehouse in Tanay." "Leave the bodies." "We'll take care of them." "But, can I, at least, have some moment to know who among them..." "There's no time, Hesus." "The Committee has made up their mind." "There's a need for a sacrifice." "15 of our leaders have been destroyed a lot of us has been caught the Mindanao Committee has been destabilized." "In Visayas, a lot of them are surrendering." "The Movement will be destroyed." "I will know who among them." "I'm telling you: we're running out of time." "There are worms around." "We're in wide-range cleaning." "Be strong, Hesus." "These times are great tests to our revolution." "Don't look down;" "look at me." "Do it quick." "Hey, it's already 8:30 I thought our meeting would be at 7:30?" "Let's wait for Old Miguel." "The Junta is planning to finally hold national elections next year." "Actually, it's just a show." "For sure, it would be their men who will win." "And Gen. Racellos would remain as the nation's President." "It'd still be Martial Law." "Is it true that Col. Castor's group will stage a coup?" "And they have high supports from the church and the business sector?" "Well, the threat is always there, but they can't." "Racellos' monitoring system is too heavy." "In fact, in a couple of weeks they might get Col. Castor caught." "And identify his inside men." "There'll be a big crack-down." "Even with the businessmen and political leaders who supports Castor." "Even church leaders." "There's a lot of activities, guys." "Good for us." "What really is our agenda for tonight's meet?" "It seems like, Miguel would not come..." "It's Hesus who have called us here." "It's not me, it's Miguel, he just told me to organize it." "How's life in the squatter's?" "Hesus is now used being with our poor citizens." "The Poor Boy Warrior from Bicol will inherit the Kingdom." "The Poor Boy Warrior is number 3 in the Junta's wanted list." "In the whole country." "That would make this cell really special." "It's really superior." "Do you know that, the Mindanao Committee has been paralyzed?" "Worms..." "Will Miguel really come, Hesus?" "If not, this would be his first ruined attendance." "The organizer is late?" "The teacher is absent?" "Why is that so?" "Will somebody please try and call him up?" "I still have work tomorrow." "Are we fighting a revolution here or what?" "Just stay cool, Lucia." "Lucia's really impatient." "Sorry." "It's just disorienting that it's Miguel who's late." "When in fact, he's the one who is strict in those matters." "Don't worry, he'll come." "What's the plan, Hesus?" "Will there be an ambush?" "How's labor organizing, Lucia?" "We have a hit?" "It's hard, of course, especially when those Junta dogs are watching." "No labor organizing; no strikes." "[Hesus] I don't know with Miguel." "In five months, we're gonna paralyze that Facist company." "Five months?" "Cool!" "You really are my hero, Lucia." "*chuckles* Fool." "Hey!" "I've heard that!" "I'll put you in jail, Lucia." "You'll never get me alive, Lt. Cordero." "How stupid of you to believe in my stories." "How could I organize, if I could nearly lose my head." "As you know, they have spies even in those farmers." "She's got a point." "You know, ...I love this safehouse." "This is where we're formed." ""Miguel Reynante's Finest Cell."" "That's right." "The Movement's Finest Cell." "We are the future of the revolution!" "Are you alright?" "Hesus.... why?" "[Miguel] Hesus..." "[Hesus] Mang Miguel!" "[Miguel] What happened?" "[Hesus] It is done..." "[Miguel] Haven't I told you not to call me?" "!" "[Hesus] I've been shot!" "[Miguel] You should leave immediately." "[Miguel] They would kill anyone that they would find alive in there." "[Hesus] Why is that?" "!" "Why haven't you told me earlier?" "[Miguel] Don't ask!" "Just leave." "Go directly to Dr. Subido." "Or call him and tell him where you'll stay so he could come." "Go on!" "Hesus!" "He must live." "Sir, I can't assure that to you until he wakes up." "He must live, Doctor, Lieutenant." "I'll try my best, sir." "How's your wound?" "It's fine now, sir" "Lieutenant, when will he wake up?" "It's been three weeks already." "I don't know, sir." "It might be later tomorrow, or next month." "Will he ever wake up?" "There's a greatt chance, sir." "Brain's not been damaged." "I will help you wake him up." "I know that kid's history." "Revolution and music are his interests." "Poetry is his passion." "[The Jerks] A poem for a poet a land on fire." "There's a song of freedom and there's a warrior." "A suffering mother and is drowning in tears." "A child is a hope waiting for the morning." "[Radio Voice-over] This is your Auntie Sarah..." "Our next letter is from JM of Iloilo." "Dear Auntie Sarah..." "I'm sure you've already noticed that I'm an Ilonggo because of my address..." "Actually, it's my bestfriend's address, not mine." "I'm just playing safe auntie, for my situation's sort of dangerous." "I hope you understand..." "Anyway, Auntie Sarah..." "My story have started when I met this girl... that I would like to hide in the name of "Chicken Fox."" "She's a daughter of a Haciendero..." "I'll read your poem..." "Listen." ""In the memory of my Country"." "December 30, 2009" "Cabatuhan, Camarines Sur." "My morning has been kissed" "Unexpected touch of dews from December's first rain." "The owl's have been captivated and disturbed." "In a lonesome tree at the back of our old hut." "Blinded by the light, and flapped it's left wing to the remaining pillars that has been aged because of inhibition." "The owl's suddenly fell and ran out of breath through the sharp grass blades in the backyards of my innocence." "There was where my mother sung to me her tireless lullabies before she's been occupied of the uncertainties of her dark "Sarong Banggi"'s." "And here, I've waited for my father's graceful calls." "Dawns when he's been at the promises of our ricefields." "He will get down from the back of our old Carabao." "Then, he'll throw me, let me fly then catch me to his arms." "And then he'll say, "How's my Child?" "Here's some ripe Guavas."" "Then, he'll touch the cheeks of my mother's smiling face." "Then, he'll take off his sweat-smelling, and sunburnt shirt and then he'll say," ""Crush some tomatoes, ...put some bagoong and six pieces of chili."" "Before he was drowned of injustice." "In the dinner... in our wooden floor," "Camote leaves was always served grilled eggplants, and boiled saba." "Inatsarang papaya... spicy laing, and grilled catfish." "The half of the fish is for me that if lucky enough, I could dip it into the red ketsup." "Even more, ...I could dip it into the creamy Liberty Evap." "I want to understand what are the worries of the departed owl." "Does it know the story of the land where it died?" "Have it witnessed the daily struggle of the people who've lived here before?" "Have it counted the tears of my father when... my mother was beaten by sickness?" "Can it answer the questions of a child who is wondering about his mother's departure?" "Can the owl prove me wrong when I'd say that, poverty is the root of my mother's sickness and of other mothers?" "Would it disapprove if I'll put into discourse all of the roots of the poverty in my country?" "Would it complain if I would shout the sickness of my country?" "I was woke up by the chuckles of the children playing with slingshot they've ran suddenly after I got up.." "The angry rain has stopped." "The sun's rays are burning... ..that hits my shoulders." "The owl is now gone... from his resting place." "The cries of the babies.." "...are the only sound that slices the silence." "I can't sit and rest again at the muddy soil the way I did when I was a child." "A grass leaf sliced through my cheeks." "The heat of the rush of blood is bursting." "Like imprisoned souls..." "Like forgotten memories..." "As the cries gets louder it retains to my memory" "I could hear a laugh..." "And so are a lullaby." "Welcome to the world Hesus." "I am Col. Arnold Simon." "You are in a military safehouse." "Get well soon..." "We have a lot to discuss." "There's a lot that you need to tell me." "And I also have a lot to tell you." "Hilda." "Based on our worm's report..." "You're one of the best" "Brave, sharp-shooter, dedicated..." "I salute you, child." "We've been informed that lately, you've been involved to that cell which made the biggest ambushes and assassinations." "And, you own the big hits." "Gen. Picache," "Cong." "Jamora." "And Nelson Chua, the drug-lord." "The Billonaire Luisito Perfecto and Lt. Parol." "That duel's classic." "I know Lt. Parol..." "One of the great-ones we had." "One of the great warriors." "Yet, you've beaten him... wow." "Until now, people still talk about your fight at Cubao." "Legendary." "I talked to one of the survivors he said that he saw completely your battle there at the Araneta Colleseum." ""Fearless"." "Thats what describes you." "The best combat ever." "But, did you know... that in the whole military establishment, they know that I am better than Lt. Parol." "In anyways..." "Even in brains or in combat..." "That son-of-a-bitch is overrated." "Taking boasting aside..." "Well... now I know your background." "Now I know where does your courage and intelligence came from." "You're a farmer's son scholar, ...orphaned." "Musician poet, revolutionary." "An extraordinary warrior." "Well I need to give you an update..." "You're comrades are still in search for you, I just don't know if they would like to save you or kill you." "We've searched over Prof. Montez' car." "Then, left it on the street." "Based on our investigations..." "The bullet that killed all the victims of the Tanay Massacre was from a single gun... and that came from... your gun." "Prof. Montez..." "Lt. Cordero." "And the labor leader, Lucia Sarmiento." "And the businessman, Eddie Tevez, were all members of your cell." "Miguel Reynante is your head-organizer, right?" "You killed them..." "And the other four victims outside the cell." "...right?" "You killed them!" " [Hesus] I never killed anyone - [Col. Simon] You were alone!" "You killed them, then you collapsed." "Based on your rules, if something like that happened, only two things might be done:" "kill you, or hide you" "You left your cellphone and your gun." "Kid I know what's happening in the movement." "In your movement." "You kill each other off because of those worms that we've planted." "The movement's gone, kid." "There's no revolution." "There's no revolution." "But I know that you know what's happening in our military establishments: we too kill each other off." "Thanks to Col. Castor's Fucking Brown Army." "There's anarchy and chaos, there's no order." "There's no order in this country." "Chaos will explode." "What we call "Filipino Apocalypse" is coming." "People will die there will be displacements, a lot will lose their minds." "This republic is being destructed piece by piece." "We need to move..." "The only thing we could do... is to strengthen the position of President Racellos." "It must be done immediately." "We need time..." "There'll be coup d'etat, kid." "Join us." "I'll make you an agent." "I'll give protection to all of your relatives." "You're still very young." "Use your intelligence." "If you use your brain you'll survive this hell." "I'll become big in the military..." "I'll get to the top." "Promise, I'll take you there..." "I'll take care of you." "As if you have other choice." "I can kill you now if I want to." "You're life is in my hands, kid." "I can do to you anything I want." "And no one will know." "Except torture." "That's not my style." "I salute you." "That's why I'll gamble on you" "Because I respect you." "Let's work together." "We will go places." "I Promise." "Fuck you!" "[Guards] From where we've been the other night..." "...there's none." " On your table again" "And... there." " But... it's been a long time since." " Yeah, we're short again in cash." " Hey!" "There they are!" "Right, c'mon." " I never thought that these 3 were together." " Oh!" "That guy's here!" " Ferdie!" "Hey!" " You're fine?" "Cigarette." "Here, here." "We got plenty of them." " Here Dude!" " Hey, can you lend me some money?" " Got nothing too." "You know how our lives do, right?" "[Indistinct conversations]" "What's that?" "!" "Make sure that they're all dead." "Yes sir!" "This is my gamble." "This is what I call:" "Col. Simon Gambit." "I'll let you go." "No talks." "But remember:" "you owe me your life twice." "First, was when we're at the hospital.." "You were dead, but I resurrected you." "The second was here." "You were dead, I resurrected you again" "Let's just say, that you owe me..." "But when the time comes that you'd forget..." "I'll say to you, that I'll come to collect your debts." "But it is not important at all..." "The important thing here: you've come to know me." "I'd like to say to you, Hesus..." "I also love this country." "The redemption of the people is also my aim." "We have one goal." "We just embrace different ideologies." "Move fast!" "That's the car..." "Here's the key..." "This is my contact number... memorize it." "Remember: you are only talking to me." "There's a gun, clothing and money underneath the passenger's seat." "Take it later on when you've gotten far from here." "You'll be on the news again tomorrow, Hesus." ""You've killed 10 soldiers in this mansion."" "You'll be even more of a legend, kid." "You're smart you know what's right for you." "Go on, Hesus." "Go!" "You're ID, please." "I have none." "Get out of the vehicle and go in the line there." "[Singing Lupang Hinirang]" "Very good!" "You are a good citizen, dude!" " [Man] Thank you sir." "Very good!" "Ok, now, enough about talking, just sing!" "♪ Bayang magilyo ♪" "What magilyo?" "!" "It's magiliw!" "Sing it!" "Magiliw!" "...magilyo." "Again!" "Are you making a fool on me?" "!" "I'm sorry sir I really don't know how to pronounce." "Really?" "All right, then magilyo, it is!" "Sing!" "♪ Bayang magilyo... ♪" "♪ perlatch ng chilanganan ♪" "♪ Alab ng pucho ♪" "What's this "perlas ng chilanganan"?" "What "pucho"?" "!" "Are you making fun of the National Anthem?" "!" "I am not sir!" "This is really how I pronounce!" "Fool!" "Go!" "Drag him!" "Next!" " Good evening." " [Lady] A good evening to you, sir." "Why didn't you bring your ID?" "Sir, I forgot my ID because my husband and I are in a hurry." "We've rushed our kid in the hospital." " Got any notice from the town hall?" " I also have none." " Not also?" "!" " I have none, sir..." " I'm very sorry sir." " You are so irresponsible" "You know that there's a curfew." "The ID's a requirement." "And that permit from the town hall!" "Sir, I have here a note from the hospital..." "I don't ask for that." "I'm really sorry sir." "All right, then sing the National Anthem." "Sir, I don't know how to sing." "Lady, we'll bring you to the camp, if that's the case." "You'll be in jail." "Then, you'll sweep the roads and government offices." "And it'll be broadcast over the tv." "What now?" "♪ Bayang Magiliw... ♪ Perlas ng silanganan... ♪ Alab ng lahi..." "What "Alab ng lahi"?" "!" "Its "Alab ng puso"!" "again!" "Sing!" "♪ Bayang Magiliw... ♪ Perlas ng silangan..." "What's the matter with you, huh?" "!" "What's the matter with you!" "What kind of Filipino are you?" "!" "You don't even know the National Anthem?" "!" "Bring this to the camp!" " Your ID, please" " Here" "Let's go!" "I'll just take a look on this, ok?" "Ladies and Gentlemen, the President of the Republic of the Philippines." "My fellow countrymen..." "A liberating day to all." "I'd like to announce the success of our office's campaign against the criminals, the Brown Army." "Their last forces are now in the hands of the government." "Col. Simon has also killed Col. Gastor, the bandit... ..during their last confrontation." "Last August 8, at Santa Mesa." "The only obstacle that's left on our ultimate progress... is the sure fall of the forces of the People's Liberation Front." "Most of the Mindanao Committee has already surrendered." "Meanwhile... we've also captured the members - most of the members... of the Luzon and Visayas committee." "And, in no time we'll capture them all." "Which includes the bandit, Hesus Mariano." "Good morning to all." "Add some more..." " It's fine." " Add some more!" "The hut's burning, Hilda." "Come on!" "Hurry up!" "Hello, Mang Miguel" "Hesus, I've been waiting for your call..." " [Hesus] Didn't you know that I'd nearly got killed at the base last night?" "!" " [Miguel] You've encountered them?" "They also attacked me at the hotel!" "Were you hit?" "Nothing serious." "How are you?" "Hesus, let's meet." "I'll be the one to tell where and when!" "Don't you trust me?" "You're getting wise, Hesus." "Ok, it's your call." "We really need to talk." "I'll wait for your call." "Is Tacio there?" "Wait here..." "Tacio!" "Someone's looking for you!" "Hey Dude!" "My Man!" "Come here.." "Here's my new studio." "Ain't it cool?" "You're still good." "You never stop." "Why would I stop?" "I don't need to." "Here's my new works." "New medium, new form." "More fearless." "Got some new rhymes?" "No time to do some." "Time..." "There is always time, especially for someone like you!" "Dude, you're book's now a classic." "Like Noli Me Tangere, and the nation is waiting for your El Filibusterismo." "You know, I feel like a false." "Why?" "I've killed my comrades at the cell." "So the rumor's true." "Yes." "[The Jerks] History's just repeating itself." "The world's just spinning round in the darkness." "Here." "Dude..." "Can I borrow a lighter?" "Sleep now my child, Daddy's sleepy." "Sleep now." "Sleep now." "Here..." "Sleep now my baby." "You're not allowed in here." "Let's go to the bridge." " You would never get rich if there's some bad luck in your life" " You said so" "Just look at me..." "I never changed." " Can I buy some shampoo?" " How many?" " Hey!" "It's growing moss now!" " Ok, I'll drink it." "My wife talks too much..." " saying that I always drink." " Now taste this one." "Give it to him." " Is Berto in his house?" " [Hesus] Thanks." "I don't know why I can't catch up with that person." "You know why?" "Because when his wife tells him to go home?" "He will." "But us, we're not like that even when our wives shouted at us." "We are the man, right?" "We should be the one to command!" "We're the one's who work." "They always talk and talk..." "Even if they nag all night, we would still be in power." "Gives importance to the future." "Hard-working." "Nationalistic." "God-fearing." "The progress is in the Filipino." "The new age is within the Filipino." "You are the New Filipino." "You can do it!" "I now officially end the training session of this cell-group." "You are now in-lined with the other cells of the revolution." "You are now Warriors of the Nation." "Lucia Sarmiento;" "Labor Organizing." "Carlo Montez, you'll be a professor." "Eddie Tevez; business sector." "Delfin Cordero; the military establishment." "Hesus Mariano; you'll reside together with the urban-poor." "I have high hopes to this cell." "Congratulations." "Long live!" "If you are listening Pedring, here's Auntie Sara's advice." "Dear Pedring," "I know that it is hard to be away I understand how you feel." "It's true when you said that there's a lot of sacrifices in your decision." "And it is sad that even your relationship with Jena has to end." "What ever might happen... don't lose hope." "Let time heal the wounds." "Never forget to ask God for strength." "And remember, I'll always be here." "your Auntie Sarah... of Radyo Maharlika, the nation's radio." "My dear friends... that's the letter from Pedring... of Ilocos, he is now based in Morocco." "I feel heavy." "What happened to Pedring is sad, isn't it?" "Anyway, the show must go on." "Hesus!" "You're making me proud, Hesus!" "The poor is following you quietly and blindly." "If all the kadres are like you, the revolution's dream will come true." "You're a hero of the new age." "What's the committee's verdict, Mang Miguel?" "Do you know that, at this moment, Col. Castor's Brown Army is attacking Malacañan and other key places in the country?" "We will join the war." "The Brown Army and the People's Liberation Front has a tactical alliance." "Here comes the rock 'n roll, Hesus!" "What's the committee's verdict, Mang Miguel?" "!" "Well, I'll be honest with you." "Death," "Without any investigations or trials?" "!" "I've been telling you, these times are different." "The time's damned!" "The Movement is being divided!" " That's because it's wrong to kill a lot of comrades!" " It's difficult to judge when it's all currently happening." "Only time will tell." "Hesus, if you'll survive this stage; one day, you'll look back and you'll know that this is one of the realities of the revolution." "Events repeat it self." "You know that this has happened during the 90's." "During the last millenium... you know that this has happened at 1898." "The revolutions eat their own children." "You know that, right?" "Hesus?" "You're a historian!" "Why do we have to do it again?" "Who will stop the world from spinning?" "You?" "Me?" "The revolution has no face." "We may know what we are fighting for but we don't know what will be it's shape." "Here we go again: the student and the teacher." "I know that you are ready to give an argument, Hesus." "I don't want to because you've already judged me." "Hesus, there's been a lot of debates about you." "I've wrestled with the committee." "I've defended you." "I've been defeated." "Their premise is simple:" "damage control." "How will you go against that kind of logic?" "All of them know that Col. Simon sheltered you." "He, who made the biggest casualty to the Movement." "He also planted a lot of worms." "The dreaded Col. Simon Gambit." "You think, I'm one of Col. Simon's worms?" "How could I if I've defended you?" "Then, you're tasked to pass the judgment on me." "You can do that to me?" "Just like what I've said to you the country's always more important." "But I'll give you a chance to live." "When we part from here..." "Hide somewhere and disappear." "Whether you'll join those who doesn't believe at our strategy or hide at Col. Simon's, I'll get you." "And Col. Castor will not accept you." "He's too honest." "He never accepts anybody like you." "Go now, Hesus!" "Forget about the revolution." "You are not a part of it now." "And if you have a better vision for the country just get some distance for now, or you'll be put to waste." "You bastard!" "No emotions!" "Don't you have disillusions, you're still young." "Be like Crisostomo Ibarra... one day, be back as Simoun when I and the Committee is not around." "But set aside your emotions." "Simoun was beaten by his emotions." "Tomorrow, I'll be the new hero..." "Miguel Reynante:" "legendary journalist... professor... poet... turned revolutionary... dead." "A true... hero of the masses." "This country is looking for a true... a true hero, Hesus!" "I'll make sure that you won't be remembered as a hero." "And at the Movement's correction you'll be remembered as a worm." "Do you know why they can't catch me?" "Because they don't know where I stay." "Those juntas?" "!" "Because there's no worm in my comrades." "And I am the worm now?" "!" "How many loyal and great kadres have you commanded to kill?" "!" "You're wrong!" "That's not true!" "And you've also ordered the murder at the squatters'." "That's not true!" "What I know that it is Col. Simon's orders because he knows you're there!" "No emotions!" "You and Col. Simon shares the same face!" "FUCK YOU HESUS!" "From the Associated Press:" "Researhers are optimistic. "A vaccine for HIV-AIDS will be available within the next ten years." "But it's unlikely to be fully effective against all strains of the virus."" "A US health expert said, Wednesday." "Carla Johnson..." " associate director..." " My Fellow Countrymen!" "We interrupt this newscast for an important news." "Here's the video of the Sta." "Mesa Encounter aftermath last August 8, where Col. Castor, Brown Army's leader have died." "And this footage proves it." "Also died from the encounter are members of the Brown Army's Central Consul" "Lt. Celso Menor, Lt. Pedro Mastura," "Sgt. Miguel Tara, and Sgt. Zosimo Paras." "Let's see it." "Here.." "This evening he'll be at Stick." "An exclusive bar for juntas." "Beware of the guards." "If in case you got inside, just sit quietly in a corner wait for a lady with a red bag." "The gun's there." "Col. Simon will be at the 2nd floor, Cubicle 5." "There's only one guard upstairs." "Lets go." "Good Luck Hesus!" " Good evening, Ma'am!" " Good Evening!" "What do you want, sir?" "Just give me a beer." "Hi." "He's with 6 club girls at cubicle 5." "Fire!" "Fire!" " Are you Ok sir?" " Yes I'm Ok." "Fuck it!" "This place is burning down, and you never told us?" "!" "Don't you know me?" "!" "I'll close down this club!" "Don't you have any fire alarm?" "!" "Col. Simon!" "Hesus," "Col. Castor?" "Hesus Mariano?" "Thank you!" "Thank you very much." "Don't ever lose that hope for this country," "Hilda?" "Hilda, come on." "Let's get inside." "Hesus?" "I know now why she feels that way..." "How are you?" "Still the same." "Hilda's waiting for you everyday." "I saw you on TV, and you're always at the newspaper." "If you could allow us, we need to go now, I'll bring Hilda with me." " Where would you take her?" " We'll go somewhere far from here." "We'll send you a letter when we got there." "All right then..." "I'll just pack her clothes." "Just make it quick." "Hesus." "I could see now..." ""In the memory of my Country"." "December 30, 2009" "Cabatuhan, Camarines Sur." "My morning has been kissed" "Unexpected touch of dews from December's first rain." "The owl's have been captivated and disturbed." "In a lonesome tree at the back of our old hut." "Blinded by the light, and flapped it's left wing to the remaining pillars that has been aged because of inhibition." "The owl's suddenly fell and ran out of breath through the sharp grass blades in the backyards of my innocence." "There was where my mother sung to me her tireless lullabies before she's been occupied of the uncertainties of her dark "Sarong Banggi"'s." "And here, I've waited for my father's graceful calls." "Those afternoons when he's been at the promises of our ricefields." "He will get down from the back of our old Carabao." "Then, he'll throw me, let me fly then catch me to his arms." "And then he'll say, "How's my Child?"" "Then, he'll take off his sweat-smelling, and sunburnt shirt and then he'll say, "Crush some tomatoes, put some bagoong and six pieces of chili."" "Before he was drowned to injustice." "In the dinner, in our wooden floor," "Camote leaves was always served grilled eggplants, and boiled saba, Inatsarang papaya... spicy laing, and grilled catfish." "The half of the fish is for me that if I'm lucky enough, I could dip it into the red ketsup." "Even more, I could dip it into the creamy Liberty Evap." "I want to understand what are the worries of the departed owl." "Does it know the story of the land where it died?" "Have it witnessed the daily struggle of the people who've lived here before?" "Has it counted the tears of my father when... my mother was beaten by sickness?" "Can it answer the questions of a child who is wondering about his mother's departure?" "Can the owl prove me wrong when I'd say that, poverty is the root of my mother's sickness and of any other mothers?" "Would it disapprove if I'll put into discourse all of the roots of the poverty in my country?" "Would it complain if I would shout the sickness of my country?" "I was woke up by the chuckles of the children playing with slingshot they've ran suddenly after I got up.." "The angry rain has stopped." "The sun's rays are burning as they hit my shoulders." "The owl is now gone from his resting place." "The cries of the babies are the only sound that slices the silence." "I can't sit and rest again at the muddy soil the way I did when I was a child." "A grass leaf sliced through my cheeks." "The heat of the rush of blood is bursting." "Like imprisoned souls..." "Like forgotten memories..." "As the cries gets louder it retains to my memory" "I could hear a laugh..." "And so a lullaby."