sagay memory balls

two earlier posts “things familiar and not anymore” and “sagay urban legends”  snowballed into lively  memory exchanges by sagaynons, posted either as comments on this blog page or on the sagay city web’s guestbook.  

here i copied some of the memory balls of sagaynons from different parts of the world.  most of these were in ilonggo, which i tried to “englicise ” but could not fully do justice to  the “kasadya” or the fun  of reminiscing  in the native tongue . thus at some point in this entry i abandoned the attempts at translation.

a note on “memory balls”  — in the movie, the never ending story II, the sorceress sought to complete the destruction of fantasia and bring “nothingness”  by eliminating the memories and imagination of the boy bastian.  bastian’s memories were contained in memory balls. in his quest to save fantasia, he was tricked by the sorceress to give up his memory balls.  

let not the sagay that we knew be obliterated and reduced to “nothingness.”

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