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Bagay Bagay
Tagalog
134 pages
First published January 1, 1992
About the author
Teo T. Antonio
14 books5 followersTeo T. Antonio is one of the Philippines' prominent writers. He has been bestowed many awards for his works, including Palanca Awards in 1973, 1975, 1976, 1986 and 1998. He has published at least 10 books of poetry, and more than a few have won prestigious prizes such as the 1998 Centennial Literary Prize, as well as National Book Awards.
Besides this, Antonio has been honored with other awards, such as the SEAWrite Award in Bangkok, Thailand (1995), Manila City's Gawad Patnubay sa Kalingan award for fiction (1996), Bulacan's Dangal ng Lipi award for arts and literature (1997) and the Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas's Gawad Alagad ni Balagtas award (2002). He was also invited to the Kuala Lumpur World Poetry Reading in Malaysia in 1996.
He is currently a columnist for an online journal.
(from here and here.)
Besides this, Antonio has been honored with other awards, such as the SEAWrite Award in Bangkok, Thailand (1995), Manila City's Gawad Patnubay sa Kalingan award for fiction (1996), Bulacan's Dangal ng Lipi award for arts and literature (1997) and the Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas's Gawad Alagad ni Balagtas award (2002). He was also invited to the Kuala Lumpur World Poetry Reading in Malaysia in 1996.
He is currently a columnist for an online journal.
(from here and here.)
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August 3, 2025
Teo T. Antonio’s Bagay Bagay is my first Akdang Pinoy Readathon Year 2 book for August 2025 TBR. This seemed like a refresher course of this month’s celebration, Buwan ng Wika. An assessment of what I thought I am fully immersed with because it is the second language I learned from school (I am Bisaya, by the way) yet I felt the strangeness and disconnection to some words I tried to utter and remember. That even the word “Taalarawan” needed me to google it from my ereader but showed me “the debut extended play of Filipino girl group Bini” as the top search result.
Another thing to note was how I evoked my husband’s interest to every lines I read aloud and at the same time emulating a poet. Giving me comments that I sounded terrible and monotonous so, I generously gave him my ereader to prove his point. Before he could even finish a line, we started laughing out loud and on the floor, literally!
But the most important thing to mention here is the emphasis of the importance of pausing, slowing down, and appreciating the small, often overlooked details of life. A reminder to appreciate the small things, bagay bagay.
Another thing to note was how I evoked my husband’s interest to every lines I read aloud and at the same time emulating a poet. Giving me comments that I sounded terrible and monotonous so, I generously gave him my ereader to prove his point. Before he could even finish a line, we started laughing out loud and on the floor, literally!
But the most important thing to mention here is the emphasis of the importance of pausing, slowing down, and appreciating the small, often overlooked details of life. A reminder to appreciate the small things, bagay bagay.
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