I met old friends from college last Saturday. We had breakfast at an old restaurant along Ongpin Street called Saludo's. Some of us went to Logos Hope, a ship with lots of books inside it—some 5000 titles, we were told. The sun was hot, in a cancerous, melanoma-inducing kind of way. Summer is just right around the corner. Took us a while to get inside the ship. I thought this view of Manila's skyline from one of the windows was amazing. We saw what we came for: books. They were sold in "units" that had a corresponding peso conversion. The books sold cheaply, so I got David Copperfield by Charles Dickens for 150 units (Php 150). I plan to read at least one Dickens novel this year, 2012 being his 200th birthday. (I'm ashamed to admit I haven't read a single novel of his, ever). I saw Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, classics, modern fiction, modern Christian literature, biographies, medical and nursing textbooks, and children's books. Visit
Too much foreign language.
ReplyDelete"Daw agi ni Jose Rizal." -- It's like Jose Rizal's handwriting.
DeleteLast paragraph: "That will only be lost here. If someone leaves behind a wallet, nobody cares. But if it's a pen, then people can't wait to get their hands on it!" -- Something like that! Hahaha!
Thanks for the translation. You better get your pens engraved with your name then, hehe.
DeleteMedyo iba sulat na Rizal (looking at Mi Ultimo Adios) but you both have a nice hand. His is more legible, yours is more regular.